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Large mother-child paired study promises more answers on COVID-19 in pregnancy
A new paper published in the preprint server medRxiv* in August 2020 reports the design and preliminary findings of an ongoing study on pregnant mothers and their children born during the pandemic.
COVID-19 could be diagnosed using stroke scans
New research from King's College London has found that COVID-19 may be diagnosed on the same emergency scans intended to diagnose stroke.
SARS-CoV-2 with D614G mutation is prevalent in central India
A team of scientists at the Defence Research and Development Establishment, India, reveals that there are multiple viral introduction events in central India, and SARS-CoV-2 with D614G mutation is the prevalently circulating strain.
Different variants of SARS-CoV-2 identified in San Francisco Bay Area sewage
A team of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, Innovative Genomics Institute, Illumina, Inc., and Stanford University has performed a genomic sequencing of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) collected from sewage in the San Francisco Bay Area.
New book gives overview of viruses and how they emerge to cause pandemics
Since the novel coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 emerged late last year, it has been virtually impossible to consume any news without encountering stories about the virus and how it spreads, potential treatments, and the development of new vaccines.
Bedrails, door handles and ECG monitors hotspots for SARS-CoV-2 in hospital wards
A new study published in the journal Science of The Total Environment in September 2020 reports that the virus can be detected rapidly using already available technology, which will help to monitor viral spread within healthcare facilities more closely and enable better control of the pandemic.
Alternative UK air travel guidance likely needed to address COVID-19
Researchers have said that the UK guidance on preventing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from being imported via air travel does prevent a significant proportion of infectious travelers from putting people at risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Convalescent plasma fails to improve outcome of COVID-19 in India
A new study based in India and published on the medRxiv preprint server explores the role of convalescent plasma (CP) in the treatment of moderate COVID-19 within the limitations on resources faced in a developing country.
Pfizer, BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine candidate shows promise in preclinical study
Researchers in the United States and Germany have conducted a study demonstrating the preclinical efficacy of a new candidate vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Pooled saliva testing increases COVID-19 testing capacity
Now, a new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine and published on the preprint server medRxiv in September 2020 shows that pooled saliva samples can save resources and increase testing capacity, making a significant difference in the management of the pandemic.
Two viral gene targets needed in SARS-CoV-2 detection by PCR, say researchers
Researchers at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, and collaborators have warned against only targeting one viral gene when carrying out reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
No evidence of active SARS-CoV-2 in breastmilk of infected women
A recent study published in the journal JAMA in August 2020 suggests that SARS-CoV-2 RNA does not represent replication-competent virus and that breast milk may not be a source of infection for infants.
Chaotic and incoherent: Damning study of over 500 U.S. campus COVID-19 reopening plans
Now, a new study by researchers at California Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University and published on the preprint server medRxiv* in August 2020 shows that poorly planned and inadequate testing approaches to mitigate viral spread among the returning university students are likely to result in epidemics that will plague the country for a long time.
Research looks at convalescent plasma use in COVID-19 mouse model
A new study by researchers at the University of Iowa and published on the preprint server bioRxiv in August 2020 reports the utility of a mouse model that recapitulates several aspects of human COVID-19 and can reflect the antiviral efficacy of new drugs as well.
Can SARS-CoV-2 be transmitted via feces?
A new study by researchers at the University of Oxford and the Trip Medical Database and published on the preprint server medRxiv* in August 2020 as part of the ongoing Open Evidence Review on Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 reports the presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in feces and the need for precautions to prevent orofecal spread in the surroundings of confirmed or suspected cases.
COVID-19 in pregnancy - premature birth common
A new study conducted by researchers at Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea, suggests that while having coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during pregnancy has little effect on fetal or neonatal mortality, it can be associated with premature birth and sometimes severe outcomes for mother and baby, including death.
Fast, cheap and easy COVID-19 test from Yale
As a result, a new study by Yale University researchers and published on the preprint server medRxiv in August 2020 shows that a new saliva test named SalivaDirect simplifies the test approach, avoids invasive samples collection, and the need for trained personnel to collect specimens.
Novel mutation identified in SARS-CoV-2 spike protein from Sweden
Researchers from Sweden and Brazil have identified a novel mutation in a strain of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) obtained from a patient in Stockholm, Sweden, in late April.
School children unlikely to play a significant role in COVID-19 spread, says Finnish study
A study conducted by researchers in Finland suggests that children who are exposed to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in schools are unlikely to transmit the virus further and play any significant role in the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
New simple way of detecting COVID-19 in blood plasma
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic claims increasing numbers of patients, testing numbers are rising in most nations at the leading edge. However, the current reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR) testing is often unavailable and takes up to several days for results to arrive.


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package lib.pircbot.org.jibble.pircbot;

import face.IconEnum;
import gui.GUIMain;
import irc.Donor;

import java.awt.*;
import java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArraySet;

/**
 * This class is used to represent a user on an IRC server.
 * Instances of this class are returned by the getUsers method
 * in the PircBot class.
 *

 * Note that this class no longer implements the Comparable interface
 * for Java 1.1 compatibility reasons.
 *
 * @author Paul James Mutton,
 *         http://www.jibble.org/
 * @version 1.5.0 (Build time: Mon Dec 14 20:07:17 2009)
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
public class User implements Comparable<User> {

    private boolean staff = false, admin = false, global_mod = false, turbo = false;
    private String _nick, _lowerNick, displayName = null;

    private CopyOnWriteArraySet<Integer> emotes = new CopyOnWriteArraySet<>();

    private Color color = null;
    private Donor donor = null;

    /**
     * Constructs a User object with a known prefix and nick.
     *
     * @param nick The nick of the user.
     */
    public User(String nick) {
        _nick = nick;
        _lowerNick = nick.toLowerCase();
    }

    /**
     * Returns the prefix of the user. If the User object has been obtained
     * from a list of users in a channel, then this will reflect the user's
     * status in that channel.
     *
     * @return The prefix of the user. If there is no prefix, then an empty
     * String is returned.
     */
    public String getPrefix() {
        StringBuilder foxStevenson = new StringBuilder();
        //if (isOp() && (!isStaff() || !isAdmin())) {
        //    foxStevenson.append("@");TODO pass the channel as a parameter
        //}
        if (isTurbo()) {
            foxStevenson.append("+");
        }
        //if (isSubscriber()) {
        //    foxStevenson.append("$");
        //}
        if (isGlobalMod()) {
            foxStevenson.append("!");
        }
        if (isAdmin()) {
            foxStevenson.append("!!");
        }
        if (isStaff()) {
            foxStevenson.append("!!!");
        }
        return foxStevenson.toString();
    }

    /**
     * Returns whether or not the user represented by this object is an
     * operator. If the User object has been obtained from a list of users
     * in a channel, then this will reflect the user's operator status in
     * that channel.
     *
     * @return true if the user is an operator in the channel.
     */
    public boolean isOp(String channel) {
        Channel c = GUIMain.currentSettings.channelManager.getChannel(channel);
        return c != null && c.isMod(getNick());
    }

    public boolean isGlobalMod() {
        return global_mod;
    }

    public void setGlobalMod(boolean newBool) {
        global_mod = newBool;
    }
    /**
     * Checks to see if the user is an Admin on Twitch.
     *
     * @return true if they are an admin.
     */
    public boolean isAdmin() {
        return admin;
    }

    public void setAdmin(boolean newBool) {
        admin = newBool;
    }

    /**
     * Checks to see if the user is a part of the Staff of Twitch.
     *
     * @return true if they are a staff member.
     */
    public boolean isStaff() {
        return staff;
    }

    public void setStaff(boolean newBool) {
        staff = newBool;
    }

    /**
     * Checks to see if a user has twitch turbo.
     */
    public boolean isTurbo() {
        return turbo;
    }

    public void setTurbo(boolean newBool) {
        turbo = newBool;
    }

    /**
     * Checks to see if the user is a subscriber of the channel.
     *
     * @return true if the user is a subscriber of the channel, else false.
     */
    public boolean isSubscriber(String channel) {
        Channel c = GUIMain.currentSettings.channelManager.getChannel(channel);
        return c != null && c.isSubscriber(this);
    }

    public boolean isDonor() {
        donor = GUIMain.currentSettings.donationManager.getDonor(getNick());
        return donor != null;
    }

    public void addEmote(int emote) {
        this.emotes.add(emote);
    }

    public CopyOnWriteArraySet<Integer> getEmotes() {
        return emotes;
    }

    public IconEnum getDonationStatus() {
        return Donor.getDonationStatus(donor.getDonated());
    }

    public double getDonated() {
        return donor.getDonated();
    }

    /**
     * Returns the nick of the user.
     *
     * @return The user's nick.
     */
    public String getNick() {
        return _nick;
    }

    public String getLowerNick() {
        return _lowerNick;
    }

    public void setNick(String newNick) {
        _nick = newNick;
        _lowerNick = _nick.toLowerCase();
    }

    public String getDisplayName() {
        return displayName == null ? getLowerNick() : displayName;
    }

    public void setDisplayName(String name) {
        if (displayName == null) {
            displayName = name;
        }
    }

    /**
     * @return The chat color of the user.
     */
    public Color getColor() {
        return color;
    }

    public void setColor(Color c) {
        color = c;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the nick of the user complete with their prefix if they
     * have one, e.g. "@Dave".
     *
     * @return The user's prefix and nick.
     */
    public String toString() {
        return getPrefix() + getNick();
    }

    /**
     * Returns true if the nick represented by this User object is the same
     * as the argument. A case insensitive comparison is made.
     *
     * @return true if the nicks are identical (case insensitive).
     */
    public boolean equals(String nick) {
        return nick.toLowerCase().equals(_lowerNick);
    }

    /**
     * Returns true if the nick represented by this User object is the same
     * as the nick of the User object given as an argument.
     * A case insensitive comparison is made.
     *
     * @return true if o is a User object with a matching lowercase nick.
     */
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (o instanceof User) {
            User other = (User) o;
            return other._lowerNick.equals(_lowerNick);
        }
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the hash code of this User object.
     *
     * @return the hash code of the User object.
     */
    public int hashCode() {
        return _lowerNick.hashCode();
    }

    /**
     * Returns the result of calling the compareTo method on lowercased
     * nicks. This is useful for sorting lists of User objects.
     *
     * @return the result of calling compareTo on lowercased nicks.
     */
    public int compareTo(User o) {
        if (o != null) {
            return o._lowerNick.compareTo(_lowerNick);
        }
        return -1;
    }

}

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Congressional gridlock helps to make income inequality worse
Last December, President Obama warned of 'dangerous and growing inequality' in America, reflecting growing concerns that inequality is increasing, especially in relation to other countries. Peter K. Enns, Nathan J. Kelly, Jana Morgan, Thomas Volscho and Christopher Witko investigate the role of what they argue is a major contributing factor to rising inequality: the tendency for the current political and economic conditions to maintain the policy status quo. They argue that the increasing political polarization that makes it harder for Congress to pass laws in turn contributes to rising inequality, especially when inequality is already growing rapidly.
Income inequality has increased in most affluent nations over the last few decades, but the United States is an outlier—with rising inequality far outpacing that in other democratic countries. The U.S. is also an outlier in terms of the number of potential veto points built into the policy system, biasing policy toward the status quo. In recent research we looked at how this status quo bias in the policy system influences inequality, finding that contemporary political conditions make this bias worse, which in turn widens income inequality.
Some scholars argue that increasing inequality reflects the shift from liberal Democratic governments to conservative Republican governments, and there is a fair amount of empirical support for this contention (see work by Bartels and Kelly for instance). But since the 1980s inequality has increased rapidly regardless of which parties and ideological coalitions have been in control of government. We think this seemingly inexorable march of growing inequality reflects, in part, the status quo bias in American policy making.
How can enduring and largely constant institutional features explain a fairly recent increase in income inequality? While always serious, the status quo bias in American political institutions is exacerbated under some political and economic conditions. That is, the system experiences "conditional status quo bias" or CSQB. Currently, the growing polarization that leads to major ideological gaps between policy makers within and across institutions makes it even more difficult to enact policies that might address inequality. Furthermore, CSQB has more serious consequences for inequality when inequality is growing rapidly, since this is when more dramatic policy action would be required to reverse it.
Inequality can certainly be actively increased by policies such as tax cuts for the wealthy or financial deregulation. But Hacker and Pierson also suggest that "policy drift" –failing to adjust policies in response to changing economic realities – also contributes to widening income inequality through inaction. For instance, neglecting to increase the minimum wage as it fails to keep pace with average wage growth contributes to inequality. If top incomes are growing rapidly, then this failure to increase the minimum wage has even more important implications for inequality. Of course, the minimum wage is only one such example, and there are many others (in pensions, healthcare, financial regulation, etc.). It seems clear that the polarization we see within and across political institutions makes it more difficult to overcome policy drift and this likely contributes to growing inequality.
What do the data say? To examine CSQB we studied how measures of the ideological distance between different policy actors and the volume of policy activity were associated with the share of pre-tax, pre-transfer income going to the top 1 percent of income earners from 1940-2007 using the Piketty and Saez data set of top world incomes. As we can see in Figure 1, as the "filibuster pivot distance" (the ideological gap between the median Senator and the Senator that "controls" the filibuster, currently the ideological gap between the 51st and 60th Senator) increases, so too does the share of income going to the top 1 percent. We see a similar pattern regarding Congressional policy output. When Congress enacts fewer laws, inequality grows more rapidly (in the figure Congressional policy product has been inverted to more clearly show the relationship between a slow-down in policy and an increase in inequality).
Figure 1- Top Income Shares and Status Quo Bias, 1940–2006
In our statistical analysis, we control for confounders suggested in the economic, sociological and political science literatures on inequality. We find that conservative policy changes (financial deregulation and top marginal income tax rate cuts), correspond with growing income inequality. Lower interest rates are also associated with a greater share of income going to the top 1 percent of earners. But even after controlling for these policy changes, we observe that when Congress is more productive the top 1 percent income share decreases. In addition, we find that increasing ideological filibuster pivot distance is positively related to the share of income going to the top 1 percent. Other measures of ideological polarization did not show a similar effect, so our research suggests that the anti-majoritarian nature of the Senate, which has increased in recent years with the growing use of the filibuster, is particularly problematic.
The effect sizes for a one standard deviation increase in these variables can be seen below in Figure 2. The lines with the black dot show the effects of the conditional status quo bias and policy variables when all other variables are at their means and the lines with the white dot in Figure 2 show the expected effect of the status quo bias variables when inequality is high (the share of income going to the top 1 percent is 1 standard deviation above the mean). We see that as the share of income earned by the top 1 percent increases, the CSQB variables have an even larger effect. This finding suggests that policy stasis contributes even more to growing inequality when inequality is growing rapidly.
Figure 2- Total Expected Shift in the Income Share of the Top 1%
The gridlock and dysfunction characterizing American politics in recent years has important implications for growing income inequality. It is well known that American political institutions have a built-in status quo bias. What is perhaps underappreciated is that contemporary political conditions exacerbate this status quo bias, and that this affects income inequality. Thomas Piketty argues in his influential book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that income inequality is likely to continue to grow in the future, and our research identifies precisely how U.S. policymaking institutions contribute to this process. As inequality increases rapidly it would require ever more dramatic policy change to reverse it, but this dramatic policy change is increasingly unlikely.
Last year the Democrats weakened the filibuster for judicial nominees, and our research suggests that further weakening the filibuster would be a positive step toward reducing inequality in that the ideological distance between the 51st Senator and the pivotal Senator would typically be smaller. However, completely eliminating the filibuster will clearly be politically difficult. Thus, barring some unforeseen events, the structure of U.S. policymaking institutions and current political conditions almost ensure that the accumulation of income and wealth at the top of the distribution is likely to grow into the future.
This article is based on the paper Conditional Status Quo Bias and Top Income Shares: How U.S. Political Institutions Have Benefited the Rich in The Journal of Politics.
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Peter K. Enns – Cornell University
Peter Enns is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His research and teaching interests focus on public opinion, representation, and quantitative research methods. In particular, he is interested in whose policy preferences change, why, and whether government responds to these changes. He is also co-editor of the book, Who Gets Represented? (Sage, 2011).
Nathan J. Kelly – University of Tennessee
Nathan J. Kelly, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Tennessee in 2005. His primary research program examines how macro political dynamics influence, and are influenced by, income inequality in the United States. Within this research agenda, he continues to conduct research on how income inequality influences public opinion and the democratic system more broadly.
Jana Morgan- University of Tennesse
Jana Morgan is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Chair of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Tennessee. Her research focuses on issues of inequality, exclusion and representation, especially how economic, social and political inequalities affect marginalized groups and undermine democratic institutions and outcomes.
Thomas Volscho – CUNY-Staten Island
Thomas Volscho is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work. His future research includes conducting surveys, field experiments and interviews with physicians and reproductive healthcare recipients to study contemporary sterilization abuse.
Christopher Witko – University of South Carolina
Dr. Christopher Witko is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Masters of Public Administration program at the University of South Carolina. His teaching and research focuses on American politics and public policy.
April 10th, 2014|Christopher Witko, Economy, Elections and party politics across the US, Jana Morgan, Nathan J. Kelly, Peter Enns, Thomas Volscho|3 Comments
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Nuevas consideraciones sobre la desigualdad y los trabajos de Piketty | Diego Sánchez de la Cruz August 19, 2014 at 10:24 am - Reply
[…] Hay otros informes de interés, como el de Rajashree Chakrabarti, economista de la FED de Nueva York que, de la mano con el investigador Matt Mazewski, concluye que existe una fuerte correlación entre la polarización del Congreso de EEUU y el nivel de ingresos del 1% más rico. Este tipo de argumento ha sido explorado con anterioridad por parte del MIT o de la London School of Economics. […]
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"Howard Tayler":http://howardtayler.livejournal.com/ creator of "Schlock Mercenary":http://www.schlockmercenary.com/ (if you aren't reading this yet, you're missing out) has quite a way with words. His description of morning pretty well sums up my view.
Finally, last night we got new neighbors in the house behind us. The old owners had quite a long history, and finally were kicked out by their bank about two years ago. The house has sat empty until a couple of months ago when somebody bought it and started fixing it up, to flip it.
With neighbors, now we'll have somebody to help us get the fence up back there finally, and it'll definitely help the old resale value. The neighbor (Jameson) seems quite fun and easy to get along with.
Is it just me, or does anybody else just get mad when people get up and leave before the closing hymn and prayer? Would it really kill you to sit through 2-3 more minutes after being there for two hours? I stayed, _walked_ out, and was still home within 4 minutes of the last 'amen'.


South Korean President Park Geun-hye was impeached today by the country's National Assembly, effectively ending a term that was marked by corruption scandals that triggered six weeks of massive street protests.
It was an overwhelming vote against Park. The impeachment vote required only at least 28 of the president's fellow Saemuri Party lawmakers to cross the aisle to complete the majority two-thirds of the 300-seat legislature. In the end, the final vote stood at 234 to 56 in favor of the impeachment.
The impeachment vote mirrors the public sentiments against Park. The corruption charges and scandals have pushed her approval rating to plunge to a mere 4%. A recent survey also reveals that 78% of respondents supported her impeachment.
Massive crowds numbering between 500,000 to 1.5 million have been protesting the past weeks in Central Seoul strongly demanding Park's ouster. Banner-waving crowds outside the chamber likewise greeted the impeachment vote with wild cheers.
With the affirmative impeachment vote, Park is immediately suspended. The vote, however, needs to be ratified by the nation's Constitutional Court within 100 days to become permanent.
South Korea's Prime Minister will take over Park's duties in the interim, although Park had earlier offered to resign if lawmakers voted against her. If Park makes her resignation, new elections for the nation's President must be held within 60 days.
Park has yet to issue a statement regarding her impeachment. She has not been officially seen since Tuesday, preferring to hole up in the presidential Blue House, while fervent demonstrations were ongoing only a mile away.
While presenting the impeachment bill, opposition lawmaker Kim Kwan-young said that Park has violated the Constitution and other laws concerning her public duties, as well as forgetting her duty as the nation's leader and administrative chief.
Park has been accused of sharing classified documents with her friend and long-time confidante, Choi-Soon-sil. Choi was charged with using her influence over Park to get almost $70 million " donations" from the country's biggest companies including LG, Hyundai and Samsung.
Park, 64, is the daughter of former South Korea's military dictator Park Chung-hee, mainly credited for spearheading the nation's rapid economic growth of the 1970s and 80s.
Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn is also unpopular among the opposition and protesters due to his perceived closeness with the scandal-hit Park administration. South Korea now faces an uncertain political time.
South Korea's political affairs remain relevant for Washington as the country is a close ally of the U.S. in East Asia along with Japan. Washington and Seoul also have shared interests in curbing the nuclear ambitions of rogue state North Korea.


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Der Gorgas-Manly Historic District ist ein historischer Distrikt in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Er umfasst eine Fläche von knapp fünf Hektar mit acht Gebäuden auf dem Kampus der University of Alabama. Diese Gebäude repräsentieren die Architekturgeschichte der Universität von der Gründung der Einrichtung bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Zwei in den Distrikt einbegriffene Gebäude, Gorgas House und das Little Round House, sind unter den nur sieben Bauwerken der Universität, die den Brand am 4. April 1865 überstanden haben, den Unionstruppen auf Befehl von Brigadegeneral John T. Croxton gelegt hatten. Die anderen überstehenden Gebäude sind das President's Mansion und das Old Observatory sowie einige weniger Fakultätswohnhäuser.

Woods Hall war das erste Bauwerk, das nach dem Sezessionskrieg gebaut wurde. Die weiteren fünf Gebäude, Clark, Manly, Garland, Tuomey und Barnard Hall, spiegeln die Bautätigkeit auf dem Kampus während der wirtschaftlichen Erholungsphase wider, die dem Ende der Reconstruction folgte.

Der Bau von Manly, Clark und Garland Hall sowie weiterer Gebäude finanzierte die Universität durch den Verkauf eines großen Stückes Land, 46.800 Acre (rund 18.700 Hektar), das die Universität vom Kongress der Vereinigten Staaten als Entschädigung erhielt "für die feurige Zerstörung, die Bundestruppen 1865 gebracht hatten".

Am 14. Juli 1971 wurde Gorgas-Manly als Historic District in das National Register of Historic Places aufgenommen.

Beschreibung des Distriktes

Gorgas House
Ein frühes Beispiel der Architektur des Klassizismus in Alabama ist das Gorgas House, das das erste auf dem Universitätsgelände errichtete Gebäude war. Der Entwurf des Hauses stammt von dem Architekten William Nichols, der den ursprünglichen Kampus der Universität sowie das alte State Capitol Alabamas in Tuscaloosa geplant hatte. Das Bauwerk wurde 1829 fertiggestellt, also noch vor der Eröffnung des Kampus. Die Hauptfassade, mit Ausnahme des Portikus, reflektiert dabei den damals fortdauernden Einfluss des Federal Style. Das Haus wurde ursprünglich als Gästehaus für Besucher und Professoren sowie als Speisesaal für Studenten genutzt, jedoch Ende der 1840er Jahre in ein Fakultätsgebäude umgewandelt. Seinen derzeitigen Namen hat es nach Josiah Gorgas, dem siebenten Präsidenten der University of Alabama. Sein schlechter Gesundheitszustand zwang ihn, von seinem Amt zurückzutreten und der Verwaltungsrat der Universität stellte ihm das Haus als Ruhesitz zur Verfügung. Die Gesetzgebung des Bundesstaates wies es 1944 als Denkmal zu Ehren seiner Familie aus. Heute ist Teil der Museen der University of Alabama untergebracht.

Little Round House

Dieses kleine achteckige Gebäude mit den Zinnen diente ursprünglich als Wachhaus der Universität. Es wurde 1860 fertiggestellt und verdeutlicht die Wandlung der Universität in einen militärischen Kampus. Diese Wandlung wurde am 23. Februar 1860 durch ein Gesetz vollzogen. Als die Spannungen zwischen Norden und Süden sich steigerten, war dieser Schritt von Landon Garland, dem damaligen Präsidenten der Universität, vorgeschlagen worden. Es ist Ironie, dass ausgerechnet das Little Round House trotz seiner militärisch anmutenden Erscheinung eines der wenigen Bauwerke ist, das übrigblieb, als die Unionstruppen den Kampus niederbrannten. Als die Universität 1871 wiedereröffnet wurde, diente das Gebäude als Büros für einen Arzt. Einige Jahre später war es in einem vernachlässigten Zustand und es wurde der Abriss erwogen. Der Verwaltungsrat der Universität entschloss sich jedoch, das Gebäude zu sanieren und so wurde es in ein Archivgebäude für Aufzeichnungen umgebaut. In den 1930er Jahren wurde es als Jasons Shrine bezeichnet, weil es von den Jasons, einer Männerehrengesellschaft genutzt wurde. 1990 wurde das Bauwerk in ein Denkmal für alle diese Ehrengesellschaften umgebaut.

Woods Hall
Woods Hall war das erste neue Gebäude auf dem Kampus nach dem Ende des Sezessionskrieges. Es wurde von 1867 bis 1868 gebaut. Das vierstöckige Backsteingebäude hat einen neugotischen Bogengang im Erdgeschoss, die Seitenbauten sind an der Dachtraufe mit Zinnen versehen und im Mittelteil sind die oberen Stockwerke mit gusseisernen Galerien versehen. Ursprünglich als "" (Kaserne) bezeichnet, diente es als Studentenwohnheim. Im Erdgeschoss waren ein Speisesaal und Klassenzimmer untergebracht. Es blieb bis 1961 ein Wohnheim, dann wurde es zur Verwendung durch die Abteilung für Kunst und Kunstgeschichte umgebaut.

Das Gebiet zwischen Woods Hall auf der einen Seite und Woods, Clark und Manly Hall auf der anderen Seite wird als Woods Quad bezeichnet und ist der Veranstaltungsort für die Abschlusszeremonien der School of Liberal Arts.

Clark Hall
Die 1884 im neugotischen Stil erbaute Clark Hall entstand an der Stätte des während des Sezessionskrieges zerstörten alten Lyceum. Clark Hall war ursprünglich ein Mehrzweckgebäude mit Bibliothek, Lesesälen, Kapelle und einem großen Versammlungsraum, der der größte öffentliche Raum der Universität war. Um 1910 begann das Gebäude zu verfallen und die Backsteinwände drohten aufgrund des Gewichtes des schweren Daches einzustürzen. Gesichert wurde das Gebäude durch den Einzug eines Stahlrahmens im Inneren, sodass es erhalten blieb. In den 1980er Jahren wurde es erneut renoviert. Es hat den Namen nach Willis G. Clark, einem früheren Verwaltungsratsmitglied der Universität.

Clark Hall enthält heute die meisten Büros der the School of Liberal Arts, sowie ein derzeit von Cornelius Carter geleitetes Tanzstudio.

Manly Hall
Manly Hall ist ein dreieinhalb Stockwerke zählendes neugotisches Gebäude aus roten Backsteinen. Das Aussehen des Gebäudes ist ähnlich im Design wie Clark Hall; es wurde 1885 fertiggestellt und diente ursprünglich als Wohnheim. Heute sind darin das Department of Religious Studies, das Department of Women's Studies, Büros der Abteilungen für englische Sprache und die Büros des Literaturmagazins Black Warrior Review untergebracht. Das Gebäude trägt den Namen von Basil Manly, dem zweiten Präsidenten der Universität.

Garland Hall
Auch die dreistöckige Garland Hall ist ein neugotisches Bauwerk. Sie entstand 1887 um ein Wohnheim und das ursprünglich Alabama Museum of Natural History unterzubringen. Es bildet das Gegenstück zu Manly Hall und beherbergt heute die Sarah Moody Gallery of Art.

Tuomey Hall
Die zweistöckige Tuomey Hall, heute als Blount Undergraduate Initiative Tuomey Academic House bezeichnet, wurde 1889 fertiggestellt. Es diente als Laborgebäude für das Department of Chemistry und trägt den Namen von Michael Tuomey, einem Geologen und Professor.

Barnard Hall
Die zweieinhalbstöckige Barnard Hall, heute als Oliver-Barnard Hall bekannt, wurde ebenfalls 1889 fertiggestellt. Ursprünglich gebaut, um ein Labor und Sporträume unterzubringen, befinden sich heute darin Büros und Klassenzimmer des College of Arts and Sciences. Es erhielt den Namen nach dem Wissenschaftler und Professor, Frederick A. P. Barnard. Im Jahr 2000 wurde es umbenannt in Oliver-Barnard Hall, um das emeritierte Verwaltungsratsmitglied John T. Oliver Jr. zu ehren.

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We are nearing the end of our series on the new WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria. We return to the topic of mobile accessibility with the last two new success criteria, both at level AAA. This post will review 2.5.5 Target Size under guideline 2.5, Input Modalities.
This success criterion addresses issues when interacting with mobile devices. The goal is to make controls large enough to see and touch. This helps people with tremors or mobility disabilities to activate the control.
A size of 44 by 44 pixels corresponds to a 9mm square on a typical mobile device. This size is large enough for most people to see and touch using a finger or alternative pointing device. The size is similar to the Apple iOS and Android user interface guidelines for size of controls.
Interfaces can still have controls smaller than 44 by 44. But, in that case, there must be another control to perform the same operation that is at least 44 by 44 pixels.
Links are controls. It does not make sense to have linked text within a sentence be larger than the surrounding text. So, controls within a sentence or paragraph are not included in this guideline. Footnote or help links at the end of a sentence are also exempt. The image below simulates a paragraph that has the link text enlarged to meet the 44 by 44 target size. This makes the paragraph too hard to read and can also affect the reflow if the view resizes.
Standard HTML controls such as the button, select, and checkbox elements are not affected by this success criterion if their appearance is not changed from what browsers display. Use the standard interface controls and you don't have to worry about this issue.
And finally, if the size of the control is necessary to present the information, it is acceptable for it to be smaller than 44 by 44 pixels. An example is an app that helps users increase selection accuracy by slowly decreasing target size for the user to activate.
The following image of a page in an e-book reader shows two different methods to turn the page. There is a very small page turn icon at the bottom right corner of the page. It is less than 44 by 44 and would fail this success criterion. There is also a highlighted grey vertical rectangle along the right margin which contains a right pointing chevron. The chevron character is larger than 44 by 44 pixels and satisfies the size requirement. The chevron character is also more familiar to people who may not understand the page turn icon. Thus, we have a double win—we have also aided cognitive accessibility!
People who find it hard to accurately touch a control benefit from the larger size. This includes people who use an alternative pointer such as a head mouse or mouth stick. Additionally, everyone benefits because a finger is not as accurate as a mouse pointer. It can sometimes block the user's view of a very small control.
Make sure the size of controls are at least 44 by 44 pixels. Remember, bigger is better in this case! Use standard controls whenever possible. And, if you want to use very small controls, make an alternative, larger control available as well.


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Bengals 'have to have guys step up' on depleted offensive line
By Laurel Pfahler, Contributing Writer
CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Bengals coach Zac Taylor confirmed left tackle Jonah Williams dislocated his knee cap in Sunday's wild-card playoff win over Baltimore, but it's too soon to know how that impacts his availability for the divisional round game at Buffalo.
Williams had to be helped off the field in the second quarter of the 24-17 win Sunday and did not return. Taylor said Williams is week-to-week, and the status for right guard Alex Cappa, who suffered a left ankle injury in the regular-season finale, remains up in the air still as well.
The Bengals have lost a starting offensive lineman in each of the last three complete games. Right tackle La'el Collins tore his ACL in the Dec. 24 win at New England and is done for the season, then Cappa and Williams unfortunately followed suit with their own injuries over these last two games. That leaves center Ted Karras and rookie left guard Cordell Volson as the lone starters left.
Former Clemson left tackle Jackson Carman, who has been a right guard and backup left guard in his first two seasons with the Bengals, replaced Williams for the remainder of Sunday's game, and Max Scharping got his first start in Cappa's place at right guard. Hakeem Adeniji has been Collins' replacement.
"It's an interesting spot," Karras said Monday. "We have to have guys step up. We've lost three starters. That's never a huge recipe for anything good. But we certainly overcame that. I'm really proud of the guys that stepped in. Max played an excellent game. So did Hakeem. When Jackson came in, he showed what he can do at tackle, which is exciting, a guy taking advantage of an opportunity. We're going into Buffalo as road dogs. I can't wait to see what this unit has in store. I know Frank (Pollack) will get us right throughout the week. We'll get continuity together, roll the ball out and win in Buffalo."
Williams dislocated his right knee cap in the Week 5 loss at Baltimore but missed just six snaps and returned to finish the game. He said that week that his kneecap had slid to the side of his leg but popped back on his own, and team doctors deemed it stable enough to play. His current injury is with his left knee.
Injuries on the offensive line have been concerning this late in the season, especially after the Bengals went through the first 15 games with no changes to the lineup and the offense seemed to be jelling.
Cincinnati generated just 234 yards of offense Sunday, which was the team's second-worst output this season, and the offense has produced less than 260 net yards in three of the last four games. The Bengals didn't have any plays longer than 19 yards, and they also allowed four total sacks, which is the most since a Week 8 loss at Cleveland when they allowed five. They hadn't surrendered more than two in any game since then.
Bengals coach Zac Taylor said the sacks all came in different ways, and those, along with the inability to get explosive plays, were not reflective of any particular struggles on offense but more so an indication of how good Baltimore's defense has been in the second half of the season.
"That's probably why they've been a top defense in the back half of the season," Taylor said. "They're not giving up explosives to anybody, and so it's not just us. There's a way that these games play out ... and they oftentimes end up being one-score games against them, whether they won or lost. You're not going to get a lot of possessions. They run the football, and it takes the clock down. They do a good job, they are a smart defense. So it's a challenge. You've seen a lot of our drives or a lot of plays in the drive when we scored against them, and that's just part of it. You can call the drop plays all day and protect and they might not be open because they do a good job rolling the coverages different ways. And there's times when we call those. You don't realize it because the ball's not going down the field because it's maybe taken away, and so Joe (Burrow) is doing a good job of being efficient and taking underneath, and that's just part of how it plays out."
Taylor thought Carman did "a nice job, especially being thrust in there." D'Ante Smith was listed as the backup left tackle but Carman jumped him in the depth chart Sunday and played the final 28 snaps on offense. Smith reported as an eligible receiver on one snap.
Carman spent his rookie season at right guard but lost the job to Adeniji in the backend of the season. He was moved to left guard this season but lost that battle in training camp, as rookie Cordell Volson won the job. Taylor said Carman has worked at both tackle spots and at guard since then; however, he had only been active three games prior to Sunday and only saw snaps on offense once when he appeared on four plays as an extra tackle in the regular-season finale.
"I thought given the opportunity that he had, against a tough defensive line, I thought he handled it really well," Taylor said. "He's been working at tackle over the course of the season. Frank does a good job of repping all those guys, trying to get them all ready. Again, you can never predict which side you're going to be on. That's just part of life, being a back-up offensive lineman. He's done a good job embracing that and being ready for his opportunity."
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With the popularity of wireless devices and the increase of computing and storage resources, there are increasing interests in supporting mobile computing techniques. Particularly, ad hoc networks can potentially connect different wireless devices to enable more powerful wireless applications and mobile computing capabilities. To meet the ever increasing communication need, it is important to improve the network throughput while guaranteeing transmission reliability. Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) technology can provide significantly higher data rate in ad hoc networks where nodes are equipped with multiantenna arrays. Although MIMO technique itself can support diversity transmission when channel condition degrades, the use of diversity transmission often compromises the multiplexing gain and is also not enough to deal with extremely weak channel. Instead, in this work, we exploit the use of cooperative relay transmission (which is often used in a single antenna environment to improve reliability) in a MIMO-based ad hoc network to cope with harsh channel condition. We design both centralized and distributed scheduling algorithms to support adaptive use of cooperative relay transmission when the direct transmission cannot be successfully performed. Our algorithm effectively exploits the cooperative multiplexing gain and cooperative diversity gain to achieve higher data rate and higher reliability under various channel conditions. Our scheduling scheme can efficiently invoke relay transmission without introducing significant signaling overhead as conventional relay schemes, and seamlessly integrate relay transmission with multiplexed MIMO transmission. We also design a MAC protocol to implement the distributed algorithm. Our performance results demonstrate that the use of cooperative relay in a MIMO framework could bring in a significant throughput improvement in all the scenarios studied, with the variation of node density, link failure ratio, packet arrival - ate, and retransmission threshold.


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Daphne Frances Jackson  (23 September 1936 – 8 February 1991) was an English nuclear physicist. In 1971 she became the first female physics professor in the UK. A legacy after her death in 1991 enabled the foundation of the Daphne Jackson Trust.

Biography
Daphne Frances Jackson was born in Peterborough; her father was a machine tool operator and her mother had been a textile designer before she married. Jackson went to the local grammar school, Peterborough County Grammar School for Girls, from where she was able to apply to take physics at Imperial College in London. She was one of only two female students on the course alongside 88 males.

Jackson moved to what is now called the University of Surrey at the invitation of Lewis Elton to study nuclear physics when he became head of the physics department at Battersea College of Advanced Technology. She became a lecturer and she was awarded a doctorate in 1962.

In 1971, Jackson became Britain's first female professor of physics when she was appointed by University of Surrey  at the age of 34. She eventually rose to be the dean of the university as well as sitting on a range of bodies; she held a senior position at the Meteorological Office. Jackson was president of the Women's Engineering Society between 1983 and 1985, succeeding Rosemary West and succeeded by Linda Maynard. She was vice-president of the Institute of Physics, after being its youngest ever fellow.

Jackson campaigned for women's rights and she was disappointed to see that talented women were lost in lowly jobs because they could not re-enter their career after a break. In 1985 Jackson devised a plan to help these women by allowing them to work for two years where they could readjust to their discipline after taking a break to have a child, becoming a carer or just because they followed their husband's career rather than their own. Jackson is reported as saying, "Imagine a society that would allow Marie Curie to stack shelves in a supermarket simply because she took a career break for family reasons."

Qualified women who are unemployed or under-employed following a career break for family commitments represent an appalling waste of talent and of investment in their initial education. Many such women are eager to return to their original careers or to a new field of activity for which their initial education is relevant, provided that retraining can be given and that they can, at least initially, work on a part-time basis.

Illness and death

Professor Jackson was diagnosed with cancer - a disease she was helping to fight through her work with the Institute for Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden Hospital. She had published 55 articles on the use of nuclear physics in medicine. She was appointed an OBE in 1987. Jackson died in Guildford in 1991 of cancer.

Legacy

The Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize, established in 2016 and named in Jackson's honour, are awarded by the Institute of Physics "for exceptional early career contributions to physics education and to widening participation within it".

The Daphne Jackson Trust was founded in 1992, under her legacy, in order to aid many talented individuals return to their chosen careers after having a family or inevitably pausing their career. The Trust had enabled over 370 STEM researchers to go back to their chosen careers/fields bu 2019.

In 2020 a blue plaque was unveiled in her memory on the site of her former school, the County Grammar School in Peterborough, by the local Civic Society at the suggestion of her brother Ron.

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MainAll NewsTechnology & HealthPfizer COVID vaccine linked to life-threatening allergic reaction
Pfizer COVID vaccine linked to life-threatening allergic reaction
UK bans Pfizer shot for people with "significant" history of allergies.
Tags: Allergic Reaction Coronavirus Vaccine
Y Rabinovitz , Dec 09 , 2020 2:21 PM
Regulators in Britain have issued a warning that anyone who has a history of "significant" allergic reactions should not be vaccinated against coronavirus using the Pfizer vaccine, The Guardian reports.
Two people, both healthcare workers, who received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on Tuesday had anaphylactoid reactions (potentially life-threatening responses including shock, a sudden drop in blood pressure, difficulty breathing, nausea, and vomiting) and were fortunately treated promptly – they are both now recovering.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the UK's equivalent to the FDA, is now advising the national healthcare system that: "Any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine, medicine or food (such as a previous history of anaphylactoid reaction or those who have been advised to carry an adrenaline autoinjector) should not receive the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine.
"Resuscitation facilities should be available at all times for all vaccinations. Vaccination should only be carried out in facilities where resuscitation measures are available."
Responding to the development, Professor Stephen Powis, national medical director for the NHS in England, said: "As is common with new vaccines, the MHRA has advised on a precautionary basis that people with a significant history of allergic reactions do not receive this vaccination after two people with a history of significant allergic reactions responded adversely yesterday."


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Radioactive ink in New Rs 2000 notes?
Move over the GPS enabled Nano Chips in the new Rs 2000 currency notes. According to the latest rumours, the new Rs 2000 notes are made up of radioactive ink! Yes, the news of these banknotes containing traces of radioactive substances has helped in carrying out raids by IT department across the country. The news of radioactive ink enabled Indian currency has spread like wildfire on the social networking sites and messaging app, WhatsApp. Ever since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetization followed by an introduction of new currency notes of Rs 2000 and Rs 500, the rumour mills are working overtime. These latest 'reports' of Indian currency notes being made up of high on technology, supremely advanced radioactive ink seem has aroused everyone's curiosity.
According to the WhatsApp messages, the new Rs 2000 currency notes contain "radioactive isotope of Phosphorous (P32), which has 15 protons and 17 neutrons". It claims to be non-harmful for the human and highly useful for the IT department in curbing black money scam. The rumours regarding the presence of the radioactive substance in the banknotes are the current favourite among users. Despite no confirmation of the same coming from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) or the Ministry of Finance, the people are busy celebrating the 'scientific breakthrough'. The main reason behind their happiness and celebration is that these viral messages claim the radioactive ink is the reason behind many raids carried out by IT department.
The information on how these 'radioactive ink' Rs 2000 notes help in capturing the black money holder are also blatantly mentioned in the messages. These 'non-harmful' radioactive isotopes accumulate in one location and acts as radioactive indicator to signal the IT department to check for significant currency accumulations in places apart from banks or other financial institutions.
A person with a basic understanding of science can tell you those radioactive isotopes no matter to what degree it is decreased, remains harmful for health. As for the 'radioactive ink' giving out signals to the IT department, it sounds more far-fetched than Mr. India and his invisible watch.
India is called the land of extremes – time and again we prove this saying. When Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introduced the new currency notes of Rs 2000, its reverse side carried an image of Mangalyaan. The picture represents India's growth in science and technology. Mangalyaan or the Mars Orbiter Mission depicts India's first venture into interplanetary space. On the other hand, we mindlessly believe the baseless unconfirmed rumours about these notes being GPS enabled to containing radioactive ink.
Such bizarre ideas were last seen in a 80s Bollywood movie but the aam janta in India is going gaga over it. Some of the exemplary comments are – "Modiji is just awesome. Period." The culprits must be punished without any mercy." "Good sign for Indian economy." The social media and WhatsApp are touted to be the perfect breeding ground for such mindless talks. Well, high time we started applying our brains before going all out spreading a hoax. Or wait till we hear there is an in-built music player, camera, scanner in the new currency!
Tags: 2000 rupee notes, DEMONETISATION, Income Tax raids, Modi, radioactive ink, RBI
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Meyer Sound To Feature Booth Presentations at InfoComm 2002
At this year's InfoComm International (June 8-14 at the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas), Meyer Sound's booth, #19139, will feature a host
By Editors
At this year's InfoComm International (June 8-14 at the SandsExpo & Convention Center in Las Vegas), Meyer Sound's booth,#19139, will feature a host of new products, regularly scheduledproduct presentations, and a special panel discussion entitled "Gettingthe Best Out of the 'A' in A/V." All presentation attendeeswill have the chance to win a pair of UPM-1P self-powered loudspeakersystems, a $4,420 value.Each day at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. (3 p.m.on Day 3), the unique advantages of Meyer Sound products will beexplained in detail. The sessions will be 20 minutes in length, and allwho attend any of the presentations throughout the day will be eligiblefor the drawing for the loudspeakers, which will be held at 3:30 p.m.on Day 3. These presentations are designed to not only educate the showattendees about the benefits of Meyer Sound products but to alsoprovide general information about the practical aspects of providinggreat sound in A/V applications.
At 3:00 p.m. on Day 1 and 2, a panel composed of industry veteranswill discuss "Getting the Best Out of the 'A' in A/V."Topics will include the current influx of line array systems into themarket and the continuing developments of conventionally arrayedloudspeakers. This discussion seeks to provide practical informationabout when, where and how to use each type of product.
Attendees can register to win Meyer Sound's UPM-1P Ultra-Compact,Wide-Coverage Loudspeakers by filling out a questionnaire after any ofthe Meyer Sound presentations during the show. A pair of UPM-1Ps willbe given away at the end of the show (3:30 p.m. on the 14).
Check out www.meyersound.com or www.infocomm.org formore.
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Meyer Sound Theatre Named for Don Pearson
Sound Matters to SFMOMA: Meyer Sound Collaborates to Provide State-of-the-Art Sound in Transformational Renovation
2014 Primetime Emmy Nominations for Sound Editing, Sound Mixing
Germany's Westfalen Sound Schallwand Chooses Meyer Sound
Roskilde Festival Celebrates Launch of Groundbreaking Partnership with Meyer Sound
Sound Image Acquires dB Sound to Create dB Sound Image
Meyer Sound To Debut New Products at Prolight + Sound 2016
Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Present the 67th Annual Golden Reel Awards


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Tiny Curtis, Nebraska, (population 922) may not give you money for moving there, but they will give you something else: A free plot of land on a nine-hole golf course. The Arrowhead Meadows Golf Course is "one of the best public nine hole courses in the state," according to the city. You'll have to build the house, but if you're a golf fanatic, it might just be worth it. Free lots are also available in the town's Roll'n Hills addition.


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Interviews & Articles
I Spy With My Eagle Eye: Lessons on Intuition
Spirit of Change
For the last few years, I've been following an eagle family in my spare time. It's about a 30-minute paddle from where I launch my kayak to their nest. With all the heaviness in the world right now I thought it would be fun to reflect on the reemergence of eagles in my area through my photos. I've even recorded them calling to each other.
Macrocosmically Thinking
Metaphorically thinking, the macrocosm is a reflection of the microcosm. Personally I think it's fascinating stuff. My heart goes out to those who are ill, those who have lost loved ones and those on the front line. Their plates are full. But as for the majority of us, we get to ponder: is it really about the pandemic? If society was already sick and this pandemic is the physical manifestation of our ill thinking, how could we help?
Forgiveness Is The Most Powerful Sanitizer
It's scary to know that there is a virus out there that we can't control. My heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones over it. We feel like a captive audience. Fear is also highly contagious — hence the mob scenes at the grocery stores. But it's what we do with it all that counts. We can feed our fears or use them to forgive and to heal.
Why Can't I Just Get Over It?
Finding a new dentist had been on my to-do-list since before my last checkup. But there on my answering machine was a new message—you guessed it—confirming my next cleaning.
Have you ever been meaning to do something yet find yourself putting it off? Or had a project that kept getting carried forward from one to-do-list to the next?
Stubborn Wishes For Ruby Slippers
I wish this health issue would go away. I wish I were in a relationship. I wish I made more money. Why are some of our wishes more difficult to fulfill than others?
Because some personal goals require radical change. As Einstein reminds us, the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." If diets haven't worked, a new way of controlling your caloric intake or expenditure won't likely work either, because new forms of control are not a radical change. It's the same old track. Have you ever explored the possibility that maybe it's not only about the weight? Or the chronic condition? Or the relationship or lack thereof? Or…? Or…? Or…?
How Might My Higher Self View This Election?
If the election has you up in arms it could be because you don't know how to integrate the relationship between the macrocosm and your microcosm. You might be looking at our political candidates from the perspective of what they will do or not do for us, and there is that, but there is also that they reflect who we are, both light and dark.
Seeds of Change —Transitions in Mothering
My garden continues to reflect the changes in my life and I take great pleasure in my new freedom.
How Ordinary People Can Talk With Spirits Without A Medium
Bob Olson interviews Dr. Trish on AfterLife TV Channel.
How to Tell the Truth About Love
How to Tell the Truth About Love, Spirit of Change Spring 2013 issue
The Secret to Eliminating the Root of Your Problems
"What impressed me about Dr. Trish Whynot was her natural ability to see through the chaos of life's web and identify the root cause of problems," said Bob Olson, Editor of OfSpirit.com in his interview with Dr. Trish.
~Bob Olson, OfSpirit.com Editor
Gail Cannon Interviews Trish Whynot on Forgiveness
Interview with Gail Cannon in anticipation of The Yoga of Forgiveness workshop at Earthsong Yoga.
Interview with Gail Cannon from Earthsong Yoga Studio
Boundary-Asana with a Valentine Twist workshop with Dr. Trish at Earthsong Yoga Studio, Marlboro, MA
Using Meditation for Spirit Communication
The Olson Interviews: Do you believe that we can use meditation as a method for spirit communication?
Crystal Clarity: How To Expose The Hidden Obstacles Lurking In Your Subconscious
I had been struggling with an issue for about seven years that I was beginning to think I might never overcome. So I went to see a counselor named Dr. Trish Whynot who specializes in personal transformation, self-healing, and self-empowerment.
Insight & Fun with Crystals
Experience of a Crystal Reading by a North Shore Community College Student
International Buyers: Please order via Amazon or Barnes and Noble for the paperback version.
Kindle / Paperback at Amazon
Nook / Paperback at Barnes & Noble
iBook at iTunes
Local bookstores include Circles of Wisdom in Methuen, MA and Earth Harmony Wellness in Dover, NH


News: Nokia 2V and 3.1 Plus hands-on -- they're on carriers!
Nokia 2V and 3.1 Plus hands-on -- they're on carriers!
HMD Global continues to make moves directed at returning Nokia to a certain level of prominence in the global, and of course, U.S. smartphone market. With the launch of the Nokia 2V on Verizon prepaid for $69.99 and the Nokia 3.1 Plus on Cricket Mobile for $159.99, HMD has its first set of Nokia phones on U.S. carriers.


Use the following property manager resume sample as a guide to create your own professional resume. This example property manager resume should be personalized to reflect your own career history, job experience, qualifications, skills and education.
Seeking new challenges as a Property Manager in an fast paced organization.
Created a property portfolio complete with current financials, loan information, proforma, and year plans.
The preparation and maintenance of the budget for each property and individual budgets.
Review and approval of collection notes, default letters and eviction requests.
Run various reports though Yardi to track status of tenants, lease expirations and correct classification of expenses.
Knowledgeable and participated in 3rd party management.


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Firefighers head to hospital, home store, plant
From Local Sources
JASPER — Units of the Jasper Volunteer Fire Department made a run late Monday afternoon to Jasper's hospital on the heels of Friday runs to a home store and a manufacturing plant.
The most recent callout, at 5:47 p.m. Monday, involved a duct detector alarm activation on the sixth floor at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center, 800 W. Ninth St., according to Fire Chief Kenny Hochgesang.
Hochgesang said water was leaking from a rooftop air conditioning unit, and moisture from that triggered the duct detector.
The issue was identified and turned over to maintenance staff.
Three trucks and 23 firefighters were on the scene 20 minutes.
Friday's first run, at 11:06 a.m., was to Home Depot, 4250 Newton Street.
It was nothing more than a false alarm, with three trucks on the scene 20 minutes, Hochgesang said.
Then, at 9:01 p.m., maintenance staff returning to Kimball International's Plant No. 2, 1620 Cherry St., from another nearby building heard something not normal behind the building, investigated and discovered an electric motor that was part of the dust-collection system, the fire chief said.
Hochgesang said a bearing in the motor had failed and maintenance employees kept fire from starting by deploying an extinguisher until the fire department arrived.
Five trucks and 28 firefighters were on the scene 20 minutes.
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The Discovery School at Beechwood is licensed as a private academic preschool that's partnered with Audubon to provide young children with the opportunity to freely explore and play outside, fostering a lifelong appreciation for our natural world.
The collaborative effort between The Discovery School at Beechwood and Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania provides discovery-based early childhood learning in a natural setting - Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve. The Discovery School at Beechwood provides the educators and runs the day-to-day operations of the school. Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania provides the classroom space, access to experts and materials, as well as the 134 acres of natural surroundings of Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve.


What textiles do you offer?
Home textiles, curtain fabrics, decoration fabrics and furniture fabrics.
We connect between weavers, manufactures of upholstery furniture, textil publishers, wholesalers, bed manufactures and other bulk buyers.
We present you our patterns at your house or company, care about the offers, the delivery, payment and any other upcoming questions.
What price range do your textiles have?
Our offer has a broad range. The focus lies on the middle and high-quality price range.
Where can we see your textiles?
We show our textiles at trade fairs such as the Proposte and Scoperto in Como, the MoOD in Brüssel, the Decosit in Brussels and the Heimtex in Frankfurt. Furher we have a showroom in Hamburg and can also come to your house or company after consultation with our sales representative.
Do you also have home textiles for the contract business?
Almost all manufactures that we represent have textiles in Trevira CS and other hardly inflammable materials.
Can I also order smaller quantities?
Since most of our manufactures weave a whole order, our minimum order quantity lies between 100 and 300 meters. The delivery times accounts for 2 to 8 weeks. For many of our products we are happy to refer you to a German wholesaler.
Are you also able to produce textiles according to our wishes?
Each company that we represent has its own design studio. Our service is, to develop own designs for our customers or adapt them according to our customer's wishes.


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Sclerostomus godinhorum is een keversoort uit de familie vliegende herten (Lucanidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1996 door Bomans & Arnaud.

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https://www.care.org/impact/stories/reversing-climate-change-perils-through-rope-and-washer-technology
Home > Our Impact > Reversing Climate Change Perils through Rope and Washer Technology
Reversing Climate Change Perils through Rope and Washer Technology
Tafesse Qoricho
Climate change is a global phenomenon that is disrupting the livelihoods and lives of innumerable smallholder farmers around the world.
Tusamo Tino, 28 and father of three children, was one of these farmers who was seriously suffering from the adverse effects of climate change and the subsequent failure of his crop four years ago. In the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) where he resides, the majority of farmers heavily depend on the very unreliable rain-fed and subsistence agriculture to feed themselves and others.
Tusamo very well remembers the destructive nature of the series of on-and-off droughts from 2007 through 2012. "During these times, the erratic nature of the rainfall meant that we couldn't effectively plan the sowing of our seeds, especially in the February to April (belg) rainy season," he says.
He added that the unpredictable rainfall tied in with problems of pest infestation and soil nutrient draining resulted in frequent periods of total or partial crop failure. This then cascaded into high risks of livestock deaths due to a shortage of fodder, thus greatly worsening the food insecurity in the region.
"When the situation got terrible, I could no longer provide three meals a day for my family. We often had to make do with one meal," Tusamo explains. The sense of the immense burden on his shoulders was all too obvious.
During those trying times, he had not spent his time negligently. Being of an entrepreneurial nature, he decided that in order to feed his family he would have to undertake additional work other than farming. He travelled around neighboring villages as a barber. The proceeds he retrieved from the venture went into buying food for his family, but it was far from enough.
Due to Tusamo and his family's uncompromising and harsh reality, the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) came to their rescue through the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP), a jointly-run initiative by the Ethiopian government and humanitarian agencies. The initiative provides food and/or cash assistance to chronically food insecure households in exchange for labor on rural infrastructure projects or direct transfers to households unable to participate in physical labor activities.
The program therefore gave him and his family the chance to get food and money as well as trainings on savings management and healthy feeding practices. He took great advantage of the opportunity and garnered some important and new expertise.
Tusamo was given training on savings, venturing income generating activities, loan repayment schemes and conflict resolution mechanisms. Along with other fellow farmers, he soon organized a Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA)/Village Economic and Social Association (VESA) and started saving some money into the group's account. Soon after, he took out a loan, expanded his hairdressing business and continued to sustain his and his family's life.
Day by day, life has started to show some signs of progress for Tusamo and his family thanks to his strong character, acute business acumen and foresightedness. He has also strengthened the practice of sharing his skill and know-how to other farmers in his village and beyond. This yielded in his selection for the leadership position in the VSLA.
His perseverance in the fight against abject poverty has also brought him yet another unforeseen big chance – participation in an USAID-funded and CARE-led innovative initiative, Graduation with Resilience to Achieve Sustainable Development (GRAD). GRAD works with chronically food insecure households and aims to help up to 65,000 such households graduate from the government-run PSNP through some tested interventions, one of which is the rope and washer technology.
The intervention is a novel scheme in the region to provide easy to implement water pumps within rural communities to retrieve water from previously inaccessible or unused underground reserves and aquifers. By increasing water access, households can drastically improve their farm yields and general hygiene standards.
Tusamo is fortunate to have a known water source below his 0.23 hectare of land and was selected to participate in the intervention two years ago in late 2011.
Right away, CARE trained him on climate change adaptation systems and resilience-building mechanisms – engagement on small scale irrigation systems, ways of operating and maintaining the rope and washer technology/pump, planting drought resistant crops, farming vegetables, market linkage creation and gender equality.
CARE also installed the rope and washer technology on his farmland. Since the pump's installation, Tusamo has seen a stark improvement in his agricultural yields. "I can now harvest many of my crops three times a year. Previously, I was only able to harvest once per year," he explains.
Tusamo now grows a number of diversified crops: enset (false banana), sugar cane, haricot beans, maize, khat, bananas, onions, tomatoes, carrot and potatoes. The harvested produce is divided with a minor part going to feed his family and the rest being sold. Such extensive diversification is possible through the availability of water all year round and knowledge gained from CARE's training programs.
Now he also has enough produce to sell to a number of different markets. As a result, Tusamo has acquired strong knowledge of the local markets, information he is happy to share with his community members. He keeps an eye on market prices and the supply of different commodities as these dictate what he grows and where he sells his produce.
With the proceeds of the sale of his crops, Tusamo has been able to achieve a remarkable number of benefits. He has been able to pay for household goods, educational material for his children and the construction of an improved house, and set money aside for his wife's education.
In addition, the proceeds have enabled Tusamo to contribute towards creating a new hairdressing business in his new house and buy a number of goats that he will proceed to fatten before selling them for a profit.
With pride, Tusamo says that restaurant owners are now coming directly to him to buy his produce; this, he injects, is all thanks to CARE's rope and washer pump.
Overlooking Tusamo's property and crops today, it is hard to imagine a life of extreme poverty. Yet, only a few years ago that was the harsh reality.
Written by Yonas Tafesse Qoricho, CARE Ethiopia.
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Photo by Tafesse Qoricho/CARE.
Climate Change Affects Everyone
Climate change affects people in poverty all over the world and threatens their very survival. During the past 30 years, disasters – including droughts, heat waves, floods, hurricanes and monsoons – have increased in frequency and intensity. People already suffering from poverty are greatly affected by these disasters, and they often do not have the resources to recover from them. CARE works to reduce the vulnerability of people to the risk of disasters and to help people adapt to the impacts of climate change.


oops JR just saw this and we are watching the match behind real time.
very random, hope u don't get the dream reoccurring.
okay! don't want to no anymore than that.
the Xanadu... i have no idea, but the word xanadu is used to convey an impression of a place as almost unattainably luxurious or beautiful, also a film.