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Here are the 10 new books you should read this week.
By Emily Temple
November 5, 2019, 9:45am
Every week, a new crop of great new books hit the shelves. If we could read them all, we would, but since time is finite and so is the human capacity for page-turning, here are a few of the ones we'll be starting with. What are you reading this week?
Johannes Anyuru, tr. Saskia Vogel, They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears
(Two Lines)
One of the impoverishments of most terrorist attack fiction is how hard such novels find it to imagine anything else. Anger, radicalization, brutality, shock and the aftermath of trauma: it often feels too much like a replay of what television has already shown us. This new novel by Swedish writer Johannes Anyuru departs fantastically from this script. It begins with an assault on a comic book store during an event by a cartoonist who has made jokes at the Prophet's expense, but where it goes from there is strange, magical, and one of the first books to emerge out of our modern time to touch terrorism the way Vonnegut did war. Anyuru doesn't shock the mind, but rather force us to ask new questions about what being a spectator truly means.
–John Freeman, Executive Editor
Liska Jacobs, The Worst Kind of Want
(MCD)
Jacobs's sophomore novel is an unconventional—and disastrous—love story, as death-steeped, sultry, and delicious as the ancient Italian cities in which it's set. A woman in her forties comes to Rome to watch over her wayward nice, but is rather seduced by all the youth and beauty around her. Yes, this is a euphemism. Imagine a more pessimistic, slightly sordid Call Me By Your Name and you'll be halfway there.
–Emily Temple, Senior Editor
H. J. Golakai, The Score
(Cassava Republic Press)
Golukai's reporter-activist heroine Vee Johnson returns for her second investigation, as she and her partner stumble upon a murder in the midst of what was meant to be a punishingly boring assignment reviewing a dusty tourist lodge in the middle of nowhere. As the journalists investigate, they're drawn into an intricate web of corruption, murder, and dog-walking. Cassava Republic is one of the coolest indie international presses around, and I read all their releases religiously.
–Molly Odintz, CrimeReads Associate Editor
Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea
(Doubleday)
I was at the American Library Association conference in DC a week ago and the line to acquire an early copy of this one—a sweeping love story set in a secret underground world of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and magical ships—was so long that I just assumed there was some wonderful new drug or open bar at the end of it. If that isn't a good omen for this follow-up to Morgenstern's beloved 2011 fantasy debut, The Night Circus, I don't know what is.
–Dan Sheehan, Book Marks Editor
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, The Revisioners
(Counterpoint)
Sexton's follow-up to her National Book Award-nominated debut, A Kind of Freedom, tackles generational legacies, the echoes of history, and strength of bonds between women. R. O. Kwon called it "a time-bending epic about family, desire, strength, and terror, as well as the possibly supernatural power of the stories we tell ourselves," which is good enough for me.
Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
(Graywolf)
This is an elliptical memoir of abuse whose form will delight anyone who a) grew up reading fairy tales and choose your own adventure stories b) proceeded to get graduate degrees in literature c) has uncontainable, uncontrollable desires that sometimes threaten to overwhelm. I recognize that it is a little strange to even use the word "delight" in reference to a memoir about an abusive relationship, but this too is part of the book's magic: it allows for delight and pain in the same spaces, using each to shed light on the other. Machado is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, and doing much needed work in telling her story—a kind of story, as she explains, too often kept hidden.
Lynda Barry, Making Comics
(Drawn & Quarterly)
MacArthur Genius Award-winning artist Lynda Barry is also a professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her new book Making Comics is both a tool kit of her comics-making exercises and a tender manifesto about how anyone can create. "Words and pictures together make something happen that is more than good or bad drawing," Lynda Barry writes. "You don't have to have any artistic skill to do this. You just need to be brave and sincere."
–Nate McNamara, Lit Hub contributor
Susannah Cahalan, The Great Pretender
(Grand Central)
In the 1970s, Stanford psychologist David Rosenhan and seven other "normal" people went undercover into mental health institutions across the country to test the validity of diagnosis and treatment. The result was groundbreaking; their findings closed down whole facilities. To this day, their experiment is still often referenced as a milestone in our understanding of "madness." But is it the whole story? Susannah Cahalan digs deeper, and brings the conversation David Rosenhan and his colleagues started to today's mental health debates.
–Katie Yee, Book Marks Assistant Editor
Bernd Brunner, Winterlust
(Greystone Books)
In an age of climate change, any writing about the dazzling beauty of winter takes on a subdued—almost nostalgic—tenor. Such is the case with Bernd Brunner's slim, thoughtful meditation, Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season. But the book isn't all elegy. On the contrary, it celebrates the rituals and customs of winter taking place right now, all the world over, from the Indigenous communities of the Arctic to the sunny villas of Brazil, where beachcombers lament their 75-degree winters wrapped in parkas and wool hats. Whereas most people find danger and darkness in the "fiercest season," Brunner finds beauty, even enchantment.
–Amy Brady, Lit Hub contributor
Fintan O'Toole, The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism
(Liveright)
Fintan O'Toole is one of Ireland's sharpest and most compassionate political and social commentators (not to mention our foremost theater critic) and his analysis of the national obsessions, psychological hang-ups, and colonialism-derived paranoias that led to Brexit is an absolute must-read for anyone looking to understand why exactly Britain voted to self-immolate three years ago.
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Sylvan Esso at The Republik in Honolulu
On Mardi Gras night I'm usually listening to New Orleans style music, dancing, and getting my drink on. This year I did two out of the three. I traded the thumping bass of the tuba, rap of the snare drum, and the screaming trumpet from New Orleans for ethereal dreamy vocals and electronic fleeting synthesizer EDM style dance beats from North Carolina.
Sylvan Esso, made up of Amelia Meath on vocals and Nick Sanborn on synthesizers/keyboards, arrived in Honolulu after a string of concerts in Australia. Over the past nine months the duo have promoted their latest album What Now, the much anticipated follow-up to their eponymous debut.
Kicking off the evening at 9:20 the lights faded and Sanborn took his place behind his synthesizer setup (adorned with "F The NC GOP" a reference to the current state of politics of their home state). Instantly he started up the opening beats to "Sound". Meath began the song in the shadows and strolled into the light to an appreciative audience. Next came "Could I Be You" in which Meath graced the crowd to her marionette dancing which continued throughout the night. "Kick, Jump, Twist" turned the club into a dance party.
Everyone from the patchouli hippy to the club kids were bopping their heads and waving their hands. The sides of the club were a full on dance-a-thon with little room to walk between the writhing bodies. Sylvan Esso kept the party rolling with "Die Young", "Hey Mami", and "Parade(w/m)E".
For over an hour and fifteen minutes Sylvan Esso treated the crowd to their catchy collaborative quirky folk electro pop style. After a sing along "Radio" the band left the stage for a moment. Returning, Sylvan Esso finished the set with "Rewind" and "Play It Right"
Although it was not my typical Mardi Gras night I did dance the majority of the night and went home with a smile on my face. Mission accomplished.
Sylvan Esso will be on tour throughout the the southern half of the United Sates the entire month of March.
1. Sound
2. Could I Be You
3. Kick, Jump, Twist
4. Dress
5. Signal
6. Die Young
7. Parade (w/m)E
8. Coffee
9. Wolf
10. Just Dancing
11. The Glow
12. Slack Jaw
13. Uncatena
14. Hey Mami
15. H.S.T.K.
16. Radio
Encore: Rewind
Play It Right

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The Track World Champs came and went, and whilst criticising the UCI is the fashion their decision to slot the Worlds into the Cobbled Classics season has to be questioned.
The original thought process was that it was to accommodate the six day riders coming off the end of their season — and road men before their season got underway.
In reality, by the time the Six Days finish, most of the protagonists just want a holiday and as for roadmen riding — March and April are the two busiest months of the year for them.
Greg Baugé was a class apart in the Men's Sprint.
The UCI should move the Worlds back to their original late summer slot — but of course, that won't happen.
They were complicit in the decision to axe not just the kilometre but also the pursuit, points and Madison from the Olympic programme.
The loss of the kilometre was bad enough — a beautiful, pure event.
But to allow the pursuit to be discarded defies belief; one can't imagine athletics sitting back and allowing the 1,500 or 5,000 metres getting the chop.
However, what VeloVeritas thinks won't cut much ice in Aigle — all we can do is make our little contribution to what happened at the Worlds.
And whilst it's also the fashion to slag Cyclingnews.com, it was the only site that did it's bit on Worlds coverage — sites that I'm 'close to' weren't much interested.
My editors [not Martin here on VR though!] were much more keen on the 'kassein and bergs' than hardwood and bankings.
Giddeon Massie gives Ed the thumbs-up at the Rotterdam Six.
You rode 10:576 in qualifying — were you happy with that?
Do you use a bigger gear for qualifying than in the match sprints?
The rider who was 40th was under 11 seconds – a very high standard.
"But I think the World Cups are often even more competitive than the World Championships with sprint qualifying cut-off times of 10.3 & 10.4.
"The Omnisport is a unique track in a spectacular facility; s,omething you would expect from a country that hosts multiple mega spectator Six-Days with many talented Dutch riders.
What has Bauge got the others don't?
"It's clear he has a huge amount of confidence, and that plays an important role in any athlete.
"You feel it, and other riders sense it. It's as much a mental game as a physical one.
"He's now won the last three sprint world titles.
Bourgain – 10:043 to qualify fastest, but no medal – how come?
"Racing and going fast are very different skills.
"At the 2009 World Championships, Malaysia's Azizul Awang qualified 12th and finished second.
"I'm sure Michael has been racing during his time away, but it's difficult to maintain the sharpness that is necessary to compete at this level having been away that long.
What are you taking away from these Worlds with you?
"The Worlds are always a reminder of what it takes to be a podium level athlete, whether you win or not; it's a reality check and a reminder.
"It is an opportunity to put our training into action.
"I'm looking at the positives as I always do, and continue to believe strongly that we have not reached our limits as a team.
Chris Hoy, he's still the man; and only a fool would say that he can't win in London.
But what's interesting for me is that whilst we're constantly told by Dave Brailsford how infrequently track riders can 'peak' (bearing in mind I've actually been present when Contador has won two Grand Tours within months of each other) winner Shane Perkins was happily racing every night down at the Grenoble six back in October – as were all the French sprinters including sprint king, Baugé.
In fact, Baugé: was also riding the sprint tournament at the Rotterdam six in January — and having a lot of fun in the process.
Sir Chris bears the St Andrew flag as well as the Union Jack. Good boy.
46.190 for 12th – happy?
"No, even with the obviously slow track in mind I'm not happy.
"No one wants to see times go up like that from race to race, even if it is a slower track.
"I think we were capable of a bit more; it just didn't all come together.
45.017 at the Manchester World Cup, back one second — they say Apeldoorn is a 'sticky' track?
"Apeldoorn is definitely not a fast track.
"You can see it in the 200 times and the pursuit times.
"I mean, Bobridge in the pursuit, 10 seconds back from a time he did in February; that's pretty significant.
Did you ride to a schedule?
"No I wouldn't say that.
"Our coach Jamie Staff is a very smart analyst, but he's also careful not to over-think things before the race.
"If he has benchmarks for us on race day he's not really cluttering our heads with them before go.
How much difference has having Jamie Staff on board made to things?
"The difference is night and day; the motivation among the top US sprinters is unbelievable now.
"I think we all know that if there's one guy who can get us where we want to go it's Jamie; and we just have to do the work.
"I think the important thing is that in Jamie we don't just have a good coach – we really have an advocate that will look out for us.
Do you experiment with starting order – what was the line up at Apeldoorn?
"Yeah, it's a constant process; all the teams do, it depends on who's riding well and what they're going to be stronger at.
"In our case it can also be a question of who's available, since there's a couple of us that have full time jobs to deal with.
"We haven't had the same three riders in the same spots all season;: Giddeon and I have been in the team for everything so far, but he's been moved from man two to man three which seems to be a good step.
"I've been in man one all season because it's a pretty specific skill set and rider type.
It's sudden death in the team sprint – do you think the format is fair?
"Yeah definitely. I think that's one of my favourite things about the team sprint, how absolute it is.
"No protests or nit-picky officials deciding your day.
"There aren't really many variables, especially in man one.
What will you take away from the Worlds to work on?
"Well, for me it was a good lesson in coping with imperfect conditions; I was getting sick, I had a terrible day of starts the session before we raced, we had two false starts and the track wasn't all that fast, so I had a lot working against me.
"But I need to be able to just shake stuff off and be a bit more consistent – I think that's something we can improve on as a team, our consistency.
I just managed to catch the finale of the kilo, live on TV — a great race with the crowd on its feet as home boy Mulder scorched the boards to go up, early on eventual winner Nimke (Germany). He cracked but clung on for silver — heroic stuff.
Stefan Nimke is a World Champ again.
GB? We didn't bother to ride.
I know that it's all about 'funding' and 'non-Olympic' events 'don't count,' but it's frustrating and depressing to see one of the sport's finest races cast aside by the nation that produced Queally and Hoy.
And back to the 'peaking' argument — winner Nimke rode the sprints and time trial every night at the Berlin six day at the end of January.
But I'm ranting again, sorry!
In Part II of our look at the 2011 Track Worlds we'll talk 'Omnium' and hear from the man who's become a surprise presence in the event — New Zealander Shane Archbold.
Last year at this time, life was ice cream and fairies for Dan Fleeman; he'd won the Tour of the Pyrenees; Cervelo Test Team had snapped him up and a start in a Grand Tour looked like a formality. But pro cycling is an unforgiving sport, and 2009 didn't go according to the script for the likeable man from Lichfield.
Sprinters? As my old work buddy, Sam Johnston used to reply, when asked what had become of his 'hot tip' for the 3:45 at Kempton Park; 'they're still out looking for it – with lanterns!' Stage three was no day for the sprinters; what VeloVeritas had failed to appreciate was that 'Arrate' was as in 'Subida a Arrate' mountain race – as won by Luis Ocana, Marino Lejarreta, Francisco Galdos, Johan de Muunck and Raymond Poulidor. No big, bulging thighs among those names.
Marchas, Fondos & Sportifs – what's the deal?
"Fondos" they call them, in Italy; in France it's "Sportifs" and in Spain it's "Marchas". The cycling press is full of them, VeloVeritas decided to take a look at these increasingly fashionable "mass participation events." Who better to ask then, than Paul Coates - as well as hurting everyones' legs in the first half of the Scottish road season, Paul is one of the top protagonists in French Sportifs. We also speak to Adam Syme and Dave Chapman about their experiences in these events too.


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Overall, an amazing panel of people came together to share their stories and let people know that no matter what you go through in life, with passion and hard work you can truly achieve anything.Special thanks to our panelist, guests, and continued supporters.


Making small changes to the way employees enrol in voluntary employer retirement savings plans can significantly increase the number of workers who participate in the plans and the rate at which they save, new research finds.
A joint study by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and Sun Life Financial found that simplifying enrolment forms and encouraging employees to complete the forms on the first day of work led to more employees joining their employer's plan and choosing a contribution rate that would receive the full employer matching contribution.
"The results of the study clearly indicate that there are significant opportunities to improve employee participation in savings plans offered by their employers, and further, that the effort needed to achieve this improvement is relatively small," said a report on the study.
It noted that finding ways to increase participation and savings rates is important because recent studies show that up to half of non-retired Canadian adults are not saving enough to maintain their standard of living when they retire.
With most employer-sponsored defined contribution pension plans or group registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs) being voluntary for employees to join, getting workers to sign up can be a challenge.
"Participation rates tend to hover around 50 to 60 per cent," said Kim Duxbury, assistant vice-president, product and research, group retirement services at Sun Life.
To determine whether changing some of the factors around enrolment would make a difference to participation and savings rates, ESDC and Sun Life decided to test the effect of a simplified form and a "verbal nudge" reminding employees to complete them right away on employee enrolment.
The study, which ran from 2013 to 2018, included 3,760 new hires at 44 workplaces in different industries across Canada. For the study, employers were divided into three groups.
One group's employees received a simplified enrolment form, but went through the standard process (they were not given the form to complete until they met eligibility criteria).
Employees in another group were also given the simplified form, but were encouraged to complete it on the first day of work when they filled out other payroll and benefits forms, regardless of whether there was an eligibility period for joining.
A third group was a control group. New employees received a standard enrolment form, which they could complete at their convenience once eligible.
The study said it looked at enrolment forms because they tend to be complex, with employees asked to make a choice about enrolling, indicating the amount they want to contribute, and specifying how their contribution will be allocated among the funds available in their plan.
"Those are all very complicated decisions for an employee to make when they really should be excited about starting their job," said Duxbury.
The simplified version presented information in a more straightforward way, according to the report.
The study found that employees who received the simplified form or who had both the simplified form and encouragement to complete it on the first day of work were 24 to 25 per cent more likely to join the plan than those in the control group.
They were also 29 to 30 per cent more likely to select a contribution rate that would maximize their employer's matching contribution.
"These findings suggest that simplifying the enrolment process and providing an explanation of employer matching leads to greater likelihood of selecting the maximizing percentage," said the report.
The results should help convince employers to simplify their enrolment procedures and to consider suggesting a higher savings rate when new employees sign up for plans, said Duxbury.
Canadian employers often hesitate to suggest a starting contribution rate higher than zero per cent, she said, putting the onus on new employees to decide whether to stay with zero per cent or select a higher rate.
This contrasts with American employers, who often set the starting contribution rate at the amount that will attract the full employer matching contribution, said Duxbury.
"U.S. employers tend to be bolder when it comes to making decisions for their employees," said Duxbury.
Employers in the U.S. also have higher plan participation rates than those in Canada, she said, hovering around 85 to 90 per cent.
She attributes a key reason for the difference to the fact that U.S. employers are allowed to automatically enrol employees in their plans.
In Canada, automatic enrolment is generally prohibited, Duxbury said.
"Auto-enrolment requires changes to the Employment Standards Act because you need express consent to take money off of someone's paycheque today," she said.
Even without automatic enrolment, Duxbury said the study showed that encouraging employees to complete enrolment forms right away could encourage them to join an employer's retirement savings plan.
She also suggested that employers consider eliminating the waiting period — which can range from three months to more than a year — for new employees to join their plan.
"When I talk to employers, I often say, give some thought to having no waiting period and let (employees) join right out of the gate," said Duxbury.
"Put yourself in the shoes of the employee: You start working for this employer and you get your first paycheque and you start to adjust your standard of living to what your take-home pay is," she said.
"Then, if you (the employer) come along three months or six months later and tell me that I can join the plan and I can contribute to that, I now need to give something up that I have been spending my money on to have money taken off of my pay. That becomes a much harder decision," said Duxbury.
While some employers who match employee contributions may worry that their contribution costs will rise without a waiting period, she said they can always adjust when employer matching begins.
"You can have the employer match start kicking in at the three-month point or you can make a retroactive contribution," she said.
Setting goals for the plan can also help to increase participation and savings rates, according to Duxbury.
"What do you want as your participation rate? What do you want the employees to have as a savings rate? If you start to set goals as an organization, they get measured," she said.
"A lot of conversations focus on investment performance, but we can't control the market. We can control or influence the participation rate, the savings rate, that type of thing," said Duxbury.


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Josef Uridil (Bécs, 1895. december 24. – Bécs, 1962. május 20.), osztrák válogatott labdarúgó, edző.

Constantin Rădulescuval közösen irányította a román válogatottat az 1934-es labdarúgó-világbajnokságon.

Sikerei, díjai

Játékosként
Rapid Wien
Osztrák bajnok (5): 1915–16, 1918–19, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1922–23
Osztrák kupagyőztes (2): 1918–19, 1919–20
Egyéni
Az osztrák bajnokság gólkirálya (3): 1918–19, 1919–20, 1920–21

Edzőként
Rapid Wien
Osztrák bajnok (1): 1953–54

További információk

Josef Uridil a calcio.com honlapján

1895-ben született személyek
1962-ben elhunyt személyek
Bécsiek
Osztrák labdarúgók
Osztrák labdarúgóedzők
Labdarúgócsatárok
A Rapid Wien labdarúgói
A First Vienna FC labdarúgói

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This week for #VlogMom, Jessica from A Parent In America asked us what we were going to do this school year to improve our family's life. My answer is something I am ALWAYS working on! I would love to hear if you have new goals for the school year. Be sure to check out the other Vlog Mom videos in the link-up below!


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Becoming Traviata
Music • 1h 52m
Directed by Philippe Béziat • Documentary • With Jean-François Sivadier, Natalie Dessay • 2012 • 112 minutes
An exhilarating account of the creative process and a rousing, uniquely accessible rendition of Verdi's glorious opera. Director Beziat, known for his innovative documentaries on classical music, trains his cameras on a 2011 production of La Traviata helmed by celebrated stage director Jean-Francois Sivadier.
We get a behind-the-scenes look at such areas as set design and musical direction, but the heart of the film is the intense collaboration between Sivadier and charismatic soprano Natalie Dessay. With an emphasis on stunning, psychologically revealing gestures, they work out a naturalistic, erotic, emotionally direct interpretation of Violetta that is mirrored by the immediacy of the in-rehearsal performances.
Official Selection at the BFI London Film Festival.
"Zeroing in on the art of rehearsal, "BECOMING TRAVIATA" is an exquisitely observed look at performance and the creative process." - Sheri Linden, The Los Angeles Times
art, becoming traviata, behind-the-scenes, distrib films, documentary, expository, french, giuseppe verdi, italian, music, opera, ovid
Up Next in Music
Directed by Claus Withopf • Documentary • 2017 • 81 minutes
Anne Clark, English poet and spoken word-artist, has been celebrated worldwide on stage for more than 30 years. She set standards as an iconic eloquent, yet modest rebel and is a pioneer of electronic music. Shaped by the punk scene, An...
An Apollo Legend
Directed by Brian Storm • Documentary • 2008 • 18 minutes
Decades before American Idol and America's Got Talent captured the attention of millons on TV, the world renowned Apollo Theater in Harlem started hosting its popular Amateur Night, which launched the careers of Ella Fitzgerald, James Bro...
Directed by Catherine Gund & Darsha Kyi • Documentary • With Chavela Vargas • 2017 • 93 minutes
Chavela is the captivating look at the unconventional life of beloved performer Chavela Vargas, whose passionate renditions of Mexican popular music and triumphant return to the stage late in life bro...


Prof. dr. Ali Ghufron Mukti (second from right) when officially launched GAD65 Diagnostic KitThe Director General of Science and Technology Resources of the Republic of Indonesia, Prof. dr. Ali Ghufron, M.Sc., PhD launched GAD65 Diagnostic Kit at Biosains Institute building, Thursday (23/Jun/2016).
In his address, Prof. Ali Ghufron mentioned that down-streaming of UB's research products as a synergy between Academic-Business-Government-Community (ABGC) is a dream come true. This regard is due research result is not only being published in form of journals but more brings benefits for communities.
"I realized that in order to publish research in form of journal is hard but it is harder on how to make the research results are able to be utilized by the public," he said. Meanwhile, in the grand launching of GAD65 diagnostic kit, Director of UB's Biosains Institute, Prof. Fatchiyah, M.Kes., PhD explained that Biosains Institute is one of UB academic units which based on Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) for production and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), by accommodating A-B-G-C (Academy-Business-Government-Community) synergy. As one of entrepreneur units at UB in supporting UB's mission towards world class entrepreneurial university, Biosains institute has succeeded to develop diagnostic kit product for Diabetes Mellitus early detection based on GAD65, which is a product of research collaboration between Biosains Institute and PT. Biofarma (Persero) since 2012, headed by Prof. dr. Aulanni'am., drh., DESS.
Meanwhile, UB's Rector Prof. Dr. Ir. M. Bisri, MS., expected the product is able to support the national autonomy in fulfilling the needs of medical devices in communities, thus able to reduce reliance with external parties.


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All schools in greater Seoul area to continue offering remote classes until Sept. 20
Published : Sept 4, 2020 - 15:59 Updated : Sept 4, 2020 - 16:38
(Yonhap)
The Ministry of Education said on Friday that schools in Seoul and its surrounding cities will remain online-only until Sept. 20, in accordance with the government's decision to extend stricter social distancing rules in the area.
The measure will apply to all kindergartens, elementary, middle and high schools in the metropolitan area -- Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province. But high school seniors are not subject to the policy in order to prepare for the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), the yearly national university entrance exam slated for Dec. 3.
The measure came as the government decided to extend the 2.5-tier social distancing restrictions in the area by another week, limiting operations of restaurants, bakeries, franchise coffee chains, indoor sports facilities and cram schools as a precautionary measure to fight off the coronavirus outbreak.
Some 65,000 cram schools with more than 10 students and 671 vocational training schools in the area should offer virtual classes until Sept. 13.
South Korea's health authorities run a three-tier social distancing system, with Level Three being the toughest, under which most business and social activities shut down, except for essential businesses like hospitals and grocery stores.
Schools in other parts of the country are required to continue to offer a mix of in-person and remote classes until Sept. 20, with attendance capped at one-third in elementary and middle schools and two-thirds in high schools.
The ministry's extended ban on in-person classes reflected a sense of crisis and urgency amid public anxiety that schools remain vulnerable amid rising community infections and unknown transmissions, especially in the capital area.
"Since mid-August when the ministry preemptively ordered schools to go online and limited classroom crowding, virus cases among students, teachers and faculty members have slowly decreased," Vice Education Minister Park Baek-beom said during a briefing Friday.
"But we still need to enforce precautionary measures and remain vigilant amid persistent transmissions," he added.
A record number of 8,252 schools halted in-person classes nationwide on Friday to protect students and slow down the spread of the virus.
The country carefully instituted a phased reopening of schools, starting May 20, as new cases slowed down. Since then, 450 students and 103 faculty members and teachers have tested positive for the virus, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). (Yonhap)


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COCHITI LAKE REOPENS TO RECREATION
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District announced today that Cochiti Lake will reopen for recreation beginning Thursday, May 19, 2022.
Cochiti Lake was used as a water supply to combat the spread of the nearby Cerro Pelado Fire. The Cerro Pelado Fire is now 74% contained and the lake is no longer being used as a water supply in the Cerro Pelado firefighting efforts.
While Cochiti Lake is reopening at this time, the public should be aware that the lake is on standby to support aerial firefighting operations for the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire. Additional recreation closures may be necessary in the future depending on the spread of this wildfire.
In the Cochiti Recreation Area, day-use and camping will be offered to the public. This includes the boat ramp and swim beach. The Swim Beach is open daily from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm. All camping is by reservation. Campground reservations may be made at www.recreation.gov.
The Visitor Center's hours are 8:30 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday.
In the Tetilla Peak Recreation area, only the day-use recreation area will reopen at this time. The campground remains closed until further notice.
For questions or concerns, please contact the USACE Cochiti Project Office at (505)-465-0307.
Related Site: Make Campground Reservations
Related Link: Follow Cochiti Lake on Facebook!
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The A50 eastbound has partially reopened after a crash involving two lorries and a pedestrian.
It was shut between Junction 2 for Alvaston and the exit for the M1.
Highways England had said it expected the road to be opened by mid-afternoon but, at 2.40pm, they Tweeted to say that it would in fact be closed for "several further hours".
One lane of the carriageway was reopened just after 4pm.
A formal diversion had been in place, with highways officials saying traffic should first head up the A6 towards Derby.
They said: "Drivers should go to the A5111 Raynesway junction, continuing on the A5111 to the A52 near Spondon.
"Proceeding onto the A52 eastbound will re-join traffic to the M1 at Junction 25. Wider strategic traffic approaching on the A50 and A38 roads intending to use the A50 from Junction 3 towards the M1 may wish to consider alternative routes.
"Traffic leaving at A50 Junction 2 is strongly advised to use the above diversion route to avoid the B5010 road via Cavendish Bridge, which is reported to be heavily congested.
"Road users are advised to expect delays in the area and should allow extra time for your journey."
Police have called the A50 incident serious but have not given further information at this stage.


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Parafia Najświętszej Maryi Panny Wspomożycielki Wiernych w Stojewsku – parafia rzymskokatolicka, znajdująca się w diecezji kieleckiej, w dekanacie łopuszańskim.

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Miraikan, The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo. (Photo: MIKI Yoshihito/Flickr)
Here is a Human Being
The Spotify and Ancestry partnership proposes to entertain users based on the narrowest possible conception of who they are.
Published on Sep 27, 2018 3:00PM EDT
Cam Scott	@vanishingsigns
Cam Scott is a poet, critic, and non-musician from Winnipeg, Canada, Treaty One territory. He writes from Brooklyn.
Listen to me, there is an echo which travels along faultlines; it comes from their music. The strange music of the people.
Marcia Douglas, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
"If you could listen to your DNA, what would it sound like?" With this question, Ancestry.com, the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, announced its new partnership with music streaming platform Spotify. This service, a website explains, will provide a soundtrack based on your own family tree. These playlists promise an experience of roots, as though musical appreciation were genetically encoded. This offer — to effectively objectify a customer's heritage for consumption — projects the predictive, user-friendly texture of online consumership both into the body and back in time.
This may look like one custom service among many available online. But its particular proposal — to listen to DNA — is built on an unruly stack of assumptions. At the most fundamental level, there is the question of what kind of information DNA actually contains — as though one could be 39% English, 21% Native American, 9% Russian, and these separate percentiles of ethnic belonging would make up a full human being. While Ancestry.com has clarified that all information about one's ancestry must be manually entered into Spotify, and that none of a user's DNA data is shared across platforms, everything in their marketing is intended to suggest a direct link between genetic code and canny algorithm.
What gives music special purchase on the genetic imagination? There may be no human behavior as general as the appreciation, and creation, of music. This practice, of the organization and sharing of sound, is intrinsically social, fusing cultural groups and groups within groups, in virtually every society on earth. While not every culture marks something called "music" apart from daily life as a separate sphere of activity, let alone as a discrete commodity, it appears to be something that "we" as people do.
This generality is less comforting against the backdrop of big data, and the fabric of monopolistic services that we use online everyday. In this landscape, all expressive activity is mined for private gain — or more nefarious purposes. It turns out that Ancestry.com's pairing with Spotify is the less alarming of their partnerships announced this summer. In July 2018, Vice reported that the information gathered by the website was being used by the Canadian Border Services Agency to facilitate deportations. Spotify, too, collects immense amounts of demographic data from its 15 million subscribers, and the pairing of these data-extractive behemoths suggests a dystopic near-future of integrated consumer surveillance.
The Spotify and Ancestry partnership proposes to entertain users based on the narrowest possible conception of who they are. But the music we listen to and the art we consume already say much more about our cultural bearings than a genetic profile. This suggests corporate attempts at the inverse — to assign us places in the world based on our seemingly subjective choices and preferences. Of course, this process is already underway. But even a gimmicky partnership such as this shows how far this kind of program could extend. It's surprising that this service is described as "DNA curation," as though genetic code itself were responsible for the output. Big data, which construes people as only so many clusters of information, finds a natural basis in the ideology of genetic predetermination.
Between 1990 and 2003, the Human Genome Project was regarded as a technological summit for genetic determinists, promising a master key for all manner of human behavior. In their book Genes, Cells, and Brains, Hilary Rose and Steven Rose offer a social history of the creation of this institution, at an unprecedented moment in the history of globalization. At the outset of this project, geneticist Walter Gilbert pulled the sort of cheap publicity stunt to which an Information Age audience is well accustomed — before a captive audience, he produced a single naked compact disc, announcing: "soon I will be able to say 'here is a human being; it's me.'"
This gimmick became commonplace as biologists canvassed auditoriums around the world for popular and monetary support. The CD was at this point a token of consumer utopia, and the implicit promise of this symbol was inescapably shaped by its friendliest guise, as a medium of entertainment. I still recall the spindles of copied CDs that I collected during the early days of music downloading, a relatively unregulated prelude to today's streaming services, and the cultural promise of each separate disc. These were receptacles of sentiment. Gilbert wasn't yet promising his financiers a customizable soundtrack, but something apparently related: a completed account of the listener themselves.
Rose and Rose, however, have serious doubts about the technologically impressive claims of contemporary biotechnology. "Genetics," they write, "with benign intent if not benign consequences, has sought to re-racialise human difference." To this end, they describe how the life sciences have been transformed into vast, integrated monopolies over information, "blurring the boundaries between science and technology, universities, entrepreneurial biotech companies and the major pharmaceutical companies." In this description, the dream of a massively centralized genetic databank was eugenicist from the start: early proponents described the elimination of hereditary diseases, and with them a significant cost to society. These enthusiasts did not seem to consider the bearers of those risks as members of society themselves.
While Rose and Rose hold out for more nuanced attempts to chart geographical ancestry, these goals remain largely unfulfilled by private services such as Ancestry.com. Genealogy services advertise the ability to discover your essence across time, anachronistically assigning national coordinates to considerably more distant and disinterested information. Enzymes have no country, and they certainly do not have national customs. Whatever it might mean to test 17% Norwegian, for example, would depend entirely on a social and historical narrative imposed on the information after the fact; such a test result would not ensure a fondness for either old Norse sagas or second wave black metal.
Alongside the Human Genome Project began the similarly named Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP), with the stated goal of understanding evolution and migration. Proposed by geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, the HGDP rejected the language of race in favor of an analysis of "population," giving resources like Ancestry.com a more humanistic language and mandate. The HGDP, however, would soon encounter serious methodological controversies. While recording the genetic profiles of Indigenous populations, its researchers repeatedly failed to obtain consent, innovating new methods of colonial plunder.
Kimberly TallBear's 2013 book, Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science, considers "the implications for tribes of mapping of the human genome." Skeptical of any approach that draws emphasis away from lived relationships, TallBear surveys the controversies that arise from the intrusion of genetic science into tribal enrollment. In North America, this appears as a neocolonial vogue for sourcing "Native American DNA" in order to establish descendancy and title. Often, TallBear finds, genetic criteria would prohibit Indigenous nations from determining their own membership and governance, substituting an external scientific standard for cultural participation. As in many other cases where a genetic record takes precedence over the practice of a community, it credits a fantasy of authenticity with some material basis. How many settlers have claimed that they have "native blood," a morbid substitute for full-bodied social being?
This is one of the fantasies that sites like Ancestry.com exploit. It can satisfy the desperation of an individual to be redefined as already including the otherness that their identity omits. One might say that shallow roots spread widely, grasping at the softest expanse of available ground. This is not to deny the interest or utility of parsing one's family tree, nor the value of any historical sense it provides. But these databases enable a kind of genetic tourism, with sordid implications. To a great extent, race remains the fantasy object of pop genealogy. However suspicious, race is the concept that is popularly thought to account for variability and identity, character and culture. Race is retained within the ideology of genetics as the persistent obstacle it seeks, and fails, to overcome.
This contradiction describes liberal inclusiveness, preserving the categories of identity it would deny by advocating for their inevitable "mixing." The idea is incoherent, as TallBear notes, given that "mixing is predicated on the notion of purity." Karen and Barbara Fields, in their book Racecraft, describe this particular fallacy as "the move, by definition, from the concept 'mixture' to the false inference that unmixed components exist, which cannot be disproved by observation and experience because it does not arise from them." This fallacy is vividly illustrated in the pie charts offered by Ancestry.com and their competitors, which break a test subject's identity down into contrasting quotients of ethnic belonging. As Fields and Fields describe, race is retained in today's biology after the fashion of the HGDP's Cavalli-Sforza, as a "statistically defined population." The determinations of these populations are not visible, but that hasn't stopped countless researchers from superimposing racist premises on "post-racial" information sets.
Many proponents of human population genetics reject any accusation of racism, explaining that the scientific methodology offers a convincing argument for anti-racism by simply demonstrating that all humans are of common ancestry. TallBear quotes geneticist and entrepreneur Spencer Wells, whose belief is that racism will eventually abate because it is scientifically insupportable. After all, Wells rhapsodizes, "we are all descendants of people who lived in Africa recently. We are all Africans under the skin." This sentiment relies upon the history of anti-black racism for its rhetorical impact. An African essence is located "under the skin," prior to the social process that Frantz Fanon called the "epidermalization of inferiority."
For TallBear, this humanist commonplace is on one hand nonsensical, "given that 'Africa' did not exist two hundred thousand years ago." On the other hand, she continues, following the work of philosopher V.Y. Mudimbe, this anachronistic language speaks of a deep-rooted colonial narrative where "Africa" denotes fantasies of both "difference and primordialism." In this regard, the statement that "we are all Africans" can serve an infantilizing narrative of both human enlightenment and evolution at once.
In some respects it is unsurprising that a genealogy tracker should team up with a music service, because the ideology of genetics is in many ways a displacement, or indefinite backdating, of culture. The piecemeal essentialism of this creative partnership raises a question: To whom does a music belong, and what kind of belonging does it enact? The universal power of music, its commonality across communities, does not ensure global reception, which is secured unevenly at market.
In the so-called West, it's possible to state a preference for the redundant catchall of "world music," an umbrella term used to market the traditional sounds of a geopolitical periphery. This classification originates sometime in the 1980s, a critical decade for the consolidation and expansion of vast interstate systems of political and economic dependency. "World music," then, encapsulates as many musics as enter into the mediation of the market. It is less a genre than a condition of consumption, and music ceases to belong to the world in general when effectively incorporated into the mass culture of an affluent core. In a circular pattern of influence, musical fusion often projects new versions of the "unmixed elements" it would combine in the first place. For this reason alone it is enormously difficult, and perhaps inadvisable, to talk about the traditional music of any people out of context.
In a now-classic article, "Notes on World Beat," ethnomusicologist Steven Feld observes a seemingly circular situation: "American music is Africanizing while African music is Afro-Americanizing." Feld's key example is Paul Simon's Graceland, a bestselling album featuring many African musicians. However, Feld insists,
we must scrutinize the nature of Simon's role from the point of view of the overall ownership of the product (Paul Simon-Graceland, produced by Paul Simon, all songs copyright Paul Simon) and how this ownership maintains a particular distance between his elite art status and the status of the musicians with whom he worked.
On which of Spotify's themed playlists would a record such as this appear? As Feld points out, the appearance of a culturally omnivorous mainstream is ironic in an age of monopoly. He identifies a "riveting effect" on musical ownership, caused by "worldwide media contact, amalgamation of the music industry toward world record sales domination by three enormous companies, and extensive copyright controls by a few Western countries."
Ray Phiri, the South African musician and composer whose contributions to Graceland went uncredited. (Photo: Bobbyshabangu/Wikimedia)
This was true in 1988, and thirty years later, even after the supposed collapse of the recording industry, those three companies — Universal, Sony, and Warner — remain among the few financial beneficiaries of centralized music streaming, which has a notably impoverishing effect on artists of any nationality.
If the branding of world music in the 1980s had a contradictory relation to the networks of its distribution, this tension is heightened today. A global panoply of musics are appropriated to streaming services like Spotify or Apple Music, digital megastructures whose mission statements are not all that different from that of Ancestry.com: "you pay us to tell to who you already are." In a sense, the riveting effect that Feld describes applies more to consumers than artists. "World music," as the supposedly authentic expression of generic otherness, facilitating a pilgrimage of connoisseurship, may shed light on the peculiar desire that Spotify directs in its partnership with Ancestry.com.
In an interview, Ancestry.com vice president Vineet Mehra gives a straightforward statement of intent: "How do we help people experience their culture and not just read about it? Music seemed like an obvious way to do that." For Mehra, culture must be administered in order to be experienced. But who is the person he's talking about? Mehra's ideal consumer has a culture, which they are apparently yet to experience. Spotify's collections of music from different national territories will allow them to participate in this heritage, in the passive reception of a product. This proprietary conception of culture, as mere information, is perfectly suited to the ideology of genetics, which offers a vision of human beings as racial metadata from time immemorial.
Walter Gilbert may have tempted skeptics with the promise of a completed human on a compact disc, but fortunately no such object, or playlist for that matter, can encapsulate the complexity and variability of a person. Within its proper jurisdiction, one might say that human population genetics tells many fascinating stories. But genetic data is not itself narrative, and stories are not that kind of object. They travel through and across kinship relations, in spheres of community.
In Racecraft, Karen Fields describes an ethnographic journey undertaken with her grandmother, whose oral history unfurls a detailed litany of people and places. "Personal Genetic Histories deploy scientific techniques that purport to enable clients to 'recover' lost aspects of their individual 'history,' " she writes. Instead, Fields suggests speaking of "what one cannot remember mistakenly," in order to "deploy the actual memory of individuals to reconstruct a collective history." Her collaborative genealogy, performed with a living ancestor, is empowering rather than automatizing, an intergenerational undertaking with its own personal soundtrack.
At its best, music is often accompanied by a feeling of deep physical agreement, which makes it a uniquely convincing vehicle for any story of origins. All music is the music of others. But this doesn't mean that the arena of musical reception is anything like a straightforward utopia. Artist and writer Jace Clayton, also known as DJ /rupture, prefaces his book Uproot with a remark on the twenty-first century as a time of "great forgetting":
As so many of our ways of communicating with each other and experiencing the world translate to the digital and dematerialize, much is lost, and many new possibilities emerge. When people look back a hundred years from now, this time will be seen as a crucial turning point, when we went from analog to digital. Much of what is special about this transition gets articulated by music, those waves of magic that happen when the human spirit joins with technology to create vibrations that enchant us regardless of language or age, afloat between novelty and tradition and always asking to be shared.
At this crucial turning point, digital monopolies consolidate their hold on the expressions of every human culture, attempting to classify them for consumption, in order to restrict rather than expand the social possibilities afforded to each listener. At this moment, and in the space between novelty and tradition, experimentation and identity that Clayton describes, it is worth fighting for technologies that don't seek to exploit the very humanity they claim to represent. This conviction obliges us to resist new proprietary claims on our data by private corporations, and to think of better ways to archive our stories than those that genetics offers us today.
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Windows 10's parental controls let you designate an account as a child account to restrict certain features and monitor activity. These child accounts require you to use a Microsoft account. But what if you wanted to set limits for a local user account instead? Here's the workaround: You can set time limits for any account in Windows with the Command Prompt.
1. Press Windows+X to open the Power User Menu and select Command Prompt (Admin).
Replace <username> with the user account you want to set time limits for. You can get a list of users on the computer by typing in net user and pressing Enter.
Once you set the time limit, the user won't be able to sign into the computer outside of that set time frame. To remove the time limits for an account, type in net user <username> /time:all and press Enter.


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Candice Accola Talks Tyler, Matt and that Dreaded Vampire Diaries Death
By Megan Masters / February 23 2011, 12:28 PM PST
Tyler who? Candice Accola just chatted with TVLine about all things Vampire Diaries and this seems to be the consensus: Michael Trevino is missed on set, but Caroline's focus has shifted back to Matt, the clueless boy next door.
TVLINE | What can Caroline fans look forward to in the next few episodes?
Tyler (played by Michael Trevino) has just left, so Caroline is just working on everything being OK. He had been consuming her time — obviously she had his back and he didn't have hers , and he's been the one standing in between her opportunities with Matt (played by Zach Roerig). So she's trying to get back to herself.
TVLINE | How are things going with Matt? We're hearing there's a romantic moment in this Thursday's episode.
This week's episode creates a wonderful opportunity for Matt and Caroline to talk without Tyler there — at least they'll have an opportunity for a potential honest conversation. And that's all I can say.
TVLINE | Do you think Matt should be let in on Mystic Falls' secrets? It would certainly make things easier for Caroline.
On one hand, it's a vampire show so what fun is it if the secret is out and everyone knows about it? [Laughs] The show needs that conflict of people being in the dark. And the best part about it is the anticipation of what will happen when they do find out. I'm excited to see what the writers decide to do.
TVLINE | Kevin Williamson has revealed that no one is safe going into the end of the season. What are you thoughts on the impending Vampire Diaries death(s)?
Day one of us all getting to Atlanta, we were very plainly told that we're on a vampire show and characters will be killed off — that's just the premise. So it's been in the back of our minds, but it's hard. There are always going to be more job opportunities, but we've been really fortunate with the people we have had the opportunity to work with. Everyone's just so wonderful to be around so it'd be unfortunate. When you're part of a series, you become such a close-knit family — it's been almost two years that we've been working together. It's sad and difficult, but at the same time we know that it's coming — although we really don't know who it's going to be. We feel the anticipation just as much as the audience does.
TVLINE | If you could leave fans with one good tease of what's ahead, what would it be?
Right now, there's so much story to be told around the sacrifice, whatever that's going to consist of and who's going to be involved, so a lot of the upcoming episodes are very information-based. And for Caroline, it's just exciting that throughout this second season she's had an opportunity to become such a stronger person through her supernatural change.
What do you think is next for Caroline? Will she and Matt live happily ever after? Catch an all new Vampire Diaries Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.
TAGS: Candice Accola, Michael Trevino, The CW, The Vampire Diaries, Zach Roerig
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Q: Changing the tint of the iOS UITextField clear button in iOS 11 In iOS 10 we changed the tint of our UITextField clear buttons using the following KVO approach.
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More specifically clearButton.imageView?.image returns nil.
Are there alternative ways of accessing the image now?

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Applications for international road haulage permits close this week (Friday 18 January) and FTA, the business organisation representing the logistics industry, is advising commercial vehicle operators wanting to transport goods into EU-27 countries post-Brexit to submit their applications urgently. A No Deal exit from the European Union is a very real possibility, according to FTA, and businesses must prepare accordingly.
Commercial vehicle operators will need ECMT (European Conference of Ministers of Transport) permits to transport goods to the European Union (EU) and EEA (European Economic Area) if the UK leaves the EU without a deal on 29 March 2019.
Laouadi continued: "The number of ECMT permits available to British operators is painfully short of the required total; it is likely to cover only 5% of the current vehicle journeys made between the UK and EU. Without frictionless movement between the UK and the EU, the delicate supply chain our economy relies upon will be in jeopardy. With this in mind, FTA has prepared a list of emergency "mini-deals" and contingency measures, covering areas including truck permits, aviation and VAT, which we will demand the UK government prioritises with Brussels urgently to limit the disruption of a No Deal scenario.


The first cells fed on organic substances in the primordial soup as its concentration gradually diminished. It is likely that the scarcity of energy resources imposed a selection. Some cells acquired the ability to feed on others, while other cells developed the ability to synthesize new organic substances by using energy from oxidation. Even today there still are prokaryotes (cells that don't have an actual nucleus but a nuclear "equivalent") that draw energy in this way to live, they are the so called chemosynthetic bacteria. Other cells instead could exploit energy from light to transform water and obtain the hydrogen necessary for photosynthesis (a reaction that can transform simple inorganic substances into organic ones such as carbohydrates thanks to the energy given by light). Living organisms that are able to perform photosynthesis however released simple oxygen which, thanks to its high affinity with organic substances, must have killed most primitive cell forms. Only those cells that could handle the increasing oxygen concentration survived. Subsequently some prokaryotes learned to use free oxygen as an oxidant for energy production. This is how respiration appeared bringing with it the great advantage of being a more efficient energy stocking method than fermentation and guaranteeing survival in the oxygen rich atmosphere.


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The cysteine-rich proteins of beet necrotic yellow vein virus and tobacco rattle virus contribute to efficient suppression of silencing in roots
Andika Ida Bagus, Hideki Kondo, Masamichi Nishiguchi, Tetsuo Tamada
Institute of Plant Science and Resources
Many plant viruses encode proteins that suppress RNA silencing, but little is known about the activity of silencing suppressors in roots. This study examined differences in the silencing suppression activity of different viruses in leaves and roots of Nicotiana benthamiana plants. Infection by tobacco mosaic virus, potato virus Y and cucumber mosaic virus but not potato virus X (PVX) resulted in strong silencing suppression activity of a transgene in both leaves and roots, whereas infection by beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV) and tobacco rattle virus (TRV) showed transgene silencing suppression in roots but not in leaves. For most viruses tested, viral negative-strand RNA accumulated at a very low level in roots, compared with considerable levels of positive-strand genomic RNA. Co-inoculation of leaves with PVX and either BNYVV or TRV produced an increase in PVX negative-strand RNA and subgenomic RNA (sgRNA) accumulation in roots. The cysteine-rich proteins (CRPs) BNYVV p14 and TRV 16K showed weak silencing suppression activity in leaves. However, when either of these CRPs was expressed from a PVX vector, there was an enhancement of PVX negative-strand RNA and sgRNA accumulation in roots compared with PVX alone. Such enhancement of PVX sgRNAs was also observed by expression of CRPs of other viruses and the well-known suppressors HC-Pro and p19 but not of the potato mop-top virus p8 CRP. These results indicate that BNYVV- and TRV-encoded CRPs suppress RNA silencing more efficiently in roots than in leaves.
Journal of General Virology
https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.043513-0
10.1099/vir.0.043513-0
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Ida Bagus, A., Kondo, H., Nishiguchi, M., & Tamada, T. (2012). The cysteine-rich proteins of beet necrotic yellow vein virus and tobacco rattle virus contribute to efficient suppression of silencing in roots. Journal of General Virology, 93(8), 1841-1850. https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.043513-0
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abstract = "Many plant viruses encode proteins that suppress RNA silencing, but little is known about the activity of silencing suppressors in roots. This study examined differences in the silencing suppression activity of different viruses in leaves and roots of Nicotiana benthamiana plants. Infection by tobacco mosaic virus, potato virus Y and cucumber mosaic virus but not potato virus X (PVX) resulted in strong silencing suppression activity of a transgene in both leaves and roots, whereas infection by beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV) and tobacco rattle virus (TRV) showed transgene silencing suppression in roots but not in leaves. For most viruses tested, viral negative-strand RNA accumulated at a very low level in roots, compared with considerable levels of positive-strand genomic RNA. Co-inoculation of leaves with PVX and either BNYVV or TRV produced an increase in PVX negative-strand RNA and subgenomic RNA (sgRNA) accumulation in roots. The cysteine-rich proteins (CRPs) BNYVV p14 and TRV 16K showed weak silencing suppression activity in leaves. However, when either of these CRPs was expressed from a PVX vector, there was an enhancement of PVX negative-strand RNA and sgRNA accumulation in roots compared with PVX alone. Such enhancement of PVX sgRNAs was also observed by expression of CRPs of other viruses and the well-known suppressors HC-Pro and p19 but not of the potato mop-top virus p8 CRP. These results indicate that BNYVV- and TRV-encoded CRPs suppress RNA silencing more efficiently in roots than in leaves.",
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doi = "10.1099/vir.0.043513-0",
journal = "Journal of General Virology",
publisher = "Society for General Microbiology",
T1 - The cysteine-rich proteins of beet necrotic yellow vein virus and tobacco rattle virus contribute to efficient suppression of silencing in roots
AU - Ida Bagus, Andika
AU - Kondo, Hideki
AU - Nishiguchi, Masamichi
AU - Tamada, Tetsuo
N2 - Many plant viruses encode proteins that suppress RNA silencing, but little is known about the activity of silencing suppressors in roots. This study examined differences in the silencing suppression activity of different viruses in leaves and roots of Nicotiana benthamiana plants. Infection by tobacco mosaic virus, potato virus Y and cucumber mosaic virus but not potato virus X (PVX) resulted in strong silencing suppression activity of a transgene in both leaves and roots, whereas infection by beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV) and tobacco rattle virus (TRV) showed transgene silencing suppression in roots but not in leaves. For most viruses tested, viral negative-strand RNA accumulated at a very low level in roots, compared with considerable levels of positive-strand genomic RNA. Co-inoculation of leaves with PVX and either BNYVV or TRV produced an increase in PVX negative-strand RNA and subgenomic RNA (sgRNA) accumulation in roots. The cysteine-rich proteins (CRPs) BNYVV p14 and TRV 16K showed weak silencing suppression activity in leaves. However, when either of these CRPs was expressed from a PVX vector, there was an enhancement of PVX negative-strand RNA and sgRNA accumulation in roots compared with PVX alone. Such enhancement of PVX sgRNAs was also observed by expression of CRPs of other viruses and the well-known suppressors HC-Pro and p19 but not of the potato mop-top virus p8 CRP. These results indicate that BNYVV- and TRV-encoded CRPs suppress RNA silencing more efficiently in roots than in leaves.
AB - Many plant viruses encode proteins that suppress RNA silencing, but little is known about the activity of silencing suppressors in roots. This study examined differences in the silencing suppression activity of different viruses in leaves and roots of Nicotiana benthamiana plants. Infection by tobacco mosaic virus, potato virus Y and cucumber mosaic virus but not potato virus X (PVX) resulted in strong silencing suppression activity of a transgene in both leaves and roots, whereas infection by beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV) and tobacco rattle virus (TRV) showed transgene silencing suppression in roots but not in leaves. For most viruses tested, viral negative-strand RNA accumulated at a very low level in roots, compared with considerable levels of positive-strand genomic RNA. Co-inoculation of leaves with PVX and either BNYVV or TRV produced an increase in PVX negative-strand RNA and subgenomic RNA (sgRNA) accumulation in roots. The cysteine-rich proteins (CRPs) BNYVV p14 and TRV 16K showed weak silencing suppression activity in leaves. However, when either of these CRPs was expressed from a PVX vector, there was an enhancement of PVX negative-strand RNA and sgRNA accumulation in roots compared with PVX alone. Such enhancement of PVX sgRNAs was also observed by expression of CRPs of other viruses and the well-known suppressors HC-Pro and p19 but not of the potato mop-top virus p8 CRP. These results indicate that BNYVV- and TRV-encoded CRPs suppress RNA silencing more efficiently in roots than in leaves.
U2 - 10.1099/vir.0.043513-0
DO - 10.1099/vir.0.043513-0
JO - Journal of General Virology
JF - Journal of General Virology


WAKISO – The State House Anti-Corruption Unit has arrested seven more officials from Wakiso Lands office in a bid to stamp out corruption.
The officials were picked from office on Wednesday last week and are being detained at the Central Police Station in Kampala.
They include Japhery Bakalaze, Doreen Mpumwire, Monica Katushabe and Esther Achom. Others are Alwedo Angella, Suzan Aseru and Mwanje Andrew.
They are due to be presented in court on Monday where they face charges of corruption and abuse of office.
The head of the ministry Zonal Offices in Wakiso, Mr Johnson Mukaaga, confirmed the arrest of his staff but said he was not aware of the charges they face.
On December 20, the State House anti-corruption team raided Wakiso lands offices and arrested six officials who have since been released on police bond.
President Museveni appointed the State House Anti-Corruption Unit headed by Lt Col Edith Nakalema on December 10 and granted them powers to handle graft cases in the country in coordination with existing institutions such as the Inspectorate of Government and police.
Early last month, the team arrested three officials from Tororo Municipality during an abrupt raid in Tororo. The officials are municipal engineer Dennis Okatch, roads inspector Etuku Ejolu, and the town clerk Akuma Muzamil.
They were on January 25 arraigned before court and charged with corruption. Prosecution led by Senior Assistant DPP Alice Komuhangi alleges that the three co-accused engaged in activities that caused financial loss to their employer amounted to an abuse of office and conspired to defraud their employer.
It is alleged that the trio and others still at large during the month of December 2018 at Tororo municipal council processed payment worth 95.522.549 shillings to Total Tororo service station without following procurement procedure contrary to the Anti Corruption Act 2009.


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22 Father's Day deals to suit a range of different Dads (and budgets!)
Published 7 June 2013 by Helen Gradwell
: I have found offers on Father's Day presents for 2013 that should suit your Dad, whether he's a thrill seeker or prefers relaxing with a pint. There's a range of deals to suit different budgets too, to help you find cheap Father's Day presents - or splash out a bit more.
Father's Day is approaching (16th June - you're welcome!). That means it's time to seek out that perfect gift that reflects exactly how you feel about your Dad. If you're not sure where to start, I've had a few ideas to make Father's Day 2013 really special for your old man.
Whatever his interests are, I hope you'll find something to suit him here. I've also found presents to suit a range of different budgets, so you can show you care no matter what's in your wallet.
All the prices and deals shown here were correct on 07.06.2013, but could have been changed or removed by the retailer since then. Prices may or may not include postage and packaging - or VAT. Remember to give enough time for delivery when you order. Individual dads' reactions to these gifts may vary.
Active Dads
Get your Dad a trip to London for a bit less - as there's 5% off everything at London Pass with code londpas05 until 31st December.
While he's there, he might enjoy a trip to the theatre - with tickets for under £20 from Lastminute.com. When I looked, shows included hits like One Man, Two Guvnors, War Horse and Derren Brown's Infamous.
Or he could make the most of this West End experience with dinner for 2. It's £69, down from £105, at tellallmyfriends.com.
There's 20% off at Red Letter Days with the discount code MYJUN20 until 9th June. That means you can get this zorbing experience for two for £55.20 instead of £69. Perfect if your Dad has always wanted to be pushed down a steep hill while trapped in a giant inflatable bubble. As it's for two, you could go with him!
At Buyagift.com, you can get a supercar driving experience that lets you drive up to six miles in your choice of 11 supercars. You'll also experience a high-speed thrill ride as a passenger. It was £124 but is now just £69. There are a few discount codes you can use at Buyagift.com too: for example, you can get £5 off orders over £25 with the code fd525 until 17th June and £20 off orders over £100 with the code fd20100 until 16th June.
For Dads who don't mind heights, this introductory flying lesson from Virgin Experience Days can be reduced from £129 to £103.20 with the code MVCPOP20. The code gives you 20% off experiences throughout the site until 23rd June.
Geeky/techy Dads
You can get three gifts for £20 from iwantoneofthose.com. I particularly like the USB cup warmer, the men's gift set (which includes a watch, a pen, a keyring and a torch) and 'nothing' - which will surely go down well with Dad, as it's just some packaging with nothing in it.
If Dad's a film buff, he might appreciate a selection of movies from the 2 for £11 Blu-ray offer at Zavvi.
This 4GB Xbox 360 console with Kinect and Kinect Adventures could be perfect for your Dad if he's a gamer. It's £179.99 from Sainsbury's Entertainment.
May the force be with your Dad when he wears this Star Wars dressing gown. He can pretend he's the greatest Jedi that ever lived while he's making toast in the morning. Reduced to £26.99 from £34.99 at Internet Gift Store, it is.
If your Dad would love to record everything he does, this Ego Wi-Fi HD action camera could help him do just that. Just stick the camera in the desired location (it can fit onto helmets and allsorts) and you can stream the HD video to your mobile or other Wi-Fi enabled device. It's reduced from £159.99 to £135.99 at Firebox.
Dads who appreciate a drink every now and then
You get a free card when you buy beer, wine or spirits from the Father's Day selection at Moonpig.com. I like this 'Dad's beer fest bundle 2013' as it comes with everything he'll need to recreate a night in the pub. It's £30.
This personalised black leather hip flask is £19.99 from personalisedgiftsshop.co.uk - down from £29.95.
If you're not feeling particularly extravagant, there are a range of Father's Gifts for £1 at Poundland. I quite like this 'ring for beer' bell. It's a gift that just keeps on giving.
For a cultured (and slightly boozy) day out, try this vineyard tour for two from Argos. It's reduced from £34.99 to £22.99.
It's not really a deal - but I just couldn't miss it out. You can get 24 cans of Duff Beer for £24.99 from Firebox. 'To alcohol: the cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems!' - Homer Simpson.
Dads who need a bit of time to relax and treat themselves
There's 15% off everything at Debenhams Flowers with the code MVCDF15. I know this doesn't sound very manly, but there's a range of Father's Day gifts including wines and chocolate that he might like.
If he needs sprucing up a bit, try this Remington shaver for £64.99, down from £129.99, at Argos.
In honour of Father's Day, you can get 10% off men's products at feelunique.com with the code SUPERDAD. He could use this ultimate shave set after he's used the shaver above. With the code it's £35.95 - down from £39.95.
If your Dad's a bit of a chocoholic, he might appreciate something from the Chocolate Trading Co - where there's 12% off orders until 30th June with the code CTMVC12. You can get 'chocolate that looks like things', like this tin of milk chocolate sardines.
For a bit of quality time with his son, and memories he can keep forever, try this father and son photo shoot for £20 from Zavvi.
Or you can put all your family memories into a photobook or other product at VistaPrint, where there's 35% off everything with the code Myvouchercodes002 until 31st August.
What are you getting for Dad?
Has this article given you any great gift ideas? Or do you have other plans of your own? Let us know what you're planning for your Dad this Father's Day on our Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. We promise we won't tell him!