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Lateral migration of a capsule in a parabolic flow
S. Nix, Y. Imai, T. Ishikawa
ENG - Finemechanics
Red blood cells migrate to the center of the blood vessel in a process called axial migration, while other blood cells, such as white blood cells and platelets, are disproportionately found near the blood vessel wall. However, much is still unknown concerning the lateral migration of cells in the blood; the specific effect of hydrodynamic factors such as a wall or a shear gradient is still unclear. In this study, we investigate the lateral migration of a capsule using the boundary integral method, in order to compute exactly an infinite computational domain for an unbounded parabolic flow and a semi-infinite computational domain for a near-wall parabolic flow in the limit of Stokes flow. We show that the capsule lift velocity in an unbounded parabolic flow is linear with respect to the shear gradient, while the lift velocity in a near-wall parabolic flow is dependent on the distance to the wall. Then, using these relations, we give an estimation of the relative effect of the shear gradient as a function of channel width and distance between the capsule and the wall. This estimation can be used to determine cases in which the effect of the shear gradient or wall can be neglected; for example, the formation of the cell-free layer in blood vessels is determined to be unaffected by the magnitude of the shear gradient.
Journal of Biomechanics
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.11.038
Published - 2016 Jul 26
Boundary integral method
Lateral migration
Red blood cell
10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.11.038
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Nix, S., Imai, Y., & Ishikawa, T. (2016). Lateral migration of a capsule in a parabolic flow. Journal of Biomechanics, 49(11), 2249-2254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.11.038
Lateral migration of a capsule in a parabolic flow. / Nix, S.; Imai, Y.; Ishikawa, T.
In: Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 49, No. 11, 26.07.2016, p. 2249-2254.
Nix, S, Imai, Y & Ishikawa, T 2016, 'Lateral migration of a capsule in a parabolic flow', Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 49, no. 11, pp. 2249-2254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.11.038
Nix S, Imai Y, Ishikawa T. Lateral migration of a capsule in a parabolic flow. Journal of Biomechanics. 2016 Jul 26;49(11):2249-2254. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.11.038
Nix, S. ; Imai, Y. ; Ishikawa, T. / Lateral migration of a capsule in a parabolic flow. In: Journal of Biomechanics. 2016 ; Vol. 49, No. 11. pp. 2249-2254.
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Universidad UNIACC, acrónimo de Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicaciones, es una universidad privada chilena ubicada en la comuna de Providencia, en Santiago de Chile. Está orientada a las carreras de la industria de las comunicaciones, y es autónoma desde el año 2000. Desde abril de 2016 fue controlada por la firma estadounidense Apollo Education Group, que la compró a la familia Guiloff por US$ 44 millones. Actualmente es controlada por una nueva comisión sin fines de lucro.

Es una Universidad referente en el ámbito de las Comunicaciones y Artes en Latinoamérica. Promueve programas de movilidad al extranjero para sus estudiantes. Durante 2016 ha acreditado dos carreras: Artes Visuales y Traducción e Interpretariado Bilingüe (Inglés-Español).

Actualmente se encuentra acreditada por 3 años por la Comisión Nacional de Acreditación (CNA-Chile).5 Figura en la posición 48 dentro de las universidades chilenas según la clasificación webométrica del CSIC (octubre de 2020).6

Carreras

Fue la primera universidad en implementar la carrera de Comunicación Audiovisual en Chile en el año 1981. También fue una de las primeras universidades chilenas en dictar un programa de educación a distancia, eLearning, existente desde el año 1996. Hoy, ofrece diversos programas académicos en esta modalidad a través de eCampus, la Universidad a Distancia de Uniacc. Las carreras de Ingeniería Comercial, Psicología, Comunicación Social, Sociología e Ingeniería Informática y Multimedia, el programa de Bachiller en Formación General, el Diplomado de Especificaciones y Estándares eLearning, el Preuniversitario En línea y diversos cursos de informática y formación personal completan su oferta educativa.

Posee un canal de televisión y una estación de radio en línea Uniacc TV y Radio Uniacc respectivamente. Uniacc TV posee una cobertura en la comuna de Providencia a través de la frecuencia 34 UHF y a todo el mundo a través de su señal en línea, mientras que la señal de Radio Uniacc se puede escuchar en todo el mundo a través de su señal en línea. La división televisiva de esta universidad también se encargó de producir los programas Sábado por la Noche (1997 - 2011), Humanamente Hablando (1994 - 2005) y Cada día mejor (2005 - 2011).

Rectores
Los rectores que ha tenido UNIACC son los siguientes:

 Andrés Guiloff (1981-2008)
 Hermann Schwarz (2009)
 Andrés Lastra (2010)
 Daniel Farcas (2010-2011)
 Juan Enrique Froemel (2011-2012)
 Pedro Labbé (2012-2015)
 Bernardo Errázuriz (2015-2020)
 Fernando de la Jara (2020-presente)

Controversias

Denuncia de las becas Valech

Durante abril de 2010, la Uniacc, se vio envuelta en una acusación de estafa según una investigación hecha por el programa de televisión "Esto no tiene nombre", de TVN. La estafa denunciada era que la casa de estudios impartía programas de estudios que no eran conducentes a título a personas que estaban incluidas en el informe Valech, quienes poseían un beneficio estatal para seguir una carrera universitaria sin cancelar el valor de la misma. El fraude alcanzó cerca de 5 mil millones de pesos y afectó a varios beneficiados, que según el reportaje, no tenían los requisitos mínimos para optar a una carrera universitaria y en algunos casos eran analfabetos.

Semanas más tarde de la emisión del programa, el rector de la UNIACC hasta ese momento, Daniel Farcas, fue destituido de su cargo.

Administración
En junio de 2012, la Comisión Investigadora sobre el Funcionamiento de la Educación Superior de la Cámara de Diputados de Chile anunció que Uniacc, junto con otras seis instituciones de educación superior, presentaban irregularidades en su administración, tales como el incumplimiento del requisito de corporación educacional sin fines de lucro, el pago de sueldos elevados a los miembros del directorio o ejecutivos, la externalización de servicios relevantes, el uso de «sociedades espejo» y la incorporación de familiares dentro del directorio. La institución además cae en el marco de «compra y venta de universidades bajo el control de grupos económicos y extranjeros».

 En noviembre de 2013, el Ministerio de Educación sobreseyó la investigación, absolviéndose a la institución de todos los cargos que se le acusaban.

Egresados destacados

Véase también
 Anexo:Universidades de Chile

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Sitio web oficial

Universidades privadas de Chile
Instituciones educativas establecidas en 1981
Universidades de Santiago de Chile
Universidades de Chile no acreditadas
Barrio Italia

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The Rupert, Moolman, Stofberg, Bekker Media Cartel
THE IMPACT of a media cartel on a case adjudicated in the Labour Court of South Africa in 2010, by a director of the Resolve Group, partly owned by Remgro subsidiary Kagiso in a dispute in which Naspers subsidiary, Media24 were the respondents, was bound to present challenges. The least of which is the many deals which were being brokered between these entities during the course of proceedings.
The cartel includes Kagiso, Caxton, Remgro, Perskor and Naspers.
In order to appreciate how this was possible, one must first relate a bit of apartheid history.
In 1970 two pro-apartheid competitive Sunday newspapers, The Image (in Naspers 's possession) and Dawn (in Perskor's possession), merged as Report to end the bitter struggle between the newspapers.
The combined paper's first issue on 29 November 1970 appeared.
Thus Perskor, a media company started by HF Verwoerd, was gradually absorbed by Naspers.
The constant merging and spinoff of new entities, whilst maintaining shareholder control over the units, was to become a dominant theme of Naspers and its media cartel partners, who in turn sort to maintain Afrikaner privilege, in particular the theological basis for race classification and separate development.
Caxton, a major newsprint distributor and printer was no different. Its merger with Perskor, during July 1998, occurred shortly after acquiring CTP (Cape and Transvaal Printers) in 1995. This did not stop units and subsidiaries of these holding companies, from suing each other.
The competition commission recently heard evidence regarding issues to do with the collapse of Gold-Net News aka Gold Fields Reporter, a community newspaper in competition with Media24 "fighting brands", in a case involving abuse of a dominant position in the industry.
The Competition Tribunal also granted Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers Limited permission to participate in the hearing of a merger between Media 24 (Pty) Ltd, Paarl Media Holdings (Pty) Ltd and Paarl Coldset (Pty) Ltd. In the merger Media 24 intended to "purchase a 5% share in Paarl Media Holdings as well as a 12,63% share in Paarl Coldset." The resulting entity has now been listed on the JSE as Novus.
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Rupert's "Bidco" stake
The sanctions-busting Rembrandt Group comprises Remgro, Richemont and Venfin, and includes a variety of equity investment vehicles such as Reinet Investments.
"Bidco" in turn, comprises RMB Investments, Remgro and Caxton directors Terry Moolman and Noel Coburn. It was involved in the recent buyout of ElementONE, a major Caxton shareholder.
Johann Rupert via Independent Online, said Remgro had an effective shareholding of less than 7 percent in Caxton. "These are shares that we acquired about 20 years ago when there was a huge fight between Naspers and Perskor."1
Remgro has long held a 1,7% stake in Caxton, a legacy of the old Perskor Group.2
Caxton subsequently acquired Perskor and vice versa.
The resulting Remgro stake in the cartel which includes Kagiso, Caxton, Perskor, and Naspers, represents a serious concentration of media assets amongst a few Afrikaner businessmen.
The impact of the cartel on proceedings before the Labour Court of South Africa would result in calls for the removal of the labour broker and legal professional responsible for drafting a decision memorialising and reiterating the 'apartheid heresy' from a top post at the ivy league University of Cape Town, in impeachment and disbarring proceedings that include removal of M H Cheadle from the institution's Senate.
Deals made during court proceedings, included the merger of financial units associated with Kagiso and Sanlam, a major shareholder in Naspers.
A long association
The late Anton Rupert's association with Naspers began in the 1940s with the establishment of Tegniek (Technology), the Afrikaans business magazine started by the Rembrandt Group which would later become Finansies & Tegniek (with an English counterpart Finance Week) in the Naspers stable. Mutual projects at the behest of the apartheid regime, orchestrated by Anton Rupert, included the Urban Foundation, set up to exploit the black townships and bantustans, and involving "prominent Afrikaners" Andreas Wassenaar (Sanlam), Wim de Villiers (Gencor), David de Villiers (Nationale Pers), and Jan van der Horst (Old Mutual) as well as Rupert's own Rembrandt Group.
Today, the Rupert dynasty has an effective interest in Naspers via Momentum and Sanlam, including a variety of connection companies.
The Rupert-Sanlam connection began with the white supremacist Afrikanerbond and its "volkscapitalisme" emerging with the pivotal 1953 deal which saw Rembrandt's acquisition of tobacco company Rothmans International, followed by successive deals (South African Breweries, Distell and Gencor), in which white Afrikaner economic interests were shared out amongst a select few. A bailout of Volkskas and Sanlam by Rothmans in the 1980s would put the Ruperts in the proverbial pound seat.
Sanlam-Rembrandt partnerships in mining giant Federale Mynbow would follow with Sanlam retaining shares in Rembrandt and vice versa, the "mutual cooperation that will be created by this new and powerful partnership".
"The controlling interest in Gencor was held by Federale Mynbou, in which Sanlam and Rembrandt between them held a 72% stake. As a result, Sanlam became one of the largest conglomerates in the country after Anglo American and Old Mutual." 3 The often tempestuous relationship between Rembrandt and Sanlam is illustrated in several chapters of Anton Rupert's biography, written by Naspers editor Ebbe Dommisse and published by Naspers imprint, Tafelberg.
Rembrandt would go on to buy out Sanlam's stake in Volkskas, in the process orchestrating a variety of mergers and spin-off companies.
The Rupert, Bekker, Stofberg relationship
The Rupert, Bekker, Stofberg relationship began in the early 1990s when Johann Rupert selected pay-TV as the third leg for the family's growing offshore business, Richemont. 4
Cobus Stofberg is a major Naspers shareholder, a non-executive Naspers director, and a senior executive at MIH Holdings Limited, a Naspers subsidiary.
The pivotal 1994 election year would see the creation of a 50-50 Rupert-Bekker holding company, NetHold, which held the multichoice assets which would later become MIH. Rupert's Remgro stake however was subsequently spun-off into Canal+ in a complex equity deal which effectively removed Remgro control over the entity. Remgro, currently holds 31.2% of Sabido, the media division of black-owned conglomerate HCI, (eTV) amongst other media assets which include radio stations such as Heart 104.9 FM.
Another current Remgro-Naspers connecting company is Dark Fibre Africa. A Bloomberg search reveals that Rudi Jansen of Naspers Limited has "Board Affiliations on Dark Fibre Africa (RF) (Pty) Ltd". Dark Fibre Africa is held via a complex series of nested companies, and ultimately owned by Venfin, a Remgro subsidiary.
Anton Rupert's 2005 biography contains a diagram of the share structure of Rembrandt, showing SAIL as a Venfin subsidiary. The SAIL website claims the group is "privately-owned" but is involved in DSTV sportscasting, including Vodacom SuperRugby and DSTV delicious. Rupert's Venfin at the time had a 15% stake in Vodacom.
Not only is Remgro invested in SABIDO which owns eTV, it is a crucial part of the MIH Multichoice bouquet and resulting Media Cartel. The latest scandal involving Multichoice's dominance in this sector is bound to ring alarm bells.
The Sanlam Connection
The Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Lewens Assuransie Maatskappij Beperk (South African National Life Assurance Company Limited) otherwise known as Sanlam, is perhaps the most difficult entity to deal with. As an insurance giant, it is anything but transparent. It is only in recent years that the Naspers-Sanlam connection has come under scrutiny.
A history of the company here and here shows that In December 1917 a small group of Afrikaners including Willie Hofmeyr (a prominent Afrikaner leader and first chairman of the Board of Directors of the then newly established Afrikaans newspaper De Burger owned by Nasionale Pers, and since 1918, Managing Director of Nasionale Pers), started the enterprise.
In reality two separate entities emerged from the one holding company, Sanlam and Santam. The one focusing on short term insurance, the other on long term insurance.
In 1935 Sanlam bought the shares of the life assurance company African Homes Trust, which would later become Metropolitan Life, from Santam. In effect two companies owned by the single holding company would begin selling units back and forth in a familiar pattern which would repeat itself many times. The Metropolitan deal would later play itself out during proceedings in 2010, as the cartel cemented its control over units that had been opened up to limited black economic empowerment, and giving a semblance of transformation, and yet Naspers itself, opposed the outcome of the Truth Commission and thus resisted the negotiated settlement and transitional justice framework.
Afrikaner business intrigue thus really beings in 1940, when Federale Volksbeleggings (FVB) was registered by Sanlam, "giving policy owners a stake in a large number of commercial and industrial companies and providing them with the opportunity to contribute" towards white broad-based development, to their mutual benefit. The foundation of FVB would eventually lead to the foundation of Afrikaner industrial and mining giant Gencor in the 1950s and the ensuing competition for control of South Africa's industrial sector by the Rupert dynasty, and its takeover of Volkskas which in turn created Amalgamated Banks of South Africa (ABSA) and lead to the creation of Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), owned by Remgro.
A variety of co-option schemes and plans to include key black industrialists have further implicated the cartel in a ruse to simply whitewash past associations with the apartheid regime. Patrice Motsepe for instance, owns a substantial stake in Sanlam's Ubuntu-Botha BEE Scheme. One can't help but thinking the result is a black PW Botha of BEE.
RMB own 100% of Momentum, which in turn is part of a new entity called Momentum Metropolitan Investments (MMI), the result joins both sides of the cartel in an interesting financial merger.
The Resolve' Group's "total workforce solution" and corrupt relationship at the time, to the above entities is covered here and here.
SEE: Apartheid Inc. The Story of Naspers, Media24, and Channel Life.
1Retrieved 11 April 2015 http://www.iol.co.za/business/companies/rupert-hits-out-at-the-anc-1.1616316#.VSjnM-HvakA
2Retrieved 11 April 2015 http://www.financialmail.co.za/fmfox/2013/12/05/rupert-denies-grand-media-scheme-at-remgro
3 Page 261, Anton Rupert, A biography, Ebbe Dommisse, Willie Esterhuyse, Tafelberg, 2005
4 Retrieved: 9 April 2015 http://www.bdlive.co.za/businesstimes/2015/03/15/stock-talk-caxton-takes-another-shot-at-naspers
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School of Biomedical Sciences principal research fellow Dr Jennifer Ovenden is an expert in the role of population, evolutionary and molecular genetics in the management of wild fisheries.
"Managing shark populations is very challenging," she said.
"Like humans, sharks can live for a very long time and their rate of reproduction is comparatively low.
"We need to be particularly careful about the numbers of sharks harvested, either commercially or by culling, from wild populations.
"While fin fish produce millions of eggs and have the potential to rebuild their populations very quickly following harvesting, sharks are very different.
Dr Ovenden said UQ strengths in shark genomics and digital systems had enabled her research team to determine the abundance of shark species.
"What we can do right now is estimate the number of sharks in Australian waters, but it will be a number of years before we know if the populations are increasing or decreasing," she said.
"Ultimately our research will help determine if the recent increase in shark attacks in Australia is due to an increase in shark numbers or to an increase in human interaction.
"We use DNA analysis from individual sharks to give estimates of the number of breeding adults. The digital model confirms this, then predicts the number of juveniles and sub-adults.
Dr Ovenden and PhD student Mr Dean Blower have extended the research to monitor the number of sharks caught commercially for the Australian market.
"We know that sharks are heavily impacted by commercial and recreational fishing and we're working in close cooperation with New South Wales Fisheries on this project," Dr Ovenden said.
"Over the coming years, our new technology will allow us to accurately monitor any increases or decreases in shark populations.
Media: Dr Jennifer Ovenden, zljovend@uq.edu.au, + 61 7 3346 0806; or Lynda Flower, School of Biomedical Sciences l.flower@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 1536.


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How Bengaluru-Based, Bootstrapped SignEasy Got Over 100k Paying Customers – All By Digitizing Signatures
Posted on January 9, 2017 January 10, 2017 by OfficeChai Partner
Startup offices aren't usually hard to find in Koramangla, Bangalore's bustling startup hub. Funded startups like to announce their arrivals with parties, get-togethers, and large, prominent signs outside their offices. But from the road outside, there's no indication that behind the glass windows on the first floor of an unobtrusive building, SignEasy has been quietly making a name for itself across the world.
The lack of the sign outside its office is very symbolic of how Sunil Patro, SignEasy's 38 year old founder and CEO, runs his startup. He's a soft-spoken man who at first glance doesn't seem to exude the brash bravado that's so common among founders these days. He's never raised venture capital, and is more focussed on customer delight than crushing the competition. He hired his first marketer 5 years after he'd founded his company.
But a marketing team isn't a priority when your product is profitable from the get go.
Sunil Patro, founder and CEO, SignEasy
SignEasy was founded in 2009, and its premise is deceptively simple – it lets you sign documents or send them for signature to others, straight from your smartphone, tablet or desktop. This eliminates the trouble of printing, signing and scanning, thereby creating a paperless office and helping in deals getting closed faster, better customer experience and reduced costs. The idea was born when Patro was backpacking in Mexico, and received a job offer which required him to send back a signed copy of the employment contract to his future employer. Printing machines and scanners being in short supply on sun-kissed beaches, he wondered why he couldn't come up with an app to do the job for him.
The timing was right – electronic signatures were increasingly being accepted in the US where he was based, and firms like DocuSign had enterprise solutions that let users sign documents on the web. "But there were no mobile apps for electronic signatures," he says. "And there were no viable solutions for the one-time user or the small and medium business owners." He sensed an opportunity. He was still backpacking across South America, so he remotely hired a developer in India to start developing the product. Soon, SignEasy had become a prototype.
This is when Patro's knowledge of the American market came in handy. He'd left for the US immediately after his graduation from IIT Kharagpur, and had over the next 10 years, had finished an MS degree and had stints at several large corporations and startups in the Bay Area. He began attending meetups and talked up SignEasy. The product was unique, viable and Patro knew how to market it. "The US market responds to certain packaging, and a certain style," he says. "I was fortunate to know what would work there."
And soon, SignEasy took off, without large marketing budgets or expensive ad campaigns. "The growth has been pretty much organic and product-driven," says Bhupinder Singh, Marketer at SignEasy. It also helped that SignEasy started at the right time – in 2009, the app store wasn't overflowing with apps as it is now, and SignEasy was soon getting loads of organic downloads. Then it received its first big break – it was featured by Apple in its list of Best Business Apps for 3 consecutive years. Instant international recognition followed, along with a couple of appearances in Apple TV commercials and Apple retail store demos worldwide, the holy grail for iOS developers around the world. You may have also recently spotted SignEasy featured on Google Play among the Best of 2016 apps.
SignEasy's success could be attributed to its product. Patro's eyes gleam with intensity when he talks about SignEasy and its features. Adding a signature to a document might seem trivial, but a lot of thought has gone into the user flows. There are inbuilt security features like the 'document edit notification' to prevent any unauthorised use. Though in SignEasy's 6 year run time, the company has never faced an issue of product abuse.
Apart from simple signatures, the company is looking at covering all use cases, such as signatures required on a set of documents, like in a real world envelope. SignEasy was initially developed for mobile, but now has a web version, and a host of partnerships, including integrations with Outlook, GSuite, and Zoho. Patro is a Cleartrip alumnus, so a certain design aesthetic shines through in the product.
And while it might not be a household name in India yet, SignEasy is big.
The app has been downloaded over 4 million times and nearly 5% of downloads become paid customers – that translates into 1,30,000 paid customers.
Most of these customers are from the US and Canada, starting from freelancers, solopreneurs, small business owners to departments such as HR, sales, legal, accounting in larger organizations. Over 40% of the customers have annual subscriptions with a high affinity for the product. SignEasy boasts of big-name customers such as Xerox, Cintas, Avis Budget, Equinix, Intertrust, Axa Insurance, United Nations and US Data Corporation. Patro is coy about revenue numbers, but says the company is profitable.
The company is pumping its profits into developing its product and has now started to strengthen key functions such as sales and marketing in both US and India. Its Koramangala office is now 20 employees strong, and serves customers from 150 countries. It's cosy and tastefully done up, with a pantry, a TT table, and wall art that shows off the company's global reach.
Customer testimonials from across the world grace this wall.
SignEasy might be small, but it's particular about its work culture. Employees get Macbooks, days off on their birthdays, free meditation and Zumba classes in the office and a monthly personal development allowance to pursue their hobbies or learn new skills outside of their work.
These are usually trappings of funded startups, but SignEasy has never needed to raise external funding. "We're completely bootstrapped, but we're open to strategic partnerships," says Patro. SignEasy seems to be playing its cards well. Its competitors, such as Adobe and DocuSign, are huge companies, but SignEasy seems reassured in its steady, customer focused approach.
And steady does seem to be a good way to describe SignEasy – it's profitable, but not glitzy; ambitious, but not reckless. And it's done what only few Indians companies have done before it – built a successful global SaaS business out of India.
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ACS President Caroline Fredrickson wrote an op-ed for The New York Times on the redacted Mueller report. She also wrote a piece for The American Prospect asking whether we can learn from the right's strategic coherence without emulating their ideas or their contempt for democracy.
ACS Board Chair Pamela Karlan is quoted in CNN regarding Judge Carlton Reeves' view of an independent judiciary.
ACS Board member Dawn Smalls is quoted in the Gotham Gazette regarding a bill to expand the public matching funds available to candidates under New York's campaign finance program.
ACS Board of Advisors member Linda Greenhouse wrote an op-ed for The New York Times about the corrosion of the Supreme Court justices' ability to work together.
ACS Board of Advisors member Dawn Johnsen joined with other law school faculty members to establish an endowed professorship honoring Juanita Kidd Stout, the first black woman to serve on a state supreme court.
ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Leah Litman received a Professor of the Year Award from students at UC Irvine School of Law.
ACS Faculty Advisor at University of Kentucky College of Law Josh Douglas' new book, "Vote For Us," is quoted in The New York Times.
ACS Bay Area Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors member Jessica Jackson spoke on ABC7 about her work with Kim Kardashian on criminal justice reform issues.
ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors member Steven Levin wrote a piece for Herald & Review on the need to adequately staff nursing homes.
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Q&A with Odenildo Sena on science in Amazonas
Publicado em 24 julho 2012
Por Luisa Massarani
Amazonas, where 98 per cent of forests are preserved, is the biggest state in Brazil — with a territory equivalent to France, Spain, Sweden and Greece combined — and one of nine states in the Brazilian Amazon region. Yet until ten years ago, it had no state funds for science and technology (S&T) and only 433 doctoral (PhD) students were working there.
To improve this, over the past decade Amazonas has taken several steps to triple PhD numbers.
In 2002, the state's constitution mandated that at least one per cent of the state's total taxes should be dedicated to science and technology (S&T) — a model which was led by São Paulo, with its establishment of an S&T agency in 1962, and was followed by other Brazilian states.
Amazonas created a state university in 2001, a state secretary for S&T, and the Amazonas Research Foundation (FAPEAM) in 2003.
Odenildo Sena, president of the National Council of State Secretaries for Science, Technology and Innovation, and former FAPEAM president (2005-2010), tells SciDev.Net where science in Amazonas now stands.
The state research foundation, FAPEAM, was created in 2003 as the first research foundation in the Brazilian Amazon. How did this happen?
Before 2003, there were no state investments explicitly dedicated to S&T. Our researchers had to apply for national resources through agencies such as the National Council for Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq).
In December 2002, we succeeded in inserting into the state constitution the policy that one per cent of ordinary receipts should be dedicated to S&T, and, as a result, FAPEAM opened its doors.
At that time, FAPEAM was the only state research foundation in northern Brazil. I was therefore invited to go to almost every state in Brazil to talk about our initiative.
In 2007, the state of Pará opened a research foundation and, across the region, there was then a domino effect. There is now only one state in the region, Roraima, which does not have its own research foundation.
At the time of its creation in 2003, FAPEAM had a budget of about US$2.5 million. In 2011, the budget was about US$23 million. In total, about US$141.5 million have been invested by FAPEAM since 2003. The budget for 2012 is about US$80 million.
Since 2003, 208 scientists have been awarded PhDs, through fellowships provided by FAPEAM. Currently, the state has triple the number of PhDs compared to a decade ago. But the gaps in training are still very significant in all areas. New PhDs are scattered across several knowledge areas. We need a bigger revolution.
If you had the power to make such a revolution happen, how would you do it?
I would not reinvent the wheel. I always remember the history of the creation of the University of São Paulo [a state university in São Paulo, created in the 1930s, and now the major Brazilian institution of higher learning and research, accounting for 30 per cent of national scientific production].
As there weren't many human resources, they brought people from abroad, mainly from Europe. If the Amazon is strategic for the country, let us transform Amazonas into the biggest reference platform for biodiversity and biotechnology research.
In summary, to push science in the Amazon, I would choose some strategic areas, put significantly more money in, and bring in more people.
On a national level, there is growing interest in linking research with Brazilian industry, particularly after the innovation law of 2004. How is this progressing in Amazonas?
In Amazonas, FAPEAM issued a call for project that would inject funds — as economic subsidies — into companies to promote innovation through a partnership with Brazil's Financier of Studies and Projects (FINEP). FINEP is linked to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and has a mission to promote economic and social development through science, technology and innovation in private companies, universities and technological institutes.
One of the conditions of FAPEAM's call was that private companies develop research for generating innovative processes from biodiversity resources. Several companies are doing very well now!
But when we launched the first call in 2004, there was little interest from the companies. We actually had to motivate them, showing how important it was to have research into industry.
At the last call, in 2011, a fund of around US$3 million was available, and companies applied for around US$5 million. This programme has been a big success, and it is a pity that FINEP has been undergoing structural change: currently, there is a tendency for it to act simply as a bank [instead of as a lending organization with very low interest rates]. As far as we know, there are no longer any allocations for economic subsidies.
If they persist in this idea, I am afraid that several public universities will be made bankrupt, as they have been using FINEP subsidies to fund their research infrastructures.
FAPEAM was one of the first research foundations in Brazil to create a science communication programme. Why invest in science communication?
FAPEAM's science communication programme was created in 2006. I did not originate this idea myself. I discovered that the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) had a science communication programme, so we adapted it for the situation at FAPEAM.
In a short period we created a state university, a state secretary for science and technology and a research foundation. We said: "we need to engage society in our initiatives", to ensure the public were involved.
For that reason, we created a news agency, an online gateway and a magazine, Amazonas Faz Ciência (Amazonas Makes Science), now in its 24th issue.
We also launched a diploma course and an award in science journalism, the third edition of which has received 100 applicants.
The impact of these activities is interesting. Years ago, nobody knew what science journalism was; now, we have succeeded in creating a mood conducive to science journalism, with several students excited about covering science.
What do you think about Science without Borders (a US$2 billion programme, which aims to send 75,000 students and researchers abroad, as well as receiving foreign scientists)?
It is a very ambitious programme.
We have just received the first list of foreign scientists who want to come to the Amazon. I think Brazil is now very competitive and able to attract foreign talent, because of what we have achieved in science over the past decade, and the economic crisis [which did not affect Brazil as much as other parts of the world].
In my view, we should allow universities to hire foreign scientists, and we should start a wider movement to attract high quality researchers.
However, we also need to plan for the future. Brazilians who go abroad will come back, and we need to ensure that, when they return, they will find the infrastructure to enable them to work here. If not, it will be a disaster.
I do not understand what is now happening — with President Lula, the science budget was continuously increasing. It is of great concern that during the past two years [under President Dilma],the government has been significantly reducing the budget for science.
And then President Dilma launched Science Without Borders: she has been spreading the word on the importance of scientific knowledge as the consolidation of intellectual capital, but then cutting science funding. It seems a schizophrenic pattern.
Fonte: http://www.scidev.net/en/latin-america-and-caribbean/features/q-a-with-odenildo-sena-on-science-in-amazonas.html


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This course examines the period we glibly associate with the birth of modern science, that period sometime between the publication of Copernicus's De revolutionibus (1543) and the publication of Newton's Principia mathematica (1687). We even call it the "Scientific Revolution." But rather than see this period as the unproblematic development of modern scientific practice, we seek to understand how and why certain people began to investigate the natural world in new ways, and how they convinced other people that their new ways were better. We also spend considerable time looking at how and why modern scholars, both historians and scientists, have identified this period as special.
I hope students will come to see the period as one of incredible change in how Western Europeans looked at the world, and why. But I also want them to see that such change was neither inevitable nor universal. And it wasn't as clean and progressive as we often think. I want them to be able to see how we, modern scholars, have elevated the period to one of specialness because doing so serves our goals and ideals.
Because we tend to enlist the period uncritically, without knowing either what happened during the time or how the simplified version of it reinforces our assumptions about our exceptionalism, I, instead, wanted students to have a chance to see what the historical actors were trying to do, what intellectual and rhetorical tools they deployed, and the political, religious, and social commitments undergirded their efforts.
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We exclusively interviewed Lea Davison, a two-time Olympian in mountain biking. Nine years ago she co-founded Little Bellas, a non-profit, all-girls mentoring mountain bike programme with her sister, Sabra.
Just start somewhere. If you're an Olympian or an elite-level athlete who is transferring out of sport, you have a lot of power and you can make a lot of impact. So you just have to start somewhere, put your head down and do the work and it will work out.
Be determined. If you have a goal and you put your mind to it, just like in sport, you can really make big things happen, we started with virtually nothing and now we're a national non-profit.
Have a great team behind the operation. When you're an elite-level athlete, it truly takes a whole group of people to get great results. That's proving handy for Little Bellas as well – we've assembled a great team.
Use your network. My position as a professional mountain biker has really helped grow our non-profit, Little Bellas. I really used a lot of my contacts within the sport, whether it be media or sponsor contacts; just being well networked within the mountain bike world has really helped us.
Be willing to listen. Go into it without an ego – be willing to improve and always willing to listen, because there's a lot to learn and absorb.
You can watch Lea's full interview, which is part of the Business Start-Up: From Idea to Launch course.


Sautee' onions and garlic, add milk and celery. Cook on medium heat until celery is soft. Add Oysters and herbsaint, let cook for 5 minutes then add heavy cream. Reduce heat, let cook for 10 minutes, add spinach, parsley, salt & pepper. Reduce.
To thicken mix: Combine oil & flour together and slowly stir in as much as needed.
Best served with fried oysters and hot bread.


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Q: Python ImportError using F2py I have two F90 files that I want to use with python, so I'm using f2py to compile them (together) and result a python module, I'm doing it like this:
f2py -c ControlParameters.F90 vector.F90 -m test

When I do this, everything is fine, and I can use functions and subroutines from those files with python.
But now, I need to use f2py with those two files, adding a couple of libraries, like -liomp5 or -lzmumps, I get the python module like in the upper case, but when I try to import it from python I have the following error:
ImportError: /opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.1.117/mkl/lib/intel64/libmkl_blacs_intelmpi_lp64.so: undefined symbol: MPI_Finalize

There are some libraries that cannot be used with f2py?

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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The Online Application for the position has been posted and must be received by Louisiana REALTORS by midnight on April 9th.
Running for or being elected to fulfill the 2019 unexpired term does not preclude an applicant from running for or being elected to the 2020 position. Please contact Kim Callaway should you have any questions.


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Tom Gervasi drank, cooked with and cleaned with the water at Camp LeJeune, and now he believes it is killing him
By DONNA KOEHN,
SARASOTA � If a 17-year-old Tom Gervasi's whims had led him to a soda-jerk job, or a college class, or even a summer frolicking in the surf, the 76-year-old version of himself likely would be enjoying his retirement now after an honest life well lived.
But two days after graduation from Ben Franklin High School in Rochester, N.Y., a teenage Tom kissed his girlfriend goodbye and hopped a train to join the Marines.
A dependable boy, he had worked hard from the age of 12 or 13 to help support his mother and grandmother. Being a Marine would give him the chance to send even more money home, so Tom dutifully mailed $35 per month -- half his paycheck -- and was glad to do it.
By then, the Korean War was over, so he was safe, he promised his grandma and his girlfriend, Elaine.
Like thousands of Marines before and after him, he
served a stint at Camp LeJeune, the sprawling military base in North Carolina built in 1941.
Pfc. Gervasi was not old enough to drink a beer, and so guzzled water as he sweated through drills and exercise. His food was cooked with it; his clothes washed in it; his body cleansed by it.
Now, decades later, the Sarasota resident believes that water has slowly been killing him.
Startling discovery
Elaine Gervasi, who at 16 wore white pearls and gloves on her wedding day to Tom in the chapel at Camp Lejeune, had just returned from baby-sitting their grandchildren on that frightening day in 2003.
The love of her life was standing bare-chested in their Sarasota home, and something was wrong, even if he was blind to it, standing there with a grin.
His left nipple was inverted, the skin beside it dimpled. As would any woman with decades of mammograms behind her, she sounded the alarm.
So what? Tom told her. Big damn deal.
Elaine started to fuss at him to go to the doctor, for goodness' sake. But Tom was a tough guy, always had been.
After leaving the Marines, he installed aluminum siding to support his young family, and later switched to police work in Irodequoit, a suburb of Rochester. He finished off his career as a senior investigator of homicides and violent crimes for the local district attorney's office.
There was not much that could ruffle the fit retiree, who kept in shape with construction and landscaping work at rental condos in the Florida sun.
Elaine's fussing wore him down, and in March of that year, he learned he needed surgery ASAP.
He had breast cancer -- so rare in men that only one in 1,000 will develop it in his lifetime, compared with a one-in-eight chance for women. In a given year, almost 40,000 women will die from the disease, but just 390 men.
Tom's left breast was removed, along with 31 lymph nodes. The margins were clear, meaning it appeared the docs got it all.
He endured chemotherapy and radiation, watched the hair on his head blow down the street. But he was alive.
He thought it was over.
Surprising source
Tom didn't know that other men who had lived even a short time at Camp Lejeune were beginning to compare notes.
More cases of male breast cancer had turned up, and the only common denominator was the camp's goundwater.
Other types of cancer cropped up as well -- in brains, lungs, livers and bladders -- all in families from Camp Lejeune.
Its children had developed cancers, too, most often leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Many had died as children, buried near the camp in a haunting cemetery of small tombstones.
Jim Partain of Tallahassee was born at the camp in 1968, and lived there for the first 13 months of his life. In 2007, he learned that he, too, had breast cancer.
His research and outreach found Tom and 79 other men with the same disease who at some point had lived on the base. Experts and common sense say the odds are slim that so many rare cases would have emerged by coincidence.
No one knows for sure how many people developed breast cancer, and tracking them is difficult because they are scattered across the country. Many also might have died of cancer without knowing about the connection to Camp Lejeune.
Almost 185,000 people have signed up on a Marine Corps registry of those who once lived on base, including more than 5,000 in Florida.
Tests conducted by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, a federal public agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed the health risks of living there.
It determined that the camp's groundwater had been contaminated by dozens of toxic chemicals from the 1950s into the 1980s. Among theses chemicals were perchloroethylene -- thought to be from waste disposal at a nearby dry cleaners -- and benzene from leaking fuel storage tanks. Both chemicals are known human carcinogens.
The wells were closed in 1985.
More than a million men, women and children drank the water through the years.
Partain and others who had lost family members to cancer pushed the Marine Corps to provide compensation. They say the Corps dragged its feet and denied knowing the extent of the contamination even after it had been repeatedly reported by chemists.
In 2010, the director of the ATSDR wrote to the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy and the deputy commandant of the Marines, stating unequivocally that the water at Camp Lejuene was contaminated.
The agency also critized the Corps for withholding documents it needed to complete its studies.
"The Few, The Proud, The Forgotten," as the Camp Lejeune men called themselves, would not give up.
They appeared in a 2011 documentary, went on talk shows, created a website with information. Over time, their efforts made national news and persuaded members of Congress.
In August, with Partain watching, President Barack Obama signed the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act. It provides medical care for Marines and their families, and for that, ex-Marines say "thanks."
But they believe additional compensation and life insurance to support their families is warranted, as well.
Maj. Gen. James Kessler said in a prepared statement that the Corps supported the act, but did not address if additional help would be forthcoming.
No help
News of the act's signing brought a smile to Tom's face, but one filled with grim irony, not mirth.
It won't help him.
He left Camp Lejeune in 1956. The act covers those stationed there from 1957 to 1987.
Partain says the only reason 1957 is the cutoff is that studies are ongoing in the area of the camp where Tom and other single men lived in the years prior. Studies of that section, thought to be the most contaminated of all, were supposed to be ready four years ago, Partain says, and are due to be released this month.
Cynical now, Partain does not think that will happen.
Even if it does, time is running out for Tom.
In 2009, those murderous breast cancer cells invaded his bones and his lungs. He found out when his fever spiked and Elaine took him to the emergency room. A doctor brusquely told him he had terminal bone cancer, then left the room.
Tom was sure it was a mistake. He believed he'd been cured.
These days, his world is doctors' appointments, his television and his anger, which he tries to hide from Elaine by venting it at liberals and other targets on TV. He gave away his power tools, which broke his wife's heart. He labors to breathe, describing his lungs as crawling with cancer cells.
He and Elaine told the oncologist not to tell them how far his cancer has progressed or how long he might have. They want to try to enjoy their time together, to tackle each day anew.
Tom is tough, but tired of feeling sick. He keeps up a brave and steady front, but no matter how hard he tries, his voice cracks when he says he wants Elaine to be taken care of. His suffering will end, but hers will go on. That pretty little girl who put her faith in a handsome soldier deserves better.
He worked hard all his life, an honest provider for his family of six. Now he says he feels abandoned at the end of it by the government he served.
He has documents from physicians verifying his illness and stating they believe it was caused by contaminated water at Camp Lejeune from all those years ago. Elaine has written letters to politicians and even the president, asking for help while there's time.
So far, only a handful of those who have applied for 100 percent disability benefits from exposure at Camp Lejeune have received them. A few veterans or their families have filed suit against the government that are pending.
Tom never imagined his last days would be spent submitting paperwork and pleading for help with a disease for which he bears no responsibility. He was just a kid, drinking what he assumed was clean, pure, good-for-you water while serving his country.
He has excellent insurance, and thank God for that, but he wishes he could know that his responsibility to Elaine will be paid in full someday.
He wants that for her for the years ahead, when his TV is silent and the house is, too.


Below are the estate sales and auctions I know of for this weekend. I hope all of you fathers out there have a happy Father's Day!
Double-barrel side-by-side & Remington Model 11 16-gauge, 3-piece entertainment cabinet with glass uppers on the two side pieces, wall clock by Howard Miller, knee-hole desk, Elvis memorabilia, lots of kitchen – every day dishes, blue willow, pink transfer-ware, coffee makers, microwave, pots/pans; drop-leaf table, books & kids books, matching bedroom furniture, small flip-top vanity, bridal gown, men's & women's clothing, toiletries, office supplies, desk, desktop Dell, old AT&T Unix PC, filing cabinets, armchairs, recliner, sofa, rocking chair, end tables, stereo system, LPs & 45s, "Barbie's New Dream House," Mattel Strum-Fun Getar, linens, luggage, glass power pole insulators, yard tools, hand tools, tool cabinet, ice chests, beautiful wood draftsman's table, patio furn. and much more!!
Our showroom is packed with several quality estates including items from the Jonesboro estate of the late Betty Teeter Sloan. Mrs. Sloan was a leading citizen of Jonesboro, Arkansas. We are very honored to be liquidating her beautiful estate.
Huge lifetimes collection of Wicker Furniture, American and Continental Furniture, American Victorian, Traditional Furniture, Cut Glass, Waterford, Limoges, Havilland, Herend, Oriental Rugs, Original Art & Prints, Jewelry, Primitives, Sterling Flatware, Silver-plate Serving Pieces, Chinese Porcelain, Imai, Vintage Toys, Fine Ladies Clothing, Cowboy boots, Kitchen Appliances still in box, Cranberry Glass, Tea Caddies, Armories, Patio Items, Concrete, Huge volume of china including Noritake, Lenox, Castleton, Carroll Clear signed book, Pottery, Fine and Costume Jewelry, Books and much more!
French Provincial Sofa – Chairs – side tables, Bamboo loveseat. Early Am. dining table & chairs-china cabinet & buffet, Qn. size Bedroom set – mahogany chest & dresser & pr end tables, tea tables & console, upholstered side and arm chairs, Early Am. sofa & loveseat, twin bedroom set w/ mattresses – dreser w/ mirror and end table, assortment of lamps, artwork & mirrors, accent pieces, linens, full kitchenware, yard tools & patio furniture.
Estate sale by the neighbors. Mr. Beasley has moved into assisted living and asked his neighbors to sell the contents of his home. Contents include: washer and dryer, mini fridge, microwave, hot wheels collection, lamps, Lazy Boy Sofa, leather love seat, sectional w/hide-a-bed and recliner, wood TV trays, stereo w/speakers, VHS movies, CDs, Craft iron wood stove fireplace insert/blower, golf clubs & accessories, vintage fly rods, bookcases, lots of games, books, four person hot tub, large mirror, square coffee table, chest of drawers, bicycle, lawn mower, lots of tools, Christmas items, 7 1/2 ft Christmas tree and much more.
Huge estate sale this weekend (June 20 & 21) with three families' collections! Overflowing with amazing furniture (antique and contemporary), framed art (original and prints) and much, much more!!!
Including: furniture, glass, china, crystal, silver. Vintage toys, fine men and women's clothing, American and Continental Furniture, American Victorian, Traditional Furniture, Cut Glass, Waterford, Tons of Original Art & Prints, Jewelry, Sterling Flatware, Silver-plate Serving Pieces, Vintage Toys, Kitchen Appliances still in box, Patio Items, Pottery, Fine and Costume Jewelry, Books, tools and much more!
Many other items to be listed Later. This Estate will be a 2 day Auction. BID FREELY THIS IS A NO BUYERS PREMIUM AUCTION. TERMS OF AUCTION ARE GOOD CASH & GOOD CHECKS.
We will be selling this exceptionally clean Estate by authority of the executor.
CONSISTING OF;DINING ROOM TABLE WITH 4 CHAIRS AND BUFFET,ANTIQUE DINING TABLE WITH 6 CHAIRS AND CHINA HUTCH AND BUFET,NICE LOVE SEAT WITH 2 MATCHING ARM CHAIRS,2- METAL HALF BEDS,NIGHT STANDS, PATIO TABLE AND CHAIRS,NICE LIVING ROOM SOFA,SOFA TABLE,2-LAZY BOYS RECLINER,PICTURES,MIRROWS,15.5HP 42 IN CUT YARD MAN RIDING MOWER,ANTIQUE TOYS,HAND TOOLS,METAL CABINET,8ft step ladder,20ft extension ladder,vanity,concrete birdbath basketball goal,chester drawer,42″ craftsman mower deck.
Busters ~ (2) 5′ Cutters and more related items.
The Auction House will be packed with all kinds of merchandise – Lexington farm house table, 6 painted rush bottom chairs, Lexington pie safe, Lexington back porch bench, Rococco style marble top antique dresser, Victorian drop well marble top dresser w/ mirror, marble top coffee table, Eastlake 3/4 size antique Oak bed frame w/ original rails, walnut 3 drawer chest, Oak butcher block, Oak drop front desk, Mahogany drop front secretary, wicker rocker, antique Singer treadle sewing machine, Oak lighted curio cabinet w/ side entry, 1940's full size bed room set – bed frame, chest, dresser w/ mirror, Victorian bustle bench, Papasan chairs & matching small table, Avanti Platinum apartment size washer w/ stainless tub, several 1990's Longaberger baskets, 10 Paula Vaughn framable prints, several nice decorator items – monkey plant stand, lamps, animal figurines, porcelain & bisque "piano baby" type figurines, beautiful hand painted lamps,Depression era glassware, artificial banana tree, artificial ficus tree, 1940's chifferobe w/ mirrored doors, Pfaltzgraff "sunnydale" china – service for 12 plus lots of extras, glass & iron coffee table, 45 & 33 1/3lp records, concrete b4 pc. bird bath w/ raccoons theme, concrete rabbits, duck, hen & chicks, fawn, choice in jewelry cases, nice area rug, storage totes, linens & lace,cook books, 2 zebco rod & reels,choice on the rolling rack – Christmas angels, household items, etc.. and much more!


Another exceptional dolphin encounter today. I walked to the water planning on swimming along the cliffs with Jill and Kalin but got waylaid by at least 42 Spinner Dolphins. They would not leave us alone, so we stuck around until it was time for Kalin to catch his flight. Click HERE for lots more photos from this morning's swim.
Click HERE or below for today's video. Fun, fun, fun.


This recipe comes from the Weight Watchers Comfort Classics cookbook, just like those Ham & Cheese quiches. Can I say that this is my favorite Weight Watchers cookbook? Because it is. Normally, I'm not too impressed with Weight Watchers official recipes–they tend to be too bland for my tastes. But so far, we've tried the Pumpkin Pie Pancakes, the Mini-Quiches, the Macaroni & Cheese, the Oven-Fried Chicken with Sage Gravy, and the Tandoori Chicken, and all were very tasty.
But out of all of the ones we've tried these pancakes were my favorite so far.
These were good enough to order in a restaurant. In fact, there's a pumpkin pancake that Leah and I love at our local brunch spot, the Bongo Room, and these rivaled those tasty cakes–for what I'm certain is a fraction of the points. The only thing missing is the Bongo Room's amazing vanilla bean sauce. Next time I make these pancakes, I think I'd try to make something along those lines.
1. Whisk together the all-purpose and whole-wheat flours, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice, and salt in a medium bowl. Whisk the buttermilk, pumpkin, butter, and egg in another bowl until blended. Add the flour mixture to the buttermilk mixture, stirring just until blended.
2. Spray a large nonstick griddle with nonstick spray and set over medium heat. When a drop of water sizzles on it, pour the batter onto the skillet by scant 1/4 cupfuls. Cook just until bubbles begin to appear at the edges of the pancakes, 2-3 minutes. Flip and cook until golden, 2-3 minutes longer. Repeat with the remaining batter, making a total of 8 pancakes. Serve with the maple syrup.
1. Preheat your oven according to the package directions on your brownie mix. Lightly spray a mini-muffin pan with non-stick cooking spray, or line with mini-cupcake wrappers. Set aside.
2. Using a the paddle attachment on your stand mixer, beat together the pumpkin puree and egg whites until well combined. Add the brownie mix and continue to beat on medium until the dry mix is fully incorporated. Important: Do not add anything else to the mix, no matter what the back of the box says. No oil. No whole eggs. No water. The batter will be very thick, but that's okay.
3. Scoop into mini-muffin pans. I had enough batter to fill my 24-cup pan twice, and just baked two batches. If you have two mini-muffin tins, you could probably do both at the same time. If you plan to use any nuts or sprinkles, now is the time to add them. I used orange sprinkles on one pan, and I pressed a walnut half into the top of each mini brownie in the other pan.
4. Bake according to package directions, adjusting the cook time if your package doesn't call for mini-muffins. The mix I used wanted to be cooked for 40 minutes in a 9×13 pan, but the mini-muffins only took 20 minutes. Just keep a close eye on them. Allow to rest in the pan for 5 minutes or so, then remove to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
Note: The nutritional information based on the mix that I used and the directions above is 55 calories, 1 gram of fat, and .5 grams of fiber per brownie bite.


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Q: ¿Cómo puedo saber si un determinado paquete de npm está instalado? ¿Cómo puedo saber si está instalado un determinado paquete de npm? Por ejemplo, antes de ejecutar:
npm install -g typescript@2.0.0

¿Cómo puedo saber si ese paquete ya está instalado en la PC?

A: Lamentablemente no hay una instrucción como npm check para saber si está instalado actualmente. El comando que te puede servir es ls que te muestra una lista de los paquetes instalados. Este comando es pipable, es decir, que su salida puede integrarse en la entrada de otro comando.
Bash
npm ls | grep typescript

Powershell
npm ls | select-string typescript

Dos
npm ls | findstr "typescript"

Es cierto que lo anterior no es tan rápido; tomará más tiempo mientras más grande sea la lista de paquetes instalados. Sin embargo, puedes crear un script para que haga una búsqueda por nombre de paquete.
Ejemplo
const fs = require('fs');
const readline = require('readline');
const path = require('path');

const DEPS_DIR = path.join(process.cwd(), 'node_modules');

if (!process.argv[2]) { // los dos primeros argumentos son "node" y la ruta del script
  return console.log('\x1b[31m', 'Error: nombre de paquete inválido');
}

checkModule(process.argv[2].toLowerCase())
  .then(files => {
    console.log('\n[+] Packages found:\n');
    files.forEach(file => {

      let packageInfo = `${DEPS_DIR}/${file}/package.json`;
      let reader = readline.createInterface({
        input: fs.createReadStream(packageInfo)
      });

      reader.on('line', line => {
        if (line.includes('version')) {
          let version = line.split(':')[1].replace(/\s/g, '').replace(/"/g, '');
          console.log('\x1b[32m', `${file}@${version}`);
        }
      });
    });
  })
  .catch(err => {
    console.log(err.message);
  });

function checkModule(input) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    fs.readdir(DEPS_DIR, (err, files) => {
      if (err) {
        reject(
          new Error('No existe node_modules en este directorio')
        );
      } else {
        resolve(
          files
            .filter(file => file.toLowerCase().includes(input))
        );
      }
    });
  });
}

Añade el código anterior en un fichero llamado check-module.js y agrégalo en node_modules global. El paso siguiente es hacer un script en bash y batch para ejecutar el script. Llama estos script check-module y check-module.cmd para Unix y Windows respectivamente.
Unix
#!/bin/sh
basedir=$(dirname "$(echo "$0" | sed -e 's,\\,/,g')")

case `uname` in
    *CYGWIN*) basedir=`cygpath -w "$basedir"`;;
esac

if [ -x "$basedir/node" ]; then
  "$basedir/node"  "$basedir/node_modules/check-module.js" "$@"
  ret=$?
else
  node  "$basedir/node_modules/check-module.js" "$@"
  ret=$?
fi
exit $ret

Windows
@IF EXIST "%~dp0\node.exe" (
  "%~dp0\node.exe"  "%~dp0\node_modules\check-module.js" %*
) ELSE (
  @SETLOCAL
  @SET PATHEXT=%PATHEXT:;.JS;=;%
  node  "%~dp0\node_modules\check-module.js" %*
)

Por último, solo ejecuta en cualquier proyecto:
check-module <nombre>

Y tendrás una lista de paquetes con su respectiva versión en muy poco tiempo.

Demo

A: Puedes usar
npm list -g | grep PAQUETE

-g: Segun la documentacion
The -g or --global argument will cause npm to install the package globally rather than locally. See npm-folders.

En pocas palabras este busca de una manera global entre todos los paquetes de npm
En mi caso, cuando ejecuto este comando:
npm list -g | grep "type"

Obtengo
  | | `-- typedarray@0.0.6
  | +-- is-typedarray@1.0.0
  | +-- mime-types@2.1.12

Recuerda:
grep tiene varios parametros utiles:
Si quieres que sea case-insensitive (no se fije en mayusculas), puedes usar grep -i.

A: Si quieres Saber si un modulo de NPM esta instalado.
puedes usar
npm view <package-name> version
y también te sirve para consultar su versión aveces es muy útil.
Cuando la librería no esta instalada te aparecerá así:

A: Con los comandos de verificación del paquete en sí. Ejemplo:

*

*para saber de typescript: tsc -v

*para saber de angular: ng version


Here is an elegant, yet hearty meal without too much effort and done in under an hour - perfect for the busy cook who demands wholesome, delicious meals that look and taste a million bucks. Just remember, as always, the caution using chicken breast fillets is 'Do not overcook them'. They will be dry, hard and stringy. Other than that, enjoy!
A few slices of mozzarella cheese (before you sprinkle the Parmesan over) will do wonders for the drool factor of this dish. However, it will also increase the fat content ... so you decide !
Put the chicken fillets in a glass dish. Mix the garlic into the buttermilk and add to the chicken. Toss the chicken to coat it evenly with the mixture, cover and set aside until required.
Place the Rosa tomato halves in a small baking dish with the cut side facing uppermost and season to taste with salt, pepper and sugar. Place in the oven, preheated to 190� C for 25 to 30 minutes, or until sticky and roasted to your liking.
Meanwhile, heat a little oil in a large frying pan and add the onion. Saut� until translucent then allow to brown lightly. Turn heat down and cook for about 20 minutes or until the onions have caramelised nicely. Remove from heat and set aside.
In a clean, oven-friendly pan, heat 15 ml of the oil and the butter. Lift the chicken fillets and strip some of the marinade off with your hands or pull the fillets against the rim of the dish to let some of the marinade drip off. Now, quickly flash-fry the fillets on both sides, taking care not to cook them: you just want the surface lightly browned as this adds flavour.
Remove the pan from the heat, season the fillets to taste then top with the onions and baked tomatoes. Mix together the dried herbs and Parmesan cheese and sprinkle the mixture over the top of each fillet. Place the pan in oven and bake at 190� C for 10 minutes, no longer.
Remove the pan from the oven and allow to rest for 5 minutes. Scatter the fresh herbs over top and serve with buttered bow-shaped noodles and a green salad.


DressedUndressed are quickly becoming the unofficial ambassadors for a new shift towards the stoic in Japanese menswear. It can't have gone unnoticed among many in touch with the Ura-Harajuku scene that even while places like DOG Harajuku remain bastions of bright energetic fashion, the austerity of the times has manifested itself in dark murky palettes, monolithic column-like silhouettes and a move towards strong minimalism over the saturation of details that characterized last year. However it must be said that the issue of individualism and the cults it creates, which has always been the key to understanding this area, has remained as important as ever and just led brands like Blackmeans, Kamo and Labrat to find slightly more subtle ways to establish their respective urban cults over their usual distinctive identifiers.
Against this backdrop DressedUndressed have effortlessly found themselves becoming the face and flavor of Tokyo alternative fashion, their succinct work having always been about pursuing the next silhouette over the next trend in detailing. So while the rest of the scene has been jumping from studs to patchwork to the next flourish of detail, DressedUndressed have kept an eye on the overal structure and proportions that will define the next wave of Tokyo fashion.
Having indulged in that refinement I should add the caveat that despite all of these good intentions, when you catch people clad in DressedUndressed out and about they do tend to have layered and accessorized it into submission. Maybe the simple starkness of the brand leaves people feeling a little vulnerable without their usual Ura-Harajuku fashion distractions?
Stay tuned for the female collection and your best stockist it always going to be Cannabis in Harajuku if you want to join this very very cool club.
It would be a good look for you! You have the frame required to make this work the way it ought to.


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Q: PC keeps looping restart after bios Got a new (old) PC, and every time I try to power it on, it posts, goes through bios, then before trying to load windows, it restarts itself, everytime, it won't go past the bios menu, have tried removing all peripherals and clearing CMOS, and even have a windows install USB, it just restarts itself before it can boot to anything else.

A: Try an alternative OS that can run from the USB drive, without needing the HDD -- that would allow you to try to salvage files from the HDD, and to try to troubleshoot the boot issue with various disk repair tools. Just change boot order, and be sure to disable Fast Startup or Quick Boot in BIOS, or the PC will continue trying to recover data from the HDD on startup.
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*Ubuntu Linux: See the Foss guide for creating a live USB flash drive. You can run from the USB drive, use the preinstalled browser, LibreOffice suite, and (limited) disk tools. If you like Ubuntu, you could try installing on the HDD, if it's not badly damaged.

*Ultimate Boot CD: You can Run Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) from your USB memory stick. UBCD contains numerous tools to fix disk issues, such as DiskCheck and Parted Magic. UBCD is not meant as a complete OS, but as a repair tool.

If you cannot boot from USB, likely there are issues with BIOS or hardware which are not as easy to troubleshoot. You can replace the lithium coin cell used for the system clock and sometimes BIOS, but other than that, hardware repair is best done in a shop.

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Got a new (old) PC, and every time I try to power it on, it posts,
goes through bios, then before trying to load windows,

Tests prove the drive is OK, and it may be that Secure Boot is preventing starting with USB.
So get a new copy of Windows and install that.  That should very likely work. The existing install has likely been damaged and never repaired.
A Windows installer on USB will bypass secure boot.


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Methia falli is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martin in 1920.

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Methiini
Beetles described in 1920