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import java.util.Scanner;

/**
 *
 * @author Velik Georgiev Chelebiev
 */
public class _04_ValorMaximo {

    /**
     * El numero de entradas que tendra que introducir el usuario.
     */
    private static final int CANTIDAD_ENTRADAS = 3;

    /**
     * @param args Los argumentos pasados por el terminal
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        /**
         * Definimos un vector que almacenara las entradas del usuario
         */
        double[] vectorDeNumeros = new double[CANTIDAD_ENTRADAS];

        /**
         * El numero mas alto introducido. Este numero ira cambiando dentro de
         * un bucle. Le asignamos el valor minimo de un double como valor inicial.
         */
        double maxNumber = Double.MIN_VALUE;

        /**
         * La posicion del numero mas grande. Ira cambiando en el bucle.
         */
        int posicion = 0;

        /**
         * Leemos las entradas del usuario.
         */
        try (Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in)) {
            for (int i = 0; i < CANTIDAD_ENTRADAS; i++) {
                try {
                    System.out.print("Introduce un numero " + (i + 1) + "/" + CANTIDAD_ENTRADAS + ": ");
                    vectorDeNumeros[i] = Double.parseDouble(scan.nextLine());
                } catch (Exception ex) {
                    // Si el valor introducido no es valido imprimimos un mensaje de error
                    // y le volvemos a pedir que introduzca un numero.
                    System.out.println("*** El valor introducido no es valido ***");
                    i--;
                }

                // Si el numero introducido es mas grande que el actual
                // cambiamos el valor de la posicion
                if (vectorDeNumeros[i] > maxNumber) {
                    maxNumber = vectorDeNumeros[i];
                    posicion = i;
                }
            }
        }

        // Imprimimos el valor mas alto y su posicion
        System.out.println("El valor mas alto introducido es: "
                            + vectorDeNumeros[posicion]
                            + " en la posicion " + posicion);
    }
}

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How to Get a Restraining Order in Chicago
Requirements for a Restraining Order in Illinois
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Restraining orders in Illinois are found in the state's laws, so the basics of restraining orders in Chicago are similar to those used throughout the state. The Illinois statutes authorize orders of protection, no-contact orders and restraining orders.
All of these orders require the abuser to keep away from their victims and/or to stop harassing or stalking them. These orders are available throughout Illinois, including in the city of Chicago. There are different requirements to qualify for each type of order and different procedures for applying for an order.
Types of Illinois Restraining Orders
Orders of protection and no-contact orders are court-issued legal documents that prohibit or restrict certain specified contacts by a named individual. Generally every application for a restraining order involves at least two parties: the individual seeking the order (the petitioner) and the person to be restrained (the respondent.)
The individual seeking the protective order claims to be the victim of criminal behavior by the respondent. The respondent is the person who allegedly abused, harassed, stalked, threatened or injured the petitioner. The court hears from both parties before issuing a final restraining or protection order.
Domestic Violence Order of Protection
The most common type of restraining order in Illinois is the order of protection for domestic violence. This is a civil order of the district court that provides protection for victims of domestic violence. While domestic abuse is often between spouses, under Illinois law, domestic abuse includes abuse from any family member or household member, including:
Spouses or ex-spouses.
People who are dating or used to date.
Parents, step-parents or grandparents.
Children or step-children.
People who have a child in common regardless of whether they ever married or lived together.
Anyone related by blood through a child, like the child's grandfather.
Anyone related by blood or by a current or former marriage.
People living together or who have lived together in the past.
It is also considered domestic abuse if a disabled person is abused by their personal assistant or caregiver. Likewise, it is domestic abuse when foster parents, adoptive parents, prospective adoptive parents or legally appointed guardians of a child are abused by the family or household member of a child.
Domestic Violence Definition
In order to get a domestic violence order of protection in Illinois, the petitioner must allege acts that constitute domestic violence under the state statute. The term includes many different types of abuse, like physical abuse, sexual abuse, assault or confinement, repeated sleep deprivation or any behavior that creates an immediate risk of physical harm.
Domestic violence also includes harassment, such as threatening the victim, creating a disturbance at the victim's work place or school, repeatedly phoning the victim in either place, repeatedly following the victim or keeping them under surveillance by lurking outside, staying outside of the victim's house, school or work, or peering into windows.
Hiding or threatening to hide the victim's child is also harassment, as is intimidation, coercing someone to do something they do not wish to do, and denying an elderly or disabled person the medication, medical care, shelter, food or other assistance that they need.
Types of Orders of Protection
In Illinois, including in Chicago, there are three levels of protection orders. The first is called an emergency protection order (EPO), the second is an interim protection order (IPO), and the last is a plenary or final protection order.
Emergency Protection Orders
Once a person applies for an order of protection in Illinois, the court can issue a temporary order on an emergency basis without the other party being notified or appearing at the hearing. This EPO is termed an ex parte order because it can be granted without the other party being notified or present. A temporary order restrains the other party in a variety of ways, depending on what is necessary to protect the petitioner.
For example, the order can exclude the respondent from a shared home or direct them to stay away from the petitioner's home and workplace. An emergency order in Chicago can remain in effect for 21 days. Once issued, it is immediately served on the party to be restrained, and the court schedules a final hearing on the order.
Interim Order of Protection
If the final hearing cannot be held within those 21 days, the court can issue an interim order of protection to extend the emergency protections until the final hearing. Since the IPO extends protection for up to 30 days, it is sometimes necessary for the court to issue more than one, if trial preparation is time-consuming.
Final Order of Protection
Both parties can appear and be heard by the court at a final hearing. The court then issues a plenary or final order. This order can be valid for two years, but can be extended by renewal.
Chicago Protection Order
In order to apply for an emergency protection order in Illinois, the individual must go to the circuit court where they live, where the abuser lives or where the abuse occurred. In Cook County, the county where Chicago is located, the Domestic Violence Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County centralizes the county administration of domestic violence court proceedings and related court services. In the city of Chicago, orders of protection are usually heard at the Domestic Violence Courthouse located at 555 West Harrison Street. If there happens to be a pending divorce case or juvenile case between the parties, the protection order issues can be transferred to the Daley Center at 50 W. Washington or the Juvenile Court at 1100 South Hamilton Street.
The petitioner needs to fill out a petition for an emergency order of protection. These are available to download from the court's website and also at the court. Domestic violence legal advocates may be available at the courthouse in Chicago to assist. The petition seeks information about the parties, their current addresses, and the details of the most recent incidents of abuse. The petitioner must sign it under penalty of perjury before the court clerk.
The clerk takes the form to a judge to review. They may ask the petitioner questions about their claims. From this information, the judge decides whether to issue the emergency order. If the order is issued, the court also sets a date for a full court hearing for the final or plenary order. The court papers, including the emergency order and notice of the final hearing date, are served on the respondent by law enforcement.
Attending the Final Hearing
The final hearing is also called the plenary hearing in Chicago. It is a noticed hearing, meaning it is only held after the responding party is served with notice of the time and place of the hearing. Both parties have the chance to come to court and give their side of the story.
If the petitioner doesn't appear, the temporary and interim orders are cancelled. If the respondent does not show up, the court can still issue a final order, but in some circumstances, the court will instead order a new hearing date.
Protections Possible With Orders
A final, or plenary, protection order in Chicago can be used to order the respondent to stop certain behavior or to stay away from particular people or places. The order can direct the respondent to stop harassing, abusing, stalking, intimidating, neglecting or exploiting the victim and to stop interfering with their personal liberty. If the parties live in one dwelling, the court order can direct the respondent to move out of, and not return to, the shared home. This is possible even if the respondent is the owner of the home or the primary renter.
But the Chicago plenary order can also order the respondent to participate in certain kinds of therapy, including psychological, substance abuse or batterers' counseling. The order can also spell out which parent gets custody and how visitation will work to protect minor children. It can order financial support for the victim and their children and pets. It can also order the respondent to pay the victim for medical expenses, lost earnings, repairs to damaged property, attorney fees and court costs suffered as a result of the abuse.
The final order of protection can also contain a directive about the ownership or possession of firearms. It can order the respondent abuser to turn over their guns, firearms and firearm owner's identification card to local law enforcement. The court's power here is broad and can include virtually anything necessary to prevent further abuse.
Enforcing the Protection Order
When an order of protection is issued, the petitioner should make copies and provide one to their workplace and school. Violation of certain provisions of the order can be prosecuted criminally in Chicago as a Class A misdemeanor, or, if the person has a prior criminal record, a Class 4 felony. Provisions of a protection order that require the abuser to attend counseling or substance abuse programs are not prosecuted criminally in Chicago, but rather as civil contempt of court.
Sexual Assault No-Contact Order
A petitioner can also seek a civil no-contact order. This is similar to a domestic violence order of protection and can offer protection to a victim of nonconsensual sexual conduct. The domestic violence order of protection is available only if the abuser is someone in a familial or household relationship with the victim, but a civil no-contact order is available even without a particular relationship between the parties.
The steps to getting a no-contact order in Chicago mirror those for seeking a domestic violence order of protection. The person to be protected completes the appropriate petition and files it at the circuit court. They can be granted an immediate emergency no-contact order ex parte, with no notice to the other party. A plenary hearing is then noticed and held by the court.
Stalking No-Contact Order
A petitioner can also seek a stalking no-contact order of protection in Chicago. This is available to any victim of stalking, and is not limited to those in a familial or household relationship with the abuser. Stalking is a "course of conduct" crime, meaning that the respondent must repeat the stalking behavior.
Acts that are considered stalking in Chicago include: monitoring, observing, spying on or threatening the other person, or interfering with their property or pets. The victim follows the same steps to get this protection order as for a domestic violence protection order.
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If you are not present for the plenary hearing, it is possible to start the process over again, but it may be more difficult for you to be granted an order in the future.
It is important to note that the abuser may only be arrested for violating the order after having been given notice of the existence and effectiveness of the order of protection.
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Introducing the New City, Running on the IoT
by Jennifer Baljko
High-tech folks are no longer talking in a bubble when they throw around terms like the Internet of Things (IoT) or machine-to-machine connectivity.
The idea of having 50 billion connected devices by 2020 has captured the interest of a parallel industry — city governments and those who make cities run efficiently.
The IoT conversation debuted at a panel session at the Smart City Expo World Congress, held in November in Barcelona, and cross-industry experts talked about the rise of IoT and how it fits into smart city development.
"There's an interesting opportunity in the area of smart cities," said Donald Clark, vice president and Schneider Fellow at Schneider Electric, which specializes in energy management. "But, connectivity is not the only thing needed for IoT. IoT must also include fit-for-purpose functionality, and must be managed on a large scale and in real-time."
Particularly, city governments are now looking for ways to create intelligent and efficient transportation, energy, lightning systems, provide better services to its citizens, improve the city's safety and security, and interconnect different function areas.
However, cities, like companies in most industries, have long run these types of operations in silos, said Jean-Louis Massaut, director of Smart+Connected Communities at Cisco Systems International BV.
Advances in sensor, networking architecture, communications, and cloud-based data-sharing technology have helped shine a bright spotlight on the needs of changing cities. Today, new tools and processes "create mobility information and applications that are useful to cities," Massaut said to a standing-room only crowd.
There are a few key trends on the horizon as the IoT and smart city expansion crossover and as more cities order, use, and understand the M2M IT inherent in running these platforms, all of which could cause a ripple effect in the electronics design and supply chains:
Solution-as-a-service (SaaS) capabilities
Big and open data analytics
Multi-service sensor nodes
"Cities interested in becoming smart cities have huge problems to solve. Those problems may have to do with mobility, transportation, security, or safety," Massaut told EBN after the panel discussion. "But the Internet of Things is not just about things. Smart cities are things, people, data, and processes."
And, there is no one-size-fits-all solution just yet. "We take the best of what we can find in the market, we take devices, software, and systems existing in the market, and incorporate it in our ecosystem, and offer it on the cloud as a managed service," Massaut said.
One such existing technology that might soon garner more attention — and may come up in other discussions at the upcoming Mobile World Congress, the mobile industry's marquee event, in March — is an IoT-specific network, something being championed by Abertis Telecom and SIGFOX.
Claiming to be the world's only dedicated Internet of Things network, the companies announced a partnership last February to deploy nationwide in Spain; 1,200 sites have been deployed to date, said Carlos Yubero, strategic marketing manager at Abertis.
The SIGFOX network offers a two-way connectivity solution, tailor-made for IoT, the companies said in a statement.
On another level, much of the IoT conversation continues around the three I's — instrumented, interconnected, and intelligence, said Michael Dixon, general manager of IBM's Global Smarter Cities Business. On the instrumented side, most devices being brought to market today could be generating data that will feed into the IoT trend. However, the data won't mean much if it's not interconnected to other devices or networks that can do something with the data. Intelligence, or analytics, is vital, too, in order to create greater value, he told EBN.
"Today, we're talking about how this applies to smart cities, but you can see how the same issues will affect the supply chain and other industries," Dixon said. The ability to do real-time monitoring of "what happened" and predictive modeling of "what could happen" is the way cities, companies, and industries will evolve the IoT landscape.
Given the momentum evident at the conference, smart cities may prove to be a sector worth putting on your IT development roadmap. If nothing else, it's another layer in the always-on connectivity push we see from the tech world.
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5 comments on "Introducing the New City, Running on the IoT"
IoT may good to a little extent. But when it is done over limit, like any thing done over limit, it acts like self defacating and may be poisonous.
Susan Fourtané
_hm,
What is over the limit for you?
I have been researching several smart cities in Europe, visiting them, and writing about the IoT projects that have been running already for some time in Beta and launching the full projects for everyone next year, for example.
Interconnected cities generate a lot of positive services for citizens and tourists alike. I don't see anything poisonous about it.
-Susan
@Susan: It does not come free. It needs lots of money – from tax payer. And average tax payer is very much averse to this tax hikes. They have so many priorities for family. So it shall be very selective with no tax burden to citizen.
Smart city projects are carried out using tax-payer money, that's why taxes are for after all, to be used to make improvements in the city so all the citizens can benefit from them.
It's not that the cities are going to ask tax-payers for extra money. It's the same money invested in infrastructure and new technologies for the betterment of the city.
The money needed is less than what you imagine and the benefits and savings that making a city smart bring are enormous, which is also makes the initial investment worth it.
Cities already on smart city projects have seen savings in street lighting, in trash collection, in lowering carbon emissions, etc. And, the citizens improve their quality of city life and get improved public services.
"I have been researching several smart cities in Europe, visiting them, and writing about the IoT projects that have been running already for some time in Beta and launching the full projects for everyone next year, for example. Interconnected cities generate a lot of positive services for citizens and tourists alike. I don't see anything poisonous about it. "
Suasn, which are the cities you visited and I would like to know how they performs with respect to use case and facilities.


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By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI –
After the sudden collapse of the Afghan government and military and the victory of the Taliban, some experts have warned of the danger of a failed state run by a Salafi-jihadi group closely allied with Al-Qaeda. Perhaps a bigger concern may be the danger of a not-failed state, possibly even a successful authoritarian one, run by a Salafi-jihadi group closely allied with Al-Qaeda.
The Taliban's victory is a triumph for them and Al-Qaeda's biggest victory in a generation. It was their upstart rivals, the Islamic State, which astounded the world in 2014 with their proto-state in Syria and Iraq (with outposts elsewhere) and their Caliphate. In 2019, ISIS lost both its state at Baghouz and, later that year, its Caliph elsewhere in Syria.
Al-Qaeda, which had for so long seemed to be on the sidelines as ISIS hogged all the glory of media attention will have a new lease on life, and Afghanistan could become a safe haven and laboratory for jihadi toilers worldwide – much like ISIS-land or Saudi Arabia or Pakistan have been for some Salafis in the past and Turkey is today for various breeds of foreign Islamists. The Taliban model seems much more successful and appealing to extremists, and a more likely wave of the future for them than the once terrifying, but now outlandish, ISIS model.
Afghanistan becoming some sort of jihadi Wild West, that America can and will have to occasionally strike, is the easier more comfortable scenario. A more concerning one may be a state that is better run, where jihadis are less blatantly obvious and overt in their actions; a place where all sorts of informal connections and symbiotic relationships can be formed in low-key, informal ways, where a new Islamist illiberal version of a nation state can inspire new generations of foreigners – political pilgrims looking for the next big exotic thing.
Almost 20 years since September 11, 2001, some scholars have speculated on how much the Taliban may have changed since they were last in power. The consensus is that they have changed – in terms of ideology and governance – very little and I think that is true. But they have changed somewhat in terms of their exposure to the world. They may not be worldly, but they are more seasoned and confident in the ways of the outside world. They use social media (of course, so do all jihadi and Islamist groups); they negotiated with the Americans. They certainly showed excellent diplomatic and intelligence skills in turning and suborning large sections of the former Ashraf Ghani regime, as generals and provincial governors negotiated their surrender or switched sides. We can say that the Taliban have evolved to a certain extent tactically but remained the same strategically, a little more polish but the same brutality. A more sophisticated and capable Taliban that is still implacably hostile to the West would be a qualitative leap forward.
But if the Taliban may have changed a little, 20 years later we in the West have changed a lot and not for the best. While the Taliban way of war and way of ideology have stayed more or less the same, it is precisely in those two areas that the West, particularly the U.S., has deteriorated.
As far as a way of war, it clear that the expensive, tech heavy American way of war seen in Afghanistan and Iraq, while still formidable, has its limitations. Relying on contractors and local staff, outsourcing vital support functions, the interagency decision-making process, the intelligence community process, building up local proxies – all of these have a certain logic but have had a rough two decades.
And while the U.S. military is showing some flaws, it is still a supremely powerful force that can do some things that few others can. The Western way of ideology, however, is under extreme pressure. It is not clear that we know who we are, what we stand for, and what we want to do.
To be blunt, the liberal democratic model as vehemently preached by the West for years – often in triumphant tones after the fall of the Soviet Union – is showing very real fissures under repeated ideological assault internally. Our adversaries among the Taliban have convictions. One can see it in the Al-Jazeera footage of Taliban fighters overcome by emotion as the Quranic Sura "An-Nasr" (The Divine Support) was recited on August 15 as they occupied the presidential palace in Kabul.
Our other adversaries in Communist China are also firm in their beliefs and in their vision of the future. Our convictions at times seem to be passionate, while becoming increasingly fractured along tribalist, racialist and gender lines. We prate about American democracy and greatness, while we are in hock to China and seem incapable of doing anything about it. Patriotism and national pride seem to have become dirty words, while the history of the West and its heritage seem to have precious few defenders. Our past is being deconstructed brick by brick. And as for democracy, it can mean, as often as not, an alliance of Big Tech with a predatory ruling class that more and more resembles a hereditary oligarchy.
Much can still go wrong among the Taliban. They are less united than they seem to be, and Afghanistan, no matter who rules it, is notoriously fractious. They face a small but bloody insurgency from their rivals at the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP) faction. The Taliban should be able to win out relatively easily, but it is still a challenge.
But they are likely to be far less isolated than they were in 1996-2001, when they were recognized by just three countries. If they play their cards right, they will likely have productive relations with China, Turkey, Iran, Qatar, and Azerbaijan, in addition to their patron Pakistan. Russia and the Central Asian states are wary but also likely to look for a modus vivendi with Taliban-ruled Kabul. There is, at least not yet, no viable Northern Alliance-type rebel opposition to the Taliban for foreign powers to support. Recreating one is not out of the question, but the Taliban have learned from the past and focused their most recent campaign in prioritizing those areas in the country's north, where such an opposition could logically emerge. And while some in the West may want to punish Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, the more that it is punished, the greater the stream of Afghan migrants and refugees there will be heading west to Europe, joining other streams of millions of desperate souls emerging from the Middle East and Africa.
The Afghanistan debacle should serve as an alarm bell for Western countries such as the U.S. warning that the old ways of liberal foreign interventionism seem perilously frayed, and the old nostrums and rhetoric shopworn and exhausted. It is likely that the U.S. will never again spend two trillion dollars in foreign misadventures as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan (even if a considerable amount of that money went to American companies and contractors rather than to nation-building in Mesopotamia and the Hindu Kush). But while foreign enthusiasms seem less likely, it is still horrifying to contemplate that the next counter-extremist crusade being generated seems to aim at the American heartland. It is almost as if we have learned nothing from two decades of conflict.
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*Alberto M. Fernandez is Vice President of MEMRI.
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THE Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has described the completed 250, 000-passenger Blue Rail train project as a milestone that came through several reforms in the state's transportation sector, stating that the first-phase of the project will be operational in January.
The governor stated this on Wednesday during the test-running of the mono-rail and events to mark the completion of the first phase of Lagos rail mass transit held at the National Theatre Blue Line Station, Iganmu, Lagos.
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She said, "In our projection, we reckon that this phase of the rail project would move no less than 250,000 passengers daily, while the entire line when completed would move more than 500,000 passengers.
"Construction of the Blue Line has been one of the most challenging projects undertaken by Lagos government, given many hitches that had to be overcome. To get to the point of completion, we have had disturbances and delays in the relocation of submarine cables, gas pipelines, and the removal of shipwrecks. This made the construction of the submarine pillar extremely difficult."
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Q: Proximity detection I'm very new to this. Please bear with me. I want a simple circuit which beeps when something is moved apart farther than a certain distance. I'm thinking of a sensor and something that's sensed (sensee?). They would be about 3 inches apart, if they are moved farther apart than that I need a beep. I need this to be somewhat configurable, between 2 and 4 inches. My initial thought is NFC, but I don't want to use a smart phone, and ideally I want something really fundamental and simple, with a passive sensee (no power needed on that) and very low power draw on the sensor and beeper circuit.
What are my options?

A: Aside from Hall sensors mentioned in the comments, there are two widespread types of proximity sensors which may have the range you need:

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*Ultra-sonic sensors

*Infra-red / laser based sensors

Ultra-sonic sensors provide good range and coverage (think of car park-aid systems) but they usually have a minimum range which is too big for your purposes. Laser-based  sensors only cover one particular direction, but are more precise. Infra-red sensors provide wider coverage. I believe you can find one which will suit you.
Depending on the circuit you need to build, you can choose a sensor with digital interface (I2C, SPI etc) or some sort of analog signal (usually PWM).

A: You can use a Proximity sensor for your purpose. Sensors come with the I2C interface which is simpler to build. The range of the Proximity can also be configurable in few sensors. You can configure the beeps based on the output data of the proximity which is directly proportional to the sense distance.

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Australia's involvement in Iraq should be defined and conducted with humanitarian protection as its primary and overwhelming objective. There is no doubt of the depth of the humanitarian crisis that is occurring now in Iraq. In Iraq 1.8 million people have been internally displaced and hundreds of thousands are in need of humanitarian assistance. The situation in Syria is also dire: 6.5 million Syrians are internally displaced and 10 million need humanitarian support.
I recently conducted a public transport survey in my electorate focusing on the needs of residents in Keysborough and Dandenong South. I am often told about the need for new bus services linking residents and businesses with trains, schools, work, sporting venues and places of worship. With an increase in residential development in these areas and a growth in the number of businesses located in the new industrial estates in the City of Greater Dandenong, the need for connectivity of our transport infrastructure is becoming increasingly important.
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Repeal) Bill 2014 is another shameful part of the government's attack on the renewable energy industry and on the renewable energy policies of the former Labor government. ARENA, which is the subject of this bill, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, was established by the former Labor government in 2012. It was established as an independent agency, designed to improve the competitiveness of renewable energy technologies in Australia and to increase the supply of renewable energy to Australia's electricity market. It was a part of a comprehensive set of policies designed to reduce Australia's carbon emissions, to reduce Australia's reliance on fossil fuels and to make sure that Australia can play its part with the community of nations in tackling what is, of course, a global problem—that being the global problem of reducing carbon emissions so as to reduce the effects of dangerous climate change, the effects which we are already experiencing here in Australia.
Over the last year, I have spoken often about the importance of legal assistance services in ensuring access to justice. It is well recognised that the Attorney-General has a special responsibility to uphold the rule of law. Sir Anthony Mason has said that it is 'a responsibility of the first importance' and a responsibility an Attorney-General is obliged to uphold, even against his own colleagues. It is often said, for instance, that an Attorney-General should speak out in defence of the judiciary. Certainly that is true, but the rule of law goes beyond that. As former Federal Court judge the Honourable Kevin Lindgren said, 'The rule of law and a strong independent judiciary are empty ideals if people cannot access the courts.' If the Attorney-General is to truly defend the rule of law, he must foster real access to justice.
This bill will enable employers to undercut basic award entitlements—a move that even former Prime Minister John Howard admitted was a key mistake of Work Choices. And of course former Prime Minister John Howard subsequently reinstated the no-disadvantage test in 2007.
What is the role of egalitarianism in our future prosperity?
I rise to speak to the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Intercountry Adoption) Bill 2014. Australia has a long history of participating in intercountry adoptions, dating back to the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Going forward a couple of decades, a dramatic example of Australia's history of participating in intercountry adoptions was Operation Babylift in the final days of the Vietnam War that saw approximately 280 children from orphanages in Saigon adopted by Australian families. Australia has a long history of participation in intercountry adoptions and a growing interest, since the Second World War, in intercountry adoptions. That interest ultimately culminated in Australia signing in 1998 the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption, which is known by the short title of the Hague convention.
The Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Bill 2014 is, in effect, an initiative of the last Labor government. A bill in substantially identical terms was introduced into the parliament by the then Attorney-General, the Hon. Nicola Roxon MP, but it lapsed at the end of the 43rd Parliament. That bill had the same name. It was the Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Bill 2012.


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The Department of Conservation (DOC) has suspended the use of all Robinson helicopters to transport DOC staff, volunteers and contractors.
DOC's decision follows the recent fatal Robinson R44 crash in Northland involving two forestry workers and the placing of Robinson helicopters on a Transport Accident Investigation Commission 'watchlist'.
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The detection of phosphorylated effectors of the mTOR pathway such as phosphorylated-S6RP in endothelial cells by immunohistochemistry (IHC) has been associated with Antibody-Mediated allograft Rejection (AMR). The aim of this study was to evaluate the molecular phenotype related to the endothelial detection of pS6RP in heart transplant recipients.
This case-control study included 41 heart transplant patients from four French referral centers with biopsy proven antibody-mediated rejection (pAMR+) and a matched control group of 30 patients without rejection (pAMR0) based on the updated ISHLT classification. From these patients, 94 endomyocardial biopsies (EMB) had adequate material for microarray analysis and endothelial expression analysis of pS6RP by IHC. We also determined the allograft gene expression profile using the ABMR molecular score in addition to pathogenesis-based transcripts reflecting endothelial activation (DSAST and ENDAT), macrophage burden (QCMAT), gamma-interferon response (GRIT) and NK-cell burden (NKB) (http://atagc.med.ualberta.ca).
Among the 94 EMBs included in the main analyses, 50 were pAMR+ (53.2%) and 44 (46.8%) were pAMR0 normal EMBs. Endothelial expression of pS6RP was observed in 27/50 (54%) of pAMR+ biopsies and 12 out of 44 normal biopsies (27.3%, Fischer's exact: p=0.012). As compared with biopsies without pS6RP labeling, biopsies with pS6RP staining showed increased expression of DSAST (Mann-Whitney: p<0.0001), ENDAT (p=0.0009), QCMAT (p=0.0046), NKB (p=0.0001), GRIT (p=0.0008) and increased ABMR molecular score reflecting AMR injury (p=0.0001).
Endothelial activation of mTOR pathway is associated with AMR and increased expression in transcripts reflecting endothelial activation, macrophage burden, microcirculation and NK burden. Our results suggest the importance of the mTOR pathway activation in AMR injury and the potential interest of using mTOR inhibitors in this setting.
We investigated whether the complement-binding capacity of circulating donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies (DSA) is associated with specific gene expression signature in the kidney allograft.
We prospectively enrolled 931 kidney recipients transplanted between 2011 and 2014, with systematic screening for circulating DSA in the first year post-transplantation. We assessed DSA specificity, MFI, C1q-binding capacity and IgG1-4 subclasses using SAB. All patients underwent allograft biopsy at the time of post-transplant DSA detection to assess gene expression using microarray. We compared gene expression according to DSA C1q-binding status.
We identified 157 (17%) patients with DSA, 44 (28%) with C1q-binding DSA, and 113 (72%) with non-C1q-binding DSA. Patients with C1q-binding DSA showed higher MFI levels (P<0.001) and greater prevalence of IgG1 (P<0.001) and IgG3 (P<0.001) subclasses than patients with non-C1q-binding DSAs. Among the 9954 inter-quartile range filtered transcripts that were most significantly expressed in the C1q-binding DSA patients, those most associated with C1q-binding DSAs were composed primarily of NK, endothelial, interferon gamma, macrophage, and effector T cell genes. We defined a discriminative gene set for C1q-binding DSA status (CXCL11, CCL4, MS4A6A, GBP1, MS4A7) that outperformed conventional histology to predict DSA C1q-binding status (AUC of 0.85 vs. 0.76, P=0.006). The 5-gene set was associated with the C1q-binding capacity of DSA independently of MFI level and IgG subclass composition. The integration of the gene set to conventional histology in unsupervised hierarchical clustering and principal component analysis allowed identifying a distinct pattern of allograft injury reflecting DSA C1q-binding capacity.
We identified a gene expression signature for kidney allograft injury related to the complement-binding capacity of circulating DSA that outperformed conventional histology.
Lung transplant recipients (LTR) have an increased risk of streptococcus pneumoniae (Sp) invasive infection (SPII).
We performed a retrospective analysis of any consecutive patient with at least one Sp isolate in bacteriological sample and/or urinary antigen in 538 LTR followed in a French center between 2010 and 2016. Patients with asymptomatic colonization, bronchitis and SPII are described.
83 isolates were obtained in 60 patients (11%) after a median time of 7.5 months post LT (IQR, 3.6; 12.4). Among them, 21 patients remained asymptomatic, 12 patients had bronchitis and 27 patients had at least one episode of SPII, mostly pneumonia. Sp was isolated in the immediate post-operative course in 12 patients (20%). Strains were susceptible to penicillin G and A in respectively 68 and 89% of the cases. Patients with isolates had another potential factor of colonization in 48% of the cases, such as the presence of bronchial stent or tracheostomy (23%), current tobacco use (15%) and pulse steroids in the previous 2 months (15%). Biopsy proven acute cellular rejection occurred simultaneously in 20% the patients. SPII incidence was 1.72 cases/100 patient-years. 80% of the cases of SPII occurred in the first 3 years post LT. Co-infection with various respiratory virus was documented in 29% of the cases. Co-infection with chronic colonizing bacteria, such as Pseudomonas or staphylococcus was present in 35%. None of the patients with SPII had received previous combined pneumococcal vaccination and only 6 (22%) of them were under azithromycin at the time of SPII. 19% of the patients required ICU admission, due to shock. None of them died.
Colonization of the lung allograft with Sp may occur very early and is frequently associated with bronchial stent, tobacco exposure or previous pulse steroids. SPII occurs in half of the cases. As previously described in the immunocompetent host, viral co-infection may be critical in the occurrence of SPII.
Acute respiratory virus infections have been associated with lung function decline at time of infection in lung recipients (LTR). An increased risk of acute cellular rejection (ACR) and chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) has also been reported following viral infection. We report on the lung function at time of infection and 6 months after respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection.
We performed a retrospective analysis of all consecutive patients with at least one positive PCR for RSV on a respiratory sample in 439 LTR followed between 2013 and 2016. At the time of infection, decliners, defined as patients with a drop of FEV1 > 10% from baseline, were compared to non-decliners. At 6 months, the occurrence of ACR, anti-HLA DSA and the occurrence/evolution of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) were assessed.
RSV infection occurred in 42 patients (9.7%; incidence 3.95/100 patient-years) at a median time post LT of 760 days (IQR, 272; 1432). 30 (71%) were decliners and 12 (29%) non-decliners. Decliners had more frequently a past history of similar episode than non-decliners (respectively 16/30, vs 2/12; p=0.036) and had more frequently pre-existing BOS stage 1 or more (8/30, vs 0/12; p=0.08). The diagnosis, the immunosuppression, co infection with bacteria or other viruses and concomitant ACR did not differ between the two groups. At 6 months, ACR occurred in 1 patient in each group (p=0.48), and de novo or aggravating BOS stage 0p or more occurred equally in both groups (10/30, vs 4/12; p=0.99). 7/30 (23%) of the decliners had de novo or increasing DSA (vs 1 non-decliners; p=0.4), and 2 of them experienced antibody-mediated rejection in the following 6 months.
RSV infection in LTR is frequently associated with an acute drop in FEV1, especially in case of pre-existing BOS and past history of similar episodes. De novo or aggravating BOS occurs in 1/3 of patients in the following 6 months independently of the occurrence of decline at the time of infection.
It has been demonstrated in heart and kidney transplantation that anti-HLA DSA mediate damage to the allograft via multiple mechanisms, including complement-dependent and independent actions. The transplant community is now in pursuit of new tools or technologies that will allow for stratification of DSA+ patients for antibody mediated rejection (AMR). C3d assay allow direct measure of DSA activation of complement.
Among 105 patients, 25 were considered DSA+AMR- and 15 DSA+AMR+. Comparison of donor specific beads BCM and donor specific beads C3d ratio between DSA+AMR+ and DSA+AMR- patients show a significantly higher value in DSA+AMR+ patients. BCM and C3d ratio of donor specific beads show strong correlation in DSA+AMR+ patients (R=0.6). Within DSA+AMR- group the correlation was weaker (R=0.09). Within our study population, immunodominant DSA C3d ratio>4 was significantly associated with graft loss.
DSA capacity to bind C3d is clearly associated with AMR and graft loss in lung transplantation. These results need to be validated in larger multicentric sutdy.
The important role of inflammation in scared areas in the kidney allograft (i-IF/TA) on transplant outcomes has been acknowledged by the 2015 Banff report, which has highlighted the need to clarify its significance. We investigated the determinants of i-IF/TA in a population-based study.
This observational, prospective cohort study included 1539 consecutive kidney recipients transplanted at Paris between 2004 and 2010, with systematic assessment of inflammation in allograft scarred area using the i-IF/TA Banff score on biopsies performed at 1 year post-transplantation. We considered donor and recipient baseline characteristics, transplant characteristics, immunosuppressive regimens, immunological parameters (HLA matching, anti-HLA DSA), infectious diseases (CMV, pyelonephritis, BK virus) and all the biopsy-provren diagnoses (TCMR, AMR, BK virus-associated nephropathy, CNI toxicity, acute tubular necrosis), recorded at the time of transplantation and in the first year after transplantation.
We identified 893 patients with IF/TA at 1 year post-transplant, among whom 194 (22%) showed severe i-IF/TA (≥2). The independent determinants for severe i-IF/TA were TCMR (OR, 2.7; 95%CI, 1.7-4.1), BK virus-associated nephropathy (OR, 3.5; 95%CI, 1.5-8.2), recipient age (OR, 0.9 95%CI, 0.9-0.9), CNI therapy (OR, 0.5; 95%CI, 0.2-0.9) and steroid therapy (OR, 0.5; 95%CI, 0.2-0.9). Patients with i-IF/TA showed a specific injury phenotype including increased inflammation in non-scarred areas (P<0.001), total inflammation (P<0.001) and tubulitis (P<0.001). Patients with persisting severe i-IF/TA after TCMR treatment showed an accelerated progression of fibrosis over time (P=0.01) and a decreased allograft survival (P=0.003) as compared to those without persisting inflammation after TCMR treatment.
Inflammation in scared areas of the kidney allograft is mainly determined by previous TCMR and the level of immunosuppression, and is associated with poor kidney transplant outcomes.
C Loheac, O Aubert, N Kamar, JP Duong Van Huyen, M Delahousse, D Glotz, C Legendre, C Lefaucheur, A Loupy.
Understanding the specific causes of kidney allograft loss are mandatory to improve the longevity of allografts. However, the current literature is limited by the low level of phenotyping, small series with selected populations or data from registries that lack precision diagnoses.
We conducted a multicentric prospective study including unselected kidney transplant recipients from 4 referral centers transplanted between 2004 and 2014. Donor, recipient, transplant parameters, clinical and biological post-transplant parameters as well as circulating anti-HLA DSA and allograft biopsies performed post-transplant were included. The main outcome was long-term kidney allograft survival and specific causes of graft loss.
4,783 kidney recipients were included and 9,959 kidney allograft biopsies were analyzed. During a median follow-up post-transplant of 4.51 years, 732 graft losses occurred. After inclusion of biopsy, clinical, biological, and anti-HLA DSA data, a primary cause of allograft loss was identified in 95% of cases. The causes were: immune related (31.7% of antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR), 4.8% of T-cell mediated rejection), surgical related (25.6% of thrombosis, 2,5% of urinary disease), medical related (tumoral, infectious or cardiac intercurrent disease (14,6%)), recurrence of primary disease (7.1%), virus related (BK or CMV associated nephropathy, 4.78%) and calcineurin inhibitor nephrotoxicity related (1.1%). ABMR was associated with the worse allograft survival (55% at 9 years).
In this multicentric extensively phenotyped population of kidney transplant recipients, we identify the contemporary picture of specific causes of kidney allograft loss. Such effort highlights the current priorities to detect such complications to improve long-term allograft outcomes.
A Loupy, O Aubert, B Orandi, A Jackson, M Naessens, N Kamar, O Thaunat, E Morelon, M Delahousse, D Viglietti, C Legendre, D Glotz, X Jouven, RA Montgomery, M Stegall, DL Segev, C Lefaucheur.
The transplant field currently lacks of robust risk stratification models. The goal of this study was to generate an integrative scoring system that predicts kidney allograft loss.
This international study involved 8 European and 2 North American centers including 4,806 kidney recipients transplanted between 2002 to 2014 and integrated the full spectrum of allograft parameters. The development cohort included 1540 patients. The prognostic ability of 80 parameters was evaluated using univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses. Performance assessment and internal validation of the final model were done with Harrell's C-index, calibration plot and bootstrap sample procedures. Using the final model, a prognostic nomogram and a score were developed.
Expanded criteria donor, allograft scarring (IFTA), allograft injury (g and ptc), allograft function (eGFR and proteinuria at 1 year post transplant), anti-HLA DSA status and level (MFI) were independently associated with 7-year post-transplant allograft survival. The model exhibited good calibration, excellent discrimination (C-statistic=0.80; 95%CI=0.76-0.84) and a nomogram for individual graft survival prediction was generated. Time dependent ROC curves, Random survival forests survival analyzes confirmed the robustness of the iBox score. The performance of the score was confirmed in the external validation cohort from Europe (n=2130, C-statistic=0.81; 95%CI=0.76-0.86) and North America (n=1136, C-statistic=0.83; 95%CI=0.77-0.89). The capacity of the score to predict graft failure remained high in 1118 patients evaluated beyond 1-year post transplant (C-statistic=0.80; 95%CI=0.76-0.85).
The iBox prognostic score and nomogram precisely predict the individual long-term graft survival probability. The score demonstrates high performance, exportability across centers worldwide and adaptability beyond the first year post transplant evaluation.
Understanding the specific causes of Transplant Glomerulopathy (TG) and its long-term consequences is lacking.
This study includes all kidney allograft biopsies performed between 2004 and 2014 in three French referral centers and one Canadian center showing TG. All TG cases were extensively phenotyped and systematically assessed using light microscopy, immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, together with circulating anti-HLA-DSA at the time of biopsy.
Among the 8207 post-transplant allograft biopsies performed during the inclusion period, 559 (6.8%) had double contours and corresponded to 392 patients. Three overlapping etiologies accounted for 467 (84%) cases. 417 biopsies showed alloantibodies-mediated injury (75%), 91 biopsies showed TMA (16%), 65 showed MPGN (12%), while 92 cases (17%) remained equivocal with no specific lesions identified by the pathologist (Figure 1). The median time to first cg lesion occurrence after transplantation was 32.7 months (IQR: 12.0–77.9). Kidney allograft survival after TG diagnosis was 59% at 5 years and 41% at 8 years (Figure 2). After adjusting for donor, recipient and transplant characteristics, immunological and histological parameters, we identified the following independent factors associated with long-term allograft survival in patients with TG: eGFR (HR:0.96; p<0.0001) and proteinuria level (HR:2.17; p<0.0001) at the time of biopsy, deceased donor (HR:1.64; p=0.0139), delay between transplantation and TG diagnosis (HR:1.34p<0.0001) and endarteritis Banff scores (HR:1.82; p=0.0018).
Using a large cohort of kidney recipients with a diagnosis of TG, we identify three overlapping pathways in TG: ABMR, TMA and MPGN. The identification of the main independent determinants of TG prognosis may help improving risk stratification and define specific causes and disease process in patients with TG.
The role of circulating anti-HLA DSAs in the development of accelerated arteriosclerosis has been recently reported in kidney recipients. This study investigated the characteristics of DSA that are associated with the severity of allograft arteriosclerosis.
We included 744 kidney transplantation performed between 2004 and 2010 at Paris, France, with systematic assessment of injury phenotype and arteriosclerotic lesions using the vascular fibrous intimal thickening (cv) Banff score on allograft biopsies performed at one year after transplantation. We assessed circulating DSAs and their characteristics (specificity, HLA class, mean fluorescence intensity [MFI] and C1q-binding) at 6 months after transplantation.
We identified 281 patients with cv0 score, 213 patients with cv1 score, 189 patients with cv2 score and 61 patients with cv3 score. The distribution of DSAs according to cv score was: 47/281 (17%) in cv0 patients, 39/213 (18%) in cv1 patients, 63/189 (33%) in cv2 patients and 28/61 (46%) in cv3 patients. DSA MFI level was positively correlated with the severity of arteriosclerosis (rho=0.23, p=0.002), with a mean MFI of 3204.0±3725.2 in cv0 patients, 3760±3598 in cv1 patients, 4892±4676 in cv2 patients and 5541±3892 in cv3 patients. C1q-binding DSA prevalence increased with the severity of allograft arteriosclerosis: 8/281 (3%) in cv0 patients, 6/213 (3%) in cv1 patients, 25/189 (13%) in cv2 patients and 9/61 (15%) in cv3 patients (p<0.001). Patients with C1q-binding DSA had a higher cv score compared with patients with non-C1q-binding DSA (1.7±1.0 versus 1.3±1.1, respectively, p=0.01). C1q-binding DSAs were associated with increased microvascular inflammation (p<0.001) and C4d deposition in peritubular capillaries or arteries (p<0.001).
There is a biological gradient between DSA level and the severity of allograft arteriosclerosis. Complement-activating DSAs are associated with an increased severity of arteriosclerosis and complement deposition in allograft.
11/ GENE EXPRESSION SIGNATURE OF SUBCLINICAL ALLOGRAFT KIDNEY ABMR COMPARED TO CLINICAL ABMR.
Antibody-mediated rejection occurs in clinically stable patients (sABMR) or in patients with allograft dysfunction (ABMR), but only little is known about the similitudes or discrepancies between the molecular landscape of sABMR and ABMR.
We used an integrative analysis strategy comprising a systematic assessment of clinical-biological parameters, transplant characteristics, histopathology, immunohistochemistry, type of treatment, circulating anti-HLA DSA assessment and gene expression.
Among the 131 patients with ABMR, 99 had a clinical ABMR while 32 were sABMR. Clinical ABMR displayed a worse kidney allograft function (mean eGFR: 34.45 vs 48.24 mL/min/1.73m2, p<0.001) and an increased proteinuria rate (mean: 0.54 vs 0.31 g/g creatinine, p=0.041) compared to sABMR. There was no difference for the highest anti-HLA DSA MFI at the time of ABMR between the two groups (Clinical ABMR:median MFI: 2779 (IQR: 1028-7573); sABMR: median MFI: 1842 (IQR: 1191-5391); p=0.356). Allograft gene expression showed that patients with clinical ABMR exhibited significantly more injury-repair response transcripts (p<0.001), more macrophage associated transcripts (p=0.003) and a trend towards more IFNG production and inducing transcripts (p=0.066). We compared the top 10 ABMR related transcripts with their corresponding fold change and p value (t-test) compared the sABMR. Five transcripts were AKI associated (LCN2, LTF, SERPINA3, SLPI and PTX3) and two were macrophages associated (CD163 and MSR1). A principal component analysis integrating the histological and molecular parameters identified a distinct histo-molecular allograft rejection phenotype in patients with clinical ABMR vs sABMR.
cABMR is associated with a distinct histo-molecular phenotype of kidney allograft rejection mainly driven by AKI and macrophages burden compared to sABMR, which could explain the difference in terms of allograft survival.
Addressing the causes of accelerated ageing of kidney allografts represents an important challenge to improve long-term transplant outcomes. We investigated the role of donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies (DSA) in the progression of kidney allograft interstitial fibrosis.
We prospectively enrolled 913 kidney recipients transplanted between 2004 and 2010. All patients were assessed for allograft interstitial fibrosis on biopsies performed at Day 0 and at 1 year after transplantation using the IF/TA Banff grade. We also integrated all the "for cause" biopsies performed in the first year post-transplant (N=1035) and after the first year (N=784, median time of biopsies 18.4 months; IQR, 13.3-40.4). All patients were screened for DSA by SAB at the time of transplantation (Day 0) and within the first year post-transplantation. The progression of IF/TA within the first year post-transplantation was evaluated by the difference between the 1-year and Day-0 IF/TA grades (∆IF/TA). The progression of IF/TA over the long term was modelled using mixed-effect models.
The distribution of IF/TA on pre-implantatory biopsies (N=913) was: 726 (80%) IF/TA0, 145 (15%) IF/TA1, 36 (4%) IF/TA2 and 6 (1%) IF/TA3 as compared to 325 (35%), 263 (29%), 173 (19%), and 152 (17%) on 1-year biopsies (N=913) (P<0.001). Over the first year, 507 (56%) patients presented progression of IF/TA (∆IF/TA>0). Patients with Day-0 DSA (N=198) showed increased progression of fibrosis within the first year (∆IF/TA: 1.08±1.15) as compared to those without Day-0 DSA (N=715, 0.86±1.12) (P=0.016). Patients with post-transplant DSA (preformed or de novo) (N=236) exhibited accelerated progression of IF/TA as compared to patients without post-transplant DSA (N=677) (P=0.0078) when integrating the biopsies performed at 1-year post-transplant and beyond.
Pre-transplant circulating DSA increase premature allograft fibrosis and post-transplant DSA accelerate the progression of allograft fibrosis over the long term.
We investigated the independent contribution of circulating donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies (DSA) in the development of severe kidney allograft fibrosis with integration of traditional risk factors for allograft fibrosis.
We prospectively enrolled 1539 consecutive kidney recipients transplanted between 2004 and 2010, with systematic assessment of allograft fibrosis using the IF/TA Banff score on biopsies performed at 1-year post-transplantation. We considered all of the traditional determinants of allograft fibrosis reported in the literature, recorded at the time of transplantation and in the first year after transplantation. We also integrated DSA assessment and all the histologic diagnoses ("for cause" biopsies; N=1804) performed in the first year after transplantation.
We identified 498 (32%) patients with severe IF/TA (Banff grade≥2). DSA were associated with severe IF/TA at 1-year post transplant (adjusted OR, 1.53; 95%CI, 1.16-2.01; P=0.002), independently of the traditional determinants, including: T cell-mediated rejection, antibody-mediated rejection, BK virus-associated nephropathy, calcineurin inhibitor toxicity, initial disease recurrence, pyelonephritis, acute tubular necrosis, donor and recipient baseline parameters, and transplant characteristics. DSA remained associated with severe IF/TA even in patients without episode of antibody-mediated rejection (OR, 1.47; 95%CI, 1.10-1.96; P=0.008). Among the modifiable risk factors for severe IF/TA, DSA were found to be the first contributor, being involved in 11% of cases while T cell-mediated rejection, calcineurin inhibitor toxicity, acute tubular necrosis, pyelonephritis and BK virus-associated nephropathy were involved in 9%, 8%, 6%, 5%, and 4% of cases, respectively.
Circulating DSA are major contributor to severe allograft interstitial fibrosis independent of traditional risk factors and of antibody-mediated rejection.
There is a wide heterogeneity in antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) patients' prognosis after standard of care (SOC) including plasma exchange (PE) and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). We investigated whether a composite prognostic score might identify patients at poor prognosis after AMR SOC therapy eligible for second-line intervention.
We prospectively included kidney recipients diagnosed with active AMR (2012-2014) who received standardized SOC therapy (PE x4 and IVIG 2 g/kg repeated every 3 weeks x3). Patients were stratified according to their risk of graft loss after SOC based on an AMR prognostic score. High-risk patients received second-line treatment with complement-targeting agent (C5-inhibitor Eculizumab or C1-inhibitor Berinert) and high-dose IVIG for 6 months. The prognostic score was built in a prospective cohort of 284 kidney recipients with biopsy-proven active AMR receiving the standardized SOC therapy (abstract N° 3720943).
We enrolled 83 kidney recipients with active AMR diagnosed at a median time of 4.3 months post-transplantation. Patients received the SOC therapy, after which they were stratified in 3 risk groups defined according to the prognostic score. 15 (18%), 11 (13%) and 57 (69%) patients were stratified in the high-risk, intermediate-risk and low-risk groups, respectively. Predicted 3-year graft survivals after AMR were 94% (95%CI, 89-96), 64% (95%CI, 43-79) and 32% (95%CI, 17-48), respectively. The characteristics of high-risk patients were: GFR of 27.4±8.9 mL/min, g+ptc Banff score of 4.1±1.2 and DSA MFImax of 14482±485 after SOC therapy, and 37.1±10.5 mL/min, 3.5±1.4 and 10319±646 before SOC therapy. High-risk patients receiving second-line therapy showed a 3-year graft survival of 84%.
Risk stratification for kidney graft loss by a composite prognostic score based on clinical, histological and immunological parameters allows to identify high-risk patients after SOC treatment of AMR who may benefit from second-line strategies.


Snapchat didn't have a really good period lately, with stocks drowning, so it was about time they came up with new features that can get them back on track. A few hours ago they announced they introduced "Context Cards", a new way of finding out more about what you, as a user, see in a snap. In order to use the context cards to discover more information about something that you find in a snap, you just have to swipe up and the Context Card will appear.
But what kind of information do the Context Cards contain? In order to introduce this new feature, Snapchat has chosen several partners like TripAdvisor, Foursquare, Michelin, Uber, and Lyft.
So whether you want to read more info on a restaurant or other users' reviews, or you want to call for an Uber, the new Snapchat feature will allow all these. Stories are also part of the Context Cards, so if you want to have a more detailed view of a place, it is easier to find them now and see more snaps that users posted from that specific place.
When you post a snap to "Our Story", it will also appear on the Context Card of the location you are currently in. You know what the "Our Story" feature is, right? If not, I'll tell you: it is a community narrative from a specific location, where you can find snaps or events from the location. The story will also appear when you search for a place or look for it on the map.
Find the specific snap you would like to report.
Tap the flag button you find in the bottom-left corner.
Let Snapchat what's wrong with the information.
If you think there is something wrong with a sponsored Context Card, you should reach directly to the ones that have created the content. On the other hand, if you see something inaccurate on a regular context card, do not worry very much about it, as Snapchat is doing it's best to update the information regularly.
What do you think about this new update from Snapchat? Will you, as a business use sponsored Context Cards? Will you, as a user, update Context Cards of the locations you are visiting?


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Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a former judge and youth advocate of Cree and Scottish heritage, will serve as the UBC Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre's (IRSHDC) first director.
Her appointment came after the IRSCHDC's opening on April 9, which was hosted alongside an apology from UBC President Santa Ono about the university's systemic support for the residential school system. Turpel-Lafond previously served as a provincial judge in Saskatchewan, joining the UBC community in March when she became a professor at the Allard School of Law.
As BC's previous — and first — representative for children and youth, her work has centred around the needs and challenges of Indigenous communities in the legal system. She also worked on mitigating the effects of the residential school system through "child welfare reform, language revitalization and criminal justice innovation," according to UBC's press release.
"Mary Ellen has been a tireless advocate for vulnerable children and for Indigenous rights in the legal system, making her the ideal candidate to lead the IRSHDC and an exemplary addition to the Allard School of Law," said Ono.
As the IRSHDC's director, she will be responsible for facilitating access to Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's records for survivors, continuing educating the UBC community about the inter-generational trauma created by the residential school system, and addressing its effects.
"This opportunity to deepen the dialogue and respond to the legacy of residential schools is historic," she said in the press release.
Turpel-Lafond will also be bringing the expertise she has gained through her legal work and advocacy to the new role.
"With understanding will come dialogue on necessary actions for recognizing and respecting Indigenous peoples' human rights and the revitalization of Indigenous languages, education systems, laws, cultures and self-determination," she said.
Her term will begin on June 1.


The Society aims to collect together photographs, maps, postcard images and other documents which tell the story of Milton. These items will be on public display in the New Milton Memorial Centre and online via a website. In addition the Milton Heritage Society will offer talks on aspects of local history and put on displays at outdoor events like the Bashley Fair and events on the Recreation Ground. It is also intended to record the memories of those residents who have lived in our community or many years. These oral history recordings will be made available to all on our website and via the St Barbe Museum.
photographs or images that you would be willing to allow us use we would be very grateful. We would scan in the document and return the original to you. Your treasured photograph could feature in our launch exhibition.
towards the costs of the society, including reproduction of images and maintenance of the website. In return you will be invited to talks on our local history.


Being an Arduinoist myself, I need many tools or components when I do prototyping or experiments. In the list below, I have gathered the most important tools and parts for Arduinoist.
This article is also available on Jordan's Lab Notebook !
Desoldering pumps are used when you soldered something wrong, and you want to fix it. To use it, heat up the point you want to desolder with the soldering iron, then simply put the tip of the desoldering pump to the point and press the button. The point will then be desoldered.
A mini drill is used to drill holes on a printed circuit board for soldering components onto them.
A breadboard is a prototyping board with many holes on it. Each five holes in a line are interconnected. Very useful when doing experiment.
Jumper wires are wires that each end have a special plastic casing and a pin. It is used to connect lines together on a breadboard.
A laser printer is used when you are making pcbs with the 10 mins quick-etching pcb boards.
This is a quick pcb etching board. Available at most of the electronics hobby store.
The Arduino Nano is a micro-sized arduino microcontroller. Very useful for product developing and prototyping.
The Arduino Ethernet is a special version of arduino microcontroller which includes ethernet connection. Good for building web-based projects.
Resistors are used to lower the voltage of a circuit. It comes in a variety of size, major sizes include 270ohm, 1k, 5k and 10k.
Potentiometer is a kind of turning switch/resistor which can be easily used with arduino using the analog pins.
They are used to control on and off of components or circuits.
LED is a kind of diode which will produce light. Very useful for using as a power indicator. Also come in different kind of colors and sizes.
DC motors is a kind of motor which will turn continuously. Mainly use for making rc cars.
Servo motor is a kind of motor that will move by each degee. Most of them can move up to 180 degree and can be controlled by arduino directly.
The 16*2 LCD is a common way of displaying contents from an arduino. But it will use up most of the pins of an anduino uno.
Passive Infared Ray, or PIR, Motion Sensor is a useful and a highly sensitive motion sensor. Often used in anti-theif security system.
The LM35 temperature sensor is a precise temperature sensor which is small and can be directly recorded by Arduino analog pins.
The Photoresistor is a kind of light sensor which comes in a variety of size. It can be easily used with Arduino analog pins.
The IR Transmitter and Receiver can be used to communicate with two arduino.
The Arduino IDE is a free software developed by Arduino LLC based on Processing. It is used to write sketches and bootloaders into the Arduino or ATmega Chip.
Fritzing is a free prototype design software. It includes a breadboard designer, a schematic designer and a pcb designer.
These are all the major tools, components and softwares for Arduinoist.
Thanks for reading this Instructables!
Nice! It would be better if you put images.
Or Processing, period. But neither are needed for microcontroller magic, they just make it a lot cooler, more versatile and functional.


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Watches Vintage Watches Are Having A Big Moment In Asia, According To Christie's
Vintage Watches Are Having A Big Moment In Asia, According To Christie's
By Charmian Leong/CNA Luxury May 14, 2019
Of the 20 most expensive watches ever sold at auction, only three were made in this decade. What's causing this new love for old watches? It might be China
It's true what Oscar Wilde said: No man is rich enough to buy back his past. But if you can afford to buy back a little relic of it—or better yet someone else's—you should. Because according to Alexandre Bigler, watch consultant at Christie's, vintage watches are having a moment.
"When I first arrived in Asia in 2010, introducing vintage watches to the Southeast Asian market, people thought it was weird," Bigler said, recalling comments on how they were too small and not as pretty as current models.
"But people are becoming more interested in how watches were being made back then, when they were produced one at a time rather than manufactured in series. While the value of many contemporary watches has sadly taken a hit, vintage watches have gone up."
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Alexandre Bigler; Image: Courtesy of Christie's
Of the 20 most expensive watches ever sold at auction, only three were made in this decade. Topping that list is a Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication pocket watch that went for CHF 23.2 million (S$$31.6 million) in 2014, followed by a Rolex Daytona formerly owned by Paul Newman, which sold for US$17.75 million (S$24 million) in 2017.
"I think this is happening because modern watches were overproduced when China became the main market. The brands weren't used to having people pouring out of buses saying they want to buy 10 or 20 pieces when previously buyers would go in, say hello, sit down and quietly wait for someone to show them three watches," he explained.
"But Asian consumers are smart and quickly saw what was happening, and so their tastes changed. Now the brands are trying to get rid of the overproduced models and going back to creating limited quantities."
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That isn't to say modern watches aren't worth collecting. Bigler says it is first important to know what kind of collector you want to be: Determine what your budget is and, if selling it off is the end goal, to decide how long you intend to keep the watch.
"Watches that can sustain their value over the long term are usually classic, so stick to models that have been doing consistently well over the years. If you are shopping for a Cartier, maybe stick to a Crash. If you are looking at Breguet, maybe it should be a tourbillon. If you are buying a Patek Philippe, buy a minute repeater."
Sticking to blue-chip brands and models like Rolex's Submariner and Patek Philippe's Nautilus is certainly safe, but it takes away the fun of discovering what other brands have to offer. "Rolex can release a GMT in a new colour and it will sell like hotcakes," said Bigler.
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"But once you get more confident and have more money, you can play around. You can get a Tissot from the 1950s—they're beautiful."
Generally speaking, Bigler has noticed that those who seek contemporary watches are after limited editions with special cases and dials, while those hunting vintage watches look at condition and rarity, particularly ones with "tropical dials", which are dials that have been discoloured over time by sun exposure.
Just a word of advice: "Don't rely too much on others," he cautioned. "People can be lazy and just request photographs and recommendations from us without doing their homework. If I set your target then I control where your collection goes. And you might see something that I don't. Which is why we always recommend our clients come and see the watches in person to avoid disappointment. I want them to become independent and strong on their collecting journey."
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077 Professor Morten Flate Palsen
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Professor Morten Flate Paulsen's experience with online learning dates back to pioneering days in the 1980s. His ongoing work is based on his Theory of Cooperative Freedom and Transparency – which still has a very contemporary application.
He is currently writing a blog titled My Online Education World 1980-2020, which to date includes a chronicle of 250 personal anecdotes, experiences and reflections on the people, events, technology and pedagogy that influenced four decades of his online education work. The narrative is based on his international practice with online education as a pioneer, student, teacher, course designer, system developer, administrator, researcher, professor, author, editor, entrepreneur and innovator.
The story progresses along with his work for NKI Distance Education in Norway, the American Centre for the Study of Distance Education, the Athabasca University in Canada, the European Association for Distance Learning (EADL), the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN), the Universidade Aberta in Portugal, the Nordic open online Academy (NooA), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE).
Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/dfd50dc6-d660-4a0e-abb9-35e61cd0d340-077-Morten-Flate-Paulsen-Final.mp3 | recorded November 2022
Morten's online profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfpaulsen/
Morten's Online Education World anecdotes: https://www.nooa.no/my-online-education-world/
Contributions to the EDEN President's blog: https://www.eden-online.org/blog/author/morten/
Dalsgaard, C., & Paulsen, M. F. (2009). Transparency in Cooperative Online Education. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 10(3). https://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/671
Keegan, D., Lõssenko, J., Mázár, I., Paulsen, M.F., Rekkkedal, T., Toska, J.A., & Zarka, D. (2007). E-learning initiatives that did not reach targeted goals. Norway: NKI Publishing House. Note: this book provides case study articles and analyses of nine prestigious European e-learning initiatives that did not reach their objectives. https://issuu.com/mfpaulsen/docs/book3
Paulsen, M. F. (2008). Cooperative Online Education. Seminar.Net, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.7577/seminar.2482. https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/seminar/article/view/2482
Paulsen, M. F. (2003). Online Education and Learning Management Systems – Global education in a Scandinavian Perspective. Norway: NKI Forlaget. https://issuu.com/mfpaulsen/docs/onlineeducation
Paulsen, M. F. (Ed.) (2007). Megaproviders of e-learning in Europe. Norway: NKI Publishing House. Note: this book includes 26 case study articles of European megaproviders of e-learning. https://issuu.com/mfpaulsen/docs/megaproviders
Paulsen, M. F., & Vieira, V. (2006). An Analysis of E-learning Experiences in European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Norway: NKI Forlaget. https://issuu.com/mfpaulsen/docs/book_about_e-learning_quality_in_smes
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Keema curry is often over-looked. I was once asked, by a waiter, why I was ordering a Keema as they are for old me with no teeth. Yet, I reckon they deserve a better press. Top yours off with a couple of quail's eggs halved or a nice big duck's egg quartered.


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The Buufal is a steep, south facing wall which routes have been equipped by Martin and Maya Stettler. Up today, there are more than forty, well equipped routes available. Some of them are nice multipitch routes of a great rock quality. Especially the route called Farfallina 6b is one of the best multipitch routes in the Berner Oberland. But of course also the other routes are enjoyed and attract sports climbers. But don't be afraid this crag remained calm with few visitors. The approach to the climbing spot is relatively short from the parking spot. Don't miss this jewel in the Berner Oberland!


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Cast of The Big Bang Theory treat Audience to Flash Mob Spectacle
Hans Haupt
The Big Bang Theory is one of the best comedies on television today. It is the perfect blend of geeky awesomeness and smart, witty, sometimes gutter-bound, humour. It is a television series that deserves to be watched by all.
Of course, the true stars of the show are the fantastic ensemble cast who we have all come to know and love by name: Penny (Kaley Cuoco), Sheldon (Jim Parsons), Leonard (Johnny Galecki), Howard (Simon Helberg), Raj (Kunai Nayyar), Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) and Amy (Mayim Bialik).
The intricacies of pulling off the superb humour of the show are always handled with aplomb by the cast. Even more impressive is the almost palpable repertoire and camaraderie that is shared between each actor. The reason why The Big Bang Theory has been so successful is because viewers can actually see the cast enjoying themselves while acting on set. In fact, if one observes closely, it is often possible to spot the smirks of suppressed smiles from fellow cast members during performances. It is this convivial togetherness that prompted the cast of The Big Bang Theory to surprise their live audience with a flash mob rendition of Carley Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe', which ended off with Sheldon's trademark "Bazinga".
The impromptu performance is television 'gold' at its best! Enjoy!
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