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James L. Payne June 1, 2009	 November 18, 2020 Leave a comment
We have seen quite a string of books recently by authors who severely criticize big government for waste, error, and corruption, yet who continue to have a passionate faith in it. Perhaps the first was Philip Howard's 1994 jeremiad, "The Death of Common Sense." Paul C. Light is the latest to join this genre. He begins his work pointing to 18 recent failures in federal administration, including security breaches at nuclear labs, Hurricane Katrina miscues, porous borders, and the subprime mortgage meltdown. He says the federal government is burdened with bloated upper management, cumbersome hiring systems, loss of accountability, and uninspired employees mainly interested in pay and benefits. "The federal service," he says, "is suffering its greatest crisis since it was founded."
This wouldn't surprise those familiar with the writings of von Mises and Hayek, who pointed out that a central coercive agency could never have the knowledge to wisely manage the millions of comings and goings in a large society. Inefficiency and folly are inevitable, and, just as inevitable, the public scorn that mismanagement reaps. Alas, Light never glimpses this problem of complexity. He still believes big government can succeed. It just needs to be reformed – some more.
His 28 remedies are remarkably lame.
Aware that the federal government is somehow overloaded, he proposes that somebody develop and impose "a sorting methodology for determining the importance, difficulty, and success of the federal government's mission, and jettison missions that are no longer relevant." He fails to notice that we already have such a mechanism. It's the cumbersome maelstrom called politics, and the idea that senators, governors, mayors, employee unions, mass media, lobbyists, and Al Gore would sit quietly by while this commission jettisoned government missions is embarrassingly naive.
Another of Light's proposals is "a moratorium on reform.'f He's right to complain that decades of executive branch reforms, piled on by every Tom, Dick, and Harry, have multiplied conJune 2009 fusion and inconsistency. But where does that leave Paul, with his suitcase-full of 28 additional reforms?
One of his proposals would delight paleoconservatives. He wants to take a meat-ax to the higher bureaucracy. "Reduce the number of managers by half at all levels of government," he urges. Light is, understandably, vexed by the "thickening" of management layers in the federal government. Between the line employee carrying out policy and the top brass there are now between 25 and 60 layers of command: deputy undersecretaries, associate deputy undersecretaries, and so on. (Organization charts show there's even an "Associate principal deputy assistant secretary," I kid you not.) As Light points out, these many layers mean that commands going down are garbled or ignored, and information flowing up is distorted or blocked.
But Light fails to realize that all of these positions have responsibilities stemming from law, regulation, or presidential directive. You couldn't eliminate 3,000 federal executive positions without jettisoning thousands of programs that someone thinks are important. Indeed, even to attempt it, you would have to first create, in every agency, a deputy assistant secretary in charge of eliminating deputy assistant secretaries.
Light is concerned about low employee morale. To improve it, he proposes (this is his "reform" D7) that everyone "Talk incessantly about the important contributions federal employees make through their service." To protect sensitive souls in the bureaucracy, "Congress and the president can help by stopping their constant attacks on big government." Again, Light exempts himself from his advice: federal administrators will hardly be cheered by his book about"government ill-executed."
The solution to cumbersome, disgraceful big government is, of course, much smaller government, but this solution eludes Light. He does not suggest even one federal program that should be cut or abandoned, nor does he note any principles to limit federal involvement, such as the idea that Washington should not do what local government can do. He is convinced that the federal government could do everything well if people would heed his suggestions (and ignore everyone else's), and if they would stop trying to "starve" it (yes, Light considers $2,800,000,000,000 a starvation diet).
Light notes that he was a senior consultant for the first National Commission on the Public Service in 1989, and observes that all of the dysfunctional trends reported then "have worsened since." Yet 19 years later, he still believes that effective, efficient big government is possible.
The only explanation I can see for his steadfast loyalty is that the federal government is his church. Something of his reverent attitude is revealed in his observations – entirely unexplained – that lithe federal government accomplishes the impossible every day," and that federal employees "make miracles every day." This is the language of swooning faith, not empirical analysis.
Treating government as a metaphysical entity, as Light seems to do, puts it beyond rational evaluation. When one prays to a god for an end to floods or epidemics and the floods and epidemics get worse, one does not conclude there is no god. One prays some more.
James L. Payne
James L. Payne has taught political science at Yale, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, and Texas A&M University. His latest book is Six Political Illusions: A Primer on Government for Idealists Fed Up with History Repeating Itself.
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import mx from '../../multiplex';
import * as mocks from './_mocks';
import {
    qmodule,
    qtest
} from '../../qunit';

qmodule('linq-zip');

function simpleNumericSelector(t, u) {
    return t + u;
}

qtest('homogeneous zip', function (assert) {
    assert.deepEqual(mx([1, 2]).zip([3, 4], simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), [4, 6], 'Zip two numeric array!');
    assert.deepEqual(mx('ab').zip('cd', simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), ['ac', 'bd'], 'Zip two string objects!');
});

qtest('heterogeneous zip', function (assert) {
    assert.deepEqual(mx([1, 2]).zip([3], simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), [4], 'Zip two numeric array!');
    assert.deepEqual(mx('ab').zip('c', simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), ['ac'], 'Zip two string objects!');
    assert.deepEqual(mx([]).zip([3], simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), [], 'Zip an empty iterable with anything results in an empty iterable!');
    assert.deepEqual(mx([1, 2]).zip([], simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), [], 'Zip anything with an empty iterable results in an empty iterable!');
    assert.deepEqual(mocks.enumerable.zip(mocks.enumerable, simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), [2, 4, 6, 8, 10], 'Zip two enumerable!');
});

qtest('collections zip', function (assert) {
    assert.deepEqual(mocks.collection.zip(mocks.collection, simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), [2, 4, 6, 8, 10], 'Zip two Collections!');

    assert.deepEqual(mocks.list.zip(mocks.list, simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), [2, 4, 6, 8, 10], 'Zip two Lists!');

    assert.deepEqual(mocks.readOnlyCollection.zip(mocks.readOnlyCollection, simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), [2, 4, 6, 8, 10], 'Zip two ReadOnlyCollection!');

    assert.deepEqual(mocks.linkedList.zip(mocks.linkedList, simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), [2, 4, 6, 8, 10], 'Zip two LinkedList!');

    assert.deepEqual(mocks.hashSet.zip(mocks.hashSet, simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), [2, 4, 6, 8, 10], 'Zip two HashSet!');

    assert.deepEqual(mocks.stack.zip(mocks.stack, simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), [2, 4, 6, 8, 10], 'Zip two Stack!');

    assert.deepEqual(mocks.queue.zip(mocks.queue, simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), [2, 4, 6, 8, 10], 'Zip two Queue!');

    assert.deepEqual(mocks.set.zip(mocks.set, simpleNumericSelector).toArray(), [2, 4, 6, 8, 10], 'Zip two Sets!');

    assert.deepEqual(mocks.map.zip(mocks.map, function (t, u) {
        return t[0] + u[0];
    }).toArray(), [2, 4, 6, 8, 10], 'Zip two Maps!');

    assert.deepEqual(mocks.dictionary.zip(mocks.dictionary, function (t, u) {
        return t.key + u.key;
    }).toArray(), [2, 4, 6, 8, 10], 'Zip two Dictionary!');

    assert.deepEqual(mocks.lookup.zip(mocks.lookup, function (t, u) {
        return t.key + u.key;
    }).toArray(), [2, 4, 6, 8, 10], 'Zip two Lookup!');

    assert.deepEqual(mocks.sortedList.zip(mocks.sortedList, function (t, u) {
        return t.key + u.key;
    }).toArray(), [2, 4, 6, 8, 10], 'Zip two SortedList!');
});

qtest('zip method validations', function (assert) {
    assert.throws(function () {
        mx([1]).zip();
    }, 'null input');

    assert.throws(function () {
        mx([1]).zip([2]);
    }, 'null result selector');

    assert.throws(function () {
        mx([1]).zip([2], 1);
    }, 'non-function result selector');
});

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Q: swap image with fadein on mouseover/fadeout on mouse out the title say's it all...
i have made this tutorial creating-a-jquery-mouseover-fade-effect
but I want to apply 3 times in the same ... with diferent images, and when I try to do, he gets all uncoordinated and 2nd over image goes to the first place ...

A: UPDATED
Here you go
Working FIDDLE
$(".fadehover").on({

    mouseenter: function() {

        $(this).find('img').eq(0).stop().animate({"opacity": "0"}, "slow");

    },

    mouseleave: function() {

        $(this).find('img').eq(1).stop().animate({"opacity": "0"}, "slow");

    }

});

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Q: Nim: Parallel loop with mutating state I'm new to the Nim language. I wanted to learn it by implementing a simple Genetic Algorithm to evolve strings (array of integers atm) by distributing the work to the CPU cores:
https://github.com/peheje/nim_genetic
I have successfully parallelized the creation of the "Agents", but cannot do it to call a function "life" that must mutate the passed in state:
...

type
Agent* = ref object
    data*: seq[int]
    fitness*: float

...
var pool: seq[Agent] = newAgentsParallel(POPULATION_SIZE)
# Run generations
for gen in 0..<N_GENERATIONS:
    let wheel = createWheel(pool)
    let partitions: seq[seq[Agent]] = partition(pool, N_THREADS)
    parallel:
        for part in partitions:
            echo "spawning"
            spawn life(part, pool, wheel)
    pool = createPool(pool, wheel)
...
proc life(part: seq[Agent], pool: seq[Agent], wheel: seq[float]) =
for a in part:
    if random(1.0) < CROSSOVER_PROP:
        a.crossover(pool, wheel)
    if random(1.0) < MUTATE_PROP:
        a.mutate()
    a.calcFitness()
echo "life done"

CPU is bound at 100 % and it seems like Nim is copying the data to "life" as the RAM usage skyrockets after "spawning". In the Nim manual it says about the parallel block:

"Every other complex location loc that is used in a spawned proc
  (spawn f(loc)) has to be immutable for the duration of the parallel
  section. This is called the immutability check. Currently it is not
  specified what exactly "complex location" means. We need to make this
  an optimization!"

And I'm very much using it as mutable state, so maybe that is why Nim is copying the data? How can I get around passing pointers only? A few points:

*

*I guess I could avoid mutating, instead returning new instances that are modified, but I still need to pass in the pool and wheel to read from.

*If the parallel: statement is not possible to use, how would I implement it using threads?

*Is random() threadsafe? How else?

*Anything else I could do different? E.g. easier unwrapping of the FlowVar?

Coming from Kotlin with Java8 Streams I feel really spoiled.


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This week: Aromatherapy isn't just for yoga studios anymore. For brands, scented storytelling opens a new dimension.
When we talk to entrepreneurs about designing their spaces, there's often discussion of color palettes or mood boards used to create an ambience that's pleasant and intriguing to visitors. What will visitors see? How will the shop furniture feel? Sometimes there's talk of playlists or refreshments to make a space feel more like home.
But we hear less about small business owners' plans for augmenting the sensory experience of scent in their stores. And science shows overlooking this could be a mistake.
• When it comes to creating emotional connection through the senses, our sense of smell reigns supreme. You may have experienced it yourself during what's referred to as a Proustian moment: getting a whiff of a perfume your granny once wore or the musky smell of the garden shed you played in as a kid, and you're suddenly transported back to a particular moment in childhood. Scent, along with its sensory bedfellow, taste, is the sense most likely to trigger such memories. "Neuroscientists have suggested that this close physical connection between the regions of the brain linked to memory, emotion, and our sense of smell may explain why our brain learns to associate smells with certain emotional memories," writes Sabrina Stierwalt in Scientific American.
• "It doesn't take a postdoc in neurobiology to understand that smell is a crucial part of desire," Leslie Jamison writes in Vogue in an essay about losing her sense of smell when she had Covid-19 in 2020. Pheromones play a crucial role in human biology, determining how a person chooses a romantic partner to the way a newborn first connects to their mother. Napoleon Bonaparte apparently requested that his wife Josephine refrain from bathing until he returned home from war so as not to dilute her signature smell. In Elizabethan England, women would soak apples known as "love apples," in their underarm sweat to give their lovers the gift of l'eau de B.O. (Try this one next Valentine's Day.) The long and short of it? We're biologically hardwired to pay attention to olfactory cues.
• It's no surprise then, that scent branding has become a hugely influential (and profitable) area of study. "Scented environments have been shown to reduce typos made by office workers; improve the perception of product quality; and increase purchase intent", a group of Harvard Business Review researchers found. Scent branding is popular across a variety of industries, particularly in hospitality and retail. The Hyatt Place has been pumping its signature fragrance, "Seamless" (a calming blend of fresh blueberries and light florals) into its hotel rooms since 2007. The scent has become a central component of the hotel's brand identity, used in over 300 hotels and incorporated into the brand's style guide, along with other brand identifiers like a color palette, decor, lighting, and background music. "Regular internal surveys and public online comments reveal that the scent has enhanced the visit experience and increased brand memorability for thousands of guests," the HBR report found.
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• Helen Keller once called smell the "fallen angel" of the senses because of people's tendency to underestimate its importance. Indeed, a 2019 survey cited by the New York Times found that scent was the one sense people would be most willing to lose. That thought experiment came to life in an all too real way in 2020, when Covid robbed thousands of people of their sense of smell. The consequences of this loss, also known as anosmia, were more wide-ranging and emotional than most of us knew, putting affected people at greater risk of depression, anxiety, and malnutrition. Some people turned to essential oils and other aromatherapy to get their noses back to health, sniffing oils of lemon, rose, eucalyptus, and clove.
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Words by Nicola Pardy, a freelance writer and producer living in New York.


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Mexico and the USA - neighborhood problems: ignorance and uncertainty
Currently, the existing border wall sections are of various types: sheet steel, metal grid and concrete / Photo creative commons via Wikimedia
The Trump's border wall is not a safety solution, but a symbol of ignorance
by Laura Tejeda
25 April 2017 10:44 Tue 25 Apr 2017 10:44:34 BST
Mexico and the United States are linked by several factors: political, economic, commercial, geographical, historical and social. However, the decisions and projects of the new American president, especially in regard of the migration dossier – today considered the salvation of Trump's presidential failure, so far–, have created tensions between the two neighbouring countries. These tensions are fueled by the uncertainty and contradictions of the US government.
Confusing messages
John Kelly, US Secretary of Homeland Security, publicly denied on February the prospect of mass deportations, of deportations to Mexico despite nationality and the use of armed forces to prosecute illegal immigrants. This contradicts the statements of President Donald Trump of previous days. On the contrary, Kelly stressed the spirit of dialogue, cooperation, and respect for the human rights of undocumented immigrants.
However, on 6 March he said that he was planning to separate the children from their immigrant parents in order to discourage them from entering the US – talking about respect and human rights!
Despite the Mexican government's position against president Trump's initiatives, Mexicans do not trust the government or President Enrique Peña Nieto, who is well known for making bad decisions, such as the appointment of Luis Videgaray Caso as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
This man has no knowledge or preparation in international and diplomatic matters, according to his own statements in his first speech. In fact, when he was Secretary of Finance, he invited Trump on August 2016 to talk with Peña Nieto; this was done without even respecting the diplomatic protocol, nor the authority of Claudia Ruiz Massieu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs at that time, who was not even aware of this initiative.
On 25 January 2017, Trump signed the decree about the border wall. It is worth mentioning that the two countries share more than 3100 km of border. Currently, there are 569 km of fences to stop pedestrians and 482 km of vehicle fences, most of them built during the second term of George W. Bush. But, there is not enough money to start this expensive flagship project of $ 21.6 billion dollars, despite the appeal for tenders made in January from companies wishing to carry out this project.
The president Trump administration reaffirmed on 23 April that the financing for the Border Wall is a condition for the approval of the US budget and if the negotiations fail the government could be stymied in this regard. It is "the height of irresponsibility," denounced Democratic Dick Durbin, on CNN.
Drugs and immigration
While it is true that the US has a national epidemic of opiate dependence, a wall would not be the right solution to stop the drugs from crossing.
Let's take the example of heroin: trafficking is done by the passage of small quantities hidden in shoes, toothpaste, and even inside human beings! People who pass drugs are individuals from the villages near the border who need money or who are extorted to traffic in exchange for help to cross easily. The wall is not a solution, but a mere distraction to the real problem. Furthermore, drugs and other illegal product couriers have multiple ways to evade the current border walls, like catapults, cannons, ramps, drones and sophisticated tunnels, according to the BBC.
As for illegal immigration, there are people who wish to have a better standard of living in both economic and security aspects. Building a wall will not stop them, as most of them are ready to die. Besides this, they will be more likely to fall into the hands of drug, organs and people traffickers.
Despite the "America first" policy, the jobs that are taken by Latin American immigrants are non-substitutable jobs: this means that they are jobs that the Americans do not want to take. Moreover, the Latin American workforce is much cheaper. Even the President's son, Eric Trump, knows this. Just last February he asked to hire 23 foreign workers in his vineyard in Virginia. Indeed, President Trump already knew this too as his clothing brand 'Donald J. Trump Signature Collection' is made in Mexico.
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Watch the Army's New 'Smart' Grenade Launcher in Action
We want one.
The U.S. Army is upping its firepower in a big way with a weapon fit for Call of Duty.
After more than five years in development, the Army's first shoulder-fired 'smart' grenade launcher will run through its final round of weapons testing, Ars Technicareports. The XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement, built by Orbital Sciences subsidiary Orbital ATK, is designed to detonate grenades at a specific time rather than on impact. That's right: timed grenades.
This 2013 promotional video from ATK captures this bad boy in action:
"The XM25 is a next-generation, semi-automatic weapon designed for effectiveness against enemies protected by walls, dug into foxholes or hidden in hard-to-reach places," according to Orbital's public specs. "The XM25 provides the soldier with a 300 percent to 500 percent increase in hit probability to defeat point, area and defilade targets out to 500 meters. The weapon features revolutionary high-explosive, airburst ammunition programmed by the weapon's target acquisition/fire control system (TA/FC)."
What that means in layman's terms: Not only can soldiers now set grenades to detonate over enemies behind cover ("anti-defilade") rather than on impact or at the end of a three-second fuse, but soldiers can rain down explosives on their enemies without exposing themselves to hostile fire. This thing isn't just smarter, but safer.
The XM25 has been at least five years in the making. Ars Technicanotes that the Army sent XM25 prototypes to Afghanistan to see how the thing actually performed under combat positions — and it got rave reviews. "[The] introduction of the XM25 is akin to other revolutionary systems such as the machine gun, the airplane, and the tank, all of which changed battlefield tactics," Lt. Colonel Chris Lehner said of the field tests, perArs. "No longer will our Soldiers have to expose themselves by firing and maneuvering to eliminate an enemy behind cover. Our Soldiers can remain covered/protected and use their XM25 to neutralize an enemy in his covered position. This will significantly reduce the risk of U.S. casualties and change the way we fight."
This is good news for soldiers, but what about us? I want one ... for science.
Photos by Orbital ATK
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Carrie Fisher onstage at the 1997 MTV movie awards while Chewbacca gives his acceptance speech in his own language.
There will be many things to miss about Carrie Fisher, who died last December at the age of 60. She was a talented novelist, memoirist, screenwriter, and actor who brought happiness to millions of people. One of the things she'll be most remembered for is her incredible wit.
One of the greatest pleasures of the return of "Star Wars" with "The Force Awakens" in 2015 was having Carrie Fisher hit the interview circuit. She could parry with Colbert and knew how to shut down an interview with the perfect quote. She had a highly individualistic, impish worldview, as she showed on her Twitter account. And in her three memoirs and hundreds of interviews, she was an advocate for people with mental illnesses. Her insight and wit made her work as a script doctor in high demand. She was a national treasure.
Here are 15 of Fisher's most biting, sarcastic, funny, and just plain powerful quotes from her writings and from her interviews.
"I'll go hang out with a bunch of robots for a few months and then return to my life and try to figure out what I want to do when I grow up."
In her memoir "Shockaholic," Fisher talked about how she didn't expect "Star Wars" to be the global phenomenon it was when she signed on for the role of Princess Leia. She was 19 years old at the time.
Fisher grew up privileged, as she happily noted in her memoir "Wishful Drinking." Her parents were actors Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.
Fisher's career spans dozens of movies, but Princess Leia Organa in the "Star Wars" movie franchise is by far the one she's best known by. Instead of trying to escape her greatest success, Fisher was happy to embrace it.
While filming the original "Star Wars" movie in 1976, Fisher said she had a three-month affair with Harrison Ford, who played Han Solo in the movie. She revealed it 40 years later, in her memoir "The Princess Diarist."
"Tell them that a giant slug captured me and forced me to wear that stupid outfit, and then I killed him because I didn't like it. And then I took it off. Backstage."
Fisher had a complicated relationship with her famous golden bikini from "The Return of the Jedi." But by 2015, she had softened to it.
When parents said they didn't know how to explain toys that depicted her in the costume to their kids, she had the perfect response.
"The only reason to go into acting is if you can kill a giant monster."
Fisher relished the scene where Leia killed Jabba the Hutt, who made her wear the bikini in the first place.
"I had a lot of fun killing Jabba the Hutt. They asked me on the day if I wanted to have a stunt double kill Jabba. No! That's the best time I ever had as an actor," Fisher told The Guardian."
"The actor who played Boba Fett stood behind me while I was wearing the bikini, and he could see all the way to Florida."
She also had a sense of humor about it. In an essay for Newsweek, Fisher wrote that the bikini is "what supermodels will eventually wear in the seventh ring of hell."
"If there's a choice between companionship and anything else — especially career — choose companionship. It's the only thing that has the potential to last. Choose career and you'll spend unreasonable amounts of time attempting to look younger than you are and feeling you aren't succeeding."
Fisher wrote that as part of a letter to her younger self, commissioned for Oprah magazine.
"They want to hire about three-fourths. And so I have to get rid of the fourth somehow. The fourth can't be with me. I made a joke. The fourth can't be with me!"
Fisher wasn't shy about talking about her body and about sexist standards in the entertainment industry. In an interview with Stephen Colbert, she talked about how she slimmed down to play Princess Leia because the producers thought she weighed too much.
"They want to hire a part of me, not all of me," she said.
She was also someone who had her priorities straight, as she told Good Housekeeping.
"I haven't ever changed who I am. I've just gotten more accepting of it. Being happy isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you have."
Actress and author Carrie Fisher is seen in Beverly Hills, Calif., Sept. 14, 1990.
Fisher told Newsweek in 2008 that she hasn't changed much. She saw her life as a journey of self-discovery, instead.
"Even when he's insulting me, I like it very much. If you're gonna be insulted, that's the way to go."
Fisher was married to singer-songwriter Paul Simon between 1983 and 1984. Simon wrote the song "Hearts and Bones" about their relationship. Fisher told Rolling Stone that she still likes his music.
"I do like the songs he wrote about our relationship," she said. "'Graceland' has part of us in it."
"I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets. If that's true, I'm just really healthy."
Fisher wasn't shy about talking about her personal life. She wrote about drug addition and her struggles with mental illness — all with the aim of helping her understand herself, and help out other people in similar situations, she told The Star.
"I've been there for a couple of people when they were dying; it didn't look like fun. But if I was gonna do it, I'd want someone like me around. And I will be there!"
Fisher also told Rolling Stone that she thought dying looked painful, but she wasn't afraid of death.
Fisher had one request for her obituary, which she talks about in her book "Wishful Drinking." She recounted a story about how George Lucas told her she shouldn't wear underwear.
What happens is you go to space and you become weightless. So far so good, right? But then your body expands??? But your bra doesn't—so you get strangled by your own bra.


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The Jasper ISD Board of Trustees has voted to increase the superintendent's pay for the third time in two weeks.
Dr. Gerald Hudson on Monday was granted a $500 per month vehicle allowance one week after receiving a three-percent cost-of-living raise and having his monthly technical stipend increased from $150 to $300.
Hudson's base salary for the 2017-18 year was $130,000 with 2,484 enrolled in the district, according to information from the Texas Education Agency.
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Over 250 writers, publishers and PEN members have joined a PEN International open letter to the European Commission calling for justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia, for the protection of journalists and whistle-blowers in Malta and raising concerns about the behaviour of the management of Valletta 2018, European Capital of Culture in relation to her case.
Daphne Caruana Galizia, a prominent investigative journalist and blogger, was assassinated on 16 October 2017 near her house in Bidnija, Malta, in a targeted car bomb attack. Caruana Galizia spent much of her work in recent years exposing government corruption – most recently reporting on the Panama Papers, which exposed the offshore activities of powerful officials and companies around the world. Her blog, Running Commentary, which included investigative reports on Maltese politicians, was one of the most widely read websites in Malta.
PEN is also concerned about on-going reprisals against investigative journalists and human rights defenders working to secure justice in Daphne Caruana Galizia's case and for the corruption she exposed.
For example, senior officials within the office of the Maltese Prime Minister, recently implied that Caruana Galizia's son Matthew Caruana Galizia, himself a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, colluded with his mother's killers. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is also pursuing a libel case against him. The Shift News, an independent media outlet launched after Caruana Galizia's assassination which has pursued a number of her stories, is currently facing the threat of a financially crippling SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) from the Jersey-based firm Henley & Partners, who had taken legal proceedings against Daphne Caruana Galizia prior to her death.
In addition, Martina Urso, a civil society activist from the anti-corruption group Il Kennesia, which campaigns for justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia, has also been subject to a torrent of misogynistic abuse – including from members of the Maltese administration and the Artistic Director of Valletta 18, Mario Philip Azzopardi, following her participation in a civil society protest in London on 20 April. Urso was subjected to hundreds of online threats, and her ID card and home address were leaked from a reportedly fake Facebook account and shared online.
On World Press Freedom Day, we reiterate our concerns regarding the investigation by the Maltese authorities into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, which PEN believe does not meet the standards of independence, impartiality and effectiveness required under international human rights law. PEN International also urges EU member states to their utmost to protect journalists and human rights defenders in Malta and to urge the Maltese authorities to do everything in their power to bring all individuals involved in the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia to justice.
Write to your Foreign Ministry, including this information, and calling for:
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Urge the Maltese authorities to drop the libel cases being pursued against her by members of the government after her death;
Urge Malta's Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, to drop his personal libel trial against Caruana Galizia's son Matthew, himself a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist through which he is compelling Matthew to return to Malta to stand trial, despite independent security experts advising Matthew to remain outside Malta due to substantial threats to his life there;
Support independent monitoring of the legal proceedings in Malta concerning the assassination and the 34 libel trials being pursued against Daphne Caruana Galizia's estate.
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Quincey Daniels (* 4. August 1941 in San Diego) ist ein ehemaliger US-amerikanischer Boxer.

Daniels war 1959 US-amerikanischer Meister im Leichtgewicht (-60 kg). Im Jahr darauf nahm er im Halbweltergewicht (-63,5 kg) an den Olympischen Spielen in Rom teil und erreichte nach Siegen über Alexander Mitsev, Bulgarien (5:0), Bobby Kelsey, Vereinigtes Königreich (4:1), und Sayed El-Nahas, Ägypten (5:0), das Halbfinale. In diesem stand ihm der spätere Olympiasieger Bohumil Němeček, Tschechoslowakei, gegenüber, dem er mit 5:0 Richterstimmen unterlag. Nach zwei Militärweltmeistertiteln 1961 und 1963 und einer Bronzemedaille bei den Panamerikanischen Spielen 1963 beendete Daniels vorerst seine Karriere. 1970 kehrte Daniels in den Ring zurück und wurde nochmals US-amerikanischer Meister im Halbweltergewicht. Seine anschließende Profikarriere war nicht von Erfolg gekrönt.

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import moment from 'moment';
import 'moment-timezone';

import Config from '/server/hardConfig.js';
import { deliveryBinary } from '/server/reportCompleted.js';
import { checkTimeBudget } from '/server/tideGlobalMethods';
import { syncLocale, countMulti, noIg } from './utility';

  export function countNewUser(accessKey, rangeStart, rangeEnd) {
    const resultU = Meteor.users.find({
      orgKey: accessKey,
      createdAt: {
        $gte: new Date(rangeStart),
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      }
    },{fields:{'_id':1}},{limit:1}).count();
    return resultU;
  }

  export function countNewGroup(accessKey, rangeStart, rangeEnd) {
    const resultG = GroupDB.find({
      orgKey: accessKey,
      createdAt: {
        $gte: new Date(rangeStart),
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      },
      internal: { $ne: true }
    },{fields:{'_id':1}}).count();
    return resultG;
  }

  export function countNewWidget(accessKey, rangeStart, rangeEnd) {
    const xid = noIg();
    const resultW = WidgetDB.find({
      orgKey: accessKey,
      groupId: { $ne: xid },
      createdAt: {
        $gte: new Date(rangeStart),
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      }
    },{fields:{'_id':1}}).count();
    return resultW;
  }

  export function countNewVariant(accessKey, rangeStart, rangeEnd) {
    const xid = noIg();
    const resultV = VariantDB.find({
      orgKey: accessKey,
      groupId: { $ne: xid },
      createdAt: {
        $gte: new Date(rangeStart),
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      }
    },{fields:{'_id':1}}).count();
    return resultV;
  }

  export function countNewBatch(accessKey, rangeStart, rangeEnd) {
    const xid = noIg();
    const result = XBatchDB.find({
      orgKey: accessKey,
      groupId: { $ne: xid },
      createdAt: {
        $gte: new Date(rangeStart),
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      }
    },{fields:{'_id':1}}).count();

    return result;
  }

  export async function countDoneBatch(accessKey, rangeStart, rangeEnd) {
    const xid = noIg();
    syncLocale(accessKey);

    let doneOnTime = 0;
    let doneLate = 0;
    let shipOnTime = 0;
    let shipLate = 0;
    let doneUnderQ = 0;
    let doneOverQ = 0;

    const doneCalc = (bID, endAt, doneAt, tide, quoteTimeBudget, lockTrunc)=> {
      const dst = deliveryBinary(bID, endAt, doneAt);
      dst[0] === 'late' ? doneLate++ : doneOnTime++;
      dst[1] === 'late' ? shipLate++ : shipOnTime++;

      const q = checkTimeBudget(tide, quoteTimeBudget, lockTrunc);
      !q ? null : q < 0 ? doneOverQ++ : doneUnderQ++;
    };

    const bx = XBatchDB.find({
      orgKey: accessKey,
      groupId: { $ne: xid },
      completedAt: {
        $gte: new Date(rangeStart),
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      }
    },{fields:{
      'salesEnd': 1,
      'completedAt': 1,
      'tide': 1,
      'quoteTimeBudget': 1,
      'lockTrunc': 1
    }}).fetch();
    await Promise.all(bx.map( async (gfx, inx)=> {
      await new Promise( (resolve)=> {
        doneCalc(gfx._id, gfx.salesEnd, gfx.completedAt, gfx.tide, gfx.quoteTimeBudget, gfx.lockTrunc);
        resolve(true);
      });
    }));

    return [
      doneOnTime,
      doneLate,
      shipOnTime,
      shipLate,
      doneUnderQ,
      doneOverQ
    ];
  }

  export function countNewItem(accessKey, rangeStart, rangeEnd) {
    const xid = noIg();

    let niCount = 0;

    XSeriesDB.find({
      orgKey: accessKey,
      groupId: { $ne: xid },
      createdAt: {
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      },
      items: { $elemMatch: { createdAt: {
        $gte: new Date(rangeStart),
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      }}}
    },{fields:{'items.createdAt':1}}
    ).forEach( (srs)=> {
      const thisI = srs.items.filter( x =>
        moment(x.createdAt).isBetween(rangeStart, rangeEnd)
      );

      niCount = niCount + thisI.length;
    });

    return niCount;
  }

  export function countDoneItem(accessKey, rangeStart, rangeEnd) {
    const xid = noIg();

    let diCount = 0;

    XSeriesDB.find({
      orgKey: accessKey,
      groupId: { $ne: xid },
      createdAt: {
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      },
      items: { $elemMatch: { completedAt: {
        $gte: new Date(rangeStart),
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      }}}
    },{fields:{'items.completed':1,'items.completedAt':1}}
    ).forEach( (srs)=> {
      const thisI = srs.items.filter( x =>
        x.completed && moment(x.completedAt).isBetween(rangeStart, rangeEnd)
      );
      diCount = diCount + thisI.length;
    });

    return diCount;
  }

  export function countNewNC(accessKey, rangeStart, rangeEnd) {
    const xid = noIg();

    let ncCount = 0;

    XSeriesDB.find({
      orgKey: accessKey,
      groupId: { $ne: xid },
      createdAt: {
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      },
      nonCon: { $elemMatch: { time: {
        $gte: new Date(rangeStart),
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      }}}
    },{fields:{'nonCon.time':1}}
    ).forEach( (srs)=> {
      const thisNC = srs.nonCon.filter(
        x => moment(x.time).isBetween(rangeStart, rangeEnd)
      );
      ncCount += countMulti( thisNC );
    });

    return ncCount;
  }

  export function countNewSH(accessKey, rangeStart, rangeEnd) {
    const xid = noIg();

    let shCount = 0;

    XSeriesDB.find({
      orgKey: accessKey,
      groupId: { $ne: xid },
      createdAt: {
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      },
      shortfall: { $elemMatch: { cTime: {
        $gte: new Date(rangeStart),
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      }}}
    },{fields:{'shortfall.cTime':1}}
    ).forEach( (srs)=> {
      const thisSH = srs.shortfall.filter(
        x => moment(x.cTime).isBetween(rangeStart, rangeEnd)
      );
      shCount += countMulti( thisSH );
    });

    return shCount;
  }

  export function countTestFail(accessKey, rangeStart, rangeEnd) {
    const xid = noIg();

    let tfCount = 0;

    XSeriesDB.find({
      orgKey: accessKey,
      groupId: { $ne: xid },
      createdAt: {
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      },
      items: { $elemMatch: {
        createdAt: {
          $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
        },
        completedAt: {
          $gte: new Date(rangeStart)
      }}}
    },{fields:{'items.history':1}}
    ).forEach( (srs)=> {
      const thisTF = srs.items.filter( x =>
        x.history.find( y =>
          moment(y.time).isBetween(rangeStart, rangeEnd) &&
          y.type === 'test' && y.good === false )
      );

      tfCount = tfCount + thisTF.length;
    });
    return tfCount;
  }

  export function countScrap(accessKey, rangeStart, rangeEnd) {
    const xid = noIg();

    let scCount = 0;

    XSeriesDB.find({
      orgKey: accessKey,
      groupId: { $ne: xid },
      createdAt: {
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      },
      items: { $elemMatch: { completedAt: {
        $gte: new Date(rangeStart),
        $lte: new Date(rangeEnd)
      }}}
    },{fields:{'items.scrapped':1,'items.history':1}}
    ).forEach( (srs)=> {
      const scItems = srs.items.filter( i => i.scrapped === true );
      const thisSC = scItems.filter( x =>
        x.history.find( y =>
          moment(y.time).isBetween(rangeStart, rangeEnd) &&
          y.type === 'scrap' && y.good === true )
      );
      scCount = scCount + thisSC.length;
    });
    return scCount;
  }

Meteor.methods({

  cycleWeekRate(stat, cycles, bracket) {
    this.unblock();
    try {
      let loop = false;

      if( !stat || typeof stat !== 'string' ) {
        null;
      }else if( stat === 'newUser' ) {
        loop = countNewUser;
      }else if( stat === 'newGroup' ) {
        loop = countNewGroup;
      }else if( stat === 'newWidget' ) {
        loop = countNewWidget;
      }else if( stat === 'newVariant' ) {
        loop = countNewVariant;
      }else if( stat === 'newBatch' ) {
        loop = countNewBatch;
      }else if( stat === 'doneBatch' ) {
        loop = countDoneBatch;
      }else if( stat === 'newItem' ) {
        loop = countNewItem;
      }else if( stat === 'doneItem' ) {
        loop = countDoneItem;
      }else if( stat === 'newNC' ) {
        loop = countNewNC;
      }else if( stat === 'newSH' ) {
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Shivom's contribution to fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
The SARS-CoV2 virus is among us. We realized that only through global partnerships and communities that we will overcome this great threat to humanity.
In the current coronavirus outbreak, the global research community is mounting a large-scale public health response to understand the pathogen and combat the pandemic. Vast amounts of data` generated need analyzing in the context of pre-existing data and shared for solution-centric research approaches to combat the disease and inform public healthcare policies. However, research showed that the vast majority of clinical studies on COVID-19 do not meet proper quality standards due to small sample size. Our approach is designed to provide healthcare professionals with an urgently needed platform to find and analyze genetic data, and securely and anonymously share sensitive patient data to fight the disease outbreak.
As result of our efforts, Shivom was selected to be part of the World Economic Forum's COVID19 program. Being part of the WEF global Covid-19 efforts means that Shivom will get direct access to the WEFs public-private partner's network to help our Covid-19 solution scale. The WEF aims to find innovative solutions tackling the global pandemic from three angles:
1, Prevention & detection 2, Respond & deliver 3, Recover & rebuild
The WEF efforts are organized on UpLink, a digital platform to crowdsource innovations, in an effort to accelerate the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
We are thrilled to acknowled as part of the UpLink family. The UpLink community is building a community of like-minded and impact-driven changemakers, innovators and entrepreneurs from all over the world.
But our efforts did not end here. Our organization was also selected to be a member of the XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance. Most of you may have heard about XPRIZE before, a non-profit organization founded by Peter Diamandis that designs and hosts public competitions intended to encourage technological development to benefit humanity. Their Board of Trustees include James Cameron, Larry Page, Arianna Huffington, and Ratan Tata among others. The XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance is a global coalition that combines the power of collaboration, competition, shared innovation and radical thinking to accelerate solutions that can be applied to COVID-19 and future pandemics. As part of this Alliance, researchers and scientists are invited to share and access data through the XPRIZE Data Collaborative, a unique platform for researchers and innovators to collaborate, share and learn from data in a broad spectrum of fields in their search for solutions. This trove of data aims to unlock new approaches to fighting pandemics and will serve as the backbone to the collective effort that will prepare us for additional pandemic spikes like COVID-19, or other viral threats.
XPRIZE Founder and Executive Chairman Peter H. Diamandis: "The XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance will leverage data and human collaboration like never before to facilitate technological breakthroughs for the benefit of humankind."
Shivom takes part of the XPRIZE Exchange, a digital collaboration platform, which facilitates matchmaking between partners so we can leverage the network of Alliance Partners to contribute their resources, data and expertise to drive the latest COVID-19 breakthroughs. One of the breakthroughs is certainly our pandemic preparedness solution that is hosted on our platform and free to use for all COVID-19 researchers.
Being a part of the precision medicine platform Shivom, we developed a versatile pandemic preparedness solution that allows healthcare professionals to rapidly share and analyze genetic data. The platform solves several problems of the global medical and research community, such as siloed data, cross-border data sharing, lack of state-of-the-art analytic tools, GDPR-compliance, and ease-of-use. The platform combines patient genomic & omics data sets, a marketplace for bioinformatics algorithms, new diagnostic tools, and data-sharing capabilities to advance virus epidemiology and biomarker discovery. The bioinformatics marketplace contains some preinstalled COVID-19 pipelines to analyze virus- and host genomes without the need for bioinformatics expertise. The platform will be the quickest way to rapidly gain insight into the association between virus-host interactions and COVID-19 in various populations which can have a significant impact on managing the current pandemic and potential future disease outbreaks. We prepared a paper on how to tackle COVID-19 and future outbreaks of the SARS-CoV2 or other viruses using our precision medicine platform. The preprint is available on medRxiv and Europe PMC.
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Data Flow in the Shivom platform. The user does not need in-depth bioinformatics expertise and is guided through all necessary steps from data upload to data analytics. Basically, data from a variety of sources is uploaded by the data custodian and data permission rules are set. If the data is set to open or monetizable, it will be searchable in the data marketplace. Once a dataset of interest is identified and filtered, the user can select a bioinformatic workflow (pipeline), configure user-specific parameters if needed, and then start the analysis. The user can then investigate and share the resulting report and, depending on the workflow, run further downstream analysis.
COVID-19 Call to action
The urgency of tackling COVID-19 has led governments in many countries to launch a number of short-notice and fast-tracked initiatives. Without proper coordination amongst ministries and agencies, they run the risk of duplicating efforts or missing opportunities, resulting in slower progress and research inefficiencies. The best way to prevent a further spread of the virus and potential new pandemics is to apply the same principles as we use to prevent catastrophic forest fires: survey aggressively for smaller brush fires and stomp them out immediately. We need to invest now in an integrated data surveillance architecture designed to identify new outbreaks at the very early stages and rapidly invoke highly targeted containment responses. Currently, our healthcare system is not set up for this. In this new surveillance architecture proposed in our paper, genomic analysis of patients presenting with severe clinical symptoms would be performed up front in hospital labs piggybacked on routine diagnostic testing.
Researchers can use the data in our data-hub to compare new cases with existing datasets. Using genomic sequencing, the novel causative agent could be identified within hours, and the network would instantaneously connect the patients presenting at multiple locations as part of the same incident, providing situational awareness of the scope and scale of the event. Using a globally accessible, easy-to-use solution that provides a 'one-stop shop' for the centralization of information on new virus-host interactions can help ensure that appropriate conditions for collaborative research and sharing of preliminary research findings and data are in place to reap their full benefits. Beyond short-term policy responses to COVID-19, incorporating data sharing with the Shivom platform into ongoing mission-oriented research and innovation policies could help tackle future pandemics on a national or international scale, for example to enhance datasets informativeness to reveal host infection dynamics for SARS-CoV-2 and therefore to improve medical treatment options for COVID-19 patients. In addition, it can help to determine and design optimal targets for therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2. In line with the recommendations by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) COVID-19 Working Group, the Shivom platform can be used for:
Sharing clinical data in a timely and trustworthy manner to maximize the impact of healthcare measures and clinical research during the emergency response
Encouraging people to publish their omics data alongside a paper
Underlining that epidemiology data underpin early response strategies and public health measures
Providing a platform to collect important social and behavioural data (as metadata) in all pandemic studies
Evidencing the importance of public data sharing capabilities alongside data analytics
Offering a general ecosystem to exploit relevant ethical frameworks relating to the collection, analysis and sharing of data in similar emergency situations
At this point in time, the research community should be clear that a second or third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic will hit most countries. In addition, other epidemics and global pandemics will follow; it is just a matter of time. We also encourage sharing data from COVID-19 and other virus outbreaks, including data from people who were exposed to the same pathogen but did not get the disease or possibly were infected but did not get symptoms.
Dr. Axel Schumacher, Co-Founder & CEO
Dr. Schumacher is a geneticist, author, & futurologist and Co-Founder of Shivom. He has over 30 years' experience in the field of genetics, personalized medicine, aging & longevity, with a documented track record as visionary scientist, inventor and business manager in academic, clinical and pharmaceutical environments across Europe and North America. Axel is the author of the "Blockchain & Healthcare Strategy Guide", a 'must-read' for decision makers in the digital healthcare vertical. Axel is particularly well known for his work in epigenetics. He invented the first microarray technologies for epigenetic biomarker discovery, developed the 'epigenetic theory of aging' with his research leading to the worldwide first proof of whole genome epigenetic abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease. Axel's mission is to translate scientific discoveries into practical digital applications to help understand and prevent complex disorders, and to transform the way we age. He holds a Ph.D. in Human Genetics from the University of Cologne/Germany.
Posted on April 30, 2019 May 2, 2019
Shivom Roadmap, Release Strategy & Status Update for 2019
The march of time is relentless and as we start the second quarter of 2019, now is a good time to share some latest updates on Shivom's roadmap, our evolving blockchain-based genomics & bio datahub and secure-storage and sharing platform, new partnerships and other developments pertaining to the Shivom ecosystem and OMX token.
Our Mission is Unchanged
The Shivom platform involves complex computer science and bioinformatics challenges. We aim to develop novel applications and a next-generation health information exchange and ecosystem which enables direct to consumer ("DTC"), pharma, clinical organizations, enterprises and others to provide customized health insights, therapies & care; and importantly to empower all individuals to own, manage and derive insights from their unique personal biodata in order to better manage their health and wellness. Collectively, we seek to work with all stakeholders to solve the various problems and inefficiencies the industry is facing at this period in time. If successful, our platform and technology solutions will not only lay the foundation for redefining the clinical research and drug discovery landscape but will also empower individuals to proactively manage their health and maintain control over their sensitive healthcare data. Ultimately, Shivom will be instrumental for helping to usher in a new era of precision medicine. Our mission remains unchanged.
MVP Release: Expected Features and Timeline
To deliver our vision, Shivom must hit key milestones and targets. The first key milestone is our MVP, which will demonstrate that data owners can securely store and share health and genomic and other "Omics" data; additionally, initiate an audit trail of data usage and activity based on our dynamic consent and permission features and traceability via the Ethereum blockchain. Enterprise customers such as pharmaceutical and institutional organisations will be able to search datasets based on various parameters, enter into a smart contract with data owners to utilize such data for clinical purposes and be able to run complex bioinformatic pipelines against big data without leaving Shivom's platform. We remain confident in our abilities as researchers, engineers and operators to deliver on this milestone and key features as expected for our upcoming MVP release.
We continue to scale up our development team in order to stay on track and reach our MVP milestone, which we plan to release by month-end June 2019. This version of our platform will include full traceability on blockchain, marketplace 2.0, end-to-end data discovery and analysis solution for enterprise customers and more. The requirements we have set include that it must clearly demonstrate traceability via Ethereum blockchain and enterprise customers running complex bioinformatic pipelines against big data without leaving the platform. From launch, the platform must be adaptive and be able to scale. Some features such as blockchain traceability, dynamic consent, updated user creation and login, however, will be offered in an interim release prior to the MVP. This next release will also include an updated marketplace with new products & services offered by our new DTC and telegenetic partners.
New Partners, Affiliates & Customers
Part of our roadmap will include onboarding of select DTC partners to be featured in our marketplace, which caters to consumers who wish to manage and improve their health and wellness within our blockchain- and token-based ecosystem. Our curated products will include select genetic and other testing kits, health reports, telemedicine services and more. For enterprise customers, our clinical platform will feature free and premium pipelines such as GWAS, Plink, Deep Variant and more. Additionally, researchers will have the ability to import their own pipelines from GitHub and in further updates following the MVP will be able to promote them in the marketplace and earn residual income through the use of our OMX tokens.
With these milestones in mind, this month we announced an exciting collaboration with Family Care Path ("FCP"), a spinoff company from world-renowned Cleveland Clinic. FCP maintains a genetic counsellor network and is offers proprietary web-based clinical decision support applications. The pilot for this collaboration will enable Shivom customers to access the FCP MyLegacy application and schedule a virtual genomic counselling session based on genomics and other personal healthcare and family data. We believe this service will be essential and provide much-needed guidance and clarity for our customers and are thrilled to be working with FCP, who are experts and thoughts leaders in the space. To read more about this collaboration visit the press release here.
We also onboarded Living DNA's 3-in-1 Ancestry kit, which provides consumers with the ability to trace their origins back via maternal ancestors and see how they moved around the world over thousands of years. We are pleased to offer Living DNA as our first ancestry kit given the company's scientific roots (the company is a collaboration of over 100 world-leading scientists, academic researchers and genetic experts from across the globe) and its relationship with DNA Worldwide Group, described as UK's most advanced testing platform covering DNA, Drug, Alcohol and Forensic services. The company's DNA kits are also based on a review of a significantly higher number of DNA markers then comparable lab testing companies; helping to ensure better results. As important, the company maintains strict privacy and security practices, which we require from all of our select partners and customers. To read more about this collaboration visit the press release here.
In addition to other D2C options, we are also working to onboard initial enterprise customers to include academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies. Given the requirements, our project is one of the more complex around the blockchain market today. Our task is difficult, but we are succeeding in our mission and progressing further every day. In parallel, we are also currently developing complementary projects with select partners that haven't been announced as of yet. It is too early to release many details now but exciting things are happening both with respect to the kind of projects being pursued and the organizations now coalescing around the Shivom ecosystem. Stay tuned to our Telegram announcements channel for further updates.
Shivom-Branded Products
You may have seen on our website and digital channels we announced our newest addition to our Shivom Innovation Council ("SIC"), Lion Martinez. Lion is a former national and European-level athlete, who has numerous national gold medals (in 100-metre sprint) in his kitty. He was also the youngest-ever Swedish to have participated in the 2002 European Championships in Munich. Lion holds a 100-metre world championship gold medal (2016) and has numerous records and medals (in 60, 100 and 200-metre sprints) to his credit. Additionally, he has been involved in coaching, public speaking and widespread health issues and initiatives over the past 20 years, engaging with children, youth, adults and senior citizens alike.
We are working closely with Lion and other stakeholders to develop an athletics/performance clinical program and other sports-related initiatives to include the development of Shivom-branded athletics products. The sports initiative in cooperation with our partners will use state-of-the-art genomics and analytics to develop insights catered to pro athletes in order to help make them fitter and perform on a higher level. Our first product "The Complete Athletic Body Systems Report" will provide comprehensive performance related insights derived from multiple biological samples. We aim to unlock the secrets behind what makes an athlete … well, an athlete. We anticipate that our multi-part test will provide deep insights and help the pro user/elite athlete to better understand their body so that they can reach peak performance, reduce the risk of injury and recovery time, and more. Stay tuned for more information on our upcoming pro athletic products.
KuCoin & Exchange Updates
As some of you may be aware, our OMX token has been marked for special treatment on KuCoin for little over a month now. Despite our efforts and progress, trading volume remains low; accordingly, we are unlikely to meet Kucoin's firm KPI requirement. Taking all factors into consideration to include our latest timelines and the increasingly limited support from the exchange, we have decided to focus our energies and resources on our existing and other prospective exchanges. Accordingly, we plan to pull out of KuCoin Exchange by 15 May 2019. Consequently, it's imperative that all OMX holders with a balance/account in KuCoin plan accordingly and move their OMX token holdings to another appropriate exchange or secure wallet in a timely manner to avoid any potential complications. We highly recommend that any such individuals take appropriate action and transfer OMX holdings by 06 May 2019. Aside from KuCoin, OMX is currently traded on CoinBene, CoinSuper and IDEX. Our supported wallets include Jaax and Coinomi.
Announcements & Messaging Channels
On April 30th, we announced going live on Blockfolio Signals and Delta Direct. Our Director of Marketing and CEO will be providing updates on the project and token via these portfolio management applications along with our Telegram announcements channel. You may have well noticed we are in the process of moving away from our Telegram supergroup and pushing our active audience to our announcements channels, which will enable better, more targeted communications and excludes the numerous bots associated with the current supergroup. With this in mind and based on feedback received to date, we plan to phase out our supergroup in the coming months and ask our community members to join our new announcement channels in order to continue to get the latest project and token updates. We will give proper notice to our subscribers well in advance to ensure continuity of communications.
The next few months will be very exciting for the project. In addition to our scheduled MVP release, we have many other news and announcements to share as we continue to execute and focus on developing our applications & solutions and building the Shivom ecosystem. We look forward to keeping you updated on all and advancing the mission. As always, the entire Shivom team would like to thank everyone for their interest in the project, patience and continued belief in our team, technology and vision. We are also grateful for our early partners and their support and commitment to the project. As always, onwards and upwards!
About Shivom
Shivom is a biotechnology data and analysis company optimising the way DNA is shared, secured and analysed. By utilising innovative technologies such as blockchain and machine-learning algorithms, we are able to democratise genomics.
Our mission is to bring exponential value to our end-users within the genomics industry. We believe that the unique combination of our in-depth knowledge for genomics, mixed with deep-rooted backgrounds in cryptography and AI is essential in the democratisation of genomics and healthcare data.
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Shivom Announces Major Update to it's Platform, Teamwork, Overhauled UX and Data Discovery Tool for Pharma.
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Pinarello will unveil a new time trial bike at the Giro d'Italia: the Bolide which, the Italian manufacturer claims, has a 15 percent drag reduction compared to its forebear, the Graal.
Team Sky's Bradley Wiggins will showcase the new machine – also said to be five percent lighter than the Graal – when the Giro visits the island Ischia for the team time trial on Sunday.
The Bolide has been in development with Pinarello Lab technicians and Team Sky for more than a year, although a number of the features highlighted in the launch release suggest the frame is playing catch up with other manufacturers.
The Bolide's uses aeroplane wing-shaped tube sections and a so-called 'concave back' on the seat tube to get a closer position of the rear wheel to the frame, a development further assisted by horizontal rear dropouts. Pinarello say the frame design has been aerodynamically optimised for all wind conditions.
Looking at the photo below, it seems the engineers have opted to keep the air flowing around the frame structure as a whole rather than widening the gap to the wheel to avoid an air dam from the spinning wheel, as a number of other manufacturers do.
Integration is a key feature of the design. Brakes are sheltered behind leading edges – similar to systems on other bikes such as the BMC Time Machine's bayonet fork; the Shimano Dura Ace electronics are hidden inside the frame and cables are internally routed. The Bolide carries an integrated cockpit set-up which sounds similar to the design used on the Trek Speed Concept. However, being completely clear of cables should yield more aerodynamic advantages.
Like the Dogma and other Pinarello models, the Bolide carries asymmetrical chainstays which the company says counters asymmetric forces on the chain while pedalling.
The frameset is both electronic and mechanical gear compatible. Pricing and availability are yet to be announced.
BikeRadar will bring a full run down of the Bolide on Sunday from the Giro d'Italia.


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Biden: Legitimate News Media Will Help in Push for Gun Control
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During a Feb. 11 press conference in Philadelphia, VP Joe Biden said he and President Obama are "counting on…legitimate news media" to help in their gun control efforts.
In doing this, he clearly implied that some media outlets are legitimate and some aren't. And he based this on those who carry water for the administration vs. those that don't.
He came to this point at the news conference on gun violence by decrying news stories that highlight Democrat efforts to take guns. He said such stories were "a bunch of malarkey."
He then continued:
The social media that exists out there, the tragedies that have occurred, the Supreme Court decision affirming that it's an individual right to bear arms–all give a lie to the argument that what we're trying to do is somehow unconstitutional, or somehow goes after the legitimate right to keep and bear arms.
He said he knew people would continue to "misrepresent" the positions taken by himself and Obama, but that "legitimate news media" would cover them in a way that's helpful to the administration.
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Softball Victoria is pleased to announce the dates for its State Team selection trials.
The trials will be held on the following dates and times. Athletes who have been identified to attend trials will receive an email from Softball Victoria inviting them to attend.
*The trials will involve Skill and Fitness Testing so please ensure that you are prepared to perform at your best.


**open house saturday jan 24th 1-4**Gorgeous home in Okotoks Crystal Shores area with lake access and in cul-de-sac ready for you to move in now! This 1770 Sq Ft fully finished home is immaculate and features hardwood floors on the main level, bright and open floorplan, spacious kitchen with corner pantry, ample cupboard space, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, fully finished basement with upper level bonus room and new roof in 2013! The master bedroom offers a 4 piece ensuite & walk in closet. Large windows throughout letting in plenty of natural light. Developed basement has 4 piece bathroom, laundry room & built in murphy bed for guests. The location is close to many amenities including shopping, schools, parks, & golf courses. Okotoks is perfect for those searching for quiet country living without sacrificing the amenities and proximity to the city.


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The cramped interior of the cockpit seemed like bedlam to Denise.
"Jesus, Lannie, you bombed my sister! You bombed my sister!" Keenan kept screeching, in blithe disregard for the fact that he'd been the one who'd actually released the weapon.
Naturally, Lannie's response was to shift the blame himself. "She told me to it! She told me to do it!" was his contribution.
"Shut up, both of you!" was Denise's own, trying to settle them down.
In retrospect, she'd admit to her best friend Minnie—nobody else—that she probably should have kept concentrating on the "navigating" side of the business.
Eventually, it did occur to her that she ought to see where they were going.
"Fascinating," murmured Janos. He'd always wondered how fragile the devices were. Now, seeing one of the plane's wings partly-shredded by its impact with a mere tree limb—a large tree, granted—his longstanding guess was confirmed.
As was his determination to remain a cavalryman. Say what you would about the stupid beasts, horses were rather sturdy. Nor did they move at ridiculous speeds, nor did they keep a rider more than a few feet from the ground.
"Jesus, Lannie, you wrecked the plane! You wrecked the plane!" was Keenan's current contribution, even more useless than the last.
Fortunately, Lannie had left off his own shouting. Now that he was in a crisis, his pilot's instincts had taken over.
"There aren't any gophers in Europe," she said, in as reassuring a tone as she could manage.
"Yeah, that right," chimed in Keenan from the back. "No ground hogs, neither." Thankfully, he'd left off the screeching.
Denise saw no reason to voice aloud her firm conviction that there were probable umpteen thousand things that could produce holes in a meadow. All but two of which did exist in Europe.
Watching, Janos didn't wonder for more than an instant why the up-timers had committed the seemingly pointless act of bombing an empty patch of meadow. Judging from the way the first bomb had exploded, the devise had been detonated by a contact fuse, probably armed by the act of releasing it. Not the sort of thing any sane man wants to be sitting atop when he tries to crash an aircraft as gently as possible.
The plane came down. And confirmed once again Janos' long-standing conviction that plans and schemes and plots are just naturally prone to crashing.
"Oh, hell," said Noelle. At first, she'd thought that the plane had come down safely. Almost as if it were landing on a proper airfield. Then—one of the wheels must have hit an unseen obstruction—she saw the still undamaged wing dip sharply and strike the ground. The plane skewed around, tipped up on its nose—please God, don't let that propeller come apart in pieces and chew anybody up—and seemed to balance precariously for a moment.
Then it looked as if the plane just more or less disintegrated into its component parts. The newly-damaged wing broke off, the fuselage tipped and rolled, and the plane flopped down on its side. Most of the other wing broke off, as did part of the tail assembly when it hit.
There was no explosion. No flames. People had walked away from car crashes worse than that.
She got on her horse and headed for the crash site.
Janos pointed to the enemy cavalryman still on the ground by the remains of the wagon.
He set off after the other cavalryman, toward the downed plane.
"What are we going to do?" asked Gage, loud enough to be heard over the sound of the cantering horses.
Gage was silent for a moment. Then, as Janos expected, he raised the other obvious alternative.
Drugeth's irritation with the Englishman was only momentary. He'd considered that solution himself. But he still had hopes they could complete this adventure without the sort of drastic measures that would trigger off an explosive reaction from the USE.
Firmly, he ignored his own hard-gained wisdom on the subjects of plans and their likely outcomes.


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Ackerson-Stevens Expands Ware Shoals, South Carolina, Manufacturing Plant
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Ackerson-Stevens Inc., a producer of custom moldings and flooring accessories, will invest $490,000 to expand its existing manufacturing center in Ware Shoals, South Carolina. The facility is located 47 miles southwest of Spartanburg.
As part of its expansion the manufacturer, importer and distributor of custom moldings, decking and flooring accessories is renovating a 30,000-square-foot facility adjacent to its existing plant.
Officials will also expand the plant's office operations center and upgrade machinery, with work expected to be completed the first half of 2018.
"ASI is excited to be expanding in Greenwood County, South Carolina, said ASI President Ralph Campbell. "We are committed to providing a workplace where employees are given the direction, training and freedom to accomplish great things."
"We are thankful they have chosen to continue their growth in our community and wish them future success.", Greenwood County Council Chairman Steve Brown.


NHSBSP occasional report 1203: national collation of interval cancer data.
The aim of breast screening services is to decrease incidence of, and mortality from, breast cancer.
A proportion of cancers are diagnosed between scheduled screening episodes.
These cancers are called 'interval cancers', and are defined as 'cancers diagnosed following a normal screening result during the interval beginning with the closure of the previous NHS screening episode and ending when the next screening episode is due to commence'.


The Tamarack is an original Smith & Gardner design. A straight tracking boat, Tamarack is big enough to take the kids and/or the dogs for a weekend trip to your favorite paddling destination.
Tamarack is a tandem canoe designed to be stable and efficient in the water while being paddled single blade by two paddlers. Look for the Tamarack in use on all classic Adirondack and lake country paddling routes!
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