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Q: Pivot Table project - Avoid using many INDEX and MATCH functions that make Excel crash I need some help with an Excel Project that's giving me headaches. I succeeded to achieve everything I wanted but the result is too heavy for Excel and it crashes all the time. I'm over-using the INDEX and MATCH functions on large tables (50 000+ lines) and Excel doesn't like it. I'm looking for a way to do the same thing in a lighter way for Excel.
Here's what I achieved : I created a report that helps me analyzing my employees's performance VS their billing targets. To create such a report, I used a Pivot Table.
That Pivot Table needs this information as its source :

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*Each sales that every employee made (amount in $ and date)

*The hourly rate of each employee (which changes for every period, see TABLE1 below)

*The billing target for each employees (which changes for every period, see TABLE1 below)

Here's my setup. I have 3 tables :

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*TABLE1 (See attached image) - A table where I manually input data for each of my employees (hourly rate and billing target). Their billing target and hourly rate change every period. So, each period has a different line and I indicate the first day of the period and the last day of the period.

*TABLE2 (See attached image) - Table that contains sales data exported from another software I use. Each line represents an amount sold by an employee to a customer on a specific date. This table is pretty heavy and contains more than 50 000 lines. Moreover, the last 2 columns of this table use Index and Match functions to get the right hourly rate and the right billing target from TABLE1. That means that each of those 50 000 lines uses the INDEX and MATCH functions twice… This part is too heavy for Excel and I need a workaround.
Moreover, TABLE2 is getting refreshed every few days with new data coming from my other software (an ERP). So the solution I need to find must take that into account and must be permanent (I try to avoid steps that will have to be done everytime I refresh TABLE2 with new data).

*TABLE3 - A Pivot Table that uses TABLE2 as its data source. I use the slicer to select the name of an employee and a timeline to specify which months I want to display. Then the Pivot Table shows my employee's statistics grouped by months. The main statistic is the amount of "billed hours" for each employee, which is in reality the amount of sales made by that employee, divided by their hourly rate on a specific date.
My thoughts :

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*It is absurd that TABLE2 uses that many INDEX and MATCH functions. For example, if Employee1 made 500 sales between 2020-07-01 and 2020-07-31 (the same month, thus the same period, thus the same hourly rate and billing target), there will be 500 different lines that will use INDEX and MATCH to get the same hourly rate and billing target from TABLE1. That leads to a lot of duplicated calculation and a lot of duplicated data.

*Would it be possible for a Pivot Table Calculated Field to use INDEX and MATCH in its formula? And would it be lighter for Excel to do so?

*Another way would be to add, at the bottom of TABLE2, 12 lines per year (1 for each month) for every employee where I would write their hourly rate and the billing target. That way, the Pivot Table would be able to display an hourly rate and a billing target for each month, for each employee. That solution would work and would be lighter for Excel, but it would create a high risk of making mistakes while manually inputting the data.
I'm open to all suggestions including VBA!
Thank you very much for your precious time!
EDIT : FORMULA
As requested, here's my INDEX AND MATCH formula that is in TABLE2 and gets the hourly rate from TABLE1 :
=INDEX(TAB_Employee_Data[[#All];[Hourly_Rate]];MATCH([@[Date (Cell)]]; IF(TAB_Employee_Data[[#All];[Name]]=[@[Employee(Cell)]];TAB_Employee_Data[[#All];[First day of the period]]);1))

TAB_Employee_Data is the tab that contains "TABLE1".
I translated the names of the fields since all my work is in French.
This formula does the following : it searches the name of an employee in TABLE1 and finds the period which fits the date of a line in TABLE2.
Also, to work properly, I need to sort the lines of TABLE1 in chronological order.
TABLE 1 :

TABLE 2:


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Posted: 10:39 PM, Jan 13, 2017
By: Alex Hagan
Jodi Lowell finds it hard not to get emotional every time hears the news of a potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
"Without the Affordable Care Act, I would likely be dying actively right now," says Lowell.
More than a decade ago doctors diagnosed Jodi with Diverticulitis. In 2009 she became very sick with no health insurance.
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Jodi had surgery in September, but knows she faces more necessary procedures.
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Many Republican lawmakers say they hope to feature two key provisions in Obamacare in their plan such as coverage despite preexisting conditions and coverage for children on their parents plans until age 26.

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CLEVELAND, OH–(Marketwire – 07/01/10) – Hawk Corporation (AMEX:HWK – News) announced today that to enhance stockholder value, its Board of Directors has commenced a process to explore and consider possible strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the Company. A Special Committee of the Board has been formed and has retained Harris Williams & Co., as its financial advisor to assist and advise the Special Committee.
Ronald E. Weinberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, "We believe that this is an opportune time for us to explore alternatives for enhancing stockholder value. However, as we participate in this process, we will continue to focus on the long-term strategic initiatives we have previously identified to ensure continued growth opportunities for the Company."
The Company has not set a definitive timetable for completion of its evaluation and there can be no assurance that this process will lead to the approval or completion of any definitive agreement or other transaction. Hawk does not intend to disclose developments regarding this process unless and until its Board of Directors approves a specific transaction or otherwise concludes the review of strategic alternatives. Management of the Company has not scheduled a conference call in conjunction with this announcement.
Hawk Corporation is a leading supplier of friction materials for brakes, clutches and transmissions used in airplanes, trucks, construction and mining equipment, farm equipment, recreational and performance automotive vehicles. The Company also manufactures fuel cell components. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Hawk has approximately 1,200 employees at 12 manufacturing, research, sales and international rep offices and administrative sites in 6 countries.
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Telescope creates 'new atlas of universe' after mapping 30L galaxies in 300 hrs
For the first time, ASKAP has flexed its full muscles, building a map of the Universe in greater detail than ever before, and at record speed.
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A telescope developed by Australian scientists broke the record after it mapped approximately 30 lakh galaxies in 300 hours to create a "new atlas of the universe", Australia's national science agency CSIRO said. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a collection of 36 dish antennas which work together to take panoramic pictures of the sky.
CSIRO, the national science agency, said in a statement that the survey is like a "Google map of the Universe" in which most of the star-like points are distant galaxies. The design and initial results of the study has been published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. CSIRO chief executive Dr Larry Marshall said ASKAP generate more raw data at a faster rate than Australia's entire internet traffic.
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According to CSIRO, the new data will enable astronomers to study and analyse the huge number of galaxies the same way social scientists use information from a national census. David McConnell, the lead author and CSIRO astronomer, said that the astronomers from around the world will be able to use the survey to explore the unknown and study how galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve and interact.
"For the first time, ASKAP has flexed its full muscles, building a map of the Universe in greater detail than ever before, and at record speed. We expect to find tens of millions of new galaxies in future surveys," McConnell said in a statement.
ASKAP is a new type of radio telescope, designed and built by CSIRO, which makes images of radio signals from the sky, enabling astronomers to view the universe at wavelengths that our eyes cannot see. CSIRO's telescope is a collection of 36 dish antennas spread out over six kilometres in remote outback Western Australia. The telescope creates high-resolution images by combining the signals from 36 smaller dish antennas at a much lower cost than using a single large dish antenna, said the agency.


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Sorin 3T Heater-Cooler Lawsuit,
Sorin Heater-Cooler Infections
Numerous dangerous side effects are linked to the device.
Sorin 3T Heater-Cooler Units may cause infection when used in surgery.
Suffered an infection after a surgery? You could be entitled to compensation.
Sorin 3t heater-cooler lawsuit
The Sorin 3T Heater-Cooler System, used during various types of heart and lung surgeries, can spread a dangerous bacteria during the procedures causing serious infections, illnesses, and even death. Lawsuits are currently being filed as a result of the infections caused by these products. The number of lawsuits claiming LivaNova's Sorin 3T Heater-Cooler systems caused injuries have more than doubled in the last two years. Now, a federal panel has decided that the cases will be transferred to a single federal court in order to move them more quickly through the legal process. Our firm is currently representing individuals who have suffered infections as a result of the Stockert 3T Heater-Cooler System. View the sample patient notification letter sent from hospitals to their potentially infected patients from the Stockert 3T Heater-Cooler System.
What is a sorin 3t heater-cooler unit?
A heater-cooler unit is a machine used in most open-heart and open-chest bypass surgeries to regulate the patient's body temperature during surgery, preventing them from becoming too warm or too cold. These devices are important for use in heart and lung (cardiothoracic) surgeries because they generally involve the intentional and temporary stopping of the patient's heart and/or lung functions.
The most widely used model of heater-cooler system is the Stockert 3T made by LivaNova (the company formed by the merging of Sorin and Cyberonics, Inc. in June 2015), which was recently linked to the spread of a bacteria called Nontuberculous Mycobacteria ("NTM"). NTM has been known to cause serious illnesses, including chronic lung infections in immunocompromised patients and can even result in death when left untreated. The Stockert 3T heater-cooler unit is used in approximately 60% of the 250,000 surgeries performed in the U.S. each year requiring the use of a heater-cooler unit. The most common procedures in which a heater-cooler unit is used include:
Aortic anomaly surgery
Coronary artery bypass graft ("CABG")
Cardiopulmonary bypass surgeries (most open heart/open chest surgeries)
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ("ECMO")
Heart valve replacement
Left ventricular assist device ("LVAD") implant
Lung resection
Pulmonary artery banding
How does a heater-cooler unit work?
A heater-cooler device includes a water tank with a compartment inside that separates warm and cold water, as well as a heating and cooling unit that allows for air to flow in and air to flow out. The devices provide temperature-controlled water to an external heat exchanger or to warming/cooling blankets through closed water circuits that are sealed off to prevent contact with open air.
Although the water in the closed circuits never comes into direct contact with the patient, there is always the potential for contaminated water to enter other parts of the device or transmit bacteria through the air via the device's exhaust vent into the environment and the patient. Heater-cooler devices play a few different roles in surgery:
They transmit the cardioplegia solution doctors use to stop the heart into the body;
They facilitate the blood flow within the patient's blood circuit;
The water held in a heater-cooler device's tanks is used in the external heat exchangers as well as warming and cooling blankets that help regulate a patient's body temperature.
It's in these water tanks that Mycobacterium chimaera can live. When these dangerous bacteria infect heart surgery patients, those patients and their families have the right to pursue a Stockert 3T lawsuit. Each year, about 250,000 heart bypass surgeries are performed in the U.S. The majority of cardiac and cardiopulmonary surgeries in the U.S. have been performed while using a heater-cooler unit ("HCU"), which regulates the patient's body temperature during the procedure. In 2010, the FDA and/or CDC began receiving reports of bacterial infections after cardiac surgeries in the U.S. These government agencies later identified how the bacteria spread. During use of HCUs, the bacteria would become airborne, thus potentially invading the patient's tissues. The infections were caused by a specific bacteria, Mycobacterium chimaera, which is a species of nontuberculous mycobacterium ("NTM"). Mycobacterium chimaera is a relatively rare bacteria. It is present in water and soil and historically seen in immunocompromised patients or those with lung disease.
In 2015, Mycobacterium chimaera infections after open heart surgery were identified and studied in Europe. This triggered increased awareness at the CDC and FDA the same year. By late 2015, the CDC and the FDA began issuing warnings about problematic bacterial infections after cardiac surgery. They involved a specific HCU, the Sorin or Stockert 3T Heater-Cooler, which was recalled by the manufacturer in 2015. Learn about Sorin/Stockert 3T Heater-Cooler lawsuits, which are currently being filed against the manufacturer.
Sorin 3t heater-cooler system side effects
Use of the Sorin 3T Heater-Cooler system has been linked to serious infections, most notably Nontuberculous Mycobacteria ("NTM") infection. If you or a loved one underwent any operation in which a heater-cooler unit was used and have experienced any of the following symptoms or complications:
Persistent cough or cough with blood
Redness, heat, and/or pus at the surgical site
Infection (NTM)
Treatment for these complications can persist for months and even years, and if left untreated patients with NTM infections are at risk of death.
SOrin 3t heater-cooler recall and fda warning
In 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") began to receive reports that patients were developing serious infections during cardiothoracic surgeries. By 2015, the FDA, through hospital surveys and research, determined that heater-cooler devices were responsible for the issues and by 2016, they were able to link the growing number of infections to the Stockert 3T specifically.
In June 2015, Sorin, by then known as LivaNova, recalled the Stockert 3T Heater-Cooler devices due to these infections which were officially linked to the devices by the FDA. The recall stated that the infection potential is greater if device disinfection is neglected and maintenance is not performed per the instructions for use. It was discovered that the defective devices may have been in circulation up until 2014, with the first incident of infection reported as early as 2012.
In December 2015, the FDA issued a Warning Letter to LivaNova after inspecting two of its facilities, one in Germany and one in the U.S. The warning stated that during the FDA's inspection of LivaNova's German facility, investigators determined that the firm's devices were "contaminated" in methods used for manufacturing, packaging, storing or installation and found that these practices were in violation of current Quality System regulations.
At the conclusion of the inspection, the FDA noted that as a part of the company's recall, LivaNova issued an update to its cleaning and disinfection instructions following complaints of patient deaths due to infections caused by the Stockert 3T. But the FDA concluded that the acceptance criteria for the test did not demonstrate that the updated procedures produced a reduction in bacteria. The FDA stated that it will remain "actively engaged" in the process.
sorin 3t heater-cooler litigation
The number of lawsuits involving the Stockert 3T Heater-Cooler Unit have more than doubled in the last year. On February 1, 2018, 39 lawsuits over the heater-cooler devices were consolidated into a multi-district litigation ("MDL") in Pennsylvania.
The lawsuits claim that the Sorin 3T spread bacteria during surgeries, causing serious infections or even patient deaths. If you or a loved one has had surgery in which a heater-cooler device was used, you may be eligible for compensation. Depending on the severity of your infection/case, you could be compensated for:
Lost wages during hospital stays and treatment appointments
Medical bills resulting from complications
Pain and suffering caused by the infection, medical treatments, and recovery timeline
Economic damages from your injury
Emotional distress and loss of enjoyment of life
Heart surgery infections in pennsylvania
Patients in Pennsylvania who've undergone open heart surgery requiring a cardiopulmonary bypass at two hospitals may be infected with a deadly bacteria. Over 3,500 patients who underwent heart surgery at WellSpan York Hospital in York and Penn State Hershey Medical Center in Hershey may have been exposed to Mycobacterium chimaera, a particularly invasive bacteria.
According to federal agencies, and now as alleged in lawsuits filed against the manufacturer, a surgical unit used during heart surgeries may have spread the bacteria, Mycobacterium chimaera. This specific bacteria is a species of nontuberculous mycobacterium ("NTM") and is particularly difficult to diagnose due to its long incubation period. Many patients with this bacterial infection get diagnosed several months or years after the original heart surgery.
At least 1,300 patients at WellSpan York Hospital and 2,300 patients at Hershey Medical Center may have been exposed to the bacteria. As early as July 2015, WellSpan York Hospital notified the Pennsylvania Department of Health ("DOH") about a cluster of patients with bacterial infections. It's unclear when Hershey Medical Center first notified the PA DOH. In 2015, both hospitals began notifying heart surgery patients who had surgeries between 2011 and 2015. An NTM infection is particularly invasive and often results in death. According to a May 2017 study in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Invasive Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections among Cardiothoracic Surgical Patients Exposed to Heater–Cooler Devices, of the 10 patients at York Hospital who were identified as having an NTM infection, 7 had died.
The Pennsylvania DOH began a field investigation in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control to determine the source of the infections. A few months later, the CDC and the Pennsylvania DOH revealed that the bacterial infections were caused by a specific surgical device, a heater-cooler unit ("HCU") used during the surgery to heat and cool a patient's blood during the bypass procedure. The investigation revealed the presence of the bacteria in samples and swabs taken of the HCUs and operating room air samples while the HCU was ON but not when the HCU was OFF. The cluster of infections in York and Hershey, PA was no anomaly. In fact, heart surgery patients around the United States have been affected. These infections have been identified in patients in over 15 states, including Iowa and South Carolina.
Sorin lawsuit news
Emerging Infectious Diseases, May 2017, Invasive Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections among Cardiothoracic Surgical Patients Exposed to Heater–Cooler Devices
Pennsylvania Department of Health, Winter 2016, Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Hospital Edition Newsletter
Pennsylvania Department of Health, Nov. 2015, Department of Health Urges Hospitals to Increase Vigilance after Nontuberculosis Mycobaterium Infections Identified in Patients at Penn State Hershey Medical Center
Pennsylvania Department of Health, Oct. 2015, Cluster of Nontuberculous Mycobacterium Infections Identified in WellSpan York Hospital Patients
Pennsylvania Department of Health, 2015, Advisory #322, PADOH and PSA Guidance Regarding Nontuberculous Mycobacterium (NTM) Infections among Patients Undergoing Open Heart Surgeries on Cardiopulmonary Bypass
The Problem of Delayed Diagnosis of Bacterial Infection After Heart Surgery
Diagnosis of Mycobacterium chimaera bacterial infections after cardiac surgery can take months if not years. In some cases, diagnosis may not occur until up to four to six years after the surgery. Diagnosis tends to be difficult for multiple reasons:
Mycobacterium chimaera is a slow growing bacteria with a long incubation period;
The bacteria is difficult to detect because it doesn't get detected in routine cultures. Mycobacterial blood cultures are usually required to detect the bacteria. Accurate identification of Mycobacterium chimaera requires molecular diagnostic laboratory RNA gene sequencing;
Because of the bacteria's long incubation period, tests can produce false negatives;
Symptoms of the infection mimic other diseases and complications.
Localized signs or diagnoses include prosthetic valve endocarditis, prosthetic vascular graft infection, sternotomy wound infection, mediastinitis or deep organ space infection. Non-localized signs include bacteremia, splenomegaly, arthritis, osteomyelitis, chorioretinitis, cerebral vasculitis, myocarditis, hepatitis, and nephritis. Patients in rural areas of the country face a greater risk for delayed diagnosis of a bacterial infection after heart surgery. The surgeon or hospital where the surgery was performed may be too far for post-op visits and treatment. Patients in these situations often follow up with their local doctors, who simply may not be aware of the risk of the Mycobacterium chimaera infections after surgery.
In one case, a 60 year old male underwent two heart procedures within a three year span and died shortly after the second procedure. Analysis of the patient's medical case revealed that he had a Mycobacterium infection. About 2 years after the first surgery (aortic, mitral reconstruction with implant), the patient reported symptoms of fever, weight loss and respiratory problems. Prosthetic valve endocarditis was ruled out with negative blood cultures; even subsequent testing produced negative results. Sarcoidosis was diagnosed, and the patient was started on immunosuppressive therapy, including a steroid (prednisone). The patient's condition deteriorated over the course of the following year. He was admitted to the hospital with respiratory distress. An echocardiogram showed mitral and aortic valve insufficiency, so he was referred for additional valve surgery. During the surgery, acute necrotizing mycobacterial endocarditis was discovered. Further testing revealed the presence of two kinds of bacteria, Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium chimaera, in the patient's heart tissue and implant. He was started on a strong, toxic trio of drugs: rifabutin, ethambutol and clarithromycin/azithromycin (the current standard for treating Mycobacterium infections). Unfortunately, the patient died of heart failure two weeks later.
Have I suffered from a sorin 3t heater-cooler system?
Did you have heart surgery within the past 4 years?
Do you exhibit symptoms of or been diagnosed with endocarditis, surgical site infection, abscess, bacteremia, renal insufficiency, splenomegaly, pancytopenia or osteomyelitis?
Talk to your doctor about special cultures for an NTM (Mycobacterium) infection, including acid fast bacteria (AFB) cultures of the wound/blood or an AFB smear.
Discuss difficulties in diagnosis of an NTM infection. An infectious disease specialist may be necessary. Contact us today if you have suffered from a Sorin 3T Heater-Cooler System.
Page last reviewed and updated: January 6, 2021
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Савеньє́р () — муніципалітет у Франції, у регіоні Пеї-де-ла-Луар, департамент Мен і Луара. Населення —  осіб (2011).

Муніципалітет розташований на відстані близько 280 км на південний захід від Парижа, 70 км на схід від Нанта, 13 км на південний захід від Анже.

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У 2010 році в муніципалітеті числилось 551 оподатковане домогосподарство, у яких проживали 1419,0 особи, медіана доходів виносила  євро на одного особоспоживача

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est un film américain de Bill Colleran et Louis De Rochemont III, sorti en 1958. il s'agit d'un film documentaire sur le Christian Radich.

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Fiche technique
 Titre :
 Réalisation : Bill Colleran et Louis De Rochemont III
 Scénario : James L. Shute
 Photographie : Joseph C. Brun et Gayne Rescher
 Musique : Morton Gould
 Pays d'origine : États-Unis
 Format : Couleurs
 Genre : documentaire
 Durée : 142 minutes
 Date de sortie : 1958

Distribution
 Arthur Fiedler
 Wilbur De Paris
 Pablo Casals
 Orchestre Boston Pops

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 Christian Radich
 Grand voilier en fer

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Film américain sorti en 1958
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Lady Panthers secure share of District 8-3A title
By The Independent, Liberty Hill
Nicole Thiem snags a line drive for an out in the Lady Panthers' 3-0 win over Burnet last Friday. (Photo by Kathy Canady)
By Joseph Garcia
To be a great team, greediness is an essential trait.
Currently, the Liberty Hill Lady Panthers find themselves sharing the District 8-3A Championship with the Gatesville Hornets following a hard-fought win over Lampasas Tuesday night. But the Lady Panthers do not like to share.
It was a lot tighter of a game than was expected between Liberty Hill and Lampasas, a team with one district win.
Samantha Junkin (20-1) was in the circle for Liberty Hill, and the team needed every bit of what she produced. She gave up just two hits, struck out 12 batters and allowed no runs in five innings of work. Then Nicole Thiem came in and struck out three of her own to preserve the 4-0 victory.
Liberty Hill moved to 9-0 in district and 26-2 overall and earned at least a share of the district title with one game remaining on Friday in Gatesville, when the Lady Panthers can take the crown outright.
"The district championship is very important to our team," said Liberty Hill Coach Charice Hankins. "We have played hard and set that as one of our team goals and our kids want it outright. They don't really want to share it."
Through the first three innings, Junkin faced nine batters and struck out seven of them, including the side in the third inning. But offensively the story of the night for the Lady Panthers was runners left on base.
Liberty Hill stranded six runners on base through just the first two innings and was unable to manufacture any runs until the third inning, but even that was difficult.
Kallen Floyd started the third off with a single and Presley Walker followed up with a walk. Lynsey Mitchell then reached base, but Floyd was tagged out at third. Two batters later, Courtney Weems smacked a triple down the third base line that initially scored two runs.
However, one of the runs was disallowed after the Lampasas catcher inquired – on the advice of fans in the stand and eventually her coach – to the umpire if Mitchell touched the third base bag. Once she asked, the umpire called Mitchell out for missing the bag, bringing the inning to an end with Liberty Hill on top 1-0.
After another quick inning, in which Junkin struck out three batters in a row, the Lady Panthers added another run on an RBI single off the bat of Floyd down the right field line, scoring Baylie Beavers. With the score now 2-0 and with the bases loaded, Liberty Hill looked for more. However, the Lady Panthers would leave three more runners on base.
Junkin had a no-hitter going through four and a third innings, until Lampasas finally managed to get one through to the outfield. Still, she fanned two more batters in the fifth inning before her night was through.
Liberty Hill scored its final two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning.
With two on and two out, Paige Lafferty ripped an RBI single off the shortstop's leg, scoring Weems from third. The next batter, Alyson Sulak, slapped a bunt single to score Delaney Red, making the score 4-0.
"It sure did seem to be a tough game," Hankins said. "We had 12 hits, and that was awesome, but leaving 11 runners on the bases is not what we want to do in any game. Those four runs were like pulling teeth – tough and hard to come by."
Thiem came in for the final two innings and shut things down, allowing just one hit to seal the 4-0 win.
Liberty Hill's attention is now turned to its final regular season game against Gatesville on Friday, April 19, at 6:45 p.m.
The Hornets are brimming with confidence after the Lady Panthers scraped by them 5-4 last month. If 8-1 Gatesville wins, then it claims a share of the District 8-3A title along with Liberty Hill.
But the Lady Panthers are self-assured in their abilities to complete the undefeated district season.
"I think our kids are excited and determined to win the next game," Hankins said. "They know they hit the ball well last time against Gatesville, we just hit it right at them. We will need to put runners on and get them in. There should be lots of fight and focus, and our kids want to win this battle."
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An 18-year-old student strode into his vocational school in Crimea, a hoody covering his blond hair, then pulled out a shotgun and opened fire yesterday, killing 19 students and wounding more than 50 others before killing himself.
Officials said that the fourth-year student killed himself in the library of the Kerch Polytechnic College after the attack. His mother, a nurse, was helping to treat victims at a local hospital after the shootings, unaware yet that her son was accused of the rampage and was already dead.
Such school shootings are rare, and Wednesday's attack was by far the worst by a disgruntled student in Russia, which annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. The bloodbath raised questions about school security in the country; the Kerch Polytechnic College had only a front desk with no security guards.
By the end of the day, the death toll stood at 19, though it was not clear if that figure included the shooter. Fifty-three people were wounded, including 12 in serious condition, Crimean authorities said.


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Mars is very much en vogue right now. NASA is focused on exploring Mars, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars, and astronomers all around the world want to learn more about Earth's nearest neighbor. The discovery earlier this month that the planet is hiding massive water ice reserves just beneath its surface could have far-reaching ramifications, possibly giving future humans on Mars easy access to water supplies. Of course, humans would need more than water to survive on Mars.
Scientists continue to explore ways of building human habitats on Mars that are capable of sustaining life for long stretches of time. Of course, no habitat can sustain life without power, and a lack of fuel sources on Mars is a big roadblock. Moreover, sources of portable power will be needed if astronauts on Mars have any hope of embarking on meaningful expeditions. NASA is exploring a number of different solutions to these issues, and on Thursday evening it announced successful tests of machines that may provide the ideal solution.
A team of researchers from NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Department of Energy announced during a press conference that they have successfully tested a system that can provide power and generate fuel on Mars.
Getting a manned spacecraft to Mars, sustaining a habitat for a long-term stay on the planet, and enabling the manned craft to return home to Earth requires a massive amount of fuel. Hauling that much fuel from Earth to Mars in a manned spacecraft isn't feasible, which means astronauts must have a way to create fuel on the red planet. A number of different solutions are in testing, of course, but one in particular could be the key.
NASA on Thursday unveiled a device called Kilopower, a compact nuclear reactor capable of reliably generating power. In a guest post on Space.com, the Department of Energy's Kilopower project lead Patrick McClure and Los Alamos National Laboratory's chief reactor designer David Poston explained how the solution works.
The researchers have created different versions of the portable Kilopower reactor that generate different amounts of power. They range from 1 kilowatt, which they say is only enough to power a household toaster, to 10 kilowatts in size. According to McClure and Poston, about 40 kW would be needed to effectively run a habitat on Mars and generate fuel.
Kilopower tests have gone smoothly so far, and NASA plans to conduct full-power tests of the system beginning in March.


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Biafra: Asking for Referendum doesn't translate to war -IPOB
Tony Okafor, Awka
The Indigenous People of Biafra on Tuesday said the mission of the group was being misconstrued by most Nigerians.
It said the group had not thought of using war as a solution to achieving its objective of self determination.
In a press statement made available to our correspondent in Awka, Anambra State, by the group's media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, it described its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, as a peaceful and civilised person who would not want to be quick at going to war.
The group said its struggle was legitimate within the confines of international laws.
It maintained that the "enemies of Biafra" were fueling the hate against the group, either as a result of ignorance of the situation or deliberate manipulation of facts.
The group's statement read in part, "It is fair to assume, going by the utterances of certain corrupt segments of the Nigerian society that most of what IPOB is saying and stands for is lost in translation because anybody with basic understanding of rudimentary English and constitutional law will know that self determination does not mean war and that referendum is not hate speech.
"Again, when badly educated and ill-informed people dabble into a discipline above them, such mistakes are bound to happen.
"We would like to use this opportunity to clarify once again that IPOB is asking for self determination as recognised in both the United Nations charter on the Rights of Indigenous People and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.
"Before these Northern unity beggars (sic) threaten us with war that IPOB hasn't called for, let them spend a bit of their valuable time acquainting themselves with these charters and declarations.
"The only instrument IPOB has at its disposal is civil disobedience, which is entirely legal. Civil disobedience, it must be understood and be said, has nothing to do with armed conflict.
"Furthermore, people should be advised to study and assimilate the subtleties and nuances of English language before engaging in any public discussion regarding Biafra independence.
"Our leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is a peaceful man that constituted IPOB with peaceful foundation and the sole aim is to liberate his people from humiliation and bondage."


Lauren Todd Stimson holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture and a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and studied Theater and Geology at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She has a deep love for New England where she was raised, and an interest in the overlap between the built environment and the rural landscape, especially as it relates to historic villages and farms. She is a licensed Landscape Architect in the state of Maine and a Principal at the landscape architecture firm, STIMSON.
Drawing and painting are a way for her to document the character of ordinary remnants and site patterns. She continues to challenge herself with oil painting on canvas, linen, wood, board and paper, documenting farm life and the cultural landscapes of rural Massachusetts and the islands of Maine. She discovered painting as a way to exercise the freedom of abstraction, but she actually finds it much more difficult than the measured drawings she deals with daily as a landscape architect.
Lauren learns a great deal about plants from her garden and finds great comfort and happiness in cooking. Along with her husband, daughter and son, she runs Charbrook Farm and Nursery in Princeton, MA at the base of Brown Hill and Mount Wachusett.


Blockchain is arguably one of the most significant and disruptive technologies that came into existence since the inception of the Internet. It's the core technology behind Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies that drew a lot of attention in the last few years.
As its core, a blockchain is a distributed database that allows direct transactions between two parties without the need of a central authority. This simple yet powerful concept has great implications for various institutions such as banks, governments and marketplaces, just to name a few. Any business or organization that relies on a centralized database as a core competitive advantage can potentially be disrupted by blockchain technology.
Putting aside all the hype around the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the goal of this blog post is to give you a practical introduction to blockchain technology. Sections 1 and 2 cover some core concepts behind blockchain, while section 3 shows how to implement a blockchain using Python. We will also implement 2 web applications to make it easy for end users to interact with our blockchain.
Please note that I'm using Bitcoin here as a medium for explaning the more general technology of "Blockchain", and most of the concepts described in this post are applicable to other blockchain use cases and crypto-currencies.
Below is an animated gif of the two web apps that we will build in section 3.
It all started with a white paper released in 2008 by an unknown person or entity using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The white paper was titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" and it laid the foundation of what later became known as Blockchain. In the original Bitcoin white paper, Satoshi described how to build a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that allows online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a centralized institution. This system solves an important problem in digital money called double-spending.
Suppose that Alice wants to pay Bob 1$. If Alice and Bob use physical cash, then Alice will not longer have the 1$ after the transaction is executed. If Alice and Bob use digital money, then the problem gets more complicated. Digital money is in digital form and can be easily duplicated. If Alice sends a digital file worth 1$ to Bob by email for example, Bob cannot know for sure if Alice has deleted her copy of the file. If Alice still has the 1$ digital file, then she can choose to send the same file to Carol. This problem is called double-spending.
One way of solving the double-spending problem is to have a trusted third party (a bank for example) between Alice, Bob and all other participants in the network. This third party is responsible for managing a centralized ledger that keeps track of and validates all the transactions in the network. The drawback of this solution is that for the system to function, it requires trust in a centralized third party.
Distributed: The ledger is replicated across a number of computers, rather than being stored on a central server. Any computer with an internet connection can download a full copy of the blockchain.
Cryptographic: Cryptography is used to make sure that the sender owns the bitcoin that she's trying to send, and to decide how the transactions are added to the blockchain.
Immutable: The blockchain can be changed in append only fashion. In other words, transactions can only be added to the blockchain but cannot be deleted or modified.
Uses Proof of Work (PoW): A special type of participants in the network called miners compete on searching for the solution to a cryptographic puzzle that will allow them to add a block of transactions to Bitcoin's blockchain. This process is called Proof of Work and it allows the system to be secure (more on this later).
Step 1 (one-time effort): Create a bitcoin wallet. For a person to send or receive bitcoins, she needs to create a bitcoin wallet. A bitcoin wallet stores 2 pieces of information: A private key and a public key. The private key is a secret number that allows the owner to send bitcoin to another user, or spend bitcoins on services that accept them as payment method. The public key is a number that is needed to receive bitcoins. The public key is also referred to as bitcoin address (not entirely true, but for simplicity we will assume that the public key and the bitcoin address are the same). Note that the wallet doesn't store the bitcoins themselves. Information about bitcoins balances are stored on the Bitcoin's blockchain.
Step 2: Create a bitcoin transaction. If Alice wants to send 1 BTC to Bob, Alice needs to connect to her bitcoin wallet using her private key, and create a transaction that contains the amount of bitcoins she wants to send and the address where she wants to send them (in this case Bob's public address).
Step 3: Broadcast the transaction to Bitcoin's network. Once Alice creates the bitcoin transaction, she needs to broadcast this transaction to the entire Bitcoin's network.
Step 4: Confirm the transaction. A miner listening to Bitcoin's network authenticates the transaction using Alice's public key, confirms that Alice has enough bitcoins in her wallet (in this case at least 1 BTC), and adds a new record to Bitcoin's Blockchain containing the details of the transaction.
Step 5: Broadcast the blockchain change to all miners. Once the transaction is confirmed, the miner should broadcast the blockchain change to all miners to make sure that their copies of the blockchain are all in sync.
The goal of this section is to go deeper into the technical building blocks that power the blockchain. We will cover public key cryptography, hashing functions, mining and security of the blockchain.
RSA and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature (ECDSA) are the most popular public-key cryptography algorithms.
In the case of Bitcoin, ECDSA algorithm is used to generate Bitcoin wallets. Bitcoin uses a variety of keys and addresses, but for the sake of simplicity, we will assume in this blog post that each Bitcoin wallet has one pair of private/public keys and that a Bitcoin address is the wallet's public key. I recommend this article, if you're interested in the complete technical details of Bitcoin wallets.
To send or receive BTCs, a user starts by generating a wallet which contains a pair of private and public keys. If Alice wants to send Bob some BTCs, she creates a transaction in which she enters both her and Bob's public keys, and the amount of BTCs she wants to send. She then sign the transaction using her private key. A computer on the blockchain uses Alice's public key to verify that the transaction is authentic and adds the transaction to a block that will be later added to the blockchain.
All Bitcoin transactions are grouped in files called blocks. Bitcoin adds a new block of transactions every 10 minutes. Once a new block is added to the blockchain, it becomes immutable and can't be deleted or modified. A special group of participants in the network called miners (computers connected to the blockchain) are responsible for creating new blocks of transactions. A miner has to authenticate each transaction using the sender's public key, confirm that the sender has enough balance for the requested transaction, and add the transaction to the block. Miners are completely free to choose which transactions to include in the blocks, therefore the senders need to include a transaction fee to incentivise the miners to add their transactions to the blocks.
For a block to be accepted by the blockchain, it needs to be "mined". To mine a block, miners need to find an extremely rare solution to a cryptographic puzzle. If a mined block is accepted by the blockchain, the miner receive a reward in bitcoins which is an additional incentive to transaction fees. The mining process is also referred to as Proof of Work (PoW), and it's the main mechanism that enables the blockchain to be trustless and secure (more on blockchain security later).
Bitcoins uses a cryptographic hash function called SHA-256. SHA-256 is applied to a combination of the block's data (bitcoin transactions) and a number called nonce. By changing the block data or the nonce, we get completely different hashes. For a block to be considered valid or "mined", the hash value of the block and the nonce needs to meet a certain condition. For example, the four leading digits of the hash needs to be equal to "0000". We can increase the mining complexity by making the condition more complex, for example we can increase the number of 0s that the hash value needs to start with.
The cryptograhic puzzle that miners need to solve is to find a nonce value that makes the hash value satisfies the mining condition. You can use the app below to simulate block mining. When you type in the "Data" text box or change the nonce value, you can notice the change in the hash value. When you click the "Mine" button, the app starts with a nonce equals to zero, computes the hash value and checks if the leading four digits of the hash value is equal to "0000". If the leading four digits are not equal to "0000", it increments the nonce by one and repeats the whole process until it finds a nonce value that satisify the condition. If the block is considered mined, the background color turns green.
As discussed in the previous section, transactions are grouped in blocks and blocks are appended to the blockchain. In order to create a chain of blocks, each new block uses the previous block's hash as part of its data. To create a new block, a miner selects a set of transactions, adds the previous block's hash and mines the block in a similar fashion described above.
Any changes to the data in any block will affect all the hash values of the blocks that come after it and they will become invalid. This give the blockchain its immutability characteristic.
You can use the app below to simulate a blockchain with 3 blocks. When you type in the "Data" text box or change the nonce value, you can notice the change in the hash value and the "Prev" value (previous hash) of the next block. You can simulate the mining process by clicking on the "Mine" button of each individual block. After mining the 3 blocks, try changing the data in block 1 or 2, and you will notice that all the blocks that come after become invalid.
Both mining simulators above were adapted from Anders Brownworth's excellent Blockchain Demo.
All the miners in the Bitcoin network compete with each other to find a valid block that will be added to the blockchain and get the reward from the network. Finding a nonce that validated a block is rare, but because of the number of miners, the probability of a miner in the network validating a block is extremely high. The first miner to submit a valid block gets his block added to the blockchain and receives the reward in bitcoins. But what happens if two miners or more submit their blocks at the same time?
If 2 miners solve a block at almost the same time, then we will have 2 different blockchains in the network, and we need to wait for the next block to resolve the conflict. Some miners will decide to mine on top of blockchain 1 and others on top of blockchain 2. The first miner to find a new block resolves the conflict. If the new block was mined on top of blockchain 1, then blockchain 2 becomes invalid, the reward of the previous block goes to the miner from blockchain 1 and the transactions that were part of blockchain 2 and weren't added to the blockchain go back to the transactions pool and get added to the next blocks. In short, if there is a conflict on the blockchain, then the the longest chain wins.
In this section, we will cover the most popular ways for performing double-spending attacks on the blockchain, and the measures that users should take to prevent damages from them.
The blockchain implementation is mostly based on this github project. I made a few modifications to the original code in order to add RSA encryption to the transactions. Wallet generation and transaction encryption is based on this Jupyter notebook. The 2 dashboard are implemented from scratch using HTML/CSS/JS.
You can download the complete source code from https://github.com/adilmoujahid/blockchain-python-tutorial.
Please note that this implementation is for educational purposes only and shouldn't be use in production as it doesn't have good security, doesn't scale well and lacks many important features.
You can start the blockchain client from the terminal by going to the blockchain_client folder, and typing python blockchain_client.py. In your browser, go to http://localhost:8080 and you'll see the dashboard below.
In order to make or view transactions, you will need at least one blockchain node running (to be covered in next section).
Below is some explanation of the most important parts in the blockchain_client.py code.
We define a python class that we name Transaction that has 4 attributes sender_address, sender_private_key, recipient_address, value. These are the 4 pieces of information that a sender needs to create a transaction.
The to_dict() method returns the transaction information in a Python dictionary format (without the sender's private key). The sign_transaction() method takes the transaction information (without the sender's private key) and signs it using the sender's private key.
The line below initate a Python Flask app that we will use to create different APIs to interact with the blockchain and its client.
Below we define the 3 Flask routes that returns html pages. One html page for each tab.
Below we define an API that generates wallets (Private/Public keys pairs).
Below we define an API that takes as input sender_address, sender_private_key, recipient_address, value, and returns the transaction (without private key) and the signature.
You can start a blockchain node from the terminal by going to the blockchain folder, and type python blockchain_client.py or python blockchain_client.py -p <PORT NUMBER>. If you don't specify a port number, it will default to port 5000. In your browser, go to http://localhost:<PORT NUMBER> to see the blockchain frontend dashboard.
Mine: For viewing transactions and blockchain data, and for mining new blocks of transactions.
Configure: For configuring connections between the different blockchain nodes.
Below is some explanation of the most important parts in the blockchain.py code.
transactions: List of transactions that will be added to the next block.
chain: The actual blockchain which is an array of blocks.
nodes: A set containing node urls. The blockchain uses these nodes to retrieve blockchain data from other nodes and updates its blockchain if they're not in sync.
node_id: A random string to identify the blockchain node.
register_node(node_url): Adds a new blockchain node to the list of nodes.
verify_transaction_signature(sender_address, signature, transaction): Checks that the provided signature corresponds to transaction signed by the public key (sender_address).
submit_transaction(sender_address, recipient_address, value, signature): Adds a transaction to list of transactions if the signature verified.
create_block(nonce, previous_hash): Adds a block of transactions to the blockchain.
hash(block): Create a SHA-256 hash of a block.
proof_of_work(): Proof of work algorithm. Looks for a nonce that satisfies the mining condition.
valid_proof(transactions, last_hash, nonce, difficulty=MINING_DIFFICULTY): Checks if a hash value satisfies the mining conditions. This function is used within the proof_of_work function.
valid_chain(chain): checks if a bockchain is valid.
resolve_conflicts(): Resolves conflicts between blockchain's nodes by replacing a chain with the longest one in the network.
Check if a hash value satisfies the mining conditions. This function is used within the proof_of_work function.
The line below initate a Python Flask app that we will use to create different APIs to interact with the blockchain.
Next, we initiate a Blockchain instance.
Below we define the 2 Flask routes that return the html pages for our blockchain frontend dashboard.
Below we define Flask APIs to manage transactions and mining the blockchain.
'/transactions/new': This API takes as input 'sender_address', 'recipient_address', 'amount' and 'signature', and adds the transaction to the list of transactions that will be added to next block if the signature is valid.
'/transactions/get': This API returns all the transactions that will be added to the next block.
'/chain': This API returns all blockchain data.
'/mine': This API runs the proof of work algorithm, and adds the new block of transactions to the blockchain.
Below we define Flask APIs to manage blockchain nodes.
'/nodes/register': This API takes as input a list of node urls, and adds them to the list of nodes.
'/nodes/resolve': This API resolves conflicts between blockchain nodes by replacing a local chain with the longest one available in the network.
'/nodes/get': This API returns the list of nodes.
In this blog post, we covered some core concepts behind blockchain and we learned how to implement one using Python. For the sake of simplicity, I didn't cover some technical details, for example: Wallet addresses and Merkel trees. If you want to learn more about the subject, I recommend reading the original Bitcoin white paper and follow up with bitcoin wiki and Andreas Antonopoulos's excellent book: Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain.
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Dr. Anastasia Giannakidou
Anastasia Giannakidou is the Frank J. McLoraine Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. She is the founder and director of the Center for Hellenic Studies at the University, where she also co-directs the Center for Gesture, Sign and Language. She studied Classical Philology and Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, and received her PhD in Linguistics from University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Prof. Giannakidou studies the Greek language from antiquity to today, and emphasizes the relation between language, truth, and meaning. She is also interested in bilingualism, and has done comparative work on Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Basque, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese. In her work as the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Prof. Giannakidou wants to show how relevant Hellenic ideas can be today, and how engaging with them can invigorate public dialogue and offer better understanding of pressing issues in the world today. She has published numerous books and articles.


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Most fields in central Nova Scotia are beyond the risk of primary Monilinia infections at this point.
Any infections that have already occurred will start to show symptoms on the plants over the next week to three weeks depending on when controls were applied and when the infections occurred.
Cape Breton is still in the middle of infection risk as all sites reporting are beyond the 40-50% F2 threshold.
These fields and other late fields that would have just reached this threshold within the last week and a half, would have experienced an infection period on Sunday. The long warm wet period, combined with light frosts would have made the tissue susceptible to infection. The forecast is for more wet weather Wednesday, controls should be considered in these areas.
Many fields are starting to flower in central NS (Colchester, Cumberland and Pictou counties). As fields approach early bloom controls for Botrytis should be considered, particularly in areas that are prone to this disease.
The next update will be late in the day on Friday May 25th.


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April 20, 2020 Mary Margaret Sprinkle
You may be hearing a lot about testing during the COVID-19 pandemic. There was a recent announcement about a new test being developed at the University of Arizona and it may be confusing to people. There are two kinds of tests for SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19. There are viral tests and antibody tests, also known as serology tests. Viral tests are used WHILE someone is sick or infected to confirm if the person's illness is caused by the COVID-19 virus. AFTER somebody has been sick, antibody tests are used to determine if you were infected with the virus sometime in the past. Because it can take weeks for antibodies to form after somebody has been infected, it can be several weeks before a test indicates a person had COVID-19. Formal testing often serves as an official measurement of the spread of a virus across a community. Due to the shortage of both types of tests for COVID-19, officials are turning to other reporting methods, such as that used in AZCOVIDTXT, to help assess the impact of COVID-19 in our community.
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At PUSD we view parents and guardians as a child's first teacher. A parent liaison is a school staff member who works at schools to specifically help parents and families get the information that they need to support their students as learners. A parent liaison's primary role is to build bridges between the families and our school system.
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Benjamin Wehrmann
A watershed moment: The deadly floods hitting central Europe in July, like in the town of Altena in western Germany, let the climate crisis burst right into the election campaign. Photo: © Land NRW / Ralph Sondermann
Never before in German history has climate policy played a role as big as it does in 2021. Even after one and a half years of a turbulent pandemic, credible climate policies remain the yardstick many voters plan to base their decision on. Deadly floods showcasing the perils of global warming in the middle of the election campaign, ongoing climate protests and increasing calls by industry to decide on a steadfast strategy form the backdrop of a highly volatile election scenario. The country's political landscape could become deeply shaken after long-term chancellor Angela Merkel leaves the stage, as her conservative party has taken an unprecedented drop in popularity while the Greens greatly expanded their reach – only to then cede the main competitor's role to the Social Democrats. Whatever the election will bring, the country could be in for months of coalition talks. And the true difficulties for climate policy will only begin there.
Sixteen years of Angela Merkel as chancellor of Germany draw to a close when the country is heading to the ballots on 26 September. The planned retirement of the longest-ruling head of government in the European Union has not only led to concerns over the power void that the crisis-tested Merkel might leave in international diplomacy. The still widely popular conservative politician's parting has also led to the unprecedented situation for domestic German politics that an acting chancellor is not running for office again. In a historic first, this prepared the ground for a head-to-head race between three different parties and their chancellor candidates. Ending over 70 years of bipartisan dominance by the conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party established itself as a third leading force, a shift in the balance of power that could mean the country would also see the formation of its first tripartite government coalition since the 1950s.
The Greens' rise in popularity has been fuelled by quickly growing concerns over the impact of climate change and the country's response to it, which despite one and a half years of a deeply troubling pandemic has emerged as a yardstick for the election choice of many voters. Since the last election in 2017, Germany - much like the rest of the world - has seen weather extremes increase in frequency and intensity. Severe droughts in 2018 and 2019 gave rise to mass protests led by the Fridays for Future movement, which brought hundreds of thousands of especially younger people to the streets. Deadly floods hitting large parts of western central Europe in July, which killed almost 200 people in Germany alone and were largely attributed to global warming, then put climate firmly at the centre of attention again and ensured that it topped the list of voters' concerns.
The candidates of the SPD, the Green Party and the CDU/CSU in a TV debate: Each party has led the polls at some point in 2021. Photo: ARD (screenshot)
Environmental groups, researchers and media commentators therefore were quick to brand the 2021 vote as a "climate election." And for sociologist Bernd Sommer, whose research at the University of Flensburg focuses on the social reception of climate policies, the label is still deserved as the campaign enters its final week. According to Sommer, this is due to two reasons: "First, it's clear that climate action and other environmental issues have greatly gained in importance for voters in the past years," he told Clean Energy Wire. "Of course, this doesn't mean that everyone will make their vote depend on it. But parties definitely had to acknowledge the fact that many people consider climate policy in their electoral choice."
Together with tighter climate targets by the EU, the climate protests instilled a slew of initiatives in the government coalition of the CDU/CSU and the SPD. Measures that supporters of more rigorous emissions reduction had been advocating for years, such as a climate action law, resolute e-car support, national carbon pricing or setting a date for the end of coal power were announced just before the coronavirus crisis confounded the political agenda. But the package still failed to convince climate researchers and activists alike and a landmark court ruling in spring forced the government to step up its efforts and bring forward the target year for complete climate neutrality by five years to 2045.
2030 climate target already moving out of reach - and all parties lack a solution
Yet, a government draft report emerging shortly before the election found that the country is far from being on track to this goal and likely to widely miss its tightened 2030 emissions reduction target if no additional action is taken, leaving a final blemish on Merkel's mixed climate legacy. For researcher Sommer, this is where the second dimension of the 'climate election' comes in. "This has less to do with voters and more with the physics of climate change. The next government will arguably decide whether or not Germany can still fulfil its agreed contribution to limiting global warming in line with the Paris Climate Agreement."
With emissions going up again at the fastest rate in decades in 2021 after the dip in economic activity caused by the coronavirus, conditions for a new government to succeed in this endeavour are far from ideal. To make things worse, an analysis of party election programmes by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) published in early September found that none of them – including the Greens – has a coherent concept to ensure the country abides by its own emissions reduction targets, with slow renewable power expansion and too low carbon prices being major stumbling blocks.
For think tank Agora Energiewende, this leaves only one conclusion: "The next government has to introduce the most ambitious climate action programme Germany has ever seen within the first 100 days." The new climate targets could only be achieved if action is taken right at the beginning of the next legislative period – and if investments in clean technology and other measures are increased threefold also in the long run. "No matter who forms the next government, they will have to initiate a wave of investments – or risk failing the targets," Agora Energiewende head Patrick Graichen said.
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The think tank is not alone in demanding more efforts by the new administration: Industry groups, labour unions and environmental groups have all urged the next government to tackle key challenges of the climate-friendly transformation, with a focus on more renewables, building efficiency, green hydrogen and deep changes in the transport and the country's vast industry sector.
"Jamaica", "Traffic Light", "R2G" - colorful coalition options promise long negotiations
But just who will be sitting in a new government remains all but uncertain one week before the ballot. Both the SPD's candidate Olaf Scholz and the CDU/CSU's contender Armin Laschet can hope to come out first. This is great news for Scholz, who polled as a distant third only three months ago and now has topped popularity rankings for weeks - and a veritable disaster for Laschet, whose conservatives saw an unprecedented collapse of voter support since he was announced as their top candidate after a long internal party battle. The prospects for the Greens' Annalena Baerbock to become chancellor have largely waned since her party's stint at the top of polls earlier this year. But the Greens still can hope to vastly improve their result and gain twice as many seats as in the last election, so that forming a government without them will be difficult.
The three larger parties are trailed by the pro-business FDP, the Left Party and the far-right AfD, the only party without any credible option to enter into a government coalition. This still leaves room for a whole range of other combinations, of which "Jamaica" (CDU/CSU, Greens, FDP) "Traffic Light" (SPD, Greens, FDP) or "R2G" (SPD, Greens, Left Party), all referring to the parties' colours, are only three conceivable options. As a result, the range of possible approaches to implementing Germany's climate targets is vast – even if all parties have assured to strive for the more ambitious Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
But with highly controversial issues at stake in climate and energy policy alone – for example a possible end date for combustion engines – coalition negotiations in any combination look set to become tedious. The ill-fated "Jamaica" coalition talks in 2017 dragged on for months before collapsing, with the result that the "grand coalition" between the conservatives and the SPD eventually continued to govern half a year after the votes were cast.
And even if a "grand coalition" should receive enough votes to stay in power also this time, which according to the polls it will not, most voters and also leading coalition figures agree it has reached its best-before date. This means Germany – and by implication to some extent also Europe – is in for protracted coalition negotiations in the continent's biggest economy until the parties agree on a coalition contract.
This could take months on end, meaning Angela Merkel might enter into 2022 as a "lame duck" chancellor, a delay that the country can hardly afford if the 2030 target is still to be brought into reach. Several NGOs and politicians have already stressed that the new German government's active support will be essential for leading key EU projects like the Green Deal or its "Fit for 55" climate package to success - and criticised that the European context received little attention in the candidates' campaings.
"The truth" about climate action costs - a challenge for the next government
For sociologist Sommer, however, the really tough negotiations will only begin once a new government has started its work. "A new government will have a hard time continuing in the same vein as the previous ones and keep individual citizens largely out of climate action and the energy transition. It will affect peoples' lives," Sommer said.
For him, this also explains why, despite the pledges to curb global warming, no party's election programme really spells out what it takes to fulfil the Paris Agreement. "No party currently dares to really speak about the actual consequences for the everyday life of citizens. Instead, it appears they back the goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius but at the same time claim that everything just can stay more or less the same." Sommer's assessment is supported by an appeal made by Wolfgang Schäuble, former conservative finance minister and now president of Germany's parliament, the Bundestag. In August, Schäuble called on politicians to be more honest to voters regarding the costs of climate action, arguing people deserve to know "the truth" about what lies ahead.
Schäuble's statement ended with the optimistic prediction that voters will be able to cope with the demands of deeper emissions reduction. But Sommer's research has shown that this might not always be the case. Surveys suggest that support for climate action is shrinking rapidly as soon as it is made conditional on certain policies, for example if energy prices should rise, the sociologist said. "People generally agree on the common goal of climate action but disagree on its consequences." While Merkel's outgoing government at least achieved that the goal is now legally fixed, a successor that eventually will emerge after 26 September is going to be left with the difficult job out of translating this into reality.
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General & Introductory Statistics
Statistical Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness Data
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Andrew R. Willan, Andrew H. Briggs
ISBN: 978-0-470-85628-4 August 2006 210 Pages
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The statistical analysis of cost-effectiveness data is becoming increasingly important within health and medical research. Statistical Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness Data provides a practical book that synthesises the huge amount of research that has taken place in the area over the last two decades.
Comprising an up-to-date overview of the statistical analysis of cost-effectiveness data, the book is supported by numerous worked examples from the author's own experience. It has been written in a style suitable for medical statisticians and health care professionals alike. Key features include:
an overview of statistical methods used in the analysis of cost-effectiveness data.
coverage of Bayesian methodology.
illustrated throughout by worked examples using real data.
suitability for health care professionals with limited statistical knowledge.
discussion of software used for data analysis.
An essential reference for biostatisticians and health economists engaged in cost-effectiveness analysis of health-care interventions, both in academia and industry. Also of interest to graduate students of biostatistics, public health and economics.
Dr.Andrew R. Willan is an academic biostatistician and clinical trial methodologist, and currently holds the positions of Senior Scientist Emeritus at SickKids Research Institute, Professor of Biostatistics in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University. His contributions to statistical methodology include publications in the areas of cost-effectiveness analysis, value of information methods, management trials, crossover trials, non-nested regression analysis and bivariate response models. Dr. Willan has been particularly instrumental in developing the field of statistical analysis of cost-effectiveness data with twenty peer-review articles and a book, co-authored with Professor Andy Briggs, in the Wiley Statistics in Practice series, entitled Statistical Analysis of Cost-effectiveness Data.
1. Concepts.
1.1 Introduction.
1.2 Cost-effectiveness data and the parameters of interest.
1.3 The cost-effectiveness plane, the ICER and INB.
1.4 Outline.
2. Parameter Estimation for Non-censored Data.
2.2 Cost.
2.3 Effectiveness.
2.4 Summary.
3. Parameter Estimation for Censored Data.
3.2 Mean Cost.
4. Cost-effectiveness Analysis.
4.2 Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio.
4.3 Incremental net benefit.
4.4 The cost-effectiveness acceptability curve.
4.5 Using bootstrap methods.
4.6 A Bayesian incremental net benefit approach.
4.7 Kinked thresholds.
5. Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Examples.
5.2 The CADET-Hp trial.
5.3 Symptomatic hormone-resistant prostate cancer.
5.4 The Canadian implantable defibrillator study (CIDS).
5.5 The EVALUATE trial.
5.6 Bayesian approach applied to the UK PDS study.
6. Power and Sample Size Determination.
6.2 Approaches based on the cost-effectiveness plane.
6.3 The classical approach based on net benefit.
6.4 Bayesian take on the classical approach.
6.5 The value of information approach.
7. Covariate Adjustment and Sub-group Analysis.
7.2 Non-censored data.
7.3 Censored data.
8. Multicenter and Multinational Trials.
8.2 Background to multinational cost-effectiveness.
8.3 Fixed effect approaches.
8.4 Random effects approaches.
9. Modeling Cost-effectiveness.
9.2 A general framework for modeling cost-effectiveness results.
9.3 Case study: an economic appraisal of the goal study.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
Series List.
"…Willan and Briggs have written a thorough, balanced, and useful book. I look forward to reading an enlarged, revised second edition." (Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 2008)
"Overall this is a useful book for this new discipline that helps considerably the reader to enter this topic and learn how to handle this type of problems." (Zentralblatt MATH 2008)
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Hedge Funds Are Dumping Mitel Networks Corporation (MITL)
Published on December 12, 2018 at 1:47 am by Asma UL Husna in Hedge Funds, News
Is Mitel Networks Corporation (NASDAQ:MITL) a good investment right now? We check hedge fund and billionaire investor sentiment before delving into hours of research. Hedge funds spend millions of dollars on Ivy League graduates, expert networks, and get tips from industry insiders. They sometimes fail miserably but historically their consensus stock picks outperformed the market after adjusting for known risk factors.
Is Mitel Networks Corporation (NASDAQ:MITL) ready to rally soon? Hedge funds are becoming less confident. The number of bullish hedge fund positions decreased by 3 in recent months. Our calculations also showed that MITL isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
Hedge funds' reputation as shrewd investors has been tarnished in the last decade as their hedged returns couldn't keep up with the unhedged returns of the market indices. Our research has shown that hedge funds' small-cap stock picks managed to beat the market by double digits annually between 1999 and 2016, but the margin of outperformance has been declining in recent years. Nevertheless, we were still able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the market by 18 percentage points since May 2014 through December 3, 2018 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that underperformed the market by 10 percentage points annually between 2006 and 2017. Interestingly the margin of underperformance of these stocks has been increasing in recent years. Investors who are long the market and short these stocks would have returned more than 27% annually between 2015 and 2017. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 in our quarterly newsletter.
Let's take a gander at the fresh hedge fund action surrounding Mitel Networks Corporation (NASDAQ:MITL).
How are hedge funds trading Mitel Networks Corporation (NASDAQ:MITL)?
At the end of the third quarter, a total of 27 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of -10% from the previous quarter. On the other hand, there were a total of 18 hedge funds with a bullish position in MITL at the beginning of this year. With hedge funds' positions undergoing their usual ebb and flow, there exists a select group of notable hedge fund managers who were boosting their holdings considerably (or already accumulated large positions).
The largest stake in Mitel Networks Corporation (NASDAQ:MITL) was held by Alpine Associates, which reported holding $61.1 million worth of stock at the end of September. It was followed by GLG Partners with a $39.2 million position. Other investors bullish on the company included Paulson & Co, P2 Capital Partners, and Glazer Capital.
Due to the fact that Mitel Networks Corporation (NASDAQ:MITL) has faced a decline in interest from the aggregate hedge fund industry, logic holds that there was a specific group of hedgies that slashed their positions entirely last quarter. Interestingly, Simon Davies's Sand Grove Capital Partners dropped the largest stake of all the hedgies watched by Insider Monkey, valued at about $98 million in stock, and Adam Fox and Samuel Elder's Altalis Capital Partners was right behind this move, as the fund dumped about $2.6 million worth. These transactions are important to note, as total hedge fund interest fell by 3 funds last quarter.
Let's go over hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Mitel Networks Corporation (NASDAQ:MITL). We will take a look at Washington Prime Group Inc. (NYSE:WPG), CSG Systems International, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSGS), DBV Technologies S.A. (NASDAQ:DBVT), and The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE:SSP). This group of stocks' market values resemble MITL's market value.
No of HFs with positions
Total Value of HF Positions (x1000)
Change in HF Position
WPG 10 8309 -1
CSGS 14 150432 -1
DBVT 9 279458 -1
SSP 12 206558 -3
Average 11.25 161189 -1.5
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As you can see these stocks had an average of 11.25 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $161 million. That figure was $306 million in MITL's case. CSG Systems International, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSGS) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand DBV Technologies S.A. (NASDAQ:DBVT) is the least popular one with only 9 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks Mitel Networks Corporation (NASDAQ:MITL) is more popular among hedge funds. Considering that hedge funds are fond of this stock in relation to its market cap peers, it may be a good idea to analyze it in detail and potentially include it in your portfolio.
Disclosure: None. This article was originally published at Insider Monkey.
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No, don't worry, everything's fine (so far as I know). I'm not typically turned on by bouncy electro-pop—just not a bouncy sort of girl, ya know? But Little Earthquake, from Australia, have a sound that's so bright and yes, upbeat, that it's difficult not to be drawn in. It's based around brothers Mathew and Justin Hyland and as is the case with siblings, their voices work very well together. Add to that percolating synth lines, sharp percussive blasts and ah, youthful enthusiasm. The two toured across the U.S. with indie rock band Lydia and then returned home to create Little Earthquake just last year. Their forthcoming EP, Universal Mind, produced by Lacklan Mitchell (The Jezabels, Pnau), is due out in April. "Planets" is the first single, and it's available as a free download.
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