Located 65 km from the city of Heraklion, Kalamaki is a classic tourist destination for those seeking to make the most of southern Crete. With a number of excellent beaches, tavernas and plenty of Kalamaki hotels to choose from you can shape your holiday to suite your budget. This is a place to relax and unwind. Although it doesn't have the same party atmosphere of some of the nearby towns such as Matala and Agia Galini, both are within easy reach.
Built along a magnificent sandy beach in Messara Bay during the 1970's, Kalamaki is a relatively new town, with no historic buildings to speak of. There are however plenty of ancient villages to visit nearby, including Kamilari and Kommos. It also sports excellent transport links, a great bus service and easy access to a number of historic sites within the area.
Although the town itself boosts no noSEOSITE_LEVEL_DESCRIPTION historic buildings, the area has been inhabited for centuries during the Minoan, Hellenistic and Roman periods. As a result there's some major archaeological sites to visit nearby, including the ancient port of Phaistos, the Palies eklisies, an 18th century church built on an earlier Roman temple, the ruins of a royal Minoan Palace called Agia Triada, and Gortys, the remains of a settlement which has been inhabited for almost 6000 years.
To immerse yourself further in the history of this beautiful island, visit the museum of Cretan Ethnolog and the village of Svas. To access its natural beauty, hike along the spectacular gorges of Agiofarago and Martsalo, with their biblical landscape and paths leading to an azure sea. Alternatively climb up to Kamares Cave.
For translucent water and a long stretch of golden sand, Kalamaki beach, with its tavernas, cafés, shops and bars is a perfect spot to enjoy the sun. Water sports such as canoeing and windsurfing are available and if you're really lucky, you can catch the hammerhead turtles nesting, or their young scurrying back to the sea. Alternatively, visit the Matala beach with its 'hippy caves' or the bustling waterfront and welcoming cafés of Kokkinos Pyrgos beach.
Kalamiki offers everything you need for an enjoyable and restful stay. Sunbeds and umbrellas are widely available on the beach. With plenty of tavernas, cafés and restaurants sprinkled along the seafront, there's no shortage of tempting places to eat out as you watch the sunset. Although shopping is limited to the basics in Kalamaki, it offers all of the necessities, such as a pharmacy, minimarkets, car rental service and cashpoints, as well as some souvenir shops. For a more satisfying retail experience, try the neighbouring towns of Tymbaki or Moires.


The conventional way of performing NAND Flash memory system level analysis primarily includes the effect of intersymbol interference (ISI), crosstalk (XTALK) and simultaneous switching noise (SSN) . There are very few studies found in the industry focusing on the duty cycle distortion (DCD) jitter impact the NAND Flash memory system, especially at higher performance and higher load count. This paper focuses on the importance of DCD jitter analysis at higher speed and heavier loading NAND systems, and introduces a statistical approach to DCD jitter analysis.
Figure 1 provides a typical NAND Flash system representation for Read operations. During a Read operation, the Flash management controller (FMC) activates RE/BRE signals and sends them to the NAND RE/BRE I/O pads. RE/BRE signals then travel through the NAND Flash internal logic path and enable DQS/BDQS and data (DQ [7:0]) transfer to the FMC.
• FMC RE DCD: ONFI spec allows 5% DCD by the FMC.
• NAND Flash internal RE DCD: RE clock at NAND input is distorted by NAND internal logic circuitry passing out of NAND as DQS launches back to the FMC.
The total RE signal DCD can be approximately 10%~13% in a system, depending on data rates.
Conventional NAND Flash system analysis performs the simulation with 50% duty cycle random data pattern, the duty cycle distortion (DCD) impact is subtracted from the valid timing budget directly as shown in Equation 1 [2,3].
The major limitation of the conventional DCD analysis method is that it ignores jitter amplification. It has been validated by previous studies that jitter (including SJ, DCD and RJ) can be amplified by a lossy channel even when the channel is linear, passive, and noiseless. And the effect grows exponentially with insertion loss and data rate [4,5,6,7] (as shown in Figure 3). It is worth pointing out that input jitter also causes amplitude modulation in the output signal, resulting in eye height impairment.
Due to the aggressive storage capacity requirements, multiple NAND Flash memory die are stacked in a highly integrated complex package system. Because of the cost-effective package solution used, imperfect ground reference, and wirebond connections, the return loss and insertion loss get progressively worse for higher speed and heavier loading Flash systems (as shown in Figure 4 and Figure 5).
The DCD jitter amplification and the jitter-induced amplitude modulation becomes more critical for new generation NAND Flash systems.
To resolve the limitation in conventional methods, we performed transient simulation on an 8-die embedded system at 400MBPs with a non-ideal duty cycle input signal in HSPICE (Figure 6). As expected, by introducing the real duty cycle signal in system simulation, the jitter amplification and the DCD induced amplitude modulation are both well accounted for in the simulation.
However, most SPICE-like simulators do not provide a non-ideal duty cycle input signal source, so a special Verilog-A based source module had to be developed. Also, the high simulation cost becomes another major barrier to using a SPICE-like simulator for systematic DCD analysis. (For example, for a typical 1-byte NAND system, HSPICE took around 5 hours to generate a several-hundred bits waveform.) The next section introduces a statistical-based simulation approach (ADS DDR BUS Simulator) to analyze the DCD impact systematically and more efficiently.
The statistical simulation methodology was developed and widely used for high-speed SERDES and memory systems such as PCIe4 or DDR4 -. It calculates eye distribution probability directly at ultra-low BER, without running an actual bit sequence at any desired BER level (as shown in Figure 7). This approach offers an extremely fast means of measuring the eye opening at ultra-low BER levels.
Figure 8 shows the transient (SPICE like) simulation and statistical simulation correlation results on a 2-Die Flash NAND test case at 800MBPs, the statistical method provides excellent correlation to the transient simulation, but in a much faster simulation time.
A 1-byte NAND simulation test bench was created in ADS as shown in Figure 9. An ADS batch-mode simulation controller was used with the DDR BUS simulator to sweep all variables and channel models automatically as described in Table 1.
The simulation finished in 6 mins for all 15 sweep cases. Figure 10 shows the eye-diagrams of DQ5 at 1200MBps. Significant eye shrinkage was observed when the DCD and die numbers increased. For the 0.12 UI DCD, 8-die design case, the simulated eye-diagram already violated the eye mask specification.
In addition to the eye-diagrams, the eye-height (EH) and eye-width (EW) were also measured at the 1E-12 BER level. The EH and EW shrinkages, normalized by the original EH and EW of the non-DCD case, were calculated based on the simulation results.
Figure 11 shows the DCD induced EW shrinkage increase linearly with the DCD. However, the DCD amplification was observed in all the simulation cases. The worst case was seen at the 1200Mbps and 8-die case, the 12% DCD input jitter caused about 37% EW shrinkage.
Also, Figure 12 shows that the DCD-induced EW shrinkage increases exponentially with the data-rate and die number. This is because more stacked dies will induce more insertion loss and return loss in the channel. This is consistent with the jitter amplification factor increasing trend as shown in Figure 3.
Finally, a significant amplitude degradation was observed in a real measurement. This is because any input jitter will induce amplitude modulation in the output signal due to channel dispersion, leading to voltage noise at the channel output. The EH shrinkage was also predicted by the simulation as shown in Figure 13. The normalized EH shrinkage also increased exponentially with the data-rate.
The impact of RE duty cycle distortion (DCD) must be integrated in NAND FMC. And SI simulation should be done to predict system level performance accurately in a multi-die, high performance system. The conventional DCD analysis approach assumes the DCD-induced EH and EW will be linear at all the data rates so it will under-estimate the DCD impact, especially at higher data-rate and heavier-loading NAND system.
This paper proposes a new, statistical-based, system level NAND SI simulation methodology for more accurate DCD-included jitter and noise analysis. Comparing to the traditional SPICE-like simulator, this statistical-based approach provides a much faster simulation speed and an easier way to insert the RE DCD jitter into the input signal.
This paper has been modified from its original form, which was presented at DesignCon 2018 and won a Best Paper Award at the event.
Sayed Mobin is a senior manager with the Western Digital NAND Flash Memory Organization. He received his Master's degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech, VA and his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology, Bangladesh. He has led the Western Digital NAND Flash SI team for the last four years. His focus is to evolve the signal integrity and power delivery infrastructure in Western Digital's SanDisk Memory organization; provide critical decisions in future I/O design; and support both internal business units and external customers. Before Western Digital, he worked as a signal integrity lead at NVidia, focusing on mobile handheld system development for six years; as a signal integrity engineer at Intel Corporation for six years, focusing on signal integrity and power delivery solutions for wafer and package-level test environments; and conducted research in innovative solutions for multicore testing.
Cindy Cui is an application engineer with the EEsof Team at Keysight Technologies, Inc. She received her Master's degree in micro-electronics from Tianjin University. She has over six years of service and support experience on high-speed digital, RFIC design, and device modeling at Keysight. Her focus is mainly on DDR4 Design, PCIe, IBIS modeling, and the correlation between simulation and measurement. Cindy has authored several technical papers in the field of high-speed design.
 S. Chaudhuri, W. Anderson, J. McCall, and S. Dabrai, "Jitter amplification characterization of passive clock channels at 6.4 and 9.6 Gb/s," Proc. IEEE 15th Topical Meeting on Electric Performance of Electronic Packaging, Scottsdale, AZ, Oct. 2006, pp. 21-24.
 C. Madden, S. Chang, D. Oh and C. Yuan, "Jitter Amplification Considerations for PCB Clock Channel Design," IEEE 16th Topical Meeting on Electric Performance of Electronic Packaging, Atlanta, GA, pp. 135-138, Oct. 2007.


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Primark have announced they are opening stores across England on June 15.
But plans to open its Northern Ireland doors remain unclear, with the company saying they anticipate openings in late June.
In a statement, retail group Associated British Foods plc said they will be implementing social distancing protocols, hand sanitiser stations, perspex screens at tills and additional cleaning of high frequency touch points in the store,
Personal protection, including masks and gloves, are also being made available to all employees.
All Primark stores were closed over a 12-day period from March 11 after the outbreak of Covid-19 which they say resulted in a loss of sales of approximately £650m for every month that all stores were closed.
Their statement said: "We took a number of actions in Primark to substantially reduce the cash outflow resulting from this loss of sales. These mainly comprised cancellation of future orders for goods where the handover date from the supplier was after 17 April and a range of measures to reduce operating overhead while the stores are closed.
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"The most significant contributor to the reduction in overheads has been access to government employment retention schemes across Europe, assisted by a temporary voluntary reduction in salaries for all Primark employees not covered by a government scheme. We continue to make progress in our discussions with landlords to renegotiate some of the terms in our lease arrangements.
"As European governments have begun to ease restrictions on clothing retailing we have been able to re-open stores. Safety has been our highest priority in our detailed preparations to welcome our customers and employees back to stores. We are following government safety advice in all markets.
"Importantly, we will apply the valuable experience gained from more than 100 stores which are already open as we open the remainder of our estate, including stores across the UK. These measures are designed to safeguard the health and wellbeing of everyone in store and to instil confidence in the store environment. Feedback from customers and employees in those markets where the stores are open has been positive.
"As at today, Primark is trading in 112 stores which represent 34 percent of our total selling space. Primark is now working to re-open all its stores in England on 15 June, following the recent announcement by the UK Government. At that date we expect to be operating from 281 stores representing 79 percent of total selling space. We await further guidance for the stores in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland and anticipate openings in late June.
"By 15 June, we will also have opened three new stores which were originally planned for opening in our financial third quarter: Mons in Belgium and Gropius in Berlin, Germany have already opened;and a store in the Trafford Centre, Manchester in the UK will open on 15 June."
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From the creative team behind the 2014 Edinburgh smash Man Enough comes a new musical comedy inspired by the award-winning documentary, Jesus Camp. Lucy's a self-confessed bible basher from a broken home, and Chad's a Jesus-hating military school dropout. They're about to have a summer like no other at Sarah Chastity's Christian Camp for Kids, where brainwashing is the order of the day. Join our all-American heroes as they battle with faith, hormones and the never-ending urge to break into song. A rip-roaring, born-again, hallelujah of a musical comedy! Warning: not for the biblically sensitive.


Probably the best trucking song of all time!
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I worked with the guy who wrote this song! I think he passed now but he started the group "Fresh Air" and they also made some amazing enya/digital type songs and they do concerts of their Christmas Music every year touring the country, great stuff. Chip Davis I think was his name and he wrote jingles, etc when I was the Marketing Director at Omaha National Bank he wrote for us, really talented nice guy. This song put him on the National scene.
that is so cool! thanks, can't wait to tell Jack.
From Kent in England. Jack Jessee is a true knight of the road. A real ambassador for the Company. Keep on trucking Jack and maybe someday will try to visit from the Old Country !
Those are big compliments. Thank you and I will pass them along to Jack 🙂 We would love to see the Old Country.


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Meet Nasir, Computan's CTO, Head of Development, and team leader. Nasir has been on the Computan team for over 15 years and has built applications, managed projects, hired and managed employees, set up development offices, worked in different Computan offices around the globe, and overseen the daily development operations. In short, he's done quite a lot! In this installment of Behind The Coding, Nasir talks about remote development work has changed in the past few years, where his interest in politics comes from, and what it's like to work with a business partner who is different than you.
Hi Nasir! What are the last three things you Googled and why?
Hi Sajeel, how are you? Is everything going ok today?
Yes. Nice dialogue. Why did you say that exactly?
Because that is what you say to me every day when we talk.
Hahaha, yes exactly! I have been saying that for 15+ years to you.
So what are the last three things you Googled?
The most recent thing I Googled was laptop prices
Why laptop prices?
We are looking to add a budget for hardware purchases each month, so now I am talking to different vendors to get preferred rates.
So laptops for the team and employees to use?
Yes exactly. One of my goals for the next little while is to streamline and review our device management.
Ok! What else have you been Googling, Nasir?
The US dollar exchange rates.
Understandable. Why would you be interested in the US Dollar exchange rate? Can you tell our readers?
Basically, because we have team members and colleagues all over the world. When the dollar has greater purchasing power, we tend to convert money into the currencies that we are paying in. By the grace of God, we have 90-100 employees to pay, and if we can exchange our money at higher percentage points over the course of every pay period, we tend to save a lot of money at the end of the year.
So you check the exchange rates pretty often, then?
Yes! Quite regularly.
Ok, what else have you Googled?
The assassination attempt on Imran Khan
Why would you Google about the attempted murder of a former Pakistani Prime Minister?
I am always interested in politics, Sajeel.
Let's talk about that. When did you get interested in current affairs, politics, and watching the news? You follow these things closer than most people.
I have been doing it since childhood. I probably started following politics as a 10-year-old.
10 years old! Why?
I lived in a small, politically polarized village in Pakistan. Pakistan is very similar to the US. For decades we had a 2-party federal system. Our village was almost equally divided. Even though it was the 1980s, it felt very similar to today. People on one side believed they were the best, and the other side was the worst.
But that doesn't explain why a 10-year-old would be so interested in politics and current events.
It was everywhere I went, Sajeel. My parents, uncles, and elders in the town had an interest. That bug was passed on to me! Like most kids, I wanted to be just like my parents and elders. They talked about politics and were active in the village. I wanted to do that too.
When was the last time you worked after hours to solve a hard problem?
Since I moved to a management role, I usually stay after hours to attend late-night calls with our colleagues in different corners of the planet. We can never really get a good time zone that works for everyone, so we all adjust a little.
Hahaha! Very accurate. What about during your developer days?
When I was a lead developer on many projects from the mid-2000s to around 2018, I spent countless days working after hours. Unfortunately, things were very different for developers than they are now.
Well, first of all, not everyone has access to broadband and high-speed Internet at home. I didn't'. Also, the code was not in the cloud. It was in a local-area network or a physical server.
Ok, what does that mean to you and working late hours?
Well, it means I had to go to a facility or an office to do my work. Then, when I went home, I had no access to a computer with the necessary code. So if I got an urgent call or an emergency came up, I would have to go back to the office to work.
How far did you live from the Computan office?
45 minutes! I don't think our colleagues at this age could imagine such a struggle. Working on something, signing out for the afternoon, then getting a call and driving back to the office to fix something. We are fortunate to have file repositories in the cloud, great Internet, and portable laptop machines to take with us. We are very fortunate.
No doubt about it. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Who are three people you'd like to have dinner with at the same time, and why?
Three people are probably three friends of mine. I would like to have these dinners separately, though. Is that ok?
Hahaha! The rules are yours Nasir.
Ok. The first person I'd like to have dinner with is Shahid Karamat.
Who is Shahid to you?
He's an accountant with the City of Edmonton in Canada. He was a classmate of mine in engineering school. He is an excellent friend.
Ok. Who else?
The second person is someone I talk to very often. His name is Aziz. He was my classmate from grades 6 through high school.
Wow! Are you still in touch with him?
Yes! I talk to him daily. We have a WhatsApp group, and he is always telling jokes. He is an Odoo consultant for a company in Saudi Arabia but works remotely. So whenever I return to my hometown, he and I have to get together for fun.
Nice! Who else would you have dinner with?
You, Sajeel.
We talk every day. Why me?
Our relationship is unique. We have been through many ups and downs and had many arguments. But we still stay together. It's a blessing, and I always enjoy your company.
Why do you think we have been able to stay together as partners for so long? Most partnerships or bands break up pretty quickly.
I don't know, but maybe because we argue a lot, we move on. I know there are times when we don't like each other. But we stay together. People quickly throw relationships away after an argument, especially in the professional world. By the Grace of God, I think we both take our relationship seriously; maybe that's why it lasts.
I agree with you. We can be very annoying to one another at times, for sure 😊.
Hahaha! No doubt about that.
When was the last time you cried tears of laughter?
I don't remember…usually, I don't cry when laughing! Usually in a sad movie or TV show, for sure. But not while laughing.
Maybe you are watching the wrong movies! What do you love about coding?
SQL Server. I love database programming.
Who got you started on SQL Server?
One of my teachers taught me SQL Server. Now he is a SQL Server expert in DBA at Harvard. Through him, I learned to use SQL and built up my love of SQL.
I was at Punjab University. I saved 32,700 PKR from being a Math & Physics tutor and used that money to buy my first laptop. It was 433 MHz, 64 MB RAM, and had a 20 GB HDD. The first computer I saw was in 11th grade. It was at my friend's uncle's house. It was 486 in 1993. I just watched him use Excel.
What is something your teammates don't know about you?
I am not always bossy all the time. Sometimes I have to 'act' bossy in my line of work. But sometimes I am just acting!
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The Indian political parties speak louder against the criminalization of the politics but most of them have a big difference in their speaking and doing. It has been proved once again during recent Rajya Sabha elections. All the candidates with pending criminal cases have won the election. The elections for 55 seats of the Rajya Sabha held in two phase on 14 th June and 17th June in 12 states.
Both parties know very well that they need each other to gain power in Bihar and to show the strength at center. That's why JDU chief Sharad Yadav is trying to work as a peacemaker and saying all is well. At the core of this development is the different identity of both parties and they want to maintain it on the best possible cost. Anti Modi tone of Nitish is required to allure Bihar's 16.5 percent Muslim votes. In other hand, Brand Modi is the necessity of BJP to woo its core Hindu voters. Assembly election in Bihar is slated for this year and experts believe that cast and communal politics is going to play a major role in these polls.
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"We're here to put a dent in the universe." —Steve Jobs
I never met Steve Jobs. I wish I had, as I've devoured much that has been written about him. He seemed undaunted by difficulties or complexities. He disdained naysayers and admired those who plowed on, despite seemingly unsurmountable challenges.
As part of our AJWS community, I have been humbled to meet our courageous and visionary grantees, to hear their stories and witness their work. Their aspirations and hardships are at once daunting and impactful. They are kicking a dent in the universe every day.
One such person is Nobel Peace Prize winner and past AJWS grantee, Leymah Gbowee. She led a women's movement that put an end to a brutal civil war in Liberia and helped elect the first woman President in Africa. Another is Madhavi Kuckreja from Sadbhavana Trust, an organization that works with some of the poorest and most marginalized women in India.
Both of these powerful women will speak on June 11 at AJWS's Global Justice Luncheon and Seminar at the Stanford Faculty Club. They will discuss why empowering women is an integral part of sustainable change and how their work is putting a dent in the universe. If you have not yet purchased your ticket, you can do so here.
AJWS will honor Terry Winograd, a Stanford professor and an AJWS supporter for over 30 years, at this event. Terry first drew the connection between the AJWS investment model and the technology investments he witnessed in Silicon Valley, where he taught many top corporate leaders. One of Terry's former students, Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, will present him with an award before we transition to a seminar exploring the AJWS investment model.
At the seminar, we will hear from Dena Kimball, executive director of The Kendeda Fund, which has invested millions of dollars in AJWS to stop the practice of child marriage in India. About 15 million girls around the world become brides every year, and one of every three live in India — where child marriage continues despite laws against the practice. We will also hear from John Taylor, managing partner at Wellspring Advisors, which has a long history of investment in AJWS's innovative approach to supporting lasting, positive changes in the lives of women and girls.
AJWS is working to put a huge dent in the universe. We're supporting local leaders around the globe to shape truly just societies for all people — and I hope you might leave this event as inspired as I am to play a part in making that change happen.
Thank you for being part of this critical work. As always, please reach out if you have any questions. I hope to see you on June 11.
Alon Shalev
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AJWS Bay Area Upcoming Events
AJWS Global Justice Luncheon and Seminar
Investing in Women and Girls
Join us for a special luncheon to honor philanthropist and human rights activist Terry Winograd, and be inspired by AJWS's commitment to changing the lives of women and girls in the developing world. The luncheon will feature a keynote address from Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liberian peace activist and AJWS grantee. Following the luncheon, the seminar will feature a panel of human rights experts who will discuss AJWS's investment model and theory of change.
Luncheon 11:00-1:00, Seminar 1:30-3:00
Stanford Faculty Club
Please contact Stephanie Aron at saron@ajws.org with any questions.
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Join AJWS and Jim and Cathy Koshland on an unforgettable trip to India. Together, we will see tikkun olam in action and meet grassroots groups working to protect the lives and lands of India's people. Over the course of one remarkable week, we will engage in dialogue with local leaders and intellectuals who will offer insights into the unique challenges of securing human rights in this complex country.
For more information, please visit the India Study Tour page or e-mail us at studytours@ajws.org.
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module Artifactory
  describe Resource::Backup do
    let(:client) { double(:client) }

    before(:each) do
      allow(Artifactory).to receive(:client).and_return(client)
      allow(client).to receive(:get).and_return(response) if defined?(response)
    end

    describe '.all' do
      doc = <<-XML
        <config>
          <backups>
            <backup>
              <key>backup-daily</key>
            </backup>
          </backups>
        </config>
      XML
      let(:xml) do
        REXML::Document.new(doc)
      end

      before do
        allow(Resource::System).to receive(:configuration).and_return(xml)
      end

      it 'returns the backup settings' do
        expect(described_class.all).to be_a(Array)
        expect(described_class.all.first).to be_a(described_class)
        expect(described_class.all.first.key).to eq('backup-daily')
      end
    end

    describe '.find' do
      doc = <<-XML
        <config>
          <backups>
            <backup>
              <key>backup-weekly</key>
            </backup>
          </backups>
        </config>
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      let(:xml) do
        REXML::Document.new(doc)
      end

      before do
        allow(Resource::System).to receive(:configuration).and_return(xml)
      end

      it 'returns the found backup setting' do
        expect(described_class.find('backup-weekly')).to be_a(described_class)
        expect(described_class.find('backup-weekly').key).to eq('backup-weekly')
      end
    end
  end
end

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Mitt Romney's speech regarding vote against Trump emblematic of degradation of conservative ideals within Republican Party
by Tripp Grebe · Feb 6, 2020 Share Tweet
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, took the Senate floor hours before senators voted to render a final verdict on the two impeachment articles levied against President Trump.?
Aware that his Republican colleagues had already announced their intentions to vote for the president's acquittal on both charges, Romney took to the Senate floor to speak on his intentions for the upcoming vote.
"In the last several weeks, I've received numerous calls and texts," Romney said. "Many demanded, in their words, that I 'stand with the team.' I can assure you that that thought has been very much on my mind … The grave question the Constitution tasked senators to answer is whether the President committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. Yes, he did."
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Romney would be the first senator in U.S. history to vote to remove a president of his own party.?
By announcing his intentions to vote for the president's removal, on the first article of impeachment, Romney knew he was bound to face the wrath of the president and his supporters.?
Immediately following Romney's announcement, the backlash began. Donald Trump Jr. took to Twitter to call for Romney's expulsion from the Republican Party. Later, the president himself posted a video on his Twitter account accusing Romney of being an undercover Democrat asset.?
So what was the significance of Romney's decision to vote for the removal of the president? Was there any significance?
Romney's vote wasn't a strike of revenge at the president for not being offered a cabinet position, despite what many Republicans would like to believe. Romney's vote wasn't only a brave act of patriotism and moral courage as many Democrats would like to believe.?It was a wake-up call to the hibernating conservatives whose name was once synonymous with the Republican Party before the election of Trump.?
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The idea of being conservative had always been synonymous with the Republican Party. Being a conservative means you hold specific principled views, including the belief in limited government, personal responsibility, free markets and strong national defense.?
Before Trump, the Republican Party led the surge for the implementation of conservative policy across our nation. In the state of Wisconsin, we saw prominent political stars born from the conservative movement.
Gov. Scott Walker served in his role from 2011 until 2019. His administration is remembered for their sweeping cuts to labor unions, which ultimately lead to an increase in worker freedom across the state. This was a conservative policy, implemented by a Republican governor.?
State Rep. Paul Ryan served as the U.S. Representative of Wisconsin's Congressional District 1 from 1999 until 2019. An accomplished politician, Ryan joined Romney on the presidential ticket in 2012 as Romney's vice president. In 2015, Ryan became speaker of the house, following his predecessor's retirement. Ryan was famous for leading the charge on entitlement reform and rewriting the U.S. tax code. These were conservative policies, implemented by a Republican congressman.?
Reince Priebus held various positions in the Republican Party throughout his political career. In 2007, he was elected as the chair for the Wisconsin Republican Party. Four years later, he was elected as the chair of the Republican National Committee. During his tenure at the RNC, he oversaw the failed presidential election of Romney and the successful election of Trump. He was a conservative, working for the Republican Party.?
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Other than the fact that these three politicians are from Wisconsin, they all share another common feature. They are conservatives before they are Republicans.
Conservatism is the ideology — the Republican Party is the medium through which this ideology is put into effect. The election of Trump brought this distinction to life. We are almost four years removed from the presidential election of 2016. All three of the conservative politicians mentioned prior, no longer work in government. Trump-ism has purged many conservatives from the party.??
When did trade wars and increased government spending become the position of the Republican Party? When did the Republican Party's foreign policy shift to isolationism??
The president has governed conservatively on the issues of school choice, tax cuts and immigration. But he is not a conservative.
As conservatives, we could very well still end up voting for this president come November, because it is still preferable to the alternative.?
But let Romney's vote remind us, this president is not a part of the conservative movement that has been embraced for decades. He is not a part of the conservative movement that created Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and Reince Priebus. He is an opportunist who is making conservatives defend polices and actions in the name of the Republican Party.?
Let us not forget — conservatism comes before being a Republican.
Tripp Grebe ([email protected]) is a freshman studying political science.?
This article was published Feb 6, 2020 at 9:09 pm and last updated Feb 6, 2020 at 9:09 pm
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Carmike Cinema's No. 2 shareholder says it remains opposed to AMC Entertainment's $1.1 billion (including debt) takeover offer — and urges fellow investors to also hold out for a higher price.
Carmike postponed a shareholder vote on the deal scheduled for this morning. AMC released a statement saying it's not prepared to offer more, and might walk if the proposal is defeated at the rescheduled meeting on July 15.
That's "implicit confirmation that Carmike's shareholders overwhelmingly oppose" the $30 per share offer, says investment firm Mittleman Brothers, which owns 9.6% of the exhibition company's votes.
A union would turn AMC, controlled by China's Wanda Group, into the world's largest exhibition chain.
"Despite AMC's laughable assertions to the contrary, even a $40 per share valuation of [Carmike], in any combination of cash and/or AMC stock, would still be immensely accretive to AMC's intrinsic value per share, and for AMC to imply otherwise, is a misleading statement," Mittleman says.
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HomeLivestockGeneticsGenetic links to fear response shed light on cattle temperament
Genetic links to fear response shed light on cattle temperament
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The cattle industry's standard for measuring temperament is 'flight time' - the speed in which cattle move after release from an enclosure. Cattle that move calmly and slowly from the enclosure, rather than charging out in an aggressive or stressed state are preferred.
Study is first to analyze beef cattle temperament using whole-genome sequencing.
A strong association between the genes influencing cattle temperament and autism in people has been discovered by researchers with the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia. UQ genomic expert professor Ben Hayes said the research by his interdisciplinary team, headed by Dr. Roy Costilla, could lead to improved animal welfare and meat quality.
"The research doesn't mean that cattle have autism, [but] rather, that cattle share an overlap of genes with humans that are critical in brain function and response to fear stimuli," Hayes said.
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Temperament is an important trait for day-to-day management of cattle.
"We knew that genetic factors were likely influence temperament in cattle, and we thought that genes involved in behavioral traits in humans could also influence temperament in cattle," he said. "We found that genes known to contribute to autism spectrum disorders also influence temperament in cattle."
Related: Turns out cow temperament is more than a convenience trait
Hayes said the outcome was important because it opened the way for research conducted on behavioral traits in humans to shed further light on temperament in cattle.
"As I've found talking to farmers over the years, it can be distressing having an animal that has a poor temperament in the mob and stirs up all the other cattle, putting them into a state of stress," Hayes said. "If we can identify those animals early or breed to eliminate them, we can potentially reduce the stress of the whole mob.
"That has great implications for welfare — not only of the cattle but also the people handling the cattle who are less likely to be charged or kicked," he added.
Hayes said there was an association between a calmer temperament in cattle and better meat quality.
"The cattle industry's standard for measuring temperament is 'flight time' — the speed in which cattle move after release from an enclosure. What a producer wants is cattle that move calmly and slowly from the enclosure, rather than an animal that charges out in an aggressive or stressed state," Hayes explained.
"Our study found flight time is about 35% heritable, which is very significant," he said. "It means you can make a lot of progress by breeding for better temperament; it's about the same as milk production in dairy cattle, and we've made big breeding gains there."
Hayes said the same genes were identified in other genomic research conducted on domestication of foxes.
"The same genes just come up again and again," he said. "Some DNA variants in those genes are more common in people with autism, and in cattle, some DNA variants in those same genes are found to make the cattle more fearful in new situations and have a reactive temperament."
UQ noted that the study is the first time whole-genome sequencing has been used to analyze temperament in beef cattle. The researchers looked at 28 million data points per animal for the 9,000 cattle with temperament records in the initial study and then validated the results in more than 80,000 cattle from Ireland.
Hayes said his team would incorporate the temperament data into a panel of markers available for producers that would also provide breeding values for fertility.
"It means a producer will be able to use a sample of tail hair that contains DNA to quickly get information on the genetic value of their animals for temperament and fertility. The temperament analysis was conducted primarily in northern cattle Bos indicus breeds and was validated in Bos taurus cattle," he said.
The study was a result of cooperation among Australian researchers, the beef industry and international collaborators from Ireland and Brazil.
The research was published in Genetics Selection Evolution.
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How to do Parivartini Ekadashi Puja?
After the puja of Lord Vishnu, observe fasting day and night on Ekadasi. Perform Jagran (stay awake) in the night. Chant Vishnu Sahasra nama stotram, Vishnu Puranam, Bhagvad Gita, and Bhagvat.
And on Dwadasi wake up early morning and after having bath perform Vishnu puja. Devotees should break their fast and vrat during Dwadashi only. Those who will not break their fast during Dwadashi will not get merits and benefits of Parivartini Ekadashi vrat.


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Virus Updates: US Deaths Reach 180K; Moderna Vaccine Shows Promise in Older Adults
Published August 26, 2020 • Updated on August 26, 2020 at 5:03 pm
More than 180,000 people have died in the United States due to the coronavirus pandemic that has infected over 5.8 million in the country, according to a tally from NBC News.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention quietly tweaked its guidance on COVID-19 testing Monday, saying healthy people who have been exposed to COVID-19 "do not necessarily need a test," as long as they don't have symptoms, NBC News reports.
On Tuesday, the University of Alabama, Georgia Tech and the University of Southern California joined a growing list of schools with outbreaks among students and faculty. The schools' announcements came the same day that a new report found 9% of all cases in the United States are in children.
Meanwhile, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn apologized for overstating the life-saving benefits of treating COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma. Scientists and medical experts have been pushing back against the claims about the treatment since President Donald Trump's announcement on Sunday that the FDA had decided to issue emergency authorization for convalescent plasma
The number of Americans newly diagnosed with the coronavirus is falling — a development experts credit at least partly to increased wearing of masks — even as the outbreak continues to claim nearly 1,000 lives in the U.S. each day.
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Moderna Says Its COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Promise in Elderly Patients
Moderna announced Wednesday that its potential coronavirus vaccine generated a promising immune response in elderly patients in an early-stage clinical trial, CNBC reports.
The biotech firm tested its vaccine on 10 adults between ages 56 and 70 and 10 elderly adults aged 71 and older, Moderna said. Each participant received two 100 microgram doses of the vaccine 28 days apart.
The volunteers produced neutralizing antibodies, which researchers believe are necessary to build immunity to the virus, and killer T-cells, Moderna said in its results, which have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Additionally, the antibodies that were produced were higher than those seen in people who have recovered from Covid-19.
The vaccine from Moderna is one of dozens in development worldwide to fight the coronavirus, which has infected more than 23.9 million people worldwide and killed at least 820,100, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Last month, Moderna began a late-stage trial for its vaccine. It hopes to enroll up to 30,000 participants.
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In a report published Tuesday in The BMJ, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Oxford say other factors, such as ventilation, crowd size, exposure time and whether face coverings are worn, need to be considered, as well.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the advice has been to keep at least 6 feet away from other people indoors and outdoors. "COVID-19 spreads mainly among people who are in close contact (within about 6 feet) for a prolonged period of time," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Some evidence suggests that the coronavirus may travel more than 6 feet through activities like coughing and shouting, the researchers wrote. In the highest-risk situations, such as indoors with poor ventilation, large crowds, prolonged contact time and no face coverings, distancing beyond 6 feet should be considered. Locations that fall under this category include bars, stadiums or restaurants. In low-risk scenarios, such as in outdoor spaces with few people nearby, less stringent social distancing should be adequate.
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The Boston hotel that was linked to a coronavirus outbreak after it hosted a local biotech company's conference earlier this year likely led to about 20,000 cases, according a new study.
The cases can be linked to the conference held in February at Boston Marriott Long Wharf, which was shut down in mid-March, in four Massachusetts counties by early May, the Boston Globe reports.
The estimate indicates that the coronavirus is more widespread than the dozens of cases in Massachusetts that had been previously linked to the meeting.
The scientists studied nearly all the confirmed early cases by changes in the genetic makeup of the virus as it was transmitted from person to person, according to the Globe. The genetic mutations enabled researchers to better understand the scope of what they called a "superspreading event."
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