from www.oceansideanimal.vetport.com - a really great website with both medical and behaviour articles - do pay it a visit when you have some free time.
Having a tool such as this where you can down your dog in any circumstances can really save your dogs life and it is a wonderful training tool to have. Apart from that it can be used in various games, such as the one when you call the dog to you at speed, and then down it in the middle of a large bull' s eye painted onto a piece of plastic!
This is a method to teach your dog to lie down at a distance and to lie down when he/she is running.
Before you start, your dog should reliably lie down on multiple surfaces and in multiple locations when you are standing next to him/her. Fast downs require that the dog knows how to down from a stand and not just from a sit. If your dog will only down from a sit, teach a down from a stand before proceeding.
When training fast downs and downs from a distance, it is very important to use the clicker. The clicker signals the instant the behavior is correct. By the time you manage to deliver the reward, many seconds may have passed. Without the clicker, the dog will be unsure which behavior is being rewarded. As you train for speed, gradually raise the criteria by not rewarding slow downs. When the dog is dropping at a distance, you should go out to reward the dog or toss the food to the dog.
For dogs that are toy oriented, toss a ball over the dogs' head and send him/her to get it. This helps keep it clear that the dog is to drop at the current location and not come in towards the handler and then drop. When I teach this exercise, I do not always call the animal's name. When using it to stop a dog running towards danger, use your pet's name. With practice most dogs will more reliably drop than recall in an emergency situation.
1. The dog drops from a stand with the handler standing in front of the dog.
2. The dog drops from a stand with the handler standing beside the dog.
3. The dog drops with the handler sitting in a chair.
4. The dog drops from a stand with the handler standing one step from the dog.
5. The dog drops with the handler standing 2 steps away.
6. The dog drops from heel at a walking pace. (At first the handler may need to rotate in front of the dog. Continue to practice this exercise until the dog will drop with no body language from the owner and stay down as you continue to walk off.
8. The dog drops 6 feet from the owner.
9. The dog drops when walking around the room.
10. The dog drops when ambling around the yard at a distance up to ten feet.
11. The dog drops in the house with the handler out of sight.
12. The dog drops in the back of the car if he/she rides loose.
13. The dog drops when approaching a known person in a calm manner.
14. The dog drops at the owner's side when a dog runs by.
15. The dog drops at a distance of 20 feet from the owner.
17. The dog drops quickly at distances up to 20 feet.
18. The dog drops at distances up to 30 feet.
19. The dog will drop when running and playing at distances up to 30 feet.
20. The dog will drop at distances of up to 20 feet with simulated danger. Try to practice dropping the dog while people get out of their cars, cars drive down the driveway, dogs run by, bicyclists ride by, and any other situation that resembles a situation that might cause your dog to give chase.
21. The dog drops with simulated dangers at a distance of up to 30 feet.
22. The dog drops when chasing a toy.
24. Continue to practice in a variety of situations at greater distance.


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(CNN) Just when you thought the complicated, tangled web of who's fighting who in the Middle East couldn't get more complicated, the rules have changed. Again.
The latest twist comes in Yemen, where this week a USS warship launched Tomahawk cruise missiles into Yemen.
According to a Pentagon spokesperson, the missiles targeted radar sites in Houthi-held territory, sites the US claims were being used to launch missiles toward a different American warship (the USS Mason) in two separate incidents earlier this week. Neither incident caused any damage, according to the Pentagon, as the missiles fell into the water.
Independent verification is hard to come by in the Yemeni war. It's unclear who, if anyone, fired the missiles from Yemeni soil. The Houthis strongly reject the accusations, saying that they didn't fire any missiles at US warships. They claim the entire episode is meant as a distraction, to draw attention away from the horrible toll the war is taking on innocent civilians.
According to the UN, an average of 13 Yemeni civilians are killed every day by Saudi-led airstrikes. In the most recent example, a double-tap airstrike killed more than 150 people and injured hundreds more who had gathered at a funeral service.
The lack of independent, verifiable information notwithstanding, the US airstrikes still are a significant development. It marks the first time the US has directly targeted and attacked sites inside Yemeni territory using its own missiles from its own warships.
It effectively makes the United States an active combatant in the war.
The US had until now limited its role to providing intelligence, coordination and logistics to the Saudi-backed bombing campaign, plus providing airborne fueling tankers to enable Saudi jets to refuel in mid-air. Since the war began, the United States also has agreed to sell Saudi Arabia more than $22 billion worth of weapons, some specifically earmarked to replace those that have already been dropped on Yemen.
Until now, Yemen has effectively been the Middle East's second biggest proxy war (with Syria being the first), pitting Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries against Yemen's Houthi minority and its Iranian backers.
Does this mark a turning point, with the US prepared to take on a more active, long-term combat role?
How will it affect its relationship with the Saudis, after the State Department recently implied it would cut off funding if the Saudis didn't take stronger measures to avoid civilian deaths?
What happens if Iranian ships are targeted in international waters, and they choose to retaliate in the same fashion?
If the US pretext for launching missiles strikes into Yemen was on the grounds that it was an act of self-defense, could that provide a justification for Iran to do the same?
All of these are troubling prospects.


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BBC One's flagship medical dramas Holby City and Casualty will join forces for a two-part crossover special.
This marks the first time the two shows have crossed over since 2005. The special episodes will see the staff of the emergency department and the wards come together when Holby City Hospital is plunged into chaos.
Fans can expect to see characters from both shows interacting as part of the two action-packed episodes.
Fighting a different battle amongst the chaos, Connie (Amanda Mealing) is left to save the life of a member of her own team with surgery. As Sasha's injuries become apparent Jac (Rosie Marcel) comes to his rescue and is ready to operate but with only one theatre available in the blackout, Connie and Jac have to make the impossible decision of which of their friends to try and save first.
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Rice to Press for U.N. Security Council Action on Iran
Published January 29, 2006 at 3:50 PM PST
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in London with a busy schedule ahead of her. Tomorrow she'll take part in a conference on Afghanistan, discuss ways to respond to Hamas, and kick off a week of diplomacy as the U.S. calls for international pressure on Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.
MICHELE KELEMEN reporting:
Before he became the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton was the State Department's lead official on arms control. He has long sought to get Iran before the United Nations Security Council and thinks it could happen soon.
Mr. JOHN BOLTON (Ambassador, United Nations): I do think it changes the dynamic to have the Iranian weapons program in the spotlight in the Security Council rather than considered a technical agency of the U.N.
KELEMEN: He was referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency which is meeting in emergency session on February 2nd. It's up to the IAEA's Board of Governors to decide whether to report Iran to the Security Council. Russia has been promoting a go slow approach but Bolton says U.S. and European diplomats have been working out the language of a referral that could win broad support.
Mr. BOLTON: The lawyers have been cogitating about he nature of the language and I am confident that when the lawyers finish cogitating they will come up with the right language and when it gets to the security council, we will know what to do with it.
KELEMEN: The idea then would be to slowly ratchet up diplomatic pressure on Iran with a threat of targeted sanctions down the road. Bolton gave no timetable. Some critics say the U.S. missed opportunities to resolve the Iran issue in less punitive ways. Washington was late to back European negotiating efforts, which reached a dead end when Iran resumed nuclear research earlier this month. And there was the war in Afghanistan when the U.S. and Iran did have some limited but constructive contacts. Joseph Cirincione of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace says the Bush Administration didn't do much to follow up.
JOSEPH CIRINCIONE (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace): Because of missed opportunities and the war in Iraq, the U.S. in a weaker position now to deal with Iran than it otherwise would have been but we are playing a weak hand well at this point.
KELEMEN: Because the U.S. did eventually support the European negotiating track it now has Europe fully behind the effort to get Iran to the Security Council. This lends credibility to the U.S. effort. The key, Cirincione says, is Russia.
Mr. CIRINCIONE: Russia and China are known to want more time. They want to be assured that this is actually going to be a negotiating process and they aren't being set up the way they felt they were set up during the Iraq War where the U.S. used the U.N. process as a staging area for the war. They don't want to fall into that trap again.
KELEMEN: Secretary Rice meets Monday night in London with foreign ministers of the permanent Security Council member states including Russia and China. Cirincione says she will need all her diplomatic skills to succeed.
Mr. CIRINCIONE: If other countries even sniff a bit of set up or the hint of a secret agenda on the part of the United States everything could collapse. You could lose Russia in a second.
KELEMEN: Russia has held out hope that the Iranians will accept it's deal to provide nuclear fuel which would ensure that Iran doesn't get the technology to produce weapons grade uranium. U.S. officials point out that Iran has had plenty of time to consider the deal and never embraced it. The number three official at the State Department, Nicholas Burns, says Iran is in arrears to the international community-having violated pledges to the European Union and violated its IAEA commitments.
NICHOLAS BURNS (Official at U.S. State Department): So, I actually think the diplomacy in London, at the foreign ministers' meeting on Monday, is going to focus on the transgressions of the Iranian government--and there's a great deal of unity in the international community about those transgressions--and try to see if we can have a consensus to move forward on a tactical basis together, to move the issue to the Security Council.
KELEMEN: Secretary Rice's busy diplomatic schedule in London also includes a Donor's Conference on Afghanistan. Iran is expected to send a delegation to that meeting but Burns says he sees no chance of any U.S. Iranian contacts. Michele Kelemen, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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Neuroscientists Reveal Why Sex Addiction Isn't a Real Disorder
Christine Hsu
Update Date: Jul 19, 2013 05:43 PM EDT
Celebrity bad boys like Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen and Tiger Woods have all, at some point or another, blamed "sex addiction" on their scandalous behavior.
However, "hypersexuality" or "sex addiction" failed to make it into the recently updated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, which is considered the bible for diagnosing mental disorders. What's more, new research suggests that sex addiction is not a real neurological or physiological disorder, but instead just a case of heightened libido.
The latest study involved 39 men and 13 women who have been diagnosed with sex addiction. Participants were asked to look at sexual images that trigger pleasant and unpleasant feelings. Researchers explain that the test is used in similar studies when looking at how drug addicts; brains respond to images of drugs. Previous findings revealed that when drug addicts look at images of drugs, their brain shows almost an instantaneous change in activity when they see photographs of the substances they are addicted to.
However, the latest study showed that the brain responses from "sex addicts" were related only to their level of sexual desire and not to the severity of their condition.
"Brain response was only related to the measure of sexual desire. In other words, hypersexuality does not appear to explain brain responses to sexual images any more than just having a high libido," study author Nicole Prause, of the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a news release.
She told Popsci that the study also "suggests that hypersexuality explains nothing in particular about brain responses to erotica".
Prause said the point of the study was to establish whether brain responses to sexual images could be predicted based on the symptoms of sex addiction. Researchers said significant changes in brain activity are needed to establish whether or not sex can be viewed as addictive in the way substances are.
"If our study can be replicated these findings would represent a major challenge to existing theories of a sex 'addiction,'" Prause said.
The American Association for Family and Marriage Therapy estimates that as many as 12 million Americans are addicted to sex. Sex addiction is characterized as having sexual urges that feel out of control. People with sexual addictions or "hypersexuality" frequently engage in sexual behavior, have suffered consequences such as divorce or economic ruin as a result of their behaviors and have a poor ability to reduce those behaviors.
The findings are published in the journal Socioaffective Neuroscience and Psychology.
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While reading this book, I found myself at about every third or fourth page exclaiming—"I never knew that!" Not only does John D. McAulay thoroughly cover the subject of U.S. naval small arms in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he also brings a wealth of detail about the time period to the story, and expertly puts these firearms into their historical context. For example, many readers may not be aware of the political and diplomatic reasons for the Navy to "land the landing force" around the world in the period between the Civil War and World War I, but McAulay showcases each of them, and uses the story as the backdrop to discuss the small arms that sailors and Marines carried ashore.
The book is lavishly illustrated with period photographs, many of which have never before been published, and they come from a wide variety of sources. The photographs of firearms are outstanding and include important examples of guns from both public and private collections. The guns' development, testing, acceptance and manufacture are well-documented and very readable. Most importantly, McAulay has thoroughly researched the distribution of various small arms to every ship, navy yard, Marine barracks and seagoing Marine detachments in the years between 1866 and 1917, in even more detail than he did in his earlier works on Civil War naval arms—which enjoy wide acclaim.
Beyond its usefulness in firearms history, the book serves as a ready reference to the biographies of those members of the sea services who made a lasting contribution to American history, and who also made their mark in naval history in this period. In addition, this book breathes life into an otherwise sometimes dry history of the political and diplomatic efforts—and intrigues—that shaped the world in which we live today. Price: $36 plus $4.50 domestic shipping. Contact: Mowbray Publishing; gunandswordcollector.com.
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See the story behind our most impactful images of the year
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B.C. is home to some of the most amazing stories.
Black Press Media journalists were there, in communities big and small, to capture the moments most don't get the chance to see. Some only lasting brief seconds.
Some stories behind the best photos of the year are painful, some jubilant, some inspiring. But all stories are real and we hope you find them both insightful and moving. We thank all our readers for an amazing 2018, we look forward to sharing more stories in the New Year.
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"This type of scene, I find, can be the most difficult for a journalist to tackle, because it's dealing with other people's misery. I knew I spent too much time at the scene. Eventually, the lead paramedic told me to get lost." (Scott Stanfield/Comox Valley Record)
"This breach was just the icing on what was the most incredible sightseeing tour I've ever been on. We had family from England with us, and it was a day never to be forgotten. We saw a total of a dozen humpbacks, a family of resident orcas, and aside from the breach, we had a close encounter, when one of the whales came right up to our boat, dove under it and surfaced on the other side. As for the timing of the breach… sometimes good luck is better than good management. (Terry Farrell/Comox Valley Record)
"The spring flooding in Grand Forks has been the most challenging assignment of my career so far. When this photo was taken, the day after the flooding, I was running on adrenaline; I don't think I had yet processed what was happening to the city and what it would mean for the future. The situation was abruptly made very real to me when I took this photo. In an instant, I knew that Grand Forks would never really be the same again, and that it was going to be a very long road ahead. When this photo was taken, this couple had just returned from surveying their home and was devastated to find there was four feet of water inside; they will likely never live in that home again." (Kathleen Saylors / Grand Forks Gazette)
"Robyn Thomas told me she tried to jump out a building, out a moving vehicle and off a moving Ferry while she struggled with mental health challenges. I have known Robyn for years, but didn't know some of the inner turmoil she was facing and was deeply moved by her strength and resilience. While taking this photo of her I remember thinking we really don't know how much pain someone is going through, and and her story and kindness was inspiring to me. She now works for the Stigma Free Society advocating to stop the stigma surrounding those with mental illness and I have more respect for her as a person than I did before I knew her story and that is saying a lot." (Arnold Lim / Black Press)
"Photographing cycling races, especially downhill races, are very exciting and unpredictable. As I was photographing a notorious corner in the BC/Canada Cup downhill race in Fernie, a racer travelling too fast to make the turn went off course and tumbled over his bars. He flew off course above me to my right but I was behind my lens and only noticed he was there from the sound of him crashing through the underbrush. As he appeared in the top right of my vision, I yelled, leapt backwards and shot a frame blindly from my chest. It's moments like those that I'm very grateful for pre-focusing." (Phil MacLachlan/Fernie Free Press)
"I was at Penticton Secondary when I spotted this lone student off to one side of the common area, quietly painting a huge banner for a rally to show school support after the Humboldt tragedy. She looked up and smiled as I approached, then went back to work without a word while I made photos for a few minutes. There was a photo later at the rally with the whole school massed together, holding up the finished banner but this quiet young woman, working with Zen-like concentration, summed up the feeling even better." (Steve Kidd/Penticton Western News)
"Tent city is a controversial topic for many and I remember photographing some homeless people that had been kicked out of a campground in Langford. Even as someone who has seen a lot pain through my lens over 10 years as a photojournalist, I found it difficult not to feel a little bit as they shed tears and wept in each others arms. (Arnold Lim/Black Press)
"The Pines Special Care Home in Kimberley celebrated Mother's Day this year with a roaring 20's themed party and staff had invited The Bulletin to take photos. What a special event. It was so lovely to be a part of this day and to see all of the people who are in special care dancing and having so much fun. I put a smile on my face for the rest of the day. Between the costumes, music, photo booth and 'mocktails' it truly felt like you had stepped back in time when walking through the doors of the cafeteria." (Corey Bullock/Kimberley Bulletin)
"This was one of the first stories I attended for Black Press. I remember walking through sudsy water and the smell of burnt metal in the air. What was sad about it was the truck was next door to a house that had burned down just the month before, so the street looked like a micro war zone. The neighbour's car windows had been blown out from the heat of the truck fire, and I was the first person to speak with her on that. It was a bittersweet afternoon, both sad but also an exciting promise of the kinds of stories I could cover in the future." (Nicole Crescenzi/Victoria News)
"Tsilhqot'in elder Theresa Billy has lived with the story of the 1864 hanging of the six Tsilhqot'in chiefs since she was old enough to remember it being passed down to her through oral history. A lifetime has passed for the 86-year-old, and several generations of First Nations have suffered as a result of colonialism, but she was able to witness with her own eyes Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau riding into remote Xeni Gwet'in title land November 2 underneath towering snow-capped mountains with current Tslihqot'in chief and chairman Joe Alphonse to formally exonerate the war chiefs — something the Tsilhqot'ins have demanded all those years. Billy waited for hours in the cold, her eyes stinging and sore from the smoke of nearby campfires, to be at the historic event. Trudeau travelled several hours by plane and vehicle to get to the remote site to issue the formal apology. After speeches, he greeted Billy, getting down on his knee to hold her hand in a moving exchange." (Angie Mindus/Williams Lake Tribune)
"The Canada Day fireworks one was fun – my first time shooting fireworks at Canoe Beach. Instead of setting up my tripod on the beach, I placed it on the top ramp of the children's playground where I had what I thought would be a good, stable view. The playground area had become occupied by a group of energetic youth and my stable view wasn't so stable anymore. I waited it out, however, and, eventually, the barge came back into view. As the first of the fireworks illuminated the sky, the bouncing abruptly stopped and I was able to get my shots." (Lachlan Labere/Salmon Arm Observer)
"The Canadian Cancer Society's Cops for Cancer ride has been a big part of my life since I first rode it in 2013, and every year I see and hear amazing stories of strength and resilience from those that fundraise. I remember seeing this woman in Tofino and how she had cut her hair off to raise money for children with cancer and was struck by how she held her hair after it had been shaved off. It was obvious it wasn't an easy thing to do and made her sacrifice all the more powerful and touching." (Arnold Lim/Black Press)
"Reverend Andrea Brennan is one of the most recognizable faces around town for one particular reason – she's always smiling. For almost three years she has served as the minister of the Christ Church Anglican in Fernie. Behind the everlasting smile is a person confident in what they believe in and not afraid to challenge the status quo. Aside from breaking the stereotype by being a female minister, Brennan is also openly queer. She is also serving at a time when her denomination is considering marrying same-sex couples." (Phil McLachlan/The Fernie Free Press)
"It was the first time I'd seen the Sheepdogs and I was just totally blown away by their fun energy. While I was focused on the two rhythm guitar/singers that always get all the attention, I looked over at the lead guitarist who was standing right beside me and saw this frame with the Sheepdogs light in the background. I was caught a little off guard when the photo gallery went up online and their PR person emailed us. I thought when I saw the message that he was going to give me hell for bootlegging a song from the concert to roll behind the photos, but instead he was contacting us to ask if they could use a few shots for their social media pages, which was cool." (Mike Davies / Campbell River Mirror)
"It was just by happenstance that I came across a group of high school students mourning the loss of their friend Jack Stroud, 15, who was struck and killed by a train the day before. The students made a makeshift memorial for their friend, and were sitting in silence surrounding a cross they made that morning. I spent about 20 minutes with them, in silence, before asking them about their friend. The teens eventually opened up to me and shared their memories. Before walking away, I quickly took a photo to capture the moment, and this image was the result." (Aaron Hinks/Peace Arch News)
"This is the aftermath of a prolific offender stealing a vehicle in Abbotsford, racing to Chilliwack, and rolling the pickup on this embankment. It took a team of tow-truck drivers to remove the truck and its trailer from the blackberry bushes. This was taken from below as the truck was being pulled up to the road and as a plane serendipitously flew overhead giving the photo a little more visual interest." (Paul Henderson/Chilliwack Progress)
"Kids were all placing poppies at God's Acre Cemetery for Remembrance day. While they were all respectful, this one kid, Simon Lowe, was exceptionally pensive and sombre at each stone. He really took the time to read the names and reflect on people's lives, and I thought it was just such a neat representation of the depth and compassion kids can have. I even approached him to see if I could ask him about his thoughts, and he politely told me I could talk to him after he was done." (Nicole Crescenzi/News Staff)
"Bradley Benarz, desperately tried to save the vehicle and whatever else he could from the fast-moving blaze using a garden hose before fire crews arrived on scene. The father and son typically leave for work at 7 a.m. but got a late start to their day because they were out late the night before battling a wildfire just outside the city limits using their water tankers. The vehicles and home were destroyed in the blaze." (Angie Mindus/Williams Lake Tribune)
"This photo was one of the many cool shots I was able to take on my heli-tour with BC Wildfire Services this summer. The team wanted to show off some wins they had been having, so they invited me to get shots of the ongoing wildfires in the area. For anyone who is new to helicopter photography like I was, this was shot out of a small opening in the window as we were soaring 4,500 to 6,000 ft - so it took extra care to be steady and find the shot, all within a matter of seconds." (Jordyn Thomson/Penticton Western News)
"I responded to a report of a break and enter and when I got there, police were walking the suspect to a police car. It was on a very narrow road so even standing back as far as I could it felt like I was standing in the middle of the scene. The suspect's grandfather was next to the police car glaring at his grandson who was now sitting half-way inside the car, blood on his cheek from an altercation with the homeowner who sat on him waiting for the police to arrive. I was a few feet away and captured the intensity of the moment between the relatives." (Keri Coles/Oak Bay News)
"Capturing great, peak-action sports images typically requires a long, fast lens, good timing, quick reflexes and knowing where the ball (or puck) is, or will be. The frames I captured before this one didn't work because of various other players obstructing these two and/or the ball. The frames after this, the two players were both down on the turf. Great timing, following the football, and a tight crop make this a strong sports action shot." (Jenna Hauck/Chilliwack Progress)
"This photo comes from a substantial structure fire at a mobile home park that tore through two homes late one night, when I arrived on scene shortly before midnight crews had just gotten the fire under control. Due to the close proximity of the homes and how quickly the fire had spread, all of the area residents had been evacuated to an area that wasn't accessible because there was only one single lane road access to the site. Police had blocked the road so no one could get close to the fire. Since I couldn't get any shots of the fire or firefighters battling it, I had to be creative. There was no available light so I used the flashing lights from one of the fire trucks to silhouette fire fighters carrying gear to and from the scene." (Katie Enqvist/Goldstream Gazette)
"It was very fun to watch graduates of Golden Secondary School do some light rock climbing in their suits and dress shoes with some of their best pals. It really sums up what an adventurous community Golden is." (Keri Sculland/Golden Star)
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"I've found over the years of covering freestyle ski events the better photos have something other than just the skier in them, something to give the viewer some perspective. For this photo it meant climbing half way up a 26 degree grade in snow and sometimes ice and not falling down and becoming a snowball by the bottom." (Mark Brett/Penticton Western News)
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Online Safety Bill fails to protect society's most vulnerable from malicious scammers
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Charlie Shakeshaft, CEO of Individual Protection Solutions, reacts to the new Online Safety bill, acknowledging the pros and cons, and what more needs to be done by the government to ensure people are adequately protected online
Scams and fraud have arguably never been as prevalent, nor as sophisticated, as they are today. The pandemic has touched every aspect of ordinary people's daily lives. Worryingly, one reality of everyone being stuck at home, and reliant on technology to communicate with friends and family, has been the opportunity afforded to scammers to target and contact some of society's most vulnerable people.
The financial impact of scams has been stark. ONS data shows that there were 4.7 million incidents of fraud between March 2019 and March 2020, while Action Fraud states that £1.7 billion was lost to scams in the last year.
This is having a knock-on mental and emotional impact on actual and prospective victims of fraud. According to research by Individual Protection Solutions (IPS), people now consider their online and data security to be their biggest data concern. A third of people are more worried about scams now than at the start of the pandemic, while 75% of people are contacted by scammers at least once a week.
In this context, the announcement of the Online Safety Bill's imminent implementation may have seemed timely. However, dig a little deeper, and it is clear that the Bill will not cover scams and fraud in any meaningful way.
Consumers are caught in a vicious cycle. Big technology companies, who are often the source of data breaches that allow fraudsters to obtain key personal data, are simply not worried about putting stronger checks in place to protect their users. Governments have the power to force change but are refusing to mandate that change and threaten serious punishments on the world of big tech.
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The Online Safety Bill is a classic example of this. It includes deterrents for romance scams and controversial user-generated content, but it does not go nearly far enough in protecting people from the growing issue of fraud. By failing to confront scams via advertising, emails or cloned websites, people will continue to face a growing threat from online criminals.
Given the increase in scams exposed over the last year, the urgency and extent of the problem is not reflected seriously enough in the government's response. This bill was an opportunity to force big tech to play their part in stopping online fraud, but the government has let us down.
Often, scammers will be targeting the most vulnerable people in our society, those with a trusting nature who are likely to take a call for a friendly chat. Things are spiralling as such a rate that there have even been recent reports of a new type of scam, where cold callers will force individuals to send them money just to stop them phoning them.
The reality is that people's financial and mental health will continue to be preyed upon by online scammers, but what this Bill offers is the first glimmer of hope that the regulation and policing of scams is starting to be addressed. The government says it will publish a Fraud Action Plan later this year and look at how scammers use digital advertising to lure people into handing over their cash. The question is how much longer the public can afford to wait.
My grandmother was bombarded with thirty nuisance calls a day. So difficult was it for her to find help, that I decided to launch Individual Protection Solutions, to help people who were in a similar predicament. We have released several free tools that people use to better understand how well their personal information is protected, and then make it more secure. Until such time as serious legislative change is made, the onus will continue to fall on people to protect themselves from the growing underworld threat of scammers and fraudsters.
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INTRODUCTION Copyright law is an increasingly important aspect of managing an academic library. This study investigated the copyright knowledge level of academic library deans and directors and their perceptions of how it affects their abilities to oversee the development and enforcement of copyright-related library policies. The perceived adequacy of the copyright training currently available in library schools was also examined. METHODS A random sample of academic library deans and directors was asked to complete a web-based survey articulating their level of copyright knowledge and perceptions associated with how they are able to apply it toward their work with policies. RESULTS Respondents scored a mean of 77.49% on ten questions of basic copyright law concepts. A majority of deans and directors indicated they believe their knowledge, as well as that of those working under their supervision, is adequate to make informed decisions. However, almost 90% of the respondents were either neutral or disagreed that library school programs are providing adequate training in copyright law to academic librarians. DISCUSSION The evidence from this study reveals that library deans and directors have a basic knowledge of copyright law concepts; however, it is unclear as to whether their understanding is sufficient to provide a sound basis for developing and sustaining operational policies and strategic directions for their libraries. It is clear that participants acknowledged the need for more training in copyright law as part of basic preparation for librarianship. CONCLUSION Deans and directors of academic libraries have a working knowledge of copyright law but more training is needed to provide library professionals with the tools necessary to carry out the work of effectively managing collections and services, especially in this new and emerging digital environment.


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39 Best Summer Quotes 2021
The weather is getting warmer, the days longer, and spring will say farewell before you know it; summer is almost here. As you get ready to fuel up the barbecue and dust off your favorite bathing suits, we've rounded up the best quotes about summertime from renowned authors, poets, and public figures to get you in the summer spirit. So whether you're in need of some summertime nostalgia or are in search of the perfect summer quotes for Instagram, you'll appreciate these catchy lines about the summer season.
1. "It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside." —Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib
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2. "Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling." —K.D. Lang
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3. "It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer." —Anna Godbersen, Bright Young Things
4. "Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me." —Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
5. "And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
6. "Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be." —Nora Ephron
7. "Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." —Sam Keen
8. "The summer night is like a perfection of thought." —Wallace Stevens
9. "Do what we can, summer will have its flies." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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10. "Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." —Henry James
11. " If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe…" —Evelyn Waugh
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12. " Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time." —John Lubbock
13. "Summertime is always the best of what might be." —Charles Bowden
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14. "I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June." —L.M. Montgomery
15. "One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter." —Henry David Thoreau
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16. "Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly." —Van Morrison
17. "What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness." —John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
18. "A life without love is like a year without summer." —Swedish Proverb
19. "Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well." —George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones
20. "Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August." —Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty
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21. "Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night." —Hal Borland
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22. "Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is about." —John Mayer
23. "The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it." —Katie Lee
24. "I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket." —Kellie Elmore
25. "Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England." —Archibald Macleish
26. "The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color." —Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
27. "Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill." —Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
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28. "I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this." —Susan Branch
29. "Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves." —Debasish Mridha
30. "I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there." —Jack McBrayer
31. "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." —Audrey Hepburn
32. "You are so much sunshine in every square inch." —Walt Whitman
33. "When all else fails, take a vacation." —Betty Williams
34. "Rejoice as summer should… chase away sorrows by living." – Melissa Marr
35. "To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie–true poems flee." – Emily Dickinson
36. "Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in sunshine." – Oprah Winfrey
37. "All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer… one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends, and delightful doing, come as near perfection as anything can come in this world." – L.M. Montgomery
38. "When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome." – Wilma Rudolph
39. "Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June." – Al Bernstein
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Indiana teachers who took part in an active shooter drill were told to crouch down and then shot execution-style with projectiles, causing injuries, the Indiana State Teachers' Association said Wednesday. Gail Zeheralis, the Indiana State Teachers Association's Director of Government Relations, told a state Senate committee that the teachers were screaming and some were bleeding from welts, CBS Indianapolis affiliate WTTV reported.
The sheriff of White County, which held the drill, said they have stopped using airsoft guns in the training, the Star reported. The plastic pellets they used are 4.6 mm in diameter, but Sheriff Bill Brooks emphasized the "key word is soft" in describing the projectile.
Zeheralis said the incident occurred in early January, but it came to light Wednesday as the state government considered a bill that would expand the state's grant program that gives funds to schools to improve security measures.
The measure has already passed the Indiana House but the teachers' association is requesting an amendment to allow for "more reasonable limits" on the drills as the legislation goes through the Senate.


Welcome World! A New WhiteSponge!
Hello there! Welcome to the newly designed and revamped WhiteSponge! My name is David and today I will be sharing about our new shiny website and more importantly – our new direction moving forward!
Previously, we were only focusing on designing and crafting games that you would enjoy. We were all about creating that gameplay experience that would make people go "Ohhhh I can definitely feel the developer's heart in this!".
Stellar Stars was such a game. We spent almost 2 years crafting it. And we wanted it to reach as many gamers as possible. While that certainly didn't go as planned in the end, it played a crucial part in our decision towards our new direction. We knew it wasn't going to be an easy journey, venturing the path of creators. This challenge is part of the fun as well. However, after releasing Stellar Stars and getting more exposure, we realized that we were only looking at a really small picture.
The world isn't just about games. There are many areas and industries that technology can make a huge difference. As crazy as it sounds, we want to change the world by using technology to empower and evolve it. It will not be just about games. We want to help bring you and/or your business up to the next level with our expertise. It could be just a simple redesigning of your website. It could also just be crafting a mobile app to help increase your customers' loyalty and engagement. The possibilities are endless.
With this new direction in mind, we thought it be best to have a new web presence that embodies that. And our website is indeed in need of a makeover. Because why not?
In addition to the rather modern design, we also decided that at the center of this make-over, a new logo for WhiteSponge is necessary. It will serve as the icon of our new direction moving forward. While the previous logo wasn't really bad, it just didn't have that slick and modern look we were aiming for.
We have always preferred simple, minimalist and modern designs. So after multiple revisions, we came up with this instead.
This new design retains the main colors of the previous logo. Additionally, at the center of the logo is our new "W" that represents WhiteSponge. And to share a little fun fact, this new "W" is made up of 8 white squares. The number 8 actually represents good fortune and luck in the chinese culture!
We do not have any doubt that this will be an exciting new journey for us. And we would like to invite you to join us on this journey! So remember to follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter as well!
We will be sharing about our new projects in our next few blog posts so look forward to them!


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Dr. Gerrit Klaerner, Ph.D., the Founder of the Company, has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2013 and as our Chief Executive Officer and President since August 2013. Dr. Klaerner was the Founder of Relypsa, Inc. and served as its President and as a member of its board of directors from October 2007 until June 2013. Dr. Klaerner co-founded Ilypsa, Inc. in 2003 and served as its Chief Business Officer and Senior Vice President from December 2006 until July 2007 and its Director of Technology Assessment and Business Development from January 2003 until December 2006. Dr. Klaerner served in Symyx Technologies, Inc. from October 1998 until January 2003 as Staff Scientist, Senior Staff Scientist and Director of Business Development. Dr. Klaerner received his Ph.D. in polymer and organic chemistry from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, his M.S. in Chemistry from the Philipps University of Marburg and completed post-doctoral research at Stanford University and the IBM Almaden Research Center.
Dr. Susannah Cantrell has served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer since January 2019. Dr. Cantrell has over 20 years of commercial industry experience across sales, operations, marketing and global commercial strategy with therapeutic experience in cell therapy, oncology, inflammation, anti-infectives, cardiology, neurology and endocrinology. She most recently served as Vice President & Head, Global Commercial Strategy and Marketing Oncology at Gilead Sciences, Inc. where she was instrumental in leading and building its oncology business franchise from 2011 to present. While at Gilead, she led global marketing for YESCARTA, ZYDELIG and pre-launch activities for andecaliximab and the company's chimeric antigen receptor T-Cell (CAR T) therapy portfolio. Prior to her time at Gilead, Dr. Cantrell held various senior level positions at Genentech/Roche from 2005 to 2011, including marketing, strategic business planning and sales. She participated in life-cycle management and the pre-launch and commercial launch of several products, including RITUXAN, HERCEPTIN, AVASTIN and TARCEVA. Dr. Cantrell also led the pre-launch and commercialization activities for Genentech's BioOncology pipeline. Prior to Genentech, Dr. Cantrell held sales and marketing positions at GlaxoSmithKline, where she managed the anti-infective portfolio, including the AUGMENTIN, TIMENTIN and BACTROBAN. Dr. Cantrell holds a BA in biology from Westminster College and a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Mr. Edward J. Hejlek, Esq., has served as our Senior Vice President and General Counsel since January 2016. Mr. Hejlek served as a Partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP from April 2008 until December 2015 and as an attorney at Senniger Powers LLP from 1983 until March 2008 (Partner from 1986 to March 2008). Mr. Hejlek also served as outside patent counsel to Ilypsa, Inc. from 2005 until March 2008 and as outside patent counsel to Relypsa, Inc. from 2007 to March 2008. He was an adjunct professor of law at the Saint Louis University School of Law from 1987 until 2012. He received a J.D. from University of Missouri-Columbia and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Washington University.
Ms. Claire Lockey has served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer since November 2015. Ms. Lockey served as the Senior Vice President of Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Affairs at Relypsa, Inc. from February 2010 until November 2015.
Ms. Lockey served as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at FibroGen, Inc. from July 2003 until January 2010 and has held similar executive-level positions at other biopharmaceutical companies including Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Layton Bioscience, Inc., Connetics Corporation and Gore Hybrid Technologies, Inc., as well as a consulting position at Synergia LLC from 1985 until 1995. She received a B.A. in Biology from Boston University.
Mr. Geoffrey M. Parker has served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since April 2017. Mr. Parker previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from September 2010 to May 2015. From 1997 to 2009, Mr. Parker led the West Coast Healthcare Investment Banking practice at Goldman Sachs. Mr. Parker has served as a member of the board of directors of Perrigo Company plc, Genomic Health, Inc., and ChemoCentryx, Inc. since November 2016, June 2016, and December 2009, respectively. Mr. Parker holds an AB degree in Economics and Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Dr. Dawn Parsell has served as our Senior Vice President of Clinical Development since August 2018. Dr. Parsell has over 24 years of biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry experience, where she has been involved in the successful development and approval of nine FDA-approved drugs. She has served as an independent regulatory consultant to the industry since 2001, providing strategic and tactical clinical and regulatory support to her clients, including assisting in the design and implementation of Tricida's TRC101 development program since 2014. From 1994 to 2001, Dr. Parsell worked at Connetics Corporation in discovery, clinical development and regulatory affairs positions, most recently as Director of Regulatory Affairs. Dr. Parsell received a B.S. in Biochemistry and Genetics/Cell Biology with Distinction from the University of Minnesota, a Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The University of Chicago.
Dr. Wilhelm Stahl, Ph.D., has served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer since February 2017. Dr. Stahl served in several roles, including as Senior Vice President of Pharmaceutical Operations and as Chief Technology Officer, at Relypsa, Inc. from September 2011 until January 2017. Since January 2009, Dr. Stahl has been Managing Director of Rondaxe Deutschland OHG, a subsidiary of Rondaxe Enterprises, LLC, a consulting firm, providing consulting services and strategic advice on CMC aspects of drug development, supply chain management and strategic business support, where he was a Managing Partner from October 2009 to September 2011. From 2005 to 2008, Dr. Stahl was Head of the Pharma Custom Manufacturing business of Saltigo GmbH, a subsidiary of Lanxess AG. He received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Bonn.
Dr. Klaus R. Veitinger, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., has served as a member of our board of directors since February 2014 and as our chairman of the board since September 2015. Dr. Veitinger has served as a Venture Partner with OrbiMed Advisors LLC, an affiliate of one of our principal shareholders, since October 2007. Prior to OrbiMed Advisors, Dr. Veitinger was a Member of the Executive Board of Schwarz Pharma AG and the Chief Executive Officer of Schwarz Pharma, Inc. with responsibility for the U.S. and Asia businesses. Dr. Veitinger has served on the boards of public companies, including Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from August 2012 until July 2016 and Relypsa, Inc. from October 2010 until June 2015, and currently serves on the board of scPharmaceutical, Inc. since November 2017. Dr. Veitinger currently serves on the boards of directors of the following private companies: Neurogastrx, Inc. and Promentis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. For seven years he was a Director of PhRMA. Dr. Veitinger received his M.D. and his doctorate (Ph.D.) from the University of Heidelberg. He earned his M.B.A. at INSEAD in France.
Dr. Robert J. Alpern, M.D., has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2013 and as chairman of our Scientific Advisory Board since October 2013. Dr. Alpern has served as the Ensign Professor of Medicine (Nephrology), Professor of Internal Medicine, and Dean of Yale School of Medicine since June 2004. He served as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Relypsa, Inc. from 2007 until 2014 and Ilypsa, Inc. from 2004 until 2007. From July 1998 until June 2004, Dr. Alpern was the Dean of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Dr. Alpern has also served as a director of AbbVie Inc. since January 2013, Abbott Laboratories since October 2008 and has served on the board of trustees of Yale-New Haven Hospital since 2005. Dr. Alpern was on the leadership committee of the American Society of Nephrology and served as its president. Dr. Alpern has held or been awarded field-specific journal editorial board and fellowship positions, leadership positions in advisory councils and associations, and teaching awards. Dr. Alpern received his M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and his B.A. in Chemistry from Northwestern University.
Dr. David Bonita, M.D., has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2014. Since June 2013, Dr. Bonita has held the position of Private Equity Partner at OrbiMed Advisors LLC, an affiliate of one of our principal shareholders. From June 2004 to June 2013, Dr. Bonita held other positions at OrbiMed. Dr. Bonita has served on the boards of directors of Clementia Pharmaceuticals Inc. and View Ray Inc. since April 2013 and January 2008, respectively. Dr. Bonita also previously served on the boards of directors of Ambit Biosciences Corporation and Loxo Oncology, Inc. Dr. Bonita currently serves on the boards of directors of the following private companies: Acutus Medical Inc., Cryterion Medical Inc., Enobia Pharma Inc., Keystone Heart Ltd., Kyn Therapeutics Inc., Prelude Therapeutics Inc. and Si-Bone, Inc.; and has previously served on the board of directors of CardiAQ Valve Technologies, Inc. Dr. Bonita has also worked as a corporate finance analyst in the healthcare investment banking groups of Morgan Stanley and UBS. He has published scientific articles in peer- reviewed journals based on signal transduction research performed at the Harvard Medical School. He received his A.B. in Biological Sciences from Harvard University and his joint M.D./M.B.A. from Columbia University.
Dr. David Hirsch, M.D., Ph.D., has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2016. Since 2007, Dr. Hirsch has served as a Founder and Managing Director at Longitude Capital Management, an affiliate of one of our principal shareholders, where he focuses on investments in biotechnology. From 2005 to 2006, Dr. Hirsch was Vice President of Pequot Ventures where he worked in the life sciences practice. Prior to Pequot Ventures, Dr. Hirsch was an Engagement Manager in the pharmaceutical practice of McKinsey & Co. Dr. Hirsch currently serves on the boards of directors of the following public companies: Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc., since 2012, and Molecular Templates, Inc., since 2017. Dr. Hirsch also serves on the boards of directors of the following private companies: Rapid Micro Biosystems, Inc., Velicept Therapeutics, Inc., and Zavante Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. Hirsch previously served on the boards of directors of Civitas Therapeutics, Inc. and Precision Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. Hirsch received his B.A. in Biology from The Johns Hopkins University, his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. David A. Bushinsky, M.D., is the John J. Kuiper Distinguished Professor of Medicine and of Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He is Chief of the Nephrology Division at the University of Rochester Medical Center and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Medicine. Dr Bushinsky has published several hundred peer-reviewed articles, invited reviews, chapters and editorials and has developed a strain of rats that exhibit genetic hypercalciuria, the most common metabolic abnormality in humans with nephrolithiasis, and spontaneously form kidney stones. The pathophysiolgy of the hypercalciuria closely parallels that of man and is thus a useful model to study stone formation in humans. His research has been consistently funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health for 3 decades and he has lectured throughout the world. Dr Bushinsky received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Mass. He completed an internship and residency at Tufts New England Medical Center Hospital in Boston, Mass. He also completed a fellowship in clinical nephrology and a research fellowship in nephrology at Tufts New England Medical Center Hospital in Boston, Mass. Dr Bushinsky is a member of a number of organizations including the Association of American Physicians and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He is married to Nancy Krieger, a pharmacologist and collaborator, and they have two children, Joshua and Seth.
Dr. John Fordtran, M.D., is Director of Gastrointestinal Physiology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. Dr. Fordtran received his medical degree from Tulane Medical School, New Orleans. He is the former Chief of Internal Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center, President of the Baylor Research Institute and co-editor, Gastrointestinal Disease – Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Management. Edited by Marvin H. Sleisenger and John S. Fordtran, W. B. Saunders Company (Philadelphia). He was also the associate editor of the Journal of Clinical Investigation (1972-1977) and editor of Gastroenterology (1977-1981). Dr. Fordtran has published over 180 peer-reviewed articles with specific interest in the physiology and pathophysiology of the absorption and secretion of water and solutes in the human gastrointestinal tract. He received numerous honors, among them the Janssen Award in Gastroenterology for Lifetime Achievement in Digestive Sciences and he was the first Dr. Joseph B. Kirsner Visiting Scholar at The University of Chicago, in recognition of Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership in Gastroenterology.
Dr. Craig Hawker, Ph.D., is currently Director of the Materials Research Laboratory and a Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1993-2004 he was a Research Staff Member and an investigator in the NSF Center for Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He received a B.Sc. (Hons) degree and University Medal in Chemistry from the University of Queensland in 1984 and a Ph.D. in bioorganic chemistry from the University of Cambridge in 1988 under the supervision of Prof. Sir Alan Battersby. Jumping into the world of polymer chemistry, he undertook a post-doctoral fellowship with Prof. Jean Fréchet at Cornell University from 1988 to 1990 and then returned to the University of Queensland as a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow from 1991 to 1993. He has been honored by numerous awards and is Editor of the Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Chemistry.
Dr. Thomas H. Hostetter, M.D., is Professor of Medicine and Vice Chairman for Research in the Department of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine. He was previously Abraham Levitt Professor of Medicine and Director of the Nephrology Division at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York for 6 years. For nearly 5 years before that he was a Senior Scientific Advisor and founding Director of the National Kidney Disease Education Program at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. Prior to that he had been Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, where he was also Director of the Renal Division in the Department of Medicine for 15 years. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Yale University. After graduating from Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Hostetter served his internship at Baylor and the remainder of his residency at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Following his nephrology fellowship at the Brigham, he was a member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School until moving to Minnesota in 1982. Dr. Hostetter's major research interests are the mechanisms of progressive renal disease and uremia. He was president of the American Society of Nephrology from 1999 to 2000 and was later chair of its Public Policy Board for 5 years. He has served on several editorial boards, study sections of the NIH, the Nephrology board of the American Board of Internal Medicine, the councils of the American and International Societies of Nephrology and as a consultant to industry.
Dr. Vandana Mathur, M.D., FASN, is a nephrologist, clinical trialist, and a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology. She was faculty on the Renal Transplant Service at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and a consultant for the UCSF Drug Studies Unit. Since 2000, Dr. Mathur has served as the president of a clinical drug development and medical marketing support consulting company specializing in the design, conduct, and regulatory submission of clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies. Her clinical development therapeutic area work has spanned multiple therapeutic areas including nephrology, cardiology, hematology, oncology, and pain as well as drug-device combination products. Prior to founding Mathur Consulting, Dr. Mathur worked for several Silicon Valley biotechnology companies, ultimately in the role of Vice-President of Clinical Development and Medical Affairs. In these various roles, she has been integrally involved in the filing of 12 consecutive, successful New Drug Applications. She has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad, is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, has published several dozen peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, and is an inventor on eight patents. Dr. Mathur graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia with Honors in Biology and from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She then completed a nephrology and transplantation fellowship and the Clinical Scholars Program in epidemiology and biostatistics at the UCSF. She maintains an active clinical practice in San Francisco.
Dr. Bertram Pitt, M.D., is Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. Dr. Pitt received his MD degree in 1959 from the University of Basel, Switzerland. He then did a fellowship in cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he remained on the faculty until leaving to direct the division of cardiology at the University of Michigan School of Medicine in 1977. Dr. Pitt has chaired or co-chaired a number of clinical trials in cardiology including SOLVD; ELITE I and II; Prevent; Rales and Ephesus and has over 500 articles in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Pitt has been a member of a numerous medical journal editorial boards and medical organizations, and has served as an advisor to the clinical trials branch of the NHLBI and a member of the FDA cardio-renal advisory board. He has been awarded the James B. Herrick Award by the Council of Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association and has been elected to the Society of Scholars of the Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Navdeep Tangri, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P.(C), is an attending physician and Associate Professor in the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Tangri's research program is clinical and translational and focused on improving clinical decision making for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease. He developed and validated the Kidney Failure Risk Equation to predict the need for dialysis in patients with CKD and is presently engaged in multiple validation and implementation exercises to increase the uptake of the KFRE. In addition, Dr. Tangri is conducting a large prospective study on frailty, physical and cognitive function in advanced CKD, as well as comparative effectiveness studies on the safety and effectiveness of medical therapies in this population. He has published over 170 manuscripts and presented at multiple national and international scientific meetings. He is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Kidney Disease, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease and is Section Editor for the Epidemiology and Prevention Issue of Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension. He has received the CIHR New Investigator Award and a CIHR foundation award for his work on CKD progression.
Dr. Donald Wesson, a board certified internist and nephrologist, is currently President of the Baylor Scott & White Health and Wellness Center (BSW HWC), Senior Vice President of Baylor Scott & White Weight Management Services, and Professor of Medicine at Texas A&M Health Sciences Center College of Medicine in Dallas, Texas. He is Past Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Board of Directors, Past Chair of the ABIM Foundation Board of Trustees, and Past Secretary/Treasurer of the American Society of Nephrology. He served as faculty in the nephrology division of Baylor College of Medicine from 1983 to 1994 and was named Chief of the Division of Nephrology at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in 1994. He was subsequently named Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Texas Tech in 1999 and served until 2007, when he assumed his current positions at BSWH and Texas A&M College of Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, attended Washington University School of Medicine, and received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Wesson completed his residency in internal medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals, his nephrology fellowship at the University of Illinois (Chicago), and his Masters of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.


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Institutt for elkraftteknikk
Model for Load Analysis at Granåsen
Hansen, Maren Haugland
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Institutt for elkraftteknikk [1555]
Granåsen ski arena had in 2017 a total energy consumption of 1036.4 MWh, and a maximum power peak of 986 kW. During the next years, Granåsen is facing a comprehensive expansion, which will lead to increased energy and power demand. The purpose of this thesis is to ensure Granåsen to be a sustainable facility, with respect to eventual energy self sufficiency. This work includes analyzis of current load profiles, load modelling and assessment of solar cells.
A bottom up approach to load modelling is used in order to construct load prognoses, involving both engineering and statistical methods. Retrieval of data is therefore emphasized. The system boundaries have been chosen to encompass four central loads of a Granåsen: Lights, snow production, elevator and buildings.
The energy consumption prognoses for the buildings are based on reference data from buildings in Norway with similar functions. A constructed scenario where events, weather, and temperatures are the determining variables, provides an annual energy consumption which corresponds to approximately the double of the current consumption. It is, however difficult to compare the results due to different system boundaries and great uncertainties. It has therefore become evident that the approach performed in this work is more relevant than the numerical results.
PV production potential is found to be 652790 kWh/year when all future available roof is utilized for PV modules. That furthermore corresponds to a 750. 8kW$_p$ plant. A 30 \degree tilt provides the highest annual output, while a 90\degree tilt leads to a higher yield during the winter. PV can, with respect to a 30\degree tilt, contribute to decrease the forecasted load profiles by 35\%. With no energy storage, however, 69,442 kWh excess energy would go to waste during the summer months. PV can also, with no energy storage implemented, to a small extent remove power peaks.
Energy storage together with PV can be very relevant to implement in a sports facility as Granåsen, especially to function as a peak shaving unit. A battery with capacity 720 kWh suggested for this purpose can work as a peak shaving unit for 250 kW during two hours. However, just below 100 batteries are required in order to store all the excess energy for the installed PV and given load scenario. Mobile Energy storage, which works as peak shaving units other places on a daily basis, but collected at Granåsen for special events could be a relevant execution model to get a smoother load profile during the year.


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Everybody gets caught the first time: `uniq` filters repeated lines -- but only
if they follow each other. This assumption greatly reduces the memory footprint
of `uniq` and ... its usefulness.

I [explained previously](https://blog.jpalardy.com/posts/alternative-to-sort-uniq-c/) how awk
could be used to replace the classic `sort | uniq -c` incantation. In short, by
skipping the `sort`, you can scale the solution to much bigger files.

If, however, all you need is an unsorted `uniq`, there's an even shorter awk command you can use:

    $ cat animals.txt
    cats
    cats
    cats
    dogs
    birds
    cats
    dogs
    dogs
    birds
    dogs
    dogs
    birds

    $ cat animals.txt | awk '!cnts[$0]++'
    cats
    dogs
    birds

Broken down as:

* $0 -- the whole current line
* cnts[$0] -- hash (automatically created) lookup of the current line
* !cnts[$0] -- if not in the hash (first occurence)
* !cnts[$0]++ -- if not in the hash, also, increment by one (flagging it as "seen")
* { print $0 } -- implicit action of the conditional above, print the current line

Or, in English, print the current line if you've never seen it, and mark it seen.

As a bonus, this command doesn't have to process the whole file; it will
print the new unique lines as they present themselves.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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/mah"aw ree, -oh ree, mow"ree, mah"ree/, n., pl. Maoris, (esp. collectively) Maori for 1, adj.
1. a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
2. a Polynesian language, the language of the Maoris.
3. of or pertaining to the Maoris or their language.
Any member of a Polynesian people of New Zealand.
Maori traditional history describes their origins in terms of waves of migration from a mythical land between the 12th and 14th centuries, but archaeologists have dated habitations in New Zealand back to at least AD 800. Their first European contact was with Abel Janszoon Tasman (1642), who did battle with a group of Maori. Later Europeans were initially welcomed, but the arrival of muskets, disease, Western agricultural methods, and missionaries corroded Maori culture and social structure, and conflicts arose. The British assumed formal control of New Zealand in 1840; war over land broke out repeatedly over the next three decades. By 1872 all fighting had ended and great tracts of Maori land had been confiscated. Today about 9% of New Zealanders are classified as Maori; nearly all have some European ancestry. Though largely integrated into modern urban life, many Maori keep alive traditional cultural practices and struggle to retain control of their ancestral lands.
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Polynesian people of New Zealand. Their traditional history describes their origins in terms of waves of migration that culminated in the arrival of a "great fleet" in the 14th century from Hawaiki, a mythical land usually identified as Tahiti. This historical account provides the basis for traditional Maori social organization and is generally supported by archaeological discoveries, which have dated Maori arrival in New Zealand to about 1300 CE. Members of each tribe (iwi) recognized a common ancestry (which might be traced through either or both parents) and common allegiance to a chief or chiefs (ariki). Traditionally, at the day-to-day level, the most important social groups were the hapuu (subtribe), which was the primary landholding group and the one within which marriage was preferred, and the whaanau, or extended family.
This social order was in force when Abel Tasman (Tasman, Abel Janszoon), the first European contact, arrived off the coast of New Zealand in December 1642. He did battle with a group of Maori on South Island and left the area largely unexplored. In 1769–70 Captain James Cook (Cook, James) circumnavigated the two major islands and wrote about the intelligence of the Maori and the suitability of New Zealand for colonization. Whalers, sealers, and other Europeans seeking profit were initially welcomed by the Maori. With the introduction of muskets, disease, Western agricultural methods, and missionaries, Maori culture and social structure began to disintegrate. By the late 1830s New Zealand had been joined to Europe, and European settlers landed by the score.
After the British assumed formal control of New Zealand in 1840, European settlement and government began to alarm the Maori, especially in North Island. In 1845 some Maori chieftains began ravaging the Bay of Islands and other areas of the far north (in what has sometimes been called the First Maori War), and they were not finally suppressed until 1847, by colonial forces under Governor Sir George Grey (Grey, Sir George). His victories brought a peace that lasted from 1847 to 1860.
The so-called King Movement was a response to the increasing threat to the Maori land. In 1857 several tribes of the Waikato area of North Island elected as king Te Wherowhero, who reigned as Potatau I. In addition to electing a king, they established a council of state, a judicial system, and a police organization, all of which were intended to support Maori resolve to retain their land and to stop the intertribal warfare over the issue. Not all Maori accepted the authority of the king, but the majority shared with the King Movement the resolve not to sell the land.
Until 1860 the Maori still owned most of the land of North Island, but a large increase in the number of immigrants in the 1850s led to demands for greatly increased land purchase by the government. Many Maori were determined not to sell. In 1859 Te Teira, a Maori of the Taranaki area, sold his Waitara River land to the colonial government without the consent of his tribe, precipitating the First Taranaki War (1860–61). Only the extremist wing of the King Movement joined in the First Taranaki War.
The war consisted essentially of a series of generally successful sieges of Maori pas (fortified villages) by British troops and militia. The British were defeated during an attack (June 1860) on Puketakauere pa when the Maori executed a surprise counterattack, but the Maori were defeated at Orongomai in October and Mahoetahi in November. The war ended in a truce after the surrender of the Te Arei pa in late March 1861. The Maori remained in possession of the European-owned Tataraimaka block of land.
The fighting resumed in the Second Taranaki War in April 1863 after Governor Grey built an attack road into the Waikato area and drove the Taranaki Maori from the Tataraimaka block. While fighting raged in Taranaki once again, the Waikato War began in July 1863, and the Waikato River region, the centre of the King Movement tribes, became the main target of the Europeans. Once again the war was decided by sieges of Maori pas, but the Maori also began to employ guerrilla tactics. British troops were aided by gunboats and forest ranger units made up of colonial volunteers. The Europeans won notable victories at Meremere in October 1863 and at Rangiriri in November. The fall of the Orakau pa in early April 1864 essentially brought the Waikato War to an end.
The last of the wars—known to the Europeans as "the fire in the fern" and to the Maori as te riri pakeha, "the white man's anger,"—was fought from 1864 to 1872. Hostilities spread to virtually the whole of North Island. The main Maori combatants in the mid-60s were the fanatic Hauhau warriors. The British government wanted to conclude peace in 1864, but the colonial government, wishing to acquire more land, continued the war and assumed an increasing share of the fighting. In July 1865 Grey led the capture of Weroroa pa in southern Taranaki. European and supporting Maori forces (increasingly numerous after 1864) checked each new effort by the King Movement tribes. From 1868 to 1872, the Hauhau were supplemented by members of a new warrior cult, Ringatu, founded and led by a guerrilla leader, Te Kooti.
All fighting ended in 1872. Great tracts of Maori land had been confiscated and Maori society permanently disrupted. The supporters of the King Movement retreated to King Country, in west-central North Island. This area was closed to Europeans and remained under Maori control until 1881, when it was released to the government.
In the latter part of the 20th century, about 9 percent of New Zealanders were classified as Maori, and almost four-fifths of these were urban dwellers. Urbanization has meant full exposure to an urban culture and increased contact with European New Zealanders. The rate of intermarriage between Maori and Europeans steadily increased, particularly in the younger age groups, between Maori men and European women. Economically, however, a disproportionate number of Maori remained in occupations of lower status and lower pay. This situation was largely the result of educational deficiencies, and in 1961 the Maori Education Foundation was set up with the aim of improving the standard of Maori education. Although this body has had some success, the educational achievement of most Maori children is still below that of other New Zealanders, with the result that few are able to enter occupations of higher status. There are, however, a sprinkling of Maori at all levels, and discrimination in jobs is minimal. The lack of employment opportunities led many Maori to leave New Zealand in the second half of the 20th century. By the early 21st century it was estimated that about 15 percent of the Maori were living in Australia, and in 2005 the New Zealand government launched a campaign to persuade Maori expatriates to return.
In other areas of social life, too, Maori are generally accepted by other New Zealanders, although some may have difficulty in finding housing in the cities and others may meet opposition if they wish to marry European New Zealanders. Prejudice is for the most part not deeply ingrained. Many Maori fear cultural domination more than discrimination and wish to maintain their identity as Maori. Nearly all have some European ancestry, and some who identify themselves as Maori actually have a predominance of European ancestry. Their identification is thus cultural rather than genetic.
To most Maori, being Maori means recognizing and venerating their Maori ancestors, having claims to family land, and having a right to be received as taangata whenua ("people of the land") in the village of their ancestors. It means the acceptance of group membership and the shared recognition, with members of the group, of distinctly Maori ways of thinking and behaving. There has been some revival of the teaching of the Maori language, and in 1987 Maori was made an official language of New Zealand.
Many Maori cultural practices are kept alive in contemporary New Zealand. All formal Maori gatherings are accompanied by oratory in Maori; action songs; formal receptions of visitors, accompanied by the hongi, or pressing together of noses on greeting, and sometimes by ritual challenges; and cooking of food in earth ovens (haangi) on preheated stones. Carved houses, which serve as centres of meeting and ceremony in Maori villages, are still being erected.
For many Maori people, the most significant issue in New Zealand remains that of the land. Acutely conscious of the injustices of European land dealings in the 19th century, they are suspicious of any moves toward changes of land law that are initiated by the government. Formerly, land defined as "Maori land" could be sold by its owners only after the approval of a special court, but later legislation made it easier for Maori to sell their ancestral land. There is a strong body of Maori opinion, however, which holds that land is held in trust by one generation for the next. Maori groups recovered significant land settlements from the New Zealand government in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, most notably a 1997 settlement of $170 million (New Zealand) with South Island's Ngai Tahu tribe and a 2008 land exchange worth more than $420 million (New Zealand) with a group of seven North Island tribes.
Maori have played a role in the governing of New Zealand since the mid-19th century, when Maori members first entered Parliament. Seven seats out of a total of 120 are reserved for Maori in the New Zealand Parliament. All voters who claim Maori ancestry may vote in a Maori electoral district, but a Maori may register in either a Maori or a non-Maori (general) district.
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