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Why are women at high breast cancer risk not having supplemental MRI screening?
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Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers
New Rochelle, NY, March 19, 2018–Women at high lifetime breast cancer risk might benefit from breast MRI screening in addition to routine mammography, but a new study shows that breast MRI is greatly underutilized even though access is widely available. The study of more than 422,000 women is published in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Journal of Women's Health website.
Christoph Lee, MD, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, and a team of researchers coauthored the study entitled "Underutilization of Supplemental MRI Screening Among Patients at High Breast Cancer Risk." They reported that while nearly 44% of women at high (>20%) lifetime breast cancer risk had mammography performed at a facility with on-site breast MRI screening available, only 6.6% of the high-risk women underwent breast MRI screening.
"Breast MRI screening may benefit women with a high lifetime risk of breast cancer through earlier cancer detection," says Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Women's Health, Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women's Health, Richmond, VA, and President of the Academy of Women's Health. "A greater understanding is needed of why this widely available resource is not being fully utilized to screen high-risk women."
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P01CA154292. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
Journal of Women's Health, published monthly, is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or are more prevalent among women, as well as diseases that present differently in women. Led by Editor-in-Chief Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women's Health, Richmond, VA, and President of the Academy of Women's Health, the Journal covers the latest advances and clinical applications of new diagnostic procedures and therapeutic protocols for the prevention and management of women's healthcare issues. Complete tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the Journal of Women's Health website. Journal of Women's Health is the official journal of the Academy of Women's Health and the Society for Women's Health Research.
Academy of Women's Health is an interdisciplinary, international association of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who work across the broad field of women's health, providing its members with up-to-date advances and options in clinical care that will enable the best outcomes for their women patients. The Academy's focus includes the dissemination of translational research and evidence-based practices for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of women across the lifespan.
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including LGBT Health, Transgender Health, Population Health Management, and Breastfeeding Medicine. Its biotechnology trade magazine, GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 80 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available on the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers website.
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Automation has ever been the bane of the working classes. It seems today that the threat to jobs from that quarter is only going to intensify as the robots march higher and further and begin to infiltrate the jobs of services providers and even break into the professions. Colin Teese writes.
Martin Ford is the founder of a Silicon Valley software development firm and, apparently, is the first writer with the appropriate skills background to raise the issue of technology-led unemployment.
Lord Skidelsky, best known for his most authoritative three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, is among those who have praised the book.
Ford confronts us with the unpalatable prospect that technological changes threaten us with mass unemployment. As a result, the market economies, the key to maintaining jobs growth in capitalist economies, are in danger of collapsing for want of the demand wage earners pump into the economy. The cost benefits robots generate won't be much help if we have no paying customers to buy the output.
Towards the end of the book, Ford quotes recent research from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Rather than count jobs, the bureau decided to research hours worked.
In other words, a 42 per cent increase in output with no growth in hours worked. Meanwhile the population of the US increased by 40 million, thus feeding more labour into the workforce.
One might conclude that the US has done well in the productivity stakes, but badly on job creation and wage growth. The evidence certainly seems to support the view that technology advances carry with them the threat of mass unemployment. Ford's purpose is to examine how this will impact on economic and social life, and what political leaders may have to do to manage the inevitable advances in technology.
By way of example, the author tells us that early robots were introduced into the activities of what we in Australia would once have called "storemen and packers". The human brain could be trained so that such a worker could sort boxes of various shapes, sizes and colours into whatever order he was required to achieve. An early robot could, with difficulty, match the capability of a trained human. However, a more advanced robot has been developed that will be capable of completing the same tasks up to six times faster than a trained human worker.
The advance in technology behind this brings to robotics a newfound capacity to combine visual perception, spatial computation and dexterity. By doing so, machine automation will have the capacity to invade further and deeper into areas of manual, routine jobs previously needing human labour.
Tesla's plant in California uses 160 robots to build 400 electric cars a week. These robots are programmed to perform several separate and different functions and to retool as needed to carry out their various functions. They are fast, precise and strong. While these robots have machine vision capability, they are all limited to two dimensions, and cannot handle unpredictability.
These limitations will presumably be engineered out of future robots. These will have the capacity to see in three dimensions and cope with problems arising from uncertainty. In this way, even more opportunities will be available for robots to take over more skilled occupations from human labour.
These advances, of course, represent nothing more than the steady forward march of labour-saving mechanisation in the production process since the early part of the 20th century.
Henry Ford pioneered the idea of a mechanised assembly line for car production. Incidentally, he was the first capitalist to recognise that while better production techniques rewarded capitalists with larger profits, for these to be sustainable they needed to be translated into heavier wage packets for workers. One worker's spending was another worker's wage.
Martin Ford concentrates on technological change from the beginning of the computer age. He is a computer "nerd" himself. When he tells us where he thinks the robot age is likely to take us in the years ahead, we should take notice.
And, it is not only a problem for the developed economies; low-wage countries will also suffer. What he calls factory "reshoring" is already happening and We should anticipate more. He quotes the case of a textile mill in South Carolina. In 1980 it employed 2,000 workers. Today the plant is producing the same output with 140 workers. Obviously, its labour costs are less of a problem.
All of which means that some of the 1.2 million jobs that went offshore from the United States in the 1990s (three-quarters of these were in textiles) are coming back. So are exports: from 2009 to 2012 textile exports increased by 37 per cent to $US23 billion.
Reshoring is not only happening in the U.S. and Europe. Even China, where labour costs are rising, is turning to robots.
Emerging economies that relied on cheap labour will be hard hit.
Robotic changes are also biting into services jobs, where the vast majority of workers are now employed. One robot that is being developed will be capable of fully automating hamburger production. At the moment the wage bill for workers making hamburgers is about $US9 billion annually. Martin Ford believes that perhaps 50 per cent of fast-food workers could lose their jobs to robots. Other sectors, especially retail, are similarly threatened.
Robots have also made an impact on wealth distribution and worker compensation. From 1950 to 1975, growth in real hourly compensation for production and non-supervisory workers in the U.S. tracked productivity advances. From 1975 to 2010, they began to diverge; by 2010 productivity had risen by 250 per cent; meanwhile, labour compensation lagged behind at 113 per cent. In the last 55 years capital has got twice as much of the reward from productivity gains as labour.
White-collar jobs are not immune from the march of robotics. Within 15 years news reports will be written in most of the areas now covered by journalists. Health care is another area ripe for robotics – especially in diagnostics.
Ford is no economist, but it troubles him that the economics profession, while welcoming the cost-saving benefits of robotics, seems unwilling to recognise that these will bring will mass unemployment.
U.S. President Barack Obama is under no illusion. He points out that the economy has to create tens of thousands of jobs every month just to cover the new workers coming into the workforce. This won't make any dent on the numbers currently unemployed. While acknowledging that conventional wisdom that more machines are throwing workers out of employment, his solution is based on the orthodox view that better education and job training is the best solution.
This solution ignores the fact that education and training won't help workers find jobs that don't exist. Neither does higher education help. In the U.S., graduating students far exceed the available managerial-type jobs.
Neither the cause nor the solution to these problems can be loaded onto business; businesses are in competition for sales and must adopt whatever technological advances help them to stay in business. For them labour will always be a cost. It is not their responsibility to provide employment opportunities – despite what governments prefer to believe. Ultimately this must be an obligation of government.
All of the developed West, and much of the rest of the world, is operating or aspires to operate market-based economies. These are, however, unable to function without consumer spending. This, in turn, requires that consumers enjoy incomes or other sources of wealth sufficient to purchase the output of the economy. If output can be produced with only minimal use of labour, then the market economy can't function.
The recent global financial crisis made that clear. As workers' incomes declined before 2007, consumption spending was maintained by borrowing. But that can only work for a limited time; sooner or later borrowings have to be paid back; and then spending contracts.
Martin Ford advances the idea of income support for workers to keep alive the market economy. He argues, to my mind unconvincingly, that conservative economist F.A. Hayek advocated just this.
Hayek advocated income support, not as a matter of policy, but only to deal with welfare circumstances. Hayek could not have anticipated that robots would threaten market economies with mass unemployment.
Martin Ford's idea that workers must be provided with purchasing power found favour with Milton Friedman, another conservative economist of more recent vintage. Friedman, like Hayek, supported the idea in cases where market operation forced wages down to the point where they could not sustain a worker.
What both these economists understood was that for a market economy to survive, consumers without a supporting wage income will have to be provided by some other means with spending power.
Ford is to be commended for putting before us the problem robots create for our system; he has also advanced that income support might be the only practical solution. The ball, then, is back in the court of political leaders.
Unfortunately, for the moment, no government would dare advocate, let alone adopt, what needs to be done. The question then becomes; how long can the inevitable be postponed?


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Городская усадьба А. Д. Негуневой — Е. А. Ивановой — П. Н. Иванова — историческое здание в Москве, где некоторое время проживал писатель Лев Толстой. Находится на Арбате по адресу: переулок Сивцев Вражек, дом 34, строение 1. Охраняется как объект культурного наследия.

История
Здание возведено в саду городской усадьбы Ивановых в 1833 году.

В середине октября 1848 года к хозяйке дома, титулярной советнице Ивановой, приезжает писатель Лев Толстой. Он снимает здесь квартиру, состоящую из пяти комнат. В Москве он собирался начать подготовку к сдаче кандидатских экзаменов, однако занятия так и не были начаты: вместо этого его привлекла светская жизнь. Кроме того, в Москве у Льва Николаевича в зиму 1848—1849 годов впервые появилось увлечение карточной игрой. Так как он играл весьма азартно и не всегда обдумывая свои ходы, то часто проигрывал.

Здесь он придумал сюжет «История вчерашнего дня». В будущем Софья Андреевна Толстая запишет с его слов:

Писатель написал здесь «Повесть из цыганского быта» (не сохранилась). Описание квартиры, где жил Лев Николаевич, отражено в романе «Война и мир»:

В 1850-е, 1870-е и 1910-е годы здание перестраивалось. В XXI веке поставлены решётки на окна и кондиционеры.

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Негуневой
Здания и сооружения, построенные в 1833 году в России
Здания и сооружения Сивцева Вражка
Толстовские места Москвы

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Clarendon is a rural locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Clarendon had a population of 244 people.

Geography
The locality takes its name from Lake Clarendon (approx  to the south-west).

Lockyer Creek enters the locality from the south-west (Mount Tarampa / Rifle Range) and forms part of the southern boundary of the locality. The creek then passes through the locality and then forms its northern, north-eastern, and eastern boundaries before exiting to the south-east (Patrick Estate / Lowood).

History
Clarendon railway station is an abandoned railway station on the dismantled Brisbane Valley railway line (). Clarendon railway station was in use from 1886 to 1995 (it was called Tarampa railway station initially but was renamed).

Lockyer Creek Provisional School opened circa 1891. In 1892, it was renamed Lockyer Provisional School. It closed in 1915. Its location was described as "near Clarendon".

Clarendon Post Office opened on 1 July 1927 (a receiving office had been open from 1873 under the names of Tarampa, Watson's and Clarendon) and closed in 1951.

Clarendon State School opened on 23 January 1929.

In the , Clarendon had a population of 244 people.

Heritage listings
Clarendon has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 Lockyer Creek Railway Bridge, Brisbane Valley railway line ()

Education
Clarendon State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 507 Clarendon Road (). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 84 students with 6 teachers (5 full-time equivalent) and 9 non-teaching staff (4 full-time equivalent).

There are no secondary schools in Claredon. The nearest government secondary school is Lowood State High School in neighbouring Lowood to the south-east.

Facilities
Despite the name, Lowood Cemetery is within the locality of Claredon on a bend in Claredon Road (near the junction with Nunns Road, ). It is operated by the Somerset Regional Council.

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Suburbs of Somerset Region
Localities in Queensland


Journalists from 16 countries participated in an Earth Journalism Network (EJN) Fellowship program this month that took them to the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Honolulu, Hawai'i, where indigenous communities and their role in global conservation efforts took center stage. The EJN delegation, which included indigenous reporters from seven biodiversity-rich nations, joined leaders from governments, civil society and the private sector for high-level discussions to set the world's conservation agenda after ambitious targets were established in Paris last year.
Held every four years since 1996, the world's largest conservation conference placed special emphasis this year on the inclusion of indigenous voices in the global conversation on protecting vital ecosystems. EJN's timely initiative put journalists front and center following U.S. President Barack Obama's announcement just days before the conference about the expansion of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument to include areas of special importance to native Hawaiian communities. The 582,578 square miles off the coast of Hawai'i is now the largest protected area on the planet.
Fellows were briefed by leading figures in the field of biodiversity conservation ahead of key decisions to boost support for indigenous rights, including the vote by IUCN members to protect sacred lands from destructive economic activities such as logging or mining. In one case, Nepali fellow Dev Kumar Sunuwar shared his experiences and expertise by participating in a panel where he discussed his work for the outlet Indigenous Voice and his approach to telling environmental stories from an indigenous perspective.
EJN's media delegation, the largest at the conference, produced more than 65 stories during the conference for radio, print and online outlets, with many journalists continuing to write on these issues. What's more, many of these stories were featured on the front pages of media outlets around the world, shining a spotlight on topics that often receive little to no attention, and are not widely understood.
In China, EJN fellow Shi Yi was the first to report that the IUCN downgraded the giant panda from 'endangered' to 'vulnerable,' which drew an immediate response from the Chinese state forestry bureau and sparked discussions around the country. A report from EJN Fellow Priestley Habru that profiled the work of a Solomon Islands conservationist awarded at the conference, brought what he called a "boost and recognition" for other conservationists working to reduce logging in the country. Many stories from the conference can be found on the EJN website.
This fellowship is part of EJN's Biodiversity Media Initiative, which is funded in part by the Arcadia Fund and the Full Circle Fund of RSF Social Finance. Future opportunities will include Fellowships to report on other international conferences such as the 13th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity being held in Mexico this December.
EJN also supported a South African team from Oxpeckers to cover the recent CITES conference.


Programming skills are quickly turning into the core competency for a variety of employment opportunities. Students are now encouraged to seek out new ways of learning to code. Instructors guide students to learn the process, and then practice it.


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Q: Segmentation fault core (Core dumped) in C I am running a code which is throwing me segmentation fault (Core dumped) error.
I have a function which returns an unsigned integer data type of strlen which accepts a char datatype of a de-referenced variable pointer or a variable of char datatype as an input argument.
I know that i am incrementing a const char pointer variable which is not a great practice.
I read that incrementing a point and de-reference it is a good option over incrementing the data to which the pointer variable is pointing to.
I mean *s++; to *(++s); How different are they? Or they do same operation?
I see segmentation fault (core dumped) on both operations.
Or may be i should only increment the the pointer ? That is 's'
size_t strlen(const char *s)
{
  size_t len = 0;

  while (*(++s) && ++len);

  return len;
}

A: This while loop in general is incorrect
while (*(++s) && ++len);

if the user will pass an empty string then the terminating zero character '\0' will be skipped in the first iteration of the loop due to incrementing the pointer   s. That can result in undefined behavior.
Just rewrite the while loop the following way
while ( *s++ ) ++len;

Pay attention to that the pointer s shall point to a string: a sequence of characters terminated with the zero character '\0'.
The difference between these two expressions *++s and *s++ is that in the first case the pointer at first is incremented and the result value is dereferenced. While in the second case the original pointer at first is dereferenced and only after that the side effect of incrementing is applied to the pointer.

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United States | New Orleans mayoral election
No switch for Mitch
A white mayor charms a black city
Jan 21st 2014 | NEW ORLEANS
SMALL wonder Mitch Landrieu is popular. His predecessor as mayor of New Orleans was Ray Nagin, a man of minimal competence (when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, he botched the evacuation), iffy racial views (he declared that New Orleans should be a "chocolate" city) and questionable ethics (he is about to go on trial for corruption).
After Mr Nagin, a merely mediocre mayor would have seemed an improvement. And Mr Landrieu is better than that. Granted, the Lower 9th Ward is still a ghost town, and will probably remain so. But most of the other badly flooded areas have gradually bounced back. An influx of young folk, attracted by the city's rich culture and laissez-faire lifestyle, has spawned a clutch of start-up businesses. A Hispanic surge has changed the city's complexion. After a slow start, the recovery is in full flower. Even the murder rate has fallen, by roughly 20% in 2013. "New Orleans is on a roll. Let's keep it rolling," say Mr Landrieu's campaign ads.
As he seeks re-election on February 1st, his approval rating is around 65%. But Michael Bagneris, a local judge who resigned last month to take on Mr Landrieu, thinks there are chinks in the mayor's armour. He chides him for still-high crime, gaping potholes, broken streetlights and overpaid aides. He promises to be a uniter; he says Mr Landrieu is the opposite.
The race will not be about party affiliation: both men are Democrats. There will be a racial subtext, however. Mr Bagneris is black; Mr Landrieu, white; New Orleans, 60% black. Should he wish to, Mr Bagneris could point out that the city's recent boom has left many African-Americans behind. Income inequality between whites and blacks, already wide, has increased over the past decade. Only 53% of black men in Greater New Orleans are employed, according to the Greater New Orleans Community Data Centre. Some blacks also chafe that so many powerful elective posts are held by whites—not only the mayor, but also the district attorney, the coroner and most of the city council.
However, it has been nearly a century since a sitting mayor of New Orleans lost a bid for a second term. (Even Mr Nagin was re-elected in 2006.) Mr Bagneris is from a notable political family but he is hardly a household name and lacks the money to turn himself into one. The Landrieu brand has always polled well among blacks in New Orleans, not least because Moon Landrieu, the mayor's father, who held the same post from 1970 to 1978, was the first chief executive to appoint blacks to high-ranking positions in City Hall.
Still, the younger Mr Landrieu is taking nothing for granted. His soaring TV ads, which feature gospel music and testimonials from satisfied African-American voters, pop up whenever the New Orleans Saints football team takes a breather.
Racial animosities seem to have faded at the ballot box in the past few years, but Mr Landrieu was still delighted to receive the endorsement of America's first black president on January 6th. Mr Bagneris huffed that Barack Obama was simply doing a favour to Mitch's sister, Mary, a senator whose seat is at risk this year. He added (redundantly) that the president was a "Washington insider". That won't impress black New Orleans voters, who adore Mr Obama. For Mr Landrieu, the good times are set to keep rolling.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "No switch for Mitch"
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Ireland is the land of Leprechauns, the Blarney Stone, winding lanes bright with fuchsia, gorse and jaunting carts. Like most visitors, you will spend a long time admiring the scenery and wondering how a small island can change its appearance so completely in such a short space of time. You'll have the best of all worlds - superb scenery, first - class golf and friendly people.
Day 1 — Arrive in Shannon where you will have your first views of this lush, green country. Take the rest of the day to relax and unwind in this peaceful setting.
Day 2 — Today test your skills on the famous seaside course — Lahinch. Lahinch is a fine natural and traditional links, laid out with full use of great sandhills and springy turf.
Day 3 — This morning depart for Killarney, one of the most beautiful areas of Ireland. This afternoon play on either Mahoney's Point or Killeen — the two championship courses in Killarney. Your game is enhanced by the vistas all around.
Day 4 — A short drive takes you to Ballybunion where you will tackle your next Irish course. Definitely a challenging course you'll not soon forget!
Day 5 — An early departure for one of the scenic delights of Ireland, the Ring of Kerry — wind along the narrow roads with one breathtaking scene after another. About halfway along you will play on the famous Waterville GC, almost every hole a feature hole! This afternoon complete your ring around Kerry, arriving back "home" to relax and relive your day's excitement.
Day 6 — Today play on the newer, but very challenging course of Tralee. Created by Arnold Palmer and built on land overlooking the famed Barna Strand, where the movie 'Ryan's Daughter' was filmed. Avery dramatic links course.
Day 7 — Depart this golfer's heaven!
Day 1 — Arrive in the capital of Ireland—Dublin, where you will have a chance to see the historic and world-famous O'Connell Street, Trinity College, and a host of other places of interest.
Day 2 — Golf has been arranged at Portmarnock GC, one of the world's supreme courses. Always intriguing, occasionally exasperating, it's a favorite with all golfers.
Day 3 — Another round on an Irish Course -- play Royal Dublin GC, a formidable challenge. Here the wind changes the entire personality of the course from one day to the next.
Day 4 — Time to depart!
Day 1 — Arrive in the city of Cork, on the south coast of Ireland. Here you have Blarney Castle and it's infamous "Blarney Stone", delightful fishing towns, the Waterford Crystal Factory and much more to discover. Golfers and non golfers will find plenty to do!
Day 2 — Golfers will delight at one of the newest offerings to the Irish golf world - Old Head GL. This spectacular course is near the harbor town of Kinsale, and sits on a promontory overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Here you will find a view of unrivaled beauty - not to mention winds that will provide fresh challenges daily!
Day 1 — Arrive in Galway. Take time to wander around the shops selling antiques and other interesting items.
Day 2 — A chance to play the Galway GC, a fine example of the design skills of Alister MacKenzie. The course is inland by nature but some of the fairways run close to the ocean, making some interesting golfing problems!
Day 3 — Head westward to the stunning countryside of Connemara. This rugged terrain makes a stark contrast to the gentler countryside you will have seen. Play one of the great links courses — Connemara GC .So vast and rugged you will feel a little insignificant! This long course is on a dramatic stretch of the Atlantic coastline, scoring will not be easy!
Day 4 — Depart the Connemara area!
Ireland has many excellent courses. If your "must play" course is not shown we can add or substitute.


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Home > News > Art of the new at 'Crossover' exhibition, SJTU creates a feast of art in Shanghai
Art of the new at 'Crossover' exhibition, SJTU creates a feast of art in Shanghai
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With the development of digital technologies, the crossover of creativity and technology has become one of the driving forces for the development of art and a new direction for artistic creation.
Exhibition "Crossover" at the Xuhui Art Museum features work by six artists from China, the UK, Japan and Belgium.
They include "Mutator VR," a set of works by William Latham, a British computer artist and a professor of computing at Goldsmiths, University of London, who simulates DNA to present gorgeous colors in spiral structures on digital screens with virtual reality technology.
"Mixing artists into teams of programmers and mathematicians in a research context produces extremely interesting results and can be a catalyst for real innovation," said Latham.
The exhibition, launched by theUSC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry(ICCI) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, will run until Sunday. After the opening ceremony, a symposium focus on topic 'New trend of Cross-media art in 5G era' and 'Exploration in Intelligent Art and Future Education' successful convocation.
Zhang Weimin, dean of ICCI and curator of the exhibition, said the event was part of a series of activities organized by the institute to explore new models for cultivating digital arts talent.
"We chose the theme 'crossover' because we wish to invite artists and arts educators from all over the world to discuss how to cross over in arts in modern times and to promote deep integration of arts with other disciplines," he said. "We wish the issue will encourage arts educators to try crossover in more areas to lead new lifestyle and aesthetics.


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Genista ulicina är en ärtväxtart som beskrevs av Édouard Spach. Genista ulicina ingår i släktet ginster, och familjen ärtväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Q: Remove old Python Installation in MAC OS I installed python using MacPort and I am satisfied with the result, but found that there are other versions of Python installed in other directories, and can not remember how they were instaldas, it's been five years that use this notebook and perhaps installed by other means a few years.
I tried to remove all references to extra Python, beyond that were installed with MacPorts, but do not think like, I tried to remove the directories with the command rm -rfmas even using sudo rm -rf have success.
The old instalation are in directories:

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*/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/

*/Library/Python/

How to discover the origin of such facilities and remove permanently?

A: Don't remove the system Pythons. They may be used by other programs. (I don't know if anything on OS X actually uses them, but it's best to keep them.)
Instead, just make sure that your MacPorts bin directory (at /opt/local/bin) is first on your $PATH.

A: Don't! The name /Library and /System suggest that they are OS-level directories. Nobody installed them. Instead, Mac and other linux-based systems use them by default for system-level services (and they should not be even manually upgraded or system stability may suffer).
For all what matters, you should just prepend your installation directory to a system variable called PATH in your $HOME/.bashrc file. Then, whenever YOU use python, the system will always search for the first occurrence of python on PATH, which is your python. Open terminal, enter the following command (once in a life time):
echo "PATH={a-path-to-the-folder-containing-your-executable-python}:\$PATH" >> $HOME/.bashrc
To explain it, the quoted command prepends your installation directory as the first place to search for executable files. The >> $HOME/.bashrc write this command to the last line of .bashrc, which is a file that setup your terminal environment automatically upon login.


Research has shown that spending too much time on social networking sites can cause something called "Facebook depression".
This is just one of the ways that modern technology has been found to affect people in negative ways. It's estimated that children aged 8 to 18 spend an average of seven hours a day with their devices, according to Huffington Post. Find out this and more with this infographic about over-exposure to technology.


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Title: 1884 Republican National Convention
Subject: United States presidential election, 1884, 1888 Republican National Convention, Theodore Roosevelt, Republican Party (United States), Pittsburgh/On this day/June 6
Blaine and Logan
Exposition Hall
John B. Henderson
Presidential nominee
James G. Blaine of Maine
Vice Presidential nominee
John A. Logan of Illinois
Other candidates
George F. Edmunds
Total delegates
Votes needed for nomination
Results (President)
Blaine (ME): 541 (65.98%)
Arthur (NY): 207 (25.24%)
Edmunds (VT): 41 (5%)
Logan (IL): 7 (0.85%)
Others: 24 (2.93%)
Results (Vice President)
Logan (IL): 779 (95%)
Abstaining: 34 (4.15%)
Gresham (IN): 6 (0.73%)
Foraker (OH): 1 (0.12%)
Ballots
The 1884 Republican National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held at the Exposition Hall in Chicago, Illinois, on June 3–6, 1884.[1] It resulted in the nomination of former House Speaker James G. Blaine from Maine for President and Senator John A. Logan of Illinois for Vice President. The ticket lost in the election of 1884 to Democrats Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks.
In attendance were 1600 delegates and alternates and 6000 spectators.[1] There were 820 official delegates; 411 votes were needed to win the nomination.[2] Blaine was the favorite going in, but there was a possibility that President [1] There were also rumors that members of the Party would bolt if Blaine won the nomination.[3] Neither Blaine nor Arthur were in attendance. Blaine was at his home in Augusta, Maine, and Arthur followed the events from the White House by telegraphy.[4]
To test the waters Blaine supporters nominated Powell Clayton as temporary chair of the Convention. A former Arthur supporter, Clayton was now in Blaine's camp. He was popular with veterans, but was also associated with the Star Route Frauds. Edmunds supporters, led by Henry C. Lodge moved to nominate John R. Lynch instead, an African-American from Mississippi. The speech supporting Lynch was given by Theodore Roosevelt. Lynch won the vote 424 to 384, and Blaine's nomination seemed for the first time vulnerable.[1]
Blaine's future seemed more vulnerable the next day when, to address the rumors of Party members bolting, his supporters made a motion to remove seats of delegates who failed to pledge support of the eventual nominee. The motion failed, again by the fortitude of Edmunds' supporters.[3] The day closed with John B. Henderson being elected permanent chair of the Convention.[3]
That evening leaders of Arthur's and Edmunds' camps met in private in the Grand Pacific Hotel and tried to create a viable coalition. Arthur's team could not guarantee that his supporters would back Edmunds. It was more likely that the second choice of Arthur delegates was Blaine.[3]
The roll call of the States began the next evening. When Maine, Blaine's state, was called, the cheering lasted ten minutes, during which time William H. West came to the platform and gave a rabble-rousing speech to second the nomination. After West's speech, pandemonium continued in the building, much to West's chagrin.[5] Further speeches seconding the nomination were given by Cushman Kellogg Davis and Thomas C. Platt.[6]
When the roll call reached New York, it was Arthur's turn to be nominated. Martin I. Townsend's speech was lackluster at best and poorly prepared, Townsend having been selected for the responsibility only after the roll call began. His speech was occasionally drowned out by hisses and eruptions of side conversations.[6] The nomination was seconded by Harry H. Bingham, John R. Lynch and Patrick H. Winston. Bingham's speech was strong, Lynch's brief, and Winston's irritating. Although it was already 11 PM, a motion to adjourn failed. Another speech for Arthur was given by P. B. S. Pinchback, but like the others, it did not sway any support.[7] To close the night Joseph B. Foraker nominated John Sherman and John Davis Long nominated Edmunds. The delegates adjourned just after midnight.[2]
The next morning, June 6, the balloting began. On the first ballot Blaine received 344½, Arthur 278, Edmunds 93, Logan 63½, Sherman 30, with Joseph Roswell Hawley, Robert Todd Lincoln and William Tecumseh Sherman receiving parts of the remainder. Arthur received only a third of his votes from the North, none from Ohio, 1 of 44 from Illinois, 9 of 30 from Indiana, 11 of 60 from Pennsylvania and only 31 of 71 from his home state of New York. It was expected that Logan's delegates would shift to Blaine. On the second ballot, Blaine received 375 (gaining delegates from Edmunds), Arthur 274. On the fourth ballot, Blaine received 541, Arthur 207 and Edmunds 41. Blaine received 130 more than the majority needed, grabbing 67 from Arthur's camp and 28 from Edmunds'. That evening Logan was selected to be Blaine's running mate.[3]
As of 2015, this was the last convention where an incumbent President was refused renomination.
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Belarus is back
May 20, 2021 / NationalTeamsOfIceHockey
Yegor Sharangovich scores for Belarus during the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships
By Andy Potts – IIHF.com
Belarus is back in the top division and eager to prove that its relegation in 2018 was a blip after 14 years among the elite. The team secured promotion from Division IA at the first attempt, taking second place behind host nation Kazakhstan in 2019 and looks well placed to take advantage of this year's relegation-free tournament as it starts to build for the future. Belarus can also take some inspiration from history: its best ever World Championship performance, a sixth-place finish in 2006, was right here in Riga.
The roster reflects a new generation of Belarusian talent, with big things expected from New Jersey forward Yegor Sharangovich (24) and plenty of interest in 20-year-old Flames prospect Igor Solovyov. Rookie goalie Alexei Kolosov, just 19, has positive write-ups from his first steps in the KHL and, if given the chance here, could establish himself as one for the future.
It's a new-look goaltending stable for Belarus, with three players who have yet to feature in IIHF play for their country. Two years ago, Dmitri Milchakov did much of the heavy lifting as the Bison won promotion back to the top division. The 35-year-old is still playing for Metallurg Zhlobin, but gives way to players with an eye on the future in the form of Alexei Kolosov (19) and Konstantin Shostak (21). Both had a taste of KHL action this season, with Kolosov making nine appearances for Dynamo Minsk – posting a shut-out along the way – while Shostak had three outings with Severstal Cherepovets and more extensive action in Russia's second tier with Molot-Prikamie Perm.
Another new face adds experience to the group. British-born, Canadian-trained Danny Taylor saw Deutschland Cup action for Team Canada in 2016/17. He might have been a contender for an Olympic spot the following season but took up an offer from the Senators where he played once in the NHL and 32 times in the AHL. Taylor first went to the KHL in 2014/15, joining Dynamo Minsk, and has also represented Medvescak Zagreb and Sibir Novosibirsk. He has played the last two seasons in Minsk, securing his Belarusian passport and eligibility for the national team. Now 35, he made his international debut for his new country during this season Euro Challenge action.
Four players – Nick Bailen, Kristian Khenkel, Yevgeni Lisovets and Ilya Solovyov – return from the promotion-winning team of 2019. The first three are familiar, bringing a wealth of KHL experience to the team. All three had good campaigns this time around, with Bailen compiling 35 (13+22) points while wearing the 'A' in Chelyabinsk, Lisovets providing a steady presence for Salavat Yulayev and Khenkel fulfilling a similar role at perennial big-hitter Ak Bars. Solovyov, meanwhile, is part of the new generation. Still only 20, this was his first season in adult hockey and he did enough in his 41 appearances for Dynamo Minsk to persuade the Flames to offer him a deal after selecting him in the 2020 NHL draft. At junior level, he impressed in the OHL with Saginaw, producing 40 (7+33) points in 53 games during the COVID-curtailed 2019/20 season and his progress has continued back home in Minsk.
Solovyov isn't the only promising youngster involved this time around. Stepan Falkovski, who stands at an imposing 205 cm, was part of the chaotic relegation campaign in 2018. Since then, he has enjoyed a couple more solid seasons in the ECHL before returning home to play for Dynamo Minsk this season. With 20 points in 37 games in the KHL, he played his part in the team's leap from rock bottom to playoff contender. Vladislav Yeryomenko, 22, spent his junior years in the WHL with the Calgary Hitmen before joining Dynamo Minsk for the 2019/20 season. Now he has almost 100 KHL appearances and a Belarusian championship under his belt and makes his senior international debut in Riga.
At the other end of the scale, Andrei Antonov returns to World Championship action for the first time since 2009. The 36-year-old was the top-scoring D-man in the Belarusian championship, with 33 (5+28) points for Yunost Minsk. Further experience is added by Salavat Yulayev's Dmitri Korobov and Dynamo Minsk's Ilya Shinkevich.
Yegor Sharangovich is the big new hope of Belarusian hockey. The 22-year-old is the only active NHLer on the team, scoring 30 (16+14) points in 54 games in his rookie season with New Jersey. The Devils drafted him back in 2018 and immediately brought him over for a couple of seasons in the AHL. This summer, he was loaned back to Dynamo Minsk, where he potted 17 goals in 35 games to power a strong start to the team's KHL campaign, before returning to North America ready to compete at the highest level.
Sharangovich looks set to inherit the status once held by the Kostitsyn brothers. This year, Andrei is absent after a frustrating campaign split between Neftekhimik and Pardubice, but Sergei returns after missing the entire 2019/20 season. He returned to the ice with the Bratislava Capitals, and did enough to earn a call-up for his seventh Worlds.
The dual-national contingent this season involves three forwards. Geoff Platt, now with Salavat Yulaev, is a familiar face in the Belarusian camp, but Francis Pare and Shane Prince are poised for their World Championship debuts. Pare won a Gagarin Cup with Metallurg under Mike Keenan in 2014, the start of an on-going KHL career that most recently brought two seasons in Minsk. Ex-Sens and Isles winger Prince also completed a second season with Dynamo this term, and his creative flair brought him 49 points in 52 regular season games.
Pare is not the only Gagarin Cup winner on the Belarus roster, with Nikita Komarov helping Avangard to the title this season. However, the 32-year-old centre was used sparingly during the season and is generally more notable for his work rate than his production.
Young talent also gets a chance, with Alexei Protas poised for his World Championship debut. The 20-year-old was a late addition to the roster after the end of the Hershey Bears' season in the AHL and will not be able to play until May 24, when he has completed quarantine. The centre, drafted by the Capitals in 2019, spent most of last season on loan at Dynamo Minsk, returning to North America at the end of the club's KHL play-off campaign.
This year's team has more players from the Belarusian championship, partly due to Mikhail Zakharov's influence from behind the bench. Sergei Drozd, Stepan Lopachuk, and Mikhail Stefanovich have all played for Zakharov at Yunost, while German Nesterov gets the call after a good season with HC Gomel. However, the addition of 18-year-old Danila Klimovich, a centre who played in the Belarusian second tier with Minskie Zubry, might be the most eye-catching. He scored six goals in five games at the World U18s, making himself impossible to overlook for the trip to Latvia.
Mikhail Zakharov's appointment as head coach of Team Belarus represented something of a change of direction. In the past, the country's hockey federation often chose to appoint foreigners who could jet in, galvanise the team and bring a fresh view for a short tournament. However, that strategy failed miserably under Dave Lewis in Copenhagen, with the Canadian dismissed midway through the group stage as a disjointed roster lurched inexorably towards relegation.
Back in the top division, this season the call went to Zakharov, who has stepped away from club coaching to focus solely on the national program. Eight times a champion of Belarus with Yunost Minsk, the 59-year-old knows the depth of the country's talent pool as well as anyone and, while his blunt approach can ruffle feathers, it can also get results. Zakharov led Belarus at the 2010 Olympics, but this will be his first World Championship as head coach, having previously been assistant from 1998-2001 and again in 2018.
Zakharov is assisted by Dmitri Karpikov, currently goalie coach at Yunost, and Mikhail Kravets, who was head coach of Vityaz in the last two KHL seasons.
Projected Results
Whatever happens in Riga, it can hardly be worse than the last Belarusian World Championship campaign. The 2018 tournament in Copenhagen saw Belarus in disarray off the ice, changing head coach mid-stream, and losing all seven games with a painful goal differential of 8-36. For a team used to security, if not spectacular success, it was a huge blow.
Since then, however, things have changed. A number of senior players have retired – eg long-serving defenseman Vladimir Denisov – or been replaced. At the same time, Dynamo Minsk has introduced a policy of giving more game time to local youngsters and was rewarded with a playoff spot in the KHL this season. That has an obvious knock-on effect for the national team, with more opportunities for local talent to mature.
This year's Belarusian team is something of a work in progress, with several players getting their first taste of hockey at this level. This group will expect to be too strong for Great Britain and will fancy its chances of getting results against Denmark and Slovakia. A quarter-final place is probably too much to hope for, but Belarus will be confident of demonstrating that 2018 was an aberration and the team deserves a long-term place among the elite.
Czechs look for new heroes
Slovaks need to rebound


have been in the intranets business for a number of years now, but my interest in the electronic delivery of information goes back well over 20 years. I can still recall the first time that I saw a demonstration of the Dialog online retrieval service around 1976: It seemed quite miraculous. Then a few years later, Bibliographic Retrieval Services launched online access at 1200bps, which meant that information was displayed on the screen at a rate faster than the eye could read. At that time, it was difficult to imagine a need for faster download speeds. So much has happened in the last 20 years, not the least of which is the yardstick by which we measure.
The pricing model was based on the time spent connected to the computer system, with different databases having their own specific connect-hour rate, usually around $60 to $100 an hour with an additional charge for printing records. This was a very easy pricing model to manage from the vendor perspective, but in the end, the link between the time taken to undertake a search and the value of the information retrieved was a totally arbitrary one, and before long other models emerged, mostly based on an annual subscription. This required the information manager to forecast the likely demand for a service over the following year, and few had a crystal ball of adequate sophistication.
Two decades later, the question of the pricing of services for enterprise environment is still a major topic. Everything has changed; yet nothing has changed. The issues are broadly the same for accessing information services as for acquiring content management software, but I will focus on information content delivery. Content owners have long dreamt of delivering content to every desktop in the organization and, with the widespread adoption of intranets, this seemed to be achievable. However the dream is turning into a nightmare as the implications of the intranets' complex technical requirements begin to be appreciated.
Many organizations have implemented single sign-on for employees, so that access to the intranet is linked directly to the email directory through an LDAP protocol. With the exception of highly confidential content, organizations probably think that everyone should have access to all intranet content. In the case of information services like business news, however, there is little point in providing this content to everyone because only a percentage of the staff are able to make use of the content. The problem for intranet manager and content vendor alike is that few intranet managers can give an exact number for the potential users of the business news service. In addition, the intranet configuration may not allow for limiting which information services are accessible without the use of more (universally hated) passwords.
One option is to register IP addresses of staff with permission to use the service, but this runs into technical problems with the intranet firewalls. Network managers may also allocate dynamic addresses within a certain range that are used in sequence as required, so cookie information that links users and their password could be lost. And some organizations only have one IP address that they are willing to release to external service providers.
Some have an intranet that is, in fact, an aggregation of individual departmental intranets, so there may be a possibility of delivering content just to one specific intranet. That approach assumes that only staff members that are linked to the specific departmental intranet need to gain access to the service—a rare situation in reality.
Increasingly access to an intranet is being provided to two new groups of users. One of these groups is made up of customers and suppliers who are provided with access in order to create efficiencies in the supply chain and in customer management. A company may have access to an important third-party research report that it would like to share with a group of customers. However, this action almost certainly breaches the license terms and copyright legislation and, in the European Union, may also breach legislation on database rights. In fact, the company may not have set out to share this report, but inadvertently made it available through the extranet link to the intranet.
The other group of users are those accessing the intranet remotely. Here, intranet access will probably be handled by a different set of log-on and authentication protocols that may inhibit access to services that the user would normally be able to access when at his desk.
One of the truisms of the information business is that information has collection and delivery costs that can usually be determined with reasonable accuracy. The problem comes with the fact that an individual user, in the context of any given information environment, determines the value of this information. Moreover Technologies is providing me with a customized newsfeed on intranets, extranets, and content management. I'm finding this out personally in the management of my own intranet blog. Many items are of great value and I use them directly in the blog. Others are of more peripheral use, and stimulate me to look into an issue that has not been high on my agenda. There are also items that duplicate other sources of insformation, or treat something well known in the industry as news. If another intranet consultant used the same feed I am certain that we would each put the daily list of news items into different categories.
Intranet managers that don't come from an information professional background may not have understand how external information is used in the organization. Thus, they might not appreciate the value of the content. The content provider is looking to reduce the cost-per-sale by having a very simple model that can be used by even a neophyte salesperson. In my view, there needs to be a higher degree of realism on both sides. One recent development that could bring the two parties closer together is the realization of the benefits of a corporate taxonomy, and many vendors (Factiva is just one excellent example) are now selling not only content, but also consulting services. This broadens the budget base that is available, and can also result in complementary benefits in addition to the value of the content itself.
Maybe the only sustainable long-term approach is for the initial contract to be agreed on the basis of feedback from the customer about the levels of use (perhaps based on surveys about the use made of the information rather than access log files) that is then shared with the vendor on an open basis. With this comes respecting the right of the vendor to change the contract terms on the basis of the outcomes of the discussion. This contract may well be set on a somewhat arbitrary basis, such as the number of sites or users. At the outset, this may have a negative impact on the P/L of the information vendor, but longer term could lead to a very strong and mutually beneficial relationship with the customer. There are certainly dangers to this procedure, but to continue to provide services on an abacus-type approach of just counting what can be countedis equally as dangerous.


In honor of Israel's 61st birthday Second Life Israel will be opening an exhibit titled 'The Israeli entrepreneurial Spirit' showcasing some of Israel's finest innovations in a variety of fields. The exhibit's opening will feature technology expert and Metaverse Labs Founder Dr. Yesha Sivan as its guest of honor. The event will take place in SL Israel on Sunday May 31st at 10 AM SLT (1 PM NYC, 8 PM Jerusalem time).
The Israeli Entrepreneurial Spirit highlights 16 leading Israeli companies in the social, environmental, medical and technological fields. Each of these companies represents the best in Israeli innovation, making a difference in ways that better their communities and the lives of people from around the world. This exhibit is a natural fit for Israel, long described as a second 'Silicon Valley,' and Second Life's technologically savvy membership.
Dr. Yesha Sivan is the founder of Metaverse Labs, and has consulted on technologies for knowledge infrastructures to many companies based in Israel and around the world. His field of expertise is the linking of second life and real life. Dr Sivan received his PhD from Harvard University and teaches at the Software Engineering Department of Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. He has previously taught at Bar Ilan and Tel Aviv University. For the event opening Dr. Sivan will speak about 'Israel, entrepreneurship, and Virtual Worlds.' He will then take questions from the audience and cut the ribbon for the Israeli Entrepreneurial Spirit exhibit.
Following Dr. Sivan's address there will be a musical surprise for all attendees.
Second Life Israel was launched January 2008 and since then has consistently ranked as one of the top Israel and Jewish sites in Second Life. SL Israel offers Second Life's millions of members the ability to teleport instantly into the virtual Israel, and to explore a country that is fun and educational, ancient and modern, imaginative and real. There is a tourism information spot for those interested in a real life visit to Israel. Other major sites on SL Israel include the holy sites of the 3 major monotheistic religions, the Tel Aviv Promenade with the Opera House and Dizingoff Fountain, the Dead Sea and mud baths, the Eilat Underwater Observatory, and the Roman Amphitheater in Caesarea.
Thanks for posting this article, Dan. I think the idea to feature Israeli innovation in Second Life is a great example of using Second Life to showcase and complement offline businesses. In this case, it's nice to see Second Life Israel showcasing more than the major sights.


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COVID-19, new measures and government visits mark a week in Cuba
HAVANA, Jan 9 – Cuba's media week was marked by the entry into force of new measures to increase epidemiological surveillance at borders, the recovery in COVID-19 cases and government visits.
On January 5, the Caribbean nation began to advance Tighter controls at border entrances Given the increasing trend of COVID-19 positive cases and sequencing in 11 counties of the Omicron variant.
Among the actions, the obligation to submit a negative PCR result, carried out a maximum of 72 hours before the flight, as well as the full vaccination schedule, stands out.
According to the Ministry of Public Health, travelers from South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Malawi and Eswatini must undergo a mandatory eight-day quarantine in a designated hotel.
Cruise and pleasure boat passengers will present an international vaccination certificate.
In the national territory, it is proposed to admit all travelers with the disease to health institutions, as well as to isolate contacts in authorized centers or at home, provided that the necessary conditions are met and compliance with this measure is ensured.
The Cuban government called for discipline, individual responsibility and proper implementation of health protocols in light of the increasing trend in cases.
In a meeting with the country's scientists, the dean of the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Havana, Raúl Genovart, confirmed that the Antilles is entering a new growth phase, with a greater spread in the West.
Meanwhile, Cuba continues to take the booster dose and authorities are assuring that by February all vaccinated populations should be immunized with this application.
The head of state, Miguel Diaz-Canel, said the nation is facing this revival in different circumstances than its predecessor and stressed that 20 percent of the population already has their stimulant dose.
"We do not have to go back to another moment's procedures because we have better immunization rates, but we must maintain hygiene measures and the requirements to comply with our protocols," he stressed.
Diaz-Canel considered that the island could overcome this regrowth, "which will allow us to move forward in solving the complex economic and social problems of the country."
During this week The president also visited the province of Ciego de Avila He interacted with residents of a society vulnerable to transformation and urged them to increase popular participation in the process.
After visiting other points of social and economic importance in the territory, he moved to Camaguey (in the center) to preside over Balance Association of the Communist Party of Cuba in the municipality of the same name.
At that meeting, he stressed the importance of the organization's political and ideological work and highlighted lessons learned from the Antillean nation in 2021.
On the other hand, this week Different generations of Cubans have reissued the Caravan of FreedomLed by Fidel Castro and members of the Rebel Army in 1959 to celebrate with the people the victory of the revolutionary victory.
The more than 1,000-kilometre route from Santiago de Cuba to Havana was marked by political and cultural events across the country honoring heroes and honoring outstanding workers. (Text and image: PL)
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This list of stocking stuffers for 5-year-olds will help you complete your holiday to do list and brighten a little one's day!
Our 5-year-old's biggest questions: "How will Santa know I'm not there?" and "What if there is no chimney?" We're getting creative with small gifts and stocking stuffers for our 5-year-old because we'll be flying them in.
No stocking stuffers for 5-year-olds list would be complete without a smattering of toys, right?! These are some of our favorite small games and toys to keep the kids busy, learning, and entertained.
Amazon Echo Dot – One of THE BEST GIFTS for our 5-year-old this year has been her very own Dot in her room. Create playlists in Prime music or download fun stories and apps (try Fairy Door).
Rubik's Cubs – We got this Rubik's Cube Junior as a gift and were ALL impressed. If you have a set of kids of multiple ages, this cube multi-pack might be the better option to put in everyone's stockings.
Pokemon – We have a Pokemon fan in our house and this set of 13 Poke balls and 15 mini Pokemon gets played with daily! The balls really work and can take a hit when thrown across a room.
Temporary Tattoos – Let your 5-year-old go wild after the family photos have been taken (or save them for when you're stuck on the flight back home).
T-Shirts Make Great Stocking Stuffers for 5-Year-Olds – My 5-year-old daughter designed this unicorn t-shirt (no kidding!) and everyone we've gifted it to just loves it. If you have a sassy 5-year-old, this "Prickly but cute" t-shirt is a good choice.
Water Beads – These are TINY in their packaging, a great science experiment, and are ah-may-zing in sensory bins. They're separated by color making it fun for any theme.
Shaving Cream – It makes for fun writing practice (and is surpisingly not messy).
Dinosaurs, bugs, Shopkins, or any small toy set will fit perfectly in your 5-year-old's stocking or in an advent calendar.
Flaxseeds, rice, or pasta – All work great as bases for a sensory bin. When combined with fun tools like this, your 5-year-old will play for hours.
Go beyond crayons and boring markers and really impress a 5-year-old with their stocking stuffer surprises! Don't forget, you can also make boring crafting a bit special with these DIY homemade crayons!
Washi Tape – These amazing tapes will come off over anything and won't leave a sticky residue. Get them in so many fun colors (we like to buy ours in washi tape kits).
Dot Markers – These are my daughter's FAVORITE! We set them up at a picnic table during car breaks.
Scratch Pads – This is a stocking stuffer for 5-year-olds the parents will love! There is no mess and they're great at the table (waiting for holiday dinner) or in a restaurant.
Mini Magna Doodle – Our little one is now obsessed with this and it's perfect for the trip home from a holiday vacation. Note: these actually work, unlike others we've tried.
LEGOs – Every child we know loves LEGOs and our little one has moved beyond "Juniors" to the regular-sized sets. Here are the search results for the best LEGO sets for 5-year-olds.
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Our thanks to Lonnie Marcum for a great book review at LymeDisease.org.
Millions of people have sought medical care, and found that they have hit a wall with their doctor even though they feel very sick. There is an epidemic of tick born illnesses (Lyme Disease), mold exposure, chemicals and other toxins that are causing illness. Unfortunately, these illnesses are falling through the cracks in our health care system. Dr. Neil Nathan is discussing his book "Toxic", which is a easy to read, but thorough journey through these toxic illnesses.
In this episode, you will learn about healing your body from toxic illnesses such as Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Chronic Environmental Illness.
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Fursona Non Grata: Milo banned from upcoming furry convention, says he's going anyway
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Milo: From fake gamer to fake furry
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Professional troll Milo Yiannopoulos — reportedly heavily in debt and with his once enormous social media presence whittled down to a small account on Telegram — is apparently trying to raise a fashy furry army.
Last month, evidently hungering for some attention and possibly casting about for a new grift, Milo announced that he would be attending Midwest FurFest this year as a snow leopard, an announcement which (predictably) caused more than a little outrage in the furry community — and which probably would have stirred up similar outrage in the snow leopard community, if snow leopards had access to the internet and could work computers with their big furry paws.
Today, the Midwest FurFest organizers announced that they were refunding Milo's ticket, banning him from the event and all their future events. "Hate is not welcome at Midwest FurFest," an organizer said in a official statement.
In a post on Telegram, Milo says he's planning to crash the convention along with some of his "friends."
He followed this up by suggesting that the organizers were a bunch of pedophiles.
Then he revealed what might be his real reason he's interested in hanging out amongst furries, other than garnering more media attention for himself: He means to win Wimbleton.
No, sorry, that's a Monty Python reference. The real reason, I suspect, is that Milo wants the relatively small contingent of fascist (and fascist-adjacent) furries to break off from the rest of the furry community and, presumably, follow him as their new furry ruler.
At least that's how I read this Telegram post:
Who knows what's going to develop from all this. The only thing that's clear is that it will be a real shitshow, as is everything Milo touches.
H/T — Left Coast Right Watch for tweeting about Milo's plans to crash the convention
Posted in: alt-lite, alt-right, fashy, literal nazis, men who should not ever be with men ever, milo, playing the victim
Makroth says:
Milo wishes he could be as cool as these guys:
Victorious Parasol says:
Twilight Sparkle is ALWAYS best pony. Even if some people here favor Fluttershy.
Naglfar says:
I haven't watched MLP, but from what I know from friends and my younger sister, Twilight is the best pony.
Shadowplay says:
Applejack.
Applejack does not have the big crown thingie. She does have an awesome hat.
littlem says:
OF COURSE he is. That's what rapey types DO.
They DO NOT know how to hear the word "NO'.
https://backtalk.kinja.com/and-yet-the-rapeugnicans-continue-to-blindly-push-forw-1829359701
Specialffrog says:
Pinkie Pie is clearly the best.
Allandrel says:
I don't understand these people. Identifying with made-up groups, dressing up in ridiculous costumes that must be very uncomfortable in bad weather, going on an on about how special they are because they like a thing that other people did, all their gatherings where they dress up in those absurd costumes…
Man, I can't stand sports fans.
Furries? Hey, I'd like to dress up as a space elf if I had the money and costuming skill. Whatever floats your boat.
Gee, pictures of snow leopards, but not of one of their more famous traits?
@Katamount:
As I noted before, Milo successfully got into Gamergate after having trashed gamers in the pages of Breitbart as well; he probably doesn't consider this any different.
Of course, Gamergate also accepted disbarred lawyer Jack Thompson despite his previous diatribes about video games being the root of all evil, just because he hated the right people, so nobody ever accused them of self-awareness.
@Robert Haynie:
Sounds about right to me.
One of the things about furry fandom in general is that there isn't a single 'canon', no single big publisher that establishes how things are (unlike MLP), and nobody official who can say you're doing things wrong. It's a lot more like old school pulp-magazine era SF fandom in some ways: a lot of the people involved are also creators in one way or another, crossovers abound because people know each other, and the boundary line between 'fan' and 'pro' can be pretty porous.
ColeYote says:
Which is rich coming from a guy who's on the record as being pro-pedophilia.
@ColeYote:
Enough projection to run a multi-screen IMAX theatre.
Robert Haynie says:
… snow leopards are known for self-devouring behavior?
They're known for biting their own tails, yes. Well, not always biting, but at least holding in their mouth.
I believe the idea is that they use their own tails like the hairs in your nose… the blood flowing through the tail warms the air going around it, and the fur filters out dust and ice crystals they might otherwise breathe in.
@Jenora Feuer:
Ah. I see.
Which kind of suggests that one of the advantages humans have had in the evolutionary race is… hairy noses.
I am probably reading entirely the wrong thing into this.
Diptych says:
I believe so, yes. Apparently, people with hairier noses are less likely to suffer from respiratory issues. Evolutionary benefits don't always come from the quarters you'd expect – for instance, the development of large buttocks is believed to have been a major factor in ability to hunt, travel, etc.
Demon kitsune Sera says:
Furry here, Milo knows as much about furries as he does games, given how lgbt (Emphasis on T) people have been a part of the furry community, so he really should have saw this coming, also the Proud boys are gonna try and crash it, hopefully they will fail and I'm 150% sure Milo told them because he was mad he got denied, hopefully it won't result in a repeat of the terrorist attack at MFF 5 years ago
Luzbelitx says:
Milo announced that he would be attending Midwest FurFest this year as a snow leopard
I call bluff.
Also, best pony is Princess Luna/Night Mare Moon
footprints in wet clay says:
@Naglfar
Sorry for the late reply, I've gone back to college and the homework +exam was kicking my butt.
Anyway. Yeah babyfur is a sort of system where a furry's fursona is a baby/toddler, or sometimes a VERSION of their regular fursona is a baby like it's an AU, and they pretend to be babies or dress their fursuit in a baby outfit with diaper and pacifier or whatever, frequently in public situations as well. Sometimes they set up a playpen on the dance floor at the conventions. A lot of people don't like it, but they are catered to to a greater degree than many other odd kink subgroups of furry. I do not want to kinkshame it, but would like to register my dismay and concern about the individuals that use it as an excuse to roleplay so hard that they actually USE the diapers they wear for their toileting needs… sometimes IN THE FURSUIT in the diaper, and leave the used diapers around the hotel while walking around smelling like an outhouse. I mean, roleplay however you want for sex or fun with other consenting adults – in your own home – but that's a health hazard the general public didn't consent to.
I could talk about the art, too, but there's a lot of controversy about the nature and ethicality of it, because there is a fairly heavy emphasis on erotic/adult artwork in furry fandom and babyfurs are no different… so that's best avoided, I think.
Ingmar says:
Can't help but think and wonder if a fascist is someone incredibly self centered, not even a conservative as one might be one following their own conservative lifestyle and their system of values, involving consenting people without having to hide (definitely not the point) but just not imposing them to unwilling people, through bullying and condemning.
In the case of a gay one like Milo, he likes to pretend that gay people are left alone if they only "stay in their place"? The whole fallacious "shoving their life style down your throat" as if they ask the same discretion to straight people and that's not why there's no "straight pride", because there is literally everyday and everywhere.
That or those like Milo have the arrogance to say that they are not interested in marrying anyone, so all other lgbt people shouldn't because he personally doesn't plan to? By this same logic he'd be pressured to marry because an individual lgb wants to, would he like it?
TacticalProgressive says:
@Ingmar
As far as the question of wither the means of measuring wither a person is a fascist as "someone incredibly self centered": I would honestly say on the side of "No", because fascism typically refers to a specific line and set of social-political, and ideological thought, notions and ideals, as well as varied social, economic policies and other such systemic nuances. A person who would be "incredibly self centered" is nothing more than a simple narcissist.
Properly parsing out things in this manner specifically helps to draw clear, defined, nuanced distinctions and to accurately label and identify properly; persons, ideals, and behavior. That being said, however: it would be more accurate and a more fairer statement to say that fascism, as social-political ideology, tends to attract, enable and be home to a great deal of incredibly self centered narcissists; and I'd say that to some arguable degree this is even by design as an ideology. Plus said fascist ideals, notions, policies, ect can be made and are even designed to feed into said narcissism but this particular line is simply a case of a distinction of some tactical difference.
I can't really speak with much definitive certainty in regards to Milo Yiannopoulos or his intentions, but from what I can parse out from his past actions and history is that he strikes me as a bigoted opportunist trying to enable the bigotries he and others have in a bid to stroke his narcissistic attention seeking while at the same time throwing fellow LGBT people under the bus to do so (in fact he is something of a militantly transphobic bigot). Heck he even wrote for Breitbart so that alone is a strong indication of, even as narcissistic as he is, his bigotries and uglier ideology are in some way and degree earnest; they aren't just completely empty, opportunistic tools to an end. Long and short of it: he's an empty suit looking for attention while also trying to enable the bigotry he holds personally in others who would be sympathetic to said bigotries, among other ugly stuff.
Now as far as how or why a guy like him can be both gay and yet pro-Nazi and pro-alt-right, while it is a majorly inconsistent contradiction (given that both demographics are inherently at ends with each other) does start to make sense if viewed through the auspice that this is a temporary, tenuous allegiance, or at least "cease fire" between Transphobic, Cisgerndered, Conservative White Supemsists, Neo-Nazi's and other Alt-right, Neo-reactionary ilk and whatever gay people like Milo who hold transphobic views as a form of bigoted gate keeping for LGBT social justice advocacy.
How it typically works is that the Neo-Reactionaries have failed to repeal same sex marriage and protections for LGB people and thus see their attempts to block or roll back said gains as being either outright lost, or at least, as mentioned before: "At s cease fire". So in order to deal with the issues Facing Transgendered People: Neo-reactionaries can and do induct the "former targets of past oppression" into their fold, or at least those former persecuted members who are sympathetic to some of their other receptive ideologies and targets, and thus induct gay Transphobes into their ranks to go after Transgender people.
The thing is though such an allegiance for both such parts is very fine, thin, sticky and dubious; and once Trans people are fully under the boot-heels of oppression and persecution of Neo-reactionaries, the Gay Transphobes will invariably be cast out in a "last hired=first fired" sort of way when the gaze of the Neo-reactionary re-focuses.
It's kind of the same thing as how racists and ethnocentric bigots of old (and even of contemporary times if they let the mask slip) didn't consider Italians, Irish or Slavs as being white until after the Emancipation of Black people after American Slavery was abolish and the Irish, Italians and Slavs were inducted and folded into the 'identity' of being considered "white people" for fear of Italian, Irish and Slavic immigrants finding commonality and kinship with freed black slaves. Though it seems the Nazi's, Fascist White Supremacists and Eugenics adhering Identitarians and other such ilk seem to also consider those of Italian heritage (like myself), as well as Irish and Slavs as being "not white", or "mongrels" (and I can't tell you how much I have started hearing that in my adult life by such craven ilk, and worse).
Overall that seems to be the general observed prognosis. The Youtube channel Innuendo Studios has some very interesting essay videos but they have a video on white fascism that touches a bit on the subject that helps explain what exactly goes on in the alt-right as far as it's ideology, rhetoric and ideals and how does the things it does and, more importantly, how to catch and identify that and how to possibly navigate and deal with it.
@TacticalProgressive
They're also occasionally willing to let in Jews under similar ceasefires when those Jews share their other views. For example, Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer, and Jacob Wohl. My guess is eventually they will turn on these people when they cease to be useful.
The alt-right philosophy seems to have a clause that although they hate Jews and gays as a whole, they can be ok with individuals so long as those individuals share some of their views and say what they want to hear.
@Tactical Progressive
I'm reminded of how the patriarchal theocrats are happy to ally with TERFS (and vice-versa) if it means hurting trans women, and that alliance has lasted for decades.
@Allandrel
Well, TERFs aren't actually feminists, so it's somewhat logical that they'd join up with the patriarchy. They actively like to reinforce patriarchal ideas on their own. The other day I saw a TERF online who was saying trans women weren't women because they didn't have menstrual periods. It seems pretty misogynistic to me to define women by their uteruses (not to mention of course the fact that some cis women are born without uteruses or are infertile, or the existence of intersex people with various other circumstances. I don't know how TERFs feel about intersex people, but I can't imagine they feel positive about them.) Over all, TERFs tend to sound a lot like right wing gender essentialists.
My mother, who is unfortunately sort of TERF-adjacent (and sometimes a bit of an apologist) complains about how trans people keep talking even though they now have some rights (but still face significant hurdles). This sounds quite similar to a conservative criticism of feminism I've heard, a criticism which is invalid for the same reasons.
Sorry to rant, but TERFs just annoy me a lot. As someone who is trying to figure out their gender identity and might be trans, I am very much opposed to TERFs.
This true, though as sure as the sun rises and sets; the anti-Semitic Neo-reactionaries (and other co-morbid bigots therein) will invariably and without fail cast out and turn on the specific Jew's they have inducted into their ranks once the other minority demographics that are targeted for persicution are either "put back in their place", or otherwise "dealt with" (either via forced deportation, criminalization or outright genocide), and lump them back in as the next set of targets as the other Jew's.
With TERF's; they, like other right wing Neo-reactionaries (or at least a fair number of more insidious sub-groups): tend to frequently get into the habit of stealing left wing sounding rhetoric to dress up their ugly right wing ideology, notions and policies. I'd argue that they are at their core right wing gender essentialists hiding in a left wing Trogen Horse and trying to conduct a psyop against left leaning centrists or anyone else who can't see through the deceptive rhetoric.
I frankly have just as little patience for TERF's because it's just another form of bigotry, and in my book: bigots are just another, worse kind of bully.
Also tangentially, SWERF's are another movement I find annoying since they are just sexual puritans wearing feminist camouflage.
It seems like in general TERFs and SWERFs are the same people. I've never met a TERF who wasn't also a SWERF.
My biggest issue with SWERFs is that in addition to their classism (they seem to mostly be upper middle class and white and are unable to understand anyone who isn't) they also seem to have a very patronizing view of women and seem to believe that women can't make their own choices, which is a very antifeminist idea.
They also tend to make statements that are easily debunked. For example, my SWERF mother has stated that all porn is inherently misogynistic. I asked her about gay male porn, and she said that it isn't. I then asked why the mere presence of women in other porn made it misogynistic, and she repeated that she would never change her mind without giving support for her position. This from someone who thinks all prostitutes are sex trafficking victims, and doesn't realize that legalizing prostitution would reduce sex trafficking.
Whenever a TERF goes into the "don't say TERF, it's a slur" mode, I like to respond: "Very well, I shall instead refer to them as Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes, or FARTs."
My eternal thanks to whoever first coined that term.
And vice-versa.
Oh, so you're also familiar with Professional Liar Gail Dines?
You told me about her a while back. It's not just her, though. Pretty much every SWERF doesn't trust adult women to make their own decisions. They're unable to perceive that being a prostitute or a porn star is not that different from any other job.
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Natural Gas: Market Shrugs Off Bullish Storage Report; Prices Fall More Than 1% On Decreased Worries Over Demand	No ratings yet.
Expect fоr natural gas tо continue tо bе range-bound between $2.50 аnd $2.80. More downside risk could bе applied given Thursday's market reaction аnd thе decreased concern over demand despite cooler-than-normal weather over thе next two weeks.
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly storage data Thursday morning. The report revealed a +25 bcf build іn storage, slightly less than market expectations of a +29 bcf build. This brought inventory levels up tо 1,155 bcf from 1,130 thе week prior. It was thе South Central region again leading thе way, taking most of thе build of +21 bcf.
The front-month May futures contract settling down 1.07%, оr 2.9 cents, lower tо $2.67, аnd thе June contract settling down 0.88%, оr 2.4 cents, tо $2.72. Figure 2 below іѕ a chart showing thе price trend of NYMEX's front-month May futures contract over thе past 5 days.
The United States Natural Gas ETF (UNG), which іѕ thе unleveraged 1x ETF that tracks thе price of natural gas, finished Thursday lower 0.97% tо $23.52. Figure 3 below іѕ a chart showing thе price trend of UNG over thе past week.
The VelocityShares 3x Long Natural Gas ETN (UGAZ) аnd thе ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Natural Gas ETF (BOIL) were seen down 2.78% аnd 1.87% tо $29.02 аnd $20.47, respectively. Meanwhile, thе VelocityShares 3x Inverse Natural Gas ETN (DGAZ) аnd thе ProShares UltraShort Bloomberg Natural Gas ETF (KOLD) were seen up 2.93% аnd 1.93% tо $106.69 аnd $22.41, respectively. Figure 4 below іѕ a chart showing thе price trend of DGAZ over thе past month.
Thursday's market reaction revealed that despite thе less-than-expected results, demand іѕ not going tо bе of much concern given strong production, аnd cool weather not being аѕ effective іn driving demand given thе time of season аnd source of cool air. Money managers expect fоr inventory build tо bе stronger than average over thе next few weeks despite any cool weather.
Forecast models continue tо indicate a variable weather pattern over thе next two weeks, averaging cooler-than-normal across thе western two-thirds of thе country during thе first week аnd shifting tо thе eastern two-thirds of thе country during thе second week. Overall, cooler-than-normal weather will bе centered over thе central U.S. Demand fоr heat, however, will bе on thе light side. That said, injection over thе next few weeks should average above normal оr above thе 5-year average. Figure 5 below іѕ thе 0-5, 5-10, аnd 10-15 day 850 mb temperature anomaly maps from thе 12z ECMWF.