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Cherniak, Todd. "Litigation MRI: Why Lawyers Are Asking for It and Why Your Patients Need It." British Columbia Medical Journal. Vol. 47, No. 7. Sept. 2005. Pp 358-361.
"Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Safety." RadiologyInfo.org. 5 Apr. 2017. Web. 1 May 2018.
"MRI is Safe for Most People with Pacemakers and Defibrillators." Harvard Health Publishing. Harvard Medical School. Jan. 2018. Web. 1 May 2018.
Brown, Francis H. "Recent Developments in Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation." American Bar Association. 12 Sept. 2016. Web. 1 May 2018.
Researchers at the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center have authored a study detailing a multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) technique that predicts a malignant type of kidney cancer without performing a biopsy. The results of the method are impressive, but require more refinement to fully take the place of a biopsy.
Doctors frequently find kidney tumors accidentally while conducting CT scans for other reasons.
These scans alone do not yield the necessary information that tells doctors whether they are malignant or benign. Instead, a biopsy is usually performed. These procedures can save lives by correctly identifying the nature of the tumor, but they are also invasive and can cause complications.
"Using mpMRI, multiple types of images can be obtained from the renal mass and each one tells us something about the tissue," Dr. Ivan Pedrosa, Professor of Radiology and Chief of Magnetic Resonance Imaging told the UT Southwestern Newsroom.
Identifying malignant masses in the kidney is extremely important because treatment is highly effective before the tumor metastasizes. However, once it spreads to other parts of the body, survival rates are low. Clear cell kidney carcinoma is an aggressive subtype of malignant masses that the researchers.
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Using these methods to identify clear cell histology is still a work in progress. The doctors at Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center will have to achieve a higher degree of accuracy in predicting malignant kidney masses for the method to become mainstream.
However, as standardization of imaging protocols and reporting criteria are refined, accurate results should increase. When MRI scans alone are sufficient to identify clear cell kidney carcinoma, doctors will have another powerful tool in the fight against cancer.
Anderson, Avery. "State-of-the-Art MRI Technology Bypasses Need for Biopsy." UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2 Jan. 2018. Accessed March 14, 2018.
Canvasser, N. et al. "Diagnostic Accuracy of Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Identify Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma in cT1a Renal Masses." The Journal of Urology, volume 198, no. 4, Oct. 2017, pp. 780-786. Accessed March 14, 2018.
National Cancer Institute. "Kidney Cancer." Kidney (Renal Cell) Cancer—Health Professional Version. Accessed March 14, 2018.
National Institute of Health. "Clear Cell Kidney Carcinoma." The Cancer Genome Atlas, National Institute of Health. Accessed March 14, 2018.


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A joint venture between Wanxiang, China's largest automotive component maker and Platon, a blockchain solution company, will create a smart city in Hangzhou. The completion of the project is planned for 2025 and the space is designed to house 90,000 residents. Wanxiang Innova City will occupy an area of 8.3 square kilometers and will have an International Research and Innovation Park, ample digital and ecological urban space and advanced technology in the segments of renewable energy and electric vehicles.
The idea behind the so-called "Innova Citty" is to create a complete infrastructure blockchain interface with identification cards of residents of the city and monitoring of driving behavior. Wanxiang's promise is an investment of $ 29 billion over a decade to complete the reference complex in the concepts of interconnection and urban intelligence.
Executives celebrate and expect success
In the communiqué on the initiative, shared by Crypto Ninjas, the partner companies highlight the importance of the project and raise good expectations regarding the result of the emergence of Innova City. PaltON's director of strategy noted that Smart City will be an excellent example of supporting emerging technologies to new standards of behavior and work, as well as highlighting the project's concern for privacy.
"By using MPC (Multi-Party Computation) and other privacy preservation technologies we can ensure the privacy of sensitive data, including resident digital identities, smart devices and personal devices, as long as they interact with each other in a shared book," reinforces Ada Xiao, according to the matter of the Crpto Ninjas.
Also highlighting the benefits and differences of the smart city in progress, Vincent Wang, director of innovation at Wanxiang, also speaks in the press release about the deep connection between Wanxiang Innova City and the philosophy of bockchain.
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Q: Exercise V.4.2 Shafarevich basic algebraic geometry 2 Find all points of $\operatorname{Spec} \mathbb{C} \otimes_\mathbb{R} \operatorname{Spec} \mathbb{C}$.
By definition, $\operatorname{Spec} \mathbb{C} \otimes_\mathbb{R} \operatorname{Spec} \mathbb{C}=\operatorname{Spec} (\mathbb{C} \otimes_\mathbb{R} \mathbb{C})$.
Now, I know that $\mathbb{C} \otimes_\mathbb{R} \mathbb{C}=\mathbb{C}^2$; so my question reduces to find the elements of $\operatorname{Spec}\mathbb{C}^2$. Which is the ring structure in $\mathbb{C}^2$?

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>>   > patches, so it doesn't apply here without some interpretation.
> Reading this again, I find the interpretation straightforward, actually.
>     > * Assign the copyright to the Free Software Foundation.
>     > This allows the FSF to act to stop violations of the GPL.
>     > hoarding of modified versions, but we can still use the program in GNU.
> The second point explicitly mentions contributions to preexisting programs.
>     > happen is that we might some day be forced to stop using it.
arguments and, for now, my decision stands.
marginally useful, but seriously, they are not worth a lot of effort.
If I have anything more useful in future I will reconsider.
Sorry to have hijacked the thread.


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New Activist Wonders Aloud When Recognition Will Come
At an activist meeting held at the local town hall on Monday, in which several grassroots organizations met to talk about next steps after the AHCA was successfully shot down late last week, a new activist became visibly fidgety as people spoke.
Bradley Wilber, a graduate student, joined several email lists for activist organizations after the election of President Donald Trump. "I want to be on the right side of history," Wilber wrote in his personal diary that he posts to his Tumblr page. "So I signed up to receive emails from organizations working to take down the forces of evil in the White House."
At the time, Wilber was unaware that these emails would call upon him to take specific daily actions toward social justice. "First they tell me to become familiar with the issues, then they tell me to get familiar with my representatives, and then they ask me to email, call, AND write letters to these representatives so that my voice can be heard for change. What's next? Are they going to ask me to show up to where these people work and make a public declaration?" Wilber later checked his inbox to discover that, yes, these organizations did in fact want him to make appearances at the meetings where these representatives would be present.
Despite these setbacks, Wilber determined to push ahead with personal activism after seeing several successful attempts to halt President Trump's initiatives. Eventually, Wilber's friends started to notice a change in the way he spoke. "There was a moment where Bradley would talk about what activists were doing to stop Trump from banning immigrants, and in the next moment he had changed the word 'activists' to 'we,' and even sometimes 'I,'" Bradley's classmate Kimberly Well noted. "All of a sudden it was things Bradley was doing to stop President Trump, although everything he was doing remained nonspecific and vague."
Yes, Wilber seemed fast-tracked for quick activist status; that is, until Monday's town hall meeting provoked a different side of him. As Wilber became increasingly more fidgety during the town hall meeting, a spokesperson from the Grassroots Movement for Grass Smoking (GMGS) asked Wilber if he was okay, as he seemed "decidedly not chill."
"I'm fine," Wilber responded, before adding, "It's just that—when does the activism end, exactly? No. That came out wrong. But. I guess I'm just wondering when—umm—when do we get thanked for doing all of this work? Don't you guys ever have banquets or, like, robing ceremonies? How will people know I am an activist without me telling them, is what I'm asking."
After a few seconds of sustained silence and glares from the Party-less People for Change (PPC), Wilber understood the error of saying some words out loud, as sincerely as he meant them. After all, Wilber had taken an undergraduate course in body language and reminded himself of his professor's advice: "Speak not what you think, but what you think others are thinking." In forgetting the wisdom of suppression, Wilber had sacrificed approval from the group to admit he had been thinking of himself, the first no-no of any activist movement.
Although Wilber is unsure if activism is a sustainable lifestyle for him personally, he has yet to unsubscribe from the various emails he receives. As of this posting, his Twitter bio still lists "aspiring activist" next to "ultimate Frisbee enthusiast."
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Iker Jiménez Elizari (Vitoria, 10 de enero de 1973) es un periodista español. Licenciado en Ciencias de la Información por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y la Universidad Europea de Madrid, ha dirigido y presentado el programa radiofónico Milenio 3 en Cadena SER y dirige y presenta junto a su mujer, la también periodista Carmen Porter, el espacio televisivo Cuarto Milenio de Cuatro. Desde 2020 publica un podcast irregular (La Estirpe de los Libres) en YouTube, y a partir del mismo año presenta también el programa de divulgación Horizonte, también en Cuatro.

Debido a su labor en la dirección de Milenio 3 y Cuarto Milenio, Jiménez es uno de los comunicadores más renombrados de la televisión española, así como parodiados y criticados. Aunque ha sido acusado en ocasiones de promover la telebasura, también ha sido premiado en varias instancias al mérito periodístico y comunicativo, contando en su haber con tres Antenas de Oro y un Premio Ondas, junto con varios otros galardones.

Biografía
Hijo del galerista de arte Pedro Ramón Jiménez —experto en pintura flamenca—, y de su esposa, María Elizari. Desde niño fue un apasionado de los dinosaurios. Su interés por «lo paranormal» se inició a raíz de la lectura de un libro sobre ovnis de la biblioteca de su tío, hecho que coincidió con una noticia periodística sobre el avistamiento de ovnis en la provincia de Álava en 1984. Sus referencias en la ufología fueron Antonio Ribera y J. J. Benítez.

Comenzó su actividad periodística profesional en Radio Alameda, emisora municipal de Torres de la Alameda —municipio de la Comunidad de Madrid— con diecisiete años. Su primer programa se llamaba La otra dimensión. Después trabajó en la emisora comunitaria Radio Enlace de Madrid, donde presentaba un programa de sucesos y misterios llamado Al filo de lo imposible. Un año después el espacio pasó a llamarse Al final de la escalera y se emitió dos años en la emisora comunitaria Onda Verde.

Junto al también periodista Lorenzo Fernández Bueno, publicó un fanzine llamado La Última Hora antes de que ambos fuesen reclutados por Fernando Jiménez del Oso para su nueva revista mensual Enigmas (Editorial América Ibérica, 1995). En ella publicó sus primeros reportajes, investigaciones de campo y exclusivas, que dieron lugar a sus primeros trabajos literarios.

Publicó su primer libro, Enigmas sin resolver (1999), que tuvo continuación, así como otras obras monográficas de gran éxito —Fronteras de lo imposible, El paraíso maldito, Encuentros—. Trabajó como director y presentador en Antena 3 Radio y Radio 80 —delegación de La Coruña—, Radio 16, RKR Radio, Onda Verde, Radio Voz, Onda Madrid y Radio Intercontinental. En televisión, colaboró en Telecinco y Antena 3 en diversos programas, llegando a tener secciones propias antes de llegar a la Cadena SER. Allí, primero tuvo una sección dentro del programa Si amanece nos vamos, y más tarde obtuvo su propio programa, Milenio 3.

Tras las primeras cuatro temporadas de Milenio 3, espacio que se inició el 1 de junio de 2002, empezó a presentar y dirigir, hasta la actualidad, el programa de televisión Cuarto Milenio en Cuatro: en ambos espacios nocturnos se abordan —a través de entrevistas y trabajos de investigación— diversos fenómenos paranormales y otros enigmas sin resolver. Entre ellos se encuentran la etnografía, las pseudociencias, la ciencia en sus más diversas variantes, la antropología, la ufología, la parapsicología, el esoterismo, la criminología o la arqueología. En 2008 Cuatro le encomendó una serie de reportajes llamados «Confidenciales Iker Jiménez». El primero de ellos, emitido el 18 de julio de 2008, versó sobre el accidente de Chernóbil. Más tarde dirigiría otro monográfico, «El salto infinito», sobre los orígenes y el arte del hombre prehistórico.

Con su programa radiofónico Milenio 3 batió los mejores registros de audiencia en el horario de madrugada de la radio española, situándolo en una marca de  oyentes. Milenio 3 entró en la historia de la radiodifusión española al ser el primer espacio de una emisora privada en emitirse en América: Argentina, Colombia, Chile, México y Estados Unidos.

En 2007, 2008 y 2009 lanzó tres colecciones de libros-DVD sobre los contenidos de Cuarto Milenio. La última de ellas se vendía junto con el diario El País, perteneciente al mismo grupo de comunicación, Santillana.

En 2009 dirigió y presentó el documental sobre prehistoria El salto infinito, un recorrido de dos horas de duración por las principales cuevas con arte rupestre de España y Francia. Durante el rodaje se descubrieron nuevas muestras de arte de más de veinte mil años en las cuevas cántabras de La Pasiega y El Castillo. En el documental intervinieron los más importantes especialistas en el ámbito de los estudios prehistóricos. Jean Clottes —presidente conservación de la Unesco del Patrimonio Mundial de Arte Rupestre—, J. A. Lasheras —director de la cueva de Altamira—, Antonio Rosas y Manuel Martín Loeches. A pesar de su calidad, no obtuvo el respaldo de la audiencia.

Ha publicado ocho ensayos: Enigmas sin resolver I y II; El paraíso maldito; Fronteras de lo imposible; Encuentros, La historia de los ovni en España; Tumbas sin nombre —junto con Luis Mariano Fernández—; La noche del miedo y Milenio 3, el libro. También se atrevió con la novela en Camposanto, editada en varios países (Editorial Suma de Letras), basada en la vida del pintor Jheronimus van Aken El Bosco y la obsesión de Felipe II con su obra—.

En 2013 colaboró en el fugaz espacio de Telecinco Al otro lado, que dirigió y presentó su propia esposa —se emitieron dos programas—.

El 28 de junio de 2015 se emitió el último programa de Milenio 3. Según Iker Jiménez, el motivo de la finalización del programa estuvo motivado por cuestiones personales —en concreto, dedicar más tiempo a su hija—, buscando así desmentir los rumores de que fuese por un contrato de exclusividad con Mediaset, como se comentaba en las redes sociales. Casi dos meses después Iker Jiménez inauguró un pódcast en Radioset llamado Universo Iker, que, simultaneándose con otros formatos alternativos como Dos en la Noche o Carmen Connection, se mantendría en emisión hasta julio de 2018.

El 22 de septiembre de 2018 puso en marcha Milenio Live, un formato semanal en directo que se emite durante las madrugadas del viernes al sábado a través de YouTube. El programa se realiza desde el Estudio Alma, en el propio domicilio de Iker Jiménez, quien además de ocuparse personalmente de todos los aspectos técnicos y de realización, dirige y presenta el programa junto a su mujer, Carmen Porter.

En 2022 anunció el lanzamiento de GOIA, un proyecto pionero para reinterpretar la obra del pintor Francisco de Goya mediante el uso de la Inteligencia Artificial.

Televisión

Obras

Libros de divulgación
 Enigmas sin resolver: los 'expedientes X' más sorprendentes e inexplicables de España (Edaf, 1999)
 El paraíso maldito: un viaje al rincón más enigmático de nuestra geografía (Corona Borealis, 1999)
 Enigmas sin resolver II (Edaf, 2000)
 Fronteras de lo imposible (Edaf, 2001)
 Encuentros: la historia de los OVNI en España (Edaf, 2002)
 Tumbas sin nombre (Edaf, 2003) - Escrito en colaboración con Luis Mariano Fernández
 La noche del miedo (Edaf, 2004)
 Milenio 3: el libro (Aguilar, 2006) - En colaboración con Carmen Porter

Novela
 Camposanto (Suma de Letras, 2005)

Editor y director de otras colecciones

 Biblioteca Cuarto Milenio (25 vol.; Aguilar, 2007)
 Biblioteca El Archivo del Misterio de Iker Jiménez (23 vol.; Edaf, 2003)
 Biblioteca Los Imprescindibles del Misterio (14 vol., Círculo de Lectores, 2006)
 Catálogo oficial de La nave del misterio: Libro fotográfico. (Autoeditado, 2015) - Creado en colaboración de Juan Villa y Annaïs Pascual

Actividad profesional

Radio
 Milenio 3 (2002-2015), en la Cadena SER.
 Universo Iker (2015-2018), en Radioset.

Televisión
 La Otra Dimensión (2001), en Antena 3 (canal de televisión).
 Cuarto Milenio (2005-presente), en Cuatro. (De marzo a agosto de 2020 dejó de emitirse por la pandemia COVID-19, durante ese tiempo hubo reposiciones)
 Cuarto Milenio Zoom (2016-2017), en Cuatro.
 Informe covid (2020-2021), Telecinco.
 Horizonte (2020-presente), en Telecinco y posteriormente en Cuatro.

Internet
Milenio Live (2018-2021), en YouTube y Mtmad.
La Estirpe de los Libres (2020-presente), en YouTube.

Premios

2004
 Antena de Oro, otorgada por la Federación de Asociaciones de Radio Televisión de España. Un galardón otorgado por los compañeros de profesión de todas las cadenas, en reconocimiento a «su labor como director y presentador de Milenio 3 en la Cadena SER como innovación del medio y rigor informativo».
 Galardón al mejor periodista por la Asociación de Víctimas del 11-M en un acto celebrado en Cáceres, donde también fueron premiados los periodistas Baltasar Magro y Lorenzo Milá.
 Organiza una Alerta OVNI por toda España el 26 de junio de 2004, dentro del programa de radio Milenio 3, conmemorando el 25 aniversario de la primera Alerta OVNI española realizada en 1979 por Antonio José Ales en su programa de radio Medianoche.

2005
 Publica su primera novela, Camposanto, basada en la vida de Hyeronimus Van Acken El Bosco. Vende  ejemplares en Argentina y es traducida en Italia (Il Villaggio Maledetto, Edizioni Il Punto D´Incontro) y en Alemania (Campus Sanctus, Rowolt Verlag), donde se convierte en un superventas de más de  ejemplares.

2006
 Personaje Televisivo del año 2006, consiguiendo el 43,5% de los votos en una macro encuesta efectuada por los medios de divulgación del Grupo Vocento a través de su portal de internet. Iker ha sido además, el primer presentador de la cadena Cuatro en conseguir este galardón.
 Al mismo tiempo, el portal Vaya Tele, en votación popular, ha galardonado al programa Cuarto Milenio el preferido, en el ámbito de la divulgación, por los internautas.
 Su libro Milenio 3, el libro ocupó el puesto de los más vendidos del país desde el momento de su salida.

2007
 El 24 de febrero convierte a Milenio 3 en el primer programa de radio española de una emisora privada en ser emitido a toda Latinoamérica, llegando a tener varios millones de oyentes en su franja horaria.
 La Trufa de Oro de 2007, concedida por los periodistas de las diversas emisoras radiofónicas de Vitoria, como periodista destacado y personaje que ha llevado por el mundo con orgullo el «Nombre de Vitoria». Este galardón, que cumple su décima edición, es un gran clásico del periodismo alavés.
 Premio Ángulo 13, en su primera edición, al mejor investigador español.
 La emisión de Milenio 3, del 23 de noviembre de 2007 desde el Pabellón de Mendizorroza, es considerada la de mayor aforo en la historia de la difusión radiofónica de Euskadi. Asistieron 5100 personas, en un hecho sin precedentes.

2008
 Premio Arias Montano a la divulgación, concedido en Valladolid por Ámbito Cultural de El Corte Inglés.

2009
 Programa más valorado por los internautas en www.cuatro.com con un 9,1 de nota media.

2010
 La Universidad Camilo José Cela, en un acontecimiento pionero, inaugura un seminario llamado «La pasión de investigar» impartido y centrado en la biografía de Iker Jiménez para los licenciados en criminología.
 Cuarto Milenio se convierte en el contenido más descargado del año en el servicio Play Cuatro de Mediaset, mientras que Milenio 3 se vuelve el programa más descargado de toda la radio emitida en español. La web www.ikerjimenez.com bate récords con más de ocho millones de descargas.
 Cuarto Milenio, Medalla de Plata a la Mejor cabecera gráfica internacional en el Festival Internacional de Televisión y Cine de Nueva York de 2010, de alcance mundial.
 Milenio 3 en la Cadena SER alcanza un récord de cuota de audiencia en la radio española en la segunda oleada del EGM 2010: 60% de los oyentes de la madrugada escuchan en el espacio presentado y dirigido por Iker Jiménez.
 Milenio 3 elegido mejor programa de la temporada 2009-2010 por votación popular en Foros del Misterio, compitiendo con otros 26 formatos nacionales.
 Iker Jiménez galardonado, junto con el presidente de la Audiencia Provincial de Valladolid Feliciano Trebolle, con la Insignia de Plata de la Sociedad Española de Criminología y Ciencias Forenses (SECCIF) en un acto celebrado en Valladolid.
 Milenio 3 bate todos los récords de audiencia de la madrugada en España. Récord histórico desde que se computan audiencias. 750.000 oyentes de media de 1 a 4 de la madrugada, quintuplicando a la competencia.

2012
 Milenio 3 organiza una segunda «Alerta Ovni» el 9 de junio, con sede central en la Cúpula del Milenio de Valladolid y decenas de corresponsales en los cinco continentes.

2014
 Milenio 3 emite un programa histórico, en directo, desde el Anfiteatro Romano de Mérida dos mil años después de la muerte de Octavio Augusto, primer emperador de Roma. Las entradas por internet al evento se agotaron en menos de un minuto de su apertura.

2015
 Antena de Oro en el apartado de televisión como mejor presentador, en reconocimiento a su labor al frente del veterano Cuarto Milenio.
 Premio Ondas nacional de televisión por, en palabras del jurado, «su labor como presentador, comunicador y director, conduciendo un programa con estilo único y consolidando el género del misterio tanto en televisión como en radio».

2018
 Medalla al mérito profesional en el I Congreso Internacional de Criminalística Aplicada (Noya).
 Premio al Apoyo a Enfermedades Poco Frecuentes otorgado por el Hospital Clínico San Carlos (Madrid).

2019
 Gran Cruz de las Víctimas del Terrorismo al programa Cuarto Milenio, concedida por la Asociación Histórica de la Guardia Civil.

2020
 Premio Independiente del año, en el apartado de Comunicación y Televisión, otorgado por Unión por Leganés.
 Medalla al mérito policial, cedida a título personal por Jesús Montero del Cuerpo Nacional de Policía, por su labor divulgativa durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en España.

2021
 Premio de Honor al Mejor Comunicador de Radio y TV en el Área de Programas Divulgativos e Investigación 2021, otorgado por Fundación Gala.
Nombrado una de las 50 personas más influyentes en el ámbito de la comunicación en España por la web Merca2.
Nombrado una de las 25 personalidades más influyentes del año 2021 en España por Forbes.

2022
 Gran Cruz a la Solidaridad COVID-19, en reconocimiento a su compromiso durante la pandemia como director del programa Horizonte, concedida por la Asociación Histórica de la Guardia Civil.
 I Premio de Turismo Ciudad de Palencia en la categoría de medios de comunicación.
 Premio Arturo Duperier 2022 a las ciencias de la información.
 Antena de Oro 2022 al programa Horizonte, premio otorgado por la Federación de Asociaciones de Radio y Televisión..

Controversias
Los programas y publicaciones de Iker Jiménez dedicados a lo paranormal son objeto de juicio por parte de científicos y escépticos, que ven en ellos una explotación de la credulidad de la gente, y por parte de algunos educadores, algunos sectores del periodismo, que los sitúan en el mismo campo de la degradación de la profesión que los reality shows y otras formas de lo que, aplicado a la televisión, es llamado telebasura, e incluso por parte de otros investigadores del misterio.

El cadáver de Boisaca
En su libro Enigmas sin resolver, Iker Jiménez recogió un suceso ocurrido en Santiago de Compostela en mayo de 1988, en el que un tren arrolló a un joven que iba caminando por las vías a su paso por el puente de Paredes. El estado en el que quedó el cuerpo, enterrado en una fosa común del cementerio local en el barrio de Boisaca, el que no llevara encima ningún tipo de documentación y unido al hecho de que no se idenficase al joven por las huellas dactilares, hizo que distintos periodistas del misterio alimentasen el caso con teorías acerca de la identidad del joven, desde que se trataba de un enfermo mental extraviado, un niño salvaje o un «temponauta». La historia fue bautizada como el «Caminante», el «Cadáver» o el «niño de Boisaca». De hecho, Iker Jiménez le dedicó varios programas, en Milenio 3 y en Cuarto milenio. Sin embargo, en enero de 2009, una prueba de ADN demostró que se trataba de un joven de 22 años llamado Óscar Ortega Vasalo, que había desaparecido de su casa de Barcelona un mes antes. De hecho, la ficha de Óscar figuraba en la web Inter-Sos de personas desaparecidas.

Tumbas sin nombre
En su libro Tumbas sin nombre (2003), en el que se intenta identificar las caras de Bélmez con antepasados reales de la dueña de la casa, se presenta, en la página 47, una fotografía de un Guardia Civil a quien se identifica con la teleplastia denominada La Pava. Sin embargo, en la página 30 y en el informe central del libro, donde se pueden ver las comparaciones de la imagen del Guardia Civil y La Pava, se aprecia que la copia de la fotografía había sido manipulada para que coincidiera con dicha teleplastia. La recreación fue hecha originalmente en el programa Flashback, de Canal Sur, y por motivos de derechos, los autores del libro realizaron una nueva recreación, de ahí que la fotografía llegase alterada a los autores del análisis, José Manuel García Bautista y Rafael Cabello Herrero, según consta en la página 113 del libro.

Alerta OVNI
La alerta ovni organizada en 2004 llevó a que periodistas de entornos críticos creasen el proyecto Magonia, invitando al público a construir falsos OVNIs —OVI, objetos volantes identificados— para poner a prueba la fiabilidad de los testimonios en ese tipo de eventos. Sin embargo, nadie participó en dicha iniciativa.

Véase también
 Milenio 3
 Cuarto Milenio
 Horizonte

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Enlaces externos

 Página oficial de Iker Jiménez en SoundCloud

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Some of the highlighted app partners include Sega America – its Sonic Dash game in particular – and UsTwo, which makes the popular Monument Valley game. Users will be able to filter searches to only include Unlocked apps, much like one can search for only Amazon Prime items through the shopping service.
It's also similar to what Amazon currently offers with its FreeTime Unlimited subscription, which provides unlimited access to a selection of apps, games and content for children. FreeTime is only available on Amazon's Fire and Kindle devices, however.
There's no word yet on when Amazon might roll out the service, but it's certainly an interesting proposal – the subscription model might just compel more users to try its selection over Google Play's. Perhaps that will wok better than installing a secret app store in its main app.


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The SAGE Handbook of Social Science Methodology
"'An excellent guidebook through different approaches to social science measurement, including the all-important route-maps that show us how to get there' - Roger Jowell, City University. 'Over the last decade at least there has been an avalanche of social research methods books, almost all of which are concerned to unproblematically purvey methodological material to ever more particular market niches, often using purportedly new repackagings What is needed, instead, is the deepening of methodological knowledge and the widening of reflective discussions around social research. In this wide-ranging collection of chapters, written by acknowledged experts in their fields, Outhwaite and Turner have brought together material in one volume which will provide an extremely important platform for consideration of the full range of contemporary analytical and methodological issues' ...
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Nissa Rhee
Award-winning Journalist
What it's like to go to school during Chicago's tough year
Danely Quiroz's school doesn't have enough textbooks or desks to go around. Kids can't check out books because the librarian was laid off. She's walked home past crime scenes. But she and her fellow students are not giving up.
By Nissa Rhee, Correspondent OCTOBER 18, 2016
CHICAGO—When Danely Quiroz started her senior year at Roosevelt High School this fall, a familiar face was missing. One of her favorite teachers had been laid off, along with other staff members and the school's only librarian – part of more than 1,000 employees in Chicago Public Schools who lost their jobs in August's round of cuts.
The news hit Danely hard. While her 94-year-old high school has a storied history, with notable alumni including writers Nelson Algren and Shel Silverstein, Roosevelt has suffered from regular budget cuts during her time as a student. The school, which serves just under 1,200 students, has lost $2.5 million in funding over the past two years.
The impact on students has been noticeable. The school does not have enough textbooks, so Danely says kids have to share in class. The teacher cuts mean some classes have as many as 40 students. In one of her Advanced Placement classes, there are more students than desks. The lack of a librarian now means that students are unable to check out books or get help on research projects, like in past years.
The staff that Roosevelt lost, especially Danely's former world studies teacher, made a real difference in how students like her saw themselves and their neighborhood, she says.
"He was one of the first teachers who made me really love my school," Danely says of Tim Meegan. While many in her neighborhood say that her school is filled with "drug dealers and gang bangers," Danely says that Mr. Meegan taught her to look beyond these stereotypes.
Albany Park is one of the city's most ethnically diverse neighborhoods, with many residents, like Danely's parents, coming from other countries. But the area also has its share of violence and drug trafficking.
Danely remembers hearing gunshots when she stayed late at school one evening. On her walk home, she saw police inspecting a pool of blood behind yellow barricade tape. In such an atmosphere, she says teachers like Meegan make a real difference in students' lives.
"He talked about the diversity, the richness in [the school]. And I think that really helped me as a freshman coming from middle school and hearing all of the negative stereotypes and the stigma around [Roosevelt]."
It's a difficult time to be growing up in Chicago. Public school students like Danely face a host of challenges, including fewer teachers and resources at school along with the ongoing challenges of poverty and violence in their community. Despite that, the district has seen impressive improvements in student test scores and graduation rates in recent years. More than 73 percent of high school students here are now graduating. Although still below the national average of 83 percent, this marks a 16-point gain from just five years ago.
But many here are concerned that those gains won't last without adequate financial resources.
"I keep waiting for the floor to fall out," says Elaine Allensworth, the director of the Consortium on School Research at the University of Chicago. "The budget crisis, the political conflict, the leadership turnover, not to mention the excessive gun violence in our city and extreme segregation – all of these things make it so difficult for schools."
Strike averted, but challenges remain
In one bright spot, the Chicago Public Schools came to a tentative agreement with the teachers union over contracts last week – minutes before deadline. In avoiding another strike, which would have been the second time teachers shut down schools in 2016, many here are hoping that the district can finally move past the financial uncertainty that has marked recent years. But the struggles for students in Chicago are far from over.
In addition to the financial problems that led to the cuts that have left schools like Danely's understaffed, the district has gone through a succession of CEOs, including one who pleaded guilty last year to accepting kickbacks. The revolving leadership and staff changes have left the district without a clear vision, says Ms. Allensworth, and unable to adequately serve their students, many of which live in low-income, high-crime neighborhoods.
"Class sizes have been going up and support staff has been going down," says Allensworth. "Here you have almost all of the schools serving almost all low income students, who are going to need a lot of support. Many students are coming to school behind academically and yet the class sizes are very large in some schools and they're losing social workers, counselors, aids, and nurses, all of this support staff that a lot of schools desperately need."
More than 86 percent of students in Chicago public schools are economically disadvantaged, meaning that they qualify for free or reduced school meals. African-American and Hispanic students make up 84.9 percent of the student population, and many of them live in the highly segregated neighborhoods on the south and west side that have experienced spikes in gun violence this year.
Over 3,400 people have been shot so far in Chicago this year, and 579 people have been killed. These numbers are up substantially from 2015, which saw fewer than 3,000 shootings and 492 homicides for the entire year.
"So many students, especially in the neighborhoods with the highest percentage of poverty, have been exposed to trauma in so many different ways," says Allensworth. "The fewer resources the schools have, the harder it is for them to maintain staff and programs [which address that trauma]."
Birth of a student leader
Danely's response to all the uncertainty has been to take an active role in her school and her community. She volunteers as a mentor for freshmen and helps them stay on track. And with a group of other students she founded a student council for the school. This year, she's serving as president.
But the moment she points to as her political awakening came earlier this year, during the citywide teacher walkout in April.
She was supposed to have the day off. Classes had been canceled, with teachers going on strike to protest the school district's faltering finances and inability to agree on a new contract. But Danely wanted to share her story. She begged her mother to drive her to the school parking lot, where people and TV cameras were gathering, before dawn. At 6 a.m., Danely took the stage.
"How can our teachers teach when we don't have the textbooks used to learn?" she asked the crowd. "How can they teach in overcrowded classrooms with 39, 40 students? How can they teach when we're not given the resources to learn or the teachers that teach those subjects? I'm tired of having substitute teachers and temporary ones. This is unacceptable, this is not right."
Danely was prepared to speak again last week, before the strike was averted. But she says that she's happy the union and the school district were able to come to a tentative agreement. While she thinks it probably won't solve all of her school's problems, it is a good start.
In addition to resolving the issue of teacher pay, the tentative agreement addresses the issue of teacher cuts and overcrowded classrooms. Kindergarten through second grade classes that have more than 32 students will now have a teacher's assistant. High schools like Danely's, however, will not see any change through the proposed contract.
Despite the many challenges that remain for Chicago public school students, Danely is optimistic about not only her own future but the future of the city's education system. She is interviewing at colleges now, and plans to be the second in her family to attend. But she says her story is not unique. She has seen how dedicated her fellow students are to learning and how willing they are to fight for better schools.
"Roosevelt students are not just students, they're dreamers, they're activists, they're scholars, they're musicians, they're bookworms, they're gamers, and they're artists. We're a diverse group, but something that we all have in common as Chicago students is that we care," says Danely. "I think it's safe to say that Chicago will be in good hands later on. And I will be one of the people who will make sure that the future is going to be bright and loving."
Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor
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Q: How to install MobileTerminal on a non-jailbreak iPhone? I downloaded MobileTerminal sources from http://mobileterminal.googlecode.com/svn.
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The author of MobileTerminal said that it will work fine if put the MobileTerminal's binary in /Applications,but how to do this on a non-jailbreak iPhone? My iPhone is running on iOS5.1.
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A: You can't place binaries in ./Applications on a non jailbroken iPhone.
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Type: cd /Library/MobileSubstrate/DynamicLibraries (fyi, if folder doesn't seem to exist: do step 8 first!)
Type: ls -1 (fyi, you should see 2 files now: one of them should be 'DynamicLibraries')
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[ 8. ] Open Cydia now. Install a simple tweak (it doesn't matter which one, but iCleaner is a good choice), in order to create the directory: /var/stash
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Q: Definition of finite elements (Ciarlet) I dont understand this definition of finite elements:
The triple $(K,P,\Sigma)$ with

*

*$K \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ connected lipschitz domain with non-empty interior

*$P$ finite dimensional vector space of functions $p:K\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$

*$\Sigma = \{\sigma_1,...,\sigma_s\} \subset L(P, \mathbb{R}) $ a set of linear forms defined on $P$, called local degrees of freedom, such that the mapping
$$\Lambda_\Sigma : P \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^s\\p\rightarrow(\sigma_1(p),...,\sigma_s(p))$$
is bijective.

What is the motivation to give such a construction?
As far as I understand, the elements of $P$ are the Ansatzfunctions and $\Sigma \subset P^*$, i.e. $\Sigma$ is a subset of the dual space of $P$. But what does this aim towards?
Thanks alot!

A: The definition as worded in the question may be the (standard?) mathematical point of view.But the engineering point of view may be quite different from this, as exemplified for example in:

From the first chapter of the book, called
The Standard Discrete System, we have the
following pictures:

As quoted from page 10 in the book: This general assembly process can be found to be the common and fundamental feature of all finite element calculations and should be well understood by the reader.

With the Finite Difference Method / Finite Volume Method (FDM/FVM) equations are assembled
row by row. Such in sharp contrast with the Finite Element Method (FEM), where
the equations are assembled matrix by matrix, several pieces of a row at a time. Thus with FDM/FVM, a stencil/finite volume around a nodal point (usually the point in the middle) gives one complete equation for that point, while, with FEM, a finite element gives only a piece of an equation for every nodal point of the element:

There are other cultural differences, not at all an exhaustive list here:

FDM stencils (e.g. five point stars) may easily overlap each other; the same for finite volumes
Finite Elements usually are contiguous; they have only nodal points and/or edges in common
regular grids are typical for FDM/FVMunstructured grids are typical for FEM
solving FDM/FVM equations is preferably done with iterative methods (e.g. Gauss-Seidel)
solving FEM equations is preferably done with direct methods (e.g. Gaussian elimination)
though nowadays practice seems to converge to employing the best of both worlds.

I said "cultural", because, in at least two
test
cases,
it can be claimed that the assembly procedure actually is the only difference between a Finite Element and a Finite Volume approach for the same problem.

A: The only motivation is to write a generic definition that describes a broad spectrum of numerical methods often referred to as finite element methods.


Currie's hopes of winning the Premiership's fourth and final play-off place are still alive after they toughed out a hard-won victory against Hawks to stay hard on the heels of Heriot's for that precious place.
A bonus-point win against Boroughmuir in a last re-arranged league match will mean they go into the play-offs. Defending champions Heriot's, who also won yesterday at Stirling with a bonus point, sit four points ahead and can do no more.
The last time Currie and Hawks met in the league they shared 11 tries and 63 points and Currie nicked it by one point. This time round there was no repeat of the high scoring, although Currie ended with a two-try flourish after a gritty second-half performance.
The home pack stamped their authority on the scrum from the outset, winning a penalty that gained good territory and tested the defence before winger Ben Robbins found a gap that took Currie deep into the Glasgow 22.
Nothing came of that attack but Currie persisted and the first try was scored on the right by full-back Harvey Elms as Hawks ran out of tacklers. Jamie Forbes missed the conversion.
Glasgow stand-off Hagen Schulte missed two long-range penalty attempts from near the halfway line on either side of the half-hour mark.
The visitors almost opened their account as Schulte fed Paddy Kelly on the left wing but Currie captain Ross Weston got across to knock him into touch at the corner flag.
It only delayed matters, though, and Hawks scored in the next move when full-back Sean Yacoubian went over in the opposite corner. The conversion was short and it was all square at half-time.
The game restarted at a furious pace and Currie kept up the momentum by kicking for the corner rather than attempting a penalty from the Hawks 22. It only resulted in an untidy lineout but the ball was flung through a series of hands to the opposite side of the pitch, where Elms was squeezed out at the last minute.
Heroic defence by Hawks stymied Currie at every turn until they won a penalty at a ruck only ten metres from the line. Forbes took the points and a lead that would not be relinquished.
Hawks found new reserves of energy and manoeuvred themselves into the danger area, gaining ground with short passes around the rucks. They won a penalty on the Currie 22 but Tommy Spinks fumbled it as he tried to tap and go and the chance was gone.
The players were visibly tiring and more and more mistakes began to creep in. Forbes put Currie six points ahead with a 25-metre penalty that eased the pressure as the floodlights came on.
A try by Robbie Nelson with less than five minutes remaining clinched the victory, with Forbes' conversion hitting both posts before going over. Ben Robbins added a third try in injury time and Forbes a final conversion.


On to the riot of colours and massed ranks of the age dominated by horses, muskets and black powder. There was a strong showing for this period again at Salute 2019, combining beautifully painted armies and terrain. Photos by myself and undeadhighelf.
One of the largest and best displays came courtesy of the Crewe & Nantwich Wargaming Club and the Battle of Aughrim 1691 during the Williamite Wars in Ireland.
The Friends of General Haig fought the Battle of Lützen 1632 between the Swedish and the Holy Roman Empire, which saw the death of Gustavus Adolfus (historically, not sure if he had a better fate during this recreation).
The Old Guard fought a battle during the Napoleonic Wars, as one would expect from their name, using the Command & Colours rules set.
Dalauppror presented the Battle of Dänholm during the Siege of Stralsund 1807 which won this year's Robert Bothwell Memorial Award for Best Historical Game at Salute.
More games from this period were fought by the Gravesend Gamers Guild, Tin Soldiers of Antwerp, Wargamer Poland and Loughton Strike Force.
One of the outstanding gaming tables at Salute 2018 was built by Bill Gaskin & Friends – another highlight following 2016's Battle of Wilhelmstadt. 'Raid at Gaskin's Plantation' was set in 1761 and portrayed a fictional Spanish incursion into Florida.
Some more atmospheric close up shots (no pun intended) by undeadhighelf.
The League of Gentlemen Anti-Alchemists sent Garibaldi's Redshirts to rescue a beautifully constructed convent in the year 1860.
Dalauppror presented the Battle of Stäket, which took place on 13th August 1719 during the Great Northern War and pitched Russians versus Swedes. The scenario was played out using The Pikeman's Lament set of rules.
The hypothetical 'Battle of Freeman's Farm' during the American War of Independence in 1777 was staged by the Essex Warriors.
Further games within the wider era ranged from Napoleonic to British colonials in India.
Best of Show at Salute 2015 deservedly went to Ron Ringrose and the Essex Gamsters for "Fort George", based on a Bernard Cornwell novel set during the American War of Independence. The custom built terrain including ships and the level of detail in all the miniatures made this the stand out spectacle of the show.
Tin Soldiers of Antwerp brought another lovingly created table this year depicting the Napoleonic "Battle of Charleroi".
Blockbuster Wargames staged "The Battle of Lützen" in 1632 along a massive frontline.
"Napoleon: The Last Gamble" was presented by Loughton Strike Force using the General de Brigade set of rules.
"Lake of Death – The Battle of Aruara" during the South American Wars of Independence was created by the South London Warlords.
Black Powder rules were in play for "The Battle of Guilford Courthouse" during the American War of Independence by Newark Irregulars.
Battle displays from the 18th and 19th centuries always make for a visual spectacle with plenty of colourful uniforms, banners, cannon and cavalry. Salute 2014 had its fair share of these as would be expected.
The South London Warlords' own Battle of Barbastro during the 1st Carlist War was arguably the most imposing and also had plenty of nice little touches.
Wargames Illustrated recreated the Battle of Arklow from the Irish Rebellion with an imposing array of forces and scenery to match.
Napoleon's Battles were the background for a sweeping battlefield in 18mm scale by Capitan Games.
The Golden Age of Piracy provided the setting for skirmishes by Spirit of the Game using their own set of rules and pitching redcoats against bands of pirates in a Caribbean port in 40mm scale.


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DR. Fred Kasch
Dr. Frederick W. Kasch April 16, 1913 - April 08, 2008
About our "Very good friend".
By, Bill Wright
This is the Fred I knew. I first met Fred Kasch in the spring of 1999 at Bigfoot archery club. My wife and I were just starting traditional archery and shooting our recurves standing up close to the target butts. Fred walked up with a big smile, introduced himself and commented that we were standing right at his effective range, he asked if he could join us. I said "sure". As we shot, he explained his self bow, and his disdain for "bug sprays" and how nice it was to see a husband and wife shooting together. Little did I know this was a start of one of the best friendships I have had in my life.
Special Moments shared.
We had a lot of memorable days and conversations but one event special to me was the day we shared together when I harvested my first Whitetail Deer with Traditional equipment.
Below is a photo I call Three Amigo's. Here is fellow Bigfoot member Bob Tastsides, Fred and myself. On this day, in the dark of it's early morning, we were walking to a ground blind he was to hunt. It was a perfect morning, just cold enough to see your breath. As we walked up a slight hillside, Fred paused and said, "Bill, Let's hold up a bit". We were both breathing a bit harder when he winked at me and said, "I am just not the man I was when I was 85". I guess at the time he was about 92. I laughed a little, and then we both just turned up the hill and went on our way. Now as I think about it, I just hope to someday be half the man he was.
A bit of Fred's life as published in a recent article soon after his passing:
Frederick W. Kasch was born April 16, 1913, in Chicago. He was the third of four children born to Helen Louise DeWald Kasch and Frederick Moritz Kasch. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Illinois in Champaign, where he played on the baseball team. In 1934, the team won the Big Ten Championship. He earned a doctorate each from New York University in 1956 and from Walden University in 1982.
Dr. Kasch met his first wife, Katherine "Taffy" McLaren, in Chicago. They married in 1939 and were together until her death in 1976. The couple had four children, including a son, Freddie, who served as a Navy pilot during the Vietnam War. Lt. Kasch died in 1967 during a bombing mission near Hanoi.
Dr. Kasch published many research papers and articles and received several honors, including the President's Council on Physical Fitness award. He was a member of New York Academy of Sciences and the San Diego County Heart Association and a board member of the American College of Sports Medicine, among other professional societies.
When Frederick Kasch arrived in San Diego in 1948, health clubs were few, and workouts were reserved for athletes. Heart attack victims and other recovering patients were advised to refrain from physical activity as long as possible.
Dr. Kasch disagreed with the prevailing wisdom that anyone older than 35 should cut down on exercise. Dr. Kasch, who jogged regularly long before it was popular, became a pioneer in the health and fitness field.
Whether canoeing on the Wisconsin River at age 71 or hiking Germany's Black Forest to celebrate his 85th birthday, Dr. Kasch showed that exercise was indeed the key to good health.
In 1948, Dr. Kasch became an assistant professor in physical education at what was then San Diego State College. He also coached gymnastics and baseball. In 1958, Dr. Kasch started one of the first adult-fitness programs in the nation. He pioneered long-term studies documenting the effect of exercise on the aging cardiovascular system.
"He was one of the first internationally recognized physiologists," said John "Jack" Boyer, a physician and medical adviser to Dr. Kasch's adult-fitness class.
The program started as a class for men between the ages of 35 and 60 who were healthy and wanted to stay that way. It also included some men with health problems, such as high blood pressure, diabetes or who had suffered heart attacks.
Boyer said he and Dr. Kasch were openly criticized for their work in the early years.
"People thought when someone had a heart attack they should be still. People didn't realize that movement is important to the recovery of almost all diseases," Boyer said.
Joyce Gattas, dean of San Diego State's College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts, said Dr. Kasch made a real difference in the lives of thousands through his research and the Adult Fitness Clinic he established on campus.
"He was a man before his time," Gattas said. "There weren't all these gyms 50 years ago like there are now. He was probably a lone voice out there talking about the importance of exercise."
The university named its exercise lab in his honor in 1990 and in 1999 established an endowment in his name.
When he retired in 1980, he had more time to devote to skiing, hiking and longbow hunting. He loved working with wood and always made his own bows. In 2004, he went on a hunting trip in South Africa, which he called a high point in his life.
During a trip to one of his favorite places, Lake Geneva, Wis., Dr. Kasch met his second wife, Theodora "Teddie" Lottig. The two married in 1992 and would spend half the year in San Diego and the other half in Lake Geneva.
Dr. Kasch is survived by his wife, Teddie; his daughters, Katie Walter of Glen Ellyn, Ill., Margo Kasch of San Diego, and Helen "Honey" Swinford of Wheaton, Ill.; a sister, Emily Kasch of Elmhurst, Ill.; four stepchildren; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Bigfoot Archers decided to re-name our annual Traditional shoot to be forever called "Fred Kasch Traditional Shoot". It is with great pride that he was a part of my life and I know he was a part of so many others. This truly was a great man.
We have a display case with some memento's of Fred's life and our friendship. Please stop by the club house and learn more about this amazing man.
Below are Some Pictures from the Dedication Ceremony at Big Foot on May 10, 2008 and random pictures of Fred.


佐々木現順, 《阿毘達磨思想研究》, 東京:弘文堂, 1958.12, pp.86, 88.
 Cf. Dhammajoti, Kuala Lumpur(2009). Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma. Centre of Buddhist Studies, the University of Hong Kong., p.342. Also see Cox, C, p.78.
 Cf. 三友容健, et al. 《説一切有部における無明論の展開》,法華文化研究, 1976, 117-128.,p.125-7非理作意與無明是因果同時。Also see小谷信千代, 倶舎論の原典研究―随眠品大蔵出版, 2007.10.《大毘婆沙論》卷24, p.121c-122a.


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Olmasına rağmen bir-merkezi konumda, çok çekici bir seçim!!!
Hi, do you know how much WiFi is at the apartments? Many thanks.
I plan to stay for 10 nights at your premises. Are visitors allowed to the room or only in the lobby?
The hotel staff were very customer-friendly and personal during our 30-day stay and would undoubtedly be allowed for us as senior globetrotters. Permission is of course dependent on the nature of the visit. I would contact the hotel directly and submit the question. Check the internet for contact info. Good luck !!
Hi, are we allowed to have a few guests to visit in the evening?
How near is the metro, the supermarkets ? Also regarding the two bedroom apartments, are there two bathrooms or just single ?


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With the leading causes of visual Impairment in Uganda preventable, Awareness campaigns and early intervention can reduce the burden of Eye Diseases in the country.
YouBelong-Uganda (YBU) is a Uganda based registered NGO, working to transition women, men, and children, out of institutions, such as mental hospitals, back to family and local community. It is supported by YouBelong, a UK registered charity providing grants for work in mental health in East Africa.
The Ugandan Blood Transfusion Service (UBTS) is facing a crisis with the withdrawal of US PEPFAR funding from April 1 st 2017. Initial scoping work already reveals a marked fall in blood supply as PEPFAR funding specifically supported donor recruitment and blood collection activities.


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Two Catholic Priests Abducted By Gunmen In Delta State
Two Catholic priests were kidnapped in the Aniocha North Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta State on Friday December 18th, according to reports.
by Sahara Reporters, New York Dec 19, 2015
Delta police spokesperson Celestina Kalu confirmed that the policewoman has been arrested Nigeria's Daily Post...
One of the two priests, en route to a ceremony honoring the Bishop Michael Elue of the Issele-Uku Diocese, has been identified as Father Franklyn Odiaka of the Catholic Church of Assumption in Asaba. The identity of the second priest was not known at the time of publication.
The Vanguard newspaper in Nigeria reported that none of the Zappa worshippers were "willing to divulge information as they were said to be preparing for a marathon spiritual exercise of prayer against the abductors."
It is worthy of note that these abductions come two weeks after the church was broken into and money was stolen from the parish treasury.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PRO) Celestina Kalu confirmed the kidnappings to journalists, and identified them as Catholic priests. Mrs. Kalu said information was sketchy but expressed confidence the kidnappers would be arrested by police.
Exclusive EXCLUSIVE: How Fulani Bandits Coordinated Attacks On Oyo Correctional Facility To Free Warlord Wakili, Other Criminal Herdsmen In Detention
Christianity Pastor Fatoyinbo Not Responsible For My Wife's Death, Husband Of Late COZA Chorister Says
Breaking News Ondo High Court Sentences Prof. Ilemobade's Killer Aides To Death By Hanging
CRIME Gunmen Abduct Monarch Inside Kogi Mosque
CRIME Another Delta Monarch Kidnapped


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Incoming state senator files bill to improve access to mental health services
(Missourinet)– In 2008, Congress passed and then-President George W. Bush signed into law a bill requiring health insurance companies to cover mental health the same as any other health conditions. They left the enforcement of the Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addictions Equity Act up to the states. Twelve years after legislation was signed into law, incoming State Senator Greg Razer says 48 states are enforcing that law – Missouri and Oklahoma are not.
Razer, D-Kansas City, has pre-filed a bill that would ban health insurance companies from using loopholes to avoid paying for mental health services or make it difficult for customers to get the services.
"I think everyone realizes that mental health issues are a huge issue – not just in Missouri but around the country. There's no reason that people can't get the access that they need when they have health care. So, it's time that we as a state start enforcing that," he tells Missourinet.
Razer offered a similar bill this year in the Missouri House but it did not get a committee hearing.
"It's going to be the right thing for the health and well-being of the citizens of Missouri," he says. "And frankly any argument that 'Oh this is going to cause them to go belly up,' I don't think they are hurting in the other 48 states."
The legislation is Senate Bill 80.
The new legislative session begins on January 6 at the state Capitol in Jefferson City.
More Regional News Stories
by Madison Hever / Jan 20, 2021
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Senator Roy Blunt played a role on Inauguration Day as the chairman of the Inauguration Committee.
While President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were being sworn in, you could see Blunt standing right behind them.
Crash involving school bus in Green Forest, Arkansas, injuries unknown at this time
by Beth Finello / Jan 20, 2021
GREEN FOREST, Ark. - A school bus in the Green Forest School District was involved in an accident early Wednesday morning.
According to a Facebook post, Dr. Matt Summers, the district superintendent, an accident occurred on Highway 63 East of Green Forest.
Missouri on top and Illinois is last in U-Haul's migration list
by Joe Millitzer / Jan 20, 2021
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KTVI) - If you want to know where people are migrating to then you should probably ask the movers. U-Haul has published their list of states that people appear to have moved to in 2020.
Missouri ranks seventh among the top ten. They are joined by Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Ohio, and other states.


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    private Iterator<? extends T> iterator;
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    public PredicatedIterator(Iterator<? extends T> iterator, UnaryPredicate<? super T> predicate) {
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Basically, the return of the wolf to Switzerland (Ticino-Grigioni) may arise some problems to flocks. For this reason, the associations UFAFP launched a project for the introduction of guard dogs and for the education of shepherds, in order to help farmers most affected by wolves' attacks. Moreover, there's the possibility to "recruit" donkeys, which are larger than wolves and effective when threatened. Donkeys' bray alarms the shepherd. Donkeys substantially react to any bother, detest every canine species and aggressively defend the flock from any intruder. Thus, they could be useful for protecting small flocks within fences. Indeed, donkeys are used in North America against coyotes and in Namibia against leopards.


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Fintech Mundi | REPORTS
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findexable and Fintech Mundi are delighted to announce the launch of our inaugural Diversity for Growth Report, in partnership with fintech firms Chargebacks911 and Global Processing Services (GPS).
The report is the cornerstone of our Fintech Diversity Radar, the world's first global platform to accelerate diversity in fintech.
In the report, we uncover systemic underrepresentation of women in the fintech industry, including:
A new 1% club: Only 1.5% of the best funded private fintech firms globally are founded solely by women and receive just 1% of total fintech venture funding.
No seat at the table: Women make up 11% of all board members and 19% of company executives.
West is no longer best: Asia has the highest proportion of female founders at 7.7%, and Africa and the Middle East are the leading regions for the proportion of female CEOs.
The tech gender gap: Less than 4% of women globally hold the title of Chief Innovation or Technology Officer.
A joint undertaking between Finetch Mundi and findexable and with FCG, Huawei and Mastercard, the report seals the success of the Nordic fintech community, which stands strong, with investors and innovators hard at work across the space.
The region's early success at moving away from cash, its embrace of collaborative models for the development and distribution of innovative financial services long before fintech became every bank's favourite bandwagon, and commitment to digital services have created the foundations for a thriving fintech ecosystem.
Behind the big names and celebrated unicorns lies a diverse and innovative marketplace. A region where size is no obstacle to success or ambition.
Across three themes, the Report looks at the qualitative issues occupying the region's investors, fintech firms, accelerators and support systems – to identify the impact of the pandemic on operations, shifting perspectives on opportunities across the sector, and the role that finance will play in building the economy of the future. Encouragingly the underlying conversation is a discussion about sustainability in all its forms.
A (pandemic) year in the making – the 2021 Global Fintech Rankings
#PoweredbyMambu, after a year of crunching the numbers, interviews with fintech ecosystems around the world – we're thrilled to bring you the second edition of the Global Fintech Rankings – the only global rankings of fintech ecosystems now covering 264 cities and over 80 countries (including 50 newly crowned fintech hubs).
This year we're celebrating the winners and unpacking what's happening in fintech and fintech ecosystems around the world during a notably tough year. Download the full report here to see who's new
While many of the Top 20 remain unchanged – there are some surprises. Tel Aviv joins the top 5 for the first time while Berlin's rise up the rankings is making the city a genuine contender for Europe's fintech crown.
Fintech exists to solve global problems. Of access – such as in emerging markets where banking economics stop the poor from getting a bank account. Of speed – where old infrastructure slows the sending of money, receipt of payments or makes international trade difficult. Or of cost and convenience – by making it easier to pay, or cheaper to borrow. There's another problem too. An industry founded on principles to make the world better, needs a global index to track progress, and benchmark its success. Without one there's no easy way to learn from the best. Or, like any other tech-driven industry, to learn from past mistakes.
And with the world creating information at an unprecedented rate, where do you turn for a trustworthy, unfiltered view of global fintech that lets you compare cities and companies?
That's the vision of Findexable, the company founded with the mission to build the Global Fintech Index. This city rankings report is the first glimpse of what the Index algorithm is designed for.
To identify emerging hubs, fintech companies and trends – objectively and in real-time. To promote growth and adoption of progressive, inclusive financial services everywhere.
The Nordic and Baltic region has all the building blocks to generate wealth and opportunities and is punching above its weight in terms of producing unicorns, moving from start-up to critical scale-up phase and it leading the rest of Europe on Open Banking and PSD2 progress. Results from the fourth Nordic Fintech Disruptors Report launched during Money 2020 in Amsterdam finds confidence in abundance at 68%, 14% up from 2018.
A new report from Mastercard confirms the power of mobile technology to improve financial inclusion. The research shows that 15 countries account for over 60% of the global unbanked population, where 607 million people have a mobile phone, but do not yet have a bank account. Mobile technology could therefore provide them with immediate access to the benefits of financial inclusion.
In 14 of these countries, the number of people with a mobile phone outnumbers the number of people with a bank account by several million (rising to 204 million in China). The only exception is India, where more people have a bank account than a mobile phone.
A decade after the Great Recession a lot has changed in financial services. But much has also stayed the same. Not including regulator-enforced bank rescues, league tables of the largest financial services organisations in Europe, and across the Middle East and Africa, are much the same as before the crash. Despite a dent to revenues, and share prices between 2008 and 2010, global bank market capitalisation has grown nearly 50% in the years since. Trust in banking has also bounced back – UK consumers' trust in banks is at the same level as high street retailers. At a time when the number of bank branches in Europe has declined by a fifth, and the number of banks by nearly a quarter, since 2008.
But all is not quite as it seems.
The latest 'Nordic Fintech Disruptors Report 2018' and wide-ranging survey on financial institutions, fintech start-ups and ecosystem participants across the Nordic and Baltic region reveals that greater cooperation between regulators, banks and innovators is essential to the region's status as a leading fintech hub.
According to the survey conducted by MagnaCarta and Fintech Mundi on behalf of Mastercard, more than four fifths (84%) of traditional players are now actively seeking partnerships with fintechs to help them digitise and create digital services for customers. They believe that collaborating with fintechs will help them to achieve their goals faster and more cost effectively.
A year is a long time in fintech. This year's research, the third in our series on the impact of fintech disruption across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, underscores some of the early gains made by banks and fintechs in some parts of the region, along the journey from electronic to digital finance. And reviews what success looks like in this brave new world.
The research reveals that the first phase of the fintech wave, characterised by recognition of the need for collaboration between ecosystem partners, is coming to an end and identifies two conflicting forces that need to be reconciled before the next phase can begin.
As the survey results show, the journey is far from complete. Indeed, as the tech industry culture of agile, always-on improvement takes hold, it may never be truly over.
This second edition of our review of fintech trends and perspectives across Europe, the Middle East and Africa reveals the extent of the progress made so far in bridging the divide between new fintech innovators and established financial institutions. It also explains the mutually beneficial reasons for what at times appears an unwieldy alliance.
The report takes in the findings from an industry-wide survey of banks and established financial institutions, fintech start-ups and ecosystem participants alongside insights from over 20 interviews with financial institutions across Europe, fintech founders, investors and enterprise-level technology firms.
As we launch the second edition of our review of Nordic financial innovation, this year extended to incorporate the results of an industry-wide regional survey, it's clear that the region has moved on. While elements of conservatism remain, and perhaps rightly, the research suggests that bank-fintech collaboration – as in other parts of Europe – is increasingly normal, and that the divergence is narrowing. Among survey respondents, 74% of Nordic banks said are they engaging in partnerships with fintechs, compared to 78% across the whole of Europe.
The Fintech Disruptors Report: Nordic Edition takes stock of the shifting currents of fintech innovation across Europe and the Nordic countries to chart the course for the new phase of financial services delivery.
The report is the result of interviews with more than 30 start-ups and incumbent banks across Europe and the Nordic region. Conducted between November 2015 and February 2016, it explores the breadth of the fintech ecosystem and makes the call for the continued support of the region's raft of upstart innovators as they seek to re-make finance for the digital era.
The result of a series of interviews carried out between September and November 2015 with banks, incumbent financial institutions and high profile startups in Europe and the Middle East, the report highlights the forces shaping financial services delivery across the region.
It also seeks to provide insight into the lessons learnt by companies both old and new as they innovate and a roadmap for the years ahead as 'digital' migrates from delivery channel to the driving force in modern banking.