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Q: Наиболее частый элемент массива Есть задача
Дан массив, состоящий из N целых чисел, упорядоченных по неубыванию.

Определите, какое число встречается в массиве чаще всего.
Выведите одно целое число — наиболее часто встречающийся элемент массива. Если подходящих ответов несколько, выведите максимальный из них.

И вот входные/выходные данные
входные данные
5
1 2 3 4 5
выходные данные
5

входные данные
8
12 25 25 28 31 31 31 96
выходные данные
31

Я написал такой код
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    vector<int> v;

    int n, e;
    cin>> n;
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        cin >> e;
        v.push_back(e);
    }

    int maxcount(1), nn(-1);

    for (int i = 0; i < v.size(); i++)
    {
        int count(0);

        for (int j = i; j < v.size(); j++)

            if (v[i] == v[j])
                count++;

        if (maxcount < count)
        {
            maxcount = count;
            nn = i;

        }
    }

    if (nn > -1){

        cout << v[nn];
    }
    else
        cout << *v.rbegin();

    return 0;
}

Как я могу вывести максимальный элемент, если таких несколько?
P.S.
Как я понял, если нет повторяющихся, то нужно вывести последний элемент)?

A: В условии задачи написано : "Если подходящих ответов несколько, выведите максимальный из них.". Это значит, нужно чуток расписать эту ситуацию так :
int maxcount(0),...
...
if ( maxcount <= count )
{
  maxcount = count;
  nn = i;
}
...
cout << v[nn];

Если количество совпало с максимальным ИЛИ больше, то менять на новое. Так как у вас цикл движется от маленьких значениях до больших, то конкурент всегда больше.
Чтобы была возможность правильно выбирать максимальное число, если в числах встречаются отрицательные нужно поставить начальное значение maxcount = 0


From producer Johnny Knoxville (who I wrote about at length about in this article) comes a new documentary about the quintessential Outlaw family, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. Championed by people like Hank Williams III, and Tom Arnold, reviled by many, loved by many more, the Whites always deliver and authentic, wild-eyed look at Appalachian culture.
To read more about the history of the Whites and their affiliation with Hank III, click here.
"Shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing , drug dealing, pill popping, murders, and tap dancing — what do these all have in common? These are just a few of the parts of being a member of the Wild and Wonderful White Family.
"Nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains, the White family lives an existence more like something from the Wild West than modern day suburbified America. The legendary family is as known for their wild, excessive criminal ways as they are for their famous mountain dancing members, including Jesco White, the star of the cult classic documentary Dancing Outlaw.
"Exploring both the comic and tragic sides of life on the other side of the law, this stylish, fast-paced family portrait exposes the powerful forces of corruption, poverty, and West Virginia's environmentally and culturally devastating coal mining culture that helped shape the White family, a dying breed of outlaws preserving a dying form of dance.
"Over the course of one tumultuous year, the Whites deal with a stabbing, criminal sentencing, attempted murder, death and birth. On top of all this, Jesco, the family's dancing muse, comments on the family through his performances accompanied by legendary country singer Hank Williams III.
"Watch as an older generation of the White family comes to terms with the lives they have lived while the younger generation struggles to decide whether they will join their outlaw forefathers or break from the family's criminal traditions.
To read more, see pics, etc., CLICK HERE.
No word just yet when and where the masses might be able to see this, but I'll keep you posted.
Any and all fans of the Whites and/or Hank III should see it.
Excellent stuff Gillian! Good job and thanks for sharing.
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import {
  assignNumber,
  computeStyleFromItem,
  CurrentLevel,
  depthOf,
  div, EventBus,
  findLevel,
  flattenAll, generateColour, getPalletXPosition,
  mapDepths,
  matchesRange,
  RANGE_DISPLAY_LARGE,
  RANGE_DISPLAY_NONE,
  RANGE_DISPLAY_PREV_NEXT,
  renderTemporal,
  setStyle,
  sortByKey
} from '../utils';

export default class DeepRange {

  static CSS_ITEM = 'galway-timeline__item';
  static CSS_ITEM_ACTIVE = 'galway-timeline__item--active';
  static CSS_ITEM_REPRESENTATION = 'galway-timeline__representation';
  static CSS_TEMPORAL = 'galway-timeline__temporal';
  static CSS_ITEM_CHILDREN = 'galway-timeline__item--children';

  constructor($el, model) {
    this.$el = $el;
    this.model = model;
    this.bus = new EventBus('DeepRange');
    // Initial DOM elements
    this.renderInitial($el);
  }

  onClickRange(func) {
    this.$elements.forEach(
      $el => {
        const key = this.$elements.indexOf($el);
        const item = this.model.flatItems[key];
        $el.addEventListener('click', e => {
          return func(item, key, $el, e);
        });
      }
    );
  }

  renderInitial($el) {
    const $tooltip = document.querySelector('.galway-timeline__tooltip-float');
    $el.addEventListener('mouseenter', (e) => {
      $tooltip.classList.add('galway-timeline__tooltip-float--active');
    });
    $el.addEventListener('mouseleave', () => {
      $tooltip.classList.remove('galway-timeline__tooltip-float--active');
    });

    $el.addEventListener('mousemove', (e) => {
      const calc = getPalletXPosition($tooltip.getBoundingClientRect().width, e.clientX, window.innerWidth);

      $tooltip.style.left = `${calc}px`;
    });

    this.$elements = this.model.flatItems.map(
      (item) => {
        // Only show top level, hide the rest.
        const visibility = this.model.topKeys.indexOf(item.key) === -1 ? RANGE_DISPLAY_NONE : RANGE_DISPLAY_LARGE;
        return (
          div({
            className: DeepRange.CSS_ITEM,
            style: computeStyleFromItem(visibility, item),
            onMouseEnter: () => {
              $tooltip.innerText = item.label;
              this.hoveredItem = item;
              this.bus.dispatch('item:hover', item);
            },
            onMouseLeave: () => {
              this.bus.dispatch('item:blur', item);
              if (this.hoveredItem === item) {
                this.hoveredItem = null;
              }
            },
          }, [
            div({
              className: DeepRange.CSS_ITEM_REPRESENTATION, style: {
                background: generateColour(item.level)
              }
            }),
            div({className: DeepRange.CSS_TEMPORAL}, [
              renderTemporal(item)
            ]),
          ])
        );
      }
    );

    $el.innerHTML = '';
    this.$elements.forEach($element => {
      $el.appendChild($element);
    });
  }

  renderTopLevel(canvasIndex, model) {
    this.$elements.forEach(($element, key) => {
      const currentLevel = model.topKeys.indexOf(key);
      const item = model.structure[currentLevel];

      this.renderActive($element, item, canvasIndex);

      if (currentLevel !== -1) {
        setStyle($element, computeStyleFromItem(RANGE_DISPLAY_LARGE, item));
        return;
      }

      setStyle($element, computeStyleFromItem(RANGE_DISPLAY_NONE, item));
    });
  }

  renderActive($element, item, canvasIndex) {
    if (matchesRange(item, canvasIndex)) {
      $element.classList.add(DeepRange.CSS_ITEM_ACTIVE);
      this.bus.dispatch('item:active', item);
      if (item.children) {
        $element.classList.add(DeepRange.CSS_ITEM_CHILDREN);
      }
    } else if ($element.classList.contains(DeepRange.CSS_ITEM_ACTIVE)) {
      this.bus.dispatch('item:inactive', item);
      $element.classList.remove(DeepRange.CSS_ITEM_ACTIVE);
      $element.classList.remove(DeepRange.CSS_ITEM_CHILDREN);
    }
  }

  render(canvasIndex, model) {
    // If we are at the top level depth, we just render as normal.
    if (model.depth === 0) {
      return this.renderTopLevel(canvasIndex, model);
    }

    // Here we look for the current "view" which is the sub-sections expanded out.
    if (model.currentViews.length === 0) {
      // Default back to top level if we can't find a view.
      return this.renderTopLevel(canvasIndex, model);
    }

    this.$elements.forEach(($element, key) => {
      const item = model.current.findCurrent(key);
      // Render the current item with class.
      this.renderActive($element, item, canvasIndex);

      if (model.current.isNext(key) || model.current.isPrevious(key)) {
        setStyle($element, computeStyleFromItem(RANGE_DISPLAY_PREV_NEXT, item));
        return;
      }

      if (item) {
        setStyle($element, computeStyleFromItem(RANGE_DISPLAY_LARGE, item));
        return;
      }

      setStyle($element, computeStyleFromItem(RANGE_DISPLAY_NONE, item));
    });

  }
}

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Carlos Alvarado and Nancy Pelosi at the COP25 climate change meetings in December 2019. (Via Casa Presidencial.)
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"As parents, seeing this is agonizing."
The plea comes the day before young climate strikers led by Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg plan to march through the Spanish capital under the Friday for Futures banner.
The student-led movement — sparked by Thunberg's solo protests last year outside Sweden's parliament — saw millions pour into the streets worldwide ahead of a UN climate summit in September.
"Many of the delegates at COP25 are also parents and we appeal to these delegates in particular," the declaration said.
"Addressing the climate crisis is not the responsibility of our children – it's our job as adults and parents to act."
The 12-day UN talks, under way since Monday, are mired in the small print of the 2015 Paris climate treaty's "rule book".
Despite a crescendo of public alarm, the world's major carbon polluters have shown little or no willingness to improve on emissions reduction pledges that, collectively, are not deep enough to prevent catastrophic warming, scientists say.
"Every person in the negotiations has a responsibility to act to ensure our children's rights are safeguarded, and to disregard vested corporate interests," said Isabella Prata, a mother of two, from Parents for Future Brazil.
'Letting down humanity'
Protecting future generations is a recurring leitmotif at the talks, echoed by leaders and frontline diplomats alike.
On Monday, as 40 heads of state took turns working similar themes, Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen at one point held up a stuffed polar bear.
"All of you, just like me, are so-called decision-makers, and probably have children or grandchildren who you love," he said in a scolding tone.
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Exploring Faster Screening with Fewer Tests via Bayesian Group Testing
by Google AI
Posted by Marco Cuturi and Jean-Philippe Vert, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team
How does one find a needle in a haystack? At the turn of World War II, that question took on a very concrete form when doctors wondered how to efficiently detect diseases among those who had been drafted into the war effort. Inspired by this challenge, Robert Dorfman, a young statistician at that time (later to become Harvard professor of economics), proposed in a seminal paper a 2-stage approach to detect infected individuals, whereby individual blood samples first are pooled in groups of four before being tested for the presence or absence of a pathogen. If a group is negative, then it is safe to assume that everyone in the group is free of the pathogen. In that case, the reduction in the number of required tests is substantial: an entire group of four people has been cleared with a single test. On the other hand, if a group tests positive, which is expected to happen rarely if the pathogen's prevalence is small, at least one or more people within that group must be positive; therefore, a few more tests to determine the infected individuals are needed.
Left: Sixteen individual tests are required to screen 16 people — only one person's test is positive, while 15 return negative. Right: Following Dorfman's procedure, samples are pooled into four groups of four individuals, and tests are executed on the pooled samples. Because only the second group tests positive, 12 individuals are cleared and only those four belonging to the positive group need to be retested. This approach requires only eight tests, instead of the 16 needed for an exhaustive testing campaign.
Dorfman's proposal triggered many follow-up works with connections to several areas in computer science, such as information theory, combinatorics or compressive sensing, and several variants of his approach have been proposed, notably those leveraging binary splitting or side knowledge on individual infection probability rates. The field has grown to the extent that several sub-problems are recognized and deserving of an entire literature on their own. Some algorithms are tailored for the noiseless case in which tests are perfectly reliable, whereas some consider instead the more realistic case where tests are noisy and may produce false negatives or positives. Finally, some strategies are adaptive, proposing groups based on test results already observed (including Dorfman's, since it proposes to re-test individuals that appeared in positive groups), whereas others stick to a non-adaptive setting in which groups are known beforehand or drawn at random.
In "Noisy Adaptive Group Testing using Bayesian Sequential Experimental Design", we present an approach to group testing that can operate in a noisy setting (i.e., where tests can be mistaken) to decide adaptively by looking at past results which groups to test next, with the goal to converge on a reliable detection as quickly, and with as few tests, as possible. Large scale simulations suggest that this approach may result in significant improvements over both adaptive and non-adaptive baselines, and are far more efficient than individual tests when disease prevalence is low. As such, this approach is particularly well suited for situations that require large numbers of tests to be conducted with limited resources, as may be the case for pandemics, such as that corresponding to the spread of COVID-19. We have open-sourced the code to the community through our GitHub repo.
Noisy and Adaptive Group Testing in a Non-Asymptotic Regime
A group testing strategy is an algorithm that is tasked with guessing who, among a list of n people, carries a particular pathogen. To do so, the strategy provides instructions for pooling individuals into groups. Assuming a laboratory can execute k tests at a time, the strategy will form a k ⨉ n pooling matrix that defines these groups. Once the tests are carried out, the results are used to decide whether sufficient information has been gathered to determine who is or is not infected, and if not, how to form new groups for another round of testing.
We designed a group testing approach for the realistic setting where the testing strategy can be adaptive and where tests are noisy — the probability that the test of an infected sample is positive (sensitivity) is less than 100%, as is the specificity, the probability that a non-infected sample returns negative.
Screening More People with Fewer Tests Using Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design
The strategy we propose proceeds the way a detective would investigate a case. They first form several hypotheses about who may or may not be infected, using evidence from all tests (if any) that have been carried out so far and prior information on the infection rate (a). Using these hypotheses, our detectives produce an actionable item to continue the investigation, namely a next wave of groups that may help in validating or invalidating as many hypotheses as possible (b), and then loop back to (a) until the set of plausible hypotheses is small enough to unambiguously identify the target of the search. More precisely,
Given a population of n people, an infection state is a binary vector of length n that describes who is infected (marked with a 1), and who is not (marked with a 0). At a certain time, a population is in a given state (most likely a few 1's and mostly 0's). The goal of group testing is to identify that state using as few tests as possible. Given a prior belief on the infection rate (the disease is rare) and test results observed so far (if any), we expect that only a small share of those infection states will be plausible. Rather than evaluating the plausibility of all 2n possible states (an extremely large number even for small n), we resort to a more efficient method to sample plausible hypotheses using a sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) sampler. Although quite costly by common standards (a few minutes using a GPU in our experimental setup), we show in this work that SMC samplers remain tractable even for large n, opening new possibilities for group testing. In short, in return for a few minutes of computations, our detectives get an extensive list of thousands of relevant hypotheses that may explain tests observed so far.
Equipped with a relevant list of hypotheses, our strategy proceeds, as detectives would, by selectively gathering additional evidence. If k tests can be carried out at the next iteration, our strategy will propose to test k new groups, which are computed using the framework of Bayesian optimal experimental design. Intuitively, if k=1 and one can only propose a single new group to test, there would be clear advantage in building that group such that its test outcome is as uncertain as possible, i.e., with a probability that it returns positive as close to 50% as possible, given the current set of hypotheses. Indeed, to progress in an investigation, it is best to maximize the surprise factor (or information gain) provided by new test results, as opposed to using them to confirm further what we already hold to be very likely. To generalize that idea to a set of k>1 new groups, we score this surprise factor by computing the mutual information of these "virtual" group tests vs. the distribution of hypotheses. We also consider a more involved approach that computes the expected area under the ROC curve (AUC) one would obtain from testing these new groups using the distribution of hypotheses. The maximization of these two criteria is carried out using a greedy approach, resulting in two group selectors, GMIMAX and GAUCMAX (greedy maximization of mutual information or AUC, respectively).
The interaction between a laboratory (wet_lab) carrying out testing, and our strategy, composed of a sampler and a group selector, is summarized in the following drawing, which uses names of classes implemented in our open source package.
Our group testing framework describes an interaction between a testing environment, the wet_lab, whose pooled test results are used by the sampler to draw thousands of plausible hypotheses on the infection status of all individuals. These hypotheses are then used by an optimization procedure, group_selector, that figures out what groups may be the most relevant to test in order to narrow down on the true infection status. Once formed, these new groups are then tested again, closing the loop. At any point in the procedure, the hypotheses formed by the sampler can be averaged to obtain the average probability of infection for each patient. From these probabilities, a decision on whether a patient is infected or not can be done by thresholding these probabilities at a certain confidence level.
We benchmarked our two strategies GMIMAX and GAUCMAX against various baselines in a wide variety of settings (infection rates, test noise levels), reporting performance as the number of tests increases. In addition to simple Dorfman strategies, the baselines we considered included a mix of non-adaptive strategies (origami assays, random designs) complemented at later stages with the so-called informative Dorfman approach. Our approaches significantly outperform the others in all settings.
We executed 5000 simulations on a sample population of 70 individuals with an infection rate of 2%. We have assumed sensitivity/specificity values of 85% / 97% for tests with groups of maximal size 10, which are representative of current PCR machines. This figure demonstrates that our approach outperforms the other baselines with as few as 24 tests (up to 8 tests used in 3 cycles), including both adaptive and non-adaptive varieties, and performs significantly better than individual tests (plotted in the sensitivity/specificity plane as a hexagon, requiring 70 tests), highlighting the savings potential offered by group testing. See preprint for other setups.
Screening a population for a pathogen is a fundamental problem, one that we currently face during the current COVID-19 epidemic. Seventy years ago, Dorfman proposed a simple approach currently adopted by various institutions. Here, we have proposed a method to extend the basic group testing approach in several ways. Our first contribution is to adopt a probabilistic perspective, and form thousands of plausible hypotheses of infection distributions given test outcomes, rather than trust test results to be 100% reliable as Dorfman did. This perspective allows us to seamlessly incorporate additional prior knowledge on infection, such as when we suspect some individuals to be more likely than others to carry the pathogen, based for instance on contact tracing data or answers to a questionnaire. This provides our algorithms, which can be compared to detectives investigating a case, the advantage of knowing what are the most likely infection hypotheses that agree with prior beliefs and tests carried out so far. Our second contribution is to propose algorithms that can take advantage of these hypotheses to form new groups, and therefore direct the gathering of new evidence, to narrow down as quickly as possible to the "true" infection hypothesis, and close the case with as little testing effort as possible.
We would like to thank our collaborators on this work, Olivier Teboul, in particular, for his help preparing figures, as well as Arnaud Doucet and Quentin Berthet. We also thank Kevin Murphy and Olivier Bousquet (Google) for their suggestions at the earliest stages of this project, as well as Dan Popovici for his unwavering support pushing this forward; Ignacio Anegon, Jeremie Poschmann and Laurent Tesson (INSERM) for providing us background information on RT-PCR tests and Nicolas Chopin (CREST) for giving guidance on his work to define SMCs for binary spaces.
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USS Aylwin (Torpedo Boat Destroyer No. 47) runs trials.
Displacement: 1,015–1,018 long tons normal.
Propulsion machinery: direct drive steam turbines with reciprocating engines for cruising; 12,000 shp; 2 shafts.
Torpedo battery: 8 x 18-inch torpedo tubes in four trainable twin mounts.
The US Navy's second class of 1,000-ton torpedo boat destroyers authorized in 1912 was similar to the Cassin class—four more ships authorized in 1912 and completed by Cramp at Philadelphia in 1913–14: Aylwin, Parker, Benham and Balch (torpedo boat destroyers Nos. 47–50). The four were slightly heavier than the Cassins, but other particulars were unchanged.
In 1917, Benham received experimental 4-inch twin mounts but these were removed before she was sent to the war zone.
1 Bureau of Construction and Repair's General Information book for USS Aylwin.


I got introduced to Scrum in 2004 when I was working as a senior developer for a major product development company who was one of the front runners in adopting agile those days. In 2006, I did scrum master certification and started working as a scrum master for a geographically distributed scrum team. Over the last 13 years, I have eventually graduated as an agile coach and helped my organizations in various agile exercises including agile maturity assessments & recommending improvements, building agile mindset for the leadership, driving transformations from waterfall/mini-waterfall to agile and helping out teams in their transition journey from Scrum to Kanban & eventually to SAFe. Along the way, I had opportunities to share my thoughts and listen to others in several conferences like Project Management Leadership Conference 2012, Project Management Leadership Conference 2013, where my work also got recognised and I had met some finest agile thought leaders who have enriched me with their own experiences and coaching practices.
For last 4 years, while my primary focus has been to oversee the product development as the lead scrum master for the offshore delivery center, I do also have the added responsibility of an agile coach to educate and groom the junior scrum masters to independently handle the delivery & promote the agile way of work for our cross cultural and geographically distributed scrum teams.
Coaching teams remotely- In present operating structure, I am working from a remote location while my teams along with the scrum masters are co-located in a different city. While I have played such remote roles earlier as a scrum master but in a remote role as a coach, I see more severe challenges in terms of loss for osmotic communications or difficulties to build mutual trust with the team specially when the resources are either less matured or there are too much volatility within the team with new people coming into the group very frequently. But this is also true that in the high technology world we live in, globally remote teams are more prevalent now than any time in the history. No matter how or why distributed teams are created, they are a reality and show no sign of going away. Indeed, companies continue to expand geographically and overseas, more employees are working from home and many large corporations now hire the best talent regardless of project location. So, for our agile community, I feel, it is now more relevant than ever that we have some creative ideas and effective instruments to tackle this challenge. While I have tried to innovate certain techniques to handle this but so far, I have got mixed success. I am eager to learn how others are managing this situation in their space and try those options with my teams for better results.
Being in the remote coach role for around 4 years, I have gone through the phases of success and failures which I would be happy to share with the group. I would also like to share and validate my techniques I am trying with my teams to succeed with remote coaching. In addition, I am also looking forward to hear and be part of the debate & discussions on other topics as well where I may also add value from my own diversified experience.
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Day 1 of 35 is here!
It's Thursday morning May 28, 2009 and my day is planned out which only took me about 15 minutes last night to do. I decided to split up my cooked meal and have a typical breakfast of 3 egg whites and hot tea, and eat smaller portion of fish (5.6 oz) for dinner tonight. 4 of my 5 TSFL meals will be eaten at work today about 2 ½ hours apart and they are going to be: oatmeal, soup, shake and a bar. I need 8 – 8 oz of water and planned them for about 30 minutes after each meal. My last TSFL meal is chocolate pudding after dinner.
I figured the WW points on the products and they pretty much all come out as 1 point per meal. So far I found only one that was 2 points. I'm not counting them, but just wanted to see where it stacked up with WW.
My starting weight this morning is 190. (I'm up a couple of lbs. after two weekends of Birthday and Anniversary celebrating)… I wanted to give myself a goal. I really don't know how my body will react or feel. The average loss is from -2 to -5 a week. I'd be thrilled at 175 but if I drop -10 I'm delighted too! So my goal range is -10 to -15 for the next 35 days. If I do more, great.


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Genome sequence of highly virulent Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain VA-134, isolated from a burn patient.
Infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa leads to impairment of healing and many deaths in severe burn patients. The phenotypic diversity of P. aeruginosa strains makes it difficult to define a therapeutic strategy. Here we report the genome sequence of a highly virulent strain of P. aeruginosa, VA-134, isolated from a burn patient. Copyright © 2016 Miller et al.
Genomic analyses of multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA1 resequenced by single-molecule real-time sequencing.
As a third-generation sequencing (TGS) method, single-molecule real-time (SMRT) technology provides long read length, and it is well suited for resequencing projects and de novo assembly. In the present study, Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA1 was characterized and resequenced using SMRT technology. PA1 was also subjected to genomic, comparative and pan-genomic analyses. The multidrug resistant strain PA1 possesses a 6,498,072 bp genome and a sequence type of ST-782. The genome of PA1 was also visualized, and the results revealed the details of general genome annotations, virulence factors, regulatory proteins (RPs), secretion system proteins, type II toxin-antitoxin (T-A) pairs and genomic islands. Whole genome comparison analysis…
Clonal dissemination of Pseudomonas aeruginosa sequence type 235 isolates carrying blaIMP-6 and emergence of blaGES-24 and blaIMP-10 on novel genomic islands PAGI-15 and -16 in South Korea.
A total of 431 Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates were collected from 29 general hospitals in South Korea in 2015. Antimicrobial susceptibility was tested by the disk diffusion method, and MICs of carbapenems were determined by the agar dilution method. Carbapenemase genes were amplified by PCR and sequenced, and the structures of class 1 integrons surrounding the carbapenemase gene cassettes were analyzed by PCR mapping. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) were performed for strain typing. Whole-genome sequencing was carried out to analyze P. aeruginosa genomic islands (PAGIs) carrying the blaIMP-6, blaIMP-10, and blaGES-24 genes. The rates of…
Complete genomic analysis of multidrug-resistance Pseudomonas aeruginosa Guangzhou-Pae617, the host of megaplasmid pBM413.
We previously described the novel qnrVC6 and blaIMP-45carrying megaplasmid pBM413. This study aimed to investigate the complete genome of multidrug-resistance P. aeruginosa Guangzhou-Pae617, a clinical isolate from the sputum of a patient who was suffering from respiratory disease in Guangzhou, China.The genome was sequenced using Illumina Hiseq 2500 and PacBio RS II sequencers and assembled de novo using HGAP. The genome was automatically and manually annotated.The genome of P. aeruginosa Guangzhou-Pae617 is 6,430,493 bp containing 5881 predicted genes with an average G + C content of 66.43%. The genome showed high similarity to two new sequenced P. aeruginosa strains isolated from New…


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2018-10-30T12:00:00Z by Michele "Izzy" Galgana
Blu-ray Review: Scream Factory's [REC] Massive Blu-ray Set Rocks
Shout! Factory's genre imprint Scream Factory has recently released four-disc Blu-ray set of the [REC] films. The first came out in 2007 and became a sensation. Directed by both Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, REC starred Manuela Velasco as Angela, a young reporter (with her...
2018-02-26T16:30:04Z by Christopher Webster
Paco Plaza's VERONICA Is Netflix's Latest Surprise Debut: Watch the [REC] Director's Latest Now
Last week I wrote a column praising [REC], the seminal Spanish horror film, and one that I believe kickstarted the entire found footage sub-genre as we know it today. Well, now [REC] is back in the news, this time as...
10+ Years Later: [REC] and the Found Footage Renaissance
The excitement surrounding Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's 2007 found footage film, [REC], is hard to explain to anyone who wasn't tracking horror movies 10 years ago. There was a palpable groundswell of anticipation among genre fans here on domestic...
MUSE Trailer: Premonitions Haunt Jaume Balagueró's Latest
Adapted from the novel Lady No. 13 by Jose Carlos Somoza, Jaume Balagueró's latest film, Muse, looks like another sumptuous, supernatural Spanish genre piece. Most famous as one of the co-creators of the incredibly popular [REC] series, Balagueró seems to...
2015-01-07T14:00:02Z by Peter Martin
[REC] 4: APOCALYPSE Video: Zombies Walk The Streets Of Hong Kong
Action flick [REC] 4: Apocalypse opens in Hong Kong theaters on Thursday, January 8, and to mark the occasion a new promotional video has been released, documenting a zombie attack on the streets of Hong Kong. OK, it's only two...
2014-12-31T18:00:06Z by Guillem Rosset
Review: [REC] 4: APOCALYPSE Never Reaches The Same Heights As The Original
It's certainly been a while, but the Sitges Film Festival and its audience hasn't forgotten about [REC] and the impression it left in its 2007 edition. The film, co-directed by Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró won the best director and...
2014-12-31T14:15:02Z by Shelagh Rowan-Legg
Interview: Jaume Balagueró Talks [REC] 4: APOCALYPSE, The Franchise Finale
The cult success of the [REC] series was quite a surprise, not the least to co-directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza. They never expected that their low-budget, found footage horror about a zombie-like virus and the havoc it wreaks on an...
Sitges 2014 Review: [REC4] Is Still Fun But Overly Familar
It's certainly been a while, but the Sitges Film Festival and its audience hasn't forgotten about REC and the impression it left in its 2007 edition. The film, co-directed by Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró won the best director and...
2013-05-08T20:00:57Z by Todd Brown
New Poster For Balaguero's [REC]4: APOCALYPSE
With Cannes around the corner the deep thinkers at Spanish production company Filmax want to let people know that their super-popular horror franchise [REC] hasn't wrapped up just yet. Series co-creator Jaume Balaguero is hard at work on the fourth...
Jaume Balaguero Talks SLEEP TIGHT
Sitting at the helm of eight features plus assorted shorts and television projects over the past thirteen years and moving ably between English and Spanish language projects, director Jaume Balaguero has steadily built himself a reputation as one of the...
Win Jaume Balaguero's Chilling SLEEP TIGHT On BluRay!
Having launched a worldwide phenomenon as co-director of [REC] and [REC]2, Jaume Balaguero felt the need to cleanse the palette a bit before bringing the franchise to a conclusion with the upcoming [REC]4: Apocalypse. And so he set out to...


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The Masked Singer Queen Bee: Charlotte Church speaks out over theories she's on series
Tilly PearceSunday 12 Jan 2020 9:34 am
Charlotte Church is insisting she's not on the show (Picture: Getty/Rex)
Charlotte Church has ruled herself out of being the Queen Bee on The Masked Singer – and by the sounds of it, is pretty done with being asked about it.
Since the show launched a week ago, viewers have been trying to figure out just exactly who has been performing for us wearing the intricate costumes that are hiding their identity.
Across the clues from week one, Charlotte has been put as a potential for the Queen Bee, a star who claimed they were a wild card who found fame at a young age before a rebellious phase.
But after a barrage of tweets from viewers thinking it's her and demanding answers, she responded yesterday: 'I'm not on that bloody show!'
Well, that's that then.
After yesterday's second episode though, it looks more and more likely that the Queen Bee could actually be Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts.
Performing Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi was a dead giveaway that the person behind the mask was accomplished since the voice warper didn't seem to be enough to disguise a strong northern accent during her VT.
The Queen Bee was seen playing the drums, which would be connected to Nicola's debut solo single Beat Of My Drum, and she spoke about being a lawmaker – which would fit with her campaign to ban under 16s from using tanning beds.
'In my last performance, the judges and the audience gave me a really Royal reception and this Queen Bee couldn't have been happier,' Queen Bee exclaimed.
Who's behind the masks? (Picture: Vincent Dolman/ITV/PA Wire)
'I don't think the panel is close to guessing who I am at all, it's so much fun to be on The Masked Singer.
'I got so much of a buzz from my last performance, but not as much of a buzz as I get from helping other people.'
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Last night, the Chameleon was eliminated from the show – and after two solid episodes of flirting with Rita Ora, it was revealed that it was Justin Hawkins from The Darkness.
There are now nine stars left in the competition, with the first week eliminating The Butterfly – aka ex-EastEnders star Patsy Palmer, and The Pharoah, which shocked fans as it was revealed to be former MP Alan Johnson.
The Masked Singer continues Saturday at 7pm on ITV.
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Unreleased Gigabyte Motherboards at PAX East - Broadwell-E Incoming
Gigabyte pleasantly surprised us at PAX East 2016 with a small set of unreleased motherboards. These boards will likely surface about the time that Broadwell-E is released – keep an eye out over the next month – so that means these are all prototypes and that everything here is subject to change. What we were shown appears to be a refresh of the Haswell-E and Skylake boards that are already on the market with the addition of U.2 support.
U.2 is a connector that the Small Form Factor Working Group (SFFWG) decided to rename in 2015. It was formerly called "SFF-8639," and most of the people that were aware of it worked with servers. Part of the reason it's making its way to desktop boards is that the form factor provides M.2 PCIe speed combined with the drive mounting flexibility of the old SATA cable. This means that you can have as many U.2 drives as your motherboard has U.2 connectors.
Plextor MP8e NVMe SSD Pushes 2.2GB/s, M7V Fights for Gaming Market
Plextor has been making SSDs since 2008, but their presence in the PC gaming market is nearly unrecognized. They are the third-largest OEM SSD manufacturer behind only Samsung and SanDisk, and Plextor's drives are used in Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, ASUS, Microsoft, and Samsung computers. The company is working to change its consumer recognition as it continues to manufacture high-throughput PCI-e and SATA SSDs. At CES 2016, Plextor announced the M8Pe on the PCI-e side and the M7V on the SATA side, two drives which we think are of serious note for the consumer and gaming audiences.
The M8Pe is a PCI-e Gen 3 x4 M.2 SSD running the NVMe protocol. The drive will be available in the 2280 form factor or as an M.2 stick, then mounted on an HHHL PCB with a styled heatsink (similar to the HyperX Predator). The new M8Pe uses the Marvell 88SS1093 controller to handle Toshiba 15nm MLC NAND. The M8Pe will have 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB of flash memory with up to 1GB of DDR3 for caching, which acts as a sort of pre-buffer to speed-up storage transactions. The drive is a welcomed competitor in a market which consists of a whopping 3 competing companies: Intel (750 SSD), Kingston (HyperX Predator), and Samsung (950 Pro). At the moment, Samsung is king according to published, raw numbers. These numbers aren't really representative of all aspects of drive performance, though, and that's for a number of reasons we define in our SSD Architecture & Anatomy article. There are other discrepancies as well, but we'll look into those in future posts.
Rosewill Gungnir & Nighthawk 117 Case Specs at CES
Rosewill had a subtle offering at CES 2016. The case & power manufacturer brought along its recently released full-tower, the Nighthawk 117, and announced the release of a new mid-tower case, the Gungnir. There were also a few minor updates with fans and power supplies that we'll mention at the end of the post.
Released 12/14, the Nighthawk 117 ($115) is the full-tower hybrid of the Throne and the Thor v2. The prominent, adjustable ventilation on those two cases is carried over to the Nighthawk 117. On this new case, Rosewill chose to go with two "click-type," integrated fan controllers versus the rheostat-types after listening to user input. Other measureables include a top-mounted hot-swap drive bay, 4 x 5.25" drive bays, and 8 x 3.5" drive bays. All of the the 3.5" bays are oriented left-to-right for easy access. The top five 3.5" drive bays can be removed via two thumb screws to increase air flow. The Nighthawk 117 fits any ATX form factor motherboard and has the standard bottom-mounted PSU location. For cooling, the Nighthawk comes with 5 x 140mm fans: 2 blue LED fans in the front, 2 non-LED fans in the top, and 1 non-LED in the rear.
Phanteks Project 916 Massive Case Hands-On, Eclipse P400, & New Evolv
Phanteks introduced several new products at CES 2016, additionally implementing a few variations on existing cases. The new gear included a large addition to the Enthoo Primo line-up, a new series of cases for beginning system builders (dubbed 'Eclipse'), and a power product aimed at simplifying multi-PSU installations. The existing product updates came to the Evolv ATX, Pro M, and Primo.
The biggest new product in the Phanteks suite is still a work in progress. At the moment it's being called "Project 916" or, as noted on the back of the name card, the "Primo Pro." The design has deep channels along the outside that mirror the other Primo series cases, but P916 adds more LED lighting, thick aluminum and steel, and tempered glass that separate it from the others.
Artful Case Mods at Thermaltake's CES Suite (And New W Series Cases)
Thermaltake greeted us this year with a steel tank packing two mini-guns. It was the winner of the X9 modding competition and was created by Jesse Palacia, a case modder prolific in the Dirty South PC Mods group on Facebook. The Core X9 was hardly recognizable as the top had been cut down at about a 45-degree angle and the side panels had been sawed through and made into hinged, steel covers. Even though the mod wasn't currently powered, it was still eye catching.


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Salem Schools Looking For a Home—and Accessibility
As reported by the Salem News, the new charter school, Salem Community Charter School is looking for space. Museum Place is one possibility they're looking at; the former Saint Joseph's Rectory is another.
As well, the Saltonstall School is being renovated and Salem is scrambling to find space for their students, and for a special-needs program at the Collins.
The rectory will need a year's worth of work before it is useable as a school. The Boston diocese did not offer their other properties such as St. John's School and one official has speculated it is due to ADA issues.
A regular member of the commentariat at the Salem News weighed in on both stories with a refrain I am too familiar with as a member of the disability community in Salem. To paraphrase: "Why do we have to serve a small minority of students. Forget that touchy-feely stuff of [disabled kids]. It's an emergency—use the parochial schools!"
(It's an emergency; does that mean emergency no-bid contracting? The member of the commentariat is a Tea Partier and I presume for less government and taxation and against the charming "emergency" measures that have often concealed thefts of the public purse. I'm getting off the point here.)
Here's a scenario the hardest-bitten conservative can relate to:
John Jones is a decorated veteran. A wounded veteran who came home from Afghanistan or perhaps Iraq. There's no way he's gonna get up and down stairs unless he rolls. Downhill, possibly not under his own control.
He has kids. He has a daughter, a true daddy's girl that goes to the Saltonstall, or perhaps the new charter school or the Academy charter school.
His girl isn't one of these special-needs snowflakes; she's a normal active girl. Except that she's an athlete and a ball player and there was that unseen posthole in the outfield one day when she was running out a grounder.
She'll be hopping around for some time.
Now, Dad is deciding on schools, perhaps his family's moved to Salem or his girl is making a change. Remember choice? That's what the charter schools were supposed to be about. Choice, choice, choice!
You will tell Dad the vet, wounded for our sins ("freedom isn't free", mind?), that he and his daughter cannot participate as parent and child in their own school system?
Good luck with that.
While many people use patriotism to worship respect our soldiers, few of them realize something I've thought of.
If you count all the veterans still living from all wars, and those that are wounded and disabled, I suspect they don't make up a large number.
In Salem, I have heard estimates that 20% of Salemmites have a disability. Not all of them are of school age, of course.
I am certain that the 20% is not all made up of veterans.
Yet if I suggested that veterans should not get help because their numbers are so few, I'm certain I would be assaulted in an alleyway. (Freedom isn't free…)
I have no animosity towards veterans—I'm too young to have ever spat upon a Vietnam veteran, and have never said a word of disrespect to them (perhaps, I have done this to the politicians who task them, but…) Salem's veteran groups are natural allies of the Commission on Disabilities and always will be.
I have to wonder why the diocese of Boston is not aggressive with its surplus properties. Despite what Rand Paul would have you believe, in Massachusetts, any given building does not have to be made ADA accessible to current codes merely as if the authorities waved a pixie wand and made it so.
The requirement to make a building ADA compliant per current code very much depends on the use of the building, the age of the building and the intended use of the building. There were several revisions to Massachusetts building codes for handicapped access and by the current law, a building constructed say, in 1978, only has to meet accessibility requirements for 1978. I have several large (and large-print) binders with all the laws to date.
If a building is used for general business purposes, it may or may not need to be brought up to ADA access. Often in Salem, buildings have been repurposed and have never been made accessible because there were very few if any renovations performed.
A benchmark the Commission often discusses is the "one-third rule" or "30% rule" or "hitting 30%". That refers to the current value of the building. If any proposed renovations exceed 30% of this value, the building must be brought fully up to ADA and Massachusetts code.
Even then, developers and architects have considerable wiggle room. The law does not say absolute accommodations, merely reasonable accommodations. The Mass. Architectural Access Board (MAAB) will grant variances if the regulations are burdensome or do not benefit.
A few years ago, the state renovated a home in North Salem to use as a group home. By the letter of the law it would have needed an expensive elevator. The developer convinced the MAAB that the only space that the public would access was the ground floor. The ground floor of the building was brought up to code with HP parking and no steps, but there didn't need to be an elevator.
I've been in St. John's School before, and is not so much a charming old fashioned parochial school as it is a dump, no disrespect to Catholics meant. There are stairs everywhere. It could be impossible to get variances for this or any of the other school buildings involved.
Don't forget, too, that the staff and teachers have to use the space as well. People get old and infirm, or have a negative encounter with an icy front step. If you think there's controversy over accommodating students, just wait until it's a teacher with a grievance!
I have to wonder if the diocese fears that the values of their properties have fallen so much that any renovations at all to them would require them to be fully up to code. After all, it isn't only handicapped access at stake but also electrical, plumbing, fire safety and communications cabling that need to be upgraded as well.
Whatever the case, this is something you can't blame on the special-needs snowflakes, "those people" or the ADA activists. Salem schools are indeed in a pickle. But they would be anyway even if you deported all the disabled to Lynn.
Back after an absence
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Nature finally turned a switch to "Summer" today, as these folks are realizing.
And I've turned a switch, too.
I haven't posted in almost six months. I'm dispirited.
Last winter, my building had the bedbug hysteria that has affected many households in recent years. Dealing with bedbugs has combined the worst aspects of moving and losing your house to fire or flood. The Salem News covered the story in my building and it brought out the worst aspect of pest infestations—the moral opprobrium that comes when your betters can look down on you for being "dirty" and "unclean", even though bedbugs, roaches and mice are blissfully unaware of class distinctions.
In a building with a shared laundry space, like I have, I'll never know how I got bedbugs and I just don't care who or what "gave" them to me. I just know that pest infestations don't make me or my neighbors "immoral" or "unclean" or "lazy", but that was on the minds of many of the Salem News commentariat.
There's more, too. Last spring I had quite a screaming match with my ward councilor Mike Sosnowski over a parking proposal at the Jail.
What I learned from that affair is that it doesn't matter what neighborhood I live in, or what stake I have in anything, if someone more important than me thinks different. At that meeting, a person from the Northfields neighborhood association asserted that me and my neighbors did not want commercial use at the Jail no matter what.
It doesn't matter that that Northfields guy probably doesn't even have a view of the Jail from his house. And he never cared before about the apartment complex I live in.
As far as I can see, Mike Sosnowski has more or less aided and abetted groups like Northfields. If you live in cheap rental housing, you will not get representation in Salem.
You will not get it.
Better that you show Mike your mortgage statement—or proof of McIntyre architecture—before coming to him with a problem.
I was at a meeting this past Saturday of the Alliance of Salem Neighborhood Associations. It was held at the function room of Beverly Cooperative Bank, which is where the Downtown group meets.
I had my own problems with that group, and didn't want to attend this meeting, except that I made a verbal commitment on recorded video and had to go.
(I know the camera is on during our Commission meetings. If I make a gaffe or a curse, then I do. I don't try to walk back what I said. I said it and it's on tape and that is that.)
Several people in the Alliance complained about being "outsiders". I wanted to say to them: "Where's Lucy [Corchado, head of the Point association]? Where are they? The Point is a neighborhood, isn't it?"
Those people have their own advisory board at the highest level of city government. They have Jason Silva's [Mayor Driscoll's chief-of-staff] private number on speed-dial. I have no doubt that someone like Michael Coleman can have Mike Sosnowski swing into action at 3 AM on a Sunday if he so commands it. If Teasie Goggin wanted to repeat Mike Bencal's Al Haig moment ("I'm in control here", after the attempted assassination of President Reagan in 1981) when he tried to take charge of City Hall when the mayor was away a few years ago, she has more than enough social capital to do so!
They have that advisory commission in addition to the Alliance! Tell me they are outsiders again?
As it happened, the meeting was a waste of time for me and and my colleagues on the Commission on Disabilities, since it was supposed to pertain to the MBTA parking garage, but was instead an unfocused rambling about pedestrian access and getting traffic usage stats, only to find out the state had already done that but nobody from the Alliance even read the report. The Commission probably could have used that, but the person presenting that report didn't bother to tell us where we could find the data from the state website.
(I'd filmed video of the meeting. It would have been nice of them to tell us when the MBTA part of the meeting would get under way so I wouldn't have to guess how long the batteries in my camera would last. Not long enough as it turned out.)
If I can't be involved in the workings of my own city, the one that I have spent 47 years in, I think, why am I bothering to blog?
I've asked myself that question over and over during the past six months.
The only thing keeping me going is the Commission—whose purpose I believe in with all my heart and soul—and Salem Access Television, where I have been applying my IT talents for 11 years.
I'm very proud, in fact, that SATV now has much of its local programming available over the Net. Public meetings—including the Commission's—are now available through our Government page.
I worked very hard with Sal Russo and the staff over the past year to make this possible and I am inordinately prideful. I've been delighted to flip the figurative "bird" to a few former board members who thought this was a "fad" or "something for Dave and Sal to spend money on". (In fact, video-on-demand has been a roaring success at SATV.)
There are many other thoughts, ideas and initiatives at SATV and the Commission to make fodder for many more years of blog posts, which is why I'm continuing to blog.
But I will never, ever, let myself believe that I have a stake and a say with what happens in Salem.
I don't. And I won't.
Restaurant at Jail to open next week
Reported at Salem Patch, the restaurant at the Jail, The Great Escape, will open Monday.
When I saw this in the open house, I had wondered if this would be the restaurant. I seem to have guessed right.
Despite the guy from Northfields and the associated controversy over the green space, a restaurant operator came through after all.
I'm not sure how they'll do long-term, and I don't know if I'll afford to eat there myself, but I wish them luck. Hats off to New Boston for their tenacity in seeing this through.
Barbed Wire is Gone at the Salem Jail!
As promised, the barbed-wire fencing around the Salem Jail has finally been removed! (A second, inner wall, was partially dismantled when the Jail was closed and demolished when the renovation began.) In other news, the new courthouse…
Salem Jail's Open House
There was never a time during the Salem Jail's existence that people would be waiting to get in to the Jail, but it happened yesterday during a scheduled open house. There were about 30-50 people in line at any one moment and about an equal numbe…
Final Thoughts on Jail Parking and the Greenspace
Final followup, I hope, to the ongoing Salem Jail Parking drama. The Salem News gave an account of last Tuesday's meeting, and talked about it some more. Any time the neighborhood associations get involved in discussions like this, I'm…
Salem Jail Parking Proposal Apparently Dead
The City Council met tonight to discuss New Boston Venture's proposal to reconfigure the greenspace triangle at St. Peter, Bridge and Howard Sts for additional restaurant parking. The proposal is apparently dead. Rather than give my opinions a…
Tavern on the Square Proposed Sidewalk Changes
As discussed in the September Commission meeting, Tavern In The Square wants to have outdoor seating. To do this and comply with state law, they need to take over the stretch of sidewalk in front of their business on Washington St. This is th…
Downtown Salem Parking Insanity
The Salem News is reporting on something I have known ever since I've lived downtown: Parking Bleeps. The owner of Marketplace Quilts on Front St. has complained: Clark blamed the city for allowing a restaurant that big to open without p…
Outside Dining and Sidewalk Access
Tavern in the Square, the new restaurant that opened on the site of the old Salem News, wants to have outdoor dining at the corner of New Derby & Washington St. near the bus stop. This draws our interest at the Commission on Disabi…


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California issues frightening cellphone radiation warnings
By Francis Navarro, Komando.com
Back in March, state officials from the California Department of Public Health made a previously hidden draft document accessible to the public.
The document titled "Cell Phones and Health" was an advisory about the dangers of cellphone radiation exposure and ways to reduce its effects. The two-page draft was then ordered to be released by a judge due to a 2016 lawsuit filed by a director at the University of California.
Fear of cellphone radiation effects on the human body is nothing new, of course, and we are constantly warned about the possible consequences of regular exposure to wireless signals.
But skeptics say that none of the studies are conclusive so far. The wireless industry agrees and it is always ready to reassure the public that there's no concrete link between cellphone exposure and health issues.
However, months after the ruling, the California Department of Public Health is now set to officially release its cellphone safety guidelines for reducing Radio Frequency energy (RF).
As cellphone use has significantly increased in the past few years, especially with children and teens, the document will provide tips and guidelines for people who have concerns about cellphone use and its health effects.
This might finally compel the public to take all these cellphone warnings seriously and take the necessary precautions.
Is your health at risk?
The California Department of Public Health document substitutes the original draft's (electromagnetic fields) EMF for Radio Frequency energy (RF) and it outlines "RF energy, lists potential health concerns, and provides guidance on how people can reduce their exposure."
Similar to the draft, the document links certain types of brain cancer and fertility problems to cellphone use. It also expands on them by citing laboratory experiments and studies that linked cellphone radiation to health issues such as:
Brain cancer, tumors of the acoustic nerve (necessary for hearing and balance) and the salivary glands
Lower sperm counts and inactive, less mobile sperm
Headaches and effects on learning and memory, hearing, behavior and sleep
However, unlike the leaked draft, the official document is more tentative about establishing the direct link between cellphone use and health issues. A passage explicitly states that "scientists disagree about whether cellphones cause these health problems and how great the risks might be," implying that the links are not at all conclusive.
Frankly, compared to the draft, this softer stance all sounds like a cop out, if you ask me.
At least the document did retain the original draft's guidelines for people who want to reduce RF exposures for themselves and their families.
How to reduce cellphone exposure
To sum it up, the document follows the same mantra of the draft – your distance from the phone, the strength of the signal, and how long and how often you use the phone determines your exposure. Basically, the farther away the cellphone is from your body, the less the exposure.
Here are the key points to ponder:
Increase the distance between your cellphone and your body by using the speakerphone or a headset (Bluetooth headsets have weaker EMFs).
Opt to send text messages instead of calling.
If you're streaming or downloading files with your phone, try to keep it away from your head and body.
Do not carry it in your pocket or directly on your body unless the phone is off.
Take off your headset when you're not on call. In addition, I think this applies to music listening with wireless headphones too (AirPods, wireless earbuds, etc.)
Do not to sleep with your cellphone in your bed or near your head.
When are you most at risk?
It is also recommended that you limit your cellphone use when reception is weak. Your phone's RF energy is stronger when your cellphone only shows one or two bars. If this is the case, try increasing the distance between you and the phone by using the speaker or a headset.
Here are situations when a cellphone's RF signal is the strongest:
At the start of a call, when the phone is trying to connect to a cell tower
As mentioned, when a cellphone only has one or two bars
When in a moving car, bus or train (as the phone switches from one tower to another)
When you are streaming music or movies or downloading or sending large files
Furthermore, the paper recommends keeping cellphone calls short (use the speakerphone for longer conversations) and to not rely on gadgets that claim to shield or neutralize cellphone EMFs.
Cellphone Energy and Children
The same general tips for reducing RF energy exposure outlined above are applicable to pregnant women, children and teens.
In a separate section, the documents warn that children and teens are more sensitive to RF energy since it "can pass deeper into a child's brain than an adult's" and the "brain is still developing through the teen years." It also adds that a child who uses a cellphone now will have many more years of RF energy in his or her lifetime compared to "someone who started using a cellphone as an adult."
Links between cellphone RF energy exposure and hearing loss, headaches and decreased general well-being of children and teenagers are also mentioned.
Although not stated in the new official document, the original draft suggested that parents limit their children's cellphone use to "texting, important calls, and emergencies" only.
To read the full official PDF document "How to Reduce Exposure to Radiofrequency Energy from Cell Phones" from the California Department of Public Health, click here.
Are you going to follow these recommendations for lowering exposure to your cellphone's RF energy? Drop us a comment!
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RBRW TV Episode 5 - DAA Celebrity Photo Shoot from Jacquelyn Aluotto on Vimeo.
We proudly present the brand new video of our very own celebrity photo shoot in New York last December produced by stylist Katharine Polk and now shown as a video on Real Beauty Real Women.Real Beauty Real Women (RBRW) is a website that offers fashion forward entertainment, the latest trends and news on your favourite celebrities while promoting and raising awareness of social issues. Among all the cool things that RBRW does to bridge the gap between glamour and social awareness there's one thing we want to highlight here: RBRW's film crew made a very cool video of the DAA celebrity photo shoot -and we are very happy with the result! It shows that glamour is not always as superficial as you might think; it can also be used in a very fashionable way to contribute to a better world. We want to thank everyone that supported us during this shoot: you do not only have style, you have your heart in the right place and you're not afraid to show it! So thank you very much Alana Zimmer, Anna Chlumsky, Anneliese Tieck, Anouck Lepère, B. Smith, Brandon Victor Dixon, Carson Kressley, Daiane Conterato, David Needleman, Edward Cruz, Estelle, George Ortiz, Jared Eng, Ksenia Solo, Laetitia Ray, Linda Morand , Maud Yeddou, Milena Ilina and Teyonah Parris! Although you aren't all starring in this video (the shoot took over 12 hours and only part of it was filmed) you are all pretty big stars to us, for giving your time and talent to support DAA! Special thanks go to Katharine Polk for being an incredible stylist and DAA spokesperson. Our tip for every socially conscious fashion addict out there: stay tuned to RBRWtv on www.rbrw.org.