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Solomon A. Berson (1918-1972)
Solomon A. Berson helped develop the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique in the US during the twentieth century. Berson made many scientific contributions while working with research partner Rosalyn Yalow at the Bronx Veterans Administration (VA) hospital, in New York City, New York. In the more than twenty years that Berson and Yalow collaborated, they refined the procedures for tracing diagnostic biological compounds using isotope labels.
Vaginal Speculum (after 1800)
A vaginal speculum is a medical device that allows physicians and health providers to better view a woman's cervix and vagina during pelvic exams. Most specula are made of metal and plastic, and physicians insert a portion of the speculum into the patient's vagina to separate the vaginal walls. Physicians have used devices to view inside a woman's vagina for centuries, but physicians did not begin using what is known as a speculum in the twenty-first century until the 1800s.
Nightlight Christian Adoptions, et al. v. Thompson, et al. (2001)
Nightlight Christian Adoptions et al. v. Thompson et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8 March 2001. The suit was filed because Nightlight Christian Adoptions, a frozen embryo adoption agency, felt that the Guidelines for Research Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells published by the National Institutes for Health were unlawful and violated the restrictions on human embryo research put into place by the Dickey-Wicker Amendment. Additional plaintiffs with this suit were the Christian Medical Association, adult stem cell researcher Dr.
Subject: Legal, Reproduction
Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (1922), by Harry H. Laughlin
Eugenical Sterilization in the United States is a 1922 book in which author Harry H. Laughlin argues for the necessity of compulsory sterilization in the United States based on the principles of eugenics. The eugenics movement of the early twentieth century in the US focused on altering the genetic makeup of the US population by regulating immigration and sterilization, and by discouraging interracial procreation, then called miscegenation.
Subject: Outreach, Legal, Ethics, Publications
The US President's Council on Bioethics (2001-2009)
The US President's Council on Bioethics was an organization headquartered in Washington D.C. that was chartered to advise then US President George W. Bush on ethical issues related to biomedical science and technology. In November 2001, US President George W. Bush created the President's Council on Bioethics (PCB). Convened during a nationwide cloning and embryonic stem cell research debate, the Council stated that it worked to address arguments about ethics from many different perspectives.
Subject: Organizations, Legal, Ethics
Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
Emma Goldman was a traveling public speaker and writer known for her anarchist political views as well as her opinions on contraception and birth limiting in the late nineteenth century in the United States. Goldman identified as an anarchist, which she explained as being part of an ideology in which people use violence to provoke or demand social and political change. Goldman was involved in many anarchist social groups and published the anarchist magazine Mother Earth.
Arthur William Galston (1920–2008)
Arthur W. Galston studied plant hormones in the United States during the late-twentieth century. His dissertation on the flowering process of soybean plants led others to develop Agent Orange, the most widely employed herbicide during the Vietnam War, used to defoliate forests and eliminate enemy cover and food sources. Galston protested the spraying of those defoliants in Vietnam, as they could be harmful to humans, animals, and the environment.
"Elective Induction of Labor" (1955), by Edward Bishop
In 1955, obstetrician Edward Bishop, a physician specializing in childbirth, published the article "Elective Induction of Labor," in which he proposed the best conditions for pregnant women to elect to induce, or begin, labor. Elective induction of labor requires an obstetrician to administer a drug to help a pregnant woman to start her contractions, and to rupture the fluid-filled sac surrounding the fetus called the amniotic sac.
Subject: Reproduction, Publications
Hermann Joseph Muller (1890-1967)
Hermann Joseph Muller studied the effects of x-ray radiation on genetic material in the US during the twentieth century. At that time, scientists had yet to determine the dangers that x-rays presented. In 1927, Muller demonstrated that x-rays, a form of high-energy radiation, can mutate the structure of genetic material. Muller warned others of the dangers of radiation, advising radiologists to protect themselves and their patients from radiation. He also opposed the indiscriminate use of radiation in medical and industrial fields.
Nikolai Ivanovic Vavilov (1887-1943)
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov proposed theories of plant genetic diversity and participated in the political debate about genetics in Soviet Russia in the early twentieth century. Vavilov collected plant species around the world, building one of the first and most comprehensive seed banks, and he spent much of his life researching plant breeding and genetics. Vavilov also developed a theory of the historical centers of origin of cultivated plants. Vavilov spent most of his scientific career in Russia, although he studied abroad and traveled extensively.
Catherine DeAngelis (1940– )
In the late-twentieth century in the United States, Catherine DeAngelis was a pediatric physician, researcher, and editor of multiple medical journals. During her time with the Journal of the American Medical Association, DeAngelis became the journal's first female editor. At Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, she studied how physician-nurse interactions affected patient care, how immunizations and adolescent pregnancy affected children, and how medications affected men and women differently.
Seed Collection and Plant Genetic Diversity, 1900-1979
Farmers have long relied on genetic diversity to breed new crops, but in the early 1900s scientists began to study the importance of plant genetic diversity for agriculture. Scientists realized that seed crops could be systematically bred with their wild relatives to incorporate specific genetic traits or to produce hybrids for more productive crop yields.
Robert Guthrie (1916–1995)
Robert Guthrie developed a method to test infants for phenylketonuria (PKU) in the United States during the twentieth century. PKU is an inherited condition that causes an amino acid called phenylalanine to build to toxic levels in the blood. Untreated, PKU causes mental disabilities. Before Guthrie's test, physicians rarely tested infants for PKU and struggled to diagnosis it. Guthrie's test enabled newborns to be quickly and cheaply screened at birth and then treated for PKU if necessary, preventing irreversible neurological damage.
United States v. Milan Vuitch (1971)
In the 1971 court case United States v. Milan Vuitch, hereafter US v. Vuitch, the US Supreme Court ruled that a Washington, DC law was constitutional by overturning a 1969 district court decision. Beginning in the early twentieth century, Washington, DC, prohibited abortions except for abortions performed to preserve the life or health of the pregnant woman. In 1969, Milan Vuitch, a physician in Washington, DC, was convicted of criminal abortion for providing an abortion when the woman's life was not endangered.
"Reproductive Options for HIV-Serodiscordant Couples" (2006) by Pablo Barreiro, Ann Duerr, Karen Beckerman, and Vincent Soriano
In July 2006, scientist Pablo Barreiro and colleagues published "Reproduction Options for HIV-Serodiscordant Couples," in which they recommended methods for human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, serodiscordant couples to procreate. An HIV-serodiscordant couple is one in which one partner is HIV-positive, meaning they carry HIV, and the other is HIV-negative, meaning they do not carry the virus. HIV is a virus that can spread by sexual contact and it attacks the immune system, causing a person with the virus to have weakened responses to illnesses.
Reduction of Maternal-Infant Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus with Zidovudine Treatment
In 1994, Edward M. Connor and colleagues published "Reduction of Maternal-Infant Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 with Zidovudine Treatment." Their study summarized how to reduce the transfer of human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, from pregnant women to their fetuses with Zidovudine, otherwise known as AZT. HIV is a virus that weakens the immune system by destroying white blood cells, a part of the body's immune system. Fifteen to forty percent of infants born to HIV-positive mothers become infected during fetal development, labor and delivery, or breast-feeding.
The Guthrie Test for Early Diagnosis of Phenylketonuria
The Guthrie test, also called the PKU test, is a diagnostic tool to test infants for phenylketonuria a few days after birth. To administer the Guthrie test, doctors use Guthrie cards to collect capillary blood from an infant's heel, and the cards are saved for later testing. Robert Guthrie invented the test in 1962 in Buffalo, New York. Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a congenital birth abnormality in which toxic levels of the amino acid phenylalanine build up in the blood, a process that affects the brains in untreated infants.
Beatrice Mintz (1921- )
Beatrice Mintz is a brilliant researcher who has developed techniques essential for many aspects of research on mouse development. She produced the first successful mouse chimeras and meticulously characterized their traits. She has worked with various cancers and produced viable mice from the cells of a teratoma. Mintz participated in the development of transgenic mice by the incorporation of foreign DNA into a mouse genome.
Diana W. Bianchi
Diana W. Bianchi studied the medical treatment of premature and newborn infants in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bianchi helped develop non-invasive prenatal genetic tests that use cell-free fetal DNA found within maternal blood to diagnose genetic abnormalities of the fetus during pregnancy. The test provides a means to test fetuses for chromosomal and genetic abnormalities.
Sergio Cereceda Stone (1942- )
Sergio Cereceda Stone was born 16 April 1942 in the coastal city of Valparaiso, Chile. Stone's mother Luz was a housewife and caretaker for Sergio and his younger brother Lionel; his father Sergio served among the country's twenty appellate court judges. In the early 1950s Stone's father relocated the family to Santiago to further his law career.
Subject: People, Ethics, Reproduction
Assisted Human Reproduction Canada (AHRC)
Established under the Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) Act of 2004, Assisted Human Reproduction Canada (AHRC), also known as the Assisted Human Reproduction Agency of Canada, was created in 2006 to oversee research related to reproductive technologies and to protect the reproductive rights and interests of Canadian citizens. AHRC serves as a regulatory body for the development and use of such research and technology while enforcing the guidelines and restrictions laid out by the AHR Act.
Barack Obama Executive Order 13505, November 2008
On 20 November 2009 Democrat Barack Obama replaced Republican George W. Bush as president of the United States. Obama soon initiated changes to Bush's 2001 executive order concerning scientific research involving human stem cells. Stem cell research remains a controversial issue in the US. Some individuals consider it immoral to experiment with an embryo because they regard embryos as human beings from the moment of conception, while others believe stem cell research could lead to great scientific advancements.
Boris Ephrussi (1901-1979)
Boris Ephrussi studied fruit flies, yeast, and mouse genetics and development while working in France and the US during the twentieth century. In yeast, Ephrussi studied how mutations in the cytoplasm persisted across generations. In mice he studied the genetics of hybrids and the development of cancer. Working with George Wells Beadle on the causes of different eye colors in fruit flies, Ephrussi's research helped establish the one-gene-one-enzyme hypothesis. Ephrussi helped create new embryological techniques and contributed the theories of genetics and development.


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Q: RequestDispatcher#forward is redirecting instead of forwarding if I add Deltaspike I'm deploying a web application into JBoss EAP6 and Glassfish 4, every thing works as expected till the point where I add deltaskpike jars to the projet.
Once deltaskpike enabled, the following code inside a servlet:
request.getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/faces/page.xhtml").forward(request, response);

will send a redirect response (HTTP: 302) to the browser instead of forwarding on the server side. if I remove deltaskpike jars from the application the dispatcher forward works as expected.
If I forward to any thing other than FacesServlet it works as expected.
Is Deltaspike modifying the default behaviour of RequestDispatcher ?

A: I've got it , Deltaspike doesn't modify the request dispatcher. what it actually does is to add a window id parameter (called dswid) to every JSF request that doesn't have one by sending a  redirect response to the browser with the parameter on it.
To avoid the redirect, just add ?dswid={the_current_value} to your dispatcher path.

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1. ANDREW LITTLE (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister : Does he stand by his statement that I dont want to ban foreigners from buying residential property?
1. ANDREW LITTLE (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister : Does he stand by his statement that "I don't want to ban foreigners from buying residential property"?
Andrew Little : Will he sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a deal that this House and the public have not been allowed to see, if it makes it impossible to stop people from the US, China, Japan, and elsewhere buying our houses?
Rt Hon JOHN KEY : I think the member is a little behind the eight ball because the reason that a ban may not be applied to a Chinese buyer of a residential property in New Zealand is as a result of Labour writing the most favoured nation provisions in the China free-trade agreement and the ratification of the Korean free-trade agreement. It is a shame that Labour did not think of all this 8 years ago.
Andrew Little : Will he sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement if it prevents his Government or future Governments imposing taxes that apply only to offshore housing speculators?
Rt Hon JOHN KEY : The member will appreciate that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is currently under negotiation, so those issues have not been resolved. But I am confident that future Governments of New Zealand will have plenty of tools in the tool box when it comes to applying taxes if they so wish to do so.
Andrew Little : How many homes have been sold into overseas ownership since he said he was concerned about Kiwis becoming tenants in their own land, in 2010; or does he not know?
Rt Hon JOHN KEY : I do not know.
Tim Macindoe : What reports has the Prime Minister received confirming that banning foreigners from buying residential property does not work?
Rt Hon JOHN KEY : Last week I received a report from Australia, and I quote: "The double whammy of the lowest interest rates since the 1960s and an investor frenzy has seen Sydney's median house price smash through the magic AU$1 million mark for the first time." The report goes on to note that Sydney's median house price is now higher than London's, and fast approaching New York's. Investors now have a record 62 percent share of Sydney's housing market loans. This is the market that, theoretically at least, bans foreign buyers—something that clearly does not work.
Andrew Little : Why is he refusing to listen to the overwhelming public demand for a ban on overseas investors buying our houses and forcing prices out of reach for first-home buyers here?
Mr SPEAKER : Order! I am sorry to interrupt the Prime Minister. I cannot hear the answer with that level of interjection.
Rt Hon JOHN KEY : The reason why they are making that much noise is they know what I am going to say. The reason why you cannot try to ban a Chinese person is that Labour wrote it into the law. [Interruption]. Yes, you did. Oh yes, you did.
Tim Macindoe : Has the Prime Minister seen reports in support of the Government's approach to international investment and trade?
Mr SPEAKER : Order! The Prime Minister will resume his seat. [Interruption] Order! Both sides need to tone down their level of interjection.
3. DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East) to the Minister of Finance : What reports has he received on the state of the New Zealand economy and what do these reports show?
Hon BILL ENGLISH (Minister of Finance): On Friday, Statistics New Zealand published merchandise trade data. Merchandise exports in the year to June totalled $48.5 billion—up $2.8 billion, or 6 percent, on the same period 2 years earlier. The figures indicate that overall exports to China increased 2.9 percent in June compared with the same month a year earlier. That happened because gains in the export of non-dairy produce such as meat and fruit outweighed the impact of a decline in the value of whole-milk powder exports to the world's second-largest economy.
David Bennett : What other reports has he received that indicate that the economy is expanding at a solid, sustainable rate?
Mr SPEAKER : Order! [Interruption] Order! I just need to ask for a bit more cooperation from the left-hand side, otherwise I am going to have to ask somebody to leave.
David Bennett : What factors support a positive outlook for the New Zealand economy?
Hon BILL ENGLISH : A number of factors are supporting the growing economy: strong inwards migration, including, for the first time, net inflows from Australia to New Zealand; a stable fiscal outlook; continued growth of the construction and services sectors; and New Zealand's high labour force participation. Of course, all these factors are subject to the usual risks that an open, globalised economy faces, but just because some of those risks eventuate some of the time, it does not mean that the economy is not continuing to grow. We are on track for moderate sustainable growth of 2 to 3 percent.
David Bennett : Has the Minister received data about international visitor arrivals?
Hon BILL ENGLISH : Yes, because tourism is currently either our largest or second-largest export, depending on which month you measure it in. Data published last week showed that international visitor arrivals numbered 177,000 last month, and that is 9 percent higher than in June 2014. This, of course, is very positive for people with jobs in industries that are servicing our international guests. The downward correction in the Kiwi dollar will underpin the competitiveness of our tourism industry, which, I repeat, is either our largest or our second-largest export industry and looks to be doing fairly well.
4. Hon ANNETTE KING (Deputy Leader—Labour) to the Minister of Health : When was he or his office first briefed on the contents of the draft New Zealand Health Strategy?
Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN (Minister of Health): Kia ora, Mr Speaker. Last November I asked officials to commence work on refreshing the New Zealand Health Strategy, which had not been updated since the year 2000. Since that time I have met regularly with officials to discuss the direction of the strategy. Following extensive engagement and input from a wide range of stakeholders, I received the first written draft of the strategy on 3 July.
Hon Annette King : In light of that answer, when he decided to update the New Zealand Health Strategy did he have any discussions with the Director-General of Health on what needed to be reviewed, including funding and governance arrangements for district health boards?
Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN : I talk to the director-general about a wide range of subjects, and of course funding, going into your first Budget as health Minister, is going to form a core part of those discussions. What else would one expect?
Hon Annette King : How could he be unaware of proposed changes to district health boards' structures and funding when his Director-General of Health—not a third party, as he claimed—had, firstly, been briefing him on progress since the beginning of the month, and, secondly, district health board chairs and chief executive officers had been given the recommendations in the leaked reports 2 weeks ago?
Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN : The member is confusing three different reviews there. Basically, the funding review and the stolen capacity and capability review are reviews commissioned by the Director-General of Health. So they are his reviews; he receives the recommendations. He was about to brief me, and then, of course, the report was stolen by Mrs King's contact.
Mr SPEAKER : Order! The way forward, to settle the House, is that I am going to ask the Minister to withdraw that remark, but personally I did not think it was in any way a reflection on the member herself. But can I ask the Minister simply to withdraw that part about a stolen paper.
Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN : I withdraw.
Mr SPEAKER : Thank you.
Hon Annette King : If he is now ruling out any changes to district health board governance arrangements, why did he allow papers to go out with proposed changes he did not agree with, say he had not read the report, and then blame the Director-General of Health, calling him a third party? I mean, is that incompetence or laziness?
Hon Annette King : No, that is not going to save him either. Is he now taking a whole-of-Government approach to sensitive issues by getting the communications manager from the national cyber intelligence office of the Government Communications Security Bureau to issue rebuttal lines to the media for his Director-General of Health, or is neither the Minister nor the chief executive officer capable of fronting difficult issues?
Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN : Obviously that is a ridiculous statement. What I am focusing on is repairing the damage done by Annette King's $150 million district health board deficit, which she left behind and which we have now got down to about $50 million.
Mr SPEAKER : Order! It has been described. I just need the date of it.
Hon Annette King : Yesterday.
Mr SPEAKER : Leave is sought to table that particular email, dated yesterday. Is there any objection? There is none. It can be tabled. Document, by leave, laid on the Table of the House.
5. JAMES SHAW (Co-Leader—Green) to the Prime Minister : Does he stand by his statement that "New Zealand is never going to sign up to the TPP unless we believe it is in New Zealand's best interests"?
James Shaw : Is it in the best interests of New Zealand's $32 billion information and communications technology sector that the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement requires changes to the Copyright Act that would disallow reverse engineering of software for interoperability purposes?
Rt Hon JOHN KEY : Given that the deal has not even been concluded yet, I cannot go into the individual parts. What I can say is that the overall statement from the Government stands true. We are not going to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement unless we believe that it is in the best interests of New Zealand on the balance of benefits. But I would have thought that the opportunity to have free trade with the United States, Japan, Mexico, Canada, and other countries puts us in a very, very strong position.
James Shaw : I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. My question was in relation to New Zealand's $32 billion information and communications technology sector.
Mr SPEAKER : I heard the question, and the essence of the answer that I heard from the Prime Minister is that he cannot really comment on that because the matter is still under negotiation. That addresses the question.
James Shaw : Does he agree with the lawyer for Vattenfall, the German nuclear power company currently suing the German Government, that if countries do not want to be sued by multinational corporations, they should not sign up for agreements containing investor-State dispute settlement mechanisms, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement?
Rt Hon JOHN KEY : No, New Zealand has had investor-State dispute resolution in successive free-trade agreements, including in the New Zealand – China Free Trade Agreement, signed by the previous Labour Government. The important part is having safeguards included in that.
James Shaw : If, as calculated by the Parliamentary Library, the benefit to New Zealand's dairy sector is only $37 million a year by 2025, or 0.01 percent of GDP, while the cost to Pharmac from patent extensions is up to $50 million a year, will he still sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement?
Rt Hon JOHN KEY : This is the problem with the Greens' economic analysis and research. You are using the Parliamentary Library to model something that even I do not know the details of yet. So guess what? If you put rubbish information in, you get rubbish information out. Actually, the member, who has done a little bit of this stuff in his previous career, is way better than this. He would never have done this for a client.
Andrew Little : Does he stand by today's statement about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and prescription drugs that "patents will run for a little bit longer and that means the Government will have to pay for the original drug as opposed to the generic"; if so, can he guarantee that this will not mean higher costs to taxpayers for subsidised medicines, higher costs to patients for non-subsidised medicines, or a risk that some medicines will no longer be subsidised due to the increased Budget pressure?
Mr SPEAKER : Order! [Interruption] Order! That is not necessary for the answer.
James Shaw : What specifically would it take for him to walk away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement?
Rt Hon JOHN KEY : If I did not believe that the deal was in New Zealand's best interests.
6. BARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki – King Country) to the Minister for Social Housing : What work is being done to ensure social housing is available for those most in need?
Hon PAULA BENNETT (Minister for Social Housing): The Government's social housing reforms are all about ensuring that there are more social housing places to meet the needs of vulnerable families. We have introduced reviewable tenancies so that those who can afford to move on from social housing can do so and make room for someone who is more in need. So far, 185 people have moved, including 11 who have bought their own homes. We also have housing support products that help people who are wanting to go on to the waiting list with bond and moving costs, so that they can go into private letting, and also for those who are moving out of social housing. We are now looking at work to address the reasons why people on the register turn down social houses.
Barbara Kuriger : How many people have declined an offer of a social house?
Hon PAULA BENNETT : In the year to October 2014, 4,155 offers of a social house were declined by people on the register, and 3,081 people declined properties. Some declined multiple properties. For example, 31 people declined a house four times, and two people declined seven houses each—12 percent of those declines, or 498 people, were made without good reason.
Barbara Kuriger : What kinds of reasons does she consider are good enough to decline the offer of a social house?
Mr SPEAKER : Order! This is the very last warning that I am giving to the particular member on my left.
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Will the Minister finish her answer.
Hon PAULA BENNETT : Every time someone turns down a house that they are offered, without a good reason, it creates significant delay and means that it takes longer to get a family who really are in desperate need into that house.
Mr SPEAKER : Order! Complete your answer and sit down.
Hon PAULA BENNETT : That situation is not fair, and I am looking to do something about it.
7. GRANT ROBERTSON (Labour—Wellington Central) to the Minister of Finance : Does he stand by his reported statement that the slow-down in growth this year had come at the right time in the electoral cycle?
Hon BILL ENGLISH (Minister of Finance): Yes. I do not know if I actually used the word "slow-down". I think I said that it was because the economy is a bit softer. But that was alongside statements to the effect that we do not want to be a political party that, as soon as it sees any market or global turbulence, starts talking about spending more, borrowing more, regulating everything, and keeping foreigners out, which is what the Labour Party has done in the last month.
Grant Robertson : In light of that answer, is he concerned that there are still 146,000 people out of work, 11,000 more than at the time of last year's election, or is that OK for those New Zealanders to be doing it tough because it is at the right time in the electoral cycle?
Hon BILL ENGLISH : I am not sure what the member is referring to. The number of people on benefits continues to drop. Today there are 42,000 fewer New Zealand children in a benefit household than there were 3 years ago. The Government's social investment approach to welfare is increasingly recognised in other developed countries as very progressive, if not revolutionary.
Grant Robertson : Is he concerned that at least $13 billion will be absent from regional New Zealand over 2 years as a result of plummeting dairy prices, or are the job losses and hard times that go with that just fine in his book, as long as it happens at the right time in the electoral cycle?
Mr SPEAKER : Order! [Interruption] Order! The level of interjection now coming from my right-hand side means that I will not hesitate to deal with somebody very severely on this side if I need to.
Grant Robertson : Is he concerned that the proportion of workers who received a pay increase over the past year is the lowest for 5 years, or is that just fine, so long as it happens at the right time in the electoral cycle to suit his party's electoral prospects?
Hon BILL ENGLISH : I think that demonstrates that the member has a bit of homework to do. Real wage increases have continued. In the last year, in fact, inflation was zero and oil prices dropped, yielding spare cash for families for further consumption or saving. There is no evidence that wage growth is way out of proportion with where it has been over recent years. Wages continue to rise and will continue to do so, despite that member trying to say that the economy is going down the toilet.
Grant Robertson : When will he apologise to New Zealanders for his out-of-touch, cynical, and selfish comments to the National Party conference on the weekend, or is he just more worried about his party's electoral prospects than how New Zealanders do?
Hon BILL ENGLISH : The cynic in me would say that it would be when that member's out-of-touch, cynical, and selfish undermining of the Labour leadership stops.
Grant Robertson : Given that he has acknowledged that he did make comments in the weekend that the slow-down or softening of the New Zealand economy was happening at the right time in the electoral cycle, when will he start governing in the national interest and not in the interests of National?
Hon BILL ENGLISH : Unfortunately, the Government does not have sufficient influence to determine when or how economic slow-downs occur. I know that member believes that is the case, but, actually, the fundamental job in New Zealand is to ensure that this economy is resilient to precisely these slow-downs, and I think the Government has built up a track record where its policy has supported that resilience and built up the confidence of New Zealanders in their ability to deal with economic adversity. We are proud to stand by that track record.
8. DAVID CLENDON (Green) to the Minister of Corrections : How many Final Warning Notices, in accordance with Serco's contract with the Crown, have been issued since Serco took over management of the Mt Eden Corrections Facility?
Hon Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA (Minister of Corrections): Tēnā koe, Mr Speaker. None, but there have been substantial financial penalties to date.
David Clendon : Why have no final warning notices been issued to Serco, given that at least 10 performance notices have been issued in the last 3 years, and any one of those could have doubled as a final notice?
Hon Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA : As I have said in the past, there are a number of options available to the department, but the most important thing at this stage is ensuring the safety of staff and prisoners at the facility. That is why we are awaiting the outcome of the review by the chief inspector.
David Clendon : How did the Department of Corrections fail to pick up on the huge failings at the Serco facility, despite auditing and reporting done by Serco, doing spot checks, and having an onsite monitoring team, including a primary and two secondary monitors in the prison, who attended daily and weekly meetings on operational matters and a monthly contract management meeting attended by the prison director?
Hon Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA : Those matters that the member refers to are part of the review of the chief inspector, which is being overseen by the Office of the Ombudsmen. I await the findings of that review and I suggest that the member waits too.
David Clendon : Was the Minister correct to dismiss as "political game-playing" accusations last week of prisoner violence in Mt Eden prison?
Hon Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA : I was referring to bringing the death of a young man to this House and using it as a political football. These issues and allegations are serious and our Government takes these matters seriously, and that is why the review is in place.
David Clendon : Given revelations about Serco's failings since question time last Thursday, will the Minister now rule out renewing Serco's contract for the management of Mt Eden prison?
Hon Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA : We have a review in place and we need to get to the bottom of all the serious allegations that have been brought to task. Certainly, termination is one of the options available.
David Clendon : What, if any, additional monitoring has the Minister already put in place at the Auckland South corrections facility at Wiri, which is also managed by Serco?
Hon Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA : We have monitors in place. We have the Office of the Ombudsmen, which is able to go on the premises at any time. There are a number of monitoring and surveillance of the activities of Serco currently in place.
Dr Russel Norman : I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. The question was what additional monitoring there was. The Minister referred to the existing monitoring; David Clendon is interested in what additional monitoring there was.
Mr SPEAKER : I think this is a fair call. I am going to ask David Clendon to repeat that question.
David Clendon : Thank you, Mr Speaker. What, if any, additional monitoring has the Minister put in place at the new Auckland South correctional facility at Wiri, which is also managed by Serco?
Hon Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA : I have not personally put in any additional measures at Wiri.
9. KELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau) to the Minister of Corrections : Does he agree with the statement made by the Department of Corrections Chief Executive Ray Smith that "not everything is broken" in relation to Serco's management of Mt Eden Corrections Facility?
Hon Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA (Minister of Corrections): Yes, I do, but, like the chief executive, I am awaiting the outcome of the review by the chief inspector.
Kelvin Davis : How can he believe that not everything is broken at Serco when this morning two inmates were found to have been organising a class A drug ring within the prison?
Hon Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA : The incident that that member refers to is subject to a police investigation, and I await the findings of that police investigation.
Kelvin Davis : Has he received any reports contradicting Ray Smith's press release of 23 July, which concluded that the February serious assault case involved only one attacker?
Hon Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA : Can the member please repeat the question?
Mr SPEAKER : Yes, I can certainly organise that.
Kelvin Davis : Has he received any reports contradicting Ray Smith's press release of 23 July, which concluded that the February serious assault case—the Littleton case—involved only one attacker?
Hon Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA : No, I have not received any reports.
Kelvin Davis : Does he agree with the Prime Minister's statement on Saturday that "That is the advantage of the private sector model. We can act; we can deal with it."; if so, why does he feel that he cannot deal with any issues that come up at public prisons?
Hon Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA : I always agree with the Prime Minister.
10. ALASTAIR SCOTT (National—Wairarapa) to the Minister of Immigration : What measures has the Government announced to help spread the benefits of migration across New Zealand?
Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (Minister of Immigration): The Government has announced a package of changes designed to help spread the benefits of migration across the country, particularly in those regions with demands for workers, skills, and investment. The changes include trebling the bonus points for skilled migrants for a job offer outside Auckland, doubling the points for an entrepreneur setting up a business in the regions, streamlining the labour market check, and providing a pathway to residence for a number of long-term migrants on temporary visas in the South Island. Overall, the feedback on these initiatives has been positive, with wide support from local mayors, and a number of business groups that welcome the opportunity to access the skills and labour their regions need to grow.
Alastair Scott : What reports has the Minister received supporting the Government's changes to immigration settings?
Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE : I have seen a wide range of reports supporting the Government's changes, from a wide range of stakeholders: mayors, business groups, and others. I know one pragmatic report said: "I thought about it for a while, and I thought: 'Well, let's give it a go.' It is an instrument, there's a whole lot of stuff that can be done, but anything that helps to get the regions going has got to be good." That is from the very sensible Labour MP Stuart Nash, and I wholeheartedly agree.
11. Hon DAVID PARKER (Labour) to the Minister of Trade : Is the effect of Article 139 of the New Zealand – China free-trade agreement that it allows restrictions to be introduced on foreign buyers of New Zealand homes, including Chinese buyers, so long as subsequent agreements with other countries are no more generous?
Hon TODD McCLAY (Acting Minister of Trade): Mr Speaker, kia ora and tēnā koe. The most favoured nation obligation of the New Zealand – China free-trade agreement requires New Zealand to extend to Chinese investors any preferential treatment granted under subsequent New Zealand free-trade agreements, and this is a reciprocal clause. I am advised that China is currently negotiating with the US and the EU on investment. Article 139 also means that New Zealand investors will receive any preferences made or extended under the most favoured nation clause of that agreement.
Hon David Parker : Can he now confirm what he refused to answer last week—that is, the Trans-Pacific Partnership will purport to stop a future New Zealand Government banning the sale of existing New Zealand homes to foreign buyers from Trans-Pacific Partnership countries?
Hon TODD McCLAY : The Trans-Pacific Partnership is still under negotiation, so there is no agreement yet. That is why it is still called a negotiation and not yet an agreement. Whether or not provisions in subsequent agreements allow restrictions on foreign buyers of New Zealand homes or whether they also prevent restrictions from Chinese buyers would depend upon the specific facts, measures, and the application of the provisions in any respective agreement.
Hon David Parker : I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. This Minister's answers—last week and this week—are making a mockery of this Parliament and a fool of you, Mr Speaker. I do not say you are foolish, but it is making a fool of Parliament that he can turn up and make denials in this House or refuse to answer these questions. That the Minister of Trade on The Nation and then the Prime Minister on Q+A answers them is an affront to this House.
Mr SPEAKER : On this occasion my duty here is to listen to the question, and then I expect the Minister to address that question. The question asked whether he would confirm etc., and then went on to put the proposition the member wanted answered. At the very start of the Minister's answers he, effectively, said "The negotiations are still under way." and therefore he would not be able to confirm that. That is an answer. It may not be an answer that is satisfactory to the member, but the way forward is further supplementary questions.
Mr SPEAKER : No, no. I have ruled on that point of order. If the member has a fresh point of order I will hear it, but we are not about to relitigate points of order.
Hon David Parker : Does he now concede that although China can and has banned sales to non-residents in its cities and Australia has too, he is trading away New Zealand's sovereign right to ban the sale of New Zealand homes to overseas buyers from Trans-Pacific Partnership countries and China?
Mr SPEAKER : Order! [Interruption] Order!
Mr SPEAKER : Order! I have a very good mind to ask that member to leave the Chamber. The first thing is whether the question "Does he now concede …" was addressed? The Minister right at the start of the answer said that he does not agree with that. And then as soon as the Minister did wander to where he was going with the latter part of his answer, before the member was even on his feet, I stood—[Interruption] Order! I certainly do not expect backchat from the Hon David Parker when I am delivering a ruling. As soon as I saw where the Minister was going, I rose to my feet and stopped him answering, then turned to the member to see him on his feet.
Hon David Parker : Are the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of New Zealanders who want an assurance that his Government will protect New Zealand's ability to stop the sale of New Zealand homes to foreign buyers reasonable or unreasonable in their expectations?
Hon TODD McCLAY : What is unreasonable is this member's position compared with some of his colleagues' when it comes to trade. Recently, Clayton Cosgrove said that he is a rabid free trader. Clare Curran and Mr Parker are just rabid, and, of course, Mr Little is just angry on this issue.
Hon HEKIA PARATA : We are committed to growing the number of young people attending Māori-medium education—from kōhanga and puna reo to kura kaupapa, wharekura, and whare wānanga—to ensure that they achieve educational success. To this end, we are working both within Government agencies and with the providers of Māori-medium education to strengthen their reach and provision. In 2014, Māori-medium education was provided to approximately 2 percent of the schooling population, or just under 18,000 students, across 282 Māori-medium schools or settings. We know that many young people do well in Māori-medium education, and our Government is committed to seeing that continue. Kia ora.


Hanks Paediatric Optotypes are symbols calibrated for visual acuity from 6/60 to 6/4 (20/200 to 20/14). They have also been tested in clinical trials to confirm recognition of the symbols by young children.
Hanks Paediatric Test Cards were developed by an experienced optometrist and are designed for use when testing the vision of young children.
A collection of 66 test cards – ideal for use during vision examinations of young children.
Red bars have the same clinical "crowding" effect as black bars, while also improving the subject's interest. Visual acuity from 6/30 to 6/4 (20/100 to 20/14).
Illiterate E charts for visual acuity from 6/60 to 6/4 (20/100 to 20/14). The set also includes a useful conversion table for when VA is measured at shorter distances.
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Tests for Binocularity and Fixation Disparity are also included. These have been designed for use with standard red/green anaglyph glasses (not included).
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Nine U of T startups that have raised big money
Allen Lau co-founded Wattpad with fellow U of T alumnus Ivan Yuen in 2006. With nearly 70 million monthly users, the story-telling platform raised US$51 million from investors in early 2018 (photo courtesy of Wattpad)
From drug discovery to helping entertainment companies develop the next hit TV show, entrepreneurs associated with the University of Toronto are solving key issues for some of the world's biggest industries. Others are hoping to forge brand new industries of their own.
No surprise then that many of their startups are attracting significant sums of money from investors. Over the past 10 years, U of T-affiliated startups have generated $1 billion in investment – a figure that continues to grow.
As U of T prepares to kick off Entrepreneurship Week next week, here are nine startups connected with the university that have recently raised significant sums to fund their growth.
Wattpad: US$51 million
The story-sharing platform created by U of T alumni Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen is forcing the entertainment industry to rethink the way it does business.
Originally conceived as an e-reader app, Wattpad now boasts some 70 million monthly users who write and read stories on the online platform – all while sharing their opinions about characters, dialogue and story arcs. Increasingly, the more popular stories and serials are being turned into hit novels, TV shows and Netflix movies.
In early 2018, Wattpad raised US$51 million from investors – money that it planned to use, in part, to develop machine learning algorithms that can be used to better identify content trends.
More recently, Wattpad announced it was launching its own book publishing imprint.
"Entertainment is in a period of disruption, and how people find and experience stories is evolving," Lau said in a statement that accompanied details about the financing.
"With our global community of users, hundreds of millions of stories and data-driven approach to helping people and partners find great content, Wattpad is leading both sides of this equation."
Atomwise: US$45 million
(photo by Harim Ulfig)
The pharmaceutical industry has a problem – fewer research breakthroughs per research dollar spent – and Atomwise believes it has the tools to fix it.
The U of T startup, co-founded by alumnus Abraham Heifets, uses artificial intelligence to screen thousands of potential drug candidates in a fraction of the time needed by traditional methods.
Now based in Silicon Valley, Atomwise revealed last March that it had raised US$45 million from investors and was working with several major pharmaceutical companies.
It's a long way from its early days at U of T, where the idea for the startup was forged during an entrepreneurship program run by the Impact Centre, one of nine entrepreneurship hubs on campus.
"The first couple of years were really, really tough," recalled Heifets during a recent talk at U of T's ONRamp co-working space for entrepreneurs.
"I have to say, without the Impact Centre, Atomwise wouldn't exist. Our first office was a closet, but it was an office, and that was a big deal."
Kepler Communications: US$16 million
(photo by Nick Iwanyshyn)
The size of a large loaf of bread, the first micro-satellite built by Kepler Communications was launched into orbit in early 2018.
Founded by a group of alumni from U of T's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, Kepler followed up the feat with a second satellite launch last fall – and is in the midst of preparing for a third one this spring.
Ultimately, the plan is to put as many as 140 low-cost satellites in orbit over the next few years in a bid to provide connectivity to both Earth- and space-based businesses.
"Kepler is on a mission to connect the people and devices that gather the world's information," Kepler CEO Mina Mitry told U of T News back in 2017.
"We're deploying the largest constellation of small telecommunications satellites to connect devices on the ground – like oil pipeline monitors – and devices in space like satellites that take pictures of the Earth."
To help realize its vision, Kepler raised US$16 million from investors last fall – money that will be used to double the size of its workforce.
BenchSci: US$8 million
(photo courtesy of BenchSci)
Founded by U of T researchers, BenchSci also aims to speed the drug discovery process – though not in a laboratory setting.
Instead, the startup's algorithms scan millions of data points in published research papers to look for promising targets.
"Without the use of AI, basic biomedical research is not only challenging, but drug discovery takes much longer and is more expensive," said Liran Belenzon, the co-founder and CEO of BenchSci told Betakit earlier this year.
"We are applying and developing a number of advanced data science, bioinformatics, and machine learning algorithms to solve this problem and accelerate scientific discovery by ending reagent failure."
BenchSci said last spring that it had raised US$8 million from a group of investors that includes Google's Gradient Ventures.
Tom Leung, who did his PhD in epigenetics at U of T, got the idea for the company after struggling to find a suitable antibody for his experiments. BenchSci's other co-founders include David Chen and Elvis Wianda.
Blue J Legal: US$7 million
(photo by Lisa Sakulensky)
Blue J Legal uses AI to predict the outcome of tax and employment law cases, saving lawyers and their clients time and money.
The startup was co-founded in 2015 by three members of U of T's Faculty of Law and an enterprise software developer. Professor Benjamin Alarie, the startup's CEO, got the idea after being asked to be a judge in an IBM Watson competition that was held at U of T.
Blue J, which has already turned several Canadian law firms onto Tax Foresight and Employment Foresight tools, raised US$7 million from investors last fall, and plans to use the money to help fund its expansion into the huge U.S. legal market.
"Our long-term vision is to have Foresight for every major area of legal research – insurance, bankruptcy, contracts, personal injury and so on," Alarie recently told U of T News.
CryptoNumerics: US$2.5 million
(photo courtesy of CryptoNumerics)
CryptoNumerics was forged at U of T's Creative Destruction Lab and uses AI to help companies in the financial and medical sectors crunch people's data without compromising privacy.
The startup was co-founded last year by CEO Monika Holboke, as well as U of T alumni Jimmy Fan and Roberto Cervantes. Another co-founder is Hassan Bhatti, who helped launch CDL's quantum machine learning program two years ago.
CryptoNumerics' products, which includes a free downloadable tool called CN-Protect, allow companies to build powerful statistical and machine learning models without relocating the data.
"Current approaches to de-identify data such as masking, tokenization, and aggregation can leave data unprotected or without analytical value," said Holboke in a recent statement issued by the company.
She added that CryptoNumerics' tools, by contrast, used "advanced anonymization techniques" to both protect data and maintain its utility.
The startup said this week it had raised US$2.5 million from investors.
AmacaThera: CAN$3.25 million
(photo by Roberta Baker)
U of T University Professor Molly Shoichet's startup could help reduce the need for doctors to prescribe opioids after surgery – a common practice that's played a role in fuelling the current opioid epidemic.
The startup Schoichet co-founded with Mike Cooke, formerly a post-doctoral researcher in her lab, uses a gel to deliver – and hold – local anesthetic drugs near the site of surgical incisions, making them longer-lasting and more effective.
That, in turn, means many patients won't require additional medication to deal with post-surgical pain.
"It's actually a pretty high percentage of addicts who start taking these opioids early on for surgical reasons," Shoichet recently told U of T News.
"If this could obviate the need for people to take opioids in the first place, it would have a real societal benefit."
Named AmacaThera, the pair's startup raised $3.25 million earlier this year to complete a Phase 1 clinical trial.
Nanovista: CAN$2.3 million
(photo by Chris Sorensen)
Nanovista uses nanotechnology to help doctors identify and remove cancerous tumours.
Nanovista's lipid-based system encapsulates two different imaging agents for use in computed tomography scans and pre-operative planning – a key tool in an era where cancer screening programs are identifying ever smaller cancerous legions that must be surgically removed.
"It helps identify the margins of the tumour so the surgeon will remove just the malignant tissue, but all of the malignant tissue," Christine Allen, one of Nanovista's co-founders and a professor in U of T's Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, told U of T News.
"It also highlights the malignant lymph nodes the cancer has spread to."
The startup, which was also co-founded David Jaffray and Jinzi Zheng, raised $2.3 million in financing early last year.
Phenomic AI: US$1.5 million
(photo by Jovana Drinjakovic)
Using deep-learning to track proteins, Phenomic AI hopes to accelerate drug development by learning what makes healthy cells healthy, and what goes wrong during disease.
Alumnus and co-founder Oren Kraus based the two-year-old startup on software technology he developed during his PhD. The algorithm can quickly sort cells into distinct categories based on how protein molecules are distributed inside.
"Our method can be used to distinguish between cells that are growing normally from those that are not, but also for finding out whether or not a drug is working when applied to cells in culture," says Kraus.
"The great thing is that our technique can be widely applicable to almost any type of disease."
Phenomic AI, which received support from U of T's UTEST program and the Creative Destruction Lab, raised US$1.5 million from investors last spring.
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Q: Incorrect values for #address-cells and #size-cells in Device Tree I am trying to add a tlv320aic3110 codec to my project and I have been recommended adding these endpoints to the i2s and i2c attributes:
&i2s1 {
    ...
    i2s1_port: port {
        i2s1_endpoint: endpoint {
            remote-endpoint = <&tlv320aic3110_tx_endpoint>;
            format = "i2s";
            mclk-fs = <256>;
        };
    };
};

&i2c1 {
    ...
    codec: codec@18 {
        ...
        ports {
            port@0 {
                #address-cells = <1>;
                #size-cells = <0>;
                reg = <0>;
                tlv320aic3110_tx_endpoint: endpoint {
                    remote-endpoint = <&i2s1_endpoint>;
                };
            };
        };
    };
};

The problem I'm having is that, when I build this device tree into a dtb file, I get a lot of warnings:
arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32mp135-evt0.dts:334.5-15: Warning (reg_format): /soc/i2c@40012000/codec@18/ports/port@0:reg: property has invalid length (4 bytes) (#address-cells == 2, #size-cells == 1)
arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32mp135-evt0.dtb: Warning (pci_device_reg): Failed prerequisite 'reg_format'
arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32mp135-evt0.dtb: Warning (pci_device_bus_num): Failed prerequisite 'reg_format'
arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32mp135-evt0.dtb: Warning (i2c_bus_reg): Failed prerequisite 'reg_format'
arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32mp135-evt0.dtb: Warning (spi_bus_reg): Failed prerequisite 'reg_format'
arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32mp135-evt0.dts:331.11-338.6: Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): /soc/i2c@40012000/codec@18/ports/port@0: Relying on default #address-cells value
arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32mp135-evt0.dts:331.11-338.6: Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): /soc/i2c@40012000/codec@18/ports/port@0: Relying on default #size-cells value
arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32mp135-evt0.dts:332.5-26: Warning (graph_port): /soc/i2c@40012000/codec@18/ports/port@0:#address-cells: graph node '#address-cells' is -1, must be 1
arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32mp135-evt0.dts:333.5-23: Warning (graph_port): /soc/i2c@40012000/codec@18/ports/port@0:#size-cells: graph node '#size-cells' is -1, must be 0

The warnings say that the value of #address-cells is both 2 and -1, and the value of #size-cells is both 1 and -1. But I have set their value to 1 and 0, respectively, and it still gives me the warnings. Am I missing something?
I have also tried adding #address-cells and #size-cells to the endpoint in i2s, but the warning remains.
Setting them to the values mentioned in the warning also did nothing.
I'm very new to device trees, obviously.

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But I have set their value to 1 and 0, respectively, and it still gives me the warnings. Am I missing something?

You're trying to assign two special properties for a node in the incorrect node.  The Device Tree Specification (v04-rc1) clearly states that:

The #address-cells and #size-cells properties may be used in any device node that has children in the devicetree hierarchy and describes how child device nodes should be addressed.

You're using these two properties in a node that has no children. So that is clearly incorrect.
The parent node is where these properties need to be specified for its child nodes.
The parent of your port@0 node is the port node. So that portion of your DT should instead look like:
&i2c1 {
    ...
    codec: codec@18 {
        ...
        ports {
            #address-cells = <1>;
            #size-cells = <0>;

            port@0 {
                reg = <0>;
                tlv320aic3110_tx_endpoint: endpoint {
                    remote-endpoint = <&i2s1_endpoint>;
                };
            };
        };
    };
};

For a very similar example in the mainline kernel, review the &i2c5 node in stm32mp15xx-dhcom-pdk2.dtsi:
&i2c5 { /* Header X21 */
        ...

        sgtl5000: codec@a {
                compatible = "fsl,sgtl5000";
                reg = <0x0a>;
                ...

                sgtl5000_port: port {
                        #address-cells = <1>;
                        #size-cells = <0>;

                        sgtl5000_tx_endpoint: endpoint@0 {
                                reg = <0>;
                                ...
                        };

                        sgtl5000_rx_endpoint: endpoint@1 {
                                reg = <1>;
                                ...
                        };
                };

        };

        ...
};


An easy science experiment that uses simple ingredients to form salt crystals.
Pour 2 tbsp of PVA glue into a bowl.
Add a squirt of food colouring.
Mix the glue and food colouring together.
Add 3 tbsp of crystal salt.
Using your hands, create a rock shape.
Dab PVA glue on top of the rock you created.
Put it in a tray.
Sprinkle coloured glitter on top.
Leave for 24 hrs to dry.
These work really well! The longer you leave them the harder they become.
Add them to clear jars and call them fairy rocks.
After mixing salt and PVA glue together, be quick to form your rocks.
Experiment with using less PVA glue more salt or less salt and more glue to see what happens. Compare these results with each other.


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#category .all-div a {
    color: #ffffff;
}

.active-color {
    color: #000000;
    background-color: green;
}
.active-bg {
    background-color: green;
}

A: Well, .on was not working on your selector so i changed it to .live and changed your selector for the backgrounds to .current-div because your a tags need display: block to have a visible background.
check this:
http://jsfiddle.net/A3n7S/15/
$(function () {

     var $panels = $( '#image-wrapper .panel' );

     $(".current-div").not('.all-div').first().addClass("active-color")
     $( '#category > div > a' ).live( 'click', function (event) {
        event.preventDefault();
        var categoryToShow = $( this ).data( 'filter' );
        $panels.addClass( 'active' ).filter( '.' + categoryToShow ).removeClass( 'active' );
        $(".current-div").not('.all-div').removeClass("active-color");
        $(this).parent().addClass("active-color");

      /*$("#category .current-div").addClass("active-bg").not(this).removeClass("active-bg");*/
    } );
});

Replace that:
.active-color {
   color: #000000;
   background-color: green;
}

with:
 #category .active-color {
   color: #000000;
   background-color: green;
 }


The restaurant and food service industry in Iowa is expected to bring in $4.3 million in revenue this year and employs over 150,000 people. An additional 16,400 jobs are expected by 2026, creating a significant demand for highly skilled culinary professionals. Earning a culinary degree or credential can help you get in on the ground floor or work your way up the career ladder in this exciting industry.
We created a list of the top 10 best culinary schools in Iowa for 2016. The best culinary schools feature hands-on training, highly educated and experienced staff, a variety of coursework, and professional development opportunities. We included schools that offer a variety of culinary related programs and all schools on our list have a positive reputation based on our research. Earning your degree from a reputable and accredited culinary school with increase the opportunity for career advancement and potentially higher earnings.
Iowa State University is a top culinary school offering a BS degree in Culinary Food Science. Students in Culinary or Food Science have the opportunity to experiment with food and a variety of recipes to learn how to create, change, adapt, and enhance food products. Coursework covers food chemistry, nutrition, food safety, food production, and dining management. Graduates are prepared to work in research, food marketing, and test kitchens. Students interested in earning their MBA can enroll in the concurrent degree program, allowing students to earn both degrees in just five years.
Marshalltown Community College features a Culinary Apprenticeship AAS degree that can be completed in three years attending part time. This top culinary school has designed their program to allow for a significant amount of hands on training. A 6,000 hour apprenticeship is required as part of the program, with classroom courses offered on Mondays in the campus catering kitchen. This European training method allows students to work side by side with some of the best chefs in the area while earning a paycheck and gaining the skills needed to advance in the field.
The Hotel and Restaurant Management AAS program at Iowa Lakes Community College is the oldest Hotel and Restaurant Management program in the state. Students have the opportunity to learn in a state-of-the-art environment which includes convection ovens, grills, steam tables, a unox combi oven, a meat slicer, and broilers. Graduates are prepared to work in a variety of positions including chef, cook, front desk worker, night auditor, and dietetic aide. The AAS degree program can be completed in two years and the Diploma program is just three semesters. Both programs require on the job training to gain professional work experience.
Western Iowa Tech Community College is a top culinary school with a program designed for those with a passion for food and art. Students learn in a state-of-the-art culinary kitchen and have the opportunity to develop their talents through unique coursework including Art Appreciation, Ethnic World Cuisine, and Front of House. The program can be completed in two years and concludes with an internship experience. Graduates are prepared to work as a chef, catering chef, corporate chef, or restaurant owner.
Eastern Iowa Community College offers a variety of culinary programs at different levels of the career ladder. The Culinary Arts Apprenticeship features extensive work experience as the program allows students to work at one of 65 approved apprenticeship sites for 6,000 clock hours. Students attend class one day per week and spend the rest of the week working in the field. Graduates are usually hired for permanent employment before they graduate. Other culinary arts programs at EICC are offered as a mix of classroom and hands-on learning in a kitchen laboratory. The training center is state-of-the-art and features pieces of equipment not usually found in other culinary programs, such as a buffalo chopper. Students have their own workstation but can observe the chef on big screen televisions. Demonstrations are recorded, allowing students to repeatedly view specific training points.
Iowa Central Community College features a culinary program with a variety of diploma options that can lead to an AAS Degree in Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management. Diploma programs can be completed in just one year and feature a combination of lecture and hands on learning courses. Students who choose to continue their education can pursue the AAS degree which includes an on the job training practicum. Culinary instructors are experienced in the industry and have a variety of experiences in the restaurant and hotel industry. Graduates are qualified to enter the workforce at an entry level and work their way quickly up the career ladder.
Iowa Western Community College is a top culinary school offering an AAS Degree in Restaurant and Hospitality Management. The program can be completed in four semesters and one summer. Students can attend either full or part time as their schedule allows. The curriculum focuses on beginning and intermediate skills including baking, dining service, soups and sauces, and menu planning and design. This hands-on program prepares students to work in a variety of settings including restaurants, hotels, night clubs, and commercial kitchens.
Des Moines Area Community College is proud to feature a brand new culinary building noted as one of the finest culinary labs in the country. The renovation and expansion project added a larger banquet hall to accommodate larger functions and provided for an overhaul of the current culinary classrooms. Students have multiple opportunities to apply their skills and training by preparing and serving gourmet dinners to the public or preparing gourmet lunches at the Bistro. Students also have the opportunity to travel to France for an 11 day internship opportunity.
Kirkwood Community College features an AAS Degree in Culinary Arts accredited by the American Culinary Federation and awarded exemplary status. Students can complete the program in just two years and are engaged in hands-on learning from their first day in the program. The Class Act Restaurant and the Hotel at Kirkwood Center provide students with the opportunity to become engaged in all aspects of running a large scale restaurant or catering establishment. Students participate in a variety of field trips and attend conventions to gain new perspectives and hear new ideas.
Indian Hills Community College is a top culinary school offering a seven semester AAS Degree in Culinary Arts and two diploma programs. Indian Hills Community College is accredited by the American Culinary Federation and it's programs have earned exemplary status. Courses are offered as a combination of classroom and laboratory experiences, allowing students to spend over half their day in the kitchen or bakery lab. An internship experience is required as part of the program to help students gain work experience before graduating and entering the field on their own.


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U.S. mayors take the lead on global warming
Four months before Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin warned that his was "the North American city most vulnerable to the effects of climate change." The thought had long been on the minds of officials in the low-lying metropolis: Since 1998, they have inventoried greenhouse-gas emissions produced by local agencies, improved city-owned heating and air-conditioning systems, replaced high-wattage streetlight bulbs, started planting 4,000 trees, and initiated a plan to purchase hybrid transit buses. But New Orleans knew the problem was bigger than one burg, so in 2001 the city council passed a resolution urging federal action on global warming.
That was right after the Bush administration backed out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The president said that the treaty—which would have required the United States to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012—would hurt the U.S. economy, costing nearly $400 billion. Jump to 2005, and the Gulf region is cleaning up after a powerful hurricane and flood that are expected to cost the nation $200 billion. Whether Katrina's impacts can be attributed to global warming is debatable, but a key ingredient of intensified hurricanes—warmer water in the Gulf of Mexico—is already in play. And many cities aren't willing to wait to find out who's next in line for a "natural" disaster. As of September, 178 mayors in 37 states had signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, vowing to meet or beat the Kyoto goals. Hurricanes, floods, droughts, and killer heat waves all have major economic consequences, which explains why cities as varied as Topeka, Las Vegas, and, yes, New Orleans have promised to reduce greenhouse gases by curbing sprawl and investing in clean energy.
The effort was spearheaded by Seattle mayor Greg Nickels, whose city is on track to eliminate its net greenhouse-gas emissions from municipal operations by 2006. In March, Nickels and nine other mayors sent letters to 400 of their peers, asking them to take concrete steps to slow climate change. And in June, the U.S. Conference of Mayors urged Congress to act. That still leaves the United States on a slow storm track, ratifying Kyoto one city at a time. But as John Rayson, mayor of Pompano Beach, Florida, puts it: "If the U.S. government continues to ignore the rest of the world on energy, then it's time for local leaders to speak out."
—Dashka Slater
To help the Sierra Club's efforts to ensure that Gulf Coast communities are rebuilt with environmental safeguards, go to sierraclub.org/katrina.
Big Green Apple
Hybrid taxis come to Manhattan's concrete canyons
The New York City Council was worried about residents' lungs, while other officials, their legs. The council was implementing a plan to turn some of Manhattan's famed yellow cabs green by requiring that 9 percent of newly issued taxicab permits be reserved for hybrid cars. But the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission insisted that no fuel-sipping vehicle was spacious enough to meet its strict standards for legroom. When the buyers of those permits found themselves unable to use them, the conflict seemed headed for the courts. But after public uproar and pressure from the mayor, in July the commission capitulated, approving six hybrid models for the streets of the Big Apple.
Three hybrid SUVs (the Ford Escape, Toyota Highlander, and Lexus RX400h) and three sedans (the Toyota Prius and Honda's Accord and Civic) have been OK'd. None offers the 45-plus inches of legroom found in the standard New York taxicab, the hulking Ford Crown Victoria. But the hybrids easily outclass the 18-mpg Crown Vic in fuel efficiency: The Escape doubles that figure in city driving, while the Prius leaves a conventional cab at the curb, getting 60 mpg in EPA tests.
With the hybrid plan, residents are trading knee space for breathing room. Manhattan has the highest asthma- mortality rate in the United States: One out of eight New Yorkers suffers from it. With 13,000 cabs on the city's streets, each traveling as many as 70,000 miles per year, hybrids can make a big difference in air quality.
New York won't be the first North American city to have hybrid hacks—it joins San Francisco, Boston, and Vancouver, British Columbia—but it's still a bellwether. "A lot of people across the world watch what we do," explains Bob Muldoon of the Sierra Club's New York City field office. "It's great to have hybrids front and center."
WWatch
Keeping Tabs on Washington
WHITEOUT The EPA's draft strategic plan on environmental justice has seemingly found a way to make the problems of poor communities vanish. "Environmental justice," the agency says, means applying environmental policies fairly, "regardless of race, color, national origin, or income." It sounds great, but the revision ignores the fact that the poor and people of color are disproportionately affected by issues like air pollution and hazardous waste—which was acknowledged in an executive order issued by President Bill Clinton in 1994. The EPA denies that the new plan violates the order. But the agency's color-blind approach suggests it will have a hard time identifying inequalities in low-income communities now that it's decided not to look for them.
BLM STAFFERS HAVE A COW Two years ago, scientists at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Service found that a new set of proposed rules would make it harder to limit grazing on overused land, harming wildlife, vegetation, and endangered species. But after higher-ups finished with the report, the warnings disappeared. An environmental impact statement released this summer concludes that the rules might even be beneficial for wildlife. Two BLM scientists have since resigned over the issue. Says one, "The Bush administration is just rolling back any advances made in the last 30 years." —D.S.
Oil's Well
In August, George W. Bush signed an $85 billion energy bill that showers more than $2 billion in tax breaks and direct spending on oil and gas companies over the next ten years. But do these guys really need the taxpayers' help? After all, they're used to making that kind of money in a matter of weeks: Oil and gas companies rolled out robust quarterly earnings reports on July 29, the same day Congress sent the energy bill to Bush for his signature. As an energy analyst for Oppenheimer & Co. put it, "It was a good day for oil."
Hijacking the Parks
Why bother protecting Yellowstone and other national parks? The question sounds absurd—but it turns dangerous when the people asking it work for the Interior Department, the federal agency responsible for managing 84.4 million acres of national parkland. In suggested policy revisions that were leaked in August, Paul Hoffman, a former congressional aide to Dick Cheney who's now the department's deputy assistant secretary, proposed eliminating the National Park Service's core mission to keep lands "unimpaired" for future generations. Hoffman's alternative: Simply prevent "irreversible damage." According to the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, the plan would open the door to snowmobiles, Jet Skis, and cell-phone towers, as well as logging, mining, and oil and gas exploration. At press time, officials had not released final draft rules for public comment. If they maintain Hoffman's language, Yellowstone's bison won't be the only ones bellowing. For more information, go to npsretirees.org.
—Reed McManus
Bold Strokes
Red-Hot Chili Pachyderms
If you've ever felt the burn of too much chili pepper on your food, you know what the elephants of Zambia and Zimbabwe experience when they try to raid crops. Only a fifth of the animals' range in Africa is protected, so conflicts with rural farmers are common. A new program called the Elephant Pepper Development Trust helps farmers plant chilies to deter the pachyderms from feeding on their primary crops of corn, sorghum, and millet. Not only are the peppers cheaper than destroyed crops, they also offer a humane alternative to barbed wire, electric fences, and guns. As a bonus, the chilies provide additional products for farmers to market: Elephant Chili hot sauce, jam, and relish.
Ice Rights
Linking human rights and climate change, the Canadian Inuit are bringing a case against the U.S. government for its role in global warming. Their culture depends on cold-weather animals and on sea ice thick enough that hunters don't fall through. As the ice melts, the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC)—an organization representing 150,000 Inuit in the Arctic areas of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Russia—blames the United States, the planet's largest contributor of greenhouse gases. The case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, part of the Organization of American States, could take two or more years to decide. It will rely on the testimony of Inuit elders as well as data from the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, a study that involved 300 scientists from eight nations and indigenous experts from six tribes. "Our homeland is the world's barometer of climate change," says Sheila Watt-Cloutier, chair of the ICC. "And Inuit are the mercury in that barometer."
Thanks to the efforts of President Jacques Chirac, the French constitution now has an "environmental charter" whose ten articles spell out the green rights of citizens from Normandy to Provence. According to Chirac, who had taken on the document as a pet project, it demonstrates that his country "wishes to assume its responsibilities with respect to future generations." Most important, the charter mandates that French officials employ the "precautionary principle," minimizing risks when they face potentially serious and irreversible environmental damage. France is the most recent of 117 nations to include the environment in its principal organizing document.
—Clare Baldwin
As the World Warms
Signs of a changing planet
Greenland's enormous Kangerdlugssuaq glacier, which contains four times as much water as the Great Lakes, is rushing toward the sea, becoming one of the fastest-moving glaciers in the world. Measurements taken nine years ago showed the ice mass, on Greenland's east coast, moving at a rate of three miles per year. Last summer, scientists aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise clocked it at nine miles per year. Unlike seasonal sea ice, melting glacial ice can raise the world's sea level.
The British Environment Agency is rethinking storing more radioactive waste at Drigg, on the coast of Cumbria, because of its vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal erosion. The dump lies on low ground only a third of a mile from the Irish Sea and holds one million cubic meters of low-level radioactive waste. According to the magazine New Scientist, the agency even wants to explore digging out and removing some of the waste already buried at the site. "Present-day risks are very low," says nuclear regulator Ian Streatfield, "but the long-term risks are high."
Spring has arrived an average of ten days earlier in the past 30 years, reports the National Academy of Sciences. But the ability of species to keep up with the changing dates is uncertain. Yellow-bellied marmots, for example, are emerging from their burrows a month earlier than in the past. Instead of spring forage, however, they find only still-deep snowpacks, causing many to starve.
Warming in the Siberian Arctic has dried up or greatly reduced more than 1,000 large lakes since the early 1970s—11 percent of the region's total. Ground temperatures in the Arctic are rising twice as fast as elsewhere, and the lakes are apparently seeping into the melting permafrost. In addition to providing freshwater for the Native peoples of the region, they serve as important habitat for migratory birds.
With summer sea-ice levels in the Arctic Ocean 6 percent below average, the ice pack appears headed for a new record low. Previous lows were set in 2002, 2003, and 2004.
While no individual storm can be conclusively linked to global warming, the savagery of Hurricane Katrina was consistent with climate-change models, which predict more violent hurricanes as ocean temperatures rise. In the past ten years, unprecedented temperatures have coincided with record storm seasons, and the Gulf waters where Katrina grew to a Category 5 monster were nearly 6 degrees warmer than usual. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reports that in the past half century, hurricanes in both the Atlantic and Pacific have increased in intensity and duration by 50 percent.
—Paul Rauber
A Clear-Cut View
The extent of Amazon deforestation can be seen from space in these satellite images of the state of Rond�nia, Brazil, taken in 1975, 1989, and 2001. The systematic cutting of vegetation started along newly carved roads and has spread in a dramatic "fish bone" pattern. More than 10,000 square miles of forest were lost in 2004 alone in Brazil, home to almost a third of the world's tropical forests. For more bird's-eye views of the earth, check out the United Nations Environment Programme's "One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment," at na.unep.net/OnePlanetManyPeople.
Oil's Well illustration: Lloyd Dangle; Elephant illustration: Thorina Rose; Clear-Cut photos: UNEP
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Q: How to query HasMany Association based on single value in CakePHP 3.x I have an Articles table and a Comments Table.
Articles Has Many Comments.
Each Comment Belongs to a Comment Status (comment_status_id):
    1. Good, or
    2. Bad, or
    3. Ugly.
I want to make a query to find all the Articles that have ONLY Comments with status 3 (Ugly).  That is, exclude Articles that have any Comments with status 1 or 2.
I can write a subquery and query to get all the Article that have a comment with Status Ugly:
$matchingComments = $this->Articles->getAssociation('Comments')->find()
    ->select(['article_id'])
    ->distinct()
    ->where(['comment_status_id' => 3]);

$query = $this->Articles->find()
    ->where(['Articles.id IN' => $matchingComments]);

This gives me all the Articles that have any Comment that has status 3.  But it also includes Articles that have Comments with status 2 or 1 in addition at least one Comment with status 3.
So my question is:
Is there an efficient/elegant way to make this query work with the Query Builder so the result is only Articles that have Comments that are ALL comment_status 3 (Ugly)?
I'm sure I can parse the $query results with a for loop and build a new array of results, but I would like to see if there is a better way to do this in the initial query and/or/with subquery.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
D.

A: Following ndm's advice to get the raw sql to work first, this query worked for my matchingComments query
SELECT `article_id`
FROM `comments`
GROUP BY `article_id`
HAVING MIN(`comment_status_id`) = 3
AND MAX(`comment_status_id`) = 3;

So then in my Cake controller, this works:
$matchingComments = $this->Articles->getAssociation('Comments')->find()
    ->select(['article_id'])
    ->group('article_id')
    ->having(['MIN(comment_status_id)' => 3])
    ->having(['MAX(comment_status_id)' => 3])

$query = $this->Articles->find()
    ->where(['Articles.id IN' => $matchingComments]);

Not sure if there is a better way, but this works nicely.
Thanks again ndm.
D.

A: From Cake Book - Retrieving Data & Results Sets
$articles = $this->Articles
    ->find()
    ->contain(['Comments'])
    ->notMatching('Comments.CommentStatus', function($q) {
        return $q->where(['CommentStatus.comment_status_id' => '3'];
    });


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Reach for the stars! Expo celebrates International Day of Women and Girls in Science
As UAE enjoys Hope Probe success, Expo 2020 Dubai looks to promote gender equality through its space and science programming
Live Events & Performances
Marking the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and harnessing the UAE's innovative, progressive spirit just days after the Hope Probe reached Mars's orbit, Expo 2020 is teaming up with local and global entities to promote gender equality in science.
Expo 2020 Dubai has joined forces with the UAE Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) to commit to promoting female participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
The announcement follows the success of the Arab world's first interplanetary mission, which is led by a woman, with women also comprising 80 per cent of its scientific team.
Expo 2020 Dubai will highlight the importance of women and girls in science, celebrating leading women in the field, forging new partnerships and boosting opportunities for their participation via a diverse programme that aims to reduce gender imbalance.
In addition to the day itself, celebrated annually on 11 February, the programme will include Expo Space Week, held in association with the UAE Space Agency. The week will gather female voices to look at the role of women in the sustainable exploration and commercialisation of space, and how space reflects the ambition of the UAE as a nation.
Expo 2020 will also spotlight women from across the planet who have challenged gender stereotypes, whose innovations and commitment to science and technology are not only solving some our greatest challenges, but are also breaking down barriers and inspiring future generations.
The ultimate foodie guide to Diwali at Expo 2020
If you love having your taste buds tickled, Diwali will provide a gastronomic delight at Expo 2020
Korean culture has gone global – and its world takeover continues at Expo 2020
Phenomenal success of Squid Game is only the tip of a cultural cache being presented by the Republic of Korea
Discover the future of snacking at Expo 2020
PepsiCo reveals three innovations set to transform the way we snack and drink, from how we consume to the way we shop
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With 192 Country Pavilions, up to 60 live events a day, 200-plus food and beverage outlets and something new every day for 182 days, where do you start?