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NetApp, formerly Network Appliance Inc., is a company in the computer technologies industry specializing in data storage hardware and associated management software. NetApp storage equipment is used by enterprises and service providers to store and to share large amounts of digital data across physical and hybrid cloud environments.
The NetApp storage hardware includes all-flash and hybrid storage systems for block, file and object storage. NetApp storage systems integrate with major public cloud service providers and natively support VMware vSphere for virtualized workloads.
NetApp, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2017, is publicly traded and ranks 468th on the Fortune 500. The company first incorporated in April 1992 in Santa Clara, Calif. In 2001, NetApp reincorporated in Delaware and relocated its headquarters to a 58-acre campus in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Analyst firm IDC ranked NetApp third in external storage revenue through November 2017, up 6% to nearly $701 billion year over year. That placed it ahead of IBM, trailing market leader Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and No. 2-ranked Dell Inc.
NetApp company history
Founders Dave Hitz, James Lau and Michael Malcolm started Network Appliance in 1992. The three were professional colleagues at now-defunct Auspex Systems, an early Network Appliance competitor.
The first Network Appliance product was a file server appliance -- known generically now as NetApp filers -- to eliminate the overhead traditionally associated with competing storage products. Network Appliance brought the product to market in 1994, aided by nearly $13 million in venture funding, led by Sequoia Capital. The product's design foreshadowed the concept of disaggregation: a storage filer was connected to, yet independent of, a nonprogrammable compute server.
Initially, NetApp marketed its filers to Unix-based technical workgroups writing client-server programming software for the Network File System (NFS). The technology proved to be a steppingstone to NetApp's emergence as an innovator of network-attached storage (NAS) systems.
Malcolm was NetApp's first president and CEO, but was forced out in 1994 by investors preparing to take the company public. Daniel Warmenhoven replaced Malcolm and led NetApp to its initial public offering (IPO) of stock in November 1995. The stock sale raised nearly $26 million, "just in the nick of time, because we were out of money," Hitz wrote in his history of NetApp, titled "How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons in Risk, Growth and Success in Business."
By the mid-1990s, NetApp generated most of its revenue from the sale of network filers and cache appliances. By then, the market had started to evolve beyond the Unix and NT workstations that had been the core of NetApp's early growth. NetApp shifted gears to ride the Internet wave, selling storage products to high-tech and internet-based companies. Revenues grew from roughly $250 million to more than $1 million between 1999 and 2001.
Roughly 70% of NetApp sales came from internet-based firms during that time. The price for NetApp stock soared to $150 per share at its high point, but the dot-com bubble wiped out almost all the gains. By 2001, NetApp revenues fell to $800 million. Share prices dropped to approximately $6, forcing NetApp to enact its first round of layoffs.
Following the collapse, NetApp switched to target large enterprise customers across vertical markets, including automotive, banking and financial services, energy, government, healthcare and manufacturing. Specifically, NetApp aimed its NAS line at organizations that used it to complement, and in some cases replace, traditional Fibre Channel (FC)-based storage area networks (SANs).
NetApp started selling block-storage SANs in 2002, supporting FC and Ethernet-based iSCSI connectivity. The move into SANs intensified NetApp's competition against rival EMC, which trailed NetApp in NAS market share at the time but still led the SAN market. EMC and NetApp were the largest pure-play storage companies, while other competitors such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard sold servers and storage.
In 2009, Warmenhoven turned over the CEO reins to Tom Georgens. However, Warmenhoven continued as NetApp's chairman until 2014.
Prior to taking over the top spot, Georgens served as NetApp chief operating officer. During Georgens' tenure, NetApp revenues peaked at $6.3 billion in 2014, but the vendor fell behind other legacy storage vendors in bringing all-flash, cloud and hyper-converged products systems to market.
NetApp fired Georgens in 2015 after a string of disappointing quarters, marked by flat earnings and sluggish customer upgrades from OnTap-7 Mode to clustered OnTap. George Kurian took over as CEO after serving in several executive roles at NetApp, including most recently as its executive vice president of product development.
NetApp became the largest predominantly storage company after Dell acquired EMC for more than $60 billion in September 2016.
In February 2018, NetApp reported quarterly revenue of $1.52 billion. The results included sales of SolidFire all-flash arrays acquired in 2015. Cloud and flash storage sales accounted for about 70% of product revenue in 2017.
Department of Justice probe involving trade sanctions
In 2011, The Washington Post reported that NetApp was suspected of violating U.S. trade sanctions by selling storage equipment to the government of Syria, which had been designated a state sponsor of terrorism. NetApp's gear reportedly surfaced in a surveillance network designed to scoop up email and other communications of rebels opposed to the government of Syrian President Bashar Hafaz el-Assad.
NetApp was one of several companies ensnared in the probe, which also included HPE. The storage gear purportedly was sold originally by NetApp's Italian subsidiary to an authorized vendor, who subsequently resold it to Area SpA, a Milan, Italy company that develops systems to monitor and intercept digital data communications.
In 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice concluded after a lengthy probe that NetApp was cleared of any wrongdoing.
Major products, features and use cases
The vendor's flagship product line is the branded Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS) array, available in all-flash and hybrid configurations. Multiprotocol FAS arrays support block storage with FC, FC over Ethernet and iSCSI, with file support for CIFS, NFS and SMB protocols.
FAS arrays run the NetApp OnTap operating system software (formerly known as Data OnTap). NetApp FAS provides shared NAS and SAN storage, as well as serving as a data store for NetApp FlexPod and Nflex Converged Infrastructure products.
NetApp FlexPod combines FAS storage with Cisco Unified Computing System servers and Cisco Nexus fabric switches. Nflex bundles All-Flash FAS (AFF) or hybrid arrays with Fujitsu Primergy CX400 M4 x86 scale-out servers, with network switches by vendor Extreme Networks.
A video tutorial on using the
NetApp OnTap 9 operating system.
NetApp's OnTap software, also known as clustered OnTap, provides automated data placement, cloning, data tiering, flexible volume RAID groups, inline data reduction, hybrid caching, metro clustering, quality of service, and triple-parity RAID 6 data protection.
OnTap SnapCenter and SnapManager uses array-based snapshots with asynchronous replication to any NetApp storage, including mirrors, rapid restores, space-efficient vaulting and volume encryption. The NetApp OnCommand System Manager GUI provides simplified device-level management for configuring and provisioning of OnTap-based storage.
NetApp OnTap Select is a software-only version that can run on a customer's choice of server hardware. OnTap Cloud allows customers to choose Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM Cloud or Microsoft Azure as a FAS target for private or hybrid cloud storage.
Engenio, AltaVault and SolidFire acquisitions
The NetApp primary storage portfolio has grown through several acquisitions completed in recent years.
In 2015, NetApp paid a reported $870 million to acquire the assets of all-flash array vendor SolidFire. The transaction occurred after NetApp's fitful development of its branded FlashRay all-flash system, which was available only as a single node. The FlashRay product was scrapped following the SolidFire merger.
NetApp SolidFire storage arrays are powered by the Element OS operating system, a core feature of which is its ActiveIQ predictive cloud-based analytics for diagnosing data and system hygiene. SolidFire arrays provide the storage component in NetApp HCI, a hyper-converged product introduced in 2017.
NetApp's HCI hyper-converged storage product is designed around SolidFire all-flash storage.
In May 2011, NetApp paid $480 million to acquire the Engenio block storage systems from LSI Corp., later part of Avago Technologies. Avago subsequently was bought in 2015 by Broadcom Technologies, which itself was acquired and is now part of Broadcom Limited. NetApp rebranded Engenio as its E-Series hybrid flash system. E-Series storage is powered by the SANtricity operating system and provides an entry-level hybrid system for distributed DevOps environments to build big data, cloud, mobile and social applications.
SANtricity includes point-in-time snapshots and an SSD cache for hot reads, automated data placement between storage tiers, and tools for managing Hadoop-based big data lifecycles. The SANtricity snapshots are copies of a local storage volume. Secondary servers can access a suspended writable copy for backup, data mining, file restores and testing.
OnTap software upgrades in recent years have integrated cross-platform replication between SANtricity and SolidFire Element.
NetApp StorageGrid Webscale object storage is based on technology gained by a 2010 acquisition of Canadian vendor Bycast. Version 11 of NetApp StorageGrid allows customers to mirror on-premises unstructured data to an Amazon cloud instance.
For secondary storage, NetApp picked up the SteelStore line of cloud backup appliances from Riverbed Technologies in 2014, rebranding the product as NetApp AltaVault. Customers can buy AltaVault as a physical product on FAS arrays, as a virtual storage appliance for Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware ESX, or as an appliance in AWS or Microsoft Azure public clouds.
The SteelStore acquisition gave NetApp a purpose-built backup appliance after it lost a bidding war to archrival EMC to acquire deduplication appliance specialist Data Domain in 2009.
In 2017, NetApp acquired startup Plexistor, announcing plans to integrate its storage-class memory software as a fast, low-latency tier in OnTap and Element OSes.
Recent news includes focus on hybrid cloud Data Fabric
Also in 2017, NetApp acquired Iceland-based Greenqloud, with plans to integrate the cloud management software as part of NetApp Data Fabric technologies. NetApp Data Fabric, introduced in 2015, gives customers a method to seamlessly manage applications and associated data across any NetApp storage locally and in multiple hybrid clouds.
Data Fabric storage-as-a-service subscriptions include Cloud Sync and NetApp Cloud Control for Microsoft Office 365. Cloud Sync is a synchronization engine that transfers data between local NFS storage and the AWS Simple Storage Service (S3), aimed at enterprises crunching big data for real-time analytics.
Customers use Cloud Control for Microsoft Office 365 backup to protect application data in Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive using AWS S3 or Microsoft Azure.
NetApp Private Storage (NPS) for Cloud is a scalable service that lets customers burst into the public cloud during peak computing demand, while retaining local control of data. NPS is designed to use AWS, IBM Cloud or Microsoft Azure as cloud targets for FAS storage hosted in colocation data centers.
This was last updated in April 2018
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A bódhiszattva (kínai: 菩薩 pú sà, japán: boszacu) a mahájána és a théraváda buddhizmusban az a személy, aki elhatározta, hogy eléri a buddhaság szintjét. A szanszkrit kifejezés szó szerinti jelentése "megvilágosodott (bodhi) lény (szattva)".

A théraváda buddhizmusban csupán 24 bódhiszattva van.

Bódhiszattvák
Bódhiszattvák részleges listája, akiket tisztelnek Indiában, Mongóliában, Tibetben, Japánban és a kínai hagyományokban:
 Ákásagarbha

(kínai: 虛空藏, Xūkōngzàng, koreai: Hogongdzsang, japán: Kokúzó, vietnámi: Hư Không Tạng) A megszámlálhatatlan érző lényen való segítség által létrejött végtelen boldogság bodhiszattvája.

 Avalókitésvara
(kínai: 觀音, Guanyin, koreai: Kvanum, japán: Kannon, tibeti: Csenrezig, vietnámi: Quán Thế Âm) Az együttérzés bódhiszattvája, a világ siralmának meghallója, aki ügyesen van mások segítségére. A mahájána buddhizmus legáltalánosabban elfogadott bódhiszattvája. Kelet-Ázsiában Kuanjinként, Tibetben Csenrezigként, Mongóliában Migdzsid Dzsanraiszig néven ismerik.
 Ksitigarbha

(kínai: 地藏, Dìzáng, koreai: Csidzsang, japán: Dzsizó, tibeti: Szai Nyingpo, vietnámi: Địa Tạng).  A pokollakók bódhiszattvája és a nagy fogadalmak bódhiszattvája.

 Mahászthámaprápta
(kínai: 大勢至, Dashìzhì, koreai: Teszedzsi, japán: Daiszeisi, vietnámi: Đại Thế Chí) A bölcsesség erejének megtestesítője, akit a Tiszta Föld buddhizmusban Amitábha Buddha bal oldalán ábrázolják.
 Maitréja

(kínai: 彌勒, Mílè, koreai: Miruk, japán: Miroku, vietnámi: Di Lạc) A bódhiszattva, aki újjászületése után a Gautama Buddha utáni korszak Buddhája lesz.

 Mandzsusrí

(kínai: 文殊, Wénshū, koreai: Munszu, japán: Mondzsu, tibeti: Dzsampeljang, vietnámi: Văn Thù)
Az éberség és a bölcsesség bódhiszattvája.

 Nágárdzsuna
(kínai: 龍樹, Long Shu, vietnámi: Long Thọ) A madhjamaka (középút) irányzat alapítója.
 Nio
Buddha két erős védelmezője. Japánban és Koreában sok buddhista templom bejáratát őrzik - ijesztő, birkózó-szerű szobrok. Ezek Vadzsrapani bódhiszattva megtestesülései.
 Padmaszambhava
(kínai: 蓮華生上師,  Lianhuasheng Shang Shi, tibeti: Pemadzsungne vagy Guru Rinpocse) Leginkább a  tibeti és bhutáni buddhizmushoz köthető. A nyingma iskola Padmaszambhavát második Buddhának tekinti.
 Szamantabhadra

(kínai: 普賢, Pǔxián, koreai: Pohjon, japán: Fugen, tibeti: Küntu Zangpo, vietnámi: Phổ Hiền) Minden Buddha gyakorlatának és meditációjának ábrázolója.

 Szangharama
(kínai: 伽藍, Qie Lan, vietnámi: Già Lam) Csupán a kínai buddhizmusban és a taoizmusban imádják.
 Santidéva
8. századi tudós, aki írt a különböző bódhiszattvákról.
Szitatapatra
A fehér ernyő istennője, a természetfeletti veszélyek elleni védelmező.
 Szkanda
(kínai: 韋馱, Wei Tuo) Haragos isten, a dharma védelmezője. Elsősorban a kínai buddhizmusban tisztelik.
 Szupuspacsandra
Sántideva művében, az Útmutató a Bódhiszattva életmódhoz című műben említik.
Szurjavairócsana
(kínai: 日光, Ri Guang, koreai: Il Guang, japán: Nikkō) Bhaisadzsjaguru Buddha szolgája.
 Tárá
(kínai: 度母, Du Mu) Női bódhiszattva, vagy több bódhiszattva a tibeti buddhizmusban. A munka sikerének és a teljesítmény bódhiszattvája, egyben Avalókitésvara egyik megtestesülése.
 Vadzsrapáni

(kínai: 金剛手, Jīngāngshǒu, koreai: Kumkangszu, japán: Kongósu, tibeti: Csanna Dordzse, vietnámi: Kim cương thủ'') A mahájána egyik korai bódhiszattvája, Buddha és földi bódhiszattvák legfőbb védelmezője.Vaszudhara'''
A bőség és termékenység bódhiszattvája. Népszerű Nepálban.

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Nova Scotia aims to attract more tourism from China
CTV Atlantic Published Saturday, April 14, 2018 2:18PM ADT
From the bustling streets of Beijing, to the tranquility of the Cabot trail. The two are half-a-world apart, and about as different too.
But international student Xin Li who has been living in Sydney for seven months says she thinks people from her home country would visit here.
"I think just like me, they will enjoy the quietness of small towns, the beauty of nature," says Li.
From the Far East to the East Coast; Nova Scotia is trying to attract more tourism from China, spending $150,000 to expand its marketing presence in Beijing.
"I think that the China market is absolutely the market that we should be looking at," says Mary Tulle of Destination Cape Breton.
Tulle says China is currently the number two market in international visitors to Canada, a market her agency wants to tap into.
One idea is to partner with Cape Breton University and train Chinese students to be tour guides.
"We know that Chinese tourists are coming now, we know that there are 25 tour operators and tour wholesalers that are already coming to Nova Scotia, and 15 of those to Cape Breton island," says Tulle.
Tourism Nova Scotia is expanding its marketing presence in Beijing in the form of a $150,000, one year contract with a media capital in the Chinese capital.
It's an investment in what the province calls a lucrative tourism market, that it's hoping will pay off sooner than later.
"We're hoping for this tourism season, next tourism season. Obviously we're on the trajectory to get $4 billion in revenue, we need that Chinese market," says Geoff MacLellan, Nova Scotia's Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal.
Of course they have to make it as easy as possible to get here. The closest economy flight from China lands in Montreal. There is now a direct flight between Beijing and Halifax, but it's only for the lobster industry.
"I think it works in both directions. I think business relationships will turn into tourism opportunities, and tourism visitors will materialize into business investments," says MacLellan.
"We have outdoor, we have nature, so we understand who the Chinese visitor is, and what they're looking for," says Tulle.
2018 has been declared by both countries' governments as 'the year of Canada-Chinese tourism'. So it's hoped these new Bluenose promotions in Beijing will be as effective as they are timely.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Ryan MacDonald.
Nova Scotia's Transportation Minister Geoff MacLellan says the province's tourism industry is on the trajectory to make $4 billion in revenue.
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Home » 4/14/2000 – FDA Doc Claims Fen-Phen Cover-Up
4/14/2000 – FDA Doc Claims Fen-Phen Cover-Up
Posted on April 14, 2000 April 14, 2000 by admin | No Comments
More "hanky-panky" in the pharmaceutical industry. Did you see
this article posted this week on the CBS news site? There is a
link on our site to the class-action lawsuit suit if you or someone
you know has been effected by fen-phen. Mark
http://cbsnews.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,181616-412,00.shtml
FDA Doc Claims Fen-Phen Cover-Up
* Says Drug Maker Altered His Findings
* Diet Drug Linked To Heart, Lung Maladies
* Company Agreed To $4.8 Billion Settlement Last Year
(CBS) The drug company that manufactured "fen-phen," a diet
medication linked to heart ailments, covered up problems with
the drug that emerged during Food and Drug Administration
testing, a former FDA scientist tells CBS News.
Fen-phen was removed from the market in 1997. Thousands of
people who took the drug have sued American Home Products
of Madison, N.J., for health problems they claim the drug caused.
In an Eye on America investigation, CBS News Correspondent
Sharyl Attkisson reports the FDA's key reviewer of fen-phen, Dr.
Leo Lutwak, claims the company knew about the problems long
before the drug was pulled.
"I felt from the very beginning the drug companies were covering
up. I felt from the very beginning that these drugs were
dangerous," said Lutwak.
He claims American Home Products twisted the meaning of his
research to make it seem as if there was no way to predict
fen-phen's hazards.
"What I had actually written was, that in view of the covering up of
information by the drug company, the FDA had no way of
predicting some of these side effects," he said.
One of those who sued American Home Products was Patricia
Buol, who developed severe heart problems after taking
fen-phen. She's now in line for a life saving heart-lung transplant.
The company settled with Buol this week.
"Being part of my kids' lives and doing their everyday activities is
a struggle," said Buol. "But I just take one day at a time and do
the best I can."
Dr. Lutwak's testimony is crucial to fen-phen cases like Buol's.
But the FDA won't let him testify. Now Lutwak says he's planning
to retire, making him free to testify at will.
"I followed the rules and regulations, I didn't go public. I tried to
work within the system, it didn't work. People died as a result of a
dangerous deadly drug being released," he said.
Defendant American Home Products would not be interviewed,
but has said in the past it "acted responsibly and lawfully."
FDA Commissioner Jane Henney refused a CBS News request
to answer the allegations.
The agency's last commissioner, Dr. David Kessler, criticized the
agency's current approach to drug regulation.
"I have some concerns that we may be losing sight of what the
FDA is all about," said Kessler. "The question is, who's the
agency's customers? Who's the agency partner?"
Consumer advocates say the FDA is constantly keeping
damaging information from the public.
"They view the drug industry in many ways as their customers, at
least the bosses do, as opposed to viewing the public as the
customers they need to protect from some of the excesses of the
drug industry," said Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen.
Concerns about the FDA also emerged during the controversy
over the diabetes drug Rezulin.
Kessler said the agency needs to realize the American
consumer is its customer.
American Home Products also makes such drugs as
Caordarone, Sectral, Protonix, Synvisc and Pnu-Imune.
Fen-phen is actually a combination of two drugs, fenfluramine
and phentermine, which work by suppressing the appetite of a
person who is trying to lose weight.
It was estimated that in 1996, 18 million Americans took the
drugs.
FDA: Under The Micriscope
Click here to read CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson's
reports on the FDA and the diabetes drug RezulinBut a report in
the August 1997 New England Journal of Medicine found that
fenfluramine can in some cases lead to pulmonary
hypertension, a rare, almost always fatal, disease. It was also
linked to heart valve malfunction.
In September, 1997, the FDA, saying it was "acting on new
evidence about significant side-effects," asked the
manufacturers to voluntarily withdraw both medications,
marketed under the names Pondimin (fen-phen), and Redux, a
similar medication.
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, a subsidiary of American Home
Products, complied.
However, the company continued to deny the drugs caused the
alleged problems. In November, 1998, Wyeth-Ayerst published a
study that compared heart function in people who had taken
fen-phen and a group who hadn't, and concluded there was "no
significant differences in cardiovascular clinical outcomes."
But that didn't stop the fen-phen fallout.
A February, 1999 60 Minutes II investigation with U.S. News &
World Report revealed that Wyeth-Ayerst knew more than it told
about the pulmonary hypertension risks, a charge the company
In September 1999, the Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI
was investigating the FDA's approval of Redux.
A month later, American Home Products agreed to pay up to
$4.83 billion to settle the more than 11,000 fen-phen lawsuits,
one of the biggest product liability settlements ever.
As part of the settlement agreement, the company admitted no
wrongdoing.
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The Defensive Back in Football
Charles Woodson, cornerback for Oakland and Green Bay. Tim Mosenfelder / Getty Images
by Jobe Lewis
Jobe Lewis is a high school football coach and a former NCAA Division I football player for New Mexico State University.
Defensive backs (DBs) are the four or five defensive football players charged with pass coverage first, and with run support after the pass threat is gone. These players may be cornerbacks or safeties, and they make up the defensive backfield, positioned behind the linebackers or near the sidelines. The backs are unquestionably the fastest and quickest members of the defensive unit, responsible for preventing long pass plays that take place further downfield from the linebackers.
What Defensive Backs Do
Known collectively as the secondary, the defensive backs make up a small team within the team. A fast, versatile, physical secondary is critical to the success of a football team. A defensive back has to communicate well with his fellow backs as they determine the pass strength of the opposing team's formation. DBs have to adjust as an opponent's offense runs motion and formation changes to ensure that they're in the best possible position to stop big pass plays during the game.
Most defensive formations use two cornerbacks. These backs usually line up on the sides of the defense and are typically charged with covering the offense's receivers. Their goal is to match strides with the receiver, and try to bat away or intercept a pass, or to tackle the receiver as immediately as possible if the ball is caught so he can't run for the end zone.
The secondary also typically features two safeties: a strong safety and a free safety. These defensive backs are positioned between the cornerbacks at the start of the play. The free safety can adjust to the anticipated play, coming forward toward the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped to cover a short pass, or dropping back to assist the cornerbacks on a long pass. The strong safety, often a bigger and sometimes stronger back, covers the strong side of the field, where the tight end is lined up, and may also come forward to defend against running plays.
Nickel and Dime Defensive Formations
When it's pretty clear that the offense is going to pass the ball--third down and long yardage situations, for example--the defense can add a DB or two to its formation in an attempt to prevent a completed pass. The extra backs must substitute for one of the defensive linemen or linebackers because the team is still limited to 11 defensive men on the field, so someone must come out in order for additional defensive backs can go in. When one DB is added, it's a nickel package. When two backs are added for a total of six players in the secondary, it's called a dime formation.
The Greats
While defensive backs don't always garner attention or awards, some have shined among the sport's best players. San Francisco safety Ronnie Lott and Dallas cornerback Deion Sanders are examples of standout defensive backs, as is Charles Woodson, who played safety and cornerback for Oakland and Green Bay.
Understanding the Basics of the 3-4 Defense in Football
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How to Run the Cover 3 Zone Defense in Football
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Learn How to Play Free Safety in Football
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Italy is back in the Volvo Ocean Race for the first time since Brooksfield entered the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1993-94. Italy's Giovanni Soldini has been named skipper of the Italia 70 team, which will race under the Italian flag with a fully Italian crew. Soldini has completed two single handed round the world races, and has made over 30 Atlantic crossings.
The objective of the project is to bring together a group of companies, which will be prepared to support Italia 70 throughout its entry in the next two editions of the Volvo Ocean Race. Italia 70 has already acquired the Volvo Open 70 Ericsson 3 and the decision to opt for a tried and tested boat means the team can begin training immediately.
In order to create and consolidate a new generation of ocean sailors, Italia 70 will draw on Italian yachtsmen and women to build an Italian national offshore racing team, which will showcase Italian sailing talent and skill around the world as the race progresses. The Italian Sailing Federation, together with Giovanni Soldini, will develop the first Italian ocean sailing school in parallel with the Volvo Ocean Race. Italia 70 says it wants to take a fresh approach to sport based on respect for the environment and that, with a pool of contributing companies, the team will develop relationships with national universities and research centers that will help them to test environmentally friendly solutions ranging from energy management to waste disposal.
Will it happen? We'll wait and see. Pic of the grandiose Yacht Club Italiano setting for the announcement by Carlo Borlenghi and more here.


It would be nice to be able to see in similar way numbers of changed notes in the notebooks and libraries. Point is, when you have more shared libraries with lots of activity and open Notejoy after some time, it is impossible to see with one look what was changed where, not to mention that many people are simply used to this way of recognizing new or changed items.
Alternative is to show next to the names two numbers: one showing number of notes with the changes and another showing number of notes with new messages.
When in notebook in the list of notes, you should be then able to somehow recognize the changed ones (different background or font style...?), or alternatively see on each note number of changes inside (or again two numbers - number of changes and number of new messages).


Heavy construction machinery such as Volvo CE's star product, the articulated hauler (pictured here the A30D), Kawasaki's articulated loader (here the 95 ZIII and ZIV) and Caterpillar's tracked bulldozer (pictures to come) can be armoured by Ares Security Vehicles to offer protection in high risk areas or for demining purposes.
Also available from Ares are custom-built passenger buses, ranging in small, medium or full-sized configurations. Popular choices being Mitsubishi Rosa's or Nissan PKB, the engineering at Ares does not limit to smaller configurations as evidenced by our recently designed and released Ashok Leyland High-Occupancy Bus.
Other construction equipment and heavy machinery, and other levels of protection available – please enquire.


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Time-trimming tricks for dynamic simulations: Splitting force updates to reduce computational work
Tamar Schlick
Schlick, T. (2001). Time-trimming tricks for dynamic simulations: Splitting force updates to reduce computational work. Structure, 9(4), R45-R53. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00593-7
Time-trimming tricks for dynamic simulations : Splitting force updates to reduce computational work. / Schlick, Tamar.
In: Structure, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2001, p. R45-R53.
Schlick, T 2001, 'Time-trimming tricks for dynamic simulations: Splitting force updates to reduce computational work', Structure, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. R45-R53. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00593-7
Schlick T. Time-trimming tricks for dynamic simulations: Splitting force updates to reduce computational work. Structure. 2001;9(4):R45-R53. doi: 10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00593-7
Schlick, Tamar. / Time-trimming tricks for dynamic simulations : Splitting force updates to reduce computational work. In: Structure. 2001 ; Vol. 9, No. 4. pp. R45-R53.
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Michael K OlmstedScandal! Desperate times demand desperate actions! Today's passage hardly sounds like a story for a children's Sunday School class.
When I was eleven years old, in much different times, I asked the pastor teaching our class, "Can a divorced woman go to heaven?" His face got red, his speech was uneven and the class was entertained. I wish I could have listened to the debate when the scholars of Israel decided to include "Ruth" among the sacred scriptures.
It is actually a beautiful story about the impossible becoming possible, nothing like the powerful image of Moses before God on Mt. Sinai, but stunning as God works through seemingly impossible barriers to bring Boaz, a wealthy man of faith, together with a foreign woman who has no reasonable hope for a good life. And yet, if faith in God cannot push barriers aside, transform a life and reveal the true meaning of love, what hope is left for any of us?
So the tale begins. Naomi and Ruth have survived the trip from Moab to Judah, they have exhausted all their resources and they have only one slim, risky hope. Naomi understands the serious possibility of levirate marriage, so she carefully structures a plan that depends on many unpredictables. She knows Boaz is a man of faith and integrity, that he has already seen in Ruth admirable qualities as he tells her: "All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before." May the Lord reward you for your deeds, and may you have a full reward from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge!" (2:11-12).
So the plan is hatched. Boaz has evidenced unusual concern for Ruth, offering her generous rights in his field. There are two basic circumstances in society – two classes – those who are privileged and those who struggle to survive. Of course there are exceptional cases, some people of privilege offering hope to those who struggle and some who struggle to overcome the odds. There is one other element at play here: Boaz is a man of both faith and privilege, who seeks God's leading.
Naomi has faith and a plan. Ruth has left everything she knows behind, but she trusts her mother-in-law and she has now seen a significant difference in the lives of these people. "All that you tell me I will do." she says to Naomi (3:5). Ruth goes to Boaz's threshing floor and does exactly as Naomi has instructed. Harvest time was intense as the grain was secured from bad weather and possible theft, so it is not unusual that Boaz works late and sleeps on the threshing floor.
Ruth patiently waits until Boaz falls asleep, then, in the middle of the night she lies down at his feet. When Boaz stirs he discovers this beautiful young woman resting at his feet. He asks who she is (it must still have been dark) and she answers in verse 9: "I am Ruth, your servant: spread your cloak over your servant, for you are next-of-kin" (go'el). Ruth is asking Boaz to accept her and fulfill the idea of kinsman-redeemer to maintain the family lineage. Boaz commends Ruth for her loyalty and her refusal to enter a marriage of convenience. Then come the words Naomi and Ruth longed for: "Now, my daughter, do not be afraid, I will do for you all that you ask, for all the assembly of my people know that you are a worthy woman" (v. 11).
Did you notice that Boaz seems prepared for this situation? He quickly follows the promise to pursue a legal marriage, with a caution that "Though it is true that I am a near kinsman, there is another kinsman more closely related than I" (v. 12). But Boaz is firm in his promise to pursue this matter "in the morning," going on to tell Ruth to rest until daybreak (v 13).
It seems that Boaz, who is both honorable and understanding, is truly attracted to Ruth. Is this more than a beautiful love story? Remember, I said at the beginning of this study that "Ruth" appears in the midst of dramatic and troubling times, framed by tragedy and colorful prophets. Beyond the sovereignty of God we are witnessing the lavish generosity of God's love. Israel's Jehovah is nothing like the unpredictable and capricious gods of the pagan world. Boaz has come to love Ruth, but that has only been possible because the tragedies of life have brought Ruth to a place of discovery among a people who serve God.
When we speak of our faith in God, do we limit what God will do in the parameters of our religious culture? Will God work in ways outside our culture, politics, racial identity and traditions, such as in the life of a woman from Moab? Naomi put together a bold plan that could have ended very badly, but it seems God was working in the circumstances as well as in the hearts of all who were involved.
All the details are not divulged. Do you wish you could hear all the conversations between Naomi and Ruth? Or, read the mind of Boaz? Have you ever wished for complete information about a difficult situation you face? Wouldn't it be easier if God would give you all the facts and a detailed plan of action to pursue? Have you ever been surprised by God's blessing when it seemed nothing was working out? Life involves faith – that is, trusting God and doing the best you can.
We have witnessed a respected wealthy man of faith confronted by a bold marriage proposal concocted and carried out by two resourceful women. Is Boaz a naive participant or is he a man who quietly observes what is happening and reacts out of his heart's longing? Failure and conflict were always a possibility. The other man could have asserted his rights as a closer relative to Naomi's dead husband. Gossip could have ruined the possibilities. There was risk, but there usually is risk in key decisions. We all face challenges, heartaches, failure, and uncertainty, but only when we move forward or take a chance do we discover and grow. This beautiful love story reminds us that life involves risks, but with the strength of God's love and grace there is much to be discovered. Faith is the foundation for the right kind of boldness.


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package org.assertj.db.navigation;

import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions;
import org.assertj.db.api.AbstractColumnAssert;
import org.assertj.db.api.AbstractDbAssert;
import org.assertj.db.api.TableAssert;
import org.assertj.db.api.TableColumnAssert;
import org.assertj.db.common.AbstractTest;
import org.assertj.db.exception.AssertJDBException;
import org.assertj.db.type.Table;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

import static org.assertj.db.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.junit.Assert.fail;

/**
 * Tests on instantiation errors.
 *
 * @author Régis Pouiller
 *
 */
public class InstantiationError_Test extends AbstractTest {

  /**
   * This method tests the error when using the {@code column} navigation method.
   */
  @Test
  public void should_fail_because_mistake_in_instantiation_of_column() throws Exception {
    Table table = new Table(source, "actor");
    TableAssert tableAssert = assertThat(table);

    Field field = AbstractDbAssert.class.getDeclaredField("columnPosition");
    Field field2 = Position.class.getDeclaredField("elementClass");
    field.setAccessible(true);
    field2.setAccessible(true);
    field2.set(field.get(tableAssert), InstantiationError_Test.class);

    try {
      tableAssert.column();
      fail("An exception must be raised");
    } catch (AssertJDBException e) {
      Assertions.assertThat(e.getMessage()).isEqualTo(String.format("There is an exception 'org.assertj.db.navigation.InstantiationError_Test.<init>(org.assertj.db.api.TableAssert, org.assertj.db.type.Column)'%n"
                                                      + "\t in the instantiation of the element org.assertj.db.navigation.InstantiationError_Test%n"
                                                      + "\t on class org.assertj.db.type.Column with class org.assertj.db.api.TableAssert.%n"
                                                      + " It is normally impossible.%n"
                                                      + " That means there is a big mistake in the development of AssertJDB.%n"
                                                      + " Please write an issue for that if you meet this problem."));
    }
  }

  /**
   * This method tests the error when using the {@code row} navigation method.
   */
  @Test
  public void should_fail_because_mistake_in_instantiation_of_row() throws Exception {
    Table table = new Table(source, "actor");
    TableAssert tableAssert = assertThat(table);

    Field field = AbstractDbAssert.class.getDeclaredField("rowPosition");
    Field field2 = Position.class.getDeclaredField("elementClass");
    field.setAccessible(true);
    field2.setAccessible(true);
    field2.set(field.get(tableAssert), InstantiationError_Test.class);

    try {
      tableAssert.row();
      fail("An exception must be raised");
    } catch (AssertJDBException e) {
      Assertions.assertThat(e.getMessage()).isEqualTo(String.format("There is an exception 'org.assertj.db.navigation.InstantiationError_Test.<init>(org.assertj.db.api.TableAssert, org.assertj.db.type.Row)'%n"
                                                      + "\t in the instantiation of the element org.assertj.db.navigation.InstantiationError_Test%n"
                                                      + "\t on class org.assertj.db.type.Row with class org.assertj.db.api.TableAssert.%n"
                                                      + " It is normally impossible.%n"
                                                      + " That means there is a big mistake in the development of AssertJDB.%n"
                                                      + " Please write an issue for that if you meet this problem."));
    }
  }

  /**
   * This method tests the error when using the {@code value} navigation method.
   */
  @Test
  public void should_fail_because_mistake_in_instantiation_of_value() throws Exception {
    Table table = new Table(source, "actor");
    TableColumnAssert tableColumnAssert = assertThat(table).column();

    Field field = AbstractColumnAssert.class.getDeclaredField("valuePosition");
    Field field2 = Position.class.getDeclaredField("elementClass");
    field.setAccessible(true);
    field2.setAccessible(true);
    field2.set(field.get(tableColumnAssert), InstantiationError_Test.class);

    try {
      tableColumnAssert.value();
      fail("An exception must be raised");
    } catch (AssertJDBException e) {
      Assertions.assertThat(e.getMessage()).isEqualTo(String.format("There is an exception 'org.assertj.db.navigation.InstantiationError_Test.<init>(org.assertj.db.api.TableColumnAssert, org.assertj.db.type.Value)'%n"
                                                      + "\t in the instantiation of the element org.assertj.db.navigation.InstantiationError_Test%n"
                                                      + "\t on class org.assertj.db.type.Value with class org.assertj.db.api.TableColumnAssert.%n"
                                                      + " It is normally impossible.%n"
                                                      + " That means there is a big mistake in the development of AssertJDB.%n"
                                                      + " Please write an issue for that if you meet this problem."));
    }
  }
}


I was very excited to find something for 7am, just past sunrise to highlight the entry of daylight hours to our challenge. But as I woke up on Wednesday I discovered it was quit a foggy overcast day.
I decided to photograph the Park Street Bridge. I think I mentioned this in an earlier post, but Alameda is an island, right next to Oakland and in the middle of the Bay. I think there are only four or five ways to get there, a tunnel, some bridges and a ferry. (Maybe the rest will be future subjects.) Other than the Webster/Posey tunnel/tube, the Park Street Bridge is one of the most well known, and like many other bridges in the Bay Area, has it's own style and distinctive color, green.
Here's the perspective of a pedestrian looking east into Oakland.


A researcher in the Florida Everglades recently announced that he had trapped two mosquito species that weren't previously found on the U.S. mainland.
The mosquitoes, known only by their scientific names, are said to be breeding populations and not just "a single specimen that blew in from a storm," the researcher told the Associated Press.
The traps collected thousands of Culex panocossa mosquitoes and hundreds of Aedeomyia squamipennis mosquitoes, which indicated to the researcher that these bugs were well established.
Both of these insect species are considered "vector species," meaning they have the potential to transmit diseases to humans and/or animals. The Culex mosquito, for example, is known to spread Venezuelan equine encephalitits. The Aedeomyia mosquito can be a carrier for bird malaria.
Both species, the Associated Press reports, will lay their eggs on a plant Floridians call "water lettuce." The plant, shown above, is a common sight in Florida waterways.
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Q: POST requests in R vs. Python I ran a POST request in Python and able to decode the text data by using below code:
import requests
import pandas as pd
import json
import numpy as np

url = "SomeURL"

payload = "{\r\n    \"tagCsv\": \"LU_HIST_SVR.CPR01_BPTransSlope,LU_HIST_SVR.CPLEM_PTransSlope,LU_HIST_SVR.C875_5_DPTTransSlope,LU_HIST_SVR.C919_6_DPTTransSlope\",\r\n    \"interval\": 2.88,\r\n    \"frequency\": \"mi\",\r\n    \"samplingMethod\": \"last\",\r\n    \"quality\": \"GOOD*\",\r\n \r\n    \"startDate\": [\r\n        2020,\r\n        6,\r\n        1,\r\n        1,\r\n        21,\r\n        20\r\n    ],\r\n    \"endDate\": [\r\n        2020,\r\n        6,\r\n        7,\r\n        23,\r\n        21,\r\n        20\r\n    ]\r\n}\r\n"
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  'Authorization': 'Bearer token code...'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data = payload)
test_string = response.text.encode('utf8')

The above code works fine, I can see the results and I can eventually convert the required info into a dataframe.
What I need is the above code converted to R. I wrote the below code in R as:
 library(httr)
library(jsonlite)
library(data.table)

url <- "SomeURL"
params <- list()
params$variables <-  '[{
  "tagCsv": "LU_HIST_SVR.CPR01_BPTransSlope,LU_HIST_SVR.CPLEM_PTransSlope,LU_HIST_SVR.C875_5_DPTTransSlope,LU_HIST_SVR.C919_6_DPTTransSlope",
  "interval": 2.88,
  "frequency": "mi",
  "samplingMethod": "last",
  "quality": "GOOD*",

  "startDate": [
    2020,
    6,
    1,
    1,
    21,
    20
    ],
  "endDate": [
    2020,
    6,
    7,
    23,
    21,
    20
    ]
}]'

headers = c('Content-Type'="application/json",'Authorization'= "Bearer token code")
r_POST <- httr::POST(url,body = params, add_headers(headers), encode = "json",verbose())
r_POST
http_status(r_POST)

I received the "success" notificationin the case of "R" code as well but I am stuck at "how" to extract the dataset like in Python code "response.text.encode('utf8')"?

A: So, the issue was in the params definition
the correct syntax should be (note I don't need the $variables )
params <- list()
params <-  '{
  "tagCsv": "LU_HIST_SVR.CPR01_BPTransSlope,LU_HIST_SVR.CPLEM_PTransSlope,LU_HIST_SVR.C875_5_DPTTransSlope,LU_HIST_SVR.C919_6_DPTTransSlope",
  "interval": 2.88,
  "frequency": "mi",
  "samplingMethod": "last",
  "quality": "GOOD*",

  "startDate": [
    2020,
    6,
    1,
    1,
    21,
    20
    ],
  "endDate": [
    2020,
    6,
    7,
    23,
    21,
    20
    ]
}'

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A multitude of several roles, Priya Paul stands out amongst all others when it comes to her story of success and entrepreneurship. She is the Chairperson of the Hospitality Division of the Apeejay Surrendra Group. She also owns the line of prestigious The Park Hotels. However, her role in life is not confined till here, she owns and manages multitude roles with the same ease and grace. The voice of women equality, a strong feminist, an active industry supporter, a woman entrepreneur, a devoted mother, and of course a loving wife and what not!
It is not at all wrong to call her the leading lady of the Indian Hospitality Industry. Being born in a family of entrepreneurs, she was at a very young age sure that when she grows up, she will definitely become the same. Even at the age of 10, she had ambitions to turn out to be the right hand of her father, Surrendra Paul who was the founder of the first The Park Hotel which is located in Kolkata. Some people like to tell that she had all set up and it has been an easy journey for her because she was born with a silver spoon. Regardless of what she had, becoming capable and worthy of what she had to own, was not an easy feat.
She began her educational journey by arming in the course of Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College in Economics from the United States of America. She came back to her country in the year 1988. She started her career in her family business in The Park Hotel as a Marketing Manager. She could have easily taken the highest position in the hotel; however, she chose to start as a beginner would so that she could learn everything she needs to just like her father wanted. At this time, she was only 22, however, aspirations had no limits.
Everything was running smoothly in her life, until one day she had to suffer the untimely death of her father in the year 1990. She had just started her career in the hotel, however, now she had to step up to fit in her father's shoes all of a sudden which was not at all easy. Well, like the gracious woman she is, she never lost hope and never got discouraged. Following the dreams and aspiration of his father and herself, she became the chairperson of The Park Hotel chain. Since then, she has never looked back.
The business which her father left in mid, she not only overtook it but also brought it into a phase that it is now counted to be one of the finest places in the country. She became what she always wanted to, a creative, young entrepreneur. It did not come to her the way she wanted but it did and she made the most out of what she had and created a hotel chain with decorative themes and unique architecture. In the year 2003, her success story became renowned all over the world, and her hotel chain was counted as one of the 101 Best Hotels Worldwide in UK's Tatler Magazine. She also won many other titles but her humility never went off the air.
She was named and famed as the Young Entrepreneur by the Federation of Hotels and Restaurants Association in the year 1999-2000. She also won the title of the Economic Times Business Person of the year in 2003, and along with that she also is a founder member of the World Travel Tourism Council India Initiative. Her plate might seem full, but she is on the verge of doing as much as she can because that is the type of lady she is, ambitious and inspiring.


The inflation rate in the United States between 2002 and today has been 42.35%, which translates into a total increase of $42.35. This means that 100 dollars in 2002 are equivalent to 142.35 dollars in 2019. In other words, the purchasing power of $100 in 2002 equals $142.35 today. The average annual inflation rate has been 1.98%.


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Home > Featured Articles > Health Policies during a Pandemic: UAE and Jordan Perspectives.
Health Policies during a Pandemic: UAE and Jordan Perspectives.
By Dr. Immanuel Azaad Moonesar R.D.
Prof Dr. Raeda Al Qutob
Dr. Reem Gaafar
At the time of writing this article, more than 4 million people globally have fallen prey to the novel Corona virus, with over 248 thousand deaths, and the end is not in sight. According to the latest WHO situation report (as of May 11), the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has entered the community transmission phase of the pandemic with 18, 198 confirmed cases and 198 deaths so far, while Jordan has contained clusters of cases with 540 confirmed and 9 deaths.
Health policies in promotion of health
Health policies are critical for the well-being of societies, and therefore need to be accessible, implementable and well-developed. In health policies, there are two distinct elements, the first being 'Healthcare Policy' which focuses on addressing the needs, financial resources, and issues in providing healthcare services, and the second being 'Policy for Health,' which focuses on improving the overall health of a particular population. Both elements are crucial for a country's health policy in order to promote health – and of course there are also links with what happens at the regional and global level. Health policies are not only meant to provide guidance and prevent harm, but also to actively promote health.
Health policies during the first wave of the pandemic – the UAE and Jordan as an example
In the case of the UAE, several policies, measures, and initiatives are currently being implemented to combat the spread of COVID-19. Policies for health and practice guides have been mandated and implemented, including social distancing as a means of containment; distance learning for schools and universities; and working from home for both the public and private sectors. Other policies include self-quarantine for those returning from overseas travels, the National Disinfection Programme which includes imposing curfews, and utilization of personal protection measures such as masks and gloves for the health care staff and public. Furthermore, movement between the different emirates has been restricted by closing down national road transport lines including bus lines and the metro.
Based on experience showing that it is vital to effectively engage the public through robust communication, keeping citizens and residents at the core of the process, the UAE government has also utilized different communication methods to disseminate health information and updates on case burden and regulations, and developed several channels for feedback and inquiries.
In addition, the country has leveraged innovative service delivery methods and technology such as telemedicine to provide much needed support and reduce the burden on health infrastructure (facilities), especially for non-critical and follow-up cases. It launched the 'Doctor for Every Citizen' initiative, which provides medical consultations 24/7, both for citizens and residents.
In the case of Jordan, the Jordanian government's main line of approach to managing the epidemic involved uniting all health service providers under one umbrella and under its single (centralized) leadership. The government thus took the lead in maintaining public health and providing health services, including regulation of the health workforce and its coordination with the civil defence sector.
It set policies to enforce home isolation and required institutions to apply standards of health and safety for their workers, and provided testing free of charge for suspected cases and contacts, with the collective aim of controlling the speed of occurrence of cases and allowing optimal provision of care for those affected, especially critically ill cases requiring ICU admission.
Furthermore, the Jordanian government relied upon its formal and informal media channels to engage the public and spread awareness among citizens, refugees and migrant communities. about the importance of applying personal protection measures, and provided daily updates on the numbers and sources of cases.
Characteristics of UAE and Jordan Covid-19 health policies and room for further improvement
Eight features characterized COVID-19 related health policies used by the UAE and Jordan:
Forward-looking: (collaborative) government foresight from different ministries.
Outward-looking: thinking outside the black box of policymaking.
Inclusive multi-stakeholder (and integrated) approach: working with as many stakeholders as possible while integrating approaches and initiatives.
Utilizing ethical and updated evidence-based policy options to inform decision making.
Engaging the public to make commitments to 'flattening the curve', with a measurable health impact as a result.
Efficiency & cost-efficiency.
The ability to monitor, evaluate, and formally review the policies, procedures, systems, and processes in place in a timely manner with appropriate corrective measures.
And while the UAE has been commended internationally for its rapid and widespread response, as well as its support for the WHO and other countries, a Rapid Response auditing exercise by the Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government has shown that earlier efforts could have been made in a number of areas, including:
Activating a national preparedness and response body before confirmed cases emerged.
Early, wide-spread and open access to testing for the entire population and not only those with a history of travel or contact and showing symptoms
Consider halting all in-coming flights from affected areas at an earlier date
More stringent contact tracing and follow-up to assure suspected and confirmed cases are complying with self-isolation measures
Health policies after the first wave of COVID19
It is critical to learn from first-wave lessons in order to systematize responses during times of crisis. As the situation continues to evolve, health policies will similarly have to adapt to accommodate and mitigate this change and better serve their purpose of protecting the wellbeing of the population. Reorienting health system priorities to be proactive, preventive and protective (rather than reactive and curative) will allow us to stay ahead of the curve, not just attempt to flatten it.
The upcoming 6th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 2020 aims to do just that: re-imagine our health systems for better health and social justice, to build resilient systems that will bend but not break in the face of the storm. In light of the current global pandemic of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Board of Health Systems Global has made the decision to undertake consultations and planning with the aim of transforming the Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2020), scheduled to take place in Dubai from 8 – 12 November 2020, into a global virtual event. The HSR2020 co-host partner, the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, Dubai, is continuously and closely monitoring the situation of COVID-19 with the UAE's relevant authorities and is keeping the HSR2020 Executive Committee and HSG Board updated for face to face meetings.
About Dr. Immanuel Azaad Moonesar R.D.
Associate Professor of Health Administration and Policy, Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government and President of the Academy of International Business- Middle East North Africa Chapter, Dubai, UAE. (Corresponding Author: Immanuel.moonesar@mbrsg.ac.ae)
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Professor of Public Health, Department of Family and Community Medicine, The University of Jordan & Vice President of the Regional MENA Health Policy Forum.
About Dr. Reem Gaafar
Non-Resident Research Fellow, Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, Dubai, UAE.
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I am currently too upset to be able to do a good job of writing this article concisely and effectively, so please be patient and read the whole rambling thing. Note also: I'm not upset about the existence of one such conference – the real problem are the publish-or-perish rules in colleges/universities that are forcing the students to such conferences (of which there must be hundreds). Update: Mid-Day has done an article on this issue – you can check that out.
Seems like an impressive conference, and getting a paper published in this conference should be a big achievement on any student's resume, right?
We submitted to two fake papers to this conference – one was complete gibberish auto-generated by using the online fake paper generator at SCIGen, while the other was auto-generated gibberish interspersed with completely ridiculous statements, movie dialogues, and other random things. Both these papers where accepted by this conference. We paid the conference registration fee for one of the papers, and that was published in the conference proceedings, and we did not pay the registration fee for the other paper, so that paper was not published by them. The conference fee is Rs. 6000 for M.Tech. students (but we managed to get a 50% discount just by haggling with them in the same way we haggle with vegetable vendors).
Paragraph #2 of the introduction, on the first page itself, says: You should read any paragraph that starts with the first 4 words in bold and italics – those have been written by the author in painstaking detail. However, if a paragraph does not start with bold and italics, feel free to skip it because it is gibberish auto-generated by the good folks at SCIGen.
And the conclusion section of the paper actually has this: And we've managed to reference Hilbert, HHGTTG, Sholay, My Cousin Vinny, Jeff Naughton, the Wisconsin Database Performance Paper, Xeno's paradox, Meeta Kabra and the wogma.com website, and we even referenced the Sokal Affair in the heading of the paper (actually in the name of the institute that the authors are from, but you get what I mean, right?) proving once and for all that nobody has read this paper.
Is it just a case of low standards?
One science reporter suggested on twitter that maybe this is a case of a conference so desperate for papers that rejection rates are low. Someone else suggested that this might simply be a case of a conference that has no review process, so anything is published.
Not quite. The organizers are clearly claiming that there was an expert review process for acceptance into the conference. For each of the two papers we submitted, they first sent one email saying that the paper had been sent for review. Later we received an ACCEPTANCE LETTER which appeared to indicate that the paper had been accepted based on 4 review scores. Note: we never received any actual review feedback from any reviewer – this point becomes relevant below.
Just to confirm that there was no misunderstanding of the process followed by the conference, I landed up at the conference with a journalist from Pune Mid-Day, and we interviewed the organizers about the conference.
The conference received 130 submissions out of which only 60 were selected.
All the papers were reviewed by panelists from a panel of international experts using a double-blind review methodology.
Who are affected by such conferences?
I had gone to the conference with the intention of making a ridiculous presentation along the lines of my ridiculous paper, and create a scene at the conference with the reporter and photographer from Mid-Day. However, after seeing the sincere faces of all the students there, I just couldn't make myself do it. Instead of introducing myself as an author of a paper, I introduced myself as a reporter from PuneTech.com and joined the Mid-Day reporter in interviewing the organizers. I just stayed long enough to record the statements of the organizers and left.
Two years ago, I was an external advisor for a B.E. Project. My students told me that the University has a requirement that all B.E. Projects must be published in an international conference. This is such a patently ridiculous requirement that I tried to convince them that they must be mistaken. However, I couldn't convince them.
So, I tried to prepare them for failure by pointing out that an average or even above-average B.E. Project report is not of the quality that can get published in a good conference. Imagine my surprise when the paper actually got accepted. And nothing I could do could prevent my students from paying Rs. 6500 as registration fees and going all the way to Kanyakumari using their own money to present at that conference.
This convinced me that misguided policies are forcing students into paying money to get papers published in conferences with low or non-existent quality standards. And I was sure that there must be many such conferences. And I needed to do something about this issue.
Ever since that happened, I've been waiting for one such conference to come to Pune so that I could prove, beyond any doubt, that these conferences accept anything as long as you are willing to pay the registration fees.
Update: as far as I know, it is not a university requirement that BE Projects must be published – that was just probably a case of a few colleges misguiding students. However it either is a mandatory requirement for ME/MTech, or lots of colleges are telling the students that it is a requirement.
Is this really an issue worth getting worked up over?
As far as we understand, all M.E. and M.Tech. students in the country are required to publish at least two papers, otherwise they cannot get their degree. This results in a country full of desperate students who have no choice but to pay for getting published at conferences like this one.
They operate our of 4 major centers in India – Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, and I forgot the 4th.
This is just one organization. I'm sure there must be many more such organizations all over the country.
In the past, we have heard of some colleges who told the students that it was mandatory for undergraduate (B.E.) students to also have published their B.E. project in an international conference. On a similar note, the organizers of this conference very passionately told us that they would like this to become a mandatory requirement across all the undergraduate engineering colleges in the country. Which of course would increase the size of the problem by an order of magnitude. I'm sure some bureaucrat sitting in some office is giving this some serious thought.
My original intention of doing this was to spread awareness amongst students about the true nature of such conferences.
But now, after having gone through the experience, I am a bit depressed. I don't know how awareness about this issue is going to help.
Even if students are aware of the issues, it is still very difficult to figure out whether any given conference indeed has high quality standards and a good peer/expert review process or not.
Even if there was an easy method of being able to distinguish between good conferences and bad ones, what are the students expected to do? They can't graduate without publications.
The more I dig into our education system, the more depressed I become.


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Movie Review by The Mortician
Horror movies are amazing. There's so many niches and sub-genres and even sub-sub genres. It's awesome that a classic movie like THE EXORCIST has inspired this huge sub-genre of "possession movies" that's still going so strong today. Some of them are good, some of them are not so good. The Rite, starring Anthony Hopkins as a priest who exorcises demons in Rome, is one that comes in the middle. It's very entertaining, has some tense moments, and of course, the acting and production values are top notch. The problem is...the story is something we've seen before and it's almost a note-by-not deconstruction (or reconstruction) of THE EXORCIST. We have a young priest who's questioning his faith, he's got a strained relationship with a parent who dies that's brought into the equation, and his faith is tested with an obviously real case of demonic possession. *SPOILER ALERT* What's cool about the possession case this time around is that it ends up being Anthony Hopkins- the priest teaching the correct way to give exorcisms-who actually ends up BEING possessed! I thought this was a neat plot twist and the movie really held my attention, despite being such an EXORCIST clone. I think when William Peter Blatty wrote THE EXORCIST, he hit on about every major thing that happens to a person and a priest when dealing with demons and exorcisms---and I would call that incredible research and attention to detail! These days, everything that comes in the wake of THE EXORCIST liberally borrows from what Blatty put into fictional form. It's interesting to note that THE RITE is based on a true story as well, it'd be interesting to read the nonfiction book and compare it to the Hollywood-ized version here. Still, I found THE RITE to be fun and entertaining, full of twisted imagery, fine performances, neat plot twists, and many jump-scares- despite obviously holding back the blasphemy with a PG-13 rating. The soundtrack score by Alex Heffes is noteworthy for being simplistic and haunting, echoing the success of horror movies like...well, THE EXORCIST and HALLOWEEN. You can do worse than THE RITE in the "possession" genre---so check this one out if you're into this particular horror niche or if you just like Anthony Hopkins' acting. He delivers the goods, Lecter style!
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PureTech Acquires New Clinical-Stage Program LYT-100 to Treat Lymphedema
18 July 2019 - - UK-based biopharmaceutical company PureTech Health plc (LSE: PRTC) has acquired and plans to develop a clinical-stage product candidate for the potential treatment of lymphatic and immunofibrotic diseases, including lymphedema, the company said.
In preclinical studies, the oral, small molecule candidate, LYT-100, demonstrated anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory mechanisms, and in a Phase 1 clinical trial in healthy volunteers, LYT-100 was observed to be well tolerated with a favorable pharmacokinetic profile to support twice daily oral dosing.
LYT-100 expands PureTech's internal R and D pipeline and continues its progress in developing new medicines based on insights into the lymphatic system and local modulation of the immune system for the treatment of immune and central nervous system disorders, lymphatic conditions, and cancers.
Lymphedema is one of the most common lymphatic diseases. It is a chronic condition that afflicts ms of people and is characterised by severe swelling in parts of the body usually in the arms or legs due to the build-up of lymph fluid and inflammation, fibrosis, and adipose deposition.
The most prevalent form of the condition, secondary lymphedema, is frequently caused by cancer treatments or infections resulting in damage to or the removal of lymph nodes.
For example, of the more than 250,000 Americans diagnosed with breast cancer each year, up to one in five who receive surgery will develop secondary lymphedema.
The current standards of care for lymphedema compression and physical therapy are cumbersome and non-curative approaches that cannot correct immune cell infiltration or regenerate the dysregulated lymphatics.
If left untreated, lymphedema can lead to disfigurement, severe pain, disability, infection, and fibrosis. PureTech's product candidate, LYT-100, has the potential to fulfill a widespread need for an effective approach that can treat secondary lymphedema without surgery.
LYT-100, an oral small molecule with well-established preclinical anti-fibrotic activity, has been previously studied in healthy volunteers as part of a Phase 1, single ascending dose study.
PureTech will continue clinical development in healthy volunteers, looking at additional safety and pharmacokinetics of LYT-100 prior to initiating a human biomarker and proof-of-concept study expected in 2020.
LYT-100 was acquired from a large pharmaceutical company where it was originally being developed in another indication.
Lymphedema is a chronic condition characterized by severe swelling of the limbs or other tissues due to the build-up of fluid that would normally be drained by the lymphatic system.
Millions of Americans are affected by the condition, which typically progresses through multiple stages marked by increased fibrosis, limb volume, and tissue changes, ultimately resulting in disfigurement, severe pain, disability, and infection.
The current standard of care for lymphedema include compression, physical therapy, and surgery to help reduce symptoms, but none address the underlying condition.
There are currently no FDA-approved therapeutics to treat lymphedema, suggesting a major need for millions of patients.
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The company has gained deep insights into the connection between these systems and the resulting role in diseases that have been resistant to established therapeutic approaches.
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