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The Humanity of Apostles Part Three
Blogs By John Alley
This is part three of a series of blogs by John Alley, on the topic of the humanity of apostles. These blogs are taken from chapter 10 of the Apostolic Revelation. Part one of this blog series is available here.
Humanity and Grace Combined
In earlier chapters, we spoke at some length of the grace and sovereign power of God at work in apostles. We must now recognise that our humanity remains, and is 'mixed in' with the grace of God at every point of the life of the church. This is entirely and properly biblical, since "we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body" (2 Corinthians 4:7-10).
Here I have an important word for every believer. Accept that apostles are human, yet at the same time anointed by God to provide leadership, spiritual covering and government for the church. Accept that they do have the authority of Christ as His apostles. Accept these truths – and co-operate with Jesus to establish the leadership He wants, to build the wineskin He wants, for the church.
Though apostles are human, they are chosen to do a job for Christ, and therefore are given the authority to represent Him and serve their commission. All the saints of the whole church need to accept this dynamic truth, and give to apostles acceptance, support, and honour.
Accept their authority — and allow them to make mistakes and be human — as long, of course, as they are what we expect every Christian to be, which is, open, honest, transparent, submitted in relationships, humble and penitent.
Support their purpose, helping them find the way ahead, the right way of Christ for the church. Offer much prayer on their behalf, give financially and with great generosity to establish their purpose, and yield the love of your heart to them. All these things we are exhorted to do for apostles by Holy Scripture.
Christ will bring them through, with or without you — but you should be part of the solution, not part of the problem — and you might as well share in an apostle's reward, rather than hinder your own.
And give honour (1 Corinthians 12:24). We have spoken elsewhere of the honour that should be given to leaders and spiritual fathers. Very often apostles are treated badly, but they need not be treated badly by you. You, who know the way of Christ, should now walk in the way of Christ.
False Apostles
We now come to an entirely different matter. The genuine apostle, in his humanity, must not be confused with the false apostle. The church must accept, honour and follow true apostles, yet at the same time be discerning, so as to guard against and reject the false apostle.
The early church, it seemed, knew they were supposed to test, or assess, the claims of apostles so as to guard against false ministry. It was common in the early church to receive travelling ministers, and communication was not what it is today. Jesus commended the Ephesian church for testing and rejecting false apostles (Revelation 2:2), and Paul remonstrated with the Corinthian church for failing to do so, after having been deceived by boastful men with false motivation (2 Corinthians 11:13).
At the same time, it would be a grave mistake to assume that false apostles are as prevalent as true and genuine apostles of Christ. This is simply not so, and the New Testament gives us a right and healthy perspective. Biblical references that honour apostles abound, whereas false apostles are referred to in only two places, (2 Corinthians 11:13, and Revelation 2:2) and neither of these passages are actually a warning against future false apostles. In the first, Paul's emotive appeal was bringing correction to a church after they had made serious mistakes, and in the second Jesus is commending another for having got it right.
In reality, the New Testament revelation is far more concerned about the danger of false prophets and false teacher/shepherds in the church, than with false apostles, although we should recognise that all these have similar characteristics. In a sense, the warning about one is a warning about all.
Jesus personally forewarned His apostles about false Christ's and false prophets (Matthew 7:15, 24:11, 24:24, Mark 13:22), but in the later teaching of the apostles themselves there are numerous references to false prophets (1 John 4:1, Revelation 2:20, Revelation 16:13), false teachers (1 Tim 1:3-7, 1 Tim 6:3-4, 2 Peter 2:1), false shepherds (Jude 12), false brothers (2 Corinthians 11:26, Galatians 2:4), false preachers (Philippians 1:15-18), and future teacher/elders as 'savage wolves (Acts 20:29). This is why I made the earlier comment that there seems to be far less concern over false apostles, than over false prophets, teachers and shepherds, but we should not make too fine a point of that. The fact remains, the enemy will attempt to counterfeit every aspect of the life of the church, each ministry anointing, and the teaching of the truth itself.
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Batman is certainly hogging the headlines this week as his superhero slapfight with Superman hits cinema screens everywhere. And as you may have heard (if you read my review), Ben Affleck's portrayal of the Dark Knight is one of the best things about Batman v Superman: This Title Still Stinks Even After I've Seen The Movies. Of course, he's not the only Batman we'll be seeing on screen in the next 12 months, as The Lego Batman Movie is scheduled to hit theatres early next year. And just like the brilliant Lego Movie that spawned this spinoff, everything is looking awesome!
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While we're yet to see what the Robin (Michael Cera), Batgirl (Rosario Dawson), and Alfred (Ralph Fiennes) look like, Will Arnett, the voice of this blocky Batman reprising his role from The Lego Movie, did reveal the first teaser poster for the movie on Twitter yesterday.
Arnett also spoke about aspects of Batman's world that we'll be seeing in this movie.
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A term for deregulation, privatization and other conservative policies associated with Margaret Thatcher, who was prime minister of the United Kingdom between 1979 and 1990. Thatcherism promoted monetarism and free markets and is intellectually closely related to Reaganomics.
He said: "They were feeling more keen to push forward with their academic agenda and to reach out to communities beyond the ivory tower - and to connect with local people to help them understand what scholars of conservatism and Thatcherism do.
Reprinted in Stuart Hall and Martin Jacques (eds), The Politics of Thatcherism, Lawrence & Wishart 1983, p23.
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Although subtitled 'The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era', the location of the book is very much high political, while Vinen seeks to plot a methodological middle way between biographical approaches to Thatcher and sociological approaches to Thatcherism (p.
It is precisely the "implicitness" of this challenge that distances Leigh from other more strident critics of Thatcherism such as Derek Jarman or Ken Loach.
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This question was first articulated during the catastrophe of Thatcherism, one that still persists in Britain, as elsewhere.
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Over the last ten years Andrew Graham-Dixon has served as the art critic for The Independent, which for a while after its inception during the mid '80s height of Thatcherism, was London's freshest daily, the voice of an opposition that has since come to power.


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Events from the year 1975 in France.

Incumbents
 President: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
 Prime Minister: Jacques Chirac

Events
1 January – Work is abandoned on the British end of the Channel Tunnel.
March – Launch of the Renault 30, Renault's first postwar six-cylinder car and Renault's flagship car to compete with the likes of the Citroen CX and BMW 5 Series, and the first production car of its size to feature a hatchback.
6 March – A bomb explodes in the Paris offices of Springer Press. The 6 March Group (connected to the Red Army Faction) demands amnesty for the Baader-Meinhof Group.
6 July – The Comoros declare their independence from France.
September – Chrysler Europe launches the Simca 1307, a large five-door hatchback which will go on sale in Britain in the new year as the Chrysler Alpine. It is similar in size and design to the Renault 16, and is one of the first cars of its size to feature a hatchback.
15 September – The department of Corse, comprising the entire island of Corsica, is divided into two departments: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
November
  Launch of the Renault 20, a four-cylinder version of the Renault 30 with minor styling changes.
 SNCF Class 140C steam locomotive No 38 works a freight train between its depot at Gray and Chalindrey, the last steam-hauled train operated commercially by SNCF.
15–17 November – 1st G6 summit at Rambouillet.
December – The Simca 1307 is voted European Car of the Year.

Arts and literature

Sport
26 June – Tour de France begins.
20 July – Tour de France ends, won by Bernard Thévenet.

Births

January to March
3 January – Thomas Bangalter, musician and founder of Daft Punk
9 January – Xavier Méride, soccer player.
10 January
Olivier Chapuis, ice dancer.
Alexis Loret, actor.
21 January – Thomas Castaignède, rugby player and journalist
26 January – Alexandre Péclier, rugby union player.
5 February – Frédéric Baud, nordic combined skier.
7 February – Emily Loizeau, author, composer and singer.
17 February – Marie-Pierre Leray, figure skater.
8 March – François Grenet, soccer player.
12 March – Valérie Nicolas, team handball player.
21 March – Souleymane M'baye, boxer.
22 March – Ludovic Turpin, cyclist.
25 March – Gaspard Manesse, actor and musician.

April to June
4 April – Delphine Arnault, businesswoman.
12 April – Laurent Wauquiez, politician and Minister.
18 April – Frédéric Née, soccer player.
27 April – Xavier Gens, film director.
30 April – David Moncoutié, cyclist.
16 May – Jean-Christophe Devaux, soccer player.
31 May – Emmanuel Jonnier, cross-country skier.
2 June – Sébastien Schemmel, soccer player.
18 June – Jamel Debbouze, actor.
24 June – Laurent Tobel, figure skater.
26 June – Philippe Delaye, soccer player.

July to September
4 July – Thierry Zig, basketball player.
17 July – Vincent Vittoz, cross-country skier.
18 July – Emmanuel Hostache, bobsledder (died 2007).
25 July – Isabelle Blanc, snowboarder and Olympic gold medallist.
27 July – Grégoire Colin, actor.
16 August – Didier Agathe, soccer player.
30 August – Younous Oumouri, soccer player.
3 September – Cristobal Huet, ice hockey player.
3 September – Stéphane Samson, soccer player.
6 September – Sylvie Becaert, biathlete.
19 September – Caroline Fourest, feminist writer, journalist and editor.
23 September – Laurent Batlles, soccer player.
30 September – Marion Cotillard, actress.
30 September – Laure Pequegnot, Alpine skier.

October to December
5 October – Bobo Baldé, soccer player.
12 October – Cédric Duchesne, soccer player.
16 October – Christophe Maé, singer.
2 November – Stéphane Sarrazin, motor racing driver.
4 November – Yoann Le Boulanger, cyclist.
6 November – Matthieu Lièvremont, rugby union player.
7 November – Raphaël Haroche, singer.
9 November
Djézon Boutoille, soccer player.
Raphaël Enthoven, philosopher, media presenter and novelist.
13 November – Alain Digbeu, basketball player.
20 November – Sébastien Hamel, soccer player.
20 November – Nicolas Savinaud, soccer player.
26 November – Marinette Pichon, soccer player.
9 December – Olivier Milloud, rugby union player.

Full date unknown
Paul Renaud, illustrator and comic book artist.

Deaths

January to March
9 January – Pierre Fresnay, actor (born 1897).
14 January – Pierre David-Weill, investment banker (born 1900).
22 January – Paul Antoine Aristide Montel, mathematician (born 1876).
9 February – Pierre Dac, humorist and French Resistance activist (born 1893).
13 February – André Beaufre, military officer (born 1902).
24 February – Marcel Grandjany, harpist and composer (born 1891).
2 March – Madeleine Vionnet, fashion designer (born 1876).
3 March – Yves Godard, military officer (born 1911).
9 March – Joseph Guillemot, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (born 1899).
13 March – Jean Del Val, actor (born 1891).
18 March – Adrienne Bolland, test pilot and first woman to fly over the Andes (born 1895).
25 March – Michèle Girardon, actress (born 1938).

April to June
4 April – Pierre Galopin, military officer, executed.
11 April – André Obey, playwright (born 1892).
12 April – Josephine Baker, actress (born 1906 in the United States).
25 April – Mike Brant, Israeli singer, committed suicide in Paris (born 1947).
25 April – Jacques Duclos, politician (born 1896).
30 April – Gen Paul, painter and engraver (born 1895).
13 May – Charles Vaurie, ornithologist (born 1906).
19 May – Jacques Natanson, writer (born 1901).
21 May – Jean Fontenay, cyclist (born 1911).
23 May – Paul Legentilhomme, military officer (born 1884).

July to December
20 September – Saint-John Perse, poet and diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 (born 1887).
23 September – René Thomas, motor racing driver (born 1886).
27 September – Maurice Feltin, Cardinal (born 1883).
3 October – Guy Mollet, politician (born 1905).
15 October – Jacques Charon, actor and film director (born 1920).
16 October – Jean Odin, politician (born 1889).
28 October – Georges Carpentier, boxer (born 1894).
22 November – François de Roubaix, film score composer (born 1939).
19 December – René Maheu, professor of philosophy and Director General of UNESCO (born 1905).
22 December – René Floriot, lawyer (born 1902).

Full date unknown
Albert-Félix de Lapparent, palaeontologist and Jesuit priest (born 1905).

See also
 List of French films of 1975

References

1970s in France

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3 Ways Companies Are Building a Business Around AI
Quentin Hardy
There is no argument whether Artificial Intelligence is coming. The question then becomes: How should a company that isn't involved in building A.I. think about using it? Even in these early days, practices of successful early adopters offer several useful lessons: 1. Find and own valuable data no one else has; 2. Take a systemic view of your business, and find data adjacencies; 3. Package A.I. for the customer experience.
There is no argument about whether artificial intelligence (AI) is coming. It is here, in automobiles, smartphones, aircraft, and much else. Not least in the online search abilities, speech and translation features, and image recognition technology of my employer, Alphabet.
The question now moves to how broadly AI will be employed in industry and society, and by what means. Many other companies, including Microsoft and Amazon, also already offer AI tools which, like Google Cloud, where I work, will be sold online as cloud computing services. There are numerous other AI products available to business, like IBM's Watson, or software from emerging vendors.
Whatever hype businesspeople read around AI — and there is a great deal — the intentions and actions of so many players should alert them to the fundamental importance of this new technology.
This is no simple matter, as AI is both familiar and strange. At heart, the algorithms and computation are dedicated to unearthing novel patterns, which is what science, technology, markets, and the humanistic arts have done throughout the story of humankind.
The strange part is how today's AI works, building subroutines of patterns, and loops of patterns about other patterns, training itself through multiple layers that are only possible with very large amounts of computation. For perhaps the first time, we have invented a machine that cannot readily explain itself.
In the face of such technical progress, paralysis is rarely a good strategy. The question then becomes: How should a company that isn't involved in building AI think about using it? Even in these early days, practices of successful early adopters offer several useful lessons:
Find and own valuable data no one else has.
Take a systemic view of your business, and find data adjacencies.
Package AI for the customer experience.
Capture the Scarce Data
CAMP3 is a 26-person company, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, that deploys and manages wireless sensor networks for agriculture. The company also sells Google's G Suite email and collaboration products on a commission basis.
Founder and chief executive Craig Ganssle was an early user of Google Glass. Glass failed as a consumer product, but the experience of wearing a camera and collecting images in the field inspired Ganssle to think about ways farmers could use AI to spot plant diseases and pests early on.
AI typically works by crunching very large amounts of data to figure out telltale patterns, then testing provisional patterns against similar data it hasn't yet processed. Once validated, the pattern-finding methodology is strengthened by feeding it more data.
CAMP3's initial challenge was securing enough visual data to train its AI product. Not only were there relatively few pictures of diseased crops and crop pests, but they were scattered across numerous institutions, often without proper identification.
"Finding enough images of northern corn leaf blight [NCLB] took 10 months," said Ganssle. "There were lots of pictures in big agricultural universities, but no one had the information well-tagged. Seed companies had pictures too, but no one had pictures of healthy corn, corn with early NCLB, corn with advanced NCLB."
They collected whatever they could from every private, educational, and government source they could, and then took a lot of pictures themselves. Training the data, in this case, may have been easier than getting the data in the first place.
That visual training data is a scarce commodity, and a defensible business asset. Initial training for things like NCLB, cucumber downy mildew, or sweet corn worm initially required "tens of thousands" of images, he said. With a system trained, he added, it now requires far fewer images to train for a disease.
CAMP3 trains the images on TensorFlow, an AI software framework first developed by Google and then open sourced. For computing, he relied on Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine. "Now we can take the machine from kindergarten to PhD-style analysis in a few hours," Ganssle said.
The painful process of acquiring and correctly tagging the data, including time and location information for new pictures the company and customers take, gave CAMP3 what Ganssle considers a key strategic asset. "Capture something other people don't have, and organize it with a plan for other uses down the road," he said.
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"With AI, you never know what problem you will need to tackle next. This could be used for thinking about soils, or changing water needs. When we look at new stuff, or start to do predictive modeling, this will be data that falls off the truck, that we pick up and use."
Explore Your Data Adjacencies
TalkIQ is a company that monitors sales and customer service phone calls, turns the talk into text, and then scans the words in real time for keywords and patterns that predict whether a company is headed for a good outcome — a new sale, a happy customer.
The company got its start after Jack Abraham, a former eBay executive and entrepreneur, founded ZenReach, a Phoenix company that connects online and offline commerce, in part through extensive call centers.
"I kept thinking that if I could listen to everything our customers were asking for, I would capture the giant brain of the company," said Abraham. "Why does one rep close 50% of his calls, while the other gets 25%?"
The data from those calls could improve performance at ZenReach, he realized, but could also be the training set for a new business that served other companies. TalkIQ, based in San Francisco, took two years to build. Data scientists examined half a million conversations preserved in the company's computer-based ZenReach phone system.
As with CAMP3, part of the challenge was correctly mapping information — in this case, conversations in crowded rooms, sometimes over bad phone connections — and tagging things like product names, features, and competitors. TalkIQ uses automated voice recognition and algorithms that understand natural language, among other tools.
Since products and human interactions change even faster than biology, the training corpus for TalkIQ needs to train almost continuously to predict well, said Dan O'Connell, the company's chief executive. "Every prediction depends on accurate information," he said. "At the same time, you have to be careful of 'overfitting,' or building a model so complex that the noise is contributing to results as much as good data.
Built as an adjacency to ZenReach, TalkIQ must also tweak for individual customer and vertical industry needs. The product went into commercial release in January, and according to Abraham now has 27 companies paying for the service. "If we're right, this is how every company will run in the future."
Focus on Customer Experience
Last March the Denver-based company Blinker launched a mobile app for buying and selling cars in the state of Colorado. Customers are asked to photograph the back of their vehicle, and within moments of uploading the image the car's year, make and model, and resale value are identified. From there it is a relatively simple matter to offer the car, or seek refinancing and insurance.
The AI that identifies the car so readily seems like magic. In fact, the process is done using TensorFlow, along with the Google Vision API, to identify the vehicle. Blinker has agreements with third-party providers of motor vehicle data, and once it identifies the plate number, it can get the other information from the files (where possible, the machine also checks available image data.)
Blinker has filed for patents on a number of the things it does, but the company's founder and chief executive thinks his real edge is his 44 years in the business of car dealerships.
"Whatever you do, you are still selling cars," said Rod Buscher. "People forget that the way it feels, and the pain points of buying a car, are still there."
He noted that Beepi, an earlier peer-to-peer attempt to sell cars online, "raised $150 million, with a great concept and smart guys. They still lost it all. The key to our success is domain knowledge: I have a team of experts from the auto selling business."
That means taking out the intrusive ads and multi-click processes usually associated with selling cars online and giving customers a sense of fast, responsive action. If the car is on sale, the license number is covered with a Blinker logo, offering the seller a sense of privacy (and Blinker some free advertising.)
Blinker, which hopes to go national over the next few years, does have AI specialists, who have trained a system with over 70,000 images of cars. Even these had the human touch — the results were verified on Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a service where humans perform inexpensive tasks online.
While the AI work goes on, Buscher spent over a year bringing in focus groups to see what worked, and then watched how buyers and sellers interacted (frequently, they did their sales away from Blinker, something else the company had to fix).
"I've never been in tech, but I'm learning that on the go," he said. "You still have to know what a good and bad customer experience is like."
No single tool, even one as powerful as AI, determines the fate of a business. As much as the world changes, deep truths — around unearthing customer knowledge, capturing scarce goods, and finding profitable adjacencies — will matter greatly. As ever, the technology works to the extent that its owners know what it can do, and know their market.
Quentin Hardy is Head of Editorial at Google Cloud.
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Here at the Imagine Cup the United States is represented in the Software Design, Embedded Design, Touch and Tablet Accessibility, and Windows Phone 7 "Rockstar" competition categories. Here is a short description of each team and their project.
Project Description: Mobilife introduces innovative application technologies into the market of mobile medicine by pairing the Windows Mobile platform with computer-assisted intravital microscopy to provide on-field analysis of the human microcirculation to detect developing microangiopathy in children.
Project Description: Project Vaccine Tracker helps children around the world. There is a potential to save tens of thousands (or more) children from preventable diseases by providing a solution to the World Health Organization, UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders, Kenya Partnership and others to effectively record and track immunizations in remote regions of less developed and developing countries.
Project Description: OneView is a Tablet PC application that enables blind and sighted students to collaboratively solve problems. It combines a sketching interface with a synchronized audio-based interface to enable students with different abilities to work together effectively.
Project Description: The Note-Taker Project solves issues that students with visual impairment have by combining a custom-designed pan, tilt and zoom camera, and a Tablet PC that supports both pen and multitouch input. Users simultaneously view live video and take notes on a split-screen interface.
Project Description: Beastware is a 2-D game that involves the player controlling a machine that destroys other machines by using an accelerometer. The objective of the game is to destroy as many enemies as possible before your health runs out. Players have three actions they can perform: shoot, repair and defend. The shoot action fires bullets in the direction of the machine. The repair action restores a small amount of health instantly. The defend action reduces the amount of damage taken for a short period of time.


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Islamic State claims Afghan attack which killed Sikhs and Hindus
| Published: Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 8:38 [IST]
Kabul, Jul 3: The Islamic State group today claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan that killed at least 19 people, mostly Sikhs and Hindus.
The bomber targeted a delegation from the minority communities as it was travelling to the governor's residence in the eastern city of Jalalabad yesterday for a meeting with President Ashraf Ghani.
Sikh minorities carry the coffin of one of their relatives killed in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.PTI Photo
Avtar Singh Khalsa, a longtime leader of the Sikh community, was among those killed. Another 20 people were wounded.
In a statement released today, the IS said it had targeted a group of "polytheists".
Sikhs and Hindus face discrimination in the conservative Muslim country and have been targeted by Islamic extremists in the past, leading many to emigrate.
The community numbered more than 80,000 in the 1970s, but today only around 1,000 remain. The UN mission to Afghanistan condemned the attack in a statement, saying, "the architects of this appalling crime must be brought to justice."
The UN also condemned an attack late Saturday in which militants killed three night watchmen outside a school and beheaded two of them before torching the building. That attack was also claimed by the Islamic State group.
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Have good faith in Islam, carry out coordinated strikes, Baghdadi says in latest clip
Kerala Hindu girls alleges torture as she refuses to join ISIS
Chemical engineer, who ran JMB's terror camps in Bengal nabbed
Another Kerala module ISIS operative killed in Afghanistan
Al-Qaeda remains resilient says United Nations report
Nabbed just in time: ISIS module inspired by Zakir Naik's speeches planned Mumbai Mayhem
Inspired by Zakir Naik's speeches, ISIS module planned mass killing of Hindus at a temple
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From Ansarulla in Tamil Nadu to PFI in Kerala, the feeder modules of the ISIS down South
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Story first published: Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 8:38 [IST]
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Store data in tables of rows and columns.
Think of it as a spreadsheet with rows, columns, and cells, where cells can contain data, references to other cells, and links to other sheets.
You can find what's in a specific row using the _id, or you can retrieve rows by formulating queries that select rows from the table be specifying constraints. You use the SQL query language discussed below to create queries.
Atomicity. Either all of its data modifications are performed, or none of them are performed.
SELECT word, description FROM WORD_LIST_TABLE WHERE word="alpha"
SELECT columns—select the columns to return. Use * to return all columns.
FROM table—specify the table from which to get results.
WHERE—keyword for conditions that have to be met.
column="value"—the condition that has to be met.
AND, OR—connect multiple conditions with logic operators.
ORDER BY—omit for default order, or specify ASC for ascending, DESC for descending.
LIMIT is a very useful keyword if you want to only get a limited number of results.
SELECT _id FROM WORD_LIST_TABLE WHERE word="alpha" AND definition LIKE "%art%"
Return the id of the word alpha with the substring "art" in the definition.
Sort in reverse and get the first item. This gives you the last item per sort order. Sorting is by the first column, in this case, the _id.
You can practice creating and querying databases at this Fiddle website and HeadFirst Labs.
rawQuery(String sql, String selectionArgs) runs the provided SQL and returns a Cursor of the result set.
The following table shows how the first two queries from above would look as raw queries.
query(String table, String columns, String selection, String selectionArgs, String groupBy, String having, String orderBy, String limit) queries the given table, returning a Cursor over the result set.
Queries always return a Cursor object. A Cursor is an object interface that provides random read-write access to the result set returned by a database query. It points to the first element in the result of the query.
A cursor is a pointer into a row of structured data. You can think of it as a pointer to table rows.
The Cursor class provides methods for moving the cursor through that structure, and methods to get the data from the columns of each row.
When a method returns a Cursor object, you iterate over the result, extract the data, do something with the data, and finally close the cursor to release the memory.
You will learn more about cursors in the following chapters.


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November 11, 2019 11:44AM EST Dispatches
French President Silent on Rampant Abuses During China Visit
Macron Makes No Public Mention of Mass Detention of Xinjiang's Muslims
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French President Emmanuel Macron, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping following a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019.
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French President Emmanuel Macron's various public statements during his visit to China last week were remarkable, for what went unsaid more than their substance.
Given the enormity of human rights abuses in China, the French president had an important opportunity to publicly press his Chinese hosts on a slew of issues. But Macron made no public mention of the Chinese government's mass repression campaign against Muslims in Xinjiang, including the arbitrary detention of about one million people. Not a word about Ilham Tohti, a prominent Uyghur economist recently awarded the prestigious Sakharov Prize, who is languishing in prison. And nothing about China crushing peaceful activism throughout the country.
Warned by the Chinese government before the visit not to interfere in the country's "internal affairs," Macron seems to have chosen silence over any public criticism of serious violations under Chinese President Xi Jinping. At his closing press conference, Macron said he had stressed to Xi the need for dialogue and restraint in Hong Kong, but fell short of calling on Xi to respect China's commitments to Hong Kong people's rights.
In a letter, Human Rights Watch urged Macron to use his visit to publicly call on the Chinese government to close the "political education" camps in Xinjiang, free unjustly detained critics of the government, and commit to respecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of the people of Hong Kong.
Despite overwhelming evidence of China's systematic human rights violations, many world leaders still claim to pursue only "quiet diplomacy" with China. But quiet persuasion has not generated sufficient pressure for Xi to incur a cost for his brutal repression. Keeping publicly silent in the face of such abuses as Macron did only encourages Xi to continue down the same road.
Macron was happier talking about business: US$15 billion in contracts were reportedly signed with French companies during Macron's visit. The French president also inaugurated the new Pompidou Museum in Shanghai and lobbied for the filming of the new adventures of the Gallic comic strip hero Asterix to take place in China.
But the Uyghurs, detained activists, and other people persecuted under Xi's brutal tenure cannot count on any public criticism from Macron. Xi can continue to repress apparently without having to worry about any consequences in its bilateral relationship with France.
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"Just Let Us Be"


Teetering on a precipitous pinnacle, High Rock is one of Washington's most stunning lookouts. The hike to it is short but steep. And if the climb doesn't take your breath away, the in-your-face view of Mount Rainier's snowy face will!
tHigh Rock is the loftiest and most prominent point along the serrated Sawtooth Ridge which rises above the Nisqually River valley just south of Mount Rainier National Park. Graced with a fire lookout since 1930, it's one of the few remaining in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. No longer staffed and in need of some restoration, the historic structure is open for day use. It's readily available to shelter snacking hikers and be the striking subject for scores of photographers.
Back when the lookout was constructed folks had to hike over 10 miles to reach this jagged summit. But over the decades roads were punched closer to this peak for timber extraction. The days of the big cut are over in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, and the Sawtooth Ridge still retains some healthy stands of old growth forest. But what hikers are most drawn to when they visit High Rock are its far reaching and unsurpassed views.
Start your hike at the edge of an old cut and make your way up the southeast spine of the mountain. The forest composed mainly of mountain hemlock and silver fir is open and the way is lined with bear grass. In early summer, lupine, paintbrush and other showy blossoms brush the trail in an array of dazzling colors.
The tread is built well and well-trodden. This is a popular trail despite its steepness, which soon becomes evident shortly into the hike. At .7 mile a trailside bench invites a quick respite from marching on. Shortly beyond, the trail veers off of the spine of the ridge before quickly regaining it again after reaching a small saddle.
The way steepens as it approaches an open ledge. It's quite a drop off and just a small taste of what is about to come. Ambling over ledge and passing by some rocky flower gardens, the trail continues upward. A final switchback has you cresting the narrow summit ridge. Just above the switchback notice a small plaque in the ledge. It's a memorial for Johnnie T. Peters, who in 1930 packed materials on mules and drove them from the Ranger Station in Mineral to this mountain to construct the lookout. Mr. Peters constructed ten other lookouts in the area as well.
Now continue on the final stretch passing the dilapidated remains of a cabin before coming to the big block of exposed rock and ledge that gives High Rock its name. Head right up the ledge to the teetering white lookout standing out prominently against the gray rock. Use extreme caution as you approach the lookout. The guide cables are gone. Keep children close by and dogs on leash. The cliffs drop over 600 feet inducing vertical in many a High Rock hiker.
Once you've lifted your eyes away from the ground and have firmly planted yourself on the balcony of the lookout, soak in the views and let your jaw drop. The panorama from this pinnacle packs a punch! Mount Rainier dominates the scene; its snowy icy presence can practically be felt breathing upon you. Admire the mountain's craggy and meadow flanked neighbors too-the Tatoosh Range, Mount Wow and the Glacier View Wilderness peaks.
Stare straight down to Cora Lake tucked in a forested valley 1,500 feet below. Look south and east to waves of emerald ridges with Mounts Adams and St Helens floating upon them. Be sure to stare east too, across the Sawtooth Ridge with its notched summits, stark north faces and shadowed folds and drops. If it's a warm sunny day, bask on the rocks like a content marmot. There's no need to hurry back, for you'll not tire of these views. In fact, they only grow more intense as late afternoon and evening light beautifully accents the surroundings as the sun lowers in the sky.
Getting to High Rock Trail: From Elbe, follow SR 706 east (passing through Ashford) for 10.1 miles. Turn right (south) onto Skate Creek Road (FR 52) and follow for 4.7 miles. Turn right (south) onto graveled FR 84 and follow for 6.8 miles bearing right onto FR 8440. Continue 2.7 miles to trailhead at Towhead Gap (el. 4,330-feet).


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A Blog by Jonathan Low
A $1Billion Problem Is Brewing: 10 Million Kegs of Beer Are Going Stale
And sadly, as far as scientists know, stale beer is not a cure for coronavirus. JL
Saabira Chaudhuri reports in the Wall Street Journal:
Millions of gallons of beer stuck in stadiums, concert halls, restaurants and bars are fast going stale, leaving the beer industry with a tricky problem: What to do with all that booze nobody will ever drink? The pandemic forced U.S. bars to close ahead of St Patrick's Day and the "March Madness" basketball tournament. Beer intended for those events is now spoiling in locked establishments, and brewers are trying to get it back so kegs can be refilled before lockdowns lift. In the UK 49% of beer is drunk in pubs, restaurants and bars, compared with 20% in the U.S.
Millions of gallons of beer stuck in stadiums, concert halls, restaurants and bars are fast going stale, leaving the beer industry with a tricky problem: What to do with all that booze nobody will ever drink?
The coronavirus pandemic forced U.S. bars to close ahead of two of the country's biggest drinking occasions: St Patrick's Day and the "March Madness" basketball tournament. Beer intended for those events is now spoiling in locked establishments, and brewers are trying to get it back so kegs can be refilled before lockdowns lift. Executives say draft beer typically stays fresh for between two and six months.
"This was the absolute worst time for this to happen for draft beer," said Craig Purser, chief executive of the National Beer Wholesalers Association, a trade body. "We have never ever seen an interruption like this where everything freezes in place."
Many industries are wrestling with similar dilemmas about what to do with their excess supply while the global economy recedes and a deadly virus rages around the world. Cruise ships are stranded at sea without any passengers. Air carriers are looking for places to park all of their idled planes. Commodity traders are searching for floating supertankers to store an overabundance of crude oil.
The virus has been especially disruptive for food and drink makers who have struggled to redirect the nation's sprawling food supply chain to meet a surge in demand caused by the pandemic. The closure of restaurants, offices and schools across the U.S. has left producers with huge amounts of vegetables and meat to dispose of because those products can't easily be redirected to retail stores. Farmers are destroying hundreds of acres of vegetables, dumping milk and shrinking chicken flocks—all to curb supplies that could weigh on prices for months to come.
The beer industry's troubles ramped up in March when roughly 10 million gallons of suds were abandoned in venues that month alone, according to an NBWA estimate. That is the equivalent of almost one million kegs. Even more beer is stuck at distributors' warehouses, in transit from other countries and in breweries. Unsold and expiring beer could cost the beer industry as much as $1 billion, according to the NBWA.
Dumping the unused ale en masse isn't an option. Environmental regulations say large volumes of beer shouldn't be poured down drains or into rivers because it can disturb the pH balance, reduce oxygen in the water and produce undesirable bacteria. Before deciding where the stale beer goes, brewers or distributors must first access tens of thousands of locked-down venues, lift the heavy kegs out of cellars and safely balance trucks that may be carrying a mix of full and empty barrels.
"This is a hot potato because none of our
businesses are set up to return massive amounts of beer," says Dan Vorlage, marketing head for Denver-based MicroStar Logistics LLC, the U.S.'s largest keg-logistics company. "It takes three times as many trucks to transport full kegs
than empty ones."
MicroStar—whose customers include 1,000 brewers—plans to treat the beer with defoamer and balance the pH before sending it to city water authorities for further testing and treatment so it can be released into waterways.
Brewers and other keg owners say they are also eager to quickly recover the containers—which cost between $100 and $120 apiece—in case they get tied up in bankruptcy proceedings.
Who ultimately pays for all that beer that no one consumed is another point of contention. Guinness maker Diageo PLC, Budweiser brewer Anheuser Busch InBev SA and Modelo owner Constellation Brands Inc. are among brewers that have said they would share the cost of the undrunk beer with their distributors to spare bars and restaurants from picking up the tab. AB InBev and Constellation have also temporarily extended the expiration dates on their draft beers to buy the companies more time to deal with the glut of expiring beer.
"We're afraid lots of places will close and won't be able to open back up—they're on very thin margins," said Bob Pease, head of the Brewers Association, a trade body for small and medium-sized brewers that are typically more dependent on bars than liquor stores.
Brewers and distributors face more challenges in the months ahead as big summer sporting events are put on hold or cancelled altogether, supressing demand for months to come. The major league baseball season is postponed, European soccer play is suspended and there are no summer Olympics in Tokyo this July. Bars and restaurants are expected to operate at lower capacity when eventually allowed to reopen.
In the U.K., an even bigger portion of beer is at risk, since about 49% of beer is drunk in pubs, restaurants and bars, compared with 20% in the U.S., according to industry tracker IWSR. The Campaign for Real Ale, a consumer-focused beer group, estimates about 50 million pints of beer could go to waste.
Many pubs serve cask ale—the peculiarly British, naturally carbonated beer that is often drunk at room temperature—which has a shorter shelf life than most beer. An unopened cask lasts about a month but once opened lasts just a few days, according to Matt Todd, who owns the Wonston Arms, a village pub in the Southwest of the U.K. "They're a ticking time bomb," he said.
When pubs were forced to close in the U.K., Mr. Todd created a website offering home delivery to sell his existing inventory of expiring ale. Strong demand means he's now buying fresh supplies, delivering small kegs and growlers to local customers.
Matt Todd, a British pub owner, talks to a customer after completing a home delivery of ale.
PHOTO: LISA FAYE BROADHEAD
"I thought 'right I'm going to take the pub to people,'" said Mr. Todd, who now makes 60% of his ordinary weekly revenue through deliveries. He carries a bar stool in his van so he can stop to chat to older customers.
Some brewers already have a strategy for how to handle expired beer. Samuel Adams owner Boston Beer Co. has long recaptured the ethanol for gasoline it then can sell to other buyers. Founder Jim Koch says the company will step up this practice to handle the larger volumes expected.
New York brewers Montauk Brewing Co. and AB InBev-owned Blue Point Brewing Co. are making other adjustments. Both are switching their packaging and putting more fresh beer in cans to be sold in liquor and grocery stores, where demand is still strong. They are also sending beer that is expired or can't be distributed to a nearby craft distiller to be turned into hand sanitizer. The distiller, The Better Man Distilling Co., which ordinarily makes vodka, gin and white rye, says it is much quicker to use beer to make sanitizer even though the process yields less ethanol than mashing and fermenting corn from scratch.
Kegs of beer from Montauk Brewing Co. on their way to a distiller that turns beer into hand sanitizer.
PHOTO: MONTAUK BREWING COMPANY
For D.G. Yuengling & Son, sending its flagship Yuengling beer to distillers isn't a solution because volumes are far too high, according to Chief Operating Officer David Casinelli. The company, which has several million dollars worth of beer stuck in bars and restaurants, is looking for third-party logistics operators to dispose of its beer safely.
"With each week going by more beer goes off," said Mr. Casinelli. He worries that even beer that isn't past its 60-day shelf life could be spoiled if not stored properly at locked establishments. "The kegs could all be warm. We have no idea how the beer has been handled."
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We are the official car and van rental location for Bideford, North Devon and the surrounding area. We specialise in car and van hire to Bideford town and also Barnstaple railway and coach station, so train and bus travelers requiring car hire can be collected upon arrival. The localities of Westward Ho!, Holsworthy, Monkleigh, Torrington, Instow, Appledore and Milton Dameraz are within car and van hire territories we service. We operate the full model range of new vehicles on our car hire fleet, all at competitive rental prices. Included are automatic gearbox options, estate cars, four wheel drive (4x4) and multi seaters (mpv) that will carry 6 and 7 occupants if required. For the Commercial hirer we have a comprehensive fleet of rental vehicles starting with small courier vans. In addition we have a midi van, short wheel base (swb), long wheel base (lwb) and extra long wheel base (xlwb) plus Luton Vans with and without tail lift to suit your requirements. Self drive 7.5 tonne tail lift and box Lorries are also available.
Delivery can be arranged for Business users to the Industrial Estates of Clovelly Road Bideford , Roundwell in Barnstaple, Hatchmoor in Torrington and Dobles Lane Holsworthy.Cars, lorries and vans can be hired for any period at a price to suit your budget. Tourists residing in guest houses, holiday camps and hotels in the Bideford Bay area such as the Tantons Hotel, Brend Group and Braddicks Holiday Centre can be provided with rental cars too.We can provide an �out of hours� service and will �meet and greet� if preferred so please contact us with your specific hire requirements and we will endeavor to provide the rental service you need.
We also specialise in one way self drive car rental. This facilitates transfers from Bideford to other airport terminals or destinations throughout mainland United Kingdom (U.K.). Onward travelers can collect their one way rental car from Maidstone and arrange collection of the hire car from most regional and international airports anywhere in England, Wales or Scotland.
This facility can also be used for other U.K. destinations that are not necessarily airports such as business addresses, homes or any of our many rental locations situated throughout the country. A range of vans are available too for one way hire from small courier style vans up to the long wheel base (lwb) van. Please go to our �one way rental� page and submit your particular requirements.
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Soheil Parsa – Director/Writer Soheil Parsa is an award-winning director, actor, writer, dramaturg, choreographer and teacher, whose professional theatre career spans thirty-five years and two continents. In his native Iran, Soheil completed studies in Theatre Performance at the University of Tehran and began a promising career as an actor and director. Arriving in Canada with his family in 1984, Soheil completed a second Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies at York University and then went on to establish Modern Times Stage Company as one of the most exciting theatre companies in Canada. Soheil's own work at Modern Times has been recognized with four Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Chalmers Fellowship in 2002, and a senior artist creation grant from the Canada Council, as well as a number of international prizes and master class requests. In 2007 and 2010 he was short-listed for the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre Celebrating Directors, the highest honour in Canadian theatre. Soheil's work is based on his experience in Iran and focuses on oppression and loss of freedom, especially loss of speech.
As with all of Modern Times' projects over the past 25 years, we chose to create 'Forgiveness, a theatrical poem' because it is material that matters to us deeply and urgently. The idea started in 2006 when I was in Bosnia and Herzegovina with Peter Farbridge to set up a theatre project. We met a man there who told us that walking around the town he would often bump into the soldier who had killed his father during the war. When we asked him how he dealt with that he immediately said he had forgiven him.
This fascinated us. How could it be possible for him and not for others?
'Forgiveness, a theatrical poem' has been in development since 2010 and has received three workshops in Canada and Denmark. It has been a unique collaboration between writers, dancers, actors, designers, choreographers and theatre creators. We have been researching, finding material, examining and staging it in this creative process. Forgiveness is huge, endless and shapeless. It is deeply personal and immediate, as well as infinitely timeless. In the end, we hope that this production produces more questions than answers.


Hayfever effects 10-15% of children and around 25% of adults in the UK and is caused by an allergy to pollen, typically tree or grass. Symptoms such as nasal blockage, itchy, runny eyes and nose as well as sneezy may only be mild for many but for a significant majority, they have a very real impact on day to day life. Hayfever is also commonly associated with asthma. Expert management of hayfever, including new prescription only treatments, can have a dramatic improvement on symptoms, making the spring and summer much more manageable.
Some of the most exciting developments in the field of Allergology (the study of allergy) are those in the field of desensitisation or immunotherapy, which has the potential to actually cure allergies by diverting the immune system's response to a specific allergen (such as pollen).
We are able to offer the most up to date desensitisation treatments. These can provide the one major benefit of long lasting effect, so that symptoms improve not just during the treatment but for many years after it has stopped.
Previously this highly effective treatment was considered to be high risk because they involved regular injections which could potentially cause severe reactions. However, new forms of immunotherapy are now available for the grass and tree pollen allergies that most commonly cause hayfever. Treatments for house dust mite, cat, dog and horse are also available.
Further details about this treatment are available on request.
Dr Fox speaks to the BBC on the subject of hayfever, asthma and desensitisation.


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package org.immutables.criteria.elasticsearch;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import org.elasticsearch.client.RestClient;
import org.immutables.criteria.backend.Backend;
import org.immutables.criteria.personmodel.PersonAggregationTest;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.ExtendWith;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Start embedded ES instance. Insert document(s) then find it.
 */
@ExtendWith(ElasticExtension.class)
public class ElasticAggregationTest extends PersonAggregationTest {

  private static final ObjectMapper MAPPER = ElasticPersonTest.MAPPER;

  private static final String INDEX_NAME = ElasticPersonTest.INDEX_NAME;

  private final ElasticsearchBackend backend;

  ElasticAggregationTest(RestClient restClient) throws IOException {
    IndexOps ops = new IndexOps(restClient, MAPPER, INDEX_NAME);
    ops.create(PersonModel.MAPPING).blockingAwait();
    this.backend = new ElasticsearchBackend(ElasticsearchSetup.builder(restClient).objectMapper(MAPPER).build());
  }

  @Override
  protected Backend backend() {
    return backend;
  }
}


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Q: How to prevent HttpClient.SendAsync Method from sending duplicate data Is there away to prevent HttpClient.SendAsync method from sending duplicate data.  For context purpose am getting data from one API and posting to another API
I have tried BackgroundWorker to check if async is busy before sending another record without success
                BackgroundWorker bw;
                bw = new BackgroundWorker();
                if (bw.IsBusy != true)
                {
                    bw.DoWork += (obj, ea) => TaskAsync() //containing httpclient.SendAsync;
                    bw.RunWorkerAsync();
                }
                else
                {
                    bw.CancelAsync();
                }

Another solution I tried was TaskAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult().
Retrieved saved duplicate
This saved record in MSSQL
GL-CLH-8686 | 2022-04-27 21:44:47.907
GL-CLH-8686 | 2022-04-27 21:44:51.237

A: I feel like we need to consider idempotency.
Preventing Duplicate Web Requests To ASP.NET Core
This article uses the uniqueness of database existence values to limit repeated requests.
The easiest way I can cite is to encode the data in the request with the same content in a certain way, assuming that the encoding is named content, then record the current userid, and cache it in redis cache or other caches (databases can also) , for your business, after executing this method, you can release resources or delete this record. Of course, all the information can be completely recorded in the database, but a query operation will be added.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


July 03, 2017 – Invitrocue Limited (ASX:IVQ), a leading healthcare bio-analytic solutions providers, is pleased to announce that it has been granted Human Research Ethics Committee approval to understand a cancer research study with Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research, to provide further clinical validation of Invitrocue technology for use in personalised real-time screening of cancer drugs.
Approval has been obtained from the St Vincent's Hospital Human Research Ethics Committee, and follows the signing of a Collaborative Research Master Agreement between Garvan and Invitrocue in February 2017. Pending site approval, the collaboration between Invitrocue and Garvan will now advance further, with clinical trials getting underway to evaluate the potential of patient-derived organoids for testing anticancer therapies before their administration.
The Garvan Institute is one of Australia's largest medical research institutes, with mission to make significant contributions to medical science that will change the directions of science and medicine and have major impacts on human health. Together, Garvan and St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney are developing new approaches to realise the promise of personalised medicine for individuals with cancer.
Invitrocue is also pleased to announce a successful capital raising of $685,087 through the placemet of 8,563,583 shares at eight cents, and 2,057,563 options exercisable at eight cents within one year to strategic investors to fund development of Onco-PDO business and for working capital.
Invitrocue Executive Director, Dr. Steven Fang commented: "We are pleased to secured HREC approval for our collaboration with the Garvan Institute, and are encouraged by the interest our technology has generated to date. This milestone allows us to advance our engagement further, and explore the potential of our technology in determining the right treatment for each patient, at the right time. Ultimately, we will work towards having Invitrocue technology as a clinical service, improving patient outcomes with a more personalised approach to the treatment of cancer. We are also pleased to have completed a successful capital raising with strategic investors".
The Garvan Institute of Medical Research is one of Australia's largest medical research institutions. Garvan's main research areas are: cancer, diabetes and metabolism, genomics and epigenetics, immunology and inflammation, osteoporosis and bone biology, and neuroscience. A key focus of Garvan's cancer research is the development of personalised medicine approaches to treatment. Garvan's mission is to make significant contributions to medical science that will change the directions of science and medicine and have major impacts on human health.
Founded in 1857 by the Sisters of Charity, St. Vincent"s Hospital is one of Australia's most iconic Hospitals, which functions as a full service acute public teaching hospital. As part of the NSW-based arm of St Vincent's Health Australia, the Hospital provides significant training and research activities housing several speciality units that are internationally recognised as centres of excellence. These include heart and lung transplantation bone marrow transplantation, cardiology, cancer care, AIDS/HIV, respiratory medicine, mental health and drug and alcohol services.