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Old admixture in chimpanzees and bonobos
Sophisticated population genetics reveals inbreeding between chimpanzees and bonobos
Vera Domingues
Chimpanzees and bonobos are the closest living relatives to humans, yet we know surprisingly little about the history of their populations and how it impacted the evolution of these two African apes. In a study published last week in Science, de Manuel et al. analyse 75 complete genomes of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (P. paniscus) from western, central and eastern Africa. The authors conduct an impressive set of analyses to show evidence of ancient low-level gene flow from ancestral bonobo populations into chimpanzees. First, they show that central, eastern, and Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees share significantly more derived alleles with bonobos than western chimpanzees do. These alleles segregate at low frequencies in the nonwestern chimpanzee populations, as expected if the alleles were shared by gene flow. Second, they find regions in the chimpanzee genome with low divergence to bonobos and high heterozygosity—these regions are the result of transfer of bonobo DNA into the chimpanzee genome. Third, demographic modelling based on the distribution of allele frequencies in all populations followed by simulations, show that gene flow between the two species must be invoked to explain the patterns of allele and haplotype sharing observed in the data. Finally, they find an excess of young haplotypes in chimpanzees that were likely introduced from bonobos in two periods: less than 650,000 years ago in central and eastern populations and 100,000 to 200,000 years ago in western chimpanzees. This impressive combination of deep sequencing of multiple genomes and sophisticated population genetics analyses reveals inbreeding between the ancestors of chimpanzees and bonobos, much akin to the multiple gene flow events that took place between modern and archaic humans.
de Manuel et al. Chimpanzee genomic diversity reveals ancient admixture with bonobos. Science (2016) Vol. 354, Issue 6311, pp. 477-481
DOI: 10.1126/science.aag2602
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For Paul Woodruff, stepping down as dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies to return to teaching means changing jobs, but for the school it means an international search for a new dean that could take more than six months.
More than 10 faculty members and students will lead a search committee to find Woodruff's replacement. These committees are the groups that seek out and hire the University's president, provost, vice presidents and deans. Architecture professor Larry Speck, who has served as the chair of three vice president search committees in the past decade, sat down with The Daily Texan to talk about his past experience on search committees and explain the process of picking a new dean.
Speck most recently served as the chair on the search committee for the Vice President of Student Affairs, a hunt that started in October 2011 and ended in May 2012 when Powers selected one of three recommended applicants, Gage Paine of UT-San Antonio.
Before the search, Speck said search committees for deans are typically composed of appointed students and faculty members. Speck said the college in question gets to elect around five members and President William Powers Jr. will appoint several more. Among the appointees, Speck said usually one dean from another college or school is included. In the case of the new dean for the School of Undergraduate Studies, which does not have professors in its department, it is not clear what faculty will serve on the committee and if they will be involved.
Once the members are appointed, the committee for a new dean appoints a chair and receives advice.
"They get some advice from the president and whoever else is relevant about what the criteria is for this position and what we are looking for," Speck said.
Speck said the search committee will then start posting job descriptions and waiting for applications.
In the search for the vice president of student affairs, Speck said the committee had about 100 applications before the winter break.
After that, Speck said the search committee read all the other applications and scored them over winter break. Speck said the committee had come up with almost a dozen criteria points that each candidate was scored on.
Airport interviews are a secretive part of the process. In the search for the vice president of student affairs, Speck said the search committee invited all nine candidates to Austin for a weekend. The committee met with each candidate in secret. The meetings were held at hotels close to the airport and not on campus.
Speck said one of the challenging parts of the search committee is organizing the schedules of all nine candidates and the entire committee to be available for one weekend of interviewing. While arranging this around busy schedules was challenging, Speck said it is a useful strategy.
After that point, in the search for vice president of student affairs, Speck said the committee was able to narrow it down to four people.
"We brought them into the campus and they go through a two or three day thing where they talk to everybody and their brother that might have anything to do with their job," Speck said.
From this, Speck said the committee gets feedback from the faculty, the students and the president. The final step is to submit three unranked recommendations to Powers, who makes the final decision.
The road ahead Speck said the long and intense process is taken very seriously.
Woodruff, who announced he was returning to teaching on Wednesday, said he expected an interim dean to be announced sometime within the next week. Speck said sometimes the interim dean becomes the next dean, but that is not always the case.
Woodruff's announcement comes at a time when the school is expecting a 66 percent increase in student enrollment. Despite this, Speck said the transition from Woodruff, to interim dean and back to a new permanent dean will be seamless.


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CBS Chicago: Rep. Jackson Has Considered Ending Political Career
What do you all think of this? Is it time for Jesse Jackson Jr. to give it up and focus on his health?
As WBBM Newsradio's Bernie Tafoya reports, Jackson has not been seen publicly for almost two months. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., says he is there being treated for depression and abdominal issues, and according to a source who talked to Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed, Jackson has thought about ending his political career.
The source tells Sneed that Jackson is "very aware his re-election bid is in November," and is "under intense pressure to make a statement personally about his situation."
The source also said Jackson's wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson (7th) is under pressure to return to work, Sneed reported.
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I do not think that Representative Jackson should give up his political career. From what we're learning, his career may have to be put on hold for awhile. Depression can be overcome. It's not always chronic. I wish him and his family well.

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14 # org-mode format for easier maintenance.
23 update this FAQ in the next month. See the section "Changes" for recent updates.
36 See the end of this file for the release date.
40 about how to improve the structure of this FAQ are welcome.
44 be included here as well. Your help is very much appreciated!
48 case you could search in the mailing list archive.
50 ** What conventions are used in this FAQ?
61 user's "home" directory (reference question [[id:how-do-i-put-my-keyring-in-a-different-directory][How do I put my keyring in a different directory?]] for an example).
67 command will error, or at minimum not give the desired results.
74 containing user options and settings has been renamed from "options"
83 ** What is GnuPG?
95 ** Is GnuPG compatible with PGP?
101 the OpenPGP standard. But there are some interoperability problems.
106 ** Is GnuPG free to use for personal or commercial use?
121 ** Where can I find more information on GnuPG?
128 - The documentation page is located at [[gnupgweb:documentation/]].
132 document about how to convert from PGP 2.x to GnuPG.
137 if you want to get in touch with the developers.
146 help people focus on topics that have not yet been resolved.
153 interesting for hackers, not the casual user).
156 ** Where do I get GnuPG?
162 [[ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/][ftp.gnupg.org]] or from one of its [[gnupgweb:download/mirrors.html][mirrors]].
166 fixes that may not have existed in prior versions.
170 ** Which OSes does GnuPG run on?
181 ** Which random data gatherer should I use?
186 "Good" random numbers are crucial for the security of your encryption.
197 at your own risk!
199 On other systems, the Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD) is a good choice.
210 random quality isn't very good so don't use it on sensitive data.
212 ** How do I include support for RSA and IDEA?
217 RSA is included as of GnuPG version 1.0.3.
221 official support before then.
242 ** What is the recommended key size?
247 1024 bit for DSA signatures; even for plain Elgamal signatures.
262 not clear whether there was a patent on DSA.
264 ** Why does it sometimes take so long to create keys?
270 we (on Linux the /dev/random device) must collect some random data.
273 buffer is to play with your keyboard. Good security has its price.
280 bytes (a program (look at your daemons) that reads from /dev/random).
282 ** And it really takes long when I work on a remote system. Why?
300 insecure keys which are only good for some tests.
302 ** What is the difference between options and commands?
323 encrypt the message to, which must come right after the -r option.
360 ** I can't delete a user ID on my secret keyring because it has already been deleted on my public keyring. What can I do?
370 removed from the secret ring.
372 ** I can't delete my secret key because the public key disappeared. What can I do?
384 the fifth field in the lines beginning with "sec").
389 [[#i-still-have-my-secret-key-but-lost-my-public-key][I still have my secret key, but lost my public key. What can I do?]].
393 ** What are trust, validity and ownertrust?
408 ** How do I sign a patch file?
422 simply sign it using your MUA (Mail User Agent).
424 ** Where is the "encrypt-to-self" option?
431 you can use the option "--no-encrypt-to".
433 ** How can I get rid of the Version and Comment headers in armored messages?
443 is required by the protocol.
445 ** What does the "You are using the xxxx character set." mean?
456 ASCII and no mapping has to be done.
458 ** How can I get list of key IDs used to encrypt a message?
466 ** Why can't I decrypt files encrypted as symmetrical-only (-c) with a version of GnuPG prior to 1.0.1.
475 decrypt the file and encrypt it again without this option.
479 re-encrypt any affected files.
481 ** How can I use GnuPG in an automated environment?
497 enter "addkey" and select the DSA key type).
505 1. Copy secring.auto and the public keyring to a test directory.
507 1. Change to this directory.
513 subkeys. You may also want to remove all unused subkeys.
515 1. Copy secring.auto to a floppy and carry it to the target box.
519 1. Install secring.auto as the secret keyring.
526 ** Which email-client can I use with GnuPG?
531 Using GnuPG to encrypt email is one of the most popular uses.
535 encryption), and RFC 2015 style (previously PGP/MIME, now OpenPGP).
539 native to the MUA, or provided via "plug-ins" or external tools.
572 for interoperability reasons for your convenience.
598 receive emails that conform to PGP-MIME (RFC 2015).
600 ** Can't we have a gpg library?
609 trick. You'll find it at [[gnupgweb:related_software/gpgme]].
611 ** I have successfully generated a revocation certificate, but I don't understand how to send it to the key servers.
625 (or use a keyserver web interface for this).
627 ** How do I put my keyring in a different directory?
649 ** How do I verify signed packages?
657 messages the key should also be validated (or locally signed).
678 ** How do I export a keyring with only selected signatures (keys)?
689 ** I still have my secret key, but lost my public key. What can I do?
696 key using the secret key.
706 been done, the publickey.gpg file can be imported into GnuPG as usual.
708 ** Clearsigned messages sent from my web-mail account have an invalid signature. Why?
719 if plaintext messages are not an option.
724 ** How can I encrypt a message with GnuPG so that PGP is able to decrypt it?
729 It depends on the PGP version.
744 As for conventional encryption, you can't do this for PGP 2.
760 This applies to conventional encryption as well.
762 ** How do I migrate from PGP 2.x to GnuPG?
773 [[gnupgweb:gph/en/pgp2x.html]] to perform the migration.
775 ** Why is PGP 5.x not able to encrypt messages with some keys?
786 signatures are still valid.
788 ** Why is PGP 5.x not able to verify my messages?
796 v3 signatures for data.
798 ** How do I transfer owner trust values from PGP to GnuPG?
809 you might have created in the first step.
811 ** PGP does not like my secret key.
833 thing, but it will encrypt the key with CAST5 this time).
835 Now you can export it and PGP should be able to handle it.
842 ** GnuPG no longer installs a ~/.gnupg/options file. Is it missing?
854 ignored (occurs if both a gpg.conf and an options file are found).
856 ** How do you export GnuPG keys for use with PGP?
865 supports a few more features from the OpenPGP standard than PGP does.
869 usable with any version.
877 in your options file.
889 Now put the list of preferences onto the key.
897 this opportunity to actually change it.
910 Thanks to David Shaw for this information!
912 ** What are DH/DSS keys?
921 the same thing as the Elgamal algorithm.
927 uses the term DSA.
931 ** Why do I get "gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!"
937 swapped out to disk.
943 unless you install GPG as setuid(root).
957 into your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file.
960 setuid(root); for those who need this.
962 On some systems this program should be installed as setuid(root).
968 soon as locked memory is allocated.
980 you are not able to make these determinations yourself.
994 too much, so the warning was eventually removed.
1007 ** In the edit menu the trust values are not displayed correctly after signing uids. Why?
1015 addressed in some future release.
1017 ** What does "skipping pubkey 1: already loaded" mean?
1024 occurs. Just remove the load command from the options file.
1031 That's a known bug, already fixed in newer versions.
1038 Use the option --emulate-md-encode-bug.
1045 Update to GnuPG 1.0.2 or newer.
1047 ** When I use --clearsign, the plain text has sometimes extra dashes in it - why?
1052 This is called dash-escaped text and is required by OpenPGP.
1056 that start with two dashes.
1060 displaying such a message.
1062 ** What is the thing with "can't handle multiple signatures"?
1069 error message informs you that there is something wrong with the input.
1073 default) or the cleartext signed format.
1082 versions issue a warning. Upgrade to 1.4.5 or newer.
1084 ** I get "gpg: waiting for lock ..."
1090 a lock file. Go to ~/.gnupg and look for .*.lock files and remove them.
1101 a (not so new) attack on all email encryption systems.
1110 into your options file.
1112 ** With 1.0.4, I get "this cipher algorithm is deprecated ..."
1119 cipher Rijndael that is incorrectly being referred as "deprecated".
1120 Ignore this warning, more recent versions of gpg are corrected.
1122 ** Some dates are displayed as ????-??-??. Why?
1131 can use the options --with-colons and --fixed-list-mode.
1133 ** I still have a problem. How do I report a bug?
1145 ** Why doesn't GnuPG support X.509 certificates?
1151 supports X.509 and S/MIME using the gpgsm tool.
1153 ** Why do national characters in my user ID look funny?
1170 This problem has been fixed for all modern GnuPG versions.
1171 (By using an autoconf 2.50 generated configure script).
1173 ** Why does GnuPG 1.0.6 bail out on keyrings used with 1.0.7?
1182 ** I upgraded to GnuPG version 1.0.7 and now it takes longer to load my keyrings. What can I do?
1190 many operations for existing keyrings.
1192 ** Doesn't a fully trusted user ID on a key prevent warning messages when encrypting to other IDs on the key?
1202 release 1.2.2, and upgrading is the recommended fix for this problem.
1208 ** I just compiled GnuPG from source on my GNU/Linux RPM-based system and it's not working. Why?
1222 be used when called since they were not replaced.
1239 ** How does this whole thing work?
1248 and choose the default values.
1252 the public key is not.
1264 the encoded form of the hash with the public key.
1270 passphrase to protect the data in it.
1272 You can 'conventionally' encrypt something by using the option 'gpg -c'.
1281 messages may be decrypted by people who accidentally got your passphrase.
1286 the key on one machine then move it to another machine.
1297 or at a meeting of your local GNU/Linux User Group.
1302 command line instead of typing it interactively.
1307 is to use a MIME aware mail reader (Mutt, Pine and many more).
1311 instead of only encrypting it.
1313 ** Why are some signatures with an ELG-E key valid?
1318 These are Elgamal keys generated by GnuPG in v3 (RFC 1991) packets.
1320 keys which are usable for signatures and encryption from 16 to 20.
1324 these v3 Elgamal keys - so this assumption is quite safe.
1326 ** How does the whole trust thing work?
1335 parameter (ownertrust) to a key.
1352 : for keys for which the secret key is also available.
1356 The value in the "pub" record is the best one of all "uid" records.
1365 : - = No ownertrust value yet assigned or calculated.
1366 : n = Never trust this keyholder to correctly verify others signatures.
1369 : f = Assume that the key holder really knows how to sign keys.
1370 : u = No need to trust ourself because we have the secret key.
1379 ** What kind of output is this: "key C26EE891.298, uid 09FB: ...."?
1384 This is the internal representation of a user ID in the trustdb.
1387 of the user ID for this key.
1389 ** How do I interpret some of the informational outputs?
1407 the last two bytes of a ripe-md-160 over the user ID ring is printed.
1413 ID part is empty (..//..).
1415 ** Are the header lines of a cleartext signature part of the signed material?
1425 ** What is the list of preferred algorithms?
1435 recipient is able to handle and provides an order of preference.
1437 ** How do I change the list of preferred algorithms?
1452 ** How can I import all the missing signer keys?
1465 of the listing before starting the import.
1492 able to do that without being affected by the US export restrictions.
1496 software. However there are still some requirements in the US.
1504 with the email since.
1519 gnupg-users and gnupg-devel. They all provided most of the answers.
1520 Converted to org-mode and removed from the tarballs in October 2010.
1527 modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
1531 - 2010-11-14: Update "gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!"
1540 "Make hard target for current headline."


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by Steve Benen July 27, 2011 January 9, 2022
The Washington Post reported late yesterday that House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) tried to rally support for the Boehner budget proposal by showing House Republicans a clip from a movie. It's an interesting choice:
If you can't watch clips online, it's from the movie "The Town," and it shows Ben Affleck's character saying, "I need your help. I can't tell you what it is. You can never ask me about it later — and we're going to hurt some people." Jeremy Renner's character responds, "Whose car are we going to take?"
This, apparently, was intended to help "forge a sense of unity" among House Republicans, and it had an effect. Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a right-wing lawmaker who has relied on violent rhetoric on several occasions, told his colleagues, "I'm ready to drive the car."
In context, that would be the car they take "to hurt some people." The characters in the film were planning a mob beating — putting on masks and bludgeoning their target with sticks.
This is what Republicans find inspirational. Indeed, they're even willing to leak this to the press.
Also note the contrast between Republicans' motivational tools and Democrats'. Here was President Obama on Monday night:
"America … has always been a grand experiment in compromise. As a democracy made up of every race and religion, where every belief and point of view is welcomed, we have put to the test time and again the proposition at the heart of our founding: that out of many, we are one. We've engaged in fierce and passionate debates about the issues of the day, but from slavery to war, from civil liberties to questions of economic justice, we have tried to live by the words that Jefferson once wrote: 'Every man cannot have his way in all things — without this mutual disposition, we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.'
"History is scattered with the stories of those who held fast to rigid ideologies and refused to listen to those who disagreed. But those are not the Americans we remember. We remember the Americans who put country above self, and set personal grievances aside for the greater good. We remember the Americans who held this country together during its most difficult hours; who put aside pride and party to form a more perfect union.
"That's who we remember. That's who we need to be right now. The entire world is watching. So let's seize this moment to show why the United States of America is still the greatest nation on Earth — not just because we can still keep our word and meet our obligations, but because we can still come together as one nation."
It's not quite as punchy as "we're going to hurt some people," but Obama and Republicans clearly have different styles.
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Managing sleaze: Prime Ministers and News Management in Conservative Great Britain and Socialist Spain
Sanders, Karen, Bale, Tim and Canel, María José (1999) Managing sleaze: Prime Ministers and News Management in Conservative Great Britain and Socialist Spain. European Journal of Communication, 14 (4). pp. 461-486. ISSN 0267-3231
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267323199014004002
This article investigates the different ways in which two European heads of government, John Major in Britain and Felipe Gonzalez in Spain, achieved ostensibly the same result, namely to distance themselves personally from the media feeding-frenzy over `sleaze' that engulfed their parties and eventually overwhelmed their administrations. It concludes that, although governmental and prime ministerial media relations are less professionalized in Spain than in the UK, the `chief executive' of the former enjoys considerably more institutional (and in particular parliamentary) insulation than his counterpart in the latter. He also benefits from a more compliant public service broadcaster and a less universally hostile press in Spain. These two factors, alongside more contingent political and personality-driven differences, account for the fact that Gonzalez, unlike Major, was able not only to distance himself but also to retain some semblance of respect for his leadership capacity as traditionally defined.
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In Edinburgh, we are launching our inaugural Postgraduate Workshop which will be held on the 19th of October 2019.
The GLEPHA Postgraduate Organising Committee members are:
Pamela Jane Ritchie
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Pamela is a first year PhD student within the School of Health and Social Care at Edinburgh Napier University, researching the risk for vulnerability of suicide in intimate partner violence victims, both here in Scotland and in Hong Kong. She holds an Msc in Psychology and Mental Health; and a BA (Hons) in Social Sciences: Specialism Psychology. Whilst only commencing her PhD six months ago, Pamela is a representative for the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR); establishing the Edinburgh Universities Groupings Network. She has previously worked with the Medical Research Council on the Gay Men's Sexual Health Survey; The Social Emotional Educational Development Project; GoWell Longitudinal Research Study; and the Football Fans In Training Study. She has previously volunteered at the Army Barracks in Collington, assisting Army Personnel as a mentor and as a befriender to those in the Learning Centre and the Personal Recovery Centre.
Pamela is returning to education to follow her passion in pursuing her PhD within the field of domestic violence, whilst establishing key links that occur with vulnerability assessment in suicide victims. Her research interests include mental health, the wider impacts of domestic and sexual violence on victims, including the greater impact on males, perinatal mothers, children and vulnerable people; with a particular focus on law enforcement and public health.
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Katie is in the second year of her PhD in the School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh. Using novel qualitative approaches, Katie's research explores the experience of 'going out' from the perspective of people affected by dementia. Her work aims to inform search strategies for people with dementia who are reported missing and more widely, it aims to support people with dementia to live independently in a safe and supportive environment.
Alongside her PhD research, Katie tutors at the university, is a founding member of the International Consortium for Dementia and Wayfinding and is a PhD representative for the Scottish Institute of Policing Research (SIPR). Katie's wider research interests range from the intersection of law enforcement and vulnerable groups (particularly those with neurocognitive disorders), trauma-informed care and supporting the ageing population.
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Alongside her PhD research, she currently works as a Behaviour Specialist with young people at risk of exclusion from school. She is also a trained First Responder at GCU, supporting those affected by sexual and gender based violence, and is a PhD representative for the Scottish Institute of Policing Research (SIPR). Kate's interdisciplinary research interests relate to support of 'at risk' children and young people, police responses to 'vulnerable' groups and strengths-based approaches to child protection and criminal justice.
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(JTA) – As stores and synagogues began reopening in Chicago in June, Manya Treece, a social worker and mother, wanted to know whether it was safe for her to resume some of her normal activities, like letting her kids have play dates.
As someone with a higher risk of serious illness from COVID, she "didn't want to live in a bunker" until a vaccine came out, she said. But she also didn't want to resume her regular activities if her community, in the city's northern suburbs, was a hotbed of infections.
So Treece started calling her town and state health departments and speaking to public health experts to learn more about how controlled the pandemic was in her Orthodox community. She learned that data wasn't collected by religious groups — and was surprised when she spoke to a public health expert who said she feared that public health recommendations coming from governmental authorities might not be taken up in the Orthodox community.
That was when Treece decided to take action herself, devising a contact tracing system by and for Chicago's Orthodox Jews tailored for the community's particular needs. Community Covid Counter launched last week.
Those needs, she realized, included making sure communications came from within the community.
"You have to have someone they trust, like an influencer, just delivering the message," she recalled the expert telling her, citing the Holocaust as one reason that Orthodox Jews are fearful of government interference and overreach.
"At that point, I was like well maybe if someone is calling them from the community to figure out how to suppress the infection, then maybe they can also say well we can trust this process and it can also be encouragement from within the community."
The strategy behind Community Covid Counter is simple: Community members who have received a confirmed COVID diagnosis fill out an online questionnaire providing information about any Jewish communal events — including weddings, bar mitzvahs and synagogue services — they attended beginning two days before their first symptom until they received their positive test result.
Volunteers then reach out to other community members who attended the same events, generally using a guest list from the hosts, to let them know that someone at the event tested positive for COVID and to determine, based on their behavior there, whether they should quarantine or get a COVID test.
The approach reflects the community's needs in several ways. By acknowledging that large gatherings may be taking place — something that is being blamed for a resurgence of cases in New York City's Orthodox communities right now — the project aims to open the door for public participation.
"It's very important that if someone says I was simcha dancing and heavily breathing on someone without a mask, that you don't go oh, my God, but say, then I think it would be really good for you to isolate until you can test and get some results," Treece said.
And by not even recording the names of confirmed COVID cases in the community and keeping all personal information within a small group of trained volunteers from within the Orthodox community, the project is meant to stop the spread of COVID in a community whose trust in the health department and other government agencies can be particularly fraught. Volunteers who make calls to those who have had contact with people with COVID sign non-disclosure agreements and identify themselves with volunteer identification numbers rather than names.
"Parts of the Orthodox community that are very insular and have a very vivid memory of the Holocaust sense any government surveillance as a precursor to rounding people up," Treece said. "There are concerns about government interference, what is the end goal and is this some sort of precursor to shutting down our way of life."
The project is not sharing information with local health departments. But it has received approbations from the state health department as well as local departments in Skokie, a Chicago suburb with a large Orthodox community, and in Cook County. The local rabbinical association also praised the project in a letter, calling it a resource for local rabbis and synagogues.
Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt, the chief of infectious diseases and hospital epidemiologist at Mount Sinai South Nassau on New York's Long Island and an assistant rabbi at the Young Israel of Woodmere, a large Orthodox synagogue, said community-based efforts are useful in encouraging people to follow medical guidelines.
"Any community projects that stimulate people to follow the recommendations would be very helpful," Glatt wrote in an email. "This includes community tracing pilots, local shuls keeping track of cases in their membership, and removing the stigma of being positive or exposed."
Much like Orthodox communities in New York and in Israel, Chicago's Orthodox community was hit particularly hard at the beginning of the pandemic. The Zip code for West Ridge, a neighborhood that is home to a large Orthodox community, had the highest number of COVID cases in the state of Illinois in April, according to the local outlet Block Club Chicago.
As the pandemic wears on, Treece hopes the project can help prevent new outbreaks within her community and encourage people not to let down their guards on behaviors like mask wearing and social distancing.
"We were hit really hard and I think that's made us relatively vigilant now," Treece said. "But I think there are going to be cycles where everyone has quarantine fatigue."
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Q: Going from Vagrant in development to chef-solo in production, and getting a "FATAL: NoMethodError: undefined method `delete' for #So I have a set of cookbooks/roles that are configured to work with vagrant.  I am now in the process of deploying an application, and I want to run these identical cookbooks using chef-solo on my server.  So I simply installed chef-solo(the same version that I am using with vagrant), and attempted to call the following command:
sudo chef-solo -c solo.rb -j roles/clusterflunk_dev.json

Unfortunately, the following error was generated:
[Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:20:28 +0100] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.8 ***
[Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:20:29 +0100] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
[Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:20:29 +0100] FATAL: NoMethodError: undefined method `delete' for #  <Chef::Role:0x7f6848a05638>

I'm not sure how the same version of chef would yield different results, I'm obviously making a mistake somewhere.  I'm using Ubuntu Server 10.10.

A: If you are unable to determine what is causing the issue, by looking at the errors, I would suggest to upgrade chef to the current release version (upgrade 10.8 to 10.24.4, or better make the jump to 11.x) using the omni-installer.
http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/
curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash

Other users have reported similar errors, see here for an example, and there are a number of closed JSON related fixed tickets since Chef 0.10.8

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Q: MemoryError Using openpyxl to write 500k+ rows I have a script that opens a template xlsx file using openpyxl, and then makes across each of six sheets, adds in some data from lists produced earlier in the script and changes the format of the cells.
The issue I have is that there will be instances where on one sheet, I need to write 9 columns and 500k+ rows, and this is giving me a MemoryError.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\python27\labs\labs\sqrdist\new_main_ui.py", line 667, in request_and_send_reports
    x = sqr_pull.main()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\memory_profiler-0.32-py2.7.egg\memory_profiler.py", line 801, in wrapper
    val = prof(func)(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\memory_profiler-0.32-py2.7.egg\memory_profiler.py", line 445, in f
    result = func(*args, **kwds)
  File "C:\python27\labs\labs\sqrdist\sqr_pull.py", line 327, in main
    os.remove(temp_attach_filepath)
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\openpyxl\workbook\workbook.py", line 281, in save
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\openpyxl\writer\excel.py", line 214, in save_workbook
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\openpyxl\writer\excel.py", line 197, in save
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\openpyxl\writer\excel.py", line 109, in write_data
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\openpyxl\writer\excel.py", line 134, in _write_worksheets
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\openpyxl\writer\worksheet.py", line 281, in write_worksheet
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\openpyxl\writer\worksheet.py", line 381, in write_worksheet_data
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\openpyxl\writer\worksheet.py", line 404, in write_cell
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\openpyxl\xml\functions.py", line 142, in start_tag
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\sax\saxutils.py", line 159, in startElement
    self._write(u' %s=%s' % (name, quoteattr(value)))
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\sax\saxutils.py", line 104, in write
    self.flush()
MemoryError

The code that I think is causing this is the following, where KeywordReport is a list of lists.
ws_keywords = wb.get_sheet_by_name("E_KWs")
for r, row in enumerate(KeywordReport, start=1):
    for c, val in enumerate(row, start=1):
        mycell = ws_keywords.cell(row=r, column=c)
        mycell.value = val
        mycell.style = Style(border=thin_border)

ws_keywords.column_dimensions['A'].width = 60.0
ws_keywords.column_dimensions['B'].width = 50.0
ws_keywords.column_dimensions['C'].width = 50.0
ws_keywords.column_dimensions['D'].width = 15.0
ws_keywords.column_dimensions['E'].width = 16.0
ws_keywords.column_dimensions['F'].width = 16.0
ws_keywords.column_dimensions['G'].width = 16.0

for ref in ['A1','B1','C1','D1','E1','F1','G1']:
    cell = ws_keywords.cell(ref)
    cell.style = Style(font=Font(bold=True),fill=PatternFill(patternType='solid', fgColor=Color('ffd156')), border=thin_border)

gc.collect()
del KeywordReport[:]
gc.collect()

print "start of save"
wb.save(attach_filepath)
gc.collect()

os.remove(temp_attach_filepath)
QCoreApplication.processEvents()

I've looked at http://openpyxl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/optimized.html however I don't think I can use this to write without just dumping into a new workbook, but I need the data in my existing template.
Is there a way around this?

A: 500k rows shouldn't really be too much of a problem. But I guess it also depends how many worksheets you have. How much memory do you have on the system?
Installing lxml will be faster (as will creating any styles outside of loops) but I wouldn't expect it to bring memory use down much.
If you do need to copy in data from an existing workbook you might want to think about using a separate workbook for the changes which would allow you to reduce memory use both reading and writing. Further discussion is probably best on the mailing list.


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