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Herman, imię świeckie Joseph Swaiko (ur. 1 lutego 1932 w Bairdford, zm. 6 września 2022) – były zwierzchnik Kościoła Prawosławnego w Ameryce. Pełnił urząd od 22 czerwca 2002 do 4 września 2008, kiedy ustąpił z urzędu w związku ze skandalem finansowym w Kościele.

Życiorys
Ukończył studia administracyjne na Uniwersytecie Roberta Morrisa. W latach 1959–1963 uczył się w seminarium św. Tichona w South Canaan. W kwietniu 1964 przyjął święcenia kapłańskie. Po ich przyjęciu został zatrudniony w seminarium jako wykładowca języka cerkiewnosłowiańskiego, był też proboszczem parafii w Dundaff i w Union Dale. Sześć lat później złożył śluby zakonne, przyjmując imię Herman na cześć św. Hermana z Alaski. Rok później został mianowany igumenem i zastępcą przełożonego monasteru św. Tichona w South Canaan. 10 lutego 1973 został biskupem Wilkes-Barre.

17 marca 1981 został biskupem Filadelfii i rektorem seminarium duchownego, którego był absolwentem. W 1994 podniesiony do rangi arcybiskupa. Od maja do września 2001 tymczasowo pełnił obowiązki zwierzchnika Kościoła Prawosławnego w Ameryce, gdy jego zwierzchnik metropolita Teodozjusz (Lazor) przebywał w szpitalu. W kwietniu następnego roku metropolita złożył prośbę do Świętego Synodu Kościoła Prawosławnego w Ameryce o zwolnienie z urzędu z uwagi na zły stan zdrowia. Synod przyjął jego rezygnację. Arcybiskup Herman został wybrany jego następcą przez Święty Synod po tym, gdy po dwóch turach głosowań żaden kandydat nie uzyskał wymaganych dwóch trzecich głosów (w głosowaniach zajmował drugie miejsce po arcybiskupie Kanady Serafinie) i intronizowany 8 września 2002 w soborze św. Mikołaja w Waszyngtonie. W podobny sposób odbył się wybór poprzednika Hermana. W momencie intronizacji arcybiskup Herman otrzymał godność metropolity.

We wrześniu 2008, po ujawnieniu skandalu finansowego w Kościele Prawosławny w Ameryce, metropolita dobrowolnie ustąpił z urzędu. Zamieszkał w monasterze św. Tichona Zadońskiego w South Canaan. Święty Synod Kościoła nie odebrał mu godności metropolity, zabronił jednak nosić tradycyjny biały kłobuk i ograniczył jego uczestnictwo w nabożeństwach monasterskich.

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 ARCHBISHOP HERMAN OF PHILADELPHIA ELECTED PRIMATE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA
 Бывшему Первоиерарху Православной Церкви в Америке Митрополиту Герману временно ограничен доступ на богослужения

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Duravent Launches Grand Rapids Innovation Center, New Brand Name
The Duravent Group, a global leader in HVAC technology systems and solutions, launched its 22,000 sq-ft Grand Rapids Innovation Center today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The event featured a tour of the center's design and prototype labs, airflow testing suites, its state-of-the-art office layout and robust printing capabilities. U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer, R-MI, spoke at the event, which was attended by community, state leaders and excited company employees.
"Duravent is committed to a strong presence in Michigan as demonstrated by our new innovation center in Grand Rapids, and an expanding headquarters in downtown Detroit," said Simon A. Davis, president and CEO of the Duravent Group. "Our ability to innovate, lead and grow in the HVAC and emerging climate technology categories is largely the result of leveraging the deep engineering talent Michigan has to offer."
Since 2017, the leadership team has led the organization through several strategic activities, including the acquisition of 100-year-old Hart & Cooley in 2021, which tripled the size of the company. Today, Duravent has 2,400 employees and $500 million+ in annual revenue.
As part of the Grand Rapids Innovation Center launch, Davis and his team unveiled a new company identity – the Duravent Group – with the goal of unifying the company's culture and its family of established and respected brands, which include several industry leading nameplates.
"The Duravent Group is one team and one company focused on flexibility in manufacturing and distribution while responding quickly and efficiently to customers' needs. I'm proud of our team culture that embraces innovation and change while always putting our customers first," Simon said.
The Duravent Group is a global technology leader in the HVAC industry and first-to-market with innovations in venting systems. Founded in 1956, this $500 million-plus company is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. https://duravent.com/
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The future of 'fintech' is at stake for Biden and the Senate
By Former Rep. George Nethercutt (R-Wash.), opinion contributor — 11/18/20 03:30 PM EST
A change of government in Washington is coming at the precise moment that some of the biggest innovations in financial technology — fintech — are about to arrive, and it will either be a breakthrough for the American economy or a needless train wreck. It all depends on who Joe Biden Joe BidenTrump grants clemency to more than 100 people, including Bannon Scalise bringing Donna Brazile as guest to Biden inauguration Sidney Powell withdraws 'kraken' lawsuit in Georgia MORE names and who the Senate confirms in key regulatory posts.
Blockchain technology — the innovation in question — has jumped from a speculative novelty to a financial instrument providing real economic solutions that could revolutionize how we handle money. American tech innovators have been steadily building a vibrant industry that uses digital assets and open ledgers to develop products for consumers and businesses alike that cut costs, bolster efficiency and bring greater transparency. Without a doubt, cryptocurrencies have proven to be practical tools with enormous utility in our economy for American consumers.
Yet, while all the innovation, investment and risk has been assumed by the American tech sector, the U.S. government has ignored and neglected the need for a regulatory framework that will keep it here in America. This outdated regulatory approach to fintech is embarrassing when you compare the most advanced technological economy to the rest of the world.
While countries like China and Singapore are taking serious steps to integrate digital currencies into their regulatory space, the U.S. is struggling with a coin shortage, stimulus check complications, and an obvious dearth of understanding on Capitol Hill about what a cryptocurrency even is.
As a result, we are unfortunately letting countries like Malta and the United Arab Emirates lure our own innovators away because they were smart enough to develop frameworks while our government stared off into space.
The more time we waste on advancing digital currency development, the further we fall down the pyramid of the global economy. Some of the biggest homegrown industry players like the payments settlement company Ripple are already heading out the door. Yet while Joe Biden has given little insight as to what his views on cryptocurrencies are, the fear is that Democrats will install a new chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) devoted only to swinging an enforcement sledgehammer rather than understanding the need to nurture innovation simultaneously.
Reports have surfaced that the crypto-savvy former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Gary Gensler Gary GenslerThe Hill's Morning Report - An inauguration like no other Biden rolls out group of deputy secretary nominees Biden selects Gensler for SEC chair, Rohit Chopra to lead CFPB MORE will lead the Biden financial policy transition team. Gensler has recognized blockchain technology as a "change catalyst" for U.S. financial services policy, while current Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has been slow to make an effort to issue a digital currency. But while Washington dithered for the last decade — preferring to use laws from the 1930s to regulate this new technology — the Chinese government is moving forward with its pilot Central Bank Digital Currency program.
With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to disrupt the economy, the need for another round of stimulus checks could be necessary. But will we learn our lesson from the issues with the first round of stimulus checks that some citizens have yet to receive? America does not have another four years to lag behind other countries — the new administration must take immediate action come 2021.
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton has unfortunately taken a notoriously guarded approach to cryptocurrencies, significantly constraining American innovators while showing no understanding for the need for a new regulatory framework. But there is one key figure in the SEC who is actually keen on speeding up our outdated view of crypto — SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce — whose term has luckily been extended through 2025. When asked about her opinion on the pace the U.S. has taken in the crypto space, Peirce said there are "circumstances where we have a framework at the SEC that was built in the 1930s and 1940s" and that "we are going to have to make adjustments and I do think we should move faster. I'm impatient there." Biden's staff would be wise to listen to her.
Imagine if we'd spent the 1990s ignoring the rise of e-commerce and forced that burgeoning industry to face regulatory and tax standards written for the economy of the 1890s? We'd have already long fallen from our economic perch in the global economy.
Instead of letting fintech success slip through our fingers, we must demand that Joe Biden live up to his promise of governing down the middle and defending our national economic interests.
Our nation must do better for its enterprises and consumers. It is time for the land of opportunity to live up to its promise.
George Nethercutt Jr. is the former Republican Congressman from the 5th District of Washington, and founder and chairman of The George Nethercutt Civics Foundation. He served on the House Appropriations Committee and House Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
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Image caption Accusations of selective data use abound... but who's right?
Just about the most predictable event of the week was the tempest of opinion created by the analysis of global temperature changes published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on Monday.
As we (and a number of other mainstream news outlets) reported, Robert Kaufmann and colleagues analysed the impact of growing coal use, particularly in China, and the cooling effect of the sulphate aerosol particles emitted into the atmosphere.
They concluded that with a bit of help from changes in solar output and natural climatic cycles such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the growth in the volume of aerosols being pumped up power station chimneys was probably enough to block the warming effect of rising greenhouse gas emissions over the period 1998-2008.
For some commentators, such as the UK Daily Mail's Christopher Brooker, this was further proof that the "climate scaremongers" had got it wrong.
"Global warming? A new ice age? YOU'RE paying for the hysteria of our politicians," the headline - er - whispered.
On the other side of the opinionosphere, Climate Progress's chosen headline was "Study: Hottest Decade on Record Would Have Been Even Hotter But for Chinese Coal Plant Sulfur Pollution"... which is consistent with what Kaufmann and his colleagues are saying, although they said it in more restrained tones.
Although it doesn't slam the study, in fact calling it "clever", Climate Progress also asks whether doing the research was wise: "What's not clever about this study is that it repeats the myth that there was a 'hiatus' [in global warming] in the first place".
According to some e-mails I've had, the same point is being raised between climate scientists.
Whether the conclusions of the study are right or wrong, the argument goes, you're stepping into factually shaky ground - and the belief-systems of your "opponents" - if you start from the argument that temperatures haven't risen since 1998, the strongest El Nino year on record.
Concern was exacerbated by the wording of the PNAS press release, whose first sentence read: "The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide increased steadily between 1998 and 2008 even as the Earth's temperature declined..." - a line that reporters unfamiliar to the issue might not have seen fit to question.
The next few paragraphs will be so familiar to anyone who follows this stuff that I almost apologise for including them... but the point about it is that if you want to deduce the underlying trend, you have to remove the annual bumps caused by things such as ENSO.
A common method of doing this is to use a "moving average" (aka "running mean"), where - for example - each year's data point is the average of the 10 years around that year.
And when you do that, you see clearly that the underlying trend of temperature rise continues.
This has been the standard approach of mainstream scientists - and their standard response when challenged that 1998 remains, depending on your dataset, the warmest single year on record.
One thing that everyone in the climate blogosphere seems to agree on is that the best fruit in the world is the cherry, judging by the number that are picked.
And the Kaufmann paper has brought a few more down from the tree.
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GPWF), the UK-based pressure group, said researchers "tweak an out-of-date computer model and cherry-pick the outcome to get their desired result".
To which the opponents' rejoinder is, and long had been: "well, choosing 1998 as the baseline is cherry-picking, to start with".
To illustrate the point, I've been through a quick exercise using the approach that groups such as GPWF favour - and that Kaufmann's research group adopted - of using annual temperatures rather than any kind of smoothed average, and looking for the temperature change over a decade.
I took the record of global temperatures maintained by Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) which is one of the three main global datasets, and calculated the rate of change over each of the most recent 10 decades - ie, 1991-2001, 1992-2002, and so on up to 2000-2010.
all but one give a temperature rise - the only one that shows a small drop being 1998-2008.
Seeing as it's logically impossible that the world warmed between 1997 and 2007, cooled between 1998 and 2008, and warmed again from 1999 to 2009, one conclusion you might reach is that using annual temperatures is not a sensible thing to do as it gives you a set of answers that does not make sense.
... which is why most scientists use the running mean approach.
But if you do go with the annual method - does it show that global warming has stopped?
Only if you use the one dataset that starts in 1998, and ignore the other nine that give the contradictory answer; which sounds like quite a good definition of "cherry-picking" to me, and certainly nothing to indicate a coming ice age.
And in case anyone feels like arguing that I've cherry-picked a favourable dataset, I went through the same exercise with the UK Hadley Centre/University of East Anglia record, which shows the same thing - lots of annual variability, and only one of the 10 periods that indicates a global cooling.
Whether Robert Kaufmann's analysis of coal's impact is eventually adopted or refuted through the formal avenues of science is hard to predict at the moment.
Prolific commentators such as Judith Curry suggest there are flaws; and Climate Central has a good discussion of counter-arguments to the coal theory.
When I spoke to Dr Kaufmann, he flagged up a few areas himself where data was lacking, such as the rate at which China and other developing countries were fitting their power stations with equipment that removes the cooling sulphate particles while allowing the warming carbon dioxide through.
However this plays out, I suspect the majority of researchers will go back to the use of long-term, smoothed temperature curves, and stay away from annual datasets - especially if they begin in 1998.
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Tag Archives: Jeremy Corbyn
Is Trump the Next Reagan?
By: Cliff Kincaid
The Party for Socialism and Liberation, one of many communist groups in the U.S., argues that "the long period of reaction that began in the late 1970s and greatly accelerated under Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United States is drawing to a close." Leaving aside the Marxist rhetoric about "reaction," one has to say there may be some validity to what the communists are saying. After all, Bernie Sanders seems to be leading the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Marxist Jeremy Corbyn has become head of the Labor Party in Britain, and the socialist New Democratic Party is poised to win national elections in Canada on October 19.
On the Republican side in the U.S., the leading candidate, Donald Trump, seems to have no ideology at all. While he has made illegal immigration into an issue, his statements on other issues demonstrate no coherent outlook on the nature or size of government. On foreign policy, his claim that he could negotiate with Russia's Vladimir Putin seems to be a reflection of his "Art of the Deal" approach to business matters. But Putin means business, and the Russians can't be trusted. It's shocking that Trump thinks he can somehow negotiate a good deal with Putin, whose military position has been enhanced under the presidency of Barack Obama.
In order to understand the Sanders phenomenon, I covered the senator's Monday night appearance in Manassas, Virginia, where he spoke to a mostly young white audience. The media exaggerated the number of people who turned out, with several reporters putting the size of the crowd at 10,000. But about 2,000 people did, in fact, show up, feeling the "Bern" as Sanders took it to the "billionaire class" and demanded freebies for the "kids," as he called the students with college debt. He knows that free college has an appeal, like the general socialist notion that government can provide goods and services at little or no cost. It's a fable that students who should be getting a good education are falling for in increasing numbers. They account for much of the Sanders movement.
Sanders made only one mention of Russia in his Manassas speech, saying that he hoped that the U.S. would join with Russia and other countries to tackle so-called climate change. He didn't have one word of criticism for Putin over the invasion of Ukraine and threats against other nations, including the U.S.
Russia is a good place to start when analyzing both Sanders and Trump. It is a test of what they know and would do about foreign policy. Sanders, who honeymooned in the old USSR and worked with Communist Party fronts like the U.S. Peace Council, doesn't want to talk about it. Let's hope Trump gets pressed on this issue during Wednesday night's debate on CNN.
On Tuesday, we received more ominous news about Russian military advances. Reuters reported that General Frank Gorenc, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, cited "alarming" moves by the Russian military since the invasion of Georgia in 2008 and its takeover of Crimea. He made the comments at the annual Air Force Association conference.
Air Force Times headlined his remarks, "USAFE commander: Russia catching up with Air Force." This paper quoted Gorenc as saying, "The advantage that we had from the air, I can honestly say, is shrinking, not only with respect to the aircraft that they're producing, but the more alarming thing is their ability to create anti-access area denied areas is a challenge that we're all going to face up to and that we're all going to have to train to."
So how would Donald Trump negotiate with Putin over this? It seems the only response the Russians would understand would be for the U.S. to modernize its own military, in order to maintain an advantage.
It's clear that Sanders and Britain's Jeremy Corbyn would get along very well. Indeed, Sanders said he was delighted that Corbyn won the election as head of the British Labor Party. Corbyn is considered so far left that it is not unfair to call him a stooge of Putin and Russia.
The Sanders success and the Corbyn victory are two reasons why a communist outfit like the Party for Socialism and Liberation is so optimistic about the future, from the "progressive" perspective.
The Marxist group proclaims, using its familiar jargon, that "A new period of resistance to monopoly capitalism/imperialism is opening up, potentially leading to a revival of not only the trade unions but the revolutionary workers' movement throughout the world. That this initial revival of anti-capitalism and socialism is being frequently, although not exclusively, expressed through the vehicle of electoral politics is to be expected in the first stage."
It does indeed look like the socialists and their fellow-travelers are on the move. When you add to their forces a Marxist pope whose anti-capitalist rhetoric has been matched by dealings which enabled President Obama to recognize the communist government of Cuba, one has to acknowledge that the Thatcher and Reagan years are behind us and that their enemies have managed to come out on top.
Against this trend, here in America, we have the spectacle of a businessman leading the Republican race for the presidential nomination who has flip-flopped on every significant public policy issue, including his political party identification. Indeed, The Smoking Gun website cites documents indicating that Trump switched political party affiliations many different times. While Reagan left the Democratic Party and became a Republican, he did this for solid ideological reasons.
Reagan talked issues, while Trump talks about himself, especially his hair. Reagan had a good head of hair and an anti-communist brain to go along with it.
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Haunting video footage emerges from Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour's former Hook End studios
The video, posted on Facebook, has caught the internet's attention...
By Tara Lepore ⋅
Haunting video footage has emerged online of abandoned Hook End studios in Oxfordshire, the former home of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.
An 'urban exploring couple' uploaded footage to the Abandoned and Derelict Britain Facebook page last week, which reveals a gravestone in the basement of the house inscribed with a young boy's epitaph dating back to 1909.
Gilmour bought the manor in 1980 from Alvin Lee of the blues band Ten Years After, and recorded some of Pink Floyd's 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason in a studio at the house.
The home was sold by record producer Trevor Horn in 2007 after his wife Jill Sinclair was struck by a stray pellet fired from her son Aaron's air rifle in the 25-acre garden of the mansion.
Jamiroquai and Spandau Ballet also spent time at Hook End, recording albums there in 2009.
Watch the full video below…
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GOP Solo Act on Home Visiting Stuns Advocates
June 13, 2017 John Kelly Child Welfare, Subscriber Content, Youth Services Insider Comments Off on GOP Solo Act on Home Visiting Stuns Advocates
Child welfare advocates seemed certain in recent weeks that there would be bipartisan movement on reauthorization, and perhaps even expansion, of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV), a maltreatment prevention program created as part of the Affordable Care Act.
It is still a possibility. But it is now far from a certainty.
A group of six House Ways and Means Republicans left those advocates reeling when, late last week, they introduced a MIECHV reauthorization without any Democrats in tow, and with several significant provisions that had not been discussed in recent discussions with leaders of several home visiting models.
Among the provisions that had not been discussed with MIECHV advocates before the bill was introduced: a gradual shift of half the cost of programs to states, and an evaluation structure that requires almost constant improvement on certain metrics.
"This took us by surprise," said Diedra Spires, CEO of the Dalton Daley Group, a nonprofit group that has helped coordinate advocacy on MIECHV. "I think it was a really close-hold situation."
The Home Visiting Coalition, a group of 50 organizations that Spires helps coordinate, has yet to release a statement on the bill. Spires said she personally hopes for dialogue soon with leaders in both chambers and parties on shaping the legislation.
"We have a coalition of over 50 organizations coming to grips with this, it kind of caught them by surprise," Spires said. "We knew something was brewing, but not the content of this."
The coalition has been pushing for a doubling of the MIECHV program to $800 million. It is a tough ask in this fiscal climate, but advocates felt confident they had the bipartisan buy-in to try.
MIECHV "is one of the few initiatives that seems to have enjoyed genuine bipartisan support," said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), in an interview with The Chronicle of Social Change in January. "I view this really as empowering families legislation. It is about helping parents be the parents they want to be."
Not only does the House Republican bill pass on increasing the federal expenditure, it takes a clear view that over time, states should become an equal partner on federally-supported home visiting programs.
The bill creates an "applicable percentage" rule that ensured a certain portion of the program would be paid for outside of federal dollars. Thirty percent of programs would have to be paid for outside of federal dollars by 2020. By 2022, it would rise to 50 percent.
"It might look like states can cover match now, but we're not in a bubble," said Spires. "If we're looking at the possibility of different cuts in Medicaid and other programs, will that match be as easy as people think it is?"
Also of concern, she said, is a provision that requires states to continue to show improvements on at least four of the six basic benchmarks for MIECHV. These are:
Improved maternal and newborn health
Reduction of emergency room visits related to maltreatment
Improvements in school readiness and achievement
Reduction in crime and/or domestic violence
Improvements in family self-sufficiency
Improved coordination of referrals to community supports
The provision is not a new concept: states were required to show improvement on these during the original authorization period for MIECHV. The view expressed in this bill is home visiting should continue to yield ever-increasing social dividends.
"There are whole other fields of human services that aren't evidence-based at all," said Spires. "There's work to be done, but it's not all in MIECHV."
Spires was recently in Washington with six CEOs from some of the national home visiting organizations in the Home Visiting Coalition, who met with Republican and Democratic staff from both chambers. State matching and performance outcomes were not mentioned.
"The state match had not come up, nor had the new evidentiary tier, when they had the six of them gathered there," said Spires.
To the extent that this is a legislative starting point, Spires said it was encouraging that things were starting to move and that the reauthorization period was five years. MIECHV faces the end of a two-year authorization in September; President Trump's budget pencils the program in for another two-year stretch.
"Five years is really good," she said. "That is a strong moment for Republicans, particularly with the president's budget saying two."
So what comes next? Surely the Home Visiting Coalition will weigh in, as will House Democrats. Noticeably absent from the bill's co-sponsors is David Reichert (R-Wash.), a Ways and Means Republican with an interest in child welfare issues who used to chair the Human Resources subcommittee.
Spires said more than anything at this point, she hopes for dialogue with the Ways and Means majority leaders, soon.
"What we're saying more than anything else is let's sit down and have a conversation," she said. "I don't want to guess at what they're getting at. I don't doubt the intentions are good, I just think there's some unintended consequences."
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Q: Derivatives on Matrix I'm new to Matrix Calculus. Recently I've been working on that and have a question. Please see the following:
$J=J(\mathbf{z})$
$\mathbf{z}=\mathbf{W}\mathbf{a}$
Where $J: R^m \rightarrow R$, $\mathbf{z}$ is $m\times1$ vector, $\mathbf{a}$ is $n\times1$ vector and $\mathbf{W}$ is $m\times n$ matrix.
I want to calculate $\frac{\partial{J}}{\partial{\mathbf{W}}}$. A reference paper tells I need to turn $\mathbf{W}$ to vector by stacking the column:
$\frac{\partial{J}}{\partial{vec(\mathbf{W})}} = \frac{\partial J}{\partial \mathbf{z}}\cdot\frac{\partial \mathbf{z}}{\partial vec(\mathbf{W})}$
let $\delta^T = \frac{\partial J}{\partial \mathbf{z}}$ and it is a $1\times m$ vector (numerator layout).
$\frac{\partial \mathbf{z}}{\partial vec(\mathbf{W})} = \frac{\partial \mathbf{W}\mathbf{a}}{\partial vec(\mathbf{W})}=\frac{\partial vec(\mathbf{W}\mathbf{a})}{\partial vec(\mathbf{W})} = \frac{\partial (\mathbf{a}^T \otimes I_{mm})vec(\mathbf{W})}{\partial vec(\mathbf{W})}=\mathbf{a}^T \otimes I_{mm}$, $\otimes$ is Kronecker product.
$\mathbf{a}^T \otimes I_{mm}$ is $m\times mn$ matrix.
$\delta^T\cdot(\mathbf{a}^T \otimes I_{mm}) = [\delta_1\cdot \mathbf{a}^T, \delta_2\cdot \mathbf{a}^T, ..., \delta_m\cdot \mathbf{a}^T]$. If I recover this to matrix by invert stacking column, the result is strage:
$$
  \begin{matrix}
   \delta_1a_1 & \delta_{1}a_{m+1} & \dots \\
   \delta_1a_2 & \delta_{1}a_{m+2} & \dots \\
   \vdots      & \vdots & \dots \\
   \delta_1a_m & \delta_{2}a_{2m-n} & \dots
  \end{matrix}
$$
This is obviously wrong. It looks strange. And I find another reference, the result should be $\mathbf{\delta}\cdot \mathbf{a}^T$. So I think the  $invert\ vec(\cdot)$ should be row stacking, is it right?

A: emm.... I know where I am wrong. Actually, I took a shower before went to bed yesterday, and during the shower, I knew the mistake.
This result, $\delta^T\cdot(\mathbf{a}^T \otimes I_{mm})$ is right, while this equation $\delta^T\cdot(\mathbf{a}^T \otimes I_{mm}) = [\delta_1\cdot \mathbf{a}^T, \delta_2\cdot \mathbf{a}^T, ..., \delta_m\cdot \mathbf{a}^T]$ is wrong.
It should be:
$\delta^T\cdot(\mathbf{a}^T \otimes I_{mm}) = [a_1\cdot \mathbf{\delta}^T, a_2\cdot \mathbf{\delta}^T, ..., a_m\cdot \mathbf{\delta}^T]$
After inverting this row vector (numerator layout) back to matrix, the final result is: $\delta\cdot\mathbf{a}^T$.
I misunderstood the definition of Kronecker product.


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The forecast for the winter storm expected to hit Long Island on Thursday has worsened again, with more than a foot of snow now expected in some areas bracing for blizzard conditions.
Ten to 14 inches of heavy snow is forecast for Suffolk County, which will be under a blizzard warning from 3 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, according to meteorologists in the Upton office of the National Weather Service (NWS). Nassau County remains under a winter storm warning from midnight to 6 p.m. Thursday, but it's now expected to see eight to 12 inches of snow. Winds are expected to reach 30 mph with up to 45 mph gusts as temperatures drop into the 20s overnight.
"Local power outages with downed trees and power lines possible," the NWS said in the blizzard warning. PSEG Long Island has said that it is preparing for power outages.
A blizzard warning means that heavy snow and strong winds will significantly reduce visibility. Much of the New York Metro area is also under a winter storm warning.
Forecasters warned drivers to stay off the roads, except in case of emergency. For those that must travel, drivers are urged to carry a survival kit, including a flashlight, food and water in case they get stranded.
Nassau officials said county road crews have begun pre-treating roadways with brine to prevent black ice from forming. Suffolk official will discuss their storm preparations at a news conference scheduled for Wednesday evening.
Forecasters had initially said Monday that the storm would bring up to six inches of snow, but the projected accumulations were upped to 10 inches on Tuesday before being increased again in the final hours before the storm hit.
Once the storm clears, Friday is forecast as cloudy with wind chills between zero and 10 and another chance of light snow after sundown, NWS said.
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The past week has been one flabbergasting public display of affection after another! We here at Elliott Bay Book Company just celebrated our 40th anniversary, with the sort of community hullabaloo that I suppose usually goes along with these sorts of epic milestones. It's just I've never had the privilege of being on this side of the adoration.
Truth be told, I haven't been with Elliott Bay but three years now — I've been in books about twice as long though! — so it's astounding to me the kind of love Seattle readers dole out to us. Reading Mary Ann Gwinn's feature in the Seattle Times, and then Kristianne Huntsberger highlighting us on NW Book Lovers. Then of course the love coming through on Twitter and Facebook. Oh, darling! the wonderful, wonderful words.
There were the floral arrangements. The greeting cards. The cupcakes. The tremendous turnout for our special reading with Jim Lynch, Maria Semple, and Ryan Boudinot — commemorating Seattle's past, present, and future!
In a way, this is me saying thank you for celebrating with us something I only feel I've begun to take part in.
Then, Friday morning, bleary-eyed and in serious need of espresso, I walked into my local Top Pot, where the guy slinging doughnuts leaned over the counter to read my t-shirt. (It's a chic, fitted, cranberry number with Gandalf, Dorothy, and Frankenstein's monster screen-printed above the phrase "The book was better" — courtesy of Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, AZ.) Doughnut Guy got a serious kick out of it before raving hard about his recent goal of rereading all his favorite books made into movies. We chatted a bit about Stephen King's The Dead Zone before he apologized for babbling and took my order.
That's when I told him where I work and suggested he could come find me any time to rave about books, because, really, I don't get tired of it. I certainly haven't read everything (though I have read The Dead Zone, and quite enjoyed it), but I love to listen. I love hearing what you're reading at least as much as I love telling you what I'm reading.
Doughnut Guy, you make me love my job! Fireworks Friend, you make me love my job! So I know that I'm where I'm supposed to be, in a bookstore in a city where people love to read. And what's even better, I learned this week, during a whirlwind of anniversary festivities, just how much you all love reading with us!


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"The challenging part of this new role is that I do not hold an executive position and hence have to perform within constraints. Hence a balancing act has to be done with creativity but with the full co-operation of the management," is the candid confession of the 28 year IT veteran S.R. Balasubramanian, Executive Vice-President, Special Projects and Group CIO of ISG NovaSoft (ISGN), a part of the $2 billion K.K Birla group. The Chennai based 12-year-old, 350 strong; $18 million company is an enterprise software products and services company. It specializes in three core business lines - Outsourced Software Product Development, Application Management Outsourcing and Enterprise Risk Management. Prior to his joining ISGN, Balasubramanian was Vice-President, Information Systems, Hero Honda Motors.
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I've become, quite accidentally, a devotee of reality television as self-care in recent weeks. I'd always been a fan of things like Top Chef or Project Runway, but had stopped watching some years ago due to an outside influence that turned them from guilty pleasures into shameful ones; something I internalized, sadly. It took the one-two punch of Hulu offering up seasons of both shows on its launch page and a randomly stumbled-upon NYT article about the latest season of Project Runway to draw me back in and, reader, they were everything I need.
There needs to be an essay written — perhaps there already has been — about the way in which the familiarity of these shows is comforting, that each episode is constructed both as a complete narrative in and of itself (Who Will Win being the primary plot, the artificial machinations and rivalries of the contestants as subplots, with special attention spent on one or two contestants' backstories providing more emotional context each episode) and part of a greater, season-long storyline. That there are few real surprises beyond, perhaps, the winner and loser of each episode isn't the bug that some complain about; it's a feature. These shows aren't watched to be surprised, their value is gladiatorial soap opera.
I've written before, I'm sure, about the emotional value of trash culture — that something you enjoy but feel unchallenged by can be relaxing and good for you purely by distracting you from real worries and allowing you to de-stress and let your mind relax from panic mode. It's on this level that Project Runway and Top Chef work for me, and so, so successfully. Getting sucked in to who's in and who's out, or watching chefs screw up during Restaurant Wars, feels like the very best way to unwind after work, and stop thinking about more important things for a brief second.
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Two second half goals were the scores that steered Lamh Dhearg to victory over Portglenone in Sunday's tempestuous league game in Portglenone. In a game which saw two red, two black and countless yellow cards the expertly taken majors Marc McGarry and Michael Herron dealt Casements a body blow from which they could not quite recover. They came close is has to be said and their effort could not be faulted, but they will look back on this game knowing that they had the chances to earn at least a share of the spoils.
The game was barely a minute old when the home side lost midfielder Niall McKeever to a straight card after a bout of 'handbags' which held the game up for several minutes. Gerard McAleese had given Casements the lead in the opening minute but Paddy Cunningham brought the visitors level by the fourth. Niall Kelly restored the Portglenone lead with a pointed free on six minutes but it was a further six before we saw the next flag raised when Lamh Dhearg midfielder Domnhall Nugent broke through on the right and swung over a fine score from twenty-five metres.
Lamh Dhearg were then also reduced to fourteen men when right half forward Kevin Quinn received a second yellow card and Portglenone responded quickly and despite appearing to have overplayed the ball in the corner, they made amends as full forward Michael Hagan broke from the pack and swung over a lovely score. That gave the home side a 0-4 to 0-2 lead but after a series of missed chances from both sides Paddy Cunningham found Marc McGarry with an inch perfect pass on the twenty metre line and the left half forward turned inside a defender to fire over and cut the arrears to 0-4 to 0-3 at the break.
Michael Hagan increased the Casement's lead to two with a pointed free three minutes into the second half but with Domnhall Nugent dominating at midfield the Hannahstown men gained the upper hand and after drawing level with two points from Marc McGarry they hit the front when McGarry crashed the ball to the Casement net in the thirty ninth minute. A minute later it could have been two when substitute Pearse Fagan broke through and fired for the net only to see it turned over by Casement's goalkeeper Ryan O'Neill and the home side took advantage of the let off when substitute Dermot McAleese and full forward Hagan hit back with two top class scores to cut the gap to just two. However less than a minute after Hagan's score Lamh Dhearg corner forward Michael Herron fielded a high ball near the edge of the Portglenone 'square' before rounding his marker and crashing home from close range.
When Paddy Cunningham added a point from a free just six minutes from the end of normal time the gap was out to seven and it appeared the visitors were home and dry, but with substitute McAleese having a growing influence Portglenone began to dominate. A great run by full back Aidan McKee started the fightback as he put Gerard McAleese in for a point that could easily have been a goal. Dearmot McAleese, Michael Hagan, Corey McLaughlin and Gerard McAleese all fired over points to cut the arrears to just two deep into injury time and suddenly there was a bit of anxiety in the Lamh Dhearg camp. However they kept their composure in the tense final minutes to safely wrap up another victory.


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Vaccine testing
Vaccine basics
Vaccine successes and current uses
Vaccine safety
You are reading Part 3 of 4 in this series. What are Quick Facts?
A large body of rigorous science has clearly and repeatedly shown that vaccines in use today are exceedingly safe, with benefits greatly outweighing risks for individuals in groups recommended to get them. Contrary to widely disseminated misinformation about the purported dangers of vaccines, serious adverse health effects are very rare, while public health benefits are vast.
How are vaccines tested?
Before a vaccine is tested in people, it goes through laboratory testing (in cells or tissues) as well as in animals (such as mice or monkeys, which in some tests are exposed to the targeted disease after vaccination). Depending on test results, researchers may alter aspects of the experimental vaccine or decide not to pursue human clinical trials.
For a vaccine candidate to get tested in people, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must approve an Investigational New Drug Application. This application includes results from animal testing and suggests a design for human clinical trials.
Clinical trials are designed in three phases to find out whether a vaccine is safe for people, what dose is most effective, and how the human immune system responds to the vaccine. These trials generally take several years, although the first COVID-19 vaccines were created and authorized in under a year.
Phase I trials usually test up to 100 people and are aimed primarily at assessing safety at various doses.
Phase II trials often enroll hundreds of people. Safety remains a focus, but these trials also aim to determine immune responses to the vaccine.
Phase III trials may test thousands or tens of thousands of people with the primary goal to determine if the vaccine works to prevent disease. These studies generally include volunteers randomly selected to receive an inactive placebo instead of the vaccine to help determine if evidence of protection—or any emerging safety issue—is attributable to the vaccine. These studies are larger and longer than the other trials and so can reveal rarer "adverse events" such as fever or a seizure following vaccination—and can help settle whether those issues are causally connected to the vaccine. Adverse events during a clinical trial may require a pause for assessment (the FDA may stop trials or request more research at any point in the approval process ). In one example, the phase III trial for a COVID-19 vaccine candidate was temporarily paused in September 2020 when one subject came down with an illness after getting the vaccine. The trial resumed about a week later after analysis convinced regulators it was safe to do so.
In considering whether to authorize or approve a vaccine for marketing, the FDA reviews safety and efficacy data from clinical trials along with other information—including the severity of the disease and whether other protective strategies or medical treatments are available—to determine whether the vaccine's benefits outweigh its risks for those who will be deemed eligible to take it.
Is vaccine safety tracked after a vaccine is approved?
As vaccines are produced at scale for marketing, samples are tested for purity and for batch-to-batch consistency.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the FDA monitor reports of adverse events, to identify any side effects that may not have been apparent during clinical trials.
Vaccines in general:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains a list of all the vaccines currently approved for use in the United States. In addition to routine childhood vaccines, this includes vaccines given exclusively to adults, such as the shingles vaccine, as well as some that are typically given after exposure to a disease, like the rabies vaccine.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide a glossary of vaccine terminology, an overview of vaccine safety, and information and data from the continuing National Immunization Survey.
The World Health Organization documents vaccine reaction rates and reports on vaccine-preventable diseases and vaccinations in the United States.
An educational resource by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia answers 20 common questions about vaccination.
The National Institute of Health details different types of vaccines.
The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine have published thorough reports on vaccine safety, including this 2012 consensus report on "Adverse Effects of Vaccines."
COVID-19 vaccine candidates:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gives information about Operation Warp Speed, including general plans and specific financial investments.
The Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society keeps a COVID-19 vaccine tracker, updated weekly, which outlines the types, sponsors, trial phases, and funding for vaccine candidates.
In June, the Food and Drug Administration produced guidance for industry related to the development of COVID-19 vaccines, including safety standards. The FDA also publishes plain-language news and updates on its COVID-19 Vaccines page.


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FirstEnergy receives 20-year licence extension for Davis-Besse nuclear plant in US
8 December 2015	(Last Updated December 8th, 2015 18:30)
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC) has received a licence extension from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for its 908MW Davis-Besse nuclear power station in the US.
The 20-year extension, which has been given after safety and environmental reviews by the commission, will allow the plant to operate until 2037.
FENOC submitted a licence renewal application to the NRC in 2010 as the plant's original license will expire on 22 April 2017.
FirstEnergy Generation executive vice president and president James H. Lash said: "Today's NRC decision is another key milestone that helps ensure the continued operation of a vital baseload power plant in Ohio.
"The licence extension secures an important source of carbon-free power for our region while providing thousands of family-sustaining jobs and significant financial support for the community."
Davis-Besse is the 81st nuclear reactor in the US to receive a licence extension from the NRC.
FirstEnergy invested nearly $1bn for the installation of a new reactor head in 2011, and two new steam generators in 2013 at the nuclear power plant.
"This achievement is the result of making the right investments in our facilities as well as our people, who are dedicated to the safe and efficient operation of this plant."
The Davis-Besse station employs more than 700 highly trained professionals.
It generates electricity enough to power more than one million households, while reducing more than 7.1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.
Davis-Besse vice-president Brian Boles said: "This achievement is the result of making the right investments in our facilities as well as our people, who are dedicated to the safe and efficient operation of this plant.
"I am very proud of our employees who have worked to ensure that the plant remains a key asset to the company, which can deliver safe, reliable, clean and affordable electricity for many years to come."
Image: Davis-Besse nuclear power station cooling tower. Photo: courtesy of Gregory Varnum / Wikipedia.
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THE IMPACT OF CONTEXT ON EFL LEARNERS' VOCABULARY RETENTION
Vocabulary is believed to be stored in memory through phonological and semantic routes (Papagno, Valentine & Baddeley, 1991). As such, learners can encode words by repetition or by inferring their meaning in a context. However, the effectiveness of the two techniques for learning vocabulary, namely rote rehearsal and context-based strategy, in acquiring foreign language vocabulary has been controversial and hence has encouraged more empirical evidence. This study was conducted to investigate which of these two techniques had the greater impact on students' vocabulary retention. The results revealed that the vocabulary retention of learners in the context-based strategy outperformed those in the rote group at both test intervals. Although the differences between the two groups in the delayed test failed to reach significance, their outstanding results in the immediate test were much more striking. The findings, therefore, suggested that context was more favorable for achieving word meanings than rote rehearsal in general.
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Eskisehir Technical University offers a "Buddy System" for the incoming exchange students. In this system, each foreign student is assigned a mentor (Buddy) who provides pieces of information, support and guidance about the city, country, travel arrangements, administrative arrangements, to foreign students through the whole mobility period. It is important to note that a mentor is only arranged in case of a demand made by the exchange student before mobility period. The "Buddy System" is a successful way to help the integration of students into the culture and social life by offering constant support throughout the mobility period. Since ESTU is a recently established university, ESN Eskisehir Team is being formed with members who are trustworthy, active, open-minded and internationally-minded volunteers to support the International Affairs Office with their leadership skills and by making the experience of the participants as efficient as possible in academic, cultural, and social terms which include the organizing of study groups, sport activities, trips and special events for all the participants.
2) How to get to Eskisehir?
After arriving in Ankara (Esenboğa Airport), you can reach Eskisehir by high-speed train or bus.
1. You can go to the bus station (AŞTİ) from Esenboğa Airport by HAVAŞ airport shuttle service.
1. You can go to Ankara train station from Esenboğa Airport by HAVAŞ airport shuttle service.
After landing Istanbul Atatürk airport, you can reach Eskisehir by bus or by high speed train.
1. You can reach Esenler Bus Station from Atatürk Airport by subway (Metro). From Sabiha Gökçen Airport, you need to take HAVATAŞ airport shuttle service to Ataşehir Bus Terminal.
As long as the incoming exchange students inform their Buddy friends or the International Affairs Office about their exact arrival date and time in Istanbul or Ankara, Buddy friends will give advice about transportation to Eskisehir and can meet them at the train station or bus station in Eskisehir.
The official language of Turkey is Turkish. Following the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, the New Turkish Alphabet, composed of 29 letters, was created through the adaptation of the Latin alphabet in 1928. The alphabet does not include the letters q, x, and w and has the letters ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş, and ü to meet the requirements of the sound inventory of Turkish. Turkish is an agglutinative language and it is possible to derive many words from a simple root. Some of the most frequent and useful words/phrases/numbers/Wh- questions in Turkish and their translations are listed below.


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The Amazon Effect / April 10, 2020
With Amazon Shipping on pause, the e-commerce giant cedes ground to competitors
By Cale Guthrie Weissman
The coronavirus is upending businesses globally — and platforms like Amazon are beginning to show their weaknesses.
This first became clear when Amazon began prioritizing only essential products to be allowed into its fulfillment centers, as it dealt with the increasing bottleneck of U.S. customers staying home and demanding more products be shipped to them. Now, other parts of Amazon's business are being put on hold; this week, the company told shippers that it would halt its third-party shipping service Amazon Shipping. Put together, it seems that logistics ambitions for the world's biggest e-commerce company will have to be put on hold, as businesses realize they need to focus on their core offerings.
According to David Marcotte, svp of cross-border retail at Kantar, this kind of move by Amazon isn't necessarily shocking. The e-commerce giant has many irons in the fire, and is constantly trying to figure out new ways it can better own its own supply chain. The $1 trillion company is known for investing in programs like these, which likely lose money for a long time until either they grow enough to become profitable or are scrapped.
Amazon Shipping was certainly one of its smaller projects. It was intended to compete with parcel services like UPS and FedEx, offering a few U.S. cities the option to send packages through its own franchised partners. This Shipping offshoot was part of a growing war between Amazon and the parcel services. The e-commerce platform was increasingly trying to decrease its reliance on other shipping players, and even trying to compete with them. As a result, companies like UPS and FedEx temporarily introducing new fees for certain parcel shipments. At the heart of the matter was Amazon's ability to launch services that increasingly squeezed the competition. But now things have changed drastically, and Amazon is showing a slight retreat.
One of the big reasons Amazon allegedly opted to pause its Shipping program was because other services needed to take precedent. According to sources who spoke with the Wall Street Journal the company was looking to prioritize the spike its seen in demand of its own orders, and needed to reallocate resources to deal with it. "Very likely someone said 'we need the trucks, we need the assets,'" said Marcotte.
While a small change, the move shows Amazon implicitly admitting its own shortcomings. The company has been inundated with orders, which has put a huge strain on the company. Products that were considered non-essential were given delayed ship times, and third-party sellers felt like they were left in the dark. Many were told to seek out other logistics partners instead of the Amazon-built services if they wanted to try to keep ship times to a minimum.
Thus, it likely seemed more prudent to focus on this core e-commerce offering and not the ancillary services intended to compete with other carriers. Meanwhile, these other services seemed to be handling the onslaught of e-commerce deliveries quite well.
According to the e-commerce shipping software provider Shippo, online orders as a whole have seen a 30% jump over the last month. And all of the parcel services have been able to keep with this influx. "To the credit of FedEx, UPS and the USPS," said Mario Paganini, Shippo's vp of marketing, "for all domestic deliveries they haven't faltered at all." That, he said, is "good news for the carriers and for the independent non-Amazon merchants."
For now, it's clear that Amazon is trying to reinforce its services to handle whatever lies ahead. And while parcel services seem to be handling the change well enough now, it's unclear how long this can last.
Businesses that are able to be open now aren't able to keep with demand, said Marcotte. "It's a discussion inside all of logistics," he said. While the big players are treading water for the time being, it's unclear how long this global health crisis will last. This could have an even bigger impact — not only on Amazon but on logistics as a whole.
The industry, said Marcotte, is extremely fragmented and "not immune to a slowdown." He went on, "logistics make everything work … until four weeks ago, we were all invisible — nobody paid attention to it. The only time they pay attention is when it doesn't work."
Why Amazon is focusing on fashion with its Big Style Sale
Amazon long-running goal to dominate fashion is seeing a new attempt during the pandemic. With the electronics-focused Prime Day still months away, the "Big Style Sale" could provide a much-needed stimulus for sellers whose categories suffered throughout the quarantine.
As problems mount, sellers find fewer avenues to communicate with Amazon
Amazon is witnessing historic demand, and third-party sellers are noticing a wave of changes. For one, the platform's algorithms to crack down on bad behavior is causing adverse effects. And brands have been unable to find any way to directly communicate with Amazon. One top brand explained just how difficult it's been to sell on the Amazon platform.
As Amazon tries to tamp down on false claims and price gouging, some sellers say it's going overboard
Amazon has historically had difficulty keeping track of bad actors on the platform. Now, the company is having the opposite problem -- numerous brands are receiving automated alerts about issues they claim are false. For some, Amazon alleges price gouging. For others, it's about whether their FDA approved product is truly over-the-counter. For these sellers without a direct line to Amazon to appeal they're stuck with products suspended and sales dwindling.


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6 soldiers among 12 killed in Jammu and Kashmir avalanches
Srinagar: Six soldiers and as many civilians were killed in four avalanches in Jammu and Kashmir since Monday night, police and defence sources said.
An avalanche hit an Army post in Machil sector along the Line of Control on Tuesday, trapping five soldiers. A rescue operation was launched but none of the soldiers could be saved, they said.
Another avalanche struck a village in Gagangir area of Ganderbal district on Monday night in which five civilians were killed while four others were rescued, police said.
Another civilian died in Gurez of Bandipora district. In the fourth incident, a 29-year-old BSF jawan was killed and six others were rescued after an avalanche hit their post along the LoC in Kashmir's Naugam sector at 8:30 pm on Monday.
Officials identified the deceased as constable Ganga Bara of the 77th battalion of the force. "There were a total of seven troops deployed in the affected area.
While six were safely rescued, constable Bara could not be revived even after much effort," a senior officer of the border guarding force said.
PM may visit Brussels in March for India-EU summit
4 more detained leaders in Kashmir released
'False': Shaheen Bagh's Dadis on Being Paid to Protest Against CAA


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Episode 11 - Death Piñata 0
Tonight we take a look back at some of the data collected during the open beta, give our thoughts on the newest additions to the digital comic and animated short world, and much more.
Open beta stats - https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20119622
Digital Comic "Mission Statement" - http://comic.playoverwatch.com/en-us/pharah-mission-statement
Animated Short "Hero" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPRRupAM4DI
Episode 10: Double Dragon 0
Tonight we take a look at "A Better World" - Overwatch's newest digital comic featuring Symmetra. We share our thoughts on the "Dragon" animated short revolving around Hanzo and Genji. There's a potential early release for Overwatch on Monday evening but nothing official as of yet from the Overwatch twitter. Plus, we take a look at what the eSports Digital Network launch might mean for Overwatch. All this and much more.
Digital Comic "A Better World" - http://comic.playoverwatch.com/en-us/symmetra-a-better-world
Animated Short "Dragons" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ09xdxzIJQ
Blizzard's Response to Cheating in Overwatch - http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20743596231
Activision Blizzard launches eSports digital network - http://www.ibtimes.com/activision-blizzard-launches-esports-digital-network-facebook-live-integration-2368178
Episode 9: Hook 'em and Cook 'em 0
Welcome to episode 9 of Heroes Never Die. Listen as hosts Totemlydrunk and DravenDresden bring you up to speed on all things Overwatch.
On tonight's episode we discuss the open beta, share our thoughts on the newest digital comic featuring Junkrat and Roadhog, and talk about the recent "hackusations" spreading around the competitive scene.
New digital comic Going Legit - https://comic.playoverwatch.com/en-us/junkrat-roadhog-going-legit
Overwatch police youtube (hacker PoV vids) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChDfTcf__TDAqZ4Alj3D36A
Counter infographic - http://i.imgur.com/649yyFZ.jpg
CTR Community Overwatch tournament! - http://challonge.com/ctroverwatch
Episode 8: License to Fail 0
Welcome to the eight episode of Heroes Never Die. Listen as hosts Totemlydrunk and DravenDresden bring you up to speed on all things Overwatch. Tonight we're joined by one of my good buddies Wickedella.
On tonight's episode we discuss the launch of Open Beta, give players a few important tips and tricks they'll need for their first playthrough, and share our thoughts on Reinhardt's digital comic Dragon Slayer.
Feel free to follow the podcast on Twitter @hndoverwatch and send us your questions to be answered on the show. You can also find host Totemlydrunk on Twitter @totemlydrunkctr as well as DravenDresden @DravenDresden. You can also find Wicked on Twitter over @Wickedella_WoW.
New digital comic Dragon Slayer - https://comic.playoverwatch.com/en-us/reinhardt-dragon-slayer