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China kicks off emergency Covid-19 vaccination in Wuhan
BEIJING: The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the novel coronavirus emerged a year ago before it became a pandemic and upended life across the globe, has started the emergency Covid-19 vaccination on some key groups, a senior health official said on Tuesday, even as China is yet to officially certify its multiple vaccines.
The vaccination, available at 48 designated clinics in 15 districts, began on December 24, targeting certain groups of people aged between 18 and 59 years, He Zhenyu, deputy director of the centre for disease control and prevention in Wuhan, told the media in Wuhan.
Those receiving the vaccine need to take two shots with an interval of four weeks, the state-run Xinhua news agency quoted He as saying.
As per the official Chinese time-line, the first cases of coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, on December 31 last year. The city of 11 million people went into lockdown from January 23, followed by the entire Hubei province.
The Hubei province and Wuhan lifted a prolonged lockdown on April 8 this year after the virus was brought under control. The death toll from the virus in Hubei province stood at 4,512, including 3,869 in Wuhan.
Hubei has so far reported 68,134 confirmed Covid-19 cases in total, including 50,339 in Wuhan.
In May this year, Wuhan conducted Covid-19 tests on almost all of its population following increasing concerns of a rebound of the pandemic, but the city reported fewer number of cases in the following months.
Chinese officials in some of the cities, including Beijing, have been conducting mass testing of people in the past few days in localities where cases have sprung up. China's National Health Commission announced on Tuesday that 27 new Covid-19 cases were reported in the Chinese mainland on Monday.
This included 15 locally transmitted cases and 12 arriving from outside the mainland. Seven new cases were reported in Beijing, the commission said in its daily report.
By the end of Monday, the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases on the Chinese mainland reached 87,003, including 348 patients who are still receiving treatment.
A total of 82,021 patients have been discharged from the hospitals following their recovery and 4,634 have died as a result of the virus, according to the commission. China has been carrying out emergency use of its vaccines as the government evaluated data of clinical trials at home and abroad.
According to the officials, over a million people working in health and other critical sectors have been given vaccines under an emergency provision.
According to Yang Sheng, Deputy Director of China's National Medical Products Administration's drug registration bureau, a total of 11 Chinese vaccine candidates are in different stages of testing at home and abroad.
China has joined the COVAX, an international vaccine alliance.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said nine vaccine candidates, including two from China, are currently being evaluated for inclusion in the COVAX facility.
The COVAX is co-led by Gavi, an international vaccine alliance, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the WHO.
Globally, the number of coronavirus cases has topped 80.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.76 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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In this post I will be taking a deeper look into one of my favorite artists, Claude Monet. Monet and many of the other great Impressionists have been instrumental to my own development as an artist, particularly in relation to color and brushwork.
Like many other aspiring artists, when I started painting I was fascinated in creating paintings which looked like photographs. I tried to paint everything with meticulous detail. But Monet and many of the other Impressionists taught me that less is often more in a painting and that there is a subtle beauty in letting the imagination do some of the work.
"As for the colors I use, what's so interesting about that? I don't think one could paint better or more brightly with another palette. The most important thing is to know how to use the colors."
Monet was also known to use ivory black in his earlier paintings, like in this one below. Many of Monet's earlier paintings also demonstrate a more restrained and traditional painting approach. He later departed from black in favor of mixing his own grays and blacks using the other colors on his palette.
Many of Monet's works are characterized by a flurry of small strokes of broken color. He has been both harshly criticized and acclaimed for this. He marked a departure from the realistic and careful rendering of artists before him (though you can see the influence of realism in his earlier works).
As a result, it is often difficult to make sense of his paintings when you look at them up close - they appear like nothing more than a mess of scattered color. But as you step back, it all seems to come together.
In the painting of water lilies below and the two close-ups that follow thereafter, notice the build-up various greens, blues and purples. Also, notice how Monet used thicker paint for the red and yellow flowers. This reinforces the depth and form in the painting.
The painting below is a colorful display of oranges, yellows, reds and greens. If you look closely at the brushwork, you will see the grass and haystacks are painted with nothing more than a build-up of broken color. It seems he may have started with a base color then scumbled other colors on top using a dry brush.
Whenever I am taking a deeper look at a master artist, I like to search for any of their unfinished works. These (if any) can provide some great insights into how the artist worked and progressed through a painting.
Unfortunately, most unfinished works by master artists are destroyed rather than documented. But I did manage to find a couple by Monet.
Below is an unfinished painting from the Charring Cross Bridge series. It indicates that Monet started with a colored ground using a dull tone, then applied dark and light accents on top of that.
Below is an unfinished self portrait by Monet, however I am unsure if the painting was left unfinished on purpose. The painting indicates how Monet used his brush to establish form and structure, starting with a relatively dry brush then consolidating with thick paint and committed strokes.
Below I take a closer look at a few of his paintings and break them down to see what makes them work.
He made interesting use of purple for the exposed shoreline.
Directional brushstrokes follow the flow of the water and help guide you through the painting. Also, notice how directional brushstrokes are used in the sky to gently direct you down towards the water.
The darks in this painting are around the middle value range. This results in a much more colorful painting overall, because blacks and browns are not used for the darks.
Notice the use of broken color for the water and the cliffs.
He used common colors throughout different areas in the painting. For example, in the cliffs you can see some bluish-green which is also used for the water. In the sky you can see some dull purples which are also used for the exposed shore and for dark parts of the cliff. This creates a strong sense of harmony throughout the painting.
I really enjoy the bold strokes used in The Seine at Rouen painting, particularly for the light shooting through gaps in the trees which is also hitting the path.
There is a strong value contrast in this painting compared to the one prior. Monet used dark greens and blues for the darks.
The painting looks very realistic when you look at it as a thumbnail, despite the brushwork being so loose. This indicates that the values are accurate.
The buildings and boats are nothing more than blocks of color with a few important details painted on top.
Rock in Dieppe shows a beautiful display of broken color and expressive brushwork. He used short, dabbing strokes of varied colors to give the illusion of detail.
Stronger colors and more contrast are used for the foreground compared to the background. This reinforces a sense of depth in the painting.
Notice how basic the subjects are in the bottom right.
The fences on the cliff help indicate the structure of the land.
Relatively cool colors are used for the shadows. This contrasts against the warm lights.
The edge which separates the sea and the sky is almost completely lost. The small, dark accents used for the distant boats help separate the sea from the sky.
Monet created several series of paintings which involved him painting the same subject over and over again under different conditions. The most notable example of this is his water lilies series, but he also did it with the Rouen Cathedral, haystacks, the Charing Cross Bridge, the Houses of Parliament and Morning on the Sienne.
Below are two of his paintings from the Charing Cross Bridge series. The first shows an overcast scene, with blues and grays dominating and a few yellow accents to indicate light bouncing off the water. The second shows a completely different arrangement of colors. It appears to be at sunset, with increased contrast between the rich purples for the bridge and the soft yellows and pinks in the rest of the painting.
Another great post, I really enjoyed it. "I believe Monet sense of color and great brush strokes is what really made his paintings so wonderful to look at" they are truly awesome.
Thanks John! I agree. Dan.
learner. i shall follow mentioned tips of great artist. Thank you!👍once again.
Thank you. This is lovely. Monet has always been my favorite. Such a genius. Like you, I quickly realized that I did not want my paintings to look like a photograph, or otherwise I would just frame a photograph! I want something deeper. While photos can do that, the paint brush takes time and concentration over many hours. One single brush stroke and make an image pop! Oh how I long for the day when I can get to that point. But even if I never do, I can learn about the artists, their works, their styles, and look deeper into a painting than I ever have before. I teach little children, and I try to pass these legacies on to them in my classes. A paintbrush in the hands of a child can do so much more than the button of a video game. Thank you again for this lovely article on Monet.
Bravo, Scott! Love your posts! Thank you so much for your insight and expertise!
wow….thanks for sharing this Dan.
This article was very insightful and helpful. The more I learn to see through the eyes of artists, the more I learn about my own processes.
I, too, have studied Monet and in 2016 travelled to a number of the sites he painted: Rouen, Honfleur, Dieppe and Etretat. It was awe-inspiring to imagine how he worked in the late 1800s and how he looked at the scenery and interpreted what he saw. I am grateful for what you do. Thank you for sharing these insights.
Thanks for your post and I appreciate both your explanations of his colors and style. I was particularly interested in how he portrayed figures and buildings from a distance.
Dan, Muito obrigado pelos ensinamentos que você tem me passado. Já li vários livros sobre técnicas de pinturas, mas eles não me ensinaram nem 10% dos seus posts. Aqui onde eu moro, os artistas acumulam conhecimentos, mas não compartilham com ninguém. Você ao contrário, espalha conhecimentos para nós e ajuda a desenvolver a pintura no mundo. Tenho muita estima por você. Abraços.
I appreciate you expertise! I tried to paint lilies after visiting at Monet's home. My painting did NOT have those soft strokes that make his painting so so lovely!
Always very helpful and full of inspiration. You have a skilled way of explaining intricate details and tips which seem doable. I try to adapt your tips to watercolour and usually apart from the difficulty of leaving white spaces, usually works.
It always interests me that the masters like Monet painted impressionistic and the would paint Jean Monet on a horse or the caricature. Thank you for your interesting information.
Thank you, Dan, I am learning so much from your posts! I appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
It was such a treat reading this article. You opened my eyes to notice so many new things in a painting.
I have really enjoyed this. Thank you so much.
This is a great article! I help a friend's children with Art lessons as they are home schooled, and this was immensely helpful and interesting for planning my next session with them.
Excellent education in a simple to understand summary! Thank you so much!!
Thanks a lot Dan for all the exciting & inspiring posts you send. Much appreciated.
Loved your article on how to paint like claude monet, have alway loved his work and your explainations were very clear and easy to understand. He really was a master of his movement which allowed the gates to be opened so to speak. I find his work quite spiritually lifting.
Thanks Dan. Some really helpful and interesting observations!
f the lesson helped me. I will further work .


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This week we finished up the lower diffusion pattern on the South wall and then brought the North Wall even to that level. Compared to the average progress of the last month, the blocks are now positively flying up into position.


Applications are invited, in the prescribed format, for online examinations and the award of JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS [JRF 2019] for Ph.D. in Life Sciences at the Tata Memorial Centre.
The Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) is an autonomous Grant-in-aid Institution of the Department of Atomic Energy. The TMC is comprised of the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) and the Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH). TMC conducts a Ph.D. program in Life Sciences and is affiliated to the Homi Bhabha National Institute (Deemed University). On-going research at TMC includes basic and translational research in Cancer Biology. Specific research topics include study of cell proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, metastasis, tumor immunology, molecular imaging, carcinogenesis, stem cell biology, biophysics, structural biology, bioinformatics, proteomics, genomics, genetics, epigenetics and pharmacology.
Qualifications: M.Sc. (Applied Biology / Biochemistry / Bioinformatics / Biophysics / Biotechnology / Botany / Life Sciences / Microbiology/ Molecular Biology / Zoology or related Biological Sciences) / M.Tech. (Bioinformatics/ Biotechnology); M.V.Sc.; M.Pharm. from a recognized University, with  50% aggregate marks. Those awaiting results may also apply. As per HBNI guidelines, candidates with < 50% aggregate marks cannot be considered for an interview or admitted to the program. Candidates who have done post-graduation course of only 1 year duration are not eligible.
Stipend: Rs. 25000/- + 30% HRA (if hostel facility is not allotted) per month as applicable. Limited hostel facility is available on the ACTREC campus on first come, first served basis.
Application Procedure: Candidates are advised to carefully read the instructions before filling the online application [www.actrec.gov.in]. Incomplete forms and those without fees and requisite attachments will be rejected. Application fees of Rs. 500/- must be paid by online transfer. In case of difficulty, fees may be paid by demand draft (DD) drawn in favor of TMC-ACTREC payable in Navi Mumbai (candidate's name and application number must be written behind the DD) and sent to ACTREC-TMC by courier or speed post at the address provided. Female candidates and SC/ ST/ physically handicapped candidates with minimum 40% disability (disability proof must be attached) are exempted from paying fees. Students have to give three choices of Exam Centre in their application. Final admission into the Ph.D. program is subject to the candidate satisfying HBNI eligibility criteria as mentioned above. TMC reserves the right to increase the minimum eligibility criteria in case of receipt of large number of applications. The deadline for application is 24th December 2018.
Online Examination: A list of candidates found eligible for the Online 'Objective' Written Exam will be displayed on 7 th January 2019 on the ACTREC website. The Online Exam will be conducted on 25th January 2019 at 9.00 a.m. at six Exam Centres located in Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, Delhi NCR, Indore and Chennai (details will be uploaded on the ACTREC website in January 2019). In case the number of students opting for a centre is below 100, the students opting for that centre will be accommodated at either their second or third choice of centre. The list of candidates qualifying for interview based on the online exam results will be displayed on the ACTREC website in February 2019.
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'Nigerians don't take advantage of intellectual property'
Maureen Ihua-Maduenyi
The Zonal Director, Nigerian Copyright Commission, Lagos, Mr Obi Ezeilo, has said that Nigerians do not take advantage of the opportunities in intellectual property.
Ezeilo said a lot of copyright owners had died in poverty due to lack of knowledge on how to take advantage of their copyright.
"Nigerians have lost a lot due to their failure to take advantage of their copyright. Many do not know the proper value of their copyright; some have left their copyright to lie fallow. We are aware that a lot of copyright owners even died in abject poverty, while they could have lived a better life if they had tapped from the gains of their copyright and make something out of it," he stated.
Ezeilo, who was represented by Mrs Lynda Alphaeus at a business assets and intellectual valuation training organised by the Business Division of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, in Lagos, said copyright owners had the right to enjoy and protect it.
"Now that the estate surveyors and valuers have started this process, we are happy because copyright owners will have to enjoy their works, and reap the benefit of a work they have used their intellect to produce," he said.
According to him, the step by the estate surveyors to create awareness on intellectual property will be beneficial to everybody who creates copyright.
He stated, "When you create a copyright, you have the right to enjoy it and protect it so that it is not stolen. If for example, proper value is put on a person's copyright, the person could use that to take a bank loan.
"They could use the value of the copyright as collateral just like any tangible assets could be used. So, it is important that everybody gets interested and utilise it for the good of the individuals and the nation as a whole."
The Secretary, Business Asset and Intellectual Property Valuation Division, NIESV, Mr Lekan Akinwunmi, stated that most intangible assets were not well monetised in the country, adding that the few that were monetised were facing serious challenges of piracy.
He said the enabling laws did not recommend or enforce punishment to pirates or infringement.
Akinwunmi explained, "The property in question is an intangible one because it does not possess physical structure but this drives it. One can also say it is the private property of the inventor; it is when made public or commercialised that someone else can use but does not have the right to imitate or copy without due approval.
"Infringement on the IP is as good as someone forcefully collecting your physical assets, which is called robbery. The IP outlives the investors so it needs to be guided jealously; every area of our economy has its the IP. Trademarks, copyright, designs, patents, passing off or goodwill are few of the IPs that need serious protection and commercialisation."
He explained that when monetised, the IP could be used as good collateral to boost various sectors, as the royalty on the IP could be compared with income from real estate, and many sectors and professionals could benefit from it.
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The collectibles industry is on the march, aiming to sign up for tie-ins to the next Star Trek movie. The 2009 Star Trek reboot by director J.J. Abrams breathed new life into the franchise, so it's great to hear that licensing deals are already slotting into place.
Hot on the trail for new Trek stuff is Mattel (famed for its Hot Wheels line) and the big M has now signed with CBS Consumer Products to make and market a new range of die-cast Star Trek models. These will take off next year, in time for the next movie, presently targeted for worldwide release in May 2013.
Mattel and CBS have worked together before, as a similar deal was signed between the two for the 2009 sci-fi film. The new set of miniatures will include the starship USS Enterprise (of course!) and hopefully others besides. Of course, we'd love the range to include all sorts of stuff, including shuttles, space stations, and much more besides - but we'll probably have to wait a while before the injection-kit manufacturers produce high-end detail products. Still, we can wish.
What happened to that Corvette?
Here's a bunch of trailers for J.J. Abrams movie, released in May 2009 - it looks as good now as it did before release, and don't forget to crank up your speakers, as the sound track is excellent. Let's hope the Corvette-over-the-cliff sequence was cgi - those classic wheels are just too tasty to go the way of Wile E. Coyote!
Meantime, there are a gazillion Star Trek kits and collectibles out there, so maybe we're not so badly cared for, after all. And we'll be reporting very soon on a simply amazing build of the Polar Lights/Round 2 USS Enterprise to 1:350 scale, so keep watching this space.
Star Trek stuff (and some sneaky Star Wars items) here.


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Can Exxon Mobil entry bring foreign investment into Pakistan's energy sector?
Chinese engineers working on the Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on October 31, 2017. (AFP)
By Sabena Siddiqui Special to Al Arabiya English Sunday, 4 November 2018
Ever since the US energy conglomerate Exxon Mobil acquired around 25 percent shareholding in the offshore drilling field in Pakistan this year, it has been considered a significant development.
Returning to Pakistan after 33 years, the presence of Exxon Mobil promises to speed up oil and gas exploration and discovery in Pakistan as it brings in huge experience of deep and ultra-deep-water drilling to Pakistan.
Apparently, this new technology applied by them in the offshore drilling field has been responsible for bringing about a revolution in the oil and gas market in the US. Implementing the same state of the art technology in Pakistan might change the country's economic fortunes at this critical time of financial crisis.
Up till this time, the Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC), Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) and the Italian energy firm ENI had carried out these operations and held around 33 percent stakes in this field. Now since the entry of Exxon Mobil in the country, the share of all these company partners has come down to 25 percent each as per agreement.
Finalizing the agreement, Exxon Mobil, PPL, ENI, OGDC and Government Holdings Private Limited (GHPL) representatives got together at the Prime Minister's Secretariat just before the general elections were held in Pakistan.
During the next few months, these companies conducted a study and singled out potential areas for drilling activity. Planning to invest $70 million in the joint venture, the four companies finally decided to kick off the first exploratory well Kekra-1 in offshore Indus G-Block.
Pakistani Minister for Water and Power Naveed Qamar, left, speaks as US Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, Carlos Pascual, right, looks on during the Pakistan-US Energy Dialogue in Islamabad, on Sept. 14, 2011. (File photo: AP)
Promising blocks
Around 7,500 square kilometers in span, the Indus G block is in ultra-deep waters offshore Pakistan and has been one of the most promising blocks, in recent years it was operated solely by ENI. Planning the first exploration well assignment in January 2019, ENI would also lead this joint venture as it has had continued presence in Pakistan.
Nevertheless, no commercially viable discovery took place in the last five decades and it all began in 1963 when an American company drilled three wells for the very first time near Pakistan's shores and discovered no hydrocarbons. Subsequently also, all attempts have given negative results. Ostensibly, even the last offshore well Shark -1 drilled by ENI and PPL gave no positive results.
Additionally, even if a big discovery is made, it takes years to set up the appropriate infrastructure to commence production. This time round, however, the USAID conducted a study after collecting data from 1611 wells and came up with a favorable assessment. Even the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) figures regarding Pakistan have been positive in both 2011 and 2013 estimates.
Consequently, hopes are high as ENI contracts a ship for the drilling, which will now start in early December this year. The ENI has chartered a drillship from Saipem, the contract starts from 1st December this year and may be planning to 'spud' the Kekra-1 exploration well in the block in January 2019.
According to Offshore Energy Today, it received an email confirming the deal with Eni and a Saipem spokesperson said that, "We can confirm that Saipem 12000 is working for Eni in Pakistan."
There was no further information about the scope of the work but it looks like the rig Saipem 12000 will be used to drill in the offshore Indus G-Block as the timing also matches.
Located nearly 280 km from the city of Karachi, the usual constraints for this exploratory site Kekra -1 are that suitable drilling times are from December to April and Karachi port is used for operations. Following the recent surveys undertaken, the prospects look bright and there are great expectations regarding this offshore drilling.
Discussing the project, OGDCL Managing Director Zahid Mir said: "The block has very high prospects, and exploratory well Kekra-I has strategic importance for the region as we are expecting a multi-billion cubic feet of gas flows from the block." Notably, he remarked that, "If a success, this would be a game changer for the country as well as the entire region."
Predictably, the interest of major oil companies should increase as the project commences and brings in foreign investment for Pakistan's energy sector.
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If teenage melodramas are to be trusted, nothing matters more in a young adult's life than the almighty college acceptance letter. From SAT prep to personal essay obsession, teens are often expected to spend the entirety of their high school years vying for spots in the most prestigious institutions while competitively side-eyeing their rival classmates.
As a college admissions consultant, Smith calls on her academic background to provide in-depth, personalized guidance to students (and families), helping them discover who they are as individuals and how they can optimize the odds of landing in a school that's suitable for them. In some cases, that might not be an Ivy. But, let's face it: many of the Bay Area's brightest minds hope to raise graduates of Harvard, or Yale, or Brown. So what's the secret for securing a spot in the hallowed halls of one of the eight Ivies?
Is an economics all-star: Serious econ-minded college applicants will likely want to consider Princeton and Harvard (the nation's top two universities overall and in economics specifically). The University of Chicago, Yale, Columbia and Stanford are all prestigious picks as well, not to mention the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke.
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Charles Russell Woodson "Woody" On Tuesday, April 9, 2019, Charles Russell "Woody" Woodson of Silver Spring, Maryland passed away. He was the beloved husband of Verna Alexander Woodson; father of Hillary Woodson Gaskins (Toussaint) and the late Darren Russell Woodson; grandfather of Felton Armstrong, III, Savannah Woodson Reeves and Asa Gaskins; brother-in-law of Paula Alexander Wilks (William). Friends are welcome to pay respects at Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church, 223 Elizabeth Avenue, Rockville, MD, 20850, on Saturday, April 20, 2019 from 9:30 am until 11:00 am, where his memorial service will commence at 11:00 am. Memorial contributions may be made to Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church. Please view and sign the family guestbook at www.hinesrinaldifuneralhome.com.
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal... Love leaves a memory no one can steal. …. May the memories of your love one warm your heart; May the God of mercy give your strength and comfort you with His love.
Charles was a treasured colleague and I'm grateful for having had the chance to work with him during our time at HRSA. I'll never forget his charm and kindness and his genuine efforts to improve the lives of so many.
My sincere sympathy to Charles's family and his many friends.
To Verna, Hillary and Family: my deepest condolences on behalf of myself and my family. Thank you for sharing Charles with us! He was an intricate part of the HHS family and our special group of BPHC friends. We affectionately called him Mack Daddy, because he dressed to the "nines", and had undeniable swagger. Woody was a beautiful, kind spirit. We shared so many great times over the years, especially the laughter, parties and celebrations. We were so blessed that Kentucky groomed him to grace and embrace the DC metro area. He will forever be remembered in our thoughts and heart.
May your memories of your husband and father bring you comfort and peace. God has brought home another angel. Keeping you in prayer!


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Democrats value diversity, but the presidential field is increasingly white
Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).
(Chris Pizzello / Associated Press)
By Evan Halper,
Janet Hook
Kamala Harris' abrupt exit from the presidential race Tuesday underscored how in this election cycle, where Democrats have placed a particularly high value on diversity and inclusion, they are left with a slate of presidential candidates dominated by white men.
The California senator was the only black woman in the contest, and her frank talk about racial justice was a major theme for a Democratic electorate that is increasingly nonwhite. But what started out as a campaign that looked like it would reflect the diversity of America is settling into one increasingly without minority voices at the top.
With Harris out of the race, not a single person of color has qualified so far to be onstage when Democrats meet to debate before a national audience in Los Angeles later this month. There is still time for minority candidates such as Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey or entrepreneur Andrew Yang to make the stage, but even if they do, both candidates have been stuck near the bottom of the polls.
"What we're staring at is a DNC debate stage with no people of color on it. That does not reflect the diversity of our party or our country. We need to do better than that," former Housing secretary Julián Castro said after Harris' withdrawal.
In addition to the top candidates all being white, three are in their 70s — former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The other one, 37-year-old Pete Buttigieg, the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Ind., does bring a measure of diversity to the field, and Sanders, if elected, would be the country's first Jewish president — but those moves away from the traditional resume of a presidential candidate are far too little in the eyes of many party activists.
As Joe Biden woos Iowa voters, Pete Buttigieg seems increasingly to be in his way
Among centrist voters inclined to like Biden, the 37-year-old Buttigieg is becoming plausible as an alternative, and he highlights what Biden is not: energetic, articulate and young.
"The Democratic field became much less diverse today, after the only black woman in the presidential race dropped out," Aimee Allison, founder of She the People, an advocacy group that promotes women of color in politics, said in a statement.
"Kamala's presence in the race helped blaze a trail for the next generation of women of color. She ran a competitive campaign that has forced us to rethink what it means to be electable."
The absence of any candidate of color in the top tier is a point of consternation for many Democrats at a time when African American and Latino voters have become some of the party's biggest constituencies and crucial to its hopes of defeating President Trump.
"No matter your candidate, you have to recognize that going from the most diverse field ever in January to a potentially all-white debate stage in December is catastrophic," said Leah Greenberg, co-founder of Indivisible, a Democratic activist group. "The implicit racism and sexism of 'electability' is deeply damaging to democracy."
That is a point Harris and Booker argued during the November debate in Atlanta.
"Black voters are pissed off, and they're worried," Booker said at the debate. "We don't want to see people miss this opportunity and lose because we are nominating someone that isn't trusted."
Noting that Trump won the crucial state of Wisconsin in 2016 in part because black turnout dropped in Milwaukee, he added, "We need to have someone who can inspire ... African American voters to the polls in record numbers."
At the same time, however, a chief reason for the problems both Harris and Booker have encountered involves the choice that African American voters have made to stand by Biden.
Both Booker and Harris were counting on their biographies and longtime advocacy for racial justice to resonate with black and Latino voters in the crucial early voting states of South Carolina and Nevada, and also in California, the first big state to vote that reflects the national diversity of the party.
But they failed to anticipate the steadiness of Biden's support among black voters. Although Biden has declined in polls, especially in Iowa and New Hampshire, which hold the first two contests in the nominating process, that decline has come among white voters.
The former vice president's support in places like South Carolina has remained firm, which limited the ability of either Harris or Booker to expand their backing.
As a result, the discussions among voters and the candidates still remain focused on issues of concern to people of color, but the candidates talking about those issues are increasingly all white. That could prove a turnoff to minority voters whom the Democrats desperately need to turn out in November 2020.
Evan Halper
Evan Halper writes about a broad range of policy issues out of Washington D.C., with particular emphasis on how Washington regulates, agitates and very often miscalculates in its dealings with California. Before heading east, he was the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Sacramento, where he spent a decade untangling California's epic budget mess and political dysfunction.
Janet Hook covers national politics for the Los Angeles Times. She returned to the Washington bureau in 2018 after spending eight years covering politics and Congress for the Wall Street Journal. Her first stint with The Times was in 1995-2010 covering Congress and politics. She is a native of Long Island, N.Y., and a graduate of Harvard University. She has lived in the Washington area since 1980 – except for one blissful year in Palo Alto on the John S. Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists.


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Black or White: Which Hat Are You "Wearing" with SEO?
Like cowboys in old spaghetti Westerns, search engine optimization (SEO) can be broadly categorized into two groups: black hat and white hat — and just like in the movies, one is good and one is evil.
Well, evil may be a little strong, but unscrupulous SEO practices are often labeled black hat SEO, and those that follow common, ethical standards are called white hat SEO.
SEO is a strategy used to get web pages placed higher in search engine rankings by appearing to be more relevant or authoritative to the major search engines.
Google wants to give the highest rankings to pages that will be the most useful to people who are searching, like https://www.candent.ca/brayden-cpr-training-manikin.html. White hat SEO users make Web pages with the user in mind, creating quality content that gets ranked high on merit.
Black hat SEO users create web sites with search engines in mind, attempting to bypass the filters Google has in place to weed out spam and get illegitimate content placed higher than it deserves to be.
White hat SEO users want their content to go to the top of the rankings and stay there long-term. Black hat SEO users want to get as much as they can out of a page as quickly as they can.
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It creates pages that are easy to navigate and contain compelling content, such as those at BondsExpress.com. Those pages are then enhanced with keyword-rich metadata and contain links that connect to other pages that contain relevant, useful information.
Instead of creating compelling content that receives higher ranking on merit, black hats often hide content within their page for the sole purpose of deceiving search engines.
One way is to hide a word or phrase by making the text the same color as the background so it is invisible to the user but stands out to search engines.
Like white hat SEO, black hat SEO also uses meta tags. But instead of relevant words or phrases, black hats employ deception by hiding irrelevant words within a cluster of relevant ones.
Just as white hats use links on their pages, so do black hats. But instead of linking to relevant, useful pages, unscrupulous SEO providers create what are known as link farms, whose sole purpose is to trick search engines by making the page appear more popular than it is, and therefore have it ranked higher.
There are pros to black hat SEO. It can be lucrative in the beginning, and it doesn't take as much effort because you're not providing quality content. It is, however, unethical and dishonest.
If that's not enough to dissuade you, consider this: you're going to get caught and banned.
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Promo Dynamic – Cracking Easter egg offers hit shelves earlier than ever
Brands are doing their best to make the shopping seasons longer, while bogof is making its mark – especially at Tesco.
The run-up to Easter egg season made March a cracking month for confectionery deals. Cadbury, Nestlé and Mars all increased the number of featured space promotions they ran in the four weeks to 4 April [Assosia] as retailers and suppliers ramped up efforts to pull forward the start of the Easter sales period. "Seasons are running longer," confirmed Assosia MD Kay Staniland. "Easter certainly started earlier this year." Mars has particularly upped its game when it comes to Easter egg promotions, with its total number of confectionery deals up 57.3% on the same period last year. X-for-y was the most popular mechanic. Cadbury eggs were on x-for-y at all the big four retailers, although they were on bogof at The Co-op Group. There were fewer straight savings deals on all three chocolate brands particularly Mars, which reduced the proportion of its deals using the save mechanic by 12.9 percentage points to 31.5%.
The confectioners were not alone in increasing their activity. With the exception of Walkers crisps, there were more offers on all the brands in our list of the top ten promoters than in February. Müller has upped activity by 59.6% month-on-month, with Müllerice offered on buy-one-get-two-free. Kellogg's and McVitie's both upped activity by about 77%, with the latter increasing its use of bogofs from 17.3% to 40.6%. Greater use of bogof was a trend seen across many brands during the month with the proportion of all brand promotions using it increasing from 7.8% in March 2010 to 10.9% in March 2011 but its use at one retailer was particularly marked.
Tesco has increased its number of featured space bogofs from 196 in March 2010 to 487 this year, while its use of half-price and save offers has fallen. Coca-Cola, McVitie's and Mr Kipling were among the brands offered on bogof at Tesco stores. Retailers have also made a big push on own-label lines, with the number of promotions on own-label goods up 19.1% month-on-month and 23.2% year-on-year. The increase has been driven by offers on fresh produce, with the total number of promotions in the category rising from 350 in March 2010 to 530 in 2011. Year-on-year, Asda, Sainsbury's and Tesco all roughly doubled the number of own-label fresh produce deals on-shelf in March.
Published in The Grocer, 09 April 2011
http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/home/topics/prices-and-promotions/promo-dynamic-cracking-easter-egg-offers-hit-shelves-earlier-than-ever/217246.article


I am currently working on my dissertation in Comparative Literature. My research focuses on issues of gender and community in literary texts in Arabic, French, and Spanish from North Africa and the Caribbean. In the context of teaching literature, I am interested in the ways that reading texts from diverse times and places can engage students in thoughtful discussions of such contemporary issues as race, gender, and difference. These discussions are important for the development of all students but particularly important for UMR's students as they move into careers in health sciences. The opportunity to work with these students and to be a part of this new university is incredibly motivating and inspiring.
At UMR, I work with Humanities 1433: Literature in Historical and Cultural Context, and Humanities 3471: Literatures of Diversity, in addition to working collaboratively with other faculty members to develop and deliver the course content. I am also working with UMR's writing faculty to develop a writing center along with a peer-tutoring program.
I have taught literature previously at both the undergraduate and the high school level. I have taught a wide variety of courses including Literature of Comparative Race and Ethnicity, Creation Stories, The Monstrous in Modern Literature, and Introduction to American Literature. I also have experience tutoring writing and developing training sessions for peer tutors. My goal in teaching literature is to help students become active learners and critical thinkers through the analysis of literary texts. Literature can facilitate deep thinking and discussion on a wide range of important issues, and it allows students to come into contact with people, places, and things that are far from their daily lives. I believe that these encounters can push students to be not only better people or better scientists but better citizens of the world in which we live.


Auditioning can be stressful enough even without "stage-parenting"!
whose kids are first generation performers, and families whose kids are first generation performers but their parents think they know everything about the arts already. Every so often, you get parents who make it difficult for you to enjoy your job. Today's Broadway Educators blog is about finding peace in yourself when stage parents exist.
As a kid, I started seeing stage parents in theatre. My parents were simply the drivers and the applause after the curtain. They were proud of me but my decisions to do theatre, take voice lessons, and play piano were my own. Obviously, that wasn't the case for every parent. There were the parents who would kiss the director's behind for more stage time for their kids and the ones who would be rude to other people's children when they were doing well. I'd be sitting with my mom in the holding room for auditions and the other moms would be asking about my credits. Now, I deal with stage parents on my doorstep and I'm getting a totally different side of the madness!
It seems to me that the majority of the stage parents I have don't have a history in performance. That's one of the reasons why they hover because they aren't entirely sure how to govern themselves. You should do your best to educate parents without being condescending. Help them pick their child's audition repertoire with thoughtful reasoning, look at parent overreactions from a neutral standpoint, and always bring it back to the child. Although the parent is the one paying for the services, it's always best to look at what is right for the kid in the end.
Some of my parents take it really personally when their kid isn't cast in a show or doesn't get "the lead." As the student's role model in performing who actually understands the way theatre works, offer positive feedback. These are kids after all and if they decide to go into theatre professionally, they need to be able to handle rejections.
What do you do if you're overwhelmed by stage parents? Tell us on Twitter!


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How did you spend your Christmas 2018? We spent it finishing our bonded screed.
One electrical explosion (and a shipment of a £70 capacitor from the US), one broken wrist, a small amount of blood, a tonne of sweat, and many tears later, our rear basement bonded screed is finished. Actually the process was spread across a couple of months because we had to pause works on the self build due to this little thing called "running a business" (nothing to do with building).
See my previous blog post about the beginnings of our journey into waterproofing a basement.
Broken wrist?! Yes, Anna managed to get her hand stuck in the forced action mixer. That thing is designed to ensure you don't put your hand in, it has a safety cut-out if you try to open the lid, etc. Anna managed.
When it's your first bonded screed – scrap that – your first ever screed… and it's your own home, and you've no real experience doing anything like this before, you tend to get obsessed with making sure you don't screw up. Every fine detail feels hugely important. The correct ratio of sand to cement to water – probably second nature to experienced flooring contractors – becomes this thing you have to research, plan, prepare, and test.
When I cook, I take a recipe from a book or the web then I re-work it according to how I need the information presented to me during the stressful stages of being in the kitchen.
Yes it's a little OCD. But it works for me.
I find that recipes tend to skip over important details, move onto the next step assuming that "finely slicing 10 onions" will take only 3 minutes, etc., hence I need to fully assimilate the instructions and re-write them before I even start to cook. I'm a terrible bore to live with. Hopefully, my diners enjoy the end result.
I had to turn screeding into a recipe before we even got close to turning the mixer on. The benefit was that we bought almost exactly the correct amount of sand for the job (40kg short, based on over 3 tonnes of sand), and everything went smoothly – aside from some little accidents along the way.
To be fair, a bonded screed is a little more complicated than a normal screed. And our bonded screed was made worse by the substrate, concrete formed into a microcosmic version of the Rocky Mountains. An absolute nightmare to clean and clear dust, which is a critical part of getting a good bond.
Yes, I wrote a recipe for bonded screed. Jamie Oliver eat your heart out.
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Nurturing Emotional Resilience Storybooks
This series includes the guidebook Nurturing Emotional Resilience in Vulnerable Children and Young People alongside seven therapeutic storybooks, including How Monsters Wish to Feel. The guidebook outlines ways to use these beautifully told and visually appealing stories to nurture emotional resilience with children. This series of guidebook and storybooks will be invaluable tools for anyone working to build emotional resilience with children and young people.
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The Boat Star A Story about Loss
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The Girl Who Collected Her Own Echo A Story about Friendship
The Hot and Bothered Air Balloon A Story about Feeling Stressed
The Tale of Two Fishes A Story about Resilient Thinking
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How Monsters Wish to Feel A Story about Emotional Resilience
Nurturing Emotional Resilience in Vulnerable Children and Young People A Practical Guide
The Boat Star: A Story about Loss
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The Boy Who Longed to Look at the Sun: A Story about Self-Care
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The Day the Sky Fell In: A Story about Finding Your Element
The Day the Sky Fell In is a therapeutic story about letting go of worries and emotional baggage. When a determined girl climbs a difficult path up a cliff, the sky rains down mystery objects on her which she catches and carries with her. Her journey becomes more and more difficult and when she ...
The Girl Who Collected Her Own Echo: A Story about Friendship
The Girl who Collected Her Own Echo is a therapeutic story about finding friendship. In the story, a little girl lives by herself and loves to sing. One day whilst she is singing in a mysterious cave, she thinks that her echo must be the sound of other children singing, but she is too shy to ...
The Hot and Bothered Air Balloon: A Story about Feeling Stressed
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The Tale of Two Fishes: A Story about Resilient Thinking
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Nurturing Emotional Resilience in Vulnerable Children and Young People and Picture Books: Guidebook and Seven Storybooks Set
This set contains the guidebook Nurturing Emotional Resilience in Vulnerable Children and Young People alongside seven therapeutic storybooks, including How Monsters Wish to Feel. The guidebook outlines ways to use these beautifully told and visually appealing stories to nurture emotional ...
How Monsters Wish to Feel and other picture books: Seven Storybooks Set
This set of seven therapeutic storybooks contains stories that each tell of a different journey centred around a particular theme; such as emotional resilence, self-care, friendship, stress, resilient thinking and dealing with loss. Designed for use alongside the guidebook Nurturing ...
How Monsters Wish to Feel: A Story about Emotional Resilience
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Q: TRIAC protection for general domestic use I am designing a smart switch for switching 220 - 240 VAC outlets for domestic use at a maximum of 16A.  The load could be a washing machine, a toaster, a vacuum cleaner or any general home appliance (or any combination thereof).
I have seen a combination of an R-C network (or "snubber") as well as a VDR (or MOV) across the TRIAC for protection, but I am unsure how to calculate the values of those components to provide an all-round protection for this general application as I do not know the inductive characteristics of the load beforehand. Is it possible to design an "all-purpose" protection circuit for the TRIAC and if so, could someone perhaps provide some guidance on making those calculations for the component values.
I have also found some "ACS" TRAICs ( from ST Microelectronics (ACST12) which have built in crowbar technology, but unsure whether these would be suitable in my application without any other protection for the TRIAC.
Any information would be helpful, thank you.

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Q: For Loop Google Apps Script? VBA for Example I have a VBA UDF in Excel that calculates the Top Level Quantity for a Parent-Child calculation. Asked similar question here Offset in JavaScript UDF? VBA for Example

The code is
Function ParentChildCalc(critCell As Range, valCell As Range) As Double
    Application.Volatile
    Dim numYes As Long
    Dim i As Long
    Dim temp As Double
    Do Until i = 5000
        If critCell.Offset(i, 0) = "Yes" Then numYes = numYes + 1
        If numYes = 2 Then Exit Do
        temp = temp + valCell.Offset(i, 0)
        i = i + 1
    Loop
    ParentChildCalc = temp
End Function

I am trying to translate this UDF into either JavaScript or TypeScript, but I am stuck with the offset and loop part of the formula.
Here is my best shot.
/**
 * ParentChildCalc1
 * @customfunction ParentChildCalc1
 * @param {string} critCell Critical Cell
 * @param {number} valCell Value Cell
 * @returns {number} ParentChildCalc1
 */
function ParentChildCalc1(critCell, valCell) {
    var blank = ""
    var TopYes = "Yes"
    var i = 1
    var numYes = 1
    if (critCell[i,0] == TopYes) {
        numYes = numYes++
            if numYes = 2 {
            }
        return (valCell);
    } else {
        return (blank);
    }
}

A: Running scripts in Google Sheets doesn't work exactly like Excel, which can be both good and bad. Coming from an Excel VBA background, there is a mindset shift you have to make.

*

*When writing a user defined function (UDF) in Excel, you can pass Range parameters like this: =MyUDF(A1,C3). The function signature will give you two Range objects as parameters. In Google Sheets, this isn't the case. ALL range parameters are converted to values (or an array of values). This means that in a Sheets cell if you type =MyUDF(A1,C3 your script code will get the value of A1 and the value of C3. This is not what you want.

Based on this answer, your best option is to parse the original cell formula and extract the range parameters. Then you can create a Range object for your UDF. This is a roundabout set of logic, but it is consistent with how Sheets implements the underlying functions and scripts. The following function will pick up the formula from the active cell and parse it to give you the expected range object.

NOTE: you'll have to modify this function to pick out your UDF call if it's inside a compound formula. For example, it works if your
  formula is =MyUDF(A1,C3). But is DOES NOT work if your formula is
  =If(A2='Yes','',MyUDF(A1,C3)). You can modify the function to detect
  this, but it's not provided here.

function GetParamRange(paramNumber) {
  var activeSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var formula = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveRange().getFormula();

  //--- expecting two parameters, split here and check
  const MAXARGS = 2;
  var args = formula.match(/=\w+\((.*)\)/i)[1].split(',');
  if (args.length != MAXARGS) {
    throw new Error('in GetParamRange: ' + args.join(',') + '- invalid number of arguments, expecting ' + MAXARGS);
  }

  if ((paramNumber < 1) || (paramNumber > MAXARGS)) {
    throw new Error('in GetParamRange: invalid parameter requested, must be ' + MAXARGS + ' or less');
  }

  //--- is the worksheet specified?
  var paramRange;
  var parts = args[paramNumber-1].split('!');
  if (parts.length == 2) {
    //--- use worksheet and cell to get the range
    Logger.log('activeSheet = ' + activeSheet.getName());
    ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheetByName(parts[0].replace(/\'/g, ''));
    paramRange = ss.getRange(parts[1]);
  }
  else {
    //--- get the range from the active sheet
    paramRange = activeSheet.getRange(parts[0]);
  }
  return(paramRange);
}

*Before I list the actual function, there is an important aspect to coding UDFs you must understand. In Excel, you can explicitly tag a UDF as Volatile. In Google Sheets this is not possible. Honestly, I haven't worked with Google Sheet enough to learn all the details so you'll have to search around.

*The user defined function itself accepts two parameters, but those parameters are actually created by calling GetParamRange. From there, it's a simple loop to add your running sum (with an added safety limit).

It will throw an error if the safety limit is exceeded.
 /**
 * ParentChildCalc1
 * @customfunction ParentChildCalc1
 * @param {string} critCell Critical Cell
 * @param {number} valCell Value Cell
 * @returns {number} ParentChildCalc1
 */
function ParentChildCalc1(critCell, valCell) {
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var critCell = GetParamRange(1);
  var valCell = GetParamRange(2);

  const safetyNet = 5000;
  var runningSum = 0;
  var numYes = 0;
  for (var i = 0; !valCell.offset(i,0).isBlank(); i++) {
    if (critCell.offset(i,0).getValue() == 'Yes') {
      numYes++;
      if (numYes == 2) break;
      if (i == safetyNet) {
        throw new Error('exceeded safety net limit in ParentChildCalc1, searching ' + safetyNet + ' rows.');
      }
    }
    runningSum = runningSum + valCell.offset(i,0).getValue();
  }
  return (runningSum);
}

Here's the whole code in a single block:
 /**
 * ParentChildCalc1
 * @customfunction ParentChildCalc1
 * @param {string} critCell Critical Cell
 * @param {number} valCell Value Cell
 * @returns {number} ParentChildCalc1
 */
function ParentChildCalc1(critCell, valCell) {
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var critCell = GetParamRange(1);
  var valCell = GetParamRange(2);

  const safetyNet = 5000;
  var runningSum = 0;
  var numYes = 0;
  for (var i = 0; !valCell.offset(i,0).isBlank(); i++) {
    if (critCell.offset(i,0).getValue() == 'Yes') {
      numYes++;
      if (numYes == 2) break;
      if (i == safetyNet) {
        throw new Error('exceeded safety net limit in ParentChildCalc1, searching ' + safetyNet + ' rows.');
      }
    }
    runningSum = runningSum + valCell.offset(i,0).getValue();
  }
  return (runningSum);
}

function GetParamRange(paramNumber) {
  var activeSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var formula = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveRange().getFormula();

  //--- expecting two parameters, split here and check
  const MAXARGS = 2;
  var args = formula.match(/=\w+\((.*)\)/i)[1].split(',');
  if (args.length != MAXARGS) {
    throw new Error('in GetParamRange: ' + args.join(',') + '- invalid number of arguments, expecting ' + MAXARGS);
  }

  if ((paramNumber < 1) || (paramNumber > MAXARGS)) {
    throw new Error('in GetParamRange: invalid parameter requested, must be ' + MAXARGS + ' or less');
  }

  //--- is the worksheet specified?
  var paramRange;
  var parts = args[paramNumber-1].split('!');
  if (parts.length == 2) {
    //--- use worksheet and cell to get the range
    Logger.log('activeSheet = ' + activeSheet.getName());
    ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheetByName(parts[0].replace(/\'/g, ''));
    paramRange = ss.getRange(parts[1]);
  }
  else {
    //--- get the range from the active sheet
    paramRange = activeSheet.getRange(parts[0]);
  }
  return(paramRange);
}

So, to use this function just put the formula =ParentChildCalc1(D7,C7) in cell E7.


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