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CARMEL, IN – ADESA, Inc. has promoted Brent J. Huisman to vice president of dealer affairs for ADESA Corp., the company's auction and related services business. Huisman is currently an executive director of sales for ADESA, based in Phoenix. His first day on the job in his new role will be June 20.
Huisman's career began in 1996 at Hormel Foods in Chicago as a senior account executive in the company's Midwest region. In 1998, Huisman joined GE Capital in Barrington, Ill., as a regional dealer sales remarketing manager, handling sales of off-lease GE vehicles. He played a key role in designing GE Capital's first e-commerce site, GE AutoDirect.com. Before joining ADESA, he also served a two-year stint beginning in 2000 as a manager in national dealer sales for Bank One Credit Company in Phoenix.
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Rajinikanth 'happy' to hear SP Balasubrahmanyam's health is improving
IANS| Published: 17th August 2020 4:25 pm IST
Chennai, Aug 17 : Superstar Rajinikanth on Monday wished playback icon SP Balasubrahmanyam a speedy recovery in a social media post. The veteran singer is hospitalised after testing Covid-19.
"For more than 50 years, in various Indian languages, SPB sir has entertained crores and crores of people with his voice. He has been affected with Corona and is getting treatment. Knowing that he has crossed the danger zone makes me happy. However, he is still under the treatment. I pray to God that he is cured as soon as possible," Rajinikanth said in a video he posted on Twitter.
"Get well soon dear Balu sir," the veteran actor captioned the video.
A few days ago, MGM Healthcare issued a statement about the health condition of the singer. The statement said the singer is on life support.
Now, SP Balasubrahmanyam's son SP Charan has shared an update stating the singer's condition is better.
"Dad was shifted from the 3rd floor ICU to an exclusive ICU on the 6th floor. The pleasant news is there is some mobility. He is moving around a little bit and signed thumbs up to the doctors and is able to recognise them. He is still on life support. He is breathing a little more comfortably than a few days back," SP Charan informed fans in a video message.
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Looks like Franklin will drop Las Cruces Onate and pick up Las Cruces Mayfield for the the 2012 high school football season. That's a good move for the Cougars, who will get to meet one of New Mexico's best. The Trojans won the 2010 state title in Class 5A and are one of the favorites to win it again this year.


Hotelbeds Group's Ancillary Bank is gearing up for the introduction of a concierge service for use by the end traveller of its travel intermediary customers.
Aimed at Fully Independent Travellers (FIT), the new product will be found on Hotelbeds Group booking platforms and will be available in both wholesale and retail channels (Hotelbeds, Tourico Holidays, GTA and Bedsonline).
Following the launch of this new service, travellers will gain access to a 24-hour personal assistance hotline operated by local people in both English and Spanish. The service works to elevate in-destination local experiences through the expertise of local assistants offering services such as: meeting the concierge in person upon arrival (on request); interpretation/translation services; information on local infrastructure, services and transport; arranging and booking tours, tickets, attractions, events, transfers and car rentals; and information on culture, lifestyle, sports and local traditions.
Commenting on the development was ancillary bank director, Hotelbeds Group, Javier Arévalo: "We are very pleased to announce another strategic product offering that helps keep Hotelbeds Group's Ancillary Bank as a leading in-destination services specialist – and help give our travel intermediary clients an additional competitive edge with their customer, the end traveller.
"This allows us to offer the first service focused on FITs, with the goal to offer advice and personalised attention by local experts from the very beginning of the stay. This service brings together a very complete value proposition for the traveler, allowing not only assistance during all the stay (solving doubts or covering any need), but also gives the possibility to improve the travel experience in-destination by adding additional and relevant services. All this through our local Hotelbeds Group trusted experts that will be available 24/7 via telephone," Arévalo added.
Hotelbeds Group is making the service available in key Latin American destinations, including Punta Cana, Cancun and Riviera Maya; Thailand, including Bangkok and Phuket; and in Mediterranean destinations such as Malta and Bodrum in Turkey. Looking ahead, the Group is planning to launch this service in various other destinations.


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Die VCD Auto-Umweltliste wird seit dem Jahr 1989 jährlich vom Verkehrsclub Deutschland e.V. (VCD) herausgegeben und bewertet auf dem Markt befindliche Serienfahrzeuge (Pkw) hinsichtlich ihrer Umweltverträglichkeit.

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Elektroautos waren in der "Auto-Umweltliste" bis 2015 "wegen der dünnen und widersprüchlichen Datenlage" nicht mit erfasst. Sie wurden vom VCD gesondert unter Einbeziehung der Energiebereitstellung auf der Basis des NEFZ bewertet, obwohl dies Fahrzeugen mit Verbrennungsmotor und besonders Hybridautos Vorteile verschaffte, da deren Vorkette der Kraftstofferzeugung unberücksichtigt blieb. Nach dieser Darstellung ist ein vollelektrischer BMW i3 weniger umweltfreundlich als ein BMW i3 mit Verbrennungsmotor als Reichweitenverlängerer. Der Smart ED3 hat mit 87 g CO2/km einen höheren Ausstoß als der Mercedes-Benz S 500 Plug-in Hybrid mit angegebenen 78 g CO2/km.

Nach dem Abgasskandal
Seit dem Abgasskandal im September 2015 wurden die Auto-Umweltlisten nur noch als Positivlisten veröffentlicht. Auch Elektroautos sind nun vertreten.

Die Spitzenreiter der letzten Jahre

Siehe auch
 FIA EcoTest
 Niedrigenergiefahrzeug
 Hybridantrieb
 Elektromobilität

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 www.vcd.org – Die Top Ten der VCD-Auto-Umweltlisten seit 2002
 www.autoumweltliste.ch – Die Auto-Umweltliste der Schweiz

Liste (Automobil)
Liste (Umwelt- und Naturschutz)
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A Summer Fair, a Deadly Germ, and One Child's Life Taken
On Saturday, Aug. 28, Rachel Aldrich was a vibrant, intelligent 3-year-old, relishing the delights of the Washington County Fair in Greenwich, N.Y. On Saturday, Sept. 4, Rachel Aldrich was virtually brain-dead, spending the day that had been set aside for her fourth-birthday party in the Albany Medical Center, bathed in the prayers of family and friends to whom she was increasingly oblivious.
In between came the savaging of her body and brain by a virulent strain of E. coli bacteria, which health officials believe she and more than 150 other people -- including her 2-year-old sister, Kaylea -- ingested at the fair. Kaylea was listed in fair condition Monday at the hospital.
That Saturday at the fair was Rachel's "last day of fun in the world," her father, Wayne Aldrich, said Monday. Officials believe the outbreak may have been caused by surface runoff passing a barn that housed cattle and then contaminating the fair's water supply. Saturday afternoon, when Rachel's family made the decision to disconnect her life support system, Rachel became the first, and so far only, fatality attributed to the E. coli outbreak, which officials are calling the largest in the state's history.
On Monday, Wayne Aldrich, 32, accompanied by his wife, Lori, 26, recounted his daughter's last devastating days at a news conference at the medical center. Health officials issued warnings of their own, saying that they had identified two cases of secondary infection -- people who were not at the fair, but who share a household with someone who was.
To prevent further spread of the disease, they urged anyone with even mild diarrhea, one of the symptoms of infection, to take precautions like washing their hands and avoiding activities like food preparation. The authorities also advised them to avoid settings like day care or health care centers where the bacteria could easily spread.
In addition to Rachel, health officials have identified 155 confirmed or suspected E. coli cases. Almost all of the victims, who include at least 5 people from Vermont and Massachusetts, visited the fair the weekend of Aug. 28 and 29. Forty-five people are hospitalized. The incubation period for E. coli is one to nine days.
Many of the victims are children, who are particularly vulnerable to the bacteria's toxic effects. Kaylea, while faring far better than her sister, is not out of danger yet. Although she was in fair condition, she suffered a few setbacks Sunday night, her father said Monday.
At least some of the patients have E. coli O157:H7, a particularly toxic strain. Health officials have identified "massive E. coli contamination" at one well point at the fairgrounds, which has its own water system, said a spokeswoman for the state Health Department, Kristine Smith.
Ms. Smith said that a "terrible convergence of circumstances" -- first the drought, then a downpour, and the fair -- seemed likely to blame for the outbreak.
The working hypothesis is that after a major downpour on Aug. 26, the water probably swept surface runoff from a nearby barn, which was housing 700 head of cattle for an agricultural exhibit at the fair, into the soil. From there, the water likely leached into the aquifer, which was at a very low level because of the drought. The low level meant that instead of deeper, cleaner water, being drawn up, the contaminated surface water made its way into the well.
Contaminated water can expose people to bacteria in innumerable ways, especially at a county fair playing host to tens of thousands of people. It goes into ice, lemonade, even soda mixes. It can also be used to wash lettuce.
For the Aldrich girls who are from nearby Clifton Park, the fair was pure joy, their parents recalled. They looked at animals and rode the merry-go-round. They bounced in the big balloon castle and ate hot dogs and french fries and fried dough. By Sunday, the girls, usually the best of friends, were being unusually aggressive toward each other. By Monday, they were scratching each other and trying to fight. Kaylea came down with a fever, then Rachel did too. A pediatrician diagnosed the flu. The girls began sleeping excessively and developed bad cases of diarrhea. Rachel's was so bad, Aldrich said, that she was going to the bathroom every five minutes. She stopped sleeping, and was so tired that she would fall asleep as she sat on the toilet. When the parents saw blood in the girls' stools, they took them back to the doctor, who diagnosed salmonella, and had them admitted to Ellis Hospital in Schenectady. "Kaylea recovered quite well," Aldrich said.
"Rachel started to fall apart." She could no longer walk. She was lethargic. Her speech was slurred. Early Friday morning she was transferred to Albany Medical Center. At one point, her heart failed, and the supply of oxygen to her brain was cut off for seven minutes. She had kidney failure. The family ended life support the next day.
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Unionville, PA -- The Beaver men began their season at home on Thursday night versus a non-conference opponent, Washington Adventist. The men come into this game looking to continue their success from last year as the defending PSUAC champs. With a good roster with a lot of young talent Beaver looks to be a contender once again this year.
The first half started off as a battle between the two teams as neither looked like they would easily give up a goal. In the 42 minute however, Adventist managed to get a penalty kick and capitalized on it, scoring the games first goal. Even though Adventist took the lead Beaver still wouldn't budge an inch as they played stellar defense with great goaltending by Samuel Sharpless.
The second half started off on a different tone as Beaver came out looking to even this game up quickly, and in the 54 minute they did as they were able to get a penalty kick of their own in which Julius Illiano scored tying the game up at one goal a piece. As the half went on Beaver started to really push to get the lead and in doing so Adventist took advantage of a tired Beaver team scoring a goal in the 70 minute, giving them the lead. Beaver never managed to get much going after that as sloppy play ended up in two more Adventist goals as they went on to win the game by a score of 4-1.
Beaver played a good game in their season opener, losing to a very tough team in Washington Adventist. Although their offense wasn't quite there yet their defense held up very well against Adventist, as goalie Samuel Sharpless looked very good making some impressive stops and racking up eight saves throughout the game. The men will return to action on Tuesday, September 6 at home against LaRoche. The game will start at 4 pm.


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Good morning. Oil and gas producer Encana plans to cut spending by 55 per cent and its workforce by 20 per cent this year. While many in the industry are reeling from the downturn, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall keeps defending the oil economy. What if it all goes to pot? Well, it looks like medicinal users can start growing their own marijuana. These stories and more in your morning cheat sheet to the Financial Post.
Energy producer Encana Corp. is cutting more deeply into its spending and production plans, and will lay off more staff, Geoffrey Morgan reports.
By the end of this year the company will be producing 10 per cent less oil and gas than it is today, thanks in large part to a massive cut in capital spending, Encana president and CEO Doug Suttles said.
The company is now planning to spend about US$1 billion in 2016 – a 55 per cent reduction from 2015 – and to cut jobs again in an effort to cut costs.
Encana said that, in addition to cutting 20 per cent of its staff last year, it planned to cut another 20 per cent in 2016 — but did not indicate how many people would be affected.
The oil crash has been rough on political leaders, but not Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall. If opinion polls prove accurate, the two-term premier and his Saskatchewan Party are sailing toward another solid majority in the April 4 provincial election, Claudia Cattaneo reports.
Canada's nascent marijuana industry was thrown into turmoil after a court ruling that users of medicinal pot can grow their own cannabis, Peter Koven reports.
Leading pot producers like Canopy Growth Corp., Aphria Inc. and Mettrum Health Corp. came into being for one specific reason: the federal government introduced rules in 2014 that required patients to buy marijuana from licensed producers. Prior to that, patients were getting licenses to grow at home, making it very difficult for Ottawa to regulate and oversee the sector.
The decision from federal court judge Michael Phelan could bring elements of the old system back. He gave patients the right to grow their own cannabis, arguing the current system restricts access to the drug.
It's another game-changer for the industry, which always seems to be in some stage of transition. Currently, licensed pot producers are fighting competition from illegal dispensaries, while trying to launch new oil-based products after a separate court ruling legalized them.
Not surprisingly, share prices fell across the sector in response, but the declines were quite modest, while people mull the impact of the decision.
Three times a week Neil Valsangkar escapes Canada's most expensive real estate market by paying $100 for a 20-minute float plane ride to his Vancouver office from his home across the Salish Sea, Jeremy Van Loon reports.
The 50 kilometre aerial commute allows the father of three to live in Nanaimo, B.C., where homes cost about a quarter of those in Vancouver, one of the world's frothiest markets with average homes selling for $1.3 million. He's encouraging some of his employees to do the same.
Nanaimo, a formerly rough-and-tumble logging and fishing town of almost 100,000 people on Vancouver Island, offers the same stunning views of snow-capped mountains and rugged bays as its larger neighbour. With float planes taking off for downtown Vancouver several times an hour, a vehicle ferry, helicopter flights and a planned high-speed passenger service, the commute across the Salish Sea makes sense and can be shorter in some cases than commuting by car from Greater Vancouver's eastern municipalities.
The cost of owning a bungalow in Vancouver now accounts for 87 cents of every dollar earned by the average family. That has triggered protests by young professionals who complain of having to bunk with roommates into their 30s and forcing them to delay starting families. The provincial government will begin collecting data on foreign buyers who have been accused of driving up prices in the city of 2.5 million residents.
For the first time in more than 40 years, the Stanley Cup playoffs may lack a Canadian team this season, Aleksandra Sagan reports.
That's not only a major disappointment to Canada's devoted hockey fans — Rogers Media coffers could also suffer at the hands of the teams' lacklustre performances three years after the company made a big investment in Canadian hockey talent.
In 2013, Rogers Media purchased the exclusive national rights to broadcast all NHL games for a dozen years in Canada for $5.2 billion.
This playoff season, the odds of even one Canadian team making the playoffs are slim. None of the seven teams currently hold playoff spots in the standings and Winnipeg, Toronto and Edmonton are at the very bottom of the 30-team league. The season ends April 10.
"The bottom line is: no Canadian team in these playoffs is not at all good news for Rogers," said Marvin Ryder, assistant professor at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business.


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Q: Trying to write an addClock method for a Java assignment I'm in my first semester learning Java and I'm struggling. For our assignment, we're writing code that is supposed to increment a clock by one second, decrement a clock by one second, and add two clocks together. I think I've got the first two sections to work, but I'm having trouble with addClock. Here's what I have so far and I'm just not sure where to go or what's wrong with what I've got:
public class Clock
{
    //Instance variables
    private int hours;
    private int minutes;
    private int seconds;
    private int clock;
    private int totalSeconds;

    //Method to convert from totalSeconds to hours, minutes, and seconds
    public void convertSeconds(int totalSeconds)
    {
        hours = (totalSeconds / 3600) % 24;
        minutes = (totalSeconds % 3600) / 60;
        seconds = totalSeconds % 60;
    }

    //Method to convert from hours, minutes, and seconds to totalSeconds
    private int getTotalSeconds()
    {
        int hoursInSeconds = hours * 60 * 60;
        int minutesInSeconds = minutes * 60;
        return hoursInSeconds + minutesInSeconds + seconds;
    }

    //Constructor 1: Initialize time to 0
    public Clock()
    {
        hours = 0;
        minutes = 0;
        seconds = 0;
    }

    //Constructor 2: Value of time in seconds and convert seconds to hours, minutes, and seconds
    public Clock(int totalSeconds)
    {
        convertSeconds(totalSeconds);
    }

    //Constructor 3: Passes three values for hours, minutes, and seconds
    public Clock(int hours, int minutes, int seconds)
    {
        hours = hours;
        minutes = minutes;
        seconds = seconds;
    }

    //Instance method tick() to increment a Clock object by one second
    public void tick()
    {
        convertSeconds(getTotalSeconds() + 1);
    }

    //Instance method tickDown() to decrement a Clock object by one second
    public void tickDown()
    {
        convertSeconds(getTotalSeconds() - 1);
    }

    //Accessor/getter method: getHours
    public int getHours()
    {
        return hours;
    }

    //Accessor/getter method: getMinutes
    public int getMinutes()
    {
        return minutes;
    }

    //Accessor/getter method: getSeconds
    public int getSeconds()
    {
        return seconds;
    }

    //Mutator/setter method: setHours
    public void setHours()
    {
        this.hours = hours;
    }

    //Mutator/setter method: setMinutes
    public void setMinutes()
    {
        this.minutes = minutes;
    }

    //Mutator/setter method: setSeconds
    public void setSeconds()
    {
        this.seconds = seconds;
    }

    //Mutator/setter method: setClock
    public void setClock(int totalSeconds)
    {
        this.clock = totalSeconds;
    }

    //Instance method addClock() to give the sum of two clock objects
    public void addClock(Clock clock2)
    {
        convertSeconds(clock2.getTotalSeconds() + this.getTotalSeconds());
    }

    //Main  method to test the functionality of objects
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Clock clock1 = new Clock();
        Clock clock2 = new Clock();

        int clock = 12699;
        int clock2 = 3600;

        clock1.convertSeconds(totalSeconds);
        System.out.println("Number of hours: " + clock1.getHours());
        System.out.println("Number of minutes: " + clock1.getMinutes());
        System.out.println("Number of seconds: " + clock1.getSeconds());

        clock1.tick();
        System.out.println("Number of hours: " + clock1.getHours());
        System.out.println("Number of minutes: " + clock1.getMinutes());
        System.out.println("Number of seconds: " + clock1.getSeconds());

        clock1.tickDown();
        System.out.println("Number of hours: " + clock1.getHours());
        System.out.println("Number of minutes: " + clock1.getMinutes());
        System.out.println("Number of seconds: " + clock1.getSeconds());

        clock1.addClock(clock2);
        System.out.println("After adding the two clocks, number of hours: " + clock1.getHours());
        System.out.println("After adding the two clocks, number of minutes: " + clock1.getMinutes());
        System.out.println("After adding the two clocks, number of seconds: " + clock1.getSeconds());
    }
}

Any suggestions, advice, or help would be greatly appreciated!

A: You need to assign the result to this.totalSeconds

A: Does your code compile ?
The error would be here:
Clock clock1 = new Clock();
-> Clock clock2 = new Clock();

int clock = 12699;
-> int clock2 = 3600;

clock2 is declared 2 times.

A: I think your main problem comes from the fact that you are storing two time's representations: one with totalSeconds and one with hours, minutes and seconds. This is rather painful because you have to update one representation when the other get updated.
I recommand instead to store only totalSeconds, the 3 others can be inferred based on this one.
It's also a good practice to have only one main constructor, any other constructors must invoke this one. It helps to make your code easier to understand and maintain.
Below is the kind of code you could end with (since it's an assignment, I let you implement the TODOS, if you need them):
public final class Clock {
    private int totalSeconds;

    public Clock() {
        this(0);
    }

    public Clock(int hour, int minute, int second) {
        //TODO invoke this(...) with the correct amount of seconds
    }

    public Clock(int totalSeconds) {
        this.totalSeconds = totalSeconds;
    }

    public void addClock(Clock that) {
        this.totalSeconds += that.totalSeconds;
    }

    public void tick() {
        //TODO increment totalSeconds
    }

    public void tickDown() {
        //TODO decrement totalSeconds
    }

    public long getTotalSeconds() {
        return totalSeconds;
    }

    public int getHour() {
        //TODO: compute hour based on totalSeconds
    }

    public int getMinute() {
        //TODO: compute minute based on totalSeconds
    }

    public int getSecond() {
        //TODO: compute second based on totalSeconds
    }
}

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Q&A with Howard Fuller
By Alejandra Cerna Rios | November 8, 2005
Howard Fuller
As superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools from 1991-95, Howard Fuller was a vocal advocate of charter schools and clashed with the teachers' union over his desire to close and re-staff failing schools. Fuller was the first person with little education experience to head a major urban school system. He now chairs the Washington, D.C.,-based Charter School Leadership Council and spoke to writer Alejandra Cerna Rios while in town recently.
There's been a lot of opposition to Chicago's Renaissance 2010 plan, which would include new charters and contract schools. What's the best way to get people to support an idea?
It's hard for me to give advice, not knowing the situation in Chicago. But many times organized opposition doesn't reflect an entire community's view. It reflects the view of organizations and individuals who are involved in coming out against something. If the change represents a significant power shift, you're going to have opposition. That is not an indication of whether an idea is worthy or not. You have to examine what it is people are trying to do and whether it has value.
Mayor Richard Daley invited businesses to sponsor new schools. Would it be better to limit applicants to educators and non-profits?
In the situation that [public education] is in, you need to open it up to all kinds of possibilities, and judge who is allowed to open schools based on how well they meet criteria that are set.
What about expertise in education?
If you've got any sense, you surround yourself with people who have expertise that you don't. When it comes to learning, some of the cutting-edge ideas come from outside education, from people engaged in organizational theory, how people learn and transfer information. But clearly, you do need people who understand teaching, learning and curriculum.
What does the political climate look like for charter schools nationally?
Charter school people have to realize that there is organized resistance. Teachers unions and other people who have historically controlled education are not in love with the idea that there's going to be other people involved in the enterprise.
Talk about the American Federation of Teachers study that found kids in some charters performed worse than those in public schools.
Many charters look horrible in large part because they're getting students who are way behind. But those of us who believe in charters have to understand that we've got to get students up to grade level. We created the movement making the argument that we could do that, so we can't now say it's too hard.
Some people are skeptical of relying on market forces to improve education.
As a superintendent, every day I signed documents where people made money from school systems, whether it was for roofs, tests or pencils. So we should not act as if the traditional school system is devoid of contact with the market.
But the items you just mentioned are tangible commodities.
Right. What I'm saying is that those forces have been a part of the traditional system for a very long time. The only people in America who are forced to have their children stay in schools that do not work are low-income and working-class people. So from my standpoint, it's not a market idea, it's a social justice idea.
What are some strategies a district should use to get parents to have faith in the system?
You try to involve people but you also have to be willing to say, I've listened to you but I don't agree, and from my perspective, as the one who's making the decision, this is a better way to go. Then go back and try to involve those people who disagreed.
Especially the people whose children are involved.
Exactly. Don't just say "Well, hey, you disagree with me, and I won, so tough." I made this decision, I understand that you all disagree, now let's talk about your being a part of making this new thing work.
Pat Hill, black cop who championed police reform in Chicago, dies
The retired police officer fought for fair treatment of black officers and fair policing of black communities.
A long fight for employment protections for domestic workers
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GWAS Central (previously HGBASE, HGVbase and HGVbaseG2P) is a publicly available database of summary-level findings from genetic association studies in humans, including genome-wide association studies (GWAS).

It is funded through the GEN2PHEN project by the European Union under their Seventh Framework Programme.

Scope
GWAS Central contains the most comprehensive collection of summary-level p-value GWAS data. The web resource employs powerful graphical and text based data presentation methods for discovery of and simultaneous visualisation and co-examination of many studies, at genome-wide and region-specific levels. Studies of interest can now be identified using chromosomal regions/genes and markers; there is also the facility for researchers to view their own data alongside selected studies.

Current content includes 'top' p-values from collections; supplementary data; direct researcher submissions; and publicly available data. Consequently, the database now hosts >21 million p-values and 708 studies (vs 3,948 p-values and 798 studies in the NHGRI GWAS Catalog), representing ~5% of all such data yet produced. GWAS Central makes parts of its data freely available for download by the research community. However, only parts of the data may be downloaded freely, the whole database content can be accessed as part of a collaboration.

History
The Human Genome Bi-Allelic SEquence (HGBASE) database was the first version of what is now GWAS Central. It was first released in August 1998, focusing on providing a centralized collection of known human single nucleotide polymorphisms and other simple DNA variants. It was the first publicly available SNP database. The project was expanded over the next year by a consortium including the Karolinska Institute, the European Bioinformatics Institute and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Corporate support was provided by Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline. The version released in November 2001 was renamed the Human Genome Variation database (HGVbase), as this was a better reflection of the scope of the database and its emphasis on collection from many different laboratories. In addition this also highlighted its new role as a central repository for data collection efforts in collaboration with the  Human Genome Variation Society

HGVbase was scaled back in 2004 to simply provide an alternative representation of the full marker list from dbSNP, but development continued on its successor: the Human Genome Variation Genotype-to-Phenotype database (HGVbaseG2P), in many ways the natural evolution of HGVbase into a central database for summary-level genetic association data. The work was originally funded by GlaxoSmithKline, the University of Leicester, and the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme ('INFOBIOMED' Network of Excellence), but the GEN2PHEN project became the main source of funds in 2008. Early work in the project involved devising a powerful way of modeling phenotype and genotype- phenotype data, which itself was adopted and adapted to become the global standard Phenotype And Genotype Experiment Object model. In 2008 HGVbaseG2P went live and extended the project's content and scope by adding a far broader and more comprehensive range of markers (i.e., SNPs, structural variants, and STSs), along with association data from many genetic association studies.

In February 2010, the project was once again renamed to GWAS Central, to reflect the growing focus on genome-wide association studies. GWAS Central is a core component of the GEN2PHEN project and intends to provide an operational model, plus an open-source software package, so others can create similar databases across the world. These will be hosted by institutes, consortia, and even individual laboratories; providing those groups a toolkit for publicising and publishing their genetic association findings on the web and examine their data alongside others data from similar valuable resources.

References

External links
 GWAS Central
 GEN2PHEN project
 Phenotype And Genotype Experiment Object model

Genetic epidemiology
Genetics databases
Online databases
Population genetics organizations


A curious red color has shown up on the lakebed in Pickerel Cove near the Young's Brook inlet, so we asked the experts at the UNH Cooperative Extension to help us understand what's causing this phenomenon.
The Young's Brook sampling location was tested on May 22nd and no unusual coloration was observed. What we are seeing may be iron bacteria on the lake bottom. NH Department of Environmental Services has a Fact Sheet that discusses iron bacteria, and this Iron Bacteria Fact Sheet offers a couple of images.
During wet years, or periods when the water table is higher than normal, UNH Cooperative Extension has sometimes seen increases in the incidence of iron bacteria in stream inlets and around the periphery of lakes. The iron is in the soils naturally, but when the water levels are elevated, there is more exposure to iron containing materials that can leach into the lakes and streams.
Our Weed Watch Patrol will be keeping an eye on this, as will the water sampling program.


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You've been entrusted with something valuable. What do you do?
I'm circling back to points in earlier posts that I promised to expand upon later.
Average people in a great system will outperform great people in an average system. Give us average every time.


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A New Broadway Success: "Hadestown"
"Hadestown' is a new Broadway musical that has become very popular in the short time it has been open.
Samantha Venable, Reporter|May 13, 2019
The stage is a place where some people feel most at home and for some, their dreams begin as early as high school.
Down come the lights as the curtain opens to reveal one of the most famous stages in the world: The Broadway stage. Being on Broadway is one of the greatest accomplishments of any actor, singer, or dancer's career and it is not hard to see why. Only the best of the best make it to this stage, making it very difficult to get there. However, if you do, you go down in history as a Broadway star! One of the reasons this stage has been able to keep up its reputation for so long is because new shows come out all the time. One of the most recent new Broadway shows made its debut on stage on April 17th, 2019. The show is entitled "Hadestown" and has already made a great impression on its first audiences.
Christine Strong, a senior at Lafayette High School as well as a dedicated member of the Lafayette Theatre Program, is going to see "Hadestown" in June and she is very excited. She says that she is a big fan of Greek mythology and that this show has a really good message. Christine is most excited for all of the visual effects and amazing cast and choreography. If this show continues to be a success, it has the potential to be known all around the world as one of the most famous Broadway shows!
Every actor, singer, or dancer dreams of making it to the most famous stage in the world, Broadway.
"Hadestown" has made its way across many other stages before finally making it to Broadway. It was performed off Broadway in 2016, in Edmonton in 2017, in London in 2018, and now has made its way to the most famous stage in the world in 2019. The musical is an adaptation of a folk opera concept album of 2010. The concept album shares the same name as the musical and was created by Anaïs Mitchell. "Hadestown" was adapted for the stage and directed by Rachel Chavkin. Based on of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, both the stage version and concept album would be very appealing to fans of Greek mythology. The myth is about Orpheus who travels to the underworld to save is soon to be wife, Eurydice.
Take a seat in the Broadway theatre and enjoy a show you will never forget!
With many musical numbers and a fascinating plot, the show takes you on a journey back in time. Although the myth is about ancient Greece, the setting of the musical is in a post-apocalyptic world during the Great Depression. Act I of the show opens with Hermes, the narrator introducing all the characters in the show. We then meet the main characters, Orpheus and Eurydice who both live in poverty. Orpheus, who is a musician, tries to persuade Eurydice to marry him even though she is skeptical, due to both of their situations. However, Orpheus tells of a song he is writing that will being spring back to their home and Eurydice begins to fall in love with Orpheus. Then, we are introduced to Persephone and learn of her situation with Hades, the ruler of the underworld. Persephone, Eurydice, and Orpheus become friends but, when winter comes, Persephone is taken by train back to Hadestown, which is Hades' underground factory. As time passes, both couples undergo hardships and Hades is fed up with Persephone and her defiance. Meanwhile, Eurydice thinks that Orpheus should get a job instead of working on his music but he isn't willing to quit. Hades then persuades Eurydice to come to Hadestown with him and she obliges. When Orpheus learns of this, he attempts to make his way to the underworld to save her, ending the first act of the show.
Watching the adds for "Hadestown" makes you realize just ho much of an elaborate show it is and makes you that much more intrigued.
Eurydice begins the second act regretting her decision to come with Hades because she learns that since she signed his contract, she can never leave unless Hades allows it. Orpheus learns of this and confronts Hades. Persephone, overhearing Orpheus' struggle, begs Hades to let Eurydice go. Hades then offers Orpheus a chance to sing for him and he succumbs the music, and is reminded of his love for Persephone. Finally, Hades allows the couple to leave but only if Orpheus can lead them all the way out without looking behind him to see if Eurydice is following. Orpheus makes it to the very end of the journey until he becomes nervous and looks behind to see that Eurydice was following him the whole time. He then realizes that he has condemned her to life in Hadestown forever. Hermes, who is now very upset, begins the story again, showing that no matter how many times they sing it, people will always hope for a better, happier ending. Act II closes with Persephone toasting to Orpheus.
RanZag [Public domain]
"Hadestown" has been nominated for 14 Tony awards in 2019, which is the most a show has ever received.
The musical "Hadestown" has achieved something that no other show has done before; it has been nominated for 14 Tony awards. This is the most that one show has ever received. Mae O'Neal, a sophomore at Lafayette Highschool, thinks that it is crazy that "Hadestown" has been nominated for this many awards because its only been on Broadway for a little less than a month. Some of its nominations include best musical, best book of a musical, best original score, best direction of a musical, best leading actor in a musical, best featured actor in a musical, best scenic design of a musical and so many more. This Broadway musical has truly stolen the hearts of everyone who has seen it. With amazing actors, sets, lights and costumes, "Hadestown" is a musical that you will never forget!
One Response to "A New Broadway Success: "Hadestown""
Mary Frances Bush on May 13th, 2019 7:18 PM
While "Hadestown" has gotten the most Tony nominations of any other show this season, "Hamilton" holds the record for most nominations at 16 with "The Producers" and "Billy Elliot" at 15 nominations each. "The Producers" currently holds the record for most wins at 12.


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A Study of Enrollment Projections for DC's Public Schools: Assuring Accuracy and Transparency
Steven Martin, Megan Gallagher, Yipeng Su, Constance A. Lindsay, Peter A. Tatian, Graham MacDonald
Projecting future enrollment is an essential responsibility of school districts that municipalities and districts rely on for planning, budgeting, and evaluation. The District of Columbia uses next-year projections for annual education appropriations for District of Columbia Public Schools and charter schools and long-term enrollment projections for educational facility capital planning.
This study presents a process to assure accuracy, transparency, and efficiency in the regular development and use of next-year and multiyear enrollment projections. It includes a comprehensive review of public school enrollment in the District of Columbia, including 1-, 5- and 10-year enrollment projections, and recommendations on a process for completing projections to assure accuracy, transparency, and efficiency in their development.
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Assessed the accuracy of 1-, 5- and 10-year projections
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Compiled basic profiles on Columbus, Ohio; Denver, Colorado; New Orleans, Louisiana; Oakland, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Washington, DC, to describe student population change and enrollment projection approaches.
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Predicting future public school enrollment, particularly in a dynamic school choice environment like the District of Columbia, is challenging. Potential changes in the regional economy, school openings and closings, and changing perceptions of school quality interact in ways that require ongoing collection and analysis of data by people with local knowledge and with technical skills. Even with sound processes for capturing local knowledge and using technical support, there is no crystal ball for projecting enrollment.
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Welcome to The Mob!
Students watch the Glouberman Tournament in the lounge.
Sophia Kremer '20, Editor-in-Chief
This year, the first thing Ramaz students will learn is vocabulary. "The Mob," "Horns up," and "RamFam" are phrases that will populate school social media accounts and spirit days as the G.O. introduces a new initiative to boost sports and spirit called SPIT (Sports and Spirit). This new branch of the G.O. is dedicated to transforming school spirit at Ramaz by creating an atmosphere in which students will be excited to support Ramaz teams at sporting events, proudly wear RMZ merch, and repost using SPIT hashtags.
After an unprecedented display of school spirit on occasions such as the Glouberman Basketball Tournament in Los Angeles, the Varsity Volleyball's third straight championship title, and the constant game recaps that were posted on Schoology, the G.O. decided to respond with an initiative that would allow for more opportunities for students to come together.
The G.O. worked with Mr. Eli Katz, the new Director of Athletics, to launch its new campaign. Mr. Katz, whose position at Ramaz includes revitalizing the school's sports curriculum and programming, will also oversee SPIT. Mr. Katz described SPIT as "the cultivation of spirit around athletics by the students themselves."
"The way I see it," he said, "the spirit brought by the student body is what is key in developing a united and strong athletics department." Part of the initiative will include electing student representatives from each grade to work on organizing student fan buses, promoting original RMZ chants to ramp up cheering at games, and other spirit activities in and out of school.
Mr. Katz added, "this is something that many want and are very much looking forward to incorporating into life at Ramaz. I would love, with the help of the student body, to make this happen."
The campaign will also include reframing the Ramaz identity as "The Ram." SPIT will also introduce a new name for the Ramaz student body: "The Mob," which means a flock of rams and was inspired by the Los Angeles' #MobSquad.
SPIT will also have a social media presence. The Instagram will post score updates for big games, recap photos and commentary, and introduce new sports apparel.
G.O. President Ethan Morali '20 said, "I think it's about time more school spirit is incorporated at Ramaz, and SPIT is a great way to initiate this vision."
Student athletes agree with this sentiment. "Knowing that you are not playing for yourself, your family, and the school but for the students who are there to support you and cheer you on makes you play even harder and makes the game so much more fun," said Spencer Rubenstein '21, a member of the boys' varsity basketball team. He specified that "our best games are always when we have the most crowd support." Gabby Schwartz '20, a member of the girls' varsity basketball team affirmed that, "it is really important to represent your school, and increasing school spirit will make everyone feel more involved!"
The G.O. has many new announcements to make this school year involving school spirit. So stay tuned, RAMFAM!
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Sophia Kremer started writing for the Rampage as a freshman covering orientation and now serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief. Sophia plans to promote the paper...
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After a month of television reruns and holiday not-so-special programs, I'm excited that tonight season 3 of "Downton Abbey" premiers on PBS in America. I'm a bit of an Anglophile, so I find this series very interesting, well-written and well-acted. Anything with Dame Maggie Smith is worth watching in my book. In honor of tonight's season premier, I decided to make British scones, which is often considered the quintessential British snack. Most Brits will enjoy a scone paired with afternoon tea.
British scones can be sweet or savory, and – as you'll see in this recipe – are easily made. The secret for making great British scones is to use very cold butter and to work quickly with the dough. Keeping all the ingredients and utensils (including your hands if you rub in the butter by hand) as cool as possible will ensure for a lighter, fluffier scone that rises well.
I decided to make two kinds of scones: one with blackberries and a second batch with raspberries. You could just as easily prepare cheese scones by substituting the same amount of shredded cheese for the fruit. Don't be afraid to be creative – or to use what's leftover in the refrigerator.
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Preheat your oven to 425° F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
In a large bowl, sift together the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt. Use a pastry blender to quickly cut the butter into the flour mixture, until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar and milk. Fold in the chopped fruit. I prefer blackberries or raspberries, but any fruit will work (e.g. cranberries, apples, cherries). The higher the water content of the fruit, the less milk you should use in the dough. When all ingredients are combined, it should be a soft dough.
Turn the dough onto a floured work surface. Knead the dough lightly and roll it out to about 3/4-inch thickness. Cut the dough into 2-inch rounds or squares. Place the scones on the prepared baking sheet and brush the tops with the remaining 2 tablespoons of milk to glaze.
Bake for 10 minutes, or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack for a few minutes, then serve warm with butter or jam.


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Q: Keras/TensorFlow GPU -- Stuck at Epoch 1 I am struggling to set up a simple deep learning code to run on my GPU.
The code is a simple CNN from the cifar10 dataset (copy/past from https://machinelearningmastery.com/how-to-develop-a-cnn-from-scratch-for-cifar-10-photo-classification/).
When I check if it does find the GPU:
from tensorflow.python.client import device_lib
print(device_lib.list_local_devices())

I get:
[name: "/device:CPU:0"
device_type: "CPU"
memory_limit: 268435456
locality {
}
incarnation: 1854574019269825039
, name: "/device:GPU:0"
device_type: "GPU"
memory_limit: 23174440576
locality {
  bus_id: 1
  links {
  }
}
incarnation: 269960360402377625
physical_device_desc: "device: 0, name: GeForce RTX 3090, pci bus id: 0000:65:00.0, compute capability: 8.6"
]

It does find cuda and cudnn but get stuck at Epoch 1:
2021-04-11 22:09:18.343347: I tensorflow/compiler/mlir/mlir_graph_optimization_pass.cc:116] None of the MLIR optimization passes are enabled (registered 2)
2021-04-11 22:09:18.363546: I tensorflow/core/platform/profile_utils/cpu_utils.cc:112] CPU Frequency: 3699850000 Hz
Epoch 1/100
2021-04-11 22:09:18.915658: I tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:49] Successfully opened dynamic library libcublas.so.11
2021-04-11 22:09:19.399116: I tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:49] Successfully opened dynamic library libcublasLt.so.11
2021-04-11 22:09:19.401652: I tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:49] Successfully opened dynamic library libcudnn.so.8

If you have any idea? Thanks in advance

A: Don't use pip version instead use conda I did this and worked for me:
conda create -n tf-gpu
conda activate tf-gpu
conda install -c conda-forge tensorflow-gpu

then install nessecary packages


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Baker & McKenzie LLP
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Steve Holmes leads Baker McKenzie's Global Information Technology & Communications practice based in London, and focuses on major technology, sourcing, communications and digital media transactions. In addition to leading the London sourcing team, Steve is co-lead of the London media team, and is on the steering committee of the European technology practice. Since 2006, he has been consistently ranked by Chambers UK and Legal 500 as a leading practitioner in the fields of technology, outsourcing, communications and digital media. Steve is one of the partners who leads the Firm's social mobility committee, BakerOpportunity. Steve has spoken and written extensively on a wide range of topics relevant to his field, including cloud computing, risk/reward in major services agreements, content licensing for new technologies, key issues in MVNO agreements and various other technology, communications and digital media topics.
Steve advises various clients — particularly those in the technology, communications and media industries — on non-contentious matters, including technology, outsourcing, e-commerce and the distribution of content using new technology. He has recently advised companies entering into a broad range of major services agreements in the financial services, professional services, communications, energy, retail and media sectors. These agreements included systems integration, applications development and maintenance, information technology outsourcing, F&A outsourcing, call centre and network outsourcing deals. He is also well-versed in the legal and IP aspects of music, computer games, sponsorship, publishing and sports rights deals.
Representative Legal Matters
Advised a global audit firm in relation to the licensing and implementation of a global SAP system to replace its finance system.
Advised a leading UK broadcaster in relation to its finance technology transformation programme, which included licensing and implementation of the Oracle e-Business suite-based processes.
Advised a UK mobile network operator on a range of technology procurement and sourcing deals, including software licensing, IT support, application development and maintenance services and LTE equipment.
Advised a UK media company on the procurement of software, equipment and services to develop a new video-on-demand contract.
Advised on a deal for the provision of application development and maintenance services across 12 countries in the CRM and billing domain.
Advised on a deal for the provision of application deployment services by the UK government using the competitive dialogue procedure.
Advised on the outsourcing of finance and accounting services for a customer with operations in more than 50 countries.
Advised an MVNO in the re-negotiation of its network agreement with a mobile network operator.
Advised a mobile network operator on their agreements with advertising agencies for placement of advertising and celebrity endorsement rights.
Advised a social network on issues relating to gaming, marketing and the use of virtual currency.
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King's College London, UK (Diploma Copyright and Related Rights) (1999)
College of Law, Chester (L.P.C.) (1995)
Cambridge University (Robinson College) (Law Degree) (1994)
Steve has spoken and written extensively on issues including: content licensing for new technology, mobile TV, IPTV, copyright levies, implementation of the Copyright Directive, 3G sports and music rights, payment on the Internet, digital signatures, actions against peer-to-peer networks, copyright in photographs, developments in DRM technology, user generated content and intermediary liability.
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Louis Philippe (1773-1850) was king of the French from 1830 to 1848. Although his authoritarian regime was overthrown by the February Revolution, his reign was marked by domestic prosperity, stability, and intellectual fecundity.
Born in Paris on Oct. 6, 1773, Louis Philippe was the eldest son of Philippe égalité, Duc d'Orléans. From 1785 until his father's execution (Nov. 6, 1793), he was known as the Duc de Chartres, thereafter as the Duc d'Orléans and the leader of the cadet branch of the Bourbon family.
In 1790 the duke joined the Jacobin Club and after 1792 posed as a republican. A lieutenant general at 18, he fought at Valmy, Jemappes, and Neerwinden. But, alienated by the Terror, he joined Charles François Dumouriez in a plot to overthrow the Republic. The army, however, refused to follow them, and on April 5, 1793, they deserted.
For the next 2 decades the duke sojourned in Switzerland, America, England, and Malta before repairing in 1809 to Sicily, where he remained until Napoleon's abdication. Meanwhile, the juste milieu (middle course) became the maxim which guided his political actions: he cautiously refrained from committing himself to Dumouriez's intrigues; and he remained apart from the émigrés while he and his cousin Louis XVIII became reconciled.
When Louis Philippe returned to France in 1814, Louis XVIII elevated him to the peerage, appointed him colonel general of Hussars, and restored to him all of the family's sequestered estates that had not been sold—a restitution which made him rich. But his attacks upon the ultraroyalists led in 1815 to a 2-year exile in England. After his return, he cultivated popularity by making the Palais-Royal the foyer of liberals, dressing en bourgeois (wearing long trousers instead of knee breeches), and sending his sons to a public school. He even strolled the streets of the working-class sections of Paris and stopped frequently to chat with workers. Thus, when the Revolution of 1830 overthrew Charles X, both classes were willing to raise the duke to the vacant throne. On August 7 the rump Chamber of Deputies proclaimed him "King of the French."
While the "citizen king" consolidated his position, he liberalized the Charter of 1814 and increased the electorate from 90, 000 to 170, 000. But for all Louis Philippe's astuteness, he loved personal power as much as the Bourbons had; he wanted to rule as well as reign and would not compromise to meet the needs of a changing society. In September 1835 he muzzled the press and refused to broaden the suffrage. Liberals and nationalists alike were also dissatisfied with his noninterventionist foreign policy. After 1840, moreover, the King and his conservative premier, François Guizot, resorted to corruption to defeat mounting opposition in the Chambers. But it was Louis Philippe's stubborn refusal to sponsor electoral reforms that precipitated the February Revolution. Paris rose against him on Feb. 22, 1848, and 2 days later drove him again into English exile. He lived at Claremont until his death on Aug. 26, 1850.
Further Reading on Louis Philippe
The best biography of Louis Philippe in English is Thomas E. B. Howarth, Citizen-King: The Life of Louis-Philippe, King of the French (1961). For a scholarly, up-to-date synthesis of the Orleanist era see Paul H. Beik, Louis Philippe and the July Monarchy (1965). David O. Evans gives an excellent analysis of the intellectual movements of the reign in his Social Romanticism in France, 1830-1848: With a Selective Critical Bibliography (1951).


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Timothy T. Kim '16 | Columbia Law School
Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court » Past
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Alexander N. Ely '16
Timothy T. Kim '16
Logan J. Gowdey '16
Aaron Michael Macris '16
The Court
Counsel for the Plaintiff-Appellant
Timothy T. Kim '16 received some early preparation for the oral argument portion of the Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court while teaching workshops to family court litigants in Los Angeles after graduating from UCLA. But it wasn't until he arrived at Columbia Law School that Kim received the detailed critiques he credits with bolstering his brief writing skills.
"The Legal Writing Program at Columbia is an invaluable opportunity," Kim says. "You're getting constant feedback from an instructor whose main purpose is to provide feedback and improve your writing."
Kim further honed his research and writing skills through a variety of other Law School experiences. He served as a research assistant to James Tierney, a lecturer in law and director of the National State Attorneys General Program; interned in the solicitor's office of the U.S. Department of Labor; and, through an externship, worked in the labor bureau of the New York State Attorney General's Office.
After participating in the first-year Foundation Moot Court, Kim chose to return the following year as a student editor. Working with other students on their writing provided him with insight into how judges approach a brief and assess oral arguments. Kim also admits he realized he was too long-winded in his own writing. "You don't want to be too simplistic," he says, "but you definitely want to make the issues you're grappling with as palpable as possible. It's our job to educate [the judges] about the issues."
Kim has focused his studies on labor and employment law, but has made a point to take courses in foreign affairs and international law, such as Professor Philip C. Bobbitt's Terror and Consent class. As a Korean-American, Kim says he particularly relished the opportunity to take two seminars with Lecturer in Law Jeong-Ho Roh '88—Korean Legal System in the Global Economy and Geopolitics of Law and Conflict on the Korean Peninsula.
For Kim, making it to the Stone Moot Court finals has proved bittersweet. It means working without another valued source of feedback: Melanie Grindle '16, one of 20 semi-finalists in this year's competition. On opposing sides in Foundation Moot Court, Grindle and Kim bonded over their "love for appellate advocacy," and worked together as student editors the following year. "I'm almost certain I never would have made it this far without her," Kim says.
Next fall, Kim will join the L.A. office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as a labor and employment litigation associate.


That's right, a different friend with a light grey Hujoo Nano Freya asked me to give her a real basic face up as well. It took me a few days to get to it, but she is now done and ready to go home.
She's really cute, but I can't get her to stop being wall-eyed. It's the way she's strung on the inside. She doesn't have an S-hook, the elastic just loops around the pegs her headback slides into.
I'm going to be raising my prices by $5 coming October. Anyone that still contacts me and ships a commission to me before October will still get the current prices. Basically anything shipped after Monday will be the new prices.
I have also now reached 90 face ups, so it's time for... another collage!
I'm only 10 face ups away from my goal of reaching 100 this year. When I started the year I was at about 47. Either way, I'm super excited by the concept of possibly getting to 100 face ups within the next 3 months. I think I can manage that, but I wouldn't be able to do so without you.
So I want to say thank you to everyone that's supported me and commissioned me. I'll probably write up a real sappy post once I get to 100 face ups.
Yesterday two friends came over, and one of them brought one of the new Hujoo Nano Freya's she'd just received from JunkySpot. She asked me to paint it like the company face up because there were no painted ones offered in stock.
She's super cute, she even has little paws and a tiny tail. I was going to take pictures of her all put together, except my camera lens keeps getting stuck at the focus. I've been able to fix it so far, but I don't know how much life the lens has left in it. The only other lens I have is a telelens.
Well, looks like my plate is pretty empty again. All I have now to work on is personal projects that I always somehow put off. Two face ups I need to redo on my dolls, but I need the process documented for my new face up book.
Anyway, if you have a head laying around in need of a new face, don't hesitate to message me! I'll be raising my prices by $5 in October since it's been a good 6 months since my last price raise. So if you want a head painted at my current prices, now is the time!
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Troubled nuke plant meeting closed to the public
Federal regulators have decided their next meeting with the utility that owns the troubled Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in Nebraska will be closed to the public next week because sensitive security information will be discussed. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday the April 22 meeting will focus on flood protection for the plant 20 miles north of Omaha. Fort Calhoun has been shut down for more than two years. Initially, the plant went offline for routine refueling maintenance in 2011, but flooding along the Missouri River and a series of safety violations forced it to stay closed. The Omaha Public Power District has been working to address the problems, and officials say significant progress has been made. Regulators won't allow the plant to restart unless they're confident it's safe.
Federal regulators have decided their next meeting with the utility that owns the troubled Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in Nebraska will be closed to the public next week because sensitive security information will be discussed.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday the April 22 meeting will focus on flood protection for the plant 20 miles north of Omaha.
Fort Calhoun has been shut down for more than two years. Initially, the plant went offline for routine refueling maintenance in 2011, but flooding along the Missouri River and a series of safety violations forced it to stay closed.
The Omaha Public Power District has been working to address the problems, and officials say significant progress has been made.
Regulators won't allow the plant to restart unless they're confident it's safe.


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Еврілох () — родич та супутник Одіссея.

Єдиний, кого чарівниця Кірка не перетворила на свиню. На острові Трінакія Еврілох умовив своїх товаришів забити деяких із священних биків Геліоса, чим спричинив свою та інших загибель.

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Q: Remove debug methods on final compile I often need debug messages for programming. Everytime before I release a new version, I have to remove them, and add them back after compiling everything. Is there a way to do ignore specific method calls when compiling with maven?
For example, if the code looks like:
int i = 10;

@Debug System.out.println(i);

doSomething(i);

it would remove everything tagged with @Debug when I want to compile a final version.

A: In Java production code it is preferable to use a logger instead of System.out
This has the benefit of allowing you to configure the required log level.
I.e debug for local testing and info (or error) for release.

A: An annotation cannot be specified in the body of a method
Here are the possible use :
    /** Class, interface (including annotation type), or enum declaration */
    TYPE,

    /** Field declaration (includes enum constants) */
    FIELD,

    /** Method declaration */
    METHOD,

    /** Formal parameter declaration */
    PARAMETER,

    /** Constructor declaration */
    CONSTRUCTOR,

    /** Local variable declaration */
    LOCAL_VARIABLE,

    /** Annotation type declaration */
    ANNOTATION_TYPE,

    /** Package declaration */
    PACKAGE,

    /**
     * Type parameter declaration
     *
     * @since 1.8
     */
    TYPE_PARAMETER,

    /**
     * Use of a type
     *
     * @since 1.8
     */
    TYPE_USE

So you cannot use annotation in this way.
Besides, the Maven build execution should not change the behavior of your classes.
You should avoid creating variation in the built component. That could create surprise in no development environments.
If you want to exclude debugging information in some specific environments, use  logging mechanisms (Log4j or Logback for example) instead of using the standard output (System.out.println) that is not designed to write debugging information.

During development, use a logging configuration that enables the debug level for the classes belonging to a specific package and in no development environments, use a logging configuration that disables the debug level for these same classes.