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Genetic variation in VAC14 is associated with bacteremia secondary to diverse pathogens in African children
View ORCID ProfileJames J. Gilchrist, Alexander J. Mentzer, Anna Rautanen, Matti Pirinen, Salim Mwarumba, Patricia Njuguna, Neema Mturi, Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium 2, The Kenyan Bacteraemia Study Group, Thomas N. Williams, J. Anthony G. Scott, and Adrian V. S. Hill
aWellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, United Kingdom;
bDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom;
cInstitute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland;
dCentre for Geographic Medicine Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute–Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Kilifi 80108, Kenya;
eDepartment of Medicine, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, United Kingdom;
fDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom;
gThe Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom
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PNAS April 17, 2018 115 (16) E3601-E3603; first published March 27, 2018; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1802071115
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rs8060947 and major causes of bacteremia in Kenyan children. (A) Cluster plot of rs8060947 (Affymetrix SNP 6.0 chip) in Kenyan children (n = 4,924); minor allele frequency (MAF) = 0.44, Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) P = 0.11. (B) rs8060947 association with major causes of bacteremia in Kenyan children; NTS, n = 180, Staphylococcus aureus, n = 175, S. pneumoniae, n = 426, E. coli, n = 151, β-hemolytic Streptococci, n = 146, Haemophilus influenza type b, n = 128, Acinetobacter species, n = 130. Log-transformed ORs and 95% CIs of rs8060947 association (additive model) are calculated by multinomial logistic regression, including four principal components of genome-wide genotyping data to account for population structure. (C) Posterior probabilities of models of association at rs8060947: NULL, no association with any pathogen; REL, related effects ∼ N(0,0.22) across all pathogens (correlation is ρ=0.96); SAME, the same effect ∼ N(0,0.22) across all pathogens (correlation is ρ = 1); TOP, a nonzero effect in bacteremia secondary to nontyphoidal Salmonella, E. coli, S. pneumoniae, and Acinetobacter species alone; this model (highlighted in red) is the most probable (Bayes factor c.f. NULL = 14). Genotype and phenotype data are derived from Rautanen et al. (6). Methods are as described in Rautanen et al. (6).
Association plot of bacteremia susceptibility at the VAC14 locus. SNPs are colored according to strength of linkage disequilibrium (r2) to rs8060947. Association statistics are calculated using an additive model including bacteremia cases secondary to NTS, E. coli, S. pneumoniae, and Acinetobacter species (n = 887) and shared, healthy controls (n = 2,677). rs8044133 is imputed (imputation information score = 0.996), MAF = 0.47, with no evidence of departure from HWE (P = 0.73). Common (MAF > 0.05), well-imputed SNPs (imputation information score > 0.4), with no evidence for departure from HWE (P > 1 × 10−10) were included in the analysis. Association statistics are calculated by logistic regression, including four principal components of genome-wide genotyping data to account for population structure. Genotype and phenotype data are derived from Rautanen et al. (6). Methods are as described in Rautanen et al. (6).
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A MOTORIST who was caught driving without insurance for a fourth and fifth time in less than six months was sentenced to five months' imprisonment after he was deemed unsuitable to carry out community service.
Shane O'Malley, 39, of Castle Gardens, Bunratty, County Clare, pleaded guilty to a number of road traffic offences relating to detections made at Ballycannon, Meelick on April 4, 2018 and at Pineview Gardens, Moyross on October 2, 2018.
Each of the detections were made by members of the divisional Roads Policing Unit who were on routine patrol.
At Limerick District Court Inspector Liz Kennedy said the defendant, who has a total of 24 previous convictions for road traffic offences, was disqualified from driving on each occasion he was stopped.
Most of the convictions, she added, related to offences which were committed in County Clare.
Solicitor John Herbert said his client, who works as a mechanic, was dealing with a serious drug addition around the time of both offences and that this had "clouded his judgment".
He said Mr O'Malley has access to cars through his work and that he accepts his behaviour was out of order.
The solicitor urged the court to give his client one final chance and to not impose a custodial sentence.
"He has resolved to deal with his underlying issues," said Mr Herbert who added that he fully understands the seriousness of his offending.
Noting his previous poor record, Judge Mary Larkin asked why the defendant has not learned his lesson?
"What part of 'you cannot drive without insurance' does he not understand? He has been putting his head in the sand." she said.
Speaking from the body of the court, Mr O'Malley told the judge "I understand it now". He added that he would not drive again.
Judge Larkin said she was willing to give him a chance and indicated she was considering a penalty of 180 hours of community service in lieu of a five month prison sentence.
However, she was informed by a probation officer a short time later that he was not suitable for community service as he had not cooperated with the Probation Service in the past.
After noting this, the judge proceeded to impose the five-month prison sentence.
Mr O'Malley was fined €200 for driving without a licence at Meelick and disqualified from driving for six years.
Judge Larkin imposed a separate four month prison sentence, which she suspended for 12 months, in relation to the offence at Pineview Gardens.
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Columbia Masterworks Records was a record label started in 1924 by Columbia Records. In 1980, it was separated from the Columbia label and renamed CBS Masterworks Records. In 1990, it was renamed Sony Classical Records after its sale to the Sony Corporation.
When Columbia Records undertook the project of releasing great classical music for domestic sale in America, the label was still a year away from an "electrical" recording process. In November 1924, the first eight releases had been recorded acoustically. These first eight sets included five symphonic recordings--Beethoven's Seventh and Eighth Symphonies, Dvorak's "From the New World", Mozart's E-Flat Major (No. 39), and Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique". Three recordings by quartets were also part of that initial offering.[1] More releases followed in March 1925, and a staggering 18 sets were added that fall. The prices of these sets varied with the number of included discs, from $4.50 to $10.50.
Under the leadership of Columbia's president Goddard Lieberson, who later added the rest of the Columbia label to his portfolio, a great many notable classical artists made contributions to the Columbia Masterworks library, such as the conductors Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy and George Szell; pianists Walter Gieseking, Oscar Levant and Glenn Gould; and the organist E. Power Biggs. Composers Aaron Copland and Igor Stravinsky also appeared conducting their own works.
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Mercury Theatre original cast recording for Caesar (Columbia Masterworks Records M-325, 1939)
In addition to classical music, Columbia also issued cast recordings, soundtrack albums, and spoken-word recordings under the Masterworks name. One of the first spoken word albums of historical significance was the Masterworks release of ten scenes from the Mercury Theatre's Broadway production of Caesar (Columbia Masterworks Set No. 325), recorded in March 1938[2]:340 and released in 1939.[3]:349 Sales were such that Columbia engaged Welles and the Mercury Theatre to produce four Shakespeare plays (Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Macbeth) for the phonograph in 1939 and 1940. The sets were opulently bound and included a hardcover book.[2]:339-341
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The first wildly successful spoken word album was a 1948 Masterworks entry, the first I Can Hear It Now album (Columbia M-800 and ML-4095), edited by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly and supervised by former CBS staffer J.G. Gude. The album would lead to three sequels, the Hear It Now program on the CBS Radio Network in 1950 and the CBS-TV successor, See It Now, in 1951. Columbia Masterworks was also the first recording company to release an album of a nearly complete stage production--the record-breaking 1943 Broadway revival of Shakespeare's Othello, starring Paul Robeson, José Ferrer and Uta Hagen. This was released in 1945 as a 17-record 78-RPM album in two binders (M-MM-554), and afterwards as a three-LP set (SL-153). Many years later, in 1962, Columbia Masterworks would release a four-LP album of the complete Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring its original Broadway cast: Uta Hagen, Arthur Hill, George Grizzard and Melinda Dillon. And in 1964, Columbia Masterworks would release a complete album of the 1964 Broadway revival of Hamlet, starring Richard Burton and directed by John Gielgud--the longest-running Hamlet in Broadway history to date.
Columbia Masterworks' most successful Broadway album was the original cast recording of My Fair Lady (OL-5090, 1956), starring Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway and Robert Coote. This first album was issued only in mono, but the first stereo recording of My Fair Lady--featuring the same four stars, this time with the London cast--followed in 1959. And in 1964, Columbia Masterworks issued the film soundtrack album of the show, starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn's "singing voice", Marni Nixon. The most successful film soundtrack release on Columbia Masterworks was the film version of West Side Story, released as OS-2070 in 1961 and being certified triple-platinum as of 2017.[4] Next on the list is The Graduate, released in 1968 as OS-3180, featuring the music of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, then the best-selling pop music act on the roster of the parent Columbia label. Partly as a result of the immense popularity of this release, Columbia Masterworks also released a spoken-word recording of excerpts from the soundtrack of the Dustin Hoffman film Little Big Man.
Columbia Masterworks was also responsible for the original cast albums of Kiss Me, Kate (1948) and South Pacific (1949), as well as for the original stage album of West Side Story (1957), and the original cast recordings of Gypsy (1959), The Sound of Music (again 1959), Flower Drum Song (1958), and Camelot (1960). In 1946, Columbia Masterworks released the first album of Show Boat featuring the cast of an actual production of the show, not just one or two singers from it as had been done before. This 1946 revival of Show Boat, which starred Jan Clayton, Charles Fredericks, Carol Bruce, Ralph Dumke, and Kenneth Spencer, was the longest-running revival of a show up to that time. They also released a long series of studio cast albums of Broadway shows, such as The Student Prince, The Desert Song, Girl Crazy, Oh, Kay!, and again, Show Boat.
Another genre that Columbia Masterworks released some seminal albums in was electronic music. Early 1964 saw the release of Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, a compilation of avant-garde electronic compositions created at the famed studio by Bulent Arel, Milton Babbitt, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and others. In 1968, Wendy Carlos's landmark electronic-music album Switched-On Bach, containing transcriptions of a number of Bach's most famous compositions for the Moog synthesizer, was issued on Columbia Masterworks, which continued to release Carlos's output until the mid-1980s. Morton Subotnick's Sidewinder followed in 1971. The label also released several other lesser classical-meets-synthesiser albums in the wake of the Switched-On Bach success.
Columbia Masterworks was renamed CBS Masterworks Records in 1980 and separated from the Columbia label. In 1990, it was renamed Sony Classical Records because of the sale of CBS Records to the Sony Corporation.
The Masterworks name lives on in the label's Broadway album label, Masterworks Broadway Records as well as the name of the label's parent Sony Masterworks.
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^ Welles, Orson; Bogdanovich, Peter; Rosenbaum, Jonathan (1992). This is Orson Welles. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 0-06-016616-9.
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Argyll (Earra-Ghàidheal en gaélique écossais, historiquement aussi écrit Argyle) est une région de l'Ouest de l'Écosse correspondant plus ou moins à l'ancien Dál Riata, située en Grande-Bretagne sur la côte ouest entre Mull of Kintyre et Cap Wrath.

L'auteur de De Situ Albanie au  explique que « le nom Arregathel signifie margin des Écossais ou Irlandais, car Écossais et Irlandais sont appelés Gattheli [=Gaëls], du nom de leur ancien chef militaire Gaithelglas. » Toutefois, on pense également que le terme pourrait dériver de Earra-Ghàidheal, « côte des Gaëls. » Argyll est un ancien diocèse médiéval, dont la cathédrale est située à Lismore, et plus récemment un comté et un duché, le duché d'Argyll.

Comté et district

Argyll, parfois anglicisé en Argyllshire, est un ancien comté d'Écosse entre 1890 et 1975. Il borde le comté d'Inverness, le Perthshire, le Dunbartonshire, le Renfrewshire, l'Ayrshire et le comté de Bute. Le Renfrewshire et l'Ayrshire forme l'autre côté du Firth of Clyde. Bute est un comté insulaire dans le firth.

La capitale du comté est historiquement Inveraray, qui est toujours le siège du duc d'Argyll. Lochgilphead se réclame plus tard centre du comté en tant que siège du gouvernement local. Aucune de ces villes n'est la plus peuplée de la région puisque les plus grandes villes d'Argyll sont Oban, Dunoon et Campbeltown.

Les Small Isles faisaient partie du comté, jusqu'à ce qu'elles soient transférées à l'Inverness-shire en 1891, d'après les règles établies par la loi de gouvernement local de 1889.

On cesse d'utiliser le terme de comté d'Argyll comme entité de gouvernement local en 1975 lorsque la région est partagée entre les régions d'Highland et Strathclyde. Un district portant le nom d'Argyll and Bute est formé dans le Strathclyde, englobant une bonne partie de l'Argyll et l'île de Bute.

En 1996 un nouveau système de gouvernement local est instauré, et la council area d'Argyll and Bute est créée.

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Most Americans undoubtedly have little idea what a think tank actually does. Having worked at two of them myself, it's fair to say that even those of us who have labored inside these basic building blocks for policymaking in Washington are often still trying to figure out just what many of them do. Still, whether you know it or not, you've certainly seen think-tank employees on cable news, heard them on the radio, or read their op-ed pieces.
After all, think tanks are homes for so many of the "experts" who are the go-to sources for media coverage of foreign and domestic policy topics on just about any day — and are often key go-to sources for those making policy in Washington, too). You know, the former Department of Defense official you caught on NBC News discussing Iran or the Middle Eastern expert you saw quoted in Newsweek critiquing the Trump administration's policies there. Outside the public eye, members of Congress and executive branch officials rely heavily on think tanks for expertise on a wide range of issues, for key congressional testimony, and even for quite literally helping craft public policy.
Every year foreign governments pour tens of millions of dollars into those very institutions and, though many think tanks are tax-exempt non-profits, such donations often turn out to be anything but charitable gifts. Foreign contributions generally come with critically important strings attached — usually a favorable stance toward that country in whatever influential work the think tanks are doing. In other words, those experts you regularly read or see on screen, whose scholarship and advice Washington's politicians and other officials often use, are in some cases being paid, directly or indirectly, by the very countries on which they are offering advice and analysis. And here's the catch: they can do so without ever having to tell you about it.
Such comments, like the events themselves, are just the norm in Washington think-tank life — unless, that is, you follow the money, in which case they seem both striking and supremely ironic. On any given day, Washington is, in fact, awash in foreign-policy events at think tanks. There, experts convene to publicly discuss just about every topic you'd want to hear about — except one, of course: their funding. And that is what made the Katulis-Salem exchange particularly interesting. What they and their follow panelists never mentioned at an event extolling the importance of think tanks in helping craft political Washington's Middle East policies was this: both CAP and MEI have received millions of dollars from authoritarian governments in the Middle East.
MEI has publicly reported receiving millions from Saudi Arabia and lesser amounts from the Persian Gulf states of Oman and Qatar. By far its largest donor, however, seems to have been the United Arab Emirates (UAE), reportedly making a "secret" $20 million contribution to that think tank, earmarked to "hire experts in order to counter the more egregious misperceptions about the region" and "to inform U.S. government policymakers." In other words, in the spirit of that MEI panel title, the UAE's funding was explicitly designed to shape that think tank's — and so U.S. — policy considerations.
While hardly in that $20 million range, CAP has also publicly reported receiving at least $1.5 million from the UAE.
And keep in mind that those two think tanks are hardly the only ones receiving donations from countries in the Middle East. The Center for a New American Security, for instance, received $250,000 from the United Arab Emirates to produce a study on the need for the U.S. to export military-grade drones to countries like… the UAE. That think tank's subsequent report on the topic notes that the U.S. doesn't export drones to the UAE and other countries, but should because "this reluctance to transfer U.S. drones harms U.S. interests in tangible ways." Never mind that a third of those killed in drone strikes in the devastating war in Yemen are civilians.
The Brookings Institution received a $14.8 million donation from Qatar. In fact, according to a New York Times analysis, nearly all of the most prominent foreign-policy think tanks in Washington have accepted money from authoritarian regimes in the Middle East or elsewhere. And that, in turn, is just the tip of the iceberg, since think tanks are not legally required to publicly disclose their funding.
If think tanks are to be believed, the money they receive from such funders changes little. Recent events at a number of think tanks, including the Center for American Progress and the Middle East Institute, should, however, give pause to anyone who assumes that such institutions are by their nature insulated from the influence of foreign funders.
Recently, serious questions have been raised about whether CAP's ties to the UAE, itself a close ally of the Saudi royals, contributed to its awkward response to the brutal murder of Washington Post journalist and Saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi in that Kingdom's embassy in Istanbul, Turkey. Following that killing, CAP released a response condemning the Saudis for their involvement in Khashoggi's murder, but not calling for specific consequences to punish the Kingdom.
According to reporting by the Intercept's Ryan Grim, such consequences were stripped from the statement by a CAP staffer who just happened to be Brian Katulis. Then, in December, CAP largely sat on the sidelines as the Senate passed a historic resolution to end U.S. involvement in the devastating Saudi-UAE war in Yemen. At the MEI event in January, Katulis dismissed those giving "energy and dynamism" to "the Yemen debate" for ignoring "the full complexity of the challenges." Jamal Khashoggi's name wasn't even mentioned.
Just seven months later, bin Salman would reportedly authorize the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi and, in January 2019, Nazer himself would become the official spokesperson for the Saudi Embassy in Washington.
Nazer's case also illustrates a growing pattern of interactions between think tanks that receive foreign funding and the registered foreign agents of those countries. In fact, Emirati foreign agents last year reported contacting think tanks at least 85 times, according to an analysis of Foreign Agents Registration Act filings for a forthcoming report on the Emirati lobby in the U.S. by the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy, which I direct.
Perhaps not surprisingly, CAP's Katulis and MEI were among the top think-tank contacts for UAE's foreign agents. According to 2018 filings, Katulis was contacted at least 12 times by the Harbour Group, which the UAE paid more than $5 million in 2018 to "influence U.S. policy," according to the firm's FARA filings. Katulis was a particular focus for them because he was helping to organize a "study tour" in which think-tank experts would take a luxurious trip to both the UAE and Saudi Arabia. That group also contacted MEI at least 14 times on behalf of the UAE, directing most of its efforts towards a "speaking engagement at MEI" for the Emirati ambassador to the U.S., the same man who had directed that "secret" $20 million contribution to the institute.
Under current law, it is perfectly legal for think tanks that receive funding from foreign governments to also work with foreign agents registered to represent those very governments. FARA includes an exemption for those engaged in "bona fide… scholastic, academic, or scientific pursuits." Like many parts of the FARA statute, it's not at all clear what "bona fide" means, but think tanks are presumably exempt from registration if they meet this threshold.
While the work done by both think tanks and registered foreign agents can sometimes overlap, the two are worlds apart on one critical score: transparency. Under FARA, registered foreign agents are required to disclose a considerable amount of what they do, including whom they're working for, how much they're being paid, and whom they're contacting, as well as when and where they do it, on behalf of foreign principals like the United Arab Emirates. And most of that information is available online. Anything they distribute on behalf of a foreign backer must also include a "conspicuous statement" to let anyone know that what they're reading is being distributed on behalf of a foreign principal.
Think tanks receiving funding from foreign sources are, however, not required to do any of the above.
While MEI and CAP do both disclose their funding sources on their websites — for which they should be commended — many think tanks do not. And few, even among those that do, mention any potential conflicts of interest that might be reflected in their published reports or the speeches and media appearances of their members. Even more worrisome, a Project On Government Oversight investigation by Lydia Dennett found numerous examples of think-tank experts not reporting or mentioning financial ties to foreign governments when testifying before Congress. Hiding such potential conflicts of interest is likely to leave the public and policymakers with the impression that they're hearing truly objective experts, when they may, in fact, be taking testimony from someone who is functionally or literally on the payroll of a country with a deep stake in what they're telling Congress.
If think tanks are to remain credible sources of foreign-policy expertise, such ties must, at the very least, be laid bare.
A first step would simply be to require think tanks to publicly disclose any foreign funding they receive, something easily done by amending the IRS code. In addition, just as registered foreign agents are required to include a "conspicuous statement" letting readers know they're working on behalf of a foreign power, think tanks should have to fully disclose their funding sources and any potential conflicts of interest in all their written products, as well as at speaking engagements, especially testimony before Congress. It should also be incumbent upon the media to do a better job of vetting sources. Sure, journalists are extraordinarily busy, but if a simple Google search can reveal that the Middle East "expert" you're quoting is being paid by a country in the Middle East, it behooves you to tell your readers that.
CAP, MEI, and Brookings are, however, the exceptions. Most think tanks haven't done "the right thing" and dropped funding from autocratic regimes. Nor are they likely to voluntarily increase transparency about that funding. The burden then falls on Congress to enact reforms ensuring that senators and representatives will know when the expert they're hearing discuss a specific country or the region it's in is being paid by that very same country. Failure to act could leave Americans asking a simple and uncomfortable question: Which country is buying U.S. foreign policy today?
Ben Freeman, a TomDispatch regular, is the Director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy and author of The Foreign Policy Auction.
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Paul McCartney: The Rolling Stone Interview
At 74, the iconic musician is touring as hard as ever, still aiming for the pop charts – and ready to look back his extraordinary six-decade career.
By David Fricke
Paul McCartney strums an acoustic guitar on a sofa in his London office, humming to himself as he tries to recall a melody from his adolescence – one of the first, never-recorded songs he wrote with his teenage friend John Lennon, on their way to starting the Beatles in Liverpool. "It was like…" McCartney says, then hits a rockabilly rhythm on his guitar and sings in a familiar, robust voice: "They said our love was just fun/The day that our friendship begun/There's no blue moon that I can see/There's never been in history/Because our love was just fun."
"'Just Fun'," McCartney says, announcing the title proudly. "I had a little school-exercise book where I wrote those lyrics down. And in the top right-hand corner of the page, I put 'A Lennon-McCartney original'. It was humble beginnings," he admits. "We developed from that."
It's an extraordinary moment – but McCartney, 74 and currently on his latest tour of American arenas and stadiums, is never far from a performance.
Over two long interviews – first in London, then a week later in Philadelphia, backstage before a concert – McCartney often bursts into song to make a point: hitting chords from another of his teenage tunes on guitar, singing a slice of Ray Charles' "What'd I Say", and imitating the young Mick Jagger at an early Rolling Stones gig. On one occasion, McCartney does an impression of Lennon doing a Gene Vincent number during the Beatles' bar-band days in Hamburg, Germany.
"It's always held a fascination for me, getting up in front of people and performing," McCartney says in Philadelphia. "From the beginning, I was trying to figure it out: What's the best way to keep true to yourself yet have people on your side?" He is wearing a dark-blue short-sleeve shirt and jeans, his bare feet propped on a coffee table. His trailer has a curtain for a door, and visitors announce themselves by ringing a red cowbell on a table near the entrance because, he points out, "You can't knock on a curtain."
McCartney has just finished a soundcheck that was a show in itself: 12 songs, almost all of which won't be played at the concert that night, including the Beatles' 1964 ballad "I'll Follow the Sun" and his 1971 curio "Ram On". He is on the road again with his band of the past 15 years – guitarists Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray, keyboard player Paul "Wix" Wickens and drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. – on the 50th anniversary of the summer that he, Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr quit the road. ("We'd had enough of playing rain-soaked stages with lousy PA's," McCartney says of the Beatles' last tour, which ended at San Francisco's Candlestick Park in August 1966.)
That manic era is celebrated in a new Ron Howard documentary, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years, and a companion album, The Beatles: Live at the Hollywood Bowl, with newly mixed live songs from 1964 and '65. (Disclosure: I wrote liner notes for that record.) McCartney also put out Pure McCartney, a set that surveys his solo and Wings work. And in October, he caps his touring year at Desert Trip, the festival where he is appearing with old friends including Bob Dylan, the Stones and Neil Young.
"It's fossil rock," McCartney cracks, "but it's exciting. Definitely gotta ring Neil, say, 'What do you reckon, man?' "
In his London office, McCartney is surrounded by his roots and history – there is Beatles and Wings memorabilia, and a vintage jukebox loaded with 78s by Fats Domino, Wanda Jackson and Elvis Presley – but he mostly speaks of his songwriting and the stage in the present tense. He dissects his recent collaborations with Kanye West and mentions that he was "looking at some lyric ideas" for his next album. "I can write all over the place. I've got a lot of ideas on the go."
But the Beatles are always nearby, as a touchstone and renewing memory. "It's good talking with you," McCartney says at the end of one session, then recalls an encounter with Lennon a few years after the band broke up. "He hugged me. It was great, because we didn't normally do that. He said, 'It's good to touch.' I always remembered that – it's good to touch."
From left: with wife Nancy during Paris Fashion Week in March; with Rihanna and Kanye West in 2015, the year they hit the U.S. Top 10 with "FourFiveSeconds".
Why is performing still so vital to you at this point in your life?
This idea of the great little band – it's quite attractive. A basic unit is at the heart of the music we all love. It's in the halls of Nashville, the clubs of Liverpool and Hamburg. One of the pleasures for me, when we take our bow at the end of the evening, is there's five of us.
And I've learned some lessons. I used to be terrified of making a mistake. I've learned that it's OK. The audience actually likes it.
What was the last big mistake you made onstage?
I don't remember the last one. But I had a show in Paris where I started off with the second verse of "Penny Lane" instead of the first. It should have been "a barber showing photographs". So I thought, "I'll swap the verses – do verse two, then verse one and we'll go into the middle bit." But the band correctly thought, "He skipped verse one – we'll go into the middle."
It was a car crash in Penny Lane. I had to go, "Stop, stop. We've totally screwed it up. We're gonna start again." The audience went wild. A friend, Cilla Black, who just passed away, came to me after the show: "I loved that bit. Do you do it every night?"
Did you have that urge to entertain, to please, as a boy?
I suppose so. If you go into music, it's very rare that you're trying something that you don't care if people like it. It surprises me that there are some people who don't want to be liked – there are certain people, I'm sure, but I think it's just an image. It's the line in "Hey Jude" about being cool and making your world a bit colder.
In the Beatles, I was very much the guy who pushed it. It's a damn good job I did. No one would have got off their asses to come out from the suburbs into the city to make Let It Be. The film turned out pretty weird, but it's a good record.
A lot of the things we did in Hamburg were instigated by me, then taken up by the other guys. We worked in this little beer hall where nobody came in. There was a sign that said 'Beer, 1.50' marks or something. You'd see students come in and go, "Ooh, can't afford it." They were looking for something cheaper. So we really had to work. The manager of the place said, "Mach schau" ["Make show"]. We used to do "Dance in the Street", the Gene Vincent song. John was actually the one who said, "I'll do this – [claps hands] 'Gonna dance in the street tonight! Hey, yeah, everybody! C'mon, c'mon!' " That started to pull the students. We figured, "We got 'em sitting down. Now we'll play our stuff." And they liked it.
What is the dynamic in your band? Who challenges you? Can someone say, "We should do it this way"?
It doesn't work like that. That was the Beatles. Wings was less challenged. Now it's kind of understood: "It's your band." What I do to balance that is throw it open when we're rehearsing. Sometimes there's things I don't want to do. But the guys would say, "Gotta do it. This will work."
What have they suggested that worked?
"Golden Slumbers" through "The End" [from Abbey Road]. It was a bit of work. I was being lazy. Rusty suggested "Day Tripper". I didn't want to do it because the bass part's very hard. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" is the same. Those are the two in the show I didn't want to do. But the guys said it would be great.
At the same time, I'm a dictator. And nobody has a problem with that – I don't think [laughs]. We've been together now longer than the Beatles or Wings. Something's happening right. And I think we get better, because we get simpler.
Can you imagine touring like this at 80? It used to be that doing this at 40 seemed…
Unimaginable – and unseemly. Mind you, when I was 17, there was a guy in John's art school who was 24 – who I felt so sorry for. I grieved for him [laughs]. He was so old.
Doris Day, who I know a little bit, once said to me, "Age is an illusion." I reminded her of it recently – I was wishing her a happy birthday. People say age is a number. It's a big number the older you get. But if it doesn't interfere, I'm not bothered. You can ignore it. That's what I do.
From left: With Yoko Ono in 2012; with Ringo at rehearsal for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony last year.
You mentioned the Let It Be film. Is there any chance it will ever be rereleased?
I keep thinking we've done it. We've talked about it for so long.
What's the holdup?
I've no bloody idea. I keep bringing it up, and everyone goes, "Yeah, we should do that." The objection should be me. I don't come off well.
It suggests that, with the Beatles' work, you are not as in control of the legacy as people would assume.
Apple [Corps] is a democracy. I'm one of the votes. The Beatles stuff does itself. Someone will say, "Ron Howard is interested in doing a film." I get to say yes or no. My preference is yes – he's good.
Does it have to be a unanimous decision – you, Ringo, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison?
Yeah. That's the secret of the Beatles – can't do three to one. During the breakup was when it got screwed up – we did three against one. But now it has to be unanimous. The two girls are Beatles.
Are there things where you automatically say no? And what kind of veto can you have over the Beatles' songs when you don't own the publishing?
We don't have a veto. But we made it clear that we like it to be treated tastefully – "If that's possible, sir." They can be great offers monetarily, but we draw the line on some things, like a gas-guzzling car. I personally wouldn't do McDonald's, just because of my [vegetarian] beliefs.
The Love show [in Las Vegas] was nearly that. George knew this Cirque du Soleil guy and took me to see a show. I was blown away. I was sold on the idea [of a Beatles production]. But the climate was, "No, it's sacrosanct. You can't do this. You must not." I went, "Hang on, it's not your music."
People can relate to the Beatles in a very—
Possessive way. We never listened to that. You would get fans who'd want something and you'd go, "No, I'm sorry. I'm eating dinner. You've got to go away." They'd go, "Well, we buy your records." We said, "Stop buying them, if that's the trade-off." We were always like that, Ringo more than anyone. They would come to his house, and he'd go, "Fuck off" and slam the door. He would not have any of it. You have to draw the line. Or your sanity goes.
How would you characterise your relationship with Yoko now?
It's really good, actually. We were kind of threatened [then]. She was sitting on the amps while we were recording. Most bands couldn't handle that. We handled it, but not amazingly well, because we were so tight. We weren't sexist, but girls didn't come to the studio – they tended to leave us to it. When John got with Yoko, she wasn't in the control room or to the side. It was in the middle of the four of us.
Yet you contributed that quote on the cover of John and Yoko's Two Virgins album ("When two great saints meet, it is a humbling experience").
My big awakening was, if John loves this woman, that's gotta be right. I realised any resistance was something I had to overcome. It was a little hard at first. Gradually, we did. Now it's like we're mates. I like Yoko. [Laughs] She's so Yoko.
How often do the four of you meet to discuss Beatles affairs?
Not often. I see Ringo a lot, because he's a lovely boy. We all see each other socially, go to parties. As for meetings, I'm a bit detached from it. I went off Apple during the heavy breakup period – I sent John Eastman in and said, "You tell me what everyone is saying, because I can't bear to be sitting at that table." It was too painful, like seeing the death of your favourite pet.
The way it works now, I listen to all the records. I will be in on the approval process. But most of the work for the Beatles has been done.
Is there anything left in the vaults that is worth releasing?
That's the question: Is it worthwhile? The thing about the Beatles – they were a damn hot little band. No matter what you hear, even stuff that we thought was really bad – it doesn't sound so bad now. Because it's the Beatles.
Could you do something with the raw tapes from the White Album or Sgt. Pepper, telling the story behind those albums the way Bob Dylan released his 1965-66 sessions as a box set last year?
The talk between the takes – I've always loved that. We always had this two-track tape recorder running in case we came up with a little jam. "Take 36, what was that like?" But it was actually a chronicle of our dialogue. There's one bit I particularly liked: We were doing "I Saw Her Standing There". I went, "I can't do it. I haven't got my plec." We didn't call them guitar picks, we called them plectrums. John said, "Where is it?" – this in our thick Liverpool accents. "I think I left it in my suitcase." John goes, "Ah, soft ass." "Soft ass? I'll give you a soft ass."
That's very schoolyard.
The Beatles became more worldly. But it's nice to see the school stuff, the banter. To answer your question, is there any more? There's a few things. Is it worthwhile? I don't know.
Would you ever consider doing a tour with Ringo?
It's never come up. We come together for things like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But to actually tour together – leave well enough alone.
Too many wrong signals, like "Beatles reunion"?
I don't think either of us have ever thought why do it, or why not. It's just that our roads are parallel, with intersections and diversions. He's a great drummer, man. That's the thing about Ringo. He has a feel that nobody else has. As to going out on the road, it might be complicated.
You will be at Desert Trip with the Rolling Stones. What do you see when you go to a Stones show now?
It's a mirage. I see the little band I always knew. You've got Mick, Keith and Charlie, who were always there, and Ronnie – he's earned his Stone-ness. I see a good little rock & roll band – not as good as the Beatles [grins], but good.
What potential did you see in 1963, when you and John gave them "I Wanna Be Your Man" to record? It was the Stones' first Top 20 single in the U.K.
You looked at all of the other bands on the scene. We knew who was no good. We knew who was competition. It paid to know what was going on. We'd hear about the Stones. They played at the Station Hotel [in London]. We went down to see them one night, just stood in the audience. I remember Mick onstage in a grey jacket doing his hand-clappy thing [claps hands in quick rhythm].
The guy who turned the Beatles down at Decca Records happened to ask George if he knew anyone worth signing. We were friends with them, and I just thought "I Wanna Be Your Man" would be good for them. I knew they did Bo Diddley stuff. And they made a good job of it. And I like to show off, say we gave them their first hit. And we did.
Now great little bands like yours and the Stones play gargantuan venues. Can you imagine touring small halls with just new material? Is that a risk worth taking?
That is no risk. That is attractive. This is one of the things that makes you play great, when you're packed together. We knew that in the Beatles. We always used to record in Abbey Road, Studio 2. But for "Yer Blues", we were talking about this tightness, this packed-in-a-tin thing. So we got in a little cupboard – a closet that had microphone leads and things, with a drum kit, amps turned to the walls, one mic for John. We did "Yer Blues" live and it was really good.
To do new material – that's taking it one step further. This is what I am saying about the Beatles things – these ideas just arrive. I don't necessarily sit around thinking of them. That's a new idea that's just arrived. You proposed it. And we might take it up.
In "All Day", one of the tracks you did with Kanye West, there is a part that you originally wrote on guitar in 1969 but didn't use at the time. What is the story behind that lick?
Linda and I were having our first baby together, Mary. She was recuperating – I'm sitting around eating chips with my guitar in the clinic, goofing around with it. And there was a picture on the wall that I'd been looking at for days – Picasso, "The Old Guitarist". The guy held the guitar like this [strikes the pose from the painting], and a lightbulb went off in my head: "What chord is that?" It looked like it was two strings. "You know what would be cool? To write a song with only two fingers." So I wrote this thing [plays the melody].
I was telling Kanye this story. I whistled it for him. His engineer was recording it, and it went into the pool of ingredients. Kanye was just collecting things. We weren't going to sit down and write a song so much as talk and spark ideas off each other. It was only when I got this song, the Rihanna record ["FourFiveSeconds"] and "Only One", the three tracks we did, that I went, "I get it. He's taken my little whistle-y thing." It returned to me as an urban hip-hop riff. I love that record.
Did you feel like a true collaborator or a sideman? You're used to running a session, seeing a song all the way through.
We had a few afternoons at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The only deal I made with Kanye was that if it doesn't work, we won't tell anyone. I didn't know his system. I'd heard things like, "He's got a room full of guys working on riffs, and he walks around going, 'I like that one'." It reminded me of Andy Warhol, these artists who use students to paint their backgrounds and things. It's a well-used technique. I thought, "I don't know how I'm going to fit into that, but let's see. Here goes nothing."
Do you think Kanye is a genius?
I don't throw that word around [laughs]. I think he's a great artist. Take My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. I played it when I was cooking, and it was like, "This is good. There's some really innovative stuff." When the word came from his people, through my people [laughs], I thought, "Let's give it a go."
Do you listen to much hip-hop for pleasure? Or to keep up?
I listen to it for, you could call it, education. I hear a lot of it and go to concerts occasionally. I went to see Jay Z and Kanye when they toured. I've seen Drake live. It's the music of now.
Does it feel as important to you in this era as the music you made in 1966 and '67? People often say rock is dead, that it's had its moment as a historical force.
Time will tell if it's as good. That's not for me to say. But I think it's exciting. You go to a club and hear a great hip-hop record – it definitely does the business. I wouldn't want to critique it versus "A Day in the Life". For me, it's like reggae in that I wouldn't particularly feel I could do it. I would leave that to Bob Marley, to the people that are it. It's the same with hip-hop. It was exciting to work with Kanye, to have a contribution to "All Day". [Smiles] It's the best riff on the record.
In your work with younger artists like Kanye or Dave Grohl, do you feel the challenge that you had within the Beatles, especially from John? Has that ever been replaced in any way?
No. I don't think it could be. At some point, you have to realise, some things just can't be. John and me, we were kids growing up together, in the same environment with the same influences: He knows the records I know, I know the records he knows. You're writing your first little innocent songs together. Then you're writing something that gets recorded. Each year goes by, and you get the cooler clothes. Then you write the cooler song to go with the cooler clothes. We were on the same escalator – on the same step of the escalator, all the way. It's irreplacable – that time, friendship and bonding.
Are there people you can turn to now for advice about a new song or album?
In music, no. I rely on the experience and knowledge of what would have happened if I'd brought it to the Beatles. That is the best gauge.
What about life in general?
I have some very good friends. Lorne Michaels and I are pretty close. I can always go for a drink with him – we can talk pretty genuinely. I have relatives, my brother and my wife. Nancy is very strong that way. But music, no. It's very difficult. You can't top John. And John couldn't top Paul.
Your last studio album, New, was a musically upbeat, emotionally positive record. But it came after a few albums that were much darker, even sadder, like Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. Was it hard to write songs after Linda's death and during the personal difficulties that followed? [McCartney divorced his second wife, Heather Mills, in 2008.]
The thing about New was Nancy. That's who was new. It was a good awakening. It made me want to write positive songs. Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you. But there's a value to sad songs. Something bad happens – you don't want to repress it. So you unload it on yourself, with a guitar. I've got a couple on my next album which are a bit – [makes a shocked look]. But it works, because with songs, you can do that. That's the blues, where you put stuff.
Your youngest daughter, Beatrice, is turning 13 this year. How aware is she of your history?
It's a funny thing with your kids. "OK, Dad is famous – boring." It doesn't go much beyond that. If they come to a concert, it's like, "Oh, I liked 'Back in the U.S.S.R.' " Or "What was that song?" "It's called 'All My Loving'." "I liked that one." As they get older, it dawns on them. When they go to college, their friends will say, "I like Ram." "What's that?" "It's your dad's album."
What is your daily regimen as a father when you're not on tour?
My kids are grown up except the youngest, and that is half the time, because it's a custody situation. I try to be full-on. I get up in the morning and make her breakfast, drive to school. I check in with the teachers, see how it's going. I donate the prize at the silent auction. It's straightforward dad stuff. At the end of that period, I get on a plane, come to America and be a rock star.
How hard was it to balance your music and fame when you and Linda were raising a family in the Seventies on a farm?
It was more hippie culture. We were kind of home-schooling. I'd teach them to write. I enjoyed that. Once they got to school, we'd take tutors when we went on tour. I'd have to go to the school, find out what they were going to cover – geography, history, math – and organise it as sensibly as I could. We made it work. Linda and I always said, "The main thing is they have good hearts." They all do. They're also pretty smart.
The Beatles' children – yours, Sean and Julian Lennon, Dhani Harrison, Zak Starkey – have turned out strong and sensible, often with their own music careers. How did the biggest band in the world succeed as parents amid that madness?
It's the Liverpool roots. We had strong families. My family was particularly strong. John's aunt was strict, I thought, in a good way. Ringo was an only child, but his mum and dad were great. Growing up in Liverpool, which is very working-class, you can't get above yourself.
My family had loads of kids. You were always being handed a baby. You got used to it. John didn't have that, but he learned later. The four of us coming together, with all these roots – there was a sensibility that we would want to do it right, in the family way. We had a common goal, a common wisdom, in life and in music.
Do you have a favourite album that you feel has been underrated or misunderstood? When you reissued "Ram" in 2012, it got raves, but when it first came out, in 1971, it took a beating.
That album popped into my mind. But I never give myself time to sit down and go through the list. Nearest I get to that is looking for stuff to do in the show, like "Love Me Do" – "We should try that one."
You are at a rare juncture – old enough to see some of your work kicked around, then praised decades later.
I do albums and, like a fool, I listen to what people say about them. A New York Times critic damned Sgt. Pepper when it came out. The terrible thing is it puts you off your own stuff. It plays into your self-doubts, even though you overcame those self-doubts to write that song. You're left with this smell of the music – a whiff of something not very good – and that sticks with you. But then you get rescued. A while ago, one of my nephews, Jay, said, "Ram's my all-time favourite album." I thought it was dead and gone, stinking over there in the dung pit. So I listened to it. "Wow, I get what I was doing."
Were you disappointed that your last single, "Hope for the Future", was not a hit?
Yeah. It was something I thought would really do well. It didn't.
Have you had to change your expectations as to what constitutes a hit compared with what you knew in 1966?
I've given up trying to figure it out. You can't. Like this Pure album – I'll get rung up: "It's Number Three." "Wow, that's cool, man. What did it sell?" "15,000." I think inside, "It's a joke, man – 15,000 a day was not good then."
But that's the new world in record sales, unless you're Rihanna or Beyoncé. I'll put out my next album, but I won't think I'm gonna sell a lot. I'm putting it out because I have songs that I like. And I will do my best job. The scene has changed, but it doesn't disturb me, because I had the best of it – selling 100,000 a day on something like "Mull of Kintyre". I've had the joy of that. If I don't have it now, it's not just about me. All of my contemporaries, who are still pretty cool, don't have it, because things have moved on.
And you know what? We had it. And it was great.
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MLA Places Ling Zeng as Dicerna Pharmaceuticals' Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Hanover, MD (September 23, 2020) — Major, Lindsey & Africa (MLA), the world's leading legal search firm, today announced the placement of Ling Zeng as chief legal officer and secretary at Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Lexington, Mass.The search was conducted by Ron Ciardiello and Nancy Reiner, both managing directors in MLA's In-House Counsel Recruiting group in Boston.
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing medicines that are designed to leverage ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) to selectively silence genes that cause or contribute to disease. Using its proprietary RNAi technology platform called GalXC™, Dicerna is committed to developing RNAi-based therapies with the potential to treat both rare and more prevalent diseases.
In her new role as Dicerna's chief legal officer and secretary, Ling will provide key legal, strategic, compliance and business contributions to the executive team and serve as secretary to the board of directors. She will also lead the growth and development of the legal and compliance teams, providing critical counsel and leadership to launch and commercialize pharmaceutical products while managing other legal and compliance matters.
"It was exciting to partner with Dicerna on this highly competitive international search for its chief legal officer and secretary," said Ron Ciardiello. "Ling is the perfect fit based on her extensive experience launching new products and negotiating complex collaboration agreements in the pharmaceutical sector while working for both large and smaller Pharma companies." Nancy Reiner added, "Ling has an outgoing personality and approach, and we are confident that she will be an exceptionally strong addition to the Dicerna team as they prepare to bring their first drug to market."
Ling joins Dicerna from Novartis AG in Switzerland, where she served as deputy head of legal M&A, responsible for global M&A transactions for all business units and regions. She previously served as vice president and general counsel EMEA for Bausch Health Companies, Inc. and has held legal and science research roles with other biopharma companies in the greater New York City and Boston metro areas. Ling started her legal career as a corporate associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.
Ling earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, her M.S. in Biophysics from Brandeis University and her B.S. from Peking University.


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namespace user_manager {

// Fake user manager with a barebones implementation. Users can be added
// and set as logged in, and those users can be returned.
class USER_MANAGER_EXPORT FakeUserManager : public UserManagerBase {
 public:
  FakeUserManager();
  ~FakeUserManager() override;

  // Create and add a new user. Created user is not affiliated with the domain,
  // that owns the device.
  const User* AddUser(const AccountId& account_id);
  const User* AddChildUser(const AccountId& account_id);
  const User* AddGuestUser(const AccountId& account_id);

  // The same as AddUser() but allows to specify user affiliation with the
  // domain, that owns the device.
  const User* AddUserWithAffiliation(const AccountId& account_id,
                                     bool is_affiliated);

  // Create and add a new public account. Created user is not affiliated with
  // the domain, that owns the device.
  virtual const user_manager::User* AddPublicAccountUser(
      const AccountId& account_id);

  void set_local_state(PrefService* local_state) { local_state_ = local_state; }

  // UserManager overrides.
  const UserList& GetUsers() const override;
  UserList GetUsersAllowedForMultiProfile() const override;
  void UpdateUserAccountData(const AccountId& account_id,
                             const UserAccountData& account_data) override;

  // Set the user as logged in.
  void UserLoggedIn(const AccountId& account_id,
                    const std::string& username_hash,
                    bool browser_restart,
                    bool is_child) override;

  const User* GetActiveUser() const override;
  User* GetActiveUser() override;
  void SwitchActiveUser(const AccountId& account_id) override;
  void SaveUserDisplayName(const AccountId& account_id,
                           const base::string16& display_name) override;
  const AccountId& GetGuestAccountId() const override;
  bool IsFirstExecAfterBoot() const override;
  bool IsGuestAccountId(const AccountId& account_id) const override;
  bool IsStubAccountId(const AccountId& account_id) const override;
  bool HasBrowserRestarted() const override;

  // Not implemented.
  void Shutdown() override {}
  const UserList& GetLRULoggedInUsers() const override;
  UserList GetUnlockUsers() const override;
  const AccountId& GetOwnerAccountId() const override;
  void OnSessionStarted() override {}
  void RemoveUser(const AccountId& account_id,
                  RemoveUserDelegate* delegate) override {}
  void RemoveUserFromList(const AccountId& account_id) override;
  bool IsKnownUser(const AccountId& account_id) const override;
  const User* FindUser(const AccountId& account_id) const override;
  User* FindUserAndModify(const AccountId& account_id) override;
  const User* GetPrimaryUser() const override;
  void SaveUserOAuthStatus(const AccountId& account_id,
                           User::OAuthTokenStatus oauth_token_status) override {
  }
  void SaveForceOnlineSignin(const AccountId& account_id,
                             bool force_online_signin) override {}
  base::string16 GetUserDisplayName(const AccountId& account_id) const override;
  void SaveUserDisplayEmail(const AccountId& account_id,
                            const std::string& display_email) override {}
  bool IsCurrentUserOwner() const override;
  bool IsCurrentUserNew() const override;
  bool IsCurrentUserNonCryptohomeDataEphemeral() const override;
  bool CanCurrentUserLock() const override;
  bool IsUserLoggedIn() const override;
  bool IsLoggedInAsUserWithGaiaAccount() const override;
  bool IsLoggedInAsPublicAccount() const override;
  bool IsLoggedInAsGuest() const override;
  bool IsLoggedInAsSupervisedUser() const override;
  bool IsLoggedInAsKioskApp() const override;
  bool IsLoggedInAsArcKioskApp() const override;
  bool IsLoggedInAsWebKioskApp() const override;
  bool IsLoggedInAsAnyKioskApp() const override;
  bool IsLoggedInAsStub() const override;
  bool IsUserNonCryptohomeDataEphemeral(
      const AccountId& account_id) const override;
  void AddObserver(Observer* obs) override {}
  void RemoveObserver(Observer* obs) override {}
  void AddSessionStateObserver(UserSessionStateObserver* obs) override {}
  void RemoveSessionStateObserver(UserSessionStateObserver* obs) override {}
  void NotifyLocalStateChanged() override {}
  bool AreSupervisedUsersAllowed() const override;
  bool IsGuestSessionAllowed() const override;
  bool IsGaiaUserAllowed(const User& user) const override;
  bool IsUserAllowed(const User& user) const override;
  void UpdateLoginState(const User* active_user,
                        const User* primary_user,
                        bool is_current_user_owner) const override;
  bool GetPlatformKnownUserId(const std::string& user_email,
                              const std::string& gaia_id,
                              AccountId* out_account_id) const override;
  void AsyncRemoveCryptohome(const AccountId& account_id) const override;
  bool IsSupervisedAccountId(const AccountId& account_id) const override;
  const gfx::ImageSkia& GetResourceImagekiaNamed(int id) const override;
  base::string16 GetResourceStringUTF16(int string_id) const override;
  void ScheduleResolveLocale(const std::string& locale,
                             base::OnceClosure on_resolved_callback,
                             std::string* out_resolved_locale) const override;
  bool IsValidDefaultUserImageId(int image_index) const override;

  // UserManagerBase overrides:
  bool AreEphemeralUsersEnabled() const override;
  void SetEphemeralUsersEnabled(bool enabled) override;
  const std::string& GetApplicationLocale() const override;
  PrefService* GetLocalState() const override;
  void HandleUserOAuthTokenStatusChange(
      const AccountId& account_id,
      User::OAuthTokenStatus status) const override {}
  bool IsEnterpriseManaged() const override;
  void LoadDeviceLocalAccounts(
      std::set<AccountId>* device_local_accounts_set) override {}
  void PerformPreUserListLoadingActions() override {}
  void PerformPostUserListLoadingActions() override {}
  void PerformPostUserLoggedInActions(bool browser_restart) override {}
  bool IsDemoApp(const AccountId& account_id) const override;
  bool IsDeviceLocalAccountMarkedForRemoval(
      const AccountId& account_id) const override;
  void DemoAccountLoggedIn() override {}
  void KioskAppLoggedIn(User* user) override {}
  void ArcKioskAppLoggedIn(User* user) override {}
  void WebKioskAppLoggedIn(User* user) override {}
  void PublicAccountUserLoggedIn(User* user) override {}
  void SupervisedUserLoggedIn(const AccountId& account_id) override {}
  void OnUserRemoved(const AccountId& account_id) override {}

 protected:
  User* primary_user_;

  // Can be set by set_local_state().
  PrefService* local_state_ = nullptr;

  // If set this is the active user. If empty, the first created user is the
  // active user.
  AccountId active_account_id_ = EmptyAccountId();

 private:
  // We use this internal function for const-correctness.
  User* GetActiveUserInternal() const;

  // stub, always empty.
  AccountId owner_account_id_ = EmptyAccountId();

  // stub. Always empty.
  gfx::ImageSkia empty_image_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(FakeUserManager);
};

}  // namespace user_manager

#endif  // COMPONENTS_USER_MANAGER_FAKE_USER_MANAGER_H_

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Home > Archives > Vol 23, No 2 (2019) > THE DISCREPANCY OF STATISTICS ON THE NUMBER OF ROAD TRAFFIC DEATHS AND INJURED ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS OF VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS
Authors: Melnikova I.S.1, Shkatova E.Y.1
Izhevsk State Medical Academy
Section: SOCIAL HEALTH AND HEALTH PROTECTION
URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/medicine/article/view/21362
Every year on the Earth, as a result of road accidents (road traffic accidents), 1.25 million people are die and 50 million are injured of varying degrees of severity, of which more than 30% of the dead are people of working age. This dictates the adoption of decisive measures in the field of prevention and elimination of the consequences of accidents, which requires detailed and reliable statistical data. Aim: to compare statistical data on the dead and injured in road accidents in the Udmurt Republic for 2011-2016. Materials and methods. Statistical data was obtained from the official databases of the Budgetary Healthcare Institution of the Udmurt Republic "Republican Medical Information and Analytical Center of the Ministry of Health of the Udmurt Republic" ("RMIAC of the UR", MH of the UR) and the official website of Traffic police "Main Traffic Safety Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation" ("MTSD of the RF", TP). The calculation of the indicators was carried out using the calculation of the arithmetic mean of simple, errors of representativeness, the reliability of differences of indicators by the Student's t -test was determined. Results. It has been established that the data of the "MTSD of the RF" and "RMIAC of the UR" for the dead and injured in road accidents differ significantly. According to TP for 2011-2016 years 1471 people died on the roads of the Udmurt Republic, according to the MH of the UR - 1165 people, which, when converted to 100 thousand people, this figure differs 1.3 times ( p < 0.05). On average, over the five-year period, according to official data of the traffic police, non-fatal injuries of 120.0 ± 22.6 per 100 thousand people annually get on the roads of the Udmurt Republic, according to the Ministry of Health of the Udmurt Republic - 2 times more often ( p < 0.05) (230.4 ± 38,1 per 100 thousand population). Conclusion: A comparative analysis of road traffic injuries "MTSD of the RF" and "RMIAC of the UR" showed a discrepancy in statistical data on the dead and injured, which requires a revision of the system of accounting for accidents and changes in the scheme of information transfer.
road traffic injuries, road traffic accident, the number of road traffic deaths, injured in an accident, registration, statistical data
I. S. Melnikova
Email: Irina.mel.s@yandex.ru
Izhevsk, Russian Federation
E. Y. Shkatova
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letters ( see above ).
Any ideas why and how to fix this ?
anyway... where do you write those letters? openoffice.org? email client? browser? etc?
maybe you need to set the language setting to that specific language or maybe you need to use an application wich is able to write and display unicode fonts?
no go ! Damn ... Same for XF86config !
letters are again changed to question marks or some very odd signs.
Some letters could not be saved and if you save them you'll gona lose them.
KDE while I had ( KEYMAP="no-latin1" and CONSOLEFONT="lat0-16" )in rc.conf?? Damn ...this is pis... me off !
damn indeed! i can imagine myself being in the same situation... and being pis*** off about it as well!
first - if i got this environmental variables stuff right - "KEYMAP=" and "CONSOLEFONT=" in /etc/rc.config don't affect x11 in any way. they are both terminal console settings only.
so, this leaves us with setting right the /etc/profile and the /etc/X11/XF86Config. to my knowledge these should be only ones concerning x11 (font) localisation.
could you paste both of them here?
ps: as already stated, i don't beleive that this problem you are experiencing has anything to do with "wrong" settings in /etc/rc.config while emerging kde.
pps: as a side note, i'm using nls USE flag in my /etc/make.conf - what's in yours?
ppps: maybe you are using /etc/env.d/02language, which could conflict with settings in /etc/profile?
I USE="X -gtk kde cups alsa qt tcpd pam ssl "
Second not using /etc/env.d/02language and think there is no conflic between them.
... just to let you know that i am not ignoring you or something.
ps: in the meantime, could you also post your version of xfree?
just a though - could it be a kernel thing?
set utf8 as default nls option.
from what you say, it seems like characters get lost at a time of saving, which could be an issue with underlying file system - or am i totaly off base here (please, somebody correct me!)?
just fine ( I speak that language too ) with out it.
And there is no hurry ....we have ( at least I have ) time..
Thanks for the help and tips so far !
aw! i almost forgot about this thread completely - castra im very sorry! please do accept my apology!
did you suceed in your quest to get ce letters working?
Its has been a while since I promissed to write what happend.
Well here it is. NO WAY. It just don't work. Why ? I have no idea why !
ever text editor I get eather ????? or some other ODD letters.
I even switched to 2.6 kernel in hope that this would be fixed but NO.
I can use our letters in browser but thats it.
please try adding "nls" as your USE flag in /etc/make.conf and re-emerging nano.
also (as an additional mesure), try complinig your kernel with nls support as suggested in one of my previous posts.
Thanks for taking interest in that problem !
Budale jedne koji kurac svi engleski pricate !
Yeah, it works for me !
howo does one accomplish having two keyboards (like slovenian and us) and switching between them in XFce4 ?
KDE Control Center -> Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard Layout.
Here you activate keyboard layouts, customize Switching Policy.
You can switch layouts in tray.
englesk ise prièa zato što smo na stranom forumu.
Kad si u Rimu, ponašaj se kao rimljanin.
A i zato da drugi shvate kak se mijenjaju fontovi. Naèin je isti.
This will work only in console viewing. For KDE you must have scrypt installed for slovenian language characters.
The console programs aren't all able to deal with central European characters. But KWrite should work all right (just tested), IF you set the encoding to ISO-8859-2 before you save it and after you load it again.
KDE in general should deal with our characters without any problems, and that has been my experience from the early 1.9alpha days.


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Q: How to duplicate records in dataframe by including values from another dataframe? df1:
Index Product     ID     Name
0     Cash        1234   Sam
1     Transfer    5678   Bill
2     Post        9101   Carry

df2:
Index Time
0      0
1      13
2      14
3      92
4      184
5      365
6      1096
7      1826

Expected Output:
Index Product     ID     Name Time
0     Cash        1234   Sam   0
1     Cash        1234   Sam   13
2     Cash        1234   Sam   14
3     Cash        1234   Sam   92
4     Cash        1234   Sam   184
5     Cash        1234   Sam   365
6     Cash        1234   Sam   1096
7     Cash        1234   Sam   1826
8     Transfer    5678   Bill  0
9     Transfer    5678   Bill  13
10    Transfer    5678   Bill  14
11    Transfer    5678   Bill  92
12    Transfer    5678   Bill  184
13    Transfer    5678   Bill  365
14    Transfer    5678   Bill  1096
15    Transfer    5678   Bill  1826
16    Post        9101   Carry 0
17    Post        9101   Carry 13
18    Post        9101   Carry 14
19    Post        9101   Carry 92
20    Post        9101   Carry 184
21    Post        9101   Carry 365
22    Post        9101   Carry 1096
23    Post        9101   Carry 1826

How to combine df1 and df2 into one dataframe(Expected output), where the Time column of df2 is replicated for each of the records in df1. Appreciate your help in this!

A: You can try with merge with cross
out = df1.merge(df2,how='cross')

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"The First Step Toward Educational Success Is Showing Up"
By Coda Rayo-Garza	| Sep 29 2017
No clean clothes.
Doctor's appointments.
Cold and flu.
Transportation.
Dental Issues.
These are some of the many reasons students identified for why they miss school. Last year, P16Plus conducted a root cause analysis at a local school district, surveying over 200 students.
Since 2011, P16Plus Council of Greater Bexar County through the SA Kids Attend to Win initiative has led the charge to increase school attendance by helping students who are chronically absent. Being able to address chronic absenteeism requires an understanding of what underlying issues are causing the absence.
At the annual P16Plus September Attendance Awareness event, two student stories were shared that highlighted the different struggles with absenteeism. One student's challenge was related to transportation. Savannah's mother worked early mornings, leaving the responsibility of getting up and catching the bus entirely on her. Because there was no alternative transportation and because she lived too far from school to walk, if Savannah missed the bus, she missed school.
Angel, a high school student, struggled with attendance in tenth grade. With her mother working hard to make ends meet and battling depression, Angel made a decision that, too often, young adults are forced to make: choose earning an income to support family over schooling. Angel left school and went to work. She battled her own depression in addition to the heavy load she was already carrying.
Both of these students turned their attendance around. They credit a support network at their schools including their friends, teachers who believed in them, and community organizations. What they want people to understand about absenteeism, is that the causes aren't always things that they can control and blaming them for those circumstances will not resolve the issue.
"The hidden causes of missing school must be revealed and addressed. Otherwise, we are just letting young minds fall through the cracks," said Executive Director of the P16Plus Council of Greater Bexar County, Ryan Lugalia-Hollon.
We, at P16Plus, are dedicated to uncovering the root causes. Our hope is to have a county-wide student root cause analysis that will amplify student voice and reveal where we must work together as a community to ensure our youth are making it to school and at school.
City officials recognize the importance of attendance and the impact it has on academics. "Students with strong attendance records are far more likely to succeed than children with poor attendance. We've seen this time and again in our classrooms. That's why I applaud P16Plus's work to improve attendance rates in schools across San Antonio," said Councilwoman Ana Sandoval who represents the seventh district of San Antonio.
Councilman William "Cruz" Shaw of District 2, where P16Plus is headquartered, was present to deliver the September Attendance Awareness Proclamation and says, "P16Plus is doing such important work in addressing chronic absence in our schools. The first step toward educational success is showing up."
Last year, 47% of overall absences within the 58 participating SA Kids Attend to Win campuses were chronically absent students. 25% of students in the twelfth grade were absent and 43% of chronically absent students had at least one out-of-school suspension. At the beginning of every year, P16Plus identifies students who are chronically absent at every campus. 59% of students who were chronically absent at the beginning of the school year improved their attendance by the end of the school year. For more information and data, visit www.p16plus.org
As the SA Kids Attend to Win initiative grows and evolves, what we know for certain is that it takes a community to ensure the academic success of our young San Antonians. We cannot afford to ignore the root causes of absenteeism because they are telling. The root causes of absenteeism will help guide us, policymakers, parents, schools and the entire community in the direction of where we should focus our interventions. When we pay attention to the student voice and take time to listen, we hear things that perhaps sometimes the data is not able to inform.
This is why we will continue our dedication to San Antonio students, especially those who are made most vulnerable by their circumstances, because we should never be ok with circumstances being the reason why our youth don't succeed.
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Coda Rayo-Garza
Coda earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy from Texas State University and her Master of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She began teaching Federal, State and Local government at Northeast Lakeview College shortly after graduation. Coda has worked for the Office of Councilman Ron Nirenberg as his Director of Zoning and Planning, as well as the Office of Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales as her Director of Policy and Zoning. She has over four years' experience in community relations, project management and municipal government. Coda was a member of the inaugural class of the Latina Leadership Institute and has served on non-profit boards in the past. She is a mentor through the University of the Incarnate Word's Cardinal Latina Mentorship Program.
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