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B.C. eases requirements for struggling businesses applying for grant funding
VICTORIA — British Columbia government has loosened eligibility requirements for small and medium-sized businesses applying for grants to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ravi Kahlon, the minister of jobs and economic recovery, says businesses must show a revenue drop of 30 per cent instead of 50 per cent since March as part of the criteria to qualify for grants from $10,000 to $30,000.
He says tourism businesses will now be eligible for up to $45,000 in non-repayable grant funding, and the tourism minister will announce more supports for the sector on Tuesday.
Kahlon says businesses previously had to be operating for three years in order to get funding, but that requirement has been reduced to 18 months.
He says that means businesses only need to have been in operation for nine months before the pandemic to apply for a grant.
Applications can now be made online, and businesses that already applied for the original recovery grant program that was introduced in October will be considered under the new criteria.
"To own a business during these uncertain times brings challenges that no one could ever have imagined." Kahlon said on Monday.
The government has also dropped the requirement for business to list some information in the application, including registration numbers for the GST, the provincial sales tax and WorkSafeBC, to make the process easier for businesses.
Businesses that are temporarily closed or seasonal are now also eligible for the grant program.
Ian Tostenson, president of the BC Restaurant Foodservices Association, says small and medium-sized employers have struggled to keep their doors open, adding that many of the sector's 193,000 employees are women aged 15 to 25.
The grant program is meant for businesses that employ between two and 149 residents of B.C.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 21, 2020.
BOSTON — A major memorial honouring Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is moving forward in Boston, where they met and studied in the 1950s. King Boston, the privately funded organization co-ordinating the estimated $9.5 million project, said this week that fabrication of a roughly 22-foot-high bronze sculpture depicting four arms embracing is expected to begin in March after years of planning. When unveiled late next year, "The Embrace" will be one of the country's largest new memorials dedicated to racial equity, the organization says. It will be installed on Boston Common near the site of a 1965 rally and march led by MLK, who would have turned 92 on Friday. Imari Paris Jeffries, King Boston's executive director, said organizers hope their broader effort serves as a model for how public monuments can spark positive action in the wake of the national reckoning on racism sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year. Besides the King memorial, the organization is also raising money to build an economic justice centre in Roxbury, a historically Black neighbourhood in Boston where MLK preached. It also plans to launch an annual gathering exploring issues of race and equity. "It's not only how symbols and monuments represent this commitment to equity and inclusion," Jeffries said. "It's also about how research, data and policy work to find new solutions, and how we use the arts and humanities to ground us." Dr. Vicki Crawford, director of the MLK collection at Morehouse College, the civil right's leader's alma mater in Atlanta, Georgia, said the Boston project also stands out because it honours the sizeable contributions of Coretta Scott King alongside her husband. She founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta and led the successful push to make his birthday a national holiday after his assassination in 1968. "She hasn't received adequate recognition for institutionalizing his philosophy of nonviolence," Crawford said. "He could not have done it without her by his side." Other recent monuments to MLK include a bronze statue on Georgia Capitol grounds, dedicated in 2017, and the towering granite likeness off the National Mall that opened in 2011. King Boston was launched in 2017 to address what organizers viewed as a glaring deficiency, considering MLK spent some of his formative years in Boston. The Georgia native earned a doctorate in theology from Boston University and was assistant minister at the city's Twelfth Baptist Church. The memorial effort was later broadened to honour Coretta Scott King, who earned a degree in music education from the New England Conservatory. It has been further expanded to also recognize Boston civil rights leaders during the 1960s, whose names will be memorialized in the surrounding plaza. Like other racial justice efforts, Jeffries said King Boston has been bolstered by civic activism following Floyd's killing. The organization collected roughly $8 million of the total $12 million it has raised to date in roughly eight months last year, he said. The project also comes as Boston, which was scarred by violent protests over efforts to desegregate its public schools in the 1970s, is enjoying something of a "Black Renaissance," Jeffries said. The city of almost 700,000 residents, roughly a quarter of them Black, now has its first Black police commissioner and is also home to the state's first Black female district attorney and the state's first Black congresswoman. Soon, New England's largest city will also have its first Black and first female mayor. "It seems with every passing day this piece becomes so necessary," said Hank Willis Thomas, the Brooklyn artist who designed the Boston memorial. "I never imagined how prescient this would be." Philip Marcelo, The Associated Press
Michael Cohen writes foreword for Trump impeachment book
NEW YORK — A bound edition of materials about President Donald Trump's second impeachment will feature a foreword from an estranged associate — former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. Skyhorse Publishing announced that "The Second Impeachment Report: Materials in Support of H. Res. 24, Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for High Crimes and Misdemeanours by the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary" will come out Feb. 9. Publishers do not require permission to release Congressional reports as books because they are not copyrighted. The House impeached Trump earlier this week on a single charge, incitement of insurrection, over his role in last week's bloody attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump also was impeached a year ago for pressuring Ukraine's president to investigate President-elect Joe Biden. The Senate voted to acquit him. Cohen already has written a book about his falling out with Trump, the bestselling "Disloyal." In his foreword to the new book, he writes, "We should never have to call Donald Trump 'Mr. President' again after January 20, 2021." The Associated Press
7 staff infected in new COVID-19 outbreak at Windsor Regional Hospital
Windsor Regional Hospital is dealing with a third active outbreak of COVID-19. The new outbreak was declared at the hospital's Met Campus on Thursday. Seven cases have been identified among staff members in the 4N unit, the hospital said in a press release. No patients have been affected. A previous outbreak on the same unit was declared in mid-December and later rescinded. There are currently 32 cases in total associated with three active outbreaks at the hospital this month. The outbreak declared on Jan. 6 on Unit 4M of the Ouellette Campus has eight patient cases and five staff cases. Another outbreak, declared two days later on Unit 6E, currently has affected eight patients and four staff. In a media release on Thursday, the hospital said further testing is being done on Friday and outbreak control measures are in place. The hospital started testing all patients for COVID-19 on admission last month. Admissions to the units in outbreak continue, with "proper cohorting" of COVID-19-positive patients, though patients from other areas of the hospital can't be sent there without approval from the infection prevention and control department, according to the hospital. Karen Riddell, the hospital's chief nursing executive and chief operating officer, said Windsor Regional expects to see these outbreaks as COVID-19 spreads in the community. "We continue to remain vigilant in ensuring that we have the correct infection prevention and control guidelines and precautions in place to reduce spread of the COVID-19 virus," she said in a media release Thursday. The hospital outbreaks are among 45 currently active across Windsor-Essex in various settings including workplaces and seniors' homes. Earlier this week, the region surpassed 10,000 COVID-19 cases.

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You can try to sprout seeds for several things that you buy in the supermarket for food.
Try sprouting wheat or rye (although it grows much better outside), try sprouting and growing quinoa or amaranth. You can even sprout and grow sesame, from supermarket seeds.
You can try lentils, chick peas, flaxseed, and even exotic things like goji berry. It´s very easy to grow pomegranates and avocados from seed. Also apples.
Try sweet potatoes if you hang them over a cup of water indoors. Try most of these exotic things indoors and with plenty of sunlight, near a window.
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Q: CircuiTikZ over a png image I want to draw simple CircuiTikZ symbols over a .png image. This is what I want:

This is what I currently get:

Here is my code:
\begin{figure} [!ht]
\begin{tikzpicture}[x=1cm,y=1cm]
\node at (0,0) {\includegraphics[trim={40cm 55cm 40cm 55cm},clip,height=10cm]{images/MecanismoEscala_primer_ensayo_Variables.png}};
\node at (-3.7634,-1.5117){
\begin{circuitikz}
\draw
 (0,0) --++ (-1.0778,0)
        to [open,v=$v$,o-o] ++(0,0.7012)
        to[short,i=$i_{a}$] ++(1.0663,0);
\end{circuitikz}
};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{figure}\FloatBarrier

I would also like to write the $v$ besides the terminals along with the +- signs (with these two signs a little bit more apart from each other, not like the result I get).

A: First of all. Never nest tikzpictures! And post the basic picture, which in this case I managed to concoct with GIMP and saved as uffa.png.

My approach would be:

*

*load the image as a node at the start of the tikzpicture, so that then you can write on top of it.

*Set some kind of grid to have an easy reference.

*Draw whatever you want, fine tune coordinates.

*Remove the grid.

Let's see: step 1 & 2 would be something like this:
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
    \node[anchor=south west,inner sep=0] (image) at (0,0) {%
        \includegraphics[width=10cm]{uffa.png}};
        \draw[red,thin] (0,0) grid[step=1] (10,5);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

You have 0,0 on the bottom left point, and every grid step is 1cm. Now, the background is not white (I hope you do not print it, otherwise, change it), so I picked the color that results to be a quite dark blue-grey with RGB at 33,40,48 (any color picker will do).
Now I draw the circuit, setting the blue-gray as the fill for open poles.
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage[RPvoltages, american]{circuitikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[color=white]% write in white
    \node[anchor=south west,inner sep=0] (image) at (0,0) {%
        \includegraphics[width=10cm]{uffa.png}};
        \draw[red,thin] (0,0) grid[step=1] (10,5);
        \definecolor{mybg}{RGB}{33,40,48}% with a color picker
        \ctikzset{open poles fill=mybg}% tell circuitikz what is background for you
        \draw (4,4) coordinate(a) to[short, i=$i_a$, o-]  ++(1.8,0);
        \draw (a) ++(0,-1) to[short, o-] ++(1.7,0);
        \draw (a) ++(-0.3,0) to[open, v=$v$] ++(0,-1);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

I tried to use relative and named coordinates where possible, to minimize the number of numbers you need to tweak to obtain the result. Then, you remove the grid and you'll have:

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Answering the call: Lark Mallory is on a mission to respond to Columbus housing needs
Steve Wartenberg
For Columbus CEO
The term "affordable housing" has been in the news a lot lately. So what exactly does it mean?
Let's begin with what it doesn't mean, with the help of Lark Mallory, the new president and CEO of the Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County.
"It doesn't just mean homelessness, and it doesn't just mean Housing Choice Vouchers," she says, adding these are different—and important—topics that need to be addressed, along with the societal issues that created them, such as systemic racism.
"What I'm talking about are teachers not being able to afford to live in the districts where they teach. I'm talking about retail workers not being able to live near where they work and having to take a bus two hours to get there," Mallory says. "People with full-time jobs should be able to live in the communities where they work—the people we call the workforce housing group."
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U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty has called the affordable housing problem "a health-care crisis" and "a social justice crisis."
The general rule is that people shouldn't pay more than 30 percent of their combined household income on housing. If they do, they are considered "cost burdened." According to local experts, the number of Columbus-area residents who spend 50 percent or more of their income on housing is about 54,000. The number is growing, as property values and rents spiral upward and the region's population continues to increase.
"That's the affordable housing crisis I'm talking about," Mallory says, adding that "what's affordable to me may not be affordable to the young lady making my coffee at Starbucks."
Mallory was selected to lead the Affordable Housing Trust in August, replacing the retiring Steve Gladman. A lawyer, accountant and tax expert, Mallory was a partner with Frost Brown Todd when she was named to the trust's board in 2009, and she joined the organization on a full-time basis in 2016 as general counsel and director of CDFI investments.
"She was impressive as a board member and made a real effort to learn more about what we did, and she had a lot of skills," Gladman says. Mallory helped the organization receive federal CDFI Fund (Community Development Financial Institutions) designation, and she played a key role in the trust's successful campaign to create a $100 million Housing Action Fund that launched in 2020. This increased the total funds the agency is able to lend to about $200 million.
Mallory has a long list of plans to add to this momentum and a host of ideas on what's needed on a regional basis to reduce the affordable housing problem.
"Lark is brilliant in terms of her knowledge of finance, and she's so personable. People trust her," says Robert Weiler, founder and chairman of Robert Weiler Co. and chairman of the Affordable Housing Trust board.
Mallory pushes for larger, new developments with Affordable Housing Trust
"I like to say that I believe my grandmother saved my life and my aunt made this life possible," Mallory says.
She was born in Warren in industrial northeast Ohio, surrounded by a large and loving extended family, including several relatives who worked in local manufacturing plants that have since closed or dramatically downsized. Mallory's grandmother, Eula Mae Mallory, took her in soon after birth. "My grandmother and grandfather [Leroy Mallory] had six girls, my mother was the youngest, and she wasn't ready to be a mother," Mallory says. When she was 3 or 4 (she's not quite sure), Mallory went to live with one of her five aunts, Earnestine, who had just graduated from high school. She worked two jobs, at a chicken factory and Packard Electric. "I became her daughter," Mallory says.
A few years later, her aunt married William Mack, who worked in the steel mills.
Mallory was a bit on the precocious side, a gifted student who tended to talk a little too much in class when she got bored. She was a majorette at Warren Harding High, "the only Black majorette," she says. "I remember going to a different high school [to perform at football games] and there was some cat calling. The game at Steubenville stands out."
For reasons she can't really explain, Mallory, who was excellent in math, decided she wanted to major in accounting in college and earned a scholarship to attend Ohio State University. Even if she hadn't received a scholarship, Mallory is certain her aunt would have found a way to get her there.
After working for a few years as an auditor, Mallory decided it was time to try something different. "It was a lot of tracking the books and I didn't like that," she says, adding a headhunter told her she had the personality of a tax attorney. She's still not sure if this was a compliment. After scoring exceptionally well on the LSAT, Mallory was awarded a scholarship to Ohio State's Moritz College of Law. She followed up with a degree in tax law from the University of Florida.
Mallory eventually moved to Washington, D.C., with her former husband and began her practice as a tax attorney and as a mom. She and her two children, Tasia and Micah, moved back to Columbus in 2004. Mallory continued her law practice, and she was eventually named a partner at Frost Brown Todd.
"I was a single mom and had a car and resources," Mallory says. And then she imagines what life is like for a single mother with a full-time, minimum-wage-paying job who can't afford a car. She describes how this woman takes public transportation to a daycare center, then another bus to get to work—and repeats all of this in reverse at the end of the workday. And so, Mallory pushes for the larger, new developments the Affordable Housing Trust helps finance to include daycare centers.
First steps to meet Columbus residents' housing needs
Mallory connected with and formed a bond with Donna James, managing director of Lardon & Associates and chairwoman of the Victoria's Secret board. James has mentored several young Black women as they navigated the law firm world. "It's tough being a partner in a law firm period, and when you're female and African American, or a woman of color, it's even more of a challenge," James says. "It's a relationship business. You have to build relationships, and Lark navigated that well and had great relationships with her clients."
When the opportunity for a full-time position at the Affordable Housing Trust was on the table, Mallory met with her mentor to discuss the opportunity. "I remember sitting at dinner, and she took out a placemat and mapped out her strategy and thoughts about the housing market and affordable housing and development; she gave me a tutorial," James says.
According to Weiler, several members of the agency's board were in favor of dispensing with a formal search and appointing Mallory to replace Gladman. As chairman of the board, he decided a formal search was necessary. "I didn't think it would be fair to Lark," he says of appointing her without a search. "If she could stand the test of the process, she'd be better off going forward."
Several well-qualified candidates were interviewed, and "Lark stood head and shoulders above everyone else," Weiler says. "She hit the ground running and nobody else could have taken over the way she has."
How the Affordable Housing Trust works
The Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County was created in 2001, and the funds it was able to loan to developers for affordable housing projects grew. They came from a portion of the city's bed tax and the county's transfer fee for the sale of properties. "We don't give the money out, we loan it," Mallory says, adding that as loans are repaid, the funds are then loaned out again, creating a cycle of investment in affordable housing.
The agency loaned $33 million in 2020, according to its annual report. These loans will produce or preserve 1,314 housing units. This was an increase from the 2019 totals of $28 million in loans to build or preserve 974 units. An example is the 50-unit Kenlawn Place in North Linden, developed by Homeport with the help of a $3 million loan from the trust.
To increase the funds it can loan, the agency applied for and received CDFI certification in 2015. "[Mallory] took the lead on some parts [of the process] and led us to receive fairly significant grants," Gladman says of the $4.7 million in CDFI federal grants the trust has received. CDFI certification allows organizations to "provide financial services in low-income communities and to people who lack access to financing," according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Being CDFI-certified also made the Affordable Housing Trust a better option for financial institutions, as it provided another outlet for them to meet Community Reinvestment Act requirements. This 1977 federal law encourages and monitors how well banks meet the credit needs of the communities in which they're located.
With the CDFI certification in hand, the trust created a Housing Action Fund that eventually acquired $100 million in funding from local financial institutions as well as other local organizations, including charitable nonprofits. These millions aren't donations, Mallory points out, they're interest-paying loans to the developers that are building or renovating housing that meets the agency's "affordable housing" requirements.
Huntington was one of the first to invest in the Housing Action Funding, putting in $40 million. The return, about 3 percent, is potentially less than the bank could make on other investment options. "I think of it as good business," says Stephen Steinour, Huntington's chairman, president and CEO. By this, he means that providing more affordable housing is good for the community and "the better the community does, the better we do."
Some of the other investors in the Housing Action Fund include Heartland Bank, Park National Bank, PNC Bank, Columbus Foundation and NiSource Charitable Foundation.
Lending requirements tougher than they seem
The Affordable Housing Trust has some flexibility in its lending practices, but it has developed specific requirements developers must meet. "This gets complicated," Mallory says as she pulls out a chart that quantifies the U.S. Housing and Urban Development's "rent and income limits." The calculations to determine these limits begin with the area median income, which is the midpoint of a region's income distribution, meaning half the families make more than the median, half make less. The area median income in Franklin County varies by the number of people living in a household. For an adult living alone, the median is $59,000. It's $67,400 for a two-person household, jumps to $75,800 for three people, and is $84,200 for four people.
Here comes the complicated part. To qualify for a loan from the agency's Housing Action Fund, "a developer has to commit to at least 51 percent of the units being affordable to families at 80 percent of the area median income," Mallory says. "Rents on all of the units must be affordable to families at 120 percent of the area median income."
This leads to a maximum allowable rent per bedroom for studio, one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments. For example, for a single person making the area median income of $59,000, the 30 percent housing rule would equal $17,700, or, $1,475 a month, for a studio apartment. Apply the Affordable Housing Trust's 80 percent rule, and it drops to $1,180.
This Affordable Housing Trust requirement can reduce profitability for a developer. Developers, Mallory says, are willing to adhere to these requirements because some want to do what's best for the region and also because they often need agency funds to make the math work.
What's next for Columbus housing?
"We're not going to build our way out of this," Mallory says of the affordable housing issue, adding that solving the problem is vital to the region's continued economic growth. The 15-county Columbus region population was about 2.2 million in 2010, and it is expected to increase to 3 million by 2050. This would require the addition of about 14,000 new housing units a year for the next 10 years, and a total of 270,000 by 2050.
The region "needs to produce more units at a wider range of price points to keep up with the demand going forward," according to a Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission report.
Mallory has a lot of ideas on how to move the region forward to create more affordable housing.
"The first thing we need is more resources," Mallory says. And by resources, she, of course, means more money. "The hope is [the Biden Administration's] Build Back Better will be an example of how we can get more money," Mallory says.
It will take more than federal government funds. "It's the commitment from the city and county and all the municipalities," Mallory says. While there has been some positive movement in Columbus—the city recently set aside $50 million in bonds for affordable housing—there hasn't been as much emphasis on affordable housing in the more affluent suburbs, Mallory says. "I'd like to see a comprehensive plan that would bring more people to the table and bring more creativity to solving the problem."
Steve Wartenberg is a freelance writer.
Lark Mallory
President and CEO, Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County
In position since: August 2021
Previous: General counsel and director of CDFI investments, Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County, 2016-2021; partner, Frost Brown Todd (Columbus), 2012-16; attorney, Chester Wilcox & Saxbe, 2004-12; associate attorney, Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., 2001-04
Education: BSBA-accounting, Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, 1991; JD, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, 1997; LLM-tax law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, 1998
Resides: Reynoldsburg
Family: Children, Tasia, 22, Micah, 19
Q&A: Lark Mallory shares the hopes she has for her role and Columbus
You started in this position in August. Describe your first few weeks on the job.
On my first day, I kicked off my listening tour. I met with all our board members, city council, developers. I had a zoom meeting with [several Huntington executives, including Stephen Steinour, the chairman, president and CEO]. He says, "Lark, go out there and be dynamic. If you make mistakes, that's OK, get back up and keep trying. It's going to take more people like you who are committed and can see the bigger issues and move the agenda forward."
What are the bigger issues?
Affordable housing affects everyone, it's not just impoverished people. It's an economic development issue. It's a feminist issue if a woman is in an abusive situation and can't afford to leave. It's an economic issue, a social justice issue, a crime issue. It affects everybody. We have to start elevating people, which can be through education that leads to better-paying jobs.
What's an example of something new you'd like to do?
The development community isn't very diverse [in terms of] women and people of color. My emerging developer program would address this. Let's say a developer is doing a duplex or two. We can take them through the process and provide technical assistance, a training program over several weeks, and teach them about zoning and working with general contractors and financial institutions and putting together pro forma. This would help them move from a duplex or two to a 10-unit development. These developers will hire other small contractors and we'll elevate more and more people and create more diversity.
I had an uncle who always told me I had brains and beauty and could do anything I wanted to do. Not everyone has someone who tells them that.


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[BATBA Sep Webinar] How to build a BioHub in Taiwan
by Bay Area Taiwanese Biotech Association
Sat, September 19, 2020
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
How to build a BioHub in Taiwan
We are honored to have Dr. I-Chien (IC) Jan join us in BATBA's September Webinar. He will be talking about his inspiring career experience in biomedical venture investment and sharing insights on current trends in the bio sector. This event is co-hosted with North America Taiwanese Engineering & Science Association (NATEA: https://natea.org)
Title: How to build a BioHub in Taiwan 台灣生醫新創投資的機會與挑戰
 Background and Experience in Startups and Venture Interments.
 Startup Ecosystem and the Evolution of VC
 Current Trends in Global Biomedical Industry
 Taiwan's Opportunities, Challenges, and Competitive Advantages in Biomedical sector
 How to Assist Taiwan from Abroad?
Time: 9/19/2020. 2:00-3:30pm.
* Please register in advance. Event link will be sent to your registered email before the event.
Dr. I-Chien (IC) Jan is a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley with a focus on Venture Business of Digital Healthcare and MedTech Startups in the US, while serving as a mentor for Berkeley SkyDeck and 500 Startups Accelerators.
Prior to visiting UC Berkeley, Dr. Jan ran BioHub Taiwan to strengthen the biomedical startup ecosystem in Taiwan. In this capacity, he represented the government at various international conferences and founded the first "Biomedical Startup Challenge" in partnership with AstraZeneca in Taiwan.
Before joining BioHub, Dr. Jan was co-founder and partner of AppWorks Ventures in 2010-2016. He turned AppWorks into Asia's leading startup accelerator and most active early-stage VC, which now admits 30 startups per batch across Asia and is supported by a strong alumni network of 376 active startups and 1,113 founders. Together, they generate 5B USD in revenue and are valued at 4.7B USD. AppWorks also manages 170M USD in its portfolio, makes 10 deals a year, and has led to 4 IPOs.
Besides venture business, Dr. Jan has been an active mentor for entrepreneurs and an influential advocate for startup-related policies. He has a MBA from National Chengchi University and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from National Taiwan University.
Organizer Bay Area Taiwanese Biotech Association
Organizer of [BATBA Sep Webinar] How to build a BioHub in Taiwan
Bay Area Taiwanese Biotechnology Association (BATBA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to biotech professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our goal is to provide a platform for emerging Taiwanese leaders in biotech industry to communicate scientific developments and business ideations, as well as to offer career coaching to young professionals and students. In this upcoming year, BATBA will work toward creating a vibrant Taiwanese biotech community through workshops, symposiums, and social gatherings.
Our website: https://www.batba.co/
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Home Remember August 23, 1939: "Black ribbon day"
Remember August 23, 1939: "Black ribbon day"
Eighty years after the strike of the totalitarian powers
By Patrick van Schie, historian and vice-president of the European Insitute on the Communist Opression EIOCO.
You could already smell war in the air in the summer of 1939; unlike in 1914 when after the murder of Austrian crown prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife it was thought for weeks that it would not go so fast. Hitler's desire for war was too uncovered in 1939. Yet August 23 brought a huge surprise. For most countries it was a highly unpleasant surprise. The apparently greatest opponents of each other – Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union – found each other. In the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, named after the two foreign ministers, they promised not to attack each other, even if one of the two countries would go to war with a third party.
Molotov and Ribbentrop signed the agreement under the benevolent supervision of Soviet dictator Stalin. He bought time and thought he would keep Hitler off himself. Hitler assured himself of the possibility of invading Poland without hindrance; what he did eight days later. Although the Western countries declared war on Germany, they were powerlessly watching from afar how Hitler ran over a militant Poland.
The biggest venom of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, however, was in a secret protocol. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union divided a few intervening countries into spheres of influence. West and Central Poland were for Germany; Eastern Poland, the previously independent Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Bessarabia for the Soviet Union. More than two weeks after the German invasion of Poland, Stalin invaded the east of the country. Eastern Poland was occupied by Stalin and became acquainted with communism.
The most notorious legacy was the massacre at Katyn. Several thousand Polish officers were found there later during the Second World War. Because Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels was devotng lots of attention to this matter, the Soviet Union could put the mass murder in the shoes of Nazi Germany for a long time. In the last days of the Soviet Union, in 1989-1990, the country recognized that the Polish men found in Katyn were victims of a deliberate extermination by the communist regime in Moscow. The decision was taken at the highest level in the Politburo. The Communist rulers eliminated men from the Polish elite to reduce opposition to the implementation of communism. Today, it is estimated that around 22,000 Polish officers and intellectuals were killed in the Kremlin by order of the Communist rulers.
The three Baltic states initially remained formally independent, but they had to tolerate the Soviet Union's intervention under pressure from the impending Red Army. In June 1940, more than a month after Hitler's invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France, Stalin incorporated the Baltic states into the Soviet Union. In one year, at least 130,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians were murdered or taken to Siberia by the Communists. This was more than 2% of the then total population of the three countries. Later, the Baltic states received Hitler's troops and, after a few years, the Red Army again. In those years, the total number of victims of first National Socialism and then (again) Communism from the period June 1940-June 1941 was very far exceeded.
In the run-up to 1941, Stalin ignored all warnings and signs that Hitler would invade the Soviet Union and thereby violate the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. But where Stalin made himself a victim of wishful thinking on August 23, 1939, the real casualties among civilians in the countries between Germany and the Soviet Union were, by Hitler, and by conscious order of Stalin and his communist co-rulers. On August 23, 1939, a pact was signed that would destroy the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens. The greatest totalitarian representatives of National Socialism and Communism made a bloody covenant. Germany and the Soviet Union also practiced old-fashioned power politics of large countries, while denying the right to exist of smaller countries.
The European Parliament proclaimed "Black Ribbon Day" on 23 August; a country like Canada has made this date a memorial day. For all liberal democracies, it should be a question of reflecting on the value of freedom, human rights and national self-determination on this day.
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Microsoft started pre-orders for the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 earlier today, but those tablets won't start shipping for another month or so. However, if you want to see working models of the new members of the Surface family ahead of the October 22nd release date, and meet the person in charge of the entire Surface team, then you might want to see if the Surface tour is coming near you.
Yes, Panos Panay, the head of the Surface group, will be going on tour to show off the new Surface devices at various Microsoft Store locations over the next few weeks. The Microsoft Store Facebook page has a list of the dates and locations for the Surface pre-release tour:
September 30th - University Village in Seattle, Washington
October 1st - Westfield San Francisco Centre in San Francisco, California
October 2nd - Westfield Century City in Los Angeles, California
October 3rd - Houston Galleria in Houston, Texas
October 9th - Dadeland Mall in Miami, Florida
October 10th - Specialty Store at Shops at North Bridge in Chicago, Illinois
October 15th - Specialty Store at Time Warner Center in New York City, New York
October 16th - The Shops at Prudential Center in Boston, Massachusetts
October 17th - Fashion Centre at Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia
All of the events begin at 6 pm in the stores' respective time zones. Let's hope Panos doesn't have to deal with too many groupies while he is on the tour bus.
Source: Microsoft Store on Facebook | Image via Microsoft
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Q: Get tide predictions that are usable on a website I have looked around for the past year to put tide predictions on a client's website. All I could find was free "widgets" I could use or xtide. The problem with the widgets, they are branded all over the place and looks very unprofessional for the environment. So I was looking to install xtide on the server, but after 3 days and multiple talks with the server's tech support, I was unable to install xtide due to just ONE problem with server permissions on shared hosting. So that was a flop.
So I'm back to step 1 here and I desperately need a method of getting tide predictions (preferably tides for all of the current year) of a certain location (New London, Connecticut, USA).
Does anyone know of a method to grab these tides from an alternate source via XML so I can use them in PHP? Also note, I need these to be as accurate as possible, there are a few tide prediction scripts out there for PHP, but after a few months, become far off by hours for the predictions.
I will also take suggestions for using xtide elsewise too!

A: NOAA provides tide predictions for a lot of locations around the USA, and even provides a URL you can hit to get the data in XML. Have a look at their Tides and Currents site.

A: I had the same issue so I wrote a much nicer widget and wordpress plugin that anyone can use for free. I kept the branding to a minimum. There are lots of configuration options like scaling, background colors, and location preferences. It's interactive too which makes it fun for visitors. It's also well maintained so you shouldn't have to worry about it not working one day:
http://www.tidegraph.com/page-support-widget.php


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Шелковникова волухарица (-{Microtus schelkovnikovi}-) је сисар из реда глодара и породице хрчкова (лат. -{Cricetidae}-).

Распрострањење
Врста има станиште у Азербејџану и Ирану.

Станиште
Врста -{Microtus schelkovnikovi}- има станиште на копну.

Начин живота
Број младунаца које женка доноси на свет је обично 1-4.

Угроженост
Ова врста је на нижем степену опасности од изумирања, и сматра се скоро угроженим таксоном.

Популациони тренд
Популација ове врсте се смањује, судећи по расположивим подацима.

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Inner tuples are more complex, since they are branching points in the search tree. Each inner tuple contains a set of one or more nodes, which represent groups of similar leaf values. A node contains a downlink that leads either to another, lower-level inner tuple, or to a short list of leaf tuples that all lie on the same index page. Each node normally has a label that describes it; for example, in a radix tree the node label could be the next character of the string value. (Alternatively, an operator class can omit the node labels, if it works with a fixed set of nodes for all inner tuples; see Section 65.4.2.) Optionally, an inner tuple can have a prefix value that describes all its members. In a radix tree this could be the common prefix of the represented strings. The prefix value is not necessarily really a prefix, but can be any data needed by the operator class; for example, in a quad-tree it can store the central point that the four quadrants are measured with respect to. A quad-tree inner tuple would then also contain four nodes corresponding to the quadrants around this central point.
There are five user-defined methods that an index operator class for SP-GiST must provide, and one is optional. All five mandatory methods follow the convention of accepting two internal arguments, the first of which is a pointer to a C struct containing input values for the support method, while the second argument is a pointer to a C struct where output values must be placed. Four of the mandatory methods just return void, since all their results appear in the output struct; but leaf_consistent additionally returns a boolean result. The methods must not modify any fields of their input structs. In all cases, the output struct is initialized to zeroes before calling the user-defined method. Optional sixth method compress accepts datum to be indexed as the only argument and returns value suitable for physical storage in leaf tuple.
For operator classes that do not use prefixes, prefixType can be set to VOIDOID. Likewise, for operator classes that do not use node labels, labelType can be set to VOIDOID. canReturnData should be set true if the operator class is capable of reconstructing the originally-supplied index value. longValuesOK should be set true only when the attType is of variable length and the operator class is capable of segmenting long values by repeated suffixing (see Section 65.4.1).
leafType is typically the same as attType. For the reasons of backward compatibility, method config can leave leafType uninitialized; that would give the same effect as setting leafType equal to attType. When attType and leafType are different, then optional method compress must be provided. Method compress is responsible for transformation of datums to be indexed from attType to leafType. Note: both consistent functions will get scankeys unchanged, without transformation using compress.
datum is the original datum of spgConfigIn.attType type that was to be inserted into the index. leafDatum is a value of spgConfigOut.leafType type which is initially an result of method compress applied to datum when method compress is provided, or same value as datum otherwise. leafDatum can change at lower levels of the tree if the choose or picksplit methods change it. When the insertion search reaches a leaf page, the current value of leafDatum is what will be stored in the newly created leaf tuple. level is the current inner tuple's level, starting at zero for the root level. allTheSame is true if the current inner tuple is marked as containing multiple equivalent nodes (see Section 65.4.3). hasPrefix is true if the current inner tuple contains a prefix; if so, prefixDatum is its value. nNodes is the number of child nodes contained in the inner tuple, and nodeLabels is an array of their label values, or NULL if there are no labels.
If the new value matches one of the existing child nodes, set resultType to spgMatchNode. Set nodeN to the index (from zero) of that node in the node array. Set levelAdd to the increment in level caused by descending through that node, or leave it as zero if the operator class does not use levels. Set restDatum to equal leafDatum if the operator class does not modify datums from one level to the next, or otherwise set it to the modified value to be used as leafDatum at the next level.
nTuples is the number of leaf tuples provided. datums is an array of their datum values of spgConfigOut.leafType type. level is the current level that all the leaf tuples share, which will become the level of the new inner tuple.
If more than one leaf tuple is supplied, it is expected that the picksplit function will classify them into more than one node; otherwise it is not possible to split the leaf tuples across multiple pages, which is the ultimate purpose of this operation. Therefore, if the picksplit function ends up placing all the leaf tuples in the same node, the core SP-GiST code will override that decision and generate an inner tuple in which the leaf tuples are assigned at random to several identically-labeled nodes. Such a tuple is marked allTheSame to signify that this has happened. The choose and inner_consistent functions must take suitable care with such inner tuples. See Section 65.4.3 for more information.
picksplit can be applied to a single leaf tuple only in the case that the config function set longValuesOK to true and a larger-than-a-page input value has been supplied. In this case the point of the operation is to strip off a prefix and produce a new, shorter leaf datum value. The call will be repeated until a leaf datum short enough to fit on a page has been produced. See Section 65.4.1 for more information.
The array scankeys, of length nkeys, describes the index search condition(s). These conditions are combined with AND — only index entries that satisfy all of them are interesting. (Note that nkeys = 0 implies that all index entries satisfy the query.) Usually the consistent function only cares about the sk_strategy and sk_argument fields of each array entry, which respectively give the indexable operator and comparison value. In particular it is not necessary to check sk_flags to see if the comparison value is NULL, because the SP-GiST core code will filter out such conditions. reconstructedValue is the value reconstructed for the parent tuple; it is (Datum) 0 at the root level or if the inner_consistent function did not provide a value at the parent level. reconstructedValue is always of spgConfigOut.leafType type. traversalValue is a pointer to any traverse data passed down from the previous call of inner_consistent on the parent index tuple, or NULL at the root level. traversalMemoryContext is the memory context in which to store output traverse values (see below). level is the current inner tuple's level, starting at zero for the root level. returnData is true if reconstructed data is required for this query; this will only be so if the config function asserted canReturnData. allTheSame is true if the current inner tuple is marked "all-the-same"; in this case all the nodes have the same label (if any) and so either all or none of them match the query (see Section 65.4.3). hasPrefix is true if the current inner tuple contains a prefix; if so, prefixDatum is its value. nNodes is the number of child nodes contained in the inner tuple, and nodeLabels is an array of their label values, or NULL if the nodes do not have labels.
nNodes must be set to the number of child nodes that need to be visited by the search, and nodeNumbers must be set to an array of their indexes. If the operator class keeps track of levels, set levelAdds to an array of the level increments required when descending to each node to be visited. (Often these increments will be the same for all the nodes, but that's not necessarily so, so an array is used.) If value reconstruction is needed, set reconstructedValues to an array of the values of spgConfigOut.leafType type reconstructed for each child node to be visited; otherwise, leave reconstructedValues as NULL. If it is desired to pass down additional out-of-band information ("traverse values") to lower levels of the tree search, set traversalValues to an array of the appropriate traverse values, one for each child node to be visited; otherwise, leave traversalValues as NULL. Note that the inner_consistent function is responsible for palloc'ing the nodeNumbers, levelAdds, reconstructedValues, and traversalValues arrays in the current memory context. However, any output traverse values pointed to by the traversalValues array should be allocated in traversalMemoryContext. Each traverse value must be a single palloc'd chunk.
The array scankeys, of length nkeys, describes the index search condition(s). These conditions are combined with AND — only index entries that satisfy all of them satisfy the query. (Note that nkeys = 0 implies that all index entries satisfy the query.) Usually the consistent function only cares about the sk_strategy and sk_argument fields of each array entry, which respectively give the indexable operator and comparison value. In particular it is not necessary to check sk_flags to see if the comparison value is NULL, because the SP-GiST core code will filter out such conditions. reconstructedValue is the value reconstructed for the parent tuple; it is (Datum) 0 at the root level or if the inner_consistent function did not provide a value at the parent level. reconstructedValue is always of spgConfigOut.leafType type. traversalValue is a pointer to any traverse data passed down from the previous call of inner_consistent on the parent index tuple, or NULL at the root level. level is the current leaf tuple's level, starting at zero for the root level. returnData is true if reconstructed data is required for this query; this will only be so if the config function asserted canReturnData. leafDatum is the key value of spgConfigOut.leafType stored in the current leaf tuple.
The function must return true if the leaf tuple matches the query, or false if not. In the true case, if returnData is true then leafValue must be set to the value of spgConfigIn.attType type originally supplied to be indexed for this leaf tuple. Also, recheck may be set to true if the match is uncertain and so the operator(s) must be re-applied to the actual heap tuple to verify the match.
Converts the data item into a format suitable for physical storage in a leaf tuple of index page. It accepts spgConfigIn.attType value and return spgConfigOut.leafType value. Output value should not be toasted.


Dobson Ranch is a neighborhood on the southwest side of Mesa, Ariz., which is near Phoenix. Major roads in the are include Superstition Freeway, North Price Road and Baseline Road. Dobson Ranch residents can travel around the city by car or bus.
The neighborhood is named after the ranch that was owned by Wilson Wesley Dobson. He purchased the land in 1886 and it stayed in the Dobson family for generations. The city of Mesa began buying the land in the 1970s and eventually turned it into the neighborhood that exists today.
Dobson Ranch is primarily residential, with homes and apartments dotting the terrain, though you will find plenty of recreational activities in which to engage. Dobson Ranch Golf Course is located in the center of the neighborhood and features a 72-par course with 18 holes. If you feel like practicing your swing, you can also head to the course's driving range.
Dobson's Restaurant is an eatery located inside the original Dobson home. You enjoy a meal after a game of golf and learn about the neighborhood's history. The area has plenty of other restaurants and cafes You'll find Mexican and Vietnamese cuisine as well as chains such as Starbucks and Old Chicago.


Note that this thread is intended to be for RESULTS only! So-- please, spare the stats and commentary (congratulations, commiseration, etc.) for other threads.
In past years, the well-intentioned formatting fell by the wayside quickly, so let's just go for straight text (no bolding, no color, no italics) that is easy to cut and paste.
When updating with your results, simply "cut and paste" the most recent list and add your name in alphabetical order (to make it easier for people to scan and find the kids they are rooting especially hard for). Don't stress if your update crosses paths with another poster's….it's bound to happen, especially during "peak" hours. In the past, some well-intentioned/"too much time on their hands" (I used to resemble that remark!) parents have been known to clean up the list after/before normal business hours.
Generally speaking, you should only need one word for the school name, but if you need to clarify, make it short and sweet (see St. Andrew's below).
This is your call, and I know people like to post as soon they get results from any school. Personally, I prefer to get all results and post once. However, if you would to prefer to share info as it comes in, I would advise just putting "WAITING ON: School X" AFTER the three "decision" categories (ex. ...REJECTED: Durmstrang; WAITING ON: Hogwarts; Beauxbatons)…BUT please take the time to update when the results do come in.
Susieknits' kid: ACCEPTED: Kent; WAITLISTED: none; REJECTED: none.
PLEASE Everyone, Read the above guidelines and cut and paste the list, updating with your results with your screen name in alphabetical order. See last year's version... That's the only way to keep this list orderly and useful/easy to read. Thanks!
Can we put entering grades on this next to the username?
I'm thinking about all the applicants and their families today. If anyone needs an inspiring read, look up the posts by Stargirl3.
Alphabetical order would be nice.... ( cough ) .
A reminder that this thread is ONLY for reporting results following the established format. You are welcome to use other threads for comments and discussions. Let's get this going now!
Re-Alphabetized upon @PhotographerMom 's request ... Let's keep it that way..
@XRayKiller3130 can you add yours properly formatted at the bottom?