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Treatment at High-volume Hospital Linked with Better Breast Cancer Survival
According to the results of a study published in the American Journal of Public Health, women with early-stage breast cancer have better survival if they undergo surgery at a hospital that performs a large number of breast cancer surgeries.
Early breast cancer refers to cancer that has not spread from the breast or axillary (under the arm) lymph nodes. Many women with early breast cancer choose to undergo breast-conserving therapy, which includes the removal of the cancer and surrounding tissues and evaluation of axillary lymph nodes, followed by radiation therapy. Alternatively, some women may undergo mastectomy and axillary lymph node evaluation. Women may also receive chemotherapy and/or hormonal therapy.
For several types of cancer, a large and growing body of evidence has demonstrated improved outcomes for patients treated by surgeons who perform a high volume of specialized surgeries and for patients who are treated in a hospital with a high volume of patients undergoing a specific procedure.
To explore the link between hospital volume and breast cancer survival, researchers conducted a study among more than 11,000 Medicare beneficiaries who underwent surgery for Stage I or Stage II breast cancer. These surgeries were performed at 457 different hospitals in the U.S.
Hospital volume was defined as the number of breast cancer surgeries performed on Medicare beneficiaries each year. Low volume was defined as 0 to 19 cases per year, medium volume was defined as 20 to 39 cases per year, and high volume was defined as 40 or more cases per year.
On average, study participants were followed for roughly five years after surgery.
Compared to women treated at a low-volume hospital, women treated at a high-volume hospital were 17% less likely to die of any cause and 20% less likely to die of breast cancer.
Surgery at a high-volume hospital was linked with better survival among women with lymph node-negative cancer as well as among women with lymph node-positive cancer.
The researchers conclude that treatment at a hospital that performs a greater number of breast cancer surgeries appears to result in better survival among women undergoing surgery for breast cancer.
Reference: Gilligan MA, Neuner J, Zhang X, Sparapani R, Laud PW, Nattinger AB. Relationship between number of breast cancer operations performed and 5-year survival after treatment for early-stage breast cancer. American Journal of Public Health. 2007;97:539-544.
High-volume Surgeons More Likely to Adhere to Recommendations for Early Breast Cancer (1/24/2007)
Women Involved in Making Cancer Care Decisions Choose More Experienced Breast Cancer Surgeons(1/19/2007)
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High-volume Surgeons More Likely to Adhere to Recommendations for Breast Cancer
High-volume Surgeons More Likely to Adhere to Recommendations for Early Breast Cancer
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Gastric Cancer Treatment
Higher Hospital Volume with Better Survival After Gastrointestinal Surgery
Higher Hospital Volume Linked with Better Survival After Gastrointestinal Surgery
By CancerConnect Jun 1, 2018
Rectal Cancer Treatment
Further Evidence that High-Volume Hospitals Result in Improved Survival
Further Evidence that High-Volume Hospitals Result in Improved Survival for Rectal Cancer Surgery
Uterine Cancer Treatment
In-hospital Deaths Lower for High-volume Surgeons for Uterine Cancer
Lymph-Node Negative Breast Cancer Survival Improved in Specialized Hospitals
Bladder Cancer Treatment
High-Volume Hospitals Offer Better Outcomes for Radical Cystectomy
Study confirms experience of surgeon and hospital impacts treatment
Ovarian Cancer Treatment
Treatment at High-Volume Hospitals Reduces Mortality Rates for Ovarian Patients
Hospital and surgeon experience contribute to lower mortality rates and better outcomes for ovarian cancer.
Care at High-volume Hospital Doesn't Eliminate Racial Disparities
Care at High-volume Hospital Doesn't Eliminate Racial Disparities in Prostate Cancer Outcomes
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Mogonjet Secondary School is located in Bomet County, near Kericho, Kenya, in a rural town situated in the highlands west of The Great Rift Valley. The school opened its doors in 2003 with two classrooms and around 20 students. Today, with attendance at 143 students, they have four classrooms and five registered teachers.
What makes Mogonjet unique? Nearly half of the student population is female. Mogonjet believes in the education of women in a country where 70% of illiterate persons are female and violence against women is a widespread problem. Mogonjet also believes in community outreach and holds a yearly one-day workshop for adults to come and learn about farming techniques, among other entrepreneurial skills, from the students.
Mogonjet Secondary School has an urgent wish list: they operate with a kitchen that doesn't meet health regulations; they can't provide their students with transportation; and without a computer lab, the world feels out of reach.
Mogonjet Secondary School operates under the Ministry of Gender, Children & Social Development in the Republic of Kenya, Registration No. PU/S/2/2534/10.

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Anxiety disorders affect people of all ages and backgrounds.
See the list below for the types of problems treated at the Anxiety Disorders Center/Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Click on each treatment or disorder to learn more.
Compulsive hoarding is a common and potentially disabling problem, characterized by the accumulation of excessive clutter, to the point that parts of one's home can no longer be used for their intended purpose.
People with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) suffer from persistent and recurring thoughts or "obsessions" that they find very disturbing.
Children may refuse school due to strong feelings of anxiety, such as fears of separating from their parents or caregivers.
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Q: Have I screwed up my boot settings? I have a laptop with W7. There were two partitions, the C: with the OS and D: with data. So I got curious about linux and created one more partition from the free space on C:. Then I installed ubuntu in the new partition, now when I turn on the laptop I can only access something through ubuntu. Is there a way to fix it? Thanks in advance.

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2- Try to check your boot options in your BIOS. It might be set to boot Ubuntu directly.

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PRIDE 2016: Ana Egge and the Sentimentals -- Say That Now
Last summer, Ana Egge released Bright Shadows, a thoughtful album that displayed her forceful personality through gentle songs. She must have turned right around and hopped on a plane to Denmark, where she recorded Say That Now with Danish indie band the Sentimentals. And as much as Bright Shadows helped me to appreciate the softer side of life, I was gratified by the brash, distorted guitars in the lead-off track, "Take Off My Dress."
This album feels looser, and more like a country album. Songs like "Promises to Break" tap into every good singer-songwriter's amused despair at their own dysfunction. On the other hand, "He's a Killer Now" is a now gruesomely prescient song about a mother's reaction to her son's massacre-suicide.
If I had written this review last Friday as I had intended, I would have mentioned that this song is a searing commentary on American culture: the experience of knowing that your son engaged in such a heinous act, and trying to reconcile the grief for one's son with the disgust for what he did, is common enough now that songs portraying this story no longer need to focus on one specific event. After the events in Orlando, this song is vital: reminding us that there are human beings who need compassion and empathy -- before they can get to the point where they'll commit acts of mass violence -- and that those people leave behind families with extremely difficult emotions to process.
Say That Now is peppered with humor as well as pathos. Overall, it's a fun album but, as we can see, it has a lot to say.
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STATEMENT: CAP's Neera Tanden on Nuclear Deal with Iran
Press Statement Nov 24, 2013
Anne Shoup
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Washington, D.C. — Today, as details emerge shedding light on the deal with Iran on their nuclear program by the United States and five other world powers, Neera Tanden, President of the Center for American Progress, released the following statement:
The first-step deal announced yesterday in Geneva represents a major achievement by the Obama administration, addressing a top U.S. security challenge. By marshaling all the elements of American power—diplomatic, economic, and military—the United States and its partners haven taken a significant step toward addressing one of the most pressing concerns in the Middle East: the Iranian nuclear program. In exchange for limited, reversible sanctions relief, Iran will halt key aspects of its nuclear work and provide greatly expanded access to International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors.
The next six months will be difficult, as the United States and its P5+1 partners negotiate a comprehensive agreement with Iran that fully addresses the international community's concerns over Iran's nuclear program. Congress should refrain from passing further sanctions during this period. The administration should also deepen consultation with members of Congress and allies in the Middle East to make sure their concerns are addressed during this ongoing process.
There remains a range of issues—support for terrorism, domestic human rights abuses, support for the Assad regime, and hostility toward Israel—on which the United States has grave concerns about Iran's actions. But deepened diplomatic engagement with Iran presents the best chance to address many of these issues. Ensuring that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon is a vital American and global concern. Through effective leadership and committed diplomacy, the United States and its partners have created an opportunity to advance our shared security.
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Introduction The scope of this component of General Awareness is very wide and infinite. To define this section in the shape of definite pattern is an uphil task. Generally, the questions asked from this section are related to the following topics First in world, Superlatives of World, Countries with Capital and Currencies, First in India, Superlatives of India, Major Newspapers and News Agencies, Indian Defence, Awards and Honours, important Dates and Days of the Year, Abbreviations, Books and their Authors, etc.
1.Saraswati Samman is given annually for outstanding contribution to
(a) literature (b) education (c) fine arts (d) classical music
2.The two highest gallantry awards in India are
(a) Param Vir Chakra and Ashok Chakra (b) Param Vir Chakra and Vir Chakra (c) Ashok Chakra and Maha Vir Chakra (d) Param Vir Chakra and Maha Vir Chakra
3.Ashoka Chakra' is awarded for
(a) outstanding contribution to literature (b) gallantry by children (C) acts of gallantry in the presence of the enemy (d) the most conspicuous bravery or self-sacrifice on land, air
or sea but not in the presence of the enemy
4.Cannes Film Festival is held in
(a) Switzerland (b) France (C) Italy 0 992 90 (d) England SVINE
5.India's highest award given for exceptional work in art, literature and recognition of public service of the highest order is
(a) Param Vir Chakra (b) Bharat Ratna (c) Jnanpith Award (d) Kalinga Award
6.Meghanath Saha' award is given for outstanding contribution in which of the following fields?
(a) Journalism(b) Science (C) Literature ai to (d) Social Science
7.Who among the following has received both Bharat Ratna and Nishan-e-Pakistan ?
(a) Morarji Desai (b) Mahatma Gandhi (C) Ayub Khan (d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
8.Which countries were involved in 100 year war ?
(a) Turkey and Austria (b) England and France (c) Palestine and Israel (d) Germany and Russia
9.Opium-war was fought between
(a) Britain and China (b) Britain and India (c) India and China (d) Britain and Japan wala
10.Which among the following countries was the earliest to give women the right to vote?
(a) Iceland (b) India (c) New Zealand (d) US:
11.Life expectancy is highest in the world in
(a) Canada (b) Germany (C) Japan (d) Norway
12. Which country/countries started privatisation of State-owned enterprises as a major State Policy ?
(a) UK under Mrs. Margaret Thatcher (b) Russia in the CIS (c) Mexico/Argentina Brazil (d) Italy/France/Malaysia
13.The war criminals of the Second World War were put to trial in
(a) Nuremburg (b) Peitersburg (C) Gettysbury (d) Peitsberg
14. Rupee is the currency of
(a) Bhutan (b) Malaysia (c) Maldives (d) Seychilles
15.Kimono is a dress style of which Asian country ?
(a) China (b) Korea (c) Japan (d) Laos
16.How many States of the USA are not attached to its mainland ?
(a) One (b) Two (c) Three (d) Four
17.The Parliament of Japan is known as
(a) Assembly (b) Key (c) Senate (d) Diet
18.Which of the following pairs is wrongly matched ?
Country National Emblem
(a) Pakistan Crescent (b) Canada White Lily (c) Australia Kangaroo (d) USA Lotus
19.In which country the minimum voting age is16 years?
(a) France (b) Brazil (c) Gabon (d) Togo
20."Golan Heights' has become a controversial issue between which of the following pairs of nations ?
(a) Iraq-Iran (b) Israel-Libya (C) Israel-Syria (d) Kuwait-Iraq
21.The five biggest nations according to size are
(a) Russia, Canada, China, USA, Brazil (b) Russia, China, Canada, USA, Brazil (c) Russia, Canada, USA, China, Brazil (d) Russia, Canada, USA, Australia, Brazil
22.The five biggest countries according to population are
(a) China, India, USA, Pakistan, Brazil (b) China, India, USA, Indonesia, Brazil (c) China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Japan(d) China, India, USA, Indonesia, Bangladesh
23.Which among the following countries has the largest population ?
(a) Indonesia (b) Japan (c) Pakistan (d) Sudan
24.In which country is Bandung, where the Conference of African and Asian nations was held which led to establishing Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), situated ?
(a) Thailand (b) Egypt (c) Indonesia (d) Philippines
25. According to Census-2001, the most populated states in descending order are
(a) UP, Maharashtra, Bihar, West Bengal (b) UP, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar (c) UP, Bihar, Maharashtra, West Bengal (d) UP, Bihar, West Bengal, Maharashtra
26.The least populated states in ascending order are
(a) Sikkim, Mizoram, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh (b) Sikkim, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa (c) Sikkim, Goa, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh. (d) Sikkim, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram
27.India first took part in the Olympic Games in the year
28.India first won the Olympic Hockey gold at
(a) London (b) Berlin (C) Amsterdam (d) Los Angeles
29.India made her debut in Olympic football at
(a) Helsinki in 1952 (b) Melbourne in 1956 (c) London in 1948 (d) Tokyo in 1964
30.First Olympic Games were held in
(a) 776 BC (b) 798 BCC (C) 876 BC (d) 898 BC
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Police seek more information on open homicide cases
Four homicide investigations started in roughly the past year still remain open.
Police seek more information on open homicide cases Four homicide investigations started in roughly the past year still remain open. Check out this story on guampdn.com: https://www.guampdn.com/story/news/local/2015/11/15/police-seek-more-information-open-homicide-cases/75492572/
Maria Hernandez, mohernande@guampdn.com Published 9:15 p.m. ChT Nov. 15, 2015
This file photos shows the area where homicide victim Kenster Ehder was found lying on the ground .(Photo: PDN file)
Four homicide investigations started in roughly the past year still remain open, according to Guam Police Department spokesman Officer A.J. Balajadia.
Police continue to seek information that could lead them to close the cases.
The deaths of Isak James, 29; Kenster Ehder, 46; Nick Tolentino, 62, and Melissa Diego, 37, were ruled homicides by the chief medical examiner, but no suspects have been arrested in those cases.
U.S. Department of Agriculture employees checking snake traps near Tanguisson Beach found James' body on the morning of Nov. 14, 2014.
James was last seen two days earlier near Asan Beach, but was also known to spend time in Hagåtña.
Espinola later determined James died of blunt-force trauma and ruled the death a homicide.
Ehder's body was found in early February near iConnect on Marine Corps Drive in Tamuning. He was last seen on Feb. 1, after leaving his home in Upper Tumon for a walk to Ypao Beach, according to family members. Ehder never returned home.
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Homicide case reclassified as "accidental death"
The medical examiner ruled Ehder's death a homicide. He said Ehder sustained blunt-force trauma to the neck from an assault, and died of a broken neck.
The man's family said police told them a witness saw Ehder "cross the road and collapse."
No arrests or new leads in the case have been announced.
Melissa Diego, 37, died in Inarajan in July.
The island's chief medical examiner determined Diego died of a gunshot wound.
No other details have been released in her case.
Woman's death ruled a homicide
No arrests have been announced in the July 27, 2014 stabbing death of Nick Tolentino.
Tolentino was found face down on the floor of Hair Plus by Nick, the 62-year-old's Tamuning salon.
The last time anybody had seen him, police said at the time, was between 3 and 4 p.m. on July 26, 2014. The man was reportedly stabbed several times, causing his death.
The island's chief medical examiner determined the man died during the night before his body was discovered.
Two months later, police released a sketch of a man wanted for questioning in the case. The man was described as being between 5 feet 8 inches and 5 feet 10 inches, tall, weighing about 140 pounds to 150 pounds. He has a skinny build and a dark complexion, with short black hair and drives a dark sedan.
Balajadia said all of the cases remain open.
Public's help needed
Police ask that anyone with information about the cases call the Guam Police Department or Guam Crime Stoppers.
The Guam Police Department can be reached at 472-8911. The Guam Crime Stoppers 24-hour hotline is 477-HELP (4357). A person can also send an SMS text to Crime Stoppers at 486-HELP (4357).
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NATO's bet on defeating Russia will not win, Naryshkin says
Antonov: US makes contradictory statements about work of its bio labs in Ukraine
Army Command calls on residents of Deir Hafer and Maskana in Aleppo to return home
Upon directives of President al-Assad, Electricity Minister honors workers of Aleppo Thermal Plant
Mrs. Asma al-Assad visits the Islamic Charity Association orphanage in Aleppo
President al-Assad inaugurates Tal Hasel water pumping plant, Aleppo
Damascus, SANA – The General Command of the Army and Armed Forces called the locals of Deir Hafer and Maskana areas and their surroundings in the eastern countryside of Aleppo to return to their homes after security and stability have been restored to them.
"The General Command of the Army and the Armed Forces calls on the citizens of the area of Maskana and its surroundings and the area of Deir Hafer and its surroundings in the eastern countryside of Aleppo to return to their homes and farms after the expulsion of ISIS terrorist organization and the restoration of security and safety to those areas thanks to the efforts of the Syrian Arab Army, the Command said in a statement on Sunday.
Over the past period, the Syrian Arab Army, in cooperation with the allied forces, reestablished control over hundreds of villages, towns and farms located in the eastern countryside of Aleppo during military operations against gatherings and fortifications of ISIS, which resulted in the death of dozens of terrorists and the destruction of many vehicles, car bombs and vehicles equipped with heavy machineguns.
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Fukio Mitsuji
Fukio Mitsuji (三辻富貴朗) (born 1960), also known as "MTJ," was a game designer and graphic designer best known for creating Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands at Taito. He later started his own game design school, MTJ Game Designer's School. [1] He died on December 11, 2008. [2]
At Taito
Super Dead Heat (AC) (game designer, character designer) (1985) [3]
Bubble Bobble (AC) (game designer, character designer) (1986)
Halley's Comet (AC) (1986)
Riku Kai Kuu Saizensen / Land Sea Air Squad / Storming Party (AC) (1986)
Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 (AC) (story, game designer, graphic designer) (1987)
Syvalion (AC) (game designer, graphic designer) (1988)
Volfied (AC) (game designer, graphic designer) (1989)
Omega Fighter (AC) (1989) [Dev: UPL] [4]
Sybubblun (X68) (director, graphic designer, map editor) (1990) [Dev: Dempa]
Magical Castle Popils / Popils: The Blockbusting Challenge (FC/GG/PCE) (game designer) (1991, FC/PCE versions unreleased) [Dev: Tengen (Japan)]
SegaSonic Bros. (AC) (game designer) (1992, unreleased)
Star Trader (X68) (graphic designer, map designer) (1992) [Dev: M.N.M Software]
Tinkle Pit (AC) (1993) [5] [Dev: Namco]
Kyuukyoku!! PC Genjin / Bonk's Adventure / B.C. Kid (AC) (game designer) (1994) [Dev: Kaneko]
The Soda Kids (GEN/SNES) (total adviser) (1994, unreleased)
MTJ's game planning blog (Japanese)
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Have you ever wanted to learn English in a fun, easy way? Do you like music? Would you like to learn English while getting to hear your favorite English songs? Well, now you can with Lyrics Training. This post will focus on reviewing the usefulness of Lyrics Training for ESL and EFL learners as well as teachers. I recently gave a presentation on this application at TESOL 2015 in Toronto.
This website allows students to competitively do fill in the blank exercises from popular songs.
It has a great search feature with many great songs from many genres, or you can browse a list of different musical styles. It even has movie clips and talks as well.
It is a best to sign up for the website, as this allows you to keep your scores, invite friends, and compare your standing to other players.
After signing up, you can choose a difficulty level, which is based upon how many words that you want to be deleted. Beginner has 10% of the words removed, while Expert has all blanks.
The game has two types of games: write mode and choice mode. For ESL beginners, I recommend choice mode as it is much easier and allows for quick word recognition practice without worrying about typing ability.
As you play the game, if you do not get the answer, the time runs out and you have to start again. If you have to, you can get help by pressing the arrow button in right hand corner, but that lowers your score in the end. When you finish, you can see your scores on a dashboard with three tiers of scoring: the world, my country, and my friends.
This is where I believe that this tool could be most helpful for teachers and students. Students could challenge each other to a "lyric off" and see who gets the highest score using the same modes. The teacher could post a link to a desired video and then have a game in which all students participate.
Also, there is a sign up feature in which teachers could make their own lyrics training games. The one drawback to this is that the teacher cannot choose which words will be deleted. This is automatically done by the teacher. Also, if you want someone to review your lyrics before publishing, you will have to wait a while as they only have a few people working on the website.
Overall, this is a great tool to engage, motivate, and challenge students to improve their English. I enjoy it and have used it to help create a listening lab at our school. Also, I plan to use it to help me to learn more other languages in the future! Let me know what you think of it!


Christopher Bird, The Divining Hand (E.P. Dutton, New York, 1979). Well researched, with a lot of interesting descriptions and a large bibliography: a large-format 'coffee-table' book on dowsing.
Dowsing: Techniques and Applications, it's the companion volume to this book, and looks at dowsing from a more descriptive point of view.
D. Jurriaanse, The Practical Pendulum Book (Samuel Weiser Inc, New York, 1986). A small introductory volume with a comprehensive set of charts for use with the pendulum.
Tom Lethbridge, Ghost and Divining Rod (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, England, 1963). A representative title from the nine books Lethbridge wrote on dowsing and related subjects: well worth reading not just for the description of the 'long pendulum' system, but also for his delightful writing style.
England, 1986). A good book with an American viewpoint -- Sig is a former Trustee of the American Society of Dowsers -- it has a useful emphasis on psychological and personal-growth aspects of dowsing.
Maj. Gen. James Scott-Elliott, Dowsing -- One Man's Way (Neville Spearman, Jersey, 1977). Written by a former President of the British Society of Dowsers, it's exactly what the title says: a clear, no-frills description, with some very good case studies, of one man's way of dowsing.
Elizabeth Baerlein and Lavender Dower, Healing with Radionics (Thorsons, Wellingborough, England, 1980). A general introduction to the principles and practice of using radionic instruments, as an extension of dowsing, to assist in the healing process.
David Tansley, Radionics and the Subtle Anatomy of Man (Health Science Press, England, 1974). One of a number of useful books written by this leading theorist and practitioner of radionics and medical dowsing.
Vernon D. Wethered, An Introduction to Medical Radiaesthesia and Radionics (C.W. Daniel, London, 1957). A slightly dated but still useful summary of medical aspects of dowsing.
Tom Graves, Needles of Stone Revisited (Gothic Image, Glastonbury, England, 1986). A comprehensive survey of the 'earth energies' field and its implications, using dowsing surveys of patterns both below and above ground as its starting-point, but also covering geomancy, ghost-hunting, parapsychology, pagan views of reality, and much more besides.
Francis Hitching, Pendulum: The Psi Connection (Fontana, London, 1977). A journalist's view of dowsing: history, interviews, case studies and some interesting pieces of practical research.
J.C. Maby and T. Bedford Franklin, The Physics of the Divining Rod (Bell, London, 1939). The results of a research project commissioned by the British Society of Dowsers, this is one of the few systematic scientific studies of dowsing ever published.
(Out of print, but the British Society of Dowsers has copies in its library).
Guy Underwood, The Pattern of the Past (Abacus, London, England, 1974). Now a classic, this is a fascinating -- if at times idiosyncratic -- study of dowsable patterns at a wide variety of sacred and not-so-sacred sites.
You can only learn so much from books and from working on your own: at some point you really will need others with whom to work and experiment. Working with others, helping each other in testing the reliability of your work, you'll discover far more than you can on your own.
Good bookshops and magazines will be able to advise you of likely contacts in your area, or of suitable events to go and see -- or more to the point, to join in. But perhaps the most important source of information and contacts will be the national dowsers' societies: working with other members, whether experienced or relative newcomers, you're likely to learn most of all.
The British Society of Dowsers is the oldest, founded in 1933, with members actively involved in every aspect of practical dowsing. One of its great strengths is that it concentrates on practicalities rather than trying to find out 'how it really works'. The most popular interest is probably the use of dowsing in health and healing, although you'll find members applying their dowsing to anything from 'conventional' water-divining and civil engineering to archaeology and everything beyond. The society publishes a quarterly journal, and each year organises several lecture meetings in London and an annual conference (at a different location each year). Dowsers in Scotland have their own national organisation, the Scottish Dowsers, which is affiliated to the British Society. Both organisations also have a number of local groups in various parts of the country, most of which run their own lecture schedule and, in some cases, training courses. To get in touch with these groups, contact Michael Rust, the current Secretary of the British Society of Dowsers, at Sycamore Cottage, Tamley Lane, Hastingleigh, Ashford, Kent TN25 5HW.
The American Society of Dowsers is a large, active body with many local chapters scattered throughout the United States. The Society's base is in Danville, Vermont (Dowsers' Hall, Danville, VT 05828-0024). Several hundred members and non-members attend the week-long annual convention there in September each year, with a dowsing school and dozens of workshops and seminars for the attendees. (The convention all but takes over the small town: workshops are held not just in the town hall, but the church, the school, the fire station and practically everywhere else as well!) For obvious reasons, water-diviners are more common in the American Society than the British, but once again almost every aspect of dowsing is represented. Reflecting the realities of scale and distance in the States, the local chapters are larger and more autonomous than their British equivalents: some chapters or groups of chapters even put on their own conventions -- the 'Mile-High' dowsers' group in Denver, Colorado, for example, or the West Coast convention in Santa Cruz in July each year.


Given that Northeast Utilities CEO Charles Shivery stated in an earnings call for investors and industry analysts on May 6 that they "continue to expect to begin construction [of the Northern Pass transmission line] in 2013 and to complete it by the end of 2015", one wonders if Martin Murray's comments at the end of this recent WMUR Channel 9 story signals a realization that their timetable is unrealistic under the best of circumstances.
Where can I find a map and/or geographic details about the current Northern Pass plan? I only seem able to find the North East link alternative.


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National Topographic Series (scale 1:125,000) : Parent, Quebec [sheet 31O/NE]
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National Topographic Series (scale 1:125,000) : Grand Lake Victoria North, Quebec [sheet 31N/NW]
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A topographic map of Gracefield, Quebec, sheet 31K/SE, at a scale of 1:125,000. Relief is shown by contours and by shading. It also shows roads, highways, railways, boundaries, main buildings, and waterways.
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National Topographic Series (scale 1:126,720) : Lac Au Sorcier, Quebec, Map 681A [sheet 31I/NW]
A topographic map of Lac au Sorcier, Quebec, Map 681A [sheet 31I/NW]. Relief is shown pictorially. It also shows roads, highways, railways, boundaries, main buildings, and waterways.
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Thomas Davies - St. Lawrence Shore 1787
Item consists of a photographic slide with annotations including: "Thomas Davies Chateau Richer - 15 miles east of Quebec City 1787," "* H. Hubbard, Thomas Davies."
Peter Rindisbacher - Ungava c. 1821
Item consists of a photographic slide with annotations including: "Peter Rindisbacher A Family of Eskimo c. 1821," "E.H. Bovay, p. 43."
[Cartier] - [Montreal] 1556
Item consists of a photographic slide with annotations including: "Jacques Cartier Voyage of 1535-36 Hochelosa," "In Italian book - 1556 by Romusio."
Partie orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada
This is a map of eastern part of Quebec in 1755. It shows waterways, villages, islands and soundings.
Carte du cours du fleuve de Saint Laurent depuis la mer jusqu'a Quebec, en deux feuilles. 2e. feuille, 1761
This is a 1761 hydrographic map of part of St. Lawrence River estuary in Quebec. It shows villages, islands and soundings.
Carte du cours du fleuve de Saint Laurent depuis Quebec jusqu'a la mer en deux feuilles. 1re. feuille depuis Quebec jusqu'a Matane et Rivere des Outardes, 1761
This is a 1761 hydrographic map of St. Lawrence River estuary in Quebec. It shows villages, islands and soundings.
Carte régionale de la province de Québec : comprenant les comptés de Temiscouata, Kamouraska, L'Islet, Montmagny, Bellechasse...
This is a regional map of the province of Quebec in 1885 showing surveyed lands, land subdivision, counties, townships, roads, railways, rivers and lakes.
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National Topographic Series (scale 1:125,000) : Maniwaki, Quebec [sheet 31J/SW]
A topographic map of Maniwaki, Quebec, sheet 31J/SW, at a scale of 1:125,000. Relief is shown by contours and spot heights. It also shows roads, highways, railways, boundaries, main buildings, and waterways.
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National Topographic Series (scale 1:125,000) : Lac Faillon, Quebec [sheet 32C/SE]
A topographic map of Lac Faillon, Quebec, sheet 32C/SE, at a scale of 1:125,000. Relief is shown by contours and spot heights. It also shows roads, highways, railways, boundaries, main buildings, and waterways.
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National Topographic Series (scale 1:125,000) : Oskelaneo, Quebec [sheet 32B/SW]
A topographic map of Oskelaneo, Quebec, sheet 32B/SW, at a scale of 1:125,000. Relief is shown by contours and spot heights. It also shows roads, highways, railways, boundaries, main buildings, and waterways.
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National Topographic Series (scale 1:125,000) : Kempt Lake, Quebec [sheet 31O/SE]
A topographic map of Kempt Lake, Quebec, sheet 31O/SE, at a scale of 1:125,000. Relief is shown by contours and spot heights. It also shows roads, highways, railways, boundaries, main buildings, and waterways.
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National Topographic Series (scale 1:125,000) : Choquette, Quebec [sheet 31O/NW]
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National Topographic Series (scale 1:125,000) : Vimy, Quebec [sheet 31N/NE]
A topographic map of Vimy, Quebec, sheet 31N/NE, at a scale of 1:125,000. Relief is shown by contours and spot heights. It also shows roads, highways, railways, boundaries, main buildings, and waterways.
Map of Abitibi region : indicating the surveyed townships traversed by the Transcontinental and those projected lying... [North]
This is a map of Abitibi (Quebec) region in 1911 showing townships along the National Transcontinental Railway, also geologically surveyed areas, rivers, lakes, rapids, portages and trading posts. It includes notes on geology, vegetation and relief of the area. Consists of two parts: South and North (see separate record for the South part).
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ERROR: /home/lemito/cpp-starter-kit/cpp/sources/clo/BUILD:35:19: no such package '@com_google_javascript_closure_library//closure/goog/soy': BUILD file not found in directory 'closure/goog/soy' of external repository @com_google_javascript_closure_library. Add a BUILD file to a directory to mark it as a package. and referenced by '//sources/clo:greeter_lib' ERROR: Analysis of target '//sources/clo:greeter_lib' failed; build aborted: Analysis failed
My files:
https://github.com/lemito/my-monorepo (github | project in sources/clo)
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Velocity Commerce reboots sponsorship drive for grassroots sports clubs and local causes
Velocity Commerce is rebooting its #BackedByVelocity initiative to support those who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The online marketplace specialist, based in Cambridge UK, launched the #BackedByVelocity initiative at the start of 2020, to support grassroots sports teams from all over the UK with sponsorship and funding. Since launch, Velocity Commerce has partnered with a range of teams, including Histon Hornets, a local "mini soccer" club for children aged five and six, who were thrilled to receive funding for brand new kit for its 22 young players.
During coronavirus lockdown, while sporting activities came to a halt, Velocity Commerce switched focus and supported a number of local causes to help those in need in Cambridgeshire. As many elderly people faced loneliness due to lockdown restrictions, Velocity Commerce donated Majority radios to a local care home, providing a small window to the world to help combat isolation for the residents.
The company also donated gifts from its eBay store to vulnerable young people living in CHS Group's supported housing, who were celebrating birthdays from March to May. Now, as lockdown measures continue ease, Velocity Commerce is re-initiating its sponsorshipdrive, and wants to continue supporting local causes as well as rebooting its support for sports teams across the country.
Eddie Latham, Co-founder and Director, Velocity Commerce, comments: "Sports teams and club activities are so important for the physical and mental wellbeing of both children and adults and, through #BackedByVelocity, we hope to support as many clubs as possible as they get back on their feet. As a business centred around online sales, we've been lucky to be able to continue operating during the lockdown period but this isn't the case for many organisations, and therefore we'd like to extend our offer of support to causes in the local area which need a little extra help during this challenging time. Once an enquiry is made, we will work with the organisation, club or team to see how we might help, and will get back to as many people as we can."
Sports teams, community clubs and local charities and organisations looking for funding and support can get in touch with Velocity Commerce via an application form on its website. Clubs and teams can be part of a school, college or university, or can be run by the local community, and funding can be for anything, big or small, depending on the needs of the club or organisation.
Velocity Commerce is accepting applications throughout 2020, and teams, clubs and organisations will be selected based on level of need and community impact.
Established in 2013, Velocity Commerce specialises in sales on online marketplaces, Amazon and eBay, helping brands to becomecategory leaders online. The business offers a fulfilment service to its clients and manages product sales from end to end, including listing, optimisation, distribution and customer service.
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After SC ruling, will the House swear in Velasco as Marinduque rep?
Jan 21, 2016 2:02 PM PHT
Patty Pasion
MANILA, Philippines – Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr said the House leadership is still studying whether to allow Lord Allan Jay Velasco to take oath as Marinduque congressman, as recently ordered by the Supreme Court (SC).
Velasco, son of SC Justice Presbitero Velasco, filed a petition for mandamus before the High Court in February 2014 after the House Electoral Tribunal (HRET) did not recognize him as Marinduque representative. He was contesting the position of congresswoman Regina Ongsiako Reyes.
This is the second time an order comes from the High Court to have Velasco installed as congressman. Belmonte had not implemented the first one, issued in 2013.
On January 12, the SC granted Velasco's petition with a vote of 8-1, ordering Speaker Belmonte to let Velasco take his oath and be included in the roster of House members and replace the incumbent.
The House of Representatives received the decision only on Monday, January 18, and Belmonte said they "are still studying" the SC's order.
According to the ruling, the Commission on Elections had already cancelled Reyes' certificate of candidacy (COC) by the time she took oath as congresswoman. The SC also stressed that it upheld Comelec's decision as "final and executory" in two resolutions issued June 25 and October 22, 2013.
Thus, the ruling said, "Comelec in SPC No. 13-010 cancelled respondent Reyes' proclamation and, in turn, proclaimed Velasco as the duly elected member of the House of Representatives."
"When Reyes took her oath of office before respondent Speaker Belmonte Jr in open session, Reyes had no valid COC nor a valid proclamation," it continued.
Like Grace Poe?
Lawyer Harry Roque refuted the SC ruling to unseat Reyes, saying that his client's case must first be settled by the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET).
"They should not have decided on Velasco's petition because there is still no final decision from the HRET," Roque said in Filipino on Wednesday, January 20.
Roque likened Reyes' case to the disqualification case against presidential candidate Senator Grace Poe.
Both lawmakers have been questioned about their American citizenship. Roque noted that in Poe's case, the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET) first decided on Rizalito David's petition to disqualify her before he elevated the case to the SC.
"Pareho naman ang issue ni [Representative] Reyes at Grace Poe. Pilipino naman ang mga magulang ni Reyes," Roque said. (The issue of Representative Reyes and Grace Poe are the same. Reyes' parents are both Filipinos.)
HRET decision: 'Void'
Roque said the HRET released a decision on December 14, 2015, with a 4-3 vote favoring Velasco.The ruling said the tribunal has no jurisdiction over Velasco's case. In effect, this empowers SC's disqualification of Reyes.
But Reyes' camp contested the HRET ruling, claiming that one of the votes favoring Velasco should not have been counted. That vote was cast by Gabriela Representative Luzviminda Ilagan, who, they said, should have been considered resigned by then.
Roque argued that when Ilagan filed her certificate of candidacy (COC) on October 12, 2015, to run for Davao City councilor, she forfeited her seat as a party-list representative.
"Our contention is that the vote of [the] HRET without Ilagan is 3-3," Roque said.
Ilagan denied that she should be considered resigned as a party-list representative. The rule that Roque cited, she said, is only applicable to party-list representatives shifting political affiliation or sectoral representation.
"I'm not running for party-list representative; I'm running for a councilor. So it doesn't apply to me because I'm not changing my party list [organization] nor I am transferring to another sector. I'm just going to run for a different position," Ilagan said.
"Gabriela has not replaced me. I'm still representing Gabriela and finishing my term," she added.
Electoral protest
Reyes, daughter of Marinduque Governor Carmencita Reyes, defeated Velasco in his bid for re-election in 2013 by around 4,000 votes.
However, a day after election day, on May 14, 2013, the Comelec en banc ruled to disqualify her for being a naturalized American citizen based on a blog post by a certain Eli Obligacion.
Reyes contested Comelec's decision, accusing it of grave abuse of discretion when it used Obligacion's article as evidence. She said she had always been a natural-born Filipino and only acquired American citizenship by virtue of marriage.
Reyes also questioned the Comelec's jurisdiction over her case since she had been "a duly-elected member of the House of Representatives," thus making the HRET the "sole judge" of all her electoral issues.
She elevated the case to the High Court, but on June 25, 2013, the court upheld the Comelec's decision, voting 7-4 against Reyes.
The winning opinion also ruled that the HRET's jurisdiction over electoral protests applies only after a winning candidate had assumed office on June 30. (READ: Poll protests: Is the Supreme Court clipping HRET's powers?)
Less than a month after the SC released its decision, Reyes asked the SC to reconsider her case, especially since she believed that SC Associate Justice Velasco, father of Lord Allan, influenced the court's decision that favored his son.
Justice Velasco and justices Jose Catral Mendoza and Estela Bernabe inhibited themselves from the case, however.
HRET contended that a congressional candidate becomes a member of the House after the canvassing board declares him or her a winner.
In October 2013, the High Court dismissed Reyes' 2nd petition, voting by 7-4-3.
Despite the SC ruling, the HRET and Belmonte refused to install Velasco as a member of the House. – Rappler.com
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Top 5 things that made the Naruto anime so successful
October 9, 2022 by Mabel Whitehead
Naruto is one of the most popular anime and manga series in the world, with a myriad of chapters from both the manga and anime, as well as movies and a sequel called Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, so fans have become attached to it. this production to the extent that today we will show you 5 things that made the Naruto anime so successful.
Something that seems quite striking to us is that, when we talk about anime, the beloved ninja and his dream of becoming Hokage quickly come to mind, which is why he has positioned himself in much of popular culture. This time we show you some secrets that made the Naruto series an undoubted success among anime fans.
Unique and charismatic characters
Naruto is one of those few series where it's hard to pick a favorite character from its extensive cast. This is because each leading member of the ninja world has been very well designed, with their own backstories and goals in life. Of course, this rule does not hold true for every person in the series. Still, Naruto has enough characters to connect with fans.
interesting powers
In the fantasy genre and especially in shonen, the magic system is usually one of the main points that determine the success of the series. Whether it's defined from the start with elemental rules, or has unlimited resources, it's important that the magic system is interesting. In this aspect, Naruto brought us something quite fresh.
The powers in Naruto are based on the "chakra", the elemental energy that unites all living beings. There are those who are born with more chakra than others, which in turn allows them to perform techniques or "jutsus" through combinations of hands.
This opened the doors for Naruto to have more interesting fighting interactions and character development. Ninjas with more chakra have more abilities, but there are also others who are stronger with less. On the other hand, some have no chakra at all and make up for it with physical strength. There is a whole universe of attractive possibilities for the spectators.
A memorable soundtrack
Although the manga was already popular, the anime certainly launched Naruto into new dimensions, and even introduced many people to the world of Japanese animation. Part of the success is due to its distinctive soundtrack that allows viewers to get excited by the motivational tones, or fear that something is going to happen with the music of the Akatsuki.
Also, Naruto has some of the most popular openings and endings with exciting themes like Omae Dattanda, For You, Toumei Datta Sekai, Distance, Diver or Broken Youth. As if that were not enough, these songs are accompanied by incredible animations with exceptional quality.
An exciting plot
Naruto's story borrows heavily from Japanese folklore, exploring its mythology and adding modern touches where possible. The protagonist has an evil demon within him, and it seems that the plot will be about his inner struggle against the nine-tailed fox to finally become Hokage.
However, as the series progresses, the story takes multiple new directions. The immature boy sees the need to become an adult, and as he matures, his previous goals take a backseat. More basic themes such as friendship and perseverance take on a greater role.
Naruto has to travel getting stronger in order to save what is most important to him: his ties with other people. Impossible to watch the series without worrying about the fate of Naruto and the rest of the characters. This makes the plot extremely exciting and memorable.
Epic moments
From the plot twists to the showdowns, Naruto made his mark on anime history with his shocking epic moments that make you jump out of your chair or scream without realizing it.
This characteristic is common in the shonen, but in Naruto it stands out more for the depth that the other moments of the series have. The anime is charged with a balance of comedy and tension, resulting in catharsis when the epic scene arrives where viewers can either laugh or cry.
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"""
==========================
Bipartite Graph Algorithms
==========================
"""
#    Copyright (C) 2013-2015 by
#    Aric Hagberg <hagberg@lanl.gov>
#    Dan Schult <dschult@colgate.edu>
#    Pieter Swart <swart@lanl.gov>
#    All rights reserved.
#    BSD license.
import networkx as nx
__author__ = """\n""".join(['Jordi Torrents <jtorrents@milnou.net>',
                            'Aric Hagberg <aric.hagberg@gmail.com>'])
__all__ = [ 'is_bipartite',
            'is_bipartite_node_set',
            'color',
            'sets',
            'density',
            'degrees']

def color(G):
    """Returns a two-coloring of the graph.

    Raises an exception if the graph is not bipartite.

    Parameters
    ----------
    G : NetworkX graph

    Returns
    -------
    color : dictionary
       A dictionary keyed by node with a 1 or 0 as data for each node color.

    Raises
    ------
    NetworkXError if the graph is not two-colorable.

    Examples
    --------
    >>> from networkx.algorithms import bipartite
    >>> G = nx.path_graph(4)
    >>> c = bipartite.color(G)
    >>> print(c)
    {0: 1, 1: 0, 2: 1, 3: 0}

    You can use this to set a node attribute indicating the biparite set:

    >>> nx.set_node_attributes(G, 'bipartite', c)
    >>> print(G.node[0]['bipartite'])
    1
    >>> print(G.node[1]['bipartite'])
    0
    """
    if G.is_directed():
        import itertools
        def neighbors(v):
            return itertools.chain.from_iterable([G.predecessors(v),
                                                  G.successors(v)])
    else:
        neighbors=G.neighbors

    color = {}
    for n in G: # handle disconnected graphs
        if n in color or len(G[n])==0: # skip isolates
            continue
        queue = [n]
        color[n] = 1 # nodes seen with color (1 or 0)
        while queue:
            v = queue.pop()
            c = 1 - color[v] # opposite color of node v
            for w in neighbors(v):
                if w in color:
                    if color[w] == color[v]:
                        raise nx.NetworkXError("Graph is not bipartite.")
                else:
                    color[w] = c
                    queue.append(w)
    # color isolates with 0
    color.update(dict.fromkeys(nx.isolates(G),0))
    return color

def is_bipartite(G):
    """ Returns True if graph G is bipartite, False if not.

    Parameters
    ----------
    G : NetworkX graph

    Examples
    --------
    >>> from networkx.algorithms import bipartite
    >>> G = nx.path_graph(4)
    >>> print(bipartite.is_bipartite(G))
    True

    See Also
    --------
    color, is_bipartite_node_set
    """
    try:
        color(G)
        return True
    except nx.NetworkXError:
        return False

def is_bipartite_node_set(G,nodes):
    """Returns True if nodes and G/nodes are a bipartition of G.

    Parameters
    ----------
    G : NetworkX graph

    nodes: list or container
      Check if nodes are a one of a bipartite set.

    Examples
    --------
    >>> from networkx.algorithms import bipartite
    >>> G = nx.path_graph(4)
    >>> X = set([1,3])
    >>> bipartite.is_bipartite_node_set(G,X)
    True

    Notes
    -----
    For connected graphs the bipartite sets are unique.  This function handles
    disconnected graphs.
    """
    S=set(nodes)
    for CC in nx.connected_component_subgraphs(G):
        X,Y=sets(CC)
        if not ( (X.issubset(S) and Y.isdisjoint(S)) or
                 (Y.issubset(S) and X.isdisjoint(S)) ):
            return False
    return True

def sets(G):
    """Returns bipartite node sets of graph G.

    Raises an exception if the graph is not bipartite.

    Parameters
    ----------
    G : NetworkX graph

    Returns
    -------
    (X,Y) : two-tuple of sets
       One set of nodes for each part of the bipartite graph.

    Examples
    --------
    >>> from networkx.algorithms import bipartite
    >>> G = nx.path_graph(4)
    >>> X, Y = bipartite.sets(G)
    >>> list(X)
    [0, 2]
    >>> list(Y)
    [1, 3]

    See Also
    --------
    color
    """
    c = color(G)
    X = set(n for n in c if c[n]) # c[n] == 1
    Y = set(n for n in c if not c[n]) # c[n] == 0
    return (X, Y)

def density(B, nodes):
    """Return density of bipartite graph B.

    Parameters
    ----------
    G : NetworkX graph

    nodes: list or container
      Nodes in one set of the bipartite graph.

    Returns
    -------
    d : float
       The bipartite density

    Examples
    --------
    >>> from networkx.algorithms import bipartite
    >>> G = nx.complete_bipartite_graph(3,2)
    >>> X=set([0,1,2])
    >>> bipartite.density(G,X)
    1.0
    >>> Y=set([3,4])
    >>> bipartite.density(G,Y)
    1.0

    See Also
    --------
    color
    """
    n=len(B)
    m=nx.number_of_edges(B)
    nb=len(nodes)
    nt=n-nb
    if m==0: # includes cases n==0 and n==1
        d=0.0
    else:
        if B.is_directed():
            d=m/(2.0*float(nb*nt))
        else:
            d= m/float(nb*nt)
    return d

def degrees(B, nodes, weight=None):
    """Return the degrees of the two node sets in the bipartite graph B.

    Parameters
    ----------
    G : NetworkX graph

    nodes: list or container
      Nodes in one set of the bipartite graph.

    weight : string or None, optional (default=None)
       The edge attribute that holds the numerical value used as a weight.
       If None, then each edge has weight 1.
       The degree is the sum of the edge weights adjacent to the node.

    Returns
    -------
    (degX,degY) : tuple of dictionaries
       The degrees of the two bipartite sets as dictionaries keyed by node.

    Examples
    --------
    >>> from networkx.algorithms import bipartite
    >>> G = nx.complete_bipartite_graph(3,2)
    >>> Y=set([3,4])
    >>> degX,degY=bipartite.degrees(G,Y)
    >>> dict(degX)
    {0: 2, 1: 2, 2: 2}

    See Also
    --------
    color, density
    """
    bottom=set(nodes)
    top=set(B)-bottom
    return (B.degree(top,weight),B.degree(bottom,weight))


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Smoking-Cessation Drug Linked to Higher Cardiovascular Risks
Toronto—The risk of cardiovascular events increases when smokers use a commonly prescribed medication to kick the habit.
That's according to a report in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Canadian researchers determined that users of varenicline, marketed as Chantix in the United States, were 34% more likely to have an emergency department visit or hospitalization for a cardiovascular event while on the medication. The increased incidence dropped to 12%, however, in patients who had not previously experienced a cardiovascular event.
The researchers conducted an observational, self-controlled trial to come to that conclusion. Among all patients, 3.95 adverse cardiovascular events per 1,000 varenicline users were documented that could be attributed to the drug, according to the authors, who write, "This is a figure that physicians can quote to their patients."
In addition, a small increase in emergency department visits and hospitalizations for neuropsychiatric symptoms were noted but did not appear to be clinically meaningful, according to the researchers.
"Previous studies regarding the safety of varenicline have been conflicting and most examined people with relatively similar characteristics and backgrounds in highly controlled settings," explained lead author Andrea S. Gershon, MD, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and a scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Ontario, Canada. "We wanted to study varenicline among all kinds of people in the real world."
Medical records of 56,851 new users of varenicline between September 2011 and February 2015 living in Ontario were analyzed for the trial. From a year prior to the year following the date when varenicline was prescribed, 4,185 patients experienced cardiovascular events and 4,720 had neuropsychiatric events resulting in an emergency department visit or admission to a hospital.
Cardiovascular events including heart attack, stroke, arrhythmias, unstable angina, and peripheral vascular disease were among the cardiovascular events recorded with varenicline use, while depression, anxiety, psychosis, hallucinations, insomnia, and self-harm were among the neuropsychiatric events.
"Quitting smoking greatly reduces a person's chances of developing heart disease and cancer and has many other health benefits," Gershon pointed out. "Our findings should not be used to suggest people not take varenicline. The findings should be used to help people make an informed decision about whether they should take varenicline based on accurate information about its risks as well as its benefits."
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Fuels Institute Resources Carpool Chats Podcast Decarbonizing Medium & Heavy-Duty Fleets | Episode 32
Decarbonizing Medium & Heavy-Duty Fleets | Episode 32
As the world works to decarbonize the transportation energy sector, headlines tend to focus on the light-duty vehicle market. In reality, medium and heavy-duty trucks represent less than 10% of the global vehicle market, but contribute a significant share of greenhouse gas emissions to the sector's overall emissions total. John Eichberger, Executive Director of the Fuels Institute, sat down with Kimberly Okafor, Strategic Business Development Manager at Trillium, to learn how they are working to meet the challenge of decarbonizing the heavy-duty sector while maintaining the needs of today's customers.
John Eichberger:
Hey everybody, welcome back to Carpool Chats. I'm John Eichberger, the executive director of the Fuels Institute, and today we're with Kim Okafor with Trillium, and we're going to talk about what we're doing in the market to help decarbonize the heavy and medium duty transportation space. Kim, thank you so much for joining us on Carpool Chats again.
Kimberly Okafor:
Of course. I'm happy to be here.
And can you tell us a little bit about what Trillium is? Not everybody in the audience is going to be familiar with the company.
Definitely. Definitely. I'm going to start by talking about our parent company, Love's Truck Stops and Travel Stops.
We're much more familiar with that name, aren't we?
Definitely. Everyone's familiar with Love's. We have almost 600 truck stops across the country. We build somewhere between 40 and 50 trucks stops a year, which kind of pans out to a truck stop a week, across the country. Our focus, our target market is the class seven, eight truck, over the road trucking that keeps the backbone of our country up and running every day. So we're excited to do that. We are a fueling company, so we don't focus or we don't push any one fuel. We are customer focused. So if our customer needs biodiesel, diesel, DEF, hydrogen, electric vehicle charging, whatever it is, we make sure to serve our customers.
About five years ago, Love's purchased Trillium, and Trillium was in the CNG business and has been in the CNG business for about 25 years. Trillium's target market is the transit customer. I would say about 60 to 70% of our customer base is transit customers, but in general, we serve fleets, and those are usually return to base fleets, but we do also serve over the road, class seven and eight types of fleets as well. I would say about three years ago, we noticed that our customers started asking questions about zero emission, so electric vehicle charging and hydrogen fueling.
So that made us kind of wonder and move and open up our business into the zero mission business, and that's where I come in. I manage strategic business development for both Trillium and Love's. For us, that includes electric vehicle charging, hydrogen fueling, management of our solar business, as well as all of the futuristic stuff. So things like autonomous trucking, we see that coming over the horizon. We want to make sure that we understand those markets so if and when they do come, we're able to be economical and lucrative in those businesses.
I wasn't really aware of how heavily your business was centered around transit. And I can recognize that if you're dealing with those entities, their focus from kind of a government perspective on zero emissions is a little maybe higher profile, higher priority than for your over the road commercial customers, right?
Yeah. And that's really the good thing about having a customer base that's so diverse. You're absolutely right. The transit market, especially when you're thinking about places like California where you have the innovative, clean transit rule that's saying that transits have to be zero mission by a certain amount of time, transits are moving toward zero mission much quicker than the class seven and eight market. You're starting to see those mandates come out for trucking fleets and things like that, but the good thing for our organization is that we get to have that experience now.
So we are building hydrogen fueling stations, electric vehicle charging stations for ourselves and our customers. So we built two hydrogen fueling stations, one for the Orange County Transportation Authority. The second one is for Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District. We're in commissioning, actually. That station should be up and running within the next 30 to 60 days. So those experiences that Trillium's getting with our transit customers is going to help us for our own network, our own public network, our Love's network. If and when it's time to start putting in hydrogen fueling stations at our Love's network, we're prepared for that because we have those experiences. And not only are we designing and building it, we're also operating and maintaining it, so we're getting a really good idea of what OPEX is for these sorts of stations.
So let's chat a little bit about hydrogen. You have the two stations, one operating and one commissioned. How are you sourcing the hydrogen? Because I know you can get it straight from a pipeline, you can [inaudible] natural gas. What's your commercially viable opportunity to bring hydrogen to the market?
So we've been really fortunate. The two stations that we built are two different sorts of stations. The first station for OCTA, the Orange County Transportation Authority, is a liquid hydrogen station. We actually partnered up with Air Products on that station, so it is an Air Products molecule that's being used there. So that's your typical liquid hydrogen station, a tank with some pumps and some high pressure storage vessels and vaporizers and things like that.
On the Champaign-Urbana station, that is a little different. For them, they're producing hydrogen on-site. We're utilizing a [inaudible] electrolyzer, a one megawatt electrolyzer at their site. So that's the way that they're producing hydrogen. So two different ways. As far as when it comes to things that we're thinking about now when I put my Love's hat on, my Trillium public network hat on. How do we think stations are going to be at our state, at our truck stops and at our travel centers?
What we're saying now is, "It depends." It depends on the electrical tariff. It depends on how much land we have next to our truck stop. It depends if we have ways to get liquid or gaseous hydrogen to our stations. It depends on, can we get a natural gas pipeline to our truck stop? We're not saying all of the hydrogen stations at every Love's is going to look exactly like this. We're open to whatever makes the most economic sense in specific regions.
As we think about the future of transportation, the administration says, "We want to go with [ZEV], we want to have infrastructure for charging." Everybody usually hears that and thinks my car, my passenger vehicle. It is a completely different environment to decarbonize light duty vehicles than it is to decarbonize the medium heavy duty market. Fuels Institute just recently commissioned a white paper, and we're looking at segmenting the class three to class eight market not just by class, but by vehicle type, by use case, by energy demands. So when you're looking at the variety of options you guys have available, [inaudible] hydrogen, electric vehicle charging, natural gas, where do you see it kind of playing out, and are you targeting certain use cases and certain customer types with each technology, or is it more trial and error? Excuse me.
I hate to... So my background is engineering, and the answer that engineers always say is it depends. And quite honestly, it depends. So I manage both our electric vehicle charging business and our hydrogen business, and we're taking those businesses in two kind of different ways. So electric vehicle charging, there are a lot of grants throughout the country to put in light duty, to put in chargers, period. You can work with the utility. You can get a federal grant. You can get a state grant. You can get all of this. You can get a grant from the Air Quality Management Districts. There's all this money that's out there. And I don't want to trivialize it, but it's easier to put in one or two charges at a truck stop than it is to put in a hydrogen fueling station at a truck stop. That costs millions of dollars in order to put in that sort of infrastructure.
So in the EV space, we've tried dabbling in providing electric vehicle chargers to our transit customers, but what we've found is that we can put in 150 kilowatt chargers, three of them at a truck stop for $20,000. That's a station that should've cost us almost $400,000 because of all the money that's out there. And we're learning a lot. Not only are we learning how to build it, we're learning how to operate it. We're learning about tariffs. We're learning how to price this stuff. We're learning how these things work. We're learning how to really operate a business in the light duty space, so whenever we have to move it to the heavy duty space, we can do so quickly because we've already learned it.
In that case, it's kind of trial and error. In the hydrogen space, we're taking a different approach. It's still sort of trial and error, but it's not at our properties, it's at our transit customer properties, so behind the fence, third-party type stations. So we don't have complete control. We're responding to RFPs just like every other company is responding, and we kind of have to do what they say. We don't have ownership, so it's still trial and error, but it's in a different way. So I would say, I guess the short answer is, right now, we're looking for economic ways to learn, ways that don't spend so much capital to where we don't see a return.
We're not a trial and error type company. We're not really a pilot project type of company. When we make an investment, we like to see a certain type of return. But we do recognize that the transportation market is changing, and in order for us to remain relevant, we have to be able to move where the market's moving. Now the question is, do we want to be on the bleeding edge or the cutting edge? So it's really balancing out those things for us.
You raised a great point, because when you think about the policy announcements and all of these aspirational goals of going to an electric vehicle market and building out infrastructure, and the word just, just do it, just build it, there's this lack of awareness that you can't make money on EV chargers right now. We've put together the spreadsheets. We've done the analyses. We've done all the calculations. It just does not make economic sense. We need to build it if we're going to have electric vehicles.
When we think about scaling up for the heavy duty space, and your transit customers are going to electrify, they're going to have their depots, they're going to be charging back at base. I don't see them very often coming to the Love's travel center to recharge a bus, a city bus. But if we start electrifying the commercial vehicles that frequent Love's, we're not talking about a 150 kilowatt charger. We're talking about megawatt chargers and the infrastructure to support that and the economics behind that. Have you modeled what the relationship between a megawatt system and a 150 kilowatt system, clearly scale magnitude, but in terms of the economics, are they relatable, or are they completely different animals?
That's a good question.
I have a lot of questions. I don't have any answers, but I have a lot of questions.
Let me start there. That's an amazing question. That's a question that we've been asking ourselves. Right now, and you hit the nail on the head, I didn't want to be the one to say it, but since you said it, I'll repeat it, it doesn't make very much economic sense to put in these chargers. We're not making very much money off of them. We suspect that we will over a certain time, and we hope that whenever the adoption of EV vehicles happens in a pretty big way, we hope that we're not stuck with an iPod Nano while everyone else is on the iPhone 24.
I had... What was the other one? When iPod came out, there was another MP3 player that I bought because I don't like Apple products. And two years later, I couldn't get any attachments to it.
You couldn't get any.
I'm like, it's a dead stick. You don't want to invest a couple hundred thousand dollars if a dead stick's sitting there, right?
Exactly. Exactly. So it's really keeping that in mind. To your question specifically, which is a loaded one, what does charging look like in the heavy duty atmosphere? It's not 150 kilowatts, it's up to 500 kilowatts, and I've even heard people say megawatt chargers. And we're talking about truck stops that don't really use that much power today. And we're also talking about truck stops that aren't in downtown Houston, Texas, downtown Chicago. It's middle of nowhere, Ohio. So it's places where it's hard to get a lot of power out to, and it takes a significant amount of time to get a lot of power out there.
So what are the things that we're doing today in order to make sure that we're prepared for the future? We started developing plans within our organization to understand what a truck stop would need if heavy duty charging would be needed at that truck stop. So whenever we are putting in new truck stops across the country, we're thinking about ways and we're putting in ways to make sure that we are able to move quickly whenever it is time to put in those chargers. If that means conduits, if that means assessing where the transformer would need to be, if that means when we're talking to the utility company, instead of asking for just a 240 volt transformer, at this point, we ask for a 480 volt just to be prepared for the future.
Maybe that means getting a 12kV type of transformer, things like that, understanding the hazardous area that has to do... If we have a CNG station there, where can we put these chargers? Would we want to put these chargers in the truck parking spots? Would we want to put them in lanes? Same thing with hydrogen dispensers. Would we want to put them in lanes? Would we need chillers next to that dispenser? Now we need more room for that chiller. So we have started thinking about, how do we make sure that we're retrofitting the new truck stops that we're putting in today in certain regions of the country so that we're prepared to move quickly in the future? Really, what it comes down to for us is, does it make economic sense today. Probably not, but how do we set ourselves up so that we can move quickly whenever it does make economic sense?
And that's one of the messages we're trying to impart to policy makers. Okay, you have a goal of half a million charters. Nice round number, a great sound bite number, but we don't know what the number is. We also don't know if we're going to need half a million chargers by 2030. We don't know when we're going to need chargers. We can avoid the lost investment, stranded assets, tweak the policy to support what you're describing is future-proofing, start building the plans and the capabilities to install the chargers when there is a need for those chargers in a certain market.
I think if we can be strategic about it, deploy the type of equipment we need, where we need it, when we need it, we can accelerate the ROI. We can support the market. We can support the transition to a lower emission vehicle system, all of these things. The challenge comes into, we have to get out of the headline grabbing pronouncements and get to the actual strategic plan making. And I'm a former lobbyist. I have very little hope that we're going to be able to get there in the political environment we're in. And I'm hoping that the [inaudible] will prevail and they'll sit down to build plans in conjunction with industry so that the market functions for the consumer, because ultimately, if we're not putting that customer first, it's all going to fall apart.
I completely agree with you. I think one thing, and you said it in one of your questions, a lot of times, or sometimes, I shouldn't say a lot of times, sometimes policy makers will make policy and say, "Okay, just do it. Just put in the charger. Why don't you just put in these fueling stations? It's coming, so just put it in."
Just. It's so easy. Just.
I was like, "Well, that's millions of dollars of investment, and there's nothing on the road today." So it's not a just do something. So what I wish would happen, and it's starting to happen a lot more recently with tasks force and things like this, and conversations like these, quite honestly, is understanding what the challenges are for private industry. Because we're not saying that we don't want to put it in. We're not saying that we're a diesel company and we will always be a diesel company.
We recognize that the future is going to be different. What we're calling is a truck stop of the future where you have diesel, biodiesel, renewable diesel, CNG, EV charging, hydrogen fueling. You're going to have a truck stop that has all kinds of different fuels. We recognize that that's happening. We just want to do it in a way that makes economic sense and recognize the challenges that are going to come as we get there. If we put in 10 chargers, each one one megawatt, that's a 10 megawatt station. Can you imagine the power.
You'd need your own generator.
Yeah. It's absolutely insane. And I just wish that we would think through that and understand that there are challenges that come along with that, and kind of come together as an industry and say, "Okay, utility company, how are you going to get that much power out there?" Because I want it. If I need to put the chargers out there and my customers say they have electric trucks, I'll put them out there, but how are you going to make sure that you get that power to me? That's really the conversation that should be happening.
Collaboration across sectors is critical if we're going to be successful in any of this. I want to back up. So you're focusing on hydrogen electrification now. We know they're going to have great application. They're going to fit a variety of use cases, but not going to fit all, but I think you and I first crossed paths several years ago when natural gas was the hot topic in the market. And that's how I first became familiar with Trillium. When we started the Fuels Institute, we were doing all this natural gas research, and then oil prices tanked and everybody stopped calling me about natural gas. But it's still a viable product for the heavy duty [inaudible] truck. Where are you guys looking at natural gas, and is it still expanding? Is it still in demand? What are the prospects for that becoming a reliable and really valuable transportation fuel?
Yeah. For us, so there's a term that we've started using internally. We call it the Darwinism of energy. We really see energy as, oh, there's going to be different energies at different points. So there's going to be different fuels that are used at different points. There's going to be a time where biodiesel is used in heavy demand, and it's going to fade out. We see even diesel. It may not be in any of our lifetimes, but it's going to phase out. Right now we're in an era where compressed natural gas is a technology that works here and now. It's economical here and now if you use it in the right way. So incorporate a renewable natural gas, getting environmental attributes, whether it's a RIN or LCFS, and understanding the revenue that you can get from those things.
So for us, we see CNG as the transition fuel to get to the zero emission fuels. Right now, electric vehicle charging, hydrogen fueling is not economic, full-stop. CNG is, and CAG is the technology that works today, that's economic today, where you can get your payback today. So for us, it's really a transition fuel, and there's opportunities for fleets to actually have an alternative fuel that makes money and that has a low carbon intensity. So if you're looking for an ESG type of solution, an environmentally friendly solution, for us, RNG is still the way to go.
Yeah. There's so many opportunities out there to reduce the carbon footprint of transportation, and the biggest concern I have is the headlines, the announcements, the policy statements are basically robbing the volume from all these other immediate options, natural gas, renewable diesel, biodiesel. All these things have the ability to reduce our carbon footprint now, but if we're not going to have them part of the equation, they're not going to get the opportunity to be a contributor to a lower carbon market because we're focused on that white horse down the road.
And I've been telling people for the last several months, "If you believe that reducing carbon from the transportation space is necessary to save the planet and you're waiting for the white knight of electric vehicles ubiquitously across the world, we've already lost." We're going to have combustion engines on the market for decades. We're going to have electric vehicles on the market. We're going to have hydrogen vehicles. We're going to have them all. And we can reduce the carbon footprint of all of them if we keep our eyes open. I love what you guys are doing because you're exploring and you're leveraging all the opportunities that are before you, and I hope more and more companies do the same thing.
Yeah. Yeah. And I think it also happens... So I serve on the board of the California Hydrogen Business Council, and I think that the hydrogen market also sometimes gets into, or I shouldn't say the hydrogen market. Sometimes folks, whether it be policy makers or legislators or whatever, put hydrogen in kind of a bucket to where it needs to be green on day one. All of it needs to come through solar and wind, and all of it has to happen today.
Well, there's ways to make renewable hydrogen that isn't just through solar and wind power. You can use renewable natural gas through an SMR, and now you have a low carbon intensity, a low carbon intense hydrogen. So instead of going for the green hydrogen on day one, let's get what we can get that makes economic sense and have a goal to get to that white horse in the end. How do we make it work today? And sometimes what I've noticed is that hydrogen kind of gets that rap, but electric vehicle charging doesn't really get that rap as much. No one's saying, "All chargers need to have green power tomorrow." Everyone's saying, "Okay, let's go to the utility and get the power." And not all utility power is green.
And then we'll clean the grid later.
Exactly. So I think the hydrogen market should be seen similar to the electric vehicle market. Let's get what we can get now. Let's get the market started, and we'll get it green over a certain period of time. That'll be the goal, but how do we get it started today?
I would love to say the challenge you just described, which is 90% is not good enough in some people's mind, is a new phenomena. But I've run into this dealing with Congress for 25 years, and it is so frustrating because we are letting the idealized perfect, which may not be the right solution long-term, but right now it's being idealized that way, be the enemy of progress. And man, we got to break that cycle, otherwise we're going to continue having these conversations about, why didn't it work? Well, because you wouldn't let it work. You wouldn't let us figure out how to make it work.
The system needs to be fixed, and I think the collaboration across parties is critical. I think what you guys are doing and demonstrating the feasibility of these solutions is absolutely critical as well. So Kim, thank you so much for joining us and sharing what you guys are doing at Trillium. And I'm going to keep watching what you guys are doing because it's exciting stuff.
I'm happy to be here, and I'm happy to talk about what we're doing. Trillium is the best company to me, but I'm a little biased. I'm always happy to talk about what we're doing, both on the Trillium side and the Love's side. We're happy to be a part of the market and be learning just like everyone else. Thanks.
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