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The Supreme Court has ordered the Tribhuvan University to grant affiliation to National Medical College (NMC), Kathmandu, an extension of Birjung-based National Medical College.
Responding to a writ filed by the college, a division bench of Chief Justice Damodar Prasad Sharma and Justice Om Prakash Mishra on Tuesday concluded that NMC should be given affiliation as it meets the criteria set by the government.
The TU Institute of Medicine (IoM) had declined to grant affiliation to NMC earlier. The TU had later published a notice—without IoM's knowledge—calling for applications for affiliation from colleges that had taken the letter of intent from the Ministry of Education in September last year. A team led by Dr Kabir Nath Yogi had also inspected the NMC at Ghattekulo and recommended the TU to grant the affiliation.
Dr Kabir Nath Yogi told the Post on Wednesday that NMC has fulfilled all criteria and there is no reason to refuse the affiliation. "The college meets all the criteria set by the government. We have suggested the TU to grant its affiliation," said Dr Yogi.
The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has, however, denied to recognise the notice published by the TU, nor consent the recommendation made by the inspection team, citing that the university had flouted its regulations in the process.
Sources say that the TU had published the notice with the intent of granting affiliation to NMC, Nepal Police, Manmohan Memorial Medical College and People's Dental College. While NMC was reportedly built on UCPN (Maoist) investment, Manmohan Memorial has a significant investment from CPN-UML cadre Rajendra Pandey, and People's Dental College is promoted by Sunil Sharma, who also has a major stake in Nobel Medical College. Sharma was tried by the anti-graft body, CIAA, for amassing wealth through illegal means.
Dr Ramesh Kanta Adhikari-led expert committee formed to determine whether the country needs a separate medical university, in its final report, had said that there is indeed a need for a separate medical university, and that all the new medical colleges which are awaiting affiliations should be allowed to function under that university. Dr Rakesh Shriwastav, dean of IoM, declined to comment until they get an official letter from the apex court.


Cooking parts of vegetables I wouldn't normally eat has become a new hobby, and my latest breakthrough came in the form of broccoli.
I'm not talking about the tender florets we're used to adding to creamy salads, stir-fry andgrain bowls. They're great and all, but broccoli florets have already had plenty of time to shine.
Today, friends, I want to talk about the stalks.
Specifically, I want to tell you that you're going to want to slice 'em up and give 'em a quick stir-fry in the wok.
Yep. Broccoli stems are legit. This recipe proves it.
Any good stir-fry starts with a hot wok. (A large skillet is also fine if you don't own a wok.) Next, you need oil—I used grapeseed, but any neutral, higher-heat variety works.
Broccoli stems take a bit longer to cook, so add them first so they get an extra few minutes to brown. Thinly-sliced shallot and almonds cook even faster, so add them once the florets are cooked, just before the very end.
The only other thing you need to make a solid stir-fry is a good sauce.
There are some decent pre-made sauce options out there, but it's also so easy to make your own.
The 6-ingredient stir-fry sauce I used here is nothing more than a quick emulsion of soy sauce (use tamari or liquid aminos for gluten-free), rice vinegar, sesame oil, honey (maple also works), garlic, and ginger. Very easy!
Cook some rice (or any grain, really) and add your favorite protein (try tofu, edamame, scrambled eggs, fish, or shrimp), and you've got yourself a meal.
Make room for the broccoli stalks. It's their time to shine.
Broccoli stems and florets are cooked with shallots, sliced almonds, and a simple homemade stir-fry sauce.
Whisk together soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, honey, garlic, and ginger. Set aside.
Separate broccoli florets from the stems. Slice stems into thin medallions.
Pour grapeseed oil into a preheated wok or skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in broccoli stems and cook, stirring often, 5 minutes, or until browned in places. (Add oil as needed throughout cooking to prevent broccoli from sticking to the pan.) Stir in broccoli florets and cook, stirring often, 4 minutes, or until they turn bright green and desired tenderness is reached.
Stir in shallot, almonds, and half of the stir-fry sauce. Cook 3 minutes, or until shallot is tender.
Transfer broccoli mixture to serving dish. Pour remaining sauce on top, and garnish with green onions and crushed red pepper if desired.
Serve with cooked brown rice and your favorite protein for a complete meal.
Vegan variation: use maple syrup instead of honey.
Gluten-free variation: use tamari instead of soy sauce.
Recipe may be prepped and cooked in advance. Store in an airtight container and refrigerate up to one week.
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The most disappointing games of 2013
Facepalm! Not every game can be a winner. Which titles of 2013 were the biggest letdowns?
Jeff Bakalar
Jeff Bakalar Editor at Large
Jeff is CNET Editor at Large and a host for CNET video. He's regularly featured on CBS and CBSN. He founded the site's longest-running podcast, The 404 Show, which ran for 10 years. He's currently featured on Giant Bomb's Giant Beastcast podcast and has an unhealthy obsession with ice hockey and pinball.
So you had your fill of the best games 2013 had to offer and now you're itching for the other side of the fence. That's where this list of the most disappointing games of 2013 has you covered.
2013 was home to a handful of titles that didn't live up to the hype, but only a select few can really be labeled as the most disappointing.
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Taurus is the second sign of the zodiac and is universally symbolised by the Bull. Taurus is one of the three Earth signs, the others signs being those of Virgo and Capricorn. The ruling planet of Taurus is Venus. In the same way as Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn and Pisces, Taurus is negative in polarity which means that Taurus prefers to be self-reliant instead of looking to other quarters for help.
Taurus is often identified with the ruler of the Greek pantheon (Zeus). Zeus himself was generally represented as being a white bull. The connection here is that Taurus is being portrayed as a stubborn character but it also reflects the inner nature of Taurus in its qualities of strength and stamina.
Venus, the Goddess of love in Greek mythology is the ruler of Taurus. As Venus reflects the ideas of beauty and pleasure so it is the case with Taurus. This is apparent in Taurus's love for beautiful and attractive objects and it is generally understood that the head of Taurus can be easily turned by anything Taurus regards as pretty.
The solid Earth below our feet is that element most closely associated with Taurus and this is seen in the character of Taurus in their like of clarity and reliability. Accordingly these qualities lead Taurus to choose those things that are clearly set out which have sharp definitions. This conservative attitude means that Taurus will avoid anything vague and lacking in clarity.


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Gyllenhaal uncomfortable with fan's bathroom snap
JAKE GYLLENHAAL's representative has played down reports the actor was involved in a bathroom bust-up at the South By South West Film Festival, after a male fan snapped a photo of the star at a urinal.
The Jarhead actor was attending a special screening of his new action movie Source Code on Saturday (12Mar11) at the Austin, Texas event when he found himself accosted as he relieved himself in the bathroom.
Rumours online suggest Gyllenhaal became embroiled in a heated moment with the man after approaching him and demanding he delete the picture.
The Hollywood hunk appeared to confirm the news when asked about the incident, telling Entertainment Weekly, "That's true. I think it's an appropriate space to keep privacy. I hope that people wouldn't disagree with me on that."
But his spokesperson insists it didn't happen quite how gossip bloggers have described, amid claims Gyllenhaal had grabbed the man and thrown him against a wall.
His rep tells Eonline.com, "There was no scuffle, it was an excited fan who tried to take his picture in the restroom. He asked the guy to please delete it and he did! No drama."


The CellWriter 480 is a robotic workstation that processes 48 slides per batch for both Karyotyping and FISH. CellWriter automates the dropping process to deliver quality spread interphase and metaphase nuclei for analysis.
Integrating BioDot's nanoliter dispenser (BioJet™) with exquisite temperature and humidity control produces a highly efficient system that produces quality slides.
BioDot further simplifies the workflow with a newly-patented slide technology. CellWriter Slides™ enable multiplexed FISH assays and eliminate the need for rubber cement when preparing for hybridization.


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Q: Querying XML in Oracle I have a table MyTable with three fields - FIELD1 , FIELD2 and FIELD3. I receive XML as below. Can we convert this xml into tabular form using SQL query. [I know we can convert the xml where tag names are field_name and tag value is field value, but here the xml format is different. Here field name is the tag value for tag  and field value is the value for tag

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<body>
   <parameters>
      <parameter>
         <key>Field1</key>
         <value>Field1_value</value>
      </parameter>
      <parameter>
         <key>Field2</key>
         <value>Field2_value</value>
      </parameter>
      <parameter>
         <key>Field3</key>
         <value>Field3_value</value>
      </parameter>
   <parameters>
</body>

A: You can use an XMLQuery or XMLTable with an Xpath that picks the parameters and filters for each key value:
select *
from xmltable ('/body/parameters'
  passing <your XML document>
  columns field1 varchar2(20) path 'parameter[key="Field1"]/value',
          field2 varchar2(20) path 'parameter[key="Field2"]/value',
          field3 varchar2(20) path 'parameter[key="Field3"]/value'
);

Demo with the XML (with fixed closing tag!) passed in as a string literal via an XMLType constructor call:
select *
from xmltable ('/body/parameters'
  passing xmltype('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<body>
   <parameters>
      <parameter>
         <key>Field1</key>
         <value>Field1_value</value>
      </parameter>
      <parameter>
         <key>Field2</key>
         <value>Field2_value</value>
      </parameter>
      <parameter>
         <key>Field3</key>
         <value>Field3_value</value>
      </parameter>
   </parameters>
</body>')
  columns field1 varchar2(20) path 'parameter[key="Field1"]/value',
          field2 varchar2(20) path 'parameter[key="Field2"]/value',
          field3 varchar2(20) path 'parameter[key="Field3"]/value'
);

FIELD1               FIELD2               FIELD3
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
Field1_value         Field2_value         Field3_value

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Experiments under way in several labs aim to create beneficial types of genetically modified (GM) foods, including starchier potatoes and caffeine-free coffee beans. Genetic engineers are even trying to transfer genes from a cold-water fish to make a frost-resistant tomato.
A low-sugar GM strawberry now in the works might one day allow people with health problems such as diabetes to enjoy the little delicious red fruits again. GM beans and grains supercharged with protein might help people at risk of developing kwashiorkor, Kwashiorkor, a disease caused by severe lack of protein, is common in parts of the world where there are severe food shortages.
To some people, GM foods are no different from unmodified foods. "A tomato is a tomato," said Brian Sansoni, an American food manufacturer.
Critics of GM foods challenge Sansoni's opinion. They worry about the harm that GM crops might do to people, other animals, and plants.
Some insects that are not killed by GM foods might find themselves made stronger. How so? The insecticides used to protect most of today's crops are sprayed on the crops when needed and decay quickly in the environment. But GM plants produce a continuous level of insecticide. Insect species feeding on those crops may develop resistance to the plants and could do so in a hurry, say the critics. Insects may also develop a resistance to the insecticide Bt.
At the forum on GM food held last year in Canada. GM crops that have been made resistant to the herbicide might crossbreed with wild plants, creating "superweeds" that could take over whole fields.
So where do you stand? Should GM foods be banned in the United States, as they are in parts of Europe? Or do their benefits outweigh any of the risks they might carry?
A. GM foods may bring about great benefits to humans.
B. we cannot recognize the benefits of GM foods too early.
C. GM foods may have both benefits and harm.
D. GM foods are particularly good to the kwashiorkor patients.
2. Why is the case of the pollen-sprayed milkweed cited in Paragraph 6?
A. It is cited to show GM foods can kill insects effectively.
B. It is cited to show GM foods contain more protein.
C. It is cited to show GM foods also have a dark side.
D. It is cited to show GM foods may harm crops.


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Q: Let $A$ be a bounded open set in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Give an example where $\int_{\bar{A}} f$ exists but $\int_A f$ does not. Integration in the Riemann sense.
Let $A$ be a bounded open set in $\mathbb{R}^n$; let $f: \mathbb{R}^n\to \mathbb{R}$ be a bounded continuous function. Give an example where $\int_{\bar{A}} f$ exists but $\int_A f$ does not.
I cannot think of any such example. I would greatly appreciate it if anyone can provide me with some insight.

A: I don't think this statement makes sense as formulated. In particular, if $f$ is integrable on $\overline{A}$, then its set of discontinuity points has measure zero. The restriction of $f$ to $A$ will not add any discontinuity points (because it can be given by the composition of $f$ with the inclusion map, and the inclusion map is continuous). So the set of discontinuity points of the restriction will also have measure zero, so $f$ will be integrable on $A$ as well (if that notion even makes sense in the Riemann setting).
A reformulation (assuming we've somehow sensibly defined Riemann integration on an open set) is as follows. Let $C$ be a fat Cantor set, let $A=[0,1] \setminus C$, and then consider $f=1_A$. Then $f$ is actually continuous on $A$, because it is constant there. But no matter what, $f$ cannot be Riemann integrable on $\overline{A}$, because its set of discontinuity points is $C$ which has positive measure.
In view of the Lebesgue criterion for Riemann integrability, pretty much any example will be more or less of this type, unless somehow your definition of integration on an open set does not respect the Lebesgue criterion. Indeed it seems the entire discussion hinges on this definition, which is not at all obvious to me.


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Hastings Center Report
Sea Change on Financial Conflicts of Interest in Health Care?
Virginia A. Sharpe
The Hastings Center
Volume 39, Number 3, May-June 2009
10.1353/hcr.0.0147
Virginia A. Sharpe (bio)
For the last quarter century, members of the medical and scientific communities have detailed the corrosive influence of industry payments to clinicians and biomedical scientists. Groundbreaking studies have repeatedly revealed how drug company gift-giving influences prescribing practices, how corporate sponsorship biases research, and how compensation from industry leads people to suppress research results, downplay harmful side effects, and put their name on papers to which they have made little or no contribution. Since none of this influence could occur without the participation of the health care providers and scientists themselves, professional bodies—including academic institutions, journals, and professional societies—have placed certain conditions on relationships with industry. One of these is that individuals don't get to keep these financial relationships secret.
Public policy concerning transparency about these financial relationships has reached a tipping point, reflected in recent state and federal initiatives to require disclosure of industry payments and other transfers of value to health care professionals. Disclosure used to be a strictly local phenomenon, with narrow requirements on individuals to provide information to an institutional committee that would, in turn, maintain confidentiality. It is now subject to more expansive rules—companies must provide detailed information to government agencies that then make it publicly available. Individual disclosure can be thought of as a retail approach, useful for transparency in publication or to comply with faculty by-laws. By contrast, corporate disclosure of payments is a wholesale approach that gets at the systemic problem of industry using health care professionals as a core component of its marketing strategy.
Vermont, Minnesota, California, Maine, West Virginia, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia have all recently passed legislation requiring drug companies to disclose the payments they make to prescribers. A 2007 overview of the experiences in two of these states found that 2,689 health care professionals in Vermont received 1.1 million dollars over two years. In Minnesota, 6,583 health care professionals received 23.6 million dollars over three years. In both states, the largest percentage of specified payments was for speaking and education, with some payments in the thousands and tens of thousands of dollars1—amounts far exceeding the $100 maximum endorsed by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA).2 Information gleaned from these disclosures—and, in some cases, failures to make required disclosures—casts doubt on the industry's claims of self-regulation and transparency.3 In 2008, nine additional states introduced similar legislation.4
The Physician Payments Sunshine Act of 2009 is proposed federal legislation that would require drug, device, and medical supply manufacturers that receive payments through government insurance programs to disclose to the Department of Health and Human Services "payment or other transfer of value" to "a physician, a physician medical practice or a physician group practice."5 Payment or transfer of value includes but is not limited to cash, items, services, stock options, honoraria, entertainment, food, travel, charitable contributions, speaking fees, and grants of more than $100 per calendar year.
This legislation, introduced by Senators Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, and Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin, is one outcome of an ongoing series of investigations by Grassley's finance committee. According to Science magazine, the committee is investigating thirty individuals at twenty universities for violating federal conflict-of-interest reporting rules. So far, the hearings have revealed that prominent psychiatrists and government-funded psychiatric researchers have significantly underreported income received from drug makers. In the case of three Harvard-based child psychiatrists, the reported payments were off by $3.4 million.6 In 2004, when Emory University contacted Charles Nemeroff, chair of its department of psychiatry, about violations of the university conflict-of-interest policy, Nemeroff assured the administration that he would restrict his outside earnings from GlaxoSmithKline to a figure below the $10,000 National Institutes of Health threshold for disclosure. He reported $9,999 in income from GSK that year. Grassley's committee, however, found that he actually received $171,031.7
In addition to the erosion of public trust resulting from these deceptions, the promotional work done by psychiatrists on behalf of drug companies has been...
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10 Yiayia doesn't follow any rules. "Can't skip the police line yiayia, you are gonna get us in trouble." "Den me endiaferi," she says, "ilikiomeni ginaika eimai." She sits in the VIP sections of the soccer game without handing over a ticket.
5 Yiayia can use a pandofla and koutala as assault weapons. She has no qualms about battering children, dogs, cats or other defenseless creatures if they do not follow rules, disobey the Church or bring dirt into the house.
4 No matter how old you are, Yiayia will make you feel like you're 5. You need to change your clothes, iron your poukamiso, go back to school, pick up your shoes, marry someone else, don't forget to turn off the light. She will call you to see where you are past midnight even if it's with your spouse or at a function.
2 Yiayia is a snitch. Don't think she can keep a secret. She is sly as a fox. She's a spy for the folks. She makes like she doesn't understand English only to eavesdrop into your boyfriend conversations so she can report back to parents. And you know that little beep on the phone, that might be yiayia on the third line. Yiayias, although cute and very gracious, are really snitches and can't be trusted.
1 Yiayia is a killer. Back in the day, she beat up fascists and commies with a shovel. She slit throats during WWII like the chickens you see in the yard. Do not underestimate the killer instincts that are hidden underneath those crinkly wrinkles, gnarly hands, and black kerchief.


THIS is what Unai Emery did on his first visit to the Emirates after being named Arsenal's new head coach.
Emery replaces Arsene Wenger at the Arsenal helm after the Frenchman left the club at the end of the season.
The 46-year-old head coach joins the Gunners after enjoying a two-year spell at Paris Saint-Germain.
Emery led PSG to the domestic treble, landing Ligue 1, Coupe de France and the Coupe de la Ligue titles in the 2017/18 campaign.
"I am thrilled to be joining one of the great clubs in the game," Emery said.
"Arsenal is known and loved throughout the world for its style of play, its commitment to young players, the fantastic stadium, the way the club is run.
"I'm very excited to be given the responsibility to start this important new chapter in Arsenal's history.
"I have met Stan and Josh Kroenke and it's clear they have great ambitions for the club and are committed to bringing future success.
And on his arrival to the Emirates, Arsenal chief Ivan Gazidis presented the coach with a signed book of Arsenal's history.
"This is the book of the history of Arsenal," Gazidis said.
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A Gosnell Amendment? Jennifer Rubin Plays Doctor and Legislator—and Fails
May 2, 2013, 6:35pm Jodi Jacobson
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin used the Gosnell trial to suggest several ways to further diminish access to safe, legal abortion care in the United States through what she calls a "Gosnell amendment." She has no idea what she is talking about.
A flurry of legal activity over state level abortion restrictions occupied much of the federal court's attention last week.
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There are two roles anti-choicers like to play for which they are ill-equipped. First, they like to play doctor. And second, they like to play God. In doing so, they spread outright lies about both abortion and contraception to mislead and whip the public into a frenzy about sex, pregnancy, and childbirth. And then, believing themselves to be the righteous ones, they seek to capitalize on their self-created panics to make public health and medical policy for the country based solely on emotion, facts be damned. Their end goal, as they make clear, is to outlaw abortion and contraception no matter the costs to public health, women's lives, or society writ large.
The trial of Kermit Gosnell provides anti-choicers and their allies with a perfect platform for their efforts. In Gosnell, they have an unethical, unscrupulous criminal acting as a doctor. He preyed on women too poor to seek early, safe abortion care, ran a filthy "clinic," and conducted illegal abortions during which, it is alleged, some infants were born alive and killed. In their quest to make safe, legal abortion care as inaccessible as possible, anti-choicers are now seeking to sway public policy by conflating safe abortion care with Gosnell's atrocities, to tar all legitimate providers of safe abortion care as Gosnell clones, and to use a criminal case as a justification to drive legitimate providers out of business.
One recent example of this effort comes courtesy of Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, who, in a column Wednesday, suggested several ways to further diminish access to safe, legal abortion care in the United States through what she calls a "Gosnell amendment." If you read the piece, it is clear she has no idea what she is talking about.
Rubin, for example, calls for changes in Medicaid but appears not to understand how Medicaid works in the first place. She also calls for changes in federal funding of abortions, but appears not to understand that current law already severely restricts public funding of abortion.
First, all Medicaid and other federal support for abortion services should come with caveats—health standards (of the type Pennsylvania refused to issue and enforce) and appropriate training for all personnel. Second, federal taxpayer dollars should not go for late-term abortions.
Let's start out by making clear that this is the kind of grasping for irrelevant straws I described above (using the existence of a criminal to tar and feather an entire field of professionals who have no relationship to the criminal activity). For one thing, as confirmed in a phone call today to the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, and notwithstanding the fact that what he did was illegal in the first place so the case illustrates nothing about safe abortion care, Gosnell was not receiving Medicaid payments for women seeking abortion. In fact, in 2010, there were only seven abortions in the entire state of Pennsylvania paid for by state tax funds, and no federally funded abortions anywhere in the state that year. As in zero. Zip.
But no mind: Rubin claims that Gosnell proves there are problems with federal Medicaid funding of abortion care, because eliminating Medicaid funding of abortions for any low-income woman under any circumstance is high on the anti-choice agenda and Gosnell gives them a platform for their arguments.
As for regulations and "health standards," both the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services and state Medicaid agencies already work together both to certify and regulate Medicaid providers of all kinds, and both medical societies and advisory boards at the state and federal level set standards for care. Does this mean there is never any fraud? Of course not: Republican Rick Scott, the current governor of Florida, was implicated in one of the biggest Medicare frauds in the country in the late '90s, showing that laws on the books are in fact broken until evidence is accumulated to bring a case. It was not lack of law or regulation, but rather lack of enforcement that allowed Gosnell to carry on for so long. Changes to Medicaid would therefore not have prevented and will not prevent past, current, or future quacks or criminals from operating in such a capacity until they are caught, just as homicide laws will never prevent all homicides and laws against arson won't eliminate arsonists. Laws and regulations are meant both to define and to hopefully reduce criminal activity but will never eliminate it.
Rubin's suggestion that federal taxpayer dollars should not go for abortions also is a head-scratcher, since the Hyde Amendment already forbids the use of federal funds for abortions except in cases of life endangerment, rape, or incest. This law has guided public funding for abortions for low-income women under joint federal and state programs since 1977. At a minimum, states must cover those abortions that meet the federal exceptions. States also are free to expand coverage of Medicaid funding of abortion for other reasons, using their own funds. Pennsylvania does not offer expanded Medicaid coverage for abortion.
Moreover, the system in Pennsylvania (as in many states) is such that even in cases of rape and incest it is virtually impossible to get reimbursed for a Medicaid-eligible abortion. As Claire Keyes, former director of a clinic in Pennsylvania, told Rewire via email:
Although technically Medicaid in PA is supposed to cover rape and incest, in reality it did not. There were too many sub-carriers, if that is the right word, each with its own rules, own personnel. No matter how much time we as providers tried to "train" their employees for them in order that women whose pregnancies resulted from rape or incest would be covered, it was not worth it. No one from the top level of management ever cared enough to issue policy statements to their employees, so it was just a waste of time. We often had to submit 4-5 times for the same patient, then reaching the end of the eligible period for submission for reimbursement of the services. It was easier to not even try.
If one takes Rubin at her word, she would like to eliminate the exception in the Hyde amendment for Medicaid coverage for any "late-term" abortions, though she does not specify what she means by "late-term." In the third trimester only, or both second and third trimesters? Is she saying that there should be no public funding whatsoever to cover an abortion for a poor woman whose life is quite literally in danger from a pregnancy gone terribly wrong? And if so, is she not then saying that the life of a woman living in poverty has less value than the life of a woman with a similar condition who can afford an abortion on her own? Does she mean to imply that a woman in the United States facing a situation similar to one now going on in El Salvador—where a woman now carrying a non-viable fetus and whose kidneys are failing due to pregnancy-related complications of uncontrolled lupus—should be left to die?
That gets us to the broader issue of late-term abortions. Every state should have an infant-born-alive statute, and those states that do not should have to justify why medical personnel should not have an affirmative duty to provide medical care to an infant who survives abortion. Do we really want any state to endorse by silence Gosnell's practices?
Perhaps Jennifer Rubin was out of the country or not reading the papers in 2002 when President Bush signed into law the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act. This is federal law, as in it covers all the states. Since Kermit Gosnell is and was a criminal, he was not adhering to the law, as is the nature of the term "criminal."
And exactly how far does Rubin want to go to eliminate late abortions? Under Roe v. Wade, states may not prohibit abortions even after fetal viability in cases where it is "necessary to preserve the life or health" of the woman. Third-trimester abortions, which make up an estimated 1.3 percent of abortions in the United States, happen when there are medical complications that compromise the life or health of the woman in question or fetal anomalies incompatible with life. In the Gosnell case, women who came for late abortions came for them because they didn't have enough money to get early abortions, conditions created by the very policies Rubin advocates.
If she wants a total ban on late abortions without exceptions for life and health, which women does Ms. Rubin suggest should be left to die? Which women should be left with lifelong health problems from a pregnancy gone horribly wrong? It's a little harder when you have to face real people in need, so I ask, for which of these women does Rubin feel she or others are better equipped to decide what to do? Would she make the choice for Kate? For Gracie's parents? For Autumn Elise's parents? Why does Rubin or anyone else get to decide for these families what is best for them?
The inconvenient truth here is that the very policies anti-choicers espouse are the ones that create the conditions in which Gosnells thrive: limiting access to safe abortion care by closing clinics, driving up the costs, requiring women to go through innumerable unnecessary hoops to secure an abortion, and driving them later in the process—denying women living in poverty public support for safe abortion care. All of these and other policies espoused by anti-choicers drive women to desperate circumstances, as a trip to any number of countries with high rates of maternal mortality from complications of unsafe abortion will tell you.
Rubin's column doesn't prove any of the points she apparently set out to make, but it does prove a few things: She isn't cut out to play doctor, God, or legislator. And given the inexcusable lack of factual accuracy in her piece, it is not clear to me she is cut out to be a columnist either. I know that the Washington Post got rid of its ombudsperson, but did it fire all the editors and fact-checkers too?
Abortion restrictions, Access to abortion, Hyde Amendment, Illegal abortion, Jennifer Rubin, Kermit Gosnell, late abortion, Medicaid, Procedural abortion, washington post


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When we shot Lily Collins in 2008 she was surrounded by beautiful corsages and hugging an Llama. She looked gorgeous - really gorgeous - and we just haven't been able to take our eyes off her since. Lily became a Tatler cover girl in June 2011 (we dressed her up to look just like her idol Audrey Hepburn) and now she's the ingenue everyone in Hollywood is talking about (Mirror, Mirror is set to make her a global star).
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*Viewing Highly Advised* Exceptional Business and Lifestyle opportunity on offer in the seaside village of Inver. Previously running very successfully but with ample opportunity to expand and increase.
McEwan Fraser Legal are delighted to offer a fantastic investment opportunity to purchase The Inver Inn, located in the scenic village location of Inver in Easter Ross. The public house was recently trading as a successful business and offers great scope for future expansion and development.
The property occupies a prominent position within the village and has enjoyed great success in recent years and is now ready for a new owner to carry on further improving the business.
Alternatively, owner's accommodation could be added to the property with modest investment. The property also has planning for extension to provide 2 bedroom accommodation.
The main function areas consist of public bar, pool room, large dining/lounge area and male & female toilets with a large commercial kitchen allowing meals to be offered. Adequate parking is available to the front of the building.
Whilst the property would benefit from further investment, little or no money would be required to allow the business to restart and produce ongoing income that could generate that re-investment.
Extras (Included in the sale): All items that would allow the business to begin trading again are included.


Reporting to the Wardrobe Manager, the incumbent will be responsible for leading the design team and providing professional comments on character image & staff uniform. He/she will design the new costume/props/uniform according to the needs and requirements for all daily & seasonal events. He/she is responsible for developing new ideas on design of the show and special event costumes. He/she will monitor the design schedule and report the status to supervisor and manager. He/she will also prepare presentation material for all the design and conduct the presentation with management. He/she is responsible for preparing the material/ fabric sample board, costume design & construction drawings to supplier for the fabrication & production. He/she is also responsible for attending costume fitting and factory visit with supervisor for in charge project to maintain good show quality. He/she is responsible for attending brainstorming and progress meeting with supervisor and other ad hoc duties as assigned.


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The number of Mobile Stations (MS) has recently been increasing with wireless services. Such increase results in demand for more bandwidth and mechanisms for optimizing its use. This paper suggests a protocol that balances the percentages of new calls blocking and disconnected calls. The protocol is simulated in C# environment. Inputs to the simulator are generated using Marseene Twister random number generator. Modeling of cellular network inputs this way is more accurate that the traditionally used deterministic approaches. Empirical results are consistent with the results obtained from simulation.


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The infrastructure for transport, energy, industry and commerce is the result of civil engineering.
Civil and Environmental Engineers design, build, and maintain the infrastructure of our modern world. They envision creative, practical solutions that benefit the everyday lives of people and the communities in which we live. They provide the infrastructure upon which we travel, the water that we drink, the buildings in which we live and work, and solutions for the by-products (wastewater and air pollution) of our present-day standard of living. Civil Engineering is one of the most diverse engineering disciplines, and encompasses a variety of sub-disciplines, including structural engineering, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, and transportation.
Civil and Environmental Engineering is a "people" oriented profession. Unlike other engineering fields, Civil Engineers spend much of their professional life interacting with the public, in the conception, design, and construction of public works. The field requires creativity, analytical skills, a sound understanding of the principles of basic engineering, science, and math, and the ability to communicate this knowledge to others. In the 21st century, a primary goal of Civil Engineers will be to develop sustainable, resilient infrastructure that meets the needs of society today as well as in the future.
The Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Program offers students a rigorous and comprehensive education in all aspects of the Civil Engineering discipline, including surveying, construction, materials, structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, hydraulics, hydrology, and environmental engineering. Elective requirements offer the opportunity for more advanced study in specific areas. This challenging undergraduate program prepares students for direct entry into the profession or graduate-level study.
Students begin the program with foundational courses in mathematics, chemistry, and physics. The core curriculum is composed of courses in environmental engineering principles, probability and statistics, statics, strength of materials, engineering geology, transportation, and other specialized areas. During their junior and senior years, students take advanced courses in engineering and design. The program culminates in a senior design project, where students' knowledge and skills are applied to a real-world problem.
The curriculum is designed so that our graduates meet our four Program Educational Objectives. The Objectives describe the accomplishments we expect of our graduates: within three to five years of graduation Program graduates will have become employed in engineering or a related profession or will have continued with graduate studies; within three to five years of graduation Program graduates will have been recognized by supervisors and colleagues as possessing the knowledge and skills needed for a successful career in engineering or related field and will be progressing toward the appropriate professional license or credentials; within five to ten years of graduation Program graduates will have demonstrated leadership and service within their profession and in their communities through participation in professional societies and charitable organizations and similar civic service activities; and throughout their careers program graduates will use educational opportunities to continue to expand their knowledge and skills in areas required for their career.
The department is dedicated to providing personal guidance and mentoring to all students. Each semester before registration, CEE hosts an evening of pizza and advising to provide course recommendations and counseling to every undergraduate student. Additionally, each student is assigned an individual faculty advisor for the duration of their undergraduate experience.
Undergraduates are also invited to attend the biannual Civil and Environmental Career Fairs, where they can learn about local and national companies filling positions for summer internships, COOP opportunities, and full-time permanent positions. Additional career advice, interview scheduling, and information sessions are available through the College of Engineering's Career and Student Development Center.
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department welcomes students who meet University admissions requirements, have a strong background in math and science, and are motivated to excel. Applications are processed through the University Admissions Office, and online application is available. All students are admitted into the College of Engineering as Pre-Engin majors; admission into the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department is based upon successful completion of the introductory courses (Math 131, Engin 111, EngWP 122, Chem 111), with a grade of C or better in each course.


This honey orange vinaigrette packs a tangy punch that goes perfectly with this wintry salad. Make this for an easy lunch or a delicious appetizer! Shaved Brussels sprouts make this dish one for the books!


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Molecular HSV Test Options Will Be Consolidated to a Single Test Option
Effective August 15, 2022, ARUP Laboratories will consolidate the existing molecular Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) test options into a single test option, Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1/HSV-2) Subtype by PCR. This test not only detects HSV but also identifies the subtype (HSV-1 or HSV-2), which is an important factor for clinical decisions regarding treatment. This change aligns with recent guidelines from the CDC.
This change will be published in the August 15, 2022, Quarterly Hotline.
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A retired couple from Berkshire was looking for a contemporary interior design for their living room. Having started to look at fabrics, they found the choice of colour, designs and price points overwhelming.
After being introduced by a mutual acquaintance, they asked for my help to find a coordinated, contemporary interior design scheme. They also wanted suggestions for reupholstering existing sofa and armchairs, new curtains, new carpet and paint.
Of course, this all needed to be in line with the existing items they love and wanted to keep. Also, the new colour scheme had to tie in with the light cherry wood of their recently purchased storage units.
Albeit a bit sceptical at the beginning, after seeing the fabric samples and mood board I had drawn up for them, the husband was easily convinced by my suggestions for their refreshed contemporary living room.


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Northern Territory Government Newsroom
A more stable and permanent home for the Territory's vulnerable children
John Elferink
Minister for Children and Families
The Parliament today passed legislation to establish a new permanent care option which will allow for a more stable upbringing for children in care.
Minister for Children and Families John Elferink said a Permanent Care Order aims to offer a more permanent option for children who are unable to be reunited with family.
"A Permanent Care Order will be in effect until the child is 18 years and allows a carer to make everyday decisions about the individual in their care, such as providing approval for a child to attend a school excursion or travel on a family holiday," Mr Elferink said.
"This new type of order transfers parental rights to a third party, in a very similar way to adoption, however, unlike adoption, a Permanent Care Order will not change a child's surname, birth certificate, birthrights or entitlements.
"Children who are on long-term orders under the Care and Protection of Children Act will be eligible. These are children where reunification with their families is not a practical option.
"Children will be asked for consent where it is appropriate and there will be a thorough assessment of those families that want to be considered for this type of Order.
"I feel strongly that these orders are an important option for some children; children who deserve a family without the constant involvement of a government department in their lives.
"Children who are taken into care have already been subject to abuse, neglect and/or trauma and it is important that they are provided with a long-term stable environment moving into adulthood," Mr Elferink said.
There are currently over 500 children in the Northern Territory in care that will be in care for their whole childhood.
Children on long term orders under the Care and Protection of Children Act will be eligible to access the order.
CREATE Foundation, the peak consumer body for children and young people in care, consults independently with children and young people with a care experience, who have told CREATE that placement stability is very important.
"Permanent care is one of many approaches that may achieve stability, yet there is no one-size fits all solution," CREATE Chief Executive, Ms Jacqui Reed said.
"Every child's situation must be reviewed individually. Children and young people have a right to be involved in any decisions made about their lives and we appreciate this being incorporated into the legislation."
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French students visit UNIFIL HQ
UNIFIL today organized the visit of a group of 23 French university students to the Mission Headquarters in Naqoura, south Lebanon.
During the visit facilitated by UNIFIL's Civil Affairs Office, the students from Paris Dauphine University were briefed on the crucial work UNIFIL has been doing since 1978 in south Lebanon by a number of UNIFIL officials, including the Mission's Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Christian Thiébault, who is also from France.
Brig. Gen. Thiébault spoke about UNIFIL's role in maintaining peace and stability in the Mission's 1,060 square kilometre area of operation between the Litani River and the Blue Line. He also spoke about the crucial role played by the French troops in the Mission.
French soldiers were among the first peacekeepers to arrive in south Lebanon in 1978 – just four days after the adoption of the resolution 425 establishing the Mission. French were also among the first to deploy after UNIFIL troops number was increased substantially following the 2006 war.
The visiting students of international affairs were briefed on various topics related to UNIFIL, including the context under which it was established, its mandate, role and responsibility.
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Italian and Finnish peacekeepers train to enhance interoperability
UNIFIL's Italian and Finnish peacekeepers conducted a joint training last week with the aim of enhancing interoperability, reactivity and flexibility during joint operations while serving for peace in south Lebanon.
UNIFIL Finnish peacekeepers and LAF in coordinated exercise
Despite heavy rain and freezing temperature, UNIFIL Finnish peacekeepers operating under the Mission's Force Commander's Reserve participated in a coordinated exercise with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in the southern Lebanese town of Kawkaba, located at the altitude of 750 metres from the sea
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UNIFIL Sector West Headquarters in Shamaa, south Lebanon, today organized an exhibition of handicrafts and Lebanese cuisine with the aim to promote women-run local businesses in the UN Mission's area of operation.
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Readers ask: What Is Famous Spanish Dessert Involving Tomatoes?
1 What are Spanish tomatoes called?
2 What is tostada in Spain?
3 What does gazpacho mean?
4 Is it safe to eat tomatoes from Spain?
5 Which country has best tomatoes?
6 What is the most famous Spanish dish?
7 What do people in Spain eat for breakfast?
8 What do Mexicans eat for breakfast?
9 Is gazpacho really healthy?
10 Do you eat gazpacho Hot or cold?
11 Is gazpacho a main dish?
12 What does gazpacho taste like?
13 What nationality is gazpacho from?
14 Why is gazpacho served cold?
What are Spanish tomatoes called?
The Spanish word tomate comes from the Aztec word "tomatl." So crazy are Spaniards about tomatoes, that there is a festival called the Tomatina in Buñol, Valencia every year for the last 61 years.
What is tostada in Spain?
Tostada translates as "toast", and it is the best thing you can order for breakfast in Andalucia. In its most traditional way, the Spanish tostada is simple, a piece of bread drizzled in good quality olive oil and sprinkled with salt. A very popular variation of the tostada is the one with tomatoes.
What does gazpacho mean?
: a spicy soup that is usually made from chopped raw vegetables (such as tomato, onion, pepper, and cucumber) and that is served cold.
Is it safe to eat tomatoes from Spain?
The Spanish tomate comes from the Aztec tomatl. But because they are part of the nightshade family of plants, which are poisonous, Europeans were suspicious of the new fruit and used them as decorative plants. It took almost 200 years for tomatoes to become an integral part of Spanish cuisine.
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Which country has best tomatoes?
Which Are The World's Leading Tomato Producing Countries?
Tomato production in 2017 (in tonnes)
1 China 59,514,773
3 Turkey 12,750,000
4 United States 10,910,990
What is the most famous Spanish dish?
Paella is perhaps the most famous Spanish dish of all, and certainly one of the most abused. Authentic paella originates from the region around Valencia, and comes in two varieties: Paella Valenciana, with rabbit and chicken; and seafood paella.
What do people in Spain eat for breakfast?
A typical breakfast might include café con leche (strong coffee with hot, frothy milk), bollos (sweet rolls) with jam, toast with jam or mild cheese, or simply "Maria" crackers dunked in hot milk. Some might enjoy sweet and lemony magdalenas (think French Madeleines) from the neighborhood bakery.
What do Mexicans eat for breakfast?
Typical Mexican Breakfasts include many dishes with eggs, like some tasty Huevos Rancheros, eggs in salsa, eggs Mexican Style, and eggs with chorizo. We cannot forget other traditional breakfast items, like chilaquiles and refried beans!
Is gazpacho really healthy?
Whatever the ingredients, gazpacho is a healthy soup rich in minerals, antioxidants, fiber and in vitamins C, A and E. Red tomatoes, for example, are high in carotenoids such as lycopene and beta-carotene, antioxidants that can prevent prostate cancer, high blood pressure and eye problems.
Do you eat gazpacho Hot or cold?
This thick vegetable soup is hearty and boasts a colorful flavor. This dish is normally eaten cold but is perfectly suitable to be eaten warm or with a warm side dish.
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Is gazpacho a main dish?
Gazpacho may be served as a starter, main dish, or tapa.
What does gazpacho taste like?
At its best, gazpacho is super refreshing and bursting with fresh-from-the-garden summer flavors. At its worst, gazpacho tastes like chunky cold salsa or thin tomato juice, neither of which do I particularly enjoy. I wanted a texture somewhere in between the two, and far superior flavor.
What nationality is gazpacho from?
Gazpacho, cold soup of Spanish cuisine, especially that of Andalusia. It is an ancient dish mentioned in Greek and Roman literature, although two of the main ingredients of the modern version, tomatoes and green peppers, were brought to Spain from the New World only in the 16th century.
Why is gazpacho served cold?
Gazpacho represents many of the characteristics that define Andalucia. It contains basic ingredients; tomato, cucumber, onion, garlic, pepper, olive oil, vinegar, salt and bread. The fact that Gazpacho is served cold is also reflective of the hot summers that the region experiences.
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Q: Majority of my column headers are dates in my dataframe, not able to use the loc function - how do I fix this? I have a dataframe that shows the number of downloads for each show, where every month is a column, with the actual start of each month being the data column name.
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_excel(r'C:/Users/TestUser/Documents/Folder/Test.xlsx', sheet_name='Downloads', header=2)
df

df looks like this below:

Show
2017-08-01 00:00:00
2017-09-01 00:00:00
2017-10-01 00:00:00

Show 1
23004
50320
450320

Show 2
30418
74021
92103

However, when I try to access a column using the loc function, I run into an error:
df.loc[:, 2017-08-01 00:00:00]

File "", line 1
df.loc[:, 2017-07-01 00:00:00]
^
SyntaxError: leading zeros in decimal integer literals are not permitted; use an 0o prefix for octal integers
When I put single quotes before the date, I get another error:
KeyError: '2017-07-01 00:00:00'
The data type for the date column headers are float64, if it helps.

A: Convert headers to string
df.columns = df.columns.astype(str)

or
df.columns = df.columns.map(str)

then,
if you want to access all the column
df['2017-08-01 00:00:00']

or if you want to access for example cell 5 of this column
df.at[4, '2017-08-01 00:00:00']


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I am trying to implement a sidebar effect using CGAffineTransformMakeTranslate simulate slide-in and slide-out. I want to make my sidebar as a scrollview so it could be add more data but it can not scroll at all.
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- (void)setup {
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}

- (void)awakeFromNib {
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- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
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#pragma mark - Custom function

- (void)show {
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- (void)hide {
    self.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(-self.offsetX, 0);
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And my view controller:
#import "ViewController.h"

#import "SidebarView.h"

@interface ViewController () <UITableViewDataSource>
@property (nonatomic) BOOL isMenuHide;
@property (nonatomic, strong) SidebarView *sidebarView;

@end

@implementation ViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    self.isMenuHide = YES;
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
}

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];

    if (self.sidebarView) {
        self.sidebarView = nil;
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    if (self.view) {
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- (SidebarView *)sidebarView {
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        frame.size.width /= 2;
        _sidebarView = [[SidebarView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
        _sidebarView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(-_sidebarView.offsetX, 0);
        _sidebarView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(320, 960);
        _sidebarView.scrollEnabled = YES;
        _sidebarView.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = YES;
        _sidebarView.dataSource = self;
    }
    return _sidebarView;
}

#define ANIMATE_DURATION 0.5

- (IBAction)showMenu:(UIBarButtonItem *)sender {
    if (self.isMenuHide) {
        [self.view addSubview:self.sidebarView];

        [UIView animateWithDuration:ANIMATE_DURATION animations:^{
            [self.sidebarView show];
            self.view.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(self.sidebarView.offsetX, 0);
        }];
    } else {
        [UIView animateWithDuration:ANIMATE_DURATION animations:^{
            [self.sidebarView hide];
            self.view.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0, 0);
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}

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}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
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Please tell my "why my scrollview cannot scroll" thanks.

A: contentSize needs to be set to the size of the content being contained, not the size of the frame in which it sits.
I don't know if your code has other problems, but that's the most terminal one.


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Insights from industry
Developing a Quantitative Nanoscale Characterization Technique
Interview conducted by Will SoutterOct 17 2013
In this interview, Dr. Chanmin Su, Director of Technology for Bruker Nano Surfaces' AFM business, talks about how Bruker's philosophy of innovation applies to his part of the business, and tells AZoNano about the development process for Bruker's groundbreaking PeakForce Tapping™ AFM mode.
The suite of PeakForce Tapping modes is being rapidly adopted by the community, and is poised to displace the venerable TappingMode™, which in fact, was another invention from the Bruker lineage. Before we get into the details of PeakForce Tapping, can you tell me a little bit about Bruker AFM and its philosophy of innovation?
Certainly. I think all major technology companies are fundamentally driven by innovation, and Bruker is no different. Our level of investment in research and development is amongst the largest for technology companies. We have also formed a collaborative network with the leading research groups and institutions in the world.
For example, we have a long-standing relationship with Paul Hansma, Cal Quate, and Christopher Gerber. All three of them are basically founding fathers of AFM, and we are working with them constantly.
This network serves two main purposes: firstly to keep abreast of the latest developments at the cutting edge of the technology itself, and secondly to recruit talent from the institutions we work with, to maintain an environment of innovation.
As a result of our R&D efforts, we have generated the largest patent portfolio in the AFM field. We have also released more new products than any of our competitors – with multiple major new products launched every year.
Experimental data of force curves for a cantilever operated in PeakForce Tapping. The lever is driven by a sinusoidal wave and the curves are displayed as force versus time and force versus distance. (Images from Bruker Application Note #133.)
What led to Bruker's initiative to develop PeakForce Tapping?
The idea actually started much earlier than when we began developing the product – the real starting point was in 2004, when the National Nanotechnology Initiative offered grants for solving a series of nanotechnology challenges. One of these challenges was quantitatively characterizing properties of materials at the nanoscale. We took this challenge on at Bruker, organized a team to brainstorm possibilities, and we eventually won a $13 million grant from NIST for quantitative nanomechanical property mapping, in conjunction with Dow Chemical – this significant investment in PeakForce Tapping, is one of the things that enables its sophisticated implementation and truly sets it apart from other technologies.
The grant was based on a three year project to develop both a fundamental understanding of the necessary technology, and also to show commercialization potential for the quantitative tool. During the development process, we worked with leading groups, including Karl Kreig's group and a scientist at Stanford named Dr. Ozgur Sahin. Ozgur originally came up with the idea that became HarmoniX, which we commercialized in 2008. HarmoniX, as a precursor to PeakForce Tapping, was a way to map quantitative mechanical properties at the nanoscale, but something was missing..
AFM is really all about force control – hence the "force" in atomic force microscopy. The holy grail for AFM is to be able to control and acquire both the instantaneous interaction force, as well as all the interaction data between the tip and the sample. HarmoniX , likeTapping Mode, does not actually achieve this, so there was a fundamental drive for us to push these technologies further, and that is what led to the development of PeakForce Tapping.
We conceived of PeakForce Tapping towards the end of 2008, and brought it to market quite quickly – we productized it in 2009, with the first AFMs featuring it as a standard component being released in 2010.
What are the basic principles behind your PeakForce Tapping modes?
If I were to describe in a single sentence what PeakForce Tapping is about, I would say it's about simplicity. Thinking about the AFM at its most basic level, you are using a stylus to touch a sample. If you think only about a single "touch" point (approach, "touch", and retract) you generate a force map, which has a sort of pulse shape similar to an electrocardiogram – except the peak of each pulse represents the stylus contacting the surface.
As PeakForce Tapping maps the surface, we use feedback to keep that peak force constant, down to 10 or 20 pN – in both air and fluid. Because of this simplicity and control, we can keep the tip as sharp as a nanometer, which gives us atomic resolution.
30μm scan of a Teflon membrane in PeakForce (left) and regular TappingMode (right). Artifacts visible in TappingMode operation are not present in the PeakForce Tapping data. (Images from Bruker Application Note #133.)
What are the practical benefits of PeakForce Tapping over conventional tapping modes?
I would say the major benefit of PeakForce Tapping over TappingMode is that the AFM is finally performing imaging by direct control of interaction force – and more importantly, control of the instantaneous interaction force. Tapping measures an indirect average force and this is a critical distinction. In TappingMode, we can control the amplitude, or the phase – neither of which are a direct reflection of the force. They include a whole host of complications: the cantilever dynamics, the environment (fluid/ambient), as well as the tip-surface interaction and adhesion. Therefore, it is very difficult to judge the right amplitude/phase for a specific measurement – it takes time and expertise.
The second most important difference is that AFM operates on a feedback loop. SEM, TEM, and optical microscopy are all open-loop – you shine light or an electron beam at a sample, receive the signal, and create the map directly. With AFM, because it is a closed-loop system, it is error-driven – error is corrected using the closed feedback loop.
This is very much like when you drive. If you are driving a car on a winding road, you use information from your eye (the sensor) to correct any deviations from the road using your hands (the actuator). This is a good example of how a feedback loop works.
Calcite in fluid imaged using Dimension Icon. True atomic resolution topography (top) and QNM stiffness (bottom) images identify adjacent rows of calcium/oxygen atoms. (Images from Bruker Application Note #141.)
So in AFM, the way we generate the error and track the error are crucial parts of the design of the system. We track the error using a PID loop, which has a linear response. In TappingMode, however, where we are controlling amplitude or phase, the error generated is extremely non-linear – so you have non-linear error generation with linear tracking, which obviously don't match.
So it takes years of experience to match the linear feedback loop to the non-linear error to remove artifacts, and this is what fundamentally makes complete automation of the AFM's feedback impossible. We do have some automation in our systems for simple silicon semiconductors, but with anything more complicated than that it becomes very difficult to optimize the control parameters and generate what I call "expert" data with TappingMode.
This makes the traditional AFM a very elite instrument. Only a really experienced user, with a degree in physics or engineering, who has worked on different samples for years, and knows AFM very well, can arrive at a point where they have an artifact-free image, and are not confused by some complication with the feedback or control.
So PeakForce Tapping brought an important change to the field, because it allows a novice user to generate "expert" data.
These two points, direct force control, and being able to feedback on that linear response, really summarize the biggest benefits of PeakForce Tapping – allowing new users to match that quality of image, even on a complicated sample like a multi-component polymer, and at the same time get rich high-resolution quantitative nanomechanical data.
So how is the feedback loop in PeakForce Tapping different – and how does this make quality images easier to obtain?
It's all based on the fact that we are controlling the peak force, instead of the amplitude and phase. The error in the peak force grows linearly with the interaction, because it is insensitive to the sample or environment – which fits very well with the linear PID loop – this makes the error correction much easier, and as a result the system is much more stable.
Another benefit is that when you change the set point, the force response is very direct. In TappingMode, when you increase or decrease the set point, the force goes through a very complicated curve before it restabilizes. With PeakForce Tapping, the change to the new set point is direct. This, plus the linear feedback loop, allows us to build this control into the system. We call this feature ScanAsyst® and it is a self-optimizing control system for the AFM – basically single-button AFM imaging.
Finally, the accuracy and repeatability that this mode enables has been very popular with our customers. Whenever I go out to see our industrial customers, they are mostly using PeakForce Tapping because it allows their technicians to get repeatable, artifact-free data, even from a new sample, without having to start a whole new research project to get the methods right.
"ScanAsyst is a self-optimizing control system for the AFM - basically single-button AFM imaging."
What properties do the other PeakForce modes (TUNA™, QNM™, KPFM™) allow access to, that can't be measured using standard contact or tapping modes?
There is a lot of information that we can take from the force curve in PeakForce Tapping. If we go back to the electrocardiogram analogy - a doctor can look at an ECG trace and judge, for example, whether the heartbeat is normal or not.
We can do the same with the force curve in PeakForce Tapping - we can go much further than just mapping the surface topography. From that single force curve, we can derive elastic modulus, adhesion and dissipation, and other parameters that are unique to AFM.
These are all properties that are inseparable when you use TappingMode, because they are non-determistically combined into the phase, like a linear equation with three or four variables. In PeakForce Tapping, what we are doing automatically is separating out the topographical map from the adhesion and elastic properties - providing solutions for each of those variables individually.
That is just for the mechanical map - what we have also done is added conductivity mapping into PeakForce Tapping to make TUNA (Tunneling AFM). Conductivity mapping is nothing new - it is easy to do with contact mode. However, contact mode cannot map soft or sensitive samples without permanently changing the sample and potentially spoiling the data.
I should note that conductivity mapping doesn't work with TappingMode either, because there is no way to know exactly when the AFM tip is touching the sample. With PeakForce Tapping, we can use the force curve to know the exact period when the tip is in contact with the surface, and extract the conductivity data from just that moment. So that's how we were able to develop electrical mapping for soft or heterogeneous samples with TUNA.
There are also benefits in integrating PeakForce Tapping with Kelvin-potential mapping, another established technique that measures force gradient as well as the force itself. For both parameters, the sensitivity of the measurement is greater the softer the spring constant of the cantilever. TappingMode therefore creates an inherent limitation on the sensitivity because the cantilevers used in Tapping Mode are very stiff - around 40 N/m.
PeakForce Tapping removes that limitation because it can use 0.3 N/m cantilevers - making the contact more than a hundred times softer, and therefore allowing much more sensitive Kelvin potential measurement. You can also use a much sharper tip with PeakForce Tapping, which increases the resolution of the map as well.
Cycle of heating and cooling of polymer blend of syndiotactic polypropylene and polyethylene oxide. Images a–f show height of the surface during the process, while g–i show the modulus of frames d–f respectively. Scan size 5um. (Images from Bruker Application Note #128.)
PeakForce QNM is one of the most powerful and revolutionary modes on the AFM market - what new applications for AFM has this mode enabled?
Yes - PeakForce QNM is really the accomplishment of the original challenge from the NNI, to measure material properties quantitatively at the nanometer scale.
So there are many ways this capability can be applied. One example is in the chemical industry, for companies like Dow Chemical, Dupont, 3M - all of whom make heterogeneous polymer materials of some sort.
3M are mainly focused on multilayer polymers, so they would want to know the mechanical map of the cross-section of those layers, where each layer is less than 100 nm thick. Potato chip packets are a good example of these multilayers - they are actually quite a complex material! There is no other tool besides PeakForce Tapping that can mechanically map those layers at the sub-nanometer resolution.
Similarly in impact plastics for cars and civil engineering, Dow Chemical makes impact plastics that are actually composites of at least five components, and many of those components are in domains smaller than 100 nm. For example, a composite might contain a soft polymer to absorb shock, and a hard component to enhance strength. In these kinds of materials, it is crucial to be able to characterize the load transfer between components, at the nanoscale. PeakForce Tapping can do this, quantitatively and with good repeatability.
Another very important application is characterizing defects in semiconductors and data storage. A particular defect could be a contamination, or it could be an internally grown defect of the same substance as the device. In process control, knowing where defects come from is crucial to diagnosing issues.
This is getting harder to do with old techniques, since semiconductor architectures are getting smaller and smaller - 14 nm modes have been announced, and manufacturers are looking towards 10 nm modes and below. There could be really crucial defects that can no longer be seen with optical microscopy, and eventually even with SEM, especially with organic defects.
With PeakForce Tapping AFM, you can map out those defects, and provide quantitative mechanical information. This leads to a new way to characterize defects - you can tell whether it is a polymer left over from the photomask, or if it's metallic, or an organic contaminant. It isn't directly a chemical identification, but it gives you good knowledge to work out what the defect is if you have some a-priori information.
AFMs like the BioScope Catalyst are becoming more and more popular as a tool for life science research - what do Bruker's PeakForce Tapping modes offer for biological analysis that has helped make AFM so popular in that field?
I think PeakForceTapping is attractive to biologists for one simple reason: it's simple. Biology researchers don't have to take a physics lesson to understand cantilever oscillation in fluids, and there's no tuning and optimizing to do. It really makes AFM easy to understand conceptually as well - it's just like touching a surface with your finger. You can tell if it's rough or smooth, soft or hard.
This is really important for biologists, because they are using AFM as a tool to study biological materials, not to study physics - the bio researchers don't need any additional knowledge base to make it work for their research - even in fluid.
Another important factor is that PeakForce Tapping gives you a mechanical map, not just a height map - the height is really irrelevant when you are imaging something like a cell, because cells can change shape arbitrarily. What you really need to know are the cell's mechanical properties.
In the future, what I'd really like to see users doing is creating a full molecular-scale map of a live cell surface using PeakForce Tapping - right down to identifying specific protein sites. That is where the biological AFM research is going, and I anticipate that happening in the next few years.
Typical application of PeakForce QNM imaging on living plant cells. (A) Projection from a confocal stack of an Arabidopsis Thaliana shoot apical meristem. Membranes were labeled with FM4-64. (B and C) PeakForce QNM images (top: 3D-height, topography only; bottom: 3D-height with DMT modulus skin). The DMT modulus channel clearly indicated that the cell edges (anticlinal cell walls) were significantly stiffer than the rest of the cell. Circled areas show regions where the modulus and optical maps reveal the presence of anticlinal cell walls that are not detected when using topography alone. (Images from Bruker Application Note #141.)
So it's clear that the ease-of-use that the PeakForce Tapping modes bring to AFM are incredibly valuable for a lot of your users. Do any of the expert users that you've mentioned now feel like this has almost devalued their expertise to some extent?
Perhaps originally, now though, two years on, there are very few experts we talk to who still think that way. Even the most experienced scientists use PeakForce Tapping because it is reliable and judgement free - and produces data just as good as they can manually.
We've also done some tests comparing expertly tuned TappingMode data with one-button PeakForce Tapping data generated by a novice, and in a lot of cases the PeakForce Tapping technology actually produced a better image than the expert.
Do you have any plans that you can tell us about to add more property- or application-specific modes to the PeakForce Tapping range?
There a couple of areas I can think of that have great promise. One is the integration of optical signals, where you can map physical and chemical properties simultaneously. This can be achieved by acquiring a near-field optical signal on the same probe, so that the optical data adds an extra dimension to the AFM map. This would be a great piece of integration, to give you a multi-dimensional nanoscale map of a complex system in one pass.
There is a lot of work going on already with the integration of optical spectroscopy with AFM, and I think that is going to continue as a great way to enhance the mechanical map with chemical data.
The other way to get that chemical data onto the map would be to convert PeakForce Tapping into a pure chemical mapping tool.
How is this possible? Well, we could chemically functionalize the probe, so that the probe has some molecular recognition ability. You can do this to some extent already, but there is no way to create a full chemical map. PeakForce Tapping does have the capability to let us try this out in the future, with a variety of functionalizied tips - effectively making the AFM probe a biochemical tool, rather than a mechanical tool.
This would be a great addition for many of the applications we have talked about - mapping out molecules on a live cell surface, mapping any protein, or crystal, or any number of things. I see that as a great direction for the future, but there is a lot of development to be done, which we expect to be doing ourselves, in collaboration with, and alongside our scientific users, to achieve the necessary chemical specificity through surface functionalization.
About Chanmin Su
Chanmin Su is the inventor of 18 patents used in AFM systems, including PeakForce Tapping. He received his Ph.D in solid-state physics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1988, and pursued post-doctoral research at KFA Forschunszentrum in Germany. In 1991, he worked for the University of Maryland as a research associate and then as an assistant research professor.
Moving to industrial research in 1998, Chanmin took the position of principal scientist at Raytheon Systems, developing a MEMS barometer for millimeter infrared detector arrays. Chanmin Su subsequently joined Veeco Instruments in 2000 as a senior staff scientist. He is currently serving as Director of Technology in AFM business at Bruker Nano Surfaces, overseeing technology development.
Chanmin has published over 60 papers and two book chapters on the topics of the mechanical properties of bulk/thin film materials and AFM instrumentation, and has been the co-organizer of several international conferences on scanning probe microscopy, as well as a panelist for several national and international reviews on future technologies.
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Will Soutter
Will has a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Durham, and a M.Sc. in Green Chemistry from the University of York. Naturally, Will is our resident Chemistry expert but, a love of science and the internet makes Will the all-rounder of the team. In his spare time Will likes to play the drums, cook and brew cider.
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Most Germans have heard of Salmonella but not Campylobacter
By News Desk on May 15, 2019
Less than a third of people in Germany have heard of Campylobacter, according to a survey by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR).
Campylobacter, the most common bacterial pathogen of diarrheal diseases, was better known than last year, but still only 28 percent of people had heard of it.
From 2012 to 2016, Germany, along with the Czech Republic and United Kingdom, were the European countries that reported the most cases per year. The notification rate in Germany increased 15 percent from 2012 to 2016.
In 2016, Czech Republic, Germany, Spain and the U.K. accounted for almost 70 percent of all confirmed cases in Europe. Germany had 73,663 confirmed cases in 2016 compared to 69,829 the year before.
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The BfR Consumer Monitor gives an insight every six months into how Germans perceive health risks. More than 1,000 people aged 14 and over living in private houses were interviewed in February by telephone on behalf of the BfR.
A huge 96 percent of respondents knew about Salmonella. This pathogen, genetically modified foods and microplastics in food topped the awareness scale of health and consumer topics in Germany.
Germany reported 12,858 confirmed salmonellosis cases in 2016 compared to 13,667 the year before and 16,000 in 2014. From 2012 to 2016, a decreasing trend was seen in the country.
Just more than half said they trusted state authorities to protect consumer health. Overall people were not as concerned as they were in the last survey in summer 2018.
As in the previous year, antimicrobial resistance and microplastics are still the topics most respondents are worried about. However, compared to the previous survey, the population is less concerned about antimicrobial resistance, with 57 percent reporting they were worried about it. Almost half said they were not worried about food hygiene at home.
Seventy percent said they had heard of mycotoxins in food while just more than half knew about fipronil in eggs, egg products and chicken meat. Awareness of both of these topics decreased from the previous time.
More than three-fourths of Germans regarded food as safe but one-third said safety was decreasing. Four in 10 said the quality of food in the country was tending to stay the same while 42 percent said it was decreasing.
"Interest in consumer health topics is increasing steadily. Despite all this, people underestimate the risk posed by pathogens in the kitchen," said Professor Dr. Andreas Hensel, BfR president.
The BfR is within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) in Germany and advises the Federal Government on questions of food, chemical and product safety.
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The Mysterious Life Magazine Photographer Who Loved Animals
By David Rosenberg
Left: Members of the Young Women's Republican Club of Milford, CT, 1941. Right: Popular Shoulder Length Hairstyles for Teenagers, 1947.
Nina Leen, copyright Time Inc, courtesy of Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York
There isn't a lot that we know about Nina Leen, a Life magazine staff photographer from 1945 until the magazine switched from a weekly publication to a monthly one in 1972, and whose images appeared on more than 40 of the magazine's covers.
In John Loengard's book Life Photographers: What They Saw, Leen, who died in 1995, discusses growing up around Europe and having a variety of childhood pets, including a monkey and some snakes. She also mentions that one of her favorite early jobs was working as a photographer in a zoo. Indeed, her imagery of animals is some of her best-known work. She was also be drawn to a variety of eccentric people and subjects, a combination seen in her behind the scenes with Ringling Brothers in 1949.
Last fall, a collector consigned one of Leen's prints, Teenagers at a Party, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1947, for the curator and galleriest Daniel Cooney's online auction.
"The photograph didn't jump out at me upon first look, but it slowly took up residence in my mind as I looked at it more," Cooney said. "It's a great image and evokes a feeling of innocence and nostalgia for that time period."
Left: Tommy Tucker, 1944. Right: Tommy Tucker, 1944.
Left: Actress Joan Roberts during Intermission from Oklahoma, roaring with laughter with her English Bulldog Goggles, 1944. Right: Metropolitan Opera's Heldentenor Lauritz Melchoir and wife with his great dane, NYC, 1944.
Cooney said he was most attracted by they ways in which Leen excelled within assignments she was given, such as her work with Tommy Tucker, the orphaned and trained grey squirrel.
"The images are amazing!" he said. "They are surreal, totally weird and entirely hilarious, some of the oddest photographs I have seen in years."
Editing the show proved to be a challenge because Cooney is telling a story about a photographer he's never met and about whom little is known. From hundreds of images, he selected the fewer than 40 that he found to be the most compelling.
"I let the best images speak to my intuition and rise to the top," he said. "It's a very natural and organic way to curate an exhibition. The exhibition is not a retrospective or intended to tell the complete story of Nina Leen. It is an introduction and a tribute to an amazing photographer who piques my curiosity and who I want to know more about. The show is my attempt to understand her work."
Left: Oven at the Kitchen of Tomorrow Exhibition, Toledo, OH, 1943. Right: High School Sorority Initiation Ritual, Wester Groves, MO, 1944.
To help curate the show, he worked with Amy Wong of Life Gallery of Photography and Rebekah Burgess of Time, Inc. Unfortunately, they weren't able to provide any more background information about Leen.
"At first I was frustrated that I was finding so little information on Leen but then I realized that the mystery is the story here," he said. "The fact that she has ben virtually overlooked speaks volumes. Her voice and her legacy is in her images."
"I think the story is that Leen was a visually gifted and ambitious photographer who has been overlooked by history."
"Nina Leen: Lenslady" will be on view at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York from March 26 through May 15.
Left: Teenager boys heckling girls at a hen party, Des Moines, Iowa, c. late 1940s. Right: Young Couple's Formal Dance, 1953.