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"You have to wait in line constantly"
27 May 2019 by INSP News Service
By Helen Hill, Street Roots
Waiting in line sucks. We've all had to do it, and we will again. It's exasperating and humbling, and it robs us of a precious, finite commodity: time.
But when you are living in poverty and in need of the basic tools of survival, such as food, shelter, health care and access to hygiene, the hours of a day lost to waiting in line can rise to a demoralizing, soul-crippling level.
I asked our vendors to talk about waiting in line early one Friday morning, while we were all waiting in line outside Street Roots for the lights to come on and the doors to open.
Vendor Erik Sweger commented: "That's all we do. Being homeless, you have to wait in line constantly. You go for housing, you wait in line. To get a mat to sleep on, you wait in line. To get food, you wait – and not even for good food. We're always being told to wait. We are spending a hell of a lot of time waiting in line. And because we're homeless, we have a couple bags we're carrying, so that makes it harder.
"It's really frustrating," Erik said. "You think, 'I could be doing something else more productive'. Why is it taking so long? When I was growing up, they would show news clips about people waiting in line in Russia because of food shortages. Now it seems like that's what we're doing here. From what I hear, we've surpassed Russia; they don't wait in line so much anymore. It's getting like the Depression. I imagine we are nearly equal to what the lines during the Depression were like."
Jennifer Bradford has a different perspective about waiting in lines from her wheelchair. After years of being housed, she had a stroke this past year, and four days later, her leg was amputated due to a blood clot. She speaks very slowly; her speech was affected by the stroke.
"You go for housing, you wait in line. To get a mat to sleep on, you wait in line. To get food, you wait – and not even for good food. We're always being told to wait. We are spending a hell of a lot of time waiting in line. And because we're homeless, we have a couple bags we're carrying, so that makes it harder."
"For me, it's really hard because I used to walk everyplace and do everything for myself," she said. "Now that I'm in a wheelchair, people kind of push past me and cut in front of me, and because I'm homeless, they think it's OK. I wait for the MAX, and when it comes, I try to press the button, but they don't open the door, and they take off. Every place I go, there's always a line for something, and I have a hard time explaining, saying what I need."
New vendor Gabriel Bradford is a young man experiencing homelessness for the first time. He's been on the streets only a few months.
"I lost my ID, lost my job, lost everything. It just kind of led me here," he said. "I used to have a lot of judgment about homeless people. Why aren't they out there getting a job? They have all day. But what people don't understand is how busy you actually are when you're homeless. If you are an addict and want to stay clean, you need to go to a meeting. You need to be at a shelter at a certain time for a shower. You need to be at certain places to eat three meals a day. So you're constantly busy and running around all day. It's a challenge.
"It's good for us to learn to be patient, waiting in line. It's a spiritual journey. When we lose everything, we can focus on God instead of Netflix or our new couch. I feel more blessed homeless than I have ever with all my stuff. It was a challenge to look at it that way, especially when it was cold out. But if you can make it through that, you can make it through anything."
Kerry Anderson put it very simply: "You stand in line to wait for everything. At the end of the line, you get nothing. If you are trying to pursue something, it takes up most of the day," he said.
"You can go to the Red Door and get free clothes and free food, but that's a long line you have to get in to wait," Billy Turner said. "I can stand at my corner for that hour and sell papers."
For Magpie Blue, waiting in line is a physical challenge, as well as a mental one.
"I don't do well physically standing for long periods of time," she said. "Waiting in line is time consuming. Waiting for a bathroom is No. 1. Food is No. 2. And I do a lot of waiting for the streetcar, for MAX." Magpie estimates she spends 20 per cent to 30 per cent of each day waiting in line.
Leah Filar has wanted to write a poem for some time about waiting in line.
"You know the song 'Signs, signs, everywhere a sign'? Well, I want to write a poem that goes 'Lines, lines, everywhere a line.' When you are homeless, it's double the lines," she said. "You get up in the morning and stand in a line to use the bathroom, and you get five minutes, usually two minutes until someone starts banging on the door. If you're lucky, you get to pee and brush your teeth. You have to get in line to sign up for a shower. Then you have to show back up and wait in another line to get in the shower. Then you've got 15 minutes to shit, shower and shave. Then you have to get in another line if you want clean clothes to wear. And then mealtime, and a lot of times these feeds, the lines are around the corner. Blocks long. When they open up new Section 8 housing, people camp out and wait through the night."
"You stand in line to wait for everything. At the end of the line, you get nothing. If you are trying to pursue something, it takes up most of the day."
Raven Thickett spoke of the unending focus needed to get through her days.
"Housing, food, showers – you have to pick one, and that's all you'll be able to do that day because of the long lines. What goes through my head is the fact that I'm not getting anywhere. In order to get out of the homeless position, you have to have all your ducks in a row, everything together. You technically can only take care of one task at a time.
"I've been stuck in this predicament because of that. It's like a merry-go-round with nothing merry about it," Raven said.
"The wait for a typical food bank is an hour or two hours to get basic pantry food," vendor Lori Lematta said. "Waiting for buses, looking for housing, waiting for your doctor. I have appointments all week long to get better, but you're just worn out chasing survival. That's what it feels like."
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  More information on these services is available from the Research Computing website, at: http://wiki.rc.ucl.ac.uk/

  We create accounts on the Legion service for all applying researchers regardless of work type, but access to Grace will be granted for users whose jobs require it. If you have been recommended Grace above, you will be granted access, but if you require it later, send a mail to rc-support@ucl.ac.uk to request it.

  Because Emerald is operated by the STFC, there is an additional account creation step for users intending to use it. You do not need to complete this step if you do not intend to use Emerald. (And can perform it later if this changes.)

 Note that if you already have an account on Emerald, you _shouldn't_ perform this step -- it is _only_ for the creation of new accounts.

 To complete Emerald account creation, use the following link: https://cfi.soton.ac.uk/signup/

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I was thinking today about how I occasionally trust people based on their creative works. I have a lot of friends that are very creative, and I am finding that if I see their work as honest, I trust them more. This happens even when I am just getting to know the person and we're becoming friends. This is a very funny observation particularly since I tend not to trust the speakers of stories. So even though I don't necessarily trust the characters speaking in a work, I trust the author as my friend. And I am finding that some of this friendship trust comes from what I can see of them in their works.
I guess I'm just a bundle of contradictions… I'm not that surprised.


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Delivering health care from the Midlands to the Coast of South Carolina, McLeod Health and its McLeod Regional Medical Center offer two outstanding residency programs – one to prepare Family Medicine physicians for a wide range of inpatient and outpatient opportunities and the second to develop Pharmacy residents as leaders in their profession.
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The McLeod Family Medicine Residency offers a rigorous, unopposed and procedure-oriented residency program designed to train the "physicians of tomorrow". In existence since 1980, the Residency Program's seeks to graduate skilled family physicians equipped with the skills and knowledge to provide superior health care services to underserved areas. We hope you take the opportunity to explore what we have to offer.
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It's been so exciting to see the response to the To Boston With Love project!
The flickr group is getting full of fabulous flags, and individuals and guilds alike have been spreading the word via blog posts.
Please continue to spread the word, the more flags the merrier. If you'd like to blog about the project, or add this button to your blog, here's the code for the button.
Were you thinking about making a flag, but weren't sure where to start? Berene has kindly has put together patterns for two flags, her LOVE flag, the very first flag made, and a fabulous strippy heart.
The LOVE tutorial/pattern can be downloaded HERE.
And the Strippy Heart tutorial/pattern can be downloaded HERE.
Please Note: You may post a link to these patterns on your website, but you may not post them as free downloads on your or any other website. Thank you.
And if you're looking for even more inspiration, there are tons of tutorials out there to chose from! We've compiled a list below, but if you have any more suggestions, or you've made your own tutorial, let us know and we'll add them in. Keep in mind that unlike Berene's patterns, these tutorials aren't specifically for the flags, so you might need to resize them.
Click through for paperpieced hearts, patchwork hearts, applique hearts and more.


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Q: Type exists in both error sharing project references and giving each project it's own DLL build of a library when building I have multiple projects and everything was working ok prior, but I had to download a UI framework package + change the source. I decided to include the DLL's in each project, reference them per project, and now trying to build a solution that references multiple projects blows up saying "type is in both" but I don't understand the problem. Using DLL's, shared projects, why is Visual Studio and the build so confused and can't figure out how to handle this?
The reason I used shared project references too is so I can use code & classes from one project in another and we have class libraries too.
Is there an easy way to fix this?  It worked fine as a nuget package so why does using built DLL's isolated per project present a problem, it's the exact same thing.

A: Seemed to be related to Visual studio caching and how packages are managed so I reverted by source code to start over again. I uninstalled/re-installed nuget packages, manually added my own DLL's, re-built everything from scratch, and it finally worked.

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U.S. judge asks: Why haven't the financial executives been prosecuted?
"Who Stole the People's Money?" Thomas Nast's 1871 attack on Boss Tweed, used by the New York Review of Books to illustrate Jed Rakoff's essay.
(Los Angeles Times)
By Michael Hiltzik
As the five-year statute of limitations approaches for the wrongdoing that bequeathed us the Great Recession, the question of why no high-level executives have been prosecuted becomes more urgent.
You won't find a better, more incisive discussion of the question than the one by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff of New York in the current issue of the New York Review of Books.
Rakoff, 70, is the right person to raise the issue. He's a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan, where he handled business and securities fraud. A Clinton appointee, he's been on the bench for more than 17 years.
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It's unsurprising to find Rakoff emerging as a critic of the government's hands-off treatment of Wall Street and banking big shots in the aftermath of the financial crisis: He's never shown much patience for the settlements in which the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission allow corporations and executives to wriggle out of cases by paying nominal penalties and promising not to be bad in the future. These are known as "consent decrees."
In 2009, he tossed a $33-million SEC settlement of a white-collar case with Bank of America, calling it "a contrivance designed to provide the S.E.C. with the facade of enforcement and the management of the Bank with a quick resolution of an embarrassing inquiry." The parties later agreed to a higher fine and stricter terms. And in 2011 he rejected a $285-million consent decree Citigroup entered with the SEC. That rejection is still being pondered by a federal appeals court.
In his new essay, Rakoff takes particular aim at the government's habit of prosecuting corporations, but not their executives -- a trend we railed against earlier this year.
"Companies do not commit crimes," Rakoff observes; "only their agents do...So why not prosecute the agent who actually committed the crime?" He's witheringly skeptical of prosecutions of corporations, which usually yield some nominal fines and an agreement that the company set up an internal "compliance" department. "The future deterrent value of successfully prosecuting individuals far outweighs the prophylactic benefits of imposing internal compliance measures that are often little more than window-dressing."
Rakoff's at his best when analyzing why the government has stopped pursuing individuals and taken the easy route of settling with corporations. He notes that this is a recent trend: In the 1980s, the government convicted more than 800 individuals, including top executives, in the savings-and-loan scandal, and a decade later successfully prosecuted the top executives of Enron and WorldCom.
He dismisses the Department of Justice rationale that proving "intent" to defraud in the financial crisis cases is difficult: There's plenty of evidence in the public record that banking executives knew the mortgage securities they were hawking as AAA were junk.
He doesn't buy the excuse that criminal prosecutions involving major financial firms might have damaged the economy -- no one has ever contended that a big firm would collapse just because its high-level executives were prosecuted. And he notes that the government doesn't dispute that some of these executives may be guilty -- it just comes up with excuses for not prosecuting.
Why? Rakoff posits that there are several reasons for the lack of prosecutions. One is that the FBI and SEC are both understaffed because of budget cuts, and in the FBI's case with the diversion of much of its workforce to anti-terrorism efforts after 9/11. And he speculates that the government may feel abashed at its own complicity in the crisis, arising from the easing of financial and mortgage regulations over the years.
Rakoff's piece has elicited some predictable push-back from the Department of Justice, where a spokesman scoffed that he "does not identify a single case where a financial executive should have been charged, but wasn't."
This is a cynical defense at best, since the DOJ knows well that for Rakoff to have prejudged a case by naming names would have been a flagrant breach of judicial ethics. Indeed, Rakoff takes pains to disavow any opinion about whether criminal fraud was committed "in any given instance." But he does point out that evidence of fraudulent behavior is not hard to find -- the final report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission headed by former California Treasurer Phil Angelides brims with documented examples.
What's been lacking, Rakoff finds, is the political will and government resources to bring individuals before the bar of justice. Although millions of Americans are still suffering the financial consequences of the crisis, Rakoff suggests that the failure of the justice system may do even more lasting damage to the fabric of American society. His warning should be heeded, before it's too late.

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Elizabeth Zimmermann (inventor of the term I-Cord, as well as dozens of variations) and her daughter, Meg Swansen, have utilized I-Cord in uncounted practical, innovative, and delightful ways. Here is a novel use by Meg. Originally a design in the book Handknitting with Meg Swansen and a video, the I-Cord Gloves design is now available for the first time in streaming format. Meg turns the ease of working I-Cord to the application of fingers for beautiful, form-fitting gloves and guides the viewer through each step of construction, demonstrating: Cast on, increasing, I-Cord, picking up stitches, weaving, decreasing, color-pattern knitting, and more. Gloves are a great small project - portable, fascinating, quickly finished, and eminently useful - plus, you can easily work Meg's design of a matching hat.
Click for a free download of the schematic and charts to accompany Meg's video instruction. To knit the I-Cord Gloves, we recommend 2 skeins of Quebecoise wool (one main color and one coordinating color). To knit the hat, we recommend 2 skeins of Quebecoise Wool (one main color and one coordinating color). To knit both projects, we recommend 4 skeins of Quebecoise (2 main color and 2 coordinating color), though you may have wool left over depending on the length of glove gauntlet and hat width and depth.


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Deep learning model to predict visual field in central 10° from optical coherence tomography measurement in glaucoma
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Yohei Hashimoto Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
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Taichi Kiwaki Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
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Shotaro Asano Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
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Yuri Fujino Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Shizuoka, Hamamatsu, Japan Ophthalmology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Bunkyo-ku,Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
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Kazuhiko Mori Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
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Kenji Yamanishi Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Correspondence to Ryo Asaoka, Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan; ryoasa0120{at}mac.com and Kenji Yamanishi, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan; yamanishi{at}mist.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Hashimoto Y, Asaoka R, Kiwaki T, et al
British Journal of Ophthalmology 2021;105:507-513.
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Revised March 31, 2020
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ATLANTA, GA – June 09, 2014 — /BackupReview.info/ — eFolder, a leading supplier of business continuity and cloud file sync services for the IT channel, today announced the acquisition of Cloudfinder, an international leader in cloud-to-cloud backup services. Cloudfinder products provide backup, instant full-text search, restoration and reporting for business-to-business (B2B) cloud services, including Office 365, Google Apps and Salesforce. eFolder's acquisition of Cloudfinder creates a new profit opportunity for IT channel partners that choose to backup and support their clients' cloud data and applications.
Despite the robust infrastructure in use by leading B2B cloud application providers, businesses today risk data loss, data fragmentation and compliance violations as more workloads move from on-premises servers to the cloud. At the same time, IT channel partners are seeking to replace traditional revenue streams from on-premises managed services as their clients rapidly adopt cloud applications. eFolder's acquisition of Cloudfinder bridges these gaps, offering business users an extra level of resiliency and assurance for all their cloud data, while restoring the profit opportunity for partners with managed cloud applications.
Cloudfinder is the only company that provides a unified backup and instant full-text search of cloud data across differing cloud services. From one user interface, businesses can backup, search, restore and get a data overview across multiple cloud services. Cloudfinder has the most comprehensive cloud application coverage in the market, with support for Office 365, Google Apps, and Salesforce, and with plans to support additional cloud applications. These technological innovations are particularly relevant as businesses report losing data in the cloud. A January 2013 report by the Aberdeen Group found that 32 percent of companies that are using cloud services have reported losing data.
Headquartered in Malmö, Sweden and led by CEO Marcus Nyman, Cloudfinder has proven scalability with deployments to customers with thousands of users. eFolder plans on leveraging Cloudfinder technology with its dedicated IT channel distribution, petabyte-scale cloud infrastructure, and economies of scale to disrupt and accelerate the cloud application data protection market.
Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Marcus Nyman and the entire Cloudfinder team are joining eFolder.
Cloudfinder has quickly become an international leader in cloud-to-cloud backup services. The company's mission is to combine absolute data security across all cloud platforms with the market's most intuitive information backup, search, retrieval and reporting capabilities.


Will Parker is a sixth generation Mississippian who was raised in Inverness, Mississippi located in the Mississippi Delta. Will received an undergraduate degree from Millsap's College in 1990 and a law degree from the University of Mississippi Law School in 1994. Will moved to Meridian in 1994 and worked for Hamilton Law Firm as an associate until 2003. That year, Will opened the Parker Law Firm. Since the late 1990's, Will has focused on Worker's Compensation claims, Social Security Disability, and personal injury claims, including auto accidents and slip and fall claims. In 2008, Will renovated a downtown building a few blocks from the Courthouse, which is now the current location of his offices. His office is easily accessible and located at 2110 Front Street in the heart of downtown Meridian, next door to Jean's Restaurant.
Will Parker is a member of the Lauderdale County Bar Association, the Mississippi Bar Association, and the Mississippi Association for Justice. He has served as President/Vice President of the Lauderdale County Bar Association, on the Board of Governors for the Mississippi Association for Justice, and board member of the Mississippi Worker's Compensation Educational Association.


So I don't actually drink wine, but if I did this would be a most appropriate celebratory time for doing so! The Omega company has finally returned back home to America from spending nearly 7 weeks in Europe, the touring season is over for the next couple months, and the School of the Arts and Trainee Program has finally come to a close for the school year! Company, staff, and students are now granted some time off, to some capacity. We company members are given two weeks off. I am actually in flight, headed home to Pennsylvania for my two-week vacation right now as I write this! I do not have anything planned for the next upcoming two weeks but one thing I will be sure to do is rest! This past week alone has been quite a full, busy, exhausting, action packed week; The final push!
Last weekend, with knowledge of the impending busy week, "show week" that was to follow, My housemates and I set aside some time to intentionally enjoy one another, all together for the last time before summer break. Saturday evening, we spent our time conversing over dinner which was Korean BBQ that one of them had prepared, and then we had a sweet time of singing random worship songs by the piano, story sharing, game playing, and then we finished our night with watching the Kentucky Derby on demand.
For a great Korean BBQ recipe click HERE.
The first two days of this week were fairly normal days for the Alpha company. We took class and rehearsed 'The Arrival' and 'Deliver Us'. Excitingly, Monday and Tuesday were the last two normal '9:30am-3:30pm' days for us for the [school] year.
The rest of the week was very out of the ordinary and borderline chaotic! In this synopsis I will leave out mentioning the evenings when I also worked my second part time housekeeping job, but instead will just stick to only sharing with you what my schedule with Ballet Magnificat entailed. The Alpha company had been designated the task of assisting the School of the Arts and Trainees with the preparations for their grand end-of-the-year productions that were to come (that took place this past Friday and Saturday evening at the Jackson Academy Performing Arts Center). We began our Wednesday morning loading up the Ballet Magnificat white truck with all the costumes, sets, and props that they would be needing for their shows. Then, after collectively deciding to skip taking ballet class and have brunch instead at the amazing Crossroads Cafe, The Alpha company then met up with the truck at the Jackson Academy Performing Arts Center (JA) where we would spend the rest of the afternoon unloading and setting up the stage. Some people like our tour director and the School of the Arts Director were at JA as late as 11:00PM setting and cueing up the lighting.
Emma and I at Crossroads Cafe.
On Thursday, the school and trainee's were scheduled to have dress rehearsal. After the Alpha company completed our daily ballet technique class in the morning, we headed back to JA to finish setting up. Later that evening we join the school and trainees for their dress rehearsal and assisted them backstage with any quick changes, hair and makeup, and such. We also had an opportunity to watch the rehearsal whenever we weren't busy. We rarely get an opportunity to see the school and trainees dance since we are usually on tour and/or out of state around the same time they have their end-of-the-year shows, but when I did get a chance to steal a glimpse of their rehearsal this time; boy! was I blown away by the beauty and quality of the presentation!
It's show time! The Trainees and School of the Arts presented a fabulous production called "The Emperor and the Nightingale" both Friday and Saturday Evening at 7pm. I believe the ballet was based off of a story written by Hans Christian Andersen. The show featured music from the Disney film "Mulan", as well as some classical scores written by the composer Delibes originally from the ballet Coppelia. "The Emperor and the Nightingale" was comprised of both original choreographic works as well as some impressive traditional variations pulled from a number of classical ballets. The little ones in the School of the Arts presented their short recital pieces earlier in the day at 10:00am and then again at 2pm. During all the shows, I was in charge of selling the merchandise. I manned the product table from 9:00am to 10:30pm on Saturday. It made for a LONG DAY, but I am happy that I was able to help out in that way. After the last performance on Saturday, after everyone exchanged their hugs and kisses and congratulations and goodbyes, The Alpha team (with the help of some volunteers) tore down the stage, packed up all our equipment, and striped the premise of any evidence that Ballet Magnificat was ever even there, loaded up the truck, and called it a night!
WE DID IT! We made it to the end! I've finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak! During the home stretch it felt like I would never reach the end of my responsibilities, but now having plowed through a LONG week of bouncing back and forth between JA and the dance studio, cleaning houses in the evenings, and getting little rest in my bed when time allowed for it, finally I have reached the end; freedom; a two week long summer break!
I finished off my Saturday night attending a goodbye party for a few of my good friends who are moving on to bigger and better things in the new year. We had a great time playing card games and eating pizza and cake. I managed to get home and be in bed by a little after midnight.
Above is a slideshow and below I have included some footage of the Trainee One's performing their piece "The Lotus Fan Dance" for the 2016 Mississippi Chinese New Year Gala at Thalia Mara Hall earlier in the year, but it is originally from "The Emperor and the Nightingale" so check it out!
...Which brings us to today! Aside from the three Alpha Company members that I know of that will be traveling abroad for their two-week vacation, most of the rest of us are leaving Jackson this weekend to travel to our respective hometowns around the country, spending our two-week vacation visiting old friends and family.


I met Paula Ashton from Ashton People Solutions some time ago through networking with Networx.
Ashton People Solutions offer a bespoke HR service for small businesses or for businesses that outsource their HR. Paula asked me to photograph a workshop hosted by herself and Jo Robinson for local businesses who employee people and businesses who are about to employ people.
I too over 400 images of the workshop and here are a few of my favourite images taken at Abode, Chester.


Background: Trastuzumab (Herceptin (R)) improves disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival for patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive early breast cancer. We aimed to assess the magnitude of its clinical benefit for subpopulations defined by nodal and steroid hormone receptor status using data from the Herceptin Adjuvant (HERA) study. Patients and methods: HERA is an international multicenter randomized trial comparing 1 or 2 years of trastuzumab treatment with observation after standard chemotherapy in women with HER2-positive breast cancer. In total, 1703 women randomized to 1-year trastuzumab and 1698 women randomized to observation were included in these analyses. Median follow-up was 23.5 months. The primary endpoint was DFS. Results: The overall hazard ratio (HR) for trastuzumab versus observation was 0.64 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.54-0.76; P < 0.0001], ranging from 0.46 to 0.82 for subgroups. Estimated improvement in 3-year DFS in subgroups ranged from +11.3% to +0.6%. Patients with the best prognosis (those with node-negative disease and tumors 1.1-2.0 cm) had benefit similar to the overall cohort (HR 0.53, 95% CI 0.26-1.07; 3-year DFS improvement +4.6%, 95% CI -4.0% to 13.2%). Conclusions: Adjuvant trastuzumab therapy reduces the risk of relapse similarly across subgroups defined by nodal status and steroid hormone receptor status, even those at relatively low risk for relapse.


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Home Lifestyle Health & Fitness Data analysis indicates omicron is milder, better at evading vaccines
Data analysis indicates omicron is milder, better at evading vaccines
The omicron variant appears to cause less severe disease than previous versions of the coronavirus, and the Pfizer vaccine seems to offer less defence against infection from it but still good protection from hospitalization, according to an analysis of data from South Africa, where the new variant is driving a surge in infections.
While the findings released Tuesday are preliminary and have not been peer-reviewed — the gold standard in scientific research — they line up with other early data about omicron's behaviour, including that it seems to be more easily transmitted.
A two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination appeared to provide just 33 per cent protection against infection during South Africa's current omicron wave, but 70 per cent protection against hospitalization, according to the analysis conducted by Discovery Health, South Africa's largest private health insurer, and the South African Medical Research Council.
The data was gathered from Nov. 15 to Dec. 7, during which time omicron was first spotted by scientists in South Africa and Botswana, and may change as time passes.
Experts now say that omicron accounts for more than 90 per cent of all new infections in South Africa, according to Discovery Health chief executive Dr. Ryan Noach.
Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan, says the 70 per cent protection against severe disease stated in the analysis from South African researchers is really encouraging. (Angela Rasmussen)
Researchers around the world are rushing to figure out what omicron will mean for the coronavirus pandemic, now well into its second year.
Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) at the University of Saskatchewan, said the early analysis from South Africa around vaccine protection is promising.
"The 70 per cent protection against severe disease is really encouraging and also consistent with what we're seeing with other variants," she said.
"It's not surprising that that would be the case as well for omicron because the part of the immune system that is thought to mediate disease severity is less likely to be affected by all of these mutations."
Omicron spread
In the weeks since omicron was detected, South Africa has experienced rapid spread of the virus — concentrated in its most populous province, Gauteng.
The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in the country rose over the past two weeks from 8.07 new cases per 100,000 people on Nov. 29 to 34.37 new cases per 100,000 people on Dec. 13, according to Johns Hopkins University. The death rate hasn't increased during that same period.
"The omicron-driven fourth wave has a significantly steeper trajectory of new infections relative to prior waves. National data shows an exponential increase in both new infections and test positivity rates during the first three weeks of this wave, indicating a highly transmissible variant with rapid community spread of infection," Noach said.
Although case numbers are rising, hospitalizations are not increasing at the same rate, leading the scientists to report that the risk of hospitalization from omicron is lower than delta or earlier variants.
Tam says there is community transmission of the omicron variant in Canada
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Rasmussen said we shouldn't assume the risk of hospitalizations from omicron will be similar in Canada.
"In Ontario, for example, we're already seeing a very steep upward curve in the number of cases. Hospitalization and death are both lagging indicators of severity, meaning that it will be a couple more weeks before we have an idea if omicron is going to behave the same way in Canada," she said, adding that doing anything to reduce transmission including booster shots and mask mandates beyond provincial mandates are needed.
"Even if this does turn out to be mild, if it's more transmissible and you have more cases overall, even if it's a smaller percentage of those cases that develop severe disease, that still could potentially be a large number of people in terms of the absolute numbers."
Pfizer vaccine results
The South African analysis shows that people who received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine had 33 per cent protection against infection in the first weeks of South Africa's current omicron-driven wave.
That's a significant drop from the 80 per cent protection against infection afforded during earlier periods.
The researchers say it's encouraging that the study shows that people fully vaccinated with Pfizer have 70 per cent protection against hospital admission during the omicron surge. That's still a drop from the 93 per cent protection seen in South Africa's delta-driven wave.
The study shows that significant protection against hospital admission even among older age groups, with 67 per cent in people aged 60 to 69 and 60 per cent for people aged 70 to 79.
The South African analysis was based on examining more than 211,000 positive COVID-19 test results, 41 per cent of which were for adults who had received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. About 78,000 of the positive results were attributed to omicron infections.
A two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination appeared to provide just 33 per cent protection against infection during South Africa's current omicron wave, according to an analysis released Tuesday. (Aaron Favila/The Associated Press)
The South African analysis supports an earlier assessment by U.K. authorities.
The U.K. Health Security Agency said last Friday that new data from the U.K. confirms that omicron is more easily transmissible than other variants. Other studies suggest that both the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines are less effective in preventing symptomatic infections in people exposed to omicron, though preliminary data show that effectiveness appears to rise to between 70 per cent and 75 per cent after a third booster dose.
The study also found that omicron poses a higher risk of reinfection. For individuals who have previously had COVID-19, the risk of reinfection with omicron is significantly higher than that of earlier variants.
Early results on Pfizer pill
More information came Tuesday from Pfizer, which announced that its experimental pill to treat COVID-19 — separate from it its vaccine — appears effective against the new variant.
Pfizer also said full results of its 2,250-person study confirmed the pill's promising early results against the virus: The drug reduced combined hospitalizations and deaths by about 89 per cent among high-risk adults when taken shortly after initial virus symptoms.
Separate laboratory testing shows the drug retains its potency against the omicron variant.
Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist at University Health Network in Toronto, said the numbers are promising, but seeing how they work in real-time settings in Canada is needed.
But largely, he welcomes the news.
"Bring it on. We need it. We need therapeutics and we need them badly," he said.
"Most of our therapeutics are geared toward hospitalized individuals. This is a fantastic product because number one, it's a pill, not an infusion. And number two, it keeps people out of hospital."
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Q: Keep listening for jquery keydown events regardless of focus The Situation
I am building a basic slide deck in HTML, CSS & Javascript. Its based on the jquery cycle plugin. The slides are simple li items that contain either images, text or iframes (e.g. youtube, or just another webpage i.e NOT pages that live on my domain/have control over).  I have the next and previous buttons working with Jquery Keydown which is working well, currently the user does not have to use the mouse to move through the slides
The problem
When I have keyed through to an li that contains an iframe, if the user clicks into the iframe the focus is shifted to the iframe (as you'd expect) and in order to move the next slide you have to refocus onto the next or previous buttons with a mouse click. Is there anyway to keep the page listening for the keydown events in the parent regardless of where the focus within the page is?
Also if possible
It would be great if there was a solution that also involved automatically bringing the iframe into focus (as well as maintaining next/prev as I mentioned) when that slide is active so that for example you could just use space bar to play/pause a youtube video and then simply click left to move to the next slide. I basically want to not have to use a mouse if not necessary.
Key press code below (You'd need cycle plugin & some of my code to get the deck working - I can provide if necessary but I feel like there could be a generic solution here for consistently listening for keydown events that could be used in other contexts)
Jquery for keypress
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $("body").keydown(function(e) {
            if(e.keyCode == 37) { // left
                $("#prev").click();
                return false;
                }
            else if(e.keyCode == 39) { // right
                $("#next").click();
                }

        });
    });

HTML

Cycle plugin i'm using
http://malsup.github.io/jquery.cycle.all.js
My options
$(function() {var index=0,hash=window.location.hash;if(hash){index=/\d+/.exec(hash)[0];index=(parseInt(index)||1)-1;}
    $('.images')
    .before('
')
    .cycle({
        prev:   '#prev',
        next:   '#next',
        timeout: 0,
        slideResize: 0,
        containerResize: 0,
        startingSlide:index,
        pager:  '#nav',
        before: onBefore,
        pagerAnchorBuilder: function(i, slide) {
        return '
' + $(slide).attr('title') + '
';},
        after:function(curr,next,opts){window.location.hash=opts.currSlide+1;}
        });

        function onBefore() {
            $('#caption')
            .html(this.h1);
        };

});

function setSlide(index) {
            $('.images').cycle(index);
        }

CSS for prev & next
#prev, #next{
width: 40px;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
bottom: 90px;
cursor: pointer;
z-index: 1100;

I hope that's clear, any help would be much appreciated. Any solution does not have to supported in every browser, minimum requirement would be that it works in chrome.
Thank you!


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Oklahoma Sooners Basketball
Oklahoma Sooners Basketball Recruiting: Trae Young Announces Commitment Date
The Norman North PG has been courted by the likes of Kansas and Kentucky, but will he elect to stay home?
By Jack Shields@jlarryshields Feb 3, 2017, 2:45pm CST
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Norman North PG Trae Young has announced that he will reveal his commitment to the basketball world on February 16. Young previously announced that his top six schools were Oklahoma, Kansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Washington, with all but the Huskies receiving an official visit. Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Kansas appear to be the three schools still in the running.
It's been a long process, but now it's time... pic.twitter.com/7KCZKtC7Q3
— Trae Young (@TheTraeYoung) February 3, 2017
Young is listed as a five-star prospect by every major recruiting service, and it's absolutely justified. Standing at only 6-2 and weighing only about 175, Young's game resembles that for Steph Curry. Here's some recent footage of Young against Coweta High School:
Here's some additional footage of Young at last year's Peach Jam, one of the premier AAU tournaments in the country:
Oklahoma fans became nervous a couple of weeks ago when Young's dad went to Twitter and made some statements about his son's future. Was he just venting his frustrations with certain local media members, or was he trying to make an excuse for his son's potential departure from Norman?
Regardless, it'll be pretty tough for Lon and his staff to keep Young from heading to Lawrence, but they've done just about everything they can throughout the process. If they're able to somehow pull it off, it'll be Oklahoma's biggest recruiting victory since Blake Griffin decided to follow his brother to Norman 10 years ago.
Wow... that last sentence makes me feel old.


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De shoakanarie (Crithagra flavigula; synoniem: Serinus flavigula) is een zangvogel uit de familie Fringillidae (vinkachtigen). De vogel werd in 1888 door de Italiaanse natuuronderzoeker Tommaso Salvadori geldig beschreven. Het is een bedreigde, endemische vogelsoort in Ethiopië. Shoa is een andere spelling voor Shewa, een historische regio die midden in Ethiopië ligt.

Kenmerken
De vogel is 11 cm lang. Van boven is deze kanarie-achtige grijsbruin met streepjes op de rug ("mantel"). De stuit is dofgeel evenals de keel. De borst is verder summier gestreept.

Verspreiding en leefgebied
Deze soort is endemisch in de savannegebieden in het midden van Ethiopië of in rivierdalen op 1400 tot 1500 meter boven zeeniveau, maar nooit in in cultuur gebracht gebied. Overigens is er weinig bekend over de habitateisen van deze soort.

Status
De shoakanarie heeft een beperkt verspreidingsgebied en daardoor is de kans op uitsterven aanwezig. De grootte van de populatie werd in 2016 door BirdLife International geschat op 250 tot 1000 individuen en de populatie-aantallen nemen af door habitatverlies. De leefgebieden worden aangetast door het afbranden en in cultuur brengen van de hoogvlakten. Om deze redenen staat deze soort als bedreigd op de Rode Lijst van de IUCN.

Vinkachtigen
IUCN-status bedreigd
Endemisch dier uit Ethiopië

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Indonesia is not only famous for its breathtaking tourist places, but also for its tasty cuisines. With more than 17,000 islands and about 300 ethnic groups, Indonesian cuisine becomes one of the world's most diverse and colorful cuisines. Each region has its own distinct food culture which consists of different local ingredients, therefore creating various tastes that will definitely give your taste buds a kick. If you are a foodie or simply craving to taste the delicacy of Indonesian foods, you should definitely try them! You can experience an Indonesian culinary adventure by going to various culinary events which showcase Indonesian traditional foods from many different regions in Indonesia.
Solo is located in Central Java and is widely known as City of Batik. This city is also known for its commitment to preserve Javanese culture. Solo Indonesia Culinary Festival (SICF) is a culinary event held annually by the city government of Solo which has been held three times since 2014. The purpose of this event is to raise awareness in preserving Indonesian cuisine, particularly from Solo and Central Java. It also provides opportunity for small culinary businesses to develop and promote their creations. In addition, by participating in this event, people will get to experience, understand, and appreciate their local food culture.
This year, the Solo Indonesia Culinary Festival was held for four days, from April 7th to April 10th 2016. Similar with the previous years, it took place in Fort Vastenburg, an 18th-century Dutch fort located in Gladak, Solo. There were many exciting activities that would keep you entertained, informed and also kept your stomach full. These activities include Festival Tengkleng, Food Bazaar, Culinary Demo, Indonesia Chef Competition Competition, Culinary Talkshow which include participants from all over Indonesia, Cooking class, and music performance. It opened 110 booths in which 40 percent were from small businesses, and 60 percent were from hotel, restaurant, and catering companies.
The foods that were served include Tengkleng, a traditional soup or curry from Solo which is made of lamb's meat or beef and is cooked with spices; Nasi liwet or also known as Sego Liwet which is rice cooked in coconut milk with spices, Salam leaves, and lemongrass. Nasi Liwet is served with various side dishes such as boiled eggs (telur pindang), sliced omelet, shredded chicken, sliced tempeh, and vegetables; Sate Kere, in Indonesian "kere" means poor. Sate Kere was made for people who could not afford to buy Satay daging (Indonesian meat skewers) because the price of meat was expensive. Therefore they substituted the meat with tempeh which has been marinated with sugar. After that, they grilled the tempeh just like how they grilled the meat for satay. Sate kere is served with lontong, Indonesian compressed rice along with peanut sauce and chili. What's even cooler is that the foods sold in this event were super affordable! So next year if you plan to visit Solo, don't forget to come!
The Festival Pesona Kuliner Nusantara was held from April 14th to April 16th 2016 at the Mall Artha Gading, Jakarta. The theme of this festival was "The Archipelago's Culinary Attractions as part of the Country's Cultural Richness". This festival showcased a wide variety of Indonesian foods from all across the archipelago. At least 65 booths which represented food culture from 24 provinces, 12 cities and regencies were present. Participants of this event are also quite diverse which include culinary communities, culinary associations, culinary schools, culinary industries and businesses. The aim of this event is not only to present the diverse and unique characteristics of Indonesian culinary, but also to preserve traditional Indonesian culinary in the midst of modern foods.
This festival is a heaven for Indonesian cuisine lovers. As much as 49 types of food from various regions in Indonesia were presented. They all had their unique and distinct characteristics that could increase your appetite. The delicious foods that were served include: Kerak Telor, Jakarta's traditional dish which is made of rice cooked with egg and served with various toppings such as dried shrimp and fried shallots; Gudeg, Yogyakarta's traditional dish which is made of young jackfruit stew. It is originally cooked in a clay pot for several hours. Its color is brown and it tastes sweet; Rendang, popular dish from West Sumatera, it is made of beef and slow cooked with coconut oil, turmeric, ginger, garlic, and other spices. It is very rich in flavor as the ingredients really get absorbed into the meat. They also served traditional beverages such as Bir Pletok (Traditional beverage from Jakarta) and Bir Jawa (Traditional beverage from Java), although bir means beer, they are not alcoholic beverages, in fact they are homemade herbal drink. This festival is a great opportunity for people who Indonesian foods. In one place, you can get various Indonesian foods from all over archipelago. How great!


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Esta copa toma lugar en Vantaa, Finlandia, del 9 al 13 de febrero.El ganador fue el AIK Innebandy. Esta victoria fue la 13.ª de floorball de Suecia, 3 seguidas

Clasificación a esta copa

Se clasificaron los equipos de 4 países: Suecia, Finlandia, Suiza y República Checa, pero solo a las Semifinales de la Copa de EuroFloorball masculino 2007-08

Resultados

Ronda preliminar

Grupo A

Grupo B

Playoffs

Semifinales

puesto

Final

7º puesto

5º puesto

Mejores en habilidades

 Portero: Peter Sjögren (Warberg IC)
 Defensa: Vesa Punkari (SV Wiler-Ersigen)

Floorball


Testaments Together with the Apocrypha.
a hymn, and two sets of hair locks.
This Bible was returned to descendant family of Kim Mumma, from whom it had been stolen.
My brother Martin died October the 10 the A. D.
My Step mother Mary died December the 26 A. D.
Rev. Bartholomew's Sermon for Grandmother Nissley.


It's called "Twestival" and it's coming to 175+ cities near you to benefit a worthy cause. A meetup of Twitter users, and others concerned about providing clean drinking water to regions of the world that would otherwise go without, the event happens today at The Goodfoot Pub on 2845 SE Stark Street. For more information, visit the Portland site or learn more about the global campaign.
It wouldn't be Valentine's Day without the annual reminder... be cautious about e-greeting cards! Those saying "I love you" this year via. email will join 2.5% of all spam -- some containing malicious spyware, nasty computer infections, or other dangerous software. Be skeptical when opening attachments, cautious when clicking links, and -- as always -- be sure your anti-virus software is up-to-date.
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Crypto Users in Brazil, India Set for Boost from Latest Samsung Wallet Rollout
cryptonews.com 20 January 2023 15:14, UTC
Samsung has announced the rollout of its crypto wallet-linkable mobile payments solution – Samsung Wallet – in Brazil, India, Malaysia, and five other countries.
Per an official Samsung release and a report from Brazil's Livecoins, the firm will also unveil the service to users in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.
In the United States, Samsung Galaxy smartphone owners can already link their Samsung Wallets to their Coinbase accounts. Using this function, they can view their primary balances, although they still need to open the Coinbase app to access their coins and fiat.
A similar service is also available for users of the Gemini crypto exchange.
Coinbase has previously stated that it is "working on making buying and selling cryptocurrency from Coinbase within the Samsung Wallet app available." The exchange said that it will "let customers know when these features are available."
The South Korea-based Samsung has previously rolled out a "blockchain" wallet that can store several popular cryptoassets. Livecoins remarked that the development "allows users with cryptocurrencies stored in the Samsung Blockchain Wallet to access their assets."
Further Samsung Wallet Rollouts Planned?
The company has not revealed an exact date for the rollout, but instead said it would be ready "at the end of January."
Samsung added that it was "looking forward to sharing exciting new [wallet-related] developments this year." The mobile maker said it was currently working with new potential partners on developments.
It explained that it was "working hard" to "rapidly expand the availability of Samsung Wallet" and "bring the platform to more potential users."
The move will take the number of nations in which the wallet is available in to 21.
Earlier this year, another South Korean tech titan – the security provider AhnLab – announced that it had launched a crypto wallet. Samsung's closest domestic rival, LG, meanwhile, released its own crypto wallet. Named Wallypto, the LG wallet debuted late last year.


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Kucherov has hat trick for Lightning in win against Sabres
BUFFALO — Nikita Kucherov scored his fourth NHL hat trick, and the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Buffalo Sabres 6-1 at KeyBank Center on Tuesday.
Steven Stamkos had a goal and two assists, and Anthony Cirelli had a goal and an assist for the Lightning (24-9-5), who are 3-0-1 in their past four games. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 17 saves for his 20th victory of the season.
Vinnie Hinostroza scored, and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen allowed two goals on nine shots before leaving after the first period with a lower-body injury. Malcolm Subban made 23 saves in relief for the Sabres (10-19-6), who have lost six in a row (0-4-2).
Ondrej Palat took a pass from Victor Hedman in the slot and scored glove-side on Luukkonen to give the Lightning a 1-0 lead at 2:46 of the first period. Palat has five goals in a four-game goal streak.
Cirelli scored from the slot on an odd-man rush to make it 2-0 at 10:45.
Kucherov pushed it to 3-0 on the power play 27 seconds into the second period, scoring from the top of the right circle after an easy zone entry for the Lightning. He extended it to 4-0 at 10:21 moments after leaving the penalty box, tapping in a cross-ice pass from Corey Perry at the left of the net.
Alex Killorn sent a pass from behind the net to Stamkos coming into the slot to make it 5-0 at 14:04.
Hinostroza capitalized on a rebound that bounced to him at the bottom of the left circle on the power play to cut it to 5-1 at 5:31 of the third period.
Kucherov scored from the high slot at 13:57 for the 6-1 final.
DeBrincat scores twice for Blackhawks in win against Blue Jackets
Predators defeat Avalanche in OT in back-and-forth game