Contemporary educational theory holds that one of the pivotal causes of inadequate student achievement, especially in disadvantaged schools, is the inability of schools to adequately staff classrooms with qualified teachers. Deficits in the quantity of teachers produced and in the quality of preparation prospective teachers receive have long been singled out as primary explanations for underqualified teaching. In this study, I hypothesize that the manner in which schools are organized and in which teachers are utilized can account for as much of the problem of underqualified teaching as do inadequacies in teacher training or the supply of teachers. This analysis specifically focuses on a little recognized source of underqualified teaching—the problem of out-of-field teaching—teachers being assigned by school administrators to teach subjects that do not match their training or education. I use data from the Schools and Staffing Survey—a large, comprehensive, nationally representative survey of teachers conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics. The results show that while most teachers, even in disadvantaged schools, hold basic qualifications, a significant proportion of these qualified teachers, especially in disadvantaged schools, are assigned to teach classes out of their fields. Data also show that out-of-field teaching is not primarily due to school hiring difficulties resulting from teacher shortages. In contrast, the analysis shows that a number of aspects of the administration and organization of schools are significantly related to out-of-field teaching. For example, school district regulations concerning minimal education requirements for new hires, the quality of principal leadership, the strategies schools use to cope with teacher recruitment and hiring, and average school class sizes all have an independent association with the extent of out-of-field teaching in schools, after controlling for other factors.
Ingersoll, Richard. (2002). Out-of-Field Teaching, Educational Inequality, and the Organization of Schools: An Exploratory Analysis. CPRE Research Reports.


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Miles Addison Net Worth 2018: What is this football/soccer player worth?
Miles Addison is a professional football/soccer player who played Centre-back / Midfielder. Addison was born on January 7, 1989, in London Borough of Newham, England. This article examines Miles Addison's net worth.
Miles Addison Career and Earnings/Salary
As a youth, Miles Addison played for Derby County F.C. during 0, and 000?-2006. Over 2006-2012, Addison played for Derby County F.C. earning 65 caps and scoring 3 goals. During 2011-2012, Addison played for Barnsley F.C. (loan) earning 11 caps and scoring 0 goals. In 2012, Addison played for A.F.C. Bournemouth (loan) earning 14 caps and scoring 1 goals. In 2012-2015, Addison played for A.F.C. Bournemouth earning 20 caps and scoring 0 goals. From 2014, Addison played for Rotherham United F.C. (loan) earning 6 caps and scoring 0 goals. From 2014, Addison played for Scunthorpe United F.C. (loan) earning 6 caps and scoring 0 goals. From 2015-2016, Addison played for Peterborough United F.C. earning 3 caps and scoring 1 goals.
Miles Addison also played nationally. During 2009, Addison played for the England national under-21 football team scoring 0 goals, with 1 caps.
Miles Addison Net Worth 2018
Professional soccer/football players can earn plenty of money. But pay depend on plenty of different circumstances. These include the player's location and of course, their skills. At the top end, stars in Great Britain and some European countries can bring in $50 million or more. In South America, top footballers earn $1,000,000-$2,000,000 a year, and in locations where soccer/football is not as popular, like the USA and China, footballers earn $200k a year. The smallest paying leagues pay under $50,000 per annum.
Miles Addison net worth: soccer/football salary distribution
So what is football/soccer player Miles Addison's net worth in 2018? Our estimate for Miles Addison's net worth as of 2018 is: $1.6 million
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DON'T call or email & ask me to "buy" the puppies that YOU produced for $500 each & suggest that I resell them for my prices to make a profit. This practice is called brokering puppies & is illegal in the state of Oklahoma! YOUR puppies are not MY responsibility & I will not bail you out of your breeding responsibilities.
DO plan ahead with finances, marketing, & advertising if you intend to raise a litter of puppies & be aware that your first few litters WILL cost more than what you sell them for. This JOB is not ponies and rainbows and we do not sit and play with cute little puppies all day and make thousands of dollars. This JOB is VERY expensive and time consuming.
DON'T expect to "give them a shot & mama does the rest" when producing a litter of puppies.
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DON'T expect the breeder you purchase from to "buy back" your puppy if you change your mind after the purchase.
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A Monumental Mistake
The Baghdad-Ramallah Connection
By Michael Freund - February 28, 2003
Just when it appeared as if he could do no wrong, President George W. Bush this week reminded us all that even great leaders can make monumental mistakes.
Addressing the American Enterprise Institute on Wednesday, Bush spoke of his "personal commitment" to the idea of establishing a Palestinian state, despite Yasser Arafat's 30-month-long campaign of lethal error against Israel. The president even went so far as to say that the new Israeli government "will be expected to support the creation" of such a state, sounding more like he was issuing an order to a servant than referring to one of America's closest friends and allies.
Even more inexplicable, though, was the linkage Bush chose to make between the war in Iraq and the Palestinian issue. "Success in Iraq," he argued, "could also begin a new stage for Middle Eastern peace, and set in motion progress towards a truly democratic Palestinian state."
Now, there are plenty of good reasons already to take down Saddam, ranging from those vials of VX, bottles of botulin and sacks of smallpox that he is known to be hiding from Hans Blix. Not to mention his nasty little habit of murdering his own civilians, threatening Iraq's neighbors and his frenzied efforts to join the nuclear club.
But why did Bush feel the need to make this rather specious connection between Baghdad and Ramallah?
It would be easy to dismiss the president's remarks as just another attempt to appease Arab public opinion before the start of the impending war with Baghdad. After all, much of the Arab world will be less than thrilled to see U.S. Marines hauling Saddam Hussein off in handcuffs, so Bush likely feels he must offer them some sort of verbal "quid pro quo" to keep them happy.
But if Bush truly means what he says, and there is every reason to believe that he does, then it amounts to a dangerous misreading of the situation in the region, one that is likely to boomerang against both the United States and Israel.
It is not Saddam who is preventing the Palestinians from achieving statehood — it is the Palestinians themselves who have done so.
They rejected then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak's proposed concessions at the July 2000 Camp David Summit, and they have been on the warpath ever since. In just the past three weeks alone, there have been 193 Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis, including stabbings, shootings, rocket attacks, and attempted suicide bombings.
By resorting to violence and terror on such a grand scale, the Palestinians have singlehandedly undermined any claim they might have had to being worthy of statehood alongside Israel. For Bush to speak out now about granting them independence, at a time when they are engrossed in trying to kill Jews, is remarkably ill-conceived and astonishingly inappropriate.
Moreover, it becomes even more difficult to understand the president's statement in light of the fact that the Palestinians are currently standing firmly behind America's number one enemy: Saddam Hussein himself.
Rank-and-file Palestinians make no effort to conceal their backing for the Iraqi dictator. A public-opinion poll conducted last month by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion found that 65.6 percent of Palestinians, or nearly two-thirds, said they would support Iraq if it came under attack by the U.S.
Mass rallies were held by Palestinians in Gaza and Nablus on January 17 as part of "Iraq Solidarity Week" in the Palestinian-controlled areas. Demonstrators held aloft photographs of Yasser Arafat alongside Saddam Hussein, and chanted anti-American slogans. The marches were organized jointly by Hamas and Arafat's Fatah faction of the PLO.
The Palestinian leadership has also made no bones about its support for the beleaguered Butcher of Baghdad. On February 5, Arafat sent a telegraph to Saddam, extending his "heartiest brotherly wishes" and expressing the hope that "Allah will protect Iraq from the great dangers and evils that loom over it."
Last Friday, on February 21, Arafat's official radio and television station broadcast a weekly prayer sermon delivered at a mosque in Gaza, in which the Palestinian preacher described America as "the primary enemy of the people of Palestine and the Arab and Islamic nation." He added that the U.S. aim is to "control Iraq's oil," hence President Bush is determined to go to war.
A second sermon, broadcast the same day from Ramallah on Palestinian radio and television, concluded with the words, "O God, protect Iraq and its People."
It should therefore be apparent that the linkage suggested by President Bush between Baghdad and Ramallah is way off the mark. Palestinians will not view the removal of Saddam as an act of liberation, but as an assault on their hero, one whom they have enthusiastically idolized for more than a decade.
And what's more, by suggesting that the liberation of Iraqis will be followed by freedom for the Palestinians, Bush is unwittingly suggesting a moral equivalence between the two, as if Israel and Saddam were in the same category. From the outset of the current war on terror, Bush made clear that the world would have to choose which side it was on, that of good or that of evil. The Palestinians have made their choice, siding with Saddam and engaging in terror against Israel. It is time for President Bush to start treating them accordingly.
Michael Freund served from 1996 to 1999 as deputy director of communications and policy planning under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He is currently an editorial writer and syndicated columnist at The Jerusalem Post.
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In the first tournament of the fall season, the weekend of August 4th& 5th, Galt FC Heat United girls soccer team took the Girls U16 Gold Championship!
Saturday morning games started with overcast skies and a few drizzles, but that didn't stop Heat United from shutting out Washington State Crossfire Premier girls 97, ranked #4 in their state, with a 1-0 score. Samantha Trammell scored the winning goal in the first half with a nice assist from Rita Santoyo.
Game two on Saturday, Galt FC Heat United shut out Walnut Creek SC Blast 7 to 0! Emerald De La Torre scores with an assisted by Abriana Cardenas. Jessica Hartwell scored off of WC defense. Second half goals were scored by Cierra Moreno, assisted by Jessica Hartwell, Savannah Porter earned herself a hat trick with three goals assisted by Sarah Stotts, Samantha Trammell and Rhea Hartwell, respectively. The final goal of the game was scored by Abriana Cardenas, assisted by Savannah Porter.
A sunny Sunday morning greeted the team for game three, against Modesto Ajax Elite 98G. Heat United came out on top with a win of 5 to 1. First half Goals were scored by Jordann Vigna (Jessica Hartwell assist), Jessica Hartwell (Goalie, Amelia Landry assisted), and Rhea Hartwell on a foul kick! Second half goals scored by Cierra Moreno (Abriana Cardenas assist), and Jessica Hartwell (Makenzie Bailey assist).
Heat United faced off with Citrus Heights Sunrise in the championship game Sunday afternoon. Cierra Moreno, assisted by Savannah Porter scored the winning goal in the first half to take the championship win. Final score, 1-0!
A HUGE thank you goes out to coaches Daniel Moreno and Jason Vigna. Their dedication and knowledge of the game really shows once this team takes the field!
This season has been dedicated to the memory of Shannon Raymond, who's "coaching from the sidelines" was always a huge inspiration to the players and parents! Forever in our hearts!
Finally, where would the full success of a team be without their defense and mid fielders? Without them, the team would not have been able to go the entire weekend with only one goal scored against them. Special acknowledgement goes out to our amazing goalie Amelia Landry, Sydnie Quinones, Gianna Vigna, Rhea Hartwell, Cierra Moreno, Savannah Porter, Rita Santoyo, Sarah Stotts, Samantha Trammell, Jordann Vigna, Nina Airoso, Makenzie Bailey, and Emerald De La Torre.


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Q: How to create maven project with pom file programmatically while creating eclipse plugin project I'm creating an eclipse plugin which will make a maven java project.
I have included maven natures as I want it to be a maven project with pom.xml.
IProjectDescription description = project.getDescription();
        description.setNatureIds(new String[] {
                     "org.eclipse.jem.workbench.JavaEMFNature",
                     "org.eclipse.wst.common.modulecore.ModuleCoreNature",
                     "org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature",
                     "org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Nature",
                     "org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.nature"});

        project.setDescription(description, monitor);

But it doesn't create any pom file instead I'm seeing the following lines in log:
16:50:00.271 [Worker-2] DEBUG o.e.m.c.i.builder.MavenBuilder - Building project AA
16:50:00.271 [Worker-2] DEBUG o.e.m.c.i.p.r.ProjectRegistryManager - Refreshing: [L/AA/pom.xml]
16:50:00.286 [Worker-2] DEBUG o.e.m.c.i.p.r.ProjectRegistryManager - Refreshed: [L/AA/pom.xml]
16:50:00.770 [Worker-0] DEBUG o.e.m.c.i.p.r.ProjectRegistryManager - Refreshing: [L/AA/pom.xml]
16:50:00.770 [Worker-0] DEBUG o.e.m.c.i.p.r.ProjectRegistryManager - Refreshed: [L/AA/pom.xml]

Any help?

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Cubs Hire Maddon
Jay Smith | November 3, 2014 12:00 pm
He's considered one of the best managers in baseball. Today, the Cubs introduced Joe Maddon as the 54th manager in franchise history. Maddon replaces Rick Renteria, who was hired just one year ago. In fact, Cubs President Theo Epstein said in a statement Friday that "Rick deserved to come back for another season as Cubs manager, and we said as much when we (previously) announced that he would be returning in 2015." But things changed when Maddon exercised an opt-out clause in his contract with the Tampa Bay Rays, and the Cubs quickly began negotiating a deal with Maddon and his agent, to replace Renteria.
Cubs Fire Manager Rick Renteria
Maddon took over in Tampa Bay in 2006, when the team was one of the worst in baseball. The team had a winning record every year from 2008 to 2013, made the playoffs four times and went to the World Series in 2008. All of that was achieved despite a small-market payroll and the loss of key players nearly every year.
View Maddon's career timeline.
Meanwhile, the first phase of the Wrigley Field renovation project is underway. The left and right field bleachers have been demolished, making way for new seating, wider concourses, bullpens beneath the seats, and numerous outfield signs along with two video boards.
WGN Radio's Andy Masur joins us to talk about the hiring of Joe Maddon. Masur, who worked for WGN Radio and was part of Cubs radio broadcasts from 1999 to 2007, is back in Chicago after seven years as the voice of the San Diego Padres. In addition to talking about Maddon, Masur will share his thoughts about Rick Renteria, who was a coach with the Padres before being hired by the Cubs in November 2013. And Masur has been documenting the bleacher demolition, and shares some of his photos.
View a slideshow of Masur's photos.
Masur has been documenting the demolition of the Wrigley Field bleachers with his camera since the end of September. For anyone who hasn't been around Wrigley lately, and who hasn't seen any pictures, the images may be quite shocking. The new bleachers, one of the first parts of the $575 million Wrigley Field renovation project, will sit atop new stadium walls that will be moved out onto Waveland and Sheffield Avenues. There will be wider concourses, new outfield lights and concessions, and bullpens beneath the bleachers. Of course, the project also includes the much-debated outfield signs, seven in all, including two video boards. The current centerfield scoreboard and bleachers will remain.
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U.S. 'Saddened, Horrified' By Deaths Of White Helmet Volunteers In Syria
The White Helmets have been working to rescue civilians in rebel-held areas of Syria since 2013. (file photo)
The U.S. State Department says it is "saddened and horrified" by the news of the "brutal murders" of seven rescue workers at their base in Syria's rebel-held Idlib Province.
Spokeswoman Heather Nauert on August 13 condemned the attack by "cowardly acts of masked men" against the civilian volunteers.
The Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, has been honored worldwide for efforts to rescue civilian victims of air attacks and artillery fire since 2013.
Officials reported that the seven volunteers were killed in their sleep on August 12 in the town of Sarmin in Idlib Province when unidentified assailants opened fire.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the killings.
Much of Idlib is controlled by Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents.
Syrian Civil Defense said two minibuses and other equipment was stolen after the attack.
Dozens of the first responders have been killed in the six-year Syrian civil war.
The group is funded through donations from several governments, including Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States.
The State Department statement praised the volunteers "who work tirelessly as first responders in order to save lives in incredibly dangerous environments."
Based on reporting by AFP and AP
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U.S.-Led Coalition Air Strikes Reported To Kill At Least 29 Syrian Civilians


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AP Source: NFL Union to Look Into Jonathan Martin Case
The union wants to determine whether Martin's treatment by teammates contributed to his departure.
The NFL Players Association will investigate possible harassment of Miami Dolphins tackle Jonathan Martin by his teammates, a person familiar with the situation said Saturday.
The person said the union wants to determine whether Martin's treatment by teammates contributed to his abrupt departure from the Dolphins. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Dolphins have said little about the reasons for Martin's absence.
Martin left the team Monday to receive help for emotional issues, and it's unclear whether or when he's expected back. The Dolphins are off this weekend, and the union plans to look into the matter next week.
Joe Philbin: Bullying 'Will Not Be Tolerated'
The Dolphins have attributed Martin's absence to a non-football illness. The second-year pro from Stanford played in Sunday's loss at New England, then missed practice this week and sat out Thursday night's victory over Cincinnati.
The win snapped a four-game losing streak that had stirred talk of dissension between coaches and among players. When asked Friday if he has seen evidence of bullying or harassment, coach Joe Philbin said: "This is something we take very seriously, and it will not be tolerated."
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Early Thoughts on the iPad
by Stephen Becker 1 Feb 2010
Guest blogger Bart Weiss is the Artistic Director of VideoFest. So the next big Apple thing has finally had its unveiling, and now it's time to see what this iPad is really about. Of course, I have some thoughts on this. And, like any new techno thing from Apple, how can I not like it? […]
Guest blogger Bart Weiss is the Artistic Director of VideoFest.
So the next big Apple thing has finally had its unveiling, and now it's time to see what this iPad is really about.
Of course, I have some thoughts on this. And, like any new techno thing from Apple, how can I not like it? If you don't know what I'm talking about, go to the Apple Site to watch the Steve Jobs keynote.
My favorite comment about the iPad so far is somebody calling it an iPhone for old people (I had an aunt who had a phone that big with very large numbers).
The people most interested in iPad's success are publishers of books and magazines who hope this will mean subscriptions and sales of a new kind of publishing. If anybody can do it, Apple can.
The most interesting part of Jobs' keynote is watching him posture as he uses the device. We used to talk about the posture issue when talking about people watching video on computers. We sit up to work, we sit back to watch, and so it was thought that people would not lean back in front of the computers (what were we thinking?).
But Jobs is sitting back in the kind of position that you would while reading a book. This, like everything else, is, I think, very deliberate.
This is a new category of computing. You deal with it differently. I see the iPad as a thing you have around the house or the hotel room or airplane while traveling, not so much in your hand as you walk and drive around. The big question is: Will enough people want this new in-between device? While we need a phone and a computer, most of us don't need this, We want it, which is different. And it is expensive. I am not saying it is not worth it – it makes the Kindle look like something from the 80s. But will enough people spend $600 and up?
In all consumer electronics, you need to have some group pay the big price before it can come down to the more accessible price. For VHS and DVD, it was people interested in pornography who would pay $500 for a VCR to get something they otherwise could not obtain. But will there be a group that will pay for the iPad? I don't know, but I hope so.
In my view, Apple made a mistake by not having a contract on the 3G service. I know all of us with iPhones are complaining about AT&T dropouts. But if you had a two-year commitment, the price of the iPad would be subsidized and it wouldn't seem like a major hit to get one. Consumers (and Apple) would get over the hump a bit easier.
As for me, I will probably wait until version 2.0. The current model lacks a camera/flash and a few other things that will surly show up soon. People who are using version 1.0 iPhones have probably already given them to someone or are wishing they had a new one.
It is clear that, going forward, we will consume media in new, more intimate ways. I think this iPad helps us see the future. Oh, and my birthday is in July if any of you want to get one for me.
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pretty cool but no substitute for being able to do it yourself if u ask me.
gold... imagine a car park full of this.
That is pretty damn cool, im a learner driver and that would be very very very very usefull!
its amazing how good technology is getting but eh id rather just do it myself... i mean it isnt that hard to reverse or parallel park is it?


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Home » News » ESB pumps cash into electric sports car
ESB pumps cash into electric sports car
Posted on November 30, 2008 by johnreynolds	· Leave a comment
Published on 30 November, 2008. By John Reynolds
The ESB is backing an electric sports car, along with the founders of Google and the president of eBay.
As the petrolheads of BBC show Top Gear revved up the first stage of their world tour at the RDS in Dublin this week, the Sunday Independent can exclusively reveal that the semi-state electricity board is one of a number of firms bankrolling the Tesla Motors car — a car which dozens of top celebrities are queuing up to buy.
It is understood that the waiting list for it includes top-earning movie stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio; hi-tech heroes and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Dell founder Michael Dell.
Even California governor and Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger — formerly a fan of the gas-guzzling Humvee — is on the list.
Tesla Motors says that its all-electric Tesla Roadster — which does 0 to 60mph in 3.9 seconds, and 244 miles on one charge — will cost around €99,000 in Europe.
The ESB has backed the car through an investment of €15.5m in a €310m clean technology venture capital fund run by US firm Vantage Point Venture Partners, who manage about $4bn of assets.
Better Place, which is developing the electricity infrastructure to enable the use of large numbers of electric cars in Denmark and Israel, is also being backed by the Silicon Valley-based financiers.
This investment by the ESB was the first made with funds that will come from a €200m innovation fund that it has established.
Using profits made by its international arm, ESB International, the company has allocated €40m per year to finance these kinds of projects over the next five years, according to a company source.
Energy minister Eamon Ryan said earlier this week that he wants 250,000 electric vehicles on Irish roads by 2020, and investments such as these will give the ESB an early insight into the workings of the technology involved, the source said.
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A woman in Haiti collects water in a bucket during the 2010 cholera outbreak.
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How today's cholera pandemic was born
By David Shultz Nov. 18, 2016 , 9:00 AM
The world is in the grip of its seventh cholera pandemic, but that's not exactly news. Today's pandemic has been around since the 1960s, burning through developing countries like Democratic Republic of Congo and Haiti. Now, scientists have used DNA from historical samples to figure out how the modern strain—responsible for 1304 deaths last year alone—morphed from a harmless microbe centuries ago into a deadly pathogen today.
Cholera, caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, produces watery diarrhea that can lead to dehydration and death. Because Vibrio spreads through contact with raw sewage, it thrives in regions lacking clean water or modern sanitation. With proper treatment, mortality is low, but the deadly bacterium's ability to spread rapidly has kept it at the forefront of global public health efforts.
To find out how the current pandemic got its start, scientists looked at DNA from preserved cholera samples in laboratories around the world. In the same way scientists create evolutionary trees, the researchers made a branching map of relationships between strains through time using genetic comparisons. Combining their analysis with written accounts of old outbreaks, the team defined six stages in the evolution of the modern strain that led to its toxicity and its ability to spread, they report this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .
Strain No. 7 diverged from its relatives, 1–6, around the turn of the 18th century, says paper author Peter Reeves, a microbiologist at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney in Australia. But that's just an estimate: The first observation of the new lineage comes from a laboratory in El Tor, Egypt, in 1897. By that time, the "El Tor" strain differed from its relatives by about 30%, but it didn't spread rapidly and it didn't make people sick.
The researchers' six-stage story of how the seventh cholera pandemic evolved into its modern form around the Middle East and Asia.
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The next decade was pivotal for the bacterium's evolution. It bounced around the Middle East, picking up a key gene called tcpA, which encodes a hairlike structure on its surface that clings to the wall of the small intestine. This change alone didn't make the strain pathogenic, but it may have helped it live longer in the guts of religious pilgrims traveling to and from Mecca. Then, sometime between 1903 and 1908, the El Tor strain picked up a crucial piece of hitchhiking DNA that likely triggered its ability to cause disease in humans.
At the time, the sixth cholera pandemic was in full swing in the Middle East, Europe, and North Africa. Reeves says that a phage—a virus that infects bacteria—picked up the "classic" form of the cholera toxin gene from the sixth strain and then infected the El Tor strain, transferring the toxin gene. The new trait would have caused watery diarrhea, accelerating the disease's spread through the water supply. But it was still missing the key genes it would need before it could cause a full-blown pandemic.
From there, the strain moved east to Makassar, Indonesia. There, it gained new genes that likely increased transmissibility, along with the two "islands" of DNA used to identify it as unique today, Vibrio seventh pandemic (VSP) 1 and 2. However, Reeves says there's very little evidence that the VSP islands did much, if anything, to help the bacteria spread. In fact, the researchers are still unsure which changes drove the increase in transmissibility from 1925 until 1961, when the disease spread around the rest of the world.
To find out which changes accelerated the organism to pandemic levels, we would have to do human testing, says Reeves, infecting a large group with different strains to see how fast it spreads. "If we can understand what was happening in this pandemic strain, it might help us make predictions about whether any of the other ones have the potential," he says. But, "of course you can't do that as an experiment."
Given the information available, "this is a perfectly fine study," says Edward Ryan, a microbiologist at Harvard University who was not involved in the new work. "It tells a coherent story that is very biologically plausible."
But it misses a big part of the picture, says microbiologist Mark Achtman at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. "I am skeptical about the completeness of the evolutionary story when it is based exclusively on the remnants of human disease isolates." Achtman says that analyses limited to human samples are lacking because they don't examine the cholera always circulating in the environment, outside human hosts. At any point in history, he says, new strains could have arisen from these pathogens rather than from human-to-human transmission.
But that would be extremely tough to nail down, Ryan says. Few historical environmental samples exist, and evidence that such strains made the jump to humans is even harder to come by. "Were there other strains in other areas of the world that weren't collected that might give a more complete story?" Ryan asks. "Yes," he says. "But at the end of the day … [this] is a reasonable biological story based on the best available data of how a pathogen emerges historically and came to dominate."
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Commentary: Resist: Tactics need to change in countering fascists
by Christina A. DiEdoardo
Berkeley police in riot gear form a perimeter around fascist and anti-Marxist demonstrators in Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park on August 5. Photo: Christina A. DiEdoardo
To mark the first anniversary of the martyrdom of Heather Heyer, who was killed after a fascist allegedly struck her with his car in Charlottesville, Virginia at last year's Unite the Right rally, anti-fascists around the country called for a heightened level of militant direct actions using the #AllOutAugust hashtag on Twitter and other social media against fascist events taking place in August.
In the Bay Area, actions at the start and end of the month provided stark examples of how much the situation has changed in a year - and why our tactics in countering the fascists need to change too.
Back to Berkeley
On August 5, trans woman and Donald Trump supporter Amber Cummings brought her anti-Marxism protest to Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, despite Joey Gibson of Patriot Prayer staying away. Given that Gibson lost both his hat and his self-respect when he tried to cross antifa lines in Berkeley last year (and ended up being taken into protective custody by Berkeley police), it's not surprising he preferred not to come back.
Even so, a coalition of local groups like Berkeley Antifa and By Any Means Necessary and area affiliates of national organizations such as Refuse Fascism Bay Area, the Freedom Socialist Party, and the Democratic Socialists of America planned a massive response, but decided to try something different. Instead of assembling where the fascists were expected to be, as has been the practice at every other counterdemonstration, organizers asked people to rally at Ohlone Park, which is about a third of a mile away, and march over.
I rode over with some comrades from the FSP and by the time we got to Ohlone Park, the signs were apparent that there were some snags in this plan. For one thing, organizers - most of whom appeared to be DSA-affiliated by their gear and flags - were congregated on the sidewalks because Berkeley police had occupied Ohlone Park and were denying them entry. For another, despite the vulnerabilities caused by a conglomeration of people on a narrow sidewalk, most of whom were hesitant to mask up given the city of Berkeley's inconsistent statements about a mask ban, nobody seemed to be watching the flanks - allowing fascists in cars and on foot to get still and video footage of protesters, presumably for doxing purposes.
With a friend, I walked over to Civic Center Park, where Refuse Fascism and BAMN had things well in hand. Refuse Fascism and Revolution Books wisely occupied the area around the fountain, where Cummings' group was supposed to rally.
Cummings ultimately managed to bring out 25 people - in sharp contrast to the several hundred fascists who attended the second and third Battles of Berkeley last year - and Refuse Fascism and BAMN had little trouble keeping them corralled until the Berkeley police directly intervened on the side of the fascists to a degree I've never seen in the last two years. First, the police barred entry to the park to anyone who wasn't part of Cummings' group. Second, officers turned a blind eye to assaults and batteries committed by those on Cummings' side, while gang-tackling an antifascist who simply swatted away a fascist streamer's camera.
I remember the latter incident well, because the police hit me from behind for no apparent reason. When I turned around and saw an officer almost frothing with rage in full riot gear, all I could say was "What the fuck, man?" His partner then started waving his arms and saying, "You're OK! You're OK!" which seemed to be more for his buddy's benefit than mine. Maybe he's a fan of the column?
Meanwhile, based on what I could determine later, around this time our comrades at Ohlone Park were making repeated efforts to pierce the police blockade of the park, though unfortunately without success. At that point, a rumor started that Cummings' group was about 10 times as large as it really was, which reportedly caused some organizers to try to convince people to return to Ohlone Park.
I don't fault the organizers for having bad information in a fluid situation, especially where cell service is spotty. When Berkeley police fired flashbangs to force our comrades back from their barricades, it looked to me that they had deployed tear gas (it's an easy mistake to make if you're not within olfactory range, as both go bang and both release white smoke), for example. However, even if the information had been correct, abandoning comrades in action against the fascists and the police is never the correct decision. Kudos are due to those members of antifa and the Black Bloc who refused to go along with the retreat plan and kept trying to enter the park.
By day's end, the overwhelming majority of those under arrest were anti-fascists, and the BPD wasted no time in providing fascist doxers with a gold mine of personal information by tweeting their mug shots and government names.
San Jose knows the way
On August 18, fascists thought they'd take advantage of the Worldcon science fiction and fantasy convention at the San Jose Convention Center to do an action "against far-left violence." Or maybe it was "against pedophilia in fandom." Or because they liked Trump. It's hard to say, as organizers set up multiple dummy event listings on Facebook for the same time and location, apparently so they could claim afterward the rally was for whatever was most convenient.
Of course, the good comrades at No Hate in San Jose had other ideas. A coalition of around 50-60 antifa, Black Bloc, crust punks, and yours truly outnumbered the initial fascist turnout by 10-1. In short order, the San Jose Police Department brought in barricades and ordered us back behind them - while allowing the fascists to wander around a few hundred feet away at the other end of San Carlos Avenue, until the police apparently got tired of us yelling about that and barricaded them in too.
While the fascists' numbers were bolstered late in the day by a band of Three Percenters, an anti-government group that loves guns and hates Muslims, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the conflict never quite got beyond a duel of megaphones - which the fascists lost, bigly - until the event broke up around 4 p.m.
What happened in Berkeley and San Jose is happening across the country, as we see from reports of recent actions from Boston to Seattle, and shows how much things have changed in a year.
First, the fascists seem to have lost the ability to turn out large numbers of people at these events. Efforts by anti-fascists to expose their opposite numbers and put pressure on their employers is bearing fruit, which is causing some fascist organizers to plead with their minions not to attend mass actions, as they're likely to get named, shamed, and outnumbered by antifa.
Second, police departments around the country - with Berkeley and Portland being infamous examples - have apparently decided that since the fascists are too weak to move without massive police assistance, they will explicitly intervene on the side of the fascists while their political masters claim they are "protecting free speech."
In my view, this is a major strategic error for them, as the longer it goes on the clearer it will be to even the most hopeful liberal behind rose-colored glasses that the police are the foot soldiers of the regime who prefer the company of racists and bigots to those who oppose them. As a police abolitionist, I'm fine with this, but I suspect those who whack me in the back and shoot protesters in Portland in the head with "non-lethal" munitions have a different view.
On a tactical, short-term level, though, heightened levels of police involvement mean anti-fascist tactics need to change. While it will always be necessary for a main body to contest ground - specifically, ground where the fascists are at or are going to, rather than ground where they aren't, like Ohlone Park - there needs to be a greater use of small mobile groups as well to confront the fascists where they and their police collaborators don't expect the battle to happen.
Of course, for that to happen, people need to keep organizing - and keep showing up.
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Documented proof of anti-sociality in Seattle, one of the worst places
Probably one of the strongest examples of anti-sociality in America is in the Seattle, Washington area. As one who was stuck in that area for years (not by choice) I can personally attest that it is one of the worst and most anti-social areas in the country. People in general there are like hermits who detest social interaction, hate meeting new people, and seem very comfortable around others, merely humoring passerbys with a fake polite smile. It felt like the Twilight Zone there, where I was the only one that was normal. It got so bad in fact that I wrote this article at www.happierabroad.com/Bellingham_Curse.htm.
In fact, the frigidity of the social atmosphere in the Seattle area is so apparent that it came to the attention of the city's own major print media. The Seattle Times did a story on it, coining the term "The Seattle Freeze", which you can read at: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2005/0213/cover.html
The report describes a common social pattern where people are very polite to others, stopping to let you cross the street, letting you cut in on the freeway, waving a fake hello to you, etc. but are extremely non-inclusive in that they don't invite you anywhere, don't wish to spend time with you, and don't like meeting new people or socializing other than waving politely to strangers that pass by, never seeing them again. Here are some key excerpts from the story:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2005/0213/cover.html
"Those who move to Seattle also have another kind of story. But you don't broadcast this one. You keep it to yourself or whisper it to other transplants. It goes something like this:
You're talking to a co-worker/someone at a party/fill in the blank. In any other town, this person looks like someone with whom you might be friends. Potential friend asks, "So what are you up to this weekend?"
"Oh, I don't have any plans yet. I just moved to Seattle and don't really know anybody . . ."
You try not to look desperate.
Friend-to-be smiles and, for a brief, shining moment you think to yourself: Finally, someone is going to ask me to do something. Invite me to a party. Happy hour. Brunch with the girls. It'll be just like "Sex and the City." She'll be Charlotte; you'll be Carrie!
You feel a chill coming on. Still smiling, Friend-Not-On-Your-Life politely excuses herself, "Well, have a nice weekend then."
……. the dichotomy most fundamental to our collective civic character is this: Polite but distant. Have a nice day. Somewhere else.
Seattle is like that popular girl in high school. The one who gets your vote for homecoming queen because she always smiles and says hello. But she doesn't know your name and doesn't care to. She doesn't want to be your friend. She's just being nice.
……… But in Seattle, it was cold shoulder after cold shoulder. She was working as a waitress with dozens of people her age, but it took six months before one of them invited her along when they went out after work.
"It seems nobody really wants to let you in," she says. "They'll say, 'Oh yeah, yeah, I'll get your number' — but you know that's going nowhere."
"Here, it's so weird, people are so nice in these passing situations, but beyond that there's a wall," she says.
Sociology professor Jodi O'Brien has a name for it: "the phenomenon of the plastic smile."
Seattle's "social script," she says, can ultimately lead to "alienation" and "isolation." "Politeness is a poor substitute for intimacy and genuine friendship."
"At the university, where people are hired from all over, this is a pretty standard conversation," O'Brien says. "Seattleites are often seen as having this veneer of pleasantness but being hard to come to know."
…….. WHILE RESERVE may come in handy when you've got on white gloves, it can make for a rather stultifying social scene, as Gabriel Tevrizian found when he moved here 15 years ago from Buenos Aires.
Now 40, Tevrizian recalls that for the first time in his life, he knew what it meant to be lonely.
"There's no such thing as that in Argentina," he says. "There are people around you constantly. They come over and hang out and then they hang out some more.
"People here don't ever just hang out — there's no time for that — but those are the times you really get to know people."
Any attempt to socialize begins to feel like too much effort, he says. "You have to try to get together 10 times before someone doesn't cancel."
Trying to develop a friendship in Seattle, you can feel a bit like Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day." Like with each encounter you have to start from scratch, back to the surface niceties.
Take the dog park. Pam Tate and her Pomeranian-Schipperke mix Jett see the same people each week at the Magnuson Park off-leash area. As the dogs sniff each other, their owners chitchat and trade compliments on each other's sniff-worthy dogs. But each time, at the end of the conversation, "I know the dog's name, but not the owners'. How sad is that?"
And as Tate, 36, quickly learned, when you actually make an effort, you risk coming off as pushy. When she arrived from Orange County, potential-friend types would say, "Hey, let's do something sometime." And she thought they meant it. She'd try to actually set something up. "People would seem shocked; I was seen as aggressive for asking people to do a specific thing at a specific time."
After a series of squirmy rebuffs, she realized that when Seattleites say, "Let's do something sometime," what they really mean is: "Let's never do anything ever."
"A lot of what people call socializing is really just public isolation," O'Brien says.
Here in Seattle we do a lot of things alone. We live alone: Two out of five households have a single occupant — one of the highest rates in the nation. More than three-quarters of people participate in an individual sport but only 13 percent play on a team. We ride bikes alone; go on walks alone; troll bookstores alone, then go home and read alone.
"People find their set of activities to do and they are fairly content," O'Brien says.
In fact, Seattle's seeming split personality might come from this very complacency. We don't have anything against you, but simply don't feel the need to take the risk of inviting you into the fold.
"On the one hand, it's nice to bop in and out of situations knowing people will smile and treat you well. Nice is like bubble gum — it's sugary and pleasant." But if all you ever get is nice, never flirty or risky, she says, that gum loses its flavor pretty quick, and the human experience becomes ultimately less rewarding. Even depressing.
She cites a famous sociological study of flight attendants, which found being nice all the time is an especially draining kind of work. It can cause the emotional equivalent of repetitive stress injury. At the end of the day, some flight attendants would have trouble turning the nice off. And stuck in nice gear, they became disassociated from their true emotions and had trouble expressing them.
First, it's an enabling cultural climate for socially inept people. So if you come here and you have any germ of antisociality, it will, like moss, take hold and flourish.
And if you arrive here open and ebullient, you're bound to lose your confidence and spark after enough cold shoulders. After all, why even bother going to that party when you know it will just be more nonchalant chitchat that will never go anywhere?
"If a dog gets smacked every time he sticks his nose out of the cage, guess what happens?" Pam Tate says. "After a while of putting yourself out there and being rebuffed, you just say forget it."
Newcomers seem to acclimate to the social habits along with the weather. We soon learn to lay off our horns and grow less effusive with invitations."
Now isn't that all so sad? It should never be that way. I wonder why the story never even bothered mentioning actually LEAVING Seattle as a possible solution, since there are so many places in the world where socializing is completely NATURAL and FREE-FLOWING (which is the whole basis of my ebook in fact). Instead, it reports on the remedy of going to singles clubs and social mixers composed of other Seattle transplants, a very mono-national solution. Apparently it's taboo to mention that somewhere else is better than where you're at.
Frankly though, I've been to organized social mixers in Seattle and even though this is gonna sound rude, I'm going to tell it like it is: They are mostly composed of overweight unattractive people! (sorry if that's rude and offensive, but it's true) Yeah they were very nice people, but WHY SETTLE for that when you can go to Europe or the Philippines and hang out in social groups of skinny attractive people EASILY?! And date attractive people naturally as well (as long as you're a nice decent guy)? It makes no sense, doesn't show the big picture, and shows the news writer's highly mono-national views.
If that isn't limited enough, get this one. These folks in a Seattle Meetup.org chat are claiming that it usually takes 2 years to make new friends when you move to a new place!
http://newintown.meetup.com/38/messages/boards/view/viewthread?thread=2043864
Are they talking about Seattle, the USA, or the whole world when they say "new place"? I don't think it takes that long even in the States to make friends when you move somewhere new! What are these folks smoking?! Who has two years of their life to waste with no social life?! In most places in the world, if I talk to people, I can make new friends within 30 minutes of arriving in a new place! I've never had a problem at all, look! www.happierabroad.com/ebook/Collage.htm
If only these folks knew……… They are like the cavemen in Plato's Cave Analogy, watching the shadows on the wall while the enlightened have already found the daylight on the surface.
Posted by WWu777 at 1:58 AM
It's true, not just in Seattle but all across America. People in the US are not socialble and they are uncomfortable talking to strangers. People live like hermits in America, most people don't know who there neighbors are and are paranoid of strangers! This is especially true of women in America, as they are afraid of men talking to them in public. No wonder why there are so many lonely people in America!
Seattle is one of the few cities, which I have never visited. My uncle lives there. I have heard some really strange things about the place ... Everything from people having dogs instead of kids, to women trying to make hairy legs a fashion statement. It sounds like a really weird place. I must see it sometime! LOL! That Seattle social script sounds quite ironic. I also heard that the Seattle area has more millionaires/billionaires than any other city in the country.
I agree that it is ridiculous if it takes 2 years to make new friends when moving to a new place. Especially for young single people. People have communication needs, and can actually get very sick (mentally, emotionally and physically) when those needs are not met. Two years of social isolation ... It should be no surprise that Seattle ranks high in suicide (from last i read).
You've raised a good point with that post which I've been wanting to talk with you about.
Note:"You try not to look desperate"
If you don't already have friends and a circle of friends, then you are automatically a loser. So here, in the US, you have to put on a false and fake persona that you're busy with all your friends--otherwise you can easily create the impression that you are a loser. It's sick! But this false image you have to present is what is called 'social skills.'
In germany, I've been told that that cultural behavior doesn't exist. There is no stigma for being by yourself and or earnestly trying to connect with people. You can go to bars by yourself freely and no one will judge you as being a friendless loser.
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Genz and Mendell-Elston Estimation of the High-Dimensional Multivariate Normal Distribution
Lucy Blondell, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Mark Kos, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
John Blangero, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Harald H. H. Goring, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Statistical analysis of multinomial data in complex datasets often requires estimation of the multivariate normal (MVN) distribution for models in which the dimensionality can easily reach 10–1000 and higher. Few algorithms for estimating the MVN distribution can offer robust and efficient performance over such a range of dimensions. We report a simulation-based comparison of two algorithms for the MVN that are widely used in statistical genetic applications. The venerable Mendell- Elston approximation is fast but execution time increases rapidly with the number of dimensions, estimates are generally biased, and an error bound is lacking. The correlation between variables significantly affects absolute error but not overall execution time. The Monte Carlo-based approach described by Genz returns unbiased and error-bounded estimates, but execution time is more sensitive to the correlation between variables. For ultra-high-dimensional problems, however, the Genz algorithm exhibits better scale characteristics and greater time-weighted efficiency of estimation.
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Blondell, L.; Koz, M.Z.; Blangero, J.; Göring, H.H.H. Genz and Mendell-Elston Estimation of the High-Dimensional Multivariate Normal Distribution. Algorithms 2021, 14, 296. https://doi.org/10.3390/ a14100296
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Bridal must choose such a hairstyle which is easy for her to wear and also look stylish because it enhance the beauty of your personality and make people compel to admire you. Bridal hairstyles with braid is latest and classical hairstyle.
It is newest hairstyle introduced for the bridals and also on trend. Now it's your turn, if you are ready to create the new hairstyle than you must have to try this one. It always looks classical.
As you are more conscious about your wedding dress, make up or other accessories, you must be conscious about your hairstyle because if your hairstyle is rough and do not suit on you than it will be unfair with you.
Here are some famous braided hairstyles that I suggest for you to sport in 2019.
This style is latest and looks gorgeous it gives you a simple and classic look as well. Today bridals do not like to wear a heavy hairstyle, now it is a best hairstyle for bridal to create French braid hairstyle.
This style is not easy to make but also not so difficult as well. When you go to your salon give suggestion about your hairstyle and ask her to make it with full clarity and it must be look fresh.
This is the perfect bridal braid hairstyle 2019 for long and medium hair. This hairstyle is latest for bridals but also very simple. Bridals wear this hairstyle and look classical.
Are you wanted to go with the latest hairstyles? You must have to try this one hairstyle and create a classical look. Fishtail tail braid is the popular hairstyle of 2019 and model, celebrates or bridals like to wear it.
This hairstyle is so simple but also famous now. You can wear this style by your own self. Firstly you just have to make a simple braid then secure your hair with some beautiful flower.
You can use any color of flower but white looks more delighted like others. Braid with flowers is a very beautiful desirable style and it will give you a change look.
Here I discuss about some hairstyles that you can try. Bridal hairstyles in 2019 with braid are on trend. It gives you a simple and cute look as well. If you are going to married and worried about your wedding hairstyle then you must have to try this one.


Tricky: Q . Write features of JAVA programming language in details. What do you understand by bytecode? Also write working of JVM.
Q . Write features of JAVA programming language in details. What do you understand by bytecode? Also write working of JVM.
• Java program is both compiled and interpreted.
Java is a software-only platform running on top of other, hardware-based platforms.
(2) Object oriented: Focus on the data (objects) and methods manipulating the data. All functions are associated with objects. Almost all datatypes are objects (files, strings, etc.). it has potentially better code organization and reuse.
(3) Interpreted: Java compiler generate byte-codes, not native machine code. This compiled byte-codes are platform-independent. Java bytecodes are translated on the fly to machine readable instructions in runtime (Java Virtual Machine).
(5) Reliable: There is extensive compile-time and runtime error checking. No pointers but real arrays. Memory corruptions or unauthorized memory accesses are impossible. Automatic garbage collection tracks objects usage over time.
(6) Secure: Its usage in networked environments requires more security. Memory allocation model is a major defense. Here access restrictions are forced (private, public).
(8) Dynamic: Java is designed to adapt to evolving environment. Libraries can freely add new methods and instance variables without any effect on their clients. Interfaces promote flexibility and reusability in code by specifying a set of methods an object can perform, but leaves open how these methods should be implemented. It can check the class type in runtime.
Java compilation produces "bytecode" which is an Intermediate code readable by the VM and transferable across the Internet as applets. VM interprets BC into instructions. ByteCode produced on any platform may be executed on any other platform which supports a VM.
Acts as an interpreter for the bytecode, which takes the bytecodes as input and executes as if it was a physical process executing machine code. JVM is a component of the Java system that interprets and executes the instructions in our class files. Each instance of the JVM has one method area, one heap, and one or more stacks - one for each thread.
Q:How to write a resume with no job experience?
HOW TO GET A JOB (VERY EASY STEP).
Define the Turing test and its significance.


Secretly, growing up I wanted to be a social worker or a nurse. This appalled my mother, who wanted me to be a scientist, or a lawyer. I've always loved people, and taking care of them. As I have grown as a carer, I've loved empowering people, helping them gain independence, and fulfil their potential. A good carer can really make a difference in a person's life.
I dip in and out of caring. My first official care job was at the age of 15. A friend and I used to volunteer at a nursing home during our holidays. I learnt a lot. I learnt about empathy. I learnt about ageing and dementia. I learnt about memory and brain function. I learnt about funding, about inequality, about young people with nowhere else to go.
I was struggling at university, doing a Bachelor of Business, that just was not me. I kept myself sane by doing voluntary work, my favourite being Citizen Advocacy. I learnt the principles of Social Role Valorisation, and I was passionate to get out there, and help people to gain independence, and self worth. I found what I really wanted to do.
When I left university I tried to get a job fitting of my course, in business, but failed at every turn. I ended up working in a group home for people with complex disabilities. I discovered my niche, my calling. It was a challenging job, with amazing colleagues, and inspiring "clients" as they were called then.
Caring uses so many skills, which is what I love about it, there's variety, and you can get as involved as you want. I love to do activities, to go on outings, to get my service users to try new things, even if its just a food they've never tried.
I've worked at every end of the spectrum, children, the elderly, terminal illnesses, old age, disability, people with mental health disorders, I've had a huge variety.
I do intersperse caring with other work, as it's tough. Physically it can be hard, nowadays there is no lifting as such, but pulling hoists, pushing wheelchairs etc is not easy. Emotionally it can be draining, and you have to learn to switch off, which is hard for me, as I can be too empathetic at times, particularly early on in my career, I am getting better at that!
And the pay. Caring attracts a poor salary. Which is such a shame, because so often I've met people who have got a caring job because they can, not because they want to be there. That old chestnut "you pay peanuts you get monkeys" is sadly at times, true of caring.
I'm really pleased to be back caring again, and I am enjoying it greatly, it's a fab job to have.


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Gere Tree Care Tips To Repurpose Trees
A tree hugger's guide to repurposing trees for permaculture gardening, mushrooms and more!
Jeremiah Tucker
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How To Repurpose Trees
Follow this guide to reusing trees in a variety of ways.
Sean Gere said the goal of Gere Tree Care is to find a use for every part of the tree that's removed.
Some of these logs will go to a mill, perhaps becoming handsome pieces of furniture, and some to Sean's network of woodcarvers and woodturners.
Who says stumps are just for sitting? At his home site, Sean turns them into attractive planters. He also inoculates some stumps with mushroom spawn.
Once a champion tree climber, Sean still likes to climb. He and the people at his company climb the old-fashioned way, with ropes and rigging.
Mushrooms are another passion of Sean's. He learned to love them from his uncle, a chef. Here oyster mushrooms are growing on a log at his home site.
Sean Gere knew the house was right for him, but it wasn't when he saw the nice neighborhood, the view of the lake just across the street, the 1.5-acre site or any of the handsome structure's amenities. No, he knew he had to buy it when he noticed the American chestnut tree growing in the backyard. To most people, the tree would be unremarkable: an old, gnarled-looking hardwood that's not all that impressive to look at. But Sean is not most people. To say he appreciates trees is like saying John Muir was sort of into the outdoors.
"I've been into trees ever since I was five years old and started climbing them," Sean said.
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Sean, however, is not your typical tree-hugger. His job is to prune trees and, in some cases, to cut them down entirely. It's what his company Gere Tree Care, Inc. does with the dead tree that's unique. But let's go back to that chestnut tree for a moment.
"You just don't see them that often," Sean said one afternoon while walking around his property in Madison, Wisconsin. He stopped in front of it, as if to admire it. "Chestnuts used to be 'the big tree,' but there aren't very many left."
Sean worked for a time with Cornell University and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in West Salem, Wisconsin, to inoculate the largest surviving stand of American chestnuts in the United States with a virus that would make them resistant to chestnut blight. Planted by a farmer in the late 1800s, the West Salem stand began with a handful of trees and grew into a 90-acre forest. For years it was untouched by the blight that had infected and nearly wiped out the American chestnut in its natural range farther east. Then, in the late 1980s, the blight was discovered in West Salem. Trees began to die. While discussing this, Sean seemed to take the loss almost personally.
"This one's probably about 80 years old," Sean said of the chestnut in his backyard. "It's a passion of mine to try and pollinate and save them."
Trees, Fungi & Food
This is but one of Sean's tree-related passions. He has many. The philosophy of Gere Tree Care and its sister company, Gere Tree Health Management, owned by a friend of Sean's, is to save the tree if possible, and if not, then to find worthwhile uses for it once it is felled. While explaining this philosophy, Sean called the intersection of trees, fungi and food his "holy trinity." He paused for a moment and added, "Not to be blasphemous." He's just passionate about this topic. That's all there is to it.
Sean, in fact, would disagree with the ending of The Giving Tree, the classic children's book that posits a tree's usefulness after being cut down is merely as a stump for sitting. A stump is just one possible use. Furthermore, a stump is even better if it's been inoculated with mushroom spawn. Even if a stump can no longer grow a tall, sturdy trunk, it can continue to produce edible mushrooms.
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"Basically, when I was in high school in Chicago, my uncle was a chef and he wanted to groom me as a chef. I really got into food, and when I started doing tree work, when I realized that trees were a living thing and they had a connection to edible mushrooms, it just kind of clicked," Sean said and paused for a second, as if he'd conveyed this epiphany before and was trying to choose the best words to get it across. "It really is part of the big picture—the relationship of trees, soil and fungi to each other, and to everything."
In most instances when a tree-removal company trims a tree or cuts one down, its parts are turned into woodchips, and it ends up in a landfill. The goal of Gere Tree Care, Sean explained, is to find a use for every part of the tree that's removed. When asked what these uses are, he rattled some of them off. "Lumber, woodchips, mushroom logs, cutting a stump and leaving a living table for mushrooms. I've got a bunch of guys who make wood boxes, bowls…" He continued in this vein a bit longer.
Woodchip Wonders
Sean would never throw woodchips in a landfill. They're too valuable. Nearly his whole yard is covered in woodchips with attractive, often wild plants growing from them. A couple times during a tour of his property he emphasized, "I hate lawns." Lawns, he said, require a lot of maintenance, inputs and offer little in return.
Woodchips, on the other hand, act like a sponge for moisture, and as they break down, they produce great soil. "That's how it works in nature," he said. He pointed out one woodchip bed at his house and began listing what was growing there: wine cap mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, wild leeks, wild ginger, clove currants and more. "Everything is edible," he said of his yard. "I like utilitarian landscaping."
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Woodchips are ideal for growing many types of edible mushrooms, and there are mushrooms beds all over Sean's backyard, which acts as both a sprawling food forest and one of Gere Tree Care's worksites. In addition to woodchips, he also inoculates logs and stumps with mushrooms. Logs are better at growing shiitake and lion's mane mushrooms than woodchips. These are the kind of distinctions taught at the Gere Tree Care's classes on growing and landscaping with mushrooms.
The Tree Trifecta
A big part of Sean's job is making connections within the community. "My giant triangle thing is trees, food and fungi with community in the middle," he said. "I'm working on that concept."
For instance, if Sean cuts down an upscale tree, such as a black walnut, it might go to a mill or a network of woodcarvers and woodturners, who in return give him a bowl or sometimes a piece of furniture that he gives to the family from whose property the tree came. In one instance a beloved 200-year-old burr oak that Gere Tree Care removed was turned into a beautiful 7-foot table that sat near a window overlooking the backyard where the towering tree once stood.
Fruitwoods are earmarked for barbecue chips for smoking, softer woods for woodchips and others for mushroom logs. The woodchips often go to community gardens, and at some of these he'll teach children how to grow mushrooms using woodchips.
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One example Sean cites of an ideal Gere Tree Care project was an elementary school in Madison where his crew removed a sugar maple. "The school wanted the stump ground out, and I said, what if we leave the stump, inoculate it with mushrooms and turn the logs into benches and mushroom logs as teaching tools for kids?"
Working with a landscape architect, he turned the stump into a living table and organized a community space around it with benches made from the maple's logs and branches cut down the middle to reveal the vascular anatomy of the tree.
"It's now an amazing area, a meeting spot for people in the community and an outdoor classroom," Sean said, adding, "My sneaky, whole subversive thing is working with kids." The theory being, he said, that they'll grow up to love trees as much as he does.
World-Class Climber
Before starting Gere Tree Care, Inc. in 2007, Sean climbed trees professionally and was at one time ranked the fourth best climber in the world by the International Society of Arbor-iculture. His job still gives him an opportunity to climb, although now he spends more time on his smartphone responding to emails than climbing. "I don't get up in trees as much I'd like," he said.
At Gere Tree Care, they climb the old-fashioned way with ropes, rigging and sharp knives. "Bucket trucks get a lot of people up in trees who shouldn't be in trees," Sean said. Garrett Hughes, an arborist supervisor with Gere Tree Care, is up in trees almost every day, swinging from branch to branch like Tarzan looking for structural problems or signs of decay. He said he loves it. "The physicality, the setting," Garrett said. "Up in the tree, moving around, it just calms me."
Sometimes Sean still climbs for fun. His second-favorite tree on his property may be a towering honey locust, the third largest of its kind in the state. He sometimes goes to the top to get above it all for a while. "The view is amazing from up there."
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Rescue Global's high-tech efforts on the front lines of disaster save lives worldwide.
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To note, a friend of mine who has a paladin alt is unable to complete the quest without having advanced Suramar to the point where you get the disguise. If you haven't progressed Suramar, you can't speak to the NPC. Comment by Bobgaryen You buy the Suramarian Sapphire from Nightfallen Sundries Merchant. Take the portal to Evermoon Terrace in Shal'Aran and it should pop up on your mini-map... Suramar is a level 110 only zone. If no one is farming the ores before you, these 5 caves should always have 1 seam node and one normal node. Mine out every Seam you see, even if it's a grey Leystone Seam, because it can respawn as Felslate Seam the next time you visit the cave.
Suramar is a level 110 only zone. If no one is farming the ores before you, these 5 caves should always have 1 seam node and one normal node. Mine out every Seam you see, even if it's a grey Leystone Seam, because it can respawn as Felslate Seam the next time you visit the cave.... 8/06/2017�� Alas, it costs 500 Suramar mana, and I�ve just spent 400 for daily quest! Anyways, I picked the required amount in 5 minutes or so in the very same Suramar city. Sapphire is mine! Anyways, I picked the required amount in 5 minutes or so in the very same Suramar city.
12/09/2012�� When buying sapphire, you should know how to evaluate the quality of the stone to guarantee that you get the best quality your money can buy. You should also shop smart by knowing where and how to shop to avoid getting ripped off.
9/11/2015�� Suramar isn't scaled and the 5-Man are scaled until end game then there 5-man end game dungeons which scale from Heroic on up depending on the new system. This eliminates going to the easiest zone and leveling up to get into the intro dungeon like before.
Or wait until you can get the Rank 3 [Laribole Staff of Alacrity] or [Scarlet Diamond Staff of Intuition]. The rank 3 staff recipes are sold by these NPCs: Horde: Sold by Natal'hakata in Zuldazar.


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Retail's online future grows brighter after pandemic bump
By DAMIAN J. TROISEJanuary 6, 2021 GMT
FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2020 file photo, an Amazon Prime logo appears on the side of a delivery van as it departs an Amazon Warehouse location in Dedham, Mass. Online shopping has been a lifeline for many as the virus pandemic shuttered stores and kept people at home. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the change in how people shop in a world growing more comfortable and savvier with technology. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Online shopping has been a lifeline for many as the virus pandemic shuttered stores and kept people at home.
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the change in how people shop in a world growing more comfortable and savvier with technology.
E-commerce sales' strong growth is expected to continue long after the virus subsides. More importantly, online sales are likely going to take up a progressively bigger portion of all retail sales in coming years. E-commerce sales are forecast to account for just over 15% of all retail sales in the fourth quarter of last year, according to Refinitiv, and the share is likely to reach nearly 17% by the end of this year.
The clear winner in this shift has been Amazon. The online retailer's sales jumped 37% during the third quarter of 2020 and it forecasts growth of between 28% and 38% in the fourth quarter.
Traditional brick-and-mortar chains have gotten the message, ramping up their online sales as more and more people shop remotely rather than in stores.
Walmart CEO C. Douglas McMillon said recently that upward trends for online sales accelerated by "two to three years in some cases" because of the virus, and that change will persist beyond the pandemic.
"With the outbreak of COVID-19, the retail world clicked to a fast-forward and our ability to adapt quickly has been crucial," he said.
Walmart introduced its "Walmart Plus" subscription option in September, giving members unlimited free delivery along with other mobile friendly shopping features that allow customers to scan and pay for items while they shop.
Some large retailers started looking ahead well before the pandemic accelerated the change in consumer habits.
Home Depot started integrating its in-store and online shopping options in 2017 to take advantage of people shifting to online ordering for both delivery and pickup. Target started bolstering its online ordering and store pickup system several years ago.
Both chains were punished by investors early on for higher expenses as they pushed into e-commerce, but that investment is now translating into very strong results, said Jharonne Martis, director of consumer research at Refinitiv.
"A lot of these retailers are now building customer loyalty and that will translate into ongoing sales," Martis said.
Convenience is a key driver for online growth, and more companies are rolling out or improving their mobile apps. Purchases made through mobile devices reached $434.1 billion in 2019, according to J.P. Morgan, and could hit $729 billion by 2023.
"This is an ever evolving challenge for retailers if they want to stay competitive," Martis said. "Having an e-commerce strategy is crucial for retailers right now."


The 2020 Burton Paramount is fuelled by a secret recipe specially formulated for pinnacle park performance, making it the vessel of choice for daredevils looking to leap, soar, slide, and excite on snow.
The 2020 Burton Paramount is fuelled by a secret recipe specially formulated for pinnacle park performance, making it the vessel of choice for daredevils looking to leap, soar, slide, and excite on snow. Despite its death defying nature, you'll be in good hands thanks to the stable and responsive positive camber profile and soft flex, which combine to make this board playful enough to press anything in sight, but stable enough to jump and carve all over the mountain. Strap your helmet on and don your white leather suit, when you set foot on this board people are going to be expecting something impressive.
Twin Flex - This board flexes the same in the nose and tail, allowing you to ride, pop, and press the same in regular and switch.
Constructed exactly the same tip to tail, this board is designed to provide consistent performance when riding in both switch and regular.
FSC Certified Super fly II 700G - This core features stronger and lighter woods targeted in specific areas, which provides more pop and strength while reducing weight.
Pro Tip - The tip and tail of this board taper out at the points, reducing swing weight and promoting mobility.


The 4th annual Monster Mash Marathon was run on Saturday, October 18, 2014. Conditions were comfortable for the 7am start on the "Monster Mile" racetrack where 2 NASCAR races are held each year. Cloudy skies gave way to brilliant sunshine and a slight headwind for the 2nd half of the 26.2 miles made the flat course slightly more challenging.
This event is a fundraiser for Wounded Warrior Project.
25th Marathon is my First in Delaware!
2014 is the 4th annual Monster Mash Marathon and Half. The first mile is a lap around the Dover Downs NASCAR track, starting at 7am while the sun is rising. Although some MarathonGuide runner comments include recommendations for the scenery, I knew that it would be the most boring course I'd ever run. Even Dave McCorquodale (many small marathons among his 100+) had found it extremely mundane in 2013.
The bulk of the course is on long, straight stretches of road with cornfields on either side. With just 189 marathon finishers and 289 for the Half, even the first 6.5 shared miles had lonely patches. To demonstrate how ambivalent I was about selecting Monster Mash, I already had a 20 mile training run in before I decided on it. The timing was right for one week after helping out at Delaware Distance Classic 15K.
This was my 25th marathon overall, and very first in Delaware. A few weeks earlier while running in White Clay Park alongside Adam Shilling, I was overjoyed to hear that he was planning on the same race, with similar goal time of 3:30. So hopefully it would not be just me and some cows out there! My training was decent, with not much speed work and just hitting 44 mile weeks twice, but I did get in four 20+ runs. I had a shot.
Race day weather was good. On the drive to Dover, "Footloose" came on the radio, so a smile came to my face. (I have to state that since there were no witnesses in my car and it was dark anyway, so I wouldn't have seen it myself in the mirror.) The upside of a tiny race is that you can park a couple hundred feet from the registration tent, check in at 6am, have easy access to restrooms and easily find your friends. Adam arrived 10 minutes later and I ended up seeing another half dozen PCVRC members who were running the half.
That first "Monster Mile" was spectacular. Easily one of the coolest miles I've ever run! Unfortunately it got me off to a fast pace that I'd be unable to moderate until nearly mile 6. The track is banked even low on the straight portions, which turned out to be an omen with lots of the course having enough of a camber to be noticeable.
Once we left the Speedway and it's parking lots, I finally got to visit historic Dover for the very first time. Very pretty tree-lined streets, nice houses, government buildings downtown for 2 miles and then suddenly we're in the middle of nowhere. I'd have to say that 20 miles worth of the course has cornfields on one side and grassland on the other. The only difference is which side of the road that either is on! More than any other race, I was sorry to see the Half runners split from us.
Adam had smartly started at the right pace, and I found him catching up to me just after I turned around on a 2 mile "out and back" portion nearing the half way point. We ran together (in our matching PCVRC singlets) for a couple miles, agreeing that we'd been lucky that the sun had not come out until we had just turned from running directly towards it. Unfortunately, we also agreed that the moderate headwind we now felt was going to remain a nuisance for much of the 2nd half. Adam maintained pace as I started to drop back at mile 15.5 with some tightness in my upper legs.
It was now pretty sunny. Still not hot, due to the breeze, and in the low 60's. More cornfields. And more. Then there were a couple fields that had already been cut down – that was a nice change of pace! Speaking of pace, mine was slowing. Here's a "glass is half full" moment: At least in a small race, there are fewer people to pass you.
Mile 20 was in front of a house that was surrounded by cornfields. Legs tight and stride was probably pretty ugly. I had been passed by Keith Straw (pink tutu man) at around 17. Avoiding some caterpillars who were crossing the road. I hate cornfields. I hate this little breeze. I hate the girls who pass me (not really).
At mile 25, I finally see the racetrack in the distance. I don't want to look at my watch, so I've got no idea of time. Overpass over Rt. 1 (probably the biggest little hill on the course) and the downside at least gives me a push past mile 26. The finish is directly in front of Miles the Monster, where they are announcing the Half awards, so I sneak across the line and frown when I see 3:38:24. However, I did break my record for time to finish a water bottle after a race, which proved that I was dehydrated enough to hurt my performance.
In his first marathon since having screws removed from his broken leg injury, Adam had maintained pace nicely to finish in under 3:25! Awards for nearly every club member who ran the Half!
Very cool medal, with a halloween monster in it that spins. I'm usually more hungry after a race (only got down my usual 2 gels), but drinking a smoothie and eating a good roast beef sandwich made me feel better. As people started to leave, I wandered back inside the speedway to watch the start of a breast cancer awareness 1 mile jog around the track.


I belong to obc category, but in my ctet certificate wrongly sc category mentioned while in my mark sheet obc category correctly mentioned. When i downloaded the ctet certificate, i found it that my category is sc mentioned which is in correct, my correct category is obc. So please correct my category from sc to obc.
My ctet roll no. Is 88012949.
As per the revised answer key for CTET paper 1 2018, I'm getting 90 marks but in the result its only showing 88 marks. Please correct my result and provide me with the fresh result.
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The full vision for the major north-south Adelaide metropolitan area corridor.
MAJOR NORTH-SOUTH ROAD CORRIDOR FOR
ADELAIDE METROPOLITAN AREA moves closer
with Torrens, Darlington and Northern sections
MAJOR GAINS ARE BEING MADE into a road transport corridor linking the north and south extremes of the Adelaide metropolitan area.
The $896 million section of South Road from the River Torrens to Torrens Road was completed in 2018. A lowered motorway and bridge over over a rail level crossing means that road users avoids the previous traffic lights at Torrens, Port and Grange roads, as well as the Hawker and Hurtle streets intersection and the Outer Harbor railway line. A Pym Street bridge project will be added to the Torrens-to-Torrens section.
Completed sections of the north-south corridor are the now-duplicated Southern Expressway, a Northern Expressway and the South Road Superway.
The new Darlington section links with the Southern Expressway.
At the northern end, the Southern Interchange also is being built as a key component of the Northern Connector project (also started; $985 million). A paved concrete pavement solution will be applied to about 13km of the 15.5km Northern Connector alignment.
It will join the Northern Expressway with the South Road Superway and Port River Expressway.
On weekdays, more than 52,000 vehicles are expected to use the six-lane15.5 kilometre link between the Northern Expressway, the South Road Superway and the Port River Expressway.
Completing all these projects, funded by the Australian and state governments, will leave River Torrens to Anzac Highway to Darlington as the main untouched section of the corridor.