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Fundraising Tuesday: Knock Knock, Who's There?
One of my favorite knock-knock jokes starts out sounding like it's not a joke at all.
They might–if you send them the same fundraising letter that you send to someone who's never, ever made a donation before.
Let's assume you're calling your donors by name in the salutation of your letter. And getting the name right! Not doing that is the quickest way to lose a donor.
You still need to show your donor that you know the person behind the name.
Donors don't want to be just names on a list. They want to know that when they gave, you noticed. How can you show them that?
"Jackie and John were afraid that their three children would have to sleep in their coats and under an inch of blankets this winter. They had only enough money to heat their apartment through the end of January. But your generous gift of $100 on December 22 helped them keep the heat on all the way to March. Jackie and John thank you, and so do we!
In order to send the right letters to the right people, you have to find out about those people, and what they care about.
The simplest thing to find out is whether they are donors or prospects. In other words, have they given before or not? If you have any kind of database, it's easy to find out which is which. Separate the two lists and send them different letters.
Most databases will also let you find your LYBUNT and SYBUNT donors ("Last Year But Unfortunately Not This Year" and "Some Year But Unfortunately Not This Year"). People who used to give, gave for a reason. If you can figure out that reason and write your appeal accordingly, you may get them back–but not if you treat them like they never gave, or the previous gift didn't count!
Let's face it: only a few people give because they care about your organization. You. Your mother. Who else?
Most donors give because they care about the people you serve (like the family who didn't need an inch of blankets to keep from freezing last winter). And probably, each donor cares about some clients and some issues more than others.
Just like you separated out your donors from your prospects, you should be able to separate out the people who give to keep the heat on from the people who give to make sure the kids have summer jobs. The difference is, your database can tell you their donation history. For their interests, you have to do a little detective work yourself.
So, you could send separate letters to donors, past donors, and prospects, varying by their specific interests. And you might want to do that. It's not a whole new letter you have to write each time: it's tweaking the elements that let the recipient know you remember him or her as a person–not an ATM.
It's not a huge amount of time, and it's not a huge amount of money (especially if you send some of those messages by email). And it could bring a lot of donor renewals, making more money than you spend!
But if you choose to do just one thing differently after reading this blog, choose to write a different letter to donors than you do to the world at large.


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During a joint raid carried out by the Sri Lanka Navy and Police, 18 Sri Lankans who were on an illegal migration attempt, were apprehended on Thursday (23). The group of suspects was arrested in Kuttaduwa area, Negombo. They were handed over to the Police for onward legal action.
The Navy warns the general public not to involve in high risk sea-borne migration to overseas countries based on false information provided by human smugglers and reiterated that such attempts would finally end up with them being behind bars.
Further the Navy reminds of its strong network of intelligence and regular patrols put in place to nip such illegal migration efforts in the bud as the country is very strict with illegal migration attempts.
Navy headquarters spokesman said that they believed that the arrested persons were planning to migrate to New Zealand.


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Anne Anema (Minnertsga, 10 februari 1872 - Haarlem, 18 februari 1966) was een Nederlands politicus.

Anne Anema studeerde korte tijd klassieke talen aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam en daarna rechten aan de Universiteit Leiden. Na werkzaam te zijn geweest in de advocatuur in Leeuwarden en Amsterdam werd hij in 1904 hoogleraar burgerlijk recht aan de VU.

In 1921 werd hij lid van de Eerste Kamer voor de ARP. Van januari 1925 tot september 1926 en van september 1929 tot september 1960 was hij fractievoorzitter. Toen hij in 1960 de senaat verliet was hij 88 jaar oud. Hij is daarmee het oudste parlementslid dat in de Eerste of de Tweede Kamer heeft gezeten. (stand 2015)

Hij was vanaf 1934 lid van de KNAW. In 1961 kreeg Anema de Zilveren Anjer van het Prins Bernhardfonds.

Anne Anema was in 1906 gehuwd met Anetta Albertha Gertzen en werd vader van een dochter.

ARP-politicus
Eerste Kamerlid
Lid van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
Rector magnificus van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Lid van het Permanente Hof van Arbitrage

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CCM serves up a diversity of Debussy delights
Sat Oct 13, 2012 at 3:20 pm
By Dennis Polkow
In what is by far the most extensive local commemoration of Claude Debussy's 150th birthday year, Chicago Chamber Musicians are making a major artistic statement by presenting all of the French composer's chamber music across a handful of October concerts.
Friday night's program at Gottlieb Concert Hall showcased a variety of works across Debussy's career from the mid to late-1880s until a couple of years before his 1918 death.
His Petite Suite for four-hand piano, the earliest work on the program, represents an early foray into what was to become a Debussy signature: contemporary transformations of 18th-century forms. The four-movement piece accessibly expands Baroque dance forms while revealing Debussy's fascination with the whole tone scale and expansive chromaticism, even at this early period.
Meng-Chieh Liu played the lower register and also pedaled throughout, overplaying the opening movement and sometimes obscuring Marta Aznavoorian's delicate upper voices. The duo managed a better balance during the Cortege, synchronizing their dynamic climax and managing to achieve the same dance-like charm during the Menuet.
The duo also superbly played the two-pianoLindaraja, one of Debussy's first works to capture Spanish sonorities with his own harmonic vocabulary, an aural attempt to evocatively capture the Alhambra of Granada using morphing music cells as if they were patterns of Islamic tiles.
En Blanc et Noir is Debussy's 1915 two-piano salute to Stravinsky. Here Debussy weaves folktunes, revelry calls and even the Lutheran chorale A Mighty Fortress is Our God into a modernist collage that at times, sounds aggressive enough to prefigure Prokofiev and Scriabin yet without loses its whimsy.
Debussy's piano suite Suite Bergamasque is sometimes transcribed for harp and solo instrument, even two harps, although this listener had never encountered a version for solo harp. Berlin Philharmonic harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet made a compelling case for such a version, showcasing an astonishing range of sonorities and dynamics along with exquisite musicianship and virtuosity that were quite frankly, beyond what even some of the best pianists have managed to muster with this music.
Langlamet was also featured in the Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp with Chicago Symphony principal flutist Mathieu Dufour and French violist Jean-Claude Velin in a performance that was the highlight of the evening. Not only was the interplay and the musical conception of the artists of the highest order, but the smallest details of the piece were revealed with nuance and delicacy. The little jazzy touches, blue notes, glissandi and tri-tone romp of the finale were delightfully rendered within the fabric of the music rather than as mere effects.
Although the strings were not evenly matched or blended, Danse Sacree et Danse Profane, which closed the program and was heard in a one-player-per-part chamber music version, allowed Langlamet another chance to shine.
Former CSO principal clarinetist Larry Combs performed a rendition of the Premiere Rhapsodie in a clarinet-piano version — with accompanist Liu — that was also an evening highlight. Combs, who alongside his CSO years also regularly performed jazz, brought out the playful and spirited qualities of the piece.
This was preceded by a shorter clarinet work, Petite Piece, that with its single idea of elongated phrases over the bar line formed a fascinating contrast with the more dazzling Rhapsodie.
The program will be repeated 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Northwestern University's Pick-Staiger Hall. The Chicago Chamber Musicians' Debussy Chamber Music Festival continues through October 21. chicagochambermusic.org.
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A Lesson in Programmatic Extensibility with Online Casinos - Gary The Geek Blog - Geeky Techy Loser Stuff!
Some of the best programmers I know personally and those which I can point to as the best based on the work they produce aren't the most confident in their abilities. They suffer from the now common imposter syndrome and they often feel as if they come across as sounding like they know nothing about their craft when they have to talk about it.
The truth is however that the best programmers simply get on with it and their praises are never sung whereas they take on very complicated projects such as those which have to do with running an online casino. If I was in charge of the certification process which budding programmers who want to go professional would be subjected to, I would approach the process with a little bit more of a practical method to gauging skills.
You would be given a certain status and level if you were seeking to get certified as a web applications programmer, with something like a community notice-board perhaps landing you a slightly lower status than building something like a community social network with membership capabilities. The projects would perhaps have to be deployable in the "real world" and I'd probably award the highest standard of certification to web applications developers who demonstrate an ability to develop and deploy platforms such as online casinos.
Sure, an online casino platform which is deployed in the real market probably takes an entire team of different kinds of coders, developers, designers and project managers to put together, but I reckon something like that makes for the ultimate test in programmatic extensibility. Extensibility in programming is indeed one of the most important aspects if not the most important, particularly when it comes to solutions which are indeed going to be deployed in real-world environments like online casinos. There's money involved amongst the handling of data in a manner which has to be compliant with the user-data handling regulations, so it's about more than just the core functionality. In the case of the online casino this core functionality would of course be that of allowing gamers to place bets and then pay them out in accordance with their winning combinations selected – all of this of course in relation to all the other bettors trying their luck on the platform simultaneously.
The astuteness to be demonstrated in the extensibility would come into play with regards to how the platform handles something like a migration to a brand new game added to the platform for example, so too in the case of something like how more live gamers join an ongoing game that's already kicked-off and has had a few rounds spun.
The application of the free credit or spins you get via something like a Heart Bingo promo code perhaps makes for the ultimate challenge and lesson in programmatic extensibility though since it needs to be assimilated smoothly while making sure that there is no "data leak" which would equate to what can make for an expensive money leak.


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The ICAO airport code for Diego Aracena International Airport, Chile
The South Carolina Department of Agriculture, government organization
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent, a video game
Stabilized constant descent angle approach, aviation: non-precision approach procedure aimed at minimizing the vertical manoeuvring required while flying most non-precision approaches from the final approach segment through to touch down.


Several area business are accepting benefit funds and donating items for a family who lost their home in a fire. Jesse Holmes and Joni Napton welcomed a son into the world Tuesday night, and less than an hour later, they found out their rural Brown County home was on fire. Benefit funds in Holmes' and Napton's names have been set up at Aberdeen Federal Credit Union in Aberdeen and Dacotah Bank. Donations of items, such as clothing and supplies are for the couple's new son and 6 year old daughter, are also being collected by Kari Hartwell at the Aberdeen Federal Credit Union. Aberdeen Ambulance is also accepting donated items for the family. For more information on dropping off items, call 605-225-9600.


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» News » Twitter AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES Fanart Campaign
Twitter AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES Fanart Campaign
By sceditor on June 13, 2022 9:59 AM
Get your chance at one of four AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES – nirvanA Initiative posters. The poster is a promotional item for the Japanese market. Each poster is signed by the game's creators Kotaro Uchikoshi, Yusuke Kozaki, Akira Okada in the Twitter AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES Fanart Campaign.
Create an original piece of fanart. Your creation can be from either AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES or AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES – nirvanA Initiative. From June 13 until June 26, post your fanart on Twitter with the hashtag #AITSFAX2022
Kotaro Uchikoshi, Yusuke Kozaki, Akira Okada and Spike Chunsoft team will each select one favorite; a total of four favorites in all. We will announce the four favorites during the Spike Chunsoft, Inc. 2022 Game Panel at Anime Expo 2022, and on Twitter on July 2, 2022.
Each of the four selected will receive an AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES – nirvanA Initiative signed poster
Entry Period
Favorites Announced
July 2, 2022, on Twitter and during the Spike Chunsoft, Inc. Panel at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, CA.
Each of the four artists selected as a favorite will receive one AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES – nirvanA Initiative poster signed by Kotaro Uchikoshi, Yusuke Kozaki, Akira Okada.
To participate in this promotion, you must acknowledge and agree to the following:
The submitted entry must be an original work that you have created. If submitting a cosplay photo, you are responsible for securing necessary permissions and must have the consent and permission of the subject.
We may retweet your entry on the Spike Chunsoft, Inc. official Twitter account @SpikeChunsoft_e and show your work during the Spike Chunsoft, Inc. 2022 Game Panel at Anime Expo 2022.
Limit one award per artist.
You do not have to be present at Anime Expo 2022 to receive the award. We will ship the award internationally. However, we cannot be held liable for items lost or damaged in transit.
Spike Chunsoft, Inc. will not use entries for commercial purposes and by submitting to this contest, you are not voiding your ownership of the entry.
Please post your fanart on Twitter using the hashtag #AITSFAX2022 only if you agree to these terms.


WAYNE. N.J., April 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., announces the KDR™ Advanced U-Arm and KDR™ Primary Digital Radiography System have been certified in California to withstand earthquakes, as part of the state's Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act. The certification provided by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) was awarded after both systems underwent and passed rigorous testing, including a shake test. With the OSHPD Seismic Certification, the KDR AU and KDR Primary can now be installed in any facility that requires this type of certification.
Both systems and components underwent a series of tests before and after a simulated earthquake in accordance with ICC-ES AC156, the acceptance criteria for seismic certification by the International Code Council. The imaging systems, collimators, generators, bucky stand and workstations were all evaluated and found to maintain structural integrity and remain fully functional. Testing was conducted by a third party that specializes in seismic certifications.
The Hospital Seismic Safety Act, part of the California Health and Safety Code, was enacted in September, 1994 and established a seismic safety building standards program under OSHPD's jurisdiction for all hospitals built in California after March 7, 1973. California State law requires all general acute care hospitals to be rated as structural performance category (SPC) 2, 3, 4 or 5 by 2020 and SPC 3, 4 or 5 by 2030. The certificate for Konica Minolta Healthcare KDR can be found on the OSHPD website, www.oshpd.ca.gov.
About Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc.
Konica Minolta Healthcare is a world-class provider and market leader in medical diagnostic imaging and healthcare information technology. With over 75 years of endless innovation, Konica Minolta is globally recognized as a leader providing cutting-edge technologies and comprehensive support aimed at providing real solutions to meet customer's needs and helping make better decisions sooner. Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., headquartered in Wayne, NJ, is a unit of Konica Minolta, Inc. (TSE:4902). For more information on Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., please visit www.konicaminolta.com/medicalusa.


Ladi Kwali pot - 13½" (342 mm) high.
Ladi Kwali was probably the best known of the Abuja potters. Making pots was women's work in the Nigerian villages, and Ladi came to Abuja with a knowledge of traditional Nigerian pottery. The large pots used for water storage were made from spiralled coils of clay, beaten from the inside with an implement like a potter's rib or a spoon, and fired in the open air by covering them in dry vegetation and lighting it.
She did not at first take to the idea of using wheels and kilns and the other paraphernalia of the European potter, but proved to have a natural ability to throw. Cardew encouraged her to decorate her work, something she had not done before, and he even fired some of her traditional work in the Abuja kiln.
Ladi was later to become a very popular member of the touring lecture team; her easy nature and ability to communicate made her well liked and appreciated in Europe, Britain and America. She became Nigeria's best known potter and has been honoured in many ways; she was given a doctorate, the Abuja Pottery was renamed for her and the Abuja Sheraton Hotel is in Ladi Kwali Road.


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#Despliegue de apps
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*Última actualización: 9 de mayo de 2016*
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Puede desplegar apps en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix}} utilizando varios métodos, como por ejemplo la interfaz de línea de mandatos y los entornos de desarrollo integrado (IDE). También puede utilizar manifiestos de app para desplegar apps. Si utiliza un manifiesto de app debe reducir el número de detalles de despliegue que debe especificar cada vez que despliega una app en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}.
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##Despliegue de aplicaciones
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El despliegue de una app en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} incluye dos fases: transferencia de la app e inicio de la app.

###Transferencia de una app

Durante la fase de transferencia, un agente de ejecución de gotas (DEA) utiliza la información que especifica el usuario en la interfaz de la línea de mandatos cf o en el archivo `manifest.yml` para decidir qué se debe crear para la fase de transferencia. El DEA selecciona un paquete de compilación adecuado para transferir la app y el resultado del proceso de transferencia es una gota. Para obtener más información sobre cómo desplegar una app en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}, consulte Arquitectura de [{{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}, Cómo funciona {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}](../public/index.html#publicarch).

Durante el proceso de transferencia, el DEA comprueba si el paquete de compilación coincide con la app. Por ejemplo, un tiempo de ejecución de Liberty para un archivo .war o un tiempo de ejecución Node.js para archivos .js. El DEA crea a continuación un contenedor aislado que contiene el paquete de compilación y el código de app. El componente
Warden es el encargado de gestionar el contenedor. Para obtener más información, consulte [Cómo se transfieren las apps](http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/concepts/how-applications-are-staged.html){:new_window}.

###Inicio de una app

Cuando se inicia una app, se crea la instancia o instancias del contenedor warden. Puede utilizar el mandato **cf files** para ver los archivos almacenados en el sistema de archivos del contenedor Warden, como por ejemplo registros. Si la app no se puede iniciar, el DEA detiene la app y todo el contenido del contenedor Warden se elimina. Por lo tanto, si una app se detiene o si el proceso de transferencia de una app falla, no dispondrá de archivos de registro.

Si los registros de la app dejan de estar disponibles de modo que no se puede utilizar el mandato **cf files** para ver la causa de los errores de transferencia, puede utilizar en su lugar el mandato **cf logs**. El mandato **cf
logs** utiliza el agregador de registros de Cloud Foundry para recopilar detalles sobre los registros de la app y del sistema y puede ver lo que se ha colocado en el almacenamiento intermedio del agregador de registros. Para obtener más información sobre el agregador de registros, consulte [Inicio de una sesión en Cloud Foundry](http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/deploy-apps/streaming-logs.html){:new_window}.

**Nota:** El tamaño del almacenamiento intermedio está limitado. Si una app se ejecuta durante mucho rato y no se reinicia, es posible que no se muestren registros cuando se especifique `cf logs nombreapp --recent` ya que puede que el almacenamiento intermedio de registros se haya borrado. Por lo tanto, para depurar errores de transferencia de una app grande, puede especificar `cf logs nombreapp` en una línea de mandatos que no sea la interfaz de línea de mandatos cf para efectuar un seguimiento de los registros cuando despliegue la app.

Si tiene problemas para transferir sus apps en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}, siga los pasos del apartado [Depuración de errores de transferencia](../debug/index.html#debugging-staging-errors) para solucionar el problema.

##Despliegue de apps mediante el mandato cf
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Cuando despliegue sus apps en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} desde la interfaz de línea de mandatos, debe especificar un paquete de compilación como entorno de tiempo ejecución de acuerdo con el lenguaje de la app y la infraestructura. También puede utilizar el servicio Delivery Pipeline para desplegar apps en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}.

{{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} ofrece paquetes de compilación integrados que dan soporte a Java y a Node.js. Si utiliza estos lenguajes e infraestructuras, no necesita especificar el paquete de compilación cuando despliegue la app mediante la interfaz de línea de mandatos. Puesto que {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} se basa en Cloud Foundry, el mandato utiliza como valores predeterminados estos paquetes de compilación.

Si utiliza un paquete de compilación externo, debe especificar el URL del paquete de compilación mediante la opción **-b** cuando despliegue la app en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} desde el indicador de mandatos.

  * Para desplegar paquetes del servidor Liberty en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}, utilice el mandato siguiente, desde su directorio de origen:

  ```
  cf push
  ```

  Para obtener más información sobre el paquete de compilación de Liberty, consulte el apartado [Liberty para Java](../runtimes/liberty/index.html).

  * Para desplegar apps Java Tomcat en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}, utilice el mandato siguiente:

  ```
  cf push appname -b https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-buildpack.git -p app_path
  ```

  * Para desplegar paquetes WAR en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}},
utilice el mandato siguiente:

  ```
  cf push nombre_app -p app.war
  ```
  O, puede especificar un directorio que contenga los archivos de app mediante el mandato siguiente:

  ```
  cf push nombre_app -p "./app"
  ```

  * Para desplegar apps Node.js en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}, utilice el mandato siguiente:

  ```
  cf push appname -p app_path
  ```

A El archivo `package.json` debe estar en su app Node.js para que lo reconozca el paquete de compilación de Node.js. El archivo `app.js` es el script
de entrada de la app, que se puede especificar en el archivo `package.json`. El ejemplo siguiente muestra un archivo `package.json` sencillo:

  ```
  {
        "name": "MyUniqueNodejs01",
        "version": "0.0.1",
        "description": "A sample package.json file",
        "dependencies": {
                "express": ">=3.4.7 <4",
                "jade": ">=1.1.4"
        },
        "scripts": {
                "start": "node app.js"
        },
        "engines": {
                "node": ">=0.10.0"
        },
        "repository": {}
  }
  ```

  Para obtener más información acerca de un archivo `package.json`, consulte [package.json](https://www.npmjs.org/doc/files/package.json.html){:new_window}.

  * Para desplegar apps PHP, Ruby o Python en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}},
utilice el siguiente mandato del directorio que contiene el origen de su app:

  ```
  cf push nombre_app
  ```

###Despliegue de una app en varios espacios

Una app es específica del espacio en el que se ha desplegado. No puede mover ni copiar una app de un espacio a otro en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}. Para desplegar una app en varios espacios, debe desplegar la app en cada espacio en el que desee utilizar la app siguiendo estos pasos:

  1. Vaya al espacio en el que desea desplegar la app con el mandato **cf target** con la opción **-s**:

  ```
  cf target -s <nombre_espacio>
  ```

  2. Acceda al directorio de la app y despliéguela con el mandato **cf push**, donde nombre_app debe ser exclusivo dentro del dominio.

  ```
  cf push nombre_app
  ```

##Manifiesto de aplicación
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El manifiesto de app contiene opciones que se aplican al mandato **cf push**. Puede utilizar el manifiesto de app para reducir el número de detalles de despliegue que debe especificar cada vez que envía una app a {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}.

En los manifiestos de app, puede especificar opciones como, por ejemplo, el número de instancias de la app que se deben crear, la cantidad de memoria y la cuota de disco que se debe asignar a las apps y otras variables de entorno para la app. También puede utilizar los manifiestos de app para automatizar despliegues de apps. El nombre predeterminado de un archivo de manifiesto es `manifest.yml`.

###Opciones soportadas en el archivo de manifiesto

La tabla siguiente muestra las opciones soportadas que puede utilizar en un archivo de manifiesto de la app. Si elige utilizar un nombre que no sea `manifest.yml`, debe utilizar la opción **-f** con el mandato **cf push**. En el ejemplo siguiente, `appManifest.yml` es el nombre del archivo:

```
cf push -f appManifest.yml
```

|Opciones	|Descripción	|Uso o ejemplo|
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|**buildpack**	|El URL o el nombre del paquete de compilación.	|`buildpack: ` *URL_paquete_compilación*|
|**disk_quota**	|La cuota de disco que se debe asignar a la app. El valor predeterminado es 1 G.	|`disk_quota: 500M`|
|**domain**	|El nombre de dominio de la app en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}.	|`dominio:` ng.bluemix.net|
|**host**	|El nombre de host de la app en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}. Este valor debe ser exclusivo en el entorno de {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}.	|`host: ` *nombre_host*|
|**nombre**	|El nombre de la app en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}. Este valor debe ser exclusivo en el entorno de {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}.	|`name: ` *nombre_app*|
|**path**	|La ubicación de la app. Este valor puede ser una vía de acceso relativa o absoluta.	|`path: ` *vía_acceso_a_app*|
|**command**	|El mandato de inicio personalizado para la app o el mandato para ejecutar archivos script..	|`command:` *mandato_personalizado* `command:` *bash ./run.sh*|
|**memory**	|La cantidad de memoria que se debe asignar a la app. El valor predeterminado es 1 G.	|`memory: 512M`|
|**instances**	|El número de instancias que van a crear para la app.	|`instances: 2`|
|**timeout**	|El intervalo máximo de tiempo, en segundos, que se utiliza para iniciar la app. El valor predeterminado es de 60 segundos.	|`timeout: 80`|
|**no-route**	|Un valor booleano para impedir que se asigne una ruta a la app si la app sólo se está ejecutando como programa de fondo. El valor predeterminado es **false**.	|`no-route: true`|
|**random-route**	|Un valor booleano para asignar una ruta aleatoria a la app. El valor predeterminado es **false**.	|`random-route: true`|
|**services**	|Los servicios que se van a enlazar a la app.	|`services: - mysql_maptest`|
|**env**	|Las variables de entorno personalizadas de la app.|`env: DEV_ENV: production`|
*Tabla 1. Opciones admitidas en el archivo manifest.yml*

###Un ejemplo de archivo `manifest.yml`

En el ejemplo siguiente se muestra un archivo de manifiesto para una app Node.js que utiliza el paquete de compilación Node.js integrado de la comunidad en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}.

```
---
- name: myNodejsapp
  memory: 256M
  disk_quota: 512M
  path: /dev/myNodejsApp
  buildpack: nodejs_buildpack
  host: nodejs001
  domain: mybluemix.net
  command: node app.js
  timeout: 80
  services:
  - mongo_8917
  env:
    env_type: production
```
{:codeblock}

##Variables de entorno
{: #app_env}

Las variables de entorno contienen información sobre el entorno de una app desplegada en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}. A parte de las variables de entorno definidas por el *agente de ejecución de gotas (DEA)* y los paquetes de compilación, también puede definir variables de entorno específicas de una app en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}.

Puede ver las siguientes variables de entorno de una app {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} en ejecución
mediante el mandato **cf env** o desde la interfaz de usuario {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}:

  * Variables definidas por el usuario específicas para una app. Para obtener información sobre cómo añadir una variable definida por el usuario a una app, consulte [Cómo añadir variables de entorno definidas por el usuario](#ud_env){:new_window}.

  * La variable VCAP_SERVICES, que contiene la información de conexión para acceder a una instancia de servidor. Si su app está enlazada a varios servicios, la variable VCAP_SERVICES contiene la información de conexión para cada instancia de servicio. Por ejemplo:

  ```
  {
   "VCAP_SERVICES": {
    "AppScan Dynamic Analyzer": [
     {
      "credentials": {
       "bindingid": "0ab3162a-867e-4137-a2e7-39463a89472e",
       "password": "xE/jh/PlRj3ruuy8RCl8JNyEywaivRH1xXSZcbVExKg="
      },
      "label": "AppScan Dynamic Analyzer",
      "name": "AppScan Dynamic Analyzer-9q",
      "plan": "standard",
      "tags": [
       "Security",
       "security",
       "ibm_created"
      ]
     }
    ],
    "mysql-5.5": [
     {
      "credentials": {
       "host": "23.246.200.38",
       "hostname": "23.246.200.38",
       "name": "d296abcc06c9e418b94abcaafdf547620",
       "password": "peRiYCG4ZYqu3",
       "port": 3307,
       "uri": "mysql://uzpGf7eGJ7mtB:peRiYCG4ZYqu3@23.246.200.38:3307/d296abcc06c9e418b94abcaafdf547620",
       "user": "uzpGf7eGJ7mtB",
       "username": "uzpGf7eGJ7mtB"
      },
      "label": "mysql-5.5",
      "name": "mysql-ix",
      "plan": "300",
      "tags": [
       "mysql",
       "relational",
       "data_management",
       "ibm_experimental"
      ]
     }
    ]
   }
  }
  ```

También tiene acceso a las variables de entorno establecidas por DEA y los paquetes de compilación.

Las siguientes variables están definidas por el DEA:

HOME

El directorio raíz de la app desplegada.

MEMORY_LIMIT

Cantidad máxima de memoria que puede utilizar cada instancia de la app. Puede especificar el valor de la app en el archivo manifest.yml o en la línea de mandatos cuando envíe la app.

PORT

El puerto del DEA correspondiente a la comunicación con la app. El DEA asigna un puerto para la app en el momento de la transferencia.

PWD

El directorio de trabajo actual en el que se ejecuta el paquete de compilación.

TMPDIR

El directorio en que se guardan los archivos temporales y de transferencia.

USER

El ID de usuario bajo el cual se ejecuta el DEA.

VCAP_APP_HOST

La dirección IP del host del DEA.

VCAP_APPLICATION

Una cadena JSON que contiene la información sobre la app desplegada. La información incluye el nombre de la app, los URI, los límites de memoria, la indicación de fecha y hora en que la app ha alcanzado su estado actual, etc. Por ejemplo:

  {
    "limits": {
        "mem": 512,
        "disk": 1024,
        "fds": 16384
    },
    "application_version": "df111903-7d95-4c20-96d9-aad4e97d2a9a",
    "application_name": "testapp",
    "application_uris": [
        "testapp.AppDomainNameng.mybluemix.net"
    ],
    "version": "df111903-7d95-4c20-96d9-aad4e97d2a9a",
    "name": "testapp",
    "space_name": "dev",
    "space_id": "c6ed3a8e-436b-43ac-9f96-b676ee335000",
    "uris": [
        "testapp.AppDomainNameng.mybluemix.net"
    ],
    "users": null,
    "application_id": "e984bb73-4c4e-414b-84b7-c28c87f84003",
    "instance_id": "09f50e22848d4ec0b943e9e487c23569",
    "instance_index": 0,
    "host": "0.0.0.0",
    "port": 61399,
    "started_at": "2015-01-16 06:50:51 +0000",
    "started_at_timestamp": 1421391051,
    "start": "2015-01-16 06:50:51 +0000",
    "state_timestamp": 1421391051
}

VCAP_SERVICES

Una cadena JSON que contiene información sobre el servicio que está enlazado a la app desplegada. Por ejemplo:

  {
    "mysql-5.5": [
        {
            "name": "mysql-ix",
            "label": "mysql-5.5",
            "tags": [
                "mysql",
                "relational",
                "data_management",
                "ibm_experimental"
            ],
            "plan": "300",
            "credentials": {
                "name": "d296abcc06c9e418b94abcaafdf547620",
                "hostname": "23.246.200.38",
                "host": "23.246.200.38",
                "port": 3307,
                "user": "uzpGf7eGJ7mtB",
                "username": "uzpGf7eGJ7mtB",
                "password": "peRiYCG4ZYqu3",
                "uri": "mysql://uzpGf7eGJ7mtB:peRiYCG4ZYqu3@23.246.200.38:3307/d296abcc06c9e418b94abcaafdf547620"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Las variables definidas por un paquete de compilación varían según cada paquete de compilación. Consulte [Paquetes de compilación](https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/cf-docs-contrib/wiki/Buildpacks){:new_window} para conocer los paquetes de compilación compatibles.

Las variables siguientes están definidas por el paquete de compilación de Liberty:

JAVA_HOME

La ubicación del SDK de Java que ejecuta la app.

IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS

Las opciones de SDK de Java que se utilizarán cuando se ejecute la app.

IBM_JAVA_COMMAND_LINE

El mandato Java para iniciar una instancia de servidor de un perfil de Liberty en el DEA.

WLP_USR_DIR

La ubicación de recursos compartidos y de las definiciones de servidor al iniciar una instancia de servidor de un perfil de Liberty en el DEA.

WLP_OUTPUT_DIR

La ubicación de las salidas que se generen como archivos de registro y directorios de trabajo de una instancia de servidor de un perfil de Liberty en ejecución.

Las variables siguientes están definidas por el paquete de compilación de Node.js:

BUILD_DIR

El directorio del entorno de ejecución de Node.js.

CACHE_DIR

El directorio que utiliza el entorno de tiempo de ejecución de Node.js para la colocación en memoria caché.

PATH

La vía de acceso del sistema que utiliza el entorno de ejecución Node.js.

Puede utilizar el código de ejemplo siguiente de Node.js para obtener el valor de la variable de entorno VCAP_SERVICES:

```
if (process.env.VCAP_SERVICES) {
    var env = JSON.parse (process.env.VCAP_SERVICES);
    myvar = env.foo[bar].foo;
}
```

Para obtener más información sobre cada variable de entorno, consulte el apartado [Variables de entorno de Cloud Foundry](http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/deploy-apps/environment-variable.html){:new_window}.

## Personalización de despliegues de apps
{: #customize_dep}

Puede personalizar las tareas de despliegue de apps. Por ejemplo, puede especificar los mandatos de inicio de las apps y puede configurar el entorno de arranque de las apps.
{:shortdesc}

### Especificación de mandatos de inicio

Para especificar mandatos de inicio para la app, puede utilizar uno de los siguientes métodos. Los mandatos de inicio que especifique prevalecerán sobre los mandatos de inicio predeterminados que proporciona el paquete de compilación.

**Nota:** Si desea que prevalezcan los mandatos de inicio del paquete de compilación, especifique **null** como mandato de inicio.

  * Utilice el mandato **cf push** y especifique el parámetro -c. Por ejemplo, cuando despliegue una
app Node.js, puede especificar el mandato de inicio **node app.js** en el parámetro -c:

  ```
  cf push appname -p app_path -c "node app.js"
  ```

  * Utilice el parámetro command del archivo `manifest.yml`. Por ejemplo, cuando despliegue una app Node.js, puede especificar el mandato de inicio **node app.js** en el archivo de manifiesto:

  ```
  command: node app.js
  ```

### Cómo añadir variables de entorno definidas por el usuario
{: #ud_env}

Las variables de entorno definidas por el usuario son específicas para una aplicación. Tiene las siguientes opciones para añadir una variable de entorno definida por el usuario a una app en ejecución:

  * Utilice la interfaz de usuario de {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}. Siga estos pasos:
    1. En el Panel de control de {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}, pulse el icono de la app. Se mostrará la página de detalles de la App.
	2. En el panel de navegación izquierdo, pulse **Variables de entorno**.
	3. Pulse **USER-DEFINED** y, a continuación, pulse **ADD**.
	4. Rellene los campos obligatorios y, a continuación, pulse **SAVE**.
  * Utilice la interfaz de línea de mandatos cf. Añada una variable definida por el usuario utilizando el mandato `cf set-env`. Por ejemplo:
    ```
    cf set-env appname env_var_name env_var_value
    ```

  * Utilice el archivo `manifest.yml`. Añada los pares de valores en el archivo. Por ejemplo:
    ```
	env:
      VAR1:value1
      VAR2:value2
    ```

Tras añadir una variable de entorno definida por el usuario, puede usar el código de ejemplo Node.js siguiente para obtener el
valor de la variable que ha definido:

```
var myEnv = process.env.env_var_name;
console.log("My user defined = " + myEnv);
```

### Configuración del entorno de arranque

Para configurar el entorno de arranque para la app, puede añadir scripts de shell en el directorio `/.profile.d`. El directorio `/.profile.d` está bajo el directorio build de la app. {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} ejecuta los scripts del directorio `/.profile.d` antes de que se ejecute la app. Por ejemplo, puede establecer la variable de entorno NODE_ENV en **production** colocando un archivo `node_env.sh` con el siguiente contenido bajo el directorio `/.profile.d`:

```
export NODE_ENV=production;
```

###Cómo evitar que se carguen archivos y directorios

Cuando utilice la interfaz de línea de mandatos cf para desplegar una app, puede ahorrar tiempo de carga si omite ciertos archivos y directorios que {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} puede obtener de cualquier otro sitio. Para evitar que estos archivos y directorios se carguen en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}, puede crear un archivo `.cfignore` en el directorio raíz de la app.

**Nota:** El archivo `.cfignore` debe tener el formato UTF-8.

El archivo `.cfignore` contiene los nombres de los archivos y directorios que desea omitir, nombre por línea. Puede utilizar un asterisco (*) como carácter comodín. Cuando especifique un directorio, también se omiten todos los archivos y subdirectorios que hay bajo dicho directorio. Por ejemplo, el siguiente contenido del archivo `.cfignore` indica que todos los archivos `.swp` y todos los archivos y subdirectorios que haya bajo el directorio `tmp/` no se cargarán en {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}.

```
*.swp
tmp/
```

# Enlaces relacionados
{: #rellinks}

## Enlaces relacionados
{: #general}

* [Despliegue con manifiestos de app](http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/deploy-apps/manifest.html){:new_window}
* [CF Manifest Generator](http://cfmanigen.mybluemix.net/){:new_window}
* [Iniciación a cf v6](http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/installcf/whats-new-v6.html){:new_window}
* [Iniciación a IBM Continuous Delivery Pipeline for Bluemix](../services/DeliveryPipeline/index.html#getstartwithCD)

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CFL WEEKLY PREDICTOR 2016: WEEK 3
Posted on July 6, 2016 July 6, 2016 by Anonymous Loser
Some guy emailed me to accuse me of being drunk when I made my Week 3 picks. He was looking at my 2015 Week 3 picks. But I was drunk. I remember the exact day. I was lying in a dumpster outside of the 7-11 stealing Wi-Fi, with a bottle of Captain Morgan at my side….
Anyhooo, I have not actually predicted anything this season yet (except my annual Roughrider Grey Cup lock), having recently completed my one-month sentence for that whole moose-riding fiasco (he was asking for it), but given the demand expressed by my legions of readers (see above), I will belatedly commence my predictions three weeks into the 2016 regular CFL season.
It looks like TSN's Chris Schultz has given up trying to predict CFL outcomes, likely due to the beating I consistently laid on him in my competing picks last year (hint: always bet against the Riders), so I will now turn my guns upon that prolific prognosticator of Canadian gridiron football, mighty Jamie Nye of CFL.CA.
Let's dance, Mr. Nye, if that is your real name.
Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Hamilton Tiger-Cats
As Robert DeNiro would say, playing Al Capone in The Untouchables: "You got nothing; Nuh-thing!" Winnipeg is doomed; they got nuh-thing. Well, they have Weston Dressler, but, come on.
Jamie Nye says the Blue Bombers are getting a little "antsy" after dropping the first two games. Replace "antsy" with "suicidal" and I agree. Anyway, Nye goes with the Tiger-Cats and damn it, he's right. You win this round, Mr. Nye.
Hamilton Tiger-Cats over Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Toronto Argonauts at British Columbia Lions
I do not understand how the Lions are doing so well. I also do not understand why Big Brother Canada keeps coming back each year. Who the hell watches that?
The Toronto Argonauts apparently spent the last week in Regina, so in addition to having to fight off the West Coast Blues that always give the Lions an edge over any visiting team, the mind-numbing boredom of life in the Queen City will have caused the Argos to fall into a first quarter catatonic trance. They will be out of the game by the half, still wondering why everyone drives so damn slow on Broad Street and what is the deal with all that greasy pizza. (By the way, the deal with the greasy pizza is it's awesome. I'm looking at you, Houston Pizza.)
Mr. Nye is predicting another Lions victory, and he's right again.
British Columbia Lions over Toronto Argonauts
Calgary Stampeders at Ottawa RedBlacks
Finally Mr. Nye stumbles; he's going with the Stampeders. Granted, he acknowledges this is just a hunch that goes against his better judgment, but it's a mistake nevertheless.
Here's why he's going with the hunch. Like everyone who follows Canadian football (except me; I'm awesome), Mr. Nye is viewing the 2016 Stampeders through the lens of the 2008 to 2015 Stampeders. This Stampeder team is not that good. It's running on fumes and the goodwill created by eight years of excellent football. But this team is wearing out.
Ottawa, well, I hate Ottawa because 1976, but they appear to be pretty good, so whatever.
Ottawa RedBlacks over Calgary Stampeders
Saskatchewan Roughriders at Edmonton Eskimos
You will never go broke betting against the Roughriders, especially when they are playing in Commonwealth Stadium. Every year I show up at Commonwealth to watch the Riders and every year the team does not. This year will be no different.
Mr. Nye points out that the Roughriders "head into Edmonton feeling quite confident, despite a double digit loss… to start the season." That statement more or less encapsulates the entire history of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the entire province. Inexplicable, misplaced, irrational confidence that flies in the face of indisputable facts, historical precedent and common sense.
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Jamie Nye, who is a member of Rider Nation, typically picks the Roughriders out of a misguided sense of misguidedness. He's wised up, at least this week.
And just so we're clear, I don't think the Edmonton Eskimos are all that good, and I predict the August 26th Rider-Eskimo game will be a different story, but for now, it's the Eskimos.
Edmonton Eskimos over Saskatchewan Roughriders


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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Essay
Published: 22nd Apr 2021
Technological Advancements in ALS Research and Drug Development
Throughout the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the amount of attention and awareness relating to the disease ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). ALS is recognized as one of the deadliest diseases that does not have a cure. Around 3 to 5 people for every 100,000 people present the total amount of cases that arise per year around the globe (Al-Chalabi 2017). As ALS paralyzes most of the human body, the body's function and movement slowly deteriorates as the disease spreads and matures, initially targeting the brain and the spinal cord (Al-Chalabi 2017). ALS also damages the ability to talk as the disease worsens (Revell). As the paralysis spreads quickly around the body, the respiratory system begins to fail, and ALS patients have few years to live. Though there are two main drugs that the FDA has approved to weaken the advancement of the disease, there is no cure that currently exists for ALS (Hirschler). The epidemiologic causes of ALS have been linked to familial and sporadic features that differ through genetic and non-genetic inheritance as well as various environmental factors (Al-Chalabi 2017). Advancement in AI technology has progressively begun to find genetic causes of ALS and has helped within the development of drugs that help prevent and cure the disease (Hirschler). The eyes and the muscles that control the eyes are rarely effected by ALS and can connect to modern technology that is created to help people that suffer from ALS communicate with others. While no cure currently exists for ALS, advancement in research and evaluation of environmental and genetic factors have linked the disease to multiple genes that may cause ALS and have led to the evaluation and advancement of drugs and technological innovations that slow down the progression of ALS.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, otherwise known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a crippling disorder that progressively attacks various parts of the body. ALS has many effects on the neurological functionality of the brain as it attacks the upper and lower neurons of the brain (Al-Chalabi 2017). While upper motor neurons of the brain begin to deteriorate, ALS patients usually experience stiffness and spasms in their muscles (Al-Chalabi 2017). While lower motor neurons of the brain are impacted, ALS patients experience twitches in their muscles (Al-Chalabi 2017). As ALS patients neurons are affected, their bodies slowly begin to fail as the paralysis from the loss of function of the lower and upper neurons spreads throughout the body. The name Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis originates from the "degeneration of the corticospinal axons…(sclerosis) of the lateral aspects of the spinal cord…[and]…as the brain stem and spinal motor neurons die, there is thinning of the ventral roots and denervational atrophy (amyotrophy) of the muscles of the tongue, oropharynx, and limbs" (Al-Chalabi 2017). Though most cases of ALS originate in the limbs of the body, one third of ALS cases occur in the bulbar region of the brain (Al-Chalabi 2017). While most cases of ALS begin in the limbs of the body, those that begin in the bulbar region affect the functions of the mouth such as swallowing, talking or eating (Al-Chalabi 2017). Though ALS initially affects the limbs and the bulbar, it has delayed affects on the movement of the eyes and the sphincter muscles (Al-Chalabi 2017). The internal ramification of ALS can be connected to the increased changes in behavior, which can lead to dementia, and the inability to walk due to the paralysis of the body (Al-Chalabi 2017). As ALS significantly deteriorates the human body, its cause can be linked to sporadic and familial origins.
ALS can be categorized as sporadic or familial (Al-Chalabi 2017). About 90% of cases of ALS are sporadic, and thus randomly found in patients that develop the disease on their own (Al-Chalabi 2017). About 10% of cases of ALS are familial and inherited from mutations of family members that pass down the genes that cause ALS (Bennett 2018). While males are more susceptible to be affected by sporadic ALS, the ratio of familial ALS have the same chances between gender (Al-Chalabi 2017). Though ALS typically affects people in their 50s, familial ALS can originate in teens (Al-Chalabi 2017). Though sporadic and familial ALS affect various people throughout the world, both are deadly and can be commonly linked to various genes within the body.
While looking at sporadic and familial cases of ALS, both categorizations typically display the aggregation and delocalization of TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) while sporadic ALS commonly displays superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) as well as 45% of cases displaying C9ORF72 (Al-Chalabi 2017). Though these genes are usually linked to sporadic and familial ALS, there are various genes that lead to the onset of the disease, thus making it challenging for researchers to connect a specific gene towards the development of ALS. Specifically, over one hundred and twenty genetic variants have been connected to the development of ALS (Al-Chalabi 2017). Researchers typically categorize ALS genes into three distinct groups that relate to "protein homeostasis, RNA homeostasis and trafficking and cytoskeletal dynamics" (Al-Chalabi 2017). While researchers analyze the three groups, there are many distinct characteristics that fit within each categorization and push for varying analysis of each group. The most commonly experimented grouping relates to protein homeostasis as the collection of clustered proteins and deficiencies that cells experience can be tied to mutations in the SOD1 gene (Al-Chalabi 2017). A potential reason for the frequent analysis of genes that relate to protein homeostasis could be that the SOD1 gene was the first gene linked to ALS, thus allowing researchers to further experiment with the gene more often than other genes. The grouping of RNA homeostasis and trafficking is commonly linked to TDP-43 which was the first RNA binding protein to be discovered in the body, while the most typically mutated gene is C9ORF72 (Al-Chalabi 2017). Researchers have yet to conclude why RNA binding proteins cause ALS (Al-Chalabi 2017). While analyzing the grouping of genes relating to cytoskeletal dynamics, three genes named DCTN1, PFN1 and TUBA4A have been identified as ALS genes (Al-Chalabi 2017). While multiple genes are aggregated and grouped into different categories, sporadic ALS has also been found to relate to environmental factors that may cause the disease.
Due to the random onset of sporadic ALS, it is typically challenging to distinctly link sporadic ALS to certain environmental factors. Due to the high death rate of ALS patients, it is challenging to find somebody in the early stages of ALS and help define the environmental onset of the disease. Varying conclusions have tied service in the military, smoking and exposure to dangerous metals, electromagnetic fields and pesticides as risk factors that increase the chances of a patient developing ALS (Al-Chalabi 2017). Researchers have also tested various viruses in connection to ALS and have only identified one retrovirus, K, that may cause sporadic ALS (Al-Chalabi 2017). Trauma could also relate to ALS as researchers have analyzed various injuries, and fractures that could potentially cause the disease and have discovered a connection between concussions and the increased risk of developing ALS (Al-Chalabi 2017). These traumatic factors have also been tied with the RNA binding protein, TDP-43 (Al-Chalabi 2017). As sporadic ALS develops in the body, these various environmental factors typically affect the functionality of the body and the development of ALS. Though the disease is sporadic, humans can stay away from some of these risk factors and try to limit the amount of environmental exposure they have with various risks such as working with dangerous metals or electromagnetic fields so they maintain a lower chance of environmentally acquiring the disease. Though environmental and genetic causes of ALS tend to differ, the presence of TDP-43 in some ALS patients can link sporadic and familial ALS as well as environmental and genetic inheritance. Although all of these types of ALS and ways of acquiring the disease differ, the common presence of TDP-43 should be further investigated as it connects to each form of ALS and each cause of ALS. Though investigations involving the RNA binding protein TDP-43 are currently happening as researchers strive to find a concrete cause for the disease, various researchers are using AI technology to investigate the causes and cures for ALS.
As ALS has no specific cure, there are many scientists, AI systems and institutions doing research relating to finding a drug that cures the disease and studying how the disease develops, specifically genes that cause ALS. There are currently two drugs, Riluzole and Edaravone, that are approved by the FDA for ALS treatment, though the drugs do not completely help with survival from the disease and ALS patients still face a high risk of death while taking the drugs (Al-Chalabi 2017). There are currently no drugs in clinical trial that are able to defeat the disease and adeno-associated viruses as well as stem cell research have led to few conclusions that strictly find the single genetic cause of ALS, as the disease has been found to be caused by various genes in the body (Al-Chalabi 2017). Though there are no conclusions that explicitly target the cause and cure for ALS, AI research has sped up the process of finding the answers to these problems.
Richard Mead, an English researcher, has found that artificial intelligence (AI) research and machines have helped him speed up the process of finding the origination and a cure for ALS (Hirschler 2017). AI systems scan through various amounts of data, published research and various scientific databases in order to help find a cause and cure for the disease (Hirschler 2017). Though Mead has not found a specific gene that causes ALS or a cure for ALS, Mead has found one proposal from the AI systems that leads to potentially stopping the death of motor neurons and slowing down the beginning of the disease (Hirschler 2017). Though Mead has not identified a direct biological gene or cure for the disease, his findings could potentially halt the development of ALS. Other groups such as the Barrow Neurological Institute have identified various genes connected to the disorder through AI research.
Using IBM's supercomputer Watson, researchers at the Barrow Neurological Institute were able to identify five genes that are connected to ALS (Hirschler 2017). Many mutated RNA binding proteins contribute towards the development of ALS (Argentinis 2018). As 11 RNA binding proteins have been identified as the cause of familial ALS and 6 more atypical forms of RNA binding proteins have been found in connection with ALS, the Barrow Neurological Institute was able to identify 5 RNA binding proteins that contribute towards the cause of ALS using Watson's assistance (Argentinis 2018). Similarly to Mead's research, Watson sifted through various scientific documents and published research to identify RNA binding proteins that caused ALS (Argentinis 2018). The researchers at Barrow identified the top ten RNA binding proteins that Watson found and tested the RNA binding proteins with ALS tissues and control tissues, thus leading to the discovery of 5 new undiscovered RNA binding proteins named hnRNPU, Syncrip, RBMS3, Caprin-1 and NUPL2 that showed atypical changes when tested with ALS tissue (Argentinis 2018). The Barrow Neurological Institute's approach has significantly contributed towards research that focuses on the development of ALS and the specific genes it attacks. Watson was able to identify five undiscovered genes and Barrow's use of Watson's advanced research style significantly sped up the process of finding various genes that abnormally responded to ALS tissue and were changed when exposed to the ALS tissue. Barrow's successful use of Watson's research system can lead to the use of various AI systems that can quickly identify genes that have yet to be discovered by humans. Watson's findings lead to the increased and proven use of AI technology that is validated and will be used to find the cause and cure of ALS in the future. While Watson was not able to identify a cure for ALS, human research has identified potential ways of slowing down the progression of ALS.
Recently, human researchers conducted an experiment that tested the effects of adding regulatory T cells to patients with ALS. The researchers tested three patients that have sporadic ALS and were at different stages of the progression of their ALS (Appel 2018). The researchers took a sample of white blood cells from the three patients and added four doses of the regulatory T cells to the samples over two months during the early stages of the disease (Appel 2018). After adding the first four doses, the researchers added four doses of the regulatory T cells to the samples over four months during the more developed and ending stages of the disease and regulatory T cells were found to slow the advancement and development of ALS over time (Appel 2018). Though regulatory T cells were infused into patients' blood and slowed down the progression of ALS, further research could be analyzed on a larger sample size over a longer period of time at different doses speeds in order to further validate this research (Appel 2018). Regulatory T cells can help advance research on the progression of ALS, though the T cells did not directly end the disease in the experiment. As the human researchers that tested the regulatory T cells move into more advanced trials, the researchers could potentially pinpoint a direct dosage and timing of the deliverance of T cells in order to slow down the growth of ALS. Though the infusion of T cells to the three patients tissue, human researchers have found specific T cells that can help progress the advancement of the treatment of ALS. As T cells help slow the progression of ALS, other proteins have helped contribute towards finding a treatment to ALS.
Recently, various human researchers have identified a therapeutic polymerase that helps attack TDP-43. As TDP-43 is one of the most common genes in sporadic and familial ALS, researchers strive to find something that blocks the growth of TDP-43 related disease and neurodegeneration. The researchers downregulated PAR, otherwise known as tankyrase, which is necessary for the collection and growth of TDP-43 stress granules (Bonini 2018). The "Stress granule localization initially protects TDP-43 from disease-associated phosphorylation, but upon long-term stress, stress granules resolve, leaving behind aggregates of phosphorylated TDP-43" (Bonini 2018). As the researchers hindered PAR, it helped stop the formation of TDP-43 and did not affect the gathering of stress granules (Bonini 2018). Through reducing the amount of PAR, researchers were able to stop the growth of TDP-43 and the related diseases it causes and neurodegeneration within the body (Bonini 2018). As researchers continue to evaluate PAR, decreasing the amount of PAR in the body could lead to the reduction and treatment of diseases associated with TDP-43. Though researchers attempt to cure ALS, modern treatment options are currently costly and are very challenging for people with ALS to acquire.
As no cure has been found for ALS, the economic ramifications of the disease significantly impact the ALS patient as well as their support system, for example their family, that pays for treatment from the disease. While ALS costs and treatment have been analyzed, ALS remains one of the most expensive diseases to treat and live with. Researchers have studied over twelve studies from eight countries between January 2001-2015 and have begun to estimate the total cost of ALS across each specific country. While converting costs from these studies to the value of the 2015 U.S. dollar, the U.S. was found to have an annual cost of $69,475 per patient (Gladman 2015). While looking at the national value of money dedicated towards ALS treatment and costs, the total estimated cost that was spent in the U.S. in 2015 war around $279-472 million (Gladman 2015). These economic ramifications affect various abilities to afford treatment and healthcare for patients. While it may be quite easy for someone that has the means to pay for ALS treatment, others are unable to afford such expensive treatment. Though some patients are unable to afford proper healthcare and treatment, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge raised a ton of money dedicated towards research and treatment from the disease. Researchers are still figuring out how to properly spend the significant amount of funds while looking at the current costs of ALS treatment in the U.S. (Gladman 2015). Though the costs of treating ALS remain high, the economic ramifications of ALS have also led to the purchase of expensive technological innovations that use the eyes of ALS patients to help patients communicate with others.
While failure of the upper and lower neurons of the brain and the weakening of the limbs and the spinal cord have been analyzed, modern research has yet to connect the delayed affects of ALS on eye movement. Mice stand as one of the key subjects in ALS research as mice typically display the same paralytic response that humans display while suffering from ALS (Al-Chalabi 2017). Researchers tested mice that carried the SOD1 gene with G93A mutations and attempted to connect satellite cells and innervation to the delayed impact ALS has on the neurological movement of the eyes (Tjust 2017). While testing the impact of the presence of satellite cells on the limbs and eye movements, the effect of satellite cells on the limbs had a large range of activated satellite cells, while the amount of satellite cells that remained in the control and eyes of ALS patients gave very similar results (Tjust 2017). The researchers were unable to identify satellite cells role in the advancement of ALS due to the amount of satellite cells that remained constant between the control and sample of mice that were tested for ocular movement (Tjust 2017). The researchers concluded that ocular movements are intrinsically controlled and the delayed neurological effect on the movement of the eyes could not be connected to satellite cells (Tjust 2017). Further research should be undergone in order to track the reasoning of delayed movement in the extraocular muscles of ALS patients as the results did not find a distinct biological element that gives reasoning for ALS' delayed impact on eye movement. While researchers are unable to discover the reasoning of the delayed impact ALS has on the extraocular muscles, the extraocular muscles help people that suffer from ALS communicate with others through new technological innovation.
As ALS damages an individual's ability to speak, there are many human resources, technological resources and apps available to help people that suffer from ALS communicate with others. Current communication devices track the eye movements of ALS patients. Recently, Microsoft developed GazeSpeak, an app that uses AI to track eye movements and convert those traced eye movements into sentences and words. The app groups letters together and selects various letters, then grouping the letters into four common words that can be chosen and selected by the patient, as the patient winks or stares at the phone to approve a certain word (Revell). This app poses an efficient and alternative solution to human tracking that tracks various letters on a white board as humans track eye movements to form words that people with ALS are trying to communicate with others (Revell). GazeSpeak was tested to take an average of 78 seconds to complete a sentence while a human took around 123 seconds to complete one (Revell). Other devices use infrared cameras to track eye movement, but these cameras and the software that accompany them are very costly (Revell). As modern technology continues to advance, the delayed impact ALS has on extraocular muscle movements allows ALS patients that cannot speak to communicate with others. The rise of apps such as GazeSpeak will lead to the further development of other apps that intend to serve the same fuction or add to what GazeSpeak has already created/discovered. While the biological reasoning for the functional movement of the eyes on people that have ALS has still yet to be found, these devices take advantage of the delayed neurological response ALS has on the eyes and allows patients to easily communicate with others.
Summary/Discussion
ALS is a deadly disease that continues to affect a significant amount of people around the world every day. As the upper and lower motor neurons of the brain are affected, paralysis, failure of the limbs and the bulbar are significantly weakened as motor neurons die within the body. Sporadic ALS makes up the majority of cases of ALS, as patients randomly develop the disease due to environmental factors and genetic factors, while familial ALS is inheritably passed down from preceding generational genes. Sporadic and familial ALS can possibly both contain the gene TDP-43, which affects RNA homeostasis and trafficking, though genes can be broken down into three categories. Though the FDA has approved of two drugs to help combat ALS, the drugs do not really weaken the disease which continually leads to depth. This pushes for further AI research that evaluates the genes that cause ALS and drugs that cure ALS, as AI speeds up the process of ALS research and has discovered new genes that cause ALS. Human research has found therapeutic PAR and T-Cells that help delay the progression of ALS. As ALS has a significant economic ramification and remains costly for patients, researchers are trying to find ways to allocate money that has been raised to contribute towards ALS research. Though ALS has a delayed impact on the neurological ocular movements within the eyes, researchers have not found a biological reasoning for the delay. Various technological developers are creating AI systems to help people with ALS communicate with others. As a significant amount of cases of ALS are discovered every year, AI and human researchers can eventually find a T Cell or polymerase that delays the onset of the disease and slows progression of the disease in the body. AI technology could also solve the biological question of how the eye muscles are one of the last affected muscles in a patient that has ALS. As AI and human research improves and ALS is evaluated, there will eventually be a cure for the deadly disease, though it may not be for a while. Recent discoveries push researchers to strive for a solution to one of the deadliest diseases in America that significantly deteriorates the body and has yet to be cured.
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Another Jaunt up the Garden State Path
Tony Thomas
Victoria's Premier Dan Andrews paid contractors $1.1 billion compensation in 2015 when he cancelled Melbourne's East-West Link tunnel to oblige greenies. Against that backdrop his new $10 million redress scheme for "stolen generations" is just coins behind the sofa. It enabled his Socialist-Left faction warlord, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Gavin Jennings, a puff of virtue as he retired from Parliament one day later. The Greens had proposed $200,000 per person "stolen", ten times Andrews' offer. I've seen calls for up to $1 million per person.
Andrews was embarrassed that uber-progressive Victoria, alone among the states, had no compensation scheme. They don't always work well – the Aboriginal Legal Service report in 2014 complained of the payouts' grog and drug spending, "humbugging" and family infighting. Andrews' quote for his media chooks read, "We say sorry, but the words are not enough – redress is about tangible support for people who are still suffering, many years on from this horrific policy."
Sorry, but Victoria never ran "horrific" stealing policies and Dan's cited "evil chapter" is mythical. Six official inquiries between 1996 and 2003 found no Victorian policies and no victims. The 2003 task force said there had been no policy to remove children. The 1996 report conceded that a century ago very few children were being removed and, from 1957, the Welfare Board had no authority to remove them.
Apprentices were boarded out (three or four a year from 1912-29) and children were placed in industrial schools (about five a year from 1901-52). "Few, if any" removals from 1890-1930 claimed parental neglect. The 1996 submission even counted as "stolen" 400 young felons imprisoned just like young white crims. Nearly all returned home. Judge-approved adoptions from 1958-68 averaged only one or two per year, mostly babies of teens from interstate.
There were two grey episodes. In the 1950s, police brought 150 Aboriginal children to court after a roundup in shanty towns that included 24 kids living on the Mooroopna rubbish dump. In the late 1960s Aboriginal Welfare officials uncovered 300 informal private adoptions. They strove to re-unite the families, since State policy was against family separations, not creating them. Historian Keith Windschuttle estimates from his archival counts that 700 Aboriginal children in Victoria were removed between 1890-1970, for all reasons, and voluntarily or not. That's about nine children removed per year. Nationally such removals totalled about 8250 last century, for all reasons.
By 2005, embarrassed Victorian politicians solved their non-problem by redefining "stolen" as those separated from community, family, land or culture, no matter how short, how voluntary and for whatever reason, plus all the descendants. And the whole families involved were now viewed as "stolen" survivors. The result, as Windschuttle put it, was that Victorian "stolen" numbers went from virtually none to virtually all.
This was so implausible that a new legitimising tactic evolved in 2018. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Healing Foundation generated national counts of the "stolen" using five Australian Bureau of Statistics surveys from 2002-15. This led to a 2018 total of 17,000 for surviving Aboriginals born before 1972 (when alleged "stealing" ceased) and who also reported removal from their families. The Victorian figure at 2014-15 was 1341. The report further tabulated about 100,000 descendants of the "stolen". This was a third of all adult Aborigines, including 9000 descendants in Victoria.
The ABS survey questions were:
1/ Have you been removed from your family by welfare or the government or taken away to a mission?
2/ Have any of your relatives been removed from your family by welfare or the government or taken away to a mission?
The questions involve no distinctions between voluntary and enforced removal, no reasons for removal (welfare, racist or last resort), and no date or duration of removal.
Question Two is quite subjective, asking about family lore or hearsay concerning "any type of relative", according to the Institute. Answers could range from upbringing at a children's home (for whatever reason) to a tale about a pre-war great-grandmother who got a trip from her inland mission to the seaside. This survey generated the highest possible number of "stolen" kids. Nonetheless, it is clear from the report that legalised removal for whatever reason had bad outcomes, across a swathe of 20 indicators.
But some results were absurd. About 18,000 national respondents in 2014 said they were "removed" after 1972, after the alleged racist practices ceased. These 18,000 mistaken respondents were only slightly fewer than the 21,000 saying, at least plausibly, that they were "removed" pre-1972 (p91). And the fourth ABS survey in 2012-13 produced such exaggerated removal figures that it was binned even by the report-writers.
The population claiming Aboriginality has soared as people choose this fashionable identity, creating an "unfortunate" glitch in the "stolen" statistics, the report says. In 2008 the increase was 17 per cent above the demographic estimate.
South Australian governments also love apologising for stealing generations. Sure, Adelaide produced Australia's sole court-verified case, Bruce Trevorrow, stolen from hospital at 13 months by a deluded welfare officer in 1958. He won $775,000, why no wins by others? SA had laws since 1911 against "stealing" the children. But from 1939-58 bureaucrats removed about 300 children illegally (including Bruce Trevorrow), some for neglect or with consent. SA archival experts Alistair Crooks and Joe Lane have re-keyed to their site, firstsources.info, some 22,000 letters of Aboriginal Protectors from 1840-1912. From 1840 to 1940, SA removals averaged two to three per year, for all reasons including having been orphaned, they found. Windschuttle's SA count for 1900-1970 was 16 a year, for all reasons. The SA government itself has cited miniscule removals, such as five a year from 1909-1913, for all reasons.
The Protectors were so keen to preserve families that from 1860 they provided many scores of 15ft fishing boats and canoes, free or half-price, to Murray River-dwelling groups, along with tackle and rifles for self-sufficiency. From the 1940s, travelling staff coached mothers on child-rearing to minimise removals for neglect.
Contrast that with modern Victoria. As of June 2018, 8.9 per cent of the children were in care placements, 20 times the non-indigenous rate, and the worst rate in Australia. Dan Andrews should focus on his government's current child removals rather than alleged historic ones.
Tony Thomas in 2010 wrote "The Pocket Windschuttle", a lay version of Keith Windschuttle's "The Stolen Generations 1881-2008". He wrote the forward to Crooks and Lane's "Voices from the Past" (Hoplon Press, Adelaide, 2017). Order his new book of essays, "Come to think of it – essays to tickle the brain" from Connor Court: print $34.95 and e-book $14.95
Biggles – 16th April 2020
I have long believed that if Aborigines didn't exist it would be necessary to invent them to justify an enormously-wasteful white bureaucracy and a platform for virtue-signalers such as Comrade Andrews.
norsaint – 17th April 2020
Funny how 1972 is the year the stealing are meant to have ceased. It wasn't long after when the state actually did begin stealing people's children, courtesy of the soon to be created – and by any measure, corrupt – "family courts". Blameless individuals not seeking any legal redress, suddenly found themselves dragged into secret courts and ordered to write cheques to court officials on pain of losing their children and or being jailed without trial. The writing of said cheques wasn't a guarantee either of the above monstrous threats didn't occur. And of course, these sham courts are still operating under a veil of secrecy, still providing their dubious operatives financial and professional incentives to steal other people's children. The great unwashed instinctively think, well don't divorce then. What they don't realize is the children are never removed from the party seeking the divorce, because if that happened, there's a chance that spouse would then change their mind and the industry lose all that potential revenue. No, they impose involuntary divorce upon unwilling spouses who've given no grounds for divorce, remove their children and along the way loot their assets as the faux "custody battle" takes place. In effect what we have now is a state-sponsored kidnapping and extortion racket. Don't expect to see any enquiries into this though. It is a billion dollar industry supporting a plethora of judges, lawyers, social workers, psychotherapists, relationship counsellors, builders, landlords and of course supported by its very won policing force whereby due process considerations are out the door.
padraic – 17th April 2020
Being a victim and creating them is a big industry these days. The woke crowd need them to make themselves feel superior. Old people are now victims, drug abusers are victims requiring the disability pension, etc and we have to ring up a number about "mental health" if we have a broken fingernail or have to home-school the kids etc and we are all so powerless and helpless and need the government and charities to help us tie up our shoe laces and give us money. A lot of the "mental health" problems are self-induced by people taking mind-altering drugs. We are becoming a nation of wimps, ripe for the takeover. There are genuine mental health problems as there always has been but people are being encouraged to see every normal setback and challenge in life as a "mental health" issue.
PT – 17th April 2020
Well norsaint I think "1972" is a reference to "Saint" Gough, who, of course, could not possibly be responsible for such a racist policy!
One of my mother's cousins was fostering an aboriginal girl. I remember seeing her once, but this was early '80's! Another was one of my best friends in school. Again, after Gough had come and gone, and certainly after the late '60's which used to be the end of the policy before it was extended!
So they will either have to admit that "St Gough" (who made aboriginals his priority and insists officials report to him rather than the Minister) was a racist who presided over a racist policy, or they'll have to rethink. The alternative is that they'll have to deny claims from some because it occurred after "St Gough" redeemed the country. Personally watching that would be some compensation for the cost and division – not least because it would show how quickly "heroes" can become "villains" for the left.
Peter Sandery – 18th April 2020
Not "the country", PT but "Country", surely!
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