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There are five pairs of dolphin patterns in this image. Mechanisms for viewing[ edit ] See also: This allows the brain to create five apparent dolphins. If the patterns received by the two eyes are similar enough, the brain will consider these two patterns a match and treat them as coming from the same imaginary object. The brain creates a Cyclopean image from the two images received by the two eyes. To see a faraway object, the two eyeballs diverge to become almost parallel to each other.
It is the convergence angle that gives the brain the absolute reference depth value for the point of convergence from which absolute depths of all other objects can be inferred. Vergence control is important in being able to see 3D images. This is known as wall-eyed viewing, where the convergence angle is much smaller than that in cross-eyed viewing. The eye achieves this goal by adjusting a lens behind the cornea to refract light appropriately.
Description: Thus, the term is often used as a synonym of autostereogram. Because of foreshortening, the difference in convergence needed to see repeated patterns on different planes causes the brain to attribute different sizes to patterns with identical 2D sizes. As with any camera except pinhole cameras , it needs to focus light rays entering through the iris aperture in a camera so that they focus on a single point on the retina in order to produce a sharp image. The closer a point appears to the brain, the brighter it is painted.


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UU A Way Of Life: Today's lesson - God is my strength. Vision is His gift.
Today's lesson - God is my strength. Vision is His gift.
What is the goal of Unitarian Univeralism? What is its purpose? What is it trying to achieve? Does UU have a mission and a vision?
UUs are quick to tell people that they have no creed. They have no dogmatic test for membership. They are just as quick to tell people that their major interest is Love. The contemporary UU campaign is called "Standing on the side of Love."
The fatal flaw of Unitarian Univeralism is the narcissistic belief in self determination without the concomitant acknowledgement of the Higher Power whatever a member wants to conceive of that Higher Power to be.
It is this fierce independence and need for control that derails the mission and vision of Unitarian Univeralism. When Unitarian Universalists fail to acknowledge that there is a Higher Power and that it is this Higher Power that is the source of their strength, they have become lost and they are wasting time. When UUs become lost they have no vision and their lack of vision contributes to muddling if not misguided conflict.
The mission of Unitarian Univeralism is to sanctify the world by helping people become aware of their holiness. They do this through their covenantal understandings of seven basic principles which are based on the perennial psychology emanating from many sources throughout human history.
Today's lesson, number 42, from A Course In Miracles is "God is my strength. Vision is His gift." "God" in A Course In Miracles is the nondualistic Oneness, and the Vision is the Atonement or the healing of the separation which generated the ego which is an illusion bringing much pain and distress to humans. Vision involves the Oneness and guiltlessness of God's creations. It is the basis of the first principle of UU which is the inherent worth and dignity of every person.
It is this vision of the inherent worth and dignity of every person because the person is part of the Divine that gives UU its strength and its vision which comes, of course, from God.


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Rakesh Sharma: The making of a reluctant Indian space hero
by Staff Reporter | Tuesday, Mar 21, 2017 | 1552 views
Did you meet God?
This was a question Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to travel into space, often faced from admirers at home after he returned to Earth in 1984.
"I would say, no, I hadn't met God," he says.
More than three decades later, fact and fiction blur easily with his modern-day fans when they meet Mr Sharma, 68.
"Now many young mothers introduce me to their kids and tell them, 'this uncle has been to the Moon!'".
But Mr Sharma can never forget the hysteria after he returned from space. He criss-crossed the country and lived in hotels and guest houses. He posed for pictures and gave speeches. Elderly women blessed him; fans tore his clothes and sought autographs. Politicians paraded him in their constituencies for votes; and authorities sent him on holiday to a national park in searing 45C (113F) temperatures.
"It was completely over the top. It left me irritated and tired. I had to keep a smile on my face all the time," he recounts.
Mr Sharma wears his achievements and fame lightly. He joined India's air force at 21 and began flying supersonic jet fighters. He had flown 21 missions in the 1971 war with Pakistan before his 23rd birthday. By 25, he was a test pilot. He travelled into space at 35, the first Indian and the 128th human to do so.
"I had pretty much done it all before I went into space. So when the opportunity came, I went along. It was that simple."
Mr Sharma spent eight days in a space station in 1984
Mr Sharma (middle) says the celebrations over his space journey were "over the top"
What is easily forgotten is that Mr Sharma's feat was possibly the only silver lining in what was one of independent India's worst years ever.
1984 saw the Indian army storm the Golden Temple in Punjab to flush out Sikh separatists and the revenge killing of prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
The anti-Sikh riots, the country's worst religious rioting after Partition, convulsed Delhi. And, before the year had ended, thousands of people in the city of Bhopal had been killed after toxic gases leaked from a chemical factory, the world's worst industrial accident.
In a wounded nation, a young pilot shone as an unlikely beacon of hope.
Mrs Gandhi was pushing for an Indian in space before the 1984 general elections, and dialled her closest ally and space race leader, the Soviet Union, for help. The latter asked for a list of candidates.
Locked in a room
Mr Sharma was picked to undergo a battery of gruelling tests from a reported shortlist of some 50 fighter pilots. Among other things, he was locked up by the air force in a room with artificial lights at an aerospace facility in Bangalore for 72 hours to test for "latent claustrophobia". In the end, two of them were selected for the final training in Russia.
More than a year before the launch, Mr Sharma and Ravish Malhotra travelled to Star City, a high-security cosmonaut-training facility some 70km (43 miles) from Moscow, to train for space flight as there were no such facilities at home.
It was bitterly cold. He trudged in the snow from one building to another – "It was very Dr Zhivago".
He had to learn Russian quickly as most of the training was in that language. Six to seven hours of language classes every day meant that he had mastered enough Russian in three months. He was put on a carefully controlled diet of local food, capped at 3,200 calories a day. Olympic trainers tested him for strength, speed and endurance, and how his chest stood up to punishing G-forces.
A Soviet rocket carried Mr Sharma and two Russian astronauts, Yuri Malyshev and Gennadi Strekalov
The three astronauts trained at a cosmonaut facility outside Moscow
Midway through the training, he was told he was the chosen one, and Mr Malhotra would serve as backup.
"It wasn't such a big deal, it wasn't very tough," says Mr Sharma, modestly.
But many, like science writer Pallava Bagla, believe Mr Sharma's feat was a "huge leap of faith".
"He came from a country which didn't have a space programme. He didn't dream of becoming an astronaut. But he travelled to an alien environment, endured a harsh climate, learnt a new language, and trained hard. He's a real hero."
On 3 April, a Soviet rocket carrying Mr Sharma and two Russian astronauts, Yuri Malyshev, 42, and Gennadi Strekalov, 43, left Earth from a spaceport in the then Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.
'No sweat'
"The take-off was boringly routine. We were over-trained by that point," Mr Sharma recounts.
"I was the 128th human in space. So I didn't really sweat about it."
Mr Sharma is now among the more than 500 fortunate people who have travelled into space since Yuri Gagarin's single orbit of Earth in 1961.
The media gushed how the joint flight was the high noon of the Soviet Union-India friendship. Soviet news agency Tass filed a report saying Mr Sharma's mother, a teacher, had developed a "general interest" in the Soviet Union after her son was chosen for the flight in 1982. "The mission," says Mr Sharma, "was scientific in content, but with a political end at home."
Tragically, Mrs Gandhi would be murdered within eight months, and her son, Rajiv, would sweep the polls at the end of the year on a sympathy wave for his mother. The space flight wasn't needed to fetch votes for the ruling Congress party.
Indira Gandhi (middle) wanted to put an Indian in space before a general election
Mr Sharma and his fellow astronauts spent nearly eight days in space: grainy TV images from the time show the three men, in grey jumpsuits, floating around in the Salyut 7 space station, and conducting experiments.
He became the first human to practice yoga in space – using a harness to stop him from floating around – to find out whether it could better prepare crews adapt for the effects of gravity. He spoke to his family once on a live link with 2,500 people in the audience in a Moscow auditorium.
When Mrs Gandhi asked Mr Sharma, on a hazy live link, how India looked from space, he delivered a line in Hindi which would have easily become a viral tweet today.
"Sare Jahan Se Acha [The best in the world]", he said, quoting from a famous poem by Mohammad Iqbal, which he had recited every day in school after the national anthem.
"It was top of recall. There was nothing jingoistic about it. India does look so picturesque from space," Mr Sharma told me.
Rakesh Sharma retired as a test pilot with the Indian air force
"You've got this huge coastline, the lovely blue ocean on three sides. Then there are the dry plateaus, forests, river plains, golden sands of the desert. The majestic Himalayas looked purple because sunlight cannot get into the valleys. Then there were snow capped mountains. We've got everything."
Return to space
The New York Times presciently wrote that "India is not likely to have its own manned space programme for a long time, if ever, and Mr Sharma's flight may well be the last by an Indian for a long time." Thirty-three years later, Mr Sharma remains the only Indian to travel to space. (Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla went into space decades later and and was one of the seven astronauts killed in the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003.)
India plans to put a citizen into space using an Indian rocket from Indian soil one day. It has already developed a space flight suit for potential astronauts, and successfully tested a crew module dummy flight in the atmosphere. But money is scarce, the home-made launch rocket has to be made flight-ready, astronauts have to be trained and launch facilities built or upgraded.
After his space flight, Mr Sharma returned to his life as a jet pilot. He flew Jaguars, and the India designed fighter jet Tejas. Then he switched gears, working as the chief operating officer of a Boston-based company which made software for manufacturing planes, tanks and submarines.
Eight years ago, the space hero retired and built himself his dream home, with sloping roofs, solar-heated bathrooms, harvested rainwater, handmade bricks excavated from the plot, and a sunlit study stacked with his favourite books and music. He lives with his interior designer wife, Madhu, and their pet dog, Kali. A Bollywood biopic is "in the works", with star Aamir Khan rumoured to play the astronaut.
Mr Sharma now lives a retired life in a hill station in southern India
Would you like to return to space again? I ask.
"I would love to," he says, looking out to the hills from his sprawling balcony.
"But this time I would like to go as a tourist and savour the beauty of Earth. There was too much work when I went up there."
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As I write this on Palm Sunday we're entering into Holy Week--that most puzzling of times and yet the central series of events in the Christian calendar. So many things happening at the same time.
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I wonder if I am like Maly, enjoying the music, trying to manage my focus on so many things at once, the parade of palms and the distant drumbeat of passion, cross and resurrection, fear and rejoicing. Play it again please, I need to figure out who is this Jesus? What kind of Superstar?
Not many answers today, but some important questions I think. What do you think?


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Shonda Rhimes Shared Her Advice For Young Women
How Shonda Rhimes Harnesses Her Self-Esteem & Embraces New Challenges
Cory Stieg
Photo: Getty Images for Unilever/Dove.
It might be odd to start an interview with Shonda Rhimes, showrunner and mastermind behind Thursday night TV, by asking for advice about your own life — but then again, she's Shonda Rhimes, so how could you not want in on all her secrets to success?
Nevertheless, that's what happened on Saturday at the Dove Girl Collective, a day-long workshop in Los Angeles aimed at teaching girls how to challenge beauty stereotypes and build confidence. Rhimes, who was the keynote speaker at the summit, told the audience of 300+ girls about how writing and making up stories helped her find herself as a "very smart, not cute" kid.
"I was different, and no one is crueler than a pack of humans faced with someone who is different," Rhimes said in her keynote speech. "My imagination, and the stories I told myself, and the characters I created really saved me. They protected me; they helped me be me."
Afterwards, Rhimes sat down with Refinery29 to share more insights. Now, if you've read Rhimes' book, Year Of Yes, you know that there was a time in her life after this "Coke bottle-glasses, not-cute phase," when she said no to everything out of fear of failure. That's me — and it's probably lots of other people, too.
So, my big question for Rhimes was, how do you get over that paralyzing, crippling fear? "The best way to get over a fear of failure is to just do," Rhimes tells me. "The actual 'yes' of doing the thing undoes the fear. Because what happens is all of that fear — of failure, fear of looking crazy, fear of it not working — the minute you do the thing, you realize how silly the fear is... And it truly is life-changing. I highly recommend it." It sounds easier said than done, but ahead Rhimes provided some wisdom about how to build confidence, embrace self-esteem, and have a life outside of your job.
Interview has been edited for length and clarity.
It often seems like people are either born extroverted and confident, or they're not. But, do you think that confidence and self-esteem can be taught?
"I think both of these things are true: I do think you're born an extrovert or introvert, that's just how it works. But I also think that self-esteem is not the domain of an extrovert. Plenty of introverts have a lot of self-esteem, and I think that confidence belongs to a lot of introverts as well, I just think it's displayed differently.
"One of the things I feel like I've learned through Dove in this experience has really been the idea that, whether you're introverted or extroverted, it's how you choose to harness your self-esteem that matters. A lot of extroverts do it in a very loud way, but I'm not that person. For me, it's really about the smaller ways of thinking about myself, and looking at myself. I have daughters who are introverts and extroverts, and [I've been] watching how they look at themselves differently."
I never believed that there was anything I couldn't do, because I had a mother who did everything and parents who believed in me.
Mentorship is a big part of the Dove Girl Collective. Did you have any mentors growing up?
"People always use that word, and I never know what to do with it, because it always suggests something formal. I'm the youngest of six, so I lived in a house full of mentors, if you want to put it that way. But I also had an extraordinary mother. People always say like, There weren't very many strong women on TV or We never saw women who looked or seemed like you.
"My mother was like the best example of a powerful woman who worked, and who got things done. I never believed that there was anything I couldn't do, because I had a mother who did everything and parents who believed in me. In a weird way, my parents really were those people. In my career, once I got out into the world, I really did meet a lot of interesting women along the way — and men — who felt like they were just very supportive of me and what I wanted to do."
I don't know if this is a millennial thing, but many people I know feel defined by their jobs. How can you seek fulfilling outlets in life when work is your one source of confidence?
"I don't think it's a millennial thing, I think it's an age thing. For a long time, I definitely felt like I was defined by my job. I told myself that, because I was a writer, it was my calling, which is very different. You're at that age where you feel like succeeding in your job and getting set up in your job is the most important thing right now.
"I also think we live in an age where people are very isolating, and [work is] where you find your social life, your people. Work becomes your hub now. The challenge for everybody really is to figure out how to have a life outside of that, and force yourself to do it. That's the thing that's most important. When I decided I was no longer going to read emails after 7 p.m., or work on the weekends, it was startling for me at first. I was like, I don't know what to do with myself. But honestly, that's when I began to feel like I got a sense of who I am."
Often with body positivity there's an assumption that you can only feel positively about your body, otherwise you're wrong. But in your book, you talk about how your relationship to your body changed over time. Where are you at now?
"Body positivity should encompass the idea that you get to be happy in your skin, whatever that means. And if that means you want to get healthier, or get more fit, then that is also a positive thing. For me, it was about how do you feel? That seems to me the most important thing. Self-esteem should be about how you feel. It shouldn't be like, no matter what you look like, you have to be great — it's an ever-changing thing, it's an evolution.
"I feel better than I did before. Now it's about the fact that I am a mom and am about to turn 50 in a couple years. I wanna be the fittest mom I can be. Do I embrace a new crazy challenge? So like, my new crazy challenge is, do I want to become somebody who feels like an athlete? Do I want to see my stomach muscles? Do I give a crap about that? Do I want to embrace a challenge about it or am I good where I am, am I comfortable?"
We live in an age where people are very isolating and [work is] where you find your social life, your people. Work becomes your hub now. The challenge for everybody really is to span out how to have a life outside of that, and force yourself to do it.
There has been so much in the news lately about women's bodies. How has what's happening in the news influenced the types of conversations you have with your daughters?
"I have a 16-year-old, and it's really interesting. She goes to a really great school, and they watched all the [Kavanaugh] hearings, and paid attention. She's at home like, 'Times Up!' [and is] very much into it. But I don't think it's changed the way I talk to my daughter about her body, mainly because I feel like I've always had the conversation about the idea that, your body belongs to you.
"There is this power involved in the idea that nobody has the right to comment on your body, tell you what you can do with your body — and certainly you're not beholden to anybody in any way, shape, or form in terms of how you choose to look or choose to be. That power and that ownership has always been something we've talked about for a long time. It's come to the forefront now that there are lots of people who don't think that way."
Dove paid for hotel stay and airfare as part of a press trip the writer of this story attended. However, Dove did not approve or review this story.
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THINGS YOUR DOCS EITHER DO NOT KNOW OR REFUSE TO DISCUSS WITH YOU AND AMONG THEMSELVES. Which means either they are ignorant, or lying, or both.~ OZ
by Jon Rappoport
Now that governments are going to roll out "a vaccine to save the world," people should become aware of a history they don't know exists.
The article below was a small section of my book, AIDS INC., which I wrote in 1987-8. At the time, I decided to take a look at vaccines and see what I could find out about them.
My ensuing research led me into all sorts of surprising areas.
Since the period of 1987-8, much more has come to light about vaccine safety and efficacy. Here is what I discovered way back when–
"The combined death rate from scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough and measles among children up to fifteen shows that nearly 90 percent of the total decline in mortality between 1860 and 1965 had occurred before the introduction of antibiotics and widespread immunization. In part, this recession may be attributed to improved housing and to a decrease in the virulence of micro-organisms, but by far the most important factor was a higher host-resistance due to better nutrition." Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis, Bantam Books, 1977
"In a recent British outbreak of whooping cough, for example, even fully immunized children contracted the disease in fairly large numbers; and the rates of serious complications and death were reduced only slightly. In another recent outbreak of pertussis, 46 of the 85 fully immunized children studied eventually contracted the disease.
"In 1977, 34 new cases of measles were reported on the campus of UCLA, in a population that was supposedly 91% immune, according to careful serological testing. Another 20 cases of measles were reported in the Pecos, New Mexico, area within a period of a few months in 1981, and 75% of them had been fully immunized, some of them quite recently. A survey of sixth-graders in a well-immunized urban community revealed that about 15% of this age group are still susceptible to rubella, a figure essentially identical with that of the pre-vaccine era." Richard Moskowitz, MD, The Case Against Immunizations, 1983, American Institute of Homeopathy.
"Of all reported whooping cough cases between 1979 and 1984 in children over 7 months of age – that is, old enough to have received the primary course of the DPT shots (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus) – 41% occurred in children who had received three or more shots and 22% in children who had one or two immunizations.
"Among children under 7 months of age who had whooping cough, 34% had been immunized between one and three times…
"… Based on the only U.S. findings on adverse DPT reactions, an FDA-financed study at the University of California, Los Angeles, one out of every 350 children will have a convulsion; one in 180 children will experience high-pitched screaming; and one in 66 will have a fever of 105 degrees or more." Jennifer Hyman, Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York, special supplement on DPT, dated April, 1987.
"A study undertaken in 1979 at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the sponsorship of the Food and Drug Administration, and which has been confirmed by other studies, indicates that in the U.S.A. approximately 1,000 infants die annually as a direct result of DPT vaccinations, and these are classified as SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) deaths. These represent about 10 to 15% of the total number of SIDS deaths occurring annually in the U.S.A. (between 8,000 and 10,000 depending on which statistics are used)." Leon Chaitow, Vaccination and Immunization, CW Daniel Company Limited, Saffron Walden, Essex, England, 1987.
"Assistant Secretary of Health Edward Brandt, Jr., MD, testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, rounded… figures off to 9,000 cases of convulsions, 9,000 cases of collapse, and 17,000 cases of high-pitched screaming for a total of 35,000 acute neurological reactions occurring within forty-eight hours of a DPT shot among America's children every year." DPT: A Shot in the Dark, by Harris L. Coulter and Barbara Loe Fischer, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
"While 70-80% of British children were immunized against pertussis in 1970-71, the rate is now 39%. The committee predicts that the next pertussis epidemic will probably turn out to be more severe than the one in 1974/75. However, they do not explain why, in 1970/71, there were more than 33,000 cases of pertussis with 41 fatal cases among the very well immunized British child population; whereas in 1974/75, with a declining rate of vaccination, a pertussis epidemic caused only 25,000 cases with 25 fatalities." Wolfgang Ehrengut, Lancet, Feb. 18, 1978, p. 370.
"… Barker and Pichichero, in a prospective study of 1232 children in Denver, Colorado, found after DTP that only 7% of those vaccinated were free from untoward reactions, which included pyrexia (53%), acute behavioral changes (82%), prolonged screaming (13%), and listlessness, anorexia and vomiting. 71% of those receiving second injections of DTP experienced two or more of the reactions monitored." Lancet, May 28, 1983, p. 1217
"Publications by the World Health Organization show that diphtheria is steadily declining in most European countries, including those in which there has been no immunization. The decline began long before vaccination was developed. There is certainly no guarantee that vaccination will protect a child against the disease; in fact, over 30,000 cases of diphtheria have been recorded in the United Kingdom in fully immunized children." Leon Chaitow, Vaccination and Immunization, p. 58.
"Pertussis (whooping cough) immunization is controversial, as the side effects have received a great deal of publicity. The counter claim is that the effectiveness and protection offered by the procedure far outweigh the possible ill effects… annual deaths, per million children, from this disease over the period from 1900 to the mid-nineteen seventies, shows that from a high point of just under 900 deaths per million children (under age 15) in 1905, the decline has been consistent and dramatic. There had been a lowering of mortality rates of approximately 80% by the time immunization was introduced on a mass scale, in the mid-nineteen fifties. The decline has continued, albeit at a slower rate, ever since. No credit can be given to vaccination for the major part of the decline since it was not in use." Chaitow, Vaccination and Immunization, p. 63.
"… the swine-flu vaccination program was one of its (CDC) greatest blunders. It all began in 1976 when CDC scientists saw that a virus involved in a flu attack outbreak at Fort Dix, N.J., was similar to the swine-flu virus that killed 500,000 Americans in 1918. Health officials immediately launched a 100-million dollar program to immunize every American. But the expected epidemic never materialized, and the vaccine led to partial paralysis in 532 people. There were 32 deaths." U.S. News and World Report, Joseph Carey, October 14, 1985, p. 70, "How Medical Sleuths Track Killer Diseases."
"Despite (cases) in which (smallpox) vaccination plainly failed to protect the population, and despite the rampant side-effects of the methods, the proponents of vaccination continued their attempts to justify the methods by claims that the disease had declined in Europe as a whole during the period of its compulsory use. If the decline could be correlated with the use of the vaccination, then all else could be set aside, and the advantage between its current low incidence could be shown to outweigh the periodic failures of the method, and to favour the continued use of vaccination. However, the credit for the decline in the incidence of smallpox could not be given to vaccination. The fact is that its incidence declined in all parts of Europe, whether or not vaccination was employed." Chaitow, Vaccination and Immunization, pp. 6-7.
"Smallpox, like typhus, has been dying out (in England) since 1780. Vaccination in this country has largely fallen into disuse since people began to realize how its value was discredited by the great smallpox epidemic of 1871-2 (which occurred after extensive vaccination)." W. Scott Webb, A Century of Vaccination, Swan Sonnenschein, 1898.
"In this incident (Kyoto, Japan, 1948) – the most serious of its kind – a toxic (vaccine) batch of alum-precipitated toxoid (APT) was responsible for illness in over 600 infants and for no fewer than 68 deaths.
"On 20 and 22 October, 1948, a large number of babies and children in the city of Kyoto received their first injection of APT. On the 4th and 5th of November, 15,561 babies and children aged some months to 13 years received their second dose. One to two days later, 606 of those who had been injected fell ill. Of these, 9 died of acute diphtheritic paralysis in seven to fourteen days, and 59 of late paralysis mainly in four to seven weeks." Sir Graham Wilson, Hazards of Immunization, Athone Press, University of London, 1967.
"Accidents may, however, follow the use of this so-called killed (rabies) vaccine owing to inadequate processing. A very serious occurrence of this sort occurred at Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, in 1960. No fewer than 18 out of 66 persons vaccinated with Fermi's carbolized (rabies) vaccine suffered from encephalomyelitis and every one of the eighteen died." Sir Graham Wilson, Hazards of Immunization.
"At a press conference in Washington on 24 July, 1942, the Secretary of War reported that 28,585 cases of jaundice had been observed in the (American) Army between 1 January and 4 July after yellow fever vaccination, and of these 62 proved fatal." Sir Graham Wilson, Hazards of Immunization.
"The world's biggest trial (conducted in south India) to assess the value of BCG tuberculosis vaccine has made the startling revelation that the vaccine 'does not give any protection against bacillary forms of tuberculosis.' The study said to be 'most exhaustive and meticulous,' was launched in 1968 by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) with assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.
"The incidence of new cases among the BCG vaccinated group was slightly (but statistically insignificantly) higher than in the control group, a finding that led to the conclusion that BCG's protective effect 'was zero.'" New Scientist, November 15, 1979, as quoted by Hans Ruesch in Naked Empress, Civis Publishers, Switzerland, 1982.
"Between 10 December 1929 and 30 April 1930, 251 of 412 infants born in Lubeck received three doses of BCG vaccine by the mouth during the first ten days of life. Of these 251, 72 died of tuberculosis, most of them in two to five months and all but one before the end of the first year. In addition, 135 suffered from clinical tuberculosis but eventually recovered; and 44 became tuberculin-positive but remained well. None of the 161 unvaccinated infants born at the time was affected in this way and none of these died of tuberculosis within the following three years." Hazards of Immunization, Wilson.
"We conducted a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial to test the efficacy of the 14-valent pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide vaccine in 2295 high-risk patients… Seventy-one episodes of proved or probable pneumococcal pneumonia or bronchitis occurred among 63 of the patients (27 placebo recipients and 36 vaccine recipients)… We were unable to demonstrate any efficacy of the pneumococcal vaccine in preventing pneumonia or bronchitis in this population." New England Journal of Medicine, November 20, 1986, p. 1318, Michael Simberkoff et al.
"But already before Salk developed his vaccine, polio had been constantly regressing; the 39 cases out of every 100,000 inhabitants registered in 1942 had gradually diminished from year to year until they were reduced to only 15 cases in 1952… according to M. Beddow Baylay, the English surgeon and medical historian." Slaughter of the Innocent, Hans Reusch, Civitas Publishers, Switzerland, and Swain, New York, 1983.
"Many published stories and reports have stated, implied and otherwise led professional people and the public to believe that the sharp reduction of cases (and of deaths) from poliomyelitis in 1955 as compared to 1954 is attributable to the Salk vaccine… That it is a misconception follows from these considerations. The number of children inoculated has been too small to account for the decrease. The sharp decrease was apparent before the inoculations began or could take effect and was of the same order as the decrease following the immediate post-inoculation period." Dr. Herbert Ratner, Child and Family, vol. 20, no. 1, 1987.
"So far it is hardly possible to gain insight into the extent of the immunization catastrophe of 1955 in the United States. It may be considered certain that the officially ascertained 200 cases (of polio) which were caused directly or indirectly by the (polio) vaccination constitute minimum figures… It can hardly be estimated how many of the 1359 (polio) cases among vaccinated persons must be regarded as failures of the vaccine and how many of them were infected by the vaccine. A careful study of the epidemiologic course of polio in the United States yields indications of grave significance. In numerous states of the U.S.A., typical early epidemics developed with the immunizations in the spring of 1955… The vaccination incidents of the year 1955 cannot be exclusively traced back to the failure of one manufacturing firm." Dr. Herbert Ratner, Child and Family, 1980, vol. 19, no. 4, "Story of the Salk Vaccine (Part 2)."
"Suffice it to say that most of the large (polio) epidemics that have occurred in this country since the introduction of the Salk vaccine have followed the wide-scale use of the vaccine and have been characterized by an uncommon early seasonal onset. To name a few, there is the Massachusetts epidemic of 1955; the Chicago epidemic of 1956; and the Des Moines epidemic of 1959." Dr. Herbert Ratner, Child and Family, 1980 vol. 19, no. 4.
"The live (Sabin) poliovirus vaccine has been the predominant cause of domestically arising cases of paralytic poliomyelitis in the United States since 1972. To avoid the occurrence of such cases, it would be necessary to discontinue the routine use of live poliovirus vaccine." Jonas Salk, Science, March 4, 1977, p. 845.
"By the (U.S.) government's own admission, there has been a 41% failure rate in persons who were previously vaccinated against the (measles) virus." Dr. Anthony Morris, John Chriss, BG Young, "Occurrence of Measles in Previously Vaccinated Individuals," 1979; presented at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology at Fort Detrick, Maryland, April 27, 1979.
"Prior to the time doctors began giving rubella (German measles) vaccinations, an estimated 85% of adults were naturally immune to the disease (for life). Because of immunization, the vast majority of women never acquire natural immunity (or lifetime protection)." Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, Let's Live, December 1983, as quoted by Carolyn Reuben in the LA WEEKLY, June 28, 1985.
"Adminstration of KMV (killed measles vaccine) apparently set in motion an aberrant immunologic response that not only failed to protect children against natural measles, but resulted in heightened susceptibility." JAMA Aug. 22, 1980, vol. 244, p. 804, Vincent Fulginiti and Ray Helfer. The authors indicate that such falsely protected children can come down with "an often severe, atypical form of measles. Atypical measles is characterized by fever, headache… and a diverse rash (which)… may consist of a mixture of macules, papules, vesicles, and pustules… "
The above quotes reflect only a mere fraction of an available literature which shows there is a need for an extensive review of vaccination. It is certain that undisclosed, unlooked for illness occurs as a result of vaccines, or as a result of infection after protective immunity should have been conferred but wasn't. A certain amount of this sort of illness is immunosuppressive in the widest sense, and some in a narrower sense (depression of T-cell numbers, etc.). When looking for unusual illness and immune depression, vaccines are one of those areas which remain partially hidden from investigation. That is a mistake. It is not adequate to say, "Vaccines are simple; they stimulate the immune system and confer immunity against specific germ agents." That is the glossy presentation. What vaccines often do is something else. They engage some aspect of the body's immune-response, but to what effect over the long term? Why, for example, do children who have measles vaccine develop a susceptibility to another more severe, atypical measles? Is that virulent form of the disease the result of reactivation of the virus in the vaccine?
Official reports on vaccine reactions are often at odds with unofficial estimates because of the method of analysis used. If vaccine-reaction is defined as a small set of possible effects experienced within 72 hours of an inoculation, then figures will be smaller. But doctors like G.T. Stewart, of the University of Glasgow, have found through meticulous investigation, including visits to hospitals and interviews with parents of vaccinated children, that reactions as severe as brain-damage (e.g., from the DPT vaccine) can be overlooked, go unreported and can be assumed mistakenly to have come from other causes.
Category: Bad Medicine, VaccinesTags: CDC blunders, Lies, Serious Adverse Reactions, SIDS, vaccine related deaths, Vaccines
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The building C.T.T.A., commitment between funcionalismo and sosteniblidad low-cost.
The building C.T.T.A. (Center of Transfer of Applied Technologies) is the result of a work developed throughout almost four years in the study of architecture vallisoletano Rodrigo Almonacid's [r-architecture] for order of the Scientific Park University of Valladolid.
The preliminary design presented to the contest of ideas in June, 2008 it turned out to be award winner with the first prize (according to the juror composed by Patxi Mangado, Luis Fernandez-Galiano and Juan Antonio Cortés, between others), with a qualified offer "Entropy Machine for a Sustainable Habitat". There already an aesthetic commitment was formulated between the modern funcionalismo and the architecture bioclimática, with that it wants to appear to a born architecture of the abstraction and cleanliness visual but compatible with an energy efficiency that minimizes the impact of his "ecological fingerprint". The final formalization answers to the definitive project written in 2010 under strong budgetary restrictions, in that a relation reached cost / surface of 998,91 €/m2, really low ratio for this typology destined for administrative use (offices and laboratories of scientific investigation), and always observing a reduction of future consumptions derived from the use and maintenance of the building.
In functional terms, the C.T.T.A. was conceived as a space of rotating and flexible occupation that was allowing the meeting between investigators of the university area and of the managerial world. Any accession on this building – platform had to assume a "nomadic" condition, where the permanency of spaces or his anchorage in the time would be vague: the condition of maximum flexibility supposed accepting the possibility of changes in the time of a natural way, as the first condition and sine qua odd number. The space was formed by means of the overlapping of floating trays where to lodge the areas of work. One was trying to obtain a certification " isotropía functionally " thanks to the versatility of the central thorn of technological infrastructures (a linear present patinillo in all the plants on low), and to the false ceilings of metallic opened muds and registrables for modules, with which it is endowed to all the enclosures of work.
From the beginning, the aim was to bet for a piece of architecture that, in spite of his great volume and the limited free surrounding space, was showing with audacity his bold lightness inside the campus of the University of Valladolid in the one that registers. Opposite to the set of "heavy" neighboring buildings, it was chosen for the dispute, offering a light and delicate piece. Aesthetically it was conceived to the building as the floating overlapping of a translucent and luminous volume on a massive and opaque podium, of more solid construction, which would solve the contact with the soil to level of semi-basement. Thus, the building is tensed in the rough contrast between the tectonic order and the estereo order. Between both orders there is inserted horizontally a transparent crack that seems to do levitar the light one on the heavy one, demonstrated furthermore if it fits for the horizontal slide of a piece with regard to other one. Two slender and mute black boxes of concrete vertebran the vertical communications of the building, giving up indexing the scale of the building, objecting this way his erect condition to the horizontalidad of the set.
This abstract volumetric disposition became compatible by the aim to reduce the energetic losses across the surrounding one, on having created a volume of low shape factor. Due to this formal compactness, the air conditioning of the interior space diminished strictly to the working spaces (offices, laboratories, offices, rooms of meetings), isolating the residual spaces out of the principal volume (garage, quarters of facilities, stairs, bathroom, stores, etc.).
Attending to the ordinances of the campus, the building was orientated longitudinally in direction I CAN – NOT. There was designed the surrounding principal completely translucent one in his four foreheads, an abstract solution in the formal thing and isótropa in the energetic thing (like " isothermal box ", paraphrasing to Him Corbusier), that achieves an enormous capture of natural light (minimizing the use of the artificial lighting, one of the energetic major consumptions in office blocks).
To optimize the passive architectural conditioning, the scheme was invested tipológico traditionally on having located the corridors making a detour periféricamente to the enclosures of work, with two only ones you were squeaking structural in longitudinal sense that they leave in projecting to the whole perimeter of the wrought ones. On having made it like that, these act as horizontal protections for the interior sombreamiento of the enclosures of work in summer, without in winter there prevent the thermal and light earnings due to the minor inclination of the solar beams. Both vertical cores (with stairs, elevator and bathroom), act as " black bodies " that absorb and retain the heat in winter, provide an effective sombreamiento with some with the zones most exposed to the overheating in summer, and increase the thermal global inertia of the building.
The decision to alter the conventional typology has been, at last, one of the most fertile in all his aspects. Beside achieving a major extent and luminosity in the spaces of traffic, aúnan spatially, formally and térmicamente three plants of offices, and uniformiza visually the translucent body from the exterior. This has turned to the peripheral corridors in an intermediate space, a "double inhabitable skin" formed as peripheral constant band, and confined between the "exterior skin" of dovetailing panels of cellular polycarbonate of last generation (U=1,00 W/m2. K) and the " interior skin" of glass screens and wood of vaporized beech.
The translucent condition of the exterior skin assures a high contribution of natural light and leaks great part of the infrared radiations without coming to complex systems of solar protection. On the other hand, the interior skin of the screens, glazed of soil to ceiling, he assures a maximum utilization of the natural indirect lighting in the enclosures of work. The glass in the corridors is double, with cap of fall emisividad and butiral of safety with sound transmission loss, increasing the performance of the winter heating inside the places and offering a changeable aspect in the interior that aúna intimacy and transparency in the offices.
This strategy obtains this way an air coat and light between two skins, authentic " absorber bioclimático " between the exterior and interior conditions, which it optimizes the architectural passive solutions and reduces consumptions for active conditioning of the interior. The generated "greenhouse effect" periféricamente will allow to reduce notably the consumption of the heating in the months of extreme cold, managing to do without her in the months of intermediate temperatures (spring / autumn). And in summer, the porosity of the exterior skin will allow a free cooling in night schedule thanks to the striping of practicable windows.
By means of the installation of a system of home automated centralized control, the use of the facilities is optimized to achieve an adjustment more come closer the existing demand in every moment, managing to obtain of them the maximum efficiency to reduce the consumptions. This system controls the functioning of the thermal facilities (system of recovery entálpica in the equipments of mechanical ventilation, variators of frequency in the bombs of traffic, etc.), of the artificial lighting (with systems of regulation and control, as well as detection of presence), and even the opening motorized of the windows of glass muds inserted in the fronts, attending to a series of exterior and interior probes distributed by the building.
Collaborators: CYA PROYECTOS (Facilities and energy efficiency), PEJARBO S.L. (structures), BENITO GARCÍA P. (Direction of execution of the work and coordinator of safety and health), RAQUEL CABRERO O. (Delineation and models), Lluís Casals (photography).
Basic project and of Execution: I shrivel, 2010.
Term of work: 14 months (December, 2010 – January, 2012).
Preliminary design: 1er. I reward contest of ideas 2008 summoned by the University of Valladolid and the Architects' Official College of Valladolid. Juror: Patxi Mangado, Juan Antonio Cortés, Luis Fernandez-Galiano.


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Evansville és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat de Wyoming. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 2.255 habitants.

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Segons el cens del 2000, Evansville tenia 2.255 habitants, 848 habitatges, i 561 famílies. La densitat de població era de 340,1 habitants/km².

Dels 848 habitatges en un 39,2% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 41,3% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 17,9% dones solteres, i en un 33,8% no eren unitats familiars. En el 25,8% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 6,7% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,66 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 3,15.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 32,1% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 13,7% entre 18 i 24, un 28,6% entre 25 i 44, un 18,4% de 45 a 60 i un 7,2% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 27 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 88,9 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 25.375 $ i la renda mediana per família de 28.603 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 26.536 $ mentre que les dones 17.981 $. La renda per capita de la població era d'11.657 $. Entorn del 21,4% de les famílies i el 25,9% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

Comtat de Natrona
Entitats de població del comtat de Natrona

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Decentralised energy systems based on micro-hydro power can increase access to energy in remote off-grid locations. In the medium and long term, micro-hydro plants (MHPs) installed in rural settings may face maintenance problems and stop working at optimal levels. One of the main reasons for poor operation is under-utilisation: low plant load factors leading to weak cash-flow and, as a result, to insufficient maintenance. Simultaneously, opportunities for income-generating activities and for supporting rural enterprises often go unexploited.
Practical Action aimed to promote the long-term use of certain existing MHPs using a holistic approach called Participatory Market System Development (PMSD). It emphasises stakeholder participation for creating sustainable rural enterprises and empowering marginalised market actors.
Five existing micro-hydro projects (three in Nepal and two in Odisha state, India) ranging from 14 to 100 kW capacity, saw their MHPs serviced and refurbished. Moreover, additional demand for power was created by establishing 21 new enterprises, ranging from mills for rice and wheat to construction businesses. The aim was to increase the load factors of the MHPs and, consequently, their financial viability.
Lastly, technical and business skills trainings were provided to the existing and new MHP users. The project also supported rural enterprises establishment and operation for optimum utilisation of the MHPs. All the activities are expected to contribute ultimately to the long-term sustainability of the MHPs. The project also worked towards influencing policymakers to remove policy barriers to micro-hydro and to support energy-based rural enterprises.
The technical aspect of the project revolved around improving the reliability of the energy supply at the five targeted MHPs. The first step was to identify the rehabilitation, improvement and maintenance needs and to determine a baseline against which project outcomes could be measured. The improvements included replacing or refurbishing generators, fixing water leaks in the canals, de-silting tanks, repairing distribution lines and points, installing new meters, replacing one whole turbine and various parts of others, and refurbishing the power houses. The community and the MHP management committees actively participated in this work.
Non-technical efforts were directed towards making MHP management committees aware of opportunities for increased revenue generation from the sale of a reliable electricity supply. In addition, the project provided incubation support to new enterprises and helped existing ones to upgrade by providing advice and capacity development on business planning and management. Capacity development activities also targeted policymakers and local partners, and aimed to explain the Participatory Market System Development (PMSD) approach.
Key stakeholders of the MHPs and selected enterprises participated in PMSD workshops at the five project sites. The process helped to identify potential enterprises in the MHP catchment areas. Market studies for the potential enterprises were then carried out and support was provided to the entrepreneurs to develop their business plans. Additionally, the project supported the entrepreneurs in the selection, procurement, installation and operation of machinery and equipment. The project also provided financial support to the entrepreneurs as an incentive to establish and run their businesses and facilitated links to micro-finance institutions.
At the start of the project, the Nepalese MHPs had functioning community funds to cover maintenance and operation costs. In contrast, the funds for the two MHPs in Odisha state were inactive. The project supported the reactivation of the funds and established systems for their long-term management.
Finally, the capacity of the MHP management committees and operators was enhanced through targeted training, shadowing/exposure experiences and workshops.
In addition to enhancing access to electricity in remote rural locations, the project contributed to replacing the use of fossil fuels. As the project involved existing MHPs, no particular provisions were made to assess the environmental impact of the plants.
The project worked to improve governance and transparency in the management of MHPs. Efforts were made to promote gender equity and the inclusion of marginalised groups. Of the 21 new income-generating enterprises, two are owned and operated by women.
Regular interaction with the communities was key to their involvement in improved MHP management and to creating a sense of ownership. Throughout, Practical Action worked in partnership with local NGOs (Dhaulagiri Community Resource Development Centre (DCRDC) in Nepal and Koraput Farmers' Association (KFA) in Odisha, India).
Five MHPs were rehabilitated and maintained and these now provide a reliable electricity supply, delivering significant efficiency gains. An additional 110 households (total 1910) were electrified in comparison to the baseline of 1,800.
The productive use of micro-hydro generated electricity has expanded and this, in turn, has led to increased plant load factors by, on average, a factor of two. The monthly income generated by the MHPs has increased proportionately and this additional revenue will ensure adequate cash-flow for long-term operations, repairs and maintenance.
The PMSD approach for the promotion of energy-based rural enterprises was used to provide business counselling and orientation to around 80 individuals. This, in turn, led to 21 new enterprises being formed. A further 20 people were trained in the principles of the approach, with the aim of reaching out to entrepreneurs in other micro-hydro catchment areas.
However, the project results also show differences between the two project sites. While the conditions for developing business activities and increasing productive use in Nepal were favourable, Odisha's situation was not advantageous as access to electricity and practical support cannot instantly bridge the gaps that a community has faced for decades.
Lack of access to electricity is a significant barrier to development in rural communities in Nepal and Odisha state, where around 40% and 70% (respectively) of households have no electricity. Past efforts to exploit the regions' potential for micro-hydro power have encountered varying degrees of success. The experience gained in this project might help to re-energise under-performing micro-hydro projects by focusing on growing the use of micro-hydro power for productive applications.
To increase the possibility of replication, the project results have been shared via workshops, reports and project visits with local/district governments and ministries in Nepal and Odisha, as well as with the Nepalese Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC).
This experience demonstrates that promotion of end-uses of MHPs and strengthening the financial base of MHPs is instrumental in ensuring their optimal operation and maintenance which, in turn, affects their long-term sustainability. The PMSD approach is warranted where certain underlying conditions for market development exist. For regions and communities facing severe development shortfalls, the approach has limits and needs to be accompanied by other development measures.


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Barcelona increase their offer for Coutinho: 160 million euros
BarcelonaWant to close the deal quickly
Klopp: Nothing I can say about Coutinho would help him or the club
Barcelona squad awaits signings promised by Bartomeu
The signing of Philippe Coutinho by Barcelona is a matter of days away, after the Catalan club increased their original offer to 160 million euros.
Liverpool are willing to negotiate and Coutinho would be the icing on the cake, although the problem is that he can't play in the Champions League this season.
According to The Times, the Blaugrana would pay 120m fixed plus 40m in variables, which would make him the most expensive signing in the history of the club, and also the second most expensive signing in football history after compatriot Neymar.


Years ago cider making was the only way to get fresh apple cider! At Circle K Orchard we have a special way to press apples. Even though we heat the cider to 160 degrees no nutrients are removed!
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As one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges has filed for bankruptcy, the future of the digital currency is now in doubt. But that doesn't change the fact that Lily Allen once called herself an "idiot" for turning down a gig where she was to be paid in Bitcoins. Or that Snoop Dogg and Childish Gambino have publicly declared their interest in them. Or that a knock-off bothered Kanye West enough to sue.
In fact, how do we know that a Bitcoin is worth anything today?
So remember kids, be careful what you invest in.


Have Donald Trump's travel ban, immigration policies affected tourism in the country?
US President Donald Trump's travel ban and immigration policies might have not gone down well in some parts of the world but Caroline Beteta, the Visit California President and CEO, says it's too early to gauge the effect on travel business in the Golden State following such action. "It's little too early to say that because we do our inbound international research long-term. The benefit is California is far away from Washington, it's the other side of the country. Also, people around the world know that California has different culture and vision about embracing diversity and inclusiveness and why it is made for such a strong economy and spirit about California that resonates with everyone," Beteta told IANS during her second India visit here.
Visit California, the destination marketing organisation for California, has brought a CEO Mission to India this month. This delegation consists of 11 CEOs of cities and attractions and is being led by Beteta. She was also the former Vice-Chairperson and Chairperson of Brand USA, where she provided strategic direction for the projected $200 million global programme. California commands 27.5 per cent of the market share from Indian outbound travel market to the US, accounting for 319,000 visitors who spent $706 million in 2016 in the Golden State. Also, according to Visit California, spending by travellers totalled $126.3 billion in 2016 in California, generating 1.1 million jobs in the state and $10.3 billion in state and local tax revenues.
Beteta feels California as travel industry has a message of authenticity and inclusiveness and that's what they are focussing on. "We know that we will connect with people around the world. Also when it comes to safety and security of people, everybody wants to make sure they are given full attention when they are visiting any destination, just like India. So we make sure that we take care of people from all around the world," she said when asked about reports that stated some officials in US are concerned about tourism business going down in the days to come. She also feels that the recent meeting between Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the ASEAN summit in Manila will help the travel business of both the countries.
"Anytime heads of state gather, it's good for the facilitation of international travel," she said. "Travel promotes understanding and I think we are the biggest form of public diplomacy in the form of hospitality industry and bringing peace to this world so a meeting between heads of state definitely helps," she added. For her, India holds an important place for tourism growth in California. "We have seen healthy growth and it has increased over the years. We are expecting six-to-seven per cent increase soon and what we have seen is high prospect of growth in next several years... may be about 40 per cent between now and 2021," said Beteta. "With the growing middle class in India, we just feel that we have a lot of connectivity and experiences that would be highly appealing to the Indian market," said the CEO who appeared excited about her trip to Agra to visit Taj Mahal.


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The 2018 NCAA Division I softball tournament was held from May 18 through June 6, 2018 as the final part of the 2018 NCAA Division I softball season. Thirty-two teams were awarded automatic bids as champions of their conferences, and the remaining 32 were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I softball selection committee. The tournament culminated with eight teams playing in the 2018 Women's College World Series at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City. This was the first year since the 2010 Women's College World Series that neither the Florida Gators nor the Oklahoma Sooners made the Championship Series. The Florida State Seminoles played in their first Women's College World Series Championship Series and became the first ACC team to make the Championship Series. The Washington Huskies made their fourth appearance in the Championship Series.

Automatic bids
The Big West, Mountain West, Pac-12, and West Coast Conference bids were awarded to the regular-season champion. All other conferences have the automatic bid go to the conference tournament winner.

National seeds
16 National Seeds were announced on the Selection Show Sunday, May 13 at 10 p.m. EDT on ESPN2. The 16 national seeds host the Regionals. Teams in italics advanced to Super Regionals. Teams in bold advance to Women's College World Series.

1.  (47–7)

2.  (50–8)

3.  (50–4)

4.  (50–3)

5.  (44–8)

6. Florida State (47–10)

7.  (43–11)

8.  (43–11)

9.  (45–14)

10.  (45–12)

11.  (41–14)

12. Alabama (33–18)

13.  (39–15)

14.  (40–14)

15.  (40–16)

16.  (31–19)

Regionals and Super Regionals
The Regionals took place May 17–20, 2018. One regional- Eugene, Oregon, took place May 17–19, 2018, because of BYU's no-Sunday-play policy; all other regionals occurred May 18–20, 2018. The Super Regionals took place from May 24–27, 2018.

Eugene Super Regional

Tempe Super Regional

Seattle Super Regional

Norman Super Regional

Los Angeles Super Regional

Tallahassee Super Regional

Athens Super Regional

Gainesville Super Regional

Women's College World Series
The Women's College World Series was held May 31 through June 6, 2018, in Oklahoma City.

Participants

† = From NCAA Division I Softball Championship Results

Bracket

All-tournament Team
The following players were members of the Women's College World Series All-Tournament Team.

Championship Game

Schedule

Record by conference

The columns RF, SR, WS, NS, F, and NC respectively stand for the Regional Finals, Super Regionals, College World Series Teams, National Semi-Finals, Finals, and National Champion.

Media coverage

Radio
Westwood One provided nationwide radio coverage of the championship series. It was streamed online at westwoodsports.com, through TuneIn, and on SiriusXM. John Sadak made his softball radio debut and joined returning analyst Leah Amico for Westwood One.

Television
ESPN holds exclusive rights to the tournament. They aired games across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network, and ESPN3. For the second time in the history of the women's softball tournament ESPN covered every regional.

Broadcast assignments

Regionals
Eugene: Ted Enberg & Kenzie Fowler
Lexington: Courtney Lyle & Jenny Dalton-Hill
Columbia: Brad Muller & Dr. Megan Buning
Tempe: Tiffany Greene & Amanda Scarborough
Seattle: Eric Collins & Michele Smith
Tuscaloosa: Melissa Lee & Leigh Dakich
Fayetteville: Eric Frede & Jennie Ritter
Norman: Pam Ward & Carol Bruggeman
Super Regionals
Eugene: Mark Neely & Danielle Lawrie
Tempe: Courtney Lyle & Jenny Dalton-Hill
Seattle: Eric Frede & Jennie Ritter
Norman: Pam Ward & Carol Bruggeman
Women's College World Series
Adam Amin, Amanda Scarborough, & Laura Rutledge (afternoons, early Fri)
Beth Mowins, Jessica Mendoza (minus Sunday), Michele Smith, & Holly Rowe (evenings minus early Fri)

Regionals
Los Angeles: Trey Bender & Leah Amico
Tucson: Mark Neely & Danielle Lawrie
Baton Rouge: Lyn Rollins & Yvette Girouard
Tallahassee: Cara Capuano & Cheri Kempf
Athens: Alex Loeb & Megan Willis
Knoxville: Alex Perlman & Francesca Enea
College Station: Tyler Denning & Amanda Freed
Gainesville: Kevin Brown & Erin Miller
Super Regionals
Los Angeles: Beth Mowins, Jessica Mendoza, Michele Smith, & Holly Rowe
Tallahassee: Kevin Brown & Erin Miller
Athens: Alex Loeb & Megan Willis
Gainesville: Tiffany Greene & Amanda Scarborough
Women's College World Series Finals
Beth Mowins, Jessica Mendoza, Michele Smith, & Holly Rowe (tv)
Adam Amin, Amanda Scarborough, Kayla Braud, & Laura Rutledge (ESPN3 Second Screen Experience)

References

NCAA Division I softball tournament
Tournament


The 2015 African Mountain Bike Continental Championships takes place in Musanze, Rwanda, from 8-10 May. The South African Mountain Bike XCO team is ready and excited to race this weekend. Members of the team talk about preparation, training, injuries, and experiences ahead of this weekend's race.
2014 African Continental Champion, Phillip Buys (Scott Factory Racing powered by LCB), who recently injured his shoulder at the third leg of the SA XCO Cup in Mpumalanga, is still excited to race, despite the pain. "My shoulder is quite painful still with certain movements on the bike, but luckily the track here isn't too rough. Mentally, I'm still super keen and motivated to race hard. My injury only had me off the bike for three days, so the legs should still be good. I'm just going to strap my shoulder well for the race and work through the extra pain," he said.
Rourke Croeser (Full Dynamix Pro Team) who has recently returned home, chatted about his mindset after riding in Europe for a month. "Europe has been an eye opener. I have been through good and bad times. Mentally I am a lot more confident in my ability to perform at the top level," said Croeser.
Taking a break from cycle talk, SA Champ and 2014 African Continental MTB women's winner Mariske Strauss (Novus OMX Pro Team) says that she loves her adventures in the country, and has only good things to say about her stay in Rwanda so far. "I absolutely love Africa," she said.
Women's Elite rider, Cherie Vale (Novus OMX Pro Team), is enjoying her time in Rwanda, and appreciating every moment ahead of the racing. "I am not sure exactly how I feel about racing this weekend at the Continental Champs. I am trying not to let the pressure get to me and just enjoy being on my bike pushing my limits. Being in Rwanda reminds me how simple life can be and how we take things for granted," she said.
U23 rider Brendon Davids (Kargo Pro MTB Team), who claimed the 2013 ACC U23 title, spoke about training and preparation ahead the Champs. "Training has been really good up to this point. I'm back at full health and feel really good going into this weekend. I'm very fortunate to be part of the KZN EADP program, which allows me to train in the Hypoxic/Altitude Chamber. This has made the transition into the altitude here in Rwanda pretty seamless. I've spent some time both on the course and the surrounding roads in the area. The locals are super friendly, always greeting with a smile from ear to ear," he said.
Reid mentioned that the rest of the track is made up of narrow single tracks, roots and rocks, and is quite wet and slippery due to the tropical weather.


How can I calculate the impulse response out of S-Parameters using the Data Display Window and equations?
I'm still a ads beginner and I have a question about S-parameter and TDR impulse response.
I would like to reconstruct the functionality of the TDR front panel using the Data Display Window.
In my understanding I get the impulse response when applying the inverse Fourier transform to my S(1,1) data.
After That I can integrate the impulse response to obtain the step response.
However, the result of this calculation is not the same as the calculations using the TDR front panel.
Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?


Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg 1300-1550, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1986), cat. no. 252, repr.
Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 351, pp. 296-297, repr.
Thomas Schauerte and Manuel Teget-Welz, ed., Peter Flötner: Renaissance in Nürnberg, exh. cat., Michael Imhof Verlag and Museen der Stadt Nürnberg (Petersberg, 2014), p. 17, cat. no. 25, repr.


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Woman suffers severe hand injury after breaking into zoo, trying to pet tiger
This photo shows 33-year-old Jacqueline Eide, who was hospitalized and arrested on suspicion of criminal trespass after allegedly breaking into Omaha's zoo and attempting to pet one of the facility's tigers. (Omaha Police)
(FoxNews.com) - A woman was hospitalized early Sunday after she sneaked into Omaha's zoo and attempted to pet a tiger, authorities said.
Police told the Omaha World-Herald, 33-year-old Jacqueline Eide was being treated at Creighton University Medical Center for a bite on her left hand. The paper reported that police didn't learn about what Eide had done until they were called to the hospital to handle a disturbance involving Eide.
Authorities said Eide was acting aggressively toward hospital staff and showed signs of intoxication. Police cited Eide on suspicion of criminal trespass.
Officials at the Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium told the paper they believed Eide was bitten by Mai, the zoo's 18-year-old Malayan tiger. Executive Director Dennis Pate said additional cameras were being installed to monitor the zoo's grounds and gates. Pate told the World-Herald the facility already has security staff on duty around the clock, as well as security cameras, path lighting, and computer-controlled locks to track exit and entry.
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