The shares of Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (NYSE:SID) started off the last trading session with the price of $2.49 while closing the day with the price of $2.48. The shares of Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (NYSE:SID) Rise 0.81% with the Loss of -0.01 points.
The shares of Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (NYSE:SID) traded with the day volume of 4.22 Million shares whereas its average trading volume is 3.53 Million.
While analyzing the past performance of the stock we can see that the shares of Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (NYSE:SID) Loss -7.46% in the last week while Falling -24.39% in the last month. Past quarter performance shows the green light with 6.9%. The semi-annual and annual performance shows -29.94% and -29.94% respectively.
Some critical values of the shares of Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (NYSE:SID) to be discussed here are: the beta which shows the value at 2.77 while Average True Range of Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (NYSE:SID) demonstrate the value at 0.14. The weekly and monthly volatility of the shares of Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (NYSE:SID) are indicated at 3.41% and 4.14%. Also to discuss here is the Relative Strength Index or RSI which is depicted at 30.46.
While studying the financial position of the shares of Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (NYSE:SID), we can see that the Market capitalization of the company is at 3.49 Billion. The shares outstanding for the company is 1.41 Billion and the shares float stands at 631.61 Million. The income of the company stand at -75500000 while the sales stand at 5.5 Billion.
Here are some critical ratios for a financial perspective: Earnings Per Share or EPS of the company stand at -0.06, Price to Earnings or P/E is at 0, Price to Sales P/S show the value of 0.64, the Return on Asset ROA stood at -0.006 and the Return on Equity ROE depicted at -0.04 while Return on Investment ROI is at 0.046.
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:WBA) started its previous trading session at $66.71 and closed at $66.05 showing a Fell of -0.86 Percent.
The Company traded with an average Volume of 5.53 Million whereas, its Day Volume stood at 4.21 Million.
Looking at the performance of the stock, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:WBA) Loss -5.45% in the last week in its shares price and -6.87% in the last month. Quarterly performance shows a red of -8.19 Percent while Semi-Annual and Annual performances shows a -20.04 and -21.95 percent respectively.
Beta for Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:WBA) stands at 1.14 while the ATR (average true range) is at 1.7. The Stock's Weekly and Monthly Volatility is 2.49% and 2.28% respectively showing a RSI value of 31.61.
While studying the financial position of the shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:WBA), we can see that the Market capitalization of the company is at 65.25 Billion. The shares outstanding for the company is 987.88 Million and the shares float stands at 844.86 Million.
The Company generated an income of 3.85 Billion and the sales of 120.45 Billion in the Trailing Twelve Months period.
While analyzing the stock from technical aspects, Diluted Earnings per share stands at $3.62 a share. P/E (price to earnings) and P/S (price to sales) values are 18.25 and 0.54 respectively.
The Return on Assets stands at 0.055, ROE shows a value of 0.135 and ROI for Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:WBA) is 0.119 as of Trailing Twelve Months period.


Barnsdales FM is targeting the social housing and charitable sectors as it builds on the rapid growth of its first six months.
Launched as our management division in January with just one member of staff, the company will increase its workforce to nine in the coming weeks.
Clive Chippindale, managing director of Barnsdales FM, said recruitment will continue as the company delivers a new contract to the Camphill Village Trust and as new national account manager Mike Stott brings his expertise in the social housing sector.
Clive said: "Mike becomes the sixth member of our team. We will add an administrator at the beginning of August, followed by two more people to work on the Camphill Village Trust contract.
Clive merged his own business, Leeds-based Compact Property Solutions, into Barnsdales at the beginning of 2016 and quickly started to build a client base from his existing contacts.
The Grade-II listed St Paul's House in central Leeds, which was sold earlier this year for £23.7 million, was an early appointment, with Barnsdales FM charged with looking after the combination of ornate 19th century features and modern, Grade A office space.
That was followed by a deal with the Science Museum Group which saw the company engaged to support the management of the National Railway Museum in York, the National Media Museum in Bradford, the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester and the Locomotion Museum in Shildon, County Durham.
The new project with Camphill Village Trust (CVT) gives Barnsdales FM responsibility for managing the maintenance of properties at CVT's Delrow Community, an estate near Watford which includes a 300-year-old mansion and surrounding estate. The site is home to a number of people with learning disabilities, mental health problems and other support needs living in supported living-style properties as part of a Camphill community.
New recruit Mike Stott gained great experience with a major local authority before moving into the private sector as contracts manager for a company which met the gas and heating requirements for 22,000 homes across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. More recently he was operations manager for a gas and heating services company responsible for 17,000 social housing units in Aberdeen.
Clive said: "Mike brings tremendous knowledge and experience of contract management and service delivery in the housing sector, which adds a new dimension to our business.
"We know from the work that we do that sometimes the job isn't about the actual service, it's about engaging with the clients and understanding the complexities and sensitivities of the people they are working with. At the Science Museum Group that's the hundreds of thousands of people who visit their properties every year and with Camphill Village Trust it's the community members.


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The Great Valley School District held two summer technology camps that introduced fifth and ninth grade students to the iPad. Funded by The Foundation at Great Valley, the camps support the District's one-to-one technology effort. The 95 student participants who attended the free camps got an advanced look at the technology they are using in classrooms this year.
Students initially learned iPad basics with settings and functions. They also learned productivity apps within Office 365, such as OneDrive, email, Word and OneNote. Students learned basic troubleshooting like how to reboot, close apps, or reconnect to wifi. Over the course of the camp, each student completed a stop-motion movie using the iPad and produced a one-minute movie preview about the camp to advertise for next year. In addition, ninth grade used iMovie to produce "how-to" videos for their peers.
"The technology camps were a great opportunity to give students a look at the iPad," said Director of Instructional Technology Jason Rasmussen. "While students certainly came to the camp with various levels of experience with the technology, I think everyone learned something new."
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Q: Array Map a PHP Multidimensional Array Have a multidimensional array
$template=Array (
 [0] => Array ( [id] => 352 [name] => a )
 [1] => Array ( [id] => 438 [name] => b )
 [2] => Array ( [id] => 351 [name] => c )
               )

and an array map function
function myfunction()
{

return "[selected]=>null";
}
print_r(array_map("myfunction",$template));

which results in
Array (
   [0] => [selected]=>null
   [1] => [selected]=>null
   [2] => [selected]=>null
    )

how do I map the array to get this result instead
Array (
        [0] => Array ( [id] => 352 [name] => a [selected] => null)
        [1] => Array ( [id] => 438 [name] => b  [selected] => null)
        [2] => Array ( [id] => 351 [name] => c  [selected] => null)
    )

A: You need to add the value to each given array (inside the callback), like:
<?php

$in = [
    [ 'id' => 352, 'name' => 'a' ],
    [ 'id' => 438, 'name' => 'b' ],
    [ 'id' => 351, 'name' => 'c' ],
];

$out = array_map(function (array $arr) {
    // work on each array in the list of arrays
    $arr['selected'] = null;

    // return the extended array
    return $arr;
}, $in);

print_r($out);

Demo: https://3v4l.org/XHfLc

A: you do not handle $template as an array, this is what your function should look like:
function myfunction($template)
{
    $template['selected'] = 'null';
    return $template;
}

A: You can achieve in some sort of way mentioned below,
function array_push_assoc(&$array, $key, $value){
    foreach($array as $k => $v)
        $array[$k][$key] = $value;
 return $array;
}
$result = array_push_assoc($template, 'selected','null');
print_r($result);

Adding to every index of associative array.
Here is working code.

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Serengeti Pioneer Camp is an addition to a collection of Elewana lodges, camps and hotels located in East Africa. This camp specifically is located within the Moru Kopjes area in the southern end of the central sector of the Serengeti in Tanzania. Situated close to the breeding plains of the wildebeest, near the start of their dramatic yearly mass migration, it is ideally placed to observe this world famous event. Over a million wildebeest set off every year on a year round trip following the rains for succulent grazing attended by several hundreds of thousands of gazelle, zebra and other hooved animals, together with thousands more predators who feed off the young, the stragglers and the weak. These include hump-backed, heavy-jawed hyena and smaller, slimmer jackals as well as cheetahs, lion and many other flesh and carrion eaters. The migration is a very popular focal point for holidays with AfricanMecca.
The Moru Kopjes are bastions of eroded ancient granite that stand out from the plain, having their own individual ecology with a rich flora providing food and shelter for many unusual birds, insects, lizards and mammals both large and small. Serengeti Pioneer Camp sits jauntily on and around a kopje, which affords spectacular views of the plains below while offering recognition to the architect and designers to produce a fantastic camp complex reminiscent of bygone days of colonial rule and the conventions of Victorian gentleman travelers and explorers. Many of the design features are based on authentic reproductions of the equipment used on safari to Africa by wilderness pioneers in the early 1930s. Nevertheless, it fits in seamlessly with the landscape disturbing it as little as it does the local ecology, which it is designed to protect. The surrounding landscape, shaped by rain and migrants, is incredibly varied and beautiful. For this reason alone, a Serengeti Pioneer Camp safari offers one of the best of all choices for a holiday to Tanzania since it easily accesses the Serengeti plains, Lake Magadi and the Moru Kopjes, and is plentifully provided with year round resident game to view.
There are ten impressively luxurious tents around the base of the Kopje and a lounge, bar and dining room reached by a rustic timber ramp (see where else to stay in Serengeti). There is also a swimming pool. All the tents boast authentic Edwardian furnishings, trunks, traveling desks with writing material, wooden sideboards, safari chairs and old-fashioned copper-headed showers together with more modern facilities including flushing toilets, vanity wash basins, water heated by solar panels and solidly comfortable twin or double beds with mosquito nets. Canvas floors are complemented with natural tone throw mats, and there are comfortable arm chairs facing the wild bush. A fanciful touch is the pith helmet and cane left carelessly atop a traveling trunk tempting you to take on the role of the Edwardian traveler in every respect. On a more practical note, there is an old-fashioned butler, laundry service, game spotting and star-gazing telescopes together with modern facilities such as hairdryers available on request, central charging bays, digital safes and cash-card facilities. Serengeti Pioneer Camp offers stylish luxury and utmost comfort while appealing to the AfricanMecca adventurer in every secret heart. The furniture is opulent and highly cultured while the design takes further steps into fantasy with an authentic canvas tents perched high on crumbling rock faces, with wooden decked lounges looking out over breathtaking scenery of the Serengeti National Park.
Dubbed as the 8th wonder of the world, the annual migration of over a million wildebeests supplemented with thousands of zebras, circumambulating around the Serengeti in search of better plains, has been documented in many films. Photographs will not do justice to the magnificence of the migration. As the Serengeti Pioneer Camp is in the path of the migration, you will experience and see for yourself the journey of the wildebeest and the fight for survival between prey and predator. Dedicated safari guides will join you on a custom-built safari vehicle as they track and try to follow the path of the migration and resident wildlife from hoofed herbivores to stalking canines. The exciting game drives of your Tanzania safari traditionally take place in the dawn before breakfast or at mid-afternoon to early evening, when the animals are just about to settle for the night. The radio links among safari vehicles allow shared tracking communication between the guides, thus maximize your wildlife viewing experience in Serengeti.You can also personalize your game drives and go on a day-long adventure. The staff will prepare your meals in a picnic basket, and you can enjoy your uninterrupted Serengeti trip and take pleasure in being part of the natural phenomena that cannot be found anywhere else. You will be part of the journey of a million wildebeest as they go through the Serengeti plains, traveling as a group and fighting hunger, thirst and predation. The sheer number of the animals as well as the presence of the big five will surely be an overwhelming albeit memorable experience for AfricanMecca guests. Taking your Serengeti tour and being part of an ancient tradition of a million wildebeest is an experience that you will never forget. Following the natural instinct of mating and traveling to find the best grazing grounds, the wildebeest has given mankind an unparalleled natural show that should be experienced rather than just seen. At Serengeti Pioneer Camp, you will be assured of luxurious accommodations, personalized service, wonderful meals, and excellent guided safaris during special Africa holiday, all in the breath-taking backdrop of the Serengeti plains.
Morning tea is served discreetly when the steward comes to wake you. Breakfast and dinner may be taken in the dining tent while a packed bush luncheon may be taken for a day out. Breakfast can also be taken by the swimming pool or even during your early morning game drive. Dinner can be taken en suite, in the main dining tent or around the campfire. Other options include bush dinners at designated dining spots complete with well-stocked bush bars. Your Serengeti activities are infinitely flexible. You may take a guided stroll with a naturalist after breakfast in and around the camp radius or a siesta snooze before high tea. Later AfricanMecca guests can enjoy sundowner cocktails around the campfire or in the bush at the end of your evening game drive; thereafter, returning for a formal dinner with silver service beneath sparking stars. All meals provide a choice of styles and dishes, both hot and cold; from full English breakfasts to soups, stews, salads and roasts and from breakfast cereals, eggs and waffles to cold platters and sundowner snacks. There is always a fine selection of freshly made breads, cakes and desserts. All meals can be arranged in many different venues, both private and public, indoors and out. Special diets can be catered for with advance notice during your travels in Tanzania. All food is wholesome, locally sourced whenever possible and freshly cooked on the premises. Wines, spirits, fruit juices and other beverages are of the highest quality while Tanzanian teas and coffees are aromatic and first-rate.
When staying at Serengeti Pioneer Camp in Central Serengeti (Seronera River Wilderness), we recommend combining it with your Northern Tanzania safari to Tarangire, Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro Crater. End your trip with a Swahili cultural tour and beach holiday in Zanzibar.


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Nicely kept gardens, a church and plenty of wind at the back of the house – Wacken is a picture-book example of rural north Germany. At least until the beginning of August. That's when the village of Wacken, pop. 1,800, morphs every year into the biggest heavy metal festival in the world. And the residents? They just become part of it. We sent out our author Anne Kleinfeld to document Wacken's crazy metamorphosis.
Indications of our destination are already evident on the motorway drive northwards – in gigantic letters made of masking tape on the rear windows of the cars around us: W:O:A, short for Wacken Open Air. It's the biggest heavy metal festival in the world – and a north German phenomenon. Because Wacken is not only a short week of camping, beer and the international metal scene, but also a perfectly ordinary village.
The entire village is different this week: the little grocery shop only opens once a year – especially for the Festival.
We turn off onto the country road, pass reed-thatched houses, cows and croplands. We're still two villages from Wacken when kids start to greet us from the front gardens. With official Festival shirts and cheeky, gap-toothed grins, they sit on waste bins and walls and reach out to make horns for passing motorists: outstretched index finger and little finger, the rest of the fist clenched – understood the world over as the metal gesture. It's still fun for the mini-rockers, but they'll need a lot of stamina. 75,000 roaring music fans arrive from every corner of the planet in early August to shake up the whole of Wacken – and its economy. Hamburg Airport is expecting up to 5,000 visitors for the 28th Festival at its specially created "Wacken Airport". And anyone coming from the south has to pass through here. The village sign comes into view. Welcome to Wacken! Let the insanity commence.
Worlds apart together: metal party in the front garden.
Wacken's main street is turned on its head. Where tractors and family-sized vans normally doodle past one another on two lanes, a temporary pedestrianised zone is set up for the duration of the Festival. And it's black. Everywhere you look, happy metal fans are standing, sitting, strolling – united not only by a love of hard music, but by the dark dress code as well: lace-up boots, band shirts, leather jackets, patches, beards, long manes, tattoos and clunky jewellery. A kind of family uniform, which in turn means that you can spot the real villagers at a glance. But they're rarely sighted, because most are desperately busy. After all, the metal horde wants to eat, drink and even go to the toilet. And the people of Wacken are armed and ready.
Rather than barring their doors, the residents become part of it. And transform their carports and front gardens into public Festival turf with mobile beer counters, Wurst stands, portable toilets and loud sound. Even the village kids outdo each other with their business ideas: while the big lads transport the visitors' purchases from the village to the camp by delivery bike, girls stand on the pavements selling home-baked muffins or plaited wristbands for 50 eurocents each. I buy one for myself and other one for the photographer with me. Business is booming. And the local shops have switched into Festival mode too. From garden gnomes with the place-name sign or watch collections with engraved skulls – no souvenir is too absurd to make it here.
Flavio and Corrado from Milan buy muffins from a "Wackener".
The number one port of call, however, is the old Edeka supermarket, which opens once a year only, especially for the Open Air Festival. There's an established store – large and more modern – at the end of the village, but right now the turnover's being made here. Drinks, barbecue accessories and a few vitamins as well: the product range is based on experience, the big sellers are folding chairs and beer. José and Carmen from Chile are among those getting in a few purchases before the sound on the stages goes live. "For us, Wacken was always a legend. We love Hamburg, particularly the Night Light on the Reeperbahn. You always meet nice metal-heads there. The fact that we're really here now is a dream come true," says José. It's pandemonium in the narrow shop, but the mood is amicable. That's confirmed next door at Wrage's bakery. Sales person Claudia tells us: "I'm glad to get to bed at night, but the customers are all really nice and helpful". The traditional Wacken baker offers a special item during this week: a substantial Wacken loaf. And there are Funny Fingers as well – classic jam doughnuts in the shape of the horns.
Author Anne gets a home-woven Wacken wristband.
A few metres down the road a couple sits on a bench in front of the local ice-cream parlour – surrounded by black-clad figures. Elke and Klaus are around seventy, and in a pretty happy mood. "We live locally and just like to come here and take a look," says Klaus. "There's something going on here at last, that's great!" And his wife adds: "We may buy ourselves a wristband next year as well. As long as we don't get our backsides wet, why not?" There are no downpours today, at least, so the part of our anatomy in question is in no danger. By the way, Elke asks us, isn't it time to get to the venue? The Wacken Fire Service Band will be playing its traditional opening concert on one of the eight big stages in ten minutes' time. What sounds like a clash of cultures is the perfect symbol of this surreal place. Wacken, the biggest heavy metal festival in the world, but a typical north German village at the same time. Without the one, the other wouldn't be the same.


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Has the Time Come for Women as Rabbis?
Tags: Change, Chief Rabbinate of Israel, communities, Israel.Jews, Jewish People, Judges, Orthodox Judaism, Persecution, Prophets, Rabbis, Synagogues, Torah, Tradition, Women Rabbis
We understand that the obvious answer is, 'No,' and that there really is nothing to debate, but when has that stopped us. There are the numerous arguments put forth by the Open Orthodoxy or New Orthodoxy, Modern Orthodoxy, Neo-Orthodoxy or the more realistic, Reform Judaism with a few additional Commandments. The crux of the problem is, as almost anybody who has read anything about this tempest in a teapot, the ordination of women as Rabbi. The easy answer is to stand with the nearly unanimous decision by virtually every Poskim, the RCA (Rabbinical Council of America) and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and declare from the rooftops while standing next to a scarecrow of a man playing his violin and scream, "Tradition!" But that is taking the short road to an answer which leaves out all the intricacies and ignores the pressures and times of modernity. Women's rights will need to be addressed at some point, but that point has not yet arrived. Far too many of those in positions to accept this challenge are mired in the rules and morals of early in the past century. Then women took care of the home and the men took care of the world just as the Bible and Torah instruct are the responsibilities of each gender. The world had gone through a period of rocketing change with gender roles being blurred and the responsibilities often being turned on their heads. But Judaism has not survived by being reckless and rushing to accept every change which has come down the halls of time. Tradition has been the watchful eye which kept the boat upright and it is not about to allow for the boat tipping too far left just as it kept it from tipping too far right as the political pendulum has swung back and forth.
The best approach might be to take small steps and see how they work and if they place too much of a burden or cause things to become difficult or produce side-effects which are arduous, then the small steps can be retraced and a return to normalcy. It is not as if Judaism has not gone through some tumultuous traumas. When we left Egypt we found that the generation which had been in Egypt were not fully capable of change and this resulted in forty-years of wandering almost aimlessly in the dessert until a new generation could be born and reach age. Then, with a fresh population unencumbered with the ravages of slavery and dependence filled with self-confidence was capable of the task of winning a homeland. Then Joshua, one of the two spies who came back with a report of a land ready to be taken, the other was Caleb. The fight was probably far more difficult than it would have been for the Israelites when they first perched on the borders of what is today Israel. But in time the lands were conquered and became the initial state of Israel (see map below). That was how nations were built and how many an empire would start out, taking a small regions for their own and then embarking on greater conquests often incorporating the conquered people initially into their empire as full citizens. This was the name of the game and the Jews started with no king or queen but lived only with the guidance of Judges and Prophets. Prophets continued into their period with Kings which turned sour all too quickly. Then there came the years of conquest by foreign empires with short stints of self-rule. Eventually the Jews, as they had come to be known as most were Judeans by birth, as they were from the Tribe of Judah, were dispersed throughout the Roman Empire, with some even thrown into slavery in further lands, and there appeared to be no way for this small group surviving such treatment. The Jews remained dispersed throughout the world and only in the past century and a half have really begun to return to the ancient homelands reestablishing the nation of Israel. So, yes, we have seen dire times and persecutions and even the Holocaust, a persecution unparalleled in, at the least, modernity. We survived and remained a people through one factor; we remained steadfastly true to our holy books and based it all on Torah. The Torah became our homeland, portable and able to be applied in any region, setting, situation and so forth. This is partly why the leaders of the Jewish Faith, not necessarily the Jewish Nations but the faith, remain resistant to change, without foresight to see what is over the horizon, one remains reluctant to change, especially change that appears to be drastic, that which has guided and kept your people as one through the harrowing threats of history.
Twelve Tribes of Israel and the Original Borders for Israel
So, perhaps, in the not too distant future, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel might venture into permitting equal seating for men and women in a section of the main hall, not necessarily the entirety. They could permit those synagogues which were inclined to set aside an area where husband and wife, of course with children, to be seated together but leave sufficient space for those opposed to such a liberal concept to sit where this area is not bothersome. Yes, we know some people will find it bothersome that a synagogue in the next town allows such seating and they will claim it unnerves them. Change is not easy, ask the Vatican, as we Jews have been about traditions and the literal applications of the rules for far longer than the Christians have. Perhaps there might be some other half-step we have not considered, but change will need to come in small doses as we Jews are a stiff-necked and stubborn people, or so our Torah tells us. Still, we have changed and kept pace with the world as when we reestablished our homelands, we did not return to a monarchy as it last was nor did we try to rely on prophets and judges as even earlier times, nope, we went with a parliamentary democracy and one far more convoluted than even the European versions. Even the Jews who returned home making Aliyah often comment on how Israel has made a parliamentary system of government even more contentious than their home countries could have imagined. For further proof, simply start to read and follow the machinations and other finagling which are sure to play out along the way to the April 9, 2019 Israeli elections and see for yourself.
We have somehow gone from Exodus Chapter fifteen verse twenty and twenty-one where it says, "Miriam, the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a timbrel (tambourine) in her hand, and all the women came out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam called out to them, Sing to the Lord, for very exalted is He; a horse and its rider He cast into the sea." This was then and today there are numerous groups within Judaism where men are forbidden to see women dance or perform or even hear them sing as it became considered immodest. There is proof that we can change, and not always in a more progressive direction despite the uncomforting fact that many times the Jews were at the forefront of revolutionary change. Too often these very same revolutions turned against the Jews and persecuted them claiming they were the enemies of the state they assisted in forming. Such was the case in the Soviet Union and in other cases before that and since. These such outcomes went quite some distance in imprinting caution in the Jews who survived, escaped or were fortunate enough to read of these events from a distance into a dread for change. We have held to our traditions which for centuries slowly drifted to being more and more conservative as this is the result of persecution. The Jewish People are barely a full generation beyond what was a cataclysmic conflagration to our people who lived on the European continent as the Germans and the Russians took their turns persecuting and executing Jews. This did not endear that generation or the following ones to favor radical change, well, except in the United States where much of the radical changes politically and culturally have manifested. They may have found their start in America or in Europe, but if it did not play in America, it likely did not play for very long.
Change in Judaism has mostly run at a slow pace making sure that the ground was solid before taking that next step. Wild and reckless are not exactly words which have described the religious Jewish communities. Insular, reactionary, conservative, traditional, stoic, intractable and other similar adjectives have all been used, even by Jews themselves, in defining the Jewish communities, as there are in the United States and Europe as well. Still today in Israel, there are religious communities which all live in a closed community which one need apply and be interviewed, fact-checked, virtually investigated and their religious credentials checked and rechecked before they are permitted to reside within the community. These are some of the communities where the most influential leaders of the Jewish community reside. Asking these individuals to change something so central to Judaism is something which is simply not going to play well. The fact that there are congregations, mostly, if not solely, in the United States and Canada trying to introduce such changes to the Orthodox community, as it has been initially only in Reform and Reconstructionist and later spread to Conservative, is potentially the initial steps. For Jews, though, simply playing well in America is not sufficient for it to become accepted, it must play in Israel. Were the RCA to accept such a change, an alteration in what has been tens of century's worth of tradition, then perhaps it might be considered by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, though the RCA does not tend to make such moves without working with the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. The two operate very much in tandem with much and often deep communication and coordination. This is due to their being the two organizations which preside over the two largest Orthodox communities in the world, one all of Europe does not match. The first sign that there might be a crack in the bricks through which changes will eventually pour through would probably be the permitting, even only on special occasions, for married couples to sit together. Currently, the men sit in one area and the women in a separate area simply because having the women sitting with the men is considered a potential distraction. What some Rabbis might notice is having the wives sit separate from their husbands also provides distraction as they may wish to see how the other is doing or even suddenly realize something which urgently need be communicated, but that is what cell phones are for, right? Kidding aside, the experimentation with women being ordained as Rabbis will very likely have to wait until it starts to make cracks into Israeli society, and that might be closer than we think. No matter the number of Open Orthodox (by whatever name they decide to use this week) Synagogues who have women as assistant Rabbis or Rabbinical interns or outright Rabbis, they will remain shunned, rejected and refused continued sanction by the RCA as they remain lockstep and in sync with the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. No matter how many influential American Rabbis join a bandwagon calling for the liberation of Orthodox Judaism, that change will not be leaving the station any time soon. Wait for coed seating to be accepted universally, and then, just maybe there will start to be the inkling of a discussion on going further. First coed seating will need a full period of testing, say about a century or two, then we can talk. Should things go faster than this, it will be a surprise and a sign that the Jews have begun to feel safe and beyond threat in Israel. Currently, we have bigger fish to fry then even coed seating, let alone women as Rabbis.
The Courts Cannot be Completely Independent
Tags: alter laws, Ayelet Shaked, Change, Chief Justice, chosen, court, Israel, Justice, Justice Minister, law, People, Supreme Court
Recently, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked expressed her dismay and disdain for the attacks which have been leveled against her from those in the opposition. This immediately led to their slamming her conduct regarding the appointment of the next police commissioner, and her approach towards the court system. If you wish to read the bile spouted by the likes of Yair Lapid, never at a loss for self-congratulatory rhetoric; Shelly Yachimovich, still believes she should be leader of the Zionist Union and Prime Minister; and Meretz Chairman Tamar Zandberg, it's Meretz which speaks for itself; an article can be found here. The actual dispute can be put in much clearer and more succinct language, they are upset because they are not, have not been and probably will not be in power for a while. They are especially upset with the Justice Minister because she is not appointing far leftists to the courts and does not agree with their choice for the new police chief. That is their complaint, why are you not running the government how we demand and instead following the mandate of the people who make up the coalition and in particular are from your party. (We must be honest here and report that Jewish Home is the party in which we belong.) Somehow, we are willing to bet this does not surprise many of our readers. We would like to actually discuss one point which was brought forward to refute the disgruntled leftists, where Ayelet Shaked stated, "You have never been fans of the court, you really want it to be a submissive body rather than an independent and strong one. As long as it serves you, it is the center of justice, the minute it rules in a slightly different way; you are ready to burn the place, no less." She hit the nail on the head and pounded it home, which is probably why they attempted to savage her on social media. Well, at least they played to their ever shrinking base.
The left in Israel in particular and the Western World generally, believe that especially the highest court of the land should be the most powerful arm of government and the arena of all final battles. They desire that the court be able to strike down any law even Constitutional Amendments, or Basic Laws in Israel, and even beyond. Their hopes is that the court can change the intent of any law, write new laws and put them into action, change anything in the legal system and they must always be of the most liberal of justices it is possible to appoint. You are seeing examples of their acts in the United States with Justice Kavanaugh. They want the courts to supercede the law, to act above the law and be supreme with the power of a god. I am sure that if they were to get their wildest dreams, they would desire that the Supreme Court could summarily change who won the election simply because they desired the other candidate. This is another reason that Judges must always be from the left. This had been the case for years in Israel as the left ruled undaunted and unchallenged in Israel from 1948 until the election of Menachem Begin in 1977. The means by which replacement Justices were chosen for the Supreme Court were also slanted such that the court itself had a generous influence over who was chosen to such a point that opinion articles often claimed that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court basically named his own Justices. Well, it eventually had to happen, a conservative became Chief Justice and there was a conservative Justice Minister and between them, the face of the court has been altered. The Justice Minister also was responsible for some alterations by which some of the unilateral power of the court was transferred to lower courts where proof was required to be presented rather than a complaint filed and a ruling made out of thin air. No longer can an NGO simply present a claim that Jews are residing on Arab land and have their homes destroyed without showing any proof. These were necessary changes but the latest brouhaha was over Justice Minister Shaked politely informing the Supreme Court that she did not care how many people filed complaints against the new Nationality Law, they were not to overturn this law because it was enacted as a Basic Law, the closest thing that Israel has to a Constitution. Again, the left desired a court which had unlimited and unfettered power.
Let us discuss what power courts should and should not have. Interpret the law is within the boundaries of a Supreme Court, but lower courts should be restricted to the application of the law as currently interpreted. Even the Supreme Court should take care when altering the meaning of a law from its original intent, this is partially why the debate with Kavanaugh over how he would interpret intent of the law. The courts cannot be above the law; no branch of the government should be above the law. Courts should never be permitted to make law out of their own desires simply because they see the need for such a law. A court with such power could completely alter a society with highly unpredictable results. There is a reason that the branch of the government which is assigned the power to make laws has the greatest numbers of people from the widest representation of the people, the people must have the greatest influence on the laws, as they must live within them. Courts should have stringent and defined limits on altering or ordering a new election such as signs of tampering with the way the ballots were cast or in the way they were counted. They should need proof beyond any doubt and this would include such tampering such as having more votes cast than there are registered voters, an area where there is a sizeable population with some definable variety in affiliations resulting in 100% of the votes falling to one candidate, verified proof that additional ballots were injected into the count or additional votes were used to replace actual votes and other provable reasons. Courts actually should have limited or no influence beyond recommendations upon request as to whom will be chosen to replace a retiring justice. Courts should, over time, change with the variations in public opinion though their lagging such changes is to be expected when their justices are chosen to serve lifetime on the bench, or until a mandatory retirement age if such is the law. Courts are not the law but the application of the law. Legislatures write the laws, Prime Minister or Presidents sign them into the books and then and only then the courts get to apply the law as written. The courts do not get the power alter the wording, alter the punctuation nor add or omit words as they believe the law should have been written.
Israeli Supreme Court building
Back we return to the situation in Israel. The left is becoming downright dejected and forlorn. Their biggest upset is with Justice Minister Ayelet Shaken as she apparently has, in their opinions, broken their favorite toy. They and the Supreme Court for seemingly nearly forever had ruled over Israel as they pleased often to the chagrin of the elected officials, but because of concessions to seemingly moderate parties in the coalition being granted Justice Minister, the courts, especially the Supreme Court, ruled supreme. Along came Ms. Shaked and things began to slowly change. The tide of change started to escalate, but was still quite leisurely. Things really did not appear to be all that different and there had been no explosive volcanic upheavals but suddenly they realized that there had been a seismic shift and they had apparently been asleep. It was probably easy for them to sleep through the changes as things had been going their way pretty much from 1948, so after a while it appeared that things would never change. Things have this way of sneaking up on people and once they notice, it is often far too late to do much about the changes. This is where the frustration and anger originates and the left is furious that Ms. Shaked broke their Supreme Court Muppet Puppets. Their Supreme Court Muppet Puppets were no longer a complete set and the new replacements were not going to just rubber stamp the leftist agenda, and this must not be tolerated. The fact that they are this upset is close to real joy over here but we refuse to get complacent because, as Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Of course, he was also purported to have written, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it's natural manure." While we have little problem with the first quote, the second is a bit extreme, but Barry Goldwater had something to say about that as well, stating, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." Perhaps that is sufficient wisdom for one writing.
Israel Need Be Bold While Bold Will Work
Tags: Arabs, become, bold, Change, Choice, cities, Elections, Future, IDF, Israel, Israelis, list, plan, Prime Minister, situation, Vote, work
We are aware that in being bold, a politician is taking risks and their actual job is to get reelected to their same position or higher and that is best accomplished keeping everything the same. We even know exactly the argument that our dear Prime Minister will use in the 2019 elections when they arrive. Your claim will be that it is uncertain if President Trump will be reelected in 2020 and because of this, we need to keep the ship strong and centered in order to survive in an uncertain future. Your opponents will sound different strategies which will include a change in course and perhaps some risks. These risks is how you will slowly eat away at these opponents claiming that their 'radical' suggestions are great if the timing were right, but the timing could not be any more problematic as we do not know who will win the American elections. A few weeks before the election you will find or build a strawman situation where the Joint List or Zionist Union may pull off an upset or the two could make a coalition with their two groups of parties and perhaps Meretz and Lapin or maybe Lieberman filling it out and that Israel can ill afford their getting the nod and that is a reason to leave any other right of center candidate and instead everyone need vote the only true choice to prevent this potential catastrophe. Then Likud will receive 28 or 29 Mandates and will get first shot at making a coalition. Then your strategy will have worked again using fear to win instead of using hope for a better future and you will have demanded we need caution and not rock the boat at times as uncertain as these are. It is a trap which had worked for how long now? Why not try striking while the iron is hot as the plan, take on the issues we all know must be faced head-on and to make a bold attempt towards solving them now before the elections. Trust that the triumphant hero is a far better bet for retaining power than the scare-monger claiming only he can walk that fine line between doing nothing to cautiously doing nothing to change anything so the next election the same scare mongering might still work its magic again. Your fear of failure is greater than your confidence in yourself to actually become a really great leader rather than merely the protector who held to the status-quo. Sometimes more is accomplished in the long run from someone going out in a blaze of glory and the nation benefits, and that should be your greatest hope, that the country succeed.
To those who wish to unseat Prime Minister Netanyahu and become the next Prime Minister, we have some advice and it is worth exactly what you are paying for it, a few minutes of your precious time and nothing more. Yes, we would consider being of greater assistance by becoming a trusted advisor to one of you as you lead our party. But here it is free of any hidden charges except it may be close to what you are planning anyways. The first advice is that you will need to approach the situation throwing caution to the wind and going for it all. Confidence is also going to be a necessity with one making very sure that the public know that now you not only feel you are ready but also that you are sure that these are the times which call for your bold leadership. You will need to come at Bibi from the right, and the further right, the better. The people of Israel, outside of Tel Aviv largely, are hungry for a leader who will storm the barricades if need be and storm the castle. No faltering or moments of doubt, for if you have any doubt that you are the person and this is the time, then move aside and let one ready to say and do all the right things for winning and for Israel. Should you have a solution which you believe is better than those we have offered, then run it with certainty. Run as if there is no tomorrow without your bold steps which are required in the short time Israel is assured of somebody having her back. Even if, or possibly especially if, President Trump does not get reelected, Israel need act immediately and strike while the iron is hot. You can list the signs which the President had conveyed and tell all Israel that we require his assistance so Israel can provide a certainty into the future. Make known what you plan to do in addressing the main problems of the Shomron and Gaza and remember that solutions have been handed out and now is the season for change and to strike to make progress before anything in the situation has even the chance of altering, then it would be well if the Israeli plan for the future were to be implemented. Things will improve only if we take the necessary steps reaping the rewards change brings to the entire situation. The Oslo Mistake was a severe and drastic action in which Israel was forced to suffer the terrible consequences and is continuing to wear that yoke around her neck and now is the time to shake off that yoke and act with the boldness of certainty. This is not the time for timidity and certainly not the time to continue with a Prime Minister who refuses to act or for a Prime Minister who claims to lead from the right when in actuality he leads as if slightly left of center from where you stand.
Top Left Yair Lapid, Bottom Prime Minister Netanyahu, Top Right Naftali Bennett
What should your campaign revolve around? That we can tell you in a single word, actions and results expected and how these will be accomplished under your bold approach. Do not fear that you will be too far to the right, you will be fine and far right is what the people are seeking. The truth is the Israelis desire an end to the stalemate as they have watched as caution has resulted in the loss of legitimacy and loss of regions of lands. This is another reason for actions which you propose, the suggestions are from the right of center which is closer to the purity of Zionism and free of any false hopes which rely on not rocking the boat out of fear as to what Europe may do. The future of Israel is to the Far East where she has already good relations and has built trust, something she never really had with much of Europe. Times are changing and Israel needs change as well if she is to thrive and survive. She need thrive in order to survive. You need to tell the people the truth in that seeking to avoid ridicule from Europe by kowtowing to every gut-wrenching demand for inaction from Europe who is not necessarily our friends will not work. You must stress the point that Israel needs think of Israel before thinking, fretting, worrying and even panicking over how action will be perceived by the nattering nabobs of negativism in the Old World. Israel need now lead the New World into a glittering era where hope and bold answers are the way to go, being defensive and overly cautious was great during President Obama's attempts to destroy us but he is long gone and we may be driven to boldness and actions. And the specifics are the best part and you keep those close to your chest until a little less that than a week, immediately after the current Prime Minister makes his great speech about how only he can guide Israel through the rough and choppy seas of uncertainty. This is when you show your hand and claim that currently the seas are calm and quite well prepared for actions while we have the opportunity, we owe it to our children and their children and all future Jewish People who will turn to Israel for salvation.
At the very top of your plan should be the exile once more of Mahmoud Abbas, the entirety of the Palestinian Authority leaders in both the political realm and the security and military wings. This is not the cherry on top but the first act within three weeks of taking office and having built a coalition. Then Israel will offer the Arabs three choices, two are very viable and the last is very unfortunate. The Arabs in the Shomron and across all of Israel may take an equitable buyout of their properties plus a rather sizable bonus to all be utilized in getting started in some new nation and signing a promissory note that they will never again seek permanent residence within Israel. The Arabs in the Shomron may choose instead to remain and live within Israel as resident aliens who will be granted the right to vote in local elections in the selected major Arab cities chosen by Israel. These Arabs will be required to sign a non-belligerence agreement which if it is breached results in deportation, immediate and without any bonuses or other payments. We did mention a third choice, the one we hope none will resort to taking. Choosing which plan one is going to request should not take forever, thus these offers will be available for the initial six weeks after the announcement. Allow us to now get around to that third choice we said would be offered. We realize there will be a percentage of the Arabs who will decide not to pick any of the plans and instead desire to continue their war on Israelis; even these will have an option. The IDF will be given a list which will denote which choice you decided to take, the first or second, and the list will include those choosing to continue the war and those who by default made no choice thus joining those who decided to fight under the third choice. The IDF will be tasked in driving these remaining Arabs who were not in either of the first two selections out from within the Israeli borders, the ones from under the San Remo Conference, Treaty of Sèvres, the British Mandate and all other related material which all came long before World War II and were the result of World War I treaties and conferences. The final borders suggested for Israel included the Shomron and all lands west of the Jordan River and north to the border of the French Mandate and south to the Negev-Sinai border and the port city of Eilat (see map below). Resulting from three defensive struggles, Israel annexed some additional area of the Golan Heights as it had been used by Syrian snipers to shoot Israelis working their fields, tending their flocks and simply walking in an area they could see. That situation was not tolerable. Israel has also annexed all of Jerusalem with special love shown for the Temple Mount and all the special places throughout the Old City. Israel will also be annexing the remainder of the Shomron making all lands west of the Jordan River and its Valley to the north and south now a part of Israel. That would complete the plan you would tell the people which still leaves a few holes to fill.
Map of Israel,
Should Any of the Nations of the World Actually be Honest and Truly be Seeking Peace,
which Can Only Be Attained Should Israel Have the Most Defensive Borders Imaginable
The largest hole left in the plan are which cities will be denoted as Arab cities where they will have their vote in local elections. The Arabs already living within Israel who desired became citizens and have complete rights to vote. There will be a listing in which will be potentially short some of the cities where Arabs would also be granted voting rights. The first item which may cause Arab Panic would be that Shechem (Nablus), Jericho, Hevron and Bethlehem would revert to being Jewish towns-cities which were Israelite from time immemorial. Most of the remaining Arab towns would be included as those where they have voting rights. Should an Arab reside in one of the cities which Israel is taking or any other city which does not become part of the list of Arab cities where the alien refugees would be permitted to vote, they would be able to claim a partial moving bonus to assist their relocating to one of those other cities where they could vote. There would probably be some inexpensive but nice homes which those who chose to leave will no longer being used as a residence which are vacant and for sale. What must be made specifically understood in no uncertain terms is that the IDF will be given the assignment to seek out any former officers who were exiled of the Palestinian Authority, Fatah, PLO, Security Forces and al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade along with those who chose to remain at war or did not sign onto any program and to deport them. The IDF will also be ordered to take the least risk possible and protect the soldiers' lives and health as the paramount importance. Should resistance be run into, the IDF would once again be reminded that their soldiers' lives are the most important and vital item which should be granted complete protection. The somewhat promising idea here is that most of what has been listed could be accomplished with a minimal call-up of reserves and still completed within approximately six-months. This method further does not require the cooperation of the King of Jordan, al-Assad of Syria, Sisi in Egypt or any other Arab leader in order to accomplish such solutions. Now, all that remains is either Bibi stepping up to the plate while still in the office of Prime Minister and changing tactics and suddenly becoming bold and decisive such that he takes the charges we suggested here or something resembling this theme. Then he could run on a great performance which resolved so many of the problems and is now ready and willing to take Israel forward with clear vision. And if not, then he is leaving an opening for the people to replace him with an Israeli ready to take the needed steps. The problem has reached a magnitude that mere managing the situation has become counter-productive and simply dangerous. Israel is in need of a leader who is willing to try and even to make some mistakes along the way, at least progress should be made and the quagmire of the Palestinian Arabs would be completed and hopefully well on its was to a form of normalcy. These truly are interesting times, the variety that try the hearts and souls of men.


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Q: How should the year be capitalized? I suppose a year number to be a proper noun, naming a unique year. Therefore, when written as text, it should be spelled with initial capital letters. But there does not seem to be general agreement about this.
Few authorities offer a rule at all, probably because year numbers are more commonly written as Arabic numerals. One source treats a year number as a common noun, like any number. A second agrees but says some authors consider a year number to be a pronoun when not preceded by the words "the year". A third says a year number names a unique year and must be treated as a proper noun, citing The Winston Grammar Program by Paul E. Erwin.
On wedding invitations, etiquette authorities agree, the year is traditionally written as text. It is for this reason, I suppose, that some authorities think to address capitalization of the year. However, there is no consensus. It is more common to see the advice to capitalize the first word of the year (only). Most Google search results for [ capitalize year wedding etiquette ] give this advice. On the other hand, that paragon of etiquette virtue, Emily Post, specifically prohibits it, saying only the names of weeks and months are to be capitalized.
In short, I can find support for three different capitalization rules for year numbers:

*

*no capitalization (written number rule), e.g.: "the year thirteen sixty-one"

*capitalize first initial letter (wedding invitation rule), e.g.: "the year Thirteen sixty-one"

*capitalize all initial letters (proper noun rule), e.g.: "the year Thirteen Sixty-one"

How should the year be capitalized?

A: There are only two kinds of documents in current usage that spell out the year -- legal documents, and wedding invitations.
Legal documents normally spell the year in lowercase, such as in this numbing bit of prose from West Virginia:

For any tax imposed under the provisions of this article with respect
  to any taxable year prior to the first day of January, one thousand
  nine hundred eighty-three, a resident individual shall be allowed a
  West Virginia exemption of six hundred dollars for each exemption for
  which he is entitled to a deduction for the taxable year for federal
  income tax purposes.

Some legal documents capitalize everything for extra pomp, but it's uncommon:

In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my hand and affix the seal
  of said Court, at Office, in Nashville, the 6th day of December in the
  Year One Thousand Nine Hundred Eighty-Four and in the 209th Year of
  American Independence.

Wedding invitations, as noted, tend to capitalize the first letter only; however, this seems to be the only justification I can find:

The "T" in Two thousand doesn't have to be capitalized but everyone
  does it so it would probably look incorrect if it wasn't and it will
  look more polished if it is capitalized.

So, in modern usage, it appears that the rules for capitalization are:

*

*Spell the year out in lowercase.

*Except in wedding invitations, where the first letter is capitalized because everyone does it.

A: If it's any guide, I have a document signed by Elizabeth II dated the fifth day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy-nine.

A: I am a person who demands to know the reason for one position over another.
Having said that, the following justification is one I prefer to "because that's the way everybody does it"
If the wedding invitation consists of a single sentence, then the regular conventions of capitalization should apply in that sentence, being consistent with Emily Post's view of using all lower case letters for the date except for the proper nouns in the sentence, e.g., Saturday and January.


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You've heard of the Men in Black, mysterious dark-suited men who harass or threaten UFO witnesses to keep them quiet. But have you heard of the Women in Black? In the first half, researcher Nick Redfern joined George Knapp to discuss the dark and disturbing evidence surrounding stories of Women In Black (WIB) including their involvement with alien abductions, Mothman, and the supernatural. Among the explanations, he considers "government agents" to be least likely, with other theories suggesting alien-human hybrids, paranormal entities, and time travelers. The women are often described as looking very pale and wearing long black wigs that may be an attempt to camouflage their faces.
The WIBs don't really understand our mannerisms and ways of talking, as though "somebody has constructed something that looks human but has none of the basic human faculties," he remarked. Redfern delved into the work of Albert Bender, a UFO researcher who first described MIBs-- interestingly Bender's family had a history of encounters with a mysterious Woman in Black, who materialized in his cousin's room, and had a bony, white, face. John Keel revealed cases that mirror modern day alien abduction reports. These involved pregnant women, including one name named Helen, who had strange UFO experiences and visits from WIBs that were later said to help deliver the babies.
In the latter half, LA Times staff writer Louis Sahagun talked about the curious life and work of occult writer Manly Palmer Hall, who arrived in Los Angeles in 1919, and became one of the 20th century's most prolific writers and speakers on ancient philosophies, mysticism and magic, as well as a confidant of celebrities and politicians. He was the author of the landmark esoteric publication "The Secret Teachings of All Ages," and the founder of the Philosophical Research Society. "Manly Hall taught that there were enduring values and core knowledge in the beginning of...humankind and that these notions were applicable for all time including to help remedy modern anxiety," Sahagun explained.
Hall proffered the uplifting notion that an ancient directive of hierophants or sorcerers decreed that mankind would culminate its evolution in the United States, and specifically in Southern California. Yet Hall's life entailed various controversies and prejudiced attitudes, and he died in 1990 under "suspicious circumstances" that were investigated as a possible homicide. Bizarrely, when his body was discovered there were ants crawling out of various orifices that might have been placed there as part of an alternative health practice to remove negative energies, Sahagun detailed.
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Considerable insight continues to be gained in to the comorbid, interactive ramifications of HIV and substance abuse in the mind using experimental choices. of synaptic circuitry throughout existence. Neurons and glia both workout control over determinants of synaptic plasticity that are disrupted by HIV and substance abuse. Perivascular macrophages, microglia, also to a lesser degree astroglia can harbor chlamydia. Uninfected bystanders, specifically astroglia, propagate and amplify inflammatory indicators. Drug abuse alone derails neuronal and glial function, and the results of chronic publicity can be maladaptive plasticity. The adverse outcomes of coexposure to HIV and substance abuse are dependant on numerous elements including genetics, sex, age group, and multidrug publicity. Glia plus some neurons are generated throughout existence and their progenitors look like focuses on of HIV and opiates/psychostimulants. The persistent character of HIV and substance abuse appears to bring about sustained modifications in the maturation and destiny of neural progenitors, which might affect the total amount of glial populations within multiple mind regions. research), (3) the creation of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines, and (4) deficits in extracellular ion homeostasis. The consequences of opiates in MDMs and microglia have already been comprehensively reviewed somewhere else (Chao, Hu, & Peterson, 1996; Rock and roll & Peterson, 2006; Hauser et al., 2007; Banerjee et al., 2011; Hauser et al., 2012; Dutta & Roy, 2012; HDAC7 Regan, Dave, Datta, & Khalili, 2012; Reddy et al., 2012). Appropriately, just a few latest findings will become briefly considered in today's review. Open up in another window Shape 1 Opiate medicines exacerbate HIV-1 neuropathogenesis through immediate activities on gliaespecially microglia and astroglia. Microglia tend infected through relationships with infiltrating, perivascular macrophages, and propagate NVP-AEW541 the NVP-AEW541 majority of HIV disease in the CNS. HIV-1 also infects astroglia, but to a significantly lesser extent, as well as perhaps without creation of new disease., Infection leads to the creation of reactive air and nitrogen varieties (ROS and RNS, respectively), pro-inflammatory cytokines, as well as the launch of HIV-1 protein such as for example gp120 and Tat. Many of these promote swelling and cytotoxicity in bystander neurons and glia. Opiate misuse alone could cause early Alzheimer-like adjustments (Anthony et al., 2010) and morphine alone can boost neurotoxicity in vitro (Zou et al., 2011); nevertheless, opiates may actually potentiate lots of the pathophysiological ramifications of HIV in the central anxious system of contaminated people. Multiple neuronal and glial types exhibit -opioid receptors (MOR). Lots of the neurodegenerative ramifications of opioid-HIV connections are the consequence of immediate activities on microglia and astroglia, which in turn lead to an optimistic feedback routine of inflammatory/cytotoxic signaling between HIV-1-contaminated microglia and astroglia. Abbreviations: -chemokine C-X-C receptor 4 (CXCR4); changed or transformed (); -chemokine C-C receptor 5 (CCR5); blood-brain hurdle (BBB); reduced (); fractalkine (CX3CL1); fractalkine receptor (CX3CR1); elevated (); interferon- (IFN-); interleukin-6 (IL-6); intracellular Ca2+ focus ([Ca2+]i); intracellular sodium focus ([Na+]i); monocyte chemoattractant proteins-1 (MCP-1 [or CCL2]); peripheral bloodstream mononuclear cells (PBMCs); governed upon activation, regular T-cell portrayed, and secreted (RANTES [or CCL5]); Toll-like receptor (TLR). Fractalkine released by neurons (and astroglia) could be neuroprotective by restricting the neurotoxic activities of microglia (blue ); crimson arrows recommend pro-inflammatory/cytotoxic connections. Modified and reprinted from guide (Hauser et al., 2012) an open up access content distributed beneath the conditions of the Innovative Commons Attribution Permit (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/), which permits unrestrictive make use of, distribution, and duplication in any moderate, provided the initial function is properly cited. Severe contact with opiate drugs such as for example morphine (El-Hage et al., 2013) or methadone (Li et al., 2002) have a tendency to boost HIV replication by contaminated microglia. However, with regards to the length of time and timing of publicity, morphine can boost, act within a natural way, or inhibit HIV appearance (Peterson, Gekker, Hu, Cabral, & Lokensgard, 2004). Furthermore, selective MOR agonists such as for example endomorphin-1, however, not DAMGO or morphine (Peterson et al., 1999) can boost HIV-1 replication in contaminated microgliasuggesting the participation of a NVP-AEW541 nontraditional MOR variant in HIV replication (Peterson et al., 1999) or recommending that biased agonism (Hauser et al., 2012) could be operative. We've recently discovered that particular subsets of MOR splice variations, including MOR-1X and MOR-1K had been differentially indicated by human being astrocytes, however, not indicated at detectable amounts in microglia (Dever, Xu, Fitted, Knapp, & Hauser, 2012; Dever et al., 2014). Furthermore, the expression of every MOR variant could be differentially controlled by HIV and in a cell particular way (Dever et al., 2012; Dever et al., 2014). Therefore, microglia communicate a subset of MOR variations each which may.
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Fluctuating Gas Prices Can't Dent Americans' Love Affair With Their Cars
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The national average price for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline may be 15 cents higher than this time last year, but the fact that gasoline prices in general are trending lower has kept American drivers from reducing their time on the road, according to the American Automobile Association.
AAA reported that the national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline right now is $3.67, which is a nickel higher than last week's price and 15 cents higher year-on-year.
In general, however, gasoline prices are down compared with previous years. The average price at this time in 2012 was $3.92 per gallon.
Michael Green, a spokesman for AAA, told Oilprice.com that fewer U.S. drivers are letting fluctuations in gasoline prices affect their driving habits.
Green said gasoline demand increased in 2013 by 1.1 percent, the highest annual increase in more than five years. This translated to an estimated 18.1 billion miles traveled on American roadways last year.
"One possible explanation is that Americans are less concerned about gas [prices], given that prices generally have been less expensive than in previous years," he said. "If this is true, it is possible we might yet again see increased demand [for gas] even with improvements in fuel economy this year."
A report from the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute found the fuel economy for model year 2013 was 24.7 mpg, an improvement of 5 percent since 2012.
But the higher price tag of fuel-efficient vehicles puts them out of reach of most American drivers, Green said.
In March, AAA found that about half of the people it questioned said they were changing their driving habits or lifestyle in general in an effort to curb gasoline use.
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Green said there's no single price point that triggers a change in consumer behavior. And while most drivers are willing to make changes in things like how often they use the car to run errands or take trips, when it comes to work commutes, Green said fewer than 50 percent of people say they would be willing to carpool, and only 15 percent would consider leaving their cars behind in favor of public transportation.
"It is difficult for most drivers to significantly change their fuel consumption," he said. "Most people use their cars to get to work, and in many parts of the country there are limited alternatives to driving."
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En théorie des jeux, plus précisément dans un jeu coopératif, la valeur de Shapley donne une répartition équitable des gains aux joueurs. Elle est nommée en honneur à Lloyd Shapley qui introduit le concept en 1953.

Introduction

Dans un jeu coopératif, les joueurs collaborent pour obtenir un certain gain. Le problème est alors la répartition de ce gain entre les différents acteurs. Shapley a proposé une répartition « équitable » des gains de la coalition de n joueurs. Sa solution s'applique au cas où l'utilité est transférable.
Prenons le cas d'entreprises qui forment un cartel et décident des quotas de production. On a une solution sans utilité transférable (Nash a proposé une solution dans le cas de deux joueurs). Par contre, si le but du cartel est la maximisation du profit global et ensuite la répartition de ce montant entre les membres, alors on parle de solution avec utilité transférable.

Dans les jeux coopératifs on utilise le concept de fonction caractéristique. Soit v(C) la fonction qui donne la valeur maximale de la coalition C. Cette expression est appelée la fonction caractéristique du jeu.
Par exemple, si la coalition comprenant les joueurs 1 et 2 obtient un profit de , on écrit v({1,2}) = 600.

On peut décrire un jeu en indiquant les valeurs de la fonction caractéristique pour toutes les coalitions possibles, y compris celles ne comprenant qu'un seul joueur. On parle souvent du jeu v au lieu de dire un jeu ayant la fonction caractéristique v.

Dans un jeu à n personnes, il y a  coalitions non vides et autant de valeurs de la fonction caractéristique. Par définition, la valeur de la fonction caractéristique d'une coalition vide est égale à zéro.

Si des coalitions disjointes (C et Z) sont réunies en une grande coalition, on peut admettre que la valeur de la fonction caractéristique de cette grande coalition soit au moins égale à la somme des valeurs des deux coalitions:

Définition
La valeur de Shapley pour le joueur i est notée  et est définie par :

où |Z| est le nombre de joueurs de la coalition Z et n le nombre total de joueurs.

Dans le cas d'un jeu à deux personnes, on a :

Si les joueurs isolés obtiennent le même profit, le profit total de la coalition est réparti en parts égales entre les deux joueurs. Formellement, si  alors .

On peut interpréter la valeur de Shapley en supposant que chaque joueur entre de manière aléatoire dans chaque coalition possible. On lui attribue la valeur de l'accroissement de gain que la coalition peut réaliser avec son entrée. La valeur de Shapley correspond à la valeur marginale moyenne, pour les différentes coalitions, du joueur i.

Exemple

Le jeu avec la fonction caractéristique suivante:

a un noyau correspondant au point (0,0,120). Par contre, les valeurs de Shapley sont :

et ce point n'est pas dans le noyau.

Axiomes

Shapley a énoncé une série d'axiomes qui admettent pour unique solution les valeurs de Shapley dans le cas d'un jeu avec utilité transférable. Un jeu coopératif est la donné d'un ensemble fini de joueurs N et d'une fonction caractéristique v, qui à tout sous-ensemble de joueurs C, associe v(C), le gain de C. Dans la suite on suppose que N = {1, 2, ..., n}.

Les axiomes utilisés par Shapley sont les suivants :

(1) Efficacité. la somme des valeurs attribués aux joueurs doit être égale à ce que la coalition de tous les joueurs peut obtenir :

(2) Symétrie. Si deux joueurs peuvent se substituer dans chaque coalition, alors ils perçoivent le même gain :
 Si  pour tout sous-ensemble S de joueurs qui ne contient ni i, ni j, alors .

(3) Additivité (aussi appelé linéarité). Soit un joueur i qui participe à deux jeux ayant les mêmes joueurs et dont les fonctions caractéristiques sont v et w. L'axiome suivant lie la somme des valeurs de Shapley dans les deux jeux et la valeur de Shapley dans le jeu défini à partir de la somme des gains des deux jeux (v + w) :

(4) Joueur nul. Un joueur i est nul pour   si  pour toute coalition . Pour tout joueur i nul pour , on a .

Harsanyi a développé un modèle plus général qui comprend, comme cas particulier, la solution coopérative de Nash et la valeur de Shapley.

L'indice de pouvoir de Shapley-Shubik

Dans une assemblée législative, il y a plusieurs possibilités de coalition entre les partis. Si l'on attribue une valeur de 1 aux coalitions gagnantes et 0 aux autres, alors la valeur de Shapley est une mesure du pouvoir des partis. Pour le joueur i, la formule de l'indice est :

où S est une coalition, |S| est la taille de la coalition gagnante (c'est-à-dire le nombre d'individus dans la coalition), n le nombre de joueurs total du jeu et un joueur i a du pouvoir si v(S)=1 et v(S-{i})=0.

Prenons l'exemple du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies. Il y a  permanents qui ont droit de veto et  membres. Une résolution doit obtenir  et aucun veto pour être acceptée. L'indice de Shapley-Shubik nous dit que le pouvoir d'un membre permanent est beaucoup plus fort que celui d'un membre non permanent (0,1963 contre 0,00186).

Le cas du Conseil de l'Union européenne est encore plus intéressant. De 1958 à 1973, la majorité qualifiée était de . Or, le Luxembourg avait une voix et aucun pouvoir car aucune coalition ne pouvait devenir gagnante avec sa voix. Avec l'entrée de nouveaux pays, son pouvoir passe à 0,95 % en 1973 et à 3,02 % en 1981 (comme le Danemark qui a une population dix fois plus grande).

De nombreux autres théoriciens, dont Banzhaf, ont proposé des indices de pouvoir, plus ou moins adaptés à d'autres contextes et avec des propriétés similaires.

Notes et références

Bibliographie
 J.F. Banzhaf, Weighted voting doesn't work: A mathematical analysis, Rutgers Law Review, 19, 1965, 317-343
 J.F. Nash, The Bargaining Problem, Econometrica, 18, 1950, 155-162
 L. S. Shapley, « A Value for n-Person Games », in H. Kuhn and A. Tucker (Eds.), Contribution to the Theory of Games, vol. II, Princeton, 1953, 303-317
 L.S. Shapley, L.S. and M. Shubik, A Method for Evaluating the Distribution of Power in a Committee System, American Political Science Review, 48, 1954, 787-792

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