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KAHN, ZADOC (Zadig; 1839–1905), chief rabbi of France. Born in Mommenheim, Alsace, Kahn was the son of a village peddler. His mother was the daughter of Rabbi Isaac Weyl (Reb Eisik) of Wintzheim, whose father, Jacob Meyer, was a member of the Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon I, and chief rabbi of the Lower Rhine department. Kahn was educated in a yeshivah at Strasbourg and from 1856 at the Ecole Rabbinique in Metz (later in Paris), from which he graduated in 1862. He then became director of the Talmud Torah, a preparatory school of the Ecole. In 1866 Kahn became assistant to Chief Rabbi Isidore Lazare of Paris, whom he succeeded in 1868. Kahn's appointment over many candidates was determined by his excellent thesis, L'Esclavage selon la Bible et le Talmud (1867). In 1889 Kahn was appointed chief rabbi of France. His position both as chief rabbi of Paris and chief rabbi of France was marked by a series of critical events in the history of French and world Jewry. After the death of Adolphe *Crémieux in 1880, French Jewry had no recognized secular leader, and institutions and individuals turned to Kahn for advice and leadership. His freedom of action was often limited by the attitude of the official Franco-Jewish leaders, so that Kahn never really became one of the great Jewish leaders who developed out of the period. French Jewry lost its most active communities during his tenure of office, when Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by Germany. The years 1881–82 witnessed the beginning of a mass emigration of East European Jews, some of whom turned to France. But Kahn was unable to influence this important event, as policy was dictated by the *Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Paris charity administration, which tried to limit the immigration. The plan for the first project on Jewish colonization in Argentina was addressed to Kahn and he forwarded it to Baron Maurice de *Hirsch.
From the establishment of *Ḥibbat Zion, Kahn was the head of the movement in France, directing it from Paris. He was also responsible for putting the leaders of Ḥibbat Zion in contact with Baron Edmund de *Rothschild. His activities in Ḥibbat Zion were for the most part disapproved of by the leaders of French Jewry. He was very involved with the practical problems of settlement in Ereẓ Israel, as all the reports coming from Ereẓ Israel and movement functionaries passed directly or indirectly through his hands. Kahn witnessed the birth of the Zionist Movement and sympathized with *Herzl, but officially he adopted the view that French Jews must in all aspects of their lives be faithful citizens of France alone and must therefore reject the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine. He was one of the first Jewish leaders to suspect that Alfred Dreyfus was the victim of an antisemitic campaign, but during the *Dreyfus Affair he was unable to persuade Franco-Jewish leaders to adopt a policy of self-defense instead of remaining silent. Kahn called a few meetings for the purpose of drafting a new policy, but they were unsuccessful, and the defense of Dreyfus was left in the hands of Jewish individuals and non-Jews. The same conservative attitude prevailed in response to the violent antisemitic campaign in Algeria. In 1880 Kahn was more successful in helping to create the *Société des Études *Juives, of which he was president and whose publication, *Revue des Etudes Juives, became one of the leading scholarly periodicals for the study of Judaism. He was also the editor of a French Bible translation known as the "Bible of the Rabbinate," and of the Bible de la Jeunesse (both 1899). In addition, he assisted Isidore *Singer in preparing the Jewish Encyclopaedia. Kahn published a few volumes of his sermons. He was the last official chief rabbi of France. Shortly after his death the law of the Separation of the Church and the State was adopted and the Jewish Consistories were reorganized as nongovernmental religious bodies. Before his death Kahn tried to prepare the Consistories for such an event and took part in drafting the bylaws of the new nonofficial Consistories.
J. Weill, Zadok Kahn (Fr. 1912); idem, in: REJ, 105 (1940), 3–9; E.M. Levy, in: Cahiers de l'AIU, 94 (1956), 15–19.


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Al Qaeda's New Front: Jihadi Rap
The suspected killer of James Foley represents a new, dangerous merger of gangsta hip-hop and Islamism.
By AMIL KHAN
Abdel Majed Abdel Bary, the rapper suspected of murdering American journalist James Foley somewhere between Syria and Iraq, is the product of a British youth culture that has managed to merge two seemingly contradictory lifestyles: gangsta rap and jihad. Like Douglas McAuthur McCain—an American hip-hop fan who was recently killed fighting for the Islamic State—Abdel Bary represents a new and very scary evolution in modern jihadi history.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel recently described the Islamic State as a threat "beyond anything we've ever seen." Yet we are only just beginning to grasp what is different about this group. One reason is that it includes men in its ranks whom you might expect to see in a nightclub rather than fighting in the desert for an organization that would, traditionally, whip you for listening to music.
As a result of this cultural elasticity, the Islamic State has succeeded in attracting supporters outside its natural recruiting pool. Both McCain and another Westerner, Denis Mamadou Cuspert, a German citizen who died fighting with the Islamic State—and had a previous life as rapper Deso Dogg with three albums to his name—became converts as part of this broader appeal.
I first began to look into this hybrid phenomenon in 2008 when I was a journalist researching a subculture that had fused the extremism and violence of gangsta rap with that of al Qaeda—or at least a version of it. During a months-long investigation for British television station Channel 4, I met dozens of young men across London who tended to have three things in common: a history of criminal activity, an ambition to be a gangsta rapper and a fixation with the terrorist group begun by Osama bin Laden.
In a fried chicken shop in the south London district of Brixton—which saw mass riots against the police in the 1980s—I met with several young men who were walking examples of the powerful effect of al Qaeda's ideology. None came from Muslim backgrounds. Aged between 16 and 20, they were members of a gang that identified itself around their local postal code, SW16. Their activities revolved around crime and self promotion. So, when they were not carrying out muggings, extortion rackets, or dealing drugs, they were targeting rivals perceived to be encroaching on their area for beatings and "tagging" — using graffiti to stamp the name of their gang on local landmarks. As a gang or "crew," as they called themselves, they produced rap songs and videos about their exploits. By linking actions and communications– making their criminal exploits the focus of their rap songs – they were extremely effective in the way they projected their power to rivals and authorities. There are similarities with the way IS seamlessly integrates its media efforts and its military activities.
But what the gang was missing was a big vision beyond local turf wars. A few weeks before I met them, they had decided to convert as a whole to "Islam," which they were drawn to because they understood it to be the enemy of the "system," as they also saw themselves to be. Crucially, they were attracted to the idea that this "Islam" would allow them to continue carrying out street robberies, break-ins and extortion of other local gangs with the added benefit of association with a movement that was fighting Western forces on the world stage. The money their activities brought in was used to buy time in recording studios to further their ambitions to become rap artists.
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Their worldview was a mashup of what they called "thug life," gleaned from the music of their U.S. gangsta-rap heroes along with selective borrowings from classic left wing and race-based conspiracy theories. It promoted a do-anything approach to accumulating money and getting ahead, with a focus on violence and intimidation. The title of rapper 50 Cent's debut album "Get Rich, or Die Tryin'" was regarded as an article of faith. Al Qaeda offered a bridge that allowed this intensely local worldview to connect with the grand narratives of global war. They already saw themselves as soldiers in an endless urban conflict. Now, they could become warriors in an epic, global struggle. Bin Laden would have struggled to recognize their views as Islamic, even accordingly to his own warped definition. But the twisted genius of his ideological creation was that they did not need his approval to sign up.
On the face of it, it's difficult to imagine two lifestyles more diametrically opposed than rap and Islamism. On one side is the "bling" culture of ostentatious consumption, alcohol, drugs and easy sex. On the other is an austere and unforgiving worldview that seeks to recreate seventh-century Arabia. What is frightening is that the Islamic State has been able to bridge these two very different worlds because of the ideology it inherited from al Qaeda, which is uses to attract young men motivated by a vague sense of injustice and anger at the West.
In many ways, the world of hip hop runs parallel to and mirrors the place of Islam in many urban communities in the Western world. Hip hop provides a cultural frame of reference that allows followers to share social experiences they feel are not appreciated by wider society—whether that is poverty, racism, discrimination or dysfunction within their own community. It is, in some ways, the most significant social-protest music of our era. At the same time, followers develop and appropriate language, interactions and dress codes – whether traditional Pakistani tribal attire or low-riding jeans and bandanas of urban East Coast America — that they feel are more in keeping with an "authentic" expression of their identities. Both are often forces for good. But at the same time, both have extremes. Hip hop and genuine Islam can help people find community and direction in a confusing world; in some ways hip hop is the modern descendent of the social protest music of the past. Gangsta rap and Islamist extremism, on the other hand, are both a dark reflection of their respective mainstream expressions.
The most obvious similarity between them is a sense of grievance towards wider society. Both focus on vengeance and fetishize violence as a way of redressing the balance. Both also take their audiences on similar journeys. Followers and listeners are made to feel they are at the center of an unfolding, dangerous epic that will require guts and determination to survive. But if they do, they will achieve some sort of everlasting fulfilment. Among the albums of Tupac Shakur, who was killed in a feud in 1996 but remains a huge influence among many of the young men I met, are such jihadi-inspiring titles as "Me Against the World" and "Until the End of Time."
While taking their adherents on similar, almost parallel, journeys. Gangsta rap and Islamist extremism also feed off each other. So while gangsta rap might celebrate violence, the ideology of al Qaeda provides the intellectual justification to undertake those actions.
Abdel Bary, or L Jinny and Lyricist Jinn as he called himself in his Youtube videos, is part of a subsection of a subsection of British youth culture in which Islamist extremism and gangsta rap do not just run in parallel, but fuse together. In my 2008 investigation, I met several other young men like him who also lived in west London. Some had family connections to Algeria, others Morocco, Iraq or the Gulf. Without exception all their families had Islamist political leanings. Abdel Bary's father, who was extradited by British authorities to stand trial in the US for al Qaeda's 1998 bombings of embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, would be the most extreme. Others had family members who were members of non-violent political groups while some had fathers who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s, but opposed al Qaeda's targeting of civilians.
The young men I met — who would have been Abdel Bary's neighbors — used the currency of East Coast gangsta rap, the language, clothes and mannerisms, to give themselves personas that allowed them to fit into west London street life. All – like Abdel Bary – spent time in a local recording studio making videos of themselves rapping, or "spitting rhymes." Also like Abdel Bary they drew their material from their experience struggling to adjust to inner city London while still surrounded by the battles "back home" that their parents were still fighting. Circumstances were difficult for them all. Like the Brixton gang, some resorted to crime.
Abdel Bary's lyrics echo 50 Cent and Tupac Shakur's progression from victimhood and violence to redemption. "I'm trying to change my ways but there's blood on my hands and I can't change my ways until there's funds in the bank," he raps in a track from 2012.
In later videos he refers to his anger at his father's treatment: "I swear the day they came and took my dad, I could have killed a cop or two."
It was the ideology of al Qaeda and the opportunity created by IS in Iraq and Syria that provided him an outlet for the grievances that he faced in London.
Abdel Bary came from a family that was already somewhat familiar with the idea of violence for Islamist causes. McCain and Cuspert, however, did not. All three found in the ideology of al Qaeda a path offering the vengeance and redemption that they were looking for. And the latest and most arguably violent incarnation of al Qaeda, the Islamic State, provided the opportunity.
IS's ability to attract these men to its cause means that the ideological wheels set in motion by bin Laden are reaching new audiences and converting sympathy into participation—a dangerous development in the world of Islamist extremism.
We should not forget that the presence of young men from Western countries in foreign wars is a long-established tradition that includes British volunteers in the Spanish civil war—George Orwell, for one—and American pilots fighting in the Battle of Britain. In these and other conflicts, the volunteers were motivated by what they saw as injustice happening to others. And now, the Islamic State is using al Qaeda's ideology to link injustice abroad with the potential recruit's own sense of grievance—in essence, uniting personal and collective suffering under one worldview. At the same time, it has managed to bestow on its struggle a counter-culture sense of subversive "cool" that mainstream political parties and even commercial brands might envy.
I have spent most of my career living and working in the Middle East and until June, I was a British adviser to the Syrian Coalition, the internationally recognised and supported Syrian opposition still fighting for the goals of the original popular uprising against the Assad regime. It is clear to me that one of the main reasons that al Qaeda's ideology is so powerful is that there is little else to counteract it. The majority of the Syrian opposition, activists and sympathisers as well as fighters, are still moderates seeking a state that respects the rule of law, protects the rights of its people and does not differentiate on the basis of ethnicity or beliefs. But these principles have not yet been developed into an ideology that can inspire, motivate and mobilise. Until there is an ideological alternative, military action will be limited in what it can achieve against IS.
The only time I have seen al Qaeda's messages fall flat was when the Arab uprisings of 2011 first broke out. It was clear from its hesitant, defensive statements that the group felt challenged by the idea of young people in Muslim countries rising up against dictators and demanding freedom and good governance. But that moment was all too brief; now the Arab Spring has given way to a battle between autocrats and Islamist militias—much more comfortable terrain for radical extremist groups like the Islamic State.
True, al Qaeda's actions, and the reactions of its enemies, have so far failed to create a global popular uprising. The organisation itself is being eclipsed. But al Qaeda was always about bin Laden's ideology of cosmic war rather than allegiance to the group itself. The Islamic State still very much follows "al-Qaeda-inspired" ideology, even though the two groups have fallen out over tactics and strategy. Bin Laden's most significant achievement was establishing his brand of Islamist extremism as an overarching narrative of suffering and redemption that a wide array of Muslim grievances could latch on to.
Today, we see in Iraq and Syria an insurgent organisation that can mobilize people from vastly different backgrounds—people held together not just by old grievances but by a very modern, and scary, sensibility.
Amil Khan is a former journalist for Reuters and the BBC. He now works as a communications consultant. Follow him on twitter @Londonstani.
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The ideas are in: We're now entering a new phase of the THINK Prize 16 Financial Longevity Challenge. In total, 137 ideas were submitted to the OpenIDEO site for consideration. Of these, 30 have been selected to continue into our final phases as we move toward naming our THINK Prize 16 winners on February 1.
The THINK Prize team from CO-OP, OpenIDEO and Mastercard have been impressed by all of the ideas that came out of our workshops, and those submitted by our larger OpenIDEO Community. We have also been incredibly inspired by the extensive collaborations and connections forged during this process. From the robust ideas to the considerable comments, as a community, you illuminated countless efforts to make financial services more useful and accessible. As we turn our energy towards refining these ideas, we're thrilled to share our shortlist of ideas moving forward. Visit the Refinement page to check out all 30 ideas and read a little about them.
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As a community, it's our job to help the ideas in Refinement meet these goals as quickly as possible while always keeping the end user in mind. Remember the Evaluation Criteria previously posted to ensure that ideas are heading in the right direction. Our User Experience Map is another great resource.
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Elk is a public artwork by an unknown artist located in front of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Milwaukee Lodge 46, which is on the Northwest side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The zinc sculpture depicts a 7'6" tall elk atop a brick pedestal announcing the club's events.

Description
The Elk sculpture in front of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Milwaukee Lodge portrays an elk made out of zinc painted gold and brown. The elk stands erect with his head turned 10 degrees to the proper left. His front legs are straight and parallel, while his proper left hind foot is in front of his proper right leg. The sculpture's base depicts a forest floor, including a small broken tree stump on the proper left. The sculpture stands on a brick base that displays advertisements for the lodge. There is a plaque on the base with the Elks Lodge logo.

Historical information
The Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks, established in 1868, has almost a million members and more than 2000 lodges all over the country. "In the early twentieth century, the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks commissioned artists, mostly on the east coast, to create statues of elks for fountains in cities across the United States." These images were made available to the new chapters of the Elks. The Milwaukee Lodge of Elks (No. 46) decided to present an elk statue and fountain to the community in 1901, the year that the Elks of America held their Grand Lodge convention in Milwaukee. The statue they chose is a replica of one in Reading, Pennsylvania cast by the Fish Manufacturing Company. It was presented to the community as part of the Elks Carnival Parade on July 23, 1901. In 1927 the Milwaukee Elks built a new lodge, called the Wonder Lodge, at 910 East Wisconsin Avenue. The sculpture was placed in front of the building on a pedestal designed by Ruben F. Clas. "Natural spring water from a well in the basement of the lodge was connected to the base of the statue; along with city water, it flowed from two taps at the elk's base."

Location history
The Wonder Lodge was razed in 1971. The Elk was salvaged and now resides in front of the current clubhouse on West Good Hope Road in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was restored and sits atop a brick pedestal that lists the club's upcoming events.

Condition
The sculpture has been vandalized in the past. For example, the elk's antlers were removed. They were subsequently substituted for a pair of real antlers.

References

Outdoor sculptures in Milwaukee
Zinc sculptures in the United States
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A Change in Pitch
By Kayla Duvert
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For a while now, my peers from Mrs. Schneider's chorus class were accustomed to using our voices as instruments, changing our pitches as the notes changed as we would with instruments. Holding out full notes in music, as we would with instruments. Now with an airborne virus amid us, our instruments were instructed to be put to rest. Our instruments, the only instrument some of us knew how to play, were considered a threat to the health of others and an accomplice to spreading a virus.
Though our instruments can't be used, that doesn't mean that we can't find another: an instrument that's navigable through our fingers and not our mind. An instrument unfamiliar to us, but it becomes familiar once we start playing. An instrument known as the piano to most, but as a substitute to us.
As with every instrument, we first learned the basics: the different staffs and notes. Then we put our knowledge to test. Playing the songs, we used to sing with an alternative instrument. The notes we used to sing together, we now play alone at whatever volume we desire.
With our voices being the only thing that connects us, playing an almost foreign instrument alone is often undesirable. It was foreign to both our fingers and our minds. Making music alone is foreign to us, but there is comfort in the fact that we are learning it together: learning, playing and performing it together, but in walls that continue to separate us. Those walls that separate us will be the one thing that protects us long enough to unite us, so we could continue to use our vocal instruments alongside our newly introduced one. An instrument with a change in pitch now represents a change in our lives.


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77 Percent Of Online Health Seekers Start At Search Engines [Pew Study]
Although there's long been a debate over the accuracy of health information online, many U.S. Internet users aren't hesitant to use the Web when they want answers to health-related questions. And rather than dedicated health sites, the vast majority of them begin their research at a search engine. A new study out tonight from the […]
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Although there's long been a debate over the accuracy of health information online, many U.S. Internet users aren't hesitant to use the Web when they want answers to health-related questions. And rather than dedicated health sites, the vast majority of them begin their research at a search engine.
A new study out tonight from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project says that 72 percent of U.S. Internet users have gone online in the past year specifically for health-related information, and 77 percent of that group says their research started at Google, Bing or another general search engine.
That's significantly more than the 13 percent that begin at health portals like WebMD, general information sites like Wikipedia (only two percent) and social networks (one percent).
(The remaining votes, not shown, were respondents who indicated "Other," "Don't Know" or who refused to answer.)
Those numbers skew a little higher among younger health seekers. Pew says that 82 percent of respondents 18-29 years old start at a search engine, compared to 73 percent of those 50 and older.
What about mobile?
Pew says that, overall, 31 percent of cell phone owners say they've used their phone to look for health information online. As you'd expect, that number jumps to 52 percent when specifically considering smart phone owners.
The debate over health information and the Web has been going on for years, with many doctors urging patients to not rely so much on Google for health research, and lamenting the fact that they often have to correct misinformation that patients find online, or correct incorrect conclusions that patients draw after doing health research online.
In 2008, a Microsoft study investigated "cyberchondria" — a term used to describe how sometimes online health research makes people think their health is worse than it really is. Around that same time, though, the practice of online health research earned an endorsement from a recognizable figure when Dilbert creator Scott Adams revealed how Google helped him diagnose a speech defect known as Spasmodic Dysphonia.
The Pew research released tonight is from a survey of 3,014 U.S. adults between August 7 and September 6, 2012.
Matt McGee joined Third Door Media as a writer/reporter/editor in September 2008. He served as Editor-In-Chief from January 2013 until his departure in July 2017. He can be found on Twitter at @MattMcGee.
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Q: UICollectionViewLayout methods never get called I am working with a UICollectionView and I am trying to use the UICollectionViewLayout methods to adjust the sizing of the cell however they are never being called. The methods are :
sizeForItemAtIndexPath, minimumInterimItemSpacingForSectionAtIndex, and minimumLineSpacingForSectionAtIndex
these 3 methods are never being called and I'm not sure where/ how to call them from. below is my code in Swift 3
import Foundation
import UIKit

class CollectionVC: UICollectionViewController {

    var Sections = [SectionService]()

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        createServiceSections()
    }

    func createServiceSections(){

        ServiceSections.append(ServiceSection(headerTitle: "1", items: 2, headerImage: UIImage(named: "Default"), stats: nil))
        ServiceSections.append(ServiceSection(headerTitle: "2", items: 3, headerImage: UIImage(named: "Default"), stats: nil))
        ServiceSections.append(ServiceSection(headerTitle: "3", items: 3, headerImage: UIImage(named: "Default"), stats: nil))
        ServiceSections.append(ServiceSection(headerTitle: "4", items: 5, headerImage: UIImage(named: "Default"), stats: nil))
    }

    override func numberOfSections(in collectionView: UICollectionView) -> Int {
        return ServiceSections.count
    }

    override func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return ServiceSections[indexPath.section].items.count
    }

    override func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {

        let cell1 = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: "servicecell", for: indexPath) as! ServicesCellView

        cell1.serviceLabel.text = "test"
        cell1.serviceImage.image = ServiceSections[indexPath.section].headerImage
        return cell1
    }

    func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, sizeForItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> CGSize {

        print("size for item at indexPath")
        var cellSize: CGSize
        let collectionViewWidth = self.collectionView!.bounds.size.width
        cellSize = CGSize(width: (collectionViewWidth * 0.48), height: (collectionViewWidth * 0.48))
        return cellSize
    }

    func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, minimumInterItemSpacingForSectionAtIndex section: Int) -> CGFloat {
        print("min spacing section")
        return 1
    }

    func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, minimumLineSpacingForSectionAtIndex section: Int) -> CGFloat {
        print("min line spacing section")
        return 1
    }
}

A: With help from Xinatanil, I was able to fix the issue. First, I had to change my class line to this
class CollectionVC: UICollectionViewController, UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout {

and then I had to change the methods declarations to Swift 3 syntax...
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, sizeForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGSize {

    var cellSize: CGSize
    let collectionViewWidth = self.collectionView!.bounds.size.width
    cellSize = CGSize(width: (collectionViewWidth * 0.48), height: (collectionViewWidth * 0.48))
    return cellSize
}

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, minimumInteritemSpacingForSectionAt section: Int) -> CGFloat {
    return 1
}

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, minimumLineSpacingForSectionAt section: Int) -> CGFloat {
    return 1
}

A: I think, you haven't set collectionView delegate
Please try:
self.collectionView.delegate = self in viewDidLoad() method
Actually UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout inherits from UICollectionViewDelegate. So setting the delegate will be sufficient.
Happy Coding!

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Flaming Lips, Wilco, MGMT head Beale Street Festival 2011
March 3, 2011 | 5:12pm ET
The Beale Street Music Festival's selling point remains simple: a genre-spanning lineup that won't burn a hole in your pocket. For example, the 2011 incarnation of the Memphis, TN-based festival features indie heavyweights The Flamings Lips, Wilco, and MGMT paired alongside mainstream fare like Stone Temple Pilots, Ke$ha, and John Mellencamp. What does it cost ya? Only $69 for a three day pass. Not too shabby.
Set for April 29-May 2nd during the city's annual Memphis in May celebration, this year's festival also sports Cee-Lo Green, Mumford & Sons, The Avett Brothers, B.o.B., The New Pornographers, Sublime with Rome, Cake, Ziggy Marley, Cage the Elephant, Macy Gray, Amos Lee, Slightly Stoopid, Gregg Allman, Manchester Orchestra, Lucero, Lotus, J.J. Grey and Mofro.
Rounding out the bill are Jason Mraz, Lucinda Williams, Charlie Wilson, Betty LaVette, Ludacris, Tommy Castro, Godsmack, Buckcherry, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Lee Boys, Devon Allman's Honeytribe, Kirk Whalum, Hubert Sumlin, Sick Puppies, Jimmie Vaughan, Amy LaVere, Magic Slim & The Teardrops, John Hammond, and Otis Clay.
As mentioned, tickets cost $69 and are available through Ticketmaster.com. VIP packages are also available. For additional details on the festival as well as all of Memphis in May's activities, please visit the memphisinmay.org.
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This pressed white 'Floating Daisy' picture is a one-of-a-kind, unique piece of art handmade with love in the mountains of Canada. It can hang both horizontally and vertically. The picture is the perfect addition to any decor that needs a touch of fun.
• They are all real pressed Daisies that we grow and harvest from our woodland garden in the Okanagan, BC.
• Handmade paper is used as the background to the flowers.
• A white mat borders the daisy art.
• Dimensions of the frame: Approx 10" x 22" - ¾" thick frame.
• Solid wood handcrafted frame. Finished with black lacquer.
• 2 Sawtooth hooks allow it to hang both horizontally and vertically.


Watch crystal is a transparent cover that protects the watch face.
One of the hardest substances on earth. It measures 9 on the Mohs scale - Diamond measures 10, the highest rating.
However, if struck sharply and from the correct direction, sapphire will shatter.
Remove the scratch on Acrylic Galss / Plexiglass - Caution ! No guarantee ! Try on your own risks !
1. Put some toothpaste on the Acrylic Galss / Plexiglass and rub it gently with a soft damp cloth.
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Congratulations to the Atom Black team for winning Gold at the KGLL Atom Championships! The team had a great season, with a 16-2-4 record!
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How to get colorful letters for your Letterboard!
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Black letterboard with white plastic letters with quote Be My Valentine, with red rose petals on black background. Square crop.
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Rolodex Card A Day 285 is just a fun card made from a Silhouette Cut and some Halloween chip board pieces.
I love the Frankenstein quote: "Friend, Good."
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Cardiac tamponade is the accumulation of fluid in the pericardial space. The accumulation compresses the heart thus, impedes the expansion of the ventricles and cardiac filling during diastole. As ventricular volume and cardiac output fall, the heart pump fails and circulatory collapse and failure develops. With gradual onset, fluid accumulates steadily and the outer layer of the pericardial space stretches to compensate for the rising pressure. Large amounts of fluid accumulate before symptoms of heart failure occur. With rapid onset, pressures rise too quickly for the pericardial space to compensate. Most common causes of cardiac tamponade include cancerous tumors and cancer treatment. Radiation therapy of 4,000 cGy or more to the mediastinal areas has also been implicated in pericardial fibrosis, pericarditis, and resultant cardiac tamponde. Untreated pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade lead to circulatory collapse and cardiac arrest.


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Israeli-made stink bomb not smelly enough to deter Indian protesters
'Indians probably have a high threshold of enduring stench,' said an Indian police officer
Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 17:37
Rahul Bedi in New Delhi
Israeli security forces spray foul-smelling Skunk towards Palestinian stone throwers. Photograph: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images
India's paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has rejected an Israeli "stink bomb", used for the purposes of crowd control, on the grounds that it is not smelly enough.
"It [the stink bomb] was found to be ineffective during trials, as Indians probably have a high threshold of enduring stench," an unnamed officer from the CRPF told the Hindustan Times on Thursday.
The CRPF wanted to acquire the nonfatal Israeli stink bomb, called Skunk, which smells like sewage, to deter strone-throwing protesters in India's northern Jammu and Kashmir state.
Its earlier efforts at crowd control in the turbulent province included using shotguns, which fired special cartridges containing tiny iron balls and irregular-shaped metal shards. These had blinded more than 100 people, leading to a public outcry.
But the "captive" gathering of CRFP personnel and civilian volunteers that participated recently in trials in New Delhi featuring Skunk showed that they could tolerate its odour without much discomfort.
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The CRPF headquarters in New Delhi, however, declined to officially comment on trials involving Skunk.
Israeli security forces have been using Skunk, a malodorous substance dispersed through water cannons, since 2008.
Made from a mixture of baking powder, yeast and other ingredients, the organic and nontoxic Skunk emerges from the cannons as a yellow watery mist; its overpowering odour can linger for days on the human body. In clothes, its smell can remain for months, if not years, experts said.
Mountains of garbage
The principal reason for Skunk failing India's smelly deterrence test is that a large proportion of the country's population is used to living in foul-smelling environments, which are becoming worse with the pressure of population and breakdown of civic facilities.
All cities, including the federal capital New Delhi and Mumbai, are grappling with mountains of garbage that continue to proliferate. In many neighbourhoods, garbage piles have in recent years become prominent landmarks.
In the 1960s British journalist and author Arthur Koestler compared Mumbai's odours to those of a "wet, smelly diaper" wrapped around his head. His contemporary, Nobel laureate VS Naipaul, declared that "Indians defecate everywhere".
But instead of dealing with the problem, India took the easy way out – it banned both Koestler's and Naipaul's books.
Half a century later, India's population is touching 1.25 billion, and, according to the World Health Organisation, India accounts for 59 per cent of open defecation in the world and over 90 per cent in south Asia.
It's little wonder that Skunk has proved ineffective in India.
Vaidya Naipaul
Central Reserve Police Force


I have been re-reading Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There.
Think about the people in your life who you admire most, who could have ignored you, but who made you feel comfortable and included. That is the characteristic that Goldsmith talks about. The ability of busy, important people able to make everyone feel important enough to be given their full attention is what makes them great leaders.
How good are your listening skills with all the distractions in your environment? Do you think you are a good listener?
Close your eyes and count slowly to 50.
There is one rule – not to let a single thought interrupt the counting. As soon as a thought enters your head stop.
More than 50% of people fail at this simple task at around 20 or 30. The root cause is distraction – not being able to focus on listening to one thing.
The exercise can also be used to improve your focus and listening skills. I suggest you try it daily until you get to 50 without any thoughts interrupting your counting.
Goldsmith says that the exercise will increase your ability to listen and will help you make the person in front of you feel special.
The most important role you have when wanting to improve employee retention, is to make your employees feel cared for and heard.


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Computer Networks: A Systems Approach
Version 6.2-dev
Chapter 1: Foundation
Problem: Building a Network
Classes of Applications
1.2 Requirements
1.4 Software
Perspective: Feature Velocity
Chapter 2: Direct Links
Chapter 3: Internetworking
Chapter 4: Advanced Internetworking
Chapter 5: End-to-End Protocols
Chapter 6: Congestion Control
Chapter 7: End-to-End Data
Chapter 8: Network Security
Chapter 9: Applications
Chapter 1: Foundation »
1.1 Applications¶
Most people know the Internet through its applications: the World Wide Web, email, social media, streaming music or movies, videoconferencing, instant messaging, file-sharing, to name just a few examples. That is to say, we interact with the Internet as users of the network. Internet users represent the largest class of people who interact with the Internet in some way, but there are several other important constituencies.
There is the group of people who create the applications—a group that has greatly expanded in recent years as powerful programming platforms and new devices such as smartphones have created new opportunities to develop applications quickly and to bring them to a large market.
Then there are those who operate or manage networks—mostly a behind-the-scenes job, but a critical one and often a very complex one. With the prevalence of home networks, more and more people are also becoming, if only in a small way, network operators.
Finally, there are those who design and build the devices and protocols that collectively make up the Internet. That final constituency is the traditional target of networking textbooks such as this one and will continue to be our main focus. However, throughout this book we will also consider the perspectives of application developers and network operators.
Considering these perspectives will enable us to better understand the diverse requirements that a network must meet. Application developers will also be able to make applications that work better if they understand how the underlying technology works and interacts with the applications. So, before we start figuring out how to build a network, let's look more closely at the types of applications that today's networks support.
Classes of Applications¶
The World Wide Web is the Internet application that catapulted the Internet from a somewhat obscure tool used mostly by scientists and engineers to the mainstream phenomenon that it is today. The Web itself has become such a powerful platform that many people confuse it with the Internet, and it's a bit of a stretch to say that the Web is a single application.
In its basic form, the Web presents an intuitively simple interface. Users view pages full of textual and graphical objects and click on objects that they want to learn more about, and a corresponding new page appears. Most people are also aware that just under the covers each selectable object on a page is bound to an identifier for the next page or object to be viewed. This identifier, called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), provides a way of identifying all the possible objects that can be viewed from your web browser. For example,
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/llp/index.html
is the URL for a page providing information about one of this book's authors: the string http indicates that the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) should be used to download the page, www.cs.princeton.edu is the name of the machine that serves the page, and /llp/index.html uniquely identifies Larry's home page at this site.
What most web users are not aware of, however, is that by clicking on just one such URL over a dozen messages may be exchanged over the Internet, and many more than that if the web page is complicated with lots of embedded objects. This message exchange includes up to six messages to translate the server name (www.cs.princeton.edu) into its Internet Protocol (IP) address (128.112.136.35), three messages to set up a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection between your browser and this server, four messages for your browser to send the HTTP "GET" request and the server to respond with the requested page (and for each side to acknowledge receipt of that message), and four messages to tear down the TCP connection. Of course, this does not include the millions of messages exchanged by Internet nodes throughout the day, just to let each other know that they exist and are ready to serve web pages, translate names to addresses, and forward messages toward their ultimate destination.
Another widespread application class of the Internet is the delivery of "streaming" audio and video. Services such as video on demand and Internet radio use this technology. While we frequently start at a website to initiate a streaming session, the delivery of audio and video has some important differences from fetching a simple web page of text and images. For example, you often don't want to download an entire video file—a process that might take a few minutes—before watching the first scene. Streaming audio and video implies a more timely transfer of messages from sender to receiver, and the receiver displays the video or plays the audio pretty much as it arrives.
Note that the difference between streaming applications and the more traditional delivery of text, graphics, and images is that humans consume audio and video streams in a continuous manner, and discontinuity—in the form of skipped sounds or stalled video—is not acceptable. By contrast, a regular (non-streaming) page can be delivered and read in bits and pieces. This difference affects how the network supports these different classes of applications.
A subtly different application class is real-time audio and video. These applications have considerably tighter timing constraints than streaming applications. When using a voice-over-IP application such as Skype or a videoconferencing application, the interactions among the participants must be timely. When a person at one end gestures, then that action must be displayed at the other end as quickly as possible.[1]
[1] Not quite "as soon as possible"… Human factors research indicates 300 ms is a reasonable upper bound for how much round-trip delay can be tolerated in a telephone call before humans complain, and a 100-ms delay sounds very good.
When one person tries to interrupt another, the interrupted person needs to hear that as soon as possible and decide whether to allow the interruption or to keep talking over the interrupter. Too much delay in this sort of environment makes the system unusable. Contrast this with video on demand where, if it takes several seconds from the time the user starts the video until the first image is displayed, the service is still deemed satisfactory. Also, interactive applications usually entail audio and/or video flows in both directions, while a streaming application is most likely sending video or audio in only one direction.
Figure 1. A multimedia application including videoconferencing.
Videoconferencing tools that run over the Internet have been around now since the early 1990s but have achieved widespread use in the last few years, with several commercial products on the market. An example of one such system is shown in Figure 1. Just as downloading a web page involves a bit more than meets the eye, so too with video applications. Fitting the video content into a relatively low bandwidth network, for example, or making sure that the video and audio remain in sync and arrive in time for a good user experience are all problems that network and protocol designers have to worry about. We'll look at these and many other issues related to multimedia applications later in the book.
Although they are just two examples, downloading pages from the web and participating in a videoconference demonstrate the diversity of applications that can be built on top of the Internet and hint at the complexity of the Internet's design. Later in the book we will develop a more complete taxonomy of application types to help guide our discussion of key design decisions as we seek to build, operate, and use networks that such a wide range of applications. The book concludes by revisiting these two specific applications, as well as several others that illustrate the breadth of what is possible on today's Internet.
For now, this quick look at a few typical applications will suffice to enable us to start looking at the problems that must be addressed if we are to build a network that supports such application diversity.


COMBINE peanut butter, butter, vanilla and salt in large bowl. Beat with mixer on low until blended. Add 2 cups powdered sugar, beating until blended. Beat in additional powdered sugar until mixture, when shaped into a ball, will stay on a toothpick. Shape into 1-inch balls. Refrigerate.
INSERT toothpick in peanut butter ball. Dip 3/4 of ball into chocolate, leaving top uncovered to resemble a buckeye. Remove excess. Place on wax paper-lined tray. Remove toothpick. Smooth over holes. Refrigerate until firm.
SPICY BUCKEYES: ADD 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper with peanut butter mixture in step 1. Continue recipe as directed.
Serving Size (1 of 60 buckeyes), Calories 110 (Calories from Fat 60), Total Fat 7g (Saturated Fat 2.5g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 5mg, Sodium 60mg, Total Carbohydrate 12g (Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 11g), Protein 2g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 0%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 0%, Iron 2%.


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The Story of A Girl and Her Monster
Auxier, Jonathan
In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.
Publisher: Toronto :, Puffin Canada,, 2018
Branch Call Number: J FIC AUXIE J
Read more reviews of Sweep at iDreamBooks.com
Reads_A_Lot Feb 13, 2019
This book was an unusual mix of historical fiction and fantasy. It combined the plight of child chimney sweeps in Victorian England with a golem from Jewish mythology. As strange as this concept sounds it came together in a wonderful way. There is so much feeling and wisdom in this story. Filled with friendship, courage, sacrifice and the repeated theme "we are saved by saving others." As an adult I really enjoyed this beautifully written children's book. As for children, this might be a little too much for younger kids. I would recommend middle school and up.
LPL_MattL Feb 13, 2019
Wonderfully written story that highlights the harsh conditions of child chimney sweeps in Victorian London. The reality of the situation was not like Burt in Mary Poppins, but rather grim. Children as young as six were made to climb up chimneys to clean them with no safety measures and became stuck, fell, were burnt and often died very young. Sweep takes this history and weaves a tale of fantasy that is at times heartbreaking, inspiring and funny.
Nan Sparrow is 12 year-old chimney sweep that was raised by a kind master until the age of 5, but after his disappearance, is forced into the service of a cruel master. Her days are spent doing grueling work. While cleaning a chimney, she becomes stuck in a flue, and a fiery accident awakens a monster from the piece of lucky char that she keeps in her pocket. Nan befriends the monster and names him Charlie, they shelter in abandoned house to hide from her master. As Charlie grows, Nab must conceal him from the outside world and also discovers that he has a part to play as her protector.
Nan Sparrow is intelligent, brave and resourceful lead who becomes the glue that inspires an excellent supporting cast to change their lot in life. Through his imagination and research, author Jonathon Auxier creates a Dickensian universe that immerses the reader in Victorian London.
I recommend Sweep for young fantasy readers who are looking to break out of regular tropes of the genre. Be prepared, parts of this book had me book had me feeling the feels, your eyes might get a little misty reading it!
leslie_d_ Dec 10, 2018
Auxier infuses his historical fiction with the fantastic. We first encounter the Sweep, the dreaming, and her singing, but soon there is the monster, a golem. Auxier's golem is the most marvelous creation. Really, Auxier creates many marvelous characters, even the villainous ones.
Sweep will break your heart in multiple ways, and you'll feel grateful. You'll also laugh, I hope—certainly smile. Sweep is humorous and charming. Sweep is also deadly serious. "We save ourselves by saving others," is not a quaint idea to letter in cursive on a blank wall or t-shirt. The gift of life is negotiated in the harshest of circumstances, as is the loss of it. Neither Sweep or Nan can afford to romanticize any of it; nor does such a romantic lens suit them.
n Sweep, Nan's dreams and voice have a magical quality, and the message resonates. Dreams and voices, resourcefulness, courage and determination…young people have these things, both inside the book and out. Given that spark of purpose/meaning, what can't/won't they do? Whose lives may be saved in the process.
Recommended for those who enjoy friendship stories, historical fiction, and/or adventure; those who enjoy grit, horror and/or the macabre. For those interested in fem-friendly reads and/or Jewish characters. For readers of Derek Landy, Neil Gaiman, Frances Hardinge, or Christopher Priestly. If they are a sensitive reader, read this one aloud with them, you'll both enjoy it.
"Is It a magic chessman?" The girl ran her thumb over the cracked base. It did not seem very magical. "Will the brave knight fight the charity men in my dreams?"
"It's not magic. It's a reminder." The Sweep mussed her hair. "The brave knight is YOU. And YOU can fight them for yourself." (296)
Golem — Juvenile Fiction
Chimney Sweeps — Juvenile Fiction
Homeless Persons — Juvenile Fiction
Orphans — Juvenile Fiction
Great Britain — History — 19th Century — Juvenile Fiction


What are Bioenergetic Exercises and When Were They Developed?
The Body Work of Bioenergetics Includes Special Exercises.
The body work of bioenergetics includes… special exercises… The exercises are designed to help a person get in touch with his tensions and release them through appropriate movement. It is important to know that every contracted muscle is blocking some movement.
These exercises have been developed in the course of more than twenty years of therapeutic work with patients. They are done in therapy sessions, in classes, and at home. People who do these exercises report a positive effect upon their energy, their mood, and their work. The authors do them regularly to promote their own well-being. Wherever we have introduced these exercises, for example, at workshops for professional people, the response has been enthusiastic. We are constantly asked for a list and description of the exercises. This manual is our response to that demand.
Bioenergetic Exercise is Not a Substitute for Bioenergetic Therapy.
We wish to emphasize at the outset that these exercises are not a substitute for therapy. They will not resolve deep emotional problems, which generally require competent professional help. Very often people who are not in therapy and who do these exercises decide that they need and want such help to work through problems that may have risen to awareness during the course of these exercises. But whether or not you are in therapy, the regular performance of these exercises will help you significantly to increase your aliveness and capacity for pleasure.


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Q: Amazon IAM User Policy To Limit Launch Instances I am trying to create a user policy to limit launching instances to be on specific region and for t1.micro types, I tried several solutions but none work so far.
Even this one does not allow describing instance status, I create use this policy to launch the instance but I cannot use the API to describe its status, not sure what is wrong. Any help is appreciated.
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "..",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:*"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:ec2:us-west-2:*:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

A: I found this aws documentation, it explains what api that does not support resource level permissions, that why the policy in my question did not work, the below worked for my case after moving some actions to use * for Resources :
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {  // This allows viewing instances if user login to dashboard (does not include cloudwatch, you can add it if you want)
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:Describe*"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {   // Users are limited to starting instances that in west region, and only micro instances
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:RunInstances",
                "ec2:StartInstances",
                "ec2:StopInstances",
                "ec2:TerminateInstances"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:us-west-2:*:instance/*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "ec2:InstanceType": [
                        "t1.micro",
                        "t2.micro"
                    ]
                }
            }
        },
        {   // allow user to launch instances using images in west region
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:RunInstances"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:ec2:us-west-2:*:image/ami-*",
                "arn:aws:ec2:us-west-2:*:subnet/*",
                "arn:aws:ec2:us-west-2:*:network-interface/*",
                "arn:aws:ec2:us-west-2:*:volume/*",
                "arn:aws:ec2:us-west-2:*:key-pair/*",
                "arn:aws:ec2:us-west-2:*:security-group/*"
            ]
        },
        {    // these don't fall under resource-level permission, so they need to be separated in order to users to launch instances
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
                "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
                "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
                "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress",
                "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {   // This also cannot have resource-level permission, allows user to create images from existing running instances
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:CreateImage"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Hope this helps others.


Senior Executives are employed by large enterprises with multiple management levels. These professionals usually supervise other managers or important groups of workers in an organization. Duties performed by Senior Executives include: developing business strategies, implementing company policies and procedures, coordinating financial budgeting, allocating resources, making sure all systems and databases are accurately maintained, and contributing to the development of employees.
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My expertise lies in successfully creating and implementing strategic operational processes, coaching and developing employees, and managing business development efforts to realize multimillion-dollar revenue increases in the manufacturing sector. Through my experience, I have become adept in overseeing a wide variety of operational and fiduciary responsibilities to ensure profit maximization and optimize financial performance while expanding market share.
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Hirabsun company was established with the purpose of transferring world modern technology in the field of water purification methods in residential, commercial and industrial places by a team of qualified engineers in 2003. Manifesting this goal besides 30-year experiences of establishers made a valid company, as Cantech Canada selects this center as its representative in order to transfer technology and after-sale services of Aquajoy water purification and Airjoy Air Conditioner in Middle East.
Hirabsun Company as sales and after-sale exclusive representative of Aquajoy Water Purification Devices in Middle East is proud to plan for promoting the quality of Iranian families' life, make comfort and satisfaction for honorable customers through presenting the high quality water purification devices and air conditioners together with fast services, guarantee, supporting, providing parts, periodical contacts with customers for assessing their satisfaction and obtain people's opinions for improving future plans.
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Editors' ChoiceInfectious Disease
Enemies Among Us
Melissa Nyendak
Division of Infectious Disease, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA. E-mail: nyendakm{at}ohsu.edu
Science Translational Medicine 06 Apr 2011:
Vol. 3, Issue 77, pp. 77ec48
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3002457
Streptococcal pharyngitis, or "strep throat," is caused by Group A Streptococcus (GAS) and is one of the most common causes of bacterial disease in childhood. Yet, it has long been understood by pediatricians that GAS causes a spectrum of clinical illness, ranging from asymptomatic colonization to pharyngitis to, rarely, a more invasive disease. To date, epidemiologic studies have linked specific virulence factors related to the emm gene locus with more invasive strains; however, the full molecular basis and reservoir for such strains is not well characterized. In the largest analysis of GAS to date, Shea et al. define distinct genomic patterns associated with pharyngitis-causing and invasive strains and suggest that these polymorphisms may accumulate to establish a more invasive phenotype.
High-throughput DNA sequencing technologies allow the comparison of entire genomes across large populations. To better define genomic differences between relatively benign and invasive strains of GAS, Shea et al. performed genome-wide sequencing on 86 pharyngeal isolates and 215 invasive strains from the same geographical locale. First, after analysis of genetic polymorphisms, they report that invasive and pharyngitis-causing strains are both genetically diverse, decreasing the likelihood that invasive strains are a distinct subset of GAS. However, the distribution of polymorphisms differed greatly between the strains. For instance, the polymorphisms found in the pharyngitis-causing strains led to deletion or down-regulation of two gene regions (hasA and hasB) that are essential for hyaluronic acid synthesis, a key component that protects the bacteria from being eaten by immune cells. Strikingly, the changes in the has gene segment were inducible in a nonhuman primate model within 35 days after inoculation with the parent strain, suggesting that the host environment differentially affects the strains. For the invasive strains, polymorphisms were mapped to regions important for invasive potential, including both the covR gene and the covR transcriptional regulator, resulting in the potential for increased expression of virulence factors.
Lastly, to determine whether the invasive strains were a genetically distinct subset of pharyngitis-causing strains, Shea et al. analyzed the genetic population structure of the isolates. Surprisingly, the invasive strains clustered tightly together with pharyngitis-causing strains, eliminating the likelihood that one specific strain is the bad actor that continually propagates among patients. Rather, it is likely that invasive strains may arise from any lineage in the pharyngitis-causing strain reservoir given the right environmental conditions. In this regard, the authors suggest pressures put on GAS by the patient's body may act on specific genomic regions, ultimately allowing the bacteria to "accumulate" polymorphisms that enhance or decrease its invasive potential. A better understanding of which selective pressures lead to a more benign or invasive phenotype will be critical in disarming the enemies among us.
P. R. Shea et al., Distinct signatures of diversifying selection revealed by genome analysis of respiratory tract and invasive bacterial populations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108, 5039–5044 (2011). [Abstract]
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By Melissa Nyendak
Science Translational Medicine 06 Apr 2011 : 77ec48
Invasive streptococcal strains are genetically similar to pharyngitis strains, yet polymorphisms lead to changes in invasive potential.


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The Harrisburg R-8 Board of Education in May approved a four-day school week for 2011-12. The measure was intended to save the district some $75,000, with most savings coming from transportation costs and shorter workweeks for secretarial and janitorial staffs.
Voters twice last school year turned down a proposed tax levy increase intended to offset what Superintendent Lynn Proctor called a �double whammy� of spending down reserve funds combined with cuts in state and federal funding.
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God of Carnage @ International City Theatre
StageStage Reviews
Ernest Kearney· February 8, 2012
With an Iranian father and Hungarian mother, both of whom felt it necessary to leave their respective homelands due to their Jewish faith, perhaps Parisian born playwright Yasmina Reza's obsession with conflict is brought into clearer focus.
In her first stage success "Art", a trio of long time friends find their relationship strained almost to the breaking point over the purchase by one of an expensive work of "art". The "art" being a completely white canvas. Reza seems to feel no matter how innocuous the moment appears, beneath the veneer of civilization lies a festering bile of primitive aggression, and in "God of Carnage" that veneer, for all its shine, is tissue thin.
Before the curtain rises, two 11-year-olds have met in a playground confrontation, which ended with one using a stick to knock two teeth from the mouth of the other. This event propels us into the play's opening as the parents of each child meet to discuss the matter and resolve it "civilly".
Alan (David Nevell) and Annette (Alet Taylor), the parents of the stick wielder, are definitely the power couple. He is a successful lawyer, who for most of the evening has a cell phone grafted to his ear assuring a panicky pharmaceutical company, "We're not gonna take the medicine off the market because one or two people are bumping into furniture." She is simply a "wealth manager" prim and tightly wound – "I don't have a sense of humor and I have no intention of acquiring one." They have come to the home of Michael (Greg Derelian) and his wife Veronica (Leslie Stevens), whose son is minus the two incisors. They are of a socially different "tribe". Michael is a wholesaler of household goods; she works hard at being part of the intelligentsia and is writing a book on Darfur. The two pairs of parents blithely prance down the path of reconciliation heedless of the Bouncing Bettys the playwright has littered the stage with.
The evening devolves with the surefootedness of an Arthur Murray dance pattern. A devastation of tears, accusations, insults and despair fueled by excellent rum and punctuated by a prodigious display of puking not only shred that aforementioned "veneer of civilization" but slices and dices it into particles too small even to serve as confetti.
In the "carnage" of the evening, alliances have shifted between the differing spouses, then to the genders, until finally four spent and isolated individuals are left on the stage emotionally bleeding in their separate corners.
The International City Theatre puts on stylish and stunningly sleek productions, and "God of Carnage" is no exception. The cast is first-rate. David Nevell plays Alan the lawyer with such unctuous panache that one almost fears for the other actors slipping in his slime trail as they cross behind him. Greg Derelian is not quite the Neanderthal that the role calls for (James Gandolfini played the part on Broadway). But what Derelian lacks in knuckle dragging he makes up for with the arrogance of masculine detachment with which he's armored himself. Alet Taylor and Leslie Stevens cross swords with ferocity that would have cowarded Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone, and director Caryn Desai has done a skillful job in choreographing the brutality. It is a honey sweet production. It is the play itself which I find less to my taste.
Now considering the London production won the 2009 Olivier Award and the Broadway production won the Tony for best new play, I am distinctly in the minority here, but it isn't a first and I always enjoy the elbow room. (Brendan Lemon of the Financial Times called the play "[a] piece of shallow arrogance."
One problem is that the Frenchness of the piece doesn't fit an American setting for me. France is a country where class distinctions are both deeply rooted and historically bloodstained, and so the hair trigger that fires off the conflict of the play is suitable to its society. The play's original title was "Lay Waste To England For Me" which reflects the same strict sociological structure that can be found in Great Britain.
The American people have been fortunate to avoid the pitfalls of outright class struggle – though the future is not looking rosy. And like Brendan Lemon, I too find the play shallow and Reza more or less the French equivalent of Neil Simon, which isn't a compliment. But despite the flaws I find in the playwright and the play, I cannot fault the production now playing at the International City Theatre.
Though I cannot see the resemblance, "God of Carnage" has reminded some of the work of Harold Pinter. But Reza seems unable to leave us stewing in the cauldron of annihilation as Pinter would. She is more akin to author William Golding of "Lord of the Flies" fame. Reza winds her play to its conclusion with too slight acts of kindness. Then flying in the face of a choral rendering of nihilistic negativism from the stage, while one mother speaks on the phone pressing lies and false hopes onto her child, another character offers up an olly-olly-oxen free in the simple statement, "What do we know?"
Good enough; what do any of us know?
And that goes double for critics.
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Ernest Kearney
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