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Here is the full list of people who won the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awards.
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From smartphones and laptops to the rapidly growing EV market, we need an incredible amount of lithium ion batteries to make it all work. Which highlights a little problem. Are there enough materials to make them? Materials like lithium are difficult and time consuming to extract and can have a major impact on the environment. Can nanotechnology solve our lithium extraction and mining problem? And maybe even help with solid state batteries?
For EV enthusiasts like myself, we can sometimes get caught up in the benefits of going electric. You're no longer burning fossil fuels to operate your car. Or you have solar on your home and are storing excess energy in a home battery for later use. It's all great, right? Well, that's precisely the problem … demand is outstripping supply. Our need for energy storage is growing dramatically.
Lithium-ion battery demand is expected to increase more than 10 fold by 2029 and lithium supply is expected to triple by 2025.1 2 That increased demand puts pressure on the entire supply chain for battery production, which is causing a new gold rush, but this time for materials like lithium and nickel. I recently had a chance to talk to Teague Egan, the CEO of a small company that's looking to make a big difference by using some fascinating nanotechnology. He put the scale of the demand between what we've seen with consumer electronics to where it's going really well.
"…To put that into perspective, it takes 10,000 iPhones to build one car battery, right?" "So if you're talking about producing a million cars, which is essentially happening right now, we're producing more than that per year, about 2 million, that's the equivalent of 10 billion iPhones, right?" "And this is the beginning. Mercedes, BMW, makes an electric car, but GMC, Ford, Volkswagen, everybody is like, 'We're coming.' Now we're talking about a trillion iPhones worth of batteries." -Teague Egan
That really puts in perspective where things are going and the scale needed to supply our battery addiction. While mining for lithium, nickel and other materials for batteries may feel like we're just trading drilling for oil with digging for metals and salts, there's a big difference. Once you drill and then burn fossil fuels, they're gone forever. Dig up lithium, nickel, or aluminum for a battery and you can recharge it thousands of times … and even recycle it for use in new batteries. So it's already a big step in the right direction, but there's still big improvements we can make on getting it out of the ground.
Today there are two basic ways we get lithium. Mining from ore, which is known as spodumene, or using brine salt pools for lithium extraction.
"There's two ways to produce lithium. And one way actually is kind of lithium mining. What the average consumer would think of as a big open pit kind of copper mining scenario. In Australia, that is the typical way that they mine for lithium. The other way is extracting lithium from salt brine. Ocean water is 3% salinity. The brines that we extract the lithium from is 30% salinity." "They pump up this really salty water from a subsurface, and they put it into these massive evaporation ponds that are literally tens of square miles big, bigger than the City of Manhattan. And they let the sun evaporate the 70% H2O, the water part. And then the salts precipitate out one by one. And they have a series of these ponds because once a salt precipitates, they move all of the brine to the next pond, and then scoop out the salt from the first one. And then the second salt precipitates out. And it goes down the system to the end where the lithium is concentrated up enough that they can crystallize it and have 99.9% pure lithium." -Teague Egan
Most of this is happening in a handful of countries like Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Australia, and China.3 2 And the brine extraction method makes up about 70% of the world's lithium. In Latin America you're talking about 750 tons of brine.4 5 But the craziest part of the brine method is that it can take between 6 – 24 months to produce the final product and they only recover about 30% of the lithium. Not to mention that it's a water intensive process because you're pulling water from below the surface and using chemical processes. Not only can this lead to chemicals getting back into the groundwater, but it can reduce the amount of water available for others in the area.6
A solution
So what do we do? Nanotechnology to the rescue! Seriously though, I've talked a lot about different forms of nanotechnology and how it's impacting solar and energy storage, and this is another great example of how it's being applied to the mining industry.
As a quick refresher, nanotechnology refers to our ability to study and engineer technologies at a nanoscale, which is the range from 1 to 100 nanometers. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter … or one millionth of a millimeter. For a sense of scale a human hair is around 75,000 nanometers wide.1
Within the realm of nanotech is something called a Metal Organic Framework, or MOF. Teague's company, EnergyX, is specializing in using MOFs for lithium extraction.
"An MOF is a nanoparticle that we discovered can achieve these incredible separations. They have very small pore sizes and what they are is they're metal nodes like zirconium or aluminum. These are metals on the periodic table that are connected by organic linkers, like a carbon linker that connects these metal nodes. And they have very high internal surface areas. And they have very small pore sizes where a lithium can pass through, but a larger divalent ion like a magnesium or calcium is rejected because it can't pass through and they work in two ways. One is through this size sieving effect that I just described. The other is through kind of an electrochemical affinity between the metal node and the passing ion. Like lithium wants to pass through, and has a very good transport rate where some of the other ones don't want to pass through and are flushed out to the side." -Teague Egan
MOFs were pioneered in the late 1990's by Prof. Omar Yaghi at UC Berkeley. Since then researchers have discovered more than 90,000 different MOF structures and that number is continuing to grow.7 Teague built EnergyX from research at the University of Texas, and in Australia, Monash University and CSRO. Dr. Huanting Wang's MOF research at Monash University was combined with Dr. Bennie Freeman's membrane research at the University of Texas.
So how does EnergyX's use of MOFs compare to the mining industry's normal approach?
"They only recover about 30 to 50% of the available lithium because it's an inexact science, you're moving millions of tons of brine from pond to pond letting the sun evaporate, letting the salt precipitate, and lithium ends up co-precipitating with magnesium. And this is a huge problem because you need the lithium to be 99.9% pure. You can't have any magnesium." "They need to concentrate it up to a pretty high level in order to final process it into the lithium. And they lose all this lithium during the pond system, during the 18 months." "70% loss is unfathomable in any other industry. That was the main problem that we wanted to address." -Teague Egan
So how does a 90% recovery rate sound in comparison? It's not just more efficient at extraction, but it's very flexible in how you can integrate it into existing mining infrastructure.
"The way that our generation one works is that we go right before that lithium magnesium coprecipitation, which is about three ponds into the sequence, put our membranes that separate the lithium from the magnesium so we don't lose any lithium." "You need to provide value to your customer. Totally replacing the ponds does not provide value at this point. Our generation one provides value that they want and need. And once we have maximized the capacity of the ponds and they can't produce any more lithium out of the ponds and demand is still growing and they want to bring on new capacity, then we can introduce our generation two, which is a full, complete system that doesn't need the ponds." -Teague Egan
Taking the approach of layering in this technology into existing processes reduces the capital expense of setting it up, and it doesn't disrupt the costly infrastructure that's already there. Companies will get a huge uptick in efficiency now and still scale down the road without having to build out more brine pools … eventually … hopefully without any.
One thing that's always fascinated me about technologies and breakthroughs like graphene, MOFs, you name it, is how long it seems to take for these breakthroughs to come to market. I didn't used to understand the difficulty going from lab to product, but the more of these videos I make and the more people I talk to, it's become very clear to me that's it's crazy difficult to make that jump. I no longer ask, "where's my flying car?" Teague's been experiencing that first hand.
"Oh man, when you say I'm experiencing it first hand, you are spot on. When I read that first paper, this is my first rodeo, I like doing this kind of stuff. I read that first paper. I said, "This is ready to go, let's sign up the biggest customers, we'll be commercial at one year." "It's a painful process, discovering that small thing on an academic level that is 1 millionth the … when we first discovered that metal organic frameworks could do these separations with one metal organic framework. We literally etched a pore into a solid membrane that had no other holes and grew one metal-organic framework in one pore and witnessed that it was allowing lithium through and not magnesium." "And then the paper comes out and it's metal-organic frameworks, the next miracle material. And they're really talking about one, which is … I think a human hair is 200 microns or something. These are a thousandth the size of a human hair. And so to scale that up into something where you have millions of metal-organic frameworks and millions of square meters of membrane, it's a hard process, right?" -Teague Egan
But EnergyX is doing it. They're pushing to make this technology a reality, which has so much potential for future variations … it goes way beyond lithium.
"The other kind of cool thing about this is that, although lithium is our first targeted material that we kind of tune and customize these MOF for, they're infinitely customizable. So you can add little pendant groups or different types of linkers that shrink the hole, or create different affinities and do different types of separations. One separation that we saw other than lithium was the separation fluorine and chlorine. And this happens to be a very important separation in the country of India, their water infrastructure. They have really high amounts of fluoride and fluorine, and that is detrimental for the bones. And people are drinking these and getting all sorts of bone disease and bone decay. And if you can have a filter, a filtration system except that lets the water and chloride pass through and stop the fluorine, that's important." -Teague Egan
"So basically this could be evolved into any number of other technologies like desalination plants, water purification." -Matt Ferrell
"Exactly." -Teague Egan
"There's a lot of potential for taking this technology and scaling it beyond just lithium extraction." -Matt Ferrell
"Huge potential. We're focused on lithium, but you can think about the agricultural industry, pharmaceutical industry, water infrastructure industry." -Teague Egan
And one of the additional uses for MOFs is something that Teague brought up in our conversation, and one that I'm pretty passionate about … solid state batteries.
"…if we have this solid membrane that is separating and transporting lithium through it with such high efficiency, I wonder how using that same membrane in a battery would work because in a battery architecture, you have your anode and you have your cathode, and then you have a separator, which is right now, a liquid state electrolyte." "And it just so happens that at the University of Texas, Dr. John Goodenough is in the lab right next door to Bennie Freeman. So I said what better person to try this hypothesis than one of the top battery researchers in the world. We were able to partner with his lab and we work with some of his PhD students. We're going through iterations of tweaking it and figuring out some things that could make our membrane into a very high quality, solid state electrolyte." -Teague Egan
Clearly, it's very early days in the research aspect of that, but it's another great example of where this technology could go. We're still in the early days of nanotechnologies like graphene and MOFs, but they are shaping up to have a big impact on EVs, renewable energy, energy storage, and mining.
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During a recent visit to the UK, I was asked if I'd like to present to a group of 15 year old GCSE photography students at the prestigious Duke of York's Royal Military School, of course!
For about 40 minutes I shared some of the amazing things we've seen underwater, a collection of videos and still photos seemingly had the younglings glued to the screen.
After the talk there was a barrage of questions, and even a couple of students that wanted to talk further.
It was a fun experience. I've talked at Universities before, but never to this age group. I spent an age writing my talk, making sure there were lots of images, it wasn't dull, and covered a lot of ground. University students can take or leave what you say, but 15 year olds you really want to keep entertained.
The talk had a strong message on exploration. Doesn't matter where, when, why, or who with. You could explore your garden, the beach, the school grounds, or an empty classroom, just explore. They seemed to like that core message, and didn't mind hearing it several times when accompanied by video of a great white shark!
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Robert McNeil has over 35 years' experience as an active investor and management participant in seed and early-stage biomedical companies.
He founded Sanderling Ventures in 1979 and has served since then as a Managing Director of the firm's seven investment partnerships.
Dr. McNeil has been an active investor in over sixty early stage investments for Sanderling Ventures. In each case, close relationships with management and careful understanding of the companies' technologies have allowed successful development of products at very early stage. Dr. McNeil has played an active role in these seed companies and has helped many graduate to late stage status where they either were purchased or affected public offerings.
Dr. McNeil earned his Ph.D. in the fields of molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics in 1972 from the University of California, Irvine.
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Michael Dixon has over 18 years' experience working in an executive role for venture-backed companies.
Mr. Dixon was Chief Financial Officer of Gemin X Pharmaceuticals. At Gemin X he structured and negotiated equity financings leveraged with venture debt and other forms of non-dilutive capital to fund the company's Canadian and US operations over an 11-year period. Gemin X was successfully sold to Cephalon (now Teva), at the time one of the largest private biotech deals in Canada.
Prior to Gemin X, Mr. Dixon was Interim COO and Vice President Finance at Morphometrix Technologies, a medical device company specialized in the automation of cervical cancer screening. Mr. Dixon is also president and chief executive officer at Therillia Development Company.
Mr. Dixon began his career at Price Waterhouse with a focus on compliance services for entrepreneurial businesses, strategic financial modeling and management information systems. Mr. Dixon received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto and his Chartered Accountant designation while at Price Waterhouse.
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- Some reactions do not go to completion because these reactions are said to be "reversible"- the products undergo a reaction that reforms the reactants.
- Theoretically all reactions are reversible- we may just not have the means available.
- Reactions which are reversible are written with a double half arrow.
- In reactions- when the reaction begins, the concentration of reactants decreases and the concentration of products increases.
- Chemical equilibrium is the state in which the concentrations of reactans and products remain constant with time because the rate at which they are formed in each reaction equals the rate at which they are consumed in the opposite reaction.
- Reaching equlibrium does not mean that the reaction has stopped- just that the same number of reactants are turning to product as product is turning to reactant.
- A reversible reaction achieves a state of equilibrium when the rate of the forward reaction is equal to the rate of the reverse reaction.
o It is the ratio of products concentrations (raised to powers indicated by the coefficients) to the reactant concentrations (raised to powers indicated by the coefficients).
o Concentration is given as molarity.
- The equilibrium constant does not describe the rate of reaction, but it does tell you information about a mixture at a set of conditions.
o If Keq ≈ 1 – considerable concentrations of products and reactants are present.
- Heterogeneous Equilibria- equilibrium conditions where substances are in different physical states.
o Q- the reaction quotient- is used to determine if a reaction is at equlibrium.
o Once the reaction quotient is determined, it can be compared to the Keq to see if the reaction has reached equilibrium.
§ If Q = Keq à the reaction is at equilibrium, no shift will occur.
o If a change in conditions is imposed on a system at equilibrium, the equilibrium position will shift in the direction that tends to reduce that change in conditions.
- If more of a particular substance is added to a reaction at equilibrium, the concentration of that substance will increase.
o The reaction will then consume some of the added substance to return to the proper ratio of equilibrium.
- If some substance is removed, the concentration of that substance will decrease.
- The equilibrium constant is dependent on temperature.
§ Heat is a component of the reaction.
- Usable nitrogen products are not very abundant- since the nitrogen – nitrogen triple bond is tough to break.
§ Exothermic reaction- so in theory decrease temperature would increase ammonia production- but in this case, the reaction slowed considerablyà actually increased temperature which lowered product level, so increased pressure even greater.
o Today the process is used for explosive production, fertilizers, and household cleaners.


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Elderly NSW woman admits torturing animals
A rainbow lorikeet (file image) - AAP
A 74-year-old woman has admitted torturing animals including a magpie that was found in a cage at her home on NSW's mid-north coast with its beak cut off.
Police said Brenda Dorothy Marney had captured the injured magpie and kept it instead of taking it to a vet - effectively torturing the bird by not seeking treatment.
Marney has been in custody since mid-October 17 after breaching her bail conditions by approaching birds at a reserve.
She was due to face a three-day hearing in Forster Local Court starting on Wednesday.
Marney instead pleaded guilty to six charges including committing an act of cruelty on a pelican, failing to provide veterinary treatment to an injured pelican and injured magpie to alleviate pain, not having a licence to keep wildlife and illegally possessing protected animals.
The protected animals were two magpies and a rainbow lorikeet.
Prosecutor Senior Sergeant Garry Rowe told the court four charges would be withdrawn following Marney's guilty pleas including committing acts of aggravated cruelty on a baby pelican and an adult pelican.
Marney - who was transported to court in prison greens from jail in Kempsey - has spent 84 days behind bars since her arrest in May.
She initially claimed she'd done nothing wrong and it was a misunderstanding, despite claims she'd feed animals to gain their trust before taking them home and torturing them.
The woman known as the "Bird Lady of Tuncurry" claimed she was trying to help a pelican which had a hook in its wing when police were called.
Magistrate Ross Hudson released Marney on bail on Wednesday and adjourned the case for sentencing on Thursday.
Mr Hudson ordered Marney not to have contact with animals and to stay at her Tuncurry home with her husband, Charles, until she attended court on Thursday.
Charles Marney has pleaded guilty to not having a licence to keep wildlife and will also be sentenced on Thursday.
Brenda Marney's original bail conditions banned her from going near a boat ramp in Tuncurry, the town's Fish Co-Op and rock pool as well as a car park and caravan park in Forster.
Defence lawyer Roland Day said the case involved a woman obsessed with trying to deal with injured animals.
Marney was arrested in May after she was spotted grabbing a pelican after feeding it fish and bundling it into her car boot.
She slammed the boot shut on its wing in Tuncurry, police said.
Marney let the injured animal go when police approached but a search of her home found evidence of animal torture including the caged magpie.
The bird was taken to a vet and put down.
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Report: Senior Israeli officials fear for PA collapse
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(JTA) — Senior Israeli military and Shin Bet security service officials are warning that the Palestinian Authority could collapse, Haaretz reported.
The diplomatic-security cabinet held lengthy discussions about the possibility of the PA collapse Wednesday and Thursday, Haaretz reported, citing three sources who either attended the meetings or were briefed on them.
Senior IDF and Shin Bet officials reportedly warned of security consequences if the PA collapsed under the weight of Israeli military pressure and the declining legitimacy of President Mahmoud Abbas. But other ministers reportedly argued that Israel could benefit and shouldn't try to prevent it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu initially called the meeting because the government had received information that the Palestinians are contemplating fresh diplomatic initiatives against Israel, including a UN resolution calling for protection of the Palestinians in the "occupied State of Palestine." Also reportedly under consideration is the revocation of the Palestine Liberation Organization's 1993 recognition of Israel.


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PAN-POT PRESENT VIRTUAL UNREALITY: REAL TIME, REAL PEOPLE, UNREAL EXPERIENCE.
The 30 minute live DJ set will be streamed in partnership with Beatport Live on 26th June at 1800 CET.
German techno duo Pan-Pot have teamed up with IN X SPACE and NEXR, two Berlin-based companies specializing in the development of Extended Reality technologies, for this new venture into the world of virtual clubbing experiences.
Virtual Unreality is Pan-Pot's first demonstration of a live, mixed reality DJ performance in an immersive 3D club setting. Audiences can view the live show via social livestreams, with 50 fans being given access to participate in-show as interactive live avatars.
Captured by their device's camera, the avatars react live to the participants movements, triggering effects and unlocking new views within the environment for the most active audience participants.
Pan-Pot will perform the 30 minute set in a realtime, hybrid studio environment, appearing as Avatars on a virtual stage with the ability to trigger stage effects during the performance.
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'We've done a lot of live streams recently, in real settings and also virtual ones, but to be able to perform live in this way in a fully virtual world and see the fans interacting with us while we're playing is totally unique', says Tassilo Ippenberger, one half of Pan-Pot.
'We worked closely with the developers to create the feeling and energy of a real clubbing experience, but at the same time going beyond your wildest imagination of what a club setting can be… you take the best bits of the real and virtual worlds', continues Pan-Pot's Thomas Benedix.
This 30 minute hybrid show is presented as a prototype for avatar interaction, with the most active avatars having the opportunity to join Pan-Pot on the virtual DJ stage.
"We're working on concepts to explore meaningful and playful ways for fans to participate," says Rania Kim, Co-Founder IN X SPACE who also performs as hybrid audiovisual artist Portrait XO. 'This is just a glimpse into the future of virtual shows. We want to open electronic music club culture to audiences around the world, creating totally unreal and immersive experiences in virtual spaces.'
Catch the stream on Saturday, June 25th at 18.00 CET on Twitch.
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Q: How to handle continuous receivings from a TCP client in a BackgroundWorker? I am sending a string value containing some data I need in my C# application with help of a TCP Server/Client connection. The string value changes 200-300x per second.
Now, what I just want to do for now is to show the incoming strings values in a label.
I've read about using a BackgroundWorker class for that case, since it would freeze the UI otherwise. But unfortunately, it doesn't work! I first tested the connection in a simple console application, there it worked perfectly. Do you may see what I'm doing wrong here?
namespace test
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {

        BackgroundWorker worker;
        IPAddress ip;
        Socket s;
        TcpListener tcp;

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            ip = IPAddress.Parse("1.2.3.4");
            tcp = new TcpListener(ip, 8001);

            worker = new BackgroundWorker();

            worker.DoWork += new DoWorkEventHandler(TCPServer);
            worker.RunWorkerCompleted += new RunWorkerCompletedEventHandler(workerCompleted);

        }

        string data = string.Empty;
        int k = 0;
        byte[] b = new byte[4096];
        private void TCPServer(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
        {
             while (true)
            {
                k = s.Receive(b);
                data = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(b, 0, k);
                e.Result = data.ToString();
            }

        }

        private void workerCompleted(object sender, RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
        {
            label1.Text = e.Result.ToString();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            tcp.Start();
            s = tcp.AcceptSocket();
            worker.RunWorkerAsync();
        }

    }
}

A: Your problem is, that the workerCompleted method will only be called when the backgroundWorker finished. Since your TCPServer Method has an infinite loop that will never happen.
You could use the ReportProgress functionality of your backgroundWorker. But I don't think it's a good idea to update your label 200-300 times per second at all.

A: The BackgroundWorker will just run your task on another thread you need to raise events periodically to update the ui
Your workerCompleted method is used to update label1.Text but that method will only be invoked when the worker job finished and it looks like it's not meant to finish.
So there are a couple of things you can do:
You can register a ProgressChanged event handler to the worker and call worker.ReportProgress(progress, data) in the DoWork handler (your TCPServer method):
// Add to init
worker.WorkerReportsProgress = true;
worker.ProgressChanged = new ProgressChangedEventHandler(WorkerProgressChanged);

private void TCPServer(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
  while(true)
  {
    k = s.Receive(b);
    data = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(b, 0, k);
    int progress = 0; // Or the actual progress if available
    object param = data.ToString();
    worker.ReportProgress(progress, param);
  }
}

private void workerProgressChanged(object sender, ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
{
  label1.Text = e.Result.ToString();
}

Or you could remove the while(true) cycle from the work method and just run it once, then in the workerCompleted method start the worker again:
private void TCPServer(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
  k = s.Receive(b);
  data = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(b, 0, k);
  e.Result = data.ToString();
}

private void workerCompleted(object sender, RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
{
  label1.Text = e.Result.ToString();
  worker.RunWorkerAsync();
}

You can also look for inspiration here How to update GUI with backgroundworker?
I have a feeling the you will need to move the following stuff to the worker thread:
TcpListener tcp.Start();
Socket s = tcp.AcceptSocket();

These look like an async actions that will block the ui thread

What I would actually do in your shoes:
Since you basically need a server running the whole time and you already have it working as a console application. I would find a way to run the application and subscribe to its output and display the info in another ui only application.
Or at least run the entire server part in a separate process/thread and send updates to the ui.
I think the intent of the BackgroundWorker is to run some tasks that would otherwise block the UI in another thread, but it's not supposed to run an endless task.

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Cáseda () ist ein Ort und eine Gemeinde (municipio) mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) in der autonomen Gemeinschaft Navarra im Norden von Spanien.

Lage und Klima
Der Ort Cáseda liegt auf einer Anhöhe oberhalb des Südufers des Río Aragón in ca.  Höhe und ist ca. 52 km (Fahrtstrecke) in südöstlicher Richtung von der Regionalhauptstadt Pamplona entfernt. Das Klima ist gemäßigt bis warm; Regen (ca. 775 mm/Jahr) fällt übers Jahr verteilt.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Die Mechanisierung der Landwirtschaft, die Aufgabe bäuerlicher Kleinbetriebe und der daraus resultierende Verlust an Arbeitsplätzen haben seit der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts zu einem deutlichen Rückgang der Bevölkerung geführt (Landflucht). Zur Gemeinde gehört auch der ca. 12 km südlich des Ortes gelegene und noch etwa 25 Einwohner zählende Weiler (pedanía) San Isidro del Pinar.

Wirtschaft
Cáseda ist traditionell landwirtschaftlich orientiert, aber auch Handwerker und Dienstleister haben sich im Ort niedergelassen. Der einst in der Gegend betriebene Weinbau kam im Zuge der Reblauskrise zum Erliegen und wurde bis heute nur in Ansätzen wieder aufgenommen. Der Tourismus in Form der Vermietung von Ferienwohnungen (casas rurales) spielt eine größere wirtschaftliche Rolle.

Geschichte
Keltische, römische, westgotische und selbst maurische Spuren wurden bislang nicht entdeckt. Ende des 11. Jahrhunderts unternahm Peter I. von Aragón (reg. 1094–1104) einen Versuch zur Rückeroberung (reconquista) der Gegend, doch erst König Alfons II. war um das Jahr 1165 erfolgreich. In den 1170er Jahren war die Gegend zwischen den Königreichen Kastilien und Aragón umstritten. Cáseda gehörte bis zum Jahr 1843 zur historischen Comarca Valle de Aibar.

Sehenswürdigkeiten

 Die im Übergangsstil zwischen Spätgotik und Renaissance erbaute Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora ist der Himmelfahrt Mariens geweiht und wurde im Jahr 1531 begonnen. Das Westportal ist ein gotisches Stufenportal mit hochgezogenen Archivolten; das Südportal zeigt dagegen reine Renaissanceformen. Das Kirchenschiff (nave) ist vergleichsweise hoch und von einem durchgehenden Sterngewölbe bedeckt. Dort und im Chorbereich stehen mehrere vergoldete Schnitzaltäre, unter denen der Hauptaltar herausragt.
Umgebung
 Die Ermita de San Felipe y Santiago ist ein kleiner, im Äußern ungegliederter einschiffiger Bau, der sogar noch romanische Ursprünge haben könnte.
 Die Ermita de San Zoilo ist dem Märtyrer Zoilus von Córdoba geweiht; sie zeigt gotische Strebepfeiler im Äußern und ein großes Archivoltenportal auf der Südseite. Kirchenschiff und Apsis sind rippengewölbt. Interessant sind zwei archaisch aussehende Kapitelle.

Weblinks

 Cáseda und Umgebung, Sehenswürdigkeiten – Infos (spanisch)

Einzelnachweise

Ort in Navarra

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RIO DE JANEIRO (New York Times) — Fire consumed a dormitory early Friday at a Brazilian training center for teenage soccer players run by one of South America's most prominent teams, killing at least 10 in a disaster that reverberated through the soccer world and beyond.
The fire in the dormitory, which may have been constructed improperly on what was intended to be a parking lot, was the latest in a string of seemingly preventable tragedies that have convulsed Brazil over the past two weeks.
It struck the training center of the Flamengo club in Rio de Janeiro, breaking out in the early morning when many youth players, ages 14 to 17, were asleep. Three others were injured, one seriously, and were taken to a hospital.
Officials would not confirm the identities of the dead. But Globoesporte, a Brazilian sports news website, said all were players. The dorm housed 26 players and 13 escaped unharmed, the website said.
Flamengo is one of Brazil's most popular soccer clubs and is considered a symbol of the country's global dominance in the training and development of young athletes who aspire to join professional soccer.


A person is much more than a cell, or a small cluster of cells. Thus the old argument that embryonic stem cell research is wrong because it kills a person never held any water. But "we" here at UC at least admit that a person who sincerely believes an embryo is a person could have reasonably opposed such research, given the initial belief.
But the point is moot now, because the old argument is obsolete.
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. has invented a way to obtain embryonic stem cells from an embryo without harming the embryo: the technique amounts to consists of taking a single cell from an eight-cell embryo and culturing it. This technique of cell removal is already in use for other purposes (diagnostics), and over 1500 healthy infants have been born who developed from such. ACT's contribution was to figure how to culture a line of stem cells from a cell obtained this way.
No "babies" are harmed in the process, no embryos destroyed…so this is will be a nice way to sort out those who sincerely opposed stem cell research out of respect for human life, and those for whom this was just an excuse and really simply oppose the advance of medical science and relief of human suffering. I expect a good number of the faithful to drop their opposition now, but just as there has been religious opposition to medical treatments such as anesthesia and HPV vaccine (HPV, human papillomavirus, a cause of cervical cancer), expect some religious fanatics to oppose stem cell research regardless.
In game theoretic terms we're going to be getting a separating equilibrium. It will be interesting to see how it shakes out.
Anyone want to offer bets on the pope's position?
I agree there will be illogical protest by some whom may call themselves religous. However, there are many in the faith that will see no problem with this procedure. The problem they and I may have, is this going to be funded with taxpayer dollars.
I find it laughable that the science community peg their pursuit of scientific breakthroughs with how much government funding is received to do the R&D. But this is not surprising. They are part of the legal plunder crowd, which is headed by the US government.
Anonymous -- good point re taxpayer dollars. The question of the propriety of embryonic stem cell research is confounded with the issue of federal (or any gov't) funding of research.
The issue of taxpayer funding for an activity is entirely different from the question of whether or not the activity should be prohibited.
However, I don't really believe that it is principled opposition to plunder of the taxpayer that generated the great majority of religious opposition to this research -- after all, hardly any churches condemn plunder of the taxpayer for other purposes -- and most seem to endorse it when done for activities the approve of.
I agree that most churches tolerate or accept plunder for causes they support. But there are some that are dead set against government funding for faith based advocacy.
In my opinion, a church becomes a government agency and not a house of faith when they receive government funding. However, people of faith do pay federal/state income taxes and they should have a platform to dissent against policy or issues that they may perceive to violate their religious conscious, if their taxes will fund it--just like any other interest group.
All Judaic-Christians are not against the advancement of science. Their concern is about the dignity of human life, as they determine that life begins at conception. But, in their opposition, people of faith need to provide a viable or doable alternative. And it seems to me, according to your article, that this procedure they will not have trouble with supporting privately or publicly.
Anon -- I concur with everything you say here, save for the last sentence, which appears to say that there now is no reason to oppose public support of stem cell research.
The issue of public (i.e. tax-funded) research is something I haven't addressed here, but there are strong reasons, grounded in both libertarian ethics and practical policy reasons, why we should oppose it. And presumably libertarian religious believers fully agree.


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New Oversight Coming to Clinical Center, Intramural Research
In Farewell Visit, Longtime NIH Champion Mikulski Vows Continued Support
How Doctors Can Embolden Patients to Choose the Right Treatment
ICs Show Off Latest Tech Tools at 'Show & Tell'
OMS's Jackson Helps Save Neighbor's Life
NINDS Holds Summit to Prioritize ADRD Research
NIH Hosts Marijuana Research Summit
Leaving Senate, but Not The Fight
By Carla Garnett
Sen. Barbara Mikulski
Photo: Ernie Branson
Perhaps no lawmaker has packed a more powerful punch for NIH throughout a career in Congress than Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD). As she prepares to depart the legislative body this term as the longest-serving woman in its history, Maryland's senior senator visited campus Apr. 11 for a town hall meeting that was part "farewell," part "not finished yet."
"We can talk about the past, but it is the past," Mikulski said. "Though I want to savor the past, I want to focus on fighting for the future."
Once again, she vowed to work her earrings off "so that the last appropriation for the NIH under Barbara Mikulski's watch is going to be the best damn appropriation you've ever seen.
"I want to be sure that we get the right resources going in the right direction so that you get to do you," she noted. "That's been my passion for the time I have represented you. My single goal was to let you be you, so that you could come up with the cures and the breakthroughs, the new ideas, the new science that would help the American people and people all around the world."
Last year—serving in her fifth term in the Senate—the lawmaker recalled the decision she had to make.
In her final visit as senator, Mikulski (l) receives warm regards from those at NIH, including her "pal on the barricades," former ORWH director Dr. Vivian Pinn (second from l), NIH principal deputy director Dr. Lawrence Tabak, NIH deputy director for science, outreach and policy Dr. Kathy Hudson and NCCIH director Dr. Josephine Briggs.
"It takes 2 years to run in an election and 6 years to serve," she said. "How did I want to spend those 2 years—working to keep my job or worrying about your job and the American people? Was I going to spend my time worrying about the next election or the next generation? What was I going to do—raise money for me or raise hell for you? That's when I said, I want to raise hell for you! I want you to know that although I won't be running for office, I won't be running from service."
"NIH has been fortunate to have such a fierce champion on our side and NIH is a better place because we've been challenged to work hard to live up to Sen. Mikulski's standards," said NIH director Dr. Francis Collins, opening the town hall meeting.
In brief remarks at what she has often referred to as the "National Institutes of Hope," the dean of Senate women said, "Serve is in my DNA. If you take the sample, take the swab, you'll find the serve gene."
She spent several moments reminiscing about some of NIH's best known research accomplishments during the years she has represented the agency in Congress.
Saluting Collins, she recalled with pride his victory on behalf of the U.S. in the race to map the human genome.
"A rich nation could have found a way to map the code," she acknowledged, "but a great nation like ours gave the information to the world."
At NIH multiple times over the years, Mikulski is shown in the halls of the Clinical Center talking to NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci in 1987.
She recognized NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci for leading efforts that now have made "HIV/AIDS a chronic condition rather than a death sentence."
And acknowledging what she likely considers her crowning achievement here—her efforts to ensure that women are represented in all aspects of biomedical science, as investigators as well as volunteers in clinical research—Mikulski warmly greeted a familiar face who surprised her at the town hall: Dr. Vivian Pinn, former director of NIH's Office of Research on Women's Health, now retired, had returned for Mikulski's visit.
The senator fondly remembered how the concept of ORWH was formed.
In the early 1980s, she and other lawmakers were learning that much of the current knowledge about health and disease might not accurately apply to women because females had been excluded from participating in the majority of research trials.
Mikulski recalled an encounter she had with pioneering surgeon and medical consultant Dr. Edgar Berman of Baltimore, who tried to explain why women had been left out of so much clinical research: "You girls have those raging hormones," he told her.
Mikulski also reminisced about past triumphs at NIH, including success of several gender equity initiatives with the late Dr. Bernadine Healy (l) and then-ORWH director Pinn, shown in 2010.
Mikulski said she replied, without missing a beat, "We have those raging hormones because of guys like you!"
The Masur Auditorium crowd erupted in laughter and applause.
Not long after the Berman conversation, Mikulski—one of just two women in the Senate at the time—joined with HHS and NIH leadership to plant the early seeds for what would become ORWH.
The lawmaker, visibly moved, also reflected on her last conversation with the late Dr. Bernadine Healy, NIH's first woman director, who led the agency to undertake "the famous hormone study that changed clinical practice," the Women's Health Initiative.
Mikulski phoned the former director shortly before she died, and in the course of the call, noted that the WHI the two helped orchestrate had resulted in a 12 percent decrease in deaths from breast cancer.
"Her last words to me were, 'Wasn't that great? We saved lives a million at a time,'" the senator recalled.
Unwilling to rest on past laurels, however, Mikulski emphasized that as good as previous victories are, she's not done fighting yet. She has, she said, a strategy for her remaining time in office.
As she first revealed at an appropriations hearing just days before her NIH visit, Mikulski outlined three guiding principles for her final funding negotiations as U.S. senator:
"First, do no harm," she roared, in her signature plain terms. "What I mean by that is no [government] sequestration, no shutdown, no slam down! Let's get our job done! You do your job—we need to do ours. If we can be half as good as you, we will find a cure for this political toxicity!"
In addition to one-of-a-kind "National Institutes of Hope" guitar pick-shaped earrings, a plaque featuring a golden Petri dish was presented to Mikulski by NIH director Dr. Francis Collins in recognition of her outstanding support of medical research over a 30-year career in Congress.
Next, she said, she wants to "capitalize on existing programs"—the BRAIN Initiative, Precision Medicine Initiative, efforts for young investigators. "We need to make sure that what you're doing gets funded. You need something that's reliable, undeniable, sustainable, don't-screw-with-it, keep-it-going—and that's exactly what we're going to do."
And finally, she said, we want to identify new money for new ideas. "Let's see if we can find bonus money so that you get a bigger shot at the [Cancer] Moonshot and all of the other great things you're working on."
Mikulski ended by reemphasizing her concern and support for young people and the next generation. She endorsed STEM education initiatives for all age groups, particularly middle school kids, and proposed term limits on student loan debt.
Acknowledging that when she came to the U.S. Senate, she had a rotary telephone and a typewriter, Mikulski marveled at the tremendous changes over the years.
"Who would've known the dawn of the Internet? Who would've known the dawn of the genome? We want continuous dawns," she concluded. "We don't want twilights of our future and our future opportunities…No matter where I go, no matter what I do, I'm going to continue to be your advocate all the way up to my last hours in the U.S. Senate, and then after that, I'll find a way to have my say...You can count on that. I will never ever forget you."


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Старых служб служилые люди — название в России, XVIII веке, служилых людей по прибору (украинские служилые люди) и их потомков — стрельцов, пушкарей, казаков, рейтар, пахотных солдат, засечных сторожей и многих других, которые жили главным образом в южных и юго-восточных провинциях Европейской России.

По своему юридическому и экономическому положению были близки к однодворцам.

Термин появился в начале XVIII века в связи с созданием регулярной армии, комплектовавшейся на основе рекрутских наборов, когда начались реформы, возвращение исконных территорий и южная граница государства отодвинулась далеко в степь, и служилые люди, поселённые между Тульской оборонительной линией и Белгородской, оказались уже не на границе Дикого поля, а внутри России, и оборона границ России была возложена на регулярную армию.

Старых служб служилые люди платили подушную подать, участвовали в комплектовании и содержании полков ландмилиции, отбывали постойную, подводную и дорожную повинности. Они имели земельные наделы (10 — 30 десятин), некоторые — и крепостных.

В 60-х годах XVIII века насчитывалось около 40 тысяч душ мужского пола старых служб служилых людей. К началу XIX века они слились с государственными крестьянами.

В гербе города Городище Пензенской губернии были изображены:

«Въ первой части щита гербъ Пензенскій. Во второй части, въ серебряномъ полѣ, старыя градскія стѣны, означающія собою имя сего города, поселеннаго старыхъ службъ служилыми людьми.»

Литература

 Семевский В. И., Крестьяне в царствование имп. Екатерины II, т. 2, , 1901.
 Советская историческая энциклопедия. — : Советская энциклопедия . Под ред. Е. М. Жукова. 1973 — 1982.

Ссылки

Социальная структура Российской империи


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Гали́мый — заброшенный посёлок городского типа в Магаданской области России. Входит в Омсукчанский район и соответствующий ему муниципальный округ.

География
Расстояние до административного центра 30 км.

Население

Население —  чел. ().

Название
Название происходит от  — «дровяное место». Это связано с тем, что на берегу ручья близ современного посёлка было много сухостойных толстых брёвен, которые кочевые эвены использовали в качестве топлива.

История
В конце августа 1940 года рядом с прииском на базе богатейшего месторождения касситерита и запасах каменного угля, доступного добычей открытым способом, возникло поселение.

8 августа 1941 года Приказом по ГУСДС № 421, в частности, было предписано развернуть строительство обогатительной фабрики «на Галимом» с окончанием работ 1 апреля 1942 года.

5 октября того же года в Омсукчанском горнопромышленном комбинате образован рудник «Галимый». Рудник занимался добычей олова.

15 апреля 1952 года в приказе ГУСДС № 302 отмечено, что в связи с небольшим объёмом работ на 1952 года и вследствие территориальной близости горных работ к фабрике 14-бис с 25 апреля ликвидируется прииск «Галимый». Все работы передаются фабрике 14-бис, в составе которой организуется горный участок первой категории по добыче олова из россыпного месторождения.

22 декабря 1953 года Указом Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР был образован Галимыйский сельский Совет Северо-Эвенского района.

19 августа 1954 года Галимый получил статус посёлка городского типа.

16 февраля 1956 года согласно приказу ГУСДС № 100 в связи с укрупнением участков, а также с учётом сложности отработки и одновременной работы на нескольких горизонтах горным участкам рудника «Галимый» устанавливается I категория.

16 августа того же года Магаданский облисполком принял решение открыть школу рабочей молодёжи в пос. Галимый.

20 февраля 1986 года на Дукатском ГОКе состоялся пробный пуск обогатительной фабрики в пос. Галимый после реконструкции.

27 июля 2007 года Администрация Магаданской области постановила: «Согласиться с Решением Собрания представителей Омсукчанского района Магаданской области от 30 мая 2007 г. N 36 о необходимости закрытия поселка Галимый Омсукчанского района и признать указанный населенный пункт закрывающимся».

Примечания

Посёлки городского типа Магаданской области
Покинутые населённые пункты
Населённые пункты Омсукчанского района


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Q: Regex capturing inside a group I working on a method to get all values based on a SQL query and then scape them in php.
The idea is to get the programmer who is careless about security when is doing a SQL query.
So when I try to execute this:
INSERT INTO tabla (a, b,c,d) VALUES ('a','b','c',a,b)

The regex needs to capture 'a' 'b' 'c' a and b
I was working on this a couple of days.
This was as far I can get with 2 regex querys, but I want to know if there is a better way to do:
VALUES ?\((([\w'"]+).+?)\)

Based on the previous SQL this will match:
VALUES ('a','b','c',a,b)

The second regex
['"]?(\w)['"]?

Will match
a b c a b

Previously removing VALUES, of course.
This way will match a lot of the values I gonna insert.
But doesn't work with JSON for example.
{a:b, "asd":"ads" ....}

Any help with this?

A: First, I think you should know that SQL support many types of single/double quoted string:
'Northwind\'s category name'
'Northwind''s category name'
"Northwind \"category\" name"
"Northwind ""category"" name"
"Northwind category's name"
'Northwind "category" name'
'Northwind \\ category name'
'Northwind \ncategory \nname'
to match them, try with these patterns:
"[^\\"]*(?:(?:\\.|"")[^\\"]*)*"
'[^\\']*(?:(?:\\.|'')[^\\']*)*'
combine patterns together:
VALUES\s*\(\s*(?:"[^\\"]*(?:(?:\\.|"")[^\\"]*)*"|'[^\\']*(?:(?:\\.|'')[^\\']*)*'|\w+)(?:\s*,\s*(?:"[^\\"]*(?:(?:\\.|"")[^\\"]*)*"|'[^\\']*(?:(?:\\.|'')[^\\']*)*'|\w+))*\)

PHP5.4.5 sample code:
    <?php
$pat = '/\bVALUES\s*\((\s*(?:"[^\\"]*(?:(?:\\.|"")[^\\"]*)*"|\'[^\\\']*(?:(?:\\.|\'\')[^\\\']*)*\'|\w+)(?:\s*,\s*(?:"[^\\"]*(?:(?:\\.|"")[^\\"]*)*"|\'[^\\\']*(?:(?:\\.|\'\')[^\\\']*)*\'|\w+))*)\)/';
$sql_sample1 = "INSERT INTO tabla (a, b,c,d) VALUES ('a','b','c',a,b)";
if( preg_match($pat, $sql_sample1, $matches) > 0){
    printf("%s\n", $matches[0]);
    printf("%s\n\n", $matches[1]);
}

$sql_sample2 = 'INSERT INTO tabla (a, b,c,d) VALUES (\'a\',\'{a:b, "asd":"ads"}\',\'c\',a,b)';
if( preg_match($pat, $sql_sample2, $matches) > 0){
    printf("%s\n", $matches[0]);
    printf("%s\n", $matches[1]);
}

?>

output:
VALUES ('a','b','c',a,b)
'a','b','c',a,b

VALUES ('a','{a:b, "asd":"ads"}','c',a,b)
'a','{a:b, "asd":"ads"}','c',a,b

If you need to get each value from result, split by , (like parsing CSV)
I hope this will help you :)


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Hollywood's most creative designers would struggle to build a set as perfect as Dubrovnik. In fact, this magnificent medieval walled city (proclaimed a UNESCO world heritage site) has been used as a location for filming HBO's "Game of Thrones" and Neil Jordan's "The Borgias."
Yugoslav National Army shells poured down on Dubrovnik during the 1991–92 sieges. But, thanks to extensive restoration, today the walled city is remarkably whole and is as lustrous as it was five centuries ago, when Dubrovnik was a major sea power bustling with prosperous merchants and dripping with Renaissance grandeur.
Dubrovnik (née Ragusa) began as a Roman settlement. From the Middle Ages on it was a prize sought by Venice, Hungary, Turkey, and others who recognized the city's logistical value as a maritime port. But Libertas (Liberty), the city's motto, has always been uppermost in the minds of Dubrovnik's citizens, and through the ages their thirst for independence repeatedly trumped other nations' plans for domination.
In 1667, another kind of assault leveled Dubrovnik when an earthquake destroyed almost everything except a few palaces and church buildings in the Old Town. The city was quickly rebuilt in the Baroque style of the time. Croatia's War for Independence destroyed the tourism industry throughout the country, but Dubrovnik was especially hard hit. Not only was the city physically scarred, it was also economically crushed. Happily, crowds are once again flocking to this charming city nestled between the Adriatic and the Dinaric Alps, and Dubrovnik has regained its status as a vacation destination par excellence. In fact, it is as much loved by international celebrities as it is by student backpackers—recent visitors have included Beyoncé, Tom Cruise, Tina Turner, and John Malkovich (whose paternal grandparents were from Croatia).
Inside protective walls, from Easter through fall the pedestrian-only Old Town is bustling with an international crowd. Here you will find almost all the area's sights worth seeing—historic churches and public buildings; designer shops and homey restaurants; medieval sculptures and modern galleries; fountains and bell towers; monasteries and gardens; and the ancient city wall itself.
However, as property prices within the Old Town have soared, the majority of locals have sold out and now live in modern apartment blocks in the suburbs. Sadly, this wave of depopulation means that Dubrovnik is almost empty in winter, and risks becoming little more than a life- size museum dedicated to its former glory.
West of the Old Town walls, the district of Lapad (a peninsula close to Gružport) is packed with hotels and restaurants, all focused on the hordes of tourists clamoring to bask in the city's Mediterranean magic and revel in its citizens' devotion to Libertas.
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Tarkett North America Senior Executives Volunteer on the Set of Military Makeover
Panama City Beach, FL, September 10, 2019 — Jeff Fenwick, President & CEO, and Dominic Coletta, Executive VP of Operations, spent a day on the set of Military Makeover with Montel Williams, to donate their time and lend a helping hand in refurbishing the home of Gold Star Widow Cody Patron.
Fenwick and Coletta were motivated to volunteer when their travel schedules prevented them from attending the previous makeover in May, where more than a dozen Tarkett employees spent the day sprucing up a veteran's family home in western New York.
"Tarkett is proud to support U.S. veterans through our sponsorship of Military Makeover – donating products and service hours to help remodel or rebuild the homes of deserving service men and women," said Jeff Fenwick, President & CEO, Tarkett North America. "This partnership is one important way we demonstrate our commitment to doing good in our communities and giving back to those who need our help."
Military Makeover with Montel Williams, airing nationally on Lifetime Television, offers hope and a helping hand on the home-front to members of the military and their loved ones. This special series enlists conscientious companies, designers, and local volunteers to transform the homes and lives of veteran families across the country and make a difference in their communities.
In this most recent project, the team tackled one of its most ambitious makeovers yet for Gold Star Widow Cody Patron.
On August 6, 2011, Cody Patron's world came crashing down. She received word that after serving more than a decade in the Marine Corps, her husband, Sergeant Daniel J. Patron, was killed in Sangin Valley, Afghanistan. Through his time in the USMC, Daniel dedicated himself to saving as many lives as he possibly could, earning The Purple Heart and The Bronze Star Medal for his heroic service. In the years since Daniel's passing, Cody has worked to pick up the pieces with her daughter, Layla.
However, tragedy struck again in October 2018 when the Patron home was destroyed by the catastrophic Hurricane Michael, which made landfall as a Category 4 and destroyed much of the Florida Panhandle region. After sustaining devastating water and wind damage, Cody's home, located in Panama City Beach, is barely livable. With bare concrete floors, hanging ceiling debris, and a torn roof, the home is in desperate need of some tender loving care.
The first step in helping Cody and Layla start anew is giving the family home the renovation it so desperately needs. That's why Military Makeover and its compassionate team of volunteers, partners, and supporters are hard at work to transform their home into a place of healing and happiness.
"These makeovers start from the ground up, so the floor install sets the tone for the rest of the work that follows, said Ryan Stanley, Construction Manager and Host. "That's why it's important for the flooring to go in easily, and quickly. And Tarkett has been a terrific partner in that regard."
Makeover Design Host Jennifer Bertrand chose Tarkett's top of the line ProGen™ rigid core vinyl throughout the vast majority of the home. The Durham Pine Sun-Toned design is new for 2019 and is as beautiful as it is durable. "This new style is gorgeous," said Bertrand, "and even though it's not hardwood, you can feel the wood texture in each plank." The design has subtle color variations, so depending on the room it's in, it pulls out different colors whether you're in the kitchen, family room, main hallway or master bedroom.
With an active household, durability was also important. And ProGen is up to that task too, tackling anything that may be dropped or spilled on it. It's easy to clean and maintain with just a damp mop needed to handle most messes. Most importantly, their floor is 100% waterproof, which is a must in the heat and humidity of Florida, along with kids running into the house from the pool all day long.
Layla's playroom received SureSet LVT in Concrete Surf. It's 100% waterproof, easy to clean, and it looks like real concrete. Except it's way more comfortable underfoot, and its waved backing helps absorb sound and reduce moisture. Plus, if you change your mind and want to change the design in the room, the releasable adhesive lets you reposition the tiles up to 10 times.
Finally, Layla's bedroom received a complete makeover from floor to ceiling, beginning with Tarkett Sedona, a 100% solution-dyed polyester carpet. The Sand Dunes pattern is the perfect reflection of the beauty of Floridian lifestyle. For this makeover, Tarkett teamed up with Kilgore's Flooring & Ceramic Tile of Panama City Beach, FL, to provide all of the installation expertise for nearly 2000 sq. ft. of rigid core vinyl, LVT and carpet.
"Tarkett has always been committed to doing good in the communities where we live and work, but this was a chance to go further and involve our partners in those efforts," said Fenwick. "It's a natural extension of our Tarkett Cares program, where we donate not just product, but our own time and effort to many worthy causes like hurricane relief and Habitat for Humanity."
Tarkett Cares encourages all employees around the world to spend up to two days a year of their work time on a charitable initiative and to share their time and expertise on a volunteer basis.
Employees throughout North America have participated in local projects in their own communities.
Military Makeover featuring the Patron family will air over six episodes, starting on August 30th. To learn more about Tarkett North America, visit www.tarkettna.com.


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Want to Know How to Build a Better Democracy? Ask Wikipedia
Noam Cohen
With its insistence on fairness, neutrality, and community consensus, the online storehouse of knowledge is a model for a more perfect union.
With its insistence on fairness, neutrality, and community consensus, the online storehouse of knowledge is a model for a more perfect union.George Diebold/Getty Images
Pity the poor public-relations specialist hired to influence what is said about his clients on Wikipedia. The sprawling, chaotic storehouse of knowledge is governed by thousands of independent-minded volunteers committed to being neutral and allergic to self-serving manipulators.
The barriers are formidable, but so is the temptation to do some reputational polishing there. What appears on Wikipedia matters. Daily traffic to the English site has barely grown in years, but that is because Wikipedia articles are so reputable that they are baked into the Internet—particularly Google's results pages. A biographical capsule Google publishes on me, for example, has all its facts taken straight from Wikipedia, except for my age being 20, which Google came up with on its own. When YouTube tried to contain proliferating conspiracies, it turned to Wikipedia. Of course men landed on the moon, it says so right here on Wikipedia!
Attempts to influence the site are, as the recent college admissions scandal shows, sadly inevitable; there are few areas immune to power of wealth and status. How long can Wikipedia resist?
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Throughout Wikipedia's history people have tried to nudge the content in their favor. There have been elaborate nonprofessional campaigns to promote nationalistic causes, such as what to call the Sea of Japan/East Sea. Likewise, there have been examples of stealth editing, presumably by the subjects of Wikipedia articles, as well as contributors secretly paid to polish the reputations of certain clients. These actions are considered conflicts of interest, prohibited along with a bunch of other sketchy practices as a threat to the Wikipedia's ideal of a neutral point of view.
A recent account in The Huffington Post highlighted a novel approach by one marketing executive hired to influence what appears on Wikipedia: Instead of paid editing, Ed Sussman provides paid advocacy. Sussman, who is CEO of the marketing firm Buzzr.com, represents a range of clients, including the Axios news website, NBC, and the Facebook PR team. For NBC, he has focused on managing controversies, such as the question of whether NBC News handled allegations against Matt Lauer properly. In the case of one Facebook executive, Sussman's goal was to get an article about her published.
For his fee, Sussman does not personally publish or edit the articles his clients care about; he won't do that, he explains, because he has an obvious conflict of interest. As he writes on his Wikipedia user page: "If you ever think any of my work doesn't conform to Wikipedia policy, please let me know and I'll do my best to fix it!"
Instead, Sussman, who is a lawyer by training, prepares drafts of revised articles, or in the case of the Facebook executive, the entire article, which he posts on the pages used to discuss how to improve Wikipedia. His work is well written and well sourced. He then tries to persuade editors to make those changes themselves. After all, a frequent concern of Wikipedia editors is that articles are too short and too thinly sourced, and Sussman is doing his part to reduce that problem.
Indeed, for many dedicated volunteers, Sussman poses few problems, because he is so transparent about his motives. On reading the HuffPo headline, one Wikipedia administrator, Swarm, wrote that the news seemed "extremely alarming, and I was ready to crucify this guy." Digging deeper, Swarm came to the opposite conclusion: "Most of the supposed 'whitewashing' seems to be mundane matters that don't harm articles at all, if not actual improvements."
The flip side of this embrace of transparency by Sussman, however, is that Wikipedia editors have tried, and in at least one case, succeeded, in transparently informing readers that the articles have been advocated for by a paid Wikipedia editor. The Axios article was edited to mention the news site had hired an advocate to "beef up its Wikipedia page (mostly with benign—if largely flattering—stats about Axios' accomplishments)." Including such a sentence, of course, somewhat defeats the purpose of hiring an advocate; the best lobbyists blend into the background.
When Wikipedia editors complain about Sussman they, in essence, say he is behaving like an overly excited, and legally trained, flack. His arguments are long and have oodles of sources. One editor, kashmiri, a non-native-English speaker, pleaded for mercy: "May I kindly ask you to be more concise? I agree English is a beautiful language, but requiring other editors to read walls of text from you on every single issue is tad daunting, sorry." While a good advocate tries to make every argument they can think of, in case one of them sticks, among Wikipedians the tactic is sometimes frowned on.
Taking a step back, what could be wrong with making a case for a client with rigor and a broad range of sources, hoping that it gets adopted by the community? It's not the careful attention that is the problem, but that the careful attention only goes to those who can pay. When different standards apply based on status and wealth, in areas as important as education and criminal justice, as well as relatively trivial ones like Wikipedia, poof, there goes the fairness crucial to a functioning democracy.
Wikipedia's approach is collective, not individualistic. To come up with a solution, the community deliberates and seeks a consensus. Those deliberations, ideally, are driven by people far removed from the issues and parties involved. There is a belief in a type of karmic justice for those who try to game the system, which played out in the Axios article. It's called the Streisand effect, so named in the wake of Barbra Streisand's attempt to suppress photos of her Malibu home. Her efforts to deny access to those images only created more interest. Imagine a world where the more you try to manipulate the system, the more you are exposed!
By contrast, we know that large social networks respond to manipulations by those who have power and ignore those who don't. Facebook, for example, fails to hire translators as genocide rages in Myanmar, yet personally apologizes in front of Congress when called out by conservatives for determining that the extreme rhetoric from a pair of Trump supporters, Diamond and Silk, was not safe for its community. Likewise, Twitter's decision to allow President Trump to break its community standards for harassment and bullying, because as president what he says is newsworthy, is the ultimate example of a two-tiered system.
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has witnessed firsthand how Facebook bends in the face of a powerful critic—herself. Facebook took down a Warren ad for supposed technical violations and then quickly restored it after an uproar. The experience left a bad taste: "You shouldn't have to contact Facebook's publicists in order for them to decide to 'allow robust debate' about Facebook," she wrote on Twitter. "They shouldn't have that much power."
Perhaps the just-the-facts folks at Wikipedia can teach us all something.
Updated 04/16/2019, 8:30 pm EDT: This story was updated to clarify Ed Sussman's work for NBC and to clarify how Wikipedians police edits to entries.
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Pasqal raises €100M to construct a quantum computer using neutral atoms.
Pasqal raises €100M Series B for neutral atom quantum computing.
Pasqal, a Paris-based quantum computing startup, has recently raised a €100 million Series B funding round led by Singapore's Temasek. The company is betting on neutral atoms quantum computing, a relatively new approach to building quantum processors. This technology uses lasers to hold atoms in place with an optical tweezer. Pasqal has already demonstrated that it can control more than 300 atoms at a time.
The advantage of this technology is that it creates a very dense matrix of qubits and one that, using holographic methods, can be reshuffled in 3D space as needed for a given algorithm. This makes the machines more akin to Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) than more traditional quantum processors. Pasqal is currently working on building the quantum control system so it can start implementing quantum algorithms.
The company is working with various companies such as Crédit Agricole CIB, BASF, BMW, Siemens, Airbus, Johnson & Johnson and Thales to help them understand where its technology can solve their business needs. Pasqal believes that its system will work especially well for graph-centric problems, as it can represent the shape of the graph and embed the complexity of the algorithm in this geometry.
Pasqal's co-founder and CEO Georges-Olivier Reymond believes that the team will be able to show its potential customers "quantum business advantage" in 2024. The company is backed by investors such as Quantonation, the Defense Innovation Fund, Daphni, Eni Next, European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, Wa'ed Ventures and Bpifrance. Christophe Jurczak, managing partner at Quantonation, expressed his pride in the company's development and the excellence of French research.
Pasqal is an example of a quantum computing startup that is taking a unique approach to building quantum processors. The company is betting on neutral atoms quantum computing, which uses lasers to hold atoms in place with an optical tweezer. This technology creates a very dense matrix of qubits and one that can be reshuffled in 3D space as needed for a given algorithm. Pasqal is working with various companies to help them understand where its technology can solve their business needs. The company is backed by investors and is optimistic about its system, believing that they will be able to show its potential customers "quantum business advantage" in 2024.


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Assessing globalization's effects within the interconnected realms of politics, economics, and policy requires a new set of specialized educational tools. The MAIPE program emphasizes deep theoretical understanding in international politics and economics, combined with a strong set of methodological skills that prepare you for the challenges of competition in market economies around the globe. You'll develop basic skills in microeconomics and macroeconomics while mastering the major conceptual approaches to world politics and international political economy. Students focusing on international economics usually emphasize formal models and econometrics in their methodological training, while those primarily interested in politics emphasize decision theory and statistics. All students are encouraged to develop the sophisticated computer skills most useful in applied situations.
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My mother and I walked around Union Square for a bit and then we meandered up to Bed Bath and Beyond located on 6th avenue and 21st Street. The sky was glorious and since I won't be back to New York for at least a good six weeks, I wanted to take a few pictures to look at and cheer myself up with, New York with blue skies is always a lovely sight.
If you look at the stark difference in the sky between my pictures, the ones looking uptown towards an icy blue sky and then the ones looking downtown towards a practically white sky, I'm not sure if that was the effect from the reflection of the sun against my cellphone or if it was something else. Whatever it was, it did make for a wild look for the Freedom Tower in the backdrop from Fifth avenue.
My last hurrah in the Big Apple, you can feel the brisk cold from yesterday emanating from the way the New Yorkers are carrying themselves. I love seeing energy in my pictures, it brings them to life.


To those whom we serve: we are not the enemy. We do not aggressively pursue people for the next scoop. We are not uprooting the values of democracy. We strive to inform you, the public, of the truth wherever it may be hiding. Your support of a free and independent press is more important now than ever.
Over the past two years, President Donald Trump has relentlessly attacked the media. He has called them "fake news." He has ordered that major news organizations be removed from press conferences. He has tried to devalue and diminish the influence that news publications have on the American people.
While President Trump has also made some legitimate criticisms reflecting many Americans' feelings about the press (for example, the distrust in the corporate-controlled television news media), The Signal vows to uphold journalistic integrity and to practice due diligence at all times.
A democracy is fruitless without the ability to check the people in power. Without a free, independent and trustworthy press, American citizens are left in the dark, vulnerable to a government that might not always have their best interests at heart.
A nation without access to true, fair reporting will follow behind its leader blindly and eagerly. History has proven countless times that leaders against free press use the media to sway public opinion in their favor and conceal controversial behavior.
Trump's attacks on the media aren't the only concern. The blur between television political commentators and journalists is also clouding the public's perceptions.
Since the move to a 24-hour news cycle, it is more vital now than ever that people turn to those who are actively working to tell other people's' stories and inform the public in the most unbiased and objective way possible rather than the political commentators who may hold their own agendas. To fill air time, studios employ political commentators who tote the title of "journalist" and people trust them to report accurately, despite their obvious political alignments and opinions. Focus has moved off of content and instead onto the figures presenting such content themselves. In this, we see journalists glorified as celebrities, and instead of delivering unbiased information, they push their own ideologies as part of their bigger brand.
The Signal works tirelessly to actively supply its readership with accurate, objective and timely news. We are not the political commentators mentioned above. We are citizens who strive to know and tell the truth regardless of who it may offend or call out.
So today, The Signal is taking a stand. Not just against Trump's remarks regarding distrusting the media but also against fake news or anyone who doesn't like a story just for the truth that it holds. We are taking a stand against anyone who opposes our constitutional right to serve the public through journalism and to counter the authoritarian view of stifling that right.


Merrill Lynch & Co analysts expect EMC, Sun Microsystems, Lexmark International and possibly Network Appliances and Unisys to show better than expected earnings in the third quarter reporting season which begins this week. In Merrill's view, internet infrastructure and information appliance server stocks are good investments. The infrastructure is converging while the devices diverge, so profits are moving above and below the PC. IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Xerox should meet expectations, but its feeling is that all three are revenue challenged and that they are going to find it difficult to keep growth levels high compared with competitors. The brokerage wonders how many vendors are going to be tempted to blame any guidance they give on potential under-performance on Y2K issues or the earthquake in Taiwan, and how many that do will be telling the truth. HP has already said that Taiwan will negatively impact its quarter.
With Y2K spending hurdles largely cleared now, the enterprise software sector can look forward to increased opportunity from e- commerce and CRM markets, Merrill thinks. After some stocks exploded in the spring, what Merrill calls an e-commerce tailwind should propel strong revenue growth Ariba, BMC Software, CyberSource, Mercury Interactive, Microsoft, MicroStrategy and Pivotal. It expects BMC, Mercury Interactive and MicroStrategy to beat expectations.
In the internet sector the brokerage believes the business-to- consumer market has matured to the point where it expects it will take three, four or even five years for the number of potential consumers to double again. It's been doubling every 12 months for the last few years. Merrill fancies Yahoo, AOL, Amazon, Lycos, Etoys and Ebid to report better than expected results.
In the semiconductor market the brokerage expects the effects of the Taiwan earthquake to be made up within a quarter and believes any resulting downtick in stock should be viewed as a buying opportunity. The semiconductor industry is at the beginning of a multi-year upturn characterized by supply side constraint, following five years in the dumpster.