The Sherman Firefly was a British WW2 variant of the American Sherman Tank fitted with the powerful British 17 pounder anti tank gun as its main weapon. Origionally conceived as a stop gap until future British tank designs came into service, the Sherman Firefly became the most common vehicle with the 17 pouder in WW2.
Though the Britsh expected to have there own new tank models developed soon (and were loath to consider using US tanks). British Major George Brightly championed the already rejected idea of mounting the 17 pounder in the existing Sherman. With the help of Lieutenant Colonel Witheridge and despite official disaproval, he managed to get the concept accepted. This proved fortuitous as both the Challenger and Cromwell tank designs experienced difficulties and delays.
The After the problem of getting the Gun to fit in the Sherman turret was solved, the Firefly was put into production in early 1944, in time to equip Field Marshall Montgomerys forces for the Normany Landings (Operation Overlord).
It soon became highly valued as the only British tank capable of defeating the Pather and Tiger tanks it faced in Normandy at the standard combat ranges. In recognition of this German tanks and anti tank gun crews were instructed to attack Firefly's first.
Between 2100 and 2200 were manufactured before production was wound down in 1945.
Peter has really pulled this one off, a typical Firefly with all the stowage and track used as a 'make shift' armour even to the welded on turret box for extra ammunition.
Also notice the lower painted barrel to hide the fact it is a Firefly.
These photo shots of a Panther crew at rest by Ernie are expertly painted in typical German camo drab, the photogarphs have been masterly done in photoshop to show a faux diorama.
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A Very Pro finished King Tiger tank here from Peter with the added Porsche turret from a kit, also commander and loader looking very realisitc, some battle damage is seen with a genuine tri colour camo which is dulled down with special techniques. This is a very large and heavy realistic model in every way. Peter does his own zimmerite as we have mentioned before from his secret recipe.
Look out don't let this heavy tank run over your toes.
With in house zimmerite applied LED Flash Machine gun and LED Cannon also.
Some of the most dangerous men fighting in WW2 were Finnish Sniper Units, Simo Hayha was the best sniper the Finns had, he was called 'White Death' by the Soviet Army with 505 kills.
However he was shot by a Russian counter sniper and part of his jaw was blown off but he did survived the War.
Simo Hayha Born 17th. Dec. 1905 - Died 1st. April 2002. Age 96.
I have sent in my version of the German Krupps supply truck. The guy who purchased my Tiger 1asked if I could convert a Toy 'Indiana Jones@ truck as seen in the film, Hasbro do a truck and this would compliment my 1/16 scale range.
After a few Umm's and arr'sI reluctantly agreed to have a go without spending too much time or money on the project.
After a few nights of working on it I found it was looking quite realistic and the buyer was very pleased with the early photographs.
He has since purchased lots of stowage Oil drums, Covers, tools etc.
See the following Photo's below.
N.B. Also see Gallery 14 for a similar model by Andy Jones.
Something like 30% to 40% of tank losses for all Allied armies in the final months of the war were attributed to Panzerfaust ambushes usually carried out by Hitler youth. Much has been made of the superiority of the German Heavy armour against Medium Allied tanks. Yes the Panzerfaust (Tank Fist) was the ultimate evolution of individual anti-tank rocket during WW2.
Germany spent millions of Deutschmarks on expensive tanks like the King Tiger (Tiger 2) which was so comples and expensive that only a few could be produced.
Yet the Panzerfaust was cheap and effective, it's not unlikely that concentrating on producing and distributing Panzerfauste more evenly to German units in France (before June 1944) could have given the German infantry an effective counter-measure to Allied armour.
Men and Panzerfauste were something the Germans did not lack in 1944, and the weapon was far more effective deployed by a veteran infantryman than raw militaryman or Hitler Youth member.


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Strickland's desire to preach above and beyond the jazz choir is rooted in his affinity toward a multitude of musical styles. Growing up in a household which encouraged the arts, Strickland's musical palette had been vast long before his professional endeavors. This broad creative range, along with his emergence as a singular voice on his instrument, helped Strickland land his first recording deal as a leader with the Fresh Sound label, soon after the Miami native graduated from New York's esteemed New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Strickland has a covetable list of recording and performing credits, having collaborated with Wynton Marsalis, Tom Harrell, and Dave Douglas, but Strickland's longest and most impressionable working relationships include two of the most influential drummers ever to play the instrument: Roy Haynes and Jeff "Tain" Watts. Strickland was still attending college when jazz master Roy Haynes asked him to join his Fountain of Youth band. Over the last five years, Strickland has held some of the most prestigious positions in the realm of jazz journalism: Rising Star on Soprano Saxophone in Downbeat's 2012 Critic's Poll Rising Star on Tenor Saxophone in Downbeat's 2010 Critic's Poll, Rising Star on Soprano Saxophone in Downbeat's 2008 Critic's Poll and Best New Artist in JazzTimes' 2006 Reader's Poll. For Strickland, the blueprint for triumph is based on one main principle, "As long as you're honest, I think nobody can mess with that. I think that's essential to being an artist… to be yourself. Really expose what's inside of you, try to put that out there in a very creative and beautiful way that people can enjoy. My whole goal is to make enjoyable music with great depth, and touch as many people as I can with it. That's all I want to do."
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UK labour law quarterly update - March 2019
Welcome to our March UK labour law quarterly update. This edition contains the following content:
Chocks away: Despite the rarity of recent employer injunctions to stop strikes, one such injunction averted flight disruption over Christmas. What are the lessons for employers?
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News round-up
Ground breaking Hermes and GMB gig economy agreement
Government focus on increasing employee engagement: Good Work Plan legislation and Corporate Governance changes
Are the 'no-deal' European Works Council regulations fit for purpose?
Recent labour case law
Two cases on triggering collective redundancy consultation duties: Seahorse Maritime Ltd v Nautilus International, Braine & others v The National Gallery
Appeal to be heard in important changing collective terms case: Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley
Joint employment judicial review decision with implications for outsourcing models: IWGB v CAC
Eversheds Sutherland labour law publications, events and training
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There has been widespread interest in the agreement negotiated between Hermes and the GMB union under which, it has been reported, self-employed couriers working for Hermes have the right to choose to become "self-employed plus", giving them certain benefits including 28 days paid holiday each year and a guaranteed average hourly minimum rate of pay (£8.55) in return for following the delivery routes specified by Hermes. Couriers who do not opt in to this agreement will retain their existing higher rate of pay. Last year Hermes lost a Tribunal case over the status classification of its couriers and, as part of the agreement, Hermes has agreed not to appeal against this Tribunal decision and the GMB has agreed not to bring any more claims over the misclassification of Hermes couriers.
It remains to be seen however whether this hybrid collective arrangement is sustainable on tax, pensions and employment law grounds. For example, the couriers will ostensibly remain self-employed whilst agreeing to additional controls and receiving new benefits which opens up a risk of them being held to be employees for tax purposes.
Last year a Danish company operating through a digital platform to provide clients with the services of around 450 self-employed cleaners stated that it had entered the "world's first collective agreement for a platform company". The agreement, with a Danish trade union, treats the contractors as workers by providing minimum pay levels, sick and holiday pay, pension contributions and additional benefits. Given that many countries are grappling with how to support both digital services and labour rights, we can expect further innovations from digital businesses and unions to be explored and piloted in the future.
More employers are reviewing their employee engagement processes in response to recent government and regulatory initiatives and requirements. These include:
All UK incorporated companies with an average number of more than 250 employees are required to provide an expanded statement of engagement with employees in their directors' or strategic report (for financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2019)
The 2018 Corporate Governance Code (which broadly applies to all companies with a premium listing, whether incorporated in the UK or elsewhere) provides that boards should keep employee engagement mechanisms under review and should use one or a combination of: a director appointed from the workforce; a formal workforce advisory panel; or, a designated non-executive director. If the board has not chosen one of these methods, it should explain alternative arrangements and why these are considered effective
The government's Good Work Plan and associated legislation will lower the threshold required for a request to set up employee information and consultation arrangements from 10% to 2% of employees (the 15 employee minimum threshold remains) from 6 April 2020.
These changes reflect the government's aim, as stated in the Good Work Plan, of creating motivated and engaged workforces in order to improve organisational performance and boost productivity. It has said that it will go further to support engagement in sectors with high levels of casual employment.
Exiting the EU with no-deal remains a possibility (at the time of writing) and, as such, a concern over the wording in the finalised EWC Brexit legislation, which aims to provide legal certainty and continuity in a no-deal, remains a live issue for employers with UK-governed EWCs.
The government has consistently stated its intention, including in the legislation's explanatory memo, to maintain provisions relevant to existing UK-governed EWCs where possible, including: the enforcement framework; employee representative rights and protections; and, protection for confidential information shared with the EWC. In contrast, it intended to remove the right to request a new EWC, although any request in progress on exit day would continue under the existing provisions so that the process can reach completion.
However, despite this intention, the drafting in the finalised regulations, on a literal interpretation, fails to fully achieve that end. We have raised our concerns with BEIS who are reviewing the legislation.
Meanwhile, the EU Commission has issued new EWC guidance with implications for UK-governed EWCs, but only in the event of no-deal. In broad terms, the Commission's view is that such UK-governed EWCs will not continue under UK law – instead, the law of a remaining Member State will apply "automatically and immediately" upon a no-deal Brexit. As such, despite the above UK regulations, employers with UK-governed EWCs need to proactively consider alternative governing law given the continuing threat of no-deal. Employers affected are invited to contact thomasplayer@eversheds-sutherland.com for advice.
In Seahorse, the Court of Appeal revisited the sometimes vexed question as to what constitutes a single establishment in the context of triggering the 20 employee threshold and the obligation to consult collectively on redundancies under s188 TULRCA. The facts complicated the decision because the employer was a labour-only supplier of crew to work on another company's ships. i.e. the workers in question were employed by a different legal person than the operator of the establishment.
The Court held that it is clear from previous EU and UK case law that the identity of the employer is not in itself a relevant factor. For example, the legislation does not say "at one establishment of his" and previous EU authorities have instead focused on functional and organisational characteristics – essentially, is there a unit and is it a single "place"? On this basis, it held that each ship was an establishment, because it was a self-contained operating unit and crew were assigned to particular ships.
In Braine, a Tribunal was asked to decide whether a claim under s188 TULRCA extends, contrary to the terms of the statute, beyond "employees" to "workers". This was in the context of a claim by workers whose services had been terminated. Having decided that each claimant was a worker only for the duration of each assignment they performed (there being no umbrella or overarching contract), the Tribunal noted that EU and UK law contains an exclusion from collective consultation on the expiry of the fixed term or task. As the individual assignments were contracts for limited periods of time and for specific tasks, this exclusion applied. Even if that was incorrect, the Tribunal expressed a view that it would not be open to any Tribunal to read s188 as applying to "workers", given the clear choice of "employees" by Parliament.
Having been granted leave to appeal, the case is listed before the Court of Appeal on either the 22 or 23 May 2019. K is looking to overturn the EAT's decision on legislation (s145B TULRCA) which restricts employers' ability to change employment terms in a unionised workplace without collective agreement (for more information, read our briefing). In the meantime, employers need to approach the process of varying collective terms and conditions with care and take advice if they are considering making offers to staff individually.
In 2018, the IWGB union unsuccessfully applied for joint employment union recognition with two employers for one set of workers: a facilities management provider, its workers and the organisation where its services are performed. The union argued that the latter controlled the terms and conditions provided by the former. The CAC rejected the application, deciding that that the law provides for workers to collectively bargain with their direct employer only. Judgment has been given in the union's judicial review application. The union argued a breach of human rights, however, the High Court decided that there was no such breach: there is no positive obligation to require compulsory collective bargaining (CB) in all circumstances and IWGB is free to seek voluntary CB arrangements with both employers. Even if this was wrong, the Court held that the particular UK statutory recognition legislation involved in the case is justifiable. It decided also that there are sufficient reasons for limiting the right to compulsory CB to workers and their direct employers only and that joint employment would undermine legitimate outsourcing models.
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Q: Does a rotating DC motor near a TV affects the signals coming in the TV? In my TV cable the signals were quite noisy so i cut the wire and hanged both the wire parallel to each other. Then the signals became very clear and everything was going alright. Once I was performing an experiment with a simple DC motor I found that when the shaft attached in the motor rotates the signals coming in the TV antenna were disturbed. I was surprised. When i held the shaft to stop the motor the signals became normal. Earlier it never happened. The motor was very simple and it worked on 1.5 V DC cell.
There was no connection between the motor and the TV. I am not sure that what is happening, it may be that the rotating  motor would be radiating or releasing signals.

A: That is called EMC : Electromagnetic compatibility.
Your DC machine stator is fed through a brush. Since it is rubbing the commutator plates, it can generate sparks, small arcs and so on. Since these phenomena are really fast, they tend to emit electromagnetic radiations in the whole frequency spectrum (see the Fourier transform of a dirac delta function) and sprinkle EM signals in all around them.
Your antenna (and your cathodic screen) may recieve this noise signal, and the original signal is polluted.

A: I have the same problem with my bathroom fan knocking out my tv, electric motors in general produce an electic field that interupts your signal pattern, also yes i am amazed you have a signal at all with the cables like that, its fairly easy to join them strip both ends back join the 2 inner cores in a connector then twist the stranded outer cores together insuring the inner cores dont touch the outer cores

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School Shootings: Seeking the Why
March 20, 2018 May 25, 2022 / kevingdrendel
My research shows that the first indiscriminate, mass shooting at a school took place in 1966. Three more incidents took place in the 1970's. The number of incidents exploded in the 1980's, and 1990's, and the shooters since the 1990's have predominantly been children and young adults in their early 20's. Something has happened in the last 50 years that was different than the previous 200 years of US history.
Another school shooting has occurred, this time in Maryland at the Great Mills High School. (See the CNN report: Armed student dead after he shoots 2 others at Maryland high school, sheriff says). Some people will herald this incident as a vindication of gun rights because the shooter was taken down by an armed resource officer in the school. I will leave that debate to others. I want to focus on why school shootings are happening in the first place.
Yes, we can say school shootings are happening because of guns, but guns are not the whole story. Guns are not the root cause. Guns have been ubiquitously part of the fabric of American life going back to the Revolutionary War and before. Guns were accessible in our country throughout the 1800's and 1900's, but there was never an indiscriminate, mass school shooting until 1966 when an engineering student holed up in a tower in Austin, TX and began shooting at passersby on the campus below.
Within months a copycat shooting took place in Mesa, AZ by another individual who spoke about inspiration from the Austin shooter and a serial killer. (See A Brief History of Indiscriminate School Shootings in the US) Copycat inspiration is a likely source of motivation for indiscriminate, mass school shootings, but copycat inspiration doesn't explain why. Why would anyone be inspired to emulate such an example as a school shooting?
Regardless of whatever we decide as a society to do about guns, we need to ask why!
Any gun regulation that we pass will only be a cover up of the real issue. If we only take away the guns, we will fail to address the root cause of the problem, leaving us exposed to other forms of indiscriminate, brutal acts using other means. We have already witnessed incidents with knives (for a list of over 50 mass knife attacks since 2001 see Wikipedia), bombs (reference bombings in Austin and San Antonio, TX (Another suspicious package found at FedEx after explosion, police chief says, CNN March 2018)), vehicles and other things.
Something is going on in our society that has loosened the restraints that held in place over many decades against the idea of intentionally and indiscriminately killing innocent people. After the Austin shooting and the copycatting attempt a few months later, there were three (3) indiscriminate, mass school shootings in the 1970's. In the 1980's, the number jumped to five (5). (See A Brief History of Indiscriminate School shootings in the US)
In the 1990's, the lid came off of Pandora's Box, with 14 indiscriminate, mass school shootings, including Columbine. We have witnessed double digit indiscriminate mass school shootings in each decade since then. Most of these shooters are very young: 14-25. The issue is epidemic today (with 118 school shootings since 2018 at the time of this edit).
What happened in the 1960's that explains the first incident? What has happened since the 1980's that has resulted in an unparalleled increase in incidents of indiscriminate mass school shootings?
To answer the first question, we might look into the life and thinking of the Austin gunman. To answer the second question, we have to go beyond the lives and minds of the individuals involved because these incidents are no longer outliers. We have to begin to consider what has happened in our society that teenagers and young men have so little regard for human life that gunning down innocent children is viewed as a viable way to live (or end) one's life.
The answer lies in the influences on the people, like me, who were born in the 50's and 60's and grew up in the 60's and 70's who had children in the 70's and 80's who grew up in the 80's and 90's and beyond. In two generations, we went from the first indiscriminate, mass school shooting in history to double digit indiscriminate, mass school shootings in each decade from the 1990's on.
I can see the eyes roll for what I am about to say, but I am going to say it anyway. The incidences of indiscriminate mass shootings and dramatic increase in them correspond with a number of things that I think are relevant. Those factors I can identify include an increasing focus on individual rights and freedoms; an increasing loosening of the bounds of morality and lack of moral accountability; an increasing push on the boundaries of the right to end pregnancy at increasingly later stages in development; and an increasing insistence on keeping God out of the school, out of the public domain and out of public discourse.
I am sure there are other factors that coincide with the indiscriminate, mass school shooting phenomenon, but these come pretty quickly to mind. I have not had time to develop an in depth analysis of any of these factors, other than to note the correspondence of a rise in the indiscriminate, mass school shooting phenomenon and an increase in each of these factors.
Individual rights and freedoms are not evils, but evil twists good things and corrupts them. When the assertion of individual rights and freedoms is contorted into a god-like justification for doing anything I feel like doing, regardless of its toll on other people, the value of individual rights and freedoms becomes twisted into a self-serving evil. The focus on individual rights and freedoms, perhaps, has conditioned and emboldened loners with bad intentions.
The 60's and 70's were decades in which we threw off the barriers to moral accountability. We stopped viewing divorce, and adultery, and sleeping around as evils that harm families, hurt children, and break down the fabric of community. We exalted individual, sexual freedoms without regard to the long term effects on relationships, families, children, and community.
Children, most of all, are negatively impacted by these behaviors. Children in single parent households, and children who have absent or distant fathers struggle more than children in stable, two parent households.
People used to stay together "for the sake of the children", but that doesn't happen anymore. Adults are encouraged to seek their own self-fulfillment, and children are often left to sort things out for themselves. Even children in stable, two-parent households are affected, because they see their friends struggling, and the thrust of a society in which stability for children is not valued as highly as the self-fulfillment of adults.
All of this sends a message to our children that they live in a fend-for-themselves kind of world in which self-gratification comes before they do.
The movement in favor of legalizing abortion gained steam and prominent visibility in the 1960's, and the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 put a societal stamp of approval on ending the life of a fetus inside a woman's womb. From that day forward, a fetus was officially no longer human. The life of an unborn child had no value unless the mother chose to give birth to it.
Since that time, the inertia of our society has pushed the boundary past the first trimester, past the second trimester and continues to push all the way past the moment of birth. If an aborted fetus survives, which does happen, "it" is left to writhe and die alone on the table, or in a waste container.
Try explaining these things to a young child. They don't understand because they intuitively know that the fetus in mommy's belly is a baby, and it's a live. It is human. We only learn to disconnect from that intuitive understanding as we get older. Once we are able to embrace that disconnect, it may become easier to embrace other disconnects. That is just the way the world works – if we want it to work that way.
And in all of this, we learn that God has no place in school, no place in the public square and no place in public discourse. The only safe place to consider God is in our own homes and behind the stained glass windows of old institutions that are no longer relevant to modern life. This is the message children receive and internalize from a young age. There is no divine accountability any more.
Without God, morality is subjective. Morality is what the current influencers in society say it is. Morality can be exchanged with societal imprimatur. For someone steeped in the power of individual rights and freedoms with fluid moral values, other than the fiat of the same influencers who champion those individual rights and freedoms, it isn't a stretch to throw off those societal constraints and entertain a purely individualistic amorality that suggests that mass school killings are something to be embraced – if you like that sort of thing.
We no longer believe that all people are created in the image of God with intrinsic value because, officially, God is no longer relevant. The disconnect from any intrinsic human value is just another step in a sequence of disconnects.
I may be wrong about my assessment of the reasons why indiscriminate, mass school shootings have become commonplace in the last two generations. Guns have been the weapons of choice, but other means to carry out the intentions can be (and have been) substituted. Whatever we do about guns, we will have to contend with the reasons why human life has become so devalued – and only recently.
If we aren't willing or able to get to the root of the problem, we will continue to slide down the slope we are on.
On that slope, the inconvenience of intrinsic human value suggests other disconnects to be entertained. The cost of caring for old and increasingly frail and senile individuals suggests the expediency of speeding up their demise through means that we make legal. The burden of caring for individuals with disabilities suggests ways of easing those burdens described with useful euphemisms for ending lives.
If we continue to slip down these slopes, our children will continue to understand the subtle, and not-so-subtle, messages that suggest to them that human life isn't any more valuable than the individual thinks it is – particularly if that life is someone else's. The clues come first from society's influencers, but the individuals become the champions of them, redefining them each for his own ends.
I don't have any illusions that these are the only reasons why, but it's a start. Add in that video games, social media, and similar distractions on handheld devices leave us increasingly isolated and out of touch with each other.
Children grow up "interacting" with each other for hours through headphones as they work furiously to obliterate memes of real people on computer screens while cursing at them through microphones. Social media is designed to exploit tensions, anxieties and discord for profit. We allow that exploitation to create fissures in our relationships with people who think differently than us, tempting us to think of them as caricatures and two-dimensional enemies of our sense of wellbeing.
Meanwhile, our prisons are full of people with mental heath problems. It's easier for us to lock up them up than to help them. We devote so little to helping with people with mental illness that it's criminal. The problems for people with mental illness compound exponentially in our communities that have few safety nets.
We can take away all the guns, but we won't touch the real problems unless we are willing to admit them and come together to address them.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a growing topic of popularity in the tech industry and in many people's daily lives. What are the benefits of these changes?
For the past few years, AI has slowly been working its way into being a household topic and put into more use in businesses. Companies ranging from General Electric to Spotify use AI for predictive analytics, data insights, and even more physical tasks such as machine maintenance to better control safety. Companies like Microsoft have been slowly and quietly building intelligence into their products for a long time—anyone who uses the Office 365 product suite or Skype will recognize these features upon closer inspection.
Though many of the concerns around AI lie with the fact that workers are worried their jobs will be automated and they will be out of work, in reality, AI helps users work faster and smarter, moving from a more administrative role to be able to focus on strategy and technique. For example, incorporating AI into a contract lifecycle management platform allows contract creation to be accelerated as details can be auto-populated, as well as analyzed faster, as more can be quickly extracted. The chart below highlights how companies use AI, with the focus not being the elimination of jobs, but removing mundane tasks or time-consuming research in projects.
Even a quick web search shows two different sides of AI. One is the innovation, excitement, and hype, with customization and a personalized experience being advertised as an all-time high and the ultimate benefit. The other is a warning: leaders in the community calling for regulations, companies trying to warn users and other businesses that they are still early in their AI experience, and as mentioned above, the ever-common concern that robots are going to eliminate the need for a certain job.
Yet with both the positive and negatives in consideration, AI is also working towards creating more good in the world. Facebook, for example, has been using AI for years to help blind users have a more holistic experience on their app. Facial recognition technology is something they started back in 2010, something that users have become so used to many would not even pinpoint it as AI, but simply another feature of the app. Siri and other phone assistants have made driving much safer through their verbal commands, and Waze has made it easier to reduce commute time and avoid accidents and roadblocks.
AI is also influencing healthcare. Last week we looked at how technology is beginning to revolutionize the industry, and AI is becoming more and more a part of that. A sector of Microsoft's business is now focused on AI that can predict medical problems and help diagnose illnesses faster than ever before. With the full use of AI in the medical profession, limited resources and delayed treatments could be a thing of the past.
Even though AI has been a part of business tools for many years now, in many ways it is still in the early stages of use. Leaders and researchers throughout the AI industry insist that AI cannot even compare to what a child could do in regards to more general tasks. Most people now have seen Google's DeepMind AI that taught itself to walk—if it can even be called that—and recognize that there are still many unknown ways this tool can be utilized.
The future of technology is here. Nearly everyone, whether they are aware of it or not, are currently using some sort of AI in their day-to-day lives. Even if the intelligence still has much to learn, the discoveries that have been made are incredible. As business continues to move faster into the future, the next step is for the community to recognize, acknowledge, and fully embrace how AI can transform the way people work.


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As next month's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen draws near, climate-change promoters are flooding the media with news of pending eco-catastrophe.
The Associated Press reports accelerated loss of polar ice, rapidly rising ocean levels and global temperatures, toxic acidity of ocean waters, exploding populations of destructive insects, shrinking water reservoirs, rampant droughts and wildfires worldwide, growing lists of endangered species, and record weather-related blackouts and insurance losses, all due to anthropogenic global warming. The scientific online journal redOrbit.com cautions that in the past 12 years, "the world's oceans have raised an inch and a half, serious droughts have plagued parts of the world, temperatures everywhere are warmer, and several endangered species continue to be threatened." Bloomberg News warns that Antarctica is losing ice at a menacingly rapid pace, threatening to raise sea levels far higher than previously predicted, according to research published by the University of Texas (UT).
The latter article points out that not all scientists blame melting ice for rising sea levels. It quotes Jonathan Bamber, glaciologist with the University of Bristol, in regard to the UT research. "I'm surprised because other studies for slightly different time periods have come up with values that are close to zero," said Bamber, noting that the study's margin of error could account for the "very substantial inconsistencies," making it "difficult to draw strong conclusions." Bamber believes that melting polar ice is neither trivial nor catastrophic but concludes that if sea levels continue to rise at present rates, "that's very serious."
Spiegel Online reports that "climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years," pointing out that "it does raise doubts about the predictive value of climate models." Such news will not likely deter activists from using the same erroneous models to forward their political agenda at Copenhagen where, as Spiegel observes, "billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations." However, the article quotes many climatologists who say, despite fluctuations, they expect to see temperatures continue to rise.
All of the articles mentioned above quote scientists convinced we have no one to blame but ourselves for global warming and its pending catastrophic effects. Missing from the articles is specific proof that humans are at the root of the supposed problem. Readers should apparently leave the thinking to the scientists and wholeheartedly support the premise of anthropogenic global warming. The Coca-Cola Company offers one way to jump on the green bandwagon, teaming with more than 100 other companies in a coalition to promote the Copenhagen conference and current cap-and-trade legislation before Congress, as reported by WorldNetDaily.
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Q: Is there any fast way to convert std::vector> to std::vector? I'd like to convert std::vector<std::vector<float>> into std::vector<float2>. The direct way is like this:
std::vector<std::vector<float>> pts;
std::vector<float> p1{1.,2.};
std::vector<float> p2{2.,3.};
pts.push_back(p1);
pts.push_back(p2);
std::vector<float2> lattice;
for (auto p : pts){
    p_ = make_float2(p[0],p[1]);
    lattice.push_back(p_);
}

Here float2 is cuda vector types, it is defined like this (not 100% sure):
struct __device_builtin__ __align__(8) float2
{
    float x, y ;
};

There is any other quick method?

A: There are a couple of things you can do. 1 is use a type that means you know that there will always be 2 elements, such as:
std::vector<std::array<float, 2>>

or
std::vector<std::pair<float, float>>

This will mean you don't need to check that your internal vector is the right size before creating each point for safe code.
Secondly, reserve the right amount of space in your lattice vector before you begin emplacing back, this will mean that you will never have to resize and you won't waste time copying:
std::vector<float2> lattice;
lattice.reserve(pts.size());
for (auto p : pts){
    lattice.emplace_back(make_float2(p[0],p[1]));
}

Note, this requires that the float2 structure supports move (which it will based on the definition provided).
If you run a test on these two methods as done here. You will see that you can heavily reduce the time it will take. In the example that is linked, over 10000 points, the time is roughly 1/5th of the original time with my suggested changes.


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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—THEATRE WORKS Silicon Valley, opened its 47th Season with the Regional Premier, of "OUTSIDE MULLIGAR" a romantic comedy written by American Playwright JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY loosely based on his impression of the members of his Irish family.
On the stage stands the unpretentious house of the Reilly's sheep and cattle farm. Small, with a single door and window adjacent to a shed with a broad wooden door framed by farming tools hanging from the wall protected by an awning. The revolving set created by Scenic Designer ANDREA BECHERT, transport us, visually, to Ireland for the night.
Outside, greyish clouds darken the sky. In the background, we can hear the sounds of rain and thunders (CLIFF CARUTHERS sound Designer ) and see flashes of lighting (STEVEN B.MANNSHARDT light) The program indicates that the farm is located outside of Killucan, Ireland (A place minutes for Mulligar) and that the action takes place between the years 2008-2013.
The house interior is a combination of a living room- kitchen- artistically furnished. At curtain, Tony Reilly (STEVE BRADY) an elderly man is reprimanding Anthony (ROD BROGAN), his 43 years old son, for suggesting to Aoife Muldoon (LUCINDA HITCHCOCK CONE) and her daughter Rosemary (JESSICA WORTHAM) their neighbors, to stop to visit after the funeral, because their house looks dirty. He then belittles his son (BROGAN) by calling him "a half woman," and ordering him to put an apron and do the dishes.
During their conversation, Tony reminds his son that he is not a Reilly like him, his Irish father, but a Kelly, like his Irish mother. He adds that something is wrong with Anthony's eyes and the way they are set on his face, that their color is not right and that he may have come out from "another people" maybe a Limerick . After a long conversation he adds: "You are not a farming man. You don't love it, there is no joy in you." And then that the farm is not for him to stand on the ground. "You never stood in the ground like a king." He tells him.
Aoife (HITCHCOCK CONE) arrives to the Reilly's home alone and when Anthony asks her where is her daughter Rosemary (WORTHAM) she tells him that Rosemary is outside in the rain, standing under the awning, smoking a cigarette. Aoife's conversation with Tony (BRADY) is natural. Because both are old, they talk about their poor health. Aoife tells him the reason why Rosemary has disliked Anthony since she was six years old and why the Reilly's lost their "right of way" and now have to open two gates to access to the street. At the end, he asks Tony what would happen to their farm if he dies, and is surprised when he informs her that he does not intend to leave the farm to Anthony, the son who has worked in the farm with him all his life, but wants to sell it to his nephew who lives in America.
Anthony says nothing but apparently upset, goes out to talk to Rosemary.
During their conversation, we learn that when she is out of cigarettes, Rosemary smokes a pipe, to calm her nerves, as Anthony (BROGAN pictured left) reveals to her that he hates the farm. That he hears a voice that says "go" and that to him the farm is like a prison but he feel he has to stay because his life is fixed "with a rock en each corner." That he works all day and half the night, and feels he is a nobody. In this scene we also learn about Fiona, the woman who changed completely Anthony's life.
The following scene (scene 4) is the most moving and the most realistic. Circumstances brings father and son together for the first time. Tony now realizes that Anthony is a good son, and a hard worker. The dialogue is poetic.
The long play (without intermission) could have ended with that scene ,because the second part feels like we are watching a different play and the action takes place five years later.
While the first part was funny and the dialogue crisp and true to life, the dialogue in the second part give us the impression that it was written to fill the pages of the drama, because much of it is about subjects that serve no definite purpose because they do not move the action of the play.
If this play is a love story, the "love" needs to be developed so the audience can understand why these two characters, who has no chemistry with each other, could have loved each other for each other for so long. We have been told the reason why the Reillys lost their right of way in their property and the silly reason why Rosemary continues holding a grudge against Anthony, so it is hard for the audience to understand how years of hatred can be solved so easily by a ring.
It does not help either that on their first conversation in three years the couple do not talk about each other, but about unrelated subjects: a bus accident in which a few boys died, the people in Ireland who out of despair are jumping from buildings, and Anthony's added comment, "I should jump myself." Does not exactly reveals love.
Harder for us to believe is that Anthony loves her, when living next to her he has not visited her for three years and when he finally does, he suggests she marries somebody else, and tells her that being in her house makes him feel "like being nailed in a crate." ?
Directed by Theatre Works Artistic Director ROBERT KELLEY, the acting of the four actors is superb.
As Tony Reilly, BRADY impersonates the character with realism. We may not like his constant degrading of his son, but the actor makes it "look natural." He also shows us at the end, that in spite of their constant bickering, they deeply love each other as father and son.
LUCINDA HITCHCOCK CONE as Aoile Muldoom, does not require drama role, but she represented naturalistically. She sounded convincingly as she told Tony about her emphysema, about old age, and like any older mother, she worried about her single daughter Rosemary and their farm after she dies.
The stronger dramatic role in the play was played by Rosemary, and WORTHAM who debuted as a lead actress in THEATRE WORKS where she had previously played other roles, went well through each one of Rosemary's emotions. We saw her flirting when Anthony calls her pretty, we saw her looking depressed, even suicidal when she reveals that she has a gun, and she showed us her determination. She had always wanted something, and she got it at the end.
And playing the role of Anthony, ROD BROGRAN probably had the most difficult part in this drama because his character is weak, has no initiative, and lacks motivation. BROGAN lived the role. His Anthony was submissive, even looked submissive, indecisive, and so pathetic that suggest to the girl he loves to marry somebody else.
While "OUTSIDE MULLINGAR" has good dialogue, interesting characters, great acting and wonderful direction, the play lacks focus. To be a love story, it also needs to show the audience different stages of love, between the characters. in the action. And the story definitely needs a stronger lead. Our hero (Anthony) is too passive, has no goals, does not really know what he wants in life and thinks of himself as "a nobody" To the female audience it is very difficult to understand why any woman, in her right mind, would want to marry a man who thinks himself a bee. It made us wonder if Fiona, did not do the right thing.


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Meet the Simmons Archivist: Jason Wood '01MS, '11MS
It's kind of a cliché at this point, but there really is no "typical" day in the Archives. I wear several hats in the Library, so I may be juggling any number of things... The only constant is that I like to try to make the work environment a good place to be, both for myself and those around me.
Where did you go to college, and what did you study?
Jason Wood with his niece and nephew.
I have a BA in English from the University of Maine. I graduated from the Simmons School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) in 2001 and received my masters in communications management in 2011.
Tell us about your role at Simmons.
I've been a member of the Simmons Library staff for 19 years. I'm currently the University Archivist and Deputy Library Director, as well as an adjunct faculty member.
Do you have a favorite course you teach?
I particularly enjoy LIS 442 — "Management of Archives and Manuscript Repositories" — which builds off of students' experiences in the program and speaks to my interests in project management and team management in archives settings.
What's your favorite thing about Simmons?
Its strong commitment to mission — to educate scholars for an independent livelihood — and the ability of that mission to adapt and update to meet the needs of the time. Also, the staff and faculty's dedication to seeing Simmons succeed is very laudable and important.
What inspired you to work in archives?
Archivist and Digital Initiatives Librarian, Lauren Loftis, and Jason Wood in the Knight Foundation Board Room.
I was an English major — concentrating in creative writing — so as I grew tired of temp work and contemplating an MFA program, I started combing through my past experiences. I looked back on my work as a research assistant to a faculty member while an undergrad and thought, "well, that kind of digging and discovering wasn't so bad," so I applied to Simmons SLIS, thinking it would prove a fairly logical means to a fairly satisfying end.
And it was. After several internships and part-time jobs, I started working in the Simmons Archives around six months after graduating. A job opening had come up, I applied for it, was fortunate enough to get the position, and have been here, in a variety of capacities, ever since.
I do wish I had more dramatic stories to recount here, but, despite what they say, truth is often duller than fiction.
What's a typical day like working in the Archives?
It's kind of a cliché at this point, but there really is no "typical" day in the Archives. I wear several hats in the Library, so I may be juggling any number of things: working on aspects of the Library budget, doing research on an alumnae/i of the University, managing an intern's processing or encoding projects, meeting with a donor, discussing catalog display issues with members of the Library staff, or negotiating with a digitization vendor. Sometimes I even sweep the floor in the Archives' workspace. The only constant is that I like to try to make the work environment a good place to be, both for myself and those around me.
If we visited your home office, what would we see?
Maple with her human, Jason Wood.
My cat, Maple.
What's the last book you read?
I'm always reading several books at once. But the last couple of books I really really loved were Caste by Isabel Wilkerson and Death in Her Hands by Otessa Moshfegh.
Is there a TV show you're currently binging?
I'm trying to get caught up on Below Deck Mediterranean as a means of distracting myself from the news.
Are there any Instagram accounts you've been following lately?
My Instagram account is a pretty solid feed of National Parks, New Mexico, and art museums.
Do you have any words of encouragement for students this semester?
It's a most unpredictable semester, and we're all in this together! Some of the skills you are developing or deepening this semester — working online, collaborating synchronously and asynchronously, balancing life and work obligations — are important to long-term success.
Visual History: Preserving Artifacts of Marginalized Groups with Carolina Quiroa '21MS
Congratulations to Carolina Quiroa '21MS, recipient of the 2019 Elmar W. Seibel Scholarship. In her award application, Quiroa shared her experience preserving the visual history of Guatemala.
Student Story
Major Spotlight: Sarah Mariski '22, Business and Management
We caught up with Sarah Mariski '22 about why she chose the business program at Simmons and how she found the confidence to be a leader.
Carla Silva '19 on Taking Chances in Your Career
Silva tells us about her unexpected journey into sales and the value of being open to different job opportunities, which may lead to something greater.
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Martin Lamm (22 juni 1880, Stockholm - 5 mei 1950) was een Zweeds literatuurwetenschapper.

Martin Lamm was de zoon van zakenman Herman Lamm en Lisen Philipsson. Hij was hoogleraar in de  literatuurgeschiedenis aan de universiteit van Stockholm van 1919 tot 1945. Vanaf 1928 was hij lid van de Zweedse Academie, als opvolger van Claes Annerstedt op zetel 2. Hij schreef onder andere de bekende biografie over Emanuel Swedenborg.

Hij werkte in navolging van Henrik Schück met een historisch-comparatieve methode.

Bibliografie
Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (1911)
Swedenborg (1915)
Upplysningstidens romantik (1-2, 1918-20)
Strindbergs dramer (1-2, 1924-26)
August Strindberg (1940-1942)
Det moderna dramat (1948)

Zie ook
Lijst van leden van de Zweedse Academie

Lamm, Martin

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How to Install Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi 4
By Les Pounder 19 July 2020
Yes, you can get a working Windows 10 desktop running on a Raspberry Pi 4
(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)
The Raspberry Pi is commonly associated with Linux operating systems such as Raspberry PI OS. But what about running Windows 10 on your Raspberry Pi? Officially, Microsoft's only operating system for the Pi is an old version of Windows 10 IoT Core, which just lets you execute Visual Studio code on the computer but doesn't work as a standalone OS with a GUI (in other words, no "windows"). However, the lack of support from Microsoft hasn't stopped some ambitious developers from finding a way to run a full desktop version of Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi.
In 2019, we tried installing a hacked version of Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi 3 and it ran, but it was extremely painful to use. Recent developments have now made it possible to run Windows 10 somewhat-competently on a Raspberry Pi 4, at least as a proof-of-concept We'll show you how to install Windows 10 on your Raspberry Pi below.
However, before you begin, please note that this is not an official Microsoft product and the source of the images and software used is from a passionate and vibrant community working together to create this project. Amir Dahan is the creator of Windows 10 Lite, Marcin is responsible for UEFI and Pete Batard responsible for the 3GB RAM fix. The Windows 10 image file and RAM fix you'll need to make this work are constantly changing as are their download locations so you'll need to find them via the Windows on Raspberry Pi Discord Group, which is where all the developers hang out and share updates. We can't vouch for the safety or legitimacy of any of the custom files the community has created for this project so proceed at your own risk.
At the time of writing this project runs surprisingly well (see below for more details) but has a lot of caveats. . The Raspberry Pi's onboard Ethernet, Bluetooth and GPIO do not work so you'll need a USB Ethernet or USB Wi-Fi dongle to get online (there's no list of supported dongles so we can't guarantee yours will work). Audio via HDMI is also not available but Bluetooth audio via a USB Bluetooth dongle is possible.
What you will need to install Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi 4
Raspberry Pi 4 4GB or 8GB
16GB or larger microSD card, (see best microSD cards for Raspberry Pi)
Windows 10 PC
USB to Ethernet or WiFi dongle
Bluetooth dongle (if you want Bluetooth)
Keyboard, mouse, HDMI and power for your Raspberry Pi
How to Install Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 4
1. Download the latest pre-release version of WoR tool https://www.worproject.ml/downloads and extract the files.
2. Visit the Windows on Raspberry Pi Discord server and go to the Downloads channel to Download the latest stable image, currently 0.2.1.
3. Open the WoR Alpha tool and select your language.
4. Insert microSD card and select the drive. The Raspberry Pi 4 mode is currently experimental, but has worked reliably in our tests.
5. Select your Windows on ARM image.
6. Select the latest package of drivers from the server.
7. Use the latest UEFI firmware available.
8. Check the configuration and when happy click Next.
9. Double check everything before clicking Install.
The installation process can take as long as two hours to complete, depending on the speed of the microSD card.
10. Download the RAM fix for Rpi 4 file from the Windows On Raspberry Pi Discord server. Extract the contents.
11. Copy winpatch.exe to the root of C: drive.
12. Locate the drive containing the Windows 10 on ARM installation, make a note of the drive letter.
13. Open a Command Prompt as Administrator and go to the root of C: drive.
14. Patch the USB driver to enable USB ports on the Raspberry Pi 4. Change the drive letter to match your installation.
winpatch X:\Windows\System32\drivers\USBXHCI.SYS 910063E8370000EA 910063E8360000EA 3700010AD5033F9F 3600010AD5033F9F
15. Overclock the Raspberry Pi. This step is optional but highly recommended (though you'll want a cooling fan). Edit the config.txt file found in BOOT drive. Add these two lines at the end of the file. Overclocking will require cooling for your Raspberry Pi.
over_voltage=6
arm_freq=2000
16. Eject the microSD card and insert it into the Raspberry Pi 4. Connect your keyboard, mouse etc and power on the Pi.
17. Follow the standard Windows 10 install process and after a short while you are ready to use Windows 10 on your Raspberry Pi 4.
18. As an administrator open a Command Prompt and run this command to enable 3GB of RAM. Press Enter to run the command.
bcdedit /deletevalue {default} truncatememory
19. Reboot the Raspberry Pi for the update to take effect.
20. For network access, use a USB to Ethernet or a compatible WiFi dongle.
21. Install Microsoft Edge by double clicking on the Microsoft Edge desktop icon.
22. Installing software works in the same manner as a typical Windows 10 install. We tested GIMP Photo Editor and the Arduino IDE and both installed, albeit slowly and were usable for basic tasks.
How does Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi Perform?
In our testing, overall performance is akin to a low end Intel Celeron / Atom CPU. Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi is usable, but more as a proof-of-concept than a daily driver. . Boot times were considerably longer than Raspberry Pi OS, at a sluggish 2 minutes 12 seconds.
Once the desktop was loaded the overall feel of Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi was responsive. The Edge web browser provided a good browsing experience. Heavy sites such as YouTube proved troublesome but that was compounded by our sluggish 100 Mbps Ethernet USB dongle and is not indicative of the OS as a whole.
We installed three applications in WIndows 10 on Raspberry Pi: GIMP Photo Editor, Arduino IDE and Python 3.8. We downloaded each program's 32-bit installer and set it up without any issues. GIMP ran well and, while it would not be up to speed for a professional photo editor, it was quick enough for hobbyists to use.
The Arduino IDE was slow, mainly due to the way that the IDE uses Java behind the scenes. Again if you have a little patience, then the experience is good. Not every application can be installed, though. We tried Visual Studio Code and it flat out refused to install. But Python 3.8 was easily installed and ran well. The Python REPL (interactive shell) was available and the core modules were available for use. We installed an additional module, GPIO Zero, which is used to interact with the GPIO of the Raspberry Pi. Sadly, despite our best efforts, we were unable to use the GPI via Python 3.8 on Windows 10.
MORE: Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi: Hands-On
Erisa 18 July 2020 16:38
Visual Studio Code will work fine if you use the ARM64 installer for it. I used VSCode Insider but I hear its available on stable now, perhaps it wasn't when you tested?
Performance of vscode is around the same as the rest of the OS, it works and is about equal to what you'd expect on a low end PC. When combined with a remote development environment (SSH or Codespaces) it provides a suitable development experience.
scodd 19 July 2020 06:37
Erisa said:
Can you run powershell ISE, authenticate and hit SPO and Azure?
misanthropic-gamer 21 July 2020 01:58
Guys, power-fail. LOL I love RPi... but it ain't nevah going to run Win10, efficiently. I can barely run a thinned-downed desktop, on a Debian kernel. Interesting, but not useful.
2schnauzers 27 July 2020 18:33
Hi. Great tutorial. One question, I keep getting prompted for Activation but it doesn't seem to like a valid Pro or Ent product key.
BTW using a high speed flash card and performance is pretty good (considering).
Are there plans to get the onboard bluetooth and ethernet drivers going?


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City of Orlando Commissioner Tony Ortiz and Former Orange County Commissioner Pete Clarke Endorse Bruno Portigliatti for State House
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Bruno Portigliatti announced today, City of Orlando Commissioner Tony Ortiz and former Orange County Commissioner Pete Clarke, have endorsed his campaign for State Representative.
"For the past 13 years, I have had the honor to work alongside Bruno to make our Central Florida region strive," said Ortiz. "Bruno's selfless motivation to help, combined with his experience in the academic field, international relations, economic development and grass roots service will make him a great asset and representative of the community for the House District 44 seat."
"Bruno is a natural leader. He has demonstrated the energy and character to serve our community effectively in Tallahassee," said Clarke. "He's a local businessman and community leader with a bold vision for Central Florida and our State. I'm proud to support him and look forward to turning HD 44 red again in 2020."
"I'm proud to earn the endorsement of City of Orlando Commissioner Tony Ortiz and former Orange County Commissioner Pete Clarke," said Portigliatti. "As local leaders within our party and our community, they have always served others with selflessness and dignity. I look forward to having them on our team."
Bruno has lived in Orlando, particularly in the Dr. Phillips community and surrounding areas since 1999. He attended Southwest Middle School and Dr. Phillips High School. Upon graduating High School, Bruno attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he received his bachelor's degree in Political Science and Spanish. He went on to law school at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, where he graduated with Pro Bono Honors, and then completed a Master of Business Administration at Florida Christian University in Orlando.
Bruno is a businessman and educator with a strong devotion to his faith. He is currently the President of Florida Christian University, a global-reach institution with over 34 years of existence; Chief Executive Officer of Excellence Senior Living, dedicated to providing luxury senior living facilities in various communities throughout Central Florida. He is also a licensed real estate agent and manages several real estate properties and developments.
Bruno has been civically engaged in his community for many years. He has served on the Board of the Dr. P Phillips YMCA since 2014, on the City of Orlando's Women and Minority Business Enterprise Certification Board, where he served as Chair for almost two years, and has been a member of the Dr. Phillips Rotary Club since 2013. In the educational sector, he is the Vice-President of the Council of Private Colleges of America, a membership organization for private degree granting institutions that provide quality faith-based education, in all 50 states and territories of the USA, and is also a Board Member of FAPSC – Florida Association of Postsecondary Schools and Colleges.
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Korean J Parasitol > Volume 49(2):2011 > Article
Jeon, Yong, Sohn, Chai, Hong, Han, Jeong, Chhakda, Sinuon, Socheat, and Eom: Molecular Identification of Taenia Tapeworms by Cox1 Gene in Koh Kong, Cambodia
Brief Communication
The Korean Journal of Parasitology 2011; 49(2): 195-197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2011.49.2.195
Molecular Identification of Taenia Tapeworms by Cox1 Gene in Koh Kong, Cambodia
Hyeong-Kyu Jeon1, Tai-Soon Yong2, Woon-Mok Sohn3, Jong-Yil Chai4, Sung-Jong Hong5, Eun-Taek Han6, Hoo-Gn Jeong7, Tep Chhakda8, Muth Sinuon8, Duong Socheat8, Keeseon S. Eom1
1Department of Parasitology and Medical Research Institute, Chungbuk National University School of Medicine, Cheongju 361-711, Korea.
2Department of Parasitology and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 120-752, Korea.
3Department of Parasitology and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University College of Medicine, Jinju 660-702, Korea.
4Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-799, Korea.
5Department of Medical Environmental Biology, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul 156-756, Korea.
6Department of Parasitology, Gangwon University College of Medicine, Chuncheon 200-722, Korea.
7International Cooperation Department, Korea Association of Health Promotion, Seoul 157-704, Korea.
8National Center for Parasitology, Entomology & Malaria Control, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Corresponding author (kseom@chungbuk.ac.kr)
Received March 31, 2011 Revised April 21, 2011 Accepted April 22, 2011
© 2011, Korean Society for Parasitology
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We collected fecal samples from 21 individuals infected with Taenia tapeworms in Koh Kong Province, Cambodia, and performed nucleotide sequencing of the cox1 gene and multiplex PCR on the eggs for DNA differential diagnosis of human Taenia tapeworms. Genomic DNA was extracted from the eggs of a minimum number of 10 isolated from fecal samples. Using oligonucleotide primers Ta7126F, Ts7313F, Tso7466F, and Rev7915, the multiplex PCR assay proved useful for differentially diagnosing Taenia solium, Taenia saginata, and Taenia asiatica based on 706, 629, and 474 bp bands, respectively. All of the Taenia specimens from Kho Kong, Cambodia, were identified as either T. saginata (n=19) or T. solium (n=2) by cox1 sequencing and multiplex PCR.
Key words: Taenia saginata, Taenia solium, molecular survey, egg DNA, multiplex PCR
Since 2006, intestinal parasite control has been performed among primary school children in Cambodia by the Korea Association of Health Promotion (KAHP) and the National Center for Parasitology, Entomology, and Malaria Control, Cambodia (CNM). These organizations carried out a parasitological survey of inhabitants and primary school children in Koh Kong, Kam Pot, and Kampong Som Provinces, and performed stool examinations using the Kato-Katz smear and scotch-tape anal swab methods. Since 1988 in Cambodia, parasitic helminth infections have revealed malaria, schistosomiasis, and other intestinal helminthic infections [1-4]. Previous studies reported that the intestinal helminth eggs detected were Ascaris lumbricoides, Echinostoma sp., hookworms, Hymenolepis nana, Opisthorchis sp., Rhabditis sp., and Trichuris trichiura, and protozoan cysts were Entamoeba histolytica, Entamoeba coli, Giardia lamblia, and Iodamoeba buetschlii. The overall infection rate of intestinal parasites was 54.2% in 2002 [5], 2-40% in 2003 [6], and 25.7% in 2004 [7]. However, there are few reports on taeniasis in Cambodia. Epidemiologically, Taenia solium and Taenia saginata are found worldwide and Taenia asiatica is found mostly in Asian countries, including Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, and the Philippines [8]. We have been monitoring the epidemiological status of T. solium, T. saginata, and T. asiatica infections in Cambodia, and now it is considered necessary to clarify the distribution of these tapeworms in Cambodia. To identify Taenia species, we analyzed nucleotides for sequence variations, and performed multiplex PCR using the copro-DNA from the eggs.
We collected a total of 2,824 fecal specimens from Koh Kong (n=904), Kam Pot (n=1,002), and Kampong Som (n=918). Of them, 2,052 specimens were collected from primary school children, and the remaining 772 specimens were from inhabitants. We collected Taenia sp. eggs from 21 patients in Koh Kong (Table 1). The eggs were detected by the Kato-Katz smear technique, in which the number of eggs counted in the entire field of 41.7 mg of stools is multiplied by 24 in order to obtain the number of eggs per gram of feces. The Taenia eggs were isolated from the stools and subjected to DNA sequencing and multiplex PCR for differential diagnosis according to the protocols already established [9].
The overall helminth egg positive rate was 33.1% (934/2,824) and 1.5% (43/2,824) for the Taenia sp. eggs. Other helminth eggs detected were Ascaris lumbricoides 15.8% (445/2,824), hookworms 9.6% (270/2,824), Trichuris trichiura 1.0% (27/2,824), Enterobius vermicularis 2.3% (64/2,824), and echinostomes 0.4% (11/2,824). Multiple parasite infections were found in 5.9% (168/2,824) of the samples. Taenia eggs had a positive rate of 4.6% (42/904) inhabitants in Koh Kong Province (Table 1).
The PCR amplification and direct sequencing of the cox1 target fragment (456 bp in length corresponding to the positions 67-522 bp of the cox1 gene) were performed using the total genomic DNA extracted from the eggs of parasites found in patients. The cox1 sequences (456 bp) of the code number 97 and 166 showed 99% similarity with the reference sequences of T. solium (GenBank AB086256), and the other code numbers 70, 72, 76, 77, 83, 86, 89, 128, 129, 135, 139, 167, 180, 186, 190, 194, 196, 197, and 198 showed 99% similarity with T. saginata (GenBank AY684274). The diagnostic quality of the results obtained using multiplex PCR and species-specific primers were equal to that based on the nucleotide sequencing of the cox1 gene. All of the 21 Taenia specimens from Koh Kong were identified by cox1 sequencing and multiplex PCR as either T. saginata (n=19) or T. solium (n=2) (Table 2).
The most prevalent parasitic helminths in Cambodia were soil-transmitted nematodes, such as Ascaris, hookworms, and Trichuris. In addition, Opisthorchis viverrini, intestinal trematodes, and schistosomes are also found along the Mekong River [4]. Cestodes dominantly known were Hymenolepis nana; however, Taenia tapeworm species were not well recognized until 2006. In our study, Taenia eggs were detected in schoolchildren and other inhabitants in Koh Kong and Kampong Som provinces and were genetically analyzed, but adult tapeworms were not collected. In Cambodia, according to a KAHP report (unpublished), the overall prevalence rate of Taenia tapeworms ranged from 0.3% to 1.5% between 2006 and 2009. In the present study, a higher prevalence of Taenia sp. was found in Koh Kong inhabitants who habitually eat raw beef and pork.
The diagnosis of Taenia tapeworm infections is usually based on microscopic detection of eggs or discharged proglottids in the stool. Coprological examination based on the morphology of tapeworm proglottids has a low sensitivity, and the eggs are morphologically indistinguishable. Molecular diagnostic methods, including the use of sequence specific DNA probes, PCR coupled to restriction fragment length polymorphism, and multiplex PCR, are highly useful for differential diagnosis of Taenia tapeworm eggs in stools. However, these methods may not be always suitable unless eggs and particles of proglottids are released into the stool. In our study, we collected 42 stool samples but 21 cases lacked the fecal volume for DNA extraction. The DNA recovery yield increased using ethanol precipitation of eggs in stools, and PCR was usually performed secondarily or thirdly for DNA sequencing. PCR products derived from fecal samples were detectable at a minimum number of 10 eggs.
There are countries showing sympatric distributions of 3 human Taenia tapeworms in South and East Asian regions. However, in this study, only T. saginata (n=19) and T. solium (n=2) were identified by cox1 sequencing and multiplex PCR. The distribution of T. asiatica in Cambodia is yet to be cleared.
This work was supported by a research grant from Chungbuk National University in 2011. Parasite materials used in this study were provided by the Parasite Resource Bank of Korea, National Research Center (R21-2005-000-10007-0), Republic of Korea.
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Helminth egg positive rates in the feces of schoolchildren and residents in Koh Kong, Kam Pot, and Kampong Som, Cambodia in 2007
No. of people examined
Total No. of positive (%)
No. of multiple positive
No. of positive (%)
Taenia sp.
Ech. sp.
Koh Kong 904 321 43 202 33 63 7 42 21 16 4 1
(35.5) (4.8) (22.3) (3.7) (6.7) (0.8) (4.6) (2.3) (1.8) (0.4) (0.1)
Kam Pot 1,002 293 48 65 183 79 0 0 0 20 0 1
(29.2) (4.8) (6.5) (18.3) (7.9) (2.0) (0.1)
Kampong Som 918 320 77 178 54 139 20 1 2 28 7 0
(34.9) (8.4) (19.4) (5.9) (15.1) (2.2) (0.1) (0.2) (3.1) (0.8)
Total 2,824 934 168 445 270 281 27 43 23 64 11 2
Al, Ascaris lumbricoides; Hw, hookworms; Tt, Trichuris trichiura; Ov, Opisthorchis viverrini; Hn, Hymenolepis nana; Ev, Enterobius vermicularis; Ech, Echinostoma sp.; Others, unidentified parasite eggs.
Sample specimens of Koh Kong inhabitants analyzed in this study
Patient code
Sex/age
Stool exam.a
Cox1 sequence/multiplex PCR
70 M/10 Taenia T. saginata
72 F/12 Taenia T. saginata
89 M/19 Al, Taenia T. saginata
97 F/16 Taenia T. solium
128 M/40 Al, Taenia T. saginata
129 F/44 Taenia T. saginata
135 M/50 Taenia T. saginata
166 F/36 Taenia T. solium
196 F/28 Al, Taenia T. saginata
a Kato-Katz method; Al, Ascaris lumbricoides.
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Scott E. Moore is a respected indie singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for his unique blend of soul, modern folk, jazzy-blues and Americana. He has been featured on public radio and toured throughout the US, earning a reputation as a "musician's musician" and a "songwriter's songwriter." He has performed venues large and small, alongside a wide variety of genre-bending artists such as Patty Larkin, Kelly Joe Phelps, Toshi Reagon, Richard Buckner, Melissa Ferrick, Cowboy Mouth, The Smothers Brothers (yes, you read that right), among many, many others (see 'Writer's Hang' below).
Scott is also founder and host of The Writer's Hang performance series out of Hoboken, NJ. This residency has single-handedly created a high-quality listening room scene and has earned national recognition. Among numerous accolades, Scott and The Writer's Hang were featured in the acclaimed Sundance Channel documentary, "Keeping Time: New Music from America's Roots," along with Gillian Welch, Nickel Creek, Robert Randolph and others.
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His most recent project has blended his music and film worlds. He recently composed the score to "A View From Below" - a riveting documentary about a single-minded explorer who has built his own submarine and taken it to staggering depths no non-commercial sub has gone before. The film hits the festival circuit in 2008.
His latest record, "Home Bittersweet Home" was recorded in Nashville, TN with producer-on-the-rise Neilson Hubbard (Garrison Starr, Strays Don't Sleep, Glen Phillips of Toad The Wet Sprocket). With a top notch batch of songs and an intimate soulful croon, the record is a lush and spacious journey, weaving moody pop textures & sultry grooves with classic Americana and R&B instrumentation, drawing comparisons to Joe Henry, Daniel Lanois and Los Lobos.


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Approximate Distance from Surrounding Cities to Rockville, MD
Frederick: 29 miles
Baltimore: 32 miles
Annapolis: 44 miles
Richmond: 122 miles
Philadelphia: 145 miles
Pittsburgh: 225 miles
New York City: 230 miles
Get Here by Car
From points northwest: I-70 East to I-270 South
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From points south: I-95 North to I-495 towards Baltimore and then I-270 North
Take a Ride Across the Potomac River
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