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Farm Africa is hugely proud that Dr. Christie Peacock's work over three decades to improve the lives of some of the poorest and most remote people in Africa, has been recognised at the highest level, with a CBE.
Christie's entire life has been dedicated to making the world a better place, right from her early years. Her decision to study agriculture at the University of Reading was driven by this passion. Her first visit to the remote parts of northern Kenya to study nomadic pastoralists inspired her PhD research on the Maasai, one of the first systematic studies of traditional sheep and goat management practices in Africa. Christie identified that, for women in particular, goats have many advantages over cows and in 1988, aged 30, she started Farm Africa's first goat project in Ethiopia.
With only £120,000 funding from Band Aid – enough for just 12 months – and with no sign of continuing funding, Christie arrived in Ethiopia and spent weeks on the road, virtually living in a small 4 x 4 whilst she set up an office from scratch.
Christie's drive to provide the best science, technology and good practice to the poorest people meant the first project was a huge success. It provided widows with cross bred goats, giving families a much-needed source of nutrition and an asset to sell in times of trouble.
The dairy goat model was so successful that it was adopted by other agencies across Africa.
Christie faced many challenges in her career in Africa, none more so than during the change of government in Ethiopia in 1991 when an outbreak of fighting saw Christie braving gunfire to rescue some of her precious cross-breed goats by distributing them into the hands of her farmers.
Christie persuaded the Director of Veterinary Services to allow her to train women as Community Animal Health Workers to provide basic care to the goats.
Christie became CEO of Farm Africa in 1999 for the next 11 years. Under her tenure she transformed the organisation from a small informal group raising £2m annually to a highly-regarded, professional organisation with an annual income of £12m.
More recently, Christie's unstoppable drive, dedication and innovation which have been a recurring theme of her career have led her to establish Sidai Africa Ltd, a social enterprise that provides livestock care services to farmers across Kenya as a commercial business.
I am highly honoured by this award that also honours my former and current colleagues in Farm Africa and Sidai. I hope that in some way we have all made the world a better place and that I have made a contribution to developing my profession. I also hope that the award recognises the vital role that agricultural development plays in Africa."

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BOONVILLE - Two Missouri state lawmakers proposed two bills that could help alleviate costs teachers put up for their classrooms.
Tuesday morning, St. Reps. Jim Hansen and Ann Kelley introduced bills to the Elementary and Secondary Education Committee. Both bills would provide up to a $500 tax deduction for teachers and administrators to use on supplies for the classroom.
"I don't think twice about purchasing things like that, that's going to help my kids be successful," Jamie Boyd, Laura Speed Elliot Middle School English and language arts teacher said.
The federal government already provides a $250 tax deduction. The new bills would be in addition to the federal deduction, adding up to up to a $750 tax deduction if signed into law.
"That money is being used wisely and so having [a tax deduction] in place to help bounce that back is so important as we continue with education," Boyd said.
According to a 2013 study done by the National School Supply and Equipment Association that was referenced during the hearing, almost all teachers spend their own money on supplies for the classroom, with the total money those teachers spent being upwards of $1.6 billion.
She has been teaching for nine years. In her first year, she estimates she spent close to $1,000.
Emily Lee, a first year teacher at Moberly High School, said she spent $300 out of pocket in her first semester.
Everything from common supplies like pencils, to things like plastic organizers for students to turn their work in are what teachers like Boyd said they need to help students learn.
"We've got to do more," said Hansen, (R)-Frankford, to the committee. "[Lawmakers should do] what little we can do when it comes to what we pay teachers for what they are expected to do."
In Missouri, Hansen said there are about 69,000 K-12 teachers with their typical starting salary coming in at about $33,000, or $31,000 for more rural areas.
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education estimates that these proposals would cost the state between $958,000 and $1.8 million with the current tax rate.
"I think it's a small investment to make for our teachers of our $28.7-billion-dollar budget," Hansen said.
The bills faced almost no opposition in the hearing, and many of the lobbyists and representatives hope this is the beginning of a larger conversation on changing teacher's salaries.
[Editor's Note: This story is a Missouri School of Journalism collaboration with the Columbia Missiourian.]
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.... "People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States," notes a retired FBI agent, Max Noel. "People don't want to listen to that. They can't believe it. One bombing now and everyone gets excited. In 1972? It was every day. Buildings getting bombed, policemen getting killed. It was commonplace." ....
Imagine if this happened today: Hundreds of young Americans—white, black, and Hispanic—disappear from their everyday lives and secretly form urban guerrilla groups. Dedicated to confronting the government and righting society's wrongs, they smuggle bombs into skyscrapers and federal buildings and detonate them from coast to coast. They strike inside the Pentagon, inside the U.S. Capitol, at a courthouse in Boston, at dozens of multinational corporations, at a Wall Street restaurant packed with lunchtime diners. People die. They rob banks, dozens of them, launch raids on National Guard arsenals, and assassinate policemen, in New York, in San Francisco, in Atlanta. There are deadly shoot-outs and daring jailbreaks, illegal government break-ins and a scandal in Washington.
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The story she [Kathy Wilkerson - a member of the Weather Underground] tells is like many I heard from those who joined Weather and other radical underground groups of the 1970s, who mistakenly believed the country was on the brink of a genuine political revolution, who thought that violence would speed the change....
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Anyway. Hopefully the move to a more regular review schedule will happen as…actually…as I intend it to, and you kids will get a review of Lawless on Friday.
In the meantime, here's a review of ParaNorman. If you were for some reason on the fence about seeing it, I do make some pretty good points in favor.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you make a trailer.
The Plot: Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) can see ghosts and has a certain fascination with the dead. Being weird gets him bullied at school and berated by his father, a state of affairs that he accepts with quiet, lonely dignity. But when a centuries old witch's curse begins to endanger his town, Norman is the only one who can save the people who so readily ostracized him. Wild shenanigans and surprisingly heartfelt talks about forgiveness and the nature of fear ensue. Seriously, I got super teary in the third act.
Norman is a sweet, shy, weird kid. He's nice, but his fascination with the dead sets him apart from pretty much everyone else. He isn't bitter, exactly; just sad, and a little defeated. Norman thinks that he's better off alone, until he meets Neil (Tucker Albrizzi), a cheerfully optimistic fat kid (it's a movie term) who's no stranger to bullying. Neil sees Norman for what he is: a complex and decent person, misunderstood by the small-minded population of a small town. It's really touching watching Neil work away at Norman's defenses, gradually befriending the 11 year-old outcast. It may be a dynamic we've seen before–social rejects becoming friends–but it's done so well that it feels both fresh and genuine.
The film's greatest strength is its sincerity. Even the bullying is treated with a kind of worldly understanding that's very refreshing. As Neil cheerfully tells Norman: "there's always going to be bullies." But Neil doesn't let them get him down, and Norman shouldn't either. Much of ParaNorman's story builds towards creating a message of compassion in the face of fear and misunderstanding. That the story is also full of warm, sometimes dark humor and wry wit is what elevates it beyond a simple Weird Kid Saves the Day tale, or, God forbid, a preachy movie about tolerance.
But ignorant townspeople and frustrated parents aren't the only bullies in the film. Way back in Pilgrim times, the town leaders ordered the execution of a witch. The witch cursed them, so that when they died, their spirits would remain on the Earth and they would rise as the living dead. The curse has been kept at bay and the witch's spirit placated for hundreds of years now, but these things have a way of coming back around. Skeletons in the closet, so to speak.
Get it? 'Cause they're zombies.
ParaNorman is a film about fear, regret, and compassion. It's about meeting people with understanding when it would be easier–and perhaps even more satisfying–to lash out. And there's another important lesson, given to Norman by his grandmother, as he prepares to go out alone against the living dead and a powerful witch: "It's okay to be scared, as long as you remember who you are." It's easy to lose sight of the good in yourself and other people when you feel threatened, but part of bravery is facing those fears with dignity and compassion.
Should you see this movie? Yes. Yes you should. It's painstakingly made and wonderfully scripted. It has a good message and well-drawn characters. Adults will appreciate the humor and complexity, but kids should see it too. Any scary moments are undercut by humor, and the intensity of the final confrontation is important. If it's too much for your child or your younger sibling, take the time to explain it. ParaNorman offers some good lessons. You should watch it. In theaters, if possible. It's also really fun for your eyes.
Yeah! I really liked ParaNorman. I think that because of its message, it is the perfect film for children ages 10-13 who have been bullied. It delivers very nicely. Plus it's only, like, twenty percent as emotionally scarring as Coraline.
And let's not forget the kids ages 10-13 who might be inclined to bully. They should probably see this too. And then sit down and have a nice, long talk with someone over some tea or Mountain Dew or whatever bullies drink.
lol… i love the review,and i had been thinking it seems like a nice movie. plus i love those types with the animated whatever they are called. used to be 'clay mation' when that style first came out in the mid-late 80's.
This is still claymation. These guys are old school, and try not to use computers.
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'Bad news is good news' for the stock market right now —here's how that could end
By William Watts
'Fed put' stops working when earnings begin to decline: UBS
Up is down and down is up. But for how long?
Investors treating bad news like good news—and vice versa—is the narrative shorthand of the moment when it comes to explaining daily stock-market moves, but the looming second-quarter U.S. earnings reporting season could soon change the equation, one analyst warned Tuesday.
The good-news-is-bad-news version of the phenomenon was on display last Friday after a stronger-than-expected U.S. June jobs report triggered a modest stock-market pullback as investors scaled back the scope of expected interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
Ahead of the data, investors had pushed all three major U.S. stock indexes — the S&P 500 SPX, -0.34% the Dow Jones Industrial DJIA, -0.09% and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.43% — to record finishes last Wednesday, with buying enthusiasm attributed to enthusiasm for aggressive Fed monetary easing after recent weak economic data.
On Wednesday, the S&P 500 topped 3,000 for the first time after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell appeared to signal that a July rate cut remained likely amid uncertainty over the economic outlook.
See: S&P 500 index tops 3000 for first time —here's what it means and how the stock market got here
Echoes of 2001 and 2007
The counter-intuitive dynamic, which has investors expressing disappointment over strong economic data and joy over weak numbers, has exasperated some market observers, but it's hardly a new phenomenon, noted François Trahan, a strategist at UBS, in a note to clients.
"The excitement investors are currently showing over impending Fed easing is fairly typical," Trahan wrote. "Indeed, there were similar short-lived periods of enthusiasm in both 2001 and 2007 as investors began to focus on coming rate cuts."
But, as investors might recall, neither of those episodes panned out like market bulls had anticipated, Trahan observed. While extended "rate-cut rallies" were a feature of the 1990s, they've proven to be short-lived over the last 20 years as market valuation measures, like the price-to-earnings ratio, expanded temporarily but then began to compress in the face of weaker leading indicators, he said.
Earnings in the spotlight
That puts the second quarter earnings reporting season, which gets under way early next week with results from some banking heavyweights, in the spotlight. Trahan noted that unlike the 1990s, the so-called "Fed put" was of little use in 2001 and 2007 when S&P 500 index earnings growth fell to 0%.
A put option gives the holder the right but not the obligation to sell an underlying asset at a set price by a certain time, providing insurance against loss. The metaphorical Fed put is a reference to the belief that the central bank will take action to bolster asset prices in the event of an economic downturn.
Moreover, earnings growth has been slowing more rapidly than economic data suggests, Trahan said. That's due in part to import tariffs imposed by President Trump, but is explained largely by the 2018 corporate tax cuts rolling out of year-ago comparisons.
Companies in the S&P 500 index are expected to see an earnings decline of 2.6% in the second quarter, according to FactSet.
Questioning the premise
But not everyone agrees with the premise that investors are treating bad news as good news. Krishna Memani, vice chairman of investments at Invesco, argued in a Tuesday blog post that the popular narrative suffers from a "framing problem."
The premise is that the Fed's decision earlier this year to pivot from its policy of gradual but steady interest rate increases to a stance that now has investors anticipating rate cuts as soon as the end of this month was driven by fears that the rate increases of the past three years had left the U.S. economy on the verge of catastrophe.
Room to run
Memani argues that the Fed "got way ahead of itself" by hewing to policy-making driven by the Philips Curve—the theoretical inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment. By last December though, the Fed concluded that the U.S. economy was slowing sharply while inflation remained absent, warranting a decision to "get off the tightening bandwagon".
Memani contends the Fed simply did the prudent thing and halted tightening before driving the economy into the ditch. He looks for the Fed to gradually unwind "its last few rate increases in a prudent and methodical way," with financial conditions easing into the second half of 2019. Memani expects the economy to pick up steam in the second half after a second-quarter soft patch and resume annualized growth of around 2%, allowing stocks to rise despite a modest rise in long-term U.S. interest rates.
William Watts
William Watts is MarketWatch's deputy markets editor, based in New York. Follow him on Twitter @wlwatts.


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#include "config.h"
#include "core/fileapi/File.h"

#include "core/platform/FileMetadata.h"
#include "core/platform/FileSystem.h"
#include "core/platform/MIMETypeRegistry.h"
#include "public/platform/Platform.h"
#include "public/platform/WebFileUtilities.h"
#include "wtf/CurrentTime.h"
#include "wtf/DateMath.h"
#include "wtf/text/WTFString.h"

namespace WebCore {

static String getContentTypeFromFileName(const String& name, File::ContentTypeLookupPolicy policy)
{
    String type;
    int index = name.reverseFind('.');
    if (index != -1) {
        if (policy == File::WellKnownContentTypes)
            type = MIMETypeRegistry::getWellKnownMIMETypeForExtension(name.substring(index + 1));
        else {
            ASSERT(policy == File::AllContentTypes);
            type = MIMETypeRegistry::getMIMETypeForExtension(name.substring(index + 1));
        }
    }
    return type;
}

static PassOwnPtr<BlobData> createBlobDataForFileWithType(const String& path, const String& contentType)
{
    OwnPtr<BlobData> blobData = BlobData::create();
    blobData->setContentType(contentType);
    blobData->appendFile(path);
    return blobData.release();
}

static PassOwnPtr<BlobData> createBlobDataForFile(const String& path, File::ContentTypeLookupPolicy policy)
{
    return createBlobDataForFileWithType(path, getContentTypeFromFileName(path, policy));
}

static PassOwnPtr<BlobData> createBlobDataForFileWithName(const String& path, const String& fileSystemName, File::ContentTypeLookupPolicy policy)
{
    return createBlobDataForFileWithType(path, getContentTypeFromFileName(fileSystemName, policy));
}

static PassOwnPtr<BlobData> createBlobDataForFileWithMetadata(const String& fileSystemName, const FileMetadata& metadata)
{
    OwnPtr<BlobData> blobData = BlobData::create();
    blobData->setContentType(getContentTypeFromFileName(fileSystemName, File::WellKnownContentTypes));
    blobData->appendFile(metadata.platformPath, 0, metadata.length, metadata.modificationTime);
    return blobData.release();
}

static PassOwnPtr<BlobData> createBlobDataForFileSystemURL(const KURL& fileSystemURL, const FileMetadata& metadata)
{
    OwnPtr<BlobData> blobData = BlobData::create();
    blobData->setContentType(getContentTypeFromFileName(fileSystemURL.path(), File::WellKnownContentTypes));
    blobData->appendURL(fileSystemURL, 0, metadata.length, metadata.modificationTime);
    return blobData.release();
}

PassRefPtr<File> File::createWithRelativePath(const String& path, const String& relativePath)
{
    RefPtr<File> file = adoptRef(new File(path, AllContentTypes));
    file->m_relativePath = relativePath;
    return file.release();
}

File::File(const String& path, ContentTypeLookupPolicy policy)
    : Blob(createBlobDataForFile(path, policy), -1)
    , m_path(path)
    , m_name(WebKit::Platform::current()->fileUtilities()->baseName(path))
    , m_snapshotSize(-1)
    , m_snapshotModificationTime(invalidFileTime())
{
    ScriptWrappable::init(this);
}

File::File(const String& path, const KURL& url, const String& type)
    : Blob(url, type, -1)
    , m_path(path)
    , m_snapshotSize(-1)
    , m_snapshotModificationTime(invalidFileTime())
{
    ScriptWrappable::init(this);
    m_name = WebKit::Platform::current()->fileUtilities()->baseName(path);
    // FIXME: File object serialization/deserialization does not include
    // newer file object data members: m_name and m_relativePath.
    // See SerializedScriptValue.cpp for js and v8.
}

File::File(const String& path, const String& name, ContentTypeLookupPolicy policy)
    : Blob(createBlobDataForFileWithName(path, name, policy), -1)
    , m_path(path)
    , m_name(name)
    , m_snapshotSize(-1)
    , m_snapshotModificationTime(invalidFileTime())
{
    ScriptWrappable::init(this);
}

File::File(const String& name, const FileMetadata& metadata)
    : Blob(createBlobDataForFileWithMetadata(name, metadata), metadata.length)
    , m_path(metadata.platformPath)
    , m_name(name)
    , m_snapshotSize(metadata.length)
    , m_snapshotModificationTime(metadata.modificationTime)
{
    ScriptWrappable::init(this);
}

File::File(const KURL& fileSystemURL, const FileMetadata& metadata)
    : Blob(createBlobDataForFileSystemURL(fileSystemURL, metadata), metadata.length)
    , m_fileSystemURL(fileSystemURL)
    , m_snapshotSize(metadata.length)
    , m_snapshotModificationTime(metadata.modificationTime)
{
    ScriptWrappable::init(this);
}

double File::lastModifiedDate() const
{
    if (hasValidSnapshotMetadata() && isValidFileTime(m_snapshotModificationTime))
        return m_snapshotModificationTime * msPerSecond;

    time_t modificationTime;
    if (getFileModificationTime(m_path, modificationTime) && isValidFileTime(modificationTime))
        return modificationTime * msPerSecond;

    return currentTime() * msPerSecond;
}

unsigned long long File::size() const
{
    if (hasValidSnapshotMetadata())
        return m_snapshotSize;

    // FIXME: JavaScript cannot represent sizes as large as unsigned long long, we need to
    // come up with an exception to throw if file size is not representable.
    long long size;
    if (!getFileSize(m_path, size))
        return 0;
    return static_cast<unsigned long long>(size);
}

void File::captureSnapshot(long long& snapshotSize, double& snapshotModificationTime) const
{
    if (hasValidSnapshotMetadata()) {
        snapshotSize = m_snapshotSize;
        snapshotModificationTime = m_snapshotModificationTime;
        return;
    }

    // Obtains a snapshot of the file by capturing its current size and modification time. This is used when we slice a file for the first time.
    // If we fail to retrieve the size or modification time, probably due to that the file has been deleted, 0 size is returned.
    FileMetadata metadata;
    if (!getFileMetadata(m_path, metadata)) {
        snapshotSize = 0;
        snapshotModificationTime = invalidFileTime();
        return;
    }

    snapshotSize = metadata.length;
    snapshotModificationTime = metadata.modificationTime;
}

} // namespace WebCore

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This visit to Peru took place over a three week period during October-November 2018. The trip started with an overnight in Lima before a flight to Tarapoto in northern Peru and a visit to Aconabikh Private Reserve. The following day involved a drive to the town of Moyobamba, with a stay in Waqanki Lodge which allowed a visit to the Arena Blanca Private Reserve to see the Tinamous before transferring to Abra Patricia lodge. A short distance from Abra Patricia was the Fundo Alto Nieva reserve with hummingbird and Tanager feeders and La Llanteria with feeders for Sicklebill hummingbirds, although the sicklebills did not make an appearance. From Abra Patricia the next location was Huembo Lodge the prime site for viewing the Marvellous Spatuletail Hummingbird. Surprisingly this unusual hummingbird was a regular visitor to the feeders and photographic opportunities were frequent. From Huembo Lodge we drove to the town of Jaén for a return flight to Lima with an overnight in the capital before an early flight the next morning to the city of Puerto Maldonado in the southern Amazonian region of Peru. A one hour bus ride in heavy rain took us from the airport to the river port for a two hour boat ride up the Tambopata River to Posada Amazonas Lodge. Two nights in this lodge was then followed by a transfer a further three hours up river to Tambopata Research Centre Lodge where we stayed for four nights and finally a one night stop in Refugio Amazonas Lodge on the way back to Puerto Maldonado. During our stay in the Amazonian region we were fortunate to see two jaguars at very close range in the open and large numbers of macaws at the clay licks. From Puerto Maldonado we flew back to Lima and stayed one night in the Miraflores area of Lima, using our final day to explore sea birds at the small fishing village of Pucusana south of Lima, together with the private reserve of Lomas de Asia with an unusual seasonal vegetation and finally the marsh area of Pantanos de Villa.


Thanksgiving finger puppets are a fun and creative way to share the Thanksgiving story with children this year. You can make several different styles of puppets, including Native Americans, Pilgrims and a Thanksgiving turkey. Have a puppet show on Thanksgiving day, use the puppets in class or allow children to make their own puppets as a fun Thanksgiving craft. These finger puppets use the 3D plush body as a base.
Make the pilgrim clothing from gray felt. To make a woman: cut a 3 by 3 inch square from white felt to make a woman's hood. Drape the square over the back of the head and glue in place. Round the corners of the hood with scissors. Cut a one-inch square of felt from black felt. Cut out the inside of the square to make a buckle. Glue the buckle to the woman's dress. Cut a buckle from gray felt. To make a man: Cut out two hat shapes large enough to fit over the man's head. Glue yarn to his head for hair, then glue the two halves of the hat together over the head. Cut out a gray buckle and glue to the front of the hat. Cut a 2 by 2 inch square from white felt. Cut out the center of the square. Glue the square around the neck for a collar. Glue a black belt with a gray buckle to the man's waist. Use permanent marker to make a face for the pilgrims.
Make the Native American bodies from tan felt. Braid several strands of yarn together into a small braid and glue it to the back of the head. Make a braid for both men and women. Embellish the body of the puppets with beads and small feathers. Glue a feather to the head of the male puppets. Cut the base of the female puppets into a fringe to represent a fringed dress. Draw on a face with permanent marker. Add fur to the puppets, if desired.
Make the body of the turkey from brown felt. Do not give the turkey arms. Cut out two 3 by 2 inch rectangles from red felt. Cut the rectangles into a wing shape. Glue the wings to the side of the turkey. Cut several 3-inch long feather shapes from different colors of felt. Glue these in a fan shape to the back of the turkey for a tail. Glue a yellow triangle to the face for a beak. Use googly eyes for the turkey's eyes.


Good point though. I should provide a LXD container image, and perhaps a docker image too if a full web stack make sense as a docker image.
How much Ram do you have? I have 16 GB and no Problems. Running Mailcow since October last year.


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Engineering understanding about COVID-19's effects, safety
Students at USC worked on robots, masks and droplet dispersion to better understand how to live with COVID-19 over the summer. See video.
By Avni Shah October 4, 2020
COVID-19 is the virus of the decade for many reasons, but mainly, as a new virus, researchers are constantly discovering more about how it impacts individuals, how it spreads, how it can be disinfected and how it can be attacked.
Faculty at the USC Viterbi Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME) worked with a cohort of master's students to look further into four topics to help further understanding COVID-19 and how exposure to it can be mitigated. These topics included UV and chemical disinfection, PPE disinfection, design of a PAPR (mask) device and how different conditions change recommendations on distancing. AME Assistant Professors Ivan Bermejo-Moreno and Mitul Luhar, Research Assistant Professor Anita Penkova and Smith International Professor in Mechanical Engineering SK Gupta served as advisors on these projects.
Bermejo-Moreno, who chaired the students' final presentations in August, said: "The goal of the program was to identify challenges related to COVID-19 and the impact that engineering could have, propose and develop potential solutions and promote collaborative remote research."
Disinfection robot
Three different variations of disinfection robot exist right now: chemical disinfection, UV disinfection or a combination of both. AME master's students Jerry An, Nimish Deogaonkar and Shiyue Qian focused on developing a chemical disinfection robot, building on the ADAMMS model already adapted to perform UV disinfection tasks back in April. The team was advised by Director of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing at USC Viterbi SK Gupta. In the future, the team hopes to combine the two technologies into one interface and software system, so a single robot can perform both tasks as needed.
The key elements of the chemical disinfection technology was the spray mechanism design—determining how the device that emits the chemical spray should be built—and the assurance system—which monitors whether or not target areas were coated with a sufficient amount of spray. The assurance system was largely informed by motion planning technology and verified by imaging technology that assessed fluid coverage on the surface.
The hardware for the robot includes a spray sense camera to detect spray droplets and a nozzle, from which the spray is released. The team programmed the robot's software to ensure it will spray the minimum amount of required fluid onto surfaces, by making sure that the overlapping of the spray pattern is optimized. The nozzle was carefully selected to produce a fine mist. All of the specifications, including speed and coating thickness, can be defined by the user.
Currently, the robot only has a single end effector, meaning only one device can be attached to the robotic arm and used to interact with the external environment at a time. Ultimately, the team hopes to build a multi-end effector, which can support the integration of the UV light disinfection capability and allow for multi-modal disinfection. The team also hopes to scale the project to disinfect larger areas and objects.
Courtesy: USC Viterbi
How to safely dispose of PPE
Face masks have been a controversial piece of the COVID puzzle since day one. Recommendations vary across all levels—local, state and federal—and variables like fabric and fit can undermine the safety factor of an everyday cloth mask. At the same time, disposable masks are thrown out with the regular trash, create potential biohazardous materials not yet anticipated and properly dealt with.
AME master's students Wing-Sum Lai, John Michael Mitchell and Marissa Renteria researched current mask trends, with a focus on disinfection methodology. Using existing data, for example the fact that disposable masks stay on different surfaces for different periods of time and that increasing temperature can decrease the surface survival time, the team devised an alternate disinfection process to air drying masks in the sun after rinsing them or UV disinfection.
Their solar disinfection box uses common items easily found at most hardware stores, including mirrors, a cardboard box, copper tape and duct tape. While it is cheaper, safer and more customizable than a UV box, UV boxes are still preferred for smaller products such as face masks for more efficient disinfection times.
The solar disinfection box, by contrast, can require up to 36 minutes of disinfection time in Los Angeles during the summer and up to 4.5 hours in the winter, based on initial research compiled by the team. The team was advised by Henry Salvatori Early Career Chair Mitul Luhar.
A different type of mask, for less
By now, nearly everyone has heard of an N95 mask—the mask deemed most effective at keeping COVID-19 particles out, but few are familiar with PAPRs, Powered Air Purifying Respirators that use a blower to force air through filters and into the breathing zone of the wearer. Because this creates a personalized environment for the wearer of the mask, the PAPR is said to be more comfortable than an extremely restrictive mask, while adding an extra layer of protection between the wearer and potential germs in the air.
With the goal of innovating the existing PAPR designs, AME students Fangzhou Zhang and Bonian Ren, advised by Research Assistant Professor Anita Penkova, wanted to find a more cost efficient, comfortable, durable and customizable solution for PAPR use. One of aspect of this was to make the PAPR design more versatile, recognizing that once the pandemic is over, PAPRs will not be of much use to their owners.
PAPRs are considered a good option in terms of maintaining safe breathing space because of their completely sealed environment and a filter system with high filtration efficacy. They are also easy to disinfect. The student team built on these features, while making the PAPRs adaptable for other uses such as snorkeling, machining and firefighting.
The design they came up with consists of two main parts: a transparent cover in the front and a rubber ring that mimics the outline of a human head to provide a perfect seal. There are also ports available to attach additional components.
The team suggests using polycarbonate for the main mask material, citing it will work better in comparison to other materials including acetate and PETG because of better impact protection and heat resistance. To create these, the team plans to take advantage of the 3D printers on campus. With a bulk printing order of 100,000 masks, the team estimates that the total cost, including materials and labor, would be about $125 per mask, much less expensive than the hundreds of dollars usually spent for a PAPR.
Understanding how COVID-19 particles spread in different climates
A few public health recommendations have become widely known: stay six feet apart and wear a mask to minimize the spread of COVID-19 droplets. However, little is known about how consistent these recommendations would remain in different situations. For example, what are optimal HVAC settings? How long can a group stay in a room and minimize the risk of being infected?
Master's students Tianyi Bai and Francis Del Campo used fluid flow simulations to consider the answers to these questions. Among their findings: six feet might not be enough, particularly when a person is yelling or coughing. With an injection velocity of 65 feet per second, a droplet might reach a distance of 6 feet in less than one second, similar to how a COVID-19 droplet might behave after a person coughs. The students did note the simulation accounted for significant lateral dispersion of the particles across the distance of spread.
To fully understand how various conditions impact COVID-19 spread, the team cited the need for high performance computing facilities. For now, they emphasize that it might be important to be further than six feet apart, depending on how large the droplets are and additional variables.
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The difficult and demanding job of a paramedic relies heavily on the tools and devices at their disposal to best treat each patient. From overcoming terrain to utilising blockchain, Chloe Kent finds out how tech is transforming the paramedic toolkit.
dvances in emergency response technology means that paramedics' jobs are looking increasingly different to how they did just a decade ago. From smart ambulances to medicine-transporting drones, the efficiency of care in a crisis is something technology companies are always seeking to improve upon, especially in situations like cardiac arrest or stroke, where time can be critical.
Visionable chairman Lord Victor Adebowale, whose company's telehealth technology is being used as part of O2's smart ambulance initiative, says: "In a crisis, time is important because of the golden hour – the period following a serious injury during which there is the highest likelihood that prompt treatment will prevent death. The more things you can do in that golden hour the more likely it is that you're going to be able to save a patient's life."
One of the key issues that paramedics can face is physically reaching their patients. Sometimes accidents happen in remote and rural areas that can take a long time to reach in a vehicle, or even have to be accessed on-foot. We take a look at some of the innovations which are helping paramedics reach their patients and administer treatment faster.
Smart ambulance initiatives are revolutionising patient treatment
A look into innovations in paramedic technology wouldn't be complete without a nod to smart ambulances. In the UK, the O2 mobile network is working with Visionable for video collaboration software, Samsung for devices and Launchcloud for asset tracking and compliance, to create a new smart ambulance.
The service equips standard ambulances with state-of-the-art devices and connectivity to create an ambulance that can utilise the 5G network to communicate back to hospitals. Using Visionable's remote consultation technology, paramedics in smart ambulances can correspond directly with hospital clinicians with the patient on board. In many circumstances, they can even start treatment before they even reach their destination, guided remotely by a specialist.
Paramedics in smart ambulances can correspond directly with hospital clinicians with the patient on board.
The smart ambulance is hoped to be particularly useful in rural areas, where a loss of connection is a common problem.
Adebowale says: "We are actually working with 5G at the moment in some rural areas. I'm hoping that we can actually do something about loss of signal by having local stations for connectivity.
"Obviously, all communication is limited by the availability of infrastructure, but we think 5G might be able to help with that."
Paramedics in jetpacks could soon be the norm in the Lake District
When accidents befall people out hiking, it can be problematic for paramedics to get to them in the first place. Many areas in mountainous terrain can be inaccessible to an ambulance or motorbike and take up to several hours to scale on foot. For some patients, an hour can be the difference between life and death. In the UK's Lake District, a jet suit for paramedics has now been trialled by the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS). Developed by Gravity Industries, the suit could allow paramedics to scale steep hills and mountains within minutes.
The jet suit contains two microjet engines worn on each arm and one worn on the back, allowing the wearer to navigate by simply moving their hands. Built into the helmet is a display that shows the engine parameters and speed to help pilot the suit, and as the project progresses GNAAS plans to build the ability to add waypoints to that display for the paramedic to follow.
Gravity Industries founder Richard Browning says: "The microjet engines are like little baby versions of what you have in a jet fighter or civil airliner. As you gradually point them all downwards you lift off the ground, and if you want to then come down you flare your arms out and you come down again. The rest of the manoeuvrability is quite intuitive – point one arm to the right and you go left, that kind of thing."
The microjet engines are like little baby versions of what you have in a jet fighter or civil airliner.
The jet suit is currently covered under general aviation by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), meaning there is currently no requirement for a formal license to fly it. That said, as the project develops GNAAS and Gravity will be working together to design a flight training system for Lake District paramedics to ensure full competency when the suit is being used.
Paramedics would be armed with a medical kit containing strong pain relief for hikers who may have suffered fractures and a defibrillator for those who may have suffered a heart attack. While GNAAS say it's too early to put a date on the technology becoming operational, the technical skills and ability to use the equipment are all in place – now, it's just down to tying up some financial and logistical matters.
One thing that Gravity Industries' jet suit can't do in an emergency is get a patient to hospital any faster – a single paramedic will be able to reach them faster to provide on-site care, but if a trip to the emergency room is necessary then a wait for an air ambulance is still necessary.
Flying cars could also help bring paramedics to emergencies faster
Outside of the Lake District, Jump Aero's electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft has much the same mission – getting paramedics to the scene of an incident quicker and easier.
Founded by flying car developer Terrafugia president Dr Carl Dietrich, Jump Aero aims to cut emergency response times in half through an aircraft that can safely carry paramedics to emergencies at high speeds of up to 200mph.
While little information has been released about Jump Aero's final design, it will ultimately be a single-seat aircraft designed to fly a single paramedic to a scene, but not to transport the patient back to a healthcare facility.
Jump Aero aims to cut emergency response times in half through an aircraft that can safely carry paramedics to emergencies.
An eVTOL like this has a number of advantages over ambulances. They cost less to run as they rely on electricity rather than petrol, which also makes them more eco-friendly. They can also land anywhere in emergency situations, meaning they should be able to reach certain areas ambulances may not be able to. Also, once programmed with their destination, an eVTOL will begin to fly in a mostly autonomous mode.
This isn't the only eVTOL in development for emergency response situations. The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), for example, is working on Ambular, a medical eVTOL designed to be open source on completion. The Ambular eVTOL differs from Jump Aero's, as the proposed design will have capacity for a paramedic and a patient, meaning it can transport them to hospital if necessary.
Blockchain is opening doors for paramedics in Poland
SmartKey is a public access control framework that uses the blockchain Ethereum to send different parties programmable keys, using a trusted blockchain method which could be applied globally. The firm has now partnered with the local government authorities in Olsztyn, Poland to give rescue services teams — including paramedics — blockchain-enabled instant access to secure districts and buildings within the region in case of emergency.
Using this method, emergency response teams don't need to track down key holders when they arrive at the scene of an incident, greatly reduces response times and potentially saving lives. There is currently no standardised way to ensure emergency teams have access to secure areas.
There is currently no standardised way to ensure emergency teams have access to secure areas.
This is the first time SmartChain technology has been used with a government authority. If the pilot is successful, it could pave the way for other cities and regions to use the same technology throughout their emergency services infrastructure.
Szymon Fiedorowicz, CEO and co-founder, SmartKey says: "SmartKey leverages the power of blockchain technology to assist the emergency services to respond more quickly and efficiently to incidents. By using smart contracts, connected to a device which can be kept by the rescue teams we can grant access to all secure districts without delay — and that has the potential to save lives."


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(McCrea) Bob Blondin was a Gunner's Mate on the USS Luce, which was off the coast of Japan when it was attacked and sunk by Japanese planes in May of 1945.
(McCrea) After being rescued, Blondin was transported to a hospital ship in a harbor in Okinawa. He says it was bustling with medical personnel treating injured G.I.'s. His focus was on getting home, not on the possibility of a Purple Heart.
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(McCrea) Bob Blondin was presented with the Purple Heart by Senator Patrick Leahy, at the VFW Post in Winooski.


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Q: Order Set by attribute String I want to sort a Set<TailleDetail> by one of its string attributes (mesure), but the only solutions I saw in the internet (TreeSet and Comparator) don't work, can you help me?
My class:
public class TailleDetail {
    private Integer id;
    private String sexe;
    private String mesure;
    private Taille Taille;
}

EDIT -
For TreeSet I just try this:
Set<TailleDetail> tailles = new TreeSet<TailleDetail>();

to remplace :
Set<TailleDetail> tailles = new HashSet<TailleDetail>();

And For Comparator I try this :
Set<TailleDetail> tailles = new HashSet<TailleDetail>();
Comparator<TailleDetail> comparatorTaille = new Comparator<TailleDetail>() {
@Override
public int compare(TailleDetail left, TailleDetail right) {
    return left.toString().compareToIgnoreCase(right.toString());
    }
};

List<TailleDetail> tai = tailleDetailViewManager.search(param, true);

Collections.sort(tai, comparatorTaille);

tailles = new HashSet<TailleDetail>(tai);

A: The following code should make the trick :

       final Set tailleDetails = new TreeSet(new TailleDetailComparator());
                tailleDetails.add(...);

        public class TailleDetailComparator implements Comparator {

                @Override
                public int compare(final TailleDetail o1, final TailleDetail o2) {
                    return o1.mesure.compareTo(o2.mesure);
                }
            }

Note that comparison is going to be done using the string comparison rules (alphabetically).

A: You're comparator does not compare by mesure, but by it's toString() method.
You should adapt your comparator to sort by mesure.
You List is already sorted, so why use a set ?
List<TailleDetail> tai = tailleDetailViewManager.search(param, true);
Collections.sort(tai, (td1, td2) -> td1.getMesure().compareTo(td2.getMesure())); // tai will be sorted by mesure

If you do want to use a Set, use a TreeSet:
SortedSet<TailleDetail> set = new TreeSet<>((td1, td2) -> td1.getMesure().compareTo(td2.getMesure())); // also sorted by mesure
set.addAll(list)

Also see When should a class be Comparable and/or Comparator?

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Billy Gilbert (né et décédé à Hollywood, en Californie) est un acteur et réalisateur américain du cinéma muet.

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Fans of the Toy Story trilogy will either love or hate this news: Toy Story 4 will be in theaters June 16, 2017, reports USA Today. No word yet on whether any of the big names—Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Wallace Shawn, etc.—will be back to voice the characters, reports Entertainment Weekly. But at least one familiar name will be involved: John Lasseter, who directed the original in 1995, will again direct. He helped conceive the new story, but the screenplay will be written by former Parks and Recreation star Rashida Jones and screenwriting partner Will McCormack.
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Civilians... who just happened to have access to Novichok nerve agent? Yeah, sure they are, Mr. P.
Here is another interesting story in the NYT on Mr. Skripal and why Putin targeted him specifically despite the widespread belief in both Russia and British intelligence circles that he was a "little fish."
While Mr. Skripal was trying to reinvent himself, Mr. Putin and his allies, former intelligence officers, were gathering together the strands of the old Soviet system. Gaining power, Mr. Putin began settling scores, reserving special hatred for those who had betrayed the intelligence tribe when it was most vulnerable.


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Decays and x-rays build case for element 115
By Andy Extance2013-08-30T00:00:00+01:00
Added 'fingerprint' measurements could provide evidence needed for formal recognition
Gaby Otto/GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
The 120-metre long UNILAC linear accelerator at GSI accelerated calcium ions to produce element 115 candidates
A Swedish-led team has become the second to spot element 115, which has a half-life of just 160 milliseconds, and potentially the first to capture its x-ray 'fingerprints'.
Over three weeks in November 2012 at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, the team detected 30 radioactive decay sequences matching previous sightings. 'After 24 hours we had our first event,' says team leader Dirk Rudolph from the University of Lund. 'That's unusual – we were happy to see it that soon.'
Experiments yielding evidence for candidates for elements 113 to 118 have now been going on for a decade. Scientists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Russia, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California have led these efforts. And together, they first claimed to have identified element 115 in 2004.
Last year, the JINR and Livermore groups had elements 114 and 116 named flerovium and livermorium after a famous Russian physicist and the LLNL, respectively. But a joint working group of IUPAC and its physics counterpart, IUPAP, asked for independent detection of odd-numbered unstable elements, and possibly direct proton number measurements.
That's what Rudolph's team sought to provide. They bombarded thin films of unstable americium with a beam of almost 1013 calcium-48 ions per second from the UNILAC accelerator at GSI. 'We fuse together one calcium and one americium atom to observe element 115 candidates once or twice per day,' Rudolph explains. 'To see this, we need to pick out what we want from the haystack of calcium ions.'
The team's TASCA separator does this by magnetically changing the angle that the new heavy atoms fly at, sending them crashing into a cube of silicon detectors. There the researchers monitored a-decay chains, comparing them against theoretical predictions and earlier sightings. With surrounding germanium detectors they also tried to measure energies of x-ray photons emitted. As well as the 30 newly-measured decay chains, the researchers saw two possible x-ray emissions that fit predictions for element 115.
Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian, who leads JINR's Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, feels his team's evidence already proves element 115's existence. But he welcomes independent confirmation, and highlights that x-ray data can provide important information about excited nuclear states.
Rudolph indicates, however, that IUPAC and IUPAP might want more x-ray data before officially recognising element 115. 'They may say: "You've proven that you can fingerprint proton number, so go ahead and do it properly, using more beam time."'
D Rudolph et al, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2013, 111, 112502 (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.112502)


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from distutils.core import *
from distutils      import sysconfig

# Third-party modules - we depend on numpy for everything
import numpy

# Obtain the numpy include directory.  This logic works across numpy versions.
try:
    numpy_include = numpy.get_include()
except AttributeError:
    numpy_include = numpy.get_numpy_include()

# fastlayout extension module
_fastlayout = Extension("_fastlayout",
                   ["fastlayout.i","fastlayout.c"],
                   include_dirs = [numpy_include],
                   extra_compile_args=["-O3", "-fopenmp", "-msse3"],
                   extra_link_args=["-fopenmp"],
                   )

# fastlayout setup
setup(  name        = "fastlayout",
        description = "fastlayout implements known layout algorithms (like fruchterman reingold) in a fast (parallel) way",
        author      = "Roman Cattaneo",
        version     = "1.0",
        ext_modules = [_fastlayout]
        )


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Op-Ed Opinion Compromise With Republicans, Don't Demonize Them
Op-EdOp-Ed Opinion
Compromise With Republicans, Don't Demonize Them
By Jeff Jacoby
Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 9:19 pm | ט' חשון תשע"ד
You know why Republican conservatives really want to defund Obamacare?
"Everyone knows why," wrote Salon's editor Joan Walsh last week as brinksmanship over the health-care law triggered the federal shutdown.
Well, I thought I knew why. I thought GOP opposition reflected a conviction that Obamacare was bad law, that it would drive up the cost of health coverage while diminishing quality of care, and that its heavy-handed mandates would leave Americans with less freedom and choice. I assumed Republicans wanted to spare the country from what even leading Democrats have warned will be a "huge train wreck."
And I was pretty sure they believed that standing athwart a law most Americans have consistently opposed was not only sound in principle but sound politically. After all, the Democrats' insistence on steamrolling Obamacare into law without bipartisan support in 2010 had provoked an electoral "shellacking" that cost them 63 seats in the House, handing Republicans their largest congressional majority in two generations.
But according to Walsh, I had it all wrong. The "real story of the shutdown," she argued, is that the tea party's "riled-up … racists" want to "torpedo Obamacare, the signature program of our first black president."
Outside the fever swamps of the left, it may be hard to imagine any serious person taking such ludicrous analysis at face value. But this is what passes for wisdom in the liberal echo chamber, along with such by-now familiar smears of Republicans and conservatives as terrorists, anarchists, vandals, and hostage-takers.
Democratic loyalists in the mainstream media augment the rancor, promoting the view that Republicans alone are responsible for the confrontation. They applaud President Obama's blanket refusal to negotiate under the shadow of a government shutdown or a looming federal debt ceiling. In so doing, they reinforce the worst instincts of an administration that always seems willing to demonize Republicans and attribute their motives to sheer malice.
"We are not for … negotiating with people who have a bomb strapped to their chest," said senior Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer as the government shutdown approached. "It's not a negotiation if I show up at your house and say, 'Give me everything inside or Igoing to burn it down.'"
That kind of talk may be good for partisan morale, but is blind refusal to negotiate going to get Democrats what they want? It's possible, I suppose, that House Republicans will utterly cave under the pressure, agreeing to fully fund Obamacare and raise the debt ceiling unconditionally. I can't say for sure that the president's hard line won't prove a winning strategy. But if history is any guide, the Democrats will compromise, however much they insist they won't.
And history there is. As Dylan Matthews documents in his Washington Post blog, there have been 17 other federal government shutdowns since 1976, the year the modern congressional budget process took effect. Most of the shutdowns lasted no more than three days, but nearly half dragged on for a week or longer.
Shutdowns occurred under Republican and Democratic presidents (George W. Bush was the only modern president not to preside over a shutdown), and 15 of them took place when Democrats controlled the House of Representatives, usually under Speaker Tip O'Neill.
The earlier standoffs were fought over a variety of emotional issues, including … the MX missile and aid to the Nicaraguan contras. But most ended with a negotiated deal. In a government constructed of co-equal branches, and under a constitutional design that assigns autonomy to each house of Congress, that's the way standoffs are expected to end.
Much the same is true of increases in the federal debt ceiling. Of the limit passed by Congress since 1978, fewer than half were enacted with no strings attached. Under Democratic and Republican presidents, and under House and Senate majorities of either party, debt-limit negotiations, deals, and conditions have been common.
It's fatuous to argue that because the consequences of a federal default could be so serious, this is no time to be demanding concessions. What better bargaining chip could there be? What better opportunity for members of Congress to drive home the dangers of fiscal indiscipline?
"America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership," then-Senator Obama said in 2006, explaining his vote not to raise the debt limit. "Americans deserve better."
He was right. Americans did deserve better. They still do.
This article appeared in print on page 10 of the October 14th, 2013 edition of Hamodia.
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