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N.C. attorney general won't push for voter ID in 2020 primary
Written by Rick Henderson - Carolina Journal News Service
RALEIGH — N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein will not seek to restore North Carolina's voter identification requirement for the 2020 primary election. The decision announced Thursday, Jan. 2, prompted criticism from the state's top elected Republican.
The announcement from Stein, a Democrat, responds to a federal court ruling that potentially blocks voter ID for the entire 2020 election cycle.
"In the federal litigation over North Carolina's photo identification voting requirement, the North Carolina Department of Justice will appeal the district court's recent decision to enjoin the law pending a trial," Stein's N.C. Department of Justice announced in a news release. "However, to avoid any further voter confusion in the primary election in which absentee voting begins in just 11 days and to ensure that the primary election proceeds on schedule and is administered in an orderly manner, the Department will not seek a stay of this injunction before the primary."
"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will review the district court's decision, but we anticipate that photo identification will not be required to vote in the primary per the district court's decision," the release added.
Republican leaders had urged a quick appeal from Stein. GOP Lt. Gov. Dan Forest issued a statement on Stein's "punt of voter ID."
"It should be clear now to all North Carolinians that even though the people of this state voted overwhelmingly for photo voter ID, the Democrat Party — under the leadership of Governor Cooper, the tactics of Attorney General Stein, and the rulings of their activist liberal allies on the bench — has no intention of honoring the will of the people," Forest said. "The only reason to oppose photo voter ID is if you intend to commit fraud at the ballot box."
"If Attorney General Stein truly cared about voter ID, he would immediately seek review by the [U.S.] Supreme Court," Forest added. "However, today's action shows his intention is to never see an ID at the ballot box as long as he and Governor Cooper are in control."
U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Biggs, a Barack Obama appointee, blocked Senate Bill 824 in an order issued Tuesday, Dec. 31. That 2018 bill was designed to implement a voter-approved constitutional amendment requiring voter ID for N.C. elections. Biggs said racial motivation was a likely factor in the General Assembly's crafting of the voter ID law. The N.C. NAACP, which brought the lawsuit, was likely to prevail in several of its allegations against the law, Biggs said.
Her order blocks the law from taking effect for the full 2020 election cycle unless the order is blocked or defendants win at a trial sometime this year. Lawyers for Republican legislative leaders had said Monday the order would have to be reversed by Jan. 13 to allow officials to prepare voters for an ID requirement in the March 3 primary election.
The General Assembly passed S.B. 824 in December 2018 over Gov. Roy Cooper's veto.
State government defendants, says the order, shall take steps to stop mailings and other public communications that may be in production — but haven't yet been sent — saying photo ID will be required for 2020 elections. The court orders those involved to work with local media, county boards of elections, and voter-education groups to take all necessary and reasonable steps to inform voters of this injunction and, specifically, inform voters no photo ID will be required to vote.
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Open-access content Wednesday 24th January 2018
Bridget Leathley
Whatever we like to think, we are all biased. Many of our unconscious biases come from natural psychological processes, which have evolved to help us cope with complexity and, in earlier times, to survive. There is too much information around us to take everything in, so our brains select what seems most relevant.
Much of the time this strategy is successful. In the supermarket searching quickly for your favourite brand of baked beans, you look for the right colour tin in the right location. Usually that works and saves time. Until one day you buy soup by mistake because the shelves have been reorganised. As you look at the tin marked "soup" you are amazed that you did not notice.
Our brains have many rules, known as heuristics, to filter the mass of information available to us all the time and to fill in the gaps when some of it is missing. Most of the time, heuristics are helpful; but they can be the opposite if we don't monitor them when we need a detailed, accurate picture of a set of circumstances -- during an investigation, for example.
The set-up
Safety scientist and academic Sidney Dekker complains in his book, Just Culture (bit.ly/2n1HBVV), that hindsight oversimplifies causality and overestimates the ability of other people to have foreseen the results of their actions. We know what happened, so surely they could have seen it! Dekker explains: "While there is always a gap between written guidance and actual practice (and this almost never leads to trouble), that gap takes on causal significance once we have a bad outcome to look at and reason back from."
The problem with defining an action or event as a cause (root, underlying or immediate) is that it ignores the fact that this may have occurred many other times but had not led to a problem. David Ramsay prefers an alternative to immediate cause: "'Active failure' leads you to consider what activity or activities occurred to enable the incident to happen."
For example, a person standing underneath a dropped load did not cause the dropped load, but it was an active failure without which the person would not have been harmed.
Andrew Hale, who has 40 years' experience of industrial accident research and was professor of safety science at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands until 2009, says: "The biggest investigator bias is hindsight. From a position after the accident the decisions taken may look so obviously wrong that it is hard to conceive how they were taken. What investigators need to do is learn to put themselves in the place of the decision-maker and keep probing until they can say, 'If I had been in that person's place, I would have done the same as they did'. Then you really understand the actions."
Our brains naturally look for a starting point for an opinion. If you are haggling for a trinket at a tourist market, the seller's opening offer will set your expectation for the price that might be negotiated. Similarly, the way a question is asked sets an expectation of the anticipated answer. This heuristic is called anchoring or framing. If the initial investigation question was, "Who is to blame for this accident?" the process would clearly be driven by finding someone at fault. However, even more subtle questions such as, "What went wrong before the accident?" implies that a fault must be found. A question such as, "What were the circumstances leading up to the accident?" provides a framework for asking about a range of conditions and actions.
The UK Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) guidance Investigating Accidents and Incidents (HSG 245) (bit.ly/2FBzuar) raises the issue of bias and explains that an investigation "should be thorough and structured to avoid bias and leaping to conclusions".
Our tendency to draw a conclusion quickly from the evidence presented to us stems from our evolution; the successful primitive humans were the ones who could make rapid decisions about whether to run from an animal or kill and eat it.
It may be that an early hypothesis about an accident is fine as long as we continue the process to seek more evidence. But here confirmation bias is a risk. Once we have a theory, it can be difficult to adjust our position. Our natural tendency is to look for more information that confirms our initial hypotheses and to discount information that does not.
David Ramsay is aware of this tendency. He has 30 years' experience of incident investigation in industries including aerospace, oil and gas, explosives, transport and utilities. He has developed the Kelvin TOP-SET incident investigation method.
"We don't allow the word 'obviously' in our company or the expression 'I've seen it before'," he says. "In my experience, there are amazing similarities between incidents, but you have to look deeper to find the differences."
Changing our minds once we have made a choice is difficult, and the principle known as the sunk-cost fallacy helps to explain this. If you have already invested time and effort in crafting one "solution" to the problem, it can feel like failure to abandon the explanation, even though evidence for an alternative is available. One way to overcome this is to involve someone new, perhaps part way through the investigation, presenting only factual evidence.
Backward looking
A criticism of accepted ways of investigating accidents is that they promote hindsight bias, the inclination after an event has occurred to see it as having been predictable.
Approaches such as "five whys" (an interrogative technique designed to reveal fundamental causes) and causal factor analysis (in order to determine immediate, underlying and fundamental causes) make hindsight bias more likely. Why was the worker injured? Because the worker stood beneath the load. Why did the worker stand beneath the load when training had warned them against this? The only answer to that seems to be to blame someone.
How we see people
We don't like to consider ourselves as prejudiced against any group of people, but there is evidence that most people are subject to some unconscious stereotyping. Sometimes these stereotypes can appear to be positive -- that a particular group "tends to be" stronger or less aggressive. But we deal with these underlying views in everyday life. In an investigation we need to acknowledge how they can colour our approach to people and perhaps the weight we give to their evidence.
Why did the worker stand beneath the load when training had warned them against this? The only answer seems to be to blame someone
The focusing illusion occurs when one feature of someone's personality is perceived to have a higher influence on the events than is the case. A worker's manager comments that "he's often late for work" and the investigator interprets this as meaning "he's unreliable".
By contrast, if we see one positive aspect to a person, we are more likely to assume they have others. This is known as the halo effect. Someone who is physically attractive and smartly dressed may be more credible than someone less attractive in dirty overalls. The impact of these preconceptions on weighing evidence provided by management and by workers is obvious.
There is also a more generalised tendency to see other people as more likely to be blameworthy than ourselves; this is called the fundamental attribution error or confidence bias. If you make a mistake when driving, it is easy to blame the situation -- perhaps misleading traffic signs or poor road layout. If someone else makes a mistake, you think that person is either a poor driver, or is deliberately being difficult.
Another effect, actor-observer asymmetry, means that the more different the actor -- the injured party, for example, or another worker -- is from the observer (investigator or interviewee) the more likely the observer is to blame the actor's actions; if the actor is seen as similar, the observer is more likely to look for situational factors.
So when forming an investigation team it is important to have a mix of people -- involving representatives from different levels of the organisation, for example -- to provide more balance. Ramsay is clear that "job backgrounds influence decisions and findings".
Oliver Mellors, a human factors professional working in high-hazard industries, has seen the results of the fundamental attribution error.
"It leads to a flawed investigation and produces remedial actions that do not address underlying causes. For example, investing time and money into behavioural-based safety programmes rather than addressing the environmental factors."
Interviewees might not be consciously changing the truth, but unconsciously we have a tendency to post-rationalise decisions we have made. Choice supportive bias describes the phenomenon that occurs when, having made a decision, we give more positive reasons for making a choice than might have been the case at the time. For example, having made a decision about which of two laptops we buy, we tend to justify it by talking up the benefits of the model we chose and denigrating the features of the one we left behind.
So, if after an accident in a loading bay the investigator asks one of the drivers, "Why did you leave the vehicle there?" the driver might respond: "I believed that to be the safest place to leave it." But the real reason might have been it was the first space the driver saw.
A better way to uncover the real reason is to ask the question in a different way that doesn't relate to an accident. For example, "Where do you normally park?" or "Where did you park this morning?"
Under analysis
All animals learn to form relationships between one thing happening and another -- to look for cause and effect. A red sky at night might generally lead to fair weather the next day, but meteorologists can explain why the fair weather occurs, and it isn't caused by the red sky. Looking for a correlation helps us to predict and respond to our environment. However, if we give it rein when analysing the information collected during an investigation, it can lead to oversimplification of a sequence of events and false or illusory correlations. Stereotyping, halo effects and focusing illusions are examples of illusory correlations -- when we come to think that people from a particular group, or people who dress in a certain way, or who have been unhelpful in one situation will have other characteristics we associate with that group or behaviour.
Illusory correlation can also apply to the broader explanation of an accident. We notice that the same type of accident has occurred three times on successive Thursdays. There may be a hypothesis worth asking some questions about, such as whether the loading bay is busier on Thursdays or whether something happens on Wednesdays that leads to greater fatigue the next day. But without further evidence we should not assume it isn't just a coincidence.
The availability heuristic has a similar effect -- we tend to use explanations for outcomes that are readily available. If the last three times I investigated a ladder accident one of the risk factors was poor siting of the ladder, this explanation will be readily available to me when looking at a new ladder accident. If confirmation bias kicks in, I am likely to stop if I find the same risk factor this time and perhaps miss the fact that the new ladder arrived in an unfit condition for use.
Structured approaches can help to overcome this bias. But the general aim should be to be clear about facts -- and if there are gaps in the facts, document them rather than fill the holes with illusory correlations or ideas from something we heard about recently.
All the answers
The HSE advice in HSG 245 is that to be free from bias the analysis must be carried out "so all the possible causes and consequences of the adverse event are fully considered". In reality, just as we don't carry out detailed risk assessments of "all possible hazards", it is not practicable to consider "all possible causes".
Some sources of advice on cognitive bias suggest that just by making people aware of the possibility of bias they will be able to overcome it. By contrast, other sources argue that training in unconscious bias might have the opposite effect in reinforcing stereotypes and legitimising prejudices.
Dr Linda Bellamy, major hazards and occupational safety human factors consultant, says: "I don't believe that you can avoid hindsight bias just because you know it exists." Drawing on her 30 years of studying how to represent events before and after major accidents, she believes there must be a change of emphasis "away from looking at what failed with respect to the standards, rules and regulations, and towards a broad understanding".
Other practical solutions involve the use of balanced teams. Ramsay gives one example. "A team made up entirely of engineers will immediately see an engineering failure. Involving office staff can bring some balance, and mixed gender teams also help to overcome observer bias." Referring to the Myers-Briggs personality types, Ramsay recommends having a balance between judgers and perceivers. "Introverted, thinking judgers are great for getting things done but not for reflecting and standing back in an investigation."
However, the desire for unanimity in a group can result in "groupthink". For primitive people, it was essential to be part of a group to survive and our brains still show measurable discomfort when our opinion deviates from a group opinion. As a result we have a natural tendency to adjust our opinion to fit in. This discomfort has been compared to physical pain. A classic study by Solomon Asch in the 1950s (bit.ly/1hPP3WU) showed that people will even judge the size of a line on a piece of paper differently if everyone else has a different opinion from them. As for the sunk-cost fallacy, to overcome groupthink, it can be useful to bring in new people to review information part way through.
Bellamy supports this approach. "An independent third party can play devil's advocate, and take a fresh look at the situation," she says.
The newcomers must be prepared to challenge the investigators' thinking and look to see where gaps have been filled inadvertently with bias rather than information.
Another way to reduce groupthink is to ask people to compose their conclusions separately before they compare notes and consult each other.
It is important to remember that these biases are mostly unconscious -- we don't set out to be prejudiced against any group of people, or to jump to conclusions, or to ignore information that contradicts our existing ideas. However, our natural way to deal with the world is to take shortcuts in receiving and processing information. If simple awareness of bias is not enough, the best way to overcome our natural habits may be to work as a team and bring in critical colleagues.
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What next? Nevin to take his time before planning for the future
The Olympic silver medallist intends to take a break with his family.
By Ben Blake Sunday 12 Aug 2012, 5:59 PM
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OLYMPIC SILVER MEDALLIST John Joe Nevin says he is in no rush to decide on his future.
The Mullingar fighter won Ireland's fifth medal at the London Games last night after being narrowly beaten by Team GB's Luke Campbell 14-11 in the bantamweight final.
As part of Billy Walsh's boxing team, the 23-year-old has helped to ensure that the country enjoyed their most successful Olympics in nearly 60 years.
While sticking with the high performance programme to mount a challenge for Rio in four years' time is an obvious option, many amateur boxers are often seduced by the lure of turning professional.
However, when asked by TheScore last night, Nevin insisted he will take his time before planning the next move.
"I'm just going to go home and enjoy the time with my family now," he told Will Downing. "I'm getting well funded off the Sports Council now but I'll view my best options when I go home now. I always said I'd love to win the full house: World, European and Olympic medals.
I'm looking out for my future as well though so I'll see what I'll do when I go home."
Nevin may have cemented his name alongside Irish sporting legends like Michael Carruth and Sonia O'Sullivan but he very nearly didn't make it to London. In the run-up to the competition, Nevin felt his form wasn't up to scratch but, thankfully, was talked into sticking with pre-Games training by his mentors.
"Since I won the bronze medal in September, I hadn't been performing well," he added. "I took a bit off and I went into nationals and even after that I came down with a fractured jaw, and I hadn't been performing well at all.
"I approached Billy about a month ago before we left and I couldn't do it, I didn't feel up to. He sat me down, him, Zaur and Gerry Hussey the psychologist and they got around me. We went into a tough training camp with the Indians and I came out flying out of that and I got my head right and just moved on since there."
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Linda remained in Melbourne to continue her clinical training as a resident in internal medicine at the University of Melbourne. After completing her residency she became a registrar in the University of Melbourne Veterinary Hospital, where she taught undergraduate veterinary students in small animal medicine whilst treating patients through the University practice.
Linda became a member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists (ANZCVS) in 2000 and a Fellow in Canine Medicine in 2006. She has examined for the ANZCVS for both membership and fellowship examinations and joined the Board of Examiners in 2016.


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I did this today. It's amazingly easy and so much less waste. Why have I never heard of this before? Thanks for sharing it.
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At level 500 you can learn Zen Master Tailor and start combining Windwood Cloth into Bolts of Windwool Cloth. This will get you to level 535. You will need about 90 Bolt of Windwool Cloth to reach level 600.
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The UK is in the midst of a great moment of uncertainty about its future direction, brought about by its decision to leave the European Union in just under a year's time in March 2019.
Prime Minister Theresa May has now secured a 'transition period' once the UK leaves the European Union, which ends on 31 December 2020. However, this deal has not yet produced any further clarity. In fact maintaining the status quo in this period may simply prolong the uncertainty – especially as it will be used to thrash out details of the future relationship.
Big questions remain about whether the UK can remain aligned with the European Medicines Agency, without which the pharma industry has warned that the UK could be relegated from its current position as an early-launch market.
This lack of clarity is, of course, anathema to business, and the life sciences sector is no exception. So just what kind of impact is Brexit having on the UK life science sector?
Angela McFarlane, Market Development Director, IQVIA, opened the Market Access Summit in London with results from a survey of industry executives in the UK and globally about the impact of Brexit.
39% see the UK as less attractive for running clinical trials – making this marginally less negatively impacted by Brexit.
Commenting on the outcome from the survey, Angela McFarlane acknowledged the gloomy results, but said the UK still held a few aces.
These include the excellent reputation of the UK's regulator the MHRA, and the UK's track record as an early-launch market. She also highlighted the country's pioneering status in real-world studies – increasingly vital to market access strategies – as the UK hosts more of these than any other country in the world.
She also said that, while the survey showed low levels of understanding and optimism of the Life Science sector, she believed it was the 'fillip' to the impact of Brexit.
"I urge you not only to read the Life Sciences Sector Deal, but also to promote it within your organisation.
Meanwhile, beyond Brexit, the NHS is far from standing still. Two of the biggest top-level developments in England's health service are the increasing reach of NHS England and the parallel development of Integrated Care Systems (formerly Accountable Care Systems) – which are redefining the national and regional decision-making processes, respectively.
Peter Huskinson is National Commercial Director of Specialised Commissioning at NHS England, which, in the last 18 months, has taken on far greater responsibility for market access for specialised medicines.
He added that NHS England was now able to focus on gaining the best deal on new medicines in the new landscape.
NHS England now has financial oversight of the Cancer Drugs Fund, as well as the agreement of Patient Access Schemes, which involves working with NICE in both instances. It also has a Commercial Development Team for planning the managed entry of new drugs and a Commercial Medicines Unit to engage directly with the industry.
Huskinson set out the four entry points to market for new drugs under the system and said NHS England wanted to work with pharma on prioritising treatments which would have a high impact on patients.
He said he believed NHS England was now well on its way to developing a more sophisticated approach to managed entry – using horizon scanning via the PharmaScan database and a 'toolkit' of different approaches for different scenarios.
The need to move towards more outcomes-based data, supported by real-world evidence, was a key point.
"There are lots of completely new kinds of medicines coming to the market – regenerative medicines, CAR-Ts and immunotherapies, and drugs with novel delivery systems.
Nevertheless, there remains criticism within the industry and in patient organisations about the transparency, fairness and speed (or lack of speed) in NHS England's decision making.
Industry representatives at the summit talked about NHS England decisions taking nearly a whole year to complete, and also the downward price pressure threated by greater use of competitive tenders.
One example of such a dispute is over access to Vertex's cystic fibrosis drug Kalydeco. The UK patient organisation the Cystic Fibrosis Trust is accusing NHS England of not putting enough effort into reaching a deal with the pharma company.
Representing patient organisations at the summit was Jane Spink, from the rare disease umbrella organisation The Genetic Alliance. She pointed out that, of all orphan drugs approved in Europe, UK patients have routine access to just 50%, and one fifth haven't been reviewed by NICE.
Undoubtedly the region leading the NHS move towards greater integrated care is Greater Manchester. It has also signed a special memorandum of understanding with the pharma industry to support greater collaborative work.
Andrew White is Director of Clinical Services, Greater Manchester Shared Services. He says there remains some lingering distrust of pharma in parts of the NHS – but that meaningful collaborations, such as the real-world data Salford Lung Study, prove that partnership is worthwhile.
Nevertheless, he says the industry has a long way to go to align with the NHS' priorities, and towards re-focusing on patient outcomes.
"In Greater Manchester we spend £1 billion on medicines a year. Do we get value for money from them? I honestly don't know.
The region's prescribing budget is being squeezed, and so some of its priorities are in de-prescribing, better antibiotics use, fast uptake of biosimilars and better mental health services. These are not necessarily what industry wants to talk about, but will be Greater Manchester's focus areas.
Rob Duncombe is director of pharmacy at the Christie in Manchester, one of the country's leading cancer specialist hospitals.
He echoed Andrew White's emphasis on priorities such as antimicrobial stewardship and uptake of biosimilars, but said industry partnership would also be a big theme in the coming years.
He pointed to the success of the Cancer Vanguard and the Pharma Industry Challenge, which saw a number of successful collaborations between the industry and the NHS, all with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes.
"Part of the appeal of these collaborations was the opportunity to fail – we certainly don't like to fail in the NHS, and new ideas are also very hard to introduce into the health service.
The crucial test for the NHS is now, however, in whether or not the lessons from these pilots and studies can be spread into general practice across the country; the baton is now being taken up by regional Cancer Alliances.
Rob Duncombe concluded: "Joint working is absolutely needed, because there is huge complexity in introducing new medicines, technologies and ways of working.
The summit wrapped up with a vote on whether Industry-NHS collaboration is a pipedream: the overwhelming majority of the industry audience believed it was achievable – despite some very real difficulties in getting towards the 'win-win' agreements.
Santoke Naal, Head of Market Access UK and Ireland, IQVIA, said that the increasingly challenging landscape, coupled with the uncertainty of Brexit, highlights, now more ever, the need for healthcare stakeholders to collaborate and innovate. He concluded: "Sir John Bell's life science strategy is a great foundation to encourage industry and the NHS to work together with pilot projects to ensure access to key innovations for patients".


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Economic relations between India and South Korea
Posted by Hallyuism on October 28, 2022 January 12, 2023
Ishika Gupta, New Delhi
The trade and economic relations between India and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) have gathered pace in recent years. Their annual bilateral trade (exchange of goods between two nations while reducing or eliminating tariffs) reached $21.5 billion in 2018 and now has crossed over the $20 billion mark in 2020 for the first time in history! In 2018, investment in India from South Korea crossed the benchmark of $1 billion for the first time, recording $1.053 billion. Korea's total FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) to India till September 2020 stands at $6.94 billion. India's investments in Korea are to the tune of approx. $3 billion led by Tata Daewoo, Ssangyongand Novelis.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to South Korea in May 2015 and the State visit of President Moon Jae-in in July 2018 to India were in favour for both the countries. It boosted bilateral engagement with a joint vision of people, peace, and prosperity. New targets and goals of achievements set by Prime Minister Modi and President Moon during this visit that bilateral trade are worth $50 billion to be achieved by 2030. To further strengthen bilateral ties, PM Narendra Modi visited ROK during 21-22 Feb 2019 and had a series of bilateral and business engagements.
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According to India's Embassy in Korea, India's share in Korea's global trade was 1.72% in 2020 and India's contribution to Korea's global imports increased from 0.78% in 2001 to 1.05% in 2020. India is Korea's 21st biggest source of imports and 7th biggest export market as of 2020.
Major items of India's export to Korea are mineral fuels/oil distillates (mainly naphtha), cereals, iron, and steel. Korea's main exports to India are automobile parts, telecommunication equipment, hot rolled iron products, petroleum refined products, base lubricating oils, nuclear reactors, mechanical appliances, electrical machinery & parts, and iron & steel products.
South Korea's Investment in India
Companies like Hyundai Motor Group, Samsung Electronics, and LG Group have already made a position in Indian Market. Hyundai Motors and its automotive plant in Tamil Nadu, with a capacity to produce more than 650,000 cars annually make it Korea's one of biggest investments in India. Hyundai Motors India Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of Hyundai Motors, is ready for its next tranche of investment. They are planning to expand, Sriperumbudur's unit by investing $ 1.05 billion to manufacture electric vehicles.
Samsung Electronics is the Regional Headquarters for Samsung's Southwest Asia operations. The Company has invested about $ 1.1 bn in India. It operates 2 manufacturing locations in Noida and Tamil Nadu, 5 R&D centres, and 1 Design Center. Samsung is also planning to invest INR 5000cr in its Noida plant. This Noida facility is the world's largest mobile manufacturing unit, doubling its current capacity of 68 million to 120 million mobile phone units by 2020.
Picture Credits: Samsung Global Newsroom
LG Electronics operates two factories in India, one each in Noida and Pune, with an R&D Centre in Bangalore. LG Electronics has 40,000 outlets across India; over 2,000 of them are standalone stores.
POSCO has set up cold-rolled, galvanized, and electrical steel production plants in Maharashtra with an investment of around $ 1 bn and also operates steel processing centres in Pune, Delhi, Chennai, and Hyderabad.
Lotte confectionary has spread further by acquiring Havmor, a Gujrat-based unit, besides its earliest investment in Chennai and recently in Rohtak.
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India's Investments in South Korea
Novelis Inc., a subsidiary of Hindalco Industries Ltd., the flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, acquired Alcan TaihanAluminium Ltd. in January 2005. Novelis Inc. holds a 68% share amounting to about US$ 600 million in Novelis Korea Ltd, which is Asia's number one manufacturer of aluminium rolled products with state of art production facilities in Yeongju and Ulsan and employs more than 1,200 employees. Novelis' total investment in Korea is over $700 million.
Tata Motors Limited acquired Daewoo Commercial Vehicle based in Gunsan, Korea for a total price of KRW 120 billion (approximately $102 million) in March 2004. Its cumulative investment now is over $400 million.
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Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) in August 2010 acquired a majority stake in ailing Ssangyong Motors with an estimated investment of about $ 360 million. Its cumulative investment now has crossed $ 1.5 billion and it has made the acquired company profitable in 2016-17.
Nakhoda Ltd, one of the large Indian producers of yarn acquired Kyunghan Industry Company which has a capacity for 150 tons per day of partially oriented yarn (POY), 90 tons per day of fully drawn yarn, and 60 tons of polyester fibre, with an investment of $40 million.
In addition, Indian IT majors including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), L&T Infotech, and Mahindra Tech set up operations in South Korea and have been serving both Korean and other foreign clientele in this country. What do you think about this economic relationship between India and South Korea? Tell us in the comments!
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China on war footing as it beefs up three air bases near Taiwan amid WW3 fears, satellite images sug
Discussion in 'Politics' started by EC, Oct 16, 2021.
EC 12 pointer
Geez...as they used to teach us in the first grade...don't look into the fireball.
Isn't it odd that the Pentagon is forcing or attempting to enforce the administration of an experimental and untested "vaccination"? Causing many combatants to seriously contemplate leaving the service? Surely, this "weakening" is merely a coincidence and its not like the Pentagon is staffed, at the top (say, like the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), by blatant traitors to the Republic. Naaa...no coincidence here.
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China on war footing as it beefs up three air bases near Taiwan amid WW3 fears, satellite images suggest
CHINA appears to be beefing up three air bases near Taiwan amid fears Beijing is preparing for World War Three.
New satellite images have revealed China is upgrading its military bases along its southeastern coast, nearest to Taiwan, suggesting Beijing might be stepping up its plans to invade the island.
Satellite images show building work taking place at three air bases in Fujian province
China regards Taiwan as part of its territory and has long threatened to use force to bring it under its control
The building work at the three airbases in Fujian province will give long-term logistical air combat support to the People's Liberation Army Air Force, which has repeatedly invaded Taiwan airspace in the last month.
The work is taking place at the Chinese air force's bases at Longtian, Huian, and Zhangzhou - all of which lie between 100 and 200 miles from Taiwan.
The upgrading appears to fall in line with Beijing's increasingly aggressive stance towards the island nation.
China regards Taiwan as part of its territory and has long threatened to use force to bring it under its control, with regular invasion drills carried out by its military.
The images, captured by Planet Labs and published by military site The Drive, showed work on aircraft shelters and reinforced munitions storage started early last year and continued during the Covid pandemic.
Four aircraft structures are seen being built at one end of Longtian Airbase in the pictures, which would be the only protective aviation infrastructure on site.
More at link: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16433859/china-upgrades-three-air-bases-taiwan-fears-war/
EC, Oct 16, 2021
Carl 12 pointer
This is a good Vid that explains what could happen. It is around 40 minutes long but found it to be well worth the time.
Carl, Oct 16, 2021
reivertom 12 pointer
Greenup Co.
"Presitator" Xi is having problems and I wouldn't put it past that 2 bit tyrant to start something to gain control.
reivertom, Oct 16, 2021
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Burkesville
Tiawan is going down!
Gforcetrivers, Oct 16, 2021
Feedman Cyber-Hunter
In the basement
Shit will hit the fan
Feedman, Oct 16, 2021
bassvax 8 pointer
WKY
It is time for someone to step in and stop the diminution of our military force. There is a threshold of readiness that must not be maintained and if that means maintaining it with unvx's troops then that is what it means. Ole Sniffy and gang can go pound sound!
bassvax, Oct 18, 2021


During the 1970s, Thrall Manufacturing Co. introduced a new railcar designed for handling carbon black. These 3-bay, 70-ton capacity covered hopper cars boasted a volume of 5750 cubic feet, and measured 51' over their ends. Unlike traditional covered hopper designs, where the end slope sheets are plainly visible, these cars featured an enclosed, boxy design, which was a necessity due to a special design feature to aid in the unloading of carbon black.
At the inside ends of the car are special inflatable bags, called "granuflators". When the car is loaded, they lay flat inside the car. When inflated with pressurized air, the granuflators expand, and push the carbon black towards the outlets. And as typical with cars designed to haul carbon black, they featured tight-sealing 16" round roof hatches (22 hatches on most, but some customers specified 28), sampling spigots on the car sides, and "butterfly" type outlet gates.
The first version, the "1970s" 5750, represents Thrall 5750 production from approximately 1977 until 1979, which featured ten column-style posts per side, and a unique roofline. While the ends are peaked, and the end roof panels feature a single slope, the remaining roof panels feature a dual slope and a steep shoulder where it meets the side plate.
The second version, the "1980s" 5750, represents Thrall 5750 production from 1979 to 1989, which featured twelve column-style posts per side, and a revised roofline that saw the dual-slope and shoulder roofline continue from end to end.
A byproduct of the petrochemical refining industry, carbon black is a fine, powdery substance with a consistency sometimes described as being akin to soot. Deep black in color, one of its major consumers is the automotive industry, where it's used as filler in tires, belts, and other rubber products. It also sees usage as a pigment in inks, paints, and plastic products, all of which make it a popular commodity with a variety of industries. Hauling it, however, can be a challenge thanks to its physical properties. Covered hoppers are typically used to handle carbon black, with designs dating back to the 1920s specifically for hauling it.


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Fioretti: Pro-Emanuel Super PAC Targeting City Council Progressive Caucus
By aaroncynic in News on Aug 5, 2014 6:00PM
Ald. Bob Fioretti (2nd), said Chicago's latest super PAC, "Chicago Forward," is little more than a money grabbing effort to push out the City Council's Progressive Caucus next year. The Sun-Times reports Fioretti said the super PAC, run by former CPS Chief Communications Officer (and longtime Emanuel ally) Becky Carroll, was created to "destroy" Emanuel's most vocal Aldermanic critics. "That PAC was created to destroy eight aldermen and their beliefs. Every time somebody does something [contrary to the mayor's agenda], you'll receive a mailer about it," said Fioretti.
Carroll said Chicago Forward, which has already raised $1.35 million from a small cadre of business moguls, has only begun its fundraising efforts. According to the Sun-Times Carroll said the group's mission is:
"To advocate for issues that will continue to move our city forward in the right direction so that every family has access to high quality school choices, good paying jobs and safe neighborhoods."
That mission, said Fioretti, means keeping Chicago safely in the hands of Emanuel and his allies. "It's a few people—big money, corporate interests that want their agenda and not the people's agenda...It's more charter school expansion."
Fioretti, who has been exploring his own mayoral campaign, has only raised $350,000 so far and is expected to make an announcement on a mayoral run as early as this month. The other members of the City Council Progressive Caucus are Leslie Hairston (5th), Roderick Sawyer (6th), Toni Foulkes (15th), Ricardo Munoz (22nd), Scott Waguespack (32nd), Nick Sposato (36th) and John Arena (45th).
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The Twenty-fourth Regiment U.S.C.T. – A History
This regiment was principally recruited in the eastern section of Pennsylvania, and was organized at Camp William Penn, on the 17th of February, 1865, with the following field officers:
Orlando Brown, Colonel
James M. Trippe, Lieutenant Colonel
Robert E. Stewart, Major
A large proportion of the commissioned officers had previously been in the service.
Early in May, the regiment proceeded to Washington, and was placed in Camp Casey, on the Virginia side of the Potomac, opposite the city. On the 1st of June, it was sent to Point Lookout, Maryland, where it was employed in guarding rebel prisoners.
About the middle of July, it was ordered to Richmond, Virginia, and after a delay of two weeks, was assigned to duty in the sub-district of the Roanoke, comprising six counties, with headquarters at Burkesville. Posts were established at each county-seat, where government supplies were distributed to the needy inhabitants, and the troops, were employed in preserving order. The regiment continued in this duty until near the close of September, when it was ordered to Richmond, and on the 1st of October, was mustered out of service.
Bates, Samuel P. History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, Harrisburg, 1868-1871.
Organized at Camp William Penn, Philadelphia, Pa., January 30 to March 30, 1865.
Moved to Washington, D.C., May 5, and duty at Camp Casey till June 1.
At Point Lookout, Md., guarding prisoners till July 16.
Moved to Richmond, Va., and duty in Sub-District of Roanoke,
Headquarters at Burkesville, till September.
Moved to Richmond, Va., and there mustered out October 1, 1865.


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Injustice: Gods Among Us Demo Preview
by Dominic Coles | April 9th, 2013
Whilst the finals of the Battle Arena are currently underway, the demo for Injustice: Gods Among Us is available to all DC fans on the Xbox 360 and PS3. The demo finally gives us the chance to have a hands on experience of the game before its release, but does it stand up to our expectations? Let's have a look and find out.
The demo allows you to play a series of four fights in single player and even duke it out with your friends on local co-op multiplayer. There are only three characters available to play due to the demo but their fighting styles are so different that it opens up a lot of variation for these three characters alone. The available fighters are Batman, Wonder Woman and Lex Luthor.
After playing the single player with every character you can see that the combat is really easy to get into. The biggest problem with most new fighting games is to create a button layout and combo list that is both easy to learn and easy to get into. Injustice ticks both of those boxes as you will be able to string together combos easily whether you tend to use a standard controller or a fight stick. A cool feature that is also available in the single and multiplayer is that you can pause the game, check out your move list and then assign moves to appear on the screen underneath your health bar. This allows you to learn the combo's on the fly and truly get your game on to a new level.
So how do the characters play? The answer, really well. From the detail on their default skins to the animations as they flow from one combo to another, the fighters themselves feel really good to play. For Batman you can feel his agility and cunning, for Wonder Woman you can switch out between a floating mode with the lasso of truth and a more damage dealing mode with her sword and shield. Finally, Lex Luthor can truly be a dominant force with a lot of interrupt abilities with his shield and some great damage dealing potential with his mech suits' combos.
After you win the battle you have a small moment with the character leaving the battlefield and entering their own unique backdrop at the end of the fight. These feel and look great but do seem to lack variation. The fighters in the demo always seem to have the same ending scene which can become very boring if this is to be in the full release. This is definitely apparent if these scenes are played after fighting every battle in the campaign mode, but if it is going to be anything like Mortal Kombat the campaign's narrative will make sure that these scenes do not occur. A little variation can go a long way so I hope there is at least some variants in the full release.
Overall the demo was pretty solid. The game feels great and it is a heck of a lot of fun to play. So if you want to get your hands dirty and fight some of your favourite heroes and villains from the DC Universe, be sure to pick up the demo today on your PS3 or Xbox 360 and let us know your thoughts on it in the comments below.
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Q: Uniqueness of the 5 string theories This question combines several sub-questions, the common theme being: why the known 5 string theories are unique?
Firstly, regarding heterotic theory. I understand the only allowed gauge groups are $E_8\times E_8$ and $Spin(32)/\mathbb{Z}_2$. I wanted to ask why these are the only two options but then I found this question. The answer is modular invariance. However, there is something I don't understand here. Bosonic string theory is modular invariant on 26D Minkowski spacetime, but it also remains modulo invariant when any number of the dimensions are compactified on any lattice, as far as I understand. So why here modular invariance depends on the precise compactification?
Now, two questions about type I theory
Why $SO(32)$ is the only allowed gauge group? Is it some analogue of modular invariance for BCFT?
Why are open strings needed to make a consistent theory? I understand you can't get rid of the closed strings in an interacting theory, roughly since an open string can become closed by "stitching" its ends. However, why can't we remain with closed strings only? Is it because of S-matrix unitarity?
Finally, a broader question. Each of the 5 string theories involves a special construction, one might say a "trick". For example we need different right and left movers for the heterotic theory and projection to unorientable strings for type I theory. How do we know there aren't more "tricks" nobody thought about? Is it due to classification of SUGRAs? In particular, how do we know it's impossible to introduce fermions without requiring SUSY?

A: Concerning your "any compactification of bosonic strings", you are confused about the nature of dimensions we are compactifying. The non-chiral (having both left-moving and right-moving component) dimensions may be compactified on any lattice $\Gamma$ with $n$ dimensions. However, to compare with the heterotic strings, this (any) lattice $\Gamma$ should be rewritten as a $2n$-dimensional lattice for left-moving and right-moving dimensions separately. In some notation, the resulting lattice is $\Gamma^{1,1}\otimes \Gamma$ and it is even and self-dual.
The point is that in the heterotic string (in the bosonic representation), we are only compactifying 16 left-moving bosons, degrees of freedom on the 26-dimensional bosonic (left-moving) side, i.e. degrees of freedom that are not matched by any bosons on the 10-dimensional  fermionic/super (right-moving) side. This chirality is what makes the possible list of even self-dual lattices so constraining and "exceptional".
In type I, the need for the $SO(32)$ group was first realized from the spacetime perspective in the Green-Schwarz 1984 paper that sparked the first superstring revolution. They showed that the spacetime anomalies (gravitational, gauge, mixed) cancel but they only cancel for $SO(32)$!
The condition on the gauge group may also be derived from world sheet dynamics although it looks very different. Type I is type IIB with crosscaps in the world sheet (a circular hole with the identification of opposite points; something which make strings unorientable) and boundaries (which add D-branes in the spacetime perspective, i.e. allow open strings). It just happens that some extra world sheet anomaly of the allowed cross caps are exactly canceled by 16 types of boundaries and their mirror images, i.e. one obtains $SO(32)$ as the privileged group even from the world sheet perspective.
A simple condition showing what's special which interpolates between world sheet and spacetime perspectives is the vacuum energy density. Those 16 D9-branes plus their mirror images – which is how you get $SO(32)$ – exactly cancel the energy density from the (spacetime filling) orientifold plane. It's no coincidence that the group is $SO(2^{10/2})$: if we do the same calculation of the cancelation in bosonic string theory, we indeed get $SO(2^{13})=SO(8192)$ as the preferred group, a cute fact that was studied in Steven Weinberg's paper on string theory (the only one?).
Open strings are not needed to make a consistent theory perturbatively. Indeed, the "same" vacuum without open strings (ending anywhere) exists and it's called the type IIB string theory vacuum. Type I is type IIB with strings (including closed strings) made unorientable (i.e. with orientifold plane added in spacetime; or cross caps allowed on the world sheet), and the cancelation of the world sheet or spacetime anomalies both imply that one must add 32 half-D9-branes (or boundaries on the world sheet with 32 different Chan-Paton factors) at the same moment.
We can't prove that there are no additional tricks at this moment. However, we may classify the effective field theory description in the spacetime and it does seem that in $D=10$, the only four supersymmetric choices are type IIA supergravity, type IIB supergravity, and type I supergravity coupled either to $SO(32)$ or $E_8\times E_8$ gauge theory. These four possible low-energy limits – found by spacetime methods – may be shown to arise as limits of the five string theories in $D=10$. The $SO(32)$ vacuum appears twice because of an S-duality exchanging two inequivalent limits. The strong coupling limit of each of the 5 string theory vacua in $D=10$ is understood so it seems that we have covered "everything" that's allowed by spacetime consistency conditions.
Of course, it would be great to have a purely stringy control over all the options, to have a "rigorous stringy proof" that there can't be other vacua in $D=10$ etc. To do so, we probably need some more universal, "background-independent" definition of string/M-theory, something that I and others have surely looked for for many years but we still don't have it and it is by no means inevitable that it will be found (or that it exists).

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A genuinely weird day, with things breaking up what would normally be my working rhythm, such as it is – A vet's visit, phone calls with the accountant and the resultant rush and stress that provided, lunch with a friend – to the point where I never felt like I settled into the day at all. Everything was continually just rushing to meet deadlines, the entire day having that I'm late I'm late feeling and discomfort the entire time, meaning that it's 6pm and I still haven't directed you to my Time piece for the week, about the way in which the new Beauty and The Beast show manages to miss the point of the entire B&TB fairy tale. My research for this one? Watching lots of versions of Beauty and The Beast, which made for an odd weekend, I can tell you.


We're finally ready to let you in on what we've been up to. 155 Redpath has been a huge success – we've even started demolition on the 155 Redpath site.
The future of Yonge & Eglinton looks bright, so bright in fact that we're ready to redefine what it means to live at Yonge & Eg. Welcome to 150 Redpath.
It's been well-documented that Yonge & Eg is known as the quiet, sleepy corner of the city. But with an influx of people moving in in the next few years, the vibe of the neighbourhood will change and we want to contribute. With 150 Redpath we want to redefine condo life – we want vibrancy, convenience, relaxation, and recovery. We want to be on the pulse of what's happening in the neighbourhood and as a result, we've come up with some amazing amenities that will help our residents stay "always on." Don't believe us?
We'll have a state of the art 24-hour diner right in the building for you to grab a post-bar bite or if you're too lazy to come downstairs, we'll send your order right up to you. Just like in a hotel, we'll be at your beck and call with room service all day and all night. All of our amenities including the rooftop pool, sports bar, and rejuvenation spa, will also be open 24/7 for your convenience. Not to mention the Eglinton LRT right at your door and a Loblaws and LCBO half a block away.
We've got a lot more great things coming your way, so stay tuned! For now we'll leave you with these renderings that show off the building during both work and play time.
Life at Yonge and Eg is about to get a whole lot later.


Just over a year ago I did this fun, insightful interview. I reread it and the advice really hold up. Consider it like a free seminar on writing – it's that good.
Today, I have have a real treat for you on Writing to be Read. My interview today is with a very funny guy, who is a successful independent author. He's a family man, with a background in business, so book marketing and promotion is just another part of the job for him. He's got two books which have both been recently released, Poggibonsi: An Italian Misadventure? and The Navigators, which we will learn more about right here.
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In my defense, one of my favourite tech gurus posted a note in her blog this morning with nothing but the title "First I Was Afraid" … and I instantly had Gloria Gaynor in my heading belting it out. I thought surely she can't be posting about THAT. She was. This video was the post.


Carlson Point Cloud is a modular program that provides this powerful ability to go from field scan to finished plat, all with seamless integration to Carlson Survey, Carlson Civil and Carlson Mining. Carlson Point Cloud gives laser scanner users the ability to process millions of data points with Carlson Software training ease-of-use.
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The Vampire Diaries 3.20 Review: "Do Not Go Gentle"
Rumors of Alaric's impending demise, based on the actor's upcoming schedule, have been running rampant for quite some time. So it's only natural that his character arc this season should lead to a death scene. It provides the season with one of its more poignant farewells in quite some time, and sets the stage for an emotionally draining season finale.
Alaric's insanity is revealed to be the product of meddling by Esther, who was using her unique gifts to brainwash him each and every time that he was killed, before the ring would bring him back. So every time he died, he was one step closer to becoming Esther's anti-vampire sleeper agent, a status that he now retains, despite his own conversion.
It goes a bit deeper than that, of course. Esther needs a warrior equal to her wayward children with a weapon strong enough to withstand resistance. So the ritual in this episode rather neatly sets up Alaric to be an Original (or on par thereof), and renders the final white ash stake all but indestructible. Despite his attempt to let himself die in defiance of Esther's plan, Alaric joins the undead with stake in hand, ready to wipe out his "brothers", their "progeny", and then himself.
It all promises to take what might have been a simple, heroic departure and render it a chaotic nightmare for Elena and her friends. Elena is already reeling from the latest loss in her life, the last bastion of an older guardian that she could turn to for support, and she still has to work through her endlessly-conflicted feelings for Stefan and Damon. Speaking of Stefan, all those things he did earlier in the season just seem to be glossed over at this point, despite the occasional reference.
It all requires Esther to have enough time to perform her spell on Alaric, which means trapping the vampires in the school during the latest dance. I'm hoping I missed something in the actual episode, because I couldn't figure out why one of the humans couldn't just break the circle of salt and render the barrier useless. Maybe it's from watching too much "Supernatural"! Regardless, it did give all of the characters that have been at each other's throats all season a chance to see that they have a common enemy. (Even if Klaus still has some serious self-confidence and paranoia issues.)
If only because it did a better job of explaining what happened with Alaric and clarified that Esther was the season's real threat, this episode managed to bring the season back up from the stumble of the previous installment. Delivering that powerful farewell scene is just icing on the cake.
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On Monday, April 16, the Orange County Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, in collaboration with the YWCA and Northgate Gonzalez Markets, teamed up to give free clinical breast exams and mammograms to 34 Hispanic women at the Northgate Gonzalez Market in La Habra. Latina women are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage from breast cancer and therefore are at increased risk of dying from the disease, so it is important that they are provided with information and resources to increase rates of early detection.
The effort will continue through the month of May at different Northgate Gonzalez Markets throughout Orange County. Eligible women must be 40 years or older, have a low household income and no medical insurance or an insurance that has a high deductible or co-payment.
For more information on upcoming events such as this one, please contact the Komen Orange County office at (714) 957-9157 or visit www.komenoc.org.


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Modernizing Mitochondrial Medicine to Improve Patient Experience
Air Alternative? Researchers Study Liquid Ventilation for Premature Infants
Clearing the Airways for Research Into Respiratory Health
Research to Impact: Dr. Flaura Winston Elected to National Academy of Medicine
Researchers Get to the Root of Hunger in Primary Care
New Research Network to Study Fluid Intake Intervention for Kidney Stones
Seeing Into the Future of Pediatric Eye Care With Gil Binenbaum, MD
New Affinity Group Informs Researchers About Changing Face of Clinical Trials
A Day in the Life of a Clinical Research Coordinator
New Collaborative Driven by Power of Genetic Medicine and Philanthropy
The power of highly innovative, cutting-edge research in genetics can transform patients' futures. A key part of advancing this important work is the creation of the new $50 million Roberts Collaborative for Genetics and Individualized Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Chief Scientific Officer and Director of the Research Institute, Bryan Wolf, MD, PhD, hosted a special scientific symposium along with CEO of CHOP Madeline Bell Sept. 23 at the Research Institute to announce how this new approach, made possible by a remarkable $25 million gift by the Roberts family, will broaden the scope of genetic medicine across the institution and position it at the forefront of pediatrics genetics research. The Roberts family is committed to bolstering local non-profits focused on improving the quality of life for all Philadelphians, including social services, education, and the arts community.
Eight CHOP scientists spoke at the symposium about their strategies and commitment to individualized medicine. They are finding the genetic basis of complex childhood diseases, creating tools to diagnose those diseases, testing new therapies, and identifying patients who have diseases with unknown etiology and could possibly benefit from uncovering the secrets of their genetic code.
Another superstar speaker was Lainey Moseley, a mother who shared her gratitude for the time, energy, and resources that CHOP clinicians and researchers have devoted to her family. The Moseley's spent 16 years searching for a diagnosis for their medically fragile daughter, Leta. CHOP medical geneticist Ian Krantz, MD, and his genetics team "didn't give up on Leta," and used a breakthrough in sophisticated gene-sequencing technology to identify the genetic basis for her unique constellation of symptoms. In a Nature Genetics article published in 2015, they named the condition CHOPS Syndrome.
"My family has traveled a medically and emotionally challenging road of raising our daughter all these years without a diagnosis," Lainey Moseley told the audience. "But today, because of the availability of advanced genetic testing, so many families' lives will be dramatically different than ours."
Indeed, the discovery that ended the Moseley's medical odyssey has begun a new journey. So far, 10 children with CHOPS Syndrome have been identified across the world. Clinicians are able to better navigate the clinical issues related to CHOPS Syndrome. Genetic counselors can more effectively help families understand the recurrence risk for themselves and family members. And it is a starting point to work toward precisely tailored therapeutics.
The Roberts Collaborative for Genetics and Individualized Medicine will allow CHOP researchers to continue their relentless pursuit of genetics medicine for more families with other rare, complex diseases. The multidisciplinary collaborations will focus on these core components:
Genetic Diagnostics: through the efforts of the division of Genomic Diagnostics
Clinical Support and Counseling: by the newly established Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (Roberts IMGC) at CHOP's Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care, located on the Raymond G. Perelman Campus
Education: for patients, families and clinicians on genetic diagnostics
Training: of residents and medical students about individualized pediatric care
Informatics: developing innovative solutions to healthcare informatics needs through CHOP's department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Therapeutics: identifying targeted therapeutic options based on an individual's genetic information
Research and Development: the creation of a data repository that will help fuel discovery of rare and complex traits, transforming them into novel diagnostic and therapeutic solutions. The Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics will help to facilitate the rapid translation of pre-clinical discoveries into clinical application.
Already, CHOP researchers are making genetic breakthroughs in the fields of inherited disorders, mitochondrial disease, cancer, and autism. In the future, they will aim to expand genomic sequencing capabilities to all newborns, with the hope of one day preventing the onset of pediatric diseases.
"Genomics is revolutionizing what we do in medicine," said Dr. Krantz, who also is co-director of the Roberts IMGC. "We're beginning to understand the significance of changes in the genome and leverage it to drive counseling and management of patients and to develop new and targeted therapeutics. We now have a truly individualized approach to medicine."
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Critical thinking is one of the most sought after qualities that employer seek in job candidates. Employers list this skill as a job qualification in a broad range of job postings including both professional and non-professional positions. Regardless of the job for which you're applying, critical thinking skills will be an in-demand asset.
Read below for a detailed definition of critical thinking, including examples of ways people use critical thinking, and a list of critical thinking skills.
Then read for tips on how to demonstrate your own critical thinking skills during your job search.
Critical thinking involves the evaluation of sources such as data, facts, observable phenomenon, and research findings. Good critical thinkers can draw reasonable conclusions from a set of information and discriminate between useful and less useful details for solving a problem or making a decision.
Critical thinkers can present coherent reasons for adopting a position and debunk faulty reasoning regarding a proposal or assertion.
A triage nurse would use critical thinking skills to analyze the cases at hand and decide the order in which the patients should be treated.
A plumber would use critical thinking skills to evaluate which materials would best suit a particular job.
An attorney would review the evidence and use critical thinking to help devise a strategy to win a case or to decide whether to settle out of court.
A job seeker would use critical thinking to analyze a vacancy and decide whether to apply for a job. Then they would evaluate which of their assets as a candidate should be emphasized in an interview for that job.
Below is a list of specific skills related to critical thinking.
Each skill includes a definition.
Analysis – Analysis refers to the ability to examine something, and then be able to understand what it means, or what it represents.
Clarification – Clarification is the ability to not only restate information, but to state it in a way that is easy to understand.
Evaluation – Evaluative skills are those related to assessing or judging the validity of an idea.
Explanation – Explanation is similar to clarification, and refers to the ability to clearly state information, and even add one's own perspective to that information.
Inference – This relates to the ability to draw conclusions based on the information that one is given (which might be limited).
Interpretation – Interpretation is the understanding of information. Often, it refers to communicating the meaning of information in a format that is clear for a particular audience.
Judgment – Like evaluation, judgment is the assessment of an idea or a piece of information.
Objectivity – Being objective means that you evaluate an idea fairly, without bias.
Problem Solving – Problem solving is another important skill that involves analyzing a problem, generating a solution, and implementing and then assessing that plan.
Reasoning – Reasoning refers to thinking logically about a question or problem.
How to Demonstrate Your Critical Thinking Skills ?
If critical thinking is a key phrase in the job listings you are applying for, you want to emphasize your critical thinking skills throughout your job search. Include this phrase in your resumes, cover letters, and interviews.
Think back to previous roles you have held, from past jobs to volunteer positions. Think about times when you had to analyze or evaluate materials to solve a problem. You can mention one of these examples in detail in your cover letter. You might also include bullet points in your resume that highlight your critical thinking experiences for different jobs.
In interviews, be prepared to provide specific examples of times that you demonstrated critical thinking skills.
Be ready to mention a particular problem or challenge at work, and explain how you applied critical thinking to solve the issue.
Some interviewers will even give you a hypothetical scenario or problem, and ask you to use critical thinking skills to solve it. In this case, explain your thought process thoroughly to the interviewer. He or she is typically more focused on how you arrive at your answer rather than the answer itself. The interviewer wants to see you use analysis and evaluation (key parts of critical thinking).


Family tradition of stewardship since 1926. We are committed to being a good corporate citizen. Our integrated business model is focused on sustainability, animal welfare, and food safety.
The mission at Dutt & Wagner has always been to provide the best food possible while treating our customers, workers, animals, and environment with respect. Our Vision has evolved to also provide the customer with choice and the information to make informed buying decisions.
The vertically integrated business model of Dutt & Wagner allows us to do more with considerably less to achieve the three main goals of waste reduction, environmental health, and economic profitability.
Energy. Every aspect of Dutt & Wagner's distribution model, from producing feed and raising laying hens to transportation, has led to a reduction of the company's overall carbon footprint. Sustainable agriculture starts with the local grain that is purchased for our hen's feed. More than 80% of corn purchased supports local farmers, reducing transportation costs and vehicle emissions.
Water. All water waste from Green Valley is hauled to the Washington County waste water treatment plant where it is processed because of the high pH content. Treating waste water is not required by law, but is a corporation policy for water quality. Not only does this reduce the potential impact on water quality, but it also helps reduce fly and odor problems associated with the material.
Waste. A major by-product of the egg industry is chicken litter; Green Valley operates its own compost operation. Rodney Wagner, Vice President, works with the Nutrient Management Specialist for the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation to develop Nutrient Management Plans for all landowners and farmers that use the litter for fertilizer.
Dutt & Wagner and Green Valley Poultry Farms are committed to providing the best welfare for our hens. We believe that the healthiest and happiest hens lay the best eggs. Our commitment to animal welfare starts at our farm and extends throughout the supply chain. All eggs produced by Green Valley are in compliance with United Egg Producers (UEP) Animal Husbandry Guidelines.
The UEP Certified program provides assurance that the hens receive adequate space, protection from predators, temperature controlled housing, nutritious food (with no added hormones), clean water, proper lighting, fresh air, and proper animal handling. All employees sign a code of conduct and are properly trained in animal handling, health, and welfare. Compliance audits are conducted by third party inspectors annually.
Dutt & Wagner prides itself on its high level of food safety, quality, and commitment to detail. Dutt & Wagner maintains strict compliance to all federal, state, and local mandates regarding the safe manufacture and handling of foods. Quality control policies and procedures are strictly monitored and enforced at all farm locations. Green Valley follows the UEP 5-Star Total Quality Assurance Program to ensure product consistency, quality, and safety.
An HACCP plan is in place and supported by a full complement of quality food safety systems including the cleaning and disinfection of poultry barns, rodent and pest elimination, environmental testing, salmonella prevention, proper egg washing, bio-security, and refrigeration. The Food and Drug Administration and/or the USDA inspects our plants at least once per year. Third party auditing firms, which conform to both domestic and global standards, consistently rate our plants "Excellent."
2000: Green Valley Farms was the first farm in Virginia to be presented with the "Water Quality Award" by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.
2001: Green Valley was the recipient of the Big Sandy/Tennessee River Basin Clean Water Farm Award.


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Part of the meaning of the number 39, which is 3 times 13, comes from its use related to punishment carried out upon oneself or administered by others.
Pontius Pilate was Rome's Prefect over Judea from 26 to 36 A.D. According to first century historian Josephus, Pilate's tenure ended when he was ordered to appear in Rome to answer for the murder of several men in Samaria (Antiquities of the Jews, book 18, chapter 4). He was made to answer for his actions before Emperor Caligula, who began his reign in March 37 A.D.
The fourth century church historian Eusebius (Church History, 2.6.7) writes that church tradition states Pilate committed suicide in 39 A.D. due, in part, to his disgraceful removal as Judea's Prefect.
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Appearances of the number thirty-nine
Modern Bibles contain 66 books, 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. In the entirety of God's word (King James translation), there are 1,189 chapters, 31,173 verses, 774,746 words, and 3,566,480 letters.
King Azariah of Judah, at age sixteen, began to co-rule the Kingdom of Judah with his father Amaziah (2Kings 14:21). In 767 B.C., at the age of thirty-nine, he ruled as the sole monarch. His total time on the throne, fifty-two years, is the second longest of any of the kings of either Israel or Judah.
Josiah, along with Hezekiah, are arguably the two most righteous kings over Judah after the united kingdom of Israel split in 930 B.C. Josiah began to rule at the tender age of eight (2Kings 22:1). In 609 B.C. he dies at the age of thirty-nine when he attempts to stop the Egyptians from traveling north through Israel in their effort to halt the Babylonians from becoming a world empire (2Kings 23:29 - 30, 2Chronicles 35:20 - 35).
Punishment, hatred and the number 39
One common form of corporal punishment, recorded in both the Old and New Testaments, is the receiving of stripes (also called scourging, Leviticus 19:20). The practice is based on Deuteronomy 25:1 - 3 where up to forty stripes could be administered. Such correction was labeled "forty stripes save one" (2Corinthians 11:24) as Jews limited themselves to carrying out, at most, only 39 stripes.
Jewish religious leaders, especially in the first century, set the maximum number of stripes to 39 because they feared making a mistake and going beyond the proscribed limit. The Romans, however, had no such limit in their law. Christ was scourged by the Romans so many times that it rendered him too weak to carry his crucifixion stake to Golgotha (Matthew 27:26, 32, Mark 15:21, Luke 23:26).
The 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia states that stripes would be administered using a fourfold thong of leather. Commentaries like Gill's, Matthew Henry's and others, however, believe that a three-fold lash or cord was used and thirteen strokes (at most) were carried out to achieve 39 blows.
Jesus warned Christians they could be beaten by religious authorities, who think they are doing God a service, for the truth they taught (Matthew 10:17, 23:34, John 16:2). Such unrighteous abuse happened to the apostles a short time after Christ's ascension. They were arrested by the Sanhedrin and, in spite of the wise counsel of Rabbi Gamaliel, were beaten (likely with thirty-nine stripes, see Acts 5:17 - 41).
God's law allowed, and Jewish tradition upheld, the role of judgment in determining the number of stripes a criminal received. In this regard, the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia states the following.
"The Talmudic law provides that whenever the infliction of corporal punishment is ordained . . . (it) allows no discretion to the judge except in regard to the number of blows" (article on corporal punishment).
Hatred of the Apostle Paul and his message, however, ran strong among Jewish leadership in Jerusalem and in locations where he evangelized. This distain of the gospel was so pronounced that synagogues, on five separate occasions, justified whipping him with the maximum 39 stripes (2Corinthians 11:24)!
In 39 A.D. after Herod Antipas' death, Herod Agrippa I (grandson of Herod the Great) is made ruler over Perea and Galilee. In 41, he is declared king of Judea. Herod is notorious in Christian history as the first person to put to death one of the original twelve apostles. He killed the Apostle James in 44 A.D. Herod himself, in the same year he murdered James, is struck dead by the Angel of the Lord (Acts 12).
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Charlie Rose sits down with Roger Altman, former United States Deputy Treasury Secretary, Evan Bayh, an American politician, and Judd Gregg, a former Governor of New Hampshire and current US Senator. A link to the transcript of the interview follows at the end of the post.
Click here for a transcript of the discussion (go to "transcript" button).
Source: Charlie Rose, February 1, 2010.