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Companies Developing Treatment For Coronavirus (2019-ncov) Outbreak
Author: Amit Pharande Published on: February 7, 2020 Published in: Analytics
This is not the first time that coronavirus has been the talking point around the globe. Previously too coronavirus was an outbreak in humans and the two most widely known were Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreaks.
In December 2019, the novel coronavirus outbreak started in Wuhan, China and on 31st December 2019, Chinese Health Authorities alerted WHO (World Health Organization) about the virus. WHO gave an interim name to the novel coronavirus as "2019-nCoV" and final name is expected to be made official by International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
Unlike in the cases of previous outbreaks, the companies, researchers, academic institutes, government research firms and regulating bodies (WHO, CDC, etc) have been quick with the response and have already initiated the research to develop diagnostic test, vaccines and treatment to eradicate the new strain of coronavirus. This epidemic rage is estimated to have at least 2000 cases daily.
As of February 7, 2020, 30,000 cases have been confirmed in China and other countries, of which the death toll soars past 645.
Recent developments in vaccine programs
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) awarded grant to Inovio Pharmaceuticals to develop a vaccine using DNA medicine platform.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals and Beijing Advaccine Biotechnology Co collaborated to advance INO-4800 vaccine. The trial will be run parallel in the U.S. and China
Inovio's other collaborators in this coronavirus vaccine development include the Wistar Institute and VGXI, a fully owned subsidiary of GeneOne Life Science
Under an agreement executed with Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Plasmid DNA contract manufacturer VGXI Inc to start production of a DNA vaccine against Coronavirus
The Vaccine Research Center (VRC) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH, collaborated with Moderna Therapeutics to design the vaccine. CEPI awarded grant to Moderna Therapeutics to accelerate the development of mRNA vaccine
CEPI awarded grant to University of Queensland, Australia to use the rapid response technology to develop a new vaccine in next 6 months
CureVac and CEPI collaborated for mRNA vaccine development platform
GSK and CEPI have partnered to develop vaccine using GSK's pandemic vaccine adjuvant platform technology
J&J and Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies are developing a preventive coronavirus vaccine using Janssen's AdVac® and PER.C6® technology, which was used in Ebola vaccine development
GeoVax Labs, Inc., a biotechnology company developing human immunotherapies and vaccines against infectious diseases and cancer, together with BravoVax, a vaccine developer in Wuhan,China, announced the signing of a Letter of Intent to jointly develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus
CytoDyn a biotechnology company is set to test lerolimab, a C-C chemokine receptor type 5(CCR5) antagonist to potentially treat the infection
Clover Biopharmaceuticals is leveraging its Trimer-Tag technology and mammalian cell culture-based expression system to create the recombinant subunit of the vaccine.
AbCellera, a Canada based vaccine research company has allied with the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and other research teams to test antibody candidates for prophylactic as well as therapeutic efficacy.
Treatment programs:
Vir Biotechnology is exploring whether its previously identified mAb can neutralize 2019-nCoV. They also plan to take another approach of applying apply whole genome CRISPR-based screening capabilities (Vir's innate immunity platform) 9
Gilead Sciences drug remdesivir failed in Ebola however showed efficacy in preclinical study for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus. In compassionate use program, Gilead administered drug remdesivir in first U.S. patient of 2019-nCoV, where it showed some significant improvement in the health. Based on these results, Gilead collaborated with China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Wuhan, China (where 2019-nCoV outbreak initiated) to randomize patients with mild-to-moderate pneumonia related to 2019-nCoV to receive remdesivir 10
Abbvie's HIV drug Kaletra/Aluvia (two antiretroviral components, lopinavir and ritonavir) is recommended by China's National Health Commission to treat pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus known as 2019-nCoV 12
Sirnaomics is developing novel RNAi-based therapy for treating patients suffering from Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) caused by the 2019 novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
Does not matter who, but the world needs one of the above companies to come up with a therapy to treat the coronavirus 2019-nCoV infection at the earliest.
https://www.onhealth.com/content/1/2019-ncov_wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200130-sitrep-10-ncov.pdf?sfvrsn=d0b2e480_2
http://ir.inovio.com/news-and-media/news/press-release-details/2020/Inovio-Collaborating-With-Beijing-Advaccine-To-Advance-INO-4800-Vaccine-Against-New-Coronavirus-In-China/default.aspx , http://ir.inovio.com/news-and-media/news/press-release-details/2020/Inovio-Selected-by-CEPI-to-Develop-Vaccine-Against-New-Coronavirus/default.aspx
https://www.curevac.com/news/curevac-and-cepi-extend-their-cooperation-to-develop-a-vaccine-against-coronavirus-ncov-2019
https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/coronavirus-gsk-vaccine-platform/
https://vgxii.com/vgxi-to-manufacture-vaccine-against-novel-coronavirus-under-cepi-funded-collaboration/
https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-announces-funding-award-cepi-accelerate-development
https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2020/01/race-develop-coronavirus-vaccine
https://investors.vir.bio/news-releases/news-release-details/vir-biotechnology-applying-multiple-platforms-address-public
https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/company-statements/gilead-sciences-statement-on-the-company-ongoing-response-to-the-2019-new-coronavirus
https://www.jnj.com/coronavirus
https://news.abbvie.com/news/media-statements/abbvie-statement-on-coronavirus-and-lopinavirritonavir.htm
https://sirnaomics.com/news/sirnaomics-advances-rnai-based-prophylactics-and-therapeutics-to-battle-sari-caused-by-2019-ncov/
http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2020/02/03/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/
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https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/coronavirus-jj-vaccine-candidates/
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The Most Powerful Planet in Vedic Astrology
Religion Articles | May 24, 2017
Vedic Astrology is a part of Astronomy. It starts where Astronomy ends. The planets that revolve around the sun create a grave impact on the lives of people on the earth as well.
For understanding an individual's horoscope, the 9 zodiac planets form the single most important criteria. But it depends majorly upon where these planets are placed in relation to each other.
Some of the very basic matters in life which are defined by planets are
Happiness in an individual's married life
How many children would a couple have
What is the career that a person would pursue
Alternately, each of the planets also symbolizes some very important things in life.
Just as an example, Venus planet in astrology is the symbol of love and when well placed, it brings about love and happiness in a person's life. In the same way, if the planet Venus is associated with malefic planets, or if it is placed in a house which is not lucrative, some challenges in one's love life are likely.
Let us run through some of the very basic ways of figuring out planetary strength. These are by no means comprehensive but still would give us a great degree of idea regarding how a particular planet would affect us positively or negatively.
A host of other factors also come into play and these would include aspect and conjunction of other planets, and also the particular Nakshatra wherein the planet is placed.
But the following would be the basic ways of accessing the strength of a planet.
BENEFIC AND MALEFIC PLANETS
In a very general way, Moon, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury are considered benefic planets
While Sun, Mars, Saturn, Rahu, and Ketu are considered as malefic planets
But each planet is possessed with its own qualities and being benefic and malefic has a lot to do with the placement of the planet in one's horoscope.
FAVORABLE AND UNFAVORABLE HOUSES
In Vedic Astrology, houses too are divided as favorable and unfavorable.
Planets placed in houses 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, and 10 are considered favorable.
Similarly, planets placed in houses 6, 8, 12 are considered malefic.
The nearness of the planets, the general character of the planet and the placement of the planet in a particular House of your Birth Chart, together constitute to its strength and weakness. Thus the planets on their own are not strong or weak and for that matter we cannot point one planet to be the strongest among all. If a particular planet is placed in the right house, it may enhance your life and bring all the riches, fame, glory and the things that mean the most to you, making it a stronger planet for you. In the same way, it is"One for Each".
We will now define a few characteristic traits of all the planets that are considered when studying Astrology. The planets have a certain specific traits of their own, however, when it is in conjunction with other planets it might also get influenced with the other planets. The placement of the planets is thus of grave importance.
Sun: Sun is the atma (soul) of all planet and humans as well. It is the King of all planets and thus possesses various positive traits such as being a fatherly figure, has immense strength, holds self-respect, is just, and authoritative.
What the planet Sun overlooks is one's physical health and vitality. So how an individual projects himself on to the world is really dependent on the planet sun.
When Sun is strong in one's horoscope, the individual is very energetic, and Sun makes the individual a centre of attraction.
But is the Sun is weak in an individual's horoscope, the constitution could be weak and the person runs the risk of becoming ego centric.
Moon: Moon is related to the mind. It acts as the mother of all, and imparts love, peace of mind, positivity and emotions. Moon is money. It also represents water and greenery. It is closest to the planet earth and thus affects us a lot.
The planet moon is the ruler of one's looks and emotions. With the moon nicely placed, the individual is happy, and the moon brings about a higher degree of social and physical attractiveness.
This in turn brings about success in life, as a happy person would nicely integrate with others.
But this is in contrast with a moon which is not placed nicely, and could cause anxiety or depression, or even hardship.
Mercury: Mercury depicts Intelligence. People with a strong placement of Mercury in their Birth Chart are business minded, have better grasping power, can think logically, good in math, are agile and alert. It also represents speech and other business related to it.
Mercury is the fastest planet in the solar system. It rules our intelligence and also influences our ability to communicate.
With Mercury nicely placed, an individual is possessed with high intelligence. Mercury also gives dexterity since Mercury rules one's hands as well.
Some of the traits of people who have the planet mercury nicely placed include an aptitude speaking, writing and teaching.
Nevertheless, if the planet mercury is weak or afflicted, this would negatively affect an individual's abilities in these areas. This might even translate to a harsh speaking style at times.
Venus: Venus depicts love relationship and business. It enhances your sex life, lifestyle, and bring along money and prosperity of all kind.
While Venus is the planet of love, it also represents women in general. Venus symbolizes beauty art and socializing, and the planet basically stands for all good things in life.
When Venus is strong in one's horoscope, it augurs positive for one's marriage as the couple finds contentedness in their life and also develop an appreciation for arts.
But if the planet Venus in one's horoscope is debilitated, it could lead some sort of disharmony in relationships. One may even face a difficulty in relating with others.
Mars: Mars depicts courage, bravely, technical and scientific strength and confidence. People with a strong Mars are great soldiers, policemen, engineers, doctors and related professions associated with it. It also represents land and real estate.
The planet Mars is the planet of atheletes. It signifies action. And with the planet Mars, we could come to know about how much initiative does an individual actually have to bring about changes in their life.
When Mars is strong, the individual is possessed with an ability to outlast his competitors. He is really possessed with the ability to get up and go.
But when Mars is afflicted, the person might end up being the type of an individual who fights too much.
Jupiter: Jupiter is known as Guru - the teacher. People influenced by Jupiter are spiritually intelligent and knowledgeable. Jupiter supports love, relationship, and travel. It depicts wisdom and education of the person. One is also inclined towards doing well to mankind.
Jupiter is a great beneficiary, and it symbolizes wisdom, religion and expansion.
The planet Jupiter also tells us about how much wealth would a person earn in his lifetime.
With a strong Jupiter in his birthchart, the person is likely to be a well educated person who is well to do.
Sometimes when the Jupiter is afflicted, material prosperity fails to follow.
Saturn: Shani is a hermit and depicts time old age, poverty and life. It is a judgmental planet, and the person with a strong Shani can do good in politics, business, and other such sectors that demands your self-confidence. One with a strong Shani is hardworking, self-empowered and successful in life.
Saturn is the planet of loss, but nevertheless helps us understand our limitations. It helps us recognize the matters wherein we cannot bring about a change.
Saturn is the ruler of discipline and hard work. It is about responsibility, longevity and loss that Saturn teaches us.
When one is blessed with a strong Saturn in his birthchart, you could expect the individual to be committed, and with a dedication to rules and traditions.
Nevertheless an afflicted Saturn could make one undisciplined, or even irresponsible.
Uranus: Uranus has all the traits of Mercury, however, it is much more forceful or severe. We can term it as the enhanced version of Mercury. It denotes extreme knowledge and intelligence, or extreme changes (drastic) that one can experience. It also denotes modern technology, hypnotism and black magic.
Uranus happens to be a mysterious planet, and signifies a phenomenon which is unpredictable or unusual. When Uranus is prominent in an individual's birth chart, he pays a deep regard to his originality and freedom.
With the Uranus favorable, the intellect is sharp and the person is possessed with a desire to be unconventional.
Neptune: Neptune is the enhanced version of Venus. It denotes intuition, beauty and social life. It is also known for creating confusion in the house it is placed in.
Neptune, in many senses could be seen as the inverse of the planet Saturn, which is staunch and impassive. The planet is an idealist, but could end up being an escapist at times.
If the planet Neptune is balanced, the individual is renowned for his beauty or public image. However a Neptune not well placed could bring the person closer to illusions in life. He or she may even develop problems with drugs or alcohol.
Pluto: Pluto works on a mass scale. One might encounter big things happening to them (either good or bad). It is a recently discovered planet. It relates to mass, social and spiritual life, and political events.
The planet Pluto is known to magnify the effect of whatever planet it touches. While Pluto is associated with power, it does so in a way which is total or compulsive.
It is also known that the planet Pluto operates beneath the surface.
When Pluto is well placed, one exercises greater power over others and enjoys greater wealth.
But a badly aspected Pluto can cause misery.
Rahu: Rahu depicts the ascending north node and affects the moon the most among the planets. It bring name and fame, sudden changes, foreign travels to name a few. It also aids in healing diseases.
Rahu is the astronomical point, where the orbital path of the Sun intersects with the upper orbital path of the moon.
In general, the planet Rahu is considered to be malefic.Nevertheless when affiliated with benefic planets, the planet Rahu brings about success, and great riches as well. It could even pave way for refined arts or scientific discoveries.
But when Rahu is afflicted, it could cause malefic effects as well. This is vastly dependent on the planet it is most well connected to.
Ketu: Ketu depicts the descending south node and affects the sun the most. It is worshipped for spirituality and also works in favor of changing events, accidents and breaking relationships.
Ketu, just opposite to the planet Rahu is the point where in the orbit of the Sun intersects with the lower orbital path of the moon.
Just like the planet Rahu, Ketu too is considered to be malefic. But it could offer a very positive boost to an individual's horoscope when it combines with favorable planetary configurations.
Planet Ketu is possessed with capabilities to bring people to the over worldly realms
All zodiac planets have their own significance in astrology and can take a person to Rags or to Riches depending upon their placements, their conjunction, the Zodiac Signs and Nakshatras. However, one may also lessen the ill effects of the planets to a certain extent by implements certain remedies. One may appease the ruling deity and surrender and may attain love, health, wealth, prosperity, abundance, and all things that mean a lot to you.
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First of all, employers in the city of Beckley may be required to establish company policies with regards to sexual harassment and post these in a visible location so that employees may be informed. The policies should at least include: contact information for the reporting of sexual harassment incidents, an outline of procedures to be followed in filing a claim, and the remedies available when a claim successfully proven.
Additionally, federal and West Virginia laws create specific agencies which are responsible for handling sexual harassment cases. The agencies are given authority to investigate workplaces in Beckley to determine if the incidents alleged in the complaints they receive are true. Also, under these laws, employers may not fire or retaliate against any employee who has alleged sexual harassment in a claim.
If you do not have any expertise in the applicable laws, it may be difficult to investigate and prove a claim involving sexual harassment. It's not uncommon for federal investigators to be too busy to handle individual claims. Therefore, hiring an attorney in Beckley can be the safest way to file your claim within the deadlines for sexual harassment claims that West Virginia has defined.


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The Gardners » Holidays » Tokyo Marathon
Kas had managed to get a place in the Tokyo marathon but none of her normal running buddies did, so I went with her. I wasn't quite sure what it would be like, but in the end is was a lot more familiar than I was expecting.
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OK, so this was a fairly long day by most people's standards, mainly because by most people's standards it was actually two days, however there was no bed involved in the middle, and therefore in my mind it was just one very, very long day.
It began at home in Milton Keynes, but not very much of it was spent there as we were out of the house before daylight on our way down to Heathrow. As is normally the case with early starts, we stopped on the way out of town to grab a takeaway coffee.
We were early enough that the traffic on the M1 and M25 was tolerable, and we were into the car park at Heathrow in under 90 minutes from home. I now see that as a very reasonable amount of time. It used to take a lot less than that but nowadays it's quite rare in my experience.
We were bound for Heathrow Terminal 5, the home of most BA flights from the airport. We had a direct flight into Tokyo's older but now somewhat jazzed-up airport of Haneda on one of Mr Boeing's very finest 777 aircraft. The flight promised to be mindlessly tedious though, in the way that 13 hour overnight flights are. It was only lunchtime, but it's one of those flights that crosses a sufficiently large number of time zones that you can't really figure out what time (or even what day) it is until the day you come home again.
While we were flying eastwards in daylight we managed to eat our way through some lunch and take a couple of not-too-bad photos of bits of northern Europe drifting by beneath us. I quite like the one of the Gulf of Riga that I've included here. Unfortunately, I also decided that a good way for me to get some sleep on the plane would be to drink a lot. It didn't work. All that happened was that I got a monster hangover while we were only halfway across Russia and it took me until lunchtime to get rid of it.
So in the middle of probably the worst bit of my hangover we landed at Haneda at what was, for Japan, quite early in the morning – before-the-start-of-work kind of early. It was a first experience of Japan for us both, and I'm not sure either of us was really sure what to expect. I guess we sort of expected, in true stereotypical fashion, that getting through the airport would be smooth and ruthlessly efficient. It was. Or at least, it was until we missed a sign and descended a staircase into the wrong bit of the bus station, which meant we had to climb back up and down again to cross a road.
Haneda is serviced by a really rather excellent idea of a bus which runs directly to a group of large hotels in the Shinjuku area, which is where we were staying. We bought our tickets and got directed to the correct bus stop by a nice lady in the arrivals hall, and then queued up for all of 10 mins before our "Limousine Bus" arrived. The bus itself didn't have any luxury features that might make you think it was a limousine, but after brief stops at each terminal building it then proceeded directly through the Tokyo morning traffic to Shinjuku Station, a bus terminal, and a handful of nearby hotels (of which ours was the final stop). It took about an hour, I guess, but it was brainless and easy and not very expensive.
Our hotel was expecting us to arrive, which is always handy, but wasn't expecting us to arrive quite so early. It was only 9am after all. Our booked room wouldn't be available until 3pm, but they said if we didn't mind upgrading our room (to a category where they'd got some available ones) then they could let us have a room at 10:30 (ish). We decided to go for it, partly because "holiday rules apply" and partly because we had other things to get done during the day, some of which required rearrangement of the content of the bags we were carrying. This left us with just over an hour to kill and a need for some breakfast, so we made our first (of many) visits to the Starbucks over the road. They had a familiar selection of coffee based beverages and some quite unfamiliar looking cakes and pastries. The chocolate chip scones were nice.
While we were in there we noticed a few other Europeans who were obviously there for the same reason that Kas was, and we took the opportunity to ask one couple how easy it was to get to the expo site. We needed to go there to get Kas's number and she wanted to do it on the Friday so that we could have a full day of tourist activity on Saturday. It turned out to be quite easy from a logical perspective (one metro and one overground) but a little time consuming.
That's all by-the-by though. First of all we had to go check into our hotel room. Our room was of the "superior" category, whatever that means, and was on the 19th floor, about halfway up, and had a nice view out in the general direction of where the marathon would be starting. All very nice apart from the push-back wood-and-paper screen thing that separated the sleeping area from the bathroom. It was possible to push the screen back whilst in the sleeping area such that you could see someone in the shower or bath (but probably not someone on the toilet). Weird. But enough of that. The room was big enough, clean, warm and had comfortable looking beds which we were both looking forward to trying out later in the day.
Before that we had the adventure of getting to the expo site in front of us. This involved getting the Toei Ōedo Line from Tochōmae to Shiodome and then the Yurikamome on to Kokusai-tenjijō-seimon. The only annoying part really was the fact that you had to buy a separate ticket as the two lines are operated by different companies. The Yurikamome is quite entertaining, as it's an above ground line that's essentially rubber-tyred vehicles running on concrete guideways. It's driverless too and it goes over the fairly large and impressive Rainbow Bridge.
The expo was at the Tokyo Big Sight and it was fairly busy by the time we arrived. Unlike some other marathon expos Kas has been to, this one had most of the gory parts happening in a closed area that couldn't be accessed by non-runners. I'm not really one for browsing round such things anyway, so while Kas had a good old expoing session I went out for a bit of a walk and a few geocaches. Well, Japan was a new country for me both in physical and geocaching terms, and Kas was kind enough to give me a good two hours of free time in an area that had quite a few caches nearby. The walk around here was also my first experience of being out on the street, I guess. This area was all perfectly easy to understand from the perspective of a European with no knowledge of Kanji (nor of Hirigana and Katakana). Everything is written in multiple languages on all the road signs, much like they are in Singapore, including some very Latin looking script. Anyway, I had my GPS, so at least I'd always know where I was even if I didn't know where I was going.
My walk took me down onto what I think it as artificial island with a ferry terminal on the end. Well, I know it was an artificial island. I'm speculating about the ferry terminal part. Natural islands don't have shorelines that are perfectly straight. Anyway, I digress. The walk down this part was not really one of Tokyo's tourist highlights, but it did yield a handful of caches in quick order in a location that was fairly free of other people. By this time also the sun had come out and I was wondering why I was wearing quite so many clothes.
Once I'd finished the ferry terminal I walked down the artificial island that has the Tokyo Big Sight on it. There were a handful more down the side of this one, although a couple of them seemed to be missing.
This took me up to my assigned meeting time with the boss, and we duly met up and made our way back to the hotel via the par-two train system again. By the time we got back it was very nearly dark, which means we'd been out of bed for about 30 hours, but we still needed to sort out some dinner for the evening. We got all showered and cleaned up and went for a look at the various hotel restaurants, assuming that they'd be horrendously over-priced, which they duly were. This lead us to take a stroll up the street and discover an interesting feature of the Shinjuku area, namely that there's a layout of streets at the top that cars and buses go on, and then there's a layout of underground tunnels, subways and shopping malls (with restaurants) that are completely hidden from street. We walked into one random shopping mall and were greeted by a number of different restaurants offering a variety of different cuisines and all at somewhat lower prices than the hotel. They gave us reassurance that we'd be able to eat reasonably well throughout this trip without getting fleeced.
We chose a Thai restaurant and treated ourselves to a one-course quick meal, which was very nice indeed, before retiring to the hotel for a large quantity of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Before that we managed to raise the energy to take a few photos of lit-up skyscrapers out of the hotel window.
By the time we made it to bed we'd probably not seen a bed for 32-33 hours. I call that a long day. But definitely only one day.
Day 2 of our jaunt to Tokyo, or possibly Day 3 if you count the day we travelled over (which I don't).
On the plan today we'd got a bit of tourism. We wanted to go see a few things while we were here but obviously Kas wasn't over-keen on masses of walking, given that she'd be having to run 26.2 miles the following day.
We started off our day by grabbing some breakfast in a nearby Starbucks while we agreed some sort of a plan.
Our first choice location was the rather large Tokyo Skytree, which is apparently the second tallest inhabited structure on the planet. You can't quite get all the way up it, but you can get to a rather dizzying 450m above street level.
Anyway, to get there from our hotel we took the subway tunnels to join the Toei Ōed Line underneath the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building and caught a train to Kuramae Station. From here we needed to change for the
Toei Asakusa Line, which looks very easy on the tube map but in practice is a little more difficult. There are, in fact, two completely separate stations with a 350m walk down the street in between them. It must have been the first place in Tokyo we'd been to where there wasn't a network of underground tunnels. Anyway, we found it eventually and caught another train to Oshiage Station, which according to wikipedia is "adjacent to the Tokyo Skytree Complex". That's a euphemistic way of saying that the station is at the bottom level of a seemingly 50-floor shopping centre that you have to walk through to get to the Skytree at the top. I exaggerate somewhat, but it did take a while. No doubt if you're well versed in such things you can find a way of walking round the outside and straight into the tower.
The first rather excellent thing we noticed about the Skytree was that they have a separate entrance for foreigners. It probably costs more than being a local, but it means you get to jump the big queue and just queue up behind however many other non-Japanese were trying to get in. In our case that was about 15 people only, whereas the locals entrance was stacked up miles out of the door and around the corner. I'm all in favour of a bit of Tommy-Tourist bonus when you're on a tight timescale, even if it does cost a bit extra. We were in the lifts inside 10 minutes of entering the building.
The lifts didn't seem like lifts at all. There was a vague sensation of travelling upwards but nothing like what you expect for a lift that takes you up 350 metres in a minute. First stop on the lift is the platform at 350m, which is one that everyone has to go to, It was kind of busy when we got there so we proceeded pretty much straight away up to the second lift and the 450m platform, which was a little quieter and also quite a lot lighter. The floor on this level is a lighter colour. There's a gently sloping walkway around on this platform which brings you out at a point a couple of floors above where you exit the lift. Most confusing if you're not expecting it. In between those floors, and walking around the platform, you get some impressive views in all directions around the city, and also a quick gallery of various bits of Anime artwork.
We should also have been able to see Mount Fuji from this height, but as with the whole of the weekend, the atmospheric conditions meant there was too much haziness to see even across the city of Tokyo, never mind as far as Fuji.
After we'd had our fill of high altitude we sat at the bottom (outside) and had a drink whilst watching people muck about on an outdoor ice rink. It was still quite cold, despite (or because of) the sunshine. While we were sitting down we discussed some route planning for our afternoon. We wanted to go over to the Sensō-ji, which appeared to be about a mile away on foot. Having come up on the train and been standing more or less still all morning we agreed that it would be good to stretch our legs for a while rather than getting on trains. Anyway, the nearest station to Sensō-ji seemed to be half a mile away, so we were going to have to do some walking anyway.
On our way over there we grabbed a handful of geocaches and took a few arty photos of things we were passing. We stumbled across a little oasis of calm at the Ushijima Shrine and then crossed the river to a fairly busy riverside walkway where Kas sat for a few minutes while I was rummaging in the undergrowth looking for tupperware.
Sensō-ji wasn't far from here. We entered the site from the (less preferred) north side and meandered our way into a bit of a crowd. Well, I suppose it was mid-afternoon on a sunny Saturday, but it was really very busy with lots of people doing various kinds of temple activity, much of which seemed to involve buying small offerings and then giving them away or setting fire to them.
There was an interesting mix of styles of dress too, with quite a few people choosing to adopt some very traditional Japanese dress when making their visit here. I'm not sure if this was genuine or just something for the tourists, of which there were plenty of others as well as ourselves.
The basic form here is that there are several traditional shrine / temple buildings all immaculately painted in red with gold decoration. We didn't go inside because neither of us is religious nor do we understand the particular habits of this religion, so it would seem a bit of an insult. However, there was lots of activity going on outside which meant that a trip inside didn't seem necessary.
From the temple there's a long walkway heading south which is flanked by rows of tat stalls selling souvenirs of varying degrees of rubbishness, at the end of which is a formal gate which was also home to a geocache. That one took a little while to find, especially given that it was really busy.
Once past that gate, one was essentially back out into the open again, and all that remained was for us to find a metro station to get home. This was harder than it seemed, but eventually we found the right entrance for Asakusa Station. Before climbing aboard, we took the opportunity to stop for half an hour to grab a sandwich and a drink. It was only mid-afternoon and we were ready for a bit of a rest, plus Kas had expressed a desire from here for not doing much more walking, and going back to the hotel.
The sandwiches were nice and then we picked our way back home by more or less retracing our morning journey back to Tochōmae Station.
I left Kas here so that she could walk through the underpasses back to the hotel while I went for a bit of a walk to find a few of the geocaches in Shinjuku, with varying degrees of success.
By the time I got back to the hotel it had gone dark, so we made a quick turnaround and then headed out for some dinner. We got about half a block along the road towards Shinjuku Station before spotting a pizza/pasta restaurant at street level. We ordered a simple pasta dish each and then had our first experience of being told we absolutely couldn't leave a tip, and after that it was time for an early night, because Kas had got some running jaunt to be getting on with in the morning.
Our third day in Tokyo, and the day that we were going to spend apart from each other, as Kas went off to run the marathon and I had a somewhat less taxing walk with a bit of geocaching planned.
Kas got up and set off quite early, and I decided to get moving fairly early too, if only to avoid getting pinned into Shinjuku until the runners had all left. The start of the marathon was literally a couple of hundred metres from our hotel and they'd been closing off various bits of road to traffic since well before daybreak.
I didn't bother with breakfast anywhere, as I wasn't really hungry. I sort of just wanted to go out and see how many caches I could find in Tokyo in the amount of time it took Kas to do the running. I'd got maybe 35-40 on the radar.
I began my walk by skirting around the north end of Shinjuku Station and after a quick find I began to get hit by the day's first problem – poor GPS signal. Fair enough, there's a lot of tall buildings around this area, so there's not really a very clear sight of many satellites, but still, huh ? At the first cache I tried I gave up with the GPS when I was a good 50 metres away and just used the map and hint. At the second one I tried I wasn't so lucky – I couldn't get the GPS to settle at all and the hint didn't give much clue as to where I should go. Likewise the third.
At the fourth I was supposed to be getting some information from a piece of street furniture, I think, but I couldn't make sense of it and couldn't get an answer. So that was a waste, and by this time I was starting to get a bit irritated by the whole idea. I really should learn to set lower expectations when I'm caching in towns and cities. It's always hard work.
Anyway, I eventually found one and then picked my way down to the Shinjuku Gyo-en National Garden, where I found another whilst waiting at the gate for it to open.
The next half hour was spent rather in frustration as I tried to follow my way around a multi-cache but kept getting lost as the information trail just seemed to disappear about three-quarters of the way in. I tried three times before giving up. The gardens were pretty though.
And from here, then began the second major problem of the day – missing caches. Now I know that urban ones can be hard to find, but the particular problem here seemed to be that at least a third of the caches on my radar were known not to be present (from multiple DNF logs and/or disablement) and a third more had at least a couple of DNFs or were in areas with tall buildings. A consistent lack of useful hints wasn't helping either.
By now it was getting on towards lunchtime (or at least it was lunchtime if you hadn't had breakfast) so I decided I'd park my butt for a while and contemplate what was going on. I stopped at a small outlet belonging to a local coffee chain and had myself a sandwich and a latte flavoured with honey, which was nicer than it sounds. I was alongside the main road running through Yotsuya, alongside Yotsuya-sanchōme Station, I think. To be honest, if I hadn't been trying to fill time before meeting Kas I'd have given up and gone home. I wasn't really enjoying the caching very much and the walk along here was the part where I felt the most uncomfortable all weekend. Not unsafe, but I definitely felt like stood out a bit.
I progressed my way through a couple more suburbs in the general direction of the Imperial Palace and found myself at Kudanzaka Park, where I found another couple of caches that I couldn't find, as it were. One was inaccessible due to building works (but wasn't disabled) and one I just couldn't find.
I was now really despairing at the state of caches in the city and time was starting to march on, so I started to progress my way through the Imperial Palace grounds, initially failing to find a cache again at the Nippon Budokan, and then entering the proper "palace" bit. I had to get to the far side of the palace from where I was to get to where I'd agreed to meet Kas, and even this proved frustrating as I didn't have a map of where all the paths went and I ended up going a bit around the houses (or the gardens, to be accurate).
I eventually came out onto a main road where I just had to walk a mile or so to meet Kas. There were plenty of caches on the way but I felt I was out of time, so I left all of them apart from a wherigo that I was walking right past. I did start to wonder about how come the grass everywhere seems to die back and turn beige-coloured in the winter.
From the caching perspective it had been an appalling day. I'd been caching for the best part of 7 hours and had found an extremely disappointing 9 caches. I suppose I'd done a nice long walk through a strange city and had gone to a number of places that a non-cacher would never go to, but it didn't suppress the overriding feeling of disappointment.
What did help was sitting in the gardens at the end of the marathon course and Kas turning up with a bit of a limp, a massive medal and a smile. It had been a decent run which had been fast enough to make a "good for age" in Chicago for 2019, so that'll be up next.
It proved to be a very easy hole-in-one trip home from here by taking the Marunouchi Line from Kasumigaseki to Nishi-Shinjuku and then plodding along the subways to the hotel.
For dinner we took a short walk at street level to the place we'd been a couple of nights previously, and this time we ended up in a Japanese speciality cafe/bar, where we were treated to a veritable feast of hand prepared foods accompanied by some very nice locally made beer. The food was generally "tapas" style, but that worked well because they served things as soon as they were ready and we shared all of the dishes between the two of us.
Our night of sleep was ever so slightly disturbed by what felt like a general shaking of the floor. It turned out that there'd been an earthquake which, had it happened 24 hours earlier, would have resulted in the cancellation of the marathon. Thankfully it happened afterwards. So we can now both describe ourselves as "earthquake survivors", which is not something I was expecting.
A full day together in Tokyo after the previous day's exertions.
We started with a trip to the Starbucks over the road for a relaxed breakfast, because you can't rush into stuff the day after a marathon, and then we headed off for our first tourist job of the day. That makes it sound like there was a plan, when to be honest there was no such thing. It was a "winging it" sort of a day. The first tourist thing of the day was to take the free lifts up to the observation desk of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, which was just up the road from the hotel. It took a little time to find the correct access point, but we got it eventually. This part of Tokyo definitely exists in all three dimensions and it's very easy to find yourself on totally the wrong level for getting where you're going. There's more than one road level, for a start, and then a number of levels of walkways, underpasses and tunnels.
Once we found the right door I was expecting there'd be a bit of a queue, but we obviously got lucky because there really was nothing. I think we waited less than five minutes before getting in the lift. At the top you get a pretty impressive view across the city and in particular of all the tall buildings around the Shinjuku area. We spent a while up there walking around and taking photos before spending ages in one of the souvenir shops but leaving empty-handed as they wouldn't take a credit card. Ho hum !
From here we decided to go for a bit of an exploratory walk through the suburbs to the Meiji Shrine, which proved somewhat entertaining. There were a couple of stretches where I felt a bit out of place, although I suppose they are probably fairly used to European tourists in most of Tokyo. We found a couple of caches though this section and ended up entering the park where the shrine is located from the north side.
Whilst still being rather busy, this one didn't feel as busy as the Sensō-ji site that we'd visited on Saturday. Maybe that was partly because it was Monday and partly because it's a lot more spread out. Wikipedia says that the site covers 70 hectares. The actual shrine forms a very small part of the site, most of which is taken up by trees of some 365 different varieties.
The shrine is apparently popular as a place to get married, and we were treated to a wedding procession through the outer courtyard while we were there.
Next we headed southwards in the general direction of Shibuya so we could go and have a gander at the famous scramble crossing, which is supposedly the busiest pedestrian crossing in the world. It was very interesting to sit and watch for a few minutes from the nearby Starbucks, and quite an experience just to cross it a couple of times.
By this time it was mid-afternoon, so we figured we'd probably got one more location in us before nightfall. Sadly we'd failed to pre-plan and so were unable to go to the Imperial Palace, which is closed on Mondays, but we headed off in the general direction anyway so we could go take a look at the impressive outside of the Tokyo Station and its surrounding tall buildings. From here we wandered over to the edge of the Imperial Palace grounds and then southwards towards the Kasumigaseki Station, from which we'd ridden home the previous evening. This gave me a chance to grab a handful of geocaches that had been inaccessible the previous day when the marathon was on.
For dinner we found a small Japanese restaurant in the underground shopping centre that had more or less become our kitchen area for the trip, and then we settled in for an early night, as we'd got a flight at a ridiculously early time the following morning which meant us leaving the hotel practically before we'd gone to bed.
The flight home was uneventful apart from being a little late getting off the ground, and we spent most of the rest of that day watching bits of Russia and northern Europe drift by beneath us.
It had been an interesting and enjoyable trip and, much as expected, the kids were quite happy to see us when we got home.
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Q: User Segmentation Engine using MongoDB I have an analytics system that tracks customers and their attributes as well as their behavior in the form of events. It is implemented using Node.js and MongoDB (with Mongoose).
Now I need to implement a segmentation feature that allows to group stored users into segments based on certain conditions. For example something like purchases > 3 AND country = 'Netherlands'
In the frontend this would look something like this:

An important requirement here is that the segments get updated in realtime and not just periodically. This basically means, that every time a user's attributes change or he triggers a new event, I have to check again which segments he does belong to.
My current approach is to store the conditions for the segments as MongoDB queries, that I can then execute on the user collection in order to determine which users belong to a certain segment.
For example a segment to filter out all users that are using Gmail would look like this:
{
    _id: '591638bf833f8c843e4fef24',
    name: 'Gmail Users',
    condition: {'email': { $regex : '.*gmail.*'}}
}

When a user matches the condition I would then store that he belongs to the 'Gmail Users' segment directly on the user's document:
{
    username: 'john.doe',
    email: 'john.doe@gmail.com',
    segments: ['591638bf833f8c843e4fef24']
}

However by doing this, I would have to execute all queries for all segments every time a user's data changes, so I can check if he is part of the segment or not. This feels a bit complicated and cumbersome from a performance point of view.
Can you think of any alternative way to approach this? Maybe use a rule-engine and do the processing in the application and not on the database?

A: Unfortunately I don't know a better approach but you can optimize this solution a little bit.
I would do the same:

*

*Store the segment conditions in a collection

*Once you find a matching user, store the segment id in the user's document (segments)

An important requirement here is that the segments get updated in realtime and not just periodically.

You have no choice, you need to run the segmentation query every times when a segment changes.

I would have to execute all queries for all segments every time a user's data changes

This is where I would change your solution, actually just optimise it a little bit:

*

*You don't need to run the segmentation queries on the whole collection. If you put your user id into the query with an $and, Mongodb will fetch the user first and after that will check the rest of the segmentation conditions. You need to make sure Mongodb uses the user's _id as an index, for this you can use .explain() to check it or .hint() to force it. Unfortunately you need to run N+1 queries if you have N segments (+1 is for the user update)

*I would fetch every segments and store them in a cache (redis). If someone changed the segment I would update the cache as well. (Or just invalidate the cache and the next query will handle the rest, depends on the implementation). The point is that I would have every segments without fetching the database and if a user updated a record I would go through every segments with Node.js and validate the user by the conditions and I could update the user's segments array in the original update query so it would not require any extra database operation.
I know it could be a pain in the ass implementing something like this but it doesn't overload the database ...
Update
Let me give you some technical details about my second suggestion:
(This is just a pseudo code!)
Segment cache
module.exporst = function() {
  return new Promise(resolve) {
    Redis.get('cache:segments', function(err, segments) {
      // handle error

      // Segments are cached
      if(segments) {
        segments = JSON.parse(segments);
        return resolve(segments);
      }

      //fetch segments and save it to the cache
      Segments.find().exec(function(err, segments) {
        // handle error

        segments = JSON.stringify(segments);

        // Save to the database but set 60 seconds as an expiration
        Redis.set('cache:segments', segments, 'EX', 60, function(err) {
            // handle error

            return resolve(segments);
        })
      });
    })

   }
}

User update
// ...
let user = user.findOne(_id: ObjectId(req.body.userId));
// etc ...

// fetch segments from cache or from the database
let segments = yield segmentCache();

let userSegments = [];
segments.forEach(function(segment) {
  if(checkSegment(user, segment)) {
    userSegments.push(segment._id)
  }
});

// Override user's segments with userSegments

This is where the magic happens, somehow you need to define the conditions in a way you can use them in an if statement.
Hint: Lodash has this functions: _.gt, _.gte, _.eq ...
Check segments
module.exports = function(user, segment) {
  let keys = Object.keys(segment.condition);
  keys.forEach(function(key) {
    if(user[key] === segment.condition[key]) {
      return false;
    }
  })

  return true;
}

A: You are already storing an entire segment "query" in a document in segments collection - why not include a field in the same document which will enumerate which fields in the users document impact membership in a particular segment.
Since action of changing user data will know which fields are being changed, it can fetch only the segments which are computed using the fields being changed significantly reducing the size of segmentation "queries" you have to re-run.
Note that a change in user's data may add them to a segment they are not currently a member of, so checking only the segments currently stored in the user is not sufficient.

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Q: Adding a hotkey with a Tamper Monkey script I'm new to tamper monkey and trying to write a script that allows me to press a hotkey and have it search through the page and open a URL based on the results of that search. Here's the code I have so far:
 // ==UserScript==
// @name         Paragon to Paramount Debug Forwarding
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      1
// @description  cntrl-click forwarding from a paragon run diag to paramount debugger
// @author       taurone
// @run-at       document-start
// ==/UserScript==

function getElementByXPath(path) {
  return document.evaluate(
    path,
    document,
    null,
    XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE,
    null
  ).singleNodeValue.nodeValue;
}

function openDebugURL(runDiag) {
  let runDiagURL = `https://my_website.com/#/debugger/${runDiag}`;
  window.open(runDiagURL);
}

function iterateThroughWorkflowTabs() {
  let workflowTabs = document.getElementsByClassName("a-tabs")[0].children;
  let tabCounter = 1;
  let runDiag;

  for (tab of workflowTabs) {
    if (tab.className.includes("active")) {
      try {
        runDiag = getElementByXPath(
          "/html/body/div[9]/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[3]/div/div/div/pm-tab-set/div[" +
            String(tabCounter) +
            "]/pm-tab/ng-transclude/ng-transclude/pm-card/div/pm-workflow-card/div/div[2]/workflow-step-templates/div/workflow-default-step/div/div[3]/div/div[1]/div/pm-continue-button/div/aui-button/span/@data-csm-meta-pm-diagrunid"
        );
      } catch {
        runDiag = getElementByXPath(
          "/html/body/div[9]/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[3]/div/div/div/pm-tab-set/div[" +
            String(tabCounter) +
            "]/pm-tab/ng-transclude/ng-transclude/pm-card/div/pm-workflow-card/div/div[2]/workflow-step-templates/div/workflow-default-step/div/div[3]/div/div[2]/label/@data-csm-meta-pm-diagrunid"
        );
      }
      openDebugURL(runDiag);
      return;
    }
    tabCounter++;
  }
}

function doc_keyUp(e) {
  if (e.altKey && e.key === "w") {
    unsafeWindow.iterateThroughWorkflowTabs();
  }
}

document.addEventListener("keyup", doc_keyUp, false);

In reading the Stack Overflow question adding-a-custom-keyboard-shortcut-using-userscript-to-chrome-with-tampermonkey and the unsafeWindow documentation, it seemed like it would be as simple as adding unsafeWindow before my function calls, but that isn't working. I've tried just inserting the code into the console and it works when I do that. It seems like there is some sort of setup on Tamper Monkey that I don't understand. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

A: It looks like the unsafeWindow was actually the problem to running the page. When I changed
function doc_keyUp(e) {
  if (e.altKey && e.key === "w") {
    unsafeWindow.iterateThroughWorkflowTabs();
  }
}

to
function doc_keyUp(e) {
  if (e.altKey && e.key === "w") {
    iterateThroughWorkflowTabs();
  }
}

The script ran without a problem


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Q: Writing a MYSQL REGEXP: greedy vs negated confusion I'm looking for some help with a regular expression for a MYSQL query. I'm fairly new to expressions and have gotten myself thoroughly confused.
My database cell looks something like this
1314{{Here is some data}}1213{{More data here}}1112{{Data ahoy}}

And I'm trying to write an expression that'll attempt to match the set of data, but only the data within the bracketed year.
For example, say that $year=1314 and $term="ahoy".
With the below REGEXP:
$year\{\{.* $term.*\}\}

It returns a match - because it's matching the final "}}" of the 1112 prefixed dataset. I don't want it to do this, but despite reading up on this greedy / negated business, I can't get the syntax to work.
What would the best way to achieve what I'm after?

A: Try:
$year\{\{[^}]*$term[^}]*\}\}

Where [^}]* matches anything not a } so it will stop matching when it hits the first occurrence of }
.* is greedy so it will match the last occurrence possible so .*\}\} matches the last set of }} to make it non-greedy you can use a ? like .*?\}\} but I prefer using negation.


Texas Governor Greg Abbott is reported to have ordered the Texas State Guard to monitor training exercises being conducted by Navy Seals and Green Berets in Texas as well as in other states. There are reasons that he's doing so, I suppose. There are also reasons that people wear tinfoil hats.
Several Senators (some who are running for President, by the way) say that they are looking into the possibility that the United States is preparing to invade Texas. There are reasons that they're doing so, I suppose. There are also reasons that people wear tinfoil hats.
I secretly admire the Forbes family. Papa Malcolm Forbes was a motorcycle aficionado, to be forgiven for his taste for Harleys. I knew some of his riding buddies. Good guys. Son Steve is kind of a nerd, though, to the Right of me politically, but I admire him for championing a flat tax. It's the way to go. (Here's my take on a flat tax.) And Forbes as a magazine is not as doctrinaire as some, although it's clearly the product of and beholden to the monied class.
Recently, an opinion piece in Forbes by Robert Bradley was featured on Yahoo's home page. Bradley is the founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research and was cited as such. But a modicum of digging uncovers that Bradley trained strictly as an economist and worked for sixteen years at Enron, ending his tenure as Director for Public Policy Analysis. And, of course, he's a climate change denier. How could he be anything else?
I get that some folks are tired of hearing that 97% of climate scientists agree. I get that some folks are adamant that climate change is a vast hoax. But these are the same folks who are perfectly willing to entertain the notion that Earth is 6,000 years old or that early humans rode dinosaurs like mechanical bulls. Or they are the politicians that pander to the holders of such notions. I cannot believe that our politicians are actually that stupid. I refuse to believe it. They've simply been bought in the same way that one buys a Gucci handbag. They're just a touch more expensive than Gucci.
It's time to insist that our leaders be made of sterner, less pliable, more intellectually honest stuff.


Peter Strzok, the disgraced and disgraceful Federal Bureau of Investigation official, is the very definition of a slimy swamp creature. Strzok twitched, grimaced and ranted his way to infamy during a joint hearing of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, on July 12.
But we did not elect YOU, Mr. Strzok. We elected Mr. Trump.
Strzok is the youthful face of the venerated "Intelligence Community," itself part of the sprawling political machine that makes up the D.C. comitatus, now writhing like a fire breathing mythical monster against President Donald Trump.
Smug, self-satisfied, cheating creature that he is, Strzok can't take responsibility for his own misconduct, and blames … Russia for dividing America. In the largely progressive bureau, moreover, Agent Strzok is neither underling nor outlier, for that matter.
As Ann Coulter observed, the FBI is not the FBI of J. Edgar Hoover.
Neither is the Intelligence Community Philip Haney's IC any longer.
Haney was a heroic, soft-spoken, demure employee at the Department of Homeland Security. Agents like him are often fired if they don't get with the program. He didn't.
Haney's method and the authentic intelligence he mined and developed might have stopped the likes of the San Bernardino mass murderers and many others. Instead, his higher-ups in the "Intelligence Community" made Haney and his data disappear.
Post Haney, the FBI failed to adequately screen and stop Syed Farook and blushing bride Tashfeen Malik.
A "blind bootlicking faith in spooks" is certainly unwarranted and may even be foolish.
What of odious individuals like former FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and his predecessor, James Comey, now openly campaigning for the Democrats? Are these leaders outliers in the "Intelligence Community"?
As Peter Strzok might say to his paramour in a private tweet, "Who ya gonna believe, the Intelligence Community or your own lying eyes?" The Bureau in particular and the IC cabal, in general, appear to be dominated by the likes of the dull-witted Mr. Strzok.
Similarly, it's hard to think of a more partisan operator than John O. Brennan—he ran the CIA under President Obama. True to type, he cast a vote for Communist Party USA, back in 1976, when the current Russia monomania would have been justified. Brennan has dubbed President Trump a traitor for having dared to doubt people like himself.
The very embodiment of the Surveillance State at its worst is Michael V. Hayden. Hayden has moved seamlessly from the National Security Agency and the CIA to CNN where he beats up on Trump.
"One of the most disgraceful performances of an American president in front of a Russian leader," Hayden inveighed. Not only had POTUS dared to explore the possibility of a truce with Russia, which is a formidable nuclear power; but the president had the temerity to express a smidgen of skepticism about a community littered with spooks like … Mr. Hayden.
Pray tell, since when does the Deep State—FBI, CIA, DIA, NSA, DNI, (Director of National Intelligence), on and on—represent, or stand for, the American People? The president, conversely, actually got the support of at least 60 million Americans.
That's a LOT of support.
Outside the Beltway, ordinary folks—Deplorables, if you will—have to sympathize with the president's initial and honest appraisal of the Intelligence Community's collective intelligence.
This is the community that has sent us into quite a few recreational, hobby wars.
And this is the community that regularly intercepts but fails to surveil and stop the likes of mass murderers Syed Farook and bride Tashfeen Malik. Or, Orlando nightclub killer Omar Mateen, whose father the Bureau saw fit to hire as an informant. The same "community" has invited the Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Arab-American Institute to help shape FBI counterterrorism training.
The FBI might not be very intelligent at all.
Was this not "meddling in our election" or what? Did we finally have irrefutable evidence of Kremlin culpability? The FBI certainly thought so.
Most news media are just not as inquisitive as … President Trump.


Will you still be asking for new beta testers? Never did hear back and was still faintly hoping!
Topic: The Bull Rises: Iberian Empire!
The lone Carthaginian sword sliced + diced through the nomads and capital fell. At least I got a bit further! The problem seems to come down to: The Carthaginians approach/encircle the city, cutting off food supply. To attempt to attack out into plains or grasslands is suicide with warriors.
Re: The Bull Rises: Iberian Empire!
Topic: Doom in 10 Years!
Re: Doom in 10 Years!
I found I could hold my own when defending the capital with 2 nomads + 1 warrior. But they surrounded and food was nonexistent, so I had to attack out and that weakened my troops. There were just too many Carthaginian units.
We are unable to survive the Carthaginian onslaught. While we destroyed several units, more smarmy swarms kept coming.
I like the citizen loyalty: nonexistent!
Ah well, an interesting experiment.
The Carthaginian swine swarm the seas, but we finally have troops capable of meeting them in battle. Will we endure?
The Bull Rises: Iberian Empire!
All the same except crowded world so lots of small countries to beat on early.
Someone might fix the typo in the global announcement.


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23 August 2005: LEAGUE CUP - ROUND 1
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READING 3 SWANSEA CITY 1 (AET)
Reading: Kitson (9 mins, 94 mins), Lita (114 mins).
Swansea: Akinfenwa (80 mins). Half Time: 1-0
CHAMPIONSHIP 20 Aug 2005
Pos Team P Pts GD
1 READING 4 9 +9
2 Sheff Utd 4 9 +4
3 Derby 4 8 +3
Reading: Stack, Makin, Sonko, Ingimarsson, Shorey, Hunt, Harper, Sidwell, Oster (Little 14), Kitson, Doyle (Gunnarsson 71), Little (Lita 82). Subs Not Used: Hahnemann, Convey.
Swansea: Gueret, Tate, Edwards, Austin (Anderson 45), Ricketts, Britton, Martinez, Tudur-Jones (MacDonald 101), McLeod, Akinfenwa, Connor. Subs Not Used: Murphy, Thorpe, Goodfellow.
Reading: Harper, Kitson, Gunnarsson.
Swansea: Tudur-Jones, Martinez, Anderson. Sent Off: Anderson (85 mins).
Referee: K Stroud (Dorset).
Reading made hard work of disposing of Swansea in the First Round of the Carling Cup. The Royals had to wait until extra time to secure victory against inferior opponents reduced to ten men shortly before the end of normal time. In the end the difference in the teams was underlined by the slick finishing of Kitson and Lita although it was a far from comfortable victory. Coppell made changes choosing to rest Little, Lita, Convey, Hahnemann and Murty. What he found by making the changes is that his cover is adequate. From the start it was clear there was no lack of commitment from Reading, but there was understandably, a lack of cohesion resulting from introducing so many new players at once.
Reading took control of the game from the kick off and it took Swansea about ten minutes to settle. They were just beginning to gain confidence when Kitson ran onto to a Doyle flick on and lifted the ball over Gueret to give Reading the lead. Reading dominated possession for the rest of the half but could not penetrate a well organised City defence. Stack had to be alert to hold on to a defected shot just before half time but he had little else to do. Oster missed his opportunity of playing a full game picking up an injury early in the game. Little replaced him and missed his opportunity for a rest. He played well but ultimately he also hobbled off near the end of normal time.
Reading looked eager to finish City off after half time but could not find a way through and a nagging doubt crept in that with lapse in concentration, the visitors might force extra time. With ten minutes left Akinfenwa provided the equaliser with a header at the far post. Lita came on immediately in an attempt to win the game in normal time, and even with Anderson sent off soon after for a bad foul on Kitson, City held on for extra time.
Kitson scored the crucial goal in the first period of extra time. Running onto a through ball, he held off a challenge, rounded the 'keeper and calmly slotted the ball home with his left foot. Sidwell had a shot well saved after working a good opening, and Stack was required to make a save in the second period of extra time but it was all over now. The fans were sent home happy with a fine third goal from Lita who converted a good early cross from Harper.
Of the new boys on show this evening, Hunt worked hard, Doyle still doesn't look ready for place in the starting eleven, and Makin was caught out a couple of times but had settled by the end. Gunnarsson was unjustly booked as soon as he came on but his passing looked sharp and penetrative. Lets hope the next round brings a better referee and some opposition to bring the best out of the team preferably from the Premiership.
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A Psalm by Asaph.1 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset. 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. 3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.