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Current status of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) exposure among mothers and their babies of Korea-CHECK cohort study
Sooran Choi, Hai Joong Kim, Sunmi Kim, Gyuyeon Choi, Sungjoo Kim, Jeongim Park, Soon sup Shim, Inae Lee, Sungkyoon Kim, Hyo Bang Moon, Kyungho Choi, Jeong Jae Lee, Su Young Kim
Despite the global ban, organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been a persistent and significant environmental health issue worldwide. Prenatal exposure to these persistent organic pollutants (POPs) has been identified as a major route of exposure among developing fetuses and newborn infants. Among Children's Health and Environmental Health of Korea (CHECK) cohort population, pregnant females (n = 148) and their matching newborn infants (n = 117) recruited from four cities of Korea in 2011 were investigated. The blood serum and cord blood serum were sampled at delivery, and measured for 19 OCPs and 19 PCBs. In addition, a questionnaire regarding demographic characteristics, and dietary habits were conducted. The most frequently detected POPs in both maternal blood and cord blood were p,p′-dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethylene (DDE) (99% detection in maternal, and 98% in cord blood serum) and PCB153 (95% in maternal, 74% in cord blood serum). The levels of dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethanes (DDTs) in both maternal (average 82.5 ng/g lw) and cord blood serum (average 77.5 ng/g lw) were comparable to or greater than those reported in Japan about a decade ago. Approximately two thirds of the pregnant women and newborn infants showed the p,p′-DDE concentrations exceeding the biological equivalent (BE) corresponding to 10− 6 excess cancer risk. In addition, less chlorinated PCBs were detected higher in both maternal and cord serum. Less chlorinated PCBs also showed greater transplacental ratio. Dairy consumption among the subjects was positively associated, and tea consumption was negatively associated with serum levels of several POPs. Our results show that the exposure to legacy POPs, especially DDTs, among pregnant women and newborn infants is still prevailing, thus warrants measures for exposure mitigation among these vulnerable populations.
Science of the Total Environment
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.232
Published - 2018 Mar 15
Trichloroethanes
Dichlorodiphenyl Dichloroethylene
organochlorine pesticide
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Choi, S., Kim, H. J., Kim, S., Choi, G., Kim, S., Park, J., ... Kim, S. Y. (2018). Current status of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) exposure among mothers and their babies of Korea-CHECK cohort study. Science of the Total Environment, 618, 674-681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.232
Current status of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) exposure among mothers and their babies of Korea-CHECK cohort study. / Choi, Sooran; Kim, Hai Joong; Kim, Sunmi; Choi, Gyuyeon; Kim, Sungjoo; Park, Jeongim; Shim, Soon sup; Lee, Inae; Kim, Sungkyoon; Moon, Hyo Bang; Choi, Kyungho; Lee, Jeong Jae; Kim, Su Young.
In: Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 618, 15.03.2018, p. 674-681.
Choi, S, Kim, HJ, Kim, S, Choi, G, Kim, S, Park, J, Shim, SS, Lee, I, Kim, S, Moon, HB, Choi, K, Lee, JJ & Kim, SY 2018, 'Current status of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) exposure among mothers and their babies of Korea-CHECK cohort study', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 618, pp. 674-681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.232
Choi S, Kim HJ, Kim S, Choi G, Kim S, Park J et al. Current status of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) exposure among mothers and their babies of Korea-CHECK cohort study. Science of the Total Environment. 2018 Mar 15;618:674-681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.232
Choi, Sooran ; Kim, Hai Joong ; Kim, Sunmi ; Choi, Gyuyeon ; Kim, Sungjoo ; Park, Jeongim ; Shim, Soon sup ; Lee, Inae ; Kim, Sungkyoon ; Moon, Hyo Bang ; Choi, Kyungho ; Lee, Jeong Jae ; Kim, Su Young. / Current status of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) exposure among mothers and their babies of Korea-CHECK cohort study. In: Science of the Total Environment. 2018 ; Vol. 618. pp. 674-681.
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Home Caribbean Barbados News Barbados records solid tourism performance in 2018: official
Barbados records solid tourism performance in 2018: official
William "Billy" Griffith
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar 10, CMC – Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI), William "Billy" Griffith, says Barbados recorded a "solid" tourism performance in 2018, revealing that the country enjoyed a 2.7 per cent increase in stay-over arrivals last year, compared to the corresponding period in 2017.
In a statement on Saturday, Griffith said that during the course of 2018, the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) welcomed 681,197 visitor arrivals – 17,686 more than 2017.
At the Bridgetown Port Inc. (BPI), he said the island's cruise tourism was "significantly impacted" by the effects of vessel re-deployments following hurricanes in 2017.
"This was due to the fact that Puerto Rico, the primary home port for US-based sailings to the southern Caribbean, was severely affected," Griffith said. "However, Barbados has been resilient, and through new home-porting business, saw a performance of 826,267 arrivals for both transit and home-porting visitors combined.
"I am delighted by this news and what it says about Barbados' tourism product," added Griffith.
"It is never easy as a mature tourism destination to maintain growth at these levels in the competitive business landscape in which we operate. But I am pleased that, through strategic marketing efforts, we have once again proven Barbados' value as shown by the record number of arrivals at both the air and sea ports throughout 2018," he continued.
Of the five markets, Griffith said the United States registered the strongest growth with 8.4 per cent, producing 204,830 visitors to the island compared to the 189,022 arrivals in 2017.
He said other Caribbean islands followed, contributing 4.6 per cent growth of business with 77,149 arrivals for the year.
Visitors from Canada grew by 1.8 per cent to 86,723 arrivals, and the United Kingdom contributed 1.4 per cent growth of the business, recording 225,519 arrivals, compared to the 222,346 recorded in 2017, Griffith said.
He attributed the destination's noteworthy performance to a number of strategic and integrated marketing initiatives, which were deployed across Barbados' top source markets.
"I must commend our tourism teams, both here and in our global offices, whose efforts were instrumental in us achieving this record 2.7 percent growth," he said. "They did a great job individually, and that's reflected when we look at our overall reporting."
"One of the key components in achieving positive tourism performance is, of course, the accessibility of the destination to visitors around the world," Griffith added. "Bearing this in mind, we have worked to ensure that we are both maintaining our current airlift, while adding new, enticing services to our repertoire, for example the new Copa partnership."
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In winter 2017/2018, the BTMI also joined with GAIA in welcoming Virgin Atlantic's new London Heathrow twice-weekly service to Barbados, which re-commenced December 2018, Griffith said.
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In the United States, Griffith said American Airlines announced the addition of a third flight from Miami, which commenced December 19, and a daily flight from Charlotte also started on the same day.
In flights out of Canada, Griffith said West Jet saw an 8 per cent increase in seats last summer between May and October, and last winter, Air Canada also increased capacity by 75 per cent from Montreal, with a large aircraft and three weekly flights.
"Considering the numerous new and increased services, we also saw it important to ensure that we had adequate and quality accommodations available to the additional arriving passengers," Griffith said.
He also acknowledged the contribution of the new business that the recently opened Sandals Royal located on Maxwell Beach has already brought to Barbados.
"While we celebrate the numerous successes of last year, we are already full-steam ahead with our plans to make sure that 2019 is an equally promising year of growth for Barbados tourism," he said. "We have high hopes for our new airline partnerships, new hotel accommodations, new product development, and other new marketing activities in which we will be engaging across our source markets.
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Ayotlán Municipality is a municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of  518.57 km.

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 35,150.

Place Names
Ayotlán comes from "Ayotl" (its former name) and means "place of turtles" or "squashes"

History
In 1583 the Spaniards called it "and Ayo el Chico" to distinguish it from large town that was near San Pedro Piedra Gorda, in the now state of Guanajuato. In the year 620 and 623 came the Aztecs found the place already populated by indigenous groups. About 10 km south of the town is a hill called "Old Town" which was the first seat of the population. Before the conquest had approximately 15,000 Indians living scattered throughout the Valley Coin. Manor depended Coin, whose capital was Tototlan. Worshiped "Ixtlacateolt", highly revered deity in the contours of Chapala lake. The natives had erected shrines or "cues" on the hill of the Villas.

Olidsent by Hernán Cortés in the conquest of Michoacán in 1521, and registered as a resident grabbed the Ayotl natural. Valley Coin was given instructed to Juan de Villaseñor the Elder, who ruled 9 years. When Nuño de Guzmán arrived in the population, the 16 February 1530, ignored the rights of Villaseñor. Ayotl was then under the jurisdiction of the Nueva Galicia. The people of Ayotl participated in the war Miztán in 1541 then was encomendero Verdugo Fco. They burned the church and their houses and went back to Peñoles Coin. The number of natives amounted to 12,000 rebels. On October 26 the same year, personally Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza besieged El Penol with a powerful army and gave them so fierce battle that nearly ended with them.

The town dates from October 8, 1884.

Geographical description

Location
Ayotlán is located at coordinates 20 ° 20 '05 "to 20 ° 37' 30" north latitude and 102 ° 15 '00 "102 ° 39' 40" west longitude at an altitude of 1.630 meters above sea level.
The town is bordered on the north by the municipalities of the Atotonilco El Alto, Arandas and Jesús María, on the east by the municipalities of Jesús María, Degollado the south by the municipality of Yurécuaro the west by the municipalities of La Barca and Atotonilco El Alto.

Localities
has over 100 towns of Acahuales la colonia de villafuerte, La Isla, El Palo Blanco, la ladera grande, la ladera chica. (San Miguel de Acahuales), Agua Blanca, Ayotlán, Betania, Cañada de San Ignacio, Carboneras, Carretas, Colonia Lázaro Cárdenas (El Sicuicho), El Bajío (Bajío de Tejas), El Caracol, El Chaveño, El Edén, El Fraile, El Jaral, El Ojo de Agua, El Rosario, Granja Ballesteros, Granja la Gaby, La Concepción, Las Higueras, El Venado, El Guayabo, Mirandillas, El Volantin, La Raya, La Nopalera and La Esperanza.

References

Municipalities of Jalisco
Populated places established in 1884
1884 establishments in Mexico

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Тре́йси Э́ллен Ко́лдвелл-Да́йсон (; род. 14 августа 1969, Аркейдия, Калифорния, США) — астронавт НАСА. Совершила два космических полёта.

Образование
 1987 — окончила среднюю школу города Бьюмонт ().
 1993 — окончив Университет штата Калифорния в городе Фуллертоне (), получила степень бакалавра наук в области химии.
 1997 — окончив филиал Калифорнийского университета в городе Дейвис (), стала доктором (PhD) в области химии.

Профессиональная деятельность
 Во время учёбы в Фуллертоне Трейси занималась разработкой и проектированием различного оборудования, электронных блоков для приборов, используемых в исследовании химического состава атмосферы.
 с 1997 года, после окончания университета, работала в другом филиале Калифорнийского университета в городе Ирвайн (), где занималась научными работами в области химии атмосферы.

Карьера в НАСА
 4 июня 1998 года была зачислена кандидатом в астронавты НАСА 17-го набора.
 в августе 1999 года, по окончании курса ОКП, получив квалификацию специалист полёта, была назначена в Отдел астронавтов НАСА.
 в 2000 году была астронавтом поддержки для членов экипажа экспедиции МКС-5, кроме того во время работы экипажей 4-й, 5-й и 6-й экспедиций МКС была оператором связи в центре управления полётами.
 в 2003 году переведена в отделение эксплуатации шаттлов.
 17 мая 2006 года получила назначение в качестве специалиста полёта (MS1) в экипаж шаттла STS-118.

Космические полёты
 С 8 августа по 19 августа 2007 совершила свой первый космический полёт в качестве специалиста полёта в составе экипажа миссии Индевор STS-118. Стала 458-м человеком и 290-м астронавтом США в космосе. Продолжительность полёта составила 12 суток 17 часов 55 минут и 34 секунды.
 21 ноября 2008 года Трейси получила назначение в основной экипаж 23-й экспедиции на МКС. 2 апреля 2010 года стартовала к МКС на корабле Союз ТМА-18. Она вошла в состав долговременных экипажей МКС-23 и МКС-24. 25 сентября того же года, Колдвелл-Дайсон с другими членами экипажа вернулась на Землю на корабле «Союз ТМА-18».
 в 2022 году включена бортинженером-2 в состав дублирующего экипажа транспортного космического корабля «Союз МС-23» и основного экипажа «Союз МС-24»

После полётов
21 марта 2017 года Колдвелл-Дайсон вместе с астронавтом Кристофером Кэссиди участвовала в церемонии подписания президентом Дональдом Трампом билля с бюджетом НАСА, предусматривающим не только поддержку МКС, но и работы по подготовке пилотируемой экспедиции к Марсу. Во время церемонии астронавты подарили Трампу официальную лётную куртку НАСА.

Награды
 Медаль «За космический полёт» (2007 год и 2010 год)
 Медаль «За выдающуюся службу» (2010 год)
 Медаль «За заслуги в освоении космоса» (Россия, 12 апреля 2011 года) — за большой вклад в развитие международного сотрудничества в области пилотируемой космонавтики

Личная жизнь
Состоит в браке. Увлечения: бег, силовые тренировки, походы, софтбол, баскетбол, ремонт автомобиля, времяпрепровождение с семьёй и собакой.

Интересные факты
Доктор Колдвелл является вокалисткой рок-группы Max Q, в которой участвуют только астронавты.

Колдвелл-Дайсон консультировала Джессику Честейн во время подготовки к съёмкам фильма «Марсианин». Честейн сказала, что Колдвелл-Дайсон её вдохновляет.

Примечания

Ссылки

 Космическая энциклопедия
 Official NASA Bio
 Spacefacts biography of Tracy Caldwell

Астронавты США
Женщины-космонавты
Выпускники Университета штата Калифорния в Фуллертоне


What do Antipodeans seek in Tuscany and what do they find? Germaine Greer went from rapture to rejection, Robert Hughes from rapture to Time, David Malouf from disappointment to appreciation and New Zealand troops from Chianti to Florence, which they helped liberate in World War II. The responses have been richly varied during the 150 years Tuscany has been a magnet and a benchmark. Antipodeans have found welcome echoes and unexpected resonances but this is the first time their story has been told with such flair and nuance.


Data comes from 22 key informant interviews (two District Medical Officers, two District Reproductive and Child Health Coordinators, 8 WAJA, 2 District WAJA Coordinators, and 4 nurses and 4 clinical officers) and 4 focus group discussions each with 6-8 providers.
Some in attendance called it a "renaissance," a welcome reversal from the past, when the West African Journalists Association, known as WAJA, was mainly a male club.
52 305m Stadium Bookmakers Sprint Trophy Heat 1 1 Wajas Trump (P C White, Notts) 2 Ballymac Little (R Devenish, Pbrgh) 3 Southern Henri (m) (C R Lister, Unatt) 4 Riverside Breda (m) (R Devenish, Pbrgh) 5 Tiermana Power (m) (C R Lister, Unatt) 6 Shakeitup Tricky (w) (R Holt, Donc) 21.
22 over 680m, but Chris Allsopp's Wajas Way can confirm last week's supremacy over his Sidaz Bandit in the non-SIS finale over 305m at 10.
40 (435m): Dampen The Dust, Fredas Daisy, Wajas Storm, Thunder Hazel, Doopys Ark (W).
Paul White's Wajas Trump completed a four-timer in the 305m sprint open.
42 (435m): Meabh Fancy, Slip Katie, Glass Ofguinness, Wajas Patch, Sunoak Lark (W), Freddiefasttrack (W).
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Unemployment is a major problem, but unscrupulous frauds can betray their entire generation when they behave in a treacherous manner.
This is a true life story of how an unscrupulous fraud(we'll call her UF) betrayed her employer and also an entire generation.
A small business owner called UF for some work.
After 2 days, the business owner decided that UF was too cunning and arrogant to be assigned any further work.
Unknown to the business owner, UF had a lot of powerful relatives and friends.
They spread completely false rumours that UF was doing all the work, when UF was doing nothing.
UF was also given powers of surveillance over the business owner, so that she could perfect her lies.
Now the business owner is facing a lot of problems even accessing her old investments.
4.lives with a big joint family.
Now the UF is considered a role model for an entire generation because she behaved in such a cunning crooked manner.
Why do powerful people provide so much support and protect such unscrupulous cunning crooks, who are liars and want to grab what is not theirs?
As is her second nature, this fraud is claiming to be involved in this website along with others, when she is doing nothing . That is why this post has been made to expose her lies.


Three meditations on organic existence and the search for meaning in the face of the infinite: From Jean-Frédérick Neuburger a world premiere offering a view of the mystery and terror of the dawn of life. From Bartok, a vitalist momentum in us that seeks to rise only to wilt, then finds a balance in the intuitive creative rhythms of human community. From Beethoven, a struggle between the artist and posterity, triggering a pure, unadulterated gratitude that overflows into an affirmation of life and human strength. All this at Symphony Hall on Thursday!
Like an emblem of personal creativity and collective gratitude, Neuburger's Aube was commissioned by the BSO at Dohnányi's request, with support from both public and private foundations. The 11-minute piece uses orchestration to provide structure to seemingly random sonic events, a revised form of musique concrète by way of Debussy's colorism. Restrained, elegant, nuanced and engrossing, it began with a menacing rumble, then sheets of crescendos, followed by clock-like rhythms and culminating in a majestic horn call as a soft awakening. Evoking a cacophonic jungle of clashing, disproportionate forces, macro and micro forms searched for a way to coexist in a dark, dazzling space. The effect was mysterious and alien, like a primordial void (tohu va bohu) in which life emerges by testing inchoate possibilities. Reaching a peak in a piercing crescendo, stabilizing in tremors in the strings, evoking energy transfer and the beginning of symbiosis, the music then died away into rumblings, with a sudden brief appearance of magical sounds at the end. Neuburger was on hand to receive a warm reception from the crowd after the performance.
There is a baroque austerity to Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; its slow-fast-slow-fast format is reminiscent of a sonata da chiesa, and the tightly controlled architectural structure allows the musical ideas to blossom with a wild extravagance. For instance, the first movement is a slow fugue consisting almost entirely of subject entries, starting on A and moving alternately up and down the circle of fifths to climax fff at E-flat, continuing around in a slow diminuendo with the subject inverted. Dohnányi gave it a distinctive interpretation. Dohnányi took the first three movements at a moderate pace, imbuing the opening Andante tranquillo with a persistent, forceful sense of anxiety, soft and muted with celeste downplayed, building to a tense climax and then sliding back down to a soft fade, feeling like a loss of vital energy. The Allegro was dark and menacing, swirling slurs, slides and glissandos everywhere, anxious and nervous, near-panic amid the cacophony. A surprisingly slow trio section pizzicato, then a return of the Furies, somehow under control now. The "night music" Adagio was not threatening, but rather it evoked a mysterious, magical space, a view of the celestial at the periphery of the Universe and a working out of and release from anxiety, preparing nicely for a convincing emphasis on the final movement. The Allegro molto was joyous, lively and quick, evoking a great urban folklore in which intuitive personal rhythms coalesce into a complex entangled bank leading to frenzy and mania. The fugue subject returning pressed forward rather than upward, with pockets of exhaustion and lucid regret; at the end a determination to continue the dance, leading to a sudden collapse.
In the second half came a seeming world premiere. Beethoven's E-flat Major Piano Concerto has, of course, been heard before, but this performance felt fresh and new, not at all like a "war horse". Rather, it presented an exciting confrontation and subsequent mutual embrace between artist and collectivity. Starting in medias res with a brisk, forceful opening, orchestra and piano were fully equal in authority from the start. Helmchen's playing was supple and fluid yet firm as he pressed the orchestra forward with urgency and energy in an agonistic relationship. The BSO sound was smooth and clean, the horn playing as beautiful as the piano's. Helmchen shaped the dynamics elegantly within phrases, the soft passages particularly smooth and lyrical, as he delicately plucked the fire from Heaven to share it with us. The Adagio was hypnotic, meditative, gentle and ecstatic, becoming lively and swelling with bliss in the variations. An air of expectancy in the transition blossomed uncontainably into the joyous Rondo, piano and orchestra swept into mutual understanding and love, dancing together now in a celebration of life. Dohnanyi's reading was strikingly not triumphalist; instead, the momentum grew out of an intense gratitude that brought together the mysterious joy of the creator (piano) with the yearning of the orchestra, their mutual need generating a wonderful concordance, Jacob and the Angel's struggle now become a dance, "the only dance there is". The audience and posterity approved the interpretation with a collective standing ovation and thunderous applause.
I'd never before heard Helmchen– or even heard of him. But he is a very stimulating and interesting player. He doesn't do the weighty bronze tone of some past giants, preferring a lighter and clearer sound. Modern-sounding, but with indication that he's thought about what is easier to hear with a fortepiano than a Steinway. More of a French sound, perhaps? He was much more flexible and full of humor than Glenn Gould, but had some of that clarity and energy.
On Saturday's performance, Dohnanyi wasn't quite up to the soloist's alertness. If Helmchen was frisky and mercurial, offering a real dialogue on a new topic using many voices, the orchestra was left slouching on its heels (or other more upholstered regions). They did play awfully well, and they were never out of step with the pianist, but it was more of an accompaniment in the old sense than a real partnership. In those few moments when all of the players could hear the piano and each other clearly, i.e., didn't need a conductor's help, they added much more to the conversation.
It would be interesting to hear Nelsons do a project with this young man.
Camilli: what you heard as an inability to keep up sounded to me like a deliberate artistic choice. The effect was to produce a vision of a lone heroic voice urging the collective forward. That would certainly be in keeping with Beethoven's view of the role of the artist in bringing about a just society.
Camilli's mention of a fortepiano made me laugh, because during the opening cadenza I found myself thinking "this sounds almost like a fortepiano." I was not thinking of a light, tinkly sound, but of a deep, rich timbre, a sonority with grain in it, as if the huge glistening Steinway was made of wood rather than onyx and obsidian. I liked Helmchen very much, and think both Camilli and Leon Golub capture his virtues well. He was original, but in the same way that the composer is original. He was not particularly imperious, until you realize that the apocryphal French officer who gave the work its unfortunately ineradicable nickname was thinking (in his apocryphal mind), not of some Roman or Holy Roman Emperor, but of the rare Emperor who was also an adventurer. There is a great spirit of adventure and discovery in the work, and this Helmchen captured. I admit I was also well-disposed towards him as soon as he came out looking like some kind of early nineteenth-century Romantic hero, long hair and long tails, slightly abashed, like a young Franz Liszt or Johannes Kreisler.
I noticed a few times during the concerto that I wasn't noticing the orchestra. I think Camilli's point about it being like an accompaniment is dead on. They were doing their jobs, and well, but nor much more.
The same can not be said for the first half, in which the orchestra was superb. I found the Neuburger work to be fascinating. Like Leon Golub I thought of Debussy, not because of any obvious resemblance, but because like, for example, La Mer, it is best experienced through immersion. Within its sound-world its mulifarious events had an inexplicable logic, a kind of post-facto inevitability. It was a very assured work for a twenty-eight-year-old composer with little previous experience writing for a full orchestra, and presumably few previous opportunities to work with one.
The problem is that there is too much music.
So far this season, I've attended five BSO concerts. In three of them, there was a first performance of a new piece: one their first performance of a piece they had co-commissioned, "Divisions;" another an American premiere of a co-commission, "Mannequin;" and, most recently, the world premiere of their commission, "Aube" (to say nothing of the Tchaikovsky and Elgar pieces they had either never performed or never in Symphony Hall). There may be some recent music which readily discloses its value to non-musicians, but for me and, I suppose, many others, multiple hearings are needed before I really know it well enough to have a solid opinion.
All I can say of these three new pieces which are, in a way, the BSO's "babies" is that they were not unpleasant to listen to, and that they seemed to fit the composers' concepts. But when, amid all the standard repertory and the recording cycles, will the orchestra perform these pieces enough for us to become familiar with them?
Management should make it a rule that every new piece they perform must be presented again in subscription concerts within three years and once more within another six years (twice in the case of works they commissioned).
Most of the music on this year's subscription programs is worth playing, But I don't think we need Petrushka again so soon; ditto, the Organ Concerto, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,La Mer, and La Valse. If it weren't for the Shakespeare festival, there'd be no need for the Romeo and Juliets. As for Rapsodie espagnole: does the BSO play it too often, or is it just WCRB?
Last season saw the BSO perform pieces by Dean, Ešenvalds, Dorman, Birtwistle, Gandolfi, Schuller, and Adès for the first time. How many will they do again in Boston during my lifetime, to say nothing of within the next couple of years? How many times will they give us more Strauss tone poems or Tchaikovsky 5th and 6th before we can hear this and last years' new music? It's not that I don't like the classics. I want to hear the Beethoven symphonies (except the 4th) and concertos, Mozart, Schubert, Berlioz, and Mendelssohn in Symphony Hall. I'd just like additional chances to hear (most of) this new music.
>> don't think we need Petrushka again so soon; ditto, the Organ Concerto, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,La Mer, and La Valse.
Also hear. Though I'd love to hear Neuburger's Aube on a program with La Mer.


Rumors are swirling that Jed Donahue will soon be suspended. The former jalapeno champ was recently seen in a photo with a paid programming personality best known for selling vacant building sites in central Florida. "While the photo is truly disturbing there is much more to the investigation," said a source.


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Our Native Maples are disappearing from the landscape of rural southern Ontario.
In the late 19th century, farmers planted roadsides and lane ways with maples from their woodlots in return for a government incentive. This gave rise to a legacy of lines of maples and other hardwoods bordering roads and dividing farm fields.
Many of these trees are now degrading and are not being replaced by Native Canadian Maples.
It can be cheaper but ultimately less effective to plant a cultivar or invasive species which has been imported from elsewhere, often the United States. We think it's important to re-introduce and further restore Native Maples as a visual feature on the rural landscapes in southern Ontario.
What is so special about Native Canadian Maples?
The maple leaf is Canada's national and arboreal symbol. As such, we should encourage the planting of native maples in this country as a symbol of national pride and identity.
Maples provide their glorious fall colours which are the envy of many, and are sought after by fall-colour bus and train tour operators and others who appreciate the beauty of our native maple trees. Muskoka's local fall revenues illustrate this.
Native trees are naturally adapted to the local climate, site conditions and growing with other indigenous species
They are relatively resistant to severe weather events as was demonstrated during the recent ice storm. Native trees recovered best from the 1996 ice storm as well.
They have evolved with local insects and disease pathogens, and pest problems tend to be minimal
They perpetuate local ecosystem functions such as soil and water conservation and wildlife habitat – food and shelter
In urban and rural areas, maple trees provide multiple values, including aesthetic beauty and urban shading and its associated reduction of summer electrical power requirements. Erosion control, dust interception, forest products, and surface water run-off management are other important values.


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Little Laos Rejects DHS visa sanction against Laos in exchange for accepting deportees
Little Laos Editorial Board and its mother org, The SEAD Project, condemns the latest level of aggression from the Trump administration against Laos and refugees and immigrants from Laos. On Tuesday, July 10th, DHS (Department of Homeland Security) officially issued its first set of visa sanctions on Laos, stating its reason that the Lao government refuses to take back its nationals with deportation orders, also known as final orders of removal.
This is the beginning of its sanctions, which targets Lao government officials and their immediate families. The US Embassy in Vientiane has stopped issuing B1, B2, and B1/B2 nonimmigrant visas. While this impacts Lao governmental officials who may be traveling to the US, the announcement incites unnecessary fear and completely fails to inform communities that this policy implication will impact Lao, Hmong and other ethnic groups from Laos who came as refugees with permanent status and had criminal convictions that they've already served time for and that this can also include those who are undocumented or simply have expired green cards that they were unaware of– which are all grounds for deportation.
According to SEARAC, since 1998, 4,568 individuals from Laos have been issued deportation orders. Of that number, there have been a total of 206 deportations, with 4,362 still waiting in the US. "We can't forget that these are our families, friends and neighbors who came as refugees and immigrants to escape the dire conditions in Southeast Asia of America's war at the time, and have been living here for decades contributing to the social, cultural and economic fabric of America. This is their home now. And they are humans, too. We should do everything in our power to work with our community members in amplifying their stories and keeping families together. This will only exacerbate and strain US-Laos relations," says Chanida Phaengdara Potter, founding editor of Little Laos on the Prairie and executive director of The SEAD Project.
Read the full DHS announcement here or below. Check the FAQs on what this announcement means.
DHS Announces Implementation of Visa Sanctions
On July 10, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced, in coordination with the State Department, the implementation of visa sanctions on Burma and Laos due to lack of cooperation in accepting their citizens who have been ordered removed the United States.
Pursuant to her authority under Section 243(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen notified Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the governments of Burma and Laos have denied or unreasonably delayed accepting their nationals ordered removed from the United States.
As a result, Secretary Pompeo has ordered consular officers in Burma and Laos to implement visa restrictions on certain categories of visa applicants. Without an appropriate response from Burma and Laos, the scope of these sanctions may be expanded to a wider population. The suspension will remain in place until the Secretary Nielsen notifies Secretary Pompeo that cooperation on removals has improved to an acceptable level.
The decision to sanction a recalcitrant country is not taken lightly. DHS makes significant efforts, in collaboration with the State Department, to encourage countries to accept the prompt, lawful return of their nationals who are subject to removal from the United States. Those efforts include diplomatic communications at the highest level of government.
As a general matter, recalcitrant countries who refuse to issue travel documents render meaningless the United States' entire removal process as enacted by Congress in the INA, and such countries also fail to meet their international treaty obligations to take back their nationals who have been ordered removed.
Further, based on the Supreme Court's decision in Zadvydas v. Davis, with narrow exceptions, aliens with final orders of removal, including aliens determined to pose a threat to the community or considered a flight risk, may not be detained beyond a presumptively reasonable period of six months if there is no "significant likelihood of removal in the reasonably foreseeable future." When recalcitrant countries like Burma and Laos delay or refuse to issue travel documents to their nationals or refuse to accept their nationals within this time period, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be required to release dangerous criminals into communities across the United States.
Ultimately, without a travel document issued by an alien's home country to confirm identity and nationality, ICE cannot complete the removal process of most aliens, with very limited exceptions.
Burma and Laos have not established repeatable processes for issuing travel documents to their nationals ordered removed from the United States. For this reason, ICE has been required to release Burmese and Lao nationals into the United States, some with serious criminal convictions.
Specific sanctions effective dates are listed below:
BURMA: As of July 9, 2018, the U.S. Embassy in Rangoon, Burma has discontinued the issuance of all B1 and B2 nonimmigrant visas for current officials at the Director General level and above from the Burmese Ministries of Labor, Immigration, and Population (MOLIP) and Home Affairs (MOHA), and their immediate family members, with limited exceptions.
LAOS: As of July 9, 2018, the U.S. Embassy in Vientiane, Laos, has discontinued the issuance of all B1, B2, and B1/B2 nonimmigrant visas for current officials at the Director General level and above from the Lao Ministry of Public Security (MPS) as well as their immediate families; and all A3 and G5 nonimmigrant visas to individuals employed by Lao government officials, with limited exceptions.
The Department of State may change the covered visa applicants or visa categories at any time. Visa suspensions may include any categories of visa or visa applicants, as determined by the Department.
Keep posted on upcoming interviews about the immigration landscape and how it will impact Lao Americans.
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so I would download a bunch of intraday data, for a bunch of securities, but we keep hitting our monthly cap limit. We don't want to upgrade to a more expensive package as this is simply a research project we have underway.
Ideally, I am trying to map the volume weighted bid-ask spread through time on the market, however, to my knowledge, Bloomberg doesn't currently compile such fields that would make this easy. To construct it manually is pretty straight forward, grab the bid, ask, and volume tick data for the securities in question, and calculate the volume weighted bid and ask spread. Given the number of data points however, you can understand how data caps would be quickly hit.
Is there some way to write a formula that would run this daily, weekly, whatever calculation on the Bloomberg side before being sent the data as a single cell representing my calculation? Something like an SQL query or something? Or is this not possible?
You can do this in VBA or Python. Bloomberg has a SDK (software development kit) and provides examples for how to download data. Ask Bloomberg support, they will give you further guidance.
Maybe using a custom CIX could be of benefit to you?
It allows you to define custom Bloomberg formulas on realtime and/or historical data.
Bloomberg does not provide such services but you may inquire. The solution is to use excel or R package to do the job in the background but you may hit your limit. In the end you may have to increase your limit.
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Q: How to give keyboard focus to a pop-up Gtk.Window I have a pop-up window (created using the WINDOW_POPUP type) which contains some widgets on it, including a text entry. The problem is that the entry doesn't get the focus when I click on it, so I can't type anything. Is there any flag I have to set to allow the window to get the keyboard focus?

A: You can not use WINDOW_POPUP for gtk-windows that require the focus. Instead you should use a GtkWindow with type GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL and call the next functions (or methods)
GtkWindow *result = g_object_new(GTK_TYPE_WINDOW, "type", GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL, NULL);
gtk_widget_set_can_focus(result, TRUE);
gtk_window_set_decorated(GTK_WINDOW(result), FALSE);
gtk_window_set_type_hint(GTK_WINDOW(result), GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_POPUP_MENU);
gtk_window_set_transient_for(GTK_WINDOW(result), main_top_level_window);

This worked for me ... unfortunately the icon in the window-list blinks short when this 'popup' is destroyed

A: Despite the previous answers and the GTK Reference, it is possible to grab the keyboard focus when using a GTK_WINDOW_POPUP. You need to connect to the "show" event...
GtkWindow *w = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_POPUP);
g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(w), "show", G_CALLBACK(on_window_show), NULL);

... with a callback that tries to grab the keyboard:
static void on_window_show(GtkWidget *w, gpointer user_data) {
    /* grabbing might not succeed immediately... */
    while (gdk_keyboard_grab(w->window, FALSE, GDK_CURRENT_TIME) != GDK_GRAB_SUCCESS) {
        /* ...wait a while and try again */
        sleep(0.1);
    }
}

That works for me pretty well.

A: #include <gtk/gtk.h>

static gboolean delete_event( GtkWidget *widget,
                              GdkEvent  *event,
                              gpointer   data )
{
    g_print ("delete event occurred\n");
    gtk_main_quit ();
    return TRUE;
}

static void destroy( GtkWidget *widget,
                     gpointer   data )
{
    gtk_main_quit ();
}

int main( int   argc,
          char *argv[] )
{
    GtkWidget *window;
    GtkWidget *windowpopup;
    GtkWidget *button;

    gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

    /* create a new window */
    window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
    windowpopup = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
    gtk_window_set_transient_for(GTK_WINDOW(windowpopup),GTK_WINDOW(window));
    gtk_window_set_destroy_with_parent(GTK_WINDOW(windowpopup),TRUE);
    gtk_widget_show (windowpopup);

    g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (window), "delete_event",
              G_CALLBACK (delete_event), NULL);
    g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (window), "destroy",
              G_CALLBACK (destroy), NULL);

    /* Creates a new button with the label "Hello World". */
    button = gtk_button_new_with_label ("Hello World");

    g_signal_connect_swapped (G_OBJECT (button), "clicked",
                  G_CALLBACK (gtk_widget_destroy),
                              G_OBJECT (window));

    gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), button);

    gtk_widget_show (button);
    gtk_widget_show (window);

    gtk_main ();

    return 0;
}


Somehow I missed doing a book round-up at three, so here's one at three and a half (the last one was at two). This is by no means complete, it's just a few of the more notable works. As you'll see, most of these were recommendations from friends, so I feel I should pass them on further.
These have been a staple of bed-time reading for the last four months. There are four books, each with five stories of around twelve pages.
They are "early reader" books, with simple sentences and restricted vocabulary, but they are remarkably sophisticated given those constraints. See the Atlantic essay "Frog and Toad and the Self" for an explanation of how this works. The "Collection" only contains three of the books, which we augmented by buying the missing one, so I would recommend getting the hardcover Storybook Treasury which contains all four books (Amazon UK, Wordery).
In the same Early Readers series, we also enjoy Russell Hoban's Frances books (hat tip Immi/Kat).
This is surreal in an entertaining and appealing way, and visually quite entrancing as well (Amazon UK, Wordery). This was a chance discovery in the Old Hall bookshop in Brackley. There's a second book (with the same protagonist, in a similar vein) Can I Build Another Me? but that wasn't quite so much of a hit (it might work better with slightly older children).
These will need no introduction. Helen has just reached the point where she will comfortably sit through a chapter of Alice or a Winnie-the-Pooh story. Though she sometimes wants more pictures, mostly any complaints are about slightly scary events. I've just replaced a beaten up old paperback Alice with a nicer one (Amazon UK, Wordery) and we have a boxed four-book Winnie-the-Pooh set (Amazon UK, Wordery).
These are fairly obvious Beatrix Potter look-alikes (from the 1930s, so the language is a bit more modern), but nicely done (Amazon UK, Wordery). In a more modern vein yet, I have picked up a Complete Brambly Hedge on sale, but we haven't tried that yet.
This is a series of stories about toys who live in a house by themselves. We first encountered one at nursery, then I picked up Old Bear Stories at the Broadleaf bookshop in Abergavenny (Amazon UK, Wordery).
We've had this around for a while, but it's only just taken off. Grandpa's non-directive prompting and encouragement of Mabel's storytelling is a lesson in itself. Now out of print.
This is one of the nicer poetry anthologies for younger children I've seen. It's plentifully illustrated, and the poems are a good combination of traditional and more recent (though editor June Crebbin perhaps includes a few too many of her own poems).
There are many versions of this, but Beck's illustrations are lovely. The text follows Prokofiev fairly closely, and we follow along with Bramwell Tovey's combined narration/direction of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
There's been an unexpected revival of interest in old board books such as Owl Babies, Who Am I? Snowy Animals, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and Toddle Waddle. Possibly because several months ago I (once, in passing) suggested we could get rid of the first two of these, but perhaps also because she also knows them almost off by heart and thus can "read" them herself.
Helen is very keen on the one Sarah and Duck book we have, but I'm not so taken by it - it doesn't really capture the spirit of the television program, and doesn't stand up to multiple rereadings.
I really like Aaron Becker's wordless Journey (Amazon UK, Wordery), but after a few "readings" Helen decided it was too scary and though she picked the sequel Quest to buy in a bookshop, never took to that either.
And interest in the Paddington and Madeline stories has disappeared completely, despite my occasional suggestions.
We've read the first book of Mango and Bambang stories (about a girl and her tapir), but they're a little bit long for Helen and bits of them are a bit too scary.
Possibly my favourite book that I read to my kids is Quentin Blake's The Green Ship. Adventure, drama, and, an implied healing. Recommended for parents and children alike.
Also, Big Pig's Hat by Willy Smax.


Percepium is proud to be team and goldsponsor to Team Rynkeby 2018. Team Rynkeby is a Nordic charity cycling team. Every summer we cycle to Paris to raise money for seriously ill Children. This year Percepium CEO will take part of team Helsingborg (Sweden) and cycle to Paris as part of our engagement to this admirable project and cause.
Team Rynkeby comprises 1,900 cyclists and 450 volunteers, divided into 48 local teams in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Team members are selected from thousands of applicants.
For almost a whole year participants must not only prepare themselves for the 1,200 kilometre trip to Paris but they are also obliged to do what they can to raise money for children with critical illnesses. In 2017 Team Rynkeby donated EUR 8.8 million to organizations that help children with critical illnesses.


Polycab India's (Polycab) initial public offering (IPO) provides investors with a unique opportunity to be a part of India's largest wire and cable manufacturer. The total issue is pegged at Rs 1,345 crore, which consists of primary as well as secondary sale of shares, valued the company at nearly Rs 8,000 crore at the upper end of its price band of Rs 538 per share.
The company is the largest wire and cable manufacturer in India with an estimated market share of 12 percent. The product suite includes a wide range of offering -- power cables, solar cables, building wires, communication cables and specialty cables -- which find use in a range of industries such as power, petrochemicals, metal and mining, communication and railways.
While cable and wires remains its core business (90 percent of revenues), the company also a small presence in the engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) space through which it provides electrical turnkey solutions to its clients. In 2014, the company forayed into the fast moving electrical goods (FMEG - fans, lighting and luminaire products, switchgears, switches and pumps) segment to leverage its existing brand as well as distribution channel.
The company was established as Sind Electric Stores in 1964 by Thakurdas Jaisinghani and is currently promoted by the second as well as third generation of the Jaisinghani family (promoter group) who together hold around 79 percent stake in the company.
After the IPO, stake of the promoter group will reduce to 69 percent. While the family holds majority stake, the company is professionally managed through key management personnel such as Ramakrishnan Ramamurthi (CEO), Gandharv Tongia (CFO) and Manoj Verma (COO).
What are the key positives?
The domestic wire and cable market is growing 10-12 percent per annum and the current market size is estimated in excess of Rs 52,000 crore. Polycab is the largest player with a double-digit market share. Havells, Finolex and KEI follow with an almost equal share of 5 percent each.
The historic revenue growth of Polycab has been in-line with the industry and the same is expected to continue as the cables and wires market continues to expand on the back of government's focus on power, infrastructure and housing. The company is also exploring export opportunities through strategic tie-ups in the international markets (US, Europe, Middle East and Africa).
The company has a consistent track record and has delivered a topline growth of over 12 percent in the last four years. Earnings growth has outpaced topline on the back of richer product mix and expansion in its operating margin. Leverage remains comfortable at 0.2 times and debt mainly comprises short-term loans for its working capital requirements.
Despite being an asset heavy business model with in-house manufacturing, the company has generated healthy return ratios through prudent working capital management. Its return on capital stood at nearly 20 percent in FY18 and 9M FY19.
While the company has a strong B2B (business to business) focus, its B2C (business to consumer) presence (total 25 percent of revenues) continues to improve with expansion in the FMEG segment. The segment achieved breakeven in FY17 and turned around in FY18 as it generated around Rs 500 crore in revenue with a operating margin of 3.3 percent during last fiscal. While the competitive intensity remains high in this segment, further scale-up of this segment could act as margin lever on the back of operating leverage and pricing power in the retail channel.
Polycab has 24 manufacturing facilities spread across Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Daman and Diu. The business has a high degree of backward integration (design, manufacturing etc.) which allows the company to control the product quality as well as costs across the value chain.
In 2016, the company entered into an equal joint venture with Trafigura (multinational commodity trading company) to set-up a 225,000 million tonne copper wire rod manufacturing facility in Waghodia (Vadodara). This plant is expected to commence operations from Q1 FY20 and will reduce Polycab's dependency on copper sourcing from external parties.
For the nine months period ended December 31, 2018, Polycab's distribution network across India comprised over 2,800 authorised dealers and distributors. The company caters to more than 100,000 retail outlets through its distribution network, which is well diversified across product as well as geography.
What are the key business risks?
Metals such as copper, aluminium along with PVC compounds and steel form an important constituent of Polycab's raw material basket. Raw materials are sourced on the basis of average London Metal Exchange (LME) monthly rates. The management follows a pass through mechanism to protect its margin. So, a high degree of fluctuations in prices of these raw materials could affect its profitability over the short to medium term. As the company imports majority of its commodities, depreciation of the domestic currency against foreign currencies has an adverse impact on margin.
Polycab's FMEG business is still in nascent stages and advertising, selling and distribution expenses would continue to remain at elevated levels in the medium term as the company is scaling this segment through aggressive brand development and dealer expansion.
FMEG is a very crowded market with a large number of players present in each product category. Certain products such as lighting have witnessed a steep price erosion due to technology obsolescence and fever pitch competition. Other products such as switchgears and pumps have a high degree of correlation with new construction activity and monsoon, respectively.
The key question - should you subscribe?
The issue is primarily an offer for sale with majority of proceeds going to selling shareholders (about Rs 946 crore) and only Rs 400 crore going to the company for retiring working capital debt and other expenses.
As the company is operating at nearly 70 percent capacity utilisation, the timing of the IPO raises questions about the need for tapping funds through capital markets. Valuations are at a minor discount to its core peers (KEI and Finolex Cables) and offers value to prospective shareholders.
Investors, be it short or long term, should look forward to subscribing to this IPO as its valuation should be at a premium to other listed players considering its market leadership position, sound fundamentals and healthy growth prospects.


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Three to see
Three to see: New York
From a precocious photographer to a 45th birthday
James H. Miller and Victoria Stapley-Brown
30th November 2017 23:38 GMT
Stephen Shore, Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, June 21, 1975 (1975) 2017 Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore's career has come full circle: In 1961, at the precocious age of 14, Shore sold four photographs to the Museum of Modern Art. Now, with this thrilling eponymous survey (until 28 May), MoMA mounts the broadest exhibition ever on this pioneer of so-called New American Color Photography. Opening with his teenage black-and-white snapshots from Andy Warhol's Factory, plus a dizzying early film called Elevator (1964), the exhibition proceeds chronologically through Shore's landmark colour work—crisp, restrained, bathed in light and inevitable like air—on through more recent photographs from Israel and the West Bank, the Ukraine, and even those shot with Instagram. Shore is one of the most imitated photographers alive, but MoMA's exhibition clarifies for viewers what makes him inimitable.
The New Museum is celebrating its 40-year history with free admission all weekend (2-3 December) as well as Who's Afraid of the New Now?, a series of 20 hourly talks over the two days that will pair 40 artists for one-on-one conversations. Saturday duos include Ragnar Kjartansson and Carolee Schneemann, George Condo and Jeff Koons and Raymond Pettibon and Kaari Upson. On Sunday, Camille Henrot and Anri Sala, Carol Bove and Joan Jonas and Sharon Hayes and Faith Ringgold are among the pairs. Those who are not able to attend in person can watch the talks live online, thanks to the New Museum LIVE initiative, which launched this week (until 31 December), streaming special events and exhibitions.
Function to Freedom: Quilts and Abstract Expressions at Sara Kay Gallery (until 13 January 2018) hangs American quilts and textile works from the 18th to early 20th centuries alongside abstract works by female Post-war and contemporary artists such as Louise Nevelson, Helen Frankenthaler and Grace Hartigan. "These works blur the boundary between canvas and quilt, what is art and what is craft, and whether this distinction is a meaningful one," says Sara Kay. An optical illusion silk and velvet quilt (around 1875) that uses log cabin and pineapple motifs has the same inventiveness and experimentation in form and colour as the paintings on show. In a different context, the quilt's clever and dazzling visual trickery, which makes the forms jump out and recede, could hold its own against any Op art.
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Q: Calculate prop.test() p-value and effect size pairs in aggregated dataframe After running an experiment, I gathered data and reshaped in this format:
library(tidyverse)

df <- tibble::tribble(
           ~element, ~sessions, ~begin, ~complete,
         "baseline",       256,     67,        15,
        "variation",       580,    167,        22
        )

Than I aggregated as:
df %>%
  group_by(element) %>%
  mutate(sessions_to_begin = round(begin/sessions*100,2),
         sessions_to_complete = round(complete/sessions*100,2)) -> df_agg

df_agg <- tibble::tribble(
     ~element, ~sessions, ~begin, ~complete, ~sessions_to_begin, ~sessions_to_complete,
   "baseline",       256,     67,        15,              26.17,                  5.86,
  "variation",       580,    167,        22,              28.79,                  3.79
  )

I want to achieve create a df that contains a proportion test p-value for the pairs baseline/variation for the metrics session_to_begin and sessions_to_complete.
It would look like:
df_test <- tibble::tribble(
                           ~metric, ~baseline, ~variation, ~p-value, ~effect_size,
                "session_to_begin",      25.9,       29.5,      "-",          "-",
             "session_to_complete",      6.03,       3.95,      "-",          "-"
             )

I assume that for the effect size this could be a viable option:
https://rdrr.io/cran/pwr/man/ES.h.html


Gap Inc. is up nearly 6% today after hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert's stake in the firm was revealed.Chairman of ESL Investments and Sears, Lampert now holds a 5.8% stake in the company, according to a new filing.
Gap topped analyst estimates for January same-store sales, too, rounding out a pretty good day for the firm.
The company had posted same-store sales decline in seven of the past eight months, including an 8% dip in December but rebounded this month due in large part to its Banana Republic stores. Promotions and clearances also helped boost sales after December which was slowed down by terrible weather as well.
It's been a big month for Gap with Marka Hansen, the president of its North American division, exiting earlier this month after 24 years. The firm also expanded its e-commerce site into eight new European countries this month including Luxembourg, Malta and Slovakia.


Many of my patients have asked me about forming dangerous blood clots, which can break off and go to your lungs, and be potentially fatal. These are called pulmonary emboli, and while they are extremely serious events, they are fortunately also quite rare.
Most blood clots form outside of a blood vessel after the tiny blood vessels are injured. These usually occur after some trauma, and represent leaking of blood into the surrounding tissues or joint. These are called hematomas, and are rarely a problem. Hematomas may develop routinely after surgery as well. The hematoma may make the surrounding tissues quite firm or hard, with a lump. After some time, there may be bruising, or discoloration, as the blood clot dissolves, and gets absorbed into the surrounding skin. Treatment for a hematoma involves the usual R.I.C.E.; rest, ice, compression, and elevation. Resist the urge to take an anti- inflammatory, like ibuprofen, as that medication can actually interfere with normal blood clotting.
A completely different process involving the clotting of blood can also occur, but this time it takes place inside the blood vessels. When it happens in a vein (the vessels leading back to the heart), it is called a deep vein thrombosis, or DVT. While theoretically they can form pretty much anywhere, most of these will form in the lower extremity (the calf, thigh or pelvis). A DVT is, as its name suggests, deep in the leg. These are not the same thing as varicose veins, which are on the surface of our legs. DVTs may be painful, with swelling, or more commonly can be totally without any symptoms.
DVTs can develop after periods of prolonged rest or immobilization, such as after recovering from major surgery, or even after a long airplane ride. Certain medications, such as birth control pills, can increase one's risk. Fortunately, most DVTs come and go without a problem, as the body naturally dissolves the clot inside the vein. Rarely, however, the clot can break loose, where it travels back to the heart, and is then pumped out of the heart to the lungs. This clot can get stuck, and seal off a portion of the lung, preventing that part of the lung from doing its job. This is called a Pulmonary Embolus, or PE. Symptoms of a pulmonary embolus may include unexplained shortness of breath, or tightness or pain in the chest. If large enough, they can be fatal. A DVT or PE can be diagnosed with special scans, and is treated with a variety of blood thinners, and may require prolonged therapy to prevent reoccurrence.
Hematomas do NOT turn into DVTs or PEs. The process is totally different., and pulmonary emboli are rare. So don't panic when your doctor tells you that swelling or bruising is a blood clot.


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Shirebrook Derbyshire
Historical places and writing
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Shirebrook, Derbyshire
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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Shirebrook like this:
SHIREBROOK, a chapelry in Pleaseley parish, Derby; 3¾ miles NNW of Mansfield r. station. It was constituted in 1849, and it has a post-office under Mansfield. Pop., 342. Houses, 70. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £90.* Patron, the Rector of Pleaseley. The church was built in 1843.
Shirebrook through time
Shirebrook is now part of Bolsover district. Click here for graphs and data of how Bolsover has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Shirebrook itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Shirebrook, in Bolsover and Derbyshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
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When you feel hot but you still like or have to wear some tights, the lace tights is always a great escape of summer heat as they let your skin breath and provide more intricate lace designs than any other plain or printed tights. Lace lets you look hot without feeling boiling hot. And with footless you can wear your favourite flip flops. And here is our favourite geometrical 'French Lace Mix' pair!


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Latest health stats diagnose a stressed Island
Jingle Bells, tax return hell...
A fifth of Islanders are stressed and depressed and suicide rates are still high amongst men according to the latest figures released by the Health department.
The 2012 Health Profile - which compares our health with people in Guernsey and the UK - shows that around 2,000 of us are suffering with extreme anxiety and also concludes that too much smoking and drinking is killing us.
Cancers and heart disease are still the main causes of deaths in the Island, with cancer accounting for just under a third of all deaths in 2012 and lung cancer causing more than 20% of those deaths. There are also high levels of cancer of the head and neck, the digestive organs and skin.
And although more and more people try to kick the habit, the Health department say that one in six babies are at risk of passive smoking, living with parents who smoke.
Medical Officer of Health Dr Susan Turnbull said: "For a large number of cancers the risk of contracting or dying with the disease increase with age so we are likely to see an increase in both cancer incidence and deaths in the future.
"The better news is that modifiable risk factors such as smoking, obesity, exercising, excess sun exposure and environmental exposures are though to explain more than 90% of all cancers.
"Prevention, early detection and treatment remain at the forefront of the ongoing battle to decrease the burden of cancer."
Around 2% of all deaths are from alcohol-related causes and the report shows that the problem is twice as bad here than in Guernsey.
Jersey has the worst premature death rates from liver disease compared with England and the figures show that one in seven of us are drinking alcohol at levels likely to cause us health problems now or in the future.
Obesity levels, although still lower than in other areas, are on the rise but and almost half of us do nothing active.
But there is good news:
Still birth and infant mortality rates have fallen;
There are very low teenage conception rates;
Most children are being immunized;
People are reporting they feel healthy;
We have high life expectancy;
The numbers of deaths from heart disease are decreasing.
On the whole the statistics show the health of Islanders in Jersey and Guernsey is the same. But Jersey has a higher incidence of breast and prostate cancer whilst Guernsey has more teenage pregnancies.
And the results show that Islanders in Jersey do more exercise and eat healthier than those in Guernsey.
Dr Turnbull said: "This report represents a good collaborative piece of work between the islands which allows us to look at difference and similarities between the islands as well as how we compare with other countries. An important function of public health is to understand the health of our population.
"Good data speaks volumes. Public health intelligence is fundamental to informing what is required to improve and protect the health of our population and to contribute to the planning of health care for the future. "
The Health Profile looked at the health of Islanders between 2010 and 2012 and today's report is the third one that has been produced.
Head of Public Health Intelligence Jill Birbeck said: "The Health Profile is made up of a number of 'health 'indicators', each of which describes a different aspect of population health. The indicators cover a diverse selection of Public Health topics from birth rate and breastfeeding prevalence, to life expectancy, place and causes of death, sexual and mental health, to smoking and drinking levels and much more.
"The aim has been to include indicators that give a balance of useful information across a range of important areas and that can be compared with other regions. Together these provide a snapshot of the overall health of the population of the island and highlight areas of success as well as emerging areas of concern."
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The makers of BBC drama Ordeal by Innocence have replaced an actor after he was accused of sexual assault and will reshoot the scenes that he was in.
Christian Cooke will replace Ed Westwick as Mickey Argyll in the programme, which is based on a novel by Agatha Christie, and was to be one of the BBC's main Christmas shows.
Westwick, who starred in US series Gossip Girl, has been accused of sexual assault by three women. He denies the allegations, but the BBC pulled Ordeal by Innocence from its Christmas schedule after the claims emerged.
The recasting of Westwick mirrors the changes made to Sir Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World after serious allegations emerged against Kevin Spacey. Scott, the film's director, replaced Spacey with Christopher Plummer weeks before it was scheduled for released.
The BBC said before Christmas that it was not making any judgment on the "serious allegations" against Westwick but would remove Ordeal by Innocence from its schedule "until these matters are resolved".
A new broadcast date for the three-part series is yet to be confirmed. Filming on White Gold, a BBC2 comedy series starring Westwick, has also been halted after the allegations against him.
Cooke has previously appeared in ITV drama Where the Heart Is, Channel 4 mini-series The Promise as well as the 2010 film Cemetery Junction, which was written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.


TORONTO — TICO says it's moving to a new education provider effective Jan. 2, 2019.
Oliver Publishing Inc. (OPI) "is a recognized leader in regulated e-learning for the financial industry and a leading education innovator in the FinTech industry, continually raising the bar by giving students the opportunity to grow professionally through continuing education, licensing and e-learning solutions," says TICO.
The move to the new provider will allow the introduction of some program enhancements with more upgrades to follow in the future, says TICO President and CEO Richard Smart.
Anyone with questions regarding the changes to TICO's Education Standards Program should contact TICO at ticoexam@tico.ca or call 1-888-451-8426 (TICO).
For information about the changes and enhancements to the Education Standards Program, click here.


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Rule Title: FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE (MEAT, POULTRY)
Department: LIVESTOCK
Chapter: ANIMAL FEEDING, SLAUGHTER, AND DISPOSAL
Subchapter: Slaughterhouses, Meat Packing Houses, Meat Depots, and Mobile Slaughter Facilities
History Notes: History: 81-2-102, 81-9-220, MCA; IMP, 81-2-102, 81-9-217, 81-9-220, MCA; NEW, 1988 MAR p. 390, Eff. 2/26/88; AMD, 1989 MAR p. 612, Eff. 5/12/89; AMD, 2001 MAR p. 561, Eff. 3/22/01; AMD, 2004 MAR p. 576, Eff. 3/12/04; AMD, 2008 MAR p. 1590, Eff. 8/1/08; AMD, 2009 MAR p. 1591, Eff. 9/11/09; AMD, 2010 MAR p. 2973, Eff. 12/24/10; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 1275, Eff. 6/13/14; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 2473, Eff. 10/10/14; AMD, 2016 MAR p. 463, Eff. 3/5/16; AMD, 2016 MAR p. 1854, Eff. 10/15/16; AMD, 2020 MAR p. 329, Eff. 2/15/20.
32-19-303 2/15/2020 Current History: 81-2-102, 81-9-220, MCA; IMP, 81-2-102, 81-9-217, 81-9-220, MCA; NEW, 1988 MAR p. 390, Eff. 2/26/88; AMD, 1989 MAR p. 612, Eff. 5/12/89; AMD, 2001 MAR p. 561, Eff. 3/22/01; AMD, 2004 MAR p. 576, Eff. 3/12/04; AMD, 2008 MAR p. 1590, Eff. 8/1/08; AMD, 2009 MAR p. 1591, Eff. 9/11/09; AMD, 2010 MAR p. 2973, Eff. 12/24/10; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 1275, Eff. 6/13/14; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 2473, Eff. 10/10/14; AMD, 2016 MAR p. 463, Eff. 3/5/16; AMD, 2016 MAR p. 1854, Eff. 10/15/16; AMD, 2020 MAR p. 329, Eff. 2/15/20.
32-16-277 10/15/2016 2/15/2020 History: 81-2-102, 81-9-220, MCA; IMP, 81-2-102, 81-9-217, 81-9-220, MCA; NEW, 1988 MAR p. 390, Eff. 2/26/88; AMD, 1989 MAR p. 612, Eff. 5/12/89; AMD, 2001 MAR p. 561, Eff. 3/22/01; AMD, 2004 MAR p. 576, Eff. 3/12/04; AMD, 2008 MAR p. 1590, Eff. 8/1/08; AMD, 2009 MAR p. 1591, Eff. 9/11/09; AMD, 2010 MAR p. 2973, Eff. 12/24/10; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 1275, Eff. 6/13/14; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 2473, Eff. 10/10/14; AMD, 2016 MAR p. 463, Eff. 3/5/16; AMD, 2016 MAR p. 1854, Eff. 10/15/16.
32-16-271 3/5/2016 10/15/2016 History: 81-2-102, 81-9-220, MCA; IMP, 81-2-102, 81-9-217, 81-9-220, MCA; NEW, 1988 MAR p. 390, Eff. 2/26/88; AMD, 1989 MAR p. 612, Eff. 5/12/89; AMD, 2001 MAR p. 561, Eff. 3/22/01; AMD, 2004 MAR p. 576, Eff. 3/12/04; AMD, 2008 MAR p. 1590, Eff. 8/1/08; AMD, 2009 MAR p. 1591, Eff. 9/11/09; AMD, 2010 MAR p. 2973, Eff. 12/24/10; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 1275, Eff. 6/13/14; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 2473, Eff. 10/10/14; AMD, 2016 MAR p. 463, Eff. 3/5/16.
32-14-253 10/10/2014 3/5/2016 History: 81-2-102, 81-9-220, MCA; IMP, 81-2-102, 81-9-217, 81-9-220, MCA; NEW, 1988 MAR p. 390, Eff. 2/26/88; AMD, 1989 MAR p. 612, Eff. 5/12/89; AMD, 2001 MAR p. 561, Eff. 3/22/01; AMD, 2004 MAR p. 576, Eff. 3/12/04; AMD, 2008 MAR p. 1590, Eff. 8/1/08; AMD, 2009 MAR p. 1591, Eff. 9/11/09; AMD, 2010 MAR p. 2973, Eff. 12/24/10; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 1275, Eff. 6/13/14; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 2473, Eff. 10/10/14.
32-14-245 6/13/2014 10/10/2014 History: 81-2-102, 81-9-220, MCA; IMP, 81-2-102, 81-9-217, 81-9-220, MCA; NEW, 1988 MAR p. 390, Eff. 2/26/88; AMD, 1989 MAR p. 612, Eff. 5/12/89; AMD, 2001 MAR p. 561, Eff. 3/22/01; AMD, 2004 MAR p. 576, Eff. 3/12/04; AMD, 2008 MAR p. 1590, Eff. 8/1/08; AMD, 2009 MAR p. 1591, Eff. 9/11/09; AMD, 2010 MAR p. 2973, Eff. 12/24/10; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 1275 , Eff. 6/13/14.
32-10-213 12/24/2010 6/13/2014 History: 81-2-102, 81-9-220, MCA; IMP, 81-2-102, 81-9-217, 81-9-220, MCA; NEW, 1988 MAR p. 390, Eff. 2/26/88; AMD, 1989 MAR p. 612, Eff. 5/12/89; AMD, 2001 MAR p. 561, Eff. 3/22/01; AMD, 2004 MAR p. 576, Eff. 3/12/04; AMD, 2008 MAR p. 1590, Eff. 8/1/08; AMD, 2009 MAR p. 1591, Eff. 9/11/09; AMD, 2010 MAR p. 2973, Eff. 12/24/10.
32-9-196 9/11/2009 12/24/2010 History: 81-2-102, 81-9-220, MCA; IMP, 81-2-102, 81-9-217, 81-9-220, MCA; NEW, 1988 MAR p. 390, Eff. 2/26/88; AMD, 1989 MAR p. 612, Eff. 5/12/89; AMD, 2001 MAR p. 561, Eff. 3/22/01; AMD, 2004 MAR p. 576, Eff. 3/12/04; AMD, 2008 MAR p. 1590, Eff. 8/1/08; AMD, 2009 MAR p. 1591, Eff. 9/11/09.
32-8-191 8/1/2008 9/11/2009 History: 81-2-102, 81-9-220, MCA; IMP, 81-2-102, 81-9-217, 81-9-220, MCA; NEW, 1988 MAR p. 390, Eff. 2/26/88; AMD, 1989 MAR p. 612, Eff. 5/12/89; AMD, 2001 MAR p. 561, Eff. 3/22/01; AMD, 2004 MAR p. 576, Eff. 3/12/04; AMD, 2008 MAR p. 1590, Eff. 8/1/08.
3/12/2004 8/1/2008 History: 81-9-220, MCA; IMP, 81-9-220, MCA; NEW, 1988 MAR p. 390, Eff. 2/26/88; AMD, 1989 MAR p. 612, Eff. 5/12/89; AMD, 2001 MAR p. 561, Eff. 3/22/01; AMD, 2004 MAR p. 576, Eff. 3/12/04.


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Home Other News Buhari Administration Is Steadfast In Corruption Fight – Onyeama
Buhari Administration Is Steadfast In Corruption Fight – Onyeama
Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama has declared that Nigeria remained steadfast in the fight against corruption and called for close collaborations to fight the menace to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Onyeama stated this at an event on "Building Interactive Coalition against Corruption to Achieve the SDGs" co-hosted by Britain, Denmark and Nigeria on the margin of the UN General Assembly.
The minister decried that Nigeria had suffered from the severe effects of corruption, leading to the loss of billions of dollars to foreign havens since independence.
He regretted that these huge sums of money were stolen and expatriated by corrupt officials and their accomplices.
According to him, however, Nigeria recognises the importance of collective commitment to winning the fight against corruption and every form of impunity.
"From the onset of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration, fighting corruption has been one of the three pillars of the administration's priority programmes.
"Buhari demonstrated zero tolerance for corrupt practices by combating corruption head-on. The administration has not strengthened all relevant institutions to fight corruption in all its forms and manifestations.
"It has also introduced a new anti-corruption strategy, which was launched in 2017," he said.
Onyeama said the National Assembly had passed several legislation and was currently debating others in its efforts to combat corruption, adding that "Nigeria now has the 'Whistle Blowing Policy'.
"Nigeria remains steadfast in the fight against corruption and this common goal we share is within reach.
"What is required is close collaboration with all stakeholders and a concerted focus to ensure that our commitments in the anti-corruption campaign are achieved."
Onyeama called for strengthening of existing instruments of international cooperation against corruption and criminal matters to effectively build interactive coalition against corruption.
According to him, all States Parties need to develop strategies to prevent and combat all illicit financial flows as well as measures to fight against economic and financial crime including fraud.
The minister called for the repatriation of stolen funds to countries of origin, in addition to commitment to the political will to fight corruption on all its forms.
"We look forward to the support of the UN to ensure a successful engagement and strategy to eliminate corruption in Africa.
"This is so that the SDGs and indeed the AU Agenda 2063 can be fully implemented and results achieved for development effectiveness to be realized.
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Q: Dynamic column name in panda dataframe evaluation I'm referencing a dataframe as follows (Sales is the column name):
total = pd.to_numeric(sales_df.Sales.str.replace("$", "")).sum()

But I don't want Sales to be hard coded, I want a variable to make it dynamic. How is this done?
TIA

A: You can should index your columns by using square brackets:
df['col_name']

So when you accept the input as a str you can just do:
total = pd.to_numeric(sales_df[user_input_name].str.replace("$", "")).sum()

Additionally accessing columns as an attribute can lead to ambiguous behaviour. Such as having a column named index and you try to do df.index which may have different values to the column df['index'] or if you had a column named the same as any valid df method like sum or var then this will lead to syntax errors.
So I strongly advise you use square brackets to select columns.