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Q: Database doesn't work in android 2.x When I'm trying to run my project in android 2.x and execute sqlcommands on the database, an error says that "close() was never explicitly called on database...".
but it works fine in android 4.x.
I think I should open and close database in my dbhelper but I don't know how to do it in this file.
This is my DbHelper:
public class DbHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper{

    public DbHelper(Context context) {
        super(context, "shareholders.db", null, 1);
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
        try {
//          this.db = db;
            String sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS news (id integer,title text,description text,sDate text)";
            db.execSQL(sql);
            sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cities (id integer,name text)";
            db.execSQL(sql);
            sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS lawyers (id integer,fullName text,mobile text)";
            db.execSQL(sql);
            sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS persons (id integer,code text,fullName text,father text,birthDate text,shsh text,nationalCode text,city text,postalCode text,email text,homeTel text,workTel text,mobile text,homeAddress text,workAddress text)";
            db.execSQL(sql);
            sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS settings (name text,value text)";
            db.execSQL(sql);
            sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS messages (id integer,senderId integer,receiverId integer,SenderName text,sDate text,type text,title text, body text,openned text,sent integer)";
            db.execSQL(sql);
            sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS financials (id integer,sDate text,mDate text,description text,price integer)";
            db.execSQL(sql);
            sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS sellRequests (id integer,sDate text,mDate text,description text,shareCount integer)";
            db.execSQL(sql);
            sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS buyRequests (id integer,sDate text,mDate text,description text,shareCount integer)";
            db.execSQL(sql);
            sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS shares (id text,type text,sDate text,status text,count integer)";
            db.execSQL(sql);
            sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS android_metadata (locale text)";
            db.execSQL(sql);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            xLog.error(e.getMessage());
        }

        ContentValues cv = new ContentValues();
        cv.put("name", "Username");
        cv.put("value", "default");
        db.insert("settings", null, cv);

        cv.clear();
        cv.put("name", "Password");
        cv.put("value", "default");
        db.insert("settings", null, cv);

        cv.clear();
        cv.put("name", "PersonId");
        cv.put("value", "default");
        db.insert("settings", null, cv);

        cv.clear();
        cv.put("name", "picture");
        cv.put("value", "");
        db.insert("settings", null, cv);

        cv.clear();
        cv.put("locale", "en_US");
        db.insert("android_metadata", null, cv);

    }

    @Override
    public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase arg0, int arg1, int arg2) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    public long insert(String table,ContentValues cv){
        mydb =this.getWritableDatabase();
        long result=-1;
        try {
            result = mydb.insert(table,null, cv);
            }catch (Exception e) {
            xLog.error(e.getMessage());
        }
        finally{
//          mydb.close();
        }
        return result;
    }

    public Cursor selectAll(String table){
        mydb =this.getReadableDatabase();
        String sql = "SELECT * FROM "+table;
        xLog.info(sql);
        Cursor result=null;
        try {
            result = mydb.rawQuery(sql, null);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            xLog.error(e.getMessage());
        }
        finally{
//          result.close();
//          mydb.close();
        }
        return result;
    }

    public Cursor select(String table,String where){
        mydb =this.getReadableDatabase();
        String sql = "SELECT * FROM "+table+" WHERE "+where;
        xLog.info(sql);

        Cursor result=null;
        try {
            result = mydb.rawQuery("SELECT * FROM "+table+" WHERE "+where, null);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            xLog.error(e.getMessage());
        }
        finally{
//          result.close();
//          mydb.close();
        }
        return result;
    }

    public long delete(String table,String condition){
        mydb =this.getWritableDatabase();
        long result = -1;
        try {
            result = mydb.delete(table, condition, null);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            xLog.error(e.getMessage());
        }
        finally{
//          mydb.close();
        }
        return result;
    }

    protected long empty(String table){
        mydb =this.getWritableDatabase();
        long result = -1;
        try {
            result = mydb.delete(table, "", null);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            xLog.error(e.getMessage());
        }
        finally{
//          mydb.close();
        }
        return result;
    }

    public long update(String table,ContentValues cv,String condition){
        mydb =this.getWritableDatabase();
        long result = -1;
        try {
            result = mydb.update(table, cv, condition, null);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            xLog.error(e.getMessage());
        }
        finally{
//          mydb.close();
        }
        return result;
    }

    protected void drop(String table){
        //TODO Produces a damn error!
        mydb =this.getWritableDatabase();
        try {
            mydb.execSQL("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS "+table);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            xLog.error(e.getMessage());
        }
        finally{

        }
    }

}

This is my log cat:
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025): close() was never explicitly called on database '/data/data/com.example.shareholders/databases/shareholders.db'
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025): android.database.sqlite.DatabaseObjectNotClosedException: Application did not close the cursor or database object that was opened here
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.<init>(SQLiteDatabase.java:1810)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(SQLiteDatabase.java:817)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.openOrCreateDatabase(SQLiteDatabase.java:851)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.openOrCreateDatabase(SQLiteDatabase.java:844)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.app.ContextImpl.openOrCreateDatabase(ContextImpl.java:540)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.content.ContextWrapper.openOrCreateDatabase(ContextWrapper.java:203)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteOpenHelper.getWritableDatabase(SQLiteOpenHelper.java:98)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteOpenHelper.getReadableDatabase(SQLiteOpenHelper.java:158)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at ClassLibrary.DbHelper.select(DbHelper.java:141)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at com.example.shareholders.entities.Settings.select(Settings.java:97)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at com.example.shareholders.entities.Settings.getValue(Settings.java:58)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at com.example.shareholders.Login.onCreate(Login.java:32)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
11-28 08:04:31.663: E/Database(9025):   at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

A: When your data base use became over then better approach to use SQLiteDatabase.close().Close cursor also cursor.close();
And remember sometimes if you donot close database then it can create severe problem

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Ode To Flowers (Sorood-e gol)
by Hamavayan Ensemble, Hossein Alizadeh
© Copyright - Bâ Music Records (SACEM France) / Bâ Music Records (634479490354)
Alizadeh established the Hamavayan Ensemble in 1989 as a venue for advancing traditional Iranian choral singing. Composed of some of the best known performers of Iranian instruments and vocalists, this ensemble has produced many of Alizadeh's compositions
Genre: World: Middle East Contemporary
1. Ecstatic Devotion
Hamavayan Ensemble
2. Prelude in Rast
3. Beacon of Devotion
4. Instrumental in Esfahanak
5. Exclamation of Grace
6. Soaring Towards Dawn's Arena
7. Fleeting Laments
8. Frost Battered Bloom
9. Scent of Showers / Ode to Flowers
BA Music Records is a coop of the artists it represents. Sales proceeds go to them directly. Thanks for your support.
HAMAVAYAN ENSEMBLE: Ode to Flowers
Includes 20 Page booklet / Poems and Notes / English - Persian.
All tracks composed by Hossein Alizadeh
Music performed by
Hossein Alizadeh, shuranghiz
Afsaneh Rassai, vocals
Madjid Khaladj, tombak & daf
Ali Boustan, setar
Pouria Akhavas, vocals
Nima Alizadeh, robab
Saba Alizadeh, kamancheh
Social interaction and expression are fundamental to the human spirit - communion, collective forums, mass struggle, celebrations, and funerary rites are but some of the more vivid reflections of this facet of our existence. They come into focus as they express the power of the many, the exuberance of interdependence, and deep-rooted human need for sympathetic action.
In music, multi voiced and choral performance is the true instrument for giving shape to such social phenomena. In every culture, depending on its historic, climatic, and religious environments, music, and especially group singing have developed in varied and different forms. In Iran, we can discern two broad forms of choral singing.
First are the type of group and choral chants that have taken shape from within the ancient cultural traditions of this land. Prominent examples include Zoroastrian ritual chants, Islamic recitations of special versus, ballads and chants of mourning processions, ballads and songs of workers, celebratory and funerary chants, and group poem recitations.
Second, a large number of Iranian chants and ballads have developed with strong influence from the ecumenical quartet singing of the Church in the west.
Yet, communal chants and ballads in Iran have their own indigenous forms. They use special tempos and rhythms, which demand compositional approaches that are fundamentally different from western ones. In Persian music, the way tonal and temporal modulations interact, both horizontally and vertically, are based upon a set of regulating methods that form the core of its musical tradition. As in the west, where compositional methods developed form the essence of it melodic repertoire, so it did here, but from modal modulations.
In Iran, traditional singing has been a monophonic "voice" that is performed by a solo vocalist. Yet, since the Safavid period (17th through 19th centuries), a form of choral chanting has become popular that has its roots in religious and often mourning rites, either as a single voice, or group chanting in a single voice lead by a chanter.
The forms in the present work were inspired by a number of variations of the latter type of singing that have developed since the Safavid period, for ritualistic gymnasium dances, or the zurkhaneh, dervish and sufi group chanting of poems, khan'e-ghahi, and traditional monophonic chants, a'vaaz. These forms have been adapted here for duo-phonic singing by a female and a male performer. Of course, all this has been done with strict deference to the content, voice, and feeling of the selected poems, from across a nearly a thousand year time span.
The Hamavayan Ensemble was formed in 1991 as the primary research and performance source of Iranian choral music. Since then, it has been comprised of many different instrumentalists and vocalists, according to the needs of each musical piece and the related research.
The ensemble has expressed its artistic work in many venues and recordings. It has performed in every continent with multiple performances in Iran, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United States.
Film scores produced by the ensemble include, Del-shode'gan, Gabbe', Zesht-o Ziba, Ancient inheritance, and Newmang. Its commercial recordings include Avaye' mehre (Songs of Compassion), Raz-e' no (Virgin Revelations), Birds, and Ode to Flowers.
© Hossein Alizadeh / Bâ Music Records
Hossein Alizadeh was born in Tehran in 1950. He is considered as one of the most important figures in contemporary Persian music, exemplifying excellence in traditional Persian music today. He studied the classical Persian composition system, the Radif, under various masters, including Houshang Zarif, Ali Akbar Shahnazi, NurAli Borumand, Mahmood Karimi, Abdollah Davami, Yousef Foroutan, and Saied Hormozi. He later recorded the entire body of the Radif based on the interpretations of Mirza Abdullah for Tar and Setar.
Alizadeh received a BA in Music Composition and Performance from the University of Tehran, and then studied Composition and Musicology at Berlin University. He has taught at University of Tehran and Tehran Music Conservatory.
He has performed, as a solo artist, in Iran, North America, Europe and Asia. He was the conductor and soloist in The Iranian National Orchestra of Radio and Television. He established the acclaimed Aref Ensemble and has often worked with the Shayda Ensemble. His first professional experience in Europe was performing with the famous Bejart Ballet Company's orchestra for Maurice Bejart's ballet, Gulistan.
Some of Alizadeh's most noted works are The Nava Improvisations (1976), Riders of the Plains of Hope (1977), Hesar (1977), Revolt (1983), Ney Nava (1983), Dream (1986), Torkaman (1986), Raz-O-Niaz (1986), Delshodegan (1987), Song of Compassion (1991), New Secret (1996), A Time for Drunken Horses (2000), Turtles can Fly (2004), Endless Vision (2004), Nive Mang (2006), Under the Razor (2007) and Ode to Flowers (2007). Endless Vision has been nominated for the Best World Music Album of the Year 2006 in the 49th Edition of the Grammy Awards.
Alizadeh established the Hamavayan Ensemble in 1989 as a venue for advancing traditional Iranian choral singing. Composed of some of the best known performers of Iranian instruments and vocalists, this ensemble has produced many of Alizadeh's compositions including New Secret, Gabbeh, Songs of Compassion, Endless Vision and Ode to Flowers.
Afsaneh Rassai
Afsaneh Rassai began her musical training in Tehran at a very young age with her father, Mohammad Rasaee who was the son of the famous Seyd Zia-edin Rasaee. She trained in the vocal Radif with Mahmoud Karimi and continued her advanced studies with Mohammad Reza Shajarian. In 1989, she joined the Hamavayan Ensemble and continued her musical training and professional activities under the guidance of Hossein Alizadeh.
She has performed extensively in Iran, Europe, North America and Japan with Hossein Alizadeh, Hossein Omoumi, Madjid Khaldaj and the Hamavayan Ensemble. She has performed on numerous recordings including Song of Compassion, New Secret, Endless Vision and Saaze No. Her film music credits include Delshodegan, Gabeh and Az Asar.
Rasaee has been teaching the vocal Radif for several years and has a large number of talented students in her school.
Madjid Khaladj
Madjid Khaladj was born in Ghazvin, Iran in1962. He began studying the tombak at the age of seven. As a traditional musician and skilled pedagogue in several instruments, he is unanimously recognized as one of the best representatives of Iranian percussions. Highly active internationally, he has performed in festivals, concerts, and conferences around the world. He has produced recordings, and art movie soundtracks (with Ry cooder and Lisa Gerrard), and has appeared in radio and television broadcasts in Europe. His music has taken him to the four corners of the world: Europe, the US, and Japan, where he has played with such celebrated percussionistes as Trilok Gurtu, Zakir Hussain, and Doudou N'diaye Rose.
In 1984, under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin, the Center for Middle Eastern Music Studies at the Institute of Musicology of Paris, Sorbonne, invited Madjid Khaladj to teach Iranian percussions. Using this opportunity, he has introduced many western musicians to Iranian music. In 1996, he founded the Ecole de Tombak in Paris (Center for Iranian Percussion Study). Since 1998, he has also been teaching at the "Cité de la Musique" in Paris, France and at the State Academy of Music in Basel, Switzerland (Musik Akademie der Stadt Basel in Switzerland).
Madjid Khaladj constantly investigates the vast possibilities in improvising within the Persian musical system, and beyond. The unequalled beauty of his style, his mastery of rhythms and the brilliance of his spontaneous creations not only place him in the top ranks next to great classical Persian masters, but also distinguish him as a major figure in world percussion.
Some of Khaladj's most noted works are: Anthology of Iranian Rhythms, Vol. I (1997) & Vol. II (1999), Iranian Percussions (2000), DVD of Tombak (2005), Nafas/ Iranian Art Percussion (2006) and the numerous recordings with masters such as Hossein Alizadeh, Hossein Omoumi, Dariush Talai, M.R. Lotfi and M.R. Shajarian.
Zarb, Tar, Setar, Tombak, Tonbak
Nassim Sabba (New Haven, CT)
An opera spanning over 900 years of Persian poetry
There is no question that Mr. Alizadeh is a superb modern composer who can create music on par with the best that the classical world has to offer anywhere in the world. In MHO he surpasses most western composers by staying true to the Iranian system of dastgahs (modes). I can give examples and many comparisons, but wish to keep this note about this CD.
What is unique about this CD is that the poems he has selected, spanning in history from Mowlana (Rumi) to Moshiri, complement each other and flow like a single opera (I wish I didn't have to use this word, but it is an opera).
If you didn't know that there are five different poets of different periods in this work, you would think that there was one poet. Not just a single poet, but one who probably collaborated very closely with the composer, like most opera composers. Not so. The music is set to fixed verses of historic significance. Not a word can be changed to suit the composer. Mr. Alizadeh's composition brings a flowing life to the poems. While there is a fundamental upbeat mood of optimism, the music goes up and down and adjusts beautifully to each verse of each poem, each with its mix of laments and pleasures of change.
It is hard to pick a single cut as the best, and you need to hear the whole CD as a single composition. I am happy that CD baby lets you listen to a bit of every cut.
The group is truly great, especially given the youthful age of four of the seven. They really shine, together and in their solo peices. The percussion is even better on the CD than it was in the live concert. Maybe there was a problem with acoustics in the hall or the sound system (NYC).
Mrs. Rasaie and Mr. Akhavas have such compatible voices that it is hard not to want to play each section repeatedly to get immersed in the pleasure of their duets, a rare thing in persian music.
All of this thanks to Mr. Alizadeh, a truly dedicated educator in addition to his non-stop work in composing and performing. He has kept the beacon of devotion alive, given all the difficulties one can imagine he has had to face. He has produced many stars in his workshops, you will hear four of them on this CD.
You shouldn't miss this one, if you have to get jsut one CD this month, Ode to Flower should be it.
sharareh
Beautiful, enjoyed it a lot!
This work is diffrent from what I have heard from Alizadeh before. very interesting and close to my heart, loved it!
nancy evans
amazing graphics
more graphics....simply awesome
Tamara Turner, CD Baby
It must first be said, for those not familiar with the ensemble or the man behind it, that Hossein Alizadeh is among the "Who's Who" of contemporary Persian musicians and is considered one of the most important figures in the approach to Persian music today. Having studied the classical composition system, the Radif, with various masters, Alizadeh formed the Hamavayan Ensemble in 1991 as the foremost research and performance source of Iranian choral music. Featuring many other superb musicians in their own right, Ode to Flowers takes us on an multi-textured journey driven equally by Afsaneh Rassai and Pouria Akhavas on vocals, Madjid Khaladj on tombak and daf, Ali Boustan on setar, Nima Alizadeh on robab and Saba Alizadeh, on kamancheh. While music of this region may sometimes be an acquired taste for Westerners with ears unaccustomed to the stylistic musical tension and dissonance, Ode to Flowers is remarkably and exceptionally accessible and evocative for all. The 9 songs here are based on a form of choral chanting from the Safavid period (17th through 19th centuries), rooted in religious and mourning rituals and involving a group chant led by a lead chanter. While the songs on this CD were inspired by this type of chanting for ritualistic gymnasium dances, or the zurkhaneh, dervish and Sufi group chanting of poems as well as traditional monophonic chants, all integrity of the tradition has been held intact. The combination of traditional purity and customs met with modern inventiveness and inspiration on Alizadeh's part make this the number one Persian album we will recommend from this day forward.

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Welcome back to the Tapers' Section, where this week we have music from 1966, 1970 and 1973.
Our first selection is the oldest live Grateful Dead music we have in the vault, from Los Angeles on 2/6/66, playing a batch of tunes from which only one would survive in the repertoire much past mid-1966 (BIODTL):Tastebud, Mindbender, One Kind Favor, BIODTL, The Only Time Is Now.
Next up is some acoustic and electric Dead from 2/23/70 in Austin, TX, with this terrific batch of music: Me And My Uncle, Black Peter, Seasons Of My Heart> Uncle John's Band, Not Fade Away > Mason's Children.
Lastly this week is the first part of the big second jam from 2/19/73 in Chicago, with this sequence: He's Gone > Truckin' > The Other One. The master tape cuts of here before the band kicks into a huge Eyes of The World, but we'll play that continuation here another time.
Thanks as always for the music but wasn't this exact same 73 piece in Jam Of The Week a couple of weeks ago?
the primalest of primal GD yahoo!!!
is that the Blues for Allah lyrics?
Just the global spam cartel at work. I'll deal with it.
This 2/19/73 Chicago is soooo good! The "He's Gone" outro from the 10-minute mark on is, in a word, lovely. Who loves a monster Phil jam? I do! If you do, then try on this "Other One" for size. See if it fits. Could this be the best of '73? As far as second sets go, this would get my vote. Bring on the "Eyes & China Doll" that follow this fantastic sequence of songs.


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The recent progress in biotechnology in India is the result of the impetus in economy since post-cold war period. The success in information technology is being emulated by a similar trend in the biotech and pharma sector using private and government funds. The challenges, the opportunities, the current status of biotechnology in India, and future prospects in the Indian framework will be the focus of this track. This track will be a forum for networking between biotechnology researchers, entrepreneurs and industry.
Innovations in biotechnology
Education and manpower development
Problems and prospects in biotechnology industries
Malnutrition and poverty: how biotechnology can help
Industry-academia collaborations
Biotechnology patents, IPR and licensing issues
TRACK SCHEDULE
Town Hall Meeting, Biotechnology in India- From a Global Perspective @ Acharya Hall
Categories: Biotechnology in India, From a Global Perspective Tags: Town Hall Meeting
POSTER SESSION: Biotechnology in India, From a Global Perspective @ Poster Corridor 2: First Floor Lobby Area
Categories: Biotechnology in India, From a Global Perspective
Introducing the Track, Biotechnology in India-From a Global Perspective @ Acharya Hall
Aug 14 @ 9:10 am – 9:15 am
Dr. Bipin Nair,
Dean-Biotechnology, Amrita University
Plenary Address: Crowd-Funded Micro-Grants to Link Biotechnology and "Big Data" R&D to Life Sciences Innovation in India @ Acharya Hall
Aug 14 @ 9:20 am – 10:05 am
Vural Özdemir, MD, Ph.D., DABCP
Co-Founder, DELSA Global, Seattle, WA, USA
Crowd-Funded Micro-Grants to Link Biotechnology and "Big Data" R&D to Life Sciences Innovation in India
Vural Özdemir, MD, PhD, DABCP1,2*
Data-Enabled Life Sciences Alliance International (DELSA Global), Seattle, WA 98101, USA;
Faculty of Management and Medicine, McGill University, Canada;
Aims: This presentation proposes two innovative funding solutions for linking biotechnology and "Big Data" R&D in India with artisan small scale discovery science, and ultimately, with knowledge-based innovation:
crowd-funded micro-grants, and
citizen philanthropy
These two concepts are new, and inter-related, and can be game changing to achieve the vision of biotechnology innovation in India, and help bridge local innovation with global science.
Background and Context: Biomedical science in the 21(st) century is embedded in, and draws from, a digital commons and "Big Data" created by high-throughput Omics technologies such as genomics. Classic Edisonian metaphors of science and scientists (i.e., "the lone genius" or other narrow definitions of expertise) are ill equipped to harness the vast promises of the 21(st) century digital commons. Moreover, in medicine and life sciences, experts often under-appreciate the important contributions made by citizen scholars and lead users of innovations to design innovative products and co-create new knowledge. We believe there are a large number of users waiting to be mobilized so as to engage with Big Data as citizen scientists-only if some funding were available. Yet many of these scholars may not meet the meta-criteria used to judge expertise, such as a track record in obtaining large research grants or a traditional academic curriculum vitae. This presentation will describe a novel idea and action framework: micro-grants, each worth $1000, for genomics and Big Data. Though a relatively small amount at first glance, this far exceeds the annual income of the "bottom one billion" – the 1.4 billion people living below the extreme poverty level defined by the World Bank ($1.25/day).
We will present two types of micro-grants. Type 1 micro-grants can be awarded through established funding agencies and philanthropies that create micro-granting programs to fund a broad and highly diverse array of small artisan labs and citizen scholars to connect genomics and Big Data with new models of discovery such as open user innovation. Type 2 micro-grants can be funded by existing or new science observatories and citizen think tanks through crowd-funding mechanisms described herein. Type 2 micro-grants would also facilitate global health diplomacy by co-creating crowd-funded micro-granting programs across nation-states in regions facing political and financial instability, while sharing similar disease burdens, therapeutics, and diagnostic needs. We report the creation of ten Type 2 micro-grants for citizen science and artisan labs to be administered by the nonprofit Data-Enabled Life Sciences Alliance International (DELSA Global, Seattle: http://www.delsaglobal.org). Our hope is that these micro-grants will spur novel forms of disruptive innovation and life sciences translation by artisan scientists and citizen scholars alike.
Address Correspondence to:
Vural Özdemir, MD, PhD, DABCP
Senior Scholar and Associate Professor
Faculty of Management and Medicine, McGill University
1001 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Canada H3A 1G5
Email: vural.ozdemir@alumni.utoronto.ca
Categories: Biotechnology in India, From a Global Perspective Tags: Big Data
Invited Talk: Nature Nurtures New Drug Discovery @ Acharya Hall
Aug 14 @ 10:10 am – 10:40 am
M. D. Nair, Ph.D.
Former Vice-President, SPIC Pharmaceuticals, Tamil Nadu, India
The global healthcare scene of which the pharmaceutical industry and its products are integral components is today at the cross roads. The high and unaffordable costs of drug research with estimates of over 1 billion dollars for every new drug discovered and developed, the very low success rates, the high degree of obsolescence due to undesirable adverse drug reactions, the decline in the development pipeline of new drugs, patent expiries leading to generic competition and the public's disillusionment with use of chemicals for human consumption as drugs have all significantly contributed to the problems of this lifeline industry. The strategy adopted by the large R&D based Corporations to get bigger and bigger through mergers and acquisitions to improve cost-effectiveness and productivity of R&D has so far not worked effectively. Consequently, one of the recent trends in healthcare, articulated by many experts is to look for alternate or even complementary approaches to reduce the impact of rising costs of drugs on healthcare. Various new strategies for drug discovery such as the use of Natural Products especially medicinal plants are being actively pursued by healthcare planners and providers. Side by side, traditional systems of medicine whether from the oriental countries or the western nations are also having a serious relook to understand their usefulness in healthcare. To achieve its legitimate position in the healthcare scenario, it is essential to scientifically validate their claimed utility through appropriate and systematic research efforts including pre-clinical and clinical studies. In addition to their own use as medicines, knowledge on the Indian Traditional Medicines can be used as a platform for new drug discovery. The huge potential for carrying out systematic R&D programs for new Drug Discovery based on natural products and possible strategies to realise them in the coming decades will be explained in this presentation.
Categories: Biotechnology in India, From a Global Perspective Tags: Drug Discovery
Invited Talk: New Drug R&D in India: Challenges & Opportunities @ Acharya Hall
Ramani A. Aiyer, Ph.D., MBA
Principal, Shasta BioVentures, San Jose, CA, USA
New Drug R&D in India: Challenges & Opportunities
New drug discovery and development has become a global endeavor, with Western big pharmaceutical companies farming out more and more chemistry and biology research to Asia, particularly India and China. During the last decade, several Indian pharmaceutical companies have embarked on ambitious R&D programs, with slow but steady progress in developing new chemical / molecular entities. The Indian government has also made a strong commitment to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the biotechnology sector. The first part of the talk will focus on a case study showing the entire process of discovery and development of a new drug recently launched for Rheumatoid Arthritis. We will then address the challenges of conducting innovative R&D in India and actions necessary to overcome them. The second part of the talk will make the case for developing Ayurvedic drug formulations for the Western / Global markets, again using the example of Rheumatoid Arthritis (Aamavaata). Ayurveda takes a holistic approach to disease diagnosis and therapy based on interactions among body type (prakriti), tri-doshas (three body humors), sapta-dhatus (seven tissues) and malas (excretions). The drugs prescribed are usually herbo-mineral formulations comprising multiple medicinal plants and / or metals. The manufacturing processes date back to Ayurvedic texts several thousand years old, and are compiled in the Ayurvedic Pharmacopeia. Also, the treatment modalities and drug formulations are "personalized" to fit different patient types, based on the holistic diagnoses mentioned earlier. There is a tremendous need to establish a sound basis for Ayurvedic drug discovery R&D for the modern world. We must find a scientific and ethical way to leverage the vast body of anecdotal and possibly retrospective data on patients undergoing Ayurvedic treatment. Combined with in vitro and in vivo biological data on Ayurvedic herbo-mineral formulations, the adoption of stringent manufacturing practices, and designing sound clinical trials to establish the safety and efficacy, India has a golden opportunity to expand the reach of Ayurvedic drugs into Western / Global medical practice.
Delegate Talk: Intrinsic modulation of cytokine response by mycobacteria @ Acharya Hall
Sukhithasri V, Nisha N, Vivek V and Raja Biswas
The host innate immune system acts as the first line of defense against invading pathogens. During an infection, the host innate immune cells recognize unique conserved molecules on the pathogen known as Pathogen Associated Molecular Patterns (PAMPs). This recognition of PAMPs helps the host mount an innate immune response leading to the production of cytokines (Akira et al. 2006). Peptidoglycan, one of the most conserved and essential component of the bacterial cell wall is one such PAMP. Peptidoglycan is known to have potent proinflammatory properties (Gust et al. 2007). Host recognize peptidoglycan using Nucleotide oligomerization domain proteins (NODs). This recognition of peptidoglycan activates the NODs and triggers downstream signaling leading to the nuclear translocation of NF-κB and production of cytokines (McDonald et al. 2005). Pathogenic bacteria modify their peptidoglycan as a strategy to evade innate immune recognition, which helps it to establish infection in the host. These peptidoglycan modifications include O-acetylation and N-glycolylation of muramic acid and N-deacetylation of N-acetylglucosamine (Davis et al. 2011). Modification of mycobacterial peptidoglycan by N-glycolylation prevents the catalytic activity of lysozyme (Raymond et al. 2005). Additionally, mycobacterial peptidoglycan is modified by amidation for unknown reasons.
Here, we have investigated the role of amidated peptidoglycan in Mycobacterium sp in modulating the innate immune response. We isolated amidated peptidoglycan from Mycobacterium sp and non-amidated peptidoglycan from Escherichia coli. We made a comparative analysis of the cytokine response produced on stimulation of innate immune cells by peptidoglycan from E. Coli and Mycobacterium sp. Macrophages and whole blood were treated with peptidoglycan and the cytokines secreted into spent medium and plasma respectively were analyzed using ELISA. Our results show that peptidoglycan from Mycobacterium sp is less effective in stimulating innate immune cells to produce cytokines. This intrinsic modulation of the cytokine response suggests that mycobacteria modify their peptidoglycan by amidation to evade innate immune response.
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Categories: Biotechnology in India, From a Global Perspective Tags: Mycobacteria


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Hair serums tough enough for the dampest autumn weather.
Spooky and minimal, it's Bieber's formal coming-out party as an adult: hip-hop buzzword filigree, his dampest sounding vocals and whispered come-ons that most recall the naughty Ying Yang Twins hit Wait (The Whisper Song).
In any factory you go into, even if it is the dampest, darkest place, there will always be something that you can pick up and think 'that's a good idea'.
New Garnier Fructis Hydra Liss is a fixing spray with an anti-frizz action that is said to be effective against even the dampest weather, yet nourishes hair too.
It didn't help that 2008 ushered in one of the coldest, dampest summers in decades across the state.
As further evidence, the laboratory tests showed the dampest layers at the depth of 9 m (Ol 1) and 10-11 m (Ol 2).
Now, in our grayest and dampest time of year, it's a beautiful twist of nature that citrus is coming to full flush (albeit in southern, sunnier climes).
Even on the dampest of days there's no need to let style go down the drain.
Tomorrow's clash represents a re-match of the FA Cup Final, a game which was supposed to herald a bright era at the new Wembley but instead turned into the dampest of damp squibs as two weary sides failed to raise a gallop between them.
Sunday's clash represents a re-match of the FA Cup Final, a game which was supposed to herald a bright era at the new ' Wembley but instead turned into the dampest of damp squibs as two weary sides failed to raise a gallop between them.
Then, armed with my Webley Premier Mk II, I would stalk into the yard, carefully peering into the dampest, darkest spots.
Typically, the dampest area includes the few feet closest to the bottom.


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MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: "I wanted to use the law as a tool for change and I knew that the only way to do it was to qualify as a Barrister…" – Barrister Karen Safo- Barnieh
Karen is a Barrister at Law and human rights activist with several years in the international development sector. Karen's main interest is in natural resource governance and the development of African states. As a result, Karen founded the project Youth development Ghana at the age of 17, a project aiming to emancipate many from the injustice derived from unfair trade.
Karen a recipient of the Deans fellowship awards and Future of Ghana 30 under 30 2018 has written articles with the Congressional Black Caucus in the USA, the Voice and many Ghanaian outlets on the interplay between law and development on the African continent.
Karen is an advocate for inclusion within the international development sector. Whilst at Save The Children International she created and Co-Chaired the group Mosaic, a group promoting diversity and inclusion of BAME groups within the NGO sector.
Can you tell us a bit about yourself? family, educational background
Well, my name is Karen Safo – Barnieh, I am Ghanaian, born in the UK. I am a Barrister from a single parent background with two younger brothers.
How was your childhood and growing up like. Would you say it influenced your choice of a career path?
Being from a single parent home with a mother who went to University whilst having three children, with the youngest under the age of 2, I learnt about perseverance and resilience first hand.
My mother was also a very strong Ghanaian woman, she ensured that we greeted with our right hand, forced us to speak Twi, by only speaking Twi to my brothers and I and we travelled to Ghana often.
So, with that said, yes, I have been influenced by strong independent women who are passionate about the women empowerment and the development of Africa. One that I do not take for granted.
Can you share your story with us?
From where you started in your career and how you finally ventured into this sector?
I went to Ghana and visited my ancestral village – Kokofu Asaman where there was an abundance of cocoa just laid bare, glistening in the Ghanaian sun. I was perplexed. Why, if there is an abundance of natural resources like cocoa and gold is Ghana a developing country? I did not understand how this could be. After understanding that child slave labour and the unequal bargaining power between the west and the African continent contributes to the unfair trade of the cocoa and gold in Ghana, I wanted to do more to help.
I set up a charity known as Youth Development Ghana to provide education and raise awareness of the children who were unable to attend school as they were needed to run the cocoa farms. It was successful, with the minister of education attending and providing scholarship to the children who worked on the cocoa farms, but I learnt something deeper.
I began to understand that the unfair trade was linked to various ineffective policies, international and national laws that permeate the international trade sector. I knew then that I wanted to study law. I wanted to use the law as a tool for change and I knew that the only way to do it was to qualify as a Barrister and specialise in cases relating to international claims and public international law.
I went to The University of Kent, completed an LLB with a 2:1 then secured the Deans fellowship scholarship award to study at UCLA. I went to pursue my postgraduate studies at SOAS in order to gain a deeper understanding of the interplay between the law, climate change and natural resource governance. I knew Africa's development was dependant on our ability to govern our natural resources against competing interests and I became involved in grassroots organisations that championed this.
Being from a single parent background my passions and desires seemed too big for me to commence the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) to become a Barrister. My grandfather who was sick at the time agreed that he would pay the £20,000 tuition fees, I was so grateful. I decided to do the BPTC part-time so I could pay my living expenses whilst my grandfather paid the initial 10,000 payment for the first year. I felt completely out of place at law school, so many Oxford and Cambridge graduates who had already secured pupillage surrounded me. I questioned whether I was cut out to be a Barrister.
That year my grandfather passed away and there were very limited funds to pay for the second year of my tuition fees. I decided to take a year out and raise the funds. Many of the scholarships that were available, I was ineligible to apply because I had already commenced the BPTC. I had to then take a second job at Accessorize and a third, housekeeping in Loreal offices in order to secure the money for my second year of the BPTC. It was tough, I was burnt out, I developed severe anxiety and was demotivated. But I still pressed on, I knew that this was my purpose deep deep down in the midst of the financial and personal hardship. This in hindsight has developed my resilience, patience and perseverance and I am so glad I was able to build up my character. All necessary for a successful career at the Bar.
What will you say motivates you?
Our Ancestors. When I remember what they had to endure, I know that I can persevere through situations that may seem as insurmountable. We carry the touches to run this race, let us run it as fast as we can so our descendants do not have to.
What are some of your greatest fears and how have you dealt with pitfalls and setbacks?
One fear is floating in the midst of external gratification and forgetting that the source that feeds me daily must be internal. Many who become powerful, celebrities or famous get hooked on the praise accolades and titles that they forget who they are and where they came from. The reason is, real roots deep inside of themselves were not planted.
This can happen to anyone as their identity have been tied to their titles, accolades and work. Over the past two years I did a lot of self-development which ensured that I developed practices that keep me grounded, that keep me growing healthily and from the inside out so that I can consistently grow and bear GOOD fruit in my journey.
What are some of your greatest regrets? If given the chance, how would you do things differently?
Dimming my light. I have a big personality, and people in the UK are conservative so in many spaces I have been told that I am "loud", "too much" "over confident" (which was quite surprising). Even when I tried to fit in and be what people wanted me to be it was never good enough. So, I learnt to step boldly into who I am.
If I had a chance, I would tell my younger self to be me.
What have been some of your greatest accomplishments?
Setting up Youth Development Ghana at the age of 16. Being a ball girl at the Wimbledon Championships. Receiving the UCLA fellowship award, Future of Ghana 30 under 30, Setting up the BAME group at Save The Children International despite a lot of fear in how I would have been perceived.
What are some of the principles, philosophies and values you ascribe to?
God first above everything else.
All things work together.
Do nothing without intention.
You have a divine purpose
Those parts of yourself that you think are weird, quirky or embarrassing, stop hiding it, bring that to every space you find yourself in.
Can you mention three books you have read and how they changed your life?
The Alchemist because it allowed me to really appreciate the very little that I have can be my greatest weapon for success.
NOTES OF A NATIVE SON, there are so many hidden meanings in Baldwin's writing and I keep finding them whenever I come back to this book. Its taught me to understand differing perspectives even ones that I do not agree with.
The Bible as it has shown me the way of life, and it reads me.
What do you do for leisure and socialization?
I meet up with friends who pour into me spiritually and professionally. Travelling, going to the theatre, dance and reading. I love nature and so a hike, a run and a walk in the park is so refreshing.
There has been an increase in entrepreneurship across the continent and the globe from small scale enterprises to large corporations. What are your thoughts on it? Do you think it's the best way to solve some of Africa's challenges and improve the lives of people?
This is a brilliant question, I believe that it is a way to solve Africa's challenges and improve the lives of people, however there is another side that becomes problematic. Entrepreneurship tends to be individualist, failing to see things holistically and therefore losing sight of the main challenges that we can overcome collectively. We need to develop more partnerships across Africa to develop more efficiently and sustainably.
What will be your advice to others especially the youth about the effects of comfort zones and on the importance of entrepreneurship?
To be consistent means to take you out of your comfort zone. You need to ensure that you are constantly and consistently learning, networking and building your business. If you stay in your comfort zone you will not achieve your purpose and you will simply, like it says, stay within your zone.
Consistency is the key, it takes time to reach your purpose and you must understand that you will never truly arrive. When practicing consistency that is where you will learn skills like endurance, discipline and patience.
Fear is simply, false evidence appearing real, take the first step and exercise the muscle until it becomes second nature.
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Chapel Valley announced they have added Common Bond Quartet to their roster of recording artists.
Song Garden Music Group announced they have signed a recording agreement with Sons Of The Father. They anticipate releasing a new CD this summer.
Mansion Entertainment announced they have signed The Ascension Quartet.
Jay Shuler of Braselton, Georgia proposed marriage to Hannah Webb of the Rick Webb Family yesterday. She said yes!
On April Fool's Day, MusicScribe announced the return of the Imperials with a lineup including Woody Wright, John Rulapaugh, Kyle Boreing and David Bruce Murray. A few people actually believed it was true, so for anyone who may still be in doubt, IT WAS JUST A JOKE!
Via Facebook, Arthur Rice has asked all Southern Gospel Music Association members who did not receive their Hall Of Fame ballot to contact the SGMA office at 865-908-4040 or email him at arthur@sgma.org to be sure your vote is counted. The SGMA lost their database of members in a computer crash two years ago.
I like a good joke now and then. But at what point does joking cross the line over into lying? These verses from Proverbs 26 often come to mind for me on April 1. "Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, 'I was only joking!'" Please don't mistake my bringing up these verses for criticism. I'm as guilty as anyone when it comes to taking my joking too far. It was more "food for thought". Feel free to correct me if I strayed too far out of line.
It's April Fools Day dude!
I know. And I don't have a problem with having a little fun/playing a joke now and then. But it seems to me like April Fools Day COULD give a person the license to flat out lie to someone and then say, "Hey, I was only joking!" My bringing in that scripture, as I said, was more food for thought. In the story of the Imperials, there were enough details in there to lead most of us to conclude it was a fictional story. But obviously some readers swallowed the story hook, line and sinker, as they say. Hence the disclaimer on April 2.


The 7th annual International Solidarity Forum was held in New York City at the United Nations and World Youth Alliance Headquarters from March 21st through March 24th, 2010. Experts in the fields of Maternal Health, Policy, and Statistics gave lectures to World Youth Alliance members from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and North America. After listening to the experts, WYA delegates then negotiated an outcome document articulating WYA's understanding of Maternal Health.
Many thanks to the Permanent Mission of St. Lucia to the United Nations for their support of this event!


The program will require all students to complete 51 credit hours of undergraduate coursework for the major in the Intelligence Analysis. This includes 30 credit hours of program core course work, 15 credit hours concentration course work, and 6 credit hours directed electives course work. Each concentration has 15 credit hours of course work. Together with the University's Foundational Studies requirements, the entire B.S. in Intelligence Analysis program will have 120 credit hours.
This survey course introduces the student to the discipline of intelligence and provides the student with an understanding of how intelligence systems function, how they fit within the policymaking systems of free societies, and how they are managed and controlled. The course will provide a theoretical overview of the intelligence, including psychology of intelligence, types of intelligence methods, tools and techniques, basic writing and briefing skills, basic data management strategies and tools, and various types of intelligence used throughout the public and private sectors.
This course is an introduction to national security decision-making in the United States with a special emphasis on the role of intelligence in formulating policy. Students will engage in a historical overview of national security politics and strategy since WWII and describe major institutions and processes involved in national security policy-making. The course is designed to survey significant national security problems and their changing nature in the 21st century (e.g., examine relationships and tensions between agencies, government leaders and policymakers). Additionally, this course explores issues of maintaining the balance between the need for intelligence and the civil rights and liberties of the people.
Developing a comprehensive knowledge of the use and practices of counterintelligence, especially in protecting homeland security and national security interests against foreign adversaries, is the primary focus of this course. Issues, strategies, and the legal framework that govern counterintelligence activities, as practiced by the U.S. and foreign governments around the globe, are highlighted.
This course is an introduction to law enforcement intelligence definitions, agencies, and methodologies of analysis. It reviews the mission and roles of the crime analyst at the local, state and federal levels.
This course is divided into three parallel tracks covering strategic theory, the practice of strategic intelligence, and the application of those principles to "real life" problems. Analysts will participate throughout the course as a member of a group in a large-scale estimative project.
This course explores the role of intelligence in the conduct and prosecution of armed conflict. The course traces the evolution of modern military organizations and the use of intelligence in the success or failure of these organizations. Current intelligence practices and methods employed by the US military are also discussed. Additionally, this course covers the principles of Intelligence support for military operations including definitions and problems of strategic, operational and tactical intelligence; various aspects of military operations; and significant past, present and future events, operations and implications involving intelligence and military operations.
This course focuses on teaching students the process of gathering intelligence through assessment of the communications of individuals from electronic signal transmitting devices (e.g. cell phones, radio waves, satellites, etc.). It also focuses on the types of signal interception and the disruption of those signals.
This course focuses on the intelligence that can be gathered from publically available sources of information. This includes information that and be gathered and analyzed from the web-based communities, public data (e.g., government reports, demographics, etc.), the media (e.g., newspapers, magazines, radio, television, etc.), professional and academic records (e.g., papers, conferences, professional associations, published reports, etc.).
This course focuses on the intelligence gathered by means of interpersonal contacts (e.g., the collection of information from human sources). It focuses on the intelligence gathered through interviewing witnesses or suspects, and through clandestine or covert means (e.g., espionage).
This course focuses on the ability to describe, understand, and interpret geospatial data so as to anticipate the human impact of an event or action within a spatio and temporal environment. Also, it focuses on the ability to identify, collect, store, and manipulate data to create geospatial knowledge through critical thinking, geospatial reasoning, and analytical techniques.
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of cyber security, discusses the evaluation of information security into cyber security, and explores the relationship of cyber security to organizations and society. Students will be exposed to multiple cyber security environments, technologies, processes, and concepts, analyze the threats and risks to/in these environments, and understand how to develop appropriate strategies to mitigate potential security impacts in the modern information environment.
This course provides students with an introduction to counterintelligence operations and techniques. Students will study passive and active counterintelligence measures, principles and processes of counterintelligence operations, its relationship to covert action, and the legal and ethical issues involved.
This course is designed to enhance the analytical and research skills of those individuals intending careers within the criminal justice system and homeland defense areas. Course objectives include 1) turning police raw data into intelligence, 2) further enhancing critical thinking and communication skills, 3) examining the offender, victim, and situational elements surrounding major forms of crime, and 4) to acquire spatial and temporal analysis skills necessary to conduct research and analytical projects once employed.
This course focuses on the intelligence applications and issues that surround the contemporary intelligence community. Students will learn a number of information collection and analysis approaches that help decision makers, and issues surrounding those approaches. A significant portion of this course focuses on the applications and issues of assessment of an adversary's capabilities and vulnerabilities.
This course fosters an understanding of the roots, development, and the impact of contemporary worldwide terrorism, especially in the United States, while using a simulated operational environment. Issues related to the radicalization of citizens, which includes the personal and sociopolitical factors causing radicalization, will be discussed.
This course will focus on U.S. national security and related-policy and the domestic and global factors affecting implementation.
This course examines their political, economic, and social condition which allows an understanding of threats to the state and their vulnerabilities. This course provides students with analytic procedures to assess a state's military capabilities, strengths and weaknesses of their political and economic systems, and challenges presented by their social systems.
This course focuses on the ethical responsibilities of different U.S. intelligence community members, the relationship between intelligence and policy-making processes, and legal foundations with particular emphasis on the intersection of national security and civil liberties. Additionally, it covers ethical theories, the role of ethics, protection of individual civil rights, ethical dilemmas posed by several current challenges and ways to make ethics a larger part of the national security dialogue.
This course introduces students to the collection and analysis techniques used by entry level analysts. Students work on a term-long project that incorporates data basing, collection planning, organizational and link analysis, and structured analysis techniques. Computer software programs are used to enhance that analytical product. A threaded discussion of the psychology of intelligence analysis is integrated into course material.
This course explores tools for data acquisition, management, query and display. This course will provide students first with a substantial foundation in the history of cartography and mapmaking. The second major emphasis of this course will merge both theoretical and historical information with hands-on practical training utilizing the basic tools provided with the GIS software. Students will become familiar with the importance of metadata, editing and updating metadata and how this is important to the success or failure of the dataset as a whole.
Using the ArcGIS software, students will be taught how to manipulate datasets based on complex queries in several advanced platforms within the GIS environment including geospatial analyses, creating basic models, interpolation among multiple data points, and advanced data table editing and creation. Students will learn methodologies for determining the presence or absence of patterns and identify associations among different data layers.
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of effective intelligence writing and presentation. Emphasis is placed on the variety of forms of intelligence writing, briefing styles, and evaluations of intelligence products for form and substance, and application of numerous advanced analytical techniques.
Students engage in a period of employment (minimum of 96 hours for 3 credits) as an intelligence analyst with a government, international agency, or corporation during which certain experience objectives must be met.


How should I handle wild birds?
Writing Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) Consultation on Human Influenza (2005). Avian influenza A (H5N1) infection in humans. New England Journal of Medicine, 353(13): 1374-1385.
Schünemann HJ, et al. (2007). WHO rapid advice guidelines for pharmacological management of sporadic human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus. Lancet Infectious Disease, 7(1): 21-31.
Ungchusak K, et al. (2005). Probable person-to-person transmission of avian influenza A (H5N1). New England Journal of Medicine, 352(4): 333-340.


ATHE Health and Social Care Qualifications were designed for those who want to work in various types of organisations including hospitals and care homes in both the public and private sector.
The ATHE Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care is a 60 credit size qualification and is the equivalent level to an A-Level or Access to HE qualification. It provides learners with the opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and understanding across a range of essential subjects with a focus on the healthcare context.
This qualification is designed for learners who are seeking to progress to higher education to take a Bachelor's degree course within the healthcare sector.
The Diploma in Health & Social Care provides learners with an introduction to Health & Social Care sector as well as key academic, research and communication skills to support learners in their development to pursue a career in Health & Social Care, nationally or internationally.


This wonderful pocket watch from the late Victorian (ca1904) era is a signed piece by maker Waltham and retailed by Bailey, Banks & Biddle! Made of 14kt yellow gold, the watch has a white face with black letters and ornate gold filigree hands. The face of the watch reads "THE BAILEY, BANKS & BIDDLE CO., PHILADELPHIA." At the top of the watch is the winder with a large handle perfect for attaching to a gold chain. The glass face flips open on the front, along with two gold lids on the back to expose an engraved compartment and the watch movement below. The engraved inscription reads "J.M.R. FROM HFR." "MARCH 18th 1904." The working movement on the inside of the watch is also stamped with additional hallmarks, including: "A.W.W. Co." "Waltham, Mass. Riverside" "19 Jewels" "Safety Barrel" and "10514871." On the back of the watch is a set of monogrammed initials engraved in gold. The watch, which is rather substantial in size, is still fully functional and comes in the original blue Bailey, Banks & Biddle box. A magnificent piece by an excellent maker, this wonderful pocket watch is a must for any collector!
Measurements: The pocket watch hangs approximately 2.5" long, has a 1 7/8" diameter, and is 1/2" thick. The overall pennyweight of the pocket watch (including the movement inside) is 46.6 dwt.
Condition: The overall condition of the watch is excellent. There is some minor surface wear to the gold and glass face, which is normal for a late Victorian piece and not noticeable when worn. Watches of this era should be cleaned and oiled periodically, but at this time, the watch is in fine working order and keeping good time.


Sourced directly from the UK SRAM distributor. Cassette comes in original boxing not bubble wrap. Very low stock left once they're gone they're GONE! Grab a hugely discounted Sram RED 22 cassette while stock lasts.


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Baby Driver: where we're going we don't need words
June 20, 2017 PH	Leave a comment
In the Three Flavours: Cornetto trilogy directed by Edgar Wright, the joke was that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's characters find themselves thrust into an ersatz version of the media they consume. In Shaun of the Dead (2004), it was zombie movies, in Hot Fuzz (2007), action blockbusters, and in The World's End (2013), apocalyptic sci-fi. Similarly, in the same director's Scott Pilgrim vs the World (2010), a geeky musician in Toronto is faced with a set of super-villains to battle. The film was adapted from a series of graphic novels and incorporates comic-book styling in its mise en scene as well as its plot. Its structure and visual style also intentionally recall video games, and the Xbox and PlayStation adaptations were released alongside the movie.
Wright's latest film, Baby Driver, is about a young man living inside a music video, or attempting to. Specifically, a music video that Wright himself directed, for 'Blue Song' by Mint Royale, in which Noel Fielding plays a getaway driver who grooves along to a track on his CD player while his fellow crims rob a bank. Our callow, taciturn hero, Baby (Ansel Elgort), was listening to his iPod when his parents were killed in a car collision, and now he can only get through the day with his earplugs in, tapping his head to a carefully selected soundtrack, and lipreading his way through his interactions with others. The tunes are there to down out his tinnitus, caused by the crash, but it's heavily implied that they protect him from emotionally engaging with other people too.
On a good day for Baby, as for all of us, his iPod track of choice synchs perfectly with the world around him. There is an especially fun sequence, almost like something from a musical, when he buys coffee to the sound of 'Harlem Shuffle'. Or, in his work as a getaway driver, he can play air-drums to 'Bellbottoms' by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in the time it takes for his employers to relieve a bank of its cash. On a bad day, the city does not groove to Baby's vibe, and a holdup in the holdup will mean he has to grab his iPod and rewind 'Neat Neat Neat' by the Damned to keep on track.
There's something very attractive about staying plugged in, and living life to your own soundtrack, seeing the world as if it were a silent movie, or a succession of three-to-five-minute silent movies, all strung together. So I was intrigued by Wright's new film, as a former Walkman-addicted teenager, and a silent-movie buff both. Of course, Baby's failure to listen to the world around him would make his stunt-driving even more lethal than it already is. And his lip-reading skill a) has to be explained by giving him a deaf foster father* and b) has to be translated on screen into floating intertitles.
Though, to be honest, the dialogue is largely redundant in this likeable, if slight film: Baby drives a getaway car for a man called Doc (Kevin Spacey, camp as Christmas); Baby falls in love with a waitress called Debora (Lily James, doing the best she can) and wants to go straight; Baby has to do One Last Job. The film begins as quite charming, almost whimsical, but gets better, and far more action-heavy in the last half hour. Sadly the characters that surround young Baby are barely sketched, or even named. He has a colleague called Bats who is, well, batty (Jamie Foxx, providing most of the humour) and another just called Buddy (a menacing, enjoyably odd, Jon Hamm), whose girlfriend is called Darling (Eiza Gonzalez, though why they bothered casting anyone for such a thinly drawn role is beyond me).
The influences on Baby Driver extend beyond the world of pop videos, but not much further. Much here, from the slightly dreamy twist on60s-Americana settings (check out the Technicolor washing in the laundromat) to the pop-culture chit-chat, recalls Quentin Tarantino (apparently a supporter of the project) and it is little surprise that when a pizza restaurant appears it is called Goodfellas. Martin Scorsese's 1990 gangster saga is surely the ultimate in jukebox movies, and although Wright's playlists skew more 90s indie and cult classics than the stomping sounds of the 60s and 70s, it's clear what Baby Driver's pop collage aspires to. As those two influences suggest, there's a retro tinge to Baby Driver. Baby may be only a young man, but this is an action movie with a title taken from a Simon and Garfunkel B-side and a soundtrack that could have been lifted straight from Radio 6 Music. Even Baby's collection of iPods, like his C90s full of sampled electronica, are pretty outdated these days. Hasn't he heard of Spotify Premium?
However it appears, the film is smothered in music, and a lot has been written about Hollywood films ditching most of their dialogue to play well in Asian markets, but surely these aural reference points would reverse that? And Baby Driver is full of chatter too, which even if it isn't as comic as Wright's previous work, is often full of geeky pleasures. Debora and Baby leap straight into a discussion about the songs featuring their names; the best, possibly only, joke here, involves a heavy mistaking comedian Mike Myers for Michael Myers from Halloween. Ultimately, Baby Driver is a very likeable, entertaining film (Spacey is fabulous and the stunt sequences are brilliant) but emotionally every bit as a shallow as a pop video. After every setpiece, it seems to start again from first positions, especially for the blank female characters. It's like La La Land, but if nobody got out of their cars. And Baby's non-committal moral stance and self-enforced social isolation is hard to root for, which wouldn't be a problem if the plot didn't later hinge on him being a saintly kind of criminal.
Maybe one day Wright will channel this particular strategy, which has worked so often before, but backfired here, into a drama about a young man whose world transforms into a silent drama. That I would like to see. Or a woman, for once, even more so.
Baby Driver is released on 28 June, but preview screenings are available now.
*I give the film credit for casting a deaf actor, CJ Jones, in this role.
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Digital transformation is happening to all of us now and there'll be no going back. Our lives are changing and changing fast and so are the ways we communicate with each other.
This means that old ways of engaging with the public are becoming increasingly out-of-date. But is the public sector able to adapt, and more importantly is it willing to?
That's the biggest challenge facing your workplace today.
Being ready to face it means knowing how to take full advantage of digital transformation practices already starting taking place.
So if you're looking for inspiration, then where better to get it than from some of your peers who are leading the way.
You'll be hearing from these trailblazers across a series of blogs.
And to start us off, here are our the first 10 who talk about how they've adopted digital transformation techniques across all sorts of online touchpoints from using Facebook and Twitter to fight crime in the UK, to providing relevant personalised content for the citizens of and visitors to Limerick City.
As public service leaders, it's our responsibility to ensure our public services are staffed with the highest quality candidates. A recent study by Jobvite stated that 59% of recruiters rated social media sourced candidates as 'highest quality'. With this in mind, it's imperative that public service organisations, whether large or small, harness and engage social media as part of their hiring process.
The Public Sector has a responsibility to inform the public, whether that's as a legal obligation or as a moral duty to its citizens.
Social media provides an array of innovative tools that reach a diverse range of people who may not otherwise hear or see our messages in traditional media.
Then understanding your goals, identifying any interesting or valuable information you have and being creative in how you deliver it is key.
You should also ensure you put the 'social' in social media by engaging in two-way conversations, so you can build trust and create a loyal following.
In short, you should always provide added value for our followers.
We invest in content designed to engage the user, to provide them with expert advice (from internal and external sources) and to bring them along the customer support journey created by our Local Enterprise Office.
We do this by using online videos, managed social posts, virtual networks, and by using platforms such as LinkedIn to highlight all the benefits that working with our Carlow office can bring.
From organising local events to networking internationally, digital has helped us increase our audience and effectively target our marketing efforts.
Firstly, entrepreneurs like to conduct research online as they build their enterprise. So through our website, active social media accounts and weekly digital newsletter, we've got helpful content in place where the public can easily find it.
Secondly, there are so many great courses, networking events and funding opportunities where we can deliver relevant information to people via an immediate call to action (such as following a link to book a course via our website). This makes our communications much more effective.
Limerick.ie is a leader in digital communications for local government in Ireland. Why? Because it has been designed around its users in the community. Each of them has their own private login where they can create an individualised profile of interests, build itineraries on what to see and do in Limerick, and see all their dealings with the Council.
The aim of the site is to always present Limerick in a positive light, to give information about Limerick City and County Council services and be number one in searches for information on Limerick. We publish relevant and up-to-date content by working with partners in the region and in showcasing Limerick's unique selling points by providing information on visiting, investing, learning, living and events in Limerick.
We're now setting the foundation for what people can do with the platform and what it can do for them. And we're developing these personalised services in an integrated way, so we can develop this experience for years to come.
Further to being able to utilise social media to enhance engagement of learners with subject matter, social media is also an effective tool for instructors to be able to provide additional feedback to students in a quick and easy manner. In short, use of social media as a learning aid is here to stay.
Communicating with members of the public has never been easier as we can have both one-to-one and wider conversations. However, the demands on our time and the need to upskill are key considerations in our digital transformation process.
We've a dedicated social media manager at the Marine Institute whom we've empowered to be our public-facing voice. Our traditional communications methods are amplified through our website and range of digital platforms.
We're encouraging everyone in our organisation to have a digital-first mindset but we recognise full digital transformation takes time, and requires a fully worked out strategy.
It's a remarkable time to be able to provide such personalised communications, which are distributed to our many stakeholders across the globe, and who have broad and varied needs.
Social media has massively aided policing. The public now expect to be able to ask the police a question and get an answer, and trust that answer. And they want to be able to have those conversations with us on the channels that they want to choose.
Facebook means we can drive conversations locally and help us find missing people, identify offenders or educate around when you might need to take action or stay safe.
Whereas Twitter works really well in getting updates or alerts out fast.
And by 2025 digital policing will make it easier and more consistent for the public to make digital contact, improve our use of digital intelligence and evidence, and ensure we can transfer all material in a digital format to the criminal justice system.
Over the past 10 years social media has become an essential tool for getting a variety of communications to our audience.
Facebook in particular is the platform which has become our top channel as our audience demographic tends to favour it.
We've found that by interspersing important day-to day-information with more interesting historical and topical stories we can grow our audience and keep them both engaged and informed.
Having our Facebook and Twitter accounts linked ensures we keep a regular feed to Twitter, and that encourages more interactions to a growing audience.
Having a presence on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn is essential for us as the food regulator.
It enables us to reach a wider audience, to be proactive, to improve our customer service, to create awareness about our food industry events, to build a greater online profile, to build a community around food safety, to generate traffic to our website, and to interact directly with our stakeholders.
It's also proven essential if there's an issue with a food where we need to get key messages out there quickly to consumers and the food industry. Social media is integrated into our communications strategy and is at the heart of our engagement with our stakeholders.
These are just 10 of your peers who are implementing game-changing digital media strategies every day for their organisations.
So isn't time you got on board too?
Making this transformation can be daunting, but it's also exciting to see just what can be achieved with all these innovations.
They are using social media and other online touchpoint in many different ways, with many different audiences but yet it's transforming the way they operate, as well as communicate.
And by helping to lead the adoption of digital transformation techniques where you work, you'll be at the forefront of transforming society for the better of everyone too.


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Dover, MA
Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Elevation of Dover, Massachusetts: 150 feet
General Demographic Characteristics, 2000 data (id:2517370, place: Dover CDP, Massachusetts)
Total Population: 2,216
Male: 1,060 (47.83%)
Female: 1,156 (52.17%)
Population data by age, 2000 data
Under 5 years: 167 (7.54%)
5 to 9 years: 217 (9.79%)
10 to 14 years: 207 (9.34%)
20 to 24 years: 48 (2.17%)
35 to 44 years: 370 (16.7%)
45 to 54 years: 421 (19%)
85 years and over: 25 (1.13%)
Median age: 40.2 years
Population data by age, legal ages, 2000 data
18 years and over: 1,520 (68.59%)
21 years and over: 1,478 (66.7%)
62 years and over: 318 (14.35%)
18 years and older by gender, 2000 data
--Male: 724 (32.67%)
--Female: 796 (35.92%)
--Male: 120 (5.42%)
--Female: 132 (5.96%)
Races, 2000 data
One Race: 2,205 (99.5%)
--White: 2,114 (95.4%)
--Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 23 (1.04%)
--Black or African American: 2 (0.09%)
--American Indian and Alaska Native: 0 (0%)
--Asian: 66 (2.98%)
----Asian Indian: 12 (0.54%)
----Chinese: 21 (0.95%)
----Filipino: 1 (0.05%)
----Japanese: 2 (0.09%)
----Korean: 24 (1.08%)
----Vietnamese: 0 (0%)
----Other Asian: 6 (0.27%)
--Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0 (0%)
----Native Hawaiian: 0 (0%)
----Guamanian or Chamorro: 0 (0%)
----Samoan: 0 (0%)
----Other Pacific Islander: 0 (0%)
--Some other race: 1 (0.05%)
Two or more Races: 11 (0.5%)
Hispanic or Latino Races, 2000 data
Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 23 (1.04%)
--Mexican: 5 (0.23%)
--Puerto Rican: 7 (0.32%)
--Cuban: 0 (0%)
--Other Hispanic or Latino: 11 (0.5%)
Not Hispanic or Latino: 2,193 (98.96%)
--White Alone: 2,114 (95.4%)
Housedold Data, 2000 data
Household population: 2,216 (100%)
--Householder: 745 (33.62%)
--Spouse: 556 (25.09%)
--Child: 834 (37.64%)
----Child with own child under 18 years: 686 (30.96%)
--Other relatives: 40 (1.81%)
----Other relatives under 18 years: 7 (0.32%)
--Nonrelatives: 41 (1.85%)
----Unmarried partner: 14 (0.63%)
Living in group quarters: 0 (0%)
--Institutionalized Population: 0 (0%)
--Non Institutionalized Population: 0 (0%)
Total households: 745
Family households (families): 625 (83.89%)
----With own children under 18 years: 336 (45.1%)
--Married-couple families: 556 (74.63%)
----With own children under 18 years: 309 (41.48%)
--Female householder, no husband present: 50 (6.71%)
----With own children under 18 years: 21 (2.82%)
Nonfamily households: 120 (16.11%)
--Householder living alone: 105 (14.09%)
----Householder 65 years and over: 52 (6.98%)
Households with one or more people under 18 years: 341 (45.77%)
Households with one or more people 65 years and over: 178 (23.89%)
Average household size: 2.97 people
Average family size: 3.29 people
Housing Units, 2000 data
Total housing units: 760
Occupied housing units: 745 (98.03%)
Vacant housing units: 15 (1.97%)
--For seasonal, occasional, or recreational use: 4 (0.53%)
Home owner vacancy rate (percent): 0.7%
Rental vacancy rate (percent): 2%
Owner occupied housing units: 696 (91.58%)
Renter occupied housing units: 49 (6.45%)
Average household size of owner occupied units: 3.03 people
Average household size of renter occupied units: 2.2 people
Return to Dover,MA.
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In polar waters, a surge in temperatures takes scientists by surprise
By Robert C. Cowen
A new study using seven decades of temperature data shows that mid-depth water around Antarctica has warmed nearly twice as much as the world ocean as a whole. That wasn't supposed to happen.
Geophysicists expect global warming to be strongest in polar regions. However, as Sarah Gille at the University of California, San Diego, explains: "We thought the ocean between 700 and 1,100 meters [2,300 and 3,600 feet] was pretty well insulated from what's happening at the surface. But these results suggest that the mid-depth Southern Ocean is responding and warming more rapidly than global ocean temperatures [generally]." How this unexpected finding fits into global-warming forecasts is unclear, but it could be significant.
Professor Gille notes that the Southern Ocean "is a very climatically sensitive region." It is at one end of the conveyor-belt circulations that carry heat poleward in upper-level currents and return cold water equaterward at great depths - a key part of the system that maintains Earth's present climate. Any change in Antarctic waters could directly affect circulations in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
The cold surface current that girdles Antarctica is a fixture of the Southern Ocean. It may already have been affected. Gille, who reports her findings in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Science, says her study suggests that this current has moved closer to the polar continent as the mid-depth water has warmed.
Much of Gille's data was gathered by ships. However, free-floating robots also sent important information as part of the international World Ocean Circulation Experiment in the 1990s. The robots sink to a preset depth and drift with currents for 10 to 25 days. Then they bob to the surface to transmit data. Gille's analysis found that the mid-depth water had warmed 0.17 degrees C since 1950 - nearly double the global trend for ocean warming.
Gille's finding adds more complexity to the Antarctic climate puzzle in which changes are showing up in unexpected, even contradictory ways. Last month, for example, a research team reported that lakes on Signy Island off Antarctica have warmed by three to four times the global average air temperature rise. At the same time, another team reported that dry valleys on the continent itself are cooling. Likewise, a team reported in December that radar measurements show several West Antarctic glaciers are thinning rapidly. Yet, in January, another team reported that other West Antarctic ice streams are growing thicker.
How important are warmer seas in the melting of glaciers?
Global warming disrupts ocean dynamics in Antarctica, study reveals
Could old, cold water rising in Antarctic seas solve climate change mystery?


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Flood Recovery: Here to Help Foundation supports families in need
Published on July 13, 2021 in Crisis and Recovery
Julie Sexton is not used to asking for help.
The mom of seven, who has a background in ministry, is more comfortable helping others. But the recent heavy rains that caused major flooding across Southeastern Michigan left Julie's family in dire need of assistance.
"At one point, water was coming up out of the floor drain and pouring out of the toilet in our basement," she said. "It's a helpless feeling — like what do you do? You just have to try and save what you can."
When the storm was over, eight inches of rainwater and sewage covered the entire lower level of the family's Garden City home. Julie and her husband Aaron turned to the Here to Help Foundation for support.
With funding from United Way for Southeastern Michigan's newly launched Crisis and Recovery Fund, Here to Help was able to provide new carpeting and four new dressers for Julie's family within weeks.
The Sexton family lost many personal belongings in the June 2021 floods. With support from United Way, the Here to Help Foundation was able to provide them with emergency help. Editor's Note: We have blurred the faces of the family's two foster children to protect their identities.
On June 25 and 26, tens of thousands of families in Detroit and throughout the metro area lost belongings due to extensive flooding in the region.
Help in a hurry
Building on our century of work to help meet the needs of families across Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, the Crisis and Recovery Fund will support families affected by the recent flood and ensure dollars, volunteers and staff are able to respond quickly to help the community navigate any crisis.
The fund was made possible thanks to the generous support of philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, who gifted a $25 million grant to United Way for Southeastern Michigan in 2020 to address immediate community need due to the pandemic and systemic inequities exposed and deepened by the crisis.
For families that may have already been struggling financially or exhausted some savings due to the pandemic's economic impacts, unexpected challenges like June's catastrophic floods can easily throw them into crisis. The crisis fund will ensure that help is available immediately to families in need.
Julie was astonished by the speed of the help she received. She applied for assistance on a Saturday and by the following Wednesday, dressers were being delivered and her home was being measured for carpet installation.
"We felt we had somebody in our corner," she said. "Someone was helping us out. And they weren't judging us at all."
Bob Schwartz, CEO of Here to Help, said it would have been impossible for his organization to aid families impacted by the flood without the additional funding from United Way.
"United Way has been a great partner for us," Bob said. His organization, which has served the community since 2007, offers a variety of programs to aid with utilities, car repairs, housing and other emergency needs. It also recently launched a program for returning citizens.
"Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and now again through the flooding emergency, Here to Help is coming through with support for people during incredibly difficult times," said Sara Gold, senior director, Health and Basic Needs at United Way for Southeastern Michigan. "Our partners and our own 2-1-1 community care advocates refer people to Here to Help because they know that they're available to provide quick and meaningful support. Very few organizations can provide flexible, direct financial assistance, and our community continues to benefit from their work."
Volunteers work in Dearborn in early July to help clear out the basements of homes impacted by flooding.
Unexpected crisis, unexpected need
When Bob saw the thousands of families across the region dealing with flood damage, he didn't hesitate to get involved.
"We saw the need and jumped to the forefront to help," he said.
Although his organization does not typically provide appliances, it's using the United Way grant to help with hot water heaters, furnaces, washing machines and other items rendered useless by floodwaters.
Julie's family was fortunate to have insurance to cover many of the major items, but she's thankful for the extra help.
"No one expects to go to bed and wake up in the middle of the night with $15,000 worth of damage. When that happens, it's life changing. It's devastating," she said.
For now, Julie's family, which includes five biological children and two foster children they hope to soon adopt, is cramped into close quarters on the main level of their home while the three basement bedrooms are rebuilt. Even while clammy from the lack of air conditioning and with her bed in the middle of the living room floor while being hit with a barrage of child-size requests – from books to juice – Julie is still thinking about helping others.
"When we get back on our feet, I really would love to donate to Here to Help and United Way to pay forward their kindness so that they can help more people when they need it," she said.
If you'd like to donate to the fund, visit UnitedWayCrisisFund.org. If you are in need of flood assistance, call 2-1-1 or visit the 2-1-1 webpage.


If the bill passes, it would make it easier for professional drivers to legally defend themselves when they cross states lines.
On January 9, Texas Senator John Cornyn introduced S. 69, also known as the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.
Cornyn points out that the new legislation would respect individual state rights as they apply to gun laws while also allowing citizens to defend themselves even if they travel away from their home state. "This bill focuses on two of our country's most fundamental constitutional protections– the Second Amendment's right of citizens to keep and bear arms and the Tenth Amendment's right of states to make laws best-suited for their residents. I look forward to working with my colleagues to advance this important legislation for law-abiding gun owners nationwide," said Cornyn.
As of January 22, the bill has 33 co-sponsors, all of which are Republicans.
Two similar concealed carry reciprocity bills have failed in recent years.
Should the bill pass, it could go a long way towards clearing up the confusion surrounding OTR trucking while carrying a firearm. While there is no law that prohibits truck drivers from carrying guns, many carriers do not allow it and most U.S. military bases prohibit it. To complicate matters, varied state concealed carry reciprocity laws mean that truckers need to do their homework before they cross state lines while carrying a firearm to make sure that they are compliant with the law.
You can click here to access an interactive map to help you understand which states will honor your home state's concealed carry permits.


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Jefferson County Public Schools will not allow 14-year-old student Jack Splitt, who has spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and dystonia, to wear a doctor-approved medical marijuana patch. (7News photo)
Longmont lawmaker wants to allow medical cannabis at school
Published: Apr 19, 2015, 11:53 pm • Updated: Aug 29, 2016, 12:25 pm
By 7News
A Colorado lawmaker says he's planning a proposal that would allow young medical marijuana patients access to their medication at school.
Rep. Jonathan Singer, D-Longmont, said medical cannabis could be administered the same way as something like Ritalin or Adderall. He hopes to add an amendment to the House Caregiver's bill to address the issue in the next few weeks.
UPDATE: The bill was approved by the General Assembly on May 4.
He said he was inspired by the 7NEWS story about Jack Splitt, a 14-year-old who suffers from spastic cerebral palsy and relies on a cannabis patch and low-THC oil to treat debilitating muscle spasms and health issues.
Jack's private personal nurse had been giving him the medication at Everitt Middle School in Jefferson County, but when the school found out, it said no type of cannabis is allowed on campus.
Read the full story on 7NEWS.com.
This story was first published on DenverPost.com
Topics: Colorado legislature, Jack Splitt, Jonathan Singer, medical marijuana legislation, schools, teens