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'The Wilds' season 3 questions that we need answered
The Wilds season 2 answered a few of our burning questions, but left us with so many more for the The Wilds season 3.
The Wilds season 2 had double the characters, so it only seems fitting that it feels like we were left with double the questions for season 3! While we got some resolution on the girls, there are still quite a few threads hanging, and then of course the boys are a whole mess all their own.
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Just like season 1, The Wilds season 2 did a great job at balancing compelling coming-of-age stories with a fun and twisted mystery, leaving us just as obsessed as we were from the start. Now all we can do is sit and ponder these questions and hope that they get answered in The Wilds season 3!
'The Wilds' season 3 questions
How did Nora get out, and where is she now?
Before The Wilds season 2, it was looking a lot like Nora had drowned trying to save Rachel from a shark attack. However, this all happened right after Leah discovered that Nora was the secret operative, so the experimenters were pretty motivated to get her out of sight as quickly as possible.
The question is, how did they do it? We know now that Nora is alive and well, but we still have no idea how they retrieved her from the water without anyone noticing. Also, we're guessing the shark attack was real since Rachel lost her arm from the event, but is it possible that they planned that too? That would be incredibly cruel to put the other girls at risk, but it's not like any of this has been kind.
The other question is, what is Nora doing now? Could she be on the Phase 3 island acting as an operative again? We can't imagine her motivation to help Rachel by helping Gretchen would still be as strong, but it's possible that Gretchen has either threatened or bribed her with something else.
How was silence so 'potent' for Josh?
We didn't see much from Josh outside of the island, either in his home life or in his interview. However, the few things we did see were particularly interesting.
In Josh's interview, during which he maintained his newfound island swagger, he divulged that "silence is very potent," and we really have no idea what that means. When he said it, my first thought was that it had something to do with Josh having the other boys promise to not say anything about his assault, but from what we know, that doesn't add up.
Of course, there are some hours on the island that are unaccounted for where the boys are concerned. It's possible that something happened after Seth, Kieran and Raf left that would lend some context to this. It's also possible that this was actually said after Gretchen showed up to Josh's room with candy and that he was either able to trick her or make a deal with her, possibly leading to him being another operative in Phase 3.
What information did Gretchen get that made her so happy?
Gretchen turned her frown upside down very quickly after visiting Josh. After stressing about the gaping hole in her study, she was finally able to conclude that the failure of the boys was the result of "bad male behaviour." We have no idea how she determined this, but she called it "a mother's intuition."
The obvious answer is that Josh told her something, but this could definitely be a misdirect, meaning it could really be anyone. Considering she chalked it up to mother's intuition, it could even have something to do with her own son. Either way, we're dying to know what she heard that sealed the deal for her.
Who is Fatin's 'her'?
Near the end of The Wilds season 2 when Shelby was confessing to Fatin that she would never not love Toni, Fatin surprisingly replied saying, "ditto bitch. Different her, same sort of idea."
The question is, who is "her" to Fatin. Many fans speculate that this was a confession of love for Leah, considering how strong their bond has been growing on the island, but given her backstory it could also simply (or not so simply) be her mom, or someone else from back home.
Will the FBI be able to find the island in 'The Wilds' season 3?
After all her speculation and scheming, Leah actually managed to contact the authorities about the experiment with the help of her friend Ian. Unfortunately, when Gretchen found out, she fled with all evidence of the experiment, except for the kids themselves.
This means that the kids are still in the same place as when Leah made the call, so if she or Ian were able to get an idea of where they were, the FBI might still be able to find and rescue them. Considering they still need a story to tell in The Wilds season 3 it's likely it will still take them a while, but it's possible the interviews in the next season will be conducted by the FBI, instead of the experimenters.
What do the parents think is happening and how will they react?
We know from The Wilds season 1 that even though the kids thought they were simply headed on a weekend retreat, their parents knew they were in store for a much longer journey. Specifically, Gretchen told Leah's parents that she would be on a three month long wilderness retreat in Montana.
If that's the case for all the parents, it will be a while before any of them get too concerned. However, if Ian tells Leah's parents what he knows, this could change quickly. The other interesting question is how the parents will react once their children are returned to them. Surely this is not what they signed up for!
Is Devon truly sorry?
Gretchen and her son, Devon, obviously have a complicated relationship. She got him out of jail, he reluctantly helped her with her experiment and then called her a monster, he presumably helped Ian with his case for the FBI, and then he said he was sorry and joined his mom on her getaway jet. The question is, is he truly sorry, or will he continue to work against her?
Alternatively, Devon may not have helped Ian at all. He could have led him astray and then called his mom to warn her. In this case, his apology could simply be for how he spoke to his mother after the experiment, and again this question will be if that "sorry" will stand or if he'll have a change of heart somewhere down the line!
What's going on with Martha?
After The Wilds season 1, we wondered if Martha might be dead since we didn't see her interview and the experimenters were going through her things, seemingly trying to avoid a lawsuit. However, in The Wilds season 2, we learned that Martha is alive and at least somewhat well after emerging from her catatonic state.
Was the discussion before simply because she hadn't yet emerged, or do they fear a lawsuit for some other reason? Also, what finally shook her out of her stupor? These are the questions we need answered in The Wilds season 3.
Will Shoni rekindle their flame in 'The Wilds' season 3?
One of the sweetest parts about The Wilds season 2 was the growing relationship between Shelby and Toni. Unfortunately, when Shelby confessed to Toni that she may have missed an opportunity for rescue, Toni couldn't help but blame her when Martha was in jeopardy.
Luckily, based on the smiles we saw at the "party," it looks like there is still a spark there to reignite. That being said, this could all get very complicated depending on the answer to the next question…
Is Shelby the second operative in Phase 3?
I really don't want to believe this one, but this needs to be entertained given the extremely long close up on Shelby's face as Gretchen mentioned the "people on the inside" at the end of The Wilds season 2. Could Shelby actually be an operative in Phase 3?
My instinct is no, since Shelby seems to make smart decisions and she would know that this would jeopardize any future she could have with Toni. But then again, she did have that "red pill, blue pill" dream, and if she already thought things were hopeless with Toni she could have made a deal with Gretchen to make her life on the outside better.
What is Gretchen's end game?
Gretchen's "gynotopia" does have a nice ring to it, but what does it really mean? Does she seriously think she's going to convince the men of the world to step aside and let women take over after one study with 16 kids? It seems unlikely, but it does seem like she has a plan. I just hope we come closer to figuring out that that plan is in The Wilds season 3!
Have we heard the last of Agent Young?
Gretchen presumably sent Agent Young home to his daughter at the end of The Wilds season 3 after she suspected him of sabotaging her experiment. She let him know that her "gifts come with receipts," implying that his daughter would be taken from him again if he came after her.
Assuming all that is true, after everything he's seen, will Agent Young actually keep quiet, or will he help the FBI track down the kids and Gretchen? Just another question that we can't wait for The Wilds season 3 to answer!
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Bluetooth Ericofon (Cobra) a revolutionary telephone from the 50's with technology of the 10's
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Bluetooth Ericofon (Cobra) - It Works with your Mobile Phone
Wouldn't be great sitting at your favorite restaurant or coffee shop with an original Ericofon (Cobra), one of the most beautiful designed telephone of the 50's, and while working or talking with your friends this phone rings and it is a call for you?
Or, picking it up, hearing dial tone, turning its rotary dial on the bottom and making a phone call? Or simply, calling one of your friends using your speed-dial stored numbers?
Specially designed electronics combined with Bluetooth technology enables using the Ericofon once again. This Ericofon connects via Bluetooth to your mobile phone, enabling you to get and make phone calls. To make a phone call just lift it up, listen to its dial tone, dial the number using the rotary dial and talk. You can also redial a number, use speed-dial, voice recognition, text message notifications and other Features.
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Art Connoisseurs recognize the beauty and value of one of the most beautiful designed products from the 50's and 60's. The Ericofon - or Cobra phone - is considered a landmark in plastic industrial design and is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is also considered one of the most significant industrial designs of the 20th century, picked by one of the most prolific American industrial designers and architects, Walter Dorwin Teague.
"I considered thousands of things," said Mr. Teague when looking for some of the most beautiful designed products, "but could find only 15 that met my criteria." The Ericofon was one of them.
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Most importantly, in order to receive SSDI benefits, you must have participated in employment where you paid into the Social Security program. You must have earned a certain amount of work credits to qualify, based on how long you paid into Social Security. The number of work credits you need will depend on your age when you became disabled. This information can be found on your personal Social Security Statement.
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Q: How to limit the memory used by voltdb I didn't see any properties for limiting the size of memory used by voltdb,when I config voltdb, so I want to ask:
Can I config the max size of memory used by voltdb? If I can, how to config?Where is the configuration file? Can voltdb work in mixed mode of memory and disk?

A: You can set VoltDB to pause when a certain memory limit is reached. You do this in the configuration file that you start VoltDB with, specifically within the resource monitor section. It would look something like this:
<systemsettings>
  <resourcemonitor frequency="30">
    <memorylimit size="70%" alert="60%"/>
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</systemsettings>

You can read more about it in the VoltDB documentation: https://docs.voltdb.com/AdminGuide/MonitorSysResource.php
As for your other question, VoltDB doesn't work in a mixed mode of memory and disk. In fact, it is highly recommended that swapping be disabled. You should review the memory management optimizations listed here:
https://docs.voltdb.com/AdminGuide/adminmemmgt.php
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Q: Suggestion on Creating Unit test for database layer thank you for reading my question.
I was just wondering about how shall i create unit tests for existing database layer. as of now my project has existing unit tests but no unit test is written for database layer or any function which inserts / updates / deletes data from database.
We are using Microsoft tests. One approach I think here is
1) We shall create database on the fly i.e. mdf file and we will keep our defaults values ready in it and in our setup method(Nunit) or initialize method(MS tests) we will mock the objects and dump the dummy data into tables.
Also we are not using any mocking framework. So i am all confuse.
i need to know how can we do this from the scratch. Also is there anything optional available for mocking framework.
Any pointers or samples would be highly appreciated.
Thank you again.

A: A C# unit test shall not touch the database, you should mock the database. It should be possible to execute many thousands of unit test on your local machine (without external (internet, databases, other application)) within seconds (and you want to run them when you build your code).
That leaves us kind of with your question unanswered: what should your database layer tests do? It depends on what kind of logic you have in that assembly! If you have "business or decision" logic should should test that, if you have mapping logic test that. If all your database layer does if using (whatever db framework) to put the load on you database then you might not have anything worth testing there.
If you want to test logic performed by your database (say SP's) you should do that in the database project, and most likely not using mstest.
Of course you can use mstest to setup and tear down database and perform test, but those test will not be unit tests.


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Flexible work arrangements gaining ground in the Philippines
by rossanahead | Jan 31, 2017 | Business Tips, career
If you've been lamenting how much hassle it is to travel to work and deal with the nightmare traffic, the pushing crowds, the pollution, and the heat, the good news is that employers in the Philippines seem to be more open to the idea of flexible work arrangements, or FWAs.
Mary Grace Riguer, OIC-executive director of the Institute for Labor Studies, an attached agency of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), said in a recent business forum that more and more employers in the Philippines have begun adopting FWAs, such practices now made more feasible by technological and telecommunications breakthroughs.
"In the Philippines there are some players already [engaging in FWAs]," confirmed Riguer, mentioning Metro Pacific Investments which implements flexi time and work from home arrangements, and Aboitiz Equity Ventures which has adopted flexi time and earlier-shift schedules.
Meralco is now also implementing telecommuting, launching its pilot last year and currently planning to expand the coverage of the program, said Paola Verayo, an HR business partner at the company, in her presentation in the same gathering.
Riguer said some fields in the services sector are a particularly good fit for FWAs. These include industries engaged in medical health, computer and IT, marketing, communications, customer service, sales, administration, education and training, and finance.
Meanwhile, among jobs or occupations that may adapt well to FWAs are online teaching, customer support, web and software development, administration, sales and marketing, engineering, design and multimedia, mobile development, writing, accounting and bookkeeping, networking, and business services.
As long as the work or some aspects of work will be using technology, it is possible for the employee to be allowed to work from the house or anywhere outside of work premises, said Riguer.
She said forms of flexible work arrangements that are currently being applied in the country include telecommuting (working from home), telework (taking home some of your office work), virtual or freelance work (working full-time away from the workplace), and crowdsourcing (outsourcing jobs online to groups of people who operate independently).
Interest in telecommuting and other forms of flexible work practices is rising amid the terrible road congestion in Metro Manila and the growing desire of workers for a more equitable work-life balance.
A study conducted by the Japan International Coordination Agency foresees the traffic costs in Manila increasing to P6 billion a day by 2030 from P2.4 billion per day in 2015.
Last year, Senator Jose Villanueva, chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment, and Human Resources Development, filed Senate Bill No. 1033, or the Telecommuting Act of 2016, on August 16, 2016.
The bill encourages employers to allow "telecommuting" or the "partial or total substitution of computers or telecommunication technologies, or both, for the commute to work by employees."
On January 25, said Riguer, DOLE made a representation before a Senate hearing in support of the intent of the bill, noting that by institutionalizing telecommuting, the legislation can provide protection to telecommuting employees.
She added that benefits for the government of telecommuting include reduced road traffic and pollution, while employers stand to gain from greater worker productivity, lower employee turnover, and a deeper talent pool.
Employees, on the other hand, can enjoy benefits such as reduced travel time, greater flexibility, higher autonomy, and increased work satisfaction and motivation. -RCA
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For a city that has a lot, and I mean a lot of handicapped people, my city isn't really all that designed to be handicapped friendly.
I just watched a guy in a wheelchair, sit for almost three minutes trapped in one of those push-it-yourself- enter/exit carousels. This was at the grocery. I ended up dropping my basket, going out the one end, coming back through the far door and helping him. God knows how long he would have sat there before anyone bothered to help otherwise.
Little pissed off. The staff were staring right at him too. Just chatting it up ignoring him and their actual jobs.
As someone who's spent over half my life dealing with canes/crutches/wheelchairs myself, I can tell you how frealing frustrating it is to be needing something/get somewhere in this city when you're alone and end up finding yourself unable to do whatever it was because the place you need to go isn't equipped for someone with a handicap.
It's enough to cause you to break down and cry at times. In public.
The city council and the like talk all the time about how wonderful our health care staff are...that's fine and good, but there is a honest shortage of home care workers.
I've ranted enough for today.


" Senate Democrats are trying to lower student loan interest rates a week after their inaction caused them to double, " ABC news reports.
The vote would return student loans to 3.4% instead of the now doubled 6.8% on some Stafford loans. While this inaction may not affect some students until they return to campus in the fall, this could amount to an average $2,600 for students this coming year.
Members of both parties seemed concerned over the issue and are attempting to find a bipartisan solution. One suggested proposal sought to link student loan interest rates to financial markets. This would mean that loans would lower in the next several years, but increase when the economy improves. However, as the debate stands it seems that there is no clear "winning idea."


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… Or Jrue, or maybe Malcom or Kemba, or perhaps even Tobias, Khris or Klay.
Your agent tells you there's possibly a very good basketball move for you to Utah this summer, depending on how thing work out between now and them.
You respect the organization, and like the fit with the team, but you've heard that Utah might be a tough fit culturally. You know there's hardly any African Americans there and the nightlife isn't much to speak of; but more importantly, there's this rumor going around the league that Utah is kind of a racist place. And, oh yeah, wasn't there just that thing there where Russell Westbrook was taunted racially by a couple of fans?
You realize that the Jazz organization acted quickly against racism in their house – good on them. But of course the organization's actions only go so far. You need to know about the community, as well. You recognize (as any reasonable person does) that the majority of people in any place are good and decent. But it doesn't take a lot of bigots to ruin a place. You still want to know if this racism tag is real. So you ask a few friends in the league if they've ever experienced racism from the community—just for fun, let's call them Donovan, Raja, Ekpe, Jae, Thabo, or maybe even Jabari (who himself may have interest in moving to Utah). They respond that their personal experiences have been relatively good; so that's a plus, … but…
… But they know of others who haven't had such great experiences. A couple even wonder if the respect would be there for them if they weren't wearing a Jazz jersey. You know that disposability is part of the NBA experience. The team will let you go when it no longer needs you. And fans will root for whoever is in their team's jersey. But you want assurance that basic human decency is not entirely contingent on utility to the team in this community. So you (or your agent, if he's doing his job properly), decide to look into things more deeply. You want to know how the Utah community responded to the Westbrook issue. So you decide to check out the responses to the issue in fan forums, twitter, and so on.
You notice first a large number of fans are on board with the team's effort to increase community awareness on racism and refuse to accept racism as part of Jazz fan behavior. But then you also see that an alarming number of people seem to have no idea why Westbrook took the fans' behavior as racist. Yikes … But maybe Utah is really that different a place. At least once it's explained to them, they'll understand, you hope. And most seem to.
But there's a minority (surprisingly vocal and stubborn) who continue to insist that those fan behaviors are not racist. And probably a smaller, but still vocal minority who argue that because so many Utahns didn't know those behaviors were racist, Utah is really a much less racist place than most.
Then you start to see there's another minority (though again fairly vocal) that say the Jazz should just stop talking about racism because it's making all the fans and everyone in the community look bad. If we want racism to go away, we should say as little about it as absolutely necessary. Talking about it makes things worse, they say. Closely aligned with this group seems to be another that says racism is everywhere: stop making it about Utah.
Then there's a group (again a minority, but fairly persistent) who continually turn the discussion about racism in Utah into a call to have Westbrook arrested (or at least much more heavily punished than he was).
Then, as you're doing this research, you can't help but notice all the people making it known how long they've known that Dante Exum is a bust and that the Jazz were foolish to trust him. Word of his injuries, rather than leading to well wishes, as came from his teammates, seems more of an occasion for (in the metaphor of a leading fan forum) dancing on his grave. Some fans want to remind everyone that Exum's injuries are proof (of their long-held assertions) of his weak-mindedness and psychological unfitness for the NBA.
Dennis Lindsey is going to tell you that the Jazz have the most passionate fan base in the league. That seems fair enough. But is that what you want?
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idiot said: ↑
For an idiot, I think you are reading into this too much. No one is going to go on a deep-dive to find out of if Utah will work for them. They already know that Utah isn't a good fit for 90% of the nba. Now, If they care about winning (but maybe not championships), or getting a lot of money (Utah has to overpay), Utah has a shot. But if culture is their primary factor, players will choose LA, Miami, NYC, Houston, etc over Utah without even having to consider the racial parts of the Utah equation.
The racial **** that keeps happening here only pushes us farther down the totem pole.
Handlogten's Heros Well-Known Member 2019 Award Winner
My name isn't mike though.
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Handlogten's Heros said: ↑
Tobias?
Alfalfa Well-Known Member
tonstermits said: ↑
Well, I know for sure it's not Jrue. There's only one Jrue on earth.
Jack Strop Well-Known Member
Would Lindsey even call Mike? Jordan is what, almost 60? He can probably still push off, but likely can't make the shot afterwards.
Saint Cy of JFC Well-Known Member
Well Malcom currently plays in what is considered the most segregated and racist city in America (that has had two recent cases of player related community race issues), so I guess he could come.
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Saint Cy of JFC said: ↑
He didn't choose the Bucks. They chose him. Why would he leave there (especially as a young kickass team who's the 1 seed) and choose another racially questionable city who plays in the Western conference?
Wes Mantooth said: ↑
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We won't end up with the money it takes to sign a guy like Malcolm because we gonna end up guaranteeing Favs contract
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Racism is everywhere. It isnt going to stop anyone from signing with Utah.
What keeps people from signing with Utah is that there is barely any black people in the city and the dominant culture is Mormon.
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Some diversity would help
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I think the race issue would be more likely to hurt our chances with white players than black players. Just my opinion. But I don't think it's that large of a variable for either that it would swing the door either way to any appreciable degree.
I hope not but i tend to think its a bigger factor than we think unfortunately
Utah has a fairly large polynesian population unfortunately they prefer football.
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homeytennis Well-Known Member
Have Mike talk to DWill.
Also hispanic..... but again,
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So what you're saying is that Utah's chances of getting a high profile FA went from 1% down to 0.5%.
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While the incident with this fan certainly didn't do us any favors, I don't think that it will effect our free agency in any way. I would think that any player would be reasonable enough to realize that there are bad apples in every community but that the vast majority of people in this community and fan base are good. Just like anywhere else.


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Those tiny cups of vivid green wheatgrass juice have become a nutrition staple at health food stores and smoothie shops around the country, and they could be onto something. Wheatgrass is a nutritional powerhouse, and you get a small dose of several key nutrients, such as protein, in just a small serving of the juice. Speak with your doctor about the benefits of wheatgrass before adding it to your diet.
Protein in Wheatgrass
The amount of protein in a serving of wheatgrass depends on what form you're consuming. A shot of wheatgrass juice contains about 1 gram of protein, which isn't much toward the 46 grams women need each day and the 56 grams men should have on a daily basis. If you use powdered wheatgrass, you'll get about 2 grams of protein per 8-gram scoop. Other forms of wheatgrass include tablets, capsules, tinctures and teas, but these generally don't contain any notable amount of protein.
Protein and Health
It's wise to think about how much protein you consume, because the nutrient is crucial for each function your body carries out on a daily basis. Protein is necessary for the production and repair of your muscles, tissues and cells, and also helps supply you with energy to be physically active. The amino acids in protein-rich foods also help your body make new proteins, which keeps each of the body's systems working properly, according to the Harvard School of Public Health. It's not a problem for most people to get plenty of protein in their diet, but getting too much protein can be a concern. A diet that contains too much protein, especially in the form of red meat, can increase your risk of heart disease. Too much protein can also put added strain on your kidneys, making them work harder to filter out what you need and what you don't need.
While you can't rely on wheatgrass to be a major source of protein in your diet, you do get small doses of other key vitamins and minerals. A shot of wheatgrass juice supplies about 10 percent of the iron you need each day and about 6 percent of the vitamin C you need on a daily basis. Wheatgrass powder supplies less iron, but more vitamin C. Both wheatgrass juice and wheatgrass powder supply vitamin A, a nutrient that supports healthy eyes and a strong immune system. In fact, an 8-gram scoop of wheatgrass powder contains half of the vitamin A you need for the day. Wheatgrass juice and wheatgrass powder supply small amounts of potassium, riboflavin, niacin, folate, zinc and magnesium, too.
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Effects of patents and licenses on the provision of clinical genetic testing services
Mildred K. Cho, Samantha Illangasekare, Meredith A. Weaver, Debra G.B. Leonard, Jon F. Merz
The growth of patents that include genetic sequences has been accompanied by concern about their impact on the ability of physicians to provide clinical genetic testing services and to perform research. Therefore, we conducted a survey of clinical laboratory directors that perform DNA-based genetic tests to examine potential effects. We performed a telephone survey between July and September in 2001 of all laboratory directors in the United States who were members of the Association for Molecular Pathology or who were listed on the GeneTests.org website. One hundred thirty-two of 211 (63%) laboratory directors were interviewed. Ten of these were excluded because they did not conduct DNA-based genetic tests. Almost all performed genetic tests for clinical purposes. Half performed tests for research purposes as well. Twenty-five percent of respondents reported that they had stopped performing a clinical genetic test because of a patent or license. Fifty-three percent of respondents reported deciding not to develop a new clinical genetic test because of a patent or license. In total, respondents were prevented from performing 12 genetic tests, and all of these tests were among those performed by a large number of laboratories. We found 22 patents that were relevant to the performance of these 12 tests. Fifteen of the 22 patents (68%) are held by universities or research institutes, and 13 of the 22 patents (59%) were based on research funded by the United States Government. Overall, respondents reported that their perceptions of the effects of patents on the cost, access, and development of genetic tests, or data sharing among researchers, were negative. In contrast, most respondents felt that patents did not have an effect on the quality of testing. We conclude that patents and licenses have had a significant effect on the ability of clinical laboratories to develop and provide genetic tests. Furthermore, our findings suggest that clinical geneticists feel that their research is inhibited by patents. The effects of patents and licenses on patients' access to tests, and the costs and quality thereof, remains to be determined.
Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
Published - Feb 2003
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Cho, M. K., Illangasekare, S., Weaver, M. A., Leonard, D. G. B., & Merz, J. F. (2003). Effects of patents and licenses on the provision of clinical genetic testing services. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, 5(1), 3-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1525-1578(10)60444-8
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In: Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 02.2003, p. 3-8.
Cho, MK, Illangasekare, S, Weaver, MA, Leonard, DGB & Merz, JF 2003, 'Effects of patents and licenses on the provision of clinical genetic testing services', Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 3-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1525-1578(10)60444-8
Cho MK, Illangasekare S, Weaver MA, Leonard DGB, Merz JF. Effects of patents and licenses on the provision of clinical genetic testing services. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 2003 Feb;5(1):3-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1525-1578(10)60444-8
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While he isn't yet confirmed (and let's hope his knees are in better shape than Nabil Fekir's), it seems that Alisson Becker is to become Liverpool's new goalkeeper, in what is a world record in un-inflated terms, but with the vital addition of inflation, only a third of what Juventus paid for Gianluigi Buffon 17 years ago.
This has been the summer of the goalkeeping howler. In case anyone thinks Loris Karius is some kind of blundering freak, he is guilty of just part of a bizarre and apparently ceaseless litany of goalkeeping errors that, to me, seem to date back to Bayern Munich's Sven Ulreich, who made a remarkably unusual gaffe against Real Madrid (oh how Zinedine Zidane's men benefited last season, eh?!), before Karius got in on the act, and then pretty much every top-class keeper at the World Cup suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune (and/or brain farts).
Hugo Lloris is just the latest, trying to dribble past a player almost in his own 6-yard-box in a World Cup final, and escaping a panning by virtue of his side winning, in part due to very generous refereeing that allowed them to establish a 1st-half lead (oh how the admittedly immense Raphael Varane benefited last season, eh?!); following on from David de Gea letting in a really lame Cristiano Ronaldo shot (hit much less surely than the one from Gareth Bale that Karius fumbled) shortly before Spain crashed out; Manuel Neuer trying to dribble the ball (badly) down the wing; Fernando Muslera (with over 100 caps for Uruguay) losing the flight of a shot; and Willy Caballero kicking the ball straight to an opponent yards from goal.
Jürgen Klopp and his staff have noted how goalkeepers in England are never allowed to escape their mistakes, and how players, once judged, are often never reappraised. Players in all positions miskick the ball, get deceived by the flight or fail to see an opponent either creep up on them or steal in to intercept a pass. They all mishit shots at goal, and even the surest of players can miscontrol a ball or slip over (yawn). But if a keeper does it there's a kind of extra hysteria around it. Obviously it becomes an issue when a keeper is making too many mistakes, but does this apply to Karius?
Well actually, as Andrew Beasley notes in his TTT article on Allison's stats, Karius – the man who appears set to be replaced by Alisson – made just "two errors leading to shots in his 33 appearances in 2017/18, but both led to goals, and both were in the Champions League final. Ouch."
Klopp was right; Karius is a very good keeper who was getting better and better until the biggest game of his life. But the baggage around the young German appears to be weighing him down. Karius is nowhere near as bad as people make out, but he was not (yet) an elite keeper, and his road to becoming an elite keeper was made tougher by events in Kiev.
Mistakes can (and often do) make us stronger in life, but as I noted in a recent piece, this is the era of the snide put-down, and of irate blame culture; and in the internet age, no one can escape their mistakes.
Now more than ever we are defined by our mistakes, and yet mistakes are the key factor in learning and improvement. However, the timing of the mistakes, the public nature of them and the cost of them can damn you; if the only time you crash your car is at 70mph into a wall, then you may not get the chance to ever learn from it.
But some psychologists and theorists say that what you are is gone; you are a different person in every single moment, always changing, and never as constant as you think you are. The past has gone – it no longer exists. But memories do. And digital video is around to show that even something in the past can forever be made present.
You can be an ex-alcoholic or an ex-criminal, but not an ex-murderer or an ex-rapist, even once you've served your time. Once no longer a virgin you can never be a virgin again. Some labels stick for life. Karius is not merely the sum of what happened in Kiev, but he will be defined by it. People will use it to make his life hell.
Promising keepers have seen their careers sidetracked by one major gaffe, although these keepers can often work their way back up in a lower-pressure environment. England perhaps has a greater obsession with goalkeeping mistakes, possibly tied to our need to pull others down and revel in their despair; American culture, while sometimes seen as nauseating, doesn't seem to obsess about bringing stars down to earth, whether they merit it or not.
Karius had the spotlight of the world on him, and even when it was pointed out that he may have been suffering a concussion he was roundly ridiculed. An unseen medical ailment was somehow no excuse (which I can relate to, with an "invisible" illness), and yet a broken bone in his foot or hand or 37 stitches stapled into his head would have seen him labelled a hero had he carried on. (Although that leads to the issue of whether players should soldier on or leave the field if they don't feel 100%, but obviously he didn't realise he was concussed, if he was concussed, but concussions are complex.)
When he made mistakes in preseason, there were the japes about "is he concussed again?!", but that doesn't alter the fact that he'd had a good season until that possible concussion (and that a concussion could, and would, have affected his performance in the final), but that his confidence may have been hollowed out by being the man blamed for Liverpool losing in Kiev (when Sergio Ramos was the true villain of the piece, with vindictive acts of endangerment). He could have been concussed in Kiev, and now, as a result of the global scorn, reduced to a bag of nerves.
Remember, Karius made no mistakes leading to a goal (or even a shot at goal!) last season until just mere minutes after Ramos elbowed him in the temple; where the second error was also, in part, a consequence of the first. That suggests that the doctors may know what they're talking about (but smartarses on Twitter obviously know more).
But let's be clear: Alisson Becker – Brazil's goalkeeper since the age of 22 – appears to have a better pedigree; already with 50% more international caps than Simon Mignolet and Karius combined (all three born in countries that are now major international sides). With Pepe Reina having grown stale and restless (and a little overweight) at Liverpool, perhaps the first prime-years elite keeper that John Achterberg has worked with. (More later on how I think Achterberg actually improved aspects of Mignolet and Karius' games, but how errors can still happen. A coach can encourage confidence, but he cannot guarantee it. For example, in moments when greatest pressure is on, the best fielders in cricket can drop a simple catch.)
And with Becker, Liverpool are spending pretty big, but let's not mistake this with the silly "buying the league" stuff I've been seeing. Liverpool still aren't remotely close to having the cost of squads seen in Manchester; simply starting to close the gap a little.
Liverpool are now spending in line with increasing turnover and player sales; using the money received from the sale of Philippe Coutinho to attract top players. (Remember, in order for Liverpool to improve this summer it needed the loss of a world-class talent. If Man City want to sell Kevin de Bruyne or United sell de Gea, then they wouldn't be buying success if they simply reinvested that money. It's not financial doping in the way that Chelsea once did under Roman Abramovic.)
Liverpool's squad cost and the best XI is still a long way behind the two Manchester clubs, albeit closing in fast on Chelsea's, which used to be way ahead of the Reds'. Indeed, Chelsea appear to have lost out on Becker, as they try to fit within FFP and have to face life outside the Champions League yet again.
There's a good chance that Liverpool will have the 3rd-highest £XI – the average cost of all 38 lineups adjusted for football inflation – in the league next season, and that hasn't happened since 2008/09, just before Man City usurped the Reds. (And the Reds have been ranked 5th for quite a while now.) The higher your £XI, the greater your chances of a) finishing in the top four, and b) winning the title.
These were the £XIs last season:
– Man City: £753.1m
– Man Utd: £693.3m
– Chelsea: £494.7m
– Arsenal: £366.6m
– Liverpool: £347.4m
– Spurs: £295.4m
As you can see, Liverpool's was only around half that of the Manchester clubs, and two-thirds of Chelsea's.
To add Becker, Naby Keita and Fabinho to Liverpool's XI would clearly make the £XI significantly more expensive next season; and also, Virgil van Dijk only played in about a third of the league games last season, so his £75m didn't impact the average too highly. But of course, three players with transfer values would also need to be removed from the XI to accommodate them; and, in addition, the £XI, at the end of the season, is a reflection of who was fit and available, with cheap squad players often reducing the £XI.
There's virtually no way Liverpool will end the season with an £XI of £500m+, because there's almost no way all of the most expensive players will play all of the league games.
Liverpool have invested massively in the XI, relative to some other clubs; whereas other clubs have spent on hugely expensive 24-man squads.
Liverpool's "best" team has an £XI of £518.2m, but that's not the costliest possible team. Adam Lallana's inflated fee is £63m, so he's £10m-£20m more expensive in 2018 money than Fabinho or Keita. Andy Robertson is £10m, but if Moreno plays, his inflated transfer fee works out at £30m.
Conversely, if Joel Matip or Joe Gomez play at centre-back instead of Dejan Lovren that instantly takes c.£50m out of the £XI, and if James Milner plays in midfield it takes out £40m-£67m depending on whom he replaces (£67m being Jordan Henderson's 2011 fee adjusted for inflation. And as an aside on Henderson, remember how much £20m seemed in 2011? All the ridicule for that spending? While £67m in today's money is not at all cheap, his value can be seen as he improves with age, leads the team, and looks set to reach 400 games for the Reds if he stays fit and at the club until the age of 31; at which point his fee will seem a veritable bargain, if it doesn't already).
But where Liverpool still fall short is in the non-XI spending. This normal; Liverpool's turnover is a fraction of Manchester United's, so compromises must occur. Spending a lot on the XI, as Liverpool are doing, makes sense, but obviously leaves less spent on the squad (but where youngsters and bargains can be cannily deployed).
If you add together the 2018-money cost of the rest of the squad (players number 12-27), having listed the best XI, then it only totals 58% of the cost of the XI. Take out Simon Mignolet and Danny Ings, who seem set to leave, and it drops to 50%. And Alex Oxlade Chamberlain almost certainly won't play this season, so it's down to 45%. So while Liverpool have some excellent squad players, the spending has mostly gone into the XI; to spend more on squad players would have meant spending less on the XI, and that's always a balancing act.
My guess is that the £XI will average out at about £450m this coming season, a jump of about £100m on last season's £XI when converted to 2018 money. Anyway, here are some charts and tables showing those figures, below which the article continues.
Right now there are six very appealing teams to lure top players to the Premier League (if not the elite "superstar" players, but that's another issue. England is hoovering up a lot of the elite talent before it goes supernova, and tends to steer clear of the megastars).
Even Man City, with their league title, Champions League spot and Pep Guardiola have lost out with two of their last three major targets, with Alexis Sanchez going to Man United for the money (and maybe the greater global cachet) and Jorginho joining his mentor at Chelsea. Had this happened to Liverpool then everyone would go mad about the owners, or a lack of ambition, but it's a fact that each player has a dozen or so main issues to weigh up when choosing a club.
Each club has a slightly different pull with the appeal of its manager, the players who can become teammates, the location (which can be important to some imports), the participation in the Champions League, the wages it can pay, and so on.
And right now, Liverpool can offer: the Champions League (for the cachet, and also allows for higher wages to be offered); world-class manager; world-class players (in particular, Mo Salah, in terms of current global icons); a thrilling brand of football that looks great fun to be part of; and, as usual, a famous stadium in which to play and a place in history as one of the most special clubs.
These latter points are fairly constant, although perceptions can change, and most current footballers weren't even alive for the halcyon days of the club and the Kop. However, a certain mythology does prevail, which gets reinvigorated whenever the big European nights return.
You can add a special recent European pedigree (two finals in Klopp's three seasons) to the sense of a club going places, that players must pick up on. Someone like Alisson will have felt the power of the Kop at its best.
However, let's not pretend that Liverpool are now super-rich, and/or that FSG have just decided to become interested only now; not least when, relatively speaking, more was spent on players the season they took over, in a valiant effort to take the club back into the top four (having inherited a side near the foot of the table) but it didn't work out. The intention was there, but while Luis Suarez and Jordan Henderson represented fantastic value for money, the huge fees spent on Andy Carroll (£121,785,131 in today's money!) and Stewart Downing (£83,923,792), plus others, where a load of money was largely wasted, meant the improvement was only marginal.
FSG were not tightwads before, and they're not super-generous now. They are doing what they said they'd do: make the club more profitable and put those profits back into the team, whilst improving the infrastructure where possible; all while working with the rules of FFP and sensible wages/turnover ratios. (Main Stand rebuild, further Anfield regeneration plans, and now the green light to build a state-of-the-art training complex at Kirkby.)
This summer is the result of steady building for three seasons under Jürgen Klopp and Michael Edwards, with the first reappearance in the Champions League for a second consecutive season in a decade, the first back-to-back 75+ points finishes in the league in a decade, and only the second time since 1985 that the Reds have made two European finals in three years. (I haven't seen the latest UEFA coefficients, but Klopp must be getting it back up towards the days of Rafa Benítez, which can only help in terms of seeding.)
All this – along with the redevelopment of the Main Stand and more tellingly, the mega profit on Coutinho and the run to the 2018 Champions League final – is enabling a slow but undeniable return to the feel of Liverpool being a massive club on all fronts. (Even if there's a long way to go to match the financial might of Man United, Man City, Bayern Munich, PSG, Barcelona and Real Madrid.)
For Liverpool to break the world record for two different positions in seven months says more about these three things than of any sudden super-wealth or "buying the league": 1) inflation is not taken into account with such statements, given that Gianluigi Buffon would have cost Juventus £227m* in today's money when inflation is taken into account, and using our Transfer Price Index football inflation, Rio Ferdinand cost Leeds £125.9m and Man United £197.9m**; 2) the positions Liverpool have struggled most with in the past few years (prior to 2018) were centre-back and goalkeeper, and so it's worthy of paying a premium; and 3) most clubs spend too little on goalkeepers, in particular.
You can also add that Liverpool clearly underspent – due to smart buying – on Mo Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mané, so that in itself frees up money to spend in other areas.
And adjusted for inflation, Becker will rank only 3rd in the Premier League era for goalkeepers, with de Gea at £79.3m and Petr Cech at £67.7m, albeit both bought in their very early 20s and both superb value for money even at those prices.
Indeed, I don't necessarily expect Becker to be as good as that pair have proved to be as signings for Man United and Chelsea respectively, but he doesn't need to be; he just needs to be very, very good (and reliable), and not exceptional, to elevate this side to a new level.
(* Using only the inflation of the Premier League, and Italian inflation would have been different; ** Remember, these were either actual British transfer records, or close, and not too far away from the world records of the time. Alisson and Virgil van Dijk both cost about a third of what Neymar cost PSG last summer, and half of what Liverpool recouped for Coutinho. These are big buys, but the transfer market essentially doubled last summer with the big rise in the Premier League television income and the Neymar dick-swinging signing by PSG. Which is why inflation is so important to factor in, as the markets can change rapidly within just a few months. A few seasons ago £66m was an astronomical fee; now it's merely medium-high.)
Okay, but why are goalkeepers so undervalued in financial terms? And what will Alisson bring Liverpool that his predecessors could not?
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I had lots of fun with this, it really did not turn out the way I had originally planned, but I do like it, the way the hare seems to emerge from the paint. I used a lot of water, and even spritzed it more when it was near finishing which created some great paint dispersion, after it had dried( a little) I added some highlights, which also spread well. It is a little fun, a little different and a great play with paint.
I love this! I haven't even tried painting anything furry. You make it look so easy here! Did you see this technique in a video?
Hi Laura, thank you for your comment, no I didn't see this on a video, I am not sure it is even a valid technique, I was unhappy with some of my harsh lines, so went overboard with the water, which I think ended in an unusual happy end, I don't even imagine that I could recreate if I tried, I might try to get a similar look with a donkey, as I think it could look quite cool. You should try some furries…. The more fur the better as it is very forgiving, certain breeds of dog, spaniel for example is a good one to try, and although they have quite a specific look, the fur hides some of the honey, facial structures which can be hard in other animals, such as the horse….. For every horse I get kind of right, I have many more that go wrong!
Cute rabbit – I like the eyes on this creature as well. So important to get the expression right to get an emotional connection with the viewer one way or another. And this is so grand. I saw a rabbit in the grass on my morning walk today.
Thank you, you are so right, if you get the eye right you are more than half way there, In fact I sometimes think you can create anything around a good eye? They are such lovely creatures, I enjoy painting them, they have a calming effect for me.
LOL, yes – a good eye – good point!


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Since Delphi 2009 you have probably noticed this warning: "[DCC Warning] Unit1.pas(27): W1050 WideChar reduced to byte char in set expressions. Consider using 'CharInSet' function in 'SysUtils' unit." which suggests you to use the CharInSet function instead. CharInSet still requires a simple set of AnsiChars and fails (returns false) is the code of the passed character is greater than 255 which makes it useless for Unicode characters.
Putting it simple: replacing the "a in b" statement with CharInSet(a, b) will simply silence the compiler. Nothing more.
You should really consider using Character unit if you want to check whether a character is a letter, digit or is a part of another "standard set of chars".
The old way was never correct unless you handled English only texts. And even then names like André would have failed.
But what drives me crazy is that you can't check for (well defined) symbols ['.', ',', '?', '/', '\', …] anymore without a performance hit.
Why did they decide to use CharInSet … no idea.
Let's face it. The whole "CharInSet" is a failure on CodeGear's behalf to write new, proper set evaluation logic. They stay with the code that was written in the days of TURBO PASCAL for goodness sake.
It is absurd. Claiming that magically substituting CharInSet for X in [char Set] does nothing but silence the compiler is wrong. First, it improves code compatibility and secondly, it makes the poor logic and performance hit more obvious.
Perhaps if it had been done, CodeGear would have figured out that they should rewrite the set evaluation logic from scratch and finally removed the absurd artificial limits that have existed since DOS days.
When they talk about abandoning some old language features in the hopes of creating some new true innovation in the langauge, perhaps they can throw out the old set logic and just write something that works properly.
Let's face it – many of us have had to write set logic routines when the current routines hit their limits, so it is possible to generalize. Perhaps a more general solution will not be as efficent as size limited set of binary flags, but it would be a hell of a lot more flexible AND keep the code cleaner than CharInSet allows.
Now, if you want a readable CharInSet, you might well be better off with Pos('x','abcdefg') 0.
I do agree with Xepol on 2 points (at least).
– the CharInSet and its old fashioned logic is technically not less than a disapointment.
– it's up to the developer to overwhelm this issue by generating "not generalized" code.
– nobody should be naive and await a "perfect" language/IDE: CodeGear needs this kind of incentive to improve things 😉 In other words: our present remarks are a constructive criticism – at least, CodeGear now knows what to look at.
do design the application/database/whatever in a matter avoiding "wrong input" (input char limitation) or at least executing the validation opportunely (check input while OnExit and similar event are triggered) thus reducing the impact of low efficiency.
I see it more like a "you're still using ANSI/ASCII, we're in Unicode world now, please revise your code" type of warning.
So what does the the WideChar overloaded CharInSet(C: WideChar; const CharSet: TSysCharSet) do? I'd expect it to verify that 0<= C <= 127, does it?
If Char < 255 then ... otherwise return false.


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require 'mysql2'

module R2S
  class DBClient
    attr_accessor :client, :logger, :conf
    def initialize(logger, conf)
      @logger = logger
      @conf = conf

      @client = Mysql2::Client.new(host: conf.db_host,
                                   database: conf.db_name,
                                   username: conf.db_username,
                                   password: conf.db_password)
    end

    def statement(sql)
      @logger.debug("execute query: #{sql}")
      @client.prepare(sql)
    end

    def execute(sql)
      @logger.debug("execute query: #{sql}")
      @client.query(sql)
    end
  end
end

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