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How Google Warped Hyperlinks But the EU's New Copyright Law Might Change That
Hyperlinks were originally intended to have the modest goal of facilitating academic research. That was definitely then.
Google perceived a much broader opportunity, the reality of which has changed many lives, eviscerated entire industries and professions, as well as upended centuries of communication and discourse.
The European Union has now voted to impose rules governing the hyperlinking of content, which, if they are upheld, may make the internet a bit slower and more expensive (while arguably safer and fairer) - or simply make big providers like Google and Facebook microscopically less profitable should they sensibly choose to absorb the added costs. JL
Sophie Charara reports in Wired and Kelsey Sutton reports in Ad Week:
"Since Google came on the scene, links moved to being a battleground. Google's core insight was that you could treat every link as a vote for the site." Hyperlinks are doing more work than originally intended and the core of links has been altered. The (EU's new) rules are intended to give copyright holders/content creators, more control over how their content is used and more ways to earn money from content. (It) will require web platforms and aggregation services to pay publishers when they aggregate portions of their content in search results. (It also) holds for-profit platforms accountable for copyright-infringing content that appears on their sites.
Wired The fourth doctor, Tom Baker, stands on a scrap heap of CRTs, dressed in a tux and red cumberbund, addressing a bemused Douglas Adams. It's the opening of the 1994 BBC documentary Hyperland and Baker, a software agent, is trying to coax Adams into going on a "ramble" through the internet.
Baker chaperones Adams as he jumps around various media, clicking hyperlinks to access everything from Robert Abel's educational tool on Guernica to a live feed of the Atlantic Ocean. This intellectual ramble, which seems wonderfully naïve decades later, has its roots in proto-web information science concepts such as the "associative trails" of discovery through automated, cross-referenced documents that Vannevar Bush, head of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development and later a major influence on internet pioneers, outlined in 1945.
You might think of the hyperlink as a relatively recent invention, but, at least conceptually, it's not. But more than 70 years later, it's warped beyond all recognition from what was first proposed. In the 1960s Ted Nelson introduced the concepts of hypertext and hyperlinking between text and media, proclaiming "everything is deeply intertwingled" in 1974, and, to race through history, a succession of pioneering, local, collaborative systems including Doug Engelbart's NLS, HyperTIES, Microcosm and Brown University's Intermedia, followed.
Tim Berners-Lee cited Ben Schneiderman and Dan Ostroff's HyperTIES, the first electronic journal, as the inspiration behind the link concept for his WorldWideWeb proposal at CERN in 1989. The original impetus behind Berners-Lee's work? To develop a system for automated information sharing across universities and research institutions.
"The early hypertext pioneers envisioned systems geared primarily for scholarly research and knowledge production; for the most part they did not envision the kind of commercial, consumer-oriented environment that has come to characterise the modern internet," says Alex Wright, lecturer at the School of Visual Arts and author of Glut: Mastering Information Through The Ages. "In certain crucial respects the web is still a much more limited version of what Bush, Nelson, Engelbart, and others had in mind. Hyperlinks still only work in one direction; it's all but impossible to follow user 'trails' among documents in the way that Bush envisioned; and there's no single, universal mechanism for managing your identity across platforms."
If the link is the connecting studs of a LEGO brick, in this sense it's far from broken. Search engines aside, links are shared in WhatsApp groups, emails, on Twitter and Google Drive and you still browse the web in homage to the innocent, curious, proto and early web thinkers, every time you get lost down a rabbit hole. The web is global, not simply a local connected library. And yet Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon have skewed the original ambitions for hyperlinks, who they are for and how far they can lead you.
The impact that Google's PageRank algorithms have had on how the commercial web chooses to deploy hyperlinks can be seen in just about any SEO (search engine optimisation) blog. Publishers and businesses are encouraged to prioritise internal links over external links that may boost the competition in Google's rankings.
"Since the very moment Google came on the scene, links moved from being the defining characteristic of the web, to being a battleground. Google's core insight was that you could treat every link as, essentially, a vote for the site," says Adam Tinworth, a digital publishing strategist. Tinworth explains that Google tries to minimise the effect of these 'unnatural linking patterns', which includes comment spam and 'guest posts', but it remains part of "how the shadier side of the SEO industry operates".
With clear, financial incentives to serve Google's web spiders, which regularly 'crawl' website content to determine its placement in searches, a common strategy involves placing hyperlinks on specific 'anchor text' - the actual words that you click on - that benefit that site's PageRank for keywords rather than tailor links to readers. That's not inherently a problem but research from the University of Southampton, published in February, suggests it doesn't go unnoticed.
Researchers used eye-tracking tech on 30 participants to find out how hyperlinks affect human readers' experience of a web page. Confirming pre-web research on signalling theory, they found that people reading passages of text containing blue, underlined hyperlinks, or simply blue words, were more likely to re-read sentences when uncommon words were linked and therefore highlighted. (Berners-Lee doesn't remember who decided on the standard blue, underlined hyperlinks though early browsers like Mosaic undoubtedly popularised them.)
"What does your brain do when you're looking at a blue word and a bunch of black words?" says Gemma Fitzsimmons, a web science researcher who led the study. "The main thing is that when you have a blue or bold word on its own and it's the only unique thing that stands out, everyone thinks, 'I need to look at that, it might be important.' The less hyperlinks you have, the more important they seem." If hyperlinks were completely geared towards human readers of texts, they'd point towards relevant, contextual information using anchor text that contains the most important points on the page.
In the cases of Apple and Facebook, the question isn't so much how we link and how we react to them, as where we can link to and where we can follow links to. Facebook's Instant Articles, Google AMP (and indeed apps like Apple News) all propose variations on limited systems of linking back to sources of information. As for Instagram, it's based on a two-tier system: users can't add external links to posts (#linkinbio) unless they buy adverts whereas accounts with a large number of followers are able to add external links to Stories.
Facebook's linking rules aren't as explicitly limited but its news feed algorithm encourages people to pay to boost posts with external links that take users out of its network. As computer scientist and internet pioneer Dame Wendy Hall puts it, "Facebook would love us to just live inside of Facebook." Truly surfing the entire web, hopping from link to link, hasn't made business sense, it seems, hence the silos. If working today, Vannevar Bush, whose Memex concept was concerned with books and microfilm, might effectively consider Instagram as one book, Facebook as another book, with information inside in need of liberation via associative trails (links).
Hall describes changes in linking practices as a "side effect", not a cause, of the fracturing of the internet based on the key issue of who controls data. So perhaps shifting trends in hyperlinking can at best be seen as symptoms of wider concerns around the web at 30.
"The whole phenomenon of fake news and information silos has been facilitated by platforms like Facebook taking control of content, even preventing outbound links by displaying content within the app, and feeding you content they think you want to see," says Belinda Barnet, senior lecturer in media at Swinburne University of Technology and author of Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext. "To free us from these 'echo chambers', we need to open those platforms up or at least make their workings more transparent. It's not enough just to change the hyperlinks we need to crack the whole thing open."
In tackling what's broken in online news and information, there's a renewed focus on provenance. "The basic ethics of linking are simple," says Adam Tinworth. "If you sourced information or content from elsewhere, link to that source. It's what the web was built for, and it's just good manners." Where things get "murky", though, are instances where media outlets are considering linking to problematic or dangerous content in which case 'no follow' links can be used to signal to Google that it should ignore that site for ranking purposes.
Returning to PageRank, in 2016 Google advised that social media influencers use no-follow links when including affiliate links on their posts, in which they receive a product sales commission in return for freebies, gifts and sponsorship. With Amazon's international affiliate scheme, in particular, offering a revenue stream to social media creators and media organisations, money is now flowing directly through hyperlinks, tagged to the influencer or publisher, with the onus on the creator of the links to make that fact known to readers, viewers and subscribers. (WIRED is a member of affiliate schemes).
It's unlikely that the hyperlink will get a makeover in the near future because a large part of the web's success lies in its simplicity - attempts at backlinks, labels and hovering windows tend to feel cluttered. If hyperlinks were to be given an update, though, there's no shortage of suggestions from thinkers and computer scientists who began working before the web.
Berners-Lee's links were designed to be one-way, unlike the two way hyperlinks first suggested by Ted Nelson. In Nelson's ongoing Project Xanadu, "links must be bivisible and bifollowable," says Barnet, "capable of being seen and followed from the destination document as well as the originating document." And Nelson went further, with a method of citing text or media by integrating parts of the original into the first 'window' or 'document', something he refers to as a "parallel presentation" in Werner Herzog's documentary Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. These were hyperlinked so that the user could click through to get the full context with a mechanism for micropayments to the original author.
"The system we were working on at Southampton Microcosm [the pre-web hypermedia system developed in the 1980s] had very sophisticated two way linking," says Dame Wendy Hall, professor of computer science at the University of Southampton. "It was very prescient of the Semantic Web – you used the links to describe why you were making that relationship between those two data objects."
The Semantic Web, first proposed by Berners-Lee in 1994, moves away from 20th-century ideas of interlinked documents and pages towards a web of data, that can be processed by machines.. Barnet similarly suggests a "more intelligent linking system", something she says the Semantic Web is seeking to rectify: "Is there a more efficient way of linking that could identify content by what it is, not just where it is?"
Then there's the question of whether the many hidden functions of hyperlinks could be made more transparent. Designer Ted Hunt, a resident at Somerset House Studios, suggests an alternate timeline in which Nelson's nonlinear links influence everything from the authority of information online to copyright. In 2016, Hunt took Nelson's concepts and combined them with the +/- classifications of Paul Otlet, an earlier influential thinker on information science, working in the 1930s, about more sophisticated relationships between information.
In a one-day project, he created a speculative system of classifying links. A double underline indicates a citation of a source document and dash, dot and wave underlines signal agreement, disagreement and other relationships. "Otlet proposed ideas about how information has its own social world," Hunt says. "You could relate documents that disagreed with each other, or cited each other or built on each other and XYZ."
It's an interesting experiment into the user interface of hyperlinks but, says Hall, this kind of functionality can't be retrofitted into what we have now. "If you've got a way of building links between data objects, as [Berners-Lee] proposed in the Semantic Web, or the way we were doing it, then of course you build in about whether you like or dislike something. But you can't build it into the vanilla web because they're static links embedded in documents." Alex Wright sees linked data movements as "in some ways harkening back to Paul Otlet's vision of a more organised, structured networked information environment."Hyperlinks are doing a lot more work than was originally intended and at the same time, the core component of links between 'pages' and 'documents', not just within them, has been altered. Barnet points out that as wholesome and pure as early, small-scale visions seem now, "you can't just meander about and find what you need, any more than you can wander around the Library of Congress and arrive at the exact document you need."
Ad Week After the European Parliament approved the EU Copyright Directive in a 348-274 vote, the controversial and complicated overhaul of copyright rules in the European Union will cause major ripple effects across the web, if not change the internet for good. The new law is intended to update existing European copyright rules for the internet age, but tech companies and free speech advocates have voiced concern that the directive will negatively limit the way content on the internet is moderated and disseminated online, chilling free speech, making digital content harder to find and disenfranchising smaller businesses who can't afford to comply with the rules.
Advocates of the directive, though, argue the requirements will give publishers and content creators more control over their work and allow them to reap the financial rewards of their content when it's disseminated across the internet.
Ongoing discussion and protests around the bill's passage have been contentious, and a Change.org petition opposing the directive has collected more than 5 million signatures as of today.
Policy experts expect the rules will have consequences around the world.
"The EU is, for better or for worse, a global standard-setter on internet policy," said Raegan MacDonald, the head of EU public policy for the open-source software company Mozilla, which opposes the new rules. " … I don't think it will be long until it comes to the U.S., and the way the EU and the U.S. have been looking at the tech-lash and examining the responsibility of platforms, the discussions are actually quite similar."
What the directive is
The EU Copyright Directive is a series of rules aimed at updating copyright regulation to account for the digital age. In broad terms, the rules are intended to give copyright holders, like publishers and content creators, more control over how their content is used across the internet and provide more ways to earn money from their content. It'll also expand the ways some content can be used for educational and cultural purposes. Two portions of the directive in particular—Article 11 and Article 17, previously numbered Article 13—have drawn the greatest deal of attention and scrutiny. Article 11 will require web platforms and news aggregation services to pay publishers when they aggregate small portions of their content in search results, a policy that's been referred to as a "link tax."
The other, Article 17, holds for-profit platforms accountable for copyright-infringing content that appears on their sites. In practice, it will likely mean companies would have to implement a screening process before content can live on their platforms, much like YouTube's Content ID upload filter, which checks for copyrighted music and other assets prior to upload.
Legislators supportive of the articles say that the law will make the internet fairer by ensuring that content creators are compensated when their content is used and aggregated, and by requiring tech platforms to ensure that content they profit from is not infringing copyright. People opposing the directive are much less optimistic, saying the bill will limit the spread of information, chill free speech and prevent small platforms from competing with the established tech giants.
What publishers think
Media associations and groups that represent big publishers operating in the EU have expressed support for the finalized text, and are particularly enthusiastic about Article 11, which they say will allow them to get more money from search results. More than 270 organizations comprising groups representing news publishers, photographers and music publishers advocated for the rules, and in a joint statement called the bill a "historical opportunity" to help build "an internet that is fair and sustainable for all."
Not every publisher is on board. A study prepared for Parliament, which concluded that Article 11 would not help fund the media industry as intended, found that many journalists opposed the proposal.
Allison Davenport, a technology law and policy fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation, said that for platforms like Wikipedia, the link tax will affect contributors' abilities to find information for Wikipedia and will ultimately shrink "the depth, accuracy and quality of Wikipedia's content." The Asturian, Catalan, Galician and Italian versions of Wikipedia blacked out the sites today in protest of the directive.
Similar link taxes have been shown to have negative effects on publishers elsewhere; in Spain, for instance, a similar legislation requiring Google pay all publishers for snippets included in its news aggregation service that Google News pulled out of the country entirely, leading to a dramatic decline in traffic to Spanish newspapers.
After a similar bill passed in Germany, Google simply refused to pay publishers to include their content and waited for publishers to waive the legally-imposed fees. The German publisher Axel Springer tried to hold its own against Google, but after suffering a 40-percent drop in traffic, caved, and let Google include snippets of its news content without paying.
It's unclear what exactly the rules might mean for U.S. publishers, who last year told Adweek they were uncertain about whether the rules could hurt or help U.S. publishers not beholden to the same rules.
What platforms think
Big tech platforms have come out against the bill. In a company blog post published in early March, Google svp of global affairs Kent Walker said the directive "creates vague, untested requirements, which are likely to result in online services over-blocking content to limit legal risk." Google has also expressed opposition to Article 11, which would require web platforms pay publishers for aggregating portions of their content, including photos and snippets of articles. In a statement today, a spokesperson for Google said the law will be bad for businesses.
"The Copyright Directive is improved but will still lead to legal uncertainty and will hurt Europe's creative and digital economies," the spokesperson said. "The details matter, and we look forward to working with policy makers, publishers, creators and rights holders as EU member states move to implement these new rules."
Facebook, which has previously voiced opposition to parts of the directive, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Smaller platforms that might not be able to shoulder the cost of creating a content-filter or afford the legal risks of hosting content could face even tougher barriers to entry as a result of the bill, MacDonald said in an interview with Adweek prior to the directive's final approval. She said she feared that the rules will further entrench the power of the big internet platforms because those companies will have the resources to manage it.
"If you are not YouTube or Facebook, which has its own tailored tech, and if you are not one of these platforms with massive resources, you might just not take the risk," MacDonald said. "We are concerned that we will see much fewer open platforms because of this."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with other digital rights groups and free speech advocates, have warned that platforms' content-filtering processes could chill free speech and creativity online, especially when those processes often happen automatically and without human review.
"Machines are good at many things—making the final determination on your rights isn't one of them," EFF activism director Elliot Harmon wrote in a February blog post about why the group opposes upload filters that the copyright directive would ultimately require.
It's likely that the final text of the bill will be approved by legislators later this month. Barring even more pressure on legislators and a reversal of an EU country's stance on the bill, the directive will get a final rubber-stamp, and countries in the EU will have until 2021 to implement laws of their own that match the directive. What that will mean in practice, though, is unclear—primarily because the text of the directive leaves lots of room for legal interpretation.
"I think the legal uncertainty that will be created is really overwhelming for even large companies," MacDonald said.
It's not just the internet in the EU that stands to change dramatically once the bill is implemented. If the industry learned anything from the passage of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, it's that what happens in the EU doesn't stay in the EU. Free speech advocates, small publishers and platforms say they will continue to ring the alarm bell hoping to stop other legislative bodies from adopting similar rules.
"The EU has squandered the opportunity of a generation," MacDonald said, "… and the biggest loser out of this whole reform will be individual users."


From our living rooms to public stages, we can't seem to get enough of one of our oldest art forms.
Melissa Ferrick performs at the WGBH Stories from the Stage series.
Alonso Nichols looks sly as he recounts the time he and his twin brother were playing Indiana Jones, using belts as whips. A buckle whacked one of Alonso's front teeth, breaking it in half. At dinner that night, he tried to hide it from his mother. "I stuff a piece of meat, and then some mashed potato inside the hole in my teeth. But the jig is up. She knows." Nichols's tale of brotherly mischief charms his audience members who, as it happens, are sitting in his living room in Medford.
Nichols and his wife, Grace Talusan, are hosting a gathering of the live storytelling club StorySlam! Its monthly meetings rotate through different members' homes, with the host serving food and guests bringing drinks. Nichols, chief photographer at Tufts University, and Talusan, a writer, serve chicken adobo while their guests sip beer, chat amiably, and scribble their names onto paper strips they stuff into a glass jar. After dinner, Javed Rezayee, who founded StorySlam! in 2016, asks the 10 people in attendance to stand up and pair off, and proceeds to lead them through "Milk the Cow," "Caterpillars into Butterflies," and other vocal and movement exercises that serve as both icebreakers and warm-ups for the hour of storytelling that follows. When they're finished, he pulls a name out of the jar, and that person has six minutes to tell a story, no notes allowed. Some stories, like Nichols's, are mesmerizing and succinct, others meander, but everyone offers encouraging notes after sharing. Just as readers have book groups and writers have writing groups, StorySlam! offers storytellers a chance to socialize and workshop.
That StorySlam! exists, let alone has more than 100 members on Facebook, shows that interest in humankind's oldest art form is still growing. Last year The Moth, the New York literary group behind the popular Public Radio Exchange-distributed program and podcast, turned 20. It is now producing more than 500 live events a year, including three a month in the Boston area.
Boston-based Massmouth turns 10 this year and runs monthly slams at Boston's Trident Booksellers and Cambridge's Club Passim.
In a given month, fans could pay $5 to $12 to catch Fugitive Stories in Arlington, West Acton, or Framingham; visit Story Space Open Telling sessions in Somerville; hit Now Listen Here events in Dorchester; or head to Jamaica Plain for StorySlam! at Doyle's or Story Club Boston at the Milky Way Lounge. And that was before public television powerhouse WGBH launched Stories from the Stage, a half-hour program featuring live, curated storytelling. The show, a co-production of Massmouth and the World Channel, debuted in October, becoming the first national TV show dedicated to storytelling (its potential audience expanded in January, when PBS began distributing it).
Massmouth's Cheryl Hamilton created a storytelling series to help people relate to the experiences of immigrants and refugees.
Read: Come on down to Norwood for . . . art and craft beer?
Participants attend a StorySlam! gathering last April.
The yellow brick road didn't appear before Rezayee, the Story Slam! founder, the first time he went to a live event, a Moth show in New York in 2013. "How can you share your very personal details with strangers?" he thought to himself. At the same time, he was fascinated, and kept going. Then he had an idea: Maybe he could pitch storytelling as an after-hours activity at his employer — the Open Society Foundations, an international grant-making network founded by George Soros. His human resources department agreed. The first session drew about 50 people, with high-level directors sharing stories about their cats alongside entry-level program assistants. It became a bimonthly event, one that Rezayee says improved work relationships.
By 2016, Rezayee had performed live a handful of times, and was hooked. He decided he wanted to focus on writing and live storytelling, and moved back to the Boston area, where he had attended college, and could live cheaply with roommates. He runs occasional storytelling retreats and workshops for companies and organizations looking to strengthen teams, and teaches classes on the art of storytelling at Tufts University and GrubStreet creative writing center in Boston. And he hopes his StorySlam! club might someday lead to more jobs. Rezayee, who's tall and barrel-chested, breaks into a boyish smile when I ask him if he's able to support himself as a storyteller. "Have you ever heard of a starving artist?" he answers. But he loves what he's doing, not only because he meets so many people, but because he sees its potential as a social tool.
Javed Rezayee in storytelling mode at a StorySlam! event in 2017.
Picard also says there's an element of "free therapy," since so many people tell stories that involve their families. Once he told a story about his teen daughter and the moment he realized she was smoking. "Telling it in front of a Cambridge audience, you would have thought I'd found a gun!" he says. His daughter didn't know he'd found cigarettes in her jacket until he shared the story at Oberon, in front of 200 people, including her. His sister-in-law, also in attendance, later told him, "You have an interesting parenting style." Picard says telling it as a story let him vent his emotions, so that later he and his daughter could have a less charged conversation.
Inside, audience members sit at round cafe tables, snacking on pretzels and drinking wine and beer purchased at a bar set up in the back. Cabaret lighting sets the mood — no bright flood lights here — and camera operators use hand-held digital SLRs, instead of the typical hulking studio cameras.
Alexis Kubana performs at the WGBH Stories from the Stage series.
Many storytelling events are organized as "slams," where judges award winners chances to compete at larger venues and/or cash prizes (usually around $50). Stories from the Stage follows a different format. Liz Cheng, WGBH/World Channel general manager for television and co-executive producer of Stories from the Stage, calls it "a convening, as opposed to a competition." Coaches work with both storytelling masters and first-time multicultural storytellers, who share stories that reflect America's diversity.
Over the course of the night, we hear from an East African woman who bucks family tradition by exploring life as a comedian in the United States, an Andover teen librarian who goes on an awkward ghost hunt in Kentucky, a man from India who knows the world better than he does his own country, and a singer-songwriter who at age 21 almost skipped her chance to open for Bob Dylan.
Come on down to Norwood for . . . art and craft beer?
Alysia Abbott is a writer in Cambridge. Send comments to magazine@globe.com. Follow us on Twitter @BostonGlobeMag.
This story has been updated to correct a photo credit. The picture of Melissa Ferrick was taken by Sharon Wong.


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Israeli Study: Marijuana May Help Treat Pain Associated With Fibromyalgia
The research offers more evidence that of cannabis' medicinal powers
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Cannabis could become a potential treatment for the severe pain suffered by those who have the medical condition fibromyalgia, according to a new study out of Israel. It's another indication that marijuana is continuing to emerge as a medical treatment for pain.
Medical researchers have not yet found any definitive cause or cure for fibromyalgia. While the study did not find that cannabis is a cure for the condition, it did conclude that the plant might become an option for treating the severe pain caused by the disease.
Patients who participated in the Israeli study for six months reported a lessening of the intensity in the pain related to fibromyalgia.
"Our data indicates that medical cannabis could be a promising therapeutic option for the treatment of fibromyalgia, especially for those who failed on standard pharmacological therapies," the researchers wrote in the report.
Related: How Israel Became the Global Leader in Cannabis Research
What is Fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia is a medical disorder that involves widespread musculoskeletal pain. Symptoms also include fatigue, sleep, depression, memory loss and changing moods, according to the Mayo Clinic. Research indicates that fibromyalgia "amplifies painful sensations by affecting the way your brain processes pain signals."
Some of the symptoms are triggered by such events as infection, physical trauma, significant psychological stress or surgery. However, in other cases the symptoms slowly grow, seemingly with no triggering event.
Women are more likely to develop fibromyalgia than men.
Related: An Israeli Company's Mission To Make Marijuana Growing Effortless
What the study found
The study was conducted in Tel Aviv, Israeli by researchers from the Department of Rheumatology at Rabin Medical Center and Ben‐Gurion University. The research included 367 fibromyalgia patients, 82 percent of whom were women.
The results of the study proved overwhelmingly positive.The study authors reported that:
81.1% of patients experienced treatment success
73.4% had improved sleep
80.8% had improved depression‐related symptoms
61.9% had improved "quality of life" components including appetite and sexual activity.
Although patients reported a few negative side effects, including dizziness, dry mouth and gastrointestinal symptoms, the researchers concluded that "medical cannabis appears to be a safe and effective alternative for the treatment of fibromyalgia symptoms."
They also wrote that cannabis is worth considering for pain treatment because of "low rates of addiction and serious adverse effects (especially compared to opioids)." They recommended that cannabis treatment be considered to ease the pain of fibromyalgia patients who are not responding to standard treatment.
They also wrote that cannabis deserves further research into how it could impact other symptoms of fibromyalgia, including anxiety and depression.
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Q: Convert a timedelta to days, hours and minutes I've got a timedelta. I want the days, hours and minutes from that - either as a tuple or a dictionary... I'm not fussed.
I must have done this a dozen times in a dozen languages over the years but Python usually has a simple answer to everything so I thought I'd ask here before busting out some nauseatingly simple (yet verbose) mathematics.
Mr Fooz raises a good point.
I'm dealing with "listings" (a bit like ebay listings) where each one has a duration. I'm trying to find the time left by doing when_added + duration - now
Am I right in saying that wouldn't account for DST? If not, what's the simplest way to add/subtract an hour?

A: This is a bit more compact, you get the hours, minutes and seconds in two lines.
days = td.days
hours, remainder = divmod(td.seconds, 3600)
minutes, seconds = divmod(remainder, 60)
# If you want to take into account fractions of a second
seconds += td.microseconds / 1e6

A: I don't understand
days, hours, minutes = td.days, td.seconds // 3600, td.seconds // 60 % 60

how about this
days, hours, minutes = td.days, td.seconds // 3600, td.seconds % 3600 / 60.0

You get minutes and seconds of a minute as a float.

A: I used the following:
delta = timedelta()
totalMinute, second = divmod(delta.seconds, 60)
hour, minute = divmod(totalMinute, 60)
print(f"{hour}h{minute:02}m{second:02}s")

A: If you have a datetime.timedelta value td, td.days already gives you the "days" you want. timedelta values keep fraction-of-day as seconds (not directly hours or minutes) so you'll indeed have to perform "nauseatingly simple mathematics", e.g.:
def days_hours_minutes(td):
    return td.days, td.seconds//3600, (td.seconds//60)%60

A: Here is a little function I put together to do this right down to microseconds:
def tdToDict(td:datetime.timedelta) -> dict:
    def __t(t, n):
        if t < n: return (t, 0)
        v = t//n
        return (t -  (v * n), v)
    (s, h) = __t(td.seconds, 3600)
    (s, m) = __t(s, 60)
    (micS, milS) = __t(td.microseconds, 1000)

    return {
         'days': td.days
        ,'hours': h
        ,'minutes': m
        ,'seconds': s
        ,'milliseconds': milS
        ,'microseconds': micS
    }

Here is a version that returns a tuple:
# usage: (_d, _h, _m, _s, _mils, _mics) = tdTuple(td)
def tdTuple(td:datetime.timedelta) -> tuple:
    def _t(t, n):
        if t < n: return (t, 0)
        v = t//n
        return (t -  (v * n), v)
    (s, h) = _t(td.seconds, 3600)
    (s, m) = _t(s, 60)
    (mics, mils) = _t(td.microseconds, 1000)
    return (td.days, h, m, s, mics, mils)

A: While pandas.Timedelta does not provide these attributes directly, it indeed provide a method called total_seconds, based on which days, hours, and minutes can be easily derived:
import pandas as pd
td = pd.Timedelta("2 days 12:30:00")
minutes = td.total_seconds()/60
hours = minutes/60
days = hours/ 24
print(minutes, hours, days)

A: days, hours, minutes = td.days, td.seconds // 3600, td.seconds // 60 % 60

As for DST, I think the best thing is to convert both datetime objects to seconds. This way the system calculates DST for you.
>>> m13 = datetime(2010, 3, 13, 8, 0, 0)  # 2010 March 13 8:00 AM
>>> m14 = datetime(2010, 3, 14, 8, 0, 0)  # DST starts on this day, in my time zone
>>> mktime(m14.timetuple()) - mktime(m13.timetuple())     # difference in seconds
82800.0
>>> _/3600                                                # convert to hours
23.0

A: I found the easiest way is using str(timedelta). It will return a sting formatted like 3 days, 21:06:40.001000, and you can parse hours and minutes using simple string operations or regular expression.

A: For all coming along and searching for an implementation:
The above posts are related to datetime.timedelta, which is sadly not having properties for hours and seconds. So far it was not mentioned, that there is a package, which is having these. You can find it here:

*

*Check the source: https://github.com/andrewp-as-is/timedelta.py

*Available via pip: https://pypi.org/project/timedelta/
Example - Calculation:
>>> import timedelta

>>> td = timedelta.Timedelta(days=2, hours=2)

# init from datetime.timedelta
>>> td = timedelta.Timedelta(datetime1 - datetime2)

Example - Properties:
>>> td = timedelta.Timedelta(days=2, hours=2)
>>> td.total.seconds
180000
>>> td.total.minutes
3000
>>> td.total.hours
50
>>> td.total.days
2

I hope this could help someone...

A: While if you are using python datetime package, you can also code like below:
import datetime
tap_in = datetime.datetime.strptime("04:12", "%H:%M")
tap_out = datetime.datetime.strptime("18:20", "%H:%M")
num_of_hour = (tap_out - tap_in).total_seconds()/3600
num_of_hour # 14.133333333333333

A: This is another possible approach, though a bit wordier than those already mentioned. It maybe isn't the best approach for this scenario but it is handy to be able to obtain your time duration in a specific unit that isn't stored within the object (weeks, hours, minutes, milliseconds) and without having to remember or calculate conversion factors.
from datetime import timedelta
one_hour = timedelta(hours=1)
one_minute = timedelta(minutes=1)
print(one_hour/one_minute)  # Yields 60.0

I've got a timedelta. I want the days, hours and minutes from that - either as a tuple or a dictionary... I'm not fussed.

in_time_delta = timedelta(days=2, hours=18, minutes=30)
td_d = timedelta(days=1)
td_h = timedelta(hours=1)
td_m = timedelta(minutes=1)
dmh_list = [in_time_delta.days,
            (in_time_delta%td_d)//td_h,
            (in_time_delta%td_h)//td_m]

Which should assign [2, 18, 30] to dmh_list

A: If using pandas (at least version >1.0), the Timedelta class has a components attribute that returns a named tuple with all the fields nicely laid out.
e.g.
import pandas as pd
delta = pd.Timestamp("today") - pd.Timestamp("2022-03-01")
print(delta.components)

A: timedelta = pd.Timestamp("today") - pd.Timestamp("2022-01-01")
print(timedelta.components)
print(timedelta.components.days)
print(timedelta.components.seconds)

will return something like:
Components(days=281, hours=2, minutes=24, seconds=3, milliseconds=72, microseconds=493, nanoseconds=0)
281
3

A: timedeltas have a days and seconds attribute .. you can convert them yourself with ease.

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Lol. Not always. But this turned out so pretty. I think I will have leftover honey walnut shrimp with brown rice or lobster lo mein today from Saturday nights take out that is still miraculously in the fridge.
A beautiful and delicious looking salad, Jodi!
Absolutely! It is a beautiful salad!
Almost too pretty to eat Jodi!
Lovely vibrant colourful food – so healthy!
Thanks snehal. Glad you enjoy!
Love the combination of sweet and salty, looks very tasty!
Really colorful and sounds yummy! You are really giving us delicious and healthy meals Jodi!
I'm glad you are enjoying Lynn!
LOVE raisins in my salad – a little sweet with salty – yUM!
I have been craving a good salad and yours would be most satisfactory. I'll be so glad to get back in the kitchen and prepare some of my own meals.
Awh! I hope you do too! Happy Healing!
where do you live again, Kathryn! We are having a crazy heat wave here all week. It's been close to 70 degrees since Saturday and supposed to continue through Friday. So strange for February in Western PA!
We live in Bend, Oregon, which is smack dab in the center of Oregon on the the high desert. Our altitude is about 3700 feet. I have heard both the midwest and east coast have been really warm lately!
your sunflower in a bowl! ❤ thanks for sharing the recipe!


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Q: How to count the a specific value on a multidimensional array c#(Unity) I'm having trouble on counting the number of my TIE value in my list
here is my code :
string[,] table = new string[104, 15];
int xIndex = 0;
int yIndex = 0;

for (int i = 0; i < list.Count; i++)
{
    newString[0] += list[i].r;
    newString[0] += ",";
}
string[] newChars = newString[0].Split(',');
string result = ""; // variable for the substring
string previousValue_ = ""; // store here the newprevious value without the T
int counterForTie = 0;
int counterForRow = 1;
int justMoveToY = 1;

foreach (string previousValue in newChars)
{
    //check the length so that it wont throw an error
    if (previousValue.Length > 1)
    {
          //get only the first letter of value P,B,T
          result = previousValue.Substring(0, 1);
    }
    else
    {

           result = "";
    }

 if (table.GetLength(0) < xIndex)
            {
                break;
            }

            if (result.Equals(newPreviousValue) || result.Equals("T") && yIndex < table.GetLength(1))
            {

                if (counterForRow == 1)
                {
                    yIndex = 0;
                    table[xIndex, yIndex] = result;
                    counterForRow++;

                    if (firstDragonTail)
                    {
                        counterForTieSecondTime++;
                    }
                    else if (secondDragonTail)
                    {
                        counterForTieThirdTime++;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        counterForTie++;
                    }

                }
                else
                {
                    yIndex += 1;
                    table[xIndex, yIndex] = result;
                    if (firstDragonTail)
                    {
                        counterForTieSecondTime++;
                    }
                    else if (secondDragonTail)
                    {
                        counterForTieThirdTime++;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        counterForTie++;
                    }
                }

            }
            else if (result.Equals(newPreviousValue) && previousValue.Equals("T") && yIndex < table.GetLength(1))
            {
                yIndex += 1;
                table[xIndex, yIndex] = result;

                if (firstDragonTail)
                {
                    counterForTieSecondTime++;
                }
                else if (secondDragonTail)
                {
                    counterForTieThirdTime++;
                }
                else
                {
                    counterForTie++;
                }

            }
            else
            {
                if (justMoveToY == 1 && counterForRow == 1)
                {
                    xIndex = 0;
                    yIndex = 0;
                    table[xIndex, yIndex] = result;
                    justMoveToY++;
                    counterForRow++;
                }
                else if (justMoveToY == 1)
                {
                    xIndex = 0;
                    yIndex += 1;
                    table[xIndex, yIndex] = result;
                    justMoveToY++;
                }
                else {

                    if (firstDragonTail)
                    {
                        xIndex += 1;
                        yIndex = 0;
                        table[xIndex, yIndex] = result;
                        counterForTieSecondTime = 0;
                        if (counterForTieSecondTime == 0)
                        {
                            secondDragonTail = true;
                            firstDragonTail = false;

                        }
                        else
                        {
                            secondDragonTail = false;
                        }
                    }
                    else if (secondDragonTail)
                    {
                        xIndex += 1;
                        yIndex = 0;
                        table[xIndex, yIndex] = result;
                        counterForTieThirdTime = 0;
                        if (counterForTieThirdTime == 0)
                        {
                            thirdDragonTail = true;
                            secondDragonTail = false;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            thirdDragonTail = false;
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        xIndex += 1;
                        yIndex = 0;
                        table[xIndex, yIndex] = result;
                        counterForTie = 0;
                    }
                }
            }

            previousValue_ = result;

            if (!result.Equals("T"))
            {
                newPreviousValue = previousValue_;
            }

}

My problem here is that i couldn't count separately all the TIE value . All i want just to count the TIE value on every column .
For example like this image

As you can see on the image above i want to know if the TIE value is on the PLAYER value(blue) / BANKER value(red) and count the TIE value if how many is it on the Player column and vice versa.
I tried this
//count tie in a row
if (result.Equals("T") && result.Equals("P"))
{
      tieCounterPlayer++;
      Debug.Log("TIE FOR PLAYER :" + tieCounterPlayer);
}
else if(result.Equals("T") && result.Equals("B"))
{
      tieCounterBanker++;
      Debug.Log("TIE FOR BANKER :" + tieCounterBanker);
}

But unfortunately it didn't work.

A: Sorry for asking
This is what i did.
if (newPreviousValue.Contains("B"))
{
     if (result.Equals("T"))
     {
           tieCounterBanker++;
           Debug.Log("TIE FOR BANKER : " + tieCounterBanker);
     }
     else
     {
           tieCounterBanker = 0;
     }
}
else if(newPreviousValue.Contains("P"))
{
      if (result.Equals("T"))
      {
            tieCounterPlayer++;
            Debug.Log("TIE FOR PLAYER : " + tieCounterPlayer);
      }
      else
      {
            tieCounterPlayer = 0;
      }
}


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Our most advanced immuno-oncology candidate asunercept is being developed for the treatment of solid tumors and malignant hematological diseases. It has delivered outstanding results in clinical trials in glioblastoma and myelodysplastic syndromes to date.
Apogenix' proprietary HERA-ligand technology platform delivers single-chain fusion proteins which activate TNF superfamily receptors, thereby stimulating the anti-tumor immune response. Apogenix' unique protein architecture offers clear advantages over other biologics such as antibodies and has the potential for broad application in oncology.
Asunercept – a CD95 ligand inhibitor – is currently being developed for the treatment of cancer and other malignant diseases. The excellent safety and tolerability of asunercept has been demonstrated in both animal models and clinical trials. Clinical trials in glioblastoma (GB) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) have shown outstanding results.
With asunercept, Apogenix targets commercially attractive indications characterized by a high unmet medical need. GB and MDS, our initial target indications, are so-called orphan diseases with very few effective treatment options. Asunercept was granted orphan drug status for the treatment of glioma and MDS in the EU and for the treatment of GB and MDS in the US. It has also been awarded PRIME designation by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of GB.
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IntelliMemory® intelligent caching technology caches active data from read requests using available server memory.
Benefit Analyzer embedded benchmark provides before/after performance comparisons, enabling IT to measure workloads and performance in a real-world environment.
MediWrite™ optimization technology proactively eliminates the impact of excessive NTFS file fragmentation that can cause the FAL to reach its size limit and degrade MEDITECH performance even further.
When the hospital began to experience performance issues that impacted users' ability to access patient records in critical emergency room scenarios, Hancock Regional needed a solution. The team deployed V-locity VM on 60 MEDITECH dedicated servers and saw performance problems disappear— overnight—without additional hardware.
At Hancock Regional Hospital, quality is defined as the right care, at the right time, to the right person. To deliver on this vital promise, Hancock Regional's IT infrastructure must run seamlessly.
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I enjoyed this lesson. Annabella on the other hand well she listened but I am not to sure that she understood any of it. I think that this is a lesson that I can keep going over and she will get it. I just love all the visual aids and she did love those and wanted to play with them. I shorted the lesson because she is just 23 months old and couldn't sit that long. I again got this idea from the yahoo group that I joined, fhe4children I really like this site.
Main Idea: Reverence is a special feeling of love and respect that should be reflected in actions, words, and attitudes.
Have you ever thought what it means to be reverent? Reverence is a special feeling of Respect and Love. It is a feeling close to our Heavenly Father. It is caring about others, showing respect for them and being courteous to them. When we love our Heavenly Father, our families, friends, leaders, and teachers, we will respect them. We show our special feeling of love and respect for others by REVERENCE. When we listen to our parents, teachers, and leaders and do what they want us to do because we respect and love them, we are being reverent, as Heavenly Father expects us to be.
Our chapel is a sacred place where we should be reverent and show respect to our Heavenly Father. A sacred place is a holy place, a place where Heavenly Father's spirit may be felt.
This is a picture of a sad chapel.
They showed their Heavenly Father how much they loved and respected Him through their reverent actions.
Which one of these chapels do we have? Let's all try to make our chapel a happy chapel.
Activity: Using your happy and sad chapels. Place them on the floor. Have each member of the family draw a game card and act out what is on their card. When they are through, have the other members of the family guess what their behavior is. Have them decide if this behavior belongs in the Happy Chapel or the Sad Chapel and put their card on the right one.
Reverence is a special feeling that helps us feel near to Heavenly Father and makes us want to show by our actions, words, and attitudes how much we love him.
Refreshments: Frosted animal cookies with ice cream.
Use cards with each letter to spell reverence and have the children hold each card as they give the poem.
For Jesus whom we love.
Our Savior likes to hear.
And always bow his head.
But not a noisy crowd.
We'll always do what's right.
Now and the whole week through.
The chapel of the Lord.
"I want to do the things 'you'd like."
As he ran and shouted through the hall.
"I want to be as good as I can."
In Sharing Time she talked aloud.
That makes an awfully noisy crowd.
All I need to know to grow strong and good."
But he didn't listen when he should.
"I'll do all the things you want me to."
Or close her eyes when the prayer was said.
How much I want to do my part.
Two feet that quietly walk along.
Two ears that listen to all things good.
Will gently close when I bow my head.
Dear God these things are my gifts to you."
Out of all these five, Jesus knows who loves Him most … which one are you?
Teacher: Today we'll learn about some children and how they act In Our Heavenly Father's house.
1. This is Nan. Nan is only three years old. It's hard to be good when you are only three. Nan tries hard. She puts her toys away, sometimes even before her mother asks her.
But sometimes when Nan goes to church she acts like a kitten. Kittens are soft and usually quiet, so you may wonder what would be wrong - with having a kitten at church. Have you ever watched two kittens together? They are always swatting each other. This was Nan's problem-she didn't always remember to keep her hands to herself. Heavenly Father is happy if we fold our hands and keep them in our laps while we are in his house.
2. This is Jeremy. Usually Jeremy is a good boy. He likes to help his father work in the yard. He mows the grass in the summer and rakes the leaves in the fall.
But sometimes when Jeremy goes to church he acts like a big polar bear. Polar bears are soft and furry. If you have ever seen one at the zoo you know that they are heavy and walk plunk! plunk! plunk! Sometimes Jeremy forgets and lets his feet go plunk! plunk! as he walks down the chapel aisle. Heavenly Father is happy when we walk with light, quiet feet in his house.
3. This is Diane. Diane is a happy little girl. She helps her mother with the dishes and doesn't even grumble.
But sometimes when Diane goes to church she acts like a bird. Birds like to chirp and sing. And Diane loves to sing in church. But sometimes she forgets where she is and sings when it isn't time to sing. Heavenly Father wants us to be happy and to sing when we are in his house. But he wants us to sing only when everyone else is singing or when we are asked to sing a special song.
4. This is Jason. Jason always obeys his parents. He always, remembers to wear his coat when he goes outside if it is cold or stormy.
But sometimes when, Jason goes to church he acts like a duck. If you have ever watched a flock of ducks you know that they often stray away and get into places where they, don't belong. Sometimes Jason forgets to stay in his seat and wanders all over the chapel. Heavenly Father is happy if we stay in our places while we are in his house.
5. This is Veronica. Veronica is getting to be a big girl. She is even big enough to make her bed in the morning before she goes to breakfast.
But sometimes when Veronica goes to church she acts, like a monkey. Sometimes she crawls under the bench, and sometimes she climbs up onto the back of the bench. Heavenly Father is happy when we sit quietly and properly on the benches while we are in his house.
6. This is Kirt. Kirt eats his vegetables and is growing strong. He is even strong enough to help carry groceries into the house.
But sometimes when Kirt goes to church he is grumpy. He likes to stay up late on Saturday night and watch his favorite show on TV. When he wakes up Sunday morning he acts like a lion. He growls at his sister and brother and he even growls at his friends at church. Heavenly Father is happy when we are cheerful while we are in his house.
7. This is Nicky. Nicky is a happy girl. She smiles and is pleasant even when she has to tend her little brother, though she would rather be playing with her friends.
Always when Nicky goes to church she acts like a butterfly. She gently moves down the aisle and quietly takes her seat. She sings the songs. She thinks of Jesus during the sacrament, and she listens to the speakers. Heavenly Father is happy when we are truly reverent in his house.
Teacher: Heavenly Father is happy when we show love and respect for his house.
You want to know something funny? Tina Felt is my sister-in-law Lyndsey's Mom. Small world. Love your ideas. It's our New Year's Resolution to be better at FHE. Thanks for being a good example!
your kidding!! I loved this lesson I thought that it was great and Annabella loved the visual aids she playes with them and makes statements like no climbing at church no running quite mouth. I guess you can twell her that I loved this lesson. Some things never get old.
Did you have the "game cards" for this lesson that it mentions? I got the same lesson from www.sugardoodle.com, but I don't see the cards there, either. I'm not sure what it's talking about.


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We've all heard the legends of Coppi and Bartali but the period that followed their retirement is a far less well known chapter in the history of Italian cycling. Even some of the great riders of this era have been largely forgotten, but not by Herbie Sykes.
An avid collector of rare cycling jerseys, Sykes was in Turin aiming to add to his collection when he became aware of a two-time Giro winner who nobody seemed to know. Franco Balmamion was, like Sykes, a fan of Turin's second football team and, unbeknown to all but the most encyclopedic of fans, he had won the Giro in 1962 and 1963. Determined to meet him and hopeful of securing one of his jerseys, Sykes vowed to write a book all about him.
Balmamion draws on a unique collection of priceless memorabilia to set the scene in a country still searching for its next cycling campionissimo. Sykes plots the early years of Franco's career before attention turns to the 1962 Giro that made his name. Insightful stage summaries are accompanied by each edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport from throughout the race as Balmamion's race ebbs and flows from a near knock-out blow on the second stage to a most unexpected victory three weeks later.
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There is clearly something going on in the Bible which appears to be slavery. There are several Laws given by Moses which deal with the treatment of "slaves" in the Old Testament. Does this mean that the Bible endorses or condones slavery? Pastor Marc tries to shed some light on this issue in this excerpt from a sermon on The Book of James.


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Artist Joseph Egoyan Passes Away In Victoria
Joseph Egoyan seen in a screen shot from a short film ("The Life and Art of Joe Egoyan") by Robyn Lee Unwin.
(TORONTO)- Long-time Victoria, BC resident and painter Joseph Egoyan has died on June 14 after a long illness. He was 85.
Egoyan, who was the father of Oscar nominated Canadian Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan and acclaimed pianist Eve Egoyan, immigrated to Victoria from Cairo in the early 1960s with his family. Together with his wife Shushan, the couple established and ran an interior design and furnishing store in the city as they realized their experimental art was commercially not always favourable. The business attracted many BC artists as they befriended the art loving couple.
Their children Atom and Eve seem to have inherited their parents' love of arts: Joseph was a painter-turned designer and a music lover, while Shushan was a painter.
Joseph Egoyan was the son of Armenian Genocide survivors who was born and raised in Egypt.
On many occasions, he joined members of the Armenian community of British Columbia in commemorating the Armenian Genocide at the BC Legislature in Victoria.
He is survived by his wife and two children.
2019 Aurora Prize ceremony to take place on October 20 in Yerevan
ՀՕՄ-ի Թորոնթոյի Լափոյեան Երկրորդական Վարժարանի 15-րդ Հունձքը


Jamshedpur has 264 jobs listed.
Jamshedpur or Jampot/J-town is the largest and the most populous Urban Agglomeration in the state of Jharkhand. It is the largest city in Jharkhand, and a major industrial zone in Eastern India. Jamshedpur is the first planned industrial city of India, founded by Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata. It is also known as Steel City, TataNagar or simply Tata. Jamshedpur is a major industrial centre of East India. It houses companies like Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Power, Lafarge Cement, Telcon, BOC Gases, Praxair, TCE, TCS, Timken, TRF, Tinplate and many more, Which generates the large number of jobs and career opportunities.


The Regional Advisory Council (RAC) is a standing committee of the Valley Regional Transit Board. It serves an advisory role to the VRT Board of Directors in the areas of service coordination planning, project funding prioritization and policies, services and programs affecting representative populations.
Please note that the RAC was known as the Regional Coordination Council until Sept. 24, 2018.
If you need to contact any of the RAC members, call (208) 258-2706.
We envision an accessible regional transportation system that is built upon meaningful stakeholder input and feedback.
The Regional Advisory Council's mission is to use a customer-centered focus to ensure that VRT's policies, services and outreach meet the mobility needs of the community.
Kelly Berg, Susan Bradley, Lisa Brady, Therrie Butz, Annette Harper, Randy Johnson, Terri Lindenberg, Jason Madsen, Jeremy Maxand (Chair), Salome Mwangi, Courtney Rosenkoetter, Tina Wilson, Kelli Badesheim (VRT staff).
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Diana és una regió de Madagascar. Aquesta regió és la més septentrional del país. Limita emb les regions de Sava al sud i de Sophia a l'oest. Ocupa una superfície de 19.266 km², i té una població de 485.800 el 2004. La capital regional és Antsiranana (també coneguda com a Diego Suarez).

Geografia

Rius
Els rius principals de la regió Diana són:

 Besokatra
 Irodo
 Loky
 Mahavavy
 Ramena
 Saharenana
 Sambirano

Reserves naturals i atractius turístics
A Diana hi ha parcs nacionsals i atractius turístics:
 Parc Nacional Amber Mountain
 Reserva de Analamerana
 Reserva d'Ankarana
 Reserva de Lokobe
 Reserva de Manongarivo
 Reserva de Tsaratanana
 Tsingy Rouge

Divisions administratives
La regió Diana està dividida en cinc districtes i subdividida en 51 communes (municipis).
 Districte d'Ambanja
 Districte d'Ambilobe
 Districte d'Antsiranana I  (la ciutat d'Antsiranana)
 Districte d'Antsiranana II (zona rural Antsiranana)
 Nosy Be District (l'illa de Nosy Be)

Antsiranana és un important port de pesca de tonyina, gambes i cogombres de mar.

En gricultura destaca la producció d'olis essencials, principalment
Ylang Ylang però també de Palmarosa, Vetiver i d'alfàbrega a les regions de Nosy Be i Ambanja.

Referències
 Monographie de la Région Diana

Enllaços externs

 Lloc web oficial de la regió Diana

Regions de Madagascar


Tucked under the 10th Avenue water tower, Stans Park has become a popular destination for families looking for new, fun equipment for their kids to climb, swing and play on. Last summer, the city replaced the aging equipment with some one-of-a-kind play features in Shakopee. The bright new playground has a variety of features for kids of all ages, including a criss-cross loop ladder and rumble-and-roll zip slide. Stans Park, named after Shakopee's Watergate-era politician Maurice Stans, is also known for its tennis courts complex. With its four courts and four adjacent courts at Shakopee West Junior High, Stans is home to Shakopee Public Schools tennis teams and also the Shakopee Tennis Association.
Stans Park is located at 1056 Fuller St.


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Never Going Back Again
From the recording Alone
Song about domestic abuse.
There's a tear in her eye. The breeze blows the hair from her face.
Beneath a moonlit sky she runs to her hiding place.
Although she knows he won't follow, she runs as fast as she can.
He only makes her feel hollow and she's never going back again.
Never going back again.
Not back to him.
Not with the way he used her and the nights he abused her.
She's never gonna win.
There's a tear in her dress. It's the only dress she's ever owned.
She looks a mess and wishes she could just get stoned,
and make it all go away. Escape the situation she's in.
Can she live another day if she doesn't go back again?
Secrets strangle her soul. She doesn't feel a thing within.
Terror has taken it's toll. She feels like she's walking sin.
Demons dance as she dies. She can hear them calling her name.
She's got that lost look in her eyes. She's never going back again.
So she goes on with her plan to catch a ride up to Main.
She's had all she could stand and she's never going back again.
Not with the way he used her and the nights he abused her and
Not back to him
Not with the way her used her and the nights he abused her and
she'd never win.
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The dependence of hopping diffusion on lattice topology and occupancy by the diffusing molecules is studied using Monte-Carlo simulations. For poorly connected lattices, such as ZSM-5/silicalite, the self-diffusivity deviates strongly from the linear mean-field result, especially at high occupancies. A time-correlation formalism is derived to predict these deviations which are proportional to the accumulated correlation between the displacement at some time and the first attempted hop. Renormalized deviations depend on lattice topology, but not on occupancy, so that the curves for various occupancies can be collapsed on to a single curve which can be well approximated by a stretched exponential. The results show that a mean-field theory with correlated time steps should work adequately for well-connected lattices, but poor performance is predicted for such poorly connected lattices as ZSM-5.


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