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New Mexico breaks daily COVID-19 record with 577 new cases
Algernon D'Ammassa
This story was updated with public school data at 5 p.m.
SANTA FE - New Mexico blew past its previous single-day record for new cases of COVID-19 disease on Wednesday when the state Department of Health reported that 577 new cases had been confirmed.
The previous record, set four days ago, was 488.
By county, the highest number of news cases confirmed were in Bernalillo County (with 199) and Doña Ana County in the south with 108.
The disease is caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, for which no vaccine yet exists. The first cases in New Mexico were identified on March 11, the same day Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a public health emergency in the state.
Since that date, the state has processed 1,011,320 tests and confirmed 34,290 cases. Documented recoveries total 19,127 and 921 New Mexicans have died.
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The latest three deaths included a male Bernalillo County resident in his 70s and a female resident of Chaves County (which identified 66 new cases Wednesday) in her 70s, both of whom had been hospitalized and had unspecified underlying conditions.
The third death male resident of the Good Samaritan Society facility in Las Cruces, in his 90s. He, too, was described as having underlying conditions.
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According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, certain conditions including diseases of the heart, lung or kidneys, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and others present greater risk for more severe disease when infected with COVID-19.
Hospitalizations from COVID-19 statewide increased to 145 Wednesday as well, which may include out-of-state residents receiving hospital care in New Mexico.
Four new cases were identified among federal detainees at the Otero County Prison Facility in Chaparral, bringing the total of cases among people in federal custody to 849, including the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral, which holds detainees for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).
Among individuals in the custody of the New Mexico Corrections Department around the state, 598 cases have been identified. The vast majority of those — 472 — have been at the Otero County Prison Facility.
The state Public Education Department reported 21 new cases, 10 public school students and 11 staff members, in 11 of the state's 33 counties.
Since it began collecting data on Aug. 17, the PED has documented 230 school personnel and 118 students among 179 schools testing positive for the disease, a total of 348.
On Tuesday, Lujan Grisham signaled that public health orders aiming to slow community spread of the pandemic would be extended and include rollbacks to previous steps the state has taken to reopen normal business operations.
The new measures previewed Tuesday included reducing permissible social gatherings to a maximum of 5 from 10, and a new directive that restaurants serving alcohol and breweries would be required to close by 10 p.m. Hotels and places of lodging will also be allowed to accept guests at 25 to 60 percent of their allowed occupancy, depending on whether the establishments had completed a state safety certification course.
More: New COVID-19 restrictions for New Mexico
Further details are expected when the governor, who is self-quarantining after a potential exposure to COVID-19 from a member of her staff, leads a news conference on Thursday afternoon.
During an Oct. 8 press update, Lujan Grisham warned that New Mexico was "at extreme risk of uncontrollable spread" and said the economic repercussions if the state experiences a larger outbreak "untenable."
State health officials have urged greater public compliance with health directives such as the mandatory face mask requirement in public spaces, limited travel outside the home, maintaining at least six feet of distance from other people and washing hands regularly with soap for at least 20 seconds at a time.
Symptoms of COVID-19 infection include fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea, and/or loss of taste or smell.
Keep reading:Here are the Doña Ana County businesses investigated for coronavirus
Experts warn, however, that some of the symptoms resemble symptoms of regular influenza, and have advised vaccinations for seasonal flu. Most individuals recover from the disease with mild or moderate symptoms. Additionally, individuals may carry the symptoms for days at a time without showing any symptoms at all.
Individuals with symptoms are directed to call their health care provider or the Department of Health's COVID-19 hotline at 1-855-600-3453. Free testing is available at DOH offices.
Algernon D'Ammassa can be reached at 575-541-5451, adammassa@lcsun-news.com or @AlgernonWrites on Twitter.


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CPAs satisfied as average salary tops six figures
Two-thirds of CPAs based in the United States are satisfied with their current salary, and more than four-fifths expect to be earning more within a year, according to a new survey by the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants.
Eighty-one percent of the more than 5,000 CPAs responding to the inaugural Compensation Survey in May and June said they expect to receive a pay increase over the next 12 months. The average increase CPAs are expecting is 5%.
The compensation trends in the survey reflect a profession that continues to be in high demand at a time when employment across the U.S. economy has bounced back following the most recent recession. But while wage growth has been slow in some other professions, four-fifths of CPAs report that they experienced a salary increase over the past 12 months, with an average increase of about 4%.
The Association's interactive salary tool for 2017 is available online for members who wish to further investigate trends specific to their personal situation. The numbers in the tool have been separated into "CPA" and "CPA, CGMA," so they will differ from this article, which provides aggregated statistics from both groups to include all CPAs who responded to the survey.
Accounting remains a lucrative profession for those who are qualified, as the average salary of a CPA based in the United States is $119,000 per year, excluding bonuses. Newly qualified CPAs with less than one year of experience earn an average salary of $66,000 per year, and CPAs with more than 20 years of experience average $152,000 per year in salary.
"This is a great baseline for seeing how full of opportunity this profession is," said Mark Koziel, CPA, CGMA, the AICPA's executive vice president–Firm Services. "But to me it only tells part of the story since bonuses can play a large part of salary increases as CPAs gain experience."
Indeed, the survey shows that 59% of CPAs work for employers that award bonuses, with the average bonus amount at around 10% of their annual salary. In addition, the survey showed that:
CPAs cited financial rewards, flexibility, work/life balance, and a good working environment as main motivators in their current roles.
The skills that CPAs most want to learn are coaching and mentoring (29%), accounting and information systems (26%), business planning (25%), and strategy (25%).
As many employers of CPAs report difficulty finding quality people for those roles, the survey shows that it may be difficult to wrestle job candidates away from their current jobs. Four out of five CPAs said they were not planning to change job roles in the next two years, which should comfort employers who are afraid of losing the talented CPAs they have on staff.
"Careers in accounting are a marathon, not a sprint," Koziel said. "Sometimes, I think people leave great organizations for a short-term financial benefit rather than the long-term potential. So when you compare your salary situation, be sure to do so from a holistic perspective."
—Ken Tysiac (Kenneth.Tysiac@aicpa-cima.com) is a JofA editorial director.

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During 2005-2006, Key of David Ministries made efforts to record every event that Jason Upton and his team was scheduled to do. The idea was to capture a live recording of the particular song cycle that Jason planned on entitling "Beautiful People". At the moment, it did not seem like this goal was accomplished, but sometimes hindsight is 20/20. At two different events – one at Life Center International in Harrisburg, PA and the other at Morningstar Christian Fellowship in Fort Mill, SC – several of the recorded moments were beckoning to be shared with a larger audience. The compilation of these moments – both audio and video – will be released as one project entitled "Between Earth and Sky".
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Application of Capillary Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometry and Liquid Chromatography Multiple-Step Tandem Electrospray Mass Spectrometry To Profile Glycoform Expression during Haemophilus influenzae Pathogenesis in the Chinchilla Model of Experimental Otitis Media
Susanna L. Lundstrom , Jianjun Li , Martin Mansson , Marisol Figueira , Magali Leroy , Richard Goldstein , Derek W. Hood , E. Richard Moxon , James C. Richards and Elke K. H. Schweda
Otitis media caused by nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a common and recurrent bacterial infection of childhood. The structural variability and diversity of H. influenzae lipopolysaccharide (LPS) glycoforms are known to play a significant role in the commensal and disease-causing behavior of this pathogen. In this study, we determined LPS glycoform populations from NTHi strain 1003 during the course of experimental otitis media in the chinchilla model of infection by mass spectrometric techniques. Building on an established structural model of the major LPS glycoforms expressed by this NTHi strain in vitro (M. Månsson, W. Hood, J. Li, J. C. Richards, E. R. Moxon, and E. K. Schweda, Eur. J. Biochem. 269:808-818, 2002), minor isomeric glycoform populations were determined by liquid chromatography multiple-step tandem electrospray mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MSn). Using capillary electrophoresis ESI-MS (CE-ESI-MS), we determined glycoform profiles for bacteria from direct middle ear fluid (MEF) samples. The LPS glycan profiles were essentially the same when the MEF samples of 7 of 10 animals were passaged on solid medium (chocolate agar). LC-ESI-MSn provided a sensitive method for determining the isomeric distribution of LPS glycoforms in MEF and passaged specimens. To investigate changes in LPS glycoform distribution during the course of infection, MEF samples were analyzed at 2, 5, and 9 days postinfection by CE-ESI-MS following minimal passage on chocolate agar. As previously observed, sialic acid-containing glycoforms were detected during the early stages of infection, but a trend toward more-truncated and less-complex LPS glycoforms that lacked sialic acid was found as disease progressed.
Rapid Method for Sensitive Screening of Oligosaccharide Epitopes in the Lipooligosaccharide from Campylobacter jejuni Strains Isolated from Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Miller Fisher Syndrome Patients
Monika Dzieciatkowska , Xin Liu , Astrid P. Heikema , R. Scott Houliston , Alex van Belkum , Elke K. H. Schweda , Michel Gilbert , James C. Richards and Jianjun Li
Campylobacter jejuni lipooligosaccharide (LOS) can trigger Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) due to its similarity to human gangliosides. Rapid and accurate structural elucidation of the LOS glycan of a strain isolated from a GBS patient could help physicians determine the spectrum of anti-ganglioside antibodies likely to be found and therefore provide valuable assistance in establishing an appropriate course of treatment. The ability of implemented mass spectrometry-based approaches in a clinical setting has been limited by the laborious and time-consuming nature of the protocols, typically 3 to 4 days, used to prepare LOS. In order to improve the analytical throughput, microwave-assisted enzymatic digestion was investigated. In this study, the bacterial cells were suspended in 50 µl of 20 mM ammonium acetate buffer containing DNase and RNase and treated by direct microwave irradiation for 3 min. Then, proteinase K was added and the samples were again microwaved. The intact LOS samples were analyzed using electrophoresis-assisted open-tubular liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. The reliability of the rapid, high-throughput technique was demonstrated through analysis of LOS glycans from 73 C. jejuni strains. The structure was elucidated using material from a single colony. The total time for sample preparation and MS analysis is less than 60 min.


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The U.S. Should Bid Biya Goodbye
It's time for Washington to renegotiate its ties with Cameroon's absentee leader.
BY JEFFREY SMITH
| JULY 10, 2019, 6:30 AM
Cameroonian President Paul Biya looks toward supporters from his motorcade in Yaoundé on Nov. 6, 2018. STR/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
It is not hard to find fault with Cameroonian President Paul Biya and his government. The overall stability of the country he has led since 1982, often from the luxury of the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva, has crumbled over the past three years. After last year's deeply flawed election—the norm in Cameroon—Biya has done little to resolve increasingly violent demands for secession from armed groups fighting to carve out a new Anglophone state called Ambazonia from the country's Northwest and Southwest regions. He has failed to give any indication that his regime will scale back its efforts to crush dissent, and there have been no signs that his family will rein in their lavish spending beyond the country's borders.
Cameroon deserves better—from its 86-year-old leader, and from every foreign power that enables his enduring misrule. Increasingly, Cameroonians at home and abroad are demanding that outside powers examine their ties to the long-ruling Biya regime. On June 29, hundreds of protesters in Geneva endured tear gas from Swiss authorities to do just that. It is well overdue for the United States to fundamentally recalibrate U.S.-Cameroon relations.
The rise of violent Anglophone secessionist militias in Cameroon's west and of Boko Haram in the Far North region has left 4.3 million people—roughly one-fifth of the country's population—in need of humanitarian assistance. In addition, at least 1,800 people have been killed and 500,000 more displaced due to these conflicts, with regular reports emerging of war crimes committed by the government, including torture and the burning of villages.
Cameroon deserves better—from its 86-year-old leader, and from every foreign power that enables his enduring misrule.
Biya has exacerbated Cameroon's multiple, cascading crises by further cracking down on political dissent and opposition voices. Beyond not taking credible steps toward resolving conflict in the country's Anglophone regions, the Francophone government of Cameroon is actively constricting opposition to Biya's policies and efforts to challenge his authoritarian grip on power. On June 1, an estimated 350 supporters of the country's main opposition party, the Cameroon Renaissance Movement, were arrested during demonstrations in which protesters demanded the release of party leader Maurice Kamto.
In October 2018, Kamto declared victory after the country's presidential election, which resulted in Cameroonian authorities charging him with treason and a host of other major crimes, including "inciting violence" and "disrupting public peace." Kamto has been in detention since Jan. 26 of this year, and if he is convicted in Cameroon's notoriously biased courts, he could potentially face the death penalty. Kamto has already been denied access to legal counsel, a violation of both Cameroonian law and international legal norms.
Despite Biya's recent clampdown on political dissent and his detachment from Cameroon's multiple conflicts, the response from the United States and other foreign powers has been tepid up to this point.
Much more needs to be done to confront a regime that has routinely and unabashedly violated the rights of its own citizens.
The U.S. government has taken some incremental steps to reset the terms of its relationship with Biya's government. In February of this year, the Trump administration suspended $17 million of military aid to Cameroon due to ongoing human rights abuses. And last week, Rep. Karen Bass, the top Democrat on a key subcommittee that focuses on Africa and the current chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, led a visiting U.S. congressional delegation to the country to assess the situation and call for peace talks between the government and separatists. However, much more needs to be done to confront a regime that has routinely and unabashedly violated the rights of its own citizens—one that relies on international disinterest and a steady stream of foreign lobbyists to clean up its image.
There are a number of concrete steps that the United States in particular should immediately consider.
First, Washington should halt all U.S. security assistance to Cameroon that does not go to battling Boko Haram in the country's north, going beyond the initial cuts that have already been made. Several high-ranking Democratic senators on June 25 introduced an amendment to the fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that is intended to do exactly that.
Originally Published @ FP | https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/07/10/the-u-s-should-bid-biya-goodbye-cameroon-security-foreign-policy-yaounde/
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A native of Brownwood, Texas, Cole traveled the world as an "Air Force brat" but returned to West Texas roots after getting her certifications in Oklahoma.
She attended Oklahoma State University for a PCA (Patient Care Assistant) certification. She then attended Foster Estes Vocational School for her Nurse Assistant II certification. She has held several positions in the region, including Baylor Medical Center of Grapevine for 10 years and Specialty Surgery Center for 12 – until it was acquired by Physician Partners of America in 2013. "I've been at the same location for 14 years," she says.
It shows in her command of the place and the way she greets everyone as if she was her own home. Doctors performing surgeries get a hug – or ask for one if she's distracted. Patients get hugs too, or a gentle touch, and always kind words.
"My grandmother was a nurse and told me, 'If people don't walk out different from when they walked in, I've only done half my job,' Cole says. "If I can give them a pat on the back or a hug, it can change their attitude." That's especially important when a patient is facing surgery.
Cole's grandmother and mother were nurses, as well, which may help explain her caring heart. "I'm a people person," she says. "But you have to have a heart to be a nurse." She enjoys helping out her coworkers at the surgery center, pitching in wherever help is needed.
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The Growth Of Bike-Sharing Schemes Around The World
How Dutch engineer Luud Schimmelpennink helped to devise urban bike-sharing schemes
A. The original idea for an urban bike-sharing scheme dates back to a summer's day in Amsterdam in 1965. Provo, the organisation that came up with the idea, was a group of Dutch activists who wanted to change society. They believed the scheme, which was known as the Witte Fietsenplan, was an answer to the perceived threats of air pollution and consumerism. In the centre of Amsterdam, they painted a small number of used bikes white. They also distributed leaflets describing the dangers of cars and inviting people to use the white bikes. The bikes were then left unlocked at various locations around the city, to be used by anyone in need of transport.
B. Luud Schimmelpennink, a Dutch industrial engineer who still lives and cycles in Amsterdam, was heavily involved in the original scheme. He recalls how the scheme succeeded in attracting a great deal of attention - particularly when it came to publicising Provo's aims - but struggled to get off the ground. The police were opposed to Provo's initiatives and almost as soon as the white bikes were distributed around the city, they removed them. However, for Schimmelpennink and for bike-sharing schemes in general, this was just the beginning. 'The first Witte Fietsenplan was just a symbolic thing,' he says. 'We painted a few bikes white, that was all. Things got more serious when I became a member of the Amsterdam city council two years later.'
C. Schimmelpennink seized this opportunity to present a more elaborate Witte Fietsenplan to the city council. 'My idea was that the municipality of Amsterdam would distribute 10,000 white bikes over the city, for everyone to use,' he explains. 'I made serious calculations. It turned out that a white bicycle - per person, per kilometre - would cost the municipality only 10% of what it contributed to public transport per person per kilometre.' Nevertheless, the council unanimously rejected the plan. 'They said that the bicycle belongs to the past. They saw a glorious future for the car,' says Schimmelpennink. But he was not in the least discouraged.
D. Schimmelpennink never stopped believing in bike-sharing, and in the mid-90s, two Danes asked for his help to set up a system in Copenhagen. The result was the world's first large-scale bike-share programme. It worked on a deposit: 'You dropped a coin in the bike and when you returned it, you got your money back.' After setting up the Danish system, Schimmelpennink decided to try his luck again in the Netherlands - and this time he succeeded in arousing the interest of the Dutch Ministry of Transport. 'Times had changed,' he recalls. 'People had become more environmentally conscious, and the Danish experiment had proved that bike-sharing was a real possibility.' A new Witte Fietsenplan was launched in 1999 in Amsterdam. However, riding a white bike was no longer free; it cost one guilder per trip and payment was made with a chip card developed by the Dutch bank Postbank. Schimmelpennink designed conspicuous, sturdy white bikes locked in special racks which could be opened with the chip card - the plan started with 250 bikes, distributed over five stations.
E. Theo Molenaar, who was a system designer for the project, worked alongside Schimmelpennink. 'I remember when we were testing the bike racks, he announced that he had already designed better ones. But of course, we had to go through with the ones we had.' The system, however, was prone to vandalism and theft. 'After every weekend there would always be a couple of bikes missing,' Molenaar says. 'I really have no idea what people did with them, because they could instantly be recognised as white bikes.' But the biggest blow came when Postbank decided to abolish the chip card, because it wasn't profitable. 'That chip card was pivotal to the system,' Molenaar says. 'To continue the project we would have needed to set up another system, but the business partner had lost interest.'
F. Schimmelpennink was disappointed, but – characteristically - not for long. In 2002 he got a call from the French advertising corporation JC Decaux, who wanted to set up his bike-sharing scheme in Vienna. 'That went really well. After Vienna, they set up a system in Lyon. Then in 2007, Paris followed. That was a decisive moment in the history of bike-sharing.' The huge and unexpected success of the Parisian bike-sharing programme, which now boasts more than 20,000 bicycles, inspired cities all over the world to set up their own schemes, all modelled on Schimmelpennink's. 'It's wonderful that this happened,' he says. 'But financially I didn't really benefit from it, because I never filed for a patent.'
G. In Amsterdam today, 38% of all trips are made by bike and, along with Copenhagen, it is regarded as one of the two most cycle-friendly capitals in the world - but the city never got another Witte Fietsenplan. Molenaar believes this may be because everybody in Amsterdam already has a bike. Schimmelpennink, however, cannot see that this changes Amsterdam's need for a bike-sharing scheme. 'People who travel on the underground don't carry their bikes around. But often they need additional transport to reach their final destination.' Although he thinks it is strange that a city like Amsterdam does not have a successful bikesharing scheme, he is optimistic about the future. 'In the '60s we didn't stand a chance because people were prepared to give their lives to keep cars in the city. But that mentality has totally changed. Today everybody longs for cities that are not dominated by cars.'
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Question 1 - 5
Reading Passage has seven paragraphs, A-G.
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter, A-G, in boxes on your answer sheet.
NB You may use any letter more than once.
a description of how people misused a bike-sharing scheme
an explanation of why a proposed bike-sharing scheme was turned down
a reference to a person being unable to profit from their work
an explanation of the potential savings a bike-sharing scheme would bring
a reference to the problems a bike-sharing scheme was intended to solve
Choose TWO letters, A-E.
Write the correct letters in boxes on your answer sheet.
Which TWO of the following statements are made in the text about the Amsterdam bike-sharing scheme of 1999?
It was initially opposed by a government department.
It failed when a partner in the scheme withdrew support.
It aimed to be more successful than the Copenhagen scheme.
It was made possible by a change in people's attitudes.
It attracted interest from a range of bike designers.
Which TWO of the following statements are made in the text about Amsterdam today?
The majority of residents would like to prevent all cars from entering the city.
There is little likelihood of the city having another bike-sharing scheme.
More trips in the city are made by bike than by any other form of transport.
A bike-sharing scheme would benefit residents who use public transport.
The city has a reputation as a place that welcomes cyclists.
Question 10 - 13
Complete the summary below.
Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer
Write your answers in boxes on your answer sheet.
The first urban bike-sharing scheme
The first bike-sharing scheme was the idea of the Dutch group Provo. The people who belonged to this group were
They were concerned about damage to the environment and about
, and believed that the bike-sharing scheme would draw attention to these issues. As well as painting some bikes white, they handed out
 that condemned the use of cars. However, the scheme was not a great success: almost as quickly as Provo left the bikes around the city, the
 took them away. According to Schimmelpennink, the scheme was intended to be symbolic. The idea was to get people thinking about the issues.
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Cultivation of Chlorella sp. with livestock waste compost for lipid production
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Microalgae have received significant attention as a biodiesel feedstock. This is in response to energy shortage, climate change and global warming. Microalgae offer many advantages for use in biodiesel production. They have high photosynthetic efficiency, which translates to high growth rate. Moreover, most algal species have high lipid content. Furthermore, it is possible to launch algal biorefinery facilities in lands with low economic value, such as saline and arid lands therefore microalgae cultivation does not compete with food production for farmlands.
Liandong Zhu and colleagues from University of Vaasa in Finland developed a method to determine algal biomass accumulation for biodiesel production when algal cultivation with livestock waste compost was combined. In their work, an optimal concentration level for algal cultivation was found, and the productivities of biomass and lipids was specified. The work is published in peer-reviewed journal, Bioresource Technology.
Chlorella sp. microalgae were used in this study. It was isolated from local fresh-water habits by Utex and grown in a BG11 medium. Livestock waste compost from a local collection point was used. Windrow composting technology was applied to compost cattle waste. The compost was immersed in water, and stirred with a magnetic stirrer. The mixture was then filtered to eliminate non-soluble particulate solids.
Livestock waste compost medium was diluted using fresh water to four varying concentrations (200, 1500, 1000 and 500 mg L-1 COD). The undiluted media and four diluted media were applied as cultures for microalgal cultivation for 10 days. For comparison, BG11 media (control group) were also used to grow algae. The livestock waste compost with the variable chemical oxygen demand concentrations were introduced into 0.4L flasks. The optical density of Chlorella sp. was measured every day using spectrophotometer.
The authors determined the lipid contents of chlorella sp. in five cultures with varying nutrient concentration. The culture with the initial chemical oxygen demand concentration at 500 mg L-1 experienced the highest algal lipid accumulation (44.30% of dry weight). They attributed this to the fact that low biomass concentration in the culture could make more algal cells access and receive more light that triggered and benefited lipid storage. As the initial chemical oxygen demand concentration increased from 500 mg L-1 to 2680 mg L-1 the lipid content decreased from 44.30% to 33.90%.
The authors also found that about one third to one fourth of lipids would be converted into fatty acid methyl esters; efficient biodiesel ingredients. This is because some lipids such as phospholipid, chlorophyll and glycolipid are not efficient ingredients for biodiesel production.
This study successfully found the optimal concentration level for algal cultivation and productivities of biomass. The authors concluded the following parameters: specific growth rate of Chlorella sp. grown in the five cultures ranged from 0.275 to 0.375 day-1. Initial nutrient concentration affected lipid accumulation, and the lipid content ranged from 33.90% to 44.30%. The 2000 mg L-1 chemical oxygen demand culture was found to be the optimum medium for algal cultivation, since the highest biomass and lipid productivities were realized.
This study was possible with partial funding from TranAlgae. A network of relevant stakeholders within the algae industry in the Botnia-Atlantica region with the aim of implementing innovative solutions for the production of micro- and macroalgae biomass from waste streams at industrial scale.
Professor Zhaohua Li is the Dean of the School of Resources and Environmental Science. He was born in 1964 at Hubei Province in China, educated at China, the U.K. and Germany. His research spans including plant ecology, aquatic ecology, and environmental ecology.
Professor Li is of broad members of Chinese Geographical Association and Chinese Association of Agricultural Resources and Zonning. He received an Honorary of National Advanced Workers from Chinese government and more than 10 awards from Chinese ministries and Hubei Province. He has published 22 research works and 176 papers.
Dr. Liandong Zhu is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Technology of the University of Vaasa and Vaasa Energy Institute, Finland. Through Talent Program, he has also been selected as a professor in several leading Chinese universities. In January 2014 he graduated from the University of Vaasa as a doctor in the area of biofuels. He is also the recipient of the Åbo Akademi Award and Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Student Abroad. His background is environmental engineering and his doctoral and current research resides in biodiesel production by integration of microalgae cultivation with wastewater treatment.
Until now, he has published more than 50 papers in many esteemed peer-reviewed scientific journals, such as Water Research, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy, Bioresource Technology, Applied Energy, Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining (Biofpr) and Ecological Engineering. In total, the current impact factor (IF) of his papers has reached up to 101 points. According to Google Scholar, his papers have been well cited and the current H-index reaches 13. According to the Web of Science (ESI), three of his papers were marked as highly cited papers. In addition, Dr. Zhu serves as the Lead Guest Editor of the BioMed Research International, Associate Editor of the JSM Environmental Science & Ecology and the reviewer for more than 40 journals including Environmental Science & Technology, Water Research, Energy, Applied Energy, etc.
Currently Dr. Zhu is working on TransAlgae project, receiving funding from EU's Botnia-Atlantica Programme. Dr. Zhu's previous research has also been well reported by two local Finnish newspapers (Pohjalainen and Ilkka) on their cover pages. Dr. Zhu's research interests fall into the scopes of wastewater treatment, biofuels, waste recycling, and sustainable development. Dr. Zhu welcomes all kinds of cooperation in research, project application, publications and academic exchange or visits.
Journal Reference
L.-D. Zhu1,2,5, Z.-H. Li1, D.-B. Guo3, F. Huang4, Y. Nugroho2, and K. Xia2. Cultivation of Chlorella sp. with livestock waste compost for lipid production. Bioresource Technology, volume 223 (2017), pages 296–300.
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Department of Energy Technology, Faculty of Technology, University of Vaasa, Vaasa 65101, Finland
School of Environmental Science & Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Laboratory of Tropical Agro-Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Renewable Energy Research Group, Vaasa Energy Institute, Vaasa 65101, Finland
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College's Administrative Staff
Vice Deanships
College Vice Deanship (Male Section)
Training and Community Service Unit (Male Section)
Security and Safety Unit (Male Section)
Educational Services Unit (Male Section)
Facilities and Services Unit (Male Section)
College Vice Deanship (Female Students)
Training and Community Service Unit
Facilities and Services Unit
Security and Safety Unit
Educational Services Unit
Vice Deanship of the College for Academic Development and Entrepreneurship
Overview of the Vice Deanship for Development
Strategic Planning Unit
Quality and Academic Accreditation Unit
Improvement Plans Follow-Up Unit
Entrepreneurship Unit
Graduates Unit
Development Files and Forms
Vice Deanship of the College for Educational Affairs
Curricula and Study Plans Committee
Student Activity Unit
Student Support Office
Student Affairs Unit
Field Education Committee (Female Section)
Student Council Unit
Unit for Protecting the Rights of the College Students
Advertising and Media Committee
College Vice Deanship for Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research
Overview of Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research
Postgraduate Studies Unit
Teaching Assistants and Lectures Unit
Scholarships Unit
Scientific Research Unit
Forms for Postgraduate Studies
The Graduates Portal
Some Projects of the Female Graduates
Telegram Account of the UQU Graduates Unit
Graduates Data
Graduate Electronic Journal
Student Rights and Duties Bylaw
The Student Guide
Study and Exams Bylaw for the University Stage and Its Regulations
Academic Movements
Verifying the Graduation Documents
Results and Equivalencies at the Deanship of Admission and Registration
Student Services at the Deanship of Admission and Registration
Student Guide to the E-Learning System
Inaugurating the Students' Labs
A Patent Entitled: 'Mannequin Loom'
Patent for the Apparatus for Measuring Fabric Shear Properties
Patent for the Apparatus for Measuring Coefficient of Fabrics Prolapse
The College's Participation in the Fifth Anniversary of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques
The process of drawing up the strategic plan of the college followed the stages stated below:
First Phase: Pre-planning
During this stage, the planning team was formed by the College of Designs; this team attended all the meetings and workshops of the plan, and was responsible for scheduling meetings, assigning and executing tasks, distributing questionnaires, and compiling the required information to be able to design the plan.
Second Phase: Analysis
During this stage, several workshops were conducted and attended by the college leaders, staff, and employees, and many analyses were carried out. These were:
Institutional Analysis: For this analysis, twelve elements of the institutional components (planning, leadership, methodology, members, system, training, technology, scientific research, community service, innovation, campus, and finance) were divided into four pillars (strategic planning, staffing, competition, and infrastructure). Through this specification, the strengths of the college were identified to be invested and increased, and the weaknesses pinpointed to be improved.
PESTLE Analysis: this is an analysis of the external environment in which the political, economic, cultural, social, technical, legal and environmental factors related to the College of Designs were analyzed.
Quartet analysis (SWOT analysis): this analysis studies the internal and external environments with regard to the strengths and weaknesses of the college, as well as the opportunities and possible external threats to the college.
Stakeholder and beneficial analysis: internal questionnaires were distributed in this analysis to the faculty, technical and administrative staff, and students to learn about their needs in the college, and note their suggestions. This was also performed with the employers from the government, private and voluntary sectors.
Third Phase: Identity formulation
In this phase, the values of the college were formulated. They were deemed to be of three levels: individual, group and organizational values.
The college's mission was then drafted; care was taken to keep the mission brief and easy to memorize and adopt by all those who belong to the college. In the mission, the areas of work of the college and its target audience were clarified, and some core values adopted by the college were outlined.
Also, during this phase, the future vision that the college aspires to achieve during the plan period was formulated. Care was taken during the formulation of the vision to keep the vision short but ambitious, clarifying the role, location and strategic advantage of the college.
Fourth Phase: Formulation of issues, objectives, and strategic initiatives
During this stage, the TWOS matrix was developed. Through this matrix, opportunities were analyzed with their strengths and weaknesses, and threats were also analyzed with their strengths and weaknesses. Nine strategic issues were planned. A set of strategic objectives and initiatives emerged from these goals.
Fifth Phase: Designing the executive cards of the initiatives
During this phase, executive cards were designed for each initiative. Each card contains the implementation officer, the targeted performance indicators, an analysis of the current situation, future status, implementation procedures, consultancy, estimated time of implementation, and the proposed budget for the implementation of the initiative.
Sixth Phase: Annual implementation plans:
In this phase, annual implementation plans were designed for monthly, weekly and execution references.
Seventh Phase: Strategic monitoring and evaluation
This is a continuous phase throughout the plan period, in which a semi-annual evaluation is carried out to follow up the progress of the plan and make appropriate amendments and additions.


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Don't Laugh, But 0-4 Titans Are a Huge Test for the Colts
Published by Nick South on October 7, 2009
The 4-0 Colts visit the 0-4 Titans. Sounds like the ultimate mismatch. The Titans are in complete free fall after losing by 20 to a very average Jacksonville Jaguar team. The Colts are riding high, winning the last two games by an average of 19 points.
Lock of the week, right?
It'll be the Colts third night game of the young season. Surely you haven't forgotten the first night game played by Indianapolis. However, considering how long the Colts had the ball on offense, it would be understandable if you forgot.
Andy Warhol would have been proud of the Colts' 15 minutes of fame. Actually, in a little less than 15 minutes, the Colts offense produced enough points to edge past Miami a little over two Sundays ago.
Save for Manning's heroics, the story of the game could have easily been the Dolphins' domination in the running game.
Forgive the pun, but the Wildcat mauled the Colts' defense for 239 yards.
Time heals all wounds, as the saying goes...


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Home > English > What We Do > Photo Club > Popular Vote Monthly Contest
Popular Vote Monthly Contest
By Popular Vote! Monthly Winners 2019
MONTHLY RULES AND REGULATIONS
You could win a CWF prize pack valued at $100.00 from the Canadian Wildlife Federation, thanks to the Computer Media Group! Simply send in your photo to CWF's monthly Photo Club contest and you'll be automatically entered to win. The winner will be chosen by popular vote by CWF Photo Club members. Voting will close at 11:59 p.m. E.S.T. on the last day of the month. The winner will be notified by 5 p.m. the following weekday. In the event that voting concludes on either a Saturday or a Sunday, the winner will be notified the following Monday.
To enter and be eligible to win, you must be a resident of Canada, of the age of majority in the province or territory where you reside, and not an employee of, a member of the immediate family of, or domiciled with an employee of any division of the Canadian Wildlife Federation or their subsidiaries, affiliates, and agencies. You must also be a member of CWF's Photo Club. No purchase is necessary. Multiple entries per person are permitted.
In order to win, the selected entrant must first correctly answer, unaided, a time-limited, mathematical, skill-testing question administered by telephone, e-mail or mail.
The winner will be contacted by the Canadian Wildlife Federation to make arrangements for the awarding of their prize.
The prize must be accepted as awarded and is not transferable or extendible, nor can it be redeemed for cash or combined with any other promotion. By entering, each winner agrees that their name and address may be used for further contact by the Canadian Wildlife Federation.
The odds of being selected will depend on the total number of eligible entries received. All entries become the property of the Canadian Wildlife Federation, which assumes no responsibility for lost, delayed or misdirected entries. Entrants agree to abide by the contest rules and the decisions of the contest organizers, which are final.
This contest complies with all federal and provincial laws. The contest is void where prohibited.
FULL CONTEST RULES
All entries must be received no later than 11:59 p.m on the last day of the month of the contest.
One winner will be chosen through popular vote by CWF Photo Club members.
Winners will be awarded one (1) CWF prize pack valued at $100.00. No substitutions or cash alternatives will be permitted. The actual prize will vary month to month.
The winner will be chosen by popular vote by CWF Photo Club members. Voting will close at 11:59 p.m. E.S.T. on the last day of the month.
The winner will be notified in writing by 5 p.m. the following weekday after voting closes.
Prizes will be delivered to the winner by mail.
You can submit 3 photos per month, however photographers for the monthly photo contest may only win once within a 12 month period.
Photo content must feature a Canadian species, habitat or issue. Photos must be submitted online to be qualified entrants to the By Popular Vote contest.
By participating in this contest, participants agree to abide by the criteria and conditions detailed in the contest rules.
Before the prize is awarded, each winner will also be required to sign a statement of compliance with the contest regulations and a waiver releasing the CWF, its sponsors, advertising and promotional agencies, and prize suppliers, of any responsibility stemming from the contest and the prize awarded as part of the contest. If the participant fails to comply with the contest regulations and fails to return the duly signed statement of compliance to the contest organizers within fifteen (15) days following the mailing date of the statement of compliance, the participant will be automatically disqualified and another winner will be selected at random.
If for any reason the Internet component of the contest does not work as planned, in particular because of a computer virus, bug, sabotage, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical defects or any other reason beyond the control of the CWF, and corrupts or affects the administration, security, impartiality, integrity, or proper conduct of this contest, the CWF reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to disqualify any person who sabotages the participation process and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the contest. The CWF does not assume responsibility for errors, omissions, interruptions, suppressions, defects, operation or transmission delays, breakdowns in communication links or their unauthorized access or modification. The CWF is not responsible for technical problems or defects of any network or telephone line, online computer system, server or supplier, hardware or software, or the impossibility for the CWF to receive e-mail due to technical problems or any Internet or Web site congestion, or both, including any damage to the participant's computer or that of any other person linked to the participation or to the downloading of any information relating to or stemming from this contest. In case of a dispute, participation by entry form via the Internet will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of participation. The authorized account holder refers to the person who has been given an e-mail address by an Internet provider, an online services supplier or another organization (e.g. a company, educational establishment) responsible for allocating e-mail addresses in the domain of the submitted e-mail address. In case of a dispute, the potential winner may be required to provide proof to the CWF that he/she is the authorized account holder of an e-mail address associated with the potentially winning entry form.
Copyright - All photographs submitted must be the original and unaltered work of the individual submitting them. It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that any photographs he or she submits has been taken with the permission of the subject and do not infringe on the copyright of any third party or any laws. Entrants warrant that the photographs they are submitting are their own work. Copyright in all photographs submitted for this Contest remain with the respective entrants.
Usage of Entry - Copyright in all photographs submitted for this Contest remain with the respective entrants. However, each entrant grants the Canadian Wildlife Federation a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual license to use, feature, publish, reprint, reproduce, or display any or all of the submitted photographs in any of its publications, its websites, and/or in any promotional or exhibition material connected to this Contest or other future uses as CWF determines. Each entrant also permits CWF to use his or her name in connection with his or her photograph.


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You are here: Home1 / Gluten-Free News2 / What's the Buzz about Bee Balm Victoria?
What's the Buzz about Bee Balm Victoria?
March 18, 2016 /in Gluten-Free News /by Ellen Bayens
Organic, Non-GMO and Handmade in the Cowichan Valley
Bee Balm Victoria is a labour of love for father-daughter duo, Richard and Melissa, 5th- and 6th-generation Vancouver Island beekeepers. Handmade in small batches from hives nurtured in the Cowichan Valley, the balms are 100% organic and non-GMO. Your $5 Lip Balm purchase helps to support next season's hives. Contact Melissa to place your order at h[email protected] 1.778.686.5477 (available in natural or mint-imbued)
Read Melissa's Bee Blog!
Their Story
Father & daughter, Richard & Melissa
Surveying the colony
Checking frames before relocation, Chemainus
Mid-season, Lake Cowichan
Peak season, Lake Cowichan
Papa Louis' original bee truck, still on the road!
Original honey extractor, in use since 1872
Papa Louis' Bee Box for carrying supplies
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*Save Our Bees – Canadian Honey Council
Bee health is an growing public concern and more and more attention is being put on finding solutions to mitigate losses. According to the Canadian Association of Provincial Apiculturists statement on honey bee losses in Canada.
"Over the winter of 2013/14, the average level of wintering loss of honey bee colonies (i.e. colony mortality or colonies too weak to be commercially productive at less than 3 frames of bees) across Canada was 25.0% (Table 1). Ontario experienced 58.0 percent winter mortality. When Ontario's numbers are removed from calculation the national mortality drops to 19.2 percent. This level of winter loss is considered a high winter loss for most Canadian beekeepers in comparison to long term acceptable level of winter losses (15%), as described by beekeepers. The level of winter loss varied among provinces, regions within each province and from beekeeper to beekeeper within each region."
We don't think about the tiny honeybee very often. But it's quickly making big headlines around the world! The honeybee is the cornerstone of the environment and critical to our food supply but around the world. Scientists from the U.S.A. to France and Spain and all the way to U.K. and China are trying to solve the mystery of what's causing the disappearance of the honey bee. Your help is needed to help our pollinators. Corporate and individual donations are very much appreciated … and we need you to help Save Our Bees. All funds (100%) donated to Save our Bees are deposited into the Canadian Bee Research Fund, a registered charity that distributes funds for bee health research.
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Mayim Bialik and Husband Michael Stone Split
"Big Bang Theory" actress Mayim Bialik and husband Michael Stone are splitting up after nine years of marriage. The couple cited "irreconcilable differences," according to TMZ.
The pair, who have two children together, have been outspoken about their hands-on parenting style, including allowing the kids to sleep in the same bed with them.
Mayim, a child star from "Blossom," released a statement on her website, saying, "The hands-on style of parenting we practice played no role in the changes that led to this decision," adding, "relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose."
She continued, "The main priority for us now is to make the transition to two loving homes as smooth and painless as possible. Our sons deserve parents committed to their growth and health and that's what we are focusing on."
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To be honest, I have had my eyes on this hemp/silk blend fabric for some time. It's pretty luscious, right?! The color is a little more blue toned than the website photos look on my screen, but the following picture doesn't quite capture the color either. This is a difficult one to photograph!
When the fabric arrived, it had a bit more drape than I was expecting, so I had to reassess my pattern choice. Also, the "wrong" side of the satin was just as gorgeous as the right side. The fabric is labeled as charmeuse, but this seems more like a heavy crepe backed satin than a charmeuse to me, although the weave is not a crepe.
Once I realized that I wanted to use both sides of the fabric to do it justice, there was only one pattern that would do! I made Vintage Vogue 2354 many, many years ago in a poly crepe backed satin. The publish date on the pattern envelope is 2001, so my dress is probably close to 15 years old. I did wear it a few times, decided that I did not like the side opening with snaps and hook & eyes, replaced those with an invisible zipper, did not do such a great job, and to top it off it was made from POLYESTER. Yuck! I still don't have the heart to get rid of it, but will I ever wear the garment again? I doubt it.
Here was an opportunity to try again. I did attempt to add length to the torso of a fairly complex design with some success with very few years of garment sewing under my belt back in the early aughts, but it did not turn out perfectly, and a muslin was definitely going to be on the table with my gorgeous hemp/silk textile.
To properly lengthen the bodice pieces, I thread traced my muslin pieces but left plenty of extra fabric along the bottom edges.
I pleated those pieces and then trimmed the extra seam allowance.
What remained was a properly lengthened bodice!
The only real issue was that I could not be absolutely sure how those two front pieces should match up.
I took an educated guess, and continued on.
Can I just say how much I love the interesting style lines of this dress! You just don't find this in modern design, and it's a real shame.
But, oh well, this is why we make our own clothes!
And, of course, I basted a zipper into the side seam to get a better idea of how this thing was going to fit.
Turns out, I had to shorten the left front bodice piece just a bit to make the neckline sit properly. Other than that, there was not a whole lot to mess with.
A few notations regarding the alterations to the left front bodice scribbled on my muslin . . .
and it was time to rip the whole thing apart.
Now the question is, did I finish the dress in a single weekend in order to wear this to the opening concert for The Marin Symphony . . .
I just love self imposed deadlines! But a full length gown with satin fabric involved is a bit much for a simple day at the office, even for me.
Organic Cotton Plus has a great selection (what you did with the ginkgo fabric!), and this looks like a stand-out in colorway and texture. Lights will dim, but you will glisten. Aisle way touches and compliments from "admiring since you first walked in" confessional concert-goers will stack to the ceiling (of a concert hall, no less!).
Donate the polyester dress (and other "never again" pieces) to a theater troupe, or high school drama department. Some aspiring dame or gun moll will wear your creation in her first production. You'll have a free hangar, or two, in your closet, and all will be right with the world (full circle, passing of the torch, new memories to be made).
'Tis the season (what with the new house) to edit your collection, and perhaps your life Laura Mae, to what, and whom, you TRULY enjoy (so long as this blog continues, and you're willing to suffer an on-going and unsolicited commentary from far afield).
I'm a costumer and heartily endorse the above response! It seems like it's always a huge cast and never enough time, a local theater would be very grateful. Thanks for doing what you do, your projects are inspiring!


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#include <stdint.h>

/* This is the successor to xorshift128+. It is the fastest full-period
   generator passing BigCrush without systematic failures, but due to the
   relatively short period it is acceptable only for applications with a
   mild amount of parallelism; otherwise, use a xorshift1024* generator.

   Beside passing BigCrush, this generator passes the PractRand test suite
   up to (and included) 16TB, with the exception of binary rank tests, as
   the lowest bit of this generator is an LSFR. The next bit is not an
   LFSR, but in the long run it will fail binary rank tests, too. The
   other bits have no LFSR artifacts.

   We suggest to use a sign test to extract a random Boolean value, and
   right shifts to extract subsets of bits.

   Note that the generator uses a simulated rotate operation, which most C
   compilers will turn into a single instruction. In Java, you can use
   Long.rotateLeft(). In languages that do not make low-level rotation
   instructions accessible xorshift128+ could be faster.

   The state must be seeded so that it is not everywhere zero. If you have
   a 64-bit seed, we suggest to seed a splitmix64 generator and use its
   output to fill s. */

uint64_t s[2];

static inline uint64_t rotl(const uint64_t x, int k) {
    return (x << k) | (x >> (64 - k));
}

uint64_t next(void) {
    const uint64_t s0 = s[0];
    uint64_t s1 = s[1];
    const uint64_t result = s0 + s1;

    s1 ^= s0;
    s[0] = rotl(s0, 55) ^ s1 ^ (s1 << 14); // a, b
    s[1] = rotl(s1, 36); // c

    return result;
}

/* This is the jump function for the generator. It is equivalent
   to 2^64 calls to next(); it can be used to generate 2^64
   non-overlapping subsequences for parallel computations. */

void jump(void) {
    static const uint64_t JUMP[] = { 0xbeac0467eba5facb, 0xd86b048b86aa9922 };

    uint64_t s0 = 0;
    uint64_t s1 = 0;
    for(int i = 0; i < sizeof JUMP / sizeof *JUMP; i++)
        for(int b = 0; b < 64; b++) {
            if (JUMP[i] & UINT64_C(1) << b) {
                s0 ^= s[0];
                s1 ^= s[1];
            }
            next();
        }

    s[0] = s0;
    s[1] = s1;
}


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St Scholastica
St Scholastica (480-543)
Feast day: 10th February
Patron Saint of Those Who Experience Convulsions
Whilst we are still fresh from contemplating the great glory of Our God revealed to us on the great feast of the Epiphany, the sheer love that drove 'God to become Man so that Man might become God'(1), it is today that Holy Mother Church celebrates St Scholastica. St Scholastica is the foundress of the Benedictine order of nuns, and sister of St Benedict, the Father of western monasticism. This brother and sister set up the framework which continues to raise so many saints, and in the process, preserved the knowledge of ages past (including that of Medicine) to set up the flowering of Western Civilisation after the fall of the Roman Empire around the 6th century.
One of the more famous stories recounted by Pope St Gregory of this humble nun is quite relatable to anyone who has ever had a sister:
'St Benedict used to visit St Scholastica once a year outside of his monastery. During the last of these visits, Scholastica, perhaps foreknowing it would be their last interview in this world, or at least desirous of some further spiritual improvement, insisted that her brother delay his return till the next day, that they might entertain themselves till morning upon the happiness of the spiritual life. St. Benedict, unwilling to transgress his rule, told her he could not pass a night out of his monastery, so desired her not to insist upon such a breach of monastic discipline. St. Scholastica finding him resolved on going home, laying her hands joined upon the table, and her head upon them, with many tears, begged of Almighty God to interpose on her behalf. Her prayer was scarce ended when there happened such a storm of rain, thunder, and lightning, that neither St. Benedict nor any of his companions could set a foot out of doors. He complained to his sister, saying, "God forgive you, sister; what have you done?" She answered, "I asked you a favour, and you refused it me; I asked it of Almighty God, and he has granted them to me." Three days later, St Scholastica passed on to her eternal reward, and St Benedict, at that time in contemplation in his monastery, saw his sister's soul ascending to Heaven in the shape of a dove. He immediately gathered his brothers and made arrangements for her body to be buried in a tomb he had prepared for himself. '(2)
So it is with our eternal Father, Who loves us so tenderly that we only have to lay bare our desires and needs before him as confidently as a child before his most tender parents, and He is willing to move Heaven and Earth to fulfil them if it be to our benefit.
Let us then in our daily duties as healers, be as St Scholastica, humble and yet bold in her prayers to God, confident and yet resigned to the Will of God, who is Love.
May we, by the intercession St Scholastica, be healers not only of the body but of the spirit, and if it pleases Almighty God, healers of our culture, in our daily 'work and prayer'(3).
St Scholastica, pray for us!
1) St. Athanasius, De inc. 54, 3: PG 25, 192B
2) Vol. I of "The Lives or the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints" by the Rev. Alban Butler, the 1864 edition published by D. & J. Sadlier, & Company
3) 'Ora et Labora'- the ancient motto of the Benedictine order.
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Cecile Richards' army of media admirers wowed by her boldness
PPFA President Cecile Richards waves as she walks onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention where abortion advocacy was at a fever pitch. [Photo credit: Getty]
If you are the Washington Post, where do you place a story that is so slavishly servile that even admirers of PPFA's Cecile Richards might have shifted uneasily?
Where else, the Style section.
Which, given the content of Caitlin Gibson's profile that ran yesterday, made perfect sense.
Were the story on page one, Gibson would be charged with violating the Sisterhood's all-purpose would-you-say-something-similar-were it-a-man? put down for writing a passage such as this:
She is, as always, immaculately put together, her tall frame draped in a merlot-colored sheath and matching cardigan, gold earrings twinkling beneath her short, white-blond hair.
But the point of the latest in a seemingly endless stream of isn't -she-the-greatest? stories is not about Richards' attire but the political muscles PPFA has grown since she took over as president.
What Gibson does with this is two-fold.
First, emphasize how joined at the hip Richards and Hillary Clinton are. She reminds us that, for the first time, PPFA's political arm endorsed a candidate in the Democratic presidential primary. And how they plan to pour oodles of money and utilize its organizational infrastructure to get her elected the 45th President.
Second, suggest that Clinton has done an "about face" on the Hyde Amendment.
Clinton has always opposed this provision of an annual bill which eliminates public funding for abortion except in the cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. Why wouldn't she? It's saved well over 1 million lives, a healthy portion of whose mothers would otherwise have had abortions at Planned Parenthood.
The change is that opposition to the Hyde Amendment is now in the party's platform. Gibson aptly described federal funding of abortion as "the Maginot Line of the abortion wars ."
Democrats, prodded by an assortment of pro-abortion organizations such as PPFA, have persuaded themselves that public financing of abortion, a loser with the electorate for forever and a day, can be turned into a winner.
They will find out different but it is evidence that the Abortion Establishment is "bolder than it's been in years," to borrow from the story's headline.
Gibson quoted NRLC President Carol Tobias who said
"I think Cecile Richards has now become the puppetmaster for Democrats in Congress," adding, "There is no doubt that Cecile Richards wants to influence a President Clinton and control the Supreme Court."
Tobias also flatly disagreed that the "telling your abortion story" is working:
"It's an effort to make abortion acceptable in society, and I just don't see it working," Tobias says. "They're not influencing women in America in general."
One final thought and it is sparked by a comment found early in Gibson's story. The day last June when the Supreme Court overturned portions of a Texas law intended to required abortion facilities to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers and to make sure abortionists had admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, Richards received a text indicating they had won:
Seeing that text, the president of Planned Parenthood ran out of her office and joined her staff, gathered around television sets, clapping and crying, to revel in a moment of joy.
Who knows how many additional women will be injured because these portions of HB 2 were gutted or what other shortcuts this will inspire the Abortion Industry to take.
But so what? The decision in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt was in harmony with the mantra of the Abortion Establishment: more abortions–ever more abortions–and (they hope) paid for by you and me.
Now that is something to really cry about.
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The Grim Comedian er en amerikansk stumfilm fra 1921 af Frank Lloyd.

Medvirkende
 Phoebe Hunt som Marie Lamonte
 Jack Holt som Harvey Martin
 Gloria Hope som Dorothy
 Bert Woodruff som Old Dad
 Laura La Varnie som Gracie Moore
 May Hopkins som Billie Page
 John Harron som Geoffrey Hutchins

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Ziad Ali aims to combine electrical engineering and neuroscience to treat disorders such as epilepsy and Parkinson's. The NC State senior heads to California in the fall to pursue a Ph.D. at Stanford thanks to a Knight-Hennessy Scholarship.
Ziad Ali in the iMIST Lab on Centennial Campus. The lab specializes in making capacative micromachined ultrasonic transducers, tiny wireless devices with applications in medical imaging guidance and neural stimulation.
Like a lot of graduating seniors at NC State, Ziad Ali is looking to the future — but not just to commencement or his first job after college. He knows what he wants to accomplish decades from now, by the end of his career.
Ali, who will graduate in May with a double major in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering, can focus on his future with certainty thanks to opportunities he's worked hard to seize since high school. The latest, a coveted Knight-Hennessy Scholarship, opens the door to a full ride at Stanford University, where he'll pursue a Ph.D. in electrical engineering this fall.
Meet NC State's other Knight-Hennessy Scholar, aerospace engineering student Madison Maloney, an aspiring astronaut.
Then inspiration struck when he had the opportunity to attend a four-week summer program for high school students interested in STEM subjects — science, technology, engineering and math. At Summer Ventures, Ali built a solar tracker using an open-source programmable microcontroller called an Arduino. You might say the experience made a light bulb come on for him.
"Being able to work on an independent project and discover things myself and then to have something work at the end, that was kind of an 'Aha!' moment," he says.
The brain is the biggest analog circuit ever.
While the Park Scholarship sweetened the deal, Ali was primarily drawn to NC State for the quality of its engineering programs, especially its groundbreaking research in power electronics and wearable health-monitoring devices. In the iMIST Lab, Ali found a home among a team of researchers exploring the intersection of engineering and human health. It opened the door for Ali to work on one of the most complex challenges in both medicine and engineering: neurological disorders.
Ali is carrying 19 credit hours this semester as he prepares to graduate with a double major in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering.
iMIST stands for "integrated microsystems for imaging, sensing and therapy." Researchers in the lab develop and test tiny devices that can send and receive ultrasound signals. The technology holds promise for helping people suffering from neurological disorders such as epilepsy. People with Parkinson's disease, for example, may someday wear microdevices on the outside of their heads, benefiting from a noninvasive alternative to the electrodes now implanted in some patients to deliver deep brain stimulation.
Since joining the iMIST research team during his sophomore year, Ali has thrived, developing his skills as an engineer and a researcher. He credits the lab's director, professor Omer Oralkan, for nurturing his progress.
On top of his classwork and research projects on campus, Ali has worked summer internship at some of the nation's top research labs, including Sandia National Laboratories, the Olson Lab at Columbia University and the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
He's also pursued a personal passion, working with the nonprofit Neighbor to Neighbor program and a team of fellow NC State undergraduates to give youngsters in the Triangle's low-income communities hands-on training in computer science and other STEM disciplines. Ali says it's been one of the most challenging — and rewarding — experiences he's had since coming to NC State.
Ali can relate to the kids' dilemma. When he first came to NC State, he had a much more limited focus than he does today.
Ali's work on circuits in high school helped spark his interest in electrical engineering.
While he continued to work in app development and even founded a hackathon at NC State called PackHacks, Ali began to rethink his path.
Prepared by his research and studies at NC State and equipped with a Ph.D. from Stanford in a few years, Ali will have the rest of his life to make that vision his legacy.


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Democrat? Republican? These none-of-the-above candidates want to break Colorado's political gridlock - Denverite, the Denver site!
How many Colorado independents fit in an elevator? We found out.
Jul. 11, 2018, 6:30 a.m.
"Hey, how many independents fit in an elevator?" a woman asked as the doors of a lift slid closed in downtown Denver on Monday afternoon.
The joker was Thea Chase, a town board member in Palisade. And the answer, apparently, was eight. Four non-partisan political candidates and four of their supporters had crowded aboard for a ride to the Colorado Secretary of State's office. A fifth candidate waited on the ground floor.
Together, they represented the grand ambitions of Unite Colorado — a group that says it will break the state's gridlock by creating a new political force that is neither Democratic nor Republican. They've met skepticism from players on both sides, and plenty of derision, but they were carrying boxes filled with 4,000 ballot signatures: enough, they say, to make the ballots.
First, the unaffiliated elevator car stopped at the third floor of the Wells Fargo Center. The group's political director, Andrew Short, stepped out and searched in vain for the government office where the candidates would file their election papers. Then they tried the fifth floor.
"How many independents does it take to find the secretary of state's office?" quipped Chase, who is running for House District 54 in the state legislature.
Here was a brand-new group, trying quite literally to find their ways around the halls and elevators of power. They were fresh from a press conference on the baking hot steps of the Colorado State Capitol, where speakers declared a "historic" day for a new movement in Colorado, although there were only a couple dozen people listening.
After a few minutes, they found the right office, and promptly discovered they were missing just one more notarized form.
Around Colorado, there are at least 13 independent and unaffiliated candidates running for seats in the state legislature. Unite Colorado has endorsed five of them. History says they face long odds: It has been about 50 years since an unaffiliated candidate won election to the statehouse, according to Nick Troiano, the executive director of Unite America.
Since June 2016, Colorado's population of unaffiliated voters has grown by 22 percent, compared to a 7 percent gain for the Democrats and 2 percent for the Republicans. Unaffiliated voters significantly outnumber either party. The group (formerly known as The Centrist Project) says this is evidence that the public is increasingly disgusted with the two-party system.
Their stated plan is to introduce a small but effective corps of independent legislators. They call it the "fulcrum" strategy — to amplify their influence by establishing themselves as the moderators. If they get the right numbers, the parties would have to come to them to complete a majority.
"The ultimate goal is to elect enough — between three to five — to control the balance of power," said Troiano, who himself ran as an independent for U.S. Congress in 2014.
In the office of the secretary of state, most of those potential power balancers were just getting to meet each other. They included a former game warden, two Republicans who have given up on their party, a town board member with a resume of business advocacy, and a longtime unaffiliated candidate in Colorado Springs.
So far, the two-party system is staying pretty quiet about all this.
Representatives for both the Democrats and Republicans in the statehouse declined to comment. But, behind the scenes, political operatives are passing around information, theories and an unsigned memo about the new group.
Altogether, Unite Colorado is backing four House candidates and one Senate candidate in far-flung districts.
In the Senate, the group chose Peterson in Senate 30. It's a deep-red seat where the Republican incumbent won by nearly 30 percentage points in 2014. Challenger Peterson says he's "socially liberal and fiscally conservative," an alternative to what he describes as a Senate caucus that has lost sight of limited-government values.
Maile Foster is running for an open seat in El Paso County, House District 18. Democrats won the last few elections by 10 to 15 points.
Jay Geyer is challenging Democrat Matt Gray in Boulder and Broomfield counties, House District 33. Democrats have won by 7 to 10 points in recent elections.
Thea Chase is running for an open Republican seat in Delta and Mesa counties, House District 54. Outgoing representative Yeulin Willett, a Republican, dominated his elections by 40-plus points, though a libertarian candidate came close in 2012.
Paul Jones is challenging Democrat Barbara McLachlan in southwestern Colorado, House District 59. She won by less than 2 percentage points in 2016, unseating a Republican.
So, the pattern this year is that Unite Colorado is getting involved in solidly Republican districts, while it's challenging Democrats in competitive districts. Seeing this, some Democratic insiders have complained about a "spoiler effect," where the unaffiliated candidates could sap away voters in their tight races.
"People are convinced, convinced, in the parties that this is a wolf in sheep's clothing," said Troiano, the group's director.
But he pushed back against the idea that they're trying to undermine one party or another."We're here to win races, period. Democrats say we're going to take away Democratic votes and Republicans say we're going to take away Republican votes, and they're both correct for once," he wrote in an email to Denverite.
Troiano claims that the independent candidates have a fighting chance even in the "safe" districts, despite the Republicans' seeming dominance. The group's challengers against Republicans seem to skew libertarian in their values, meaning they could shave off disaffected voters from the party of Trump.
"The Democrats are convinced they cannot win in my district. The Republicans are convinced they cannot lose," Peterson said.
One more piece of evidence against a conspiracy: the group's leadership.
Meanwhile, the group's Colorado political director, Andrew Short, previously worked as the executive director of the Democratic Senate Campaign Fund, and for the ACLU of Colorado as well as for a union group.
The other question is what exactly these candidates will do if they're elected.
Unite Colorado found these candidates through a statewide search process. Jones was introduced by a colleague after he started writing letters to the editor in his local newspaper, and then the group asked him to run. Chase was contacted directly. Geyer's wife saw a news article.
The group searched for people with good character, credibility, viability, and "an approach to government that was very focused on finding common ground," Troiano said. Take notice that there's nothing there about taxes, guns or health care.
And the candidates did offer up specific policy positions when I asked. For Geyer, it's oil and gas regulation. He wants communities to have more consent. Peterson wants to change the education system to reward high-performing teachers, and he wants to specifically increase road funding. Jones wants to work with rural landowners to protect open space, and he wants some changes to TABOR. Chase wants to boost small businesses.
But what they don't have is a specific, shared policy platform on many of the state's biggest issues. "A collection of independents rarely agree on anything," Peterson told me.
And some see that as a potential weakness.
Masket thinks the "fulcrum strategy" is "an interesting approach and certainly more plausible" than other centrist groups' plans. But wildcard independents could slow down lawmaking if they're too unpredictable, he warned last year.
Ellen Dumm, a political consultant who works with progressive and nonprofit organizations, is skeptical of the group. "There's no belief system that is overarching with unaffiliateds, which is one of the reason that unaffiliateds have never been successfully organized in the past, and it's doubtful that they will this time," she said.
And I also wondered: If these candidates don't share some ideological values, will they really be able to work together to break gridlock? Won't they just split apart and side with one party or another?
That remains to be seen, Troiano told me. "There are many layers to this experiment," he said. They've already proved they can recruit candidates. And the candidates bringing in some money — tens of thousands for each race, enough to give the independent candidates a head-start in fundraising, as 9News reported. And they'll try to build momentum with a national "Unite Summit" in Denver on Aug. 17 to 19.
Down in Gunnison County, Jones thinks of his friends whom he describes as defying cultural stereotypes — the pacifist who shoots pistols, or the mountain bikers who hunt elk.


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Q: How do I remove all items starting with a letter chosen by the user? I'm doing an assignment for school. I'm supposed to let the user make a list of ten words, and then I'm supposed to remove all the items in the list that start with a letter chosen by the user.This is how I tried to do it, but it doesn't remove all the words that start with the letter. I've troubleshooted as much as I'm able to with my limited knowledge, and It looks like the for loop just isn't going through all the words.
ordalisti = []
for i in range(10):
    wordlist.append(str(input("Type a word: ").lower()))
letter = input("Choose a letter: ").lower()
for word in wordlist:
    if word[0] == letter:
        wordlist.remove(word)
print(wordlist)

A: Removing items from a list as you're iterating over it doesn't work.  The act of removal interferes with the iteration sequence and it ends up skipping some items.
One way around this is to copy the items you want to save into a new list, and then replace the old list with the new list.
Take a look at the answers to this existing question for lots of ways to handle removing items from a list.

A: You could use list comprehension:
print [word for word in wordlist if word[0] != letter]

A: I think instead of ordalisti = [] you need wordlist = [].  And your indentation is a bit off, beginning with that first variable declaration.

A: wordlist = []

for i in range(10):
    wordlist.append(input("Type a word: ").lower().strip())

letter = input("Choose a letter: ").lower().strip()

new_wordlist = [word for word in wordlist if not word.startswith(letter)]

print(new_wordlist)

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