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Opportunities for Health Promotion: Highlighting Herbs and Spices to Improve Immune Support and Well-being
Context: Consuming a balanced and varied diet is beneficial for health, especially when individuals feel stressed, scared, insecure, unequipped, or disempowered from maintaining their health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nutrient deficiencies from inadequate intake of healthful foods can contribute to a weakened immune system and greater susceptibility to infection. Including herbs and spices in a balanced and diverse diet is one of the highlights of nutritious eating that supports health and immunity. Objective: The review intended to examine ways to integrate specific herbs and spices into people's diets and to use them therapeutically in holistic, integrated health promotion. Design: The research team performed a narrative review by searching PubMed Central and Google Scholar databases. The team developed a search strategy focused on specific common names of spices and herbs in combination with other terms, such as health benefits, health promotion, immunity, inflammation. Setting: This review was conducted in Muncie and Columbus, Indiana. Results: This review uncovered studies documenting the many therapeutic properties of herbs within the lamiaceae family, particularly basil and spearmint, and spices, including cloves, ginger, and turmeric. Substantial evidence suggests that consumption of a healthful diet, inclusive of herbs and spices, may strengthen the body's immune system against diseases including highly contagious viruses. Conclusions: With respect to herbs and spices, the current review's findings can help to inform and support future recommendations for a standard within the professions of health to provide an improved, healthier, and well-educated dietary guidance for individuals. More studies are needed on the consumption of herbs and spices in human trials to elicit evidence beyond preclinical and animal studies.
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Trump signs order to roll back Obama's climate moves
by Timothy Cama - 03/28/17 2:28 PM ET
President Trump on Tuesday signed a wide-ranging executive order to start the process of rolling back former President Obama's aggressive climate change agenda, promising that the measure would create jobs in the fossil fuel industry.
Trump signed the order in a ceremony at the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the agency responsible for many of the major policies being targeted.
He was flanked by coal miners — who EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt joked "might never have been to the EPA before" — as well as Cabinet officials and Vice President Pence, who celebrated the executive order as a repudiation of the Obama administration's climate agenda.
"My administration is putting an end to the war on coal," Trump said, using a term coined by the industry and its supporters to describe government regulations harmful to their industry.
"I am taking an historic step to lift the restrictions on American energy, to reverse government intrusion and to cancel job-killing regulations."
{mosads}Trump gave his speech on somewhat hostile territory. EPA employees have been unabashed in their criticisms of the Republican president and his opposition to much of their recent work, and their union undertook an unprecedented effort to lobby against Pruitt's confirmation by the Senate.
But the room was filled with lawmakers and supporters of Trump's agenda, who cheered often during his speech.
The administration is pitching the order primarily as a move to increase the nation's energy independence, with the added effect of increasing jobs in affected sectors and related industries.
Trump said the order fulfills a promise made to coal miners during his presidential campaign. He recounted a trip to West Virginia when he met with miners who told him they wanted to continue working in the industry despite a downturn in employment.
"I said, if that's what you want to do, that's what you're doing to do," Trump said.
"The miners told me about the attacks on their jobs and their livelihoods. … I made them this promise: We will put our miners back to work."
Experts and environmental groups challenge the assertion that rolling back Obama's policies would benefit energy independence or jobs.
Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy and a former aide in Obama's White House, accused Trump of giving coal miners "false hope."
"We've seen coal production and coal employment in decline for many years now, driven by market forces. And those factors will still be there," he said.
As for energy independence — which mainly relates to using domestic oil instead of oil imported from unfriendly countries — Bordoff said it isn't much of a problem.
"U.S. oil production nearly doubled under President Obama," he said. "These regulations may have had some marginal costs to them, but regulation did not stand in the way of a dramatic surge in U.S. oil production."
"Right now, clean-energy jobs already overwhelm dirty fuels in nearly every state across America, and that growth is only going to continue as clean energy keeps getting more affordable and accessible by the day," Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said in a statement.
"These facts make it clear that Donald Trump is attacking clean-energy jobs purely in order to boost the profits of fossil fuel billionaires."
The most significant piece of the order instructs the EPA to formally consider repealing the Clean Power Plan. It was the central piece of Obama's second-term climate agenda, calling for a 32 percent cut in the power sector's carbon dioxide emissions by 2030.
Federal regulators are also asked under the order to consider repealing the EPA's carbon limits for newly built power plants and methane emissions standards for oil and natural gas drilling from the EPA and the Interior Department.
It also has some immediate effects. The order stops Interior's moratorium on new coal-mining leases on federal land, something Obama instituted to study how to charge coal companies for the climate impacts of the fuel they mine on federal property.
It also stops policies asking federal agencies to consider climate change in environmental reviews, a government-wide accounting method for climate change regulations called the "social cost of carbon" and Obama executive orders on climate, such as one asking that infrastructure be built to withstand a future climate affected by global warming.
Environmental groups and Democrats slammed the actions and pledged to fight back.
"Thanks to this executive order, our future is looking darker, it's looking dirty and it's looking less prosperous," said Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee.
"Today, Donald Trump is shirking our nation's responsibilities, disregarding clear science and undoing the significant progress to make sure we leave a better, more sustainable planet for generations to come, with the stroke of his pen," he continued.
"This is an all-out assault on the protections we need to avert climate catastrophe," said Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "It's a senseless betrayal of our national interests. And it's a short-sighted attempt to undermine American clean energy leadership."
Fossil fuel industries stand to benefit from the order, and many voiced their support for the measure this week.
"The president's actions today help to restore commonsense priorities and the important balance between costs and benefits that have been missing from federal regulatory policies," said Hal Quinn, president of the National Mining Association.
"Today's action by President Trump is an important step toward increasing American competitiveness and recognizing that our industry is part of the solution to advancing U.S. economic and national security goals," said American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard.
But Trump and his administration have had a special affinity for the coal industry. The sector is suffering through an economic downturn due in large part to declining demand for its product, which is increasingly being replaced by cheaper and more plentiful natural gas.
Trump framed his order Tuesday as a measure to help put coal miners back to work, a promise repeated this week by administration officials such as Pruitt and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
"You know what this says?" Trump asked one of the miners before he signed the order on Tuesday. "You're going back to work."
This story was updated at 5:16 p.m.
Devin Henry contributed.
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Preacher Tried to Hire a Hitman on the Dark Web to Kill His Wife
By Leah Rodriguez@leahrod
Photo: Washington County Sheriffs Office
Stephen Allwine's Church of God community in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, knew him as a highly regarded deacon and elder, but on the "dark web," he allegedly used the username "dogdaygod" to find a contract killer to murder his wife, Amy. But prosecutors believe that when the 44-year-old was scammed by a murder-for-hire site, he took the gun into his own hands and fatally shot her last year.
Allwine allegedly spent $6,000 in cryptocurrency trying to find someone who would commit the murder and make it look like an accident. Left to his own devices when his initial plan failed, prosecutors claim that Allwine sedated his wife before shooting her, then dialed 911 to report that she'd committed suicide. Allwine is facing first-degree premeditated murder in Amy's deadly shooting in January 2017.
At Allwine's trial yesterday, the prosecutor claimed that he was motivated by the fear of being shunned by his ultraconservative Pentecostal sect of Christianity if he dared get divorced.
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Q: How can I run a function over a rolling window on each collective key in Spark? I am handling some event data, and I'd like to run a function that loops down an ordered list of values for a given key and return a value. I'm not sure how to do this, or if it's possible using Spark, and am hoping for a tip in the right direction.
Specifically, I have some event data, and I'd like to see when an arbitrary value appears multiple times within a rolling window.
An example of what I'm trying to do: Let's say I want to see how many times within my rolling window a value has appeared more than once, and to return the number of times that this has occurred. I'm thinking I'd have a queue that can expire old data, a map that contains the current data and its timestamps, and the number of times that this repeated appearance has occurred.
Assuming the rolling window accepts a timestamp difference of 10:
(user=A, value=10, timestamp=1) -> Queue: [(A, 10, 1)]; Map: {10: {1}}; Repeated Appearances: 0
(user=A, value=20, timestamp=2) -> Queue: [(A, 10, 1), (A, 20, 2)]; Map: {10: {1}, 20: {2}}; Repeated Appearances: 0
(user=A, value=30, timestamp=3) -> Queue: [(A, 10, 1), (A, 20, 2), (A, 30, 3)]; Map: {10: {1}, 20: {2}, 30: {3}}; Repeated Appearances: 0
(user=A, value=20, timestamp=4) -> Queue: [(A, 10, 1), (A, 20, 2), (A, 30, 3), (A, 20, 4)]; Map: {10: {1}, 20: {2, 4}, 30: {3}}; Repeated Appearances: 1
(user=A, value=10, timestamp=13) -> Queue: [(A, 30, 3), (A, 20, 4), (A, 10, 13)]; Map: {10: {13}, 20: {4}, 30: {3}}; Repeated Appearances: 1
I'm able to write this up in code for one group, but unsure how I can pass a function to a group of values in Spark. In this case, I'd want to pass all events for user "A" to a function that will return a result of 1.
All thoughts appreciated. Thank you

A: You could define an user defined aggregate function (say my_fn) and let it internally maintain the counts and emit the required count in the result. You can then define your group by condition based on the window and user id.
df.groupBy(window(...), $"user").agg(my_fn($"value")).writeStream....

A: This will get you started with rolling windows, you'll have to implement the details of your logic yourself (unless I find the time to do it for you):
val w = Window.partitionBy("user").orderBy($"timestamp").rangeBetween(0, 10)

NOTE:

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*Spark 2.1 rangeBetween calculate the boundary based on the actual value of the orderBy expression

*The offset (positive in my example for a lookahead) is applied to the numeric column "timestamp". Spark 2.3 might have other options but I cannot test it at the moment

*Both startRange and endRange are inclusive

Example:
val df = spark.createDataFrame(Seq(("A", 10, 1), ("A", 20, 2), ("A", 30, 3), ("A", 10, 4), ("A", 40, 13), ("A", 50, 14), ("A", 1, 15))).toDF("user", "value", "timestamp")
df.show  // NOTE: I changed your data a bit to make the example more interesting
+----+-----+---------+
|user|value|timestamp|
+----+-----+---------+
|   A|   10|        1|
|   A|   20|        2|
|   A|   30|        3|
|   A|   10|        4|
|   A|   40|       13|
|   A|   50|       14|
|   A|    1|       15|
+----+-----+---------+

df.withColumn("max", max($"value").over(w)).show
+----+-----+---------+---+
|user|value|timestamp|max|
+----+-----+---------+---+
|   A|   10|        1| 30|
|   A|   20|        2| 30|
|   A|   30|        3| 40| // 3 + 10 = 13(inclusive) => max value is already 40
|   A|   10|        4| 50| // 4 + 10 = 14(inclusive) => max value is already 50
|   A|   40|       13| 50|
|   A|   50|       14| 50|
|   A|    1|       15|  1| // max=1 because of look ahead (you can change this using negative range combinations)
+----+-----+---------+---+

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Grand Theft Auto 6 Leaks Cause Hopeful Speculation
BY Taylor Bauer January 28, 2020May 7, 2021
Rockstar is busy right now. If you play Red Dead Redemption 2 online at all, then you know why. The game is still getting consistent updates, not unlike Grand Theft Auto 5. If there's one thing Rockstar does well, it's supporting their titles. We're nearly 7 years removed from GTA 5, and believe it or not, we didn't get a new game in the series at all this past console cycle. As it turns out, we might be closer to GTA 6 then we even know. Recent Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks point to hopeful speculation that we might get the next game sooner than we think.
Are the Grand Theft Auto 6 Leaks Legit?
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Where else do gaming leaks come from other than Reddit? In a now deleted post, user JackOLantern1982 shared wildly detailed information on the pending GTA 6. In fact, when it comes to leaks, it's usually this amount of detail that point to some truth, at least in my experience. Before we continue, it's important to note that social media leaks are highly unreliable. Plenty of leaks come out every day, and we can't say with certainty that any of this information, let alone all of the comments, are true. In the spirit of keeping our readers informed, however, we want to make sure you're up to date on the biggest gaming news. Any sort of Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks are worth mentioning, especially with the amount of detail shared in the Reddit post.
What did the GTA 6 Leaks Say?
Kindly edited for clarity by Gamesradar, some of the original leaks include storylines, settings, and characters. Here are a few of the highlights:
Codename is PROJECT AMERICAS.
Set in both Vice City and a new fictional location based on Rio de Janeiro.
Some linear missions take place in Liberty City, but it isn't an open world (think Ludendorff in GTA 5).
Game will balance realism and arcade and it won't be as realistic as Red Dead Redemption 2.
One playable protagonist: male, not female, despite supposed leaks.
Set in 1970s-1980s.
You play as an up and coming drug lord-wannabe named "Ricardo". Another key character called "Kacey" is a part of the narrative. You start off as a grunt doing runs as a cocaine smuggler from Vice City to the new large South American area before making connections with big time drug lords and making your way up. Multiple cities.
There will also be a giant prison which will play a part in the game.
Will feature a 'chapter' system similar to a Tarantino flick or Red Dead Redemption 2.
Weather is a heavy focus (hurricanes, floods, etc).
Buildings change over the eras, vehicles too. So older, rare classic cars get more expensive as time progresses etc. Full economy.
Heavily inspired by Netflix's Narcos.
More Details Worth Mentioning in the Grand Theft Auto 6 Leaks
Not surprisingly so, the game appears to be larger and more detailed than ever. Some of the more intricate details include:
A younger Martin Madrazo will make an appearance as will his father who is a big drug lord at the time. You do some missions for the Madrazo family involving hits on other gangs.
Drug empire building is a mechanic similar to Vice City Stories but bigger. Think the GTA Online system and dial it up to 10.
You can only have weapons on your person. No arsenal in your back pocket, like Red Dead Redemption 2.
Your personal vehicle will be like your horse saddle in Red Dead Redemption 2. All your equipment is stored in the trunk. You also store your body armour in the car. If you wear it, it appears, no longer just an invisible thing.
There will be tons of subtitle reading. Think Max Payne 3 amounts, very immersive, like watching an episode of Narcos. Whenever you're in South America, don't expect to hear much English. Vice City however is a mix of everything, but mostly English.
Last bit of narrative info, it will discuss topics such as HIV and the immigration crisis of the time. A fictional version of Fidel Castro etc.
Next-gen only, not PS4 or Xbox One .
GTA 6 is now their primary focus, alongside another title (which might be Bully 2).
Game is still in Pre-Alpha so names, locations, details could and probably will change.
When will GTA 6 Release?
The final mention in the original Reddit post included a mention of no official ETA. In fact, I think given the pre-alpha state of the game, we shouldn't expect anything anytime soon. It's worth mentioning again that social media leaks are highly unreliable. Kotaku's Jason Schreier went so far to deny the leaks any validity outright. Still, we feel it's important to at least feature something on the fact that Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks are spreading.
The past few weeks have been all about delays. Between the Marvel's Avengers game delayed, word of Final Fantasy VII being delayed one more month, and 2020's biggest game Cyberpunk 2077 delayed, it's wise for Rockstar to hold back premature announcements. Whether the leaks are true or not are irrelevant in that way. The key for Rockstar is a solid rollout and announcement, so GTA 6 leaks or no leaks, the game needs to be ready when we hear official word.
Do you think there's any ground to these Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks? Let us know in the comments what your initial reactions to the leaks are! Thanks for choosing Comic Years for all things gaming, comics, and pop culture!
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This Heroin Dealer Has To Wear A Spit Shield In Court Because He Always Spits On The Attorneys
Trent1/26/2018 7:00 PM
NYP- An accused heroin dealer is being forced to wear a "spit shield" at the defendants' table — because he has a history of splattering his attorneys with saliva during court appearances. Brooklyn native Tyson Poulos was ordered to don the Hannibal Lecter-style headgear following two surprise sprayings in upstate Warren County Court — and after a letter revealed his plans for hocking on the judge's face. The 33-year-old loogie man's latest lawyer this week tried and failed to convince the judge to have the facial contraption removed — arguing that it makes his client look guilty, and that his predecessors are just full of spit. "He completely denies that he ever spit on these attorneys," defense attorney Norman Steiner told The Post. "I meet with him all the time. I sit a foot across from him. I have no fear of him. I don't think he's ever going to spit on me." But that's what the last guy said. Poulos was first fitted with the facial contraption in 2014 — after he reportedly spat on an attorney and claimed he had hepatitis, according to local paper The Post Star.
Laugh out loud funny. That's straight out of Sons of Anarchy. Kurt Sutter 100% wrote a scene where one of the Sons spits in a judge's face after handing down a guilty plea.What a way to make a name for yourself if you're a criminal. You don't often see a criminal stand out in court. They're usually wearing an orange jumpsuit and that's that. Not this spit-launching heroin dealer. It's gross but it's pretty badass at the same time. The article references Hannibal Lecter which is a great comparison and that's great company to be in. I don't wanna walk into court like every other loser criminal. I wanna open eyes. This guy has done it.
By the way, I love how the dude's lawyer fought against his client having to wear the spit shield cause it makes him look guilty. Uhhhhhhhh yeah dude that's true. It makes him look like the most guilty person who has ever sauntered into a court room. But maybe your client should've thought about that before he started letting his saliva rain all over the court room. My guess is the spitting heroin dealer doesn't care if he looks guilty. Once you make the decision to be the guy who spits on attorneys in court, you decide that you're gonna go to prison.
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'Gilmour show' - Chelsea fans go crazy as Billy Gilmour recalled for Leicester City clash
The young Scottish midfielder has been recalled to the starting line-up by Frank Lampard
Billy Gilmour impressed before the Premier League's hiatus
Chelsea will be hoping to follow Arsenal and Manchester United into the semi-finals of the FA Cup when they face Leicester City at the King Power Stadium this afternoon, kick-off 4:00pm.
The Blues, who will be looking to make it three wins out of three since football returned earlier this month, will be looking to reach the last-four of the competition for the second time in three seasons.
Following Thursday evening's superb 2-1 win over Manchester City at Stamford Bridge, which saw a late Willian penalty clinch all three points for the Blues, as well as handing Liverpool their first-ever Premier League title, boss Frank Lampard has opted to make six changes to his starting line-up.
Willy Caballero, Reece James, Kurt Zouma, Emerson, Billy Gilmour and Tammy Abraham have come in.
But the likes of N'Golo Kante, Willian and the in-form Christian Pulisic have kept their places.
Whilst the Blues fans are understandably pleased to have seen Lampard field a strong team for the contest, despite the changes, they appear more pleased about midfielder Gilmour's return to the starting line-up than anything else.
Chelsea team confirmed vs Leicester City: Frank Lampard makes several changes as Gilmour starts
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The Scottish youngster hasn't started either of Chelsea's first two Premier League games since the season resumed, meaning the fans are highly-anticipating his return.
Here is how Chelsea's fans reacted on Twitter to the news...
Gilmour, of course, was in superb form prior to the suspension of the season back in March, and Chelsea's fans will be hoping he can replicate that form this afternoon.
You can follow all of the very latest developments from the King Power Stadium on our live blog by clicking here.
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As per one of the reports by Deloitte, India is the second complex taxation structure in the world. And in order to deal with it, a talented and seasoned workforce is required. Yet the possibility of human error can't be denied and it potentially invites legal actions and penalties as well. It may provide automation in UAN generation, issuing TIC, generating and submitting ECR files, and for maintaining return files. Applying automation in filing statutory compliances such as PF Reports and other Challans will lead to shorter processing time, security and transparency along with making firms confident about legalities involved in Payroll.
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Apart from these, the use of OCR technology is also highly appreciable for processing bills. The use of cognitive computing in the HR domain is going to revolutionize the HR job profile in its every aspect and help Indian companies to realize their potential.