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Nidhi Dugar Kundalia on "White as Milk and Rice": 'I hope to bring the marginalised tribals to the centre stage with this book'
Chirdeep Malhotra
Nidhi Dugar Kundalia is a journalist, whose stories have appeared in various national newspapers and magazines. She mostly writes on socio-cultural issues, documenting human lives and their journeys through various settings. A graduate of the School of Arts, City University, London, she lives in Kolkata with her husband and children. Her first book The Lost Generation: Chronicling India's Dying Professions was released in 2016 to a warm reception.
She has recently come out with the book "White as Milk and Rice: Stories of India's Isolated Tribes", which tells the stories of six remarkable tribes of India. Chirdeep Malhotra connected with her for an exclusive interview, in which she talks about her latest book, the writing process and the research involved, and the books on her current reading list.
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Why did you choose the title "White as Milk and Rice" for the book?
The stories in the book largely deal with identity issues faced by the individuals of the Indian tribes. One of the tribal stories is about the Alu Kurumbas of the Nilgiris. Until the last century, this community was feared due to their sorcery and witchcraft practices, depriving them of employment, education and integration with the other tribes of the region. It is said that to clear out or impair the negative opinion vested on them by the local people, this particular set of Kurumbas added up a new prefix of Alu before their names; 'Alu' in Kannada means milk, implying good and harmless like the milk. The prefix was used for improved status and wider acceptability. Another tribe documented in this book, the Halakkis, subject to years of antipathy by the mainstream society, credits its name to the rice they grow, which is white as milk. Thus, I went with the title White as Milk and Rice.
In the book, you have written about six different Indian tribes. What made you decide on choosing these six tribes out of the multitude of tribes in India?
I'm a travel writer. And these are the stories of particular tribal individuals that I met along the way. They may not represent the whole tribe but their life stories echo the challenges that the wider community faces in their everyday lives. Geographical accessibility, follow up phone conversations and other interviewees who added to their backstory helped in shortlisting the tribes further. In some cases, we had a better translator and in other cases, the interviewee had a more riveting narrative.
Can you talk more about the structure of the book? You identify one protagonist from each tribe and take the readers through their daily lives, while also telling about the historical and cultural context of their tribes. Did you have this structure for the book in the mind from the start, or did you come up with it while writing it?
When I started out, I thought it would be useful to follow one individual from each of these tribes over a few trips. I had intended it to be a travel writing account– with me, the narrator, interacting with these tribals. But I realized that I was interfering with their storytelling, which was already rich with anecdotes. Halfway through the book, I decided to scrap myself out and leave the tribals to narrate their own accounts. Through their life stories, I have taken the liberty to weave in textures, not forgetting the environment which so vastly varied from story to story, and lend itself into the character and personalities of my protagonists. Where I think information has interfered with the storytelling, I have added it in footnotes and endnotes.
'White as Milk and Rice', Penguin Ebury Press.
Can you take us behind your creative process while writing this book and what kind of research went into it?
On field, my days were spent interviewing people, and visiting mentors and NGO's associated with them. The nights were spent making notes on their behaviour, body language, environment and other observations. After returning home, I spent hours in libraries, gathering as much material as I could on their cultural history; it's hard for me to proceed with writing until I know that I have exhausted all material that I can access– scholarly works, news and other bits of information.
What kind of challenges did you face while writing this book?
Most stories in the book are based in deep interiors of our country. Our taxi broke down twice on the six hours long mule paths in Nagaland. In Bastar, we navigated hours of forest on foot. I visited at least five villages in Tamil Nadu before finding forest-based Kurumbas who were willing to open up to outsiders; the challenges were mostly geographical. Finding translators who also understood their cultural nitty-gritties was a daunting task, but once that was in place, it was a thrilling journey documenting these lives. It is incredible how quickly the landscapes, culture and people change in India every few hours.
Is there any interesting anecdote or fact about India's isolated tribes which surprised you the most during your research for this book?
The book is full of surprising anecdotes for someone new to Indian tribal cultures. But what particularly surprised me, and awed me was the incredible community-led approach. The particular Naga village that I visited has weekly meetings on Sunday where they allot fields for various groups of young men and women– depending on the size and need– irrespective of the ownership of the field. When the young hunters return with game, it is divided amongst families which have social functions like child birth or a wedding ceremony due. The older men and women, meanwhile, take care of their grandchildren and homes. Resources are carefully used and allocated, setting an incredible example of sustainable living. The story of the Konyak Naga tribe that I write in the book is a rich read.
Can you recommend more books which delve into the history, culture and traditions of India's isolated tribes for readers interested in the subject?
The reason I started writing this book was because most work I found on the subject was scholarly. But if that is what you're seeking, then there is a brilliant range of works– books by Verrier Elwin and Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf make an engaging read. Exceptions are novels like Arun Joshi's The Strange Case of Billy Biswas, works of Mahasweta Devi, and some of Ruskin Bond's writings. I particularly enjoyed the recent memoirs of Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar.
Which books feature on your current reading list?
There is a book on Rajasthan's Oral History by Rustom Bharucha, where he converses with Komal Kothari, highly regarded for his knowledge of folklore. I'm re-reading Truman Capote and hope to finish a wonderful new book– Djinn Patrol by Deepa Anappara.
What do you wish the reader takes away from your work?
I only hope to bring the marginalised tribals to the centre and show the world that inspite of their remarkable lives, how ordinary their feelings are.
Lastly, what are you working on next?
I hope to start a column soon. The idea for my next book is still brewing in my head and I'm yet to begin my research for it.
'White As Milk and Rice: Stories of India's Isolated Tribes' by Nidhi Dugar Kundalia has been published by Penguin Ebury Press. Read more about the book here and buy it here.
Also read: An excerpt from the book 'White as Milk and Rice' featured in The Dispatch.
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Crime victim grateful to have gun as self-protection option
In: 2nd Amendment, CHL
by Rachel Lucas
"Victim of Beaverton sexual assault 'yelled for help,' but no one did anything," read the headlines last month. In the TV interview, the anonymous victim pleads from the shadows for other victims to come forward. Her perpetrator's previous attacks on other women, having met with no effective opposition, have since escalated to rape.
On a Nevada college campus in 2007, a young woman was raped at gunpoint just 50 feet away from the campus police station. A law abiding concealed handgun license holder, she was obeying the law on the "gun free" campus in her state and did not have her handgun with her. Her assailant went on to rape and murder a 19 year old girl a month later. The concealed carry holder says, "I was legislated into being a victim"…"had I been carrying that night, two other rapes would have been prevented and a young life would have been saved."
Contrast these with the young mother in Georgia who successfully defended herself and her 9-year-old twins in January from an ex-con home invader, using her .38 revolver. The young mom shot the home invader when he opened the attic crawlspace where the mom was hiding with her two children.
This is not an anomaly. Across America, guns are used successfully by would-be victims to prevent crimes upwards of 2 million times per year. And in the vast majority of cases, not a single shot is fired. Let me say that again: 75 – 95% of the time guns are used for self defense, no shots are fired. But it still works to prevent crime, including rape and murder.
As a victim of sexual assault, with my perpetrator in prison, I know how violent crime can affect you and your loved ones for the rest of your life. Even after years of therapy, I still suffered when panic attacks returned, and I felt like the only way to keep my life safe was to stay small and keep hidden. It wasn't working.
I didn't grow up in gun-friendly family, and so I was surprised when my daughter suggested I get a concealed handgun license and learn to shoot. Little did I know how much it would change my life.
I quickly discovered what many other people like me who did not grow up with guns, especially women, have discovered – a newfound sense of safety and empowerment that I had never felt before. That wounded part of me that had been frozen in fear all these years finally had the power to defend herself in a real way. Therapy was a wonderful and invaluable healing tool, but it never touched that place inside where I was unable to defend myself against my attacker who was much bigger and stronger than me.
I hope I never have to use my gun in self defense, but I am grateful to have it as an option. I owe it to myself and to my family.
Rachel Lucas is the Executive Director for a new nonprofit organization, Safer Oregon, that advocates for self-protection rights on behalf of crime victims.
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Dennis Anthony H. Uy is a Filipino businessman who is known for being the founder of Converge ICT.

Early life and education
Dennis Anthony Uy was born on June 1, 1966, in Fukien (now Fujian), China. In China, the Uys lived in poverty with one meal a day already considered "a blessing". When he moved in, he could not speak English nor Tagalog. Dennis Uy and his family emigrated to the Philippines in 1977 with the help of his uncle Johnny Uy. At age 11, Uy worked as a cold storage handyman at Johnny's Supermarket, which was considered as the oldest supermarket in Angeles City and was run by his uncle.

The younger Uy spent his studies in Angeles City, attending Chevalier School for his high school studies and the Holy Angel University where he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering in 1992.

Career
As a high school student, Uy sold Betamax and VHS tapes he sourced from Greenhills in San Juan, Metro Manila which later led to him setting up Jack's Video, a Betamax and VHS rental service with his brother in Angeles City. Uy would stop his Betamax and VHS business in the early 1990s as the technology is becoming obsolete. Dennis Uy later set up the Angeles City Cable and Television Network, a cable television provider which caters to Central Luzon.

He expanded to the broadband and fiber optics business founding the ComClark Network and Technology Corp. in 1996 which later became Converge ICT. He has also expressed his vision to develop Angeles City, his hometown, as a technology hub similar to Silicon Valley. Converge under his watch also pursued a bid to become the third major telecommunications provider in the Philippines in 2018 after Globe and PLDT, but lost to Dito Telecommunity associated with his namesake Dennis Ang Uy. Globe acknowledge Converge as a bigger competitor than Dito despite Converge losing the bid.

In 2021, Uy became a board member of Silicon Valley-based firm Axiado Corp.

Personal life
Dennis Uy is married to Maria Grace Yao, who is also a co-founder of Converge.

References

People from Angeles City
Filipino business executives
Filipino company founders
1966 births
Living people
Filipino people of Chinese descent
Businesspeople from Fujian
Chinese emigrants to the Philippines
People from Pampanga

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In meetings all over America, Millennials and Boomers are trying to work together despite their massive differences.
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The average annual and hourly salaries for surveyors in the state of California are shown in Table 1 and Table 2, respectively. The comparison of the salary statistics of surveyors among California metropolitan areas is shown in Table 3. The salary statistics are based on the national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2017 and published in April 2018 .
Table 1 shows the average annual salary for surveyors in California in 5 percentile scales. The average annual salary for the 90th percentile (the top 10 percent of the highest paid) is $122,920. The median (50th percentile) annual salary is $91,090. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent is $58,640.
The table and chart below show the trend of the median salary of surveyors from 2012 to 2017.
Table 3 shows the median annual salary of surveyors in some California cities and metropolitan areas. We note that the median annual salary of surveyors in state of California ranges from $46,630 to $119,900. The highest paying area for surveyors in California is Santa Cruz-Watsonville with a median annual salary of $119,900. The second highest paying city/area in California State is Redding (mean annual salary $101,010). The lowest paying area is Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area with a median annual salary of $46,630.
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The mood was serious at 8:00 am Saturday at the David Brower Center. Fifty girls from Berkeley and Albany high schools were milling around the lobby in anticipation of showing off the Android apps they had spent weeks designing.
In one corner was a team of five girls from Berkeley High with "EcoPrint," an app that helps people trace their carbon footprint.
In the opposite corner another Berkeley High team was showing off "Connect the Stars," an app that teaches kids about the constellations.
In between were nine other teams that had designed a wide variety of Android apps, from the "NapApp," that helps students manage their daily schedule so they get enough sleep, all while teaching about the science of sleep, to "Cram Jam," a video-sharing mobile app that uses teacher-created videos to teach subjects.
The creations were the result of an innovative non-profit program called Technovation Challenge which is trying to bring more women and more diversity into the technology field by exposing young girls to the industry. During a 10-week program, the girls learn computer programming, come up with an idea for an app, research the competition, develop a business plan and learn about high-tech entrepreneurship.
The program, which was started in 2010 by the Los Angeles-based science education non-profit, Iridescent, is broadly supported by some of the country's most successful tech companies. Sponsors include Google, Microsoft, Zynga, Berkeley Lab, Ask.com, Disney, Salesforce.com, and many more.
For the last few months, about 50 girls from Berkeley and Albany have been going up to the Berkeley Lab on Tuesday afternoons. The girls were split into teams and paired with female scientists from the lab who served as mentors. During their workshops, the students not only got a glimpse of what it was like to work in a scientific environment, they learned specific skills, such as how to use Google's App Inventor and how to write a business plan. Technovation Challenge has seven programs in high schools around the Bay Area, and one each in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles, serving a total of 520 girls.
"I didn't know much about computer programming and I thought it would be fun to expand my background and try something new," said Siyao Ma, a sophomore at Albany High.
When Corie Ralston, a staff scientist in protein crystallography at LBL, heard about Technovation Challenge, she jumped at the opportunity to help out, she said. She put out the call to other female scientists at the lab and coordinated the mentor program. She wanted to show young female students that it is possible for women to go into the sciences, work in groups, and succeed.
"I kind of want to be a role model," said Ralston.
Around 9:00 am on Saturday, the teams entered the auditorium at the Brower Center to pitch their apps to a panel of entrepreneurs from GroupOn, LitePoint, Berkeley Lab, and the New Schools Venture Fund. Each team gave a Power Point presentation that described their prototype, explained why it would succeed in the marketplace, discussed the research conducted to make sure the product was viable, and talked about the business plan. Then the judges asked questions.
"The poise and confidence of the teams really impressed me," said Jonathan Carter, the deputy director for computing sciences at Berkeley Lab.
The winning presentation came from a group of girls from Albany High School. They created an app called "StudiCafe," which connects students' progress in school to social media. Students study flashcards, take multiple choice tests, and use and other study guides. They can share their scores on Facebook and Twitter. The app allows students to study while in a car or on the bus without having to lug around heavy books. But the social media part of it makes studying fun.
"Since 78% of teens are on social media, they would like to have a social way of studying," said Elena Prioreschi, a ninth grader.
The judges praised the girls who developed "StudiCafe" for finding a clear problem and a clear market.
The team will present their app again on Thursday May 3 at the national competition for Technovation Challenge. The winner of that competition will have its app professionally produced.
Click here for a complete list of apps developed by the students from Berkeley and Albany high schools.
Peter Rodriguez, a history teacher at Berkeley's International Program, praised the Technovation Challenge for exposing young women to a host of new skills. There were about 25 students from Berkeley High.


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Afghanistan's Rashid Khan to play for Sussex Sharks in T20 Blast
Posted by: The Pashtun Times in Sports February 7, 2018	0
KABUL: After outstanding performances in a number of Twenty20 cricket leagues during the recent years, Afghanistan's Rashid Khan is expected to play for the Sussex Sharks in the T20 Blast.
The Sussex Cricket Club in a statement said Rashid Khan, the world's second highest ranked T20 bowler, will play for Sussex Sharks in this year's T20 Blast.
The statement further adds that the Afghan leg-spinner will be available for the first half of the tournament, subject to international clearance and visa approval.
So far in his short career, he has also played for sides in the Caribbean Premier League, Bangladesh Premier League and Australia's Big Bash League (BBL).
Khan was the joint leading wicket-taker in this year's Big Bash, where he was coached at tournament winners, Adelaide Strikers by incoming Sussex Head Coach, Jason Gillespie.
Gillespie said "We are delighted that Rash has agreed to join us at Sussex.
"His form for Afghanistan and the T20 teams he has played for over the last couple of years has been phenomenal. I have worked closely with Rash at the Adelaide Strikers in the BBL and have been incredibly impressed with his attitude, work ethic and team-first mentality," he said.
He also added "We look forward to welcoming him to the Sharks where I'm sure he will quickly become a fan favourite."
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The holiday season is here. It's a great time to spend with family, give to those less fortunate, and reflect on all of the blessings we already have.
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I was inspired to start painting again a couple of years ago after a trip to Cornwall. The coastline of Devon and Cornwall has always been a love and inspiration to me. A few paintings later I was hooked and I haven't looked back. My work has become more abstract over time as I've become more interested in different atmospheres and emotions of being in the different landscapes.
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Despite spectacular victories such as Crecy or Agincourt, the English ultimately lost their attempt to gain the throne of France for their king in the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453), but, as British biographer and medievalist Barker notes, they came close.
Conquest is an account of the three decaders during the first half of the fifteenth century during which there was a functioning "English" kingdom of France. Baker's account of this period reveals a surprisingly resilient, rather well-run realm which, arguably, fell largely because of the ineptitude of Henry VI of England, who was also King of France from 1422 until 1453. In the course of telling this tale, Barker looks at Henry V's remarkable achievement in defeating the French, marrying a princess, and becoming heir to the kingdom. Barker also gives us some good looks at many of the principal actors in the struggle, from Henry V's rather able brothers to the wily Charles VII of France, and many others. There is a long, very interesting, and perhaps iconoclastic look at the role of Joan of Arc in the war (after all, the English still owned much of France for another couple of decades after they burned her), the long period of desultory warfare, punctuated by looks at the governance of the realm, and then, of course, a critical look at the collapse of the English dominion.
Although perhaps blaming Henry VI is excessive (after all, he assumed the throne at about the age of eight months), Conquest is very good treatment of the final acts in the long struggle for the throne of France, a story largely overlooked in most English-language accounts, which focus on the tactical successes and pass lightly over the fact that the French won.


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Harvest Club members receive a shipment of two bottles of wine four times a year. Each Harvest Club shipment has a pre-determined selection of two dry wines, two sweet wines, or one of each.
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Twenty years ago…
I sat down with Diane Sims Page and Alan Page to discuss naming our performance venue the Alan Page Auditorium. They gave me a tour of their amazing collection of Jim Crow art and then inquired about my proposition. Naively, it hadn't dawned on me that naming usually had a monetary component, but permission to recognize Justice Page was and is an honor. Alan Page embodies – through action, word, and deed – the mission, vision, and raison d'etre of the Mixed Blood Theatre and it has been our privilege to so dub our reconfigurable performance space.
There is a Middle School, a Foundation, and a theater bearing his name. Marathon runner, Supreme Court Justice, children's book author, All-American football player, NFL Hall of Famer, NFL MVP, Pro Bowl defensive end, college national champion, elected official, U of M Regent, art collector, union rep, JD and doctorate recipient, orator, and so much more, Alan personifies all that I admire in a humane human. Father, grandfather, husband, and friend are his most cherished titles and achievements, which only magnifies my regard.
Oh yeah, last year Mixed Blood received two Ivey Awards. Justice Page received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
For seven years I was fortunate to be the only non-lawyer on the Judicial Council's "Racial Fairness In The Courts" committee, over which Alan and Justice Paul Anderson presided. I don't know if I ever contributed meaningfully, but I never failed to learn at each meeting, not only about justice and disparities to those in the justice system, but about being a leader, thinker, and visionary.
In November of 2000, Governor Jesse Ventura joined me as the Mixed Blood Theatre declared its old firehouse's biggest room The Alan Page Auditorium. A sign and framed photo have adorned the lobby, since coined Equity Hall, for the past 18+ years. One would think that there'd be a Dorian Gray-like portrait in a closet somewhere because Alan hasn't aged a bit since that dedication.
Nonetheless, this Friday we recommit ourselves to the name that has brought us pride to proclaim since the turn of the millennium and will unveil a new photo of Justice Page and rededicate THE ALAN PAGE AUDITORIUM.
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Q: Error al compilar Qt de forma estática con driver de postgresql en Windows tengo el problema de que al intentar compilar Qt de forma estática, me da un error cuando intento incluir los driver de Postgresql. Si no los incluyo, no tengo problemas. Si lo hago en linux incluyéndolos, tampoco. Solo es en Windows.
Al ejecutar el configure me da el siguiente error:
ERROR: Feature 'sql-psql' was enabled, but the pre-condition 'libs.psql' failed.
Tengo instalado Postgresql, versión 9.6.
Si miro el archivo config.log, estas son las líneas relacionadas con psql:

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Y esta es la forma en que llamo a configure.bat
configure.bat -static -debug-and-release -platform win32-g++ -prefix C:\Qt\Static\5.13.0\ -opensource -confirm-license -qt-zlib -qt-pcre -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -qt-freetype -opengl desktop -no-openssl -sql-psql -I "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.6\include" -L "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.6\lib\libpq.lib" -opensource -confirm-license -skip webengine -make libs -nomake tools -nomake examples -nomake tests

A: Estás intentando compilar Qt con MinGW pero posiblemente has instalado una versión de PostgreSQL precompilado con MSVC++. Esto es una sospecha porque no hay ninguna prueba de esto en tu pregunta. Con bibliotecas estáticas, esto normalmente no funciona. En cambio, con DLLs hay mayor compatibilidad entre compiladores. Deberías usar el mismo compilador en los dos proyectos. Luego ninguno de los 4 métodos automáticos de detección de PgSQL ha funcionado. Probablemente te falta incluir el directorio bin de PgSQL en el PATH para la sesión de CMD en la que ejecutas configure.bat

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Home>Faith>THE RELIGION CORNER: Keep Going Through Storms of Life!
THE RELIGION CORNER: Keep Going Through Storms of Life!
Simply put, stick with it. Don't quit! And don't take no for an answer. Instead, pray daily, use your imagination and find a way around your obstacles — persistence pays!
In his 13 principles for success, self-help author Napoleon Hill said of persistence (and I'm paraphrasing): Persistence is an essential factor in transmuting desire into good health, to a better job, to increasing your business stream of income, to building the congregation of your church, to your monetary goal no matter what it is you seek.
Today, short attention spans are prevalent with the advent of iPods, cellphones and computer browsers in adults and children. No wonder folks keep changing from one thing to another without using that old-fashioned elbow grease, that sticktoitiveness required to win.
Persistence of bad habits though seem to continue to flourish. Despite the overwhelming evidence that the way we think and what we believe is not producing the results we desire, we persist in hanging on to what does not work. Many people see small problems, tiny little molehills as major mountains, blocking their path. Only a few choose to see a mountain in their path as an opportunity to gain a broader perspective as they continue to travel along life's journey, who decide to climb that mountain for a broader view. Persistence turns stumbling blocks into steppingstones. It is simply a matter of attitude.
When you fail to persistent for fear of failure, you lose hope, because now, you don't see any way to make your dream a reality.
Fear is faith in reverse. Fear tolerated is faith contaminated. Fear is not of Go! Scripture says, "God does not give us a spirit of fear." Faith comes by hearing, so does fear. Make a choice about what it is we hear and accept. Fear will cause you to quit.
Here's an example: When planning the grand opening celebration for my company back in 1983, I didn't have money to pay for the first class celebration we had planned. An extremely late unemployment check saved the day!
Listening to Steve Harvey this week on the OWN Network, on "Oprah's Master Class," Steve was right at the brink of success too, with no money. He had finally gotten that call he was waiting on — he would be headlining "Showtime at the Apollo." But he didn't even have the money to get to New York from Florida. Two to three days prior to the event, everything changed for Steve.
A miracle happened: The same person that invited him to New York left him another message to say he had a job in Florida for him, could he take the job before he come to New York. Steve said he only had $36, not enough to make it. But with his miracle, he ended up having more than $400, more than enough to drive to New York. His Apollo job was his first TV appearance, and now Steve Harvey is on TV somewhere, seven days a week. That was his dream since he was a little boy who stuttered very badly! Steve persisted, and look at him now!
Persist and operate in faith. Don't move forward on what it is you see. Walk by faith, and not by sight. Believe in God, and know He will be there for you.
Purpose, passion, plus persistence equals prosperity. Be persistent!
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from os import path, popen, uname
from setuptools import setup
from setuptools.command.install import install
from distutils.command.build import build
from subprocess import call

USE_OPENMP=False
BASEPATH = path.abspath(path.join(path.dirname(__file__),'..'))
LONG_DESC= "TODO: DESCRIPTION OF LIBCMPB-PYTHON HERE"

class CMPB_Build(build):
  def run(self):
    EXT = ".dylib" if uname()[0] == "Darwin" else ".so"

    # run original build code
    build.run(self)

    # build libcmpb
    cmd = [ 'make', 'all' ]
    message = ""

    # run Make for each condition (make CPU/GPU, 32/64)
    def compile():
          call(cmd, cwd=BASEPATH)

    self.execute(compile, [], message)

    # set target files to Make output
    # target_files = CPU_LIBS

    # copy Make output to library build folder
    self.mkpath(self.build_lib)
    # for target in target_files:
    self.copy_file(path.join(BASEPATH,"libcmpb" + EXT), self.build_lib)

class CMPB_Install(install):
    def initialize_options(self):
        install.initialize_options(self)
        self.build_scripts = None

    def finalize_options(self):
        install.finalize_options(self)
        self.set_undefined_options('build', ('build_scripts', 'build_scripts'))

    def run(self):
        # run original install code
        install.run(self)

        # install CMPB executable
        self.copy_tree(self.build_lib, self.install_lib)

setup(
    name='mathprogbase-python',
    version='0.0.0',
    author='Miles Lubin, Steven Diamond, Baris Ungun',
    author_email='mlubin@mit.edu',
    url='https://github.com/mlubin/cmpb',
    package_dir={'optkit': 'optkit'},
    py_modules=['cmpb'],
    license='TODO: LICENSE',
    zip_safe=False,
    description='TODO: SHORT DESCRIPTION',
    long_description=LONG_DESC,
    install_requires=["numpy >= 1.8",
                      "scipy >= 0.13"],
    cmdclass={'build' : CMPB_Build, 'install' : CMPB_Install}
)

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openDemocracyUK: Opinion
Boris Johnson made politics awful, then asked people to vote it away
Our investigations show how the Tories won big
Adam Ramsay
Boris Johnson after this week's Queen's Speech
House of Commons/PA Wire/PA Images
The recent UK election was a quarrel about the character of politics. On the one hand, the Labour Party argued that it can be used for good, 'for the many'. They promised to transform lives and communities, to take action on climate change and poverty.
The Conservative Party, conversely, claimed that politics is bad. They promised to banish it from your life, to 'get Brexit done', so that we can all forget about it and get on with Christmas shopping.
The Conservative strategy was, therefore, simple: wage war on the political process, on trust, and on truth. Ensure the whole experience is miserable, bewildering and stressful, then ask voters to make it go away.
At the heart of this strategy was a campaign of disinformation and deceit.
According to independent fact checkers, 88% of Conservative party Facebook adverts in the recent UK election contained lies, while only 7%* of Labour's did. During the first leaders' debate, the Conservative party press office changed its Twitter account to "FactCheckUK", granting itself a big tick, implying that it's a verified, independent fact checking service.
Boris Johnson was sacked from two previous jobs for lying to his bosses. His most famous contribution to journalism was the invention of the Euro-myth: laughable lies told by Britain's press about the EU which framed England's understanding of it for decades. He is famed for leading a campaign with a fabricated statistic on the side of a bus. Before becoming prime minister, he was already notorious for being wayward with reality. But in this election, he and his team and their fleet of well funded outriders took lying from a character trait to a brutally effective political strategy.
'All these policies are flying around'
On a rainy day in Crewe in the north of England, two days before the election, the devastating impact of these online lies became clear. Interviewing people on their cigarette breaks outside the concrete offices of the outsourcing company ATOS, I heard complaint after complaint about not knowing what to believe any more.
'Am I receiving accurate information?' asked Jade. 'All these policies are flying around.' Wes used very similar words, but went further: 'There's all these facts flying around on social media – you don't know what to believe.' He said he read about the election every day, and had come to a firm conclusion: 'Policies? Democracy? Sod the lot of them – I don't believe any of it.'
I've spoken to strangers in the street about politics regularly since 2003, in every corner of the UK and across the world, from Bethlehem to Boston. And I've become accustomed to the resigned disengagement of the late neoliberal era: 'They're all the same', used to be the most common complaint, a version of the iconic slogan of capitalist realism: 'there is no alternative', the product of a society where decision making had been privatised.
In more recent years, as austerity struck and wages contracted, this shifted to 'I don't trust any of them.' But in this election, that ratcheted up a notch. There is a new catchphrase, often almost spat with fury: 'it's just a pack of lies' said Ian, outside a chain pub in the northern English town of Hartlepool.
Like many people I spoke to, there was a recognition of difference: 'The worst is that top one, I call him Boris Karloff', he said. But the effect of this wasn't to make him vote Labour. It was to ensure that he, a long term Labour voter, now had so little faith in politics that he wasn't sure if he'd vote at all.
In 49 of the 56 seats Labour lost to the Tories, turnout was down. One Labour activist, who had spent Election Day in an outer London commuter town reminding traditional Labour supporters to vote, told me that huge numbers of people who had backed the party in the past chose not to take part this time. In the constituency he was campaigning in, Milton Keynes North, turnout was down by 3.3%. The Conservatives got the same vote as in 2017, but their majority increased, also by 3.3%.
Perversely, the rage with politics has more of an impact on the left: the idea that the state can be used for the public good dissolves in a vial of distrust.
Campaign technologies and the far right
That a mainstream political party in a major European country should win a sizeable majority based on a campaign intended to foment fury with politics is something that should concern us all. And so too should the tools it used.
Two years ago, whilst posing as a potential funder at a rightwing political event in London, I met a former employee for Theresa May who had recently taken a job with a company called UK Policy Group. He told me that he did the sort of public relations that you can't commission – the kind of work where one chooses one's clients.
A quick search of the UK company register and pooling knowledge with the NGO Spinwatch revealed that UK Policy Group was a new, British arm of an American company called Definers Public Relations. At the time, it was most famous for running the smear campaigns against Hillary Clinton in 2016. Definers subsequently changed its name after accusations of anti-Semitism: it was hired to spin for Facebook after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and was caught passing round a file about the Jewish billionaire George Soros, a significant funder of various of the groups who had been involved in highlighting the scandal in the first place – including openDemocracy.
I adopted a similar persona at the recent World Congress on Families in Verona, a gathering of ultraconservative and far right parties from around the world. There, I met a tech-savvy political operative connected to the Tea Party and a range of Republican Political Action Committees in the USA. This man, Darien Rafie, was a specialist in getting bulk-emails through Google's hate-speech filters, and using cutting edge data-extraction technology to prepare 'get out the vote' operations for Trump ahead of the 2020 elections.
At the World Congress on Families, Rafie told me how he gave regular advice to the European campaign group CitizenGO, who are famous for their brutal online campaigns. After waving a large theoretical cheque in front of CitizenGo's iconoclastic director, Ignacio Arsuaga, he bragged to me about his organisation's connections with far-right parties across Europe, and said he could spend my donation on smearing their opponents in the coming European elections.
Arsuaga introduced me to a senior figure in Spain's far right party, Vox, who compared CitizenGo to an American Super PAC, the new form of political action committee notorious for running bare fisted smear campaigns in recent US elections. Definers, whose UK staffer I met in London, is connected to the Super PAC America Rising.
A few days later, I was sat in the foyer of a swanky Spanish hotel with the smooth, American accented Vox spokesman Iván Esponosa de los Monteros. I asked him how many seats he expected his new party would get in the election:
'We're coming from scratch. There are 350 seats. It's going to be a big number,' he replied.
'Are we talking three figures?' I asked.
'Not three,' he said, 'but the high twos.'
He invited me to Vox's rally in a bullring south of Madrid that weekend, which he was compèring. A Spanish colleague sat apart from me and translated a string of sexist creeds into my Whatsapp. A man in front draped himself in a flag on which he'd written 'Espagna de Facha: Vox'. Nationalist chants echoed around the steep stadium, and Spain's new far right force was convinced it was rushing towards a massive breakthrough.
In the elections which followed, though, something extraordinary happened. Turnout increased by 5.3%. Huge numbers of new voters showed up to block the first serious far right party since Franco. Vox did get into the Spanish Congress, but they won only 24 seats: hardly the 'high two' figure numbers that Iván had assured me.
Speaking to me for this piece, Espinosa said he'd never heard a sexist comment at a Vox event.
But the story doesn't end there. In November 2019, with no party managing to pull together a coalition government, Spain had a second election. This time, growing disillusionment with politics meant that turnout fell and Vox's vote increased. They won 52 seats. "Seems like I was right about my number prediction", Espinosa said to me, this week.
Manufacturing disillusion
In a sense, Vox was lucky. As a marginal party, it was able to tap into the distrust generated by the failures of other parties – the Catalan conflict, the difficulties of the Spanish economy, and persistent corruption scandals.
When Boris Johnson came to power in the UK in summer 2019, he was in a very different position: in government. As well as tapping into frustration at Theresa May's failure to pass a Brexit deal, he had the levers to actively manufacture disillusion. By proroguing parliament, spinning lies through anonymous media briefings, and railing against parliament, he waged war on faith in democracy.
Alongside this government-led war on truth and trust, Tories and their supporters launched an armada of outriders. Throughout the election, my inboxes filled up with screengrabs of Facebook adverts that friends and contacts were seeing from previously unknown groups, attacking Labour. Some of these pages were policy led. Others were more toxic: one page I uncovered promoted on Facebook an image that seemed to be calling for the assassination of Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
When I investigated who was behind these pages, all of them presented themselves as grassroots groups. But in more than one case, I quickly found links to Britain's organised right, to the public relations industry, and to the UK's nexus of dark-money funded think tanks. Using the monitoring website Crowdtangle, I tracked the reach of these pages and found them spreading attack messages across the country: from the day the election was called to the day of the vote, videos posted by these pages were viewed 16m times – and it's not possible to trace how many saw their images, gifs and memes. By contrast, anti-Brexit and pro-Labour outriders only managed around 4.7m video views.
It is pages like these that filled Jade's Facebook timeline with spurious information. And Wes's. And millions more besides. They helped create the sense that 'they're all liars'. They were designed to drive down turnout and up support for the 'strong man' who wasn't promising too much, but who pledged to get politics out of your face rather than using it to improve your life.
Disinformation and the mainstream press
In the run up to the election, a leading conservative commentator in the UK, the Daily Mail columnist Peter Oborne, took aim at his colleagues. Writing for openDemocracy, he accused them of becoming 'part of Johnson's fake news machine'.
'Dodgy stories and commentary linked to Downing Street or government sources started to appear in the press and media after Johnson installed his own media team,' Oborne wrote. His criticism, though, wasn't targeted so much at Boris Johnson – that came later. Rather, he complained that his fellow journalists were too willing to repeat the claims of anonymous government sources, 'feral smear merchants', as he called them on TV. And when the government is led by a notorious liar, that opens up a motorway for disinformation.
After openDemocracy published the story, the ITV news editor, Robert Peston, wrote us a response, defending the use of anonymous sources. 'Democracy is served', he wrote, 'when we know how people in politics think and speak.'
It was a statement that would come back to bite him. Three days before the election, a video circulated of Peston's ITV colleague Joe Pike attempting to show Boris Johnson a photo on his phone of a sick child forced to sleep on the floor of a full hospital. Johnson refused to look at the phone, and instead took it and thrust it into his pocket. The exchange was seen by millions online, and became the main story of the day.
In an attempt to clean up the mess, Health Secretary Matt Hancock was dispatched to the hospital, where he was met by a protest. Here is how Peston himself, as well as the BBC political editor, the political editor of The Sun and one of Peston's ITV colleagues reported what happened next.
Pushed by the country's leading political journalists, the story that a protester had punched Hancock's advisor went viral. It was seen by millions, as was the claim that Labour had paid for taxis to send a hundred protesters to the hospital.
There was a problem, though. Footage emerged showing that the reality was very different. There were only about five people protesting, and none of them had punched anyone. The story was a lie, invented by the Conservative party press office to distract from an image that summed up a decade of underinvestment in the National Health Service. The journalists who had amplified this disinformation apologised for their mistake – precisely the error Oborne had warned them about – but whether any lessons have been learned is another matter.
Generally, however, the main broadcasters in the UK do not actively spread disinformation. While the UK's biggest newspapers are a question for another day – The Sun, published what was literally a neo-Nazi conspiracy theory the weekend before the election – British TV and radio journalists have had a different role in the construction of political cynicism. They have not lied so much as bought into the idea that all politicians are the same, behaving as though it is their job to treat outright fabrications and ambitious policy proposals as the same category of claim. This bullshit balance and general sneering is just as significant as disinformation and smearing.
The night before the election, for example, the BBC's 'serious' channel, Radio4, broadcast a montage of moments in the election aimed to make the point that all the protagonists had misled voters in different ways. Those who cut this clip together were very careful to 'balance' their coverage, criticising each party equally. No doubt they are dedicated to what they see as impartiality.
But once you understand that the key Conservative campaign message was 'don't trust politics, get it out of the way', while Labour's was 'trust politics to transform your life', you can see this for what it was: an advert for Boris Johnson. This message was the main theme of most coverage of the election, and it pointed directly to the Tory slogan: 'get Brexit done'.
In general, the BBC had a poor election. A large percentage of its audience concluded – with good reason – that it was biased against Labour, or at least unable to cope with Johnson's onslaught of lies. Trust in the BBC fell by 7% over the last two months, with less than half of British views now seeing it as impartial. But this subtler tilt in its coverage – its promotion of political cynicism, its obsession with personality over policy – is much more serious than any other issue of potential unfairness in its reporting.
One of the most striking features of my conversations around the UK ahead of the general election was just how furious people are with this coverage of politics. 'Childish' was the most common word. 'We just switch off', one woman said.
Again and again, people complained that reporters did little to tell them what politicians were actually proposing to do for the country. Instead, they focussed on personalities, sniping and bickering. And this trend, to cover politics as though it is reality TV, rather than a negotiation about how we live together, is surely the most significant way that the media drives alienation and disengagement. It rides alongside disinformation and dark money as the horses of our democratic apocalypse.
Possible futures
There are two possible paths forward.
One was outlined to me whilst I was undercover in Italy by the Trump campaigner I met, Darien Rafie. He said he was CTO of a voter contact tool that his company would be using in the 2020 elections in the US. 'There is a lot of stuff to be done with mobile phones and geo-fencing areas', he said, not knowing my phone was recording in my pocket.
'Say there's a rally somewhere, like one of these big Trump campaign rallies, what we'll do is we'll draw a polygon around that event and then we'll register all the phones that were there…'
'So we get it all and then we follow those phones home, and then we know who they are, and what they do, and now I know what your Netflix unique ID is, and I've got your Facebook unique ID, so then I can communicate with you through a whole variety of ways.'
'It's very scary. Because you can correlate it to personal information very quickly. And then you can figure, OK, this guy likes Stranger Things...'
A couple of months after my conversation with Rafie, the US website ThinkProgress revealed a transcript that showed former Trump aide Steve Bannon claiming that CatholicVote – one of the organisations Rafie works with – tracks who goes into church, via their phones, and extracts data, presumably for Trump's re-election campaign.
'If your phone's ever been in a Catholic church, it's amazing, they got this data,' Bannon said. 'Literally, they can tell who's been in a Catholic church and how frequently.' This information was then used to target 'get out the vote' adverts in the mid-term elections in Iowa, Bannon claimed.
'We can do it in Europe too', Rafie told me of the tech.
Without action, Europe will slide into this geofenced future. Poisoned with disinformation, people are being persuaded to turn against increasingly unresponsive democratic structures. After generations of neoliberalism, citizens have become alienated from their states. Surveillance capitalists have the power to stoke their rage and to redraw the boundaries of their communities.
The fightback, therefore, is not a defence of our current institutions. To defeat disinformation, we must build political structures that connect people to the practical reality around them. We must nurture a verdant democracy that outgrows their cynicism. People are right to hate our outdated political systems. Unless democrats win the argument to replace them with real and deep democracy, we will lose.
*The original draft of this report said 0% of Labour's did. However, after further research published later, they updated this to say that 7% of ads contained or linked to claims they consider misleading. This article has been updated (4 Jan 2020) to reflect the updated research. The article has also been updated to more accurately reflect the vote Milton Keynes.
This piece is published as part of a Europe-wide collaboration organised by Eurozine.
The UK government is running a secretive unit inside Michael Gove's Cabinet Office that's accused of 'blacklisting' journalists and hiding 'sensitive' information from the public. Experts say they're breaking the law – and it's an assault on our right to know what our government is doing.
We're not going to let it stand. We're launching a legal battle – but we also need a huge public outcry, showing that thousands back our call for transparency. Will you add your name?


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In diagnosis, molecular diagnostics brought transformative changes leading to insight in research and treatment of many diseases.
Molecular diagnostics detect and measure the presence of genetic material or proteins associated with a specific health condition or disease, helping to uncover the underlying mechanisms of disease and enabling clinicians to tailor care at an individual level.
Molecular diagnostics is laboratory tests used to identify a disease, or the predisposition to a disease, by analyzing DNA- (deoxyribonucleic acid) or RNA (ribonucleic acid) or their proteins, in humans or, in the case of infections, in microbes. It includes all tests and methods to identify a disease and understand the predisposition for a disease analyzing DNA or RNA of an organism. With the help of molecular diagnostic,the understanding of diseases is now possible at much earlier stage, which is not possible using traditional methods and it also facilitates understanding of gene pattern and detecting of cell behavior.
The market value for molecular diagnostics is expected to reach 19,683 Million in 2026. North America accounts for the highest market share followed by Europe and Asia-Pacific. In 2017, North America holds the market value of USD 3730 Million.
The market is driven by increasing number of incidence and prevalence of diseases like cancer, infectious disease, respiratory disorders, hematology disorders etc. Research and development of techniques in molecular diagnostics also influences the market.
Molecular diagnostics tests are applied in the area of infectious disease like human immunodeficiency virus(HIV), influenza virus detection etc., oncological disease like breast cancer, prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer etc., respiratory diseases like cystic fibrosis etc. In hematological diseases like acute myeloid leukemia etc., molecular diagnostics tests are helpful.
Biomarkers detection for cancer disease are also done through molecular diagnostics tests. Molecular diagnostics tests include technologies like polymerase chain reaction (PCR), next generation sequencing (NGS), In situ hybridization (ISH), mass spectrometry etc., used for the detection. Now a days, these technologies are getting advanced and automated that reduce the labor and time of results.
Roche is covering the maximum market with approximately 26 percent. Its product Cobas system is being used widely in the diagnosis of human papilloma virus (HPV), Staphylococcus aureus(SA) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA), Serine/threonine-protein kinase B-rafRapidly Accelerated Fibrosarcoma (BRAF) mutation test, Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) test etc.
Hologic Inc shares the approximately 15 percent of molecular diagnostics market. Panther system, a proprietary product of the company, used in the diagnosis of influenza A virus, influenza B virus, respiratory syncytial virus, human metapneumovirus, rhinovirus, parainfluenza virus, gram-positive bacterium Streptococcus agalactiae etc.
In 2016, Danaher Corporation acquired the Cepheid Inc a molecular diagnostics company. In August 2016, the Myriad genetics completed the acquisition of Assurex Health, Inc. In May 2016, Myriad genetics completed the acquisition of Sividon Diagnostics GmbH, a leading breast cancer prognostic company.


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MSCA Individual Fellowships intend to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers, wishing to diversify their individual competence in terms of skill acquisition through advanced training, international and intersectoral mobility. Individual Fellowships provide opportunities to acquire and transfer new knowledge and to work on research and innovation in a European context (EU Member States and Associated Countries) or outside Europe. The scheme particularly supports the return and reintegration of researchers from outside Europe who have previously worked here. It also develops or helps to restart the careers of individual researchers that show great potential, considering their experience.
Experienced researchers from anywhere in the world can apply.
Requirements: doctoral degree or at least four years' full-time research experience by the time of the call deadline. Mobility across borders is a must.
Check types of MSCA actions and verify your eligibility on MSCA website.
there is a mandatory one-year return period to Europe.
Both types can also include a secondment period of up to 3 or 6 months in another organisation in Europe, where this can boost the impact of the fellowship.
The grant provides allowances to cover your living, travel and family costs. The research costs and management costs of the host organisation(s) are also supported.
If you wish to apply for a Marie Sklodowska Curie Action Individual Fellowship, please contact UniTO European Research Office at cstf@unito.it which will offer you assistance on preparation of your proposal: helping with the call technicalities (i.e. ECAS account registration), proofreading and copyediting, providing tips and hints about the technical parts (i.e. Implementation section) of the proposal.
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The Encinitas 101 MainStreet Association presented its 17th Annual Safe Trick-or-Treat event Oct. 31 at South Coast Hwy 101, from Encinitas Blvd to K Street.
The event included carved pumpkins on display at multiple viewing locations, merchants had goodies for kids who also had the opportunity to enjoy Halloween-themed activities and games in The Lumberyard Courtyard, courtesy of the 101 Artists Colony, plus dancing to the live music of Bucket Ruckus. Visit www.encinitas101.com.


In 2014, MOHE (then MOE) set up a Working Committee on the Preparation of Network Infrastructure or JKKPIR (Jawatankuasa Kerja Penyediaan Infrastruktur Rangkaian) in Bahasa Malaysia, to study the effectiveness of MYREN and to propose the direction of this network in line with the aspirations set forth in the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015-2025 (Higher Education).
2. Maximum bandwidth speed of only 2 Gbps for most research universities, which is then shared among the lecturers, students and educational and research laboratories within each university.
3. The average bandwidth that each student of the country's higher education institutions gets is 0.05 Mbps or 5 Kbps (range: between 0.01 to 0.19 Mbps). This average speed is lower than the speed that can be achieved with the broadband service normally subscribed by residential or via mobile phone users.
4. Research and education networks need to have separate infrastructure from the public Internet infrastructure because of their unique demand and usages. The usage in teaching and learning by lecturers and students requires considerable capacity over a long period of time; whereas usage in researches requires very huge and very stable capacity within a short period of time but with irregular scheduling or on ad-hoc basis.
5. Not all campuses are connected. MYREN only connects to main campuses or specific laboratories, which limits access to valuable resources such as laboratory equipment and high performance computing facility. In addition, the opportunity to make distance/remote learning or virtual lecture is limited as it is unable to share lecturers and other sources of reference or not have the opportunity to conduct virtual collaboration.
Provides bandwidth speeds of up to 100 Gbps as connection to international gateways through Asi@Connect for research universities analogous to other countries.
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Provides specialised dedicated infrastructure and facilities such as an experiment platform in science and technology which is separate from the public Internet, as well as high-performance data centres.
Provides a basic network that can support up to 400 Gbps capacity, where speeds of up to 10 Gbps can be provided to every university campus, polytechnic and community colleges, and speeds of up to 1 Gbps can be provided to other higher education and research institutions.
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