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Lucas Andrew Recker (born June 17, 1978) is an American former professional basketball player. A swingman who primarily played the shooting guard position but could also play small forward, he was one of the top high school prospects of the class of 1997. He played his first two years of college basketball at Indiana before deciding to transfer; after missing one year due to a car accident he went on to play two more years for Iowa. He went undrafted in the 2002 NBA draft and after a season in the NBA Development League he played professional basketball in Italy and Spain. Luke has two children named Avery (June 20th, 2007) and Bennett (December 26th, 2010) Luke is married to Megan Recker.

High school career
Recker was born in Lima, Ohio to father Clair Recker and mother Marti Pepple; he then moved to Indiana in his mother's hometown of Auburn, Indiana and attended DeKalb High School in Waterloo, Indiana. He was already recruited by colleges in his early high school career, and at age 15, in his sophomore year in high school, he committed to play for Indiana, citing his desire to play for coach Bob Knight.

During his junior year of high school he averaged 21 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists with a field goal percentage of 59%. He was one of the top ranked guards in the nation by his senior year, during which he averaged 26.8 points, 6.8 rebounds and 5 assists, and for his career he recorded totals of 2,008 points and 477 assists, both school records at DeKalb.

Recker's remarkable performance in his senior year earned him the Indiana Mr. Basketball award as the best high school basketball player in the state of Indiana in the year 1997; Gatorade also named him as their Indiana Player of the Year. He was selected as a Second Team Parade All-American and as a McDonald's All-American. In the 1997 McDonald's All-American Boys Game he scored 10 points, going 3/12 from the field and 3/4 from the free throw line.

College career

Indiana
Recker officially signed to play for Indiana in May 1997 after having verbally committed in his sophomore year of high school. He chose to wear jersey number 4. Despite being only a freshman, Recker was given a starting role from Knight, and in his first year he led the team in steals with an average of 1.5 per game and was the second player for minutes played (939) and points per game. He scored a then career-high 29 points against Oklahoma during the 1998 NCAA tournament. He ended the season having started 30 of his 32 games, with averages of 12.8 points, 3.9 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.5 steals, shooting almost 50% from the field. During his freshman year he mainly played the small forward position and was named an All-Big Ten Honorable Mention.

As a sophomore he was already considered one of the top perimeter players of Indiana's roster, and further increased his scoring average, recording double figures in 26 of the 34 games played (in 12 games he scored 20 points or more). He was the best scorer of the team with an average of 16.1 points per game. He started 33 of his 34 games, and played a total of 1,080 minutes (31.8 per game). His successful sophomore season earned him a place in the All-Big Ten Third Team, and he was also an Academic All-American. During his two years at Indiana he scored 954 points.

Despite his success at Indiana, in April 1999 he announced his desire to transfer to another program, stating he was not «satisfied with his development as a player». He restricted his choices to Arizona, North Carolina, Florida, Iowa and Notre Dame, and finally decided to transfer to Arizona. Due to NCAA transfer rules, he was to sit out the 1999–2000 season. He chose the jersey number 2 and attended the University of Arizona for the Fall semester.

Recker and several other people were involved in a car accident on July 10, 1999 near Durango, Colorado. Recker was a passenger with his girlfriend Kelly Craig (aged 19) and her brother, Jason Craig (17), in a Ford Taurus which was driven by their friend John Hollberg (23). While they were on County Road 240 heading to Durango for a carnival, a truck driven by Bob Hardwick invaded the central lane and collided with two other vehicles at 70 mph. A total of 15 people were involved in the accident. John Hollberg died and Recker and Kelly and Jasper Craig suffered severe injuries that required surgery. Recker's injuries included a laceration to his left ear, cuts on his head and damage to his left wrist and thumb.

Iowa
After the accident, Recker began treatment to recover from his injuries, and changed his college choice, deciding to transfer to Iowa instead of Arizona. Among the factors that contributed to this decision was Recker's intention to stay closer both to his father (who lived in Washington, Iowa) and his girlfriend Kelly Craig, who was in Chicago, Illinois still recovering from the accident. In January 2000 he came back to training in Iowa City, Iowa under coach Steve Alford. Originally ineligible until January 2001, he sat out only his first semester at Iowa because the NCAA granted him a waiver to come back to play one semester earlier due to his involvement in the accident, which was considered a case of "special circumstances" after Recker appealed to the NCAA trying to regain his eligibility.

At Iowa he chose to wear number 24, which was also his high school jersey number. He was immediately given a prominent role within the program, and he became a starter: after starting the first 18 games of the season, he fractured his kneecap and had to miss the remaining 15 games. In the games he played in his junior season he played 33.6 minutes per game, averaging 18.1 points (a career high), 3.9 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.1 steals, while shooting 43% from three-point range (another career high). Despite his brief appearance in the season he still earned several honors (All-Big Ten Honorable Mention, All-Big Ten Academic Team, NABC All-District Second Team).

In his senior season Recker was again playing a key role at Iowa, receiving starting assignments and was the top scorer of the team, with an average of 17.1 points: he also was the steals leader with 56 (1.6 average), ranked second in assists (88 total, 2.5 average) and third in rebounding (119 total, 3.4 average). He scored a personal career high 31 points against Missouri and was named in the All-Tournament team in the 2002 Big Ten tournament: during the competition Recker scored two game-winning shots in a row, one against Wisconsin and one against his former team Indiana. Iowa ultimately lost in the title game against Ohio State. At the end of the season, Recker was named Iowa's team MVP along with Reggie Evans, and also set a new record for free throw percentage in a season with 88.5%. In his two years at Iowa he scored a total of 926 points.

At the end of his senior season he was named an AP Honorable Mention. In his four years of college basketball he scored a total of 1,880 points with an average of 15.8.

College statistics

|-
| align="left" | 1997–98
| align="left" | Indiana
| 32 || 30 || 29.3 || .498 || .362 || .781 || 3.9 || 2.8 || 1.5 || 0.4 || 12.8
|-
| align="left" | 1998–99
| align="left" | Indiana
| 34 || 33 || 31.8 || .428 || .364 || .747 || 4.0 || 2.6 || 1.7 || 0.3 || 16.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 1999–2000
| style="text-align:left;"| Iowa
| colspan=11 align=center | Did not play – transfer
|-
| align="left" | 2000–01
| align="left" | Iowa
| 18 || 18 || 33.6 || .439 || .431 || .856 || 3.9 || 2.7 || 1.1 || 0.1 || 18.1
|-
| align="left" | 2001–02
| align="left" | Iowa
| 35 || 32 || 33.3 || .444 || .413 || .885 || 3.4 || 2.5 || 1.6 || 0.4 || 17.1
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" |
| 119 || 113 || 32.0 || .450 || .394 || .811 || 3.8 || 2.6 || 1.5 || 0.3 || 15.8
|-

Professional career
At the 2002 NBA Pre Draft camp held in Chicago he was measured at 6 ft 4¾ in tall without shoes, 6 ft 6½ with shoes, with a 6 ft 7 in wingspan and an 8 ft 5 in standing reach, and weighted 198 lbs. Despite being projected as a second-round pick, or even a late first-rounder, Recker went undrafted at the 2002 NBA draft.

He joined the Miami Heat for the 2002 Summer League and played 9 games, starting 7: he averaged 10.0 points and 2.6 rebounds in 16.2 minutes of play. He then signed for the Heat as a free agent on August 13, 2002, but was waived on October 28, 2002.

After being cut from the Heat roster, in December 2002 Recker joined the Asheville Altitude, a team that played in the NBA Development League. In 34 games Recker averaged 8.9 points, 1.7 rebounds, 0.9 assists and 0.5 steals in 18.7 minutes per game: he was mainly used as a reserve, and started only 4 games.

In 2003 he participated to the Reebok Pro Summer League, playing for the Boston Celtics. He did not make the Celtics roster for the NBA season and signed for Euro Roseto, an Italian team based in Roseto which played in the Lega Basket Serie A, the Italian top level. He played 33 games, starting 32, and averaged 17.2 points, 2.8 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 2.1 steals in 31.5 minutes per game. He was very efficient, shooting 60.3% from the field (40.9% from 3 averaging 7.7 shots a game) and 84.8% from the free throw line. He had a career-high 35 points against Skipper Bologna: he shot 11 from 20 from 3-point range, one of the all-time highs of the Italian basketball league.

After leaving Roseto at the end of the season, Recker joined the Indiana Pacers in the 2004 Salt Lake City NBA Summer League, playing 5 games (3 starts) and averaging 9.6 points, 2.4 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 0.8 steals in 19.8 minutes per game. Again he did not make the final roster, and signed for Spanish club CB Girona. In the Liga ACB he played 19 games, starting 15, and scored 15.2 points per game, 2.8 rebounds and 0.7 assists.

In 2005 he returned to Italy, this time signing for Basket Livorno. He started all of the 34 games he played in the 2005–06 Serie A season, averaging 14.3 points, 3.0 rebounds, 0.8 assists and 2.0 steals in 29.8 minutes per game, with a season high of 20 points. In 2006 he joined Bilbao Berri, where in his first year he started all 33 games he averaged 14.4 points, 2.4 rebounds and 0.5 assists in 28.1 minutes per game. He played two more seasons in Bilbao: in 2007–08, as a starter he averaged 11.2 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.0 assist per game, while in 2008–09 he became one of the first options off the bench (9 starts in 32 games played), and his averages were 7.8 points, 1.9 rebounds and 0.8 assists. After the end of the season, Recker retired from professional basketball.

References

External links
Career stats at ProBallers.com
Stats at Sports-Reference.com
Indiana stats at IUHoosiers.com
 Spanish league stats
 Italian league stats

1978 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American expatriate basketball people in Spain
Asheville Altitude players
Basket Livorno players
Basketball players from Indiana
Basketball players from Ohio
Bilbao Basket players
CB Girona players
Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball players
Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball players
McDonald's High School All-Americans
Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
Roseto Sharks players
Shooting guards
Small forwards
Sportspeople from Lima, Ohio
American men's basketball players

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I checked the ripeness of the stone fruit yesterday – the birds have eaten most of the apricots well before they were ripe and have begun on the peaches. I foiled their attempts to eat all of them by picking the remainder before they are fully-ripe. There are a few ripening each day now – they are delicious! So juicy and sweet!


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Review: Frozen II (2019)
Frozen II (2019)
Directed by: Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
Premise: Taking place three years after the events of the 2013 film, magical queen Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel) sets out to discover the source of her power. She discovers an enchanted forest that holds the secret of her family's history.
What Works: Whatever its other faults, Frozen II is a marvelously crafted piece of animation. The backgrounds and characters have vivid texture and the film contains several outstanding set pieces. In fact, Frozen II is probably the best looking digital feature from Walt Disney Animation Studios. 2013's Frozen was one of the most popular Disney films in recent years and the sequel is geared toward the fans. It provides much of what viewers enjoyed the first time around and fans ought to enjoy it.
What Doesn't: The visual polish of Frozen II is about all the film has going for it. In every other respect, Frozen II is underwhelming. It takes absolutely no risks and it is never as smart or as funny as the first Frozen. The original picture introduced its characters and sent sisters Elsa and Anna on journeys of self-discovery that dovetailed together and subverted the conventions of Disney princess tales. The sequel does none of that. Anna (voice of Kristin Bell) has almost nothing to do nor do Kristoff and Olaf (voices of Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad). None of the characters develop in a meaningful way and even Elsa's discovery about the truth of her family history changes nothing. That reveals a curious tension in this story. Narratives and characters need to evolve and one of the themes of Frozen II is the inevitability of change; there's even a song about it. But the filmmakers resist change. They dabble in expanding the story world but the characters are stuck in the same position, perhaps because enacting real change would possibly threaten Disney's golden goose. This handicaps the drama. Frozen II has nothing at stake and there are no sacrifices; the few moments of consequence are undone just moments later. One of the qualities that distinguished Frozen was its music, led by the ballad "Let It Go." The music of Frozen II is competent but unremarkable. There is no equivalent to "Let It Go" in this sequel and the songs are as generic and unaffecting as the rest of this movie. Ultimately, Frozen II has no reason to exist. The conclusion of the first film didn't suggest a sequel and the filmmakers do not present a compelling reason to continue this story.
Bottom Line: While not a bad film, Frozen II is mediocre. The film is technically impressive but it is inert and hollow. This is a motion picture as a corporate product; it exists only to capitalize on an intellectual property and commercial necessity asphyxiates every creative possibility.
Episode: #779 (December 8, 2019)

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MNRI® Introduction to Intronaut and Infant Reflexes Integration is a 24 hour course offering information on specific neurosensorimotor exercises for the mother and intronaut during pregnancy and birth, and neurosensorimotor exercises for the infant during the first 10 days of the infant's life and during the first year of life. This course will offer specific information important to the health and well-being of the mother and child based of the concept of reflex integration. Each exercise will be completely explained, demonstrated and practiced during the course content.
Explain the Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration (MNRI®) Method and its scientific origins.
Explain the role of a primary reflex and its sensory, motor and central nervous system mechanisms.
Describe the progression of primary motor reflex patterns, beginning in utero and continuing through life.
Explore the impact of trauma on primary motor reflex patterns, the protective role immature reflexes play and the negative impact protection can have on a mother's and infant's ability to self-regulate, learn, develop, and grow.
Explain why it is essentialto support brain development through the application of archetype movements and basic reflex patterns and explain how this effects overall development.
Describe how specific archetype movements and basic reflex patterns can be used as a preventive tool for individuals who have been affected from birth by unintegrated reflex patterns and birth stress and trauma.
Analyse how to support the infant's brain development during pregnancy through the first year of life.
Explain how neurosensorimotor reflex integration provides a preventive tool for both mother and infant, who may have been impacted by reflexes effected by stress during pregnancy, birth and the first year of life.
Describe how to create and apply an individual MNRI® program for mothers and infants with various challenges.
10. Describe the process in which an intronaut learns and trains itself for all reflexes which leads to further self-training for birth during the last two weeks before delivery.
Analyse information and techniques to support the intronaut, newborn, and infant's successful reflex development.
Describe specific milestone stages and why they are classified into three categories: motor development, language development, and social/emotional development.
Explain how additional milestones, such as sensory-motor integration and reflex maturation, are important for the infant's health, well-being, growth and development.
Describe how the course specific exercises for pregnant women improves the growth and development of the intronaut, as well, as it's mother.
15. Under supervised practice, demonstrate the modified reflexes exercises for pregnant women.
Describe how the course specific exercises for pregnant women improves the birth process and delivery of the infant and over-all wellbeing of the mother.
Demonstrate the modified reflex exercises to assist in the birth and delivery for the infant and mother under supervised practice.
Describe how the course specific exercises for the newborn infant during the first 10 days of life offer a strong foundation for overall growth and development as well as life-long reflexes.
Describe how the course specific exercises for the mother of a newborn infant (first 10 days of life) offer a quicker and less stressful recovery from the trauma delivery.
Demonstrate the modified reflex exercises for the new born infant during the first 10 days of life under supervised practice.
Demonstrate the modified reflex exercises for the mother to assist in a quicker and less stressful recovery from the trauma delivery, under supervised practice.
Describe the impact of the following exercises will improve growth, development and resilience for an infant during the first year of life: Hand/Arm Reflex Patterns, Foot and Leg Reflex Patterns, Post-birth and HPA Stress-Axis patterns, Emotional Stability and Development Reflex Patterns, Oral-Facial and Visual-Auditory Reflex Patterns, Cognitive Activity Reflex Patterns, and Traveling Reflex Patterns.
Demonstrate the modified reflex exercises for Hand/Arm Reflex Patterns, Foot and Leg Reflex Patterns, Post-birth and HPA Stress-Axis patterns, Emotional Stability and Development Reflex Patterns, Oral-Facial and Visual-Auditory Reflex Patterns, Cognitive Activity Reflex Patterns, and Traveling Reflex Patterns.
Describe, evaluate and develop strategies to incorporate the use of the MNRI Intronaut and Infant Reflex Integration course content into daily client and home practice.
Hours 8: Review and develop strategies to use in daily and home practice.


Ramblings from My Journey as a Business Owning Techie Mom: Holiday 2010 Kid Tech Picks!
Holiday 2010 Kid Tech Picks!
You can build an actual computer that is child friendly by purchasing a standard machine, the myPC Stage I Keyboard™ (http://www.mytechstart.com/), and a nice sized monitor.
The machine should be web enabled, have a fast processor and great graphics capability. The younger child will likely be utilizing child software and be on the web- so it will be a good idea to install a program on the machine that will allow you to monitor and/or restrict their usage. There are plenty of programs like this on the market, but one of the best known is Net Nanny (http://www.netnanny.com/ ~$40). You can also create a custom desktop at kidscomputers.com.
2) Disney's Netpal is a parents best choice for the older child (ages 6+)- and it has the parental control features built in (http://www.disneystore.com/computers-electronics-disney-netpal-by-asus-netbook-computer-princess-pink/mp/1250080/1000237/)- it retails for ~$350. You can also create a custom desktop at kidscomputers.com.
3) Fisher Price released their Computer Cool School Keyboard (http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=10&e=ccslanding) in 2009, that actually plugs into your computer and comes with a software program that allows the child to learn and play without concern of them leaving the program- for this, you will have to purchase additional titles for them to continue playing in the Cool School environment.
NOTE: There are plenty of "laptops" for kids that are purely toys- with small dot matrix screens and set content. My child bores with these easily. There is so much free, educational content online now- and they want to do what mommy and daddy are doing!
4) iPhones and iPads are also kid grabbers- there are THOUSANDS of applications for kids. However, this is a pricey and slightly non-child friendly investment overall. Fisher Price, Leapfrog and VTech have all produced toy "handhelds" for children- but they have a short half-life as the child quickly realizes that it really is not like their parents'.
5) vTech has come out with a really great eReader this year, called the V-reader, it is perfect for new readers and is just similar enough to mom's Kindle that they will hold on to it. I would definitely call this a hot tech pick for kids this year.


Federico Giacone is a master student in industrial management at KTH originally from Turin, Italy. He took the master level course "Challenges for emerging cities" last spring at Openlab. The course is an interdisciplinary university course, a 15 credits advanced level project course based on challenge driven innovation. During the semester he together with his team worked with Reality Lab at Stureby nursing home to improve the meal experience for elderly people. A complex and challenging task.
In the course the teams learn to use the method and mindset of design thinking in order to develop solutions and innovation to a given societal challenge from one of Openlabs' external public sector partners.
With a background in production engineering Federico is used to focus on optimising processes and maximising profit. Working with challenge driven and user centered projects was unfamiliar to Federico when he started Openlab's master's course in 2018.
– I like the optimization side and the human side as well. Working with design thinking allows you to combine both. I believe in creating something that is not only optimized from an engineering point of view but which is also user friendly.
By observing the people at the nursing home their needs, actions and challenges became more clear. Important in human centered design is to work based not on assumptions but on insights about the needs of real people.
– The challenge we worked with in the course was to improve the meal experience at the nursing home Stureby for people with dementia. In the beginning it was absolutely confusing. I had no idea what or why we were doing this. Mainly because I had never been working with this target group before, elderly people and also the design thinking process was new to me. But then it became a lot clearer that it was Reality Lab at Stureby nursing home who was our challenge givers as they played a more active role in the process and as we followed the method.
The team found a correlation between where you dine and your appetite and mood. After building and testing a few of prototypes, some better than others, they came up with the concept called "the Dinner Dome". A digital immersive environment where people can have their meals. The walls of the room would screen videos of a forest, a beach or some other calming nature setting.
– What was the most surprising discovery for me in the empathize stage was the amount of work for the staff at the nursing home. How complex it might be for people with dementia to do the most simple things. It was my first winter in Sweden and it was frozen everywhere so the idea of creating a virtual environment for people who can't really go places was appealing.
The challenge with the project was the complexity of the problem – what is it you can actually do? It was such a broad problem. At the end it was hard not to become too emotional with the ideas the team had.
– We had to discharge ideas and iterate in the process many times. When you work on something for a long time you start to develop feelings towards the thing you are working on.
After the course at Openlab, Federico has been able to make use of this design thinking skills in other projects.
– I used design thinking in a consultancy project last semester when we were exploring how human decision making is working in a data-driven organization. We didn't know anything about human behavior or how an organization integrate data and artificial intelligence with human decisions. Going through the iterative design thinking process made us take decisions we otherwise wouldn't have. For example we ended up researching the media industry.
Do you want to work with challenge driven design and learn design thinking? The application for the course is now open at antagning.se. Read more about the course here.


As is our tradition every year we have chosen a method, or in this case a set of methods, that have experienced rapid growth in the last years. This year's choice of epitranscriptome analysis does not comprise a single technique but is based on advances in detecting, enriching and profiling base modifications on all RNA species.
Some of these modifications are abundant and have known functions, others are rare and their role is still obscure. We believe recent methodological advances, as detailed in a Review by Chengqi Yi and colleagues, lay the groundwork for a comprehensive profiling of some of these marks that will shed light on their role in the cell.
Our selection of methods to watch highlights areas we think will experience growth in the coming year and be influential in biological research: from global metabolomics, to RNA-targeting CRISPR, to elucidating single cell function and faster brain imaging. We do not claim to provide a comprehensive list and our choices may be biased by our fields of interest. We do hope you enjoy reading this feature and if you disagree with us, or if you think we have overlooked an important area, please let us know.


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BioCAS 2018
Final Author Instructions
Call for Live Demonstrations
Final Program PDF
Utkan Demirci, Stanford University School of Medicine
Mehran Mehregany, Case Western Reserve University
Andrew DeHennis, Senseonics, Incorporated
Soumyajit Mandal, Case Western Reserve University
Tutorial Speakers
Tobi Delbruck, ETH Zurich
Ana Claudia Arias, University of California–Berkeley
Arjang Hassibi, InSilixa
Jerald Yoo, National University of Singapore
Exhibitors/Patrons
Exhibitor & Patron Opportunities
Travel & Venue
Venue and Accommodations
Fees & Details
Visas and Invitation Letters
BioCAS 2018 Student Travel Grants
CASS Student Travel Awards
BioCAS 2018 Student Travel Award Winners
NeuroCAS
NeuroCAS - Organizing Committee
NeuroCAS - Call for Participation
NeuroCAS - Call for Posters
NeuroCAS - Agenda Outline
Semiconductor-Integrated Biosensing: The Good, The Bad, and The Hype
Arjang Hassibi, Ph.D.
CEO and Founder InSilixa
Arjang Hassibi (M'99–SM'12) is the CEO and Founder of InSilixa, a startup company in Sunnyvale, CA, which is developing the first generation of fully integrated CMOS biochips for DNA testing. Arjang's area of expertise is at the intersection of electrical engineering and biotechnology, specifically the use of high-performance analog and mixed-signal IC design for biosensing in applications such as DNA sequencing and molecular diagnostics. Prior to starting InSilixa, he was a faculty member at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology of The University of Texas at Austin. He also has held various R&D positions in both industry and academia, including Stanford Genome Technology Center, IBM Research at Yorktown, and Xagros Genomics, a startup company that he co-founded in 2001. Most recently, he was the Healthcare Thrust Lead at Silicon Research Corporation (SRC). Arjang received his B.Sc. with the highest honors from the University of Tehran, Iran, and both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering. He attended Caltech for his postdoctoral training. He has more than 100 technical publications and patents.
In the past two decades, there have been multiple attempts to leverage IC technologies, particularly VLSI fabrication processes, to develop integrated and miniaturized biosensing devices. The motivation has been to create technologies to enable cost-effective, easy-to-use, robust, and mass-deployable molecular analyzers for point-of-care diagnostics, high-throughput screening, and life-science research. However, the results have been mixed and many unexpected technical challenges mitigated the anticipated growth of this field. In this tutorial, I will discuss the reasons behind this, while providing a historical perspective and a review of the state-of-the-art integrated biosensors and biochips in the field.
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...or "Thou shalt not hard-code any output messages in Java code".
Localized messages shown to the user. If you have a class with (...public static final...) strings containing different messages sent to the user, you might be proud of having all UI-specific labels in one place. Wrong! Changing messages require recompilation, as well as adding new translations (another classes?) Also all this strings are constantly present in the memory (PermGen space), being referenced by the class.
Contents of exception messages. This is part of a bigger problem of error handling: pass exception to the user interface and display original error message or create some sophisticated exception-translation mechanism? But if your user interface is not in English, would you throw an exception with localized message?
Printing HTML directly from a Servlet. Never do this! If you are unlucky and working directly with servlets, at least use request attributes and redirect from servlet to JSP. Using string concatenation and producing markup in Java code looks terrible and is very inefficient.
Producing other types of content (reports, XML, e-mail) similar to the servlet way mentioned above: by using string concatenations, typically in loops with many conditions.
Complicated SQL queries and even whole procedures. If the SQL query is parameterized (almost always), programmers tend to produce the query using string concatenation, also making their application vulnerable to SQL injection. In this scenario use named parameters or iBATIS.
To make our case study code a bit better we are going to implement e-mail sending functionality example without hard-coding e-mail contents in Java sources. Actually, contents are going to be stored in the database as a FreeMarker templates, giving users flexibility of FreeMarker markup and ability to change the form of e-mail in any time (by issuing database update).
Unfortunately (and as expected) FreeMarker has only few built-in mechanisms for loading templates (e.g. directly from the file system). But, also as expected, this mechanism can be easily (?) extended. The question mark is not here because of the complexity of this process, but very poor design of FreeMarker template loading API (see discussion at the end of this article).
In order to make FreeMarker read templates from any source, one must implement TemplateLoader interface. Before we take a look at it, another abstraction must be taken into account: TemplateCache. It seems like loading and compiling templates takes significant amount of time for FreeMarker, so it lazy-loads and caches templates. Of course if the template has changed, FreeMarker must be able to discover it and invalidate the cache. Now we are finally ready to take a look at TemplateLoader interface and understand how it works, do we?
Is it obvious to you what all the methods do? And why getLastModified() does not declare IOException like other methods?
findTemplateSource() returns some object (name suggests it is template source). All other methods are taking templateSource as an argument. I had to study few built-in implementations to finally discover how it works. When implementing custom template loader, findTemplateSource() should return something that denotes source of a specific template given by name. This something (literally any Object instance) is then used by FreeMarker as a key in its cache, where value is the template itself (Template instance). If the value denoted by this key is not found, FreeMarker asks TemplateLoader again to read template contents via getReader(). If template is already found in cache, FreeMarker will just check whether the template has not been modified in the meantime (using getLastModified()) and re-read template if necessary.
Getters/setters, as always, omitted – if only I used Groovy, I would never have to write this clause again.
I use pre-persist and pre-update hooks to automatically update lastModified field. This is very convenient and one of the very few use cases for these methods – they don't have access to the EntityManager, so, sadly, no audit/trigger functionality can be achieved in plain JPA.
Well, everything is working, but the purpose of this article was not to help you with developing custom template loader for FreeMarker (although I hope it helped). My goal was to show you some epic code smell introduced by FreeMarker developers designing TemplateLoader contract.
TemplateLoader might return any object it likes. The FreeMarker framework does not know anything about the true nature of this object (whether it is File, URL, or your JPA entity instance). So in order to extract some information from the template source, FreeMarker passes this returned object back to the loader and basically says: "OK, you have returned this previously. Could you please tell me what is the last modification time of this". And then: "Nice, so could you please load the template using this somehow". Wouldn't it be better to call this returned object itself instead of asking third actor (TemplateLoader)? The object should be able to performs tasks that correspond to its state and make decisions on its own.
Whenever you see plain Object in the source code, you are almost always missing some abstraction. Whenever instanceof operator is used (God forbids!), probably polymorphism should have been introduced. Don't be afraid of refactoring and do not hesitate to use interfaces. Otherwise you will end up with "map programming" - where each method takes a map and returns a map and every map can nest other maps. Surely, the flexibility is unbelievable, no classes, no interfaces... and nobody who would ever be able to maintain such "flexible" code.
Hi, try eagerly loading an entity by name from the database rather than refreshing it. Seems like the entity is detached and hence cannot be refreshed.
Yes! Entity is detached. Refresh method works for you?
If so, the problem is in my configuration.
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9 Be diligent to come to me quickly; 10 for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica--Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia. 11 Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for ministry. 12 And Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. 13 Bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas when you come--and the books, especially the parchments. 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm. May the Lord repay him according to his works. 15 You also must beware of him, for he has greatly resisted our words. 16 At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. May it not be charged against them. 17 But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the message might be preached fully through me, and that all the Gentiles might hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. 18 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen! 19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. 20 Erastus stayed in Corinth, but Trophimus I have left in Miletus sick.21 Do your utmost to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, as well as Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brethren. 22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
I'd never quite noticed how many names Paul mentioned in his letters, especially this letter. This was among the last things Paul ever wrote. Here Paul is at the end of his life and he is reflecting on the lives that he has touched and those that touched him. He is handing responsibility to Timothy for those he cared for by giving status and whereabouts for each. If the most important things people say are what they say at the end of life reflecting back on a life of triumphs and defeats, Paul here is showing us how much people matter.
It's not so much about the buildings you build, the empires you created, the art you painted, the stories you wrote, the businesses you ran, the things you invented... It's about the people you affected. More specifically it's about the people you affected for eternity. Mankind has had many great minds that deeply affected the lives of many around them and some that didn't even know they were being affected by them, but made no eternally significant impact.
What I do only matters in regards to who I affect and how I affect them. May I always remember to love my family and care for their needs as more important than my business ventures. May I remember that the people I sell to need the Spirit inside me more than they need my empty words and temporal products. May I enrich the lives of all those who I come in contact with.
Father, you have birthed inside of me YOUR HEART... help me exercise it like a muscle and grow in my capacity to use LOVE as a tool for great impact on the world around me.
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Steve first started Jiu-Jitsu at the age of 9 with South Pacific Jiu Jitsu Society in Auckland under the late Laurie Olliver (7th Dan Black Belt). He returned at age 18 under the instruction of the late Jack Bailey (5th Dan) and Terry Evans (5th Dan). Steve actively competed and won several Gold and Silver New Zealand titles. In 1987, Steve an orange belt at the time, fought against a black belt and won Gold in the Australia & New Zealand NZJJA under 65kg Title in Australia.
Steve understood early on that you must train both grappling and stand up so he embarked on journey as a student of JKD under Philip Lee and Wing Tsun Kung Fu under Sifu Peter Yu.
Steve then returned to the 'Gentle Art' and has been training with Matt O'Dea since 2008. Juggling a young family and business, Steve obtained his Blue Belt under Steve Oliver (3rd Dan) from Oliver MMA in 2013. Steve helped and ran the kids BJJ class at Oliver MMA North Shore before moving to Coast Academy BJJ with Matt.
In 2016, under Pedro Fernandes (3rd Dan) from Tu Kaha Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Steve obtained his Purple Belt. Steve is heavily involved in Coast Academy and offers support and coaching, his sons also train with him.
Steve also is a Level One Referee and regularly ref's at Gi and No Gi NZ Grappler Competitions.


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When a new puppy arrives in the house, it's an exciting time for everyone. In order for the homecoming to proceed as smoothly as possible, it's a good idea to spend a little bit of time in preparation.
One of the major challenges of dog ownership (particularly for first-time owners) is the issue of house training. If you equip yourself with some rudimentary knowledge and a positive attitude, it's a lot easier than most people make it out to be.
As soon as you bring the puppy home, take her outside. The excitement of the car journey coupled with the unfamiliar faces, sights, and sounds will have her needing to go anyway – and if you can orchestrate her first toilet break so that it occurs outside, instead of inside, then so much the better. And not just from the perspective of short-term hygiene, either – the more your puppy relieves herself inside, the more likely she is to do it again.
Puppy homecoming is a great opportunity for you to set a precedent for toilet behavior!
Take her to your designated toilet area, and put her down on the grass.
Wait while she sniffs around – refrain from petting her or playing with her just yet, because you don't want her to forge an association between this area and games. She has to learn that this part of the yard is for toilet breaks only.
When she's done, make a big fuss over her: shower her in praise and affection.
You can also give her a little treat but its really not necessary. Most puppies will be just as happy and appreciate your love and praise! Treats can also set a precedent where they begin to expect it and smart ones may even scratch at the door just for the treat. I say treats are a great tool that can be used if your having trouble with potty training but IF simple love and praise is working.. then go with that only!!
When you take her inside the house, the house training regime you've decided upon should start immediately.
As far as house training goes, crate training is generally accepted to be the most effective and efficient means of house training a puppy in a short space of time.
Crate-training is essentially the use of a small indoor kennel (the crate) to confine your young puppy when you're not actively supervising her.
This is why it's important that the crate is sized properly: if it's too big, she'll be able to use one end as a bed and one end as a toilet, which defeats the whole purpose!
How do I choose a crate?
Because the adult dog is likely to be considerably larger than the puppy, it'll most likely be necessary for you to use a barrier or divider to reduce the internal size of the crate. Most wire crates come with a wire divider you can use. If not or if you have a plastic crate you can use a small box in the back of the crate.
Alternatively, you can use a cheap crate (or even make one yourself) and replace it with a larger model as your puppy grows.
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You'll need to be consistent, or else it won't work: you can't let your puppy wander off through the house unless you're focusing your complete attention on her.
This is just an example, you have your own life schedule so the exact times can obviously be adjusted.
Crate training generally takes about 2 weeks (depending on the breed of your dog and how much time you spend on the training process.) As the puppy grows older, you can begin to reduce the amount of time spent in the crate – but beware of doing this too soon!
– Your puppy probably won't be too happy to go in the crate the first couple of times she uses it. She wants to be outside, being showered with affection and attention, and hanging out with you (of course!) But it really is for her own good – in a surprisingly short time, she'll come to accept the crate as her own personal haven where she can go to relax and get a couple hours' uninterrupted sleep. It's important to persevere: do not respond to any whining or crying.
– The best place for the crate to be is the hub of the household: usually the den or the kitchen, anywhere where people tend to congregate. Just because she's in the crate doesn't mean she can't still feel like part of the household; it's important for her not to feel isolated or excluded.
– Puppies' bladders and bowels are so small and weak that they have only a very small window of opportunity between knowing that they need to go, and having that need become an immediate reality. Because of this, it's imperative that you take her outside as soon as she wakes up (she'll let you know she needs to go out by pawing the door and whining), and within ten minutes of eating or playing.
– Behaviors that indicate she needs to go outside include sniffing the ground and circling. Again, because she's only little, she won't exhibit these warning signs for very long – so as soon as she starts, take her out straight away. Better an unnecessary trip to the yard than an unnecessary wet patch (or pile) on the carpet!
– The maximum amount of time that a puppy can be crated at one time is figured out using the following equation: her age in months, plus one. So, a three-month old puppy can be crated for a maximum of four hours. However, this is likely to be physically pretty uncomfortable for her (not to mention hard on her emotionally and psychologically: it's tough being cramped up with nothing to do), so you should really take her out at least once every two hours during the day. If she's sleeping, of course, just let her sleep until she wakes up naturally.
Security – When dogs are comfortable in their crates, they often retreat to them all on their own for naps and even for brief respites from activities in the home. A crate can give a dog a sense of having its own safe space.
Home protection – Puppies and even older dogs can wreak havoc on a home when they are left unattended. A goldendoodle that is successfully crate trained will not cause problems in the home while you are away.
Potty training – Dogs and even puppies will try very hard not to eliminate where they sleep and rest. As a result, crate training can help immensely with house breaking.
Getting started with crate training is often suggested in the puppy stage, but older dogs can get the swing of it. In either case, the prospect will require careful selection of the right crate and a careful step-by-step process for training.
For a more indepth look at house training, as well as a great deal of useful information on canine behavioral problems and the most effective training techniques, check out The Ultimate House Training Guide. It's the complete dog-house-training guide..


Wouldn't you just love to add a new post to your blog, and then wake up the next morning to five-figure viewing stats? Well, we all would love that, but the truth is not all of us are aware of the best ways of how to make a post go viral.
A viral post takes time and effort, and creating viral content is not a matter of chance.
So when is a post considered viral? A viral post is something that has been copied, shared and spread across all social platforms and blogs, and has become a trend in its own niche.
Usually, a post that gets at least a million unique views within a week is considered to have gone viral.
While there is no magic formula to make your blog post go viral, here are some awesome tips that can help you give your post just what it needs.
Before you get started on your blog post, consider the theme on which you plan to write.
Your post should be viral worthy, meaning that it should have the entire basis needed to go viral.
For this, it should be of high quality content or something that people can relate to. It should also be something that could become a possible trend.
So before you get started on writing your blog, consider your prospective audience and come up with a theme that will make people interested in knowing more.
If you're tempted to test the waters to try your skills at promoting a topic that no one has any interest in, don't take the risk unless you're willing to wait for results.
"You'll never believe what…" or "5 tips you never knew" or "She tried this and …"?
Well, if you have, then you've most likely gone ahead and read the post because your curiosity was piqued.
Well, this is the foundation of a viral post. While it may seem sneaky to some, smart and catchy headlines can get your post further than you may think. And of course, don't forget to keyword optimize your content.
After all, your post going viral depends not just on people sharing it, but also on search engines picking it up and suggesting it to a fresh audience.
A viral blog post always starts off with proper promotion. After all, it will be of no use if you were to sit back and expect nature to take its course and for the millions of internet users out there to magically realize that you have a viral worthy post up for the viewing!
So be proactive and promote your blog post. And don't just rely on posting it on social media like Facebook and expect miracles to happen.
Every post just has a limited life, irrespective of whether you've posted it to Facebook or any other social media platform.
Promoting your post therefore goes hand in hand with SEO and more traditional methods, so here is one that has been successful.
The people who pay the most attention to what you say are your contacts. So harness the potential of your contacts to make your posts go viral.
Spend a couple of minutes to extract a list of your contacts who you are sure will read your message.
Draft a brief e-mail about your post (without including too many details) and send it across.
Apart from the fact that your contacts will almost surely ready your post, they are more likely to share it with others too, since it is from a source they know personally.
At times, all you need is a single e-mail to give your blog post the momentum it needs, and before you know it, it will have wide visibility.
So take your time and make sure that you create an amazing post that you will be proud of when it is shared.
Writing an interview blog post has higher chances of it going viral than a regular blog post.
Think about this – imagine you're interviewing a professional who is well known in your niche.
You've already got an entire community that looks up to him or her, and added to that, you have an exclusive interview with that person.
Can you see where this is going? Almost everyone in that community or niche will be sharing the interview like crazy! Besides, the person you interview has his or her own massive fan following.
When you share an interview that is meaningful, he or she will also share the interview amongst the fans, and before long, your post has gone viral all over the place!
No one is really going to share your post if you don't make it easy for them to do so.
It doesn't help if your readers love your post but have to go about the old fashioned route to tell others about it.
If you'd like them to leave a comment or share your post on social media, make it easy for them to do this, and don't be shy to ask them to share.
Keep your call to action clear and have obvious sharing buttons strategically located all over your posts.
Depending on the tools and CMS you use, there are many social media sharing plugins that you can use, even if you're not a technical expert or have experience in coding.
Keep your call to action exciting, and put your personal spin on it so that it motivates readers to want to share it.
Although a viral blog post does not have a magical formula to it, you can make your blog posts go viral by ensuring that you post quality content that people will want to read.
Irrespective of whether you're posting your content in blog communities or on social media, be sure to create a catchy title, write compelling content and share it to the right audience.
This will ensure that your blog post goes viral sooner than you think!


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Mazda increased engagement 200% with immersive website
Adapting to new behavior for car purchases
Increasingly, customers are buying and researching cars online. Mazda recently decided that its website for the North American market was not sufficiently helping customers research and select the right car.
"The customer experience has grown in importance," says Ben Rounsefell, Sr. Manager, Digital, Customer Engagement at Mazda. "The level of detail required to configure and find a product is an expectation on any modern vehicle website. Before our digital transformation, the site we had was very hard to maintain. We missed a lot of opportunities to grow with industry trends."
A user-friendly platform for global and local experiences
To solve this problem, Mazda contacted its creative partner, The Garage Team Mazda, and global digital agency Mirum to begin developing a new site. At the center of the new site was the Episerver platform.
"We knew that Episerver was a pretty strong product from experience overseas," says Rounsefell. "Anything we do from a local point of view should be shareable globally. Episerver allows that flexibility."
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Episerver's cloud offering
New tools for a better customer journey
With the new site, Mazda shoppers can now easily research and select a vehicle with fewer clicks, and for the first time from mobile devices. The content is relevant and up to date, including reference materials for current owners.
"Our results were impressive," Rounsefell says. "We have much higher engagement, smooth navigation, and new features around locating a dealer from a proximity point of view that we hadn't had before."
In the first two months after the site was launched, it had almost five million unique visitors and a 200 percent improvement in engagement.
"We went from an online brochure to a mobile-driven, data-driven immersive platform," Rounsefell says. "If I was being asked to recommend Episerver, I wouldn't have a hesitation. The technology backing the project was flawless."
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David Shaughnessy of Arrunga Surface Solutions has been named a winner at the 2012 HIA-Stratco Trade Contractor Awards for workmanship and skill as a flooring contractor.
The industry came together to celebrate and acknowledge the stupendous workmanship of the Trade Contractors who were nominated by the winners of the 2012 Housing and Kitchen & Bathroom Awards. Hosted by Mix102.3 "Snowy" Carter the awards were announced before a crowd of around 240 apprentices, hosts, trade contractors, builders and manufacturers and suppliers from across South Australia.
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Buchenwald survivors Alexander Bytschok, left, from Ukraine and Andrej Moiseenko from Belarus walk through the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald during celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany Saturday, April 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
In this Friday, April 10, 2015 photo Henry Oster, right, survivor of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald reacts as he visits the memorial of the camp's Jewish victims on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp in Weimar, eastern Germany. Henry Oster was seventeen years old when he was liberated by the United States Army in Buchenwald on April 11, 1945. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Luther Battiste honored with John Richard Craft Leadership Award
Columbia, S.C. – The Columbia Museum of Art is proud to have presented the 2018 John Richard Craft Leadership Award to Luther J. Battiste III. A community leader, philanthropist, and public servant, Battiste epitomizes the values the CMA recognizes each year with the Craft Award. Executive Director Della Watkins and Board of Trustees President Rachel Hodges presented the award to Battiste at an elegant appreciation dinner celebrating his service on Wednesday, November 14. The Craft Award, named for the CMA's first director, is the highest honor the museum bestows.
"Luther Battiste is a positive force in the life of our community, a person distinguished for his balanced and productive leadership and love of the arts," says Watkins. "He has happily contributed to the museum's growth and continuing success and served with modesty as an example for how to strengthen our shared commitment to culture. It is a privilege to recognize Luther for his outstanding service."
A graduate of the University of South Carolina and Emory University School of Law, Battiste is a founding shareholder of Johnson, Toal & Battiste, P.A. Battiste entered the political arena in 1983 and made history by becoming one of the first two African Americans elected to Columbia City Council since the Reconstruction Era. He served 15 years as a councilmember, including two terms as Mayor Pro Tempore. His many honors include Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of South Carolina, inductee of the South Carolina Black Hall Fame, and the Richland County Bar Association's highest honor, the John W. Williams Award. He has served as a board member of Columbia College and as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Capital City Club.
Through his board service, committee participation, and considerable gifts to the museum, Battiste has been a dedicated member of the CMA for nearly 30 years, which reflects his commitment to supporting a vibrant and enriching culture for South Carolina. Over the years, Battiste has lent his considerable skills and passion to the museum in numerous capacities, including advocating as a councilmember for the museum's move to Main Street in 1998 and serving as president of the board of trustees from 2012 to 2014 and on committees including business, executive, and government relations; he currently serves on the finance committee and is a member of the Taylor Society, Legacy Society, and the Friends of African American Art & Culture membership affiliate group. An avid collector and proponent of African American art, Battiste sponsored the landmark 2015 exhibition REMIX: Themes & Variations in African American Art and loaned work from his personal collection for the 2016 exhibition Spoken: Portraits in Black. He also lent his support to the Think Art! capital campaign, which raised funds for the major CMA transformation project, currently in its final stages.
"To look over a list of Luther's projects and accomplishments is to get a glimpse at what it means to live life to the fullest: He was buying and promoting African American art long before it became a hot commodity; he is a jazz radio DJ; and he has been an avid supporter of local arts institutions, all on top of being a prominent attorney, devoted husband, and involved citizen," says Will South, CMA chief curator. "Luther Battiste clearly isn't waiting for the music to start—he is busy making it."
Image above: CMA Board President Rachel Hodges, John Richard Craft Leadership Award Recipient Luther J. Battiste III, and CMA Executive Director Della Watkins


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The US has reported the most coronavirus cases in the world
A second wave of coronavirus cases in the US could be even worse than the first, the country's top health official has warned.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Robert Redfield said the danger was higher as a fresh outbreak would likely coincide with the flu season.
It would put "unimaginable strain" on the US health care system, he said.
The US has seen more than 800,000 cases – the highest in the world.
More than 45,000 people have so far died with coronavirus across the US, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
California had its highest one-day rise in new cases on Monday while New Jersey, the worst-hit US state apart from New York, saw its highest increase in deaths in one day.
In other developments in the US:
President Trump says he will halt applications for US green cards – which give immigrants legal permanent residence and the opportunity to apply for American citizenship – for 60 days
Harvard University says it will keep an $8.6m-coronavirus grant despite pressure from President Trump to return it
California's first cases of coronavirus occurred much earlier than previously thought, health officials have confirmed. A post-mortem examination has revealed that a person who died at home on 6 February in Santa Clara county is now the first known fatality in the US. Until now, the first fatality was thought to have been a man in Washington state who died on 26 February
The US Senate has unanimously approved $484bn (£392bn) in coronavirus relief, including funds designed to help small businesses. The legislation will go to the House of Representatives for approval on Thursday
In an interview with the Washington Post, Mr Redfield said that "there's a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through".
He urged officials in the US to prepare for the possibility of having to confront a flu and a coronavirus epidemic at the same time.
'Really, really difficult'
Mr Redfield stressed the importance of getting flu shots. He said that getting vaccinated "may allow there to be a hospital bed available for your mother or grandmother that may get coronavirus".
The CDC chief said that coronavirus had arrived in the US as the regular flu season was subsiding. He argued that if it had arrived at the peak of the winter influenza season, "it could have been been really, really, really, really difficult".
His warning comes as several US states are moving to ease lockdown restrictions.
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Mr Redfield said that social distancing remained key to curb the spread of the virus and urged officials to keep stressing its importance even as restrictions on movement were lifted.
He said recent anti-lockdown protests were "not helpful".
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He urged state and federal officials to step up tests to identify those who have coronavirus and the people they have had contact.
He said that the Centers for Disease Control planned to hire more than 650 people – more than doubling its current staff – to help with contact tracing among other things.
The CDC was also exploring the possibility of using Census Bureau workers to help with contact tracing he said.
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Architecture is a fundamental part of our history and culture and represents one of the main forms of expression in daily life and advanced civillizations. Architecture is an indispensible intellectual, cultural, artistic and professional asset. As such, the study programmes offered at the Faculty of Architecture form a bridge between art and science.
In 2004, thirty-five years after an architecture study programme was first created at the University of Innsbruck, an independent Faculty of Architecture was founded. Today it comprises four Institutes: the Institute of Architectural Theory and Building History, the Institute of Design, the Institute for Experimental Architecture and the Institute of Urban Design and Regional Planning. As well as its teaching and research work, the faculty also fulfills an important advisory function for local councils and businesses. Partnerships exist with a number of renowned universities, including the RMIT in Melbourne, the ITESM in Mexico, the Bartlett School in London and the University of Texas at Arlington.
Teachers at the Faculty of Architecture are experts in their field. Both students and professors enjoy success in architecture competitions, while the core teaching staff is complemented by numerous international lecturers and guest professors.
The infrastructure available also meets international standards and includes the very latest hardware and software. The Faculty's drawing rooms, for example, are designed to offer the best possible conditions and to encourage students to share ideas and work together. Run by professional model makers, the on-site modelling workshop enables budding architects to create scaled-down versions of their designs using wood, plastic and metal, while the libraries offer access to the latest publications on architecture and other disciplines from around the world and in a range of languages.
Its relevance to everyday life and strong capacity for innovation have made biology one of the leading scientific fields of the 21st century. It plays a key role bridging the gap to other agricultural sciences as well as medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, physics, biotechnology, social sciences and information technology. This diversity is one of the declared aims of the Faculty of Biology. The structures, interactions and processes in microorganisms, plants and animals are analysed at every level, from subcellular and molecular structures through to cells, organisms, ecosystems, landscapes and societies.
The University of Innsbruck's location means that the Faculty of Biology looks closely at many aspects of the Alpine habitat, primarily as part of the research platform Alpine Space – Man and Environment. Another of the Faculty's areas of focus is the Center for Molecular Bioscience Innsbruck. Much of the research work carried out is multi-, inter- or transdiscipline, a fact reflected in the strong networks that have been developed with other research projects such as Ecology of the Alpine Region, Environmental Research and Biotechnology and the Mountain Agriculture Research Unit. This interdisciplinary approach also extends to partnerships with other Faculties and institutions at the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck Medical University and many research facilities in Austria and abroad. One of our Faculty's main strengths is its combination of fundamental research and application-oriented research.
The Faculty's Institutes offer a bachelor's programme in Biology, a secondary school teacher training accreditation programme for Biology and Environmental Protection, master's programmes in Botany, Microbiology, Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, Ecology and Biodiversity and Zoology as well as a PhD programme in Biology.
Against the backdrop of increasing specialisation in the fields of biology, we believe that our bachelor's programme and secondary school teacher training accreditation programme should offer a general introduction to life sciences, while our five master's programmes and one PhD programme give students the chance to deepen their knowledge in a specific area through research-driven teaching.
The Faculty of Business and Management has a strong reputation throughout Europe as a research-driven institution for management training. It comprises five Departments – the Department of Banking and Finance; the Department of Organisation and Learning; the Department of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation; the Department of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism; and the Department of Information Systems, Production and Logistics Management – as well as the Business Languages Unit. Our research profile is shaped by our four research centres – Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, Financial Markets and Risk, Organization Studies, and Strategic Leadership, Branding, Innovation – and the research group Services Sciences and Knowledge-Intensive Organizations. On top of that, the Faculty is the driving force behind the inter-faculty research platform Organisations and Society.
The range of study programmes on offer is unique in Austria. Students can choose from the bachelor's programme in Management and Economics, the diploma programme in International Economics and Business Studies, six master's programmes and the PhD programme in Management. All of the study programmes offered at the Faculty of Business and Management are run in close collaboration with its research centres and research groups, which in turn shape the Faculty's research-driven teaching. Creative and innovative thinking is encouraged, with students receiving training in reflection and judgement skills designed to promote responsible management behaviour. Graduates can look forward to career opporunities with highly renowned companies and organisations at a national, European and global level.
State-of-the-art teaching and research facilities are provided, including wireless internet, a large and modern library with extended opening hours in the evenings and at weekends, and areas to meet up, chat and study together.
Around 700 students study at the Faculty of Catholic Theology, which is one of the University of Innsbruck's flagship Faculties for teaching and research and has been a pillar of the academic community since the university was first founded.
"Religion – topic of the future!" Driven by this motto, the Faculty of Catholic Theology shapes its research to meet the need in society for guidance, religious dialogue and a strengthening of religion's role in sociey. Instead of excluding the church from this research, a conscious effort is made to involve the church in the work carried out at the Faculty. The study programmes on offer range from philosophical and theological programmes to high-quality PhDs leading to qualifications recognised by the church.
The Faculty also plays an active role in intrafaculty research and teaching cooperation. The philosophy courses available in Innsbruck are almost unique in the German-speaking world, primarily thanks to their broad philosophical education and critical reflection on the Christian view of the world.
Students at the Faculty of Catholic Theology enjoy state-of-the-art facilities and modern libraries. The student-friendly atmosphere and excellent ratio of students to lecturers make it possible to complete an internationally recognised study programme in a short space of time.
The Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy covers two dynamic, molecule-oriented sciences that are closely linked in terms of both content and methodology. It carried out interdisciplinary, chemical and pharmaceutical research in the fields of life sciences (natural and active substances, biomacromolecules), material science and nanoscience at the very highest international level. Such research also forms an important foundation for the work conducted at the Center for Molecular Biosciences (CMBI) and in the Advanced Materials research group. The Faculty is divided into seven Institutes, each of which has strong links to a number of research networks.
In 2011/2012 the Faculty moved to its new home, the Centre for Chemistry and Biomedicine (Innrain 80/82). This brand new building forms a meeting point for natural sciences researchers from the University of Innsbruck and research groups based at Innsbruck Medical University, offering lecturers and students alike the conditions and facilities necessary to achieve excellence in teaching and research.
Natural sciences are booming. With its excellent body of teaching staff and researchers, the University of Innsbruck offers clear advantages over other educational institutions.
Department of Economic Theory, Economic Policy and Economic History.
It boasts a strong international research network, focussing in particular on global economic relations, experimental economics and applied game theory. Further areas of research include environmental and regional economics as well as economic and social history.
The Faculty's research teams are characterised by a high level of external funding, mutual appreciation and an open working climate.
The staff's expertise and methodological competence are reflected in the range of study programmes available. As well its bachelor's programme in Management and Economics, master's programme in Applied Economics and a PhD programme in Economics, the Faculty also plays a leading role in the diploma programme International Economic and Business Studies. Methodological and problem-solving skills lie at the heart of all of these study programmes.
Bachelor's students receive a broad basic training in economic sciences and have the option of specialising in either economics or business studies. Those with a keen interest in economic and social policy can select to study economics, with the master's programme in Applied Economics giving students the chance to choose between a number of research fields.
The Faculty of Educational Sciences consists of two Institutes: Educational Science (EZW) and Psychosocial Intervention and Communications Research (PsyKo). It deals with socially relevant issues concerning education, raising children, communication, learning and socialisation. In addition to bachelor's, master's and doctoral programmes in Educational Sciences, the Faculty offers university and further education courses as well as a number of apprenticeship programmes open to students from all Faculties.
Complementing its individual research projects, the Faculty's research profile is dominated by its membership of the Education-Generation-Curriculum research centre and the Organisations and Society research platform as well as its close links to the Innsbruck Media Studies – Interdisciplnary Research project at the University of Innsbruck. The Faculty also works closely with the Gender Studies Research Platform.
When it comes to linking teaching and research, special importance is given to extending expertise in higher education didactics, especially through the development and testing of new forms of research-based teaching and learning.
Students with an interest in atmospheric sciences (meteorology), geosciences (geology, mineralogy) and geography, as well as those wishing to become teachers of geography and economics, will find a wide range of study programmes at the University of Innsbruck's Faculty of Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences. All three of the newly created bachelor's programmes (Atmosphere Sciences, Geosciences and Geography) share modules with the other two programmes.
The three master's programmes (Geosciences, Geography: Global Change – Regional Sustainability and Atmosphere Sciences) are closely linked to the Faculty's research projects Geogene Dynamics – Geogene Materials and Global Change – Regional Sustainability as well as the Centre for Climate and Cryosphere, meaning that students are introduced to the national and international research community at an early stage, opening up excellent career prospects after graduation, especially for those who have completed a master's programme.
Graduates of the master's programmes can also opt to continue their university training with one of the three PhD programmes offered by the Faculty (Atmospheric Sciences, Geosciences and Geography).
With a total of around 1600 students enrolled at the Faculty of Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences, students enjoy excellent teaching, research and administration. The Faculty's is responsible for a large number of widely respected international publications. As well as the research projects and centres mentioned above, researchers are also active in the interdisciplinary projects Alpine Space – Man and Environment and the research platforms Advanced Materials and Scientific Computing. Through its innovation and high-quality research the Faculty has become an important partner for businesses and public institutions.
The Faculty of Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Innsbruck comprises four Institutes. Each of these Institutes focuses on issues that are of growing importance to the relationship between humans and the environment and, as such, for a sustainable development of our modern society. Thanks to its unique location, research into mountain regions plays a key role in the work of many Faculties at the University of Innsbruck, not least the Faculty of Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences.
Learning languages opens up new worlds, reduces barriers and connects us to other people, countries and cultures. More than ever before, knowledge of foreign languages and cultures are a key professional qualification for young people in today's society.
Humanities look at content, structures, analyses and media in the fields of culture, literature and (non-)verbal communication, as well as their relevance to history, society and the world. Therefore, research work in this field is characterised by a large number of questions and different techniques, including political and societal issues such as contact between cultures, culture transfer, multilingualism and communication processed in literature and the media. These and other questions are dealt with by a number of research groups spanning several Faculties, such as Cultures in Contact, Processes of Literary Dissemination and Cultural Encounters and Transfers.
Law is one of the oldest research and teaching disciplines in the world. At the same time it remains more relevant than ever as an instrument to solve conflicts in society. Particularly in this modern age of globalisation, the legal system finds itself faced with new challenges when it comes to establishing norms and standards.
The Faculty of Law at the University of Innsbruck recognises and reacts to these chalenges, on the one hand by strengthening basic research and its application to new legal problems, and on the other hand by offering a range of studies that does equal justice to the requirements of a classical academic training and to the multifaceted needs of legal practice.
Research work extends to all fields of law covered by the Faculty, especially to coordinated research fields such as European integration, federalism and the field of sport and law.
The choice of study programmes ranges from the traditional diploma programme and doctoral programme in Law to a diploma programme in Business Law, an integrated diploma programme in Law and a PhD programme in Italian Law offered jointly by the universities of Innsbruck and Padua. Through this joint study programme the Faculty also fulfils its central role as an important educational institution in the Tyrol - South Tyrol - Trentino Euroregion. As well as the many study courses designed for students, there is also a wide range of training courses available for qualified legal practitioners.
The Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics comprises three main fields that share many similarities when it comes to both content and methodology. As such, the Faculty acts as an organisatonal framework drawing together a wide range of research and teaching potential.
Excellent, forward-looking research combined with state-of-the-art teaching methods make the Faculty attractive for students and researchers at a national and international level. Research focuses primarily on physics and scientific computing, in particular on quantum physics, astrophysics and particle physics, ion physics and applied physics, information technology and high-performance computing. Thanks to their groundbreaking projects and pioneering work, Innsbruck's researchers in the fields of mathematics, information technology and physics are among the world's best.
The Faculty offers a bachelor's programme, master's programme, secondary school teacher accreditation programme and PhD programme in each of the three fields of mathematics, information technology and physics. Every one of these study programmes is internationally competitive and meets European standards. The Faculty also offers the AstroMundus master's programme culminating in an internationally recognised qualification in astronomy and astrophysics as well as the Doctoral Programme Plus in Computational Interdisciplinary Modelling, which is an excellent stepping stone to a career in the international research community.
The Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics has a team of experienced lecturers and offers spacious computer rooms and laboratories with modern equipment. As well as a solid education in the most important basic knowledge, students also receive the chance to apply this expertise in a practical way. Students enrolled in one of the master's or PhD programmes are invited to work in the Faculty's research teams.
The University of Innsbruck has a long and proud tradition of research in the fields of philosophy and history. Indeed, the Faculty of Philosophy was one of the four original Faculties created when the university was founded in 1669. The subjects taught at the modern-day Faculty of Philosophy and History cover the entire spectrum of human development and its intellectual and cultural contributions, from prehistoric times through to the modern day. Teaching and research work focuses primarily on the pressing issues of the modern day.
Proof of the efficacy of this approach can be seen in the Faculty's success in attracting external sponsors and convincing them of the importance of research projects, resulting in annual financial support running into the millions that can be used to create positions for highly qualified young researchers.
At the same time, the Faculty plays a key role in promoting the new humanities research group Cultural Encounters – Cultural Conflicts (created as a result of the excellent evaluations given to the research platforms Cultural Encounters and Transfers and Politics – Religion – Art. Platform for Conflict and Communication Research) and the research platform Gender Studies: Identities – Discourses – Transformations. Both focus on cutting edge questions and discussions in politics and society, albeit from different perspectives.
Research is, however, by no means exclusively internationally oriented. The Faculty is home to many projects focusing on the local region, including the research centre HIMAT (The History of Mining Activities in the Tyrol and adjacent areas). This and similar projects make an important contribution to improving the understanding of how the Alpine area has developed over the course of the centuries and millennia.
Students and young scientists alike benefit from this strong focus on research work. In 2012 two new interdisciplinary doctoral programmes were created – Arts & Politics and "Figuration 'Gegenkulturen'" – were created to exist alongside the International Graduate School "Political Communication from Ancient Times until the 20th Century", which has been run successfully for many years in cooperation with universities in Germany and Italy. All three of these PhD courses offer students excellent study conditions and facilities.
Teaching and research work at the Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science focuses on physical and mental wellbeing and performance. The main aim is to produce excellent fundamental research that can be applied to everyday situations, an objective pursued as part of the research projects Alpine Sport, Emotion – Cognition – Interaction (EMKONT) and Psychology of Everyday Activity (PsyAll).
Researchers at the Institute of Sports Science work in the fields of biomechanics, sports psychology/education and sports medicine. While their research covers almost all sports, particular emphasis is placed on Alpine sports. Issues addressed include the effects of mountain-based activity on the human organism in healthy and unhealthy states, as well as ways of using scientific approaches to improve equipment and training methods. This research work, which includes intensive cooperation with other Institutes and bodies both within and beyond the University of Innsbruck, plays an integral role in the study programmes available, which include training courses forming part of the secondary school teacher accreditation programme, the bachelor's programmes in Health and Competitive Sports and in Sports Management as well as the master's programmes in Sports and Human Movement Science and the doctoral programme in Sport Science. The on-site Technology Center for Skiing and Alpine Sport plays a key role in coordinating research work, in particular with companies based in Tyrol, while the new Olympic Training Center provides home-grown professional athletes with top-level performance analysis and training tips.
With over 2000 students, the Institute of Psychology is one of the largest at the University of Innsbruck. The Institute has two main fields of research: clinical psychology, with a particular focus on emotion, cognition and Interaction; and work psychology and organisational psychology, where a particular focus lies on the psychology of everyday activity. Both foci combine fundamental research with application-oriented research. For example, the EMKONT research project collaborates with the Austrian Red Cross to further investigate psychology in emergency situations, while the PsyAll research project works with local companies to learn more about human psychology in work and organisation.
The Faculty of Political Science and Sociology is one of the University of Innsbruck's centres of excellence and comprises the Department of Media, Society and Communication, Department of Political Science and the Department of Sociology. It has strong internal and external research networks, including its membership of the Mountain Agriculture Research Unit, the Organisations and Society research platform (see above) and the Gender Studies Research Platform (see above).
With demand for expertise in the field of social sciences growing year on year, a research-driven institution such as the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology has diverse opportunities to raise awareness of its activities and strengthen its profile. It plays an active role in international research projects, producing high-quality publications. At the same time, the Faculty also sees itself as a platform for reflecting from a political and sociological perspective on developments in society, discussing society-relevant discourses and addressing issues related to the future of society. Research focuses on several areas, including European Governance and Civil Society (Faculty-based), Social Theory: Interdisciplinary Principles and the Research Platform Gender Studies: Identities – Discourses – Transformations (inter-faculty research platform).
When it comes to teaching, areas of particular focus include the following: political communication, European integration, comparative studies of political systems and leadership research, security studies, gender studies and social theory, social transformation and globalisation, individual and society, and empirical social research. The Faculty also offers courses in Peace Studies and participates in a number of summer schools with universities in New Orleans (USA), Trento (Italy) and Asia (China, Thailand, Phillipines, Indonesia, Vietnam). Guest professors from abroad are often invited to teach, while the Faculty runs several very popular student exchange programmes with renowned international universities.
Dedicated and well-trained teachers are of vital importance to our younger generation. As such, providing high-quality teacher training driven by research is an important task that brings with it great responsibility.
The Faculty of Teacher Education coordinates and helps design teacher training at the University of Innsbruck. In close cooperation with eight other Faculties, it offers high-quality secondary school teacher accreditation programmes. This teaching activity is complemented by research in the fields of education theory and classroom practice as well as into subject-specific teaching techniques. This close cooperation with the Faculties specialising in the subjects the students are training to teach ensures that they stay up to date with the latest developments in each field and form an important basis for developing teaching methods. Furthermore, the Faculty of Teacher Education looks to cooperate closely with all institutions involved in the training and further education of teachers, in particular the regional education authorities and teacher training colleges.