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The company is made up of five departments that work closely together for shared goals – to deliver the best products and services for the audiences that we serve.
Each of these departments has a Head who represents and leads their team and reports into Senior Management (Nick, CEO, and Louise, Director). The Heads of Department and Senior Management make up the Operational Board, responsible for discussing on-going business matters.
The five departments are Editorial, Delegate Relations, Events, Marketing and Sales.
Nick was one of the founding directors of Incisive Media in 1994 and worked there as MD of the Financial Services Division until 2013 when he led the mbo of Investment Europe and set up Open Door Media.
JB worked across various financial services titles at Incisive Media and was involved in the launch of InvestmentEurope in 2011. He transferred over at the time of the mbo and is ultimately responsible for the editorial content of all products and services across all platforms across the company.
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The Dalai Lama has officially joined Google+ — and he's already planning a Hangout with South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
The Hangout, announced Friday on the Dalai Lama's Google+ profile, will take place Oct. 8 at 10:30 a.m. South African time (GMT+2.00). That's 4:30 a.m. ET in the U.S. The live video conversation will be part of the Inaugural Desmond Tutu Peace Lecture in Cape Town, South Africa. The event coincides with the archbishop's 80th birthday on Oct. 7. A link to the Hangout will be available approximately 20 to 30 minutes before it starts.
The Dalai Lama had originally planned on visiting South Africa in person this weekend, but visa woes prevented the holy leader from entering the country. However, that didn't stop the Dalai Lama from posting a video (below) on Google+, wishing the archbishop — an activist who first rose to prominence opposing apartheid in the 1980s — a happy birthday.
This was all done on the same day the Dalai Lama joined Google+. Another post on the social network welcomes the Dalai Lama's potential Google+ followers with a mission statement of sorts: "He frequently states that his life is guided by three major commitments: the promotion of basic human values or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness, the fostering of inter-religious harmony and the welfare of the Tibetan people, focusing on the survival of their identity, culture and religion."
While the Dalai Lama may be new to Google+, this isn't his first social media presence. He also has a Twitter account with more than 2.5 million followers, along with a Facebook page with more than 2 million fans.


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David Fiuczynski's Headless Torsos är ett amerikanskt band sammanställt av gitarristen David Fiuczynski. Det är ett instrumentalt band och är en utveckling av deras andra grupp Screaming Headless Torsos bara att de plockat bort sångaren Dean Bowman.

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David Fiuczynski – gitarr
Fima Ephron – basgitarr
Daniel Sadownick – percussion
Gene Lake – trummor

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Paul Wilson and Chris Ehmke talk about diesel performance upgrades for your Duramax, Cummins and Power Stroke. This week they discuss where to get started with your 3rd generation Cummins build. To get into a real example, Jim Rendant and Chris Ehmke take out Jim's all stock 2006 Mega Cab with 56K miles.
Joe and Drew Tordai join hosts Paul Wilson and Chris Ehmke to talk about their rapidly growing addiction to Work-Stock Sled Pulling. Starting from just a single pull to traveling every weekend, these guys can't get enough of playing in the dirt.
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Paul interviews LT from the Truck Tech Show. The conversation underscores what we've all known and appreciated about diesel performance.


Renee Salas, MD, of the MGH Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Program in the Department of Emergency Medicine, was in Nepal at the time of the earthquake. Salas was uninjured and remains in-country providing medical care with the Himalayan Rescue Association Nepal (HRA) in Pheriche, near the Mount Everest Base Camp.
Where were you and what were you doing when the earthquake struck?
It was just after noon, and my colleagues and I were in the living space of the HRA clinic. As the realization set in to the events that were occurring, we ran outside to see nearly all of the buildings of the small village of Pheriche crumbling, at least partly. About a third were completely destroyed. In the midst of screams and dust clouds, we quickly circled the village after the earthquake vibrations had settled to see if there were any injured. Amazingly, the only injury was one small head laceration. If this disaster had occurred at night, I fear the injury rate would have been much higher. The village came together as everyone comforted one another and assisted those who had completely lost their houses. Some even began rebuilding their stones walls after the initial waves of aftershocks.
What did you experience/think at the time?
This was my first experience with an earthquake, and the severity of the earth's movement was astounding. I felt as if I was on a boat at sea. The immediate thoughts and concerns were to the status of the families of the Nepali workers here and to our HRA colleagues in Everest Base Camp and Manang. Unfortunately, we had few means to gain credible information. We had been without Internet contact for the few preceding days, and this remained inoperable. We attempted to reach Everest Base Camp with the radio system we had in place but were also unsuccessful. Through conversations my Nepali friends had with family and the HRA headquarters in Kathmandu, we learned that it had affected the city but had no understanding of the severity. We then began to assess the damage to the clinic, which had thankfully affected only a portion of the living quarters and left the patient treatment area unaffected. The numerous aftershocks we experienced caused the village to remain outside for a good portion of the day. Unfortunately, it was snowing with moderate winds, which made this situation more difficult.
The first patients from Everest Base Camp were two climbing Sherpas who arrived about nine hours after the earthquake, as they had immediately descended via foot and by horse. We saw and treated them – one moderately injured who was admitted overnight and one minor who was treated and released. We began to understand the gravity of what had occurred at Everest Base Camp as they recounted their experiences. We initially remained awake believing that more would be arriving late that evening but soon retreated to the sunroom (a separate free-standing building across from the clinic) to sleep given the continued aftershocks.
We were awoken the next morning a little before 6 am to the sounds of helicopter traffic heading up the valley. We received word that they would be evacuating all of the critically ill and wounded from Everest Base Camp to our facility and quickly began preparing for the possibility of significant patient volume. This is exactly the type of mass casualty situation that my emergency medicine and wilderness medicine training prepared me for. We received approximately 10 critically ill patients first and placed them in the clinic and sunroom – many on makeshift beds placed on the floor. In total, we saw and evacuated an estimated 73 patients including many "walking wounded." Our resources here included intravenous fluids, medications and an ultrasound. However, we are a remote post without access to blood products or the ability to perform subspeciality procedures that many patients required. Luckily the weather cleared, and we were able to arrange further evacuation to a hospital in Lukla, which had increased resources. Numerous helicopters, including an MI-17 that could hold 16 to 18 patients, made numerous trips as all patients were evacuated over a five-hour time period.
tea and food. International trekkers with nonmedical backgrounds who were in the region assisted selflessly with patient transport and donated first aid supplies and materials. We had numerous international physicians, nurses and EMTs who spontaneously arrived and quickly set to work seeing patients, checking vital signs and administering medications.
When the last patient was evacuated, the nearly 100 to 200 people who had assisted all cheered and hugged one another for the amazing team effort, and then people dispersed back to their villages while many international trekkers continued their descent to lower villages.
What do you think is important for others to know now about the situation there?
This is a country full of loving people and the innately welcoming culture has created a collaborative and selfless post-disaster environment here in the Khumbu Valley. However, this a country with very limited resources. The situation in Kathmandu sounds grave, as medical facilities have been quickly overwhelmed and they have struggled to take care of patients in buildings in the continued wake of aftershocks. The situation in the more remote outlying villages is also unknown. As food and water resources dwindle and the lack of sanitation grows, the risk of epidemics is high, which will turn an already dire situation into a nightmare. The country will require basic needs such as food, water and medical and infrastructure personnel and supplies. Any assistance, depending on your resources and abilities, would be greatly appreciated – including prayers.
Read what the MGH is doing to help Nepal.
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Man shot in Berkley break-in
Kendra Sardinha, Staff writer
BERKLEY — A break-in turned violent Saturday, sending one man to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg.
According to police reports, four suspects broke into the Porter Street home at 3:24 a.m. and stole a safe, jewelry, money, two cell phones and firearms.
A break-in turned violent Saturday, sending one man to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg.
Two residents were home at the time.
Police said the vehicle used by the suspects was parked on the street during the time the crime occurred. An off-duty police officer got a description of the vehicle and gave it to Berkley Police Chief Scott Labonte, who later located it in Taunton with the assistance of the Taunton Police Department.
"The vehicle was seized by myself in Taunton," Labonte said. "We executed a search warrant, took possession of the vehicle and found evidence linked to the crime."
One victim, a male, was shot in the leg with a .22 caliber gun and transported to the hospital. The police have recovered the bullet and the victim was later released.
According to Labonte, the Massachusetts State Police Crime Scene Services assisted the Berkley Police Department and were able to recover finger prints both at the home and in the vehicle.
"We were able to seize the vehicle in less than an hour," Labonte said. "The incident is still under investigation."
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I think that, first of all, you've got to have a subject matter. Before you start, you've got to have a subject matter. It's terribly important to have what I call a story. Once... and then sometimes you have to do studies, and... and... I used to do lots of drawings from my head, to try and find out what it was that I wanted to say, and... and then I would then get models and set them up, and copy those, and put them in pictures. Get the setting... the setting which would... often would be of houses I had — like my house in Ericeira — not knowing where else to put the scenes, and then, more recently, where I have actually found that it's more difficult to... to draw from my head, I've actually set up scenes in here, and built up things from props that I've hired, from... for, you know, for television props and all that, and I've hired all these things. I've even hired trees I've had in here, and then I set it all up, and... and copy that. Once you're... you're involved in that... well, I mean you're desperate to... to finish it, really. And the... the transformations that it goes through are colossal. You take the most enormous risks, in the sense that, for instance, in one picture, there was a girl falling out of the window, and you're... you're taken with... with bizarre wishes to do. For instance, I had a bizarre wish to do the girl huge, very huge, you know... and I did it huge, and then I had to undo it, and then I did it again. And even the little — this is Celestina's House — even the little figure in front, was actually the mother holding... asking to be picked up. Well, she can't be picked up, because her daughter's falling, you know, it's one of those things. And even the mother... I had to do it dozens of times, before I got the right character, the right position, the right story, the right meaning there. And it was an ambiguous thing, you see, and... so that takes a lot... a lot of changes take place in the pictures, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot... yeah... and they... they, you know. And then, and whilst doing it, you see, you very often find out, my dear, you find out that it's not what you intended in the first place. And that is why it's so fascinating, 'cause you discover that, you know, you're sometimes ambiguous about things that you didn't think you were, you know that? Because there is a picture many, many, many, many years ago; I did a Salazar vomiting the mother country, okay, and there's this... this horrible monstrous idiot, and I put him bending down, throwing up this... this sausage, which was his mother country. But... this was so long ago, but even doing that, my dear, I even then sadly felt, a bit sorry for him, you know. I felt... I felt a feeling for him that wasn't allowed, and it certainly wasn't even in real life, true. But in the picture it was allowed. So the picture actually allows you to feel all sorts of forbidden things, and that is why you do pictures, because you... you get at things that you didn't realise, actually, and you're allowed to do, even outrageous things and everything.
Portuguese painter Paula Rego (1935-2022) became part of the London Group in 1965, was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1989 and became the first Associate Artist of the National Gallery in London in 1990. Her work is strongly influenced by folk and fairy tales, especially those of her homeland.
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Home / Politics / Policy / What they plan to fix in the next GST Council meeting
What they plan to fix in the next GST Council meeting
2 min read . Updated: 16 Aug 2021, 01:21 AM IST GIREESH CHANDRA PRASAD
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The GST Council will soon meet to discuss extension of GST compensation to states beyond 2022, and will attempt to fix certain tax anomalies. Mint takes a look at the implications for consumers and businesses.
The goods and services tax (GST) Council will soon meet to discuss extension of GST compensation to states beyond 2022, and will attempt to fix certain tax anomalies. Mint takes a look at the implications for consumers and businesses.
What issues are likely to figure in the meet?
The council is expected to examine demands from states for extending the period of GST compensation beyond June 2022, when the five-year transition period into the new indirect tax system ends. Many states are facing financial hardship because of higher spending needs during the pandemic. GST compensation is financed by a cess levied on items such as cars, aerated drinks and tobacco products, as well as commodities such as coal and lignite. Another task before the council is pruning the list of items under the 'nil' tax category. Fixing the tax anomaly of certain raw materials getting taxed more than finished goods is also on the cards.
What'll compensation cess extension mean?
The Union government is already borrowing from the market to finance GST compensation to states for FY21 and FY22 because the cess collected is not sufficient. To pay back this borrowing, the GST cess will have to be extended beyond 2022. Accepting the demand of states for a further extension of the compensation period would mean that the GST cess on items such as automobiles, tobacco products and coal will have to continue for longer. That time period would also depend on how long and by how much GST compensation will be paid to states beyond June 2022.
What products are in the zero-tax category?
Many food items including fish, egg, meat, milk, puja items, plastic bangles, printed books, contraceptives, raw silk, khadi yarn and postal envelopes sold by the government are in the zero-rate category. Pruning exemptions are expected to widen the tax base. However, political considerations are expected to play a role in the council's decision-making.
What's the tax anomaly that has to be fixed?
The inverted duty structure, or the tax outgo on raw materials and services, being higher than that on the finished products has been a headache for the authorities and businesses. This is severe in the case of items such as footwear valued up to ₹1,000, fabrics and garments, fertilizers and pharma-ceuticals. It would be unpopular to raise the tax on the mass-use final product. However, the inverted duty structure forces producers to recover taxes they have paid on raw materials and services by raising prices of finished products.
What would be the impact of correcting it?
There could be a marginal rise in the tax outgo of products when the inverted duty structure is corrected. Policymakers are expected to evaluate that against the economic benefits of correcting it, including a possible reduction in litigation. Despite the economic rationale for having moderate taxation, the rate is kept at the lowest 5% on many items because of political and social reasons. This consideration to keep tax rates low on mass use items is likely to be a key factor while addressing the problem of inverted duty structure.
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OSLO WANTS TO BAN CARS FROM CITY CENTER AND DIVEST BILLIONS FROM FOSSIL FUELS
Oct 22, 2015 by Casey Coates Danson
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By Katie Herzog GRIST
There goes Norway making the rest of the world look like crap again.
The Guardian reports that the Oslo city government recently proposed a ban on private vehicles in the city center after 2019. In addition, the city government — a coalition of the newly elected representatives from the Labour Party, the Socialist Left, and the Green Party — plans on divesting its $9 billion pension fund from coal, oil, and gas companies.
The capital of Norway's city center isn't highly residential — only 1,000 people live there, according to the Guardian — but about 90,000 people work in the area. Now, how are all those commuters going to get to work come 2019? Increased bike lanes, for starters, along with subsidizing the cost of electric bicycles — which we sure hope come with heated butt warmers. All such efforts are part of a comprehensive plan to reduce the overall greenhouse gas emissions in the city by half compared to 1990 levels by 2020, and reduce automobile traffic by 30 percent by 2030.
"In 2030, there will still be people driving cars but they must be zero-emissions," said the Green Party's Lan Marie Nguyen Berg at a press conference. "We want to make it better for pedestrians, cyclists. It will be better for shops and everyone."
You would, Norway. You would.
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New details regarding the mysterious "femme fatale" rumored to appear in Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 offer a better idea of which Marvel character will be joining the MCU in next year's film. With the major changes coming in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4, Marvel has been tight-lipped about Phase 4 of the MCU. But thanks to the Sony deal that allows Spider-Man to appear in Marvel Studios' movies, the character's own trilogy is moving along even as the future of the other Avengers remains up in the air.
We don't know anything concrete about the unnamed sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming, but it will be arriving next July after the Phase 3 ending that is Avengers 4. Because of that, promotion for the film is sure to begin before we know the fate of Peter's teammates, and already the rumors are flowing. In January, we learned that the Spider-Man sequel was seeking a femme fatale character of European descent. And while there were a number of candidates that seemed likely to fill the role—from Black Cat to Silver Sable—the latest news on the mysterious character may hone in on who she is.
That Hashtag Show, who revealed the original report of the femme fatale, are back with a little more info on the character. According to their source, the 20-something actor being sought will fill a "Bond-girl type international agent" role in the movie. Given that, THS feels fairly certain that the character will be Jessica Drew—better known as Spider-Woman.
As superheroes grew more popular in the '60s and '70s, Marvel and DC both began creating female versions of their popular male characters to avoid the competition using the name first. Stan Lee thus created Spider-Woman for 1977's Marvel Spotlight #32 and the character has been a part of the Marvel Universe ever since. Unlike Peter Parker, she didn't gain powers from a radioactive spider bite but instead was injected with irradiated spider's blood to save her life after she suffers uranium poisoning. She gained many of Spider-Man's abilities along with powerful pheromones, stinger blasts, and the ability to fly. She was also raised from a young age as a Hydra agent in Europe before joining S.H.I.E.L.D. and later becoming an Avenger.
Fans have been hoping to see Jessica Drew join the MCU for awhile, and she's certainly a major character who hasn't yet been adapted to live action. What's more, THS reports the film wants to cast "a male (40-60) and a female (40-49) in lead roles as agents," meaning a spy angle looks to be a key part of the next Spider-Man. Though it would certainly take the franchise in a new direction, the details so far do seem to hint Spider-Woman is a strong possibility for the upcoming Marvel film.
Outside of Spider-Woman, we've been hoping to see Firestar join the Spider-Man-Homecoming sequel given the mutant's own long history with web-slinger. Regardless of what happens, it seems Marvel is keen to expand Spidey's roster and likely take full advantage of having access to Sony's IPs. And with the movie bound to shoot soon, we should know more about Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 soon.


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Getting data science to enterprise scale rapidly: A conversation with CSL Behring's John K. Thompson
By Karina Babcock, Sr. Director, Corporate Marketing, Domino on November 02, 2020 in Perspective
Data science's impact has become increasingly clear in every industry as leading adopters raise the bar for personalized services and customer experiences. IDC's recent survey on AI found that early adopters reported a 25 percent improvement in customer experience along with accelerated rates of innovation and higher competitiveness, among other benefits.
However, most leaders are realizing that to bring AI to scale, they need an enterprise strategy that includes:
Creating a discipline for how they'll manage the people and cultural changes necessary to embrace data science.
Establishing scalable and repeatable processes across the end-to-end data science lifecycle.
Ensuring data science teams have the technology foundation to foster productivity and collaboration.
Take for example CSL Behring, a leading global biopharmaceutical company that specializes in treatments for rare diseases, such as hemophilia and immune disorders. In 2018, company executives set out to turn data science into a core capability that would help scientists:
Uncover new life-saving therapies
More quickly bring products to market, and
Help reduce the time for patients to receive an accurate diagnosis, which can take years as patients and caregivers struggle to make sense of a variety of vague symptoms that often overlap with other, more common conditions.
In building out the capability, executives wanted to move quickly–reflecting on their promise to
"work as if lives depend on it, because they do."
To bring their vision to life, they hired John K. Thompson, a 30-year industry veteran in business intelligence and advanced analytics, as the company's first Global Head of Advanced Analytics & Artificial Intelligence.
In just two years, John has created a thriving and successful advanced analytics and AI practice across all areas of the business, from research and drug safety to manufacturing to supply chain to operations, generating immeasurable benefits for patients struggling with rare disease as well top- and bottom-line business value.
We recently spoke with John about his ability to achieve so much in a relatively short period of time. Below is an edited transcript from our conversation.
When you joined CSL Behring, where did you start?
When I first came in, I built a Center of Excellence (COE), hiring a group of data scientists and augmenting them with data visualization experts and developers that could go anywhere in the corporation and do advanced analytics projects for any interested line of business or operational area.
Once I had this team together, I needed to get the word out. We started publicizing through internal emails and then setting up meetings. During the first year, I had over 1,100 meetings with everyone from C-level executives to frontline workers in our factories, talking about advanced analytics and artificial intelligence and what it could do.
More than 400 people signed up to be part of our mailing list in the first year, and we connected with 80 people who were embedded in different business units already doing data science work.
From there, we looked for ways that we could come together on a regular basis. We held the first-ever Data Science Summit for the company in Bern, Switzerland where people from all over CSL discussed what they were doing, how they were doing it, and what they wanted to do.
We also created Special Interest Groups (SIGs) based on the feedback we received. We have SIGs on everything from using AI for drug safety to image analysis to R and Python. For each of these groups, there's an "owner" and they have regular meetings – which occur usually between every month and every quarter.
These groups now feed their interests back to the COE and we feed that back out to the Community of Practice to create an ecosystem to guide what needs to happen around the organization. These three structures allow people to have small enough, cohesive conversations whereby they can make progress, and a large enough community that can have impact.
Why a COE?
The Center of Excellence is a great concept that works well for many different kinds of organizations.
First of all, it gives organizations clarity around where they can ask questions. I have many executives, operational managers and subject matter experts coming to me asking:
"Hey, I'm thinking about doing X. Do we have any technology in this area? Have we done it before? Have we done anything similar?"
Having a COE gives people clarity on where they can go to ask these questions.
Second, it provides a focus on the technology to help the organization understand what's possible with AI and what isn't. There are some things that AI can currently predict with a great deal of certainty, and some things it can't. So it's a place of expertise to navigate this.
Finally, the COE provides an anchoring point to help bring together people from IT, operations, and other disciplines that are vital in bringing this work to fruition.
Line of business staff can sometimes be skeptical of centralized teams. How did you build support for your COE?
We made it very clear from the beginning that we were happy to help do projects on our own for other people, as consultants, but we were also happy to provide advice and support to those that were already doing data science projects. So we have people that come to us and ask for a data scientist or data visualization person to fill in a gap, and we can loan them someone from our team. And they come to us for expert advice on the best technologies to use to solve a challenging problem.
Hiring is always challenging. How did you build up a team from scratch?
You need to take your time and know what you're looking for. My view is you need a team with a few senior, PhD-level data scientists, and the rest can be talented up-and-comers. So, we just started putting it out there and we were quite pleasantly surprised with the quality and the volume of the people that came forward and said they wanted to work with us.
We also have five or six interns working with us at any one time because we like to hire right from either undergraduate or graduate levels. We have a relationship with a number of universities: the University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin, Drexel, and Oklahoma State University to name a few. And we have an intern come back two or three times before making a hiring decision. We want to have people around for a long time to make sure it's a good fit. And it pays off. Of our first six hires from 2018, for example, five are still with the team today.
How do you set your priorities?
From a use case perspective, we look at the business, and where the biggest need is right at that moment to make a difference for patients and our company. For example, with COVID-19, we had to shift our focus to help ensure we have enough plasma donations. Since everything that we do comes from human plasma, anything that causes people to not leave their house and come to the donation center can create challenges across all areas of the business. So we've been focused almost exclusively in the last six months on the plasma business, understanding donors and their concerns and how to respond.
From a process perspective, we generally focus on building systems and containers to go into production environments. Once a new model goes over to production, IT then takes over, handles the infrastructure, compliance and regulatory compliance. We retain authority and responsibility for the models themselves, monitoring model performance and retraining models when needed.
What advice would you give to others starting to build a COE?
First, as I mentioned earlier, you have to hire well. You need people on your team who can collaborate. Someone who can't collaborate and cooperate with the other team members is going to erode team cohesion and productivity. And all individuals need to have a sense of humility. If something isn't right, we need to be the ones to raise our hand and correct it.
Second, I believe the COE is an environment for creative professionals. It's not a technology team, it's not an IT team (and I think it's a bad idea for COEs to report to IT given the differences). We're not building the next ERP system or CRM system. We're taking many sources of data, and we're mashing them together, and we're trying to come up with new insights around what the possibilities are. Thinking about data science as a creative endeavor allows data scientists to investigate things that they're interested in. And sometimes you'll get nothing out of it. But other times you change the way the business operates. So inside our group, while we're constantly working to serve the needs of our line of business users and executives, we have a very free-flowing, experimentation-based approach.
Finally, the COE has to be able to effectively set expectations with subject matter experts, managers and executives who may not know what's involved in an advanced analytics project and what it takes to get it done. So it's important to set expectations that they'll get the groundbreaking work they want, but it can take time.
That said, we still want to be a nimble organization to help subject matter experts understand their business in new ways, as quickly as possible. I want to show that these things don't have to take weeks and months. So we iterate quickly with subject matter experts, and then once a model is built, we slow the cycle down for governance and production processes. And I do believe that having a nimble approach to building models really gives enjoyment and excitement to not only the data science team, but the people in the business.
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David Gordon Green's heavily hyped and anticipated remake of John Carpenter's 1978 horror movie classic Halloween takes an old standard, makes some intriguing tweaks, slaps on a new coat of blood red paint, and serves up a nifty balance of old school slasher movie shocks mixed with admirable, post-modern upgrades. In what's essentially the fifth hard reboot of the lengthy franchise – which is far too many for almost any series to sustain and remain relevant – Green pays homage to Carpenter's original vision, while simultaneously being the only sequel or spin-off to enhance its major recurring characters in any logical sort of way. It's still just another slasher sequel, but at least Halloween 2K18 has more earnest and thoughtful ingenuity than all eight of the other series entries to feature Shatner masked killer Michael Myers have put together.
Ignoring anything that wasn't the 1978 original, Green's take on Halloween opens with a true crime podcaster (Jefferson Hall) paying serial killer Michael Myers a visit at a high security mental hospital before he's due to be transferred to a new facility. Hoping to get to the bottom of what drove Michael to go on a killing spree forty years prior, the "investigative reporter" and his producer/co-host (Rhian Rees) make it a point of travelling to Haddonfield, Illinois – the site of Michael's massacre – to track down survivor Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). Laurie, who's made numerous attempts to get over her trauma and survivor's guilt over the past decade to almost no avail, has heard about Michael's impending transfer, and is ramping up the fortification efforts on her home and remaining at a state of constant preparedness and vigilance. Laurie is clearly distraught and broken, something that places a heavy amount of concern on her adult daughter, Karen (Judy Greer), and teenage granddaughter, Allyson (Andi Matichak). Of course, Michael's ill fated prisoner transport is due to go down on the titular holiday, and all of Laurie's worst fears are about to become a reality.
Director and co-writer Green is a curious, but well fitting choice to helm a Halloween sequel, as are fellow writers and frequent collaborators Jeff Fradley and Danny McBride (yes, THAT Danny McBride, who's an accomplished scribe in his own right). Green has primarily made three kinds of films: quiet, introspective, and intimate dramas (All the Real Girls, George Washington, Prince Avalanche), character driven Oscar bait (Stronger, Our Brand is Crisis), big budget stoner comedies (Pineapple Express, Your Highness, The Sitter). He's an auteur in the sense that his visual sensibilities rarely change between projects, but the tone and tenor of his films tends to vary wildly. Halloween might represent the biggest departure from Green's eclectic norm to date, but he also proves to be more than up to the task.
Green's sensibilities mesh nicely with the set of rules Carpenter laid out for his characters in the original Halloween. Michael Myers (played by a combination of stuntperson James Jude Courtney and actor/regular Carpenter collaborator Nick Castle, who's reprising the role for the first time since the original) isn't an unstoppable killing machine, but he's forceful, fearful, and ferocious just the same. Michael, a.k.a. The Shape, hasn't changed very much in terms of his slicing and dicing abilities, but it's known early on that beneath the hulking exterior, the killer is nothing but a pathetic looking old man. As his karmic counterpart, Laurie looks equally haggard by design. Instead of framing Halloween as just another franchise sequel, Green and his writers mount a tale of two people on a collision course for closure. While I'm sure someone will demand another sequel if Green's latest entry becomes a smash hit, there's always a sense of finality given off by both characters. There's a feeling throughout that only one of them can survive, and Green and his team do a fine job making sure that viewers are never certain who's going to end up coming out on top. It's the most natural and least forced pairing of these characters in decades.
Green, a filmmaker who isn't known for forceful displays of suspense, uses every trick up his sleeve to sell the intensity of Halloween. Leaning into his film's updating of John Carpenter's iconic, evocative, and deceptively simplistic musical score at every opportunity, Green directs with a serpentine sensibility. Nothing about Halloween is static, but it's also never chaotic. Visually, Green and cinematographer Michael Simmonds have made an ominous film that reflects perfectly the slowly stalking and perpetually driven nature of the killer and the constantly vigilant nature of his greatest foe. Sure, Green knows his way around the film's handful of gory set pieces (which are more gruesome than the original, but still focused more on the bloody aftermath of violent acts), plot twists (many of which are predictable, but effective in a crowd pleasing sort of way), and setting the stage for a new story (via one of the best opening scenes in any film this year), but it's the director's dexterity that makes Halloween such a delight. Green puts his authorial stamp on the events at hand, but remains in lockstep with Carpenter's original. While Carpenter might not have had a huge impact on this Halloween, Green leaves the horror icon's fingerprints all over the scenery, only ever one-upping the series creator via a bone chilling tracking shot where Michael's rampage begins unnoticed as crowds of trick or treaters roam the autumnal streets.
Unfortunately, the fact that Green remains so reverential to Carpenter's groundwork and framing means that Halloween is destined to feel like nothing more than a very good sequel. I suppose when the original film in question is one of the most critically and commercially revered horror films in history, there are worse things to be, but there isn't much about Green's Halloween that strikes as daring or all that original after the first thirty minutes or so, which is a shame since the set-up suggests something a bit more interesting than the aging killer versus an aging group of final girls trajectory and groove the material eventually settles into. While the addition of true crime podcasters is a cheeky modern updating, there's also a surrogate character meant to stand in for the original's Dr. Loomis (Haluk Bilginer, nicely filling the shoes left by Donald Pleasance) and yet another befuddled local sheriff (Will Patton), both of whom feel like stock sequel characters from any number of horror franchises. There's a bunch of side characters serving as unwitting bait for the killer, most memorably and hilariously a wise cracking child (Jibrail Nantambu, stealing every scene with gleeful, foul mouthed aplomb). There are some in-joke nods to missteps made by previous sequels, but nothing this film can do will shake the memory of the sheer number of times these characters have been ridiculously resurrected. It's like getting a really great meal from a chain restaurant. It's well crafted, made by people who care from the most basic of ingredients, and you'd happily order it again, but it's hardly life or game changing.
But for her part in providing a link between Halloween's past and present, Curtis commits fully, delivering some of her best work in a long time. Finally getting a chance to embrace and run with Laurie's understandably traumatised psyche, she's more compelling and chilling to behold than her enemy. Curtis also boasts exceptional chemistry alongside rising star Matichak (who herself puts a refreshing spin on the tiresome teenager in danger act) and Greer's consistently put upon and fed up daughter. As the film progresses, the film belongs just as much to Greer (who's also given her best role in quite some time) and Matichak, and their chemistry isn't in service of building bridges to future franchise pictures, but to enrich the story's increasingly weighty life or death struggle. By the time Green arrives at his film's rousing and raucous final showdown, all of them are given interesting character notes and tasks to accomplish, sending things out on the highest note possible.
Green's Halloween handily unseats every sequel, reboot, or remake that came before it, and while it won't do much to erase or rewrite the franchise's sloppy, cluttered history, it's one of only a handful of these kinds of films to feel like a necessary follow-up to an iconic original that took audiences by storm and force. It's still ultimately a film that's not much more than "fine for what it is," but at least it's never talking down to the audience.
Outside of shifting cultural tastes, the reason audiences don't get the same number of slasher movie sequels today that they got in the latter quarter of the 20th century is because people got fed up of soulless, reheated stories that felt like they were made by directors and actors on autopilot and funded by producers who were practically tallying the box office receipts before the final credits rolled. While many of Michael Myers' famed villainous contemporaries have failed to inspire much enthusiasm or good will with their rebooted efforts, at least audiences can rest easy knowing that at least one of these characters has returned to their spooky roots. Whether or not this Halloween will inspire others to follow in Green's footsteps remains to be seen, but a solid effort is still appreciated almost as much as a revolutionary effort when it comes to this type of material.
Halloween opens in theatres everywhere on Friday, October 19, 2018.


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Pennsylvania Coalition Hosts Press Conference on Path to Equitable Climate Solutions: Evolving Energy Policy and Strategies
(Feb. 13) Philadelphia, PA – PennFuture, in collaboration with Clean Air Council and PennEnvironment, will host clean energy and public health leaders from the Philadelphia-area to highlight the latest resources, research, training, and progress that citizens can draw upon to move toward a future that relies on clean energy and energy efficiency technologies during an upcoming discussion.
In addition to discussing the clean energy resources and jobs now available to local residents, the speakers will also address the need to find solutions for existing social inequality around access to those resources. The press conference, to be held at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 20 at the Community College of Philadelphia, will include speakers from nonprofit organizations, private groups, educational institutions, and city government, each working to build social equity while addressing climate change.
As the state seeks progress in growing the number of clean energy jobs available to all citizens, the speakers' work has included managing solar and energy efficiency training programs in Philadelphia, which are intended to provide opportunities for well-paying jobs in low-income neighborhoods. Speakers will address how clean energy is helping homeowners save money on their utility bills, reducing carbon emissions and air pollution, effectively improving public health, and building the economy.
WHAT: "The Path to Equitable Climate Solutions: Evolving Energy Policy and Strategies"
Joseph Minott, Executive Director, Clean Air Council
Gary Bixby, Director of Facilities, Planning and Construction Management, Community College of Philadelphia
Dr. Ruth McDermott-Levy, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Global and Public Health, Villanova University
Christine Knapp, Director, Office of Sustainability, City of Philadelphia
Steve Luxton, Executive Director, Energy Coordinating Agency
Jeff Colter, Field Supervisor of Weatherization, Energy Coordinating Agency
Jessica Ennis, Legislative Director, Climate & Energy, Earthjustice
WHEN: Tuesday, February 20 at 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Community College of Philadelphia, Center for Business and Industry, Room C2-28, 1700 Spring Garden St, Philadelphia, PA 19130
For visiting and parking information, please use this link: https://www.ccp.edu/about-us/locations/main-campus
RSVP: Please RSVP to PennFuture Director of Communications, Stephanie Rex at rex@pennfuture.org.
PennFuture is leading the transition to a clean energy economy in Pennsylvania, fighting big polluters with legal muscle, enforcing environmental laws, and supporting legislative policy that protects public health. PennFuture is engaging and educating citizens about the realities of climate change, and giving them the tools needed to influence lawmakers on the issues. Visit www.pennfuture.org for more information.
Stephanie Rex, PennFuture, 412.463.2942, rex@pennfuture.org
Russell Zerbo, Clean Air Council, 215.567.4004 x130, rzerbo@cleanair.org
Flora Cardoni, PennEnvironment, 716.830.9079, flora@pennenvironment.org


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'Sister Wives': Will Kody Brown's Wives Soon Be Practicing Long Distance Polygamy?
November 28, 2021 November 28, 2021 by Nikki Desrosiers 0 Comments
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In the latest episode of Sister Wives, the family is coming to terms with how much covid has really affected their relationships, both with Kody Brown and the other wives. While we know now that Christine did ultimately end up leaving Kody and moving back to Utah – there is a lot of discussion going on about the family's future and where they will plant their roots. Unfortunately, not everyone seems to agree on what that future looks like. Will the family soon be breaking apart and living in separate states? Will Kody be able to handle traveling that often? Read on to get the details on this unfolding situation.
Covid Is Tearing Apart The Brown Family
Because of intrusive changes to the laws in Utah regarding polygamy, Kody Brown and his entire family were forced to make the decision to leave their home state. At the time, they were unsure if or when they would ever be able to return.
Practicing polygamy had essentially become a felony offense in the state. Because their lives are so public, it became necessary for the entire family to move out of state in order to protect themselves from a potentially messy situation.
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With the family now living in Flagstaff, Arizona – the wives and Kody are living more separately than before. At one point the family's all lived inside a culdesac and interacted with each other daily. Unforuntately, that is no longer the case.
The wives' homes are currently spread out around Flagstaff, Arizona. And Unfortunately, due to Kody's covid restrictions, the family's aren't supposed to interact with each other at all.
Initially, Kody wanted all the wives and all the children to separately quarantine. He felt that this would not only keep them safe but keep him safe as well. The plan was for Kody to essentially be the only person traveling from house to house.
While in theory, this worked so long as Kody didn't see anyone outside the family, the wives weren't so keen on Kody's extra strict covid precautions and several of them chose to make their own decisions about how their individual units would interact with the world during covid – this culminated into Kody not really spending time with anyone but Robyn, whose home he ultimately spends the most time in.
The wives and their children are starting to feel the strain in their relationships as the holiday season approaches. The children desperately miss being able to interact with their other mothers and their siblings, and the resent is very blatantly being laid on Kody's shoulders.
Similarly, the wives are starting to question the validity of their polygamous relationship as the camaraderie and the support system between them continue to dwindle with time and space.
The Brown Family Plans For The Future
Recently, the family has been debating on whether they will remain in the Flagstaff area. At the time of filming, Utah had recently changed its laws yet again, taking the heat off of polygamy as a crime. This would leave the option open for the family to head back to Utah and resume their lives.
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At the time, Christine was very excited about the prospect of going home. Outside of her marriage and children, all of her family are back home in Utah. She and her children have always wanted to go back. Christine thought that if the opportunity came along to go back, that Kody and the other wives would be as excited as she was. Unfortunately, this was just not the case.
After taking a consensus among the wives, the majority vote was to stay and plant roots in Flagstaff. Eventually, they would move forward with the plan to build on the land in Coyote Pass. While the wives feel horrible that Christine was heartbroken, they acknowledge that they put a lot of effort into creating new lives in Arizona.
So, for now, at least, the ladies weren't considering heading back to Utah.
Kody Discusses Long-Distance Polygamy
Kody talks about how he sees the relationships between his wives and what might happen in the future. The reality celeb tells fans that because the wives have lived alone for so long now, he doesn't think that they miss living close together. Kody then reveals he has plural marriage friends who have wives that live in separate states.
He also begins to muse about the possibility of the wives individually choosing where their families would live.
"Who's to say that Meri couldn't live in Parowan [Utah], Kody said to the camera questioningly, "And who's to say that Christine couldn't live in Salt Lake [City, Utah]? And who's to say that Janelle and Robyn, because they love it so much here [in Arizona], couldn't just stay here?"
The Wives Put Their Foot Down
While Kody may have been receptive to the idea of everyone living in separate states, the wives agree that is a recipe for polygamous disaster.
According to Meri, even though her relationship with Kody is very damaged, she says her relationship with the other ladies and their children is one of the few aspects that still allows the situation to work for her.
Meri also says that the distance would even further damage her already flailing relationship with Kody Brown.
"I'm looking at it even from this place of, kind of, a fractured relationship," Meri told the camera during a confessional session. "Would it be any different if I was up at my b'n'b or something? No, it wouldn't. But you know what? It wouldn't help our relationship because I would be that far away."
Christine felt there was no way a marriage could function properly if the participants are separated by state.
Despite pushing the family to move back to Utah, she feels that everyone living even further from each other would diminish the relationships they all had with each other.
Janelle Brown spoke up to say that she also had no desire to leave. Kody's second wife says that living so far apart is not healthy for their family. She believes that in order for the concept of polygamy to work, everyone needs to be involved in each other's lives.
"If you are truly wanting to be a part of a cohesive family, you can't live that far apart from each other," she added in her section of the interview.
Where does Robyn stand on all this? In a conversation with Kody, she says she misses Utah but is afraid of how people might treat them. So, she is content to make a new life in Flagstaff, like Janelle. She says if Kody disregards her feelings and decides he wants to move, she would too.
Robyn says she go along with whatever he ultimately decided to do without question. "I'll do what I have to do," she said solemnly.
Was Kody Brown Predicting the Future?
Now, a year later, it's clear to see that the idea of long-distance polygamy didn't suit her. Christine also wasn't suited to continue on in Flagstaff. Judging from the information she has shared, Christine leaving was a culmination of multiple issues. One, of her wanting to move home and be happy with her children, and two, discontent with her relationship with Kody.
We also know that currently, Meri has been staying in Parowan, Utah, though she still remains married to Kody.
Fans of the show are wondering now, how bad things must have been inside the relationship. Two of Kody's wives have left the area, knowing it would further damage their family dynamic. Will the family survive the pandemic? Will they remain a unit or continue to break off one by one? Tell us what you think in the comments.
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Jill Oakes fonds
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Call Number: Mss 254, Pc 217, Tc 127 (A.99-44, A.99-92, A.03-13, A.03-123, A.04-207, A.04-208, A.04-209, A.05-112)
Title: Jill Oakes fonds.
Dates: 1989-1999.
Extent: 0.69 m of textual records and other material.
Biographical sketch: Jill Oakes was born June 14, 1952. She received a Bachelor of Human Ecology (1975), an Education Certificate (1976), a Master's of Science (1985) and a Ph.D (1988) from the University of Manitoba. In 1982, she earned her commercial pilot's licence. Oakes began lecturing at the University of Manitoba in 1987 and is currently a professor in the Department of Environment and Geography. She has also lectured as an adjunct professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Alberta, as well as in the Department of Anthropology and the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba. She has served as research associate for the Canadian Circumpolar Institute at the University of Alberta and, from 1993 to 1994, was Chair of Northern Studies in the Department of Native Studies at Trent University. Oakes' many accomplishments include the development of a certificate program for Aboriginal students interested in environmental studies and a Master's program proposal for an IDP Master's in Native Studies at the University of Manitoba. This proposal included three new graduate level courses which were approved by Senate in 1995. Oakes' work with museum collections has taken her on collecting trips to Greenland, Northwest Territories, Alaska, and the Far East of Russia for the Bata Shoe Museum, the McCord Museum, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and the Universities of Alberta and Manitoba. Oakes has researched, coordinated, and curated many exhibitions including the traveling exhibition "Coats of Eider," and a documentary film directed by Oakes.
In 1995, Oakes received the University of Manitoba Outreach Award and an RH Outstanding Research Award, as well as various awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Jill Oakes is the author of several publications and coordinator and co-lecturer in the Inuit Lifestyles Field Course conducted at numerous locations including Delta Marsh Research Station, Churchill Northern Studies Research Centre, Goose Bay, Labrador, Iqaluit, and Meanook Biological Station, University of Alberta.
Custodial history: The fonds was donated by Jill Oakes and the Department of Native Studies to University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections in several accessions between 1999 and 2005.
Scope and content: The A.99-44, A.99-92, A.03-13, A.04-207, A.04-208, and A.05-112 accessions contain records reflecting Oakes' teaching career as both an educator and writer. Included are Oakes' correspondence records regarding publication of her articles and reviewer's comments, Oakes' teaching dossier and her application for tenure. In addition to textual material, these accessions contain 146 photographs and 8 negatives documenting various department of Native Studies functions and igloo building as part of the Arctic Lifestyles course. Also included is one audio cassette of a seminar titld "Braving the Cold: Continuity and Change in Polar Clothing," which was held in Leiden, The Netherlands.
The A.03-123 and A.04-209 accessions consist of materials related to Oakes' research including correspondence, product development and marketing reports for the Minnguq Sewing Group. Also included are numerous artifact cards for the various materials collected by Oakes and her husband, Rick Riewe, on their collecting trips and for display in Oakes' exhibitions. The photograph collection includes one photo album (116 photographs) of the Minnguq Sewing Group of Broughton Island, 76 photographs and 75 negatives from Oakes trip to Denver, Colorado museums in 1997, and 4 VHS and 9 U-matic videocassettes documenting birdskin clothing preparation for the "Coats of Eider" project. Also included are 2 audio cassettes describing the birdskin clothing process. Much of the commentary contained on these audio cassettes is in Inuktitut.
Source of supplied title: Title based on provenance of fonds.
Restrictions: There are no restrictions on this material.
Accruals: Further accruals are expected.
Finding aid: Printed finding aids are available in the Archives reading room and an on-line finding aid is available at the link below:
MSS 254, PC 217, TC 127 (A.99-44, A.99-92, A.03-13, A.03-123, A.04-207, A.04-208, A.04-209, A.05-112).
MSS 359 Rick Riewe and Jill Oakes fonds
Digitized Material
UM Digital Collections: Jill Oakes fonds
URL: https://libguides.lib.umanitoba.ca/c.php?g=524276


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DOI:10.4103/INJMS.INJMS_135_19
Hypokalemic paralysis due to primary sjögren syndrome: Literature review
@article{Rissardo2020HypokalemicPD,
title={Hypokalemic paralysis due to primary sj{\"o}gren syndrome: Literature review},
author={J. Rissardo and Ana Let{\'i}cia Fornari Caprara},
journal={Indian Journal of Medical Specialities},
pages={51 - 53}
J. Rissardo, A. Caprara
Medicine, Psychology
Indian Journal of Medical Specialities
Dear Editor, We read an article in "Indian Journal of Medical Specialities" with great interest. Singh et al., in 2019, reported a case of an adult female who presented with acute quadriplegia and respiratory distress. A diagnosis of renal tubular acidosis (RTA) type 1 (distal) was made. On further tests, antiSjögren's syndrome (SS)-A/Ro and antiSS-B/La were strongly positive. A diagnosis of SS with hypokalemia due to RTA and demyelinating pure motor axonal polyneuropathy was made. After 3…
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Recurrent Attacks of Hypokalemic Quadriparesis: An Unusual Presentation of Primary Sjögren Syndrome.
S. Seirafian, M. Shafie, A. Abedini, Bahram Pakzad, P. Roomizadeh
A 64-year old woman with recurrent attacks of hypokalemic quadriparesis which resulted from distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) secondary to Sjögren syndrome is reported, suggesting investigating the possibility of Sj Ögren syndrome in all patients with clinically unexplained dRTA.
Hypokalemic paralysis revealing Sjögren's syndrome
I. Taylor, M. Parsons
Hypokalemic paralysis as a presenting manifestation of primary Sjögren's syndrome: A report of two cases
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A high index of suspicion for pSS should be kept in all patients with hypokalemic paralysis and on work up found evidence of distal RTA, which on further work up was found to be secondary to pSS.
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The diagnosis of primary Sjo¨gren's syndrome should be considered in premenopausal women who present with rapidly progressive weakness and hypokalaemia, with or without the sicca complex.
Primary Sjogren's syndrome presenting as hypokalemic paralysis: A case series
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Renal tubular dysfunction can be the presenting manifestation of primary Sjögren's syndrome, and it is important to consider the possible presence of this disorder in adults with otherwise unexplained distal RTA or hypokalemia.
Hypokalemic Paralysis due to Primary Sjögren Syndrome: Case Report and Review of the Literature
A. Garza-Alpírez, A. Arana-Guajardo, J. Esquivel-Valerio, M. A. Villarreal-Alarcón, D. Galarza-Delgado
Case reports in rheumatology
The evidence suggests that there is an inflammatory background and therefore a potential serious affection to these patients, such as hypokalemic paralysis, and therefore the value of adding corticosteroids as a standardized treatment of this manifestation is needed.
Sjögren's syndrome presenting as hypokalemic paralysis.
J. Muthukrishnan, S. Dawra, V. Marwaha, C. Narayanan
Medical journal, Armed Forces India
Hypokalemic periodic paralysis in Sjogren's syndrome secondary to distal renal tubular acidosis
H. Yılmaz, M. Kaya, M. Özbek, K. Üreten, İ. Safa Yıldırım
Rheumatology International
A 53-year-old Turkish female presented with progressive weakness and mild dyspnea and autoimmune and other tests revealed Sjögren syndrome as the underlying cause of the distal renal tubular acidosis.
Sjogren's syndrome with distal renal tubular acidosis presenting as hypokalaemic paralysis
G. Vaidya, S. Ganeshpure
BMJ Case Reports
It was concluded that the distal RTA secondary to Sjogren's syndrome was the cause of severe hypokalaemia in the patient and the favourable response of the patient to potassium replacement alone.
An Unusual Initial Presentation of Sjögren's Syndrome: Severe Hypokalemic Paralysis Secondary to Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis.
E. Sengul, Fatih Bunul,
E. Binnetoğlu
The Eurasian journal of medicine
A case of a 48 year old women admitted to the emergency setting with severe hypokalemic paralysis and diagnosed Sjögren's syndrome is described.


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Hans-Dieter Paufler (* 14. Februar 1935 in Dresden; † 25. Juli 2014 in Berlin-Kaulsdorf) war ein deutscher Romanist und Hispanist.

Leben und Werk
Paufler studierte ab 1953 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bei Kurt Baldinger. Er promovierte 1964 bei Rita Schober mit der Arbeit Zu Problemen der Stellung des attributiven Adjektivs im Altspanischen (erschienen u. d.T. Strukturprobleme der Stellung attributiver Adjektive im Altspanischen, Halle a. S. 1968) und habilitierte sich 1968 bei Werner Bahner und Johannes Klare mit der Schrift Studien zur spanischen Sprache unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der lateinamerikanischen Variante. 1969 wurde er Hochschuldozent für Französische und Spanische Sprachwissenschaft. Von 1974 bis 2000 war er an der Humboldt-Universität Professor für Romanische Philologie.

Weitere Werke
 Lateinamerikanisches Spanisch. Phonetisch-phonologische und morphologisch-syntaktische Fragen, Leipzig 1977

Literatur
 Romanische Sprachen in Amerika. Festschrift für Hans-Dieter Paufler zum 65. Geburtstag, hrsg. von Kerstin Störl und Johannes Klare, Frankfurt am Main 2002

Weblinks
 https://www.verlag-vwm.de/index.php?id=cetest_firstpage&tx_vrportrait_pi1%5Bnavi%5D%5Bpage%5D=26&tx_vrportrait_pi1%5Buid%5D=3769 (mit Bild)
 http://lexikon.romanischestudien.de/index.php?curid=713

Romanist
Hochschullehrer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Deutscher
Geboren 1935
Gestorben 2014
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Michigan Schools Transgender Directive
April 22, 2016 Abuse and Neglect Attorney
Posted by Abuse and Neglect Attorney on April 22, 2016 April 28, 2016
Is This a New Form of Abuse?
According to a new directive which the State of Michigan Board of Education is hoping to put in place in the near future, a student may choose their own gender without the school being required to inform their parents.
"Picking their own gender" may sound like a strange concept to some. But in this modern world, where more and more people are realizing that genders are not quite as black and white as previously assumed, this is becoming more and more commonplace. But the fact that it is happening in a school, where the choices are being made by minors without the consent of their parents? It's leading some to the conclusion that this may in fact be child abuse.
The recommendations were developed after several Michigan school districts sought guidance from the state regarding how they should handle the exclusion and discrimination of transgender students. And civil liberties groups are saying that what the Board of Education has done is the only fair way to handle the situation.
The result was this newest proposal, which would allow transgender students to use which ever bathroom aligns with their own gender identity. In addition to picking the gender they believe they align with, students would also be allowed to select which pronoun school staff use when addressing them. And to top it all off, the school may not share this information with the child's parents unless the child provides their permission.
But according to the American College of Pediatricians, "Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse." In a report released by the ACP entitled "Gender Ideology Harms Children", statistics are explained which backs the ACP's position on this matter.
For example, a survey conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force of 6,450 transgender people revealed that suicide rates are 20 times higher among adults who undergo sex-reassignment surgery and use hormone therapy to induce a physical sex-change.
In addition, a report compiled by the World Health Organization reveals that 50 percent of transgender youth attempt suicide at some point, and that individuals who struggle with "gender dysphoria," have higher rates of drug abuse, unemployment struggles, and homelessness.
This is a contentious issue indeed. Many people feel on both sides feel very strongly about this issue, and so it will not be a subject that is quickly and quietly resolved. One thing to remember is that while these are recommendations, they are not laws. Each school district will still have a choice as to whether or not they adopt any or all of these policies, or disregard them in favor of other solutions.


"I suspect that the wise men and women up in Albany who thought of this brilliant idea don't get to the supermarket that much," read a letter published in this past week's Hamodia.
The writer was referring to New York State's new ban on plastic bags, and the impact it will have on people like her.
In approving the ban, set to go into effect next March, New York became the second state to impose such a rule; California banned plastic bags in 2016. Hawaii effectively has a statewide ban, since all its counties bar the use of plastic bags.
New York's ban applies to most single-use plastic bags provided by supermarkets and other stores. Individual counties will have the option of charging five cents for paper bags, with two cents going to local governments and three cents to the state's Environmental Protection Fund.
The justification for such bans is that plastic bags, like other non-biodegradables, are not good for the environment. When they are disposed of carelessly, they are an eyesore, lying in gutters and caught in tree branches; they clog drains; even in landfills they can release dangerous chemicals over time that can cause harm to plants and animals. In particular, when they end up in the oceans, they cause great damage to marine animals. And even plastics touted as biodegradable are implicated in such harm.
But it is important, and the mandate of elected officials, to balance larger concerns like environmental pollution with the daily life concerns of the people and communities they represent. And many of their constituents, particularly in certain communities, will be affected in a negative way by the new ban.
For better or worse, plastic bags, like cars and airplanes, have become part of normal contemporary life for many. And, like cars and airplanes, despite their downsides, they provide considerable benefits to those who use them. They are easy to carry, leak-proof and sturdier than paper bags.
Paper bags, moreover, have a negative environmental impact as well. It takes four times as much energy to manufacture a paper bag as a plastic one, and paper has to come from trees, a natural resource that fights air pollution. Paper bags take up more space in landfills and, in fact, don't break down any faster than plastic in landfills.
And reusable cloth bags, touted as the best alternative of all, are mixed blessings too. A study by the University of Arizona found that 50 percent of all reusable bags contained food-borne bacteria like salmonella, and 12 percent contained E. coli. Harmful bacteria can thrive in reusable bags unless users clean them properly after each use with soapy water that is at least 140 degrees, not something that most, or any, consumers will do. Some imported reusable bags have even been found to contain toxic lead.
So there is no magic bullet, or bag, here. And so what is left is that balancing of environmental harm against the needs and preferences of the public.
Rather than take the easy but drastic route of banning a long-used and valued product, there were and are other ways to address plastic bag pollution. New York streets are often strewn with all sorts of refuse, from aluminum cans to plastic packaging to pizza boxes and other terrestrial jetsam and flotsam. Plastic bags are a mere part of the eyesore, and our taxes pay for their removal. If streets are cleaned properly and often, plastic debris will not end up in drains or, from them, into waterways and oceans. Tightening regulations and services would go a long way toward lessening New York's contribution to marine pollution — which is largely the product of China and Indonesia.
And technological solutions to chemicals leaking into the ground from landfills can and should be pursued — after all, plastic bags are the least of the dangerous materials dumped in landfills.
For now, though, families across the state, including those in our community, will be wise to begin stockpiling plastic bags over the coming months to use and reuse after the ban, which is only on stores, not individuals, takes effect.
And we can hope, though there's not much reason for optimism, that New York's legislature and leadership might come to realize in time that not only are there other ways to prevent plastic bag pollution but that the currently favored alternatives present problems of their own. And that their positions and votes on this issue didn't do any favor to the hard-working men and women of this state.


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Gas is cheap, but for many motorists there's nowhere to go
by: DAVID KOENIG, Associated Press
Gas USA is selling gas for 97.9 cents a gallon, Monday, March 30, 2020, in Cleveland. Oil started the year above $60 and has plunged on expectations that a weakened economy will burn less fuel. The world is awash in oil, meanwhile, as producers continue to pull more of it out of the ground. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
DALLAS (AP) — U.S. gasoline prices have dropped to their lowest levels in four years, and they are almost sure to go lower as oil prices plunge.
Price-tracking services put the national average Monday around $2 a gallon. Some stations were spotted charging under a dollar.
But don't expect a stampede to the pumps. Demand is weak because so many Americans are under shelter-in-place rules and businesses have been shuttered because of the coronavirus outbreak.
"For most Americans who are home practicing social distancing and not driving to work or taking their children to school, you are only filling up maybe once a week, maybe every couple of weeks," said Jeanette Casselano, a spokeswoman for the AAA auto club. "You are not reaping the benefits."
Prices have plenty of room to keep falling — maybe below $1.50, according to analysts.
Patrick DeHaan, an analyst for price tracker GasBuddy, said that eventually retail prices will reflect the even faster decline in wholesale prices
"Retailers are taking their time lowering prices because they have a lot of uncertainty around the corner," DeHaan said, adding that the practice boosts service station profit margins. "We've never seen gasoline retailers doing as well as they are now."
Investors expect weak demand to continuing pushing gasoline prices lower. Contracts in New York for gasoline futures plunged to well under $1 a gallon on Monday.
Oil accounts for about half the price of gasoline, and the drop at the pump is shadowing the steep slide in crude, which briefly on Monday hit the lowest levels since 2002. Benchmark prices for U.S. and international crude have both fallen by more than half in the past five weeks, as more Americans and Europeans have come under lockdown, cutting into demand for oil, and Saudi Arabia and Russia engaged in a price war.
Falling prices is likely to lead to less production in the Permian Basin of west Texas and New Mexico and other U.S. oilfields. Chevron is cutting back spending in the Permian, where shale drilling turned the U.S. into the world's biggest oil producer.
AAA put Monday's national average for gasoline at $2.01 a gallon, down from $2.69 a year ago. GasBuddysaid it was $1.99. Both were within 20 cents of price lows set in early 2016 and late 2008, according to government figures.
The cheapest prices are in a swath of the country from Texas to Wisconsin and Michigan, with most states in that band averaging under $1.77 a gallon. At the other end were California, at $3.06, and Hawaii, $3.36 on average.
Carrie Antlfinger in Milwaukee contributed to this report.


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Q: On a used Nutanix/Supermicro server, I can't see an added SAS drive from the bios even though I can when installing Ubuntu from USB Bought a used Nutanix 2-node server. It has a SATADOM boot drive in the motherboard with Nutanix software and CentOS. I want to just run bare metal Ubuntu server so attached a 4TB SAS drive to the from and booted from Ubuntu boot USB. I targeted the SAS drive for install and everything went as expected. However, I can't boot from the SAS drive. Not visible in bios, and not visible from CentOS using df or fdisk commands.
The SAS drive is new. And because it's visible to the Ubuntu installer, I assume there are no issues with motherboard power. Is there something obvious I'm missing. I'm familiar with desktops and consumer-grade hardware, but this enterprise server stuff is still quite new.
Thanks.

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Q: How to write a function that accepts two lists as input and returns their dot product I'm still learning basic of Maya Python script, and it's hard for me to catch up. Actually I don't really understand how dot product works. So it's hard for me to understand what it means by 'function that accepts two lists as input and returns their dot product'. Can somebody help me?

A: def dot(l1, l2):
    return sum(x*y for x,y in zip(l1,l2))

Or use numpy, but the output is a numpy array.
import numpy as np
result = np.dot(numpy.array(l1), numpy.array(l2))

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Actually I don't really understand how dot product works.

Given two vectors a = (a_1,a_2,...,a_n) and b = (b_1,b_2,...,b_n), the dot product is the sum a_1b_1 + a_2b_2 + ... + a_nb_n.

In Python:
def dot(a, b):
    if len(a) != len(b):
        raise ValueError("a and b have differing sizes")

    sum = 0

    for i in range(len(a)):
        sum += a[i] * b[i]

    return sum


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Q: Failed to find jdk I am trying to install android sdk, but I am having a problem. First, I have installed java (JDK) 7u5 and then I tried to install android sdk 20.exe then I got the below error. How can I fix that problem ?

A: *

*First, find out where you have JAVA folder on your machine.

*Second, make sure it has JDK also not just JRE.

*Third, create environment variable--Computer right click--> properties--->Advanced settings   --create JAVA_HOME varaible and set the JAVA folder path there. Make sure bin folder is not included in classpath.

A: After Installing JDK you have to set the path in eclipse as to where you JDK exists. Please go through these steps:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/installing-adt.html


Mastering Azure Analytics, Integration of Things, Techorama and more!
It's been a while since I've written a new post for the simple reason that I didn't have any time left. Behind the scenes I was doing a ton of things that you might like.
I had the oppertunity and honor to review Zoiner Tejada his new book "Mastering Azure Analytics" which covers basically everything going from how you get the data in Azure to how you can store it to what the options are for analyzing the data and much more.
Personally, I think this is a great book that is well written and easy to read, even if you are not an expert on the topic. By using fictious cases you also see the benefits of certain techniques and why they are better over the other one.
I can only recommend this book to both data engineers/scientists as well as developer because it enables you to learn what the benefits are for your data team and will help you decide what the best data store is to optimize the processing. If I were you, I'd go visit my local book store and buy it!
Microsoft Azure has over 20 platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings that can act in support of a big data analytics solution. So which one is right for your project? This practical book helps you understand the breadth of Azure services by organizing them into a reference framework you can use when crafting your own big data analytics solution.
You'll not only be able to determine which service best fits the job, but also learn how to implement a complete solution that scales, provides human fault tolerance, and supports future needs.
Over the past months, if not year, I've been working on a whitepaper called "Internet of Things" that highlights the differences and similarities between traditional integration and internet of things solutions.
At first these might seem totally different but in the end you can re-use a lot of integration concepts and priciples but it also comes with new challenges such as higher security risks.
In my paper I also refer to the relevant services that are part of the Microsoft Azure offering that can help you when building your own internet of things solutions and provide further reading for those that are interested.
You can download my whitepaper here, let me know what you think about it!
At Codit we've started an internal project called Santiago that is a visitor system that is being used in our brand new office. When you arrive you can checkin with Alfred, our butler, and the person you're meeting will be notified.
Global Azure Bootcamp is back on Saturday 22nd of April where you can join AZUG at Codit and learn all about Microsoft Azure! We have a pretty nice line-up of speakers talking about a variety of topics, you can find more information here.
Want to see a specific topic at AZUG? Feel free to let us know!
Techorama is one of the biggest IT conferences, if not the biggest, in Belgium and is bigger than ever! On 22nd - 24th of May you can either attend workshops, the conference itself or both and learn from technology leaders in the industry to learn all about the latest and greatest. I'll be joining the Techorama crew but you should join as well!
Tom Kerkhove works for Codit as an Azure Architect, is a member of the AZUG crew and has been a Microsoft MVP & Azure Advisor since 2014. He turns coffee into scalable & secure cloud systems.
Talking about Azure Application Monitoring on .NET Rocks!


We just released our third annual Prophet Brand Relevance Index™, and while some of the results are somewhat predictable–yep, Apple, Google and Amazon still rule the rankings–we see intriguing consumer shifts that have implications for all marketers.
First, technology brands continue to dominate, and all of the top 10 are tech-led. But what propels them to the top isn't so much digital prowess as the ability to give people experiences that are immersive and enjoyable. Consumers live, work and play in a connected, digital world, so the brands that deliver useful, accessible and enjoyable digital experiences are going to be the most relevant to their lives.
But how they do so is critical. Take Pinterest, which ranks No. 5 overall, and No. 1 in its ability to inspire people. Despite its reputation for bridal boards and cupcake fever, it's relevant no matter how we cut the data–by age or gender or education level. Yet no other social media platform even cracks the top 50. (That's especially astonishing since most Americans now check Facebook, which comes in at a lowly 103, at least several times a day.) Consumers regard other social media brands, including Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter, as mere utilities or delivery services. Pinterest alone transports them to a world where they can experience more of what makes them happy.
And while consumers interact with apps all day long, only one–Waze, at No. 35–ranks in the top 50.
The growing importance of personalized experiences give companies like Spotify and Netflix a leg up on relevance stalwarts like Crest, Tide and BAND-AID. But all brands can become more relevant by innovating new, customizable products and services, while still maintaining dependability and quality.
Why the fixation on relevance? It's because we believe that it is the single biggest determining factor for a brand's long-term success, encompassing high demand, strong appeal, and products and services that add value to a customer's life. (Here's how we know we're on to something big: Revenue growth of the most relevant brands in our Index have outperformed the S&P 500 average by more than 35% over the last decade.)To measure relevance, we asked 13,500 American consumers to rank 275 brands on a series of attributes that fall under four key principles of relevance: Customer obsession, ruthless pragmatism, pervasive innovation, and distinctive inspiration.
Besides revealing categories that are shifting–beauty is struggling, with both L'Oréal and Sephora plunging in the Index compared to last year, and sharing economy brands are soaring, with Uber and Airbnb among the Index's highest risers–this year's results also underscore fundamental truths about what today's consumers expect from brand interactions. And it turns out we're more alike than different.
Red state? Blue? Who cares? Politics may divide Americans on many levels, but when looking at the top 10 most relevant brands for red states versus blue states, seven out of 10 are the same. Only two brands–PlayStation and NPR–performed better in blue states versus red.
Millennials–they're just like us! Nine out of 10 brands are the same in the overall sample and millennial's top 10 list. Although Netflix surprassed Apple, ranking as the most relevant brand to millennials.
Men and women see brands differently For women, the most relevant brand is Google, while for men, it's Apple. Women tend to see NPR, Fitbit and Keurig as more relevant. And men seem to prefer Pandora to Spotify, but for women, it's the reverse.
Hedonism helps us One in five of the top brands is an entertainment company, including Netflix, Pixar, Disney, Blizzard, Xbox, Nintendo, EA, HBO, YouTube and Sony. As a society, we're placing more value on being entertained, a key insight for brands in any category. And our desire to play is powerful. There are more gaming platforms in the top 50 than financial services, airlines, restaurants and auto brands combined.
Want to read more? We also rank brands in the UK, Germany and China.
Thank you for reading my latest post and please follow me at @scottdavisshift to see more of what is on my mind.


Smackdown this week came from Knoxville, Tennessee and as the last show before the big Survivor Series Pay-Per-View on Sunday, it had major implications on the weekend's showdown.
Smackdown opened with Michael Cole interviewing Triple H ahead of the big Team Cena vs Team Authority battle in St Louis.
With team leader John Cena absent from the event, he caled the other members of Team Cena out to the stage for a big announcement.
Afrer watching a segment from Cena's interview with Michael Cole on Wednesday, he made the announcement that the members of Team Cena will be fired if the Authority win on Sunday.
However Cena himself won't be fired but will be punished until he inevitably quits the WWE in an announcement that rocked the entire team.
Almost all members of Team Authority were in action on the night in three very big matches.
The main event was a big time tag team match between four of the men who will compete in Sunday's big match.
The match would end on a disqualification after Rusev, Luke Harper and Mark Henry would get involved and that would start a heavy beatdown.
All members of Team Cena would be laid out by the end as the Authority was left standing tall as Smackdown ended.
Ziggler took on the big Bulgarian and put in a very good showing in a physical match between the two which opened Smackdown.
Rusev would inevitably get the win without any assistance from the rest of Team Authority as Ziggler's bad week continued.
Cesaro may not be in the big match on Sunday but he has clearly aligned himself with the Authority, and he was challenged to take out Rowan on Smackdown.
As expected, this was a physical match with Rowan getting the win off a very unique move forcing Cesaro to tap out.
After the match Rowan's former family member Luke Harper would circle the ring as the tension between the two continued to build.
On Monday night we saw Brie Bella dressed as AJ Lee take on Nikki, tonight we saw AJ dressed as Nikki take on Brie.
AJ got a great reception in her Nikki costume and the Divas champion even emerged victorious.
Two of the teams in Sunday's fatal four way match for tag team championships squared off with one of the most bizarre endings yet.
As the Usos and Gold and Stardust watched on, Miz was tossed into the Usos and that lead to Mizdow jumping into the tag team champions.
Los Matadores got the win after pinning the Miz keeping them on good form going into Survivor Series.
Ambrose told a story from his childhood and explained how his entire body is a weapon he will use to hurt Bray Wyatt.
Wyatt then responded from a prison cell, claiming that the two will destroy each other come Sunday.


Every parent is a working parent. And a lot of us know sleep is important. We've heard about the different types of sleep cycles that we go through (ideally) several times a night, but did you know that research has shown that there are also natural cycles during the day as well?
Unfortunately, most of us are too busy to notice– we just compensate by grabbing a sugary snack or another caffeinated drink to get through the 3 o'clock slump.
In a recent book called "The Way We're Working Isn't Working", author Tony Schwartz tells about an experiment where researchers watched to see when people naturally want to rest each day. Guess when it happens? Can you say, "Siesta"—between 1 and 4 pm every day.
If a nap is out of the question, read on for some things you can do to replenish your energy during the day and throughout the week.
*Work for no more than 90 minutes at a time on intense, more high-demand tasks and then take short breaks- go for a walk, breath deep or just do something different.
*Do your most demanding, top priority item first thing each day when your energy is highest.
*Pick certain times each day when you turn off your email and your cell phone in order to fully focus and to really unplug.
*Tackle your most challenging issues on Tuesday and Wednesday, which studies show are our highest energy days.
*Save your planning, reading, creative and more relational activities for Friday- right before you head into the weekend when you are most tired from a long week.
*Plan ways during your weekends to get longer times doing things that recharge you physically, emotionally and spiritually.
What one thing do you want to try next week to see if it helps you achieve a more healthy rhythm of work and rest?
Put it to the test- commit to focusing on one thing at a time for 90 minutes and see if you get more done in a few of these more intense cycles (adding up to just 4 total hours of work) with breaks in between- compared with what you used to get done in a whole day!


China Economic Net, (CE.cn), a large economic news portal, has released the latest ranking of the top 20 richest cities in China. Surprisingly, large cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen didn't make it.
On this criteria, Dongguan, one of the four most vibrant cities of Guangdong Province, won the title of the richest Chinese city, followed by Xinjiang's Karamay and Jiangsu's Suzhou.
Read on to find who made the top 10 list.