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Kohli, Pujara have been headache for us: Petersen
India lost both their openers cheaply once again in the second innings but Pujara (9) and Kohli (14) thereafter took charge of the proceedings and saw through the second day to take their overall lead to 70 runs.
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Petersen brought up his second fifty of the series on Wednesday against some top class Indian pace bowling. - REUTERS
Indian skipper Virat Kohli and No 3 Cheteshwar Pujara have been a "bit of a headache" for South Africa and the team will look to get them early on day 3 of the series-deciding third Test, said Proteas batter Keegan Petersen here on Wednesday.
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"The key would be to pick up a few early wickets tomorrow morning... The two batting now have been a bit of a headache for us in the last couple of innings," Petersen said in the media interaction after the end of day two's proceedings.
In the first innings, Kohli top-scored with a well-crafted 79 off 201 balls, while Pujara gave a fine assistance with a 77-ball 43 to steady the proceedings after KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal were dismissed early.
"He's (Kohli) one of the best batters in the world and he's showed that time and again. Yes, he will be the big wicket tomorrow and if we can get his wicket early, it will open up the game." Petersen, who hit 72 off 166 balls, was the top scorer for the home side as they were dismissed by India for 210, conceding a 13-run first innings lead.
"We would have been happy if we overcame the deficit and got a bit of a lead. That was the plan coming into the game today," he said.
Petersen brought up his second fifty of the series on Wednesday against some top class Indian pace bowling.
The 28-year-old led South Africa's fightback after Jasprit Bumrah removed the openers early in the series-deciding third Test.
"It's (the Indian pace attack) extremely challenging. It's the most challenging I've had in my whole career. You have to be focused and on your mark all the time or else they will expose you.
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"They test you in terms of scoring, there's not much of scoring opportunities. They have not given us much. They are arguably one of the best bowling attacks in the world. We knew that coming into the series, it's been challenging, we just got to deal with it," Petersen said.
On missing out on a century for the second time in the series, he said: "To be honest, it's not lack of trying. It's just eluding us at the moment. Yes, I got close but let the team down by not getting there. But I think it will come eventually."


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35 Facts about Bacteria
All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
There're more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
The "smell of rain" is caused by a bacteria called actinomycetes.
Mobile phones have 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles.
Researchers found 1,458 new species of bacteria in belly buttons.
Sweat itself is odorless. It's the bacteria on the skin that mingles with it and produces body odor.
A clean mouth has between
1,000 and 100,000 bacteria on each tooth.
Chocolate has an anti-bacterial effect on the mouth and protects against tooth decay.
Tap water has a shelf-life of 6 months, after which chlorine dissipates and bacteria starts to grow.
There's a breed of bacteria that lives in hairspray.
A dollar bill has
3,000 types of bacteria.
When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria.
Most antibiotics are made from bacteria.
After two weeks of wear, a pair of jeans will have grown a 1,000-strong colony of bacteria on the front, 1,500–2,500 on the back, and 10,000 on the crotch.
The strongest creatures on Earth are gonorrhea bacteria. They can pull 100,000 times their own body weight.
Offices with more male employees have far more bacteria.
In 2013, a bacteria was found in New Zealand that's resistant to every single antibiotic known.
Computer Keyboards can carry more than 200 times as many bacteria as a toilet seat.
New bacteria grows on a kitchen sponge every 20 minutes.
20% of office coffee mugs contain fecal bacteria.
Babies are born with no bacteria in their bodies.
Some 15,152 types of life forms, from insects to bacteria, have been identified on the New York subway.
A newly-discovered species of rust-eating bacteria will have consumed the wreck of the Titanic within 20 years.
Beans increase flatulence because they carry a type of sugar called "oligosaccharides", which are hard for bacteria to break down, so they release gas in the process.
Airplane tray tables hold more bacteria than most typical household items, a study found.
Horseshoe crab blood is worth US$15,000/L, due to its ability to detect bacteria.
The chlorine in swimming pools isn't what causes red eyes. It is the chlorine binding to the bacteria in the water.
There are viruses that infect bacteria.
It's estimated that a third of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis bacteria, but most never have any symptoms.
Bacteria have the smallest eyeballs in nature but the largest relative to their size.
A report found that the free weights at the gym have 362 times more bacteria than a toilet seat.
Bacteria and amoebas are far more different from each other than amoebas are from people.
You can get tetanus a not just from a rusty nail but also from a perfectly clean one. It is caused by bacteria commonly found in soil, dust and animal feces.
People infected with bacteria "C. difficile" need healthy poop transplants in their gut in order to survive. Poop samples are sold at $40 each.
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I have always been fascinated with the fact that laughter is contagious. No matter how hard I may try not to, if I see someone else laughing I find myself drawn into grinning, too. There is something so engaging about laughter. It only makes sense that one of the most powerful elements that can connect parents and leaders with their kids is fun. In Playing For Keeps, it's written like this, "One of the most effective ways to stay connected to your kids is to have fun with them. Fun over time makes a friendship go deeper." So how do we leverage fun as a leader of little ones?
–Move– As preschoolers, moving is their default mode. But often as adults, we just sit. Move with your few, dance, jump or skip, whatever you choose, but move!
–Laugh– If you laugh with your preschoolers, they will get the feeling that you like being with them! Have a joke of the day or ask them to share the funniest thing they saw that week. Laugh together!
–Play– Just play. Playing isn't a distraction from what you are wanting to communicate to your preschoolers, playing is the catalyst that opens the path to your kid's hearts to be more receptive to hear and process what you are teaching them. So often, we put fun at the bottom of the daily schedule. We will play if there is time left over. But playing is too important for that. Schedule playing into your class time, just like you schedule the snacks and music. Don't miss it!
What's fun for you may not be fun for your few. So figure out what it is that they like. Listen to what they talk about, what they laugh about and watch how they respond to the activities that you do. The point is for them to have fun, so even if it's not your idea of fun, go with it!
While we want our times with our few to be purposeful and productive, sometimes you just have to make sure, if nothing else happens, you have fun. As a ministry leader, you are presenting the kids that you lead with a view of the life with Christ. The Bible tells us that Jesus came to give us an abundant life. I can't imagine a dull, boring, sit-down-and-be-still church service to be an accurate reflection of the life that God has planned for our few. Give them a front row seat to the joy in your life; if you have the joy of the Lord in our heart, open up and let it show.


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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - State health officials don't believe the death of an Inwood woman last week was related to food poisoning from tainted hamburger, but Hudson Foods hamburger patties were confiscated from her home and friends and relatives believe there is a connection.
"She died of a massive coronary. She had extensive coronary artery disease and didn't know it," Berkeley County Coroner Sandra Brining said of Roxann Pearrell.
Brining said the autopsy of the 34-year-old woman, who was discovered dead in her Harranda Trailer Park home last Wednesday, showed no gastrointestinal illness. The autopsy was performed Friday in Morgantown by Dr. James Frost, a deputy state medical examiner.
Tests are being done on the meat - which did not come from the same lot recalled - and samples taken from Pearrell's body to determine if a specific strain of the E. coli bacteria is present.
Despite the conclusion of the autopsy, Pearrell's mother believes the hamburger taken from her daughter's freezer contributed to her death. Roxann Pearrell's funeral was Monday.
"I feel she was slowly poisoned to death and didn't know it," said Rebecca Dunlap of Charles Town. The mother said she believed Pearrell bought the patties last month in Hagerstown.
"I talked to her Sunday night and she told me she'd been deathly sick all day," Dunlap recalled of her last conversation with her daughter. Pearrell told her she had been spitting up blood, having cramps and diarrhea.
Dunlap told her to see a doctor, but she said Pearrell probably didn't because she had no medical insurance. "She just thought it would be another bill, so she put it off," she said.
"We took custody of the meat. We are doing cultures on the meat and cultures on her," Brining explained. Those tests should reveal if the specific strain of E. coli bacteria involved in the Hudson Foods recall was present in either the hamburger or the woman's body.
"Her hamburgers were processed in April and the hamburgers that were recalled were processed in June," Brining said. The Columbus, Neb., company had to recall 25 million pounds of hamburger after the bacteria was discovered in some of its products.
The recall caused one major Hudson customer, Burger King, to stop serving hamburgers at several hundred of its Midwest stores until Sunday.
While everyone has E. coli in their digestive tract, Brining said the strain found in Hudson meats is different. The cultures grow in about a week, but it might be two weeks or more before a report is issued. Brining said the West Virginia Department of Health and Berkeley County Health Department are treating the case just as any other case of suspected food poisoning.
A health department bulletin written Friday also indicated that gastrointestinal disease "was neither the cause of nor a contributing factor to her death." The bulletin said the cause of Pearrell's gastrointestinal illness had not been determined and was under investigation.
Neighbor Tony Fogel said Pearrell had been having stomach problems for "about three weeks or so. For a day or two she'd be fine and then it would come back."
Pearrell told Fogel and his wife Belinda she thought she had a stomach virus or an ulcer. "We advised her to go to a doctor, but she said she had to go back to work," he recalled.
The Hudson recall began about a week before Pearrell's death and Fogel said, "my wife mentioned something about it to her." While Pearrell had given them about a dozen patties, they had not eaten any. The county health department took them for testing, he said.
"I spoke with Roxann myself at eight after six" Wednesday evening, he said. She wanted his wife to call her back later. Belinda Fogel called at about 8:30 p.m. and got the answering machine. At about 10 p.m. she went over and found Pearrell's body.
A former EMT, Tony Fogel and another neighbor performed CPR on Pearrell until an ambulance arrived.


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Clarkson In Trouble With the DVLA
Jeremy Clarkson appears to have broken driving laws by using a spare number plate registered to an entirely different car while filming a controversial episode of Top Gear in Argentina.
Photographs show that the BBC crew switched to a different plate – H1 VAE – on the rear of the car, following claims that the original registration of the grey 1991 Porsche – H982 FKL – was a reference to the 1982 Falklands War.
But the replacement plate is licensed to another car, a white 2006 Porsche.
The DVLA said last night that it was an offence under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 to drive a car "in this country or abroad" under a plate other than the one assigned to the vehicle.
The controversy is the latest to be associated with the highly paid presenter, who claimed that "someone could have been killed" as a mob of Argentine protesters forced the Top Gear team to abandon filming in Tierra del Fuego and flee the country. Top Gear's executive producer Andy Willman, along with the rest of the film crew, returned to the UK today after a reportedly dramatic escape.
In an article published in the Sunday Times at the weekend, Clarkson claimed that the use of the H982 FKL plate had been a mere "coincidence". Records show that the ageing car was bought in August this year, suggesting it was acquired specifically for the project in Argentina, where it was one of three sports cars driven by the popular show's presenters. Some car websites allow purchasers to search for letters in a number plate.
According to the grey Porsche's history, it changed its registration to H1 VAE for a three-year period before 2001 and then reverted back to H982 FKL. The fact that the Top Gear team was travelling with the old plate, by now assigned to another vehicle, will add to suspicion that the BBC team realised that the original registration was contentious. Veterans groups in Argentina have described the plate as "a mockery to us all".
The BBC said it was not able to answer questions about the matter at this stage. It would ask the Top Gear crew about the registration plates used, although "not in an investigative way". The BBC's director of television Danny Cohen said in August that Clarkson was "not untouchable" after the presenter had been involved in a series of race rows, and the programme was criticised by Ofcom.
The plates on the cars used by Clarkson's fellow presenters James May and Richard Hammond also aroused suspicions in Argentina. The plate on May's Lotus contained the number 646, which Juan Manuel Romano, an official in the province of Ushuaia, suggested could be a reference to the 649 Argentinean dead in the Falklands conflict. He noted that Hammond's Ford Mustang had 269 in its plate, close to the 255 losses suffered by the British.
"The numbers are not identical but they are very close. It could be a coincidence but we can't risk that it isn't and in that way affecting the sensibilities of the people of Tierra del Fuego," he said, demanding the cars be not used in public spaces.


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Subsequent New Zealand PM Chris Hipkins Slams Abuse Confronted By Jacinda Ardern
Chris Hipkins has attacked the non-public abuse suffered by Jacinda Ardern. (File)
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New Zealand's incoming prime minister Chris Hipkins criticised the "abhorrent" therapy endured by Jacinda Ardern and vowed on Sunday to protect his circle of relatives, three days after her shock resignation. Hours after being unanimously endorsed by Labour Get together MPs because the social gathering's chief and the nation's subsequent prime minister, Hipkins attacked the non-public abuse suffered by Ardern throughout her greater than 5 years within the prime job.
Ardern sparked a nationwide debate in regards to the pressures she confronted when she revealed Thursday that she was stepping down simply 9 months earlier than October 14 common elections, saying she now not had "sufficient within the tank".
Politicians and different public figures have lined as much as criticise the "vitriol" Ardern was subjected to as prime minister, notably on social media, though she didn't point out it herself.
"The best way Jacinda has been handled, notably by some segments of our society — and they're a small minority — has been completely abhorrent," Hipkins mentioned.
"It doesn't signify who we're as a rustic," mentioned the 44-year-old training and police minister.
Males have a accountability to name out such therapy and say "it isn't okay", he mentioned.
The longer term prime minister, finest identified for main a nationwide crackdown on Covid-19 for practically two years, mentioned he understood that placing himself ahead as chief meant he was "public property".
"However my household aren't," he informed reporters.
Hipkins mentioned he wished his six-year-old son and four-year-old daughter to develop up with a "typical Kiwi child life", including that his amicable separation from his spouse was his personal enterprise.
"I've seen the large scrutiny and strain positioned on Jacinda and her household and so my response will likely be to maintain my household utterly out of the highlight," he mentioned.
'Humbling'
Ardern mentioned she had been exhausted after main New Zealand by means of the Covid-19 pandemic, its deadliest terror assault and a volcanic eruption
"I'm human. We give as a lot as we are able to for so long as we are able to after which it is time," the 42-year-old chief mentioned.
Hipkins mentioned he could be sworn in because the nation's forty first prime minister by the governor common on Wednesday after Ardern formally steps down.
New Zealand below his management will swap its focus from COVID-19 to bolstering the financial system, Hipkins mentioned.
The price of dwelling, rising inflation and workforce shortages have been blamed partially for Labour's decline within the polls since 2020, now surpassed by the centre-right Nationwide Get together opposition.
"Covid-19 and the worldwide pandemic created a well being disaster. Now it is created an financial one and that is the place my authorities's focus will likely be," Hipkins mentioned.
The incoming New Zealand chief promised to deal with rising crime ranges, too.
"We all know we have got extra work to do relating to re-engaging younger individuals, to deal with the underlying causes of legal offending."
Hipkins additionally introduced the nation can have its first deputy prime minister of Pacific island descent, Carmel Sepuloni.
The 46-year-old Sepuloni entered parliament in 2008 and has been the minister for social improvement since 2017.
Sepuloni mentioned her father, of Samoan and Tongan heritage, arrived in New Zealand in 1964 to work on the railways.
That his daughter would develop into deputy prime minister of New Zealand "may be very exhausting to grasp", she mentioned.
"I wish to acknowledge the importance of this for our Pacific group."
About eight % of New Zealand's 5.1 million inhabitants identifies as Pasifika — a New Zealander of Pacific island descent.
Grant Robertson, deputy prime minister below Ardern, is anticipated to stay as finance minister.
(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)
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Why not a single monkey has turned into a human
BY Planet Today News Science 8/09/2019
Black-striped capuchins – primates from the chain-tailed monkey family – have been using stone tools for more than three thousand years, moreover, reminiscent of those that people of the Olduvai culture had. Chimpanzees know how to make tools for cracking nuts, catching insects and hunting small mammals. According to scientists, the monkeys inherited this ability from a common ancestor with humans and developed their own technology.
Skillful monkey
For almost the entire past century, people have been considered the only biological species capable of not only applying, but also manufacturing tools. From this trait important physiological signs of a person were derived: the large brain, the opposing thumb and binocular vision.
British researcher Jane Goodall, who observed chimpanzees in the 1960s in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, noticed that they pick up branches from the ground, carefully clean them of leaves and small knots, and only then use them to catch termites. From leaves and moss, primates made original sponges capable of absorbing water. They wiped their "hunting tools" with them. In addition, they stoned nuts with stones.
It is these stone "mallets" over four thousand years old that Canadian anthropologists discovered in Cote d'Ivoire (Africa) in 2007. On the stones themselves were the remains of starch found in nuts – the favorite food of chimpanzees. Traces of wear and chips along the edges also confirmed that the stones were used to chop nuts. There were no remains of ancient people near the guns.
According to the authors of the work, this proves that the monkeys themselves figured out how to use the stones. The second likely explanation is chimpanzees and people inherited this skill from a common ancestor. This means that Homo sapiens is not the only species that has figured out how to make a tool out of improvised materials.
The cultural evolution of capuchins
Another proof of the technological development of the monkeys was stone hammers with traces of impacts, anvils and randomly broken pieces of stones discovered by British and Brazilian scientists in the Serra da Capivara National Park (Brazil). Radiocarbon analysis showed that the oldest of them were made at least three thousand years ago.
Outwardly, they look like tools of the Olduvai culture that the ancient hominids used. But the remains of our distant ancestors were not next to the artifacts.
The excavation site itself is well known to primatologists – it is here that the black-striped capuchins still prefer to chop cashew nuts. Moreover, researchers have repeatedly observed how these monkeys hit a stone against a stone, resulting in flakes and broken core. With these stone chips, capuchins crack a solid nut shell.
The Tools of the Ancient Capuchin Monkeys Found by Anthropologists in Brazil
Tools of ancient capuchins found by anthropologists in Brazil
In total, researchers found about a hundred of such ancient chopped wood with a total mass of more than fifty kilograms. They are very different from each other in the manner of manufacture and use.
If three thousand years ago, monkeys made relatively light and small tools (presumably for cutting soft food), then about five hundred years ago they switched to large and heavy stones. Apparently, the food has become more solid and larger. Two hundred years later, capuchins became addicted to cashew nuts, and this immediately affected the nature of the tools – they felt better.
Initially, the Capuchins were content with roughly chipped stones, but over time they improved sharp stone chips. From generation to generation, they were made more and more. According to researchers, in this sense, the "cultural evolution" of monkeys is practically indistinguishable from the technological progress of our immediate ancestors.
Thai crabeater macaques also make tools to smash shells of crustaceans and mollusks with special stones. Moreover, primates pass on these skills from generation to generation.
Stumbling memory
Despite some technological advances, monkeys never become human. To do this, they do not have enough working memory, the American anthropologist Dwight Reed is sure. According to observations, they can simultaneously manipulate no more than three objects. And those of them who have learned to communicate with people in sign language rarely use phrases consisting of three words and never of four or more.
Most likely, the simultaneous operation of three concepts is the limit of possibilities for modern primates (with the exception of humans). The common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans, who lived about six million years ago, was probably limited by the same framework. Otherwise, we would have to assume that our closest relatives intellectually degraded, but there are no prerequisites in favor of such a hypothesis.
To create something more complicated than the manual choppers used by Homo erectus, you need recursive thinking – the ability to apply new logical operations to the results of previous ones. And this is possible only if the working memory is able to accommodate more than four concepts at a time. In humans, this indicator is seven.
According to Reed, already Homo habilis, making pebble tools with one cutting edge, could operate with four concepts at once. Homo erectus – five, and Neanderthals and the first sapiens – six. The signs of the first "truly human" culture, which appeared about 70 thousand years ago, most likely reflect the spread of genetic mutations, which increased the capacity of working memory to seven concepts and opened up all the possibilities of recursive thinking in front of a person.


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the Deluge involving Noah or Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh is a widespread theme in mythology?
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the funerary art (pictured) of many cultures includes psychopomps, like the Zapotec bat god, who conduct souls to the afterlife?
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When Marvel first started, it felt refreshing, and revived. Marvel had rebuilt a genre. Now, not so much. We usually equate it to repetitive storylines, boring villains and an overemphasis on humor. But with "Black Panther" getting so much praise, we've got to wonder, is it all just hype, or it is truly a refreshing take on the superhero genre?
"Black Panther" follows T'Challa as he ascends to the throne after the events of "Captain America: Civil War". So now T'Challa has to face all of the issues that being king entails, alongside being the Black Panther and facing villains such as Klaw and Killmonger.
With the movie being set in Africa, we see very few white characters in this movie, which was so refreshing compared to past Marvel movies. In addition, not only is the color diverse but also the gender with most of the main cast being women. Women being strong isn't preached about through dialogue like in other movies, it's shown.
But these aspects alone will not make a good movie, and "Black Panther" succeeds in bringing about new concepts to enhance its' appeal. This movie contains a very character-driven narrative and when people sit down years from now and think back to it, I hope that the messages and emotion will resonate with them. A movie that makes the audience think as much as this one is a breath of fresh air for the run-of-the-mill Marvel action movies.
For emotion to show, the acting needs to be good. Thankfully Chadwick Boseman does a fantastic job as T'Challa. He sticks most of the poignant scenes and makes T'Challa such a good guy, the viewer cannot help but be on his side. He also succeeds at being terrifying as the Black Panther when needed.
Another standout actor is Michael B. Jordan as Killmonger, who brings such a new angle as Marvel villain that sometimes, it's hard to say he's in the wrong. Jordan has shown not only the authority that KIllmonger should have but also the backstory and sad tragedy behind all that power.
Overall, the characters and actors portraying these characters are a breath of fresh air due to its diversity. Not just by the color of their skin, but by the stories they tell and the world they're creating for themselves.
Now where does this all fit? Wakanda is the center of the movie, and compared to other worlds, lands and countries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Wakanda is a standout due to it's attention to detail. In comparison, Asgard from the Thor movies, didn't feel as if it was a lived in place or even had history until the second and third movies.
Right when the movie starts the audience knows its history, and by the end, they know their culture. The movie shows this: the culture, a lot like how they showed how strong their women characters are; by actually showing the culture and not just having it through expositional dialogue like other worlds in this Universe. It also doesn't feel like a Marvel world for all the right reasons.
The small Marvel-isms that make Marvel movies are done well here, but don't overshadow the story they're telling. Other Marvel movies want to connect to the bigger picture so badly that they make the hero's story an afterthought but not here: it's T'Challa and Wakanda and a little bit of the Marvel-isms.
But it's not all perfect. One issue is the pacing isn't great. During the last act, when Killmonger was doing his thing and all that, it feels a bit too rushed. For instance, some things should have been longer to express the struggle and the time passing.
But overall, this is a fantastic movie. It's feels like new, fresh work from Marvel and maybe shows a new age of Marvel movies. For non Marvel fans: give this one a shot. Marvel has outdone itself with this one and you won't want to miss Marvel at it's best.
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Ingram Micro Vet Wants To Give VARs An Easy Way Into IoT
SensLynx, a vendor founded by Ingram Micro and Motorola vets, wants to give value-added resellers an easy and profitable way to get into the Internet of Things.
By Dylan Martin September 11, 2018, 01:44 PM EDT
Mark Walker was starting to feel sour about GPS products.
As the president of Wireless Plus, a Nashville-based solution provider, Walker had been looking for a mix of fleet management and GPS solutions that would satisfy his public safety and commercial customers, but the vendors he tried "didn't have real good support and their products didn't hold up real well."
Walker was reluctant to keep looking until he was told to check out SensLynx, a small, emerging vendor that wants to give value-added resellers an easy and profitable way to get into the Internet of Things.
"I would have to say that working with SensLynx has been better than any GPS company I've ever worked with," Walker said.
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Founded in 2015 and based in Encinitas, Calif., SensLynx offers VARs and other kinds of resellers fleet tracking and asset management solutions through a new program called the GPS Management Accelerator Program. The solutions help companies in a variety of industries track their fleet vehicles for customer service, maintenance, fuel usage, employee management and other needs.
"I think they get a peace of mind of where their vehicles are supposed to be," Walker said. For example, the fleet tracking system can help customers provide customers an update on when a service vehicle is expected to arrive. The system can also be helpful for companies that bill customers based on mileage.
The new SensLynx program is meant to help ease VARs into the business of selling fleet tracking and asset management solutions with no upfront investment and provide them a new stream of recurring revenue.
Rob Garry, CEO of SensLynx, said initial success with VARs is important, which is why the company has an inside sales team that helps channel partners find warm leads, set up appointments and assist with presentations. The company provides partners with marketing material and website assistance as well.
But equally important is the ability to make it easy for channel partners to show off the technology. SensLynx gives partners a couple demo units with free cellular service so that they can install them in their vehicles and give real-time demonstrations to customers and prospects.
"We can provide them all the tools to start a business," said SensLynx CEO Rob Garry.
SensLynx provides channel partners revenue streams through the GPS hardware, which comes in a bundled solution, and a cellular subscription. For hardware sales, partners can expect margins anywhere from 35-75 percent, Garry said. For subscription sales, partners can bring in $6-10 a month per subscriber or vehicle. The business also provides revenue opportunities for services and installations.
When channel partners make sales on SensLynx's solutions, they earn points that can be used for various marketing resources, such as local demonstrations, telemarketing campaigns and email marketing campaigns, Garry said.
Walker of Wireless Plus said SensLynx's business model has allowed his company to make a decent margin.
"It's very competitive with everything else out there," he said.
One of the things Walker said he likes about SensLynx's hardware is that it can be easily hidden so that it can't be tampered with. The non-bulky nature of the hardware also means no external antennas that can be knocked off by accident.
The ability to track the location of vehicles and other assets also means Wireless Plus can help customers avoid problems that have happened in the past, such as stolen vehicles or equipment that was mistakenly left at a site, Walker said.
Tom Maguire, COO and CMO of SensLynx, said another benefit of the company's solution is that everything, both hardware and software, is bundled together so that VARs don't have to worry about integrating multiple point solutions together. This includes a web-based interface that gives customers a full view of their fleet.
The channel isn't new territory for the founders of SensLynx. Before starting the company, Garry spent 12 years as a VAR for Motorola, which included Radiowave Communications, a company that he founded and later merged with Day Wireless Systems in 1999. Garry then founded Mobile DataComm, a national distributor for Verizon that was acquired by Ingram Micro in 2007.
Maguire, Garry's co-founder, built his career spending years on the other side of the channel. He worked for Motorola, serving in general manager and global marketing director roles. He then went on to serve as vice president of global marketing, product planning and design at Kyocera Wireless Corp.
Garry and Maguire had first met while working at Motorola in 1988. After spending all those years on both sides of the channel with visibility into early IoT trends, the two realized that while plenty of VARs had the resources and capabilities to get into fleet tracking, they didn't have the right tools.
"When Rob and I started first looking at this, we thought fleet tracking would be pretty saturated at this point. It's really not the case," Maguire said.
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In many ways, McKernan is the quintessential Edmonton neighbourhood. Its post-war architecture, tree-lined streets and close proximity to the University of Alberta make McKernan a welcoming and desirable place to call home.
There is at least one thing, however, that sets McKernan far apart from many of its Edmontonian counterparts: the stunning McKernan Community Hall, located kitty-corner to the busy McKernan-Belgravia LRT station. Whether hosting weddings or board meetings, yoga or ecstatic dance, the hall serves more than 1,100 households in the McKernan area, as well as renters coming from farther afield. But the impressive hall, with its high ceilings, large windows and solar panels, was once a very different place.
Initially constructed in the 1950s, the hall served generations of McKernan residents as a centre for community gatherings. Since 1987, it was home to the McKernan Child Care Society's out-of-school care program, and it also served as the backdrop for many a family celebration, holiday gathering or. But time took its toll on the building, and by the early 2000s, it became apparent that significant renovations were in order.
In 2006, mold and water damage were discovered in the building's basement walls, due in part to the building's poorly insulated roof. Without a serious intervention, it could not continue to operate as the heart of the community, particularly if it was going to serve as a daycare facility.
"The building was essentially crumbling before us at that point," says Roberta Franchuk, the current president of the McKernan Community League. Although she took on the role of president several years after the damage had been discovered, she is well aware of the impact of those first few years. "At the beginning, this project seemed insurmountable. We weren't expecting something like this."
"Something like this" became a massive overhaul of the building. At the time, the Community League had three options: to patch together the hall's crumbling walls, to undergo extensive renovations, or to close the building entirely.
Not wanting to give up on their local hub, Community League members began looking for ways to salvage the building. They approached engineering and architecture firms, and began fundraising to pay for what was likely to be an expensive job. They began working casino nights and looking for community grants. It was going to take time, but they were determined.
The community's vision for the building was ambitious, aiming to create a completely accessible and environmentally-friendly space. But these big dreams came with a hefty price tag of $560,000. A large sum, but a manageable one.
"As a smaller community league, we were used to budgeting in the thousands of dollars," says Franchuk. "When we started to realize how much needed to be done, it was really terrifying to think about how we could ever accomplish it."
To help manage costs and mitigate the effect of such a significant outlay, the League aimed to complete the work in phases. They also approached the McKernan Child Care Society and the Alberta AdaptAbilities Association to look at long-term rental and partnership possibilities. While the McKernan Child Care Society had previously been housed in the hall, AdaptAbilities was a young and fast-growing organization looking for rental space in the area. For both groups, a long-term rental at the Community Hall could be a win-win.
With casino money slowly but steadily flowing in, and new tenancy agreements in place, things were looking up. That is, until, it became clear that more work would be needed to salvage the building's crumbling foundation, and costs began to add up. With the cost of the project quickly ballooning to more than $1.3 million, members of the League began to worry. Grants from the federal, provincial and municipal governments had helped to move the project along, but a cost overrun this large had the potential to put an end to the project.
Fortunately, they learned of SEF.
"This project was such that, because of the nature of community leagues, we couldn't go to a bank," says Roberta. "We knew we would eventually be able to pay this money back, but we needed something to help us finish and pay for the construction. But because we were able to access the SEF financing, we were able to develop a plan to get to where we were going in a way that we could still manage the costs."
Today, the Hall is busier than ever. With crowds of parents and families visiting the Adaptabilities and McKernan Child Care Society's facilities each day, it's clear that the building has retained its place as the beating heart of this community.
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Seventeen years ago, William Barr sat down with the Miler Center to describe what it was like to be the attorney general of the United States under President George H. W. Bush.
Our oral history panel was filled with presidential historians and legal scholars. They asked him a series of tough questions.
How much power does the president of the United States have to enforce the laws?
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Should the president be able to pardon officials who have been indicted by a special prosecutor?
Should the Justice Department aggressively prosecute immigrants seeking asylum?
The transcript of William Barr's contribution to the George H. W. Bush Oral History Project runs to more than 150 pages and 50,000 words.
Barr's oral history provided us with frank answers to those questions.
Last week, those answers became supremely relevant. President Trump invited Barr to return to the post he held 25 years ago.
The president has interpreted executive authorities broadly. He also has suggested that the Justice Department should closely follow his wishes as president. He has pointed criticism at both his last attorney general and at the deputy AG.
The president also has challenged the role of the special counsel on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He has suggested that his pardon powers may come in handy. And his interpretations of border and asylum policies have proven to be highly controversial.
Barr's answers to those questions in 2001 were surprisingly straightforward. Whether he still holds those views—or whether they would be applied similarly today—must be on the minds of the president, members of Congress, and a wide range of engaged citizens.
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This month we feature Lauren Seyler, a research scientist with a specialty in oceanography and microbial ecology who recently joined our team.
BMSIS: Please tell us a little about yourself.
Lauren: I got my Ph.D. in biological oceanography from Rutgers University in 2015. My dissertation concerned the ecology and metabolic activity of marine archaea and the role of these microorganisms in the marine carbon cycle, and focused on using stable isotope probing (SIP) to track the uptake and incorporation of various carbon compounds by microbial populations. I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Schrenk lab at Michigan State University, where we have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to access fresh samples from unique sites related to serpentinization, a process implicated in the origin of life on Earth and other planets in the solar system. My work uses a combination of cultivation and biogeochemistry approaches to study microbial biofilm samples obtained from these sites. I'm also developing culturing platforms that support conditions resembling those hypothesized to exist at the origin of life, in order to observe microbial populations and the products and kinetics of biological pathways. This work will hopefully enhance our knowledge of processes which may have impacted the origin and early evolution of life on Earth, and also aid in the search for life in serpentinizing environments on other planets, including Mars and icy worlds.
BMSIS: What motivated you to join the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science?
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Dwyane Wade's Next Chapter: Co-owner of the Utah Jazz
The Miami Heat legend joins majority partner Ryan Smith's small ownership group with an eye towards shaping the Jazz on and off the court.
Dwyane Wade is set to write another chapter in his book of basketball, and this time, it's from the owner's box. The three-time NBA champion and future Hall of Famer announced on Friday that he has purchased a minority ownership stake in the Utah Jazz.
Although the specifics of the deal are not available to the public as of this writing, Wade isn't joining up merely as investor. He's headed out west to help mold the future of a truly talented team that boasts a trio of All-Stars in Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, and Mike Conley.
Dwyane Wade has purchased an ownership stake in the Utah Jazz.
He joins Grant Hill (Hawks), Shaq (Kings) and MJ (Hornets) as HOF-level players with NBA ownership stakes.
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The Jazz currently hold the NBA's best record at 42-14, including a dazzling 26-3 home record.
Wade joins a small ownership group that includes Ryan Smith and his wife, Ashley, Smith's Accel partner Ryan Sweeney, Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes, and the Miller family, who previously owned the franchise. Smith, the majority owner, founded the popular analytics platform, Qualtrics, which is based in Provo, Utah, 45 miles from Salt Lake City.
The group purchased the team from the Millers last October for $1.66 billion. The transaction also included home venue Vivint Arena, the Salt Lake City Stars G League affiliate, and the Salt Lake Bees, a Triple-A minor league baseball club.
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Smith told ESPN that their pursuit of Wade was highly deliberate, and he envisions that the Heat legend will be a major part of setting the tone in Utah.
"There is a broad picture here. It's much more than just basketball. This league is the biggest platform that there is, and we ran toward that," he said. "This isn't a league where we came in saying, 'Hey, this has gone somewhere we're not comfortable with.' This is actually what we signed up for. We're the newest ownership group. We're the youngest. Dwyane's a perfect fit."
"This was always a goal of mine… That's what the Utah Jazz is, something bigger than myself." pic.twitter.com/RI58Qw4doh
For those close to Wade, the move will not come a surprise. He has been developing his business portfolio long before his 2019 retirement; he connected with Smith around that time, and cites the Jazz governor as one of his greatest mentors.
When presented with the opportunity to join the ownership group, Wade saw it not only as a sound investment, but as a chance to enhance his commitment to various social justice causes and build a platform for himself and others.
"Unfortunately, people in my community don't get this opportunity, and I do not take it lightly to have this opportunity. To make real change, this is where you have to be — at the top — and Ryan knows that. I'm thankful for him, and I know too that I bring a lot to this partnership outside of just my basketball knowledge and skills," Wade told ESPN.
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D-Wade joins an elite group of former NBA stars to join team ownership groups, including former Miami teammate Shaquille O'Neal (Sacramento Kings), Grant Hill (Atlanta Hawks), and Michael Jordan (Charlotte Bobcats/Hornets), the latter of whom is the first former player to become a majority owner.
Seeing Wade playing such a prominent role with a franchise outside the 305 will take some getting used to. But with all the good the 13-time All-Star is capable of doing, it's hard not to get excited about what's possible in Salt Lake City.
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Portland Trail Blazers vs. Dallas Mavericks Preview
The Blazers look to bounce back after some rest.
By JoeMoore21 Dec 27, 2021, 9:22am PST
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Portland Trail Blazers (13-19) vs. Dallas Mavericks (15-17)
The Portland Trail Blazers take on the Dallas Mavericks at home for the first game of a two game home stand. The Blazers come into this contest six days after their loss to the Pelicans which snapped a two game win streak. The Mavericks are coming off of two straight losses to the Milwaukee Bucks and Utah Jazz.
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Blazers injuries: CJ McCollum (out), Cody Zeller (out), Jusuf Nurkic (out), Robert Covington (out), Ben McLemore (out), Dennis Smith Jr. (out), Trendon Watford (out), Keljin Blevins (out), Damian Lillard (questionable)
Mavericks injuries: Luka Doncic (out), Tim Hardaway (out), Maxi Kleber (out), Trey Burke (out), Reggie Bullock (out), Josh Green (out), Willie Cauley-Stein (out), JaQuori McLaughlin (out)
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Who's actually playing? The two teams have sixteen total players listed as out, and a possibility for a seventeenth with Lillard listed as questionable. This could see some unconventional lineups see significant time together. The Blazers have already picked up three players on ten-day contracts in Jarron Cumberland, Cameron McGriff, and Brandon Williams. The Mavericks in their last three games have started the trio of Sterling Brown, Jalen Brunson, and Frank Ntilikina who only started ten combined games, all from Brunson, before this stretch of starts.
Anfernee Simons and Nassir Little. Both Portland youngsters have been enjoying career highs pretty much across the board. If Lillard doesn't play then both will most likely get the start. Both will play major parts in the offense of the Blazers in this contest, whether or not they start. Some unconventional lineups could feature parts of the two young players' games that have previously not been able to be featured in such a prominent role.
Jalen Brunson. Brunson has been on a tear since he has been thrust into a starting role. Over his last seven games, Brunson has averaged 21.1 points per game to go along with 7.3 assists. The lack of other options has given Brunson the ability to showcase every aspect of his game. The Blazers will have to contain the machine that Brunson has become. If the Blazers can force the Mavericks to have to rely on players not normally in their rotation, they could force them out of their comfort zone on offense.
Matthew T Phillips of Mavs Moneyball talked about the scoring coming from typical secondary options in the Mavs offense.
With the team lacking essentially everyone else who should be tasked with scoring in an NBA game, both Brunson and Porzingis needed to have big games. 27 points is fine but given the number of touches they were given and the urgency they should have felt given the lack of surrounding talent it simply wasn't enough. Still, finding a way to score despite not having their best games can be a positive. Porzingis especially, as he was 11-of-13 from the free throw line showing a heightened level of aggressiveness (and a very active whistle on both sides).
Mavs Moneyball's Josh Bowe talks about the "Replacement Mavericks" and how their energy on the court.
So while these replacement Mavericks aren't more talented, there is something fun about seeing new players on the roster for the first time in four years. They're playing very hard, hustling to earn a more permanent job. The team even feels more athletic, which is also another fun side effect. The expectations are also out the window — instead of feeling some internal existential crisis every time Hardaway or Porzingis miss a three pointer off a beautiful Doncic pass, it's much easier to just live in the moment and enjoy this ragtag group coming together and putting up some impressive efforts with basically zero preparation. The Bucks had to seriously earn this win and this group handled a Timberwolves team that still had Karl Anthony-Towns and D'Angelo Russell. What should have been an 0-2 stretch with two ugly losses has somehow turned into 1-1 with two tremendously hard-played games.


It has been quite a journey, I must say–one that seems like it started a long, long time ago. Through this journey I learned a good deal about writing and about the industry in general. That is something I believe is a vital part of being passionate about something: you must be involved in your craft and not just go through the motions. This experience has definitely brought me closer to the idea of not only wanting to keep writing, but to work hard to write a lot. I am very grateful for the love and support given to me by family, friends, and colleagues. It has helped me bring to life something I created from nothing, and that is an amazing thing to me.
Through this process, I found myself thoroughly enjoying what I was doing. I put in quite a bit of research for this book to help supplement the information I knew already. Creating a story couched in the fabric of history is something that makes me giddy when it all comes together. It's always intriguing to address the "what-ifs" of history, as well as to see how events could have tied into the "real thing." It's been done many times before; I'm just giving my take on the concept.
To conclude my reflection, at least for the moment, I would like to say that I look forward to creating more stories and bringing them to you for reading. I am always open to suggestions and criticisms, because I want to become a better writer. If you read my story, I ask that you leave a comment somewhere or write a review. Those words from the reader's perspective really help me out in a lot of ways!
I am pleased to reveal the front cover of my debut book, "Resistant." I would like to thank the designer at WaveCloud who helped me bring this to life, as well as others who have helped and inspired me along the way. This is the first big reveal of the book, giving my audience a window into a story I have created. It is a great relief to finally reach this phase in my debut journey.
The story is about a young French girl named Rienne who is faced with a difficult situation when the German army invades France in the summer of 1940. With her home city of Paris now occupied, changes occur in her everyday life that are uncomfortable and unwelcome. As the plot thickens, she is faced with a choice that will have bearing on the rest of her life. What will become of her? Where will she go? How will the war affect her?
I hope you will check out my book when it is released in the coming days. And if you're not a fan of historical fiction or WW2 history, I'd appreciate it if you pass the word along to a friend.
Follow this blog to stay up-to-date on the book.
If you haven't seen it already, I released the title of my debut book earlier today on Twitter and Facebook. "Resistant" will be out within the next two weeks! I will be updating you all on Monday, as well as throughout the next few weeks, with more details both before and after the book's release.
I don't want to give away too much right now, but I will say this…if you like historical fiction, especially set in the time period of the Second World War, then you will enjoy this story. If you like stories with action and emotion, you will enjoy this story.
One thing I ask is that you please pass the word along to anyone you know if you think they would like this book! A good way to get involved with me and to be "in the know" is to follow me on social media, especially this blog. Just copy the links below and paste them to the digital walls of your friends and family.
Check back on Monday for the cover reveal of my book, "Resistant." And look for it online in the coming days!
It is finished. I have gone through my story in one final proof and have decided that it is complete! It is a somewhat weird feeling knowing that I do not have to revisit the plot or characters or setting or anything else in this book again. I feel very satisfied with what I have done, and hopefully in time you will feel satisfied as well upon reading the book.
As you'll see in this little sneak peak, the word count has come to a grand total of just shy of 38K words. The subtractions that I made were all the asterisks and such that act as breaks in the flow of the story. It's amazing that I initially set out with a ballpark figure of 25K words in mind, and yet here I am about to publish a book with much more than that. The writing was not forced, but rather ideas came to me and they seemed to fit with the rest of the story.
If you haven't heard me mention it already, I'll mention here again. I have been using the author services of the WaveCloud Corporation to bring my book to life. They designed my cover professionally, which I will be revealing next week, and they offer many more services on top of that. One such resource that they offer is a series of webinars. There is a process to joining in on the live webinars that I won't detail here, but I would strongly suggest that anyone using WaveCloud's services should take part in the webinars. They are worth the time.
I am extremely humbled by the things I have learned from others, both through WaveCloud and social media, because of how it has helped me in my process as an author. I couldn't have imagined myself in this position five months ago when I began writing my first book, but I am very glad I have made it to this point. I cannot wait to see where the road takes me!
Another week has gone by and I am getting very close to bringing you my first book! This whole process has been, is, and I'm sure will continue to be exciting for me, and hopefully for you. I am finishing the final proof of my manuscript as I write this now; I have gotten the final cover from my designer; and I have almost everything set up logistically to launch the book very soon.
I aim to reveal the title in next week's blog. I am looking forward to sharing it with you! The title itself will appear on my Twitter and Facebook, but more details will be included in the blog. More details will be revealed in subsequent blogs, so follow along for all the information you need to have to know about my debut book. I have very much enjoyed writing it; I hope you get as much enjoyment from reading it!
Today, I begin the final phase of the writing process for my debut book–I have begun the last read-through of my manuscript before sending it off! It is really an exciting feeling, knowing that I'm inching closer to the end goal of getting it out to you, the public. I am currently working on building up my other profiles (like Goodreads, Twitter, etc.), so please check those out if you haven't already! I look forward to posting details regarding my book's release over the coming weeks, anxious to see how the process goes. Please tell your friends about me and my work!


"We have to buy medicines from private pharmacies, PHCs don't give us most of them," says Chunni Lal, a Jabrapur resident who had travelled to the Naveen Primary Health Centre in Fatehganj, Banda. He visited the PHC to get a treatment for the marks that had started to spread from his back and arms to his face, but had to leave only with a prescription and a request asking him to buy the necessary medication from the market.
Devised by the National Health Mission to be the first point of contact for medical care in rural India, Primary Health Centres, or PHCs, are supposed to be well-equipped to deal with in-and out-patient care, with an ambulance service, a functional operational theatre and a labour room. The Indian Public Health Standards for PHCs clearly state that all the drugs required for national health programmes, as well as emergency management, should be available in adequate quantities, as to ensure completion of treatment for all patients. The under-stocked PHC in Fatehganj is only one of the many centres in the country failing to meet this most basic requirement.
Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in the country, has only 3621 functioning PHCs — a shortfall of 30%, as there is a requirement of 5194 PHCs in the state. These existing PHCs, as few as they are, are also providing only inadequate services. A Planning Commission report found that 66.67% of all beneficiaries expressed non-availability of medicines as one of their primary reasons for dissatisfaction with the functioning of PHCs.
"Apart from a handful of medications, we currently have everything stocked in our pharmacy — cetzine, paracetamol, antibiotics," informs Premchand, pharmacist at Fatehganj PHC. But Anarkali, who had visited the same centre with complaints of fever, cold and cough — fairly minor illnesses, often treated with the same medicine compounds Premchand had listed — was asked to buy medicines from outside the centre.
Arpita, from the village of Jarkadha, flagged a similar problem, "I bought a syrup for Rs 200 from the pharmacy outside the hospital." Rs 200, for one round of one medication, is not a small expense for people of a state where 30% population is living below the poverty line. "They are not providing us with required medicines, which are generally provided in every other hospital," says another Jarkadha resident, Bhagwati, her frustration palpable.
Research has shown that 4.49% of the total consumption expenditure by households was made on out-of-pocket (OOP) medicines — significantly on the uptick in the last few decades — making it the largest component of total OOP payments. "Since PHCs don't provide proper services, we are forced to visit private hospitals for a decent check-up," explains Bhagwati. OOP medical expenditure, including paying for private hospitals, pushed 50.6 million people into poverty between 2004 and 2014 — of which 27% lived in Uttar Pradesh. In 2011-2012 alone, 38 million Indians were pushed below poverty line because of OOP medical expenditure.
According to an Indiaspend study, India spent the least on public health among all the BRICS nations in 2014. It also ranked 147 among 184 countries in this regard, only 31.3% of the total healthcare expenditure being done by the government that year. Meanwhile, the budget allocation for National Health Mission has seen a 2.1% decline from Rs 31,292 crores in 2017-18 (revised estimates) to Rs 30,634 crores in 2018-2019 (budget estimates).
The widely-publicised Prime Minister's Ayushman Bharat Yojana, launched in September 2018, is supposed to be the solution to all rural healthcare woes, its flashiest promise — health protection cover of Rs 5 lakh per poor family per year. But research has shown that insurance-based government initiatives have been largely unsuccessful in easing the burden on citizens. In fact, households in districts where central and state governments target insurance policies are more likely to fall below the poverty line. How can an insurance scheme help if the service provisions themselves are sorely lacking? Our own reporting on this policy is a proof of this systemic flaw in the plan.
But healthcare isn't a leisurely activity; it is often a matter of urgency. When asked what they do if medicines are required immediately, Premchand has no answer.


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Ford takes wraps off of fuel cell, electric plug in hybrid
Michael Floydwriter
Ford unveiled the world's first fuel cell/electric plug-in hybrid at the Washington Auto Show. The vehicle, a modified Ford Edge, is a practical application of the HySeries Drive powertrain seen earlier this month in the Ford Airstream concept at the Detroit Auto Show.
Power is supplied primarily by a lithium-ion battery, with;a fuel cell-powered generator kicking in when the battery is depleted to 40 percent. The battery can also be recharged by plugging the vehicle into a power outlet.
The vehicle has a nominal range of approximately 225 miles on a full charge and 4.5 kg tank of hydrogen. Ford says that this range can be extended to up to 400 miles with plug;-in charges if only short distances are driven.
The company also announced a demonstration fleet of 20 flex-fuel Ford Escape Hybrids (pictured left) that will be deployed across six states later this year. The vehicle is the first hybrid capable of using E85.


28 February 2019 S/2019/186 This was a US draft resolution on Venezuela that was vetoed by China and Russia.
28 February 2019 S/2019/190 This was a Russian draft resolution on Venezuela where four members voted in favour (China, Russia, Equatorial Guinea, and South Africa), seven members voted against (Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Poland, the UK and the US), and four members abstained (Côte d'Ivoire, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia and Kuwait).
7 January 2019 S/2019/10/Add.1 This was the summary statement by the Secretary-General on matters of which the Security Council is seized.
2 January 2019 S/2019/10 This was the summary statement by the Secretary-General on matters of which the Security Council is seized.
15 November 2018 S/2018/1030 This was the report on the Security Council mission to the DRC from 5 to 7 October 2018.
1 June 2018 S/2018/520 This was the US draft resolution that received only one vote.
1 June 2018 S/2018/516 This was the Kuwaiti draft resolution vetoed by the US.
14 April 2018 S/2018/355 This was a Russian draft resolution condemning the US "aggression" on Syria that failed to garner nine votes.
10 April 2018 S/2018/175 This was a Russian draft resolution establishing UNIMI that failed to garner nine votes.
10 April 2018 S/2018/321 This was a US draft resolution establishing UNIMI that was vetoed by Russia.
10 April 2018 S/2018/322 This was a Russian draft resolution on the OPCW Douma investigation that failed to garner nine votes.
2 March 2018 S/2018/86 This was the progress study on youth, peace and security.


When one argues that of two mutually exclusive cases, one choice is better than the other, it can never be empirically validated. If you can measure one, it is precluding the other, which therefore cannot generate real data. We run into this with tough immigration control vs. relaxed immigration control — you cannot have both. Computer models do not solve this problem.


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Home / What is Umami?
A revolution in the understanding of taste has occurred in the last few years.
Western science has traditionally identified four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty and bitter, determined by cognate taste receptors on various parts of the tongue. Culinary tradition has maintained that those four tastes combine to make all known flavors.
Asia, on other hand, has traditionally favored the notion of five basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and hot (pepper hot). These five tastes have been referenced in Chinese literature from at least the third century B.C.
In Japan, Umami has replaced the fifth taste – hot – which is considered to be one of the basic tastes, with its own taste receptor on the tongue. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University, who was intrigued by the distinctive flavor of seaweed broth, first identified Umami as a distinct taste in 1908. He isolated and identified at least one element of the Umami taste – the amino acid glutamate. Umami is perhaps as difficult to translate into English as the French word Terroir. Linguists have suggested that Umami (pronounced oo-mom'-ee) has English equivalents, such as savory, essence, pungent, deliciousness, and meaty. Umami is associated with an experience of perfect quality in a taste. It is also said to involve all the senses, not just that of taste. In the Asian context there is both a spiritual and mystical quality to Umami. In the West it has been controversial whether Umami constituted a basic taste. This objection has been now been overcome by the isolation and characterization of the Umami taste receptor by Nirupa Chaudhari and coworkers at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Additional studies by Adler et al., have shown that a two-component receptor, consisting of a common component and two other components determines the sensory response to either sweet or umami tastes.
The importance of the fifth Umami taste in the context of wine was first recognized and articulated by Master of Wine Tim Hanni. He has written a number of very incisive articles regarding the role of Umami in determining the quality and pleasure of wine and food interactions.
The significance of Umami in explaining why perfectly matured wines are an optimal accompaniment to a diverse range of modern cuisine has been developed by Randy Caparoso, corporate wine buyer for Roy Yamaguchi's family of Roy's restaurants. His research demonstrates that the multidimensionality of Umami wines allow a greater range of favorable wine and food synergies than can be achieved with soft, fruity, one-dimensional wines. (BTW – Michael Romano, Mikey's Marinade founder, is a certified sommelier of wine)
Most modern wines are made for immediate consumption and evoke the taste sensations of sweet, salty, bitter and sour. These "Fast Wines" are well matched to the spectrum of flavors found in "Fast Food." Umami is synonymous with the taste of perfection – a wine that is at its apex of flavor maturity and quality. The same holds true for the ultimate umami experience of grilled meat marinated in Mikey's "New York" Steak Marinade.


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Muslim groups wait at 'meaningful' spot
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They were some of the first to arrive at Shenton Way at around 8am, and stood outside the Singapore Conference Hall for more than four hours to wait to witness Mr Lee Kuan Yew's final journey.
About 100 officials, staff and residents of welfare homes under Muslim voluntary welfare organisation Jamiyah braved the rain under dark green umbrellas.
"Even the sky is crying," said Mr Osman Sapawi, 39, a resident at one of the homes, who said he was glad to have the chance to say farewell to Mr Lee.
Dr H. M. Saleem, a Jamiyah vice-president, said: "We wanted to select a space where we can all be together to see the moment."
"We are very grateful for what Mr Lee has done for Singapore. He is a world-renowned visionary and leader," he added.
They were joined by several Indian Muslim community leaders at around 10.30am. Mr Farihullah A.W. Safiullah, president of the Federation of Indian Muslims (FIM), said the community was thankful for the peaceful society Mr Lee helped to form.
"Mr Lee has done a lot to help us build racial and religious harmony in Singapore, where the minority group of Indian Muslims can live and integrate with all Singaporeans peacefully," he said.
FIM deputy president K.M. Deen said the location they chose was particularly meaningful for the occasion, as the former Trade Union House was a counting centre during the elections when Mr Lee was Prime Minister.
As the rain grew into a downpour and the number of bystanders swelled, the group offered this reporter a poncho.
Dr Deen, his eyes reddening, said he was moved by the crowd that had gathered.
"Whatever rain, whatever storm we have to stand in, it's nothing compared to what he has done for the nation," he said.
JOANNA SEOW
JAMIYAH


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"Go Away. I'm Reading."
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Perhaps you received a book this past holiday, or perhaps you had some time to catch up on book you have been waiting to read. You might need one of these signs:
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Why might you need a "Go Away. I'm Reading" sign? Because reading is often interrupted by people. The sign could stop those interruptions by others that inevitably occur at a critical moment in a book or article. You would use the sign to ward off those who are blind to the obvious and ask, "What are you doing?" You might even use the sign to stymie those who intrude to ask, "What are you reading?" But you would most certainly wave the sign to stop those who interrupt to ask, "Is what you're doing so important?"
Reading is a very quiet, sedentary activity, an activity that requires concentration. You cannot multi-task reading. An interruption in that concentration disrupts comprehension, and there are studies that look to measure the effects of interruptions on comprehension. There was the 2002 study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill titled, "The Effect of Interruption on Working Memory During Discourse Processing " by Kerry Ledoux and Peter C. Gordon.
Ledoux and Gordon conducted separate experiments using the same narrative and expository passages, but they varied who read the narrative and who read the narrative and expository passages. They gathered evidence to prove that comprehension of similar (narrative) passages was more disrupted by interruption in the first experiment, and than with dissimilar (narrative/expository) passages in the second experiment:
This supports the notion that the maintenance of text information in working memory is affected by interruption. Second, we found that the initial reading of the second passage in a pair is disrupted more if the first passage in the pair is of a similar type than if it is of a dissimilar type.
Their two experiments looked directly at the systems of language processing necessary for comprehension:
Our results support the view of the role of working memory in language processing as a system whose function comprises the creation and maintenance of an elaborate, semantic representation of a text and the efficient retrieval of this representation from long-term memory.
They determined that interruptions had an adverse impact on the role of working memory, but could not determine the magnitude of these interruptions because of differences in texts.
Another more recent study concluded that visual clues are helpful to resume reading after an interruption. An abstract from the 2012 study by JE Cane, F Couchard, and UW Weger from the University of Kent, UK titled, "The Time-Course of Recovery from Interruption During Reading: Eye Movement Evidence for the Role of Interruption Lag and Spatial Memory" centered on the impotence of visual cues. Locating where one stopped reading is important to recovering comprehension:
Two experiments examined how interruptions impact reading and how interruption lags and the reader's spatial memory affect the recovery from such interruptions. Participants read paragraphs of text and were interrupted unpredictably by a spoken news story while their eye movements were monitored. Time made available for consolidation prior to responding to the interruption did not aid reading resumption. However, providing readers with a visual cue that indicated the interruption location did aid task resumption substantially.
Predictably, cuing the place where the interruption took place is helpful to comprehension, but there is also considerably conversation about the amount of time it takes a reader to return to a full involvement with a text. Consider that research in the business communities has determined that many interruptions are costly and hurt business productivity. A 2005 NYTimes Magazine article by Clive Thompson titled Meet the Life Hackers described a study by Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California at Irvine. Mark looked at interruptions in the average 21st Century office worker. She developed a series of timed tasks that mimic work in the business day. Her research was organized so that,
Each employee spent only 11 minutes on any given project before being interrupted and whisked off to do something else. What's more, each 11-minute project was itself fragmented into even shorter three-minute tasks, like answering e-mail messages, reading a Web page or working on a spreadsheet. And each time a worker was distracted from a task, it would take, on average, 25 minutes to return to that task.
Although 25 minutes may not be the same amount of time required for the average reader to return to a text, Mark's research does demonstrate the serious loss of time interruptions cause to work productivity. If one of these activities involved reading, then reading productivity was adversely effected.
One other interesting view on uninterrupted reading has been offered by the Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Consortium (TINAC). In 1988, they published a "manifesto" on writing hypertext, those texts that feature embedded links for the reader. What is surprising is how they began the "manifesto" by focusing not on the writing of such texts starting from the reading of such texts. Their first statement:
I) No interruptions.
Reading should be a seamless and uninterrupted experience. Its choices proceed from the expression of possibilities as a narrative medium and depend upon the complicity of the reader in the creation of a narrative. Reading is design enacted.
Reading is "design enacted", meaning that even the distractions in hypertexts are meant to be done in a sitting without distractions, without interruption.
Ultimately, conveying the importance of uninterrupted reading may be necessary. But if the little sign, "Go Away. I'm Reading." doesn't work, you might want to try other strategies. A quick survey on the Internet reveals available like-minded products.
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There are plans for free "Go Away. I'm Reading" Book Covers in several different styles. There are also "Go Away. I'm Reading" coffee mugs handy for uninterrupted newspaper reading in the morning.
However, the ultimate solution may still be the most simple: find a quiet spot in the house, and lock the door.
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The Catcher in the Rye is the most famous, and only, novel by J.D. Salinger. But what does it mean? Why is the book so controversial? What does the book have to say about the state of society? Here are a few questions for study and discussion, related to The Catcher in the Rye.
What is important about the title? Why is it memorable? What other work(s) in literary history influenced the title? Where does mention of the title enter into the body of the text?
What are the conflicts in The Catcher in the Rye? What types of conflict (physical, moral, intellectual, or emotional) are in this novel?
How does J.D. Salinger reveal character in the novel?
What are some themes and symbols in the novel? How do they relate to the plot and characters?
Is Holden consistent in his actions? Is he a fully developed character? Is Holden a strong character? How? Why?
How does Holden relate to his little sister? Why (and how) does his relationship with her affect his decisions, his philosophy of life, and his actions?
Do you find the characters likable? Would you want to meet the characters?
Does the novel end the way you expected? How? Why?
What is the central/primary purpose of the novel? Is the purpose important or meaningful?
How does this novel relate to other coming-of-age novels? How does the novel compare with Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
What is the role of women in the text? Is love relevant? Are relationships meaningful?
Why is the novel controversial? Why has it been banned? Do you think the reasons for banning are still relevant?
How does the novel relate to current society? Is the novel still relevant?
Would you recommend this novel to a friend? Why or why not?