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Nelson Thomas Bio,Wiki,Biography,Age,Girlfriend Details: Nelson Thomas is a popular American reality star and television personality, who is currently competing in popular reality show "The Challenge: Vendettas". The thirty-first season of MTV reality competition series The Challenge premiered on January 2, 2018 and presented by TJ Lavin. In the Challenge 2018 season, each contestant have to play in multiple challenges, and the winning players of each challenge will split $25,000 to their personal bank account. Get here complete information about Nelson Thomas wiki, biography, age, girlfriend, bio, and many more details.
Nelson Thomas Biography and Wiki: Nelson Thomas was born on November 3, 1988 in San Marcos, Texas, United States. He worked as model and actor. He is best known for competing in popular reality television shows – Are You the One, The Challenge: Rivals III, and The Challenge: Vendettas.
The Challenge: Nelson Thomas is one of the contestant of the The Challenge: Vendettas, which is the thirty-first season of MTV reality competition series, The Challenge. This season of the Challenge series featured alumni from the US version of Big Brother, Ex on the Beach, Geordie Shore, Real World, Road Rules, The Challenge, and Are You the One?
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Banking on the unbanked
Written by Patrick Fine, CEO, FHI 360
This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Reposted with permission.
Financial exclusion is a central component of the poverty trap, foreclosing economic opportunities for the "unbanked" and making it almost impossible to start or grow a business. Billions of working people, mostly in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, lack access to basic financial services, with women, the uneducated and migrants especially disadvantaged.
The microfinance movement in the 1970s realized that giving people — especially women — access to even tiny amounts of credit unleashes individual initiative and that creating the conditions for people to be more self-reliant is inherently empowering. As microfinance programs grew into established institutions and as emerging economies have become more formalized, the disparity between women's and men's access to financial services has grown. Today, approximately 58 percent of women have a bank account compared to 65 percent of men. This is not only an indicator of inequality, but it also exposes the fact that more than 35 percent of working people are excluded from opportunities for upward mobility.
We don't have to wait for the slow march of progress for marginalized groups to gain access to modern financial services. Ubiquitous mobile technologies provide an immediate opportunity to reach the unbanked at a scale and pace that was previously unimaginable. Banks, mobile network operators, financial technology companies, governments and donors are using mobile technology to deploy new, innovative financial instruments for people at all income levels. New business models make it possible for people to have access to deposit and savings accounts, payment services, and loan and insurance products customized to their specific needs, in the most remote locations. Companies like bKash in Bangladesh and M-Pawa in Tanzania are revolutionizing financial services. By bringing a much larger portion of the population into the formal economy and speeding the velocity of money circulation, making transactions more transparent and secure, and opening new markets and opportunities for commercial businesses and public-sector programs across all sectors, digital financial services are driving forces for economic growth.
At FHI 360, we have seen the transformational power of these new tools. For example, in India we are working with the Institute for Financial Management and Research and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in a multistakeholder partnership called Catalyst, to scale digital payments to demonstrate how businesses can bring people into the formal financial sector. The initiative combines new technology and institutional innovations to disseminate modern business practices that help merchants and consumers, especially low-income and disadvantaged populations, benefit from India's growing digital economy.
The international community, with support from the G20's Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion, the Better than Cash Alliance and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, has made huge strides toward financial inclusion, with 700 million people opening bank accounts in just the last five years. But, billions of people remain unbanked. As much as financial inclusion takes place in the private sector, closing the financial inclusion gap requires donors and nongovernmental organizations to unlock the full range of possibilities. Programs that spread financial literacy and ensure that women have access to mobile phones and governments that implement evidence-based, inclusive financial policies and regulations are natural targets for public–private partnerships. USAID's upcoming Financial Inclusion Practitioner's Day on December 2nd is an example of a donor providing leadership to convene players from across the public and private sectors. This event will be a good opportunity to reinforce the simple proposition that when people have the tools to build more prosperous lives, we are all better off.

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After several bad experiences, Mok Hae Won (Park Min Young) leaves Seoul for Bookhyun Village in Gangwon Province where she lived when she was little. There, she meets Im Eun Sub (Seo Kang Joon), a bookstore owner who lives a simple life.......
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Set in the 18th-century Joseon, it tells the story of Crown Prince Lee Sun (Yoo Seung Ho) and his fight against a powerful and wealthy organization Pyunsoo-hwe that controls the country behind the scenes due to its monopoly of the nation's water supply. With the help of the woman he loves named Han Ga Eun (Kim So Hyun), Lee overcomes adversit......
This drama is remake of the 2010 Japanese NTV drama series "Mother". It is about a temporary teacher at an elementary school realizes that one of her students is being abused at home by her family. She makes an impulsive decision to kidnap the child and attempts to become her mother.
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This drama shows how devastating and hurtful it can be for a woman to live with a boyfriend before marriage and not end up tying a knot with him. Korea has the second highest divorce rate in the world as more and more families become ruined -- mainly because one of the spouses cheats. To make things worse, the mass media continues to champion premarital cohabitation as a choice that unmarried couples are free to make. T......
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After the end of the war with the Ch'ing Dynasty (Manchu Invasion), slaves talk about joining an uprising of a righteous army. With a new king everyone would be made equal, living a decent life irrespective of social standing. Keunommee, a slave, is excited but anxious as he joins the uprising. Dae Gil, a son of a noble, and Un Nyun, a slave girl, are in love. One day Keunommee, Un Nyun's older brother, sets his m......


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Tomb of Tawosret and Sethnakht (KV14)
Queen Tawosret was the Chief Wife of Seti II who reigned briefly as pharaoh at the end of Dynasty XIX after the death of her son Siptah. KV14 was subsequently usurped by the first king of Dynasty XX, Sethnakht. The tomb is located next to that of Tawosret's husband.
The entrance to the tomb gives access to three corridors decorated with the usual scenes now seen in royal tombs and the sun disc containing scarab and ram-headed god flanked by Isis and Nephthys on the outer lintel. On the left of the first corridor in painted plaster relief, the queen is seen offering vases to Re-Horakhty, food to Anubis and an image of Ma'at to Isis. Figures on this wall were reworked to depict Tawosret as a king rather than a queen then later changed to Sethnakht on a smaller scale. On the right-hand side the queen can also be seen as a king offering Ma'at to Re-Horakhty, Hathor and Nephthys.
The second corridor was usurped by Sethnakht, who covered the images of Tawosret with plaster over which he painted his own names. The walls contain texts from the 'Book of the Dead'. There is also a depiction of Seti II on the right-hand wall.
The third corridor also has scenes from the 'Book of the Dead', showing the underworld spirits with knives. This leads into a small square chamber, probably a well-room without a shaft, decorated with images of Osiris, Isis, Anubis, and Nephthys and an Iun-Mutef priest with the Four Sons of Horus.
A staircase descends through the next room, also decorated with Underworld guardians from the 'Book of the Dead', and leads to another series of corridors, decorated with the 'Opening of the Mouth Ritual'. In a side-room off the upper corridor a painting showing Anubis tending a mummy on a couch and flanked by Isis and Nephthys is also a spell from the 'Book of the Dead'.
Tawosret's burial chamber is a rectangular room with four small annexes off the corners. The chamber has eight square pillars in a gallery around a sunken sarcophagus area and the walls are brightly painted with Underworld scenes from various texts (Book of Gates, Book of Caverns, Book of the Earth). The pillars are decorated with depictions of various deities and representations of funerary furniture. Tawosret's name was usurped by Sethnakht here too. The burial chamber has a typical Ramesside vaulted astronomical ceiling showing the decans, northern constellations and their associated deities. Whilst Tawosret's mummy has never been positively identified (possibly mummy 'D' in the KV35 cache) her sarcophagus was found elsewhere having been reused for a Ramesside prince.
The tomb was extended further into the mountain by Sethnakht and there are two side rooms at the entrance to the next corridor which seem to have been abandoned before completion. The lower corridors were decorated with scenes from the Amduat and Sethnakht's burial chamber at their end is similar to, but slightly lager than the chamber of Tawosret. The carving was never completed here and the walls are only painted and in a poorer condition than in the first burial chamber. There is an astronomical ceiling similar to Tawosret's.
The huge red granite restored sarcophagus of Sethnakht still remains in the burial chamber, with a reclining mummiform image of the king on its lid. Sethnakht's mummy was found in KV35 with the royal mummy cache.
The tomb of Tawosret and Sethnakht is currently open to visitors. Tickets for the King's Valley cost EGP 80 for three tombs and can be bought at the gate. Photography inside the tombs is strictly forbidden and can incur heavy fines. There is a little train – the taftaf – that runs from the coach park to the entrance to the monument area and costs EGP 2.
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Q: Python Kubernetes MaxRetryError I am trying to use Kubernetes in a django app in my PC (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS) but after going through a lot of different errors I went and tried a simple example (Deploy Pod from YAML file) from the kubernetes python library. Even though the example is very straightforward I keep getting the same error:
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='192.168.139.242', port=6443):
Max retries exceeded with /apis/apps/v1/namespaces/default/deployments
(Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7fef64215430>:
Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused'))

My code looks like the example (I've only changed the yaml file):
from kubernetes import client,config,utils

def main():
    config.load_kube_config()
    k8s_client = client.ApiClient()
    yaml_file = 'video_capturer.yaml'
    utils.create_from_yaml(k8s_client,yaml_file,verbose=True)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

And I get the previous error in the create_from_yaml function, the IP and port should be right.
If I try to do the equivalent in a new ubuntu terminal (microk8s kubectl apply -f video_capturer.yaml) it works perfectly fine.
Do you know what might be wrong with my k8s installation?
EDIT: After trying different approaches I have noticed that what works fine is using microk8s to deploy the pod, but when I simply use kubectl I get the following error:
~$ kubectl get all
The connection to the server 192.168.139.242:6443 was refused -
did you specify the right host or port?

I think that something in my kubectl might be broken.

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Backing Up the Junos Space Platform Database
You must back up the Junos Space database regularly so that you are able to roll back the system data to a previously known point. You can create a backup schedule on the Database Backup and Restore page in the Administration workspace (Network Management Platform > Administration > Database Backup and Restore). You can store the backup file on the local file system of the Junos Space appliance, or on a remote server by using the Secure Copy Protocol (SCP).
We recommend that you back up files on a remote server because this ensures that the backup files are available even if an error occurs on the appliance. In addition, if you back up files remotely instead of locally, you ensure optimal use of the disk space on the Junos Space appliance.
To perform remote backups, you must set up a remote server that can be accessed through the SCP and that has its IP address and credentials available. We recommend that you have a separate partition on this server to store Junos Space backups and that you provide the full path of this partition in the Junos Space user interface when you set up the backup schedule. You can also specify the start date and time for the first backup, the recurrence interval required (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly), and the date and time of the last backup (if required). In most cases, we recommend that you back up the database daily. You can customize the backup frequency based on the needs of your organization and the amount of change that occurs in the network. In addition, you can schedule backups to run automatically when the system usage is low. Creating a backup schedule ensures that database backups occur at the scheduled time and at the scheduled recurrence intervals. You can also perform database backups on demand from the Database Backup and Restore page, in the Administration workspace (Network Management Platform > Administration > Database Backup and Restore), by clearing the check boxes that control the time of occurrence and recurrence intervals.
Whether scheduled or performed on demand, each successful backup generates an entry that is available on the Database Backup and Restore page. You can select the database backup entry and select the Restore From Remote File action to restore the system data to the selected backup.
Performing a database restore action causes a downtime in your Junos Space fabric, which goes into Maintenance mode to restore the database from the chosen backup and then waits for the application servers to be restarted.
For complete information about performing backup and restore operations for the Junos Space Network Management Platform, see the Backing Up and Restoring the Database Overview and Backing Up the Junos Space Network Management Platform Database topics (in the Junos Space Network Management Platform Workspaces Feature Guide).
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Bangalore is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore, or Bangaluru, as it is known today, was founded by Kempe Gowda . It has developed over the years into an industrial and technological hub in India.
Bangalore is known as the "Silicon valley of India" because of its role as the Nation's leading Information Technology (IT) hub. It is known for the pleasant climate throughout the year. The city houses IIM (Indian institute of Management) and also the Kannad Film Industry.
Bangalore is one of the most important tourist centers of the state. It has many lakes, garden and parks and so it is known as the Garden city of India. Brigade road, Commercial Street, shekpet, UB city, Phoenix market city are some premium shopping locations. Everything from apparel, footwear, jewellery, traditional silk sarees, sandal wood handicrafts and antiques are available in the city making it a shoppers' paradise. It has a large number of shopping malls and departmental stores too where all the latest offers and deals can be caught.


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Men's Soccer Coach Jimmy Banks Passes Away
It is with a heavy heart that MSOE Raiders Athletics shares the news of men's soccer head coach Jimmy Banks losing his battle with cancer.
Jimmy was brought into the Red & White family in 1999 and one of the longest-tenured coaches at the school history. In Banks' 17 seasons guiding the program, the Raiders have won 164 games, including nearly 63 percent of conference matches. MSOE has finished in the top three in the conference standings nine times, including a three runner-up finishes--in 2009, 2012 and 2015, before winning the NACC regular season championship with a 10-1-0 record. For his efforts, Jimmy was repeatedly named Coach of the Year—including last season. Jimmy's 191 wins is by far the most in the program's history by a single coach, accounting for over half of the wins in the programs 36 seasons. One would have to go all the way back to 2006 to see a Bank's coached team with a losing record.
Jimmy was one of the most talented soccer players to come out of Milwaukee. In 1981, he was an All-American forward at Custer High School—the first prep All-American in state history. While at UW-Parkside, he was an NSCAA NAIA All-American selection in 1983. After transferring to UW-Milwaukee, he was an NSCAA All-Midwest Region selection in 1985 and 1986.
After college, Banks was a member of the United States National Team, making 36 appearances for the U.S. The highlight of his international career was making two starts at the 1990 World Cup as a defender.
Professionally, Banks was the No. 1 selection in 1987 of both the Major Indoor Soccer League, by the Kansas City Comets, and the National Professional Soccer League) by the Milwaukee Wave. He chose to stay home with the Wave starring for the franchise from 1987-93 and was inducted into the franchise hall of fame in 2013.
In 2002, he was among the honorees in the "Decade of U.S. Soccer" celebration held in the nation's capital. Banks is an inducted member of UW-Milwaukee Athletics, Custer High School and Wisconsin Soccer Association's Halls of Fame. Banks also believed in community, giving back to Milwaukee by developing urban youth soccer programs.
Our hearts are heavy, and our thoughts are with the Banks family during this difficult time.Below is an official statement from the MSOE athletic department:
"Jimmy Banks has long been a soccer icon in Wisconsin while having his impact reaching nationwide. His love and passion for the game of soccer was evident in everything he did and his role in expanding access to the sport in his community will be his lasting legacy. We at MSOE were fortunate to have Jimmy build our men's soccer team into a championship-caliber program that found success on the field while maintaining the values or our department, the university, and Division III athletics off of it.
This is a great loss for the soccer community in Milwaukee and well beyond."
April 27, 2019 Men's Soccer Coach Jimmy Banks Passes Away
November 30, 2018 Novakovich Named to All-America Second Team
November 27, 2018 Men's Soccer Has Three Named All-Region, Five Named All-State
November 3, 2018 Men's Soccer Falls in NACC Championship to Dominican
October 31, 2018 Novakovich Named NACC Offensive Player of the Year
October 31, 2018 Men's Soccer Beats CUW 2-1, Returns to NACC Championship
October 30, 2018 Novakovich Collects NACC Player of the Week Honor
October 24, 2018 Men's Soccer Closes Out Regular Season with 4-1 Road Win
October 22, 2018 Marchionna Named Ian's Pizza Raider of the Week
October 20, 2018 Men's Soccer Clinches NACC Regular Season Championship
October 17, 2018 Men's Soccer Sees Win Streak Snapped at CUW, 1-0
October 16, 2018 Schauer Repeats as Offensive Player of the Week
October 13, 2018 Schauer Scores Twice in Win at Benedictine
October 10, 2018 Men's Soccer Downs Concordia Chicago 4-1
October 9, 2018 Schauer Picks Up NACC Player of the Week Honors
October 8, 2018 Schauer Named Ian's Pizza Raider of the Week
October 6, 2018 Men's Soccer Beats WLC, Wins 10th-Straight
October 3, 2018 Schauer Hat Trick Sparks Men's Soccer 5-1 Rout of Marian
September 29, 2018 Late Novakovich Goal Lifts Men's Soccer
September 26, 2018 Men's Soccer Knocks Off Dominican, 3-2
September 25, 2018 Schauer Adds NACC Offensive Player of the Week Honor
September 24, 2018 Schauer Named Ian's Pizza Raider of the Week
September 22, 2018 Men's Soccer Wins Sixth Straight, Downs IIT 4-0
September 19, 2018 Schauer Brace Lifts Men's Soccer at Edgewood
September 15, 2018 Late Rally Sends Men's Soccer Past Dubuque, 3-2
September 11, 2018 NACC Honors Novakovich as Player of the Week
September 11, 2018 Men's Soccer Handles Maranatha, 3-0
September 10, 2018 Novakovich Named the Ian's Pizza Raider of the Week
September 8, 2018 Novakovich Scores Four Goals in Win at Ripon
September 5, 2018 Men's Soccer Offense Busts Out in First Win
September 1, 2018 Men's Soccer Falls to Pacific Lutheran at Home
August 31, 2018 Men's Soccer to Sport New-Look Offense
August 31, 2018 Men's Soccer Can't Rebound in Opening Loss
August 20, 2018 Men's Soccer Picked Fifth in NACC Preseason Poll


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Here's The Huge Amount That Disney Paid For The Hamilton Movie
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway musical is coming to the big screen.
By Eddie Makuch on February 5, 2020 at 2:27PM PST
The famous Broadway musical Hamilton is coming to theatres thanks to Disney. We're now learning more about how it all came to be, and it involves a lot of money.
Multiple sites, including The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, and Variety, claim that Disney paid $75 million USD to acquire the rights to the Lin-Manuel Miranda movie. According to Deadline, this might be the highest-ever fee paid for a finished movie.
Unlike the movie versions of Cats or Rent, the movie edition of Hamilton uses footage captured during live performances of the show in 2016, just two weeks before the original cast left. It will also make use of "live capture" techniques to blend theater and film elements.
The Hamilton movie uses stage footage from three different live performances. There are also some "setup shots without an audience," Deadline reported. "All of the footage was used to create multiple angles, to ensure the cinematic nature of the event, without a bad seat in the house," the site said.
According to the reports, Disney outbid other companies in acquiring the Hamilton movie rights, including Warner Bros. Tommy Kail directed both the stage play used in the film, and movie version of Hamilton.
The Hamilton movie comes to theatres in North America on October 15, 2021. Release dates for other parts of the world have not been announced.
The big-screen adaptation will bring back writer and star Miranda as Alexander Hamilton, Daveed Diggs in a dual role as Maarquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler, Leslie Odom, Jr. as Aaron Burr, Christopher Jackson as George Washington, Jonathan Groff as King George, Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton, and Jasmine Cephas Jones as Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds, Okieriete Onaodowan as Hercules Mulligan and James Madison, and Anthony Ramos as John Laurens and Philip Hamilton.


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A sewing machine-like robot that can implant ultrathin threads deep into the brain
From Elon Musk's Neuralink Wants 'Sewing Machine-Like' Robots to Wire Brains to the Internet – The New York Times:
One of Neuralink's distinguishing techniques is that it places flexible threads of electrodes in proximity to neurons, the tiny cells that are the basic building blocks of the brain.
The ability to capture information from a large number of cells and then send it wirelessly to a computer for later analysis is believed to be an important step to improving basic understanding of the brain.
The threads are placed using thin needles, and a so-called computer-vision system helps avoid blood vessels on the surface of the brain. The technique being used by Neuralink involves inserting a bundle of threads that are each about a quarter of the diameter of a human hair.
The company is hoping to begin working with human subjects as soon as the second quarter of next year.
The company says surgeons would have to drill holes through the skull to implant the threads. But in the future, they hope to use a laser beam to pierce the skull with a series of tiny holes.
The human body is not a plug and play device. It's not easy to expand and upgrade. To open the doors to mass adoption, human enhancement technologies must find a way to make the augmentation as frictionless as possible.
Must-watch recording of the live announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vbh3t7WVI


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AST TIRN research grant request for proposals
The AST Transplantation and Immunology Research Network (TIRN) research grants program supports fellows, junior faculty, and allied health professionals by funding innovative research in basic, clinical, and translational science. A limited number of grants will be awarded for research projects beginning July 1, 2016. The request for proposals is open now at www.TIRN.org/funding. Applications must be completed by 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time on Sunday, November 1, 2015. For more information, visit www.TIRN.org or email TIRN@myAST.org.
Education and Clinical Tools for the Independent Living Donor Advocate: Webinar July 29
Register today to attend "Basics of Liver Disease and Transplantation" on Wednesday, July 29 at 1 p.m. EDT. The entire nine-webinar series developed by the AST Live Donor Community of Practice is free to AST members and their associates - just register with an AST member username and password at www.myAST.org/ILDA.
Non-members can purchase access to all nine webinars for just $200. Eligible non-members can join the AST as a non-doctoral member and the webinar series is included in their $90 annual dues. Find out more at www.myAST.org/ILDA.
Transplant Adverse Event 'Thorough Analysis': Webinar Aug. 12
Join us and ASTS on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015 at Noon ET for the sixth installment of a monthly webinar series designed and presented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This webinar provides an in-depth review of what a 'thorough analysis' should contain, a look at tools and methods that may be utilized and how the results of an analysis may be used to prevent re-occurrences. Register today!
Education and Clinical Tools for the Independent Living Donor Advocate: Webinar Aug. 19
"Living Liver Donation A to Z: Understanding the Basics" is the next webinar in the Education and Clinical Tools for the Independent Living Donor Advocate (ILDA) webinar series, and takes place Wednesday, Aug. 19 at 1 p.m. EDT. The entire nine-webinar series developed by the AST Live Donor Community of Practice is free to AST members and their associates, just register with an AST member username and password at www.myAST.org/ILDA.
Non-members can purchase access to all nine webinars for just $200. Eligible non-members can join AST as a non-doctoral member and the webinar series is included in their $90 annual dues. Find out more at www.myAST.org/ILDA.
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AST Fellows Symposium - Registration open!
The AST Fellows Symposium on Transplantation is the premier meeting for those entering the exciting field of solid organ transplantation. Special Announcement: Travel grants are now an AST member benefit. Travel grants are only awarded to attendees who are sponsored by an AST member in good standing. Each AST member may sponsor up to two attendees: one from the member's institution, and one from another institution. For more information on registration eligibility and travel grants, please visit www.myAST.org/Fellows.
ASHI 41st Annual Meeting
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Effect of ramipril on urinary protein excretion in maintenance renal transplant patients converted to sirolimus
This prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study evaluated the effects of ramipril on urinary protein excretion in renal transplant patients treated with sirolimus following conversion from a calcineurin inhibitor. Patients received ramipril or placebo for up to 6 weeks before conversion and 52 weeks thereafter.
African American kidney transplant patients' perspectives on challenges in the living donation process
Progress in Transplantation via PubMed
The increasing shortage of deceased donor kidneys suitable for African Americans highlights the critical need to increase living donations among African Americans. Little research has addressed African American transplant recipients' perspectives on challenges and barriers related to the living donation process.
Role of patient factors and practice patterns in determining access to liver waitlist
Geographic variability in access to care is a persistent challenge in transplantation. Little is known about how patients with end-stage liver disease are chosen for referral, evaluation and listing. Utilizing death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2002 to 2009, estimated liver demand (ELD) was measured by aggregating annual deaths from liver disease and liver transplants performed in each donor service area (DSA).
National Healthcare delivery systems influence lung transplant outcomes for cystic fibrosis
Successful lung transplantation (LTx) depends on multiple components of healthcare delivery and performance. Therefore, we conducted an international registry analysis to compare post-LTx outcomes for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients using the UNOS registry in the United States and the National Health Service (NHS) Transplant Registry in the United Kingdom. Patients with CF who underwent lung or heart–lung transplantation in the United States or United Kingdom between Jan. 1, 2000 and Dec. 31, 2011 were included.
Laparoscopic tansplantation following transvaginal Insertion of the kidney: Description of technique and outcome
Laparoscopic kidney transplantation (LKT) is well accepted modality of treatment for ESRD patients at our center. Usually, the kidney is inserted through small Pfannenstiel incision. With the permission of the Internal Review Board, we carried out LKT in eight female recipients following insertion of the kidney through the vagina. The kidney was procured by the retroperitoneoscopic approach.
First living-related liver transplant to cure factor VII deficiency (Pediatric Transplantation)
The donor kidney biopsy and its implications in predicting graft outcomes: A systematic review (American Journal of Transplantation)
Graft arterial stenosis in kidney en bloc grafts from very small pediatric donors: Incidence, timing, and role of ultrasound in screening (American Journal of Transplantation)
Lung transplantation for hypersensitivity pneumonitis (CHEST via PubMed)
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The West Midlands Strategic Transport Plan "Movement for Growth" was approved by ITA on 17 December 2015.
The benefits that use of motorcycles and mopeds have for our nine objectives are recognised. This is particularly related to where low emission PTWers can be used as a low cost means of travel for journeys to services, employment and education where other alternatives to the car aren't practical options. In efforts to ensure this contribution of powered two-wheelers, the West Midlands will work towards improving the safety of PTWers with activity to reduce speed related collisions, reduce right turning vehicle collisions, increase compliance with the rules of the road, increase the use of personal protective equipment by motorcyclists and improve motorcyclist skill and riding behaviour.


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Gypsies, Tramps and Thugs
Would-be murder weapon: Fred Ensminger's pickup.
"This guy ... just tried to run my husband over!" exclaimed Arkansas resident Cindy Nelson in a frantic 911 call on July 21. "Oh, my God -- he's shooting at us! Oh, my God!"
A few minutes later, Fred Ensminger -- the deranged assailant -- placed a 911 call of his own.
"This is Diamondhead 1106," Ensminger told the suddenly swamped dispatcher. I have been shot and I need medical at my front gate ASAP."
Ensminger is a recidivist criminal. Thanks to the fact that practically any bipedal simian with a pulse can become a police officer in Arkansas, Ensminger -- who just barely meets those criteria -- is employed by the Police Department of Diamondhead Arkansas, a gated community located south of Hot Springs.
A few minutes before Cindy Nelson told the 911 dispatcher that a "guy with a badge" was trying to murder her husband, she had passed Ensminger's pickup truck, which was parked by the side of the road.
As Nelson started to go around the truck, Ensminger -- whose penchant for abusive behavior was notorious in Diamondhead -- pulled out in front of her. According to an eyewitness, Ensminger "stopped suddenly," causing Nelson to slam on her brakes to avoid a collision.
According to the witness, Ensminger climbed out of his pickup truck and began to harangue Nelson. She reacted by pulling around him and proceeding down the road. An infuriated Ensminger followed in close pursuit.
With Ensinger's pickup truck looming in her rear-view, Nelson called her husband, Jerry Chambliss, and told him that she was being followed. She had no idea at this point that her stalker was an off-duty police officer.
After Nelson entered the gated community, Chambliss went into the driveway "with my arms up, palms out, hollering stop, stop, stop, what are you doing?" he later told investigators.
Ensminger gunned the pickup forward, striking Chambliss and knocking him down. He then compounded that act of attempted vehicular homicide by grabbing his 40 caliber Glock and firing several rounds into the garage. At some point Ensminger punctuated his acts of attempted criminal homicide by flashing his state-issued costume jewelry.
Chambliss raced into the house and retrieved a loaded 9mm handgun and returned fire, striking Ensminger in the shoulder and forcing the assailant to withdraw.
After Ensminger called for backup, Nelson made a second 911 call requesting a police officer. When the dispatcher replied that an officer was already on the premises, Nelson suggested that it might be worthwhile to send someone other than the person who had just perforated her home with gunfire.
"She [the dispatcher] kept telling me, `He's not the shooter-- he's a cop,'" Cindy Nelson related in an interview with Pro Libertate. "I kept trying to convince her that's what was happening -- that this cop just opened fire on our home. They never did send anyone to help us, even though they did send people after he [Ensminger] called 911."
After the police arrived, Nelson continues, "they had us on the ground in handcuffs for thirty minutes. They also spent six hours searching our house -- with our consent, I guess. After that they didn't even take my husband with them; they just said `We'll call you if we need to ask some more questions.'"
Note well that right from the beginning it was clear that Chambliss had acted legally, and that Ensminger, the assailant, had committed a criminal offense. Despite this, the official stance of the Diamondhead Police Department was that Chambliss was a "suspect," and that Ensminger had fallen heroically in the line of duty.
The shootout between Ensinger and Chambliss was originally described by the Diamondhead Police and the local media as growing out of a "domestic dispute." Chief Pat Mahoney and Garland County Deputy Judy Daniel told Little Rock's Fox 16 News that they were concerned about their injured comrade, who had been stricken in the line of duty as he was "investigating" a purported episode of domestic violence.
That official lie is indigestibly rich in irony, given the fact that Ensminger -- a "gypsy cop" who has been repeatedly fired and punished for disciplinary infractions and criminal acts -- was himself arrested on a domestic violence charge in 2006. The victim in that assault, which took place in front of the police station in Alexander, Arkansas, was a female police officer.
"We are very happy that the officer is OK and extremely glad that the suspect is in custody," stated Deputy Daniel shortly after that heroic defender of public order tried to murder Jerry Chambliss. "It just makes it easier on everybody, the other officers, his family."
Note how this description of "everybody" refers exclusively to those employed as agents of government coercion. The "civilian" who used righteous force to repel Ensminger's criminal assault apparently didn't count. Mere Mundanes never do.
"Gypsy Cop" John Frederick Ensminger.
Following surgery to remove the bullet he had received as a consolation prize for finishing second in a shoot-out, Ensminger filed the predictably perjurious official report.
Like too many others in his profession, Ensminger couples functional illiteracy with an unexpected gift for storytelling. He claimed to have observed Nelson driving erratically, and that she attempted to run him over when he displayed the trinket denoting his supposed authority.
That claim was demolished by contradictory eyewitness testimony, which established that while Ensminger screamed at Nelson and wagged a finger in her direction, he never flashed his badge.
Ensminger offered a similarly mendacious version of his encounter with Chambliss. In the officer's account, he was confronted by an "angry unknown man" who slammed his hands on the hood of his car telling him to get out of the driveway.
In this depiction, Chambliss shot Ensminger without provocation, and the off-duty cop returned fire in self-defense. Once again, that account couldn't be reconciled with the evidence assembled during an investigation by the Arkansas State Police.
In his official report, state Prosecuting Attorney Steve Oliver concluded that Chambliss "was justified in using deadly physical force in the defense of himself and his wife on July 21, 2010.... Under Arkansas law, Mr. Chambliss was not required to retreat if he was not the original aggressor."
This of necessity means that Fred Ensminger, the "original aggressor," committed multiple acts of criminal assault, and thus be subject to prosecution -- correct?
Well, no.
Oliver ruled that Ensminger displayed "poor judgment in his aggressive pursuit of Ms. Nelson to her residence but he acted with the belief that he was justified under color of law."
This unsupportable, invalid "belief" appears sufficient to exculpate Ensminger's repeated attempts to murder Jerry Chambliss. Oliver doesn't provide any other explanation for his decision not to file criminal charges of any kind against Ensminger, who not only remains free but (at least as of September 7) is reportedly still employed by the Diamondhead Police Department, even though he is currently enjoying a paid vacation (aka "administrative leave").
"Just because he has a badge he does not have the right to come down and kill citizens," Chambliss complained to Little Rock's Fox affiliate. According to Oliver, that state-issued bauble does indeed confer the authority to commit acts of discretionary murder. Oliver's report clearly suggests that if Ensminger had displayed his chintzy totem of official privilege during the highway confrontation with Cindy Nelson, Chambliss would be facing criminal charges.
"We've never had trouble of any kind with law enforcement before," Cindy Nelson remarked to Pro Libertate. "We're well-known here, and we've always been upstanding citizens. I'm a nurse, and my husband -- who served in the Navy -- has been a Real Estate broker and a candidate for office. My husband suffered severe bruising and other injuries after being run down. We never used to lock our doors, now we have three locks on every door and keep our cars locked at all times."
Chambliss is also undergoing treatment for what appears to be post-traumatic stress disorder. "This guy simply terrorized us," Cindy summarizes. She and her husband have some unfortunate company in Diamondhead.
"We're scared to have him in the community, quite frankly," commented Diamondhead resident Kimberly Gilsinger, whose children were threatened by the officer while swimming in a local lake.
Hot Springs Officer Joey Williams assaults skateboarder.
In late June, just weeks before Ensminger attempted to murder Jerry Chambliss, Gilsinger and her husband filed a complaint alleging that the officer had threatened to kill her son and five other local boys, the youngest of whom was ten years old.
Specifically, Ensminger allegedly said that "he would get in the water and drown every one of them if they didn't get out," Gilsinger recalled. The complaint also stated that Ensminger made a vague but unmistakable threat to shoot the kids.
(Arkansas police seem to attract child predators: Three years ago a tonsured thug named Joey Williams was captured on video choking and otherwise assaulting several young skateboarders on the streets of Hot Springs. His employer, the Hot Springs PD, ruled that his felonious assault was "justified," not that the suspense was unbearable.)
Ray Massey, President of the Diamondhead Property Association, told the Little Rock CBS affiliate that Ensminger "got a verbal reprimand and a warning" after committing what Gilsinger correctly describes as a "felony" by threatening to "harm or kill our children."
This was hardly the first criminal act Ensminger has committed in a career in law enforcement that began seven years ago.
Ensminger was fired little more than a year of being hired by the Shannon Hills Police Department. During that time he managed to shoot a suspect under dubious circumstances (the act was ruled "justified," as nearly all such shootings are) and a property theft charge. During that same busy 14-month span, reports THV-TV, "his record shows an assault case, which included a false statement to the police on Ensminger's part. That case eventually led to his firing."
He then migrated to the Alexander Police Department, where he was arrested on a domestic battery charge after he manhandled his girlfriend -- a fellow police officer named April Tirado -- outside the police station. Ensminger wasn't fired from that position; he was permitted to resign instead. Approximately a year later he was hired by the Diamondhead Police Department.
The Diamondhead PD refuses to release Ensminger's record, claiming that it is exempt from freedom of information laws because it is employed by a private entity, the Diamondhead Property Owners Association. It is more accurate to describe the POA as a "public-private" or corporatist body, since its police department -- as prosecutor Steve Oliver points out -- presumes to exercise coercive "authority" under "color of law," rather than simply protecting property rights pursuant to contract. If Ensminger were a Paul Blart-style private security guard, he would most likely be facing criminal charges.
John Frederick Ensminger, petty criminal and itinerant police officer, should be made the poster child for the problem of "Gypsy Cops" -- corrupt, abusive officers who drift from one agency to another, enjoying both immunity from prosecution and unassailable job security. This problem is particularly acute in Arkansas, where no certification of any kind is required to become a police officer.
To become a licensed practicing cosmetologist in the State of Arkansas, an applicant must pass a state board examination and complete 2,000 hours of specialized training. For an investment of 600 hours an applicant can qualify to work as a manicurist or instructor.
While Arkansas strictly regulates those who cut hair or paint nails in private, voluntary transactions, it imposes no training or licensing standards whatsoever on armed people clothed in government-issued costumes and the supposed authority to inflict lethal violence on others.
Another view of the heroic Joey Williams in action.
"The second night I ever put on a badge and gun I was riding in my own car," recalls Crittenden County Chief Deputy Tommy Martin. At the time, Martin was 21 years old and hadn't spent so much as a minute inside a police academy classroom, notes Jill Monier of Memphis's Fox News affiliate.
"According to Arkansas state law, officers do not have to be certified for up to a year after they're hired," observes Monier. "The Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training says they can get an 8 month extension on top of that. So for almost 2 years, an officer can patrol the streets, by his or herself, and enforce the law without having any kind of training."
Understandably, this system is a boon to "gypsy" cops. Each time a "gypsy" cop finds a new gig in Arkansas, his 12- to 20-month grace period begins all over again; in this way, officers can be enforcing the "law" for years without receiving certification of any kind.
Ensminger, who couldn't legally cut hair or manicure nails in Arkansas, remains licensed to kill.
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Labels: Arkansas Cops, Cindy Nelson, Fred Ensminger, Our Enemy the State, police abuse
Deliverance Banjos said...
Note to self: stay out of Arkansas at all costs. Go through Oklahoma.
Mr. Banjos,
It's the same everywhere. Oklahoma won't be any better. The culture of thuggery and oppression by these lard-assed jackbooted stormtroopers is everywhere in Amurrika. You might as well say: "Note to self - stay out of Amurrika at all costs...go through Canada." Except I'm not sure the RCMP is a whole lot better.
- Lemuel.
You ever notice how they love to dress up in black uniforms, tight pants and knee-length jackboots? I mean, how pathetic. Trying to imitate the Nazi SS by dressing up like little boys and playing at being assholes. They just don't have either the fashion style or the cold bloodless evil of the Nazis, but give them credit, they do try really hard.
-Lemuel.
PS: Here's the best part of it all: When one of these hyenas persecutes a taxpayer, the taxpayer has to spend his own money to pay a lawyer and seek justice, from a thug whose salary is being paid out of taxpayer funds, in a court which is being paid for by taxpayer money, in front of a judge being paid by the taxpayers, and if the city loses and has to pay a fine, it gets passed on in higher taxes to the taxpayers by the city government, whose salaries are being paid by the taxpayers. The entire system is just an endlessly excruciating series of pitiless anal penetrations without lubricant, by the parasite classes upon the working classes, who actually do productive work and try to raise their families and walk their dogs in peace.
And come November, we are supposed to go out and ourselves select the pig-faced dickheads who want a chance to feed at the public trough? To select our own persecutors who will do us up the rear end for the next two-to-four years?
My, what a bunch of well-trained circus poodles we all are.
Time to take a page from French history, and bring back the guillotine. I want to see the color of their juice when they go to meet Jesus. And I want to see them dressed in their fine black costumes, so onlookers know who and what is being purged from the earth, like an elimination of oversized turds.
duelling banjos theme said...
Canada or Mexico is the choices? I guess I'll stay here in the golden disneyland gulag utopia. Are we still God's gift to the world?
Maybe Mr Chambliss was trying, but shooting to kill might have been the best option in this situation, and it would have been well justified. Along with ridding the planet of a homicidal tyrant, it would have served as notice to other thugs that the free-for-all isn't on quite yet. Maybe next time.
Nothing like your local Gestapo at work. SEIG HEIL!
i wonder if the JBS still has that campaign of "support your local sheriff"?
i'm at the point where city police forces ought to be done away with and we should only have sheriffs. at least this guy is elected. counties could then cover the city jurisdictions, leaving the mayor without a henchman in blue...or brown....or whatever color.
"i'm at the point where city police forces ought to be done away with and we should only have sheriffs. at least this guy is elected."
I am not sure if this would be much of an improvement. One of the reasons why the police have become so thuggish is because a substantial number of voters WANT the police to be "tough on crime." This is a phenomenon that Will very astutely wrote about in his article on "Punitive Populism."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2009/08/plague-of-punitive-populism.html
When I discuss police brutality with my (mostly conservative) friends and family members, I am often shocked by just how far many of them will go to defend even the most heinous acts committed by police officers.
As Will has pointed out, many Americans (particularly conservatives) very firmly believe in Lenin's Who/Whom dictum. One of the reasons why most American conservatives support state torture and police brutality is because historically they have been the "who" and others (e.g. Muslims, blacks, Mexicans) have been the "whom."
That is all beginning to change, of course. Now the police treat EVERYBODY like garbage. Will conservatives finally wake up? I hope so, but I have my doubts.
What about the Pastor in Spokane, Washington who was shot to death on Church property last week? The cop immediately left the state on vacation before being interviewed by the PD he worked for... I bet like all the fatal shootings of people in that state nothing will happen.
What Cody wrote seems about right, and my experience as well.
Lenin's Who/Whom dictum - always and everywhere, it seems
The dark skinned people I know, when they are convinced they cannot do something quite legal with ease, or at all, sometimes say "You can do it, you're white." (or do they also mean, I don't look like a poor person or a stereotypical criminal?). Things as simple as taking back a shirt for a cash refund (with a reciet!) without getting hassled, but that is slowly changing to the worse,... or is that for the better?
In the U.S., from the petty to the deadly, Lenin's Who/Whom dictum is the arbitrary law of the land. I am also beginning to think this is the U.S. version of a bribe, it has to be paid well in advance, acceptance of "payment" does not mean approval.
I am under the impression this is mostly due to, as the judge said, "If The Constitution doesn't mean what it says, then it doesn't mean anything at all."
Apparently, for one, the word, restricted, means something different to those who rule than what Webster says it does.
When the police treat EVERYBODY like garbage,... so far, it's sporadic enough that both liberals and conservatives in the middle and upper classes (and even some of the poor) all too often will say, "It's due to a bad apple in the force. It's still not happening to, "us", it's happening to some other person, and they probably deserved it."
Not to mention those Christians who say, "If it happens to you, you deserve it."
I don't understand that.
Ruined from the top down and the bottom up.
Will conservatives finally wake up? I hope so, but I have my doubts.
To bet that "conservatives" will wake up in mass numbers to reality is the ultimate sucker bet.
Derfel Cadarn said...
The first sign of a collapsing civilization is when the law does not apply equally to all citizens.As this is not the first time this blowhole has abused his position to threaten or injure other citizens where are our courts and other LEOs? We are always assured that these thugs are a small minority of our wonderful crop of LEOs why is it that no one sees or does prevent these thing from happening.Your freedom is an illusion, the fix is in, these actions can no longer be tolerated.All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.Stand up and fight for what is right.
BD said...
Lemuel wrote: Here's the best part of it all: When one of these hyenas persecutes a taxpayer, the taxpayer has to spend his own money to pay a lawyer and seek justice, from a thug whose salary is being paid out of taxpayer funds, in a court which is being paid for by taxpayer money, in front of a judge being paid by the taxpayers...
On, it's better than that. I don't know if the FOP contract has changed but back in the 1980s in Columbus, Ohio cops got pretty much a free ride on any legal matter via the taxpayers. I worked with a woman who was married to a cop:
(1) when the couple purchased a rental property the legal details were paid for by the PD's legal plan, ie taxpayers.
(2) a few years later the couple divorced . Guess who paid for the cop's lawyer. You got it: taxpayers.
Mister Spock said...
Lemuel Gulliver:
"lard-assed jackbooted stormtroopers"
"playing at being assholes"
"anal penetrations without lubricant"
"pig-faced dickheads"
"do us up the rear end"
"elimination of oversized turds"
Wow. Where was the "Yours in Christ" on that one, LG?
I did see your comment/request in the other thread, and I may get to it later this weekend. In the meantime, clean up your mouth.
Mr. Spock,
I'll clean up my mouth when they clean up their act. My mouth is the least of their worries - when We The People set up the guillotines and break out the pitchforks and AR-15's they will have more to worry about than my mouth.
As for your tender sensibilities, you remind me of John Kerry. When in 2004 Presnit "The Bonobo" Bush told some barefaced outrageous lie about Kerry, the press asked for a response, and Kerry answered, "Well, in my opinion the President's statement is not entirely congruent with the truth." No wonder the sad sack moron lost the election. No wonder Obama is going to lose in 2012. No wonder the Dems are going to lose the House and Senate this year. They pussyfoot around vital issues like a bunch of wilting pansies. Like little girls at a convent school, terrified of what the nuns will think if they express an honest opinion.
When it stinks like pigshit, and it's brown like pigshhit, and it's squishy like pigshit, I will call it pigshit, not "Products of Porcine Alimentary Peristalsis."
My mouth is mine, and I will use it to the best effect I can. I'm not asking you to kiss me on my filthy mouth. I will say whatever it is I want to say, so long as Mr. Grigg sees fit to print it.
Lemuel.
PS: Regarding that other post - forget it. I'm bored with those people already. I'm not going back to pick over last week's breakfast. Let's drop the question, till Mr. Grigg posts another story that is relevant to those issues.
tazman said...
Right f'ing on Lemeul!
I can't say I "Yours in Jesus" as it is incongruent on how I view Jesus, but I will say:
Yours in universal love,
Marie Lynette said...
~~ with respects to Cher ~~
Gypsies .. Tramps & Thugs:
We beat up all the people that pay our wages.
And evry night, defenseless people lie down .. and we punchem thru the ground.
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This is the sixth group on old photographs especially with people, all photos after digital processing to remove the signs of aging.
The photographs are mostly of the decade of 70's, for those depicted in the photographs have not only consent but also the desire of relatives to include them on our site.
In the future there will be more pictures added.
For persons shown in the pictures we have their consent, and for those who are not alive the consent of their relatives.
Here we add some more photos showing how Benitses was before 1930, were taken from the farm of San Stefano on the northern hill of Benitses, and are kindly offered to us by the Manessis family.
Truly unique images, showing mainly panoramic views of Benitses from that hill.
Many others are to follow that will probably go into history section in new pages which will include historical data for both the farm of San Stefano and the laborers of that era.
Also images mainly with hard-working women from all over Corfu in another page, showing the ragged and difficult conditions of that distance era, also pictures with events and landscapes from all over Corfu of the early 20th century.


Inslee joined Horgan Friday in Olympia as he signed the Stepping Up Climate Ambition statement. The states of Washington and California, the Government of Canada and other governments and agencies from around the world have supported the statement, which emphasizes the need to increase ambition and strengthen efforts to tackle climate change. Inslee signed the statement in September.


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On January 23, 2015, Cartoonist Lee turned to his blog to declare his view on Kill Me Heal Me stealing his idea. His main point boils down to the fact that the two dramas are premised upon the romance of a woman falling in love with a man who is suffering from multiple personalities disorder. He supports his position by quoting his legal team, who had advised him that idea theft can be a legal problem in this age. Additionally, Cartoonist Lee even argues that by saying that the extent of similarities not being found as theft or plagiarism is insulting to the webtoon industry.
Cartoonist Lee continued to point at the scandal between You From Another Star and Cartoonist Kyung Ok Kang. From a quick search, it seems that Cartoonist Kang accused You From Another Star of copying her manhwa Seolhee. While there was a lawsuit about this issue, it eventually settled out of court so there is no precedent on whether stealing ideas from webtoons/cartoons is considered a violation of copyright or what standard is used to judge such violations. Currently, Cartoonist Lee states that he believes this is a pressing issue facing the manhwa/webtoon community and the community will review the issue accordingly.
The producers of Kill Me Heal Me have responded that there is no reason to respond to such groundless allegations. They argue that there are a lot of stories around multiple personality disorder. They also point to the fact that Cartoonist Lee has not identified specific and detailed similarities other than the fact that the two dramas are airing around the same time.
The response from viewers has also been varied. Part of Korean viewers believe that this is just Cartoonist Lee making a big deal out of nothing. They point to the fact that multiple personality disorder romances have been around for a while since the original birth of Hyde and Jekyll. Additionally, some people people point to the Hollywood film Me, Myself, and I as an example of the hackneyed premise of romance with a man suffering from multiple personalities.
Others have argued that this is a time to start reviewing the drama community for plagiarism, which is rampant. For example, TVN's drama, Reply 1994 was premised on the same theme as Michiru Yagumanha's Japanese drama. Additionally, MBC's drama Best Love was also accused of plagiarism after it aired from a romance novelist.
It's true that there have been issues of plagiarism and idea borrowing in the drama world for a while. I think regardless of what happens to this situation, the Korean legal community or broadcast regulations agency should establish a standard for evaluating such issues as well as a resolution process. It's not fair that the original authors of great ideas should not get credit or financial compensation for what ends up being a lucrative drama.
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Amphotericity-spectroscopy correlations in Eu doped sodium bismuth titanate (Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3)
Santosh Behara, R. Hari Krishna, Miryala Muralidhar, Masato Murakami, Mohammad Irfan, S. Najma, Tiju Thomas
Global course of Engineering and Science
Regional Environment Systems
Optical characteristics of a doped material depend on the site wherein the dopant resides. In mixed A-site perovskites, the dopant has several possibilities. This, in turn, correlates with the emission spectrum of the doped material. Here we choose Eu3+ as the dopant since it is a well-known and efficient red-luminophore. Sodium bismuth titanate (NBT-Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3) is selected as a host due to its ability to accommodate Eu over large concentration windows while maintaining optical activity. For compositions x ≥ 0.04, we show that Eux:NBT has amphoteric behavior (i.e., simultaneous dopant substitution in two competing sites). Eu3+ occupancy in Bi and Ti-sites are quantitatively estimated using Rietveld refinement. Also, the appearance of A1g breathing vibrational mode (830–860 cm−1) in Raman spectra shows the presence of Eu3+ on the Ti-site. Photoluminescence (PL) emission shows sharp and intense bands at ∼592 nm, ∼615 nm, and ∼687 nm, and one weak band at ∼652 nm, corresponding to f–f transitions of Eu3+. To evaluate the optical characteristics with varying site-substitution of Eu3+; Judd–Ofelt parameters and radiative properties are calculated for the first time in this mixed A-site titanate system. From the values of asymmetric ratios; Eu3+ ion is shown to occupy the non-centrosymmetrical sites (Bi-sites) of NBT. However, at x = 0.04, Ω2 < Ω4, which indicates long-range effects and hence Eu occupancy in centrosymmetric sites (Ti-sites). This study opens up avenues for further exploration of correlations between dopant-concentration, amphotericity, and spectrochemical response in other systems. The amphoteric behavior of dopants can tune emission intensities and produce multi-emission colors using a single-dopant. This would have implications for luminescence-based applications.
Materialia
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2019.100426
Amphoteric behavior
Eu-doping
Judd–Ofelt parameters
Raman spectra
Rare-earth doping
Sodium bismuth titanate
10.1016/j.mtla.2019.100426
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Behara, S., Hari Krishna, R., Muralidhar, M., Murakami, M., Irfan, M., Najma, S., & Thomas, T. (2019). Amphotericity-spectroscopy correlations in Eu doped sodium bismuth titanate (Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3). Materialia, 7, [100426]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2019.100426
Amphotericity-spectroscopy correlations in Eu doped sodium bismuth titanate (Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3). / Behara, Santosh; Hari Krishna, R.; Muralidhar, Miryala; Murakami, Masato; Irfan, Mohammad; Najma, S.; Thomas, Tiju.
In: Materialia, Vol. 7, 100426, 09.2019.
Behara, S, Hari Krishna, R, Muralidhar, M, Murakami, M, Irfan, M, Najma, S & Thomas, T 2019, 'Amphotericity-spectroscopy correlations in Eu doped sodium bismuth titanate (Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3)', Materialia, vol. 7, 100426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2019.100426
Behara S, Hari Krishna R, Muralidhar M, Murakami M, Irfan M, Najma S et al. Amphotericity-spectroscopy correlations in Eu doped sodium bismuth titanate (Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3). Materialia. 2019 Sep;7. 100426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2019.100426
Behara, Santosh ; Hari Krishna, R. ; Muralidhar, Miryala ; Murakami, Masato ; Irfan, Mohammad ; Najma, S. ; Thomas, Tiju. / Amphotericity-spectroscopy correlations in Eu doped sodium bismuth titanate (Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3). In: Materialia. 2019 ; Vol. 7.
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From Ghosting to "Orbiting": Why the Dating Trend isn't Actually All Bad
We recently spoke to you about the Minimum Possible Investment guy and why you should avoid him at all costs. Well, the newly-dubbed trend of 'orbiting' is definitely behaviour he would exhibit.
Vice likens orbiting to 'ghosting'; where a guy disappears seemingly out of the blue; this could be after he's got what he wanted (sex), or just casually mid-conversation. Basically whenever they want, 'cause hey, it's not like you can see ghosts 🙂
Well, not until they start haunting your social media.
Orbiters won't interact with you one-on-one (via text for example), but they'll still like/comment/watch your stories on social media. Like a Ghost Of Bad Decision's past. As those on the receiving end have been ignored, but are then fronted with the reality that, not only didn't he die in random yet tragic circumstances, but he's hanging around to let you know. Without letting you know.
Well, despite being labelled a 'break-up technique' by The Guardian, writer Anna Iovine who coined the term says it's often a "power move, a sign of regret or an act of outright stupidity".
In which case, they could be playing similar games to the MPI guy; who keeps himself in your head, as should a situation (read: your genitals) present itself in the future, he's the guy who didn't ignore you completely and still liked your selfies, so you're more likely to hit him up when your drunk and just want your back blown. See, science.
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In this case, it often happens when men sense you want to be something more than a blow-up fuck doll. They back-up out of relationship territory but leave a breadcrumb trail to their dick.
Vice argues that it's not that deep, and that an Orbiter is just someone who's really shit at ghosting.
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"It takes a certain amount of ego to take orbiting as a personal attack. There is a balance between someone being inconsiderate and someone being oversensitive," continues Jaik. And it's true, it may not be personal, but it also may be self-motivated, depending on if his feelings for you are now platonic.
Jaik outlines that if people are as head-fucked by oribiting as they make out to be… block him.
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The fact is, that a man who orbits you, may not want to be with you, but he's definitely still interested in you – so as long as you're not watching them stories back, (or sucking his dick) you're a winner baby.
I personally choose to see orbiting as a positive thing: keep watching my damn stories bitch, 'cause when I'm fly af with my revenge body, and new man it'll be good to know you're up-to-date with how far left behind yo ass is.
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Baron Philipp von Boeselager (born 1917), a German veteran of World War II (WW2). He became Field Marshall von Kluge's orderly in Smolensk, Russia. ."In June 1942 we were informed that five Gypsies had received a 'Sonderbehandlung' ('special treatment') in the SS area of Ostland. We didn't understand what this meant so we asked for an explanation. The SS officer in charge told us that they had been ordered to kill Jews and Gypsies because they were enemies of the Reich. Rumours were...
Baron Philipp von Boeselager (born 1917), a German veteran of World War II (WW2). He became Field Marshall von Kluge's orderly in Smolensk, Russia. ."In June 1942 we were informed that five Gypsies had received a 'Sonderbehandlung' ('special treatment') in the SS area of Ostland. We didn't understand what this meant so we asked for an explanation. The SS officer in charge told us that they had been ordered to kill Jews and Gypsies because they were enemies of the Reich. Rumours were already circulating but this was the first time that I had been told directly that there were orders from above to kill Jews and Gypsies. This was the turning point. For me, becoming an officer did not mean committing war crimes. I joined Colonel Tresckow 's group of conspirators who were planning to kill Hitler. I was by far the youngest. As an orderly I have met Hitler four or five times. When I approached him, I always felt as if I were shrinking. I never spoke with him, I simply shook his hand and said hello."."A few days before 20 July 1944, I left with 1,200 troops for an airport so that I could arrest the high command of the SS in Berlin. But the attack failed and we returned to the front. Almost all the conspirators were either arrested or committed suicide. Right until the end of the war I was afraid that I too would be discovered. In fact, on the day Germany capitulated, I threw the cyanide capsule that I always kept with me into the river."... CHECK with MRM/FNA
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Home Sports Badminton Player Jwala Gutta gets engaged to Actor Vishnu Vishal.
Badminton Player Jwala Gutta gets engaged to Actor Vishnu Vishal. Badminton star player Jwala Gutta got engaged to Tamil actor and producer Vishnu Vishal. They began their beautiful journey on Jwala Gutta's 37th birthday on Sunday. She tweeted about their big day, 'And this happened last night, and what a beautiful surprise it was!' she wrote. This news instantly created a buzz in the world, and all her fans were thrilled on hearing the news.
Jwala said that on this day, when she looks at her previously lead life, she is delighted and didn't think she will come so far so beautifully and gracefully with her partner.
"Towards our family, companions, Aryan, and more distant family and work. It's heading off to a decent ride, I am certain!" She finished up her tweet on this note. The tweet also incorporated a couple of cheerful photos of the couple, which commemorated the joyful occasion. Aryan is Vishal's son with his former wife, Rajini Natraj, who is also an actor in the South Indian film industry. Jwala Gutta, too, was married earlier to a badminton player Chetan Anand. They got married in 2005 and were later divorced in 2011.
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting that he will prevent the transfer of weaponry to Hezbollah, implying Syria could be struck in the process. Fatal blasts battered Damascus in early May, allegedly executed by Israel.
In public remarks made at his weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu said with great emphasis that the Israeli government would "continue to act to ensure the security interests of the citizens of Israel," suggesting that further strikes could be on the cards.
"The Israeli government acts in a responsible, determined and measured manner to ensure the State of Israel's main interest, which is the security of its citizens," he said.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu's comments came in response to a Sunday Times report alleging that Syria had missiles directed towards Tel Aviv, following several deadly strikes on a military facility in Damascus at the beginning of May.
They reportedly targeted a shipment of missiles en-route from Iran to Lebanon's Hezbollah.
"Our policies are to stop, as much as possible, any leaks of advanced weaponry to Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations. We will continue to act to ensure the security interests of the citizens of Israel," Netanyahu stressed.
Israel had neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for May's attacks. However, Reuters reported shortly afterwards that Netanyahu had convened the security cabinet on the previous Thursday in order to approve the airstrikes.
Israel refused to confirm the strikes so as not to incite retaliation from Syria, an aide to Netanyahu told Jerusalem Post.
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Email Usage Statistics: A Look at How We Use Email in 2021
Posted by Rob Errera on 07/30/2021
No other platform reaches more people than email. More than half the world uses email every day.
Email is the primary communication tool for both business and personal use. Even though other communication options have gained in popularity — like texting and chat apps — email is still the King of Communication!
General Email Usage Statistics
It's hard to imagine a time before email.
Email is so ubiquitous it is easy to forget that it has only been in popular use for the last 25 years or so. Today email is everywhere … and it never stops coming!
More than half of the world's population actively uses email. (PitchFunnel)
4.03 billion people use email around the world in 2021. (Kinsta)
The total volume of email increased 7% in 2020. (GlobeNewswire)
An estimated 4.6 billion will use email by 2025. (Statista)
319.6 billion emails are sent and received every day. (Statista)
149,513 emails are sent every minute. (Expanded Ramblings)
Most email users have more than one email account. The average is 1.75. (PitchFunnel)
People ages 25 to 34 spend an average of 6.4 hours a day using email. (CNBC)
78% of teenagers use email. (Lifewire)
Just under 90% of Americans aged 15 and over have active email accounts. (99 Firms)
People aged 35 and older spend an average of 5 hours per day using email. (CNBC)
85% of the United States are active email users. (PitchFunnel)
Gmail accounts make up 53% of US email. (PitchFunnel)
99% of users check their email at least once per day. (Data Marketing Association)
40% of respondents from a survey stated they have tried to "detox" from their email for an average of five days. (Forbes)
There are 5.59 billion active email accounts worldwide. (Radicati Group)
1.8 billion of those accounts are with Gmail. (Finances Online)
The first email system was developed in 1971. (Lifewire)
The email software industry was valued at $47 billion in 2020. (T4)
24% of Americans believe they check email "way too much". (Adobe)
Time spent checking email increased 17 percent Year-over-Year (YoY) and people expect email will remain the preferred way of communicating at work in five years...Nearly 70 percent check email while watching TV and 45 percent while in the bathroom.
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Email is everywhere … half the people on earth use it daily.
Email Use in Business
By far most emails sent are for business purposes. This includes both email marketing, business-to-business communications, and interoffice emails.
70% of professionals use email to share industry-related information. (Kinsta)
62.86% of business professionals prefer email for business communication. (Lifewire)
Email has a 90.3% penetration rate among U.S. internet users. (Kinsta)
63% of business emails are managed by Gmail or Outlook. (PitchFunnel)
50% of white collar workers prefer to be contacted by brands via email verses direct mail and social media. (Adobe)
46% of email is opened on a mobile device. (PitchFunnel)
70% of employees will read their emails while watching television at home. (Adobe)
50% of employees read an estimated 29 emails on the weekend. (Adobe)
82% of employees in 2019 checked their work email after office hours. (Statista)
Half of those employees check their email accounts every few hours. (PitchFunnel)
Only 8.5% of marketing emails receive a response. (PitchFunnel)
43% of businesses are expected to spend more on email marketing than they did in 2019. (The Manifest)
US companies spent approximately $3.07 billion on email marketing in 2019. (Statista)
A typical employee sends 40 emails per day for business purposes. (Lifewire)
1/3 of millennial workers are comfortable using emojis to communicate with a direct manager or senior executive. (Adobe)
Spam, Spam Everywhere!
Spam is the "junk mail" of the internet, unsolicited offers that show up in your inbox, usually in great numbers. Spam is often sent by automated email marketing programs.
According to Gatefy, spam can be broken down into seven main categories:
Chain letters
Money scams
Malware warnings
Cybercriminals will use any and all of these techniques to steal your personal account information. Let's look at some spam stats below.
53% of all emails sent in 2020 were spam. (Statista)
Gmail blocks over 100 million phishing emails each day. (Google Blog)
58% of email users check their spam folders daily. (Consumer Email Tracker)
In 2009, 94% of all emails were spam. (PitchFunnel)
91.5% of marketing outreach emails are ignored. (PitchFunnel)
Healthcare is the top spam topic, followed by offers for malware protection. (Lifewire)
"I get too many emails," is the main reason email users give when unsubscribing from email lists. (Lifewire)
Spam cleanup and protection are an inevitable part of email use.
Email Use and The Environment
Each and every email leaves a tiny carbon footprint. But when you step back and look at the scale of email use around the globe, you see how that tiny carbon footprint grows into a massive environmental problem.
One email produces .3 grams of CO2 emissions. (TheGoodPlanet)
If each person in the United States deleted 500 unread emails we could save 2 billion gallons of gasoline. (TheGoodPlanet)
If the population of England sent one less email per day, it could reduce CO2 emissions by 18,000 tons. (Statista)
Where Do People Read Email?
Mobile devices allow people to read and respond to email anywhere, anytime … even in some places they shouldn't!
42% of email is opened on a mobile device. (Kinsta)
39.8% of email is opened on web-based apps. (Kinsta)
18.2% of email is opened on a desktop app. (Kinsta)
28% of all emails were opened on Apple iPhones. (Statista)
26% of all emails are sent via Gmail. (Statista)
42% of Americans check their email while using the bathroom. (Expanded Ramblings)
18% of Americans check their email while driving. (Expanded Ramblings)
69% of Americans check their email while watching a movie or tv show. (Expanded Ramblings)
57% of Americans and check their email in bed. (Expanded Ramblings)
79% of Americans check their email on vacation. (Adobe)
Millennials are the age group most likely to check their email from bed at 70%, from the bathroom 57% or while driving 27%.
Source: Kinsta
Open Rates: Who's Reading Email
Open rates measure the number of emails opened by recipients.
20.96% is the average open rate for retail email.
22.23% is the average open rate for political email.
20.89% is the average open rate for professional services email.
(Source: Expanded Ramblings)
Malicious Email
It wasn't long after the advent of email when thieves and scammers began using it for nefarious purposes. From phishing scams to malware viruses, email dangers abound.
Fortunately most users know to be wary when using email.
According to Statista, 45% of email users say they won't open an email from an unknown email address.
Protect yourself against malicious email!
According to the Radicati Group, email usage will continue to rise in the coming years. While various communication apps may target certain segments of the population, email unites us all!
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