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Q: How to mock in method superclass, starts with static method? How can I mock the "getServerName" method in the superclass using PowerMockito  or Mockito?
public class A extends B{

  public static String builder(){
    return new A().get();
  }

  private String get() {
    return this.getServerName();
  }
}

public abstract class B{

  protected String getServerName(){
    return "Server 1";
  }
}

Remembering that I perform by static method:
public static void main (String [] args) {
   String name = A.builder();
}

A: I was able to solve it!
You have to spy class A
A a = PowerMockito.spy(new A());
PowerMockito.when(a, "getServerName")
           .thenReturn("Mock Value");

// Here is the movement, you have to replace the original constructor.
PowerMockito.whenNew(A.class).withNoArguments().thenReturn(a);

System.out.print(A.builder());

--> Mock Value


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Bucculatrix alpina is a moth in the family Bucculatricidae. The species was first described by Heinrich Frey in 1870. It is found in southern France, Switzerland, Austria and Italy.

The wingspan is about 9 mm.

The larvae feed on Leucanthemum pallens and Staehelina dubia. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Larvae can be found in February and March.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

External links
 Images representing Bucculatrix alpina  at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

Bucculatricidae
Moths described in 1870
Taxa named by Heinrich Frey
Moths of Europe
Leaf miners

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Q: Why round(4.5) == 4 and round(5.5) == 6 in Python 3.5? Looks like both 4.5 and 5.5 have exact float representations in Python 3.5:
>>> from decimal import Decimal
>>> Decimal(4.5)
Decimal('4.5')
>>> Decimal(5.5)
Decimal('5.5')

If this is the case, then why
>>> round(4.5)
4
>>> round(5.5)
6

?

A: Python 3 uses Bankers Rounding, which rounds .5 values to the closest even number.

A: In Python 3, exact half way numbers are rounded to the nearest even result. This behavior changed in Python 3

The round() function rounding strategy and return type have changed. Exact halfway cases are now rounded to the nearest even result instead of away from zero. (For example, round(2.5) now returns 2 rather than 3.) round(x[, n]) now delegates to x.round([n]) instead of always returning a float. It generally returns an integer when called with a single argument and a value of the same type as x when called with two arguments.

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Like the technological leap to mechanized logging, the Canadian forest industry is currently undergoing significant technological advances that will see the industry continue to evolve.
Reduced demand for Canadian lumber in residential construction in the United States, the emergence of China and India as economic powerhouses, the unfolding of the bio-economy, climate change, development of capacity to produce new engineered wood products, and evolution from the 'product push' to the 'market pull' business model are creating both new challenges and opportunities for the forest industry.
Given the transformation taking place in the industry, Logging and Sawmilling Journal is pleased to announce that it will now be incorporating a publication called 'The Edge – Forest Innovation' into its pages, to provide our own version of 'value-added' to our readers.
As the section develops, we intend to present our readers with information on some of the most cutting edge and economically feasible developments occurring in forestry research and development, that perhaps could be adopted in their own operations. We look forward to growing and evolving along with the industry in the coming years.
Research organization Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions (AI Bio) wants to encourage the oil and gas sector—and others—to consider partnering with the forest industry to invest in the most promising 'green' technologies identified by the groundbreaking Future Bio-pathways Project.
AI Bio invests in research and innovation to grow prosperity in Alberta's agriculture, food and forest sectors.
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), along with FPInnovations was a major proponent of Future Bio-pathways, which provided the Canadian forest industry with value propositions and implementation strategies for integrating various green product technologies into conventional forestry operations. Examples include power generation using forest biomass, manufacturing of more environmentally friendly industrial fluids such as those used in oil and gas production, production of bio-oil, syndiesel or a benign nanomaterial called nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC).
As the study phase of Future Bio-pathways comes to a close, the focus now is on creating outreach networks.
Catherine Cobden, FPAC vice-president of economics and regulatory affairs, says the bio-opportunity for Alberta's forestry sector and potential partner industries can't be understated.
With the support of AI Bio, Cobden recently met to discuss Future Bio-pathways findings with about 60 individuals from various Alberta government departments, agencies, and forestry companies. In early June, FPAC representatives followed up with an outreach networking event for forestry and oil and gas representatives in Kananaskis.
"We think a partnership network can really play a role in identifying what the strategic needs are to see this really happen on the ground in Alberta," Cobden says.
AI Bio executive director Steve Price says there is a very high level of enthusiasm among Alberta's industries to explore potential partnerships to bring some of the lowest hanging fruit identified in the Future Bio-pathways report to reality.
The need for outreach to other industries by the forest sector is important; the Future Bio-pathways report concludes that among the most cost effective ways for the forest industry to take advantage of 'green' opportunities as the bio-economy unfolds is to partner with companies in such sectors as the oil and gas, chemical, pharmaceutical, automotive, and aerospace industries, just to name a few.
Price agrees that the outreach networking process is a very important next step, and AI Bio will do all it can to facilitate that much needed dialogue among the province's key industry sectors. A major potential outcome with more forestry diversification into bio-products is development of a forestry sector that is more resilient to the ebb and flow of commodity wood markets.
Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions is encouraging the forest industry and the energy sector to work together on bio-product development.
For more information on the Future Bio-pathways Project and industry networks being established between forestry and other sectors, contact Steve Price at (780) 427-2567 or steve.price@albertainnovates.ca or Catherine Cobden at (613) 563-1441 ex.314 or ccobden@fpac.ca.
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For the first time in Western Canada, Canadian Wood Fibre Centre (CWFC) researchers have demonstrated this innovative and commercially proven woody biomass harvesting system.
The 'bio-baler', a patented juvenile hardwood baling system originally developed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in collaboration with the CWFC and Laval University in Quebec City, is now being manufactured commercially by a Quebec company called Anderson Group Inc.
Operation of the bio-baler requires no additional special equipment. It can be pulled behind a standard 200 horsepower tractor, and the result is a wood fibre round bale similar in appearance to a straw bale. The bio-baler produces round bales weighing between 250 and 450 kgs. It is suited for stands containing fibre with stems no larger than 10 to 12 centimetres thick. The round bales can then be loaded onto a flatbed truck for transport, just like straw or hay bales, or stored on site to dry even when exposed to the elements.
CWFC researchers believe that the bio-baler is one proven option that successfully addresses the issue of how woody biomass can be harvested and transported to any number of forestry operations or standalone sites for use as green fuel, raw material for the production of bio-products, or both. Biomass harvesting and delivery is an integral part of the business case forest companies will need to develop to produce value added products from existing operations.
Alberta Pacific Forest Industries (Al-Pac), a large pulp producer in Athabasca, Alberta, has asked CWFC to use the bio-baler as part of a study it is conducting to identify possible options to acquire an additional 50,000 green tonnes annually of biomass from existing regenerating managed aspen stands to add to the 500,000 green tonnes it already consumes in its boiler. About 75 per cent of the boiler biomass comes from wood residues collected from Al-Pac's wood yard, with the remaining coming from external sources. The biomass fuel is used to generate power for the pulp mill as well as for the provincial grid. Upgrades made to the Al-Pac boiler will require an additional 50,000 green tonnes of biomass to be consumed on an annual basis.
CWFC is harvesting fibre from managed stands—ranging from less than 15,000 stems per hectare, from between 15,000 and 25,000 stems per hectare and more than 25,000 stems per hectare—to evaluate the most economical sites and methods to acquire the additional biomass fibre needed by Al-Pac. The sites were harvested last winter and the bales have been hauled to the pulp mill. Post-harvest assessment has been completed and researchers are now conducting long term regeneration assessments on the harvested sites. CWFC will present its findings to Al-Pac this fall.
Keddy says that as part of the Centre's mandate to present options to industry, it has been evaluating how to economically harvest juvenile hardwood stands using a variety of harvesting methods in close proximity to forestry operations for nearly a decade. Its researchers have also been studying options for harvesting biomass from powerline and pipeline easements, where at present much of the vegetation is simply mulched on site.
Keddy added that Al-Pac will realize a dual benefit from harvesting juvenile hardwood for biomass. In addition to acquiring an additional green fuel source, CWFC believes that by harvesting the juvenile aspen, which has already established its own root system, it will actually increase the aspen regeneration potential of these sites.
"We expect to have a lot more stems per hectare regenerating after harvesting and hopefully gain more volume per hectare, especially on sites with less than 15,000 stems per hectare," says Keddy.
Private landowners currently supplying Al-Pac with a portion of their wood supply could also substantially benefit by considering this biomass harvesting method. At present, they are growing aspen trees for pulp, which take about 80 years to grow. However, after that crop is harvested, they could choose to bale the regeneration and produce another cash crop from the site on a much more frequent harvesting cycle.
As part of its study for Al-Pac, researchers are evaluating different removal rates to study the most economical option for landowners. A control site of no removal is being compared to sites with 50 per cent and 100 per cent removal rates, comparing regeneration, post harvest growth, and total volume per site.
For more information on CWFC research related to woody biomass harvesting of juvenile hardwoods from managed stands in the Boreal Plains region, contact Tim Keddy at (780) 435-7212 or tkeddy@NRCan.gc.ca, or Derek Sidders at (780) 435-7355 or dsidders@nrcan.gc.ca.


The Wild has lost its home-ice mojo, with an 8-10-2 record in St. Paul since Nov. 13.
The Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Wild are the only Minneapolis–Saint Paul area major professional sports league franchise to play in Saint Paul until Minnesota United FC move to their new home, Allianz Field, in 2019.


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John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law
Chris Guthrie is a leading expert on behavioral law and economics, dispute resolution, negotiation and judicial decision making. Over the course of his academic career, he has been recognized for his research and teaching with two CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution Professional Article Prizes, the Outstanding First-Year Course Professor Award at Northwestern University Law School, and multiple teaching and research prizes at the University of Missouri, among other awards. He is one of the authors of the influential textbook Dispute Resolution and Lawyers and has published more than 50 scholarly articles and essays in leading law journals, including the University of Chicago Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
Dean Guthrie joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2002 following six years on the faculty at the University of Missouri School of Law. He served as the law school's associate dean for academic affairs from 2004-08 and became Dean in July 2009. During his academic career, Dean Guthrie has served as a visiting professor at the Northwestern, Vanderbilt and Washington University law schools. Before entering the legal academy, he practiced law with Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, California.
Dean Guthrie graduated with distinction and honors from Stanford University and then earned his master's in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a law degree from Stanford Law School. At Vanderbilt, Dean Guthrie has taught Torts, Negotiation and Dispute Resolution.
Behavioral law and economics, dispute resolution, negotiation, mediation, judicial decision making, legal education and scholarship
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Dispute Resolution and Lawyers (West Publishing, 6th edition 2019) (with Leonard R. Riskin, Richard C. Reuben, Jennifer K. Robbennolt, Nancy A. Welsh and Art Hinshaw)
"Contrition in the Courtroom: Do Apologies Affect Adjudication?" 98 Cornell Law Review 1189 (2013) (with Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich)
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"Carhart, Constitutional Rights, and the Psychology of Regret," 81 Southern California Law Review 877 (2008)
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"'The Threes': Reimagining Supreme Court Decision Making," 61 Vanderbilt Law Review 1825 (2008) (with Tracey George) (essay)
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"Blinking on the Bench: How Judges Decide Cases," 93 Cornell Law Review 1 (2007) (with Jeffrey J. Rachlinski & Judge Andrew J. Wistrich)
"Can Judges Ignore Inadmissible Information?: The Difficulty of Deliberately Disregarding," 153 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1115 (2005) (with Jeffrey J. Rachlinski & Judge Andrew J. Wistrich)
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"Panacea or Pandora's Box? The Costs of Options in Negotiation," 88 Iowa Law Review (2003)
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"Inside the Judicial Mind," 86 Cornell Lew Review 777 (2001) (with Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Judge Andrew J. Wistrich)
"Framing Frivolous Litigation: A Psychological Theory," 67 University of Chicago Law Review 163 (2000)
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Since the work stated earlier in the year, many minds have been changed and some of those who did not embrace ganja as a viable medical and financial option, are expressing a willingness to 'give it a try'.
While various states in America have already decriminalized the 'drug', the Caribbean Governments continue their dialogue. Those taking the lead so far to take action have included Jamaica, Antigua, St. Lucia and St. Vincent.
For many decades though the main voices across the Caribbean calling for the herb to be legalized, were those of the Rastafarian Faith. Many can remember reggae super start Peter Tosh, himself a Rasta (no deceased), singing in one of his memorable hits, Legalize it, and we'll advertise it".
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St. Kitts & Nevis too has been engaged with its own committee seeking the views of the public and organizations.
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As the work of the government continues in this direction, the next target group for consultation will be the church leaders.
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Mohammed, who has just returned from a joint UN-African Union mission to the three Sahel countries of South Sudan, Niger and Chad, stressed the need to address the stark cost that women and girls pay for conflict.
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Problem: Given a text document, classify it as a scientific or non-scientific one.
The example uses a case class LabeledText to have the schema described nicely.
It is then tokenized and transformed into another DataFrame with an additional column called features that is a Vector of numerical values.
Paste the code below into Spark Shell using :paste mode.
Now, the tokenization part comes that maps the input text of each text document into tokens (a Seq[String]) and then into a Vector of numerical values that can only then be understood by a machine learning algorithm (that operates on Vector instances).
The train a model phase uses the logistic regression machine learning algorithm to build a model and predict label for future input text documents (and hence classify them as scientific or non-scientific).
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Let's tune the model's hyperparameters (using "tools" from org.apache.spark.ml.tuning package).
FIXME Review the available classes in the org.apache.spark.ml.tuning package.
Let's use the cross-validated model to calculate predictions and evaluate their precision.
You can eventually save the model for later use.


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Friday: Campsite 10am (Weekend ticket holders)
Day ticket holders Thu 3pm, Fri-Sun 10am.
The main entrance to the festival is on Eakring Lane, just to the West of Kirklington off the A617. For SatNav, please use the postcode for Archway House, NG22 8NX.
Cycling: We are half a mile from National Cycle Route 645, which continues on an easy flat ride of about 2 miles into Southwell. Pedestrians and cyclists can enter via Home Farm Lane off the A617.
Shuttle Bus: We are running a shuttle bus to and from Southwell over the weekend. This will run hourly from Friday evening and all over the weekend. There's a timetable on the website, and on the bus-stop at The Burgage in Southwell. It will also be available in the box office.
Covid-19 We have set out our Covid-19 plans in the festival management plan which we have agreed with the local authority and as you'd expect things are a little different than they'd be in a normal year. Our aim is to make the festival a safe and comfortable space for all to enjoy.
All staff, volunteers, artists and traders will be required to have a lateral flow test prior to their arrival. We encourage everyone else to do a lateral flow test 24 hrs before arriving as well; please do not attend the festival if your test is positive, if you have Covid symptoms or if you have been contacted by Test & Trace and told to isolate. On arrival attendees will be asked to scan a QR code, or to enter their details on paper forms during their visit. We ask everyone to bring masks and hand sanitiser and to respect everyone else by maintaining social distance, especially in any enclosed spaces. Thank you.
There will be sanitising stations around the site, but please bring your own too, so it's always to hand.
What to bring? The Main Stage and Frontier Stage will be totally open stages this year due to Covid, so please bring your own chairs and blankets to sit on. We'll be marking out safe spaces and corridors on the ground to allow social distancing. The Folk Stage will be covered but without the usual walls, and you'll need to bring your own camping chairs for there too.
Looking forward to welcoming you! The GTSF Team


Toronto is Canada's shopping capital, where top international labels and incredible local brands are all on offer.
The most famous mall is the Eaton Centre. It's comprehensive insofar as it has brand-name stores, restaurants and entertainment under one roof. That said, it's hardly worth leaving home for. Visitors are far better off seeking out local stores that are unique to the city. Lovers of haute couture should try Canadian labels such as Lida Baday, Ross Mayer, Crystal Siemens and Linda Lundstrom.
St Lawrence Market has an amazing array of local arts and crafts, plus excellent food. Kensington Market is the place to go for vintage clothing and other eccentric paraphernalia, while the Heritage Antique Market has an amazing selection of vintage items.
Queen St West is an essential stroll for the serious shopper. It's where visitors will find the best that young and trendy Toronto has to offer. Past Bathurst Street has small, independent art galleries, where discerning buyers can pick up a souvenir that just may grow in value. Yorkville, along Bloor Street, is the city's most exclusive shopping district. It's home to the boutiques and jewellers from Milan, Paris and London.
Hunting for souvenirs? Toronto does suggest some obvious choices like maple syrup, and gifts emblazoned with Mounties or maple leafs. Alternative choices would be Native American art, dream catchers or moccasins.


How much does it cost to move from Spokane to Camano?
How much does it cost to move from Spokane, Washington to Camano, Washington? The distance is 275 miles, so most of the moving cost will be in transporting your furniture and boxes.


Stays are proposed all year round, often combined with key events and highlights from the region. The variety of stays means that there's always something to meet your needs and expectations. Everyone will find the package best suited to them to enjoy a welcome change of scenery out on the Alsace's roads.
These stays and trails have been created based on your capacities and interests as tourists combined with the pleasure of being out in the open air and with well-balanced physical exercise. Discover the many cycle trails to be found in the Alsace region.
Whether you are novices or experienced cyclists, occasional cycle tourists or adepts at long-distance cycling, everyone can prepare a circuit to suit their own preferences and discover our region at their pace, based on their own tastes and abilities.


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Q: BeautifulSoup returning different html - not a final result (python) I'm trying to parse 'Company description' data from given url;
https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/careers/search.aspx#sr-post-id=743999734133930,
but the html fetched by soup is different than what I see in the browser. What I get is a language selection (which I guess happens under the hood on page visit). How can I get the 'final' data for this url?
Here's the code I'm using:
import pandas as pd
pd.set_option('display.max_colwidth', 500)
import time
import requests
import random

page = requests.get("https://api.smartrecruiters.com/v1/companies/Ubisoft2/postings?limit=100&offset=1600&_=1612802051149")
page
soup = bs(page.content)
record_el = soup('body')[0]

Additionally, is there any other solution that comes to mind for similar task (scraping thematic data from various websites, such as 'company description' in case described above)?
Thanks!


Atmel recently announced a two-pin, single-wire EEPROM intended for the Internet of Things (IoT), wearables, and more. The self-powered devices don't require a power source or VCC pin, with a parasitic power scheme over the data pin. They provide ultra-low power standby of 700 nA, 200 µA for write current, and 80 µA for read current at 25°C.
The AT21CS01/11 devices eliminate the need for external capacitors and rectifiers with its parasitic power scheme over a single data pin. Plus, their ultra-high write endurance capability to allow more than 1 million cycles for each memory location to meet the requirements for today's high-write endurance applications.
The AT21CS01/11 products include a simple product identification with a plug-and-play, 64-bit unique serial number in every device. Furthermore, they deliver industry-leading electrostatic discharge (ESD) rating (IEC 61000-4-2 Level 4 ESD Compliant), so a variety of applications (e.g., cables and consumables) can tolerate exposure to the outside environment or direct human contact while still delivering high performance.
The new devices follow the I2C protocol, which enables easy migration from existing EEPROM with less overhead and the capability to connect up to eight devices on the same bus. The AT21CS01 devices offer a security register with a 64-bit factory programmed serial number and an extra 16 bytes of user-programmable and permanently lockable storag.
The AT21CS01 is intended for low-voltage applications operating at 1.7 to 3.6 V. For applications that require higher voltage ranges (e.g., Li-Ion/polymer batteries), the AT21CS11 supports a 2.7 to 4.5 V operating range.
The AT21CS01 devices are available in production quantities in three-lead SOT23, eight-lead SOIC, and four-ball WLCSP. Pricing starts at $0.32 in 5,000-piece quantities. The AT21CS11 will be available in Q4 2015.
Some experts predict it will be at least another decade before new memory technologies offer the low prices and wide availability to compete with NAND-based flash memory. Nonetheless, it's worthwhile to look at potential NAND-flash successors, including phase-change RAM (PRAM), resistive RAM (ReRAM), and magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM).
In December's Circuit Cellar magazine, now available online, Faiz Rahman describes and compares the newest memory technologies available for embedded systems.
"I cover only those devices that are now commercially available, but bear in mind that many other technologies are being hotly pursued in academic and corporate research labs worldwide," says Rahman, an Ohio University visiting professor who received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London.
For example, last summer MIT Technology Review reported on a startup company's testing of crossbar memory. The new technology, according to an August 14, 2013, article written by Tom Simonite, can store data 40 times as densely as the most compact memory available and is faster and more energy-efficient.
The structure of phase-change RAM cells in reset and set states is shown.
There have been several recent advances in phase-change RAM (PRAM) technology. Perhaps the most remarkable is the ability to control the cell-heating current precisely enough to create several intermediate cell-resistance values. This immediately increases the memory capacity as each cell can be made to store more than one bit. For example, if eight resistance values can be created and distinguished, then the cell can be used to store three bits, thus tripling the memory capacity. This is now a routinely used technique implemented with PRAM devices.
A spin-torque magnetoresistive RAM cell's structure includes a free layer, a tunnel barrier, and a fixed layer.
but fast nonvolatile memory. This combination is difficult to come by, but proponents of magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) think boot times could soon become outdated as this new memory becomes a mature product….
MRAM's nonvolatility alone will not make it a potential game-changing technology. Its high-access speed is what makes it special. Unlike other nonvolatile memory (e.g., EEPROMs and flash), MRAM boasts typical access speeds of 35 ns and potentially as short as 4 ns, with further developments. This combined with MRAM's extremely high endurance and data retention periods of more than 20 years even makes the technology suitable for use as CPU cache memories, which is a very demanding application.
One further advantage of MRAM is that its basic architecture—where the access transistor can be formed directly on top of the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ)—enables very dense integration, greatly reducing the cost of storage per bit and making MRAM well suited for use in solid-state disks.
A ferroelectric RAM cell's organizational structure is shown.
after only a few milliseconds. This means that all DRAM chips have to be periodically read and every cell's state must be restored every few milliseconds. The requirement for periodic "refresh" operations increases the power consumption of DRAM banks, in addition to endangering data integrity in the case of even short power supply dips.
Within this backdrop, ferroelectric RAM (FRAM) became a potential game changer when it was introduced in the early 1990s…The permanence of induced electrical polarization in ferroelectric capacitors endows FRAMs with their nonvolatility. To write a particular bit, a FRAM's cell capacitor is briefly charged in one direction to polarize the ferroelectric material between its plates. The capacitor voltage can then be removed and the bit state will be retained in the directional sense of the dielectric material's polarization. No charges may leak away, and the polarization can be maintained for many years making FRAM, in a sense, a nonvolatile analog of DRAM….
A big advantage of using FRAM in microcontrollers is that just one memory can be used for program, data, and information storage instead of having to use separate flash, SRAM, and EEPROM blocks, which has been the trend so far.
A typical resistive RAM cell's structure is shown.
utilizes materials and structures where suitable voltages can alter memory cells' resistive states so they can store one or more data bits, similar to PRAM.
There are strong hints that ReRAM is capable of very fast switching with symmetric read and write times of less than 10 ns. This comes with a remarkably low power consumption, which should make this technology ideal for many applications.
As if these attributes were not enough, ReRAM cells are very small and can be placed extremely close together, which results in high-density memory fabrics.
Rahman's article also introduces manufacturers offering products with the latest memory technologies, but he declares no single memory device the best. Despite manufacturers extolling their particular products, those that succeed will need to be available in high volume and at low cost, he says. They also must offer high-storage densities, he says, a bar most new memory technologies struggle to reach.


Steve Hayhurst, Al Brockie and John Anderson hosted at EXCEED's PESGB Prospex fair stand at the Business Design Centre in 2015. This year they will once again be present, at Stand 42 on the 14th and 15th of December, and are looking forward to a busy show. Should your future plans include well construction, well integrity or well abandonment requirements, both domestically or internationally then drop by to learn more about our experience and how we can help.


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Biggest winners of Loyalty & Engagement Awards 2020
Singtel has dethroned former holders DBS Bank at MARKETING-INTERACTIVE's eighth annual Loyalty & Engagement Awards, beating out stiff competition to seal the title of "L&E 2020 Brand of the Year". The telecoms giant took home four Golds, three Silvers and four Bronze on their way to the title. Campaigns such as Singtel Stepup, GOMO Pass, and ReadyRoam Instant Relief Campaign were received very highly by the awards' jury. took home three gold, two silver and four bronze trophies across all categories.
Held as a virtual announcement, the 2020 awards saw finalists tuning in from around Southeast Asia, to see who fared best in the 35 enterable categories up for grab, plus the 4 Best in Show categories.
Last year's L&E champions DBS Bank took home the runner-up title this time around. While they did not retain the top spot, they still impressed the judges with their work on the DBS Lifestyle App and the DBS Travel Mode and "Prosper More, Waste Less" campaigns. StarHub, UOB, and retail chain BWS tied for the third most points, with energy titan Shell International Petroleum not far behind. In total, 46 unique brands won at least one trophy across all categories.
In addition to Overall L&E Brand, three other overall titles were awarded on the night to recognise the agencies across three main areas; relationship marketing, loyalty marketing and engagement marketing. GERMS unseated last year's winner Meet Isaac for "Loyalty Agency of the Year." Edenred is this year's "Relationship Marketing Agency of the Year" while the "Engagement Agency of the Year" title went to M&C Saatchi, Woolworths@DAN, WX.
MARKETING-INTERACTIVE was delighted to recognise and reward brands and agencies from across Southeast Asia, South Asia and ANZ regions that are pushing the boundaries in consumer-centric marketing and loyalty activities to help grow and retain their biggest advocates – their customers. The awards were judged by an independent panel of senior industry experts who spent two weeks reviewing the awards' submissions. A number of clear winners emerged but the judges were delighted to see efforts from a variety of fields developing loyalty and engagement campaigns to promote, facilitate and enable sustainable client-brand relationships.
The Loyalty & Engagement Awards 2020 was sponsored by Collinson and Edenred. MARKETING-INTERACTIVE congratulates all finalists and winners at this year's exciting awards announcement for being at the cutting-edge of customer loyalty and engagement and being the finest in the region.
Check out the full list of winners here


On 5 and 6 July in Barcelona, the Metropolis Secretariat General organised two days of reflection on the association's strategy for the future. The event brought together 64 people from 16 member and collaborating organisations.
This event was held with the current situation in mind, marked by various commitments on an international level, namely the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 and the New Urban Agenda, which will have a clear impact on the local governments that are members of the association. In addition to these commitments, it must be noted that new dynamics are emerging in the international ecosystem of networks of local governments, which are reconfiguring the relationships among all of their players.
With several different group activities created by consultancy D'Aleph, the participants reflected on the main challenges facing Metropolis and the best ways to tackle them, such as gender mainstreaming in all areas of the association.
To identify and share experiences among cities, as well as carrying out joint projects to generate and grow cities' knowledge regarding gender.
To position Metropolis as a global benchmark in gender-related issues for local policy, in line with the association's agenda.
The second day of reflection was set aside to discuss the four areas Metropolis focuses on: sharing knowledge, training, policy transfer and advocacy. The participants broke into smaller groups to discuss to what extent the actions the association carries out are aligned with its mission and vision, as discussed the previous day. Afterwards, time was set aside for proposals to improve the association's most relevant issues and reflect on how to implement them over the coming years.
The result of these days of reflection and debate have been compiled in a report featuring the contributions of the participants and the main conclusions reached in order to enrich the meeting of the Board of Directions that will be held in Bogotá in October.


Once, a lady with her family was staying in a 3-star hotel for a picnic.
She was the mother of a 6 month old baby.
"No problem", said the lady.
They stopped at a road side tea stall and took milk from the tea vendor.
she asked the tea vendor.
the old man said with a smile.
The lady took one more cup and left.
She wondered, "Who's richer ?
The hotel manager or the old tea vendor ?
Sometimes, in the race for more money, we forget that we are all humans.
Let's help someone in need, without expecting something in return.
It will make us feel better than what money can.


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HS Students go to Singapore to participate in the Yale-NUS Model UN
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Eye-opening.
This word would be my ideal description of the Yale-NUS Asia Pacific Model United Nations 2016.
On the coldest day of this year's winter, January 20th, the team came together in short-sleeves and shorts at the airport. Everyone seemed very excited for the trip. As soon as we arrived with our suitcases at the Kimhae Airport, Yushin flipped out her infamous selfie stick and everyone took a billion selfies — it is not an exaggeration to say that we took the most selfies at the airport out of the whole trip. Soon, we were on our first plane to the Pudong Airport in Shanghai and after a short lay over, we were on our second plane to the Changi Airport in Singapore. Welcomed by the intense humidity and the long-awaited warmth, we made our way in a bus to Parc Sovereign Hotel for our first night in Singapore. (Woohoo!) It is no secret that we were singing Disney songs on the way as a continuation of our tradition from the Thailand Service Learning Trip. After our check-in, we all went to sleep in anticipation of the next day.
By morning, we were all pumped for a day at the Universal Studios Singapore. We went on almost all of the rides and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves with thrilling roller coasters, bright blue slushes in potion bottles, lunch in Jurassic World, and most importantly, time with friends. Universal Studios was unbelievably thrilling and after all of the stress and difficulties from work at school and preparations for MUN, all of it seemed to vanish after a few screams and shrieks. Following Universal Studios, we took another bus to the Night Safari and saw night animals and fire shows and even took trams through the forest in search of wildlife. That night, having returned to the hotel, everyone fell to sleep.
After the few days of exploring Singapore and learning about Singapore, it was MUN time. On the day of our first committee session, we had a short cultural tour of Singapore on the bus, traveling around Singapore. Before the actual session, everyone put on their business wear and looked sharp. We then traveled to the Yale-NUS College and its beautiful campus for a late night committee session. From here on, we separated into our distinct committees and carried out our debates but I can speak for all of us that it was very intense. After the first committee session, all of us were jaded, This took place for two more days with consecutively three and two committee sessions. From the three days, all of us made new friends and learned innumerable ideas.
On the final day of the committee sessions and our last day in Singapore, at the Flower Garden in the Gardens by the Bay, a beautiful park in Singapore, we had our final ceremony and celebrated the success and end of the Yale-NUS Asia Pacific Model United Nations 2016. The place was beautiful and as a special guest, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Singapore visited. I had a chance to ask him a few questions on Singapore and its place in today's world. Our team had to race to the airport to catch the plane back to Pudong Airport in Shanghai. In Shanghai, we took another plane back to Kimhae Airport and I am going to confess here that I looked like a homeless person sleeping on the seats at the airport. But we were back to
From this invaluable experience, I learned things that I would've never learned. First, from our non-MUN events, I had a chance to truly immerse myself in a new culture. Although Singapore is a small city-state with a small population, the myriad of culture and the diversity of people truly interested me. As for the actual committee sessions, I was excited to see so many kids passionate and committed to the world problems and things happening today around the bubble we tend to live in.
By Jihong Lee
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For any inventory transaction (e.g. Delivery Order, Internal Transfer), you specify a from (source) and to (destination) location.
But actually the search displays all lots in all locations. If you select a Lot in a different location it is displayed in red and you must select another lot, but the search doesn't help you find a correct lot.
When you create a Delivery Order, Odoo will select a valid Lot as the default, but if you want to change to select a different Lot then the system doesn't give you much help.
I understand that in many cases you know which Lots to use (and may scan a barcode) but not always.
I think the solution may not be so simple because the search is against stock.production.lot and the location is not stored on there, but would appreciate any advice or ideas.


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Recently, Shockoe was named as a Leader among Washington DC App Developers by research firm Clutch. Clutch is located in Washington, DC and has the most expansive research coverage on app development agencies worldwide.
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The festival takes place on Comacina Island, at Tremezzo on Lake Como on June 24th, the day of Saint John the Baptist. If the recurrence falls on a weekday, it is celebrated the following Saturday and Sunday.
The origin and name of the sagra dei lumaghitt (Festival of the Lumaghitt) date back to an antique legend according to which three centuries ago the area's inhabitants liberated themselves from the terrible hailstorms that each year in June destroy the harvest, by imploring the protection of St. John the Baptist and carrying out a solemn boat procession to the Comacina Island, where a small church dedicated to the saint stood. From that time on, the furious storms ceased and the procession is repeated each year, with a contour of festivities and nocturnal luminaries. It became a tradition to eat, upon the occasion, polenta and snails. Someone thought of using the empty snail shells: with a little oil and a wick they became small luminaries, and from there comes the name lumaghitt.
With time, the fires ignited on the island and on floating rafts assumed yet another meaning. They remind of the great fire of Comacina Island in 1160, when the inhabitants of Como, as a vendetta against the Comacini (people of Comacina Island, with whom the Milanese had participated in the destruction of their city in 1127), laid waste to the island, destroying everything, including the nine churches that stood on the fortified rock. The lumaghitt show begins at dusk. The fireworks, which last about an hour, generally begin after 10:00 p.m.
From Argegno you can climb in the cableway to Pigra (881 mt.) located on a plateau from which a beautiful panorama of Lake Como can be enjoyed. The Intelvi Valley is full of towns and includes noted tourist localities.


Using the previous tables, a designer can move backwards in the (interactions / game variables / emotions) loop and design game systems that can induce chosen emotions. This requires three steps.
First, the designer picks the emotions he's looking for in the emotions table and finds out which game variables are involved, as well as the required ranges of values and their variations, if any. If the emotion appears in several cells, he can pick the one(s) he prefers. If he wants to avoid an emotion, he must make sure to consider all its instances in the table (and, since the table is by no means complete, where else he thinks the emotion could occur while playing his game).
Second, he chooses in the game and player tables which appropriate game systems can generate these values and variations, either from the game's actions or by giving the player opportunities to make these changes.
Lastly, he instantiates the chosen systems within the context of the desired emotion. Since this last part is of course totally dependent on the designer's personal experience, goals and constraints, the examples below try to be as abstract as possible.
Let's look at how to apply this method to three complex emotional states, each composed of several "atomic" emotions: inducing nurturing instinct, flow, or the sensation of being hunted.
Each of the instantiations of game systems shown in italics is only one of the possible choices a designer could make.
Empathy (Persistent High Data at the System level): Consistent behaviors from game entities (Player can understand the creatures and anticipate their behaviors), Emergent behavior (Creatures are complex enough to seem intelligent and aware of the interactions), Preparation (Player's actions take some effort which increases their perceived value), Ability customization (Creatures respond differently to customized tools, as is they have tastes and preferences), Learning a rule (Creatures are complex enough that the player must spend time to learn their behaviors), Score increase (Creatures give positive feedback when pleased).
Agency (Persistent High Data at the Action level, Persistent High Mastery at the System level): Permanent world change (Player's actions change the creatures, Mistakes can hurt them), Collectibles (Customized tools, Rare behaviors, Rare creatures), XP (System level track of progress and effort needed), Resources (Put the emphasis on the cost of interaction and the player's commitment) (Treats, Meds), Voluntary gameplay mode switch (Player can choose the creatures' activities), Lowering difficulty of current challenge (Slow rhythm, No pressure, No insurmountable challenges), Iconic / Symbolic content with clear affordance (Tools' and activities' functions are clear, one per tool or activity), Positive & negative feedbacks (Creatures show the player whether an interaction is pleasing or not), New long-term goal (Creatures express needs that take a lot of effort to satisfy).
Comfortable routine (Decrease when High Freedom at the System level): Guidance / Clear goal (Creatures' needs generate challenges, Challenge solution is often obvious; it requires investment, not skill), Simulation conventions (Whether inactivity is perceived by the creatures, Whether challenges can be concurrent, etc.), Clear chosen goal (Player can work toward a specific change in the creature) (Creature evolution, Creature training), Local resolutions (Medium-term challenges with little impact on global change, Mistakes can be corrected).
Surprise (Increase when Low Freedom at the System Level, Decrease when High Mastery at the System level): Unlocking content / Inconsistent or random behaviors (Breaks the routine's monotony) (Rare events, random or with rare conditions), Easter eggs (Reward experimentation with creatures).
Naches (Pride for one's child's or mentee's accomplishments) (Increase when High Mastery at the Social level): Mentoring (Player can give goals and progress feedback to the creatures), Cooperation (Creature skill acquisition requires a tight feedback loop with the player), Correct response to cultural cue (Creatures display signs of effort when learning, Creatures' skill acquisition is punctuated by joyful behavior on their part), Teaching a skill / Recurring opponent's mistake (Creatures have disabilities that they can overcome through being taught).
Exhilaration (Persistent High Freedom at the Action level): Action opportunities (Limited constraints on move set, Short-term athletic skill challenges), Resource gain (Steady flow to feed preparation or positive feedback - see below).
Confidence (Persistent High Mastery at the Action level): Affordance (No ambiguous stimuli), Highly trained reflexes / Kinesthetic isomorphism (Player can play without thinking about the controls), Advantage opportunities (Player can identify which sequences of moves can solve local challenge).
Coherence (Persistent High Mastery at the System level): Consistent behaviors from game entities (Player can predict next game state and react accordingly), Positive feedback (Reward local successes with easy challenges, power increase or score multipliers), Hints (Warn the player of imminent danger), Opportunities for exploiting preparation (Short-term tactical combos), Voluntary gameplay mode switch (Player can use favorite tactics), Opportunities for taking the lead (Player catch-up), Opportunities for exploiting emergent behavior (Chain reactions, Player can provoke opponent's mistakes).
Forward thrust (Increase when High Freedom at the System level): Alternative methods / Concurrent goals (Player can use favorite tactics), Generating opportunities (Even if caught off-guard, player can maneuver so he can fall back to favorite tactics), Safeguards (Player can recover from near defeat).
Avoid Boredom (No Excess Mastery at the Action or System levels): Difficulty increase, Complexity increase, Involuntary gameplay mode switch, Random behaviors (Sustained level of perceived difficulty at the Action level, Use semi-random temporary increases in difficulty to keep the player on his toes) (Waves of enemies, One unpredictable enemy type, Periods of low availability of tactical resources).


Today as the dog and I were walking on a early-February-dressed-as-late-March day, I thought to myself, Of course! It's all geography! And then set my feet on the homeward path knowing I'd know what I was talking about when I got back home.
But I didn't. All I remember is the feeling of ah ha! and those now meaningless words.
This is like solving a complex problem in your dream—or writing the perfect paragraph, or understanding a foreign-to-you language, or suddenly realizing the answer to everything—and then, upon waking, knowing nothing more than the distance between your feet and the floor.
So I did the dishes, then wrote an email, then let the dog out, then back in (we'd already done the walk, but he needed to check up on his best friend, the squirrel; the admiration is not mutual, alas…), and then painted the inside of the canelé molds with "white oil" in preparation for baking later today.
And I still didn't know what I'd been thinking, but I had a prickly inkling. You know that feeling that there's something beautiful just out of reach, and you can almost sense it in your peripheral vision, but you can't see it; or you catch a scent of something so delicate that you're not sure such a thing exists, so you keep sniffing and swinging your head in hopes of catching it again; or there's that elusive owl in the dark who hoots every time you're alone with the trees but refuses to converse when you bring a friend.
There are things everywhere like that, real and imagined, so close you think you might just be able to call it gently and coax it to your side, hesitant and unsure, but it keeps its shy distance from you.
The other day I was looking out the bathroom window through a snow squall and I saw what looked like an exploded milkweed pod up high in the sumac. All fluttery white and brown. How odd, I thought. How did that get there? Until my eyes looked beyond my first understanding and the ruffed grouse resolved itself the way a Magic Eye painting suddenly becomes three-dimensional; when you learn how look in just the right way.
I ran to the living room window and it was still there, a puffed ball of feathers and a tiny crested head, impossibly still on a tender branch.
I grabbed the camera, opened the back door, and slid between the snowflakes, trying to walk silently as I imagined a true tracker would to the edge of the deck, but instead making an awful racket on the crusty snow. Still he (she? the difference is subtle, apparently, observable in the coloration of the tips of the tail feathers) remained. The puff was gone, but there he sat, toes curled around the branch, while I clicked the shutter over and over so that I could prove to myself that this one elusive moment was real.
Cold, I went back inside. I looked out the window.
But he was here (I have proof of some sort). And I am here. And at that moment, both together with the snow flying down, anchored miraculously on this whirling planet.
When the snow first started to fall, huge drowsy flakes, meandering past the window, I looked slightly away and saw the movement on the edges of my vision and had that sensation of being in a train car in the station and the train next to you pulls away and you feel for an instant that your train is the moving one.
Am I moving? Or is everything else moving? Or are we moving together? The grouse exited by way of the air. I'm hopelessly terrestrial. Geographically connected, making shapes in the wind.
Ogosh. This is just gorgeous. I love love love this.
Thank you so much for this. I so appreciate it!
What a thought provoking post, I have that happen often and try to hang on to the idea, the words, so I won't forget , so I don't let them go , and still often they are gone and as happened to you I need to let my mind be distracted on other things and often the idea , the words will come up again. Amazing. Love your writing.
It's true. Oftentimes, focusing on something else helps allow the other thing to resurface. Thank you so much for your kind words!
Truly a lovely post. And what an amazing photo! Thank you for putting this feeling into words.
Oh thank you! How kind of you….


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I know there are some in this chamber and watching at home who are skeptical of whether this plan will work. I understand that skepticism. Here in Washington, we've all seen how quickly good intentions can turn into broken promises and wasteful spending. And with a plan of this scale comes enormous responsibility to get it right.That is why I have asked Vice President Biden to lead a tough, unprecedented oversight effort – because nobody messes with Joe. I have told each member of my Cabinet as well as mayors and governors across the country that they will be held accountable by me and the American people for every dollar they spend. I have appointed a proven and aggressive Inspector General to ferret out any and all cases of waste and fraud. And we have created a new Web site called recovery.gov so that every American can find out how and where their money is being spent.
But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market- based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America. And to support that innovation, we will invest fifteen billion dollars a year to develop technologies like wind power and solar power; advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more fuel-efficient cars and trucks built right here in America.
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Q: Uncaught ReferenceError: X is not defined So I am digging through the WebOS enyo framework and am getting very frustrated. I am currently getting the following error in my log. I have been looking at the samples in the framework and I just can't seem to find where the error is stemming from. It's been over a decade since I have done any HTML or js and what I did back then was very basic stuff. Any help would be appreciated

Uncaught ReferenceError: Learning is not defined, index.html:9

Here is the very simple application, I am currently just attempting to get elements to appear on screen.
Index.html
<!doctype html />
<html>
<head>
    <title>Learning</title>
    <script src="../../enyo/1.0/framework/enyo.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <script type="text/javascript">
       new MyApps.Learning().renderInto(document.body);
</script>
</body>
</html>

Learning.js
enyo.kind({
    name: "MyApps.Learning",
    kind: enyo.VFlexBox,
    components: [
        { kind: "Scrim",
            layoutKind: "VFlexLayout",
            align: "center",
            pack: "center",
            components: [
                {kind: "SpinnerLarge"}
            ]
        }
    ]
});

depends.js
enyo.depends(
    "source/Learning.js",
    "css/Learning.css"
);

and just for the heck of it the
appinfo.json
file
{
    "id": "com.myapps.learning",
    "uiRevision": "2",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "vendor": "kizelli",
    "type": "web",
    "main": "index.html",
    "title": "Learning"
}

A: I think this is a problem in your appinfo.json file...
You hold the id as: com.myapps.learning
Yet you reference it as myapps.learning, try either removing the com. from appinfo.json or adding it to your kind definition and your index.html

A: This usually appears when you got something wrong in your Learning.js.
I am not quiet sure, but you could try:
enyo.kind({
    name: "MyApps.Learning",
    kind: enyo.VFlexBox,
    components: [
        {kind: "Scrim",
         layoutKind: "VFlexLayout",
         align: "center",
         pack: "center",
         components: [
                {kind: "SpinnerLarge"}
            ]
        }
    ]
});

A: In my experience, this problem occurs when the path to enyo.js is wrong.   I had an older copy of the SDK/emulator, so enyo.js was not found at the path I had copied from the tutorial.  Upgrading the SDK fixed it for me, but you can probably ssh into your emulator to find the correct path.
if enyo is not loaded, it won't be able to created any kinds (MyApps.Learning) you've created.
I was kind of disappointed that there were no errors logged when enyo was not found or didn't load....


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There are many myths about medicine these days. Some are harmless, but many can lead to all sorts of problems. One very harmful medical myth is the idea that autism is caused by childhood vaccination. Although many careful studies have demonstrated that there is just no link between vaccines and autism, you can still find many websites that try to argue that vaccination causes autism. A while back, I participated in a debate hosted by one such website.
In the debate, I discussed and explained the studies that show there is simply no link between vaccines and autism. I also pointed out that some of the authors involved in these studies have a proven track record for finding a link between a vaccine and a serious medical condition, so it is hard to believe that they would miss a link between vaccines and autism if there is one. Not surprisingly, the website that hosted and heavily promoted the debate removed all mention of it afterwards, because the debate clearly showed the error of the idea they they are trying to promote.
Fortunately, real scientists are searching for the actual cause of autism, and lots of progress has been made. I recently ran across a study that addresses autism and the health of the mother during pregnancy. As a result of that study, I learned about a very interesting program that was started in 2003 and is just beginning to produce some very interesting results. It is called the Childhood Autism Risks from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE) study. The study recognizes that there seem to be both genetic and environmental risk factors for autism, and it is designed to produce rigorous research that will help us understand both.
The CHARGE study has already produced at least three very important and somewhat surprising results.
So what does all this all mean? Well, first it's important to note that none of these studies show that living near a highway, lack of prenatal vitamins, or metabolic conditions cause autism or ASD. They simply show that autism and ASD are correlated with these conditions. Nevertheless, these correlations do raise some interesting possibilities. The first study I discussed references other studies that show that freeway-related pollution tends to dissipate to background levels more than one-quarter of a mile away from the freeway. That means their results indicate that exposure to air pollution during pregnancy (especially in the third trimester) might be one cause of autism.
The second and third studies raise the possibility that autism is related to metabolism. A lack of prenatal vitamins before pregnancy made all mothers more likely to have autistic children, but the chance rose even more when the mother had a metabolic genetic anomaly. Also, the fact that diabetes and obesity in the mother are correlated with autism or ASD adds further weight to the metabolic link. However, it's clearly not all about the mother. Remember, the most significant chance of having an autistic child came when the child had a metabolic genetic anomaly and the mother didn't take prenatal vitamins before she conceived.
The bottom line is that both genetics and environment play a role in autism. In addition, researchers should start focusing on metabolic conditions (both genetic and otherwise), as they seem to be important.
Very interesting . . . It seems that the freeway proximity correlation could also explain the very low autism rates in the Amish community, which is often explained by lack of vaccination. The genetic connection would also make sense with a low occurrence in the Amish as well, since they have a relatively limited gene pool.
I find this article very interesting, considering I plan to be a midwife, but I do have some questions about vaccines. First of all, which vaccines do you consider strictly necessary? I am well aware that many vaccines (tetanus, meningitis, polio, rabies, smallpox)save many lives, but why are there so many others? My mother kept allowing fewer and fewer shots for her five children, and the youngest ones are the healthiest. Whenever we do get shots, we get up to a month of listlessness and random fevers. It doesn't seem worth it. My youngest sister is probably the healthiest child I know, and she has had so few shots that her pediatrician compared her to a newborn. What diseases *are* linked to vaccines? I intend to get my newborns only the completely necessary ones, and we'll see from there. Knowing how much you advocated vaccines, I would still appreciate it if you did detail any qualms you have on the subject.
Those are great questions, Grace. First, the list of necessary vaccines changes from person to person. It's all about managing risks. If a family member (or the entire family) travels a lot, the list of necessary vaccinations increases. If a family has a history of allergy to eggs, the list of necessary vaccinations decreases. In determining what vaccinations to get, people should work with a health-care provider who is knowledgeable about vaccines as well as the family's medical history. My daughter had all the vaccinations on the standard schedule, because we worked with her doctor and decided she was better off with all of them. I have had substantially more than those on the standard schedule, however, because I travel so widely.
When you ask, "What diseases *are* linked to vaccines?" are you asking about side effects? The CDC keeps a good list of the possible side effects of all vaccines. This is one reason the necessary vaccines change from person to person. Some people are more susceptible to some side effects, and that means the risk outweighs the benefit of the vaccine for those people. This is the same for almost any medication (or food, for that matter). Some people cannot take aspirin due to potential side effects, even though aspirin is very safe for most people. Some people cannot eat peanuts because of potential side effects, even though peanuts are very safe for most people.
Thanks for this report, Dr. Wile. I wonder if sometime in the future you could address the issue of the use of aborted fetal cells in developing vaccines? I've just recently learned of this practice, and frankly, it's disturbing. Where can one go to get unbiased, reliable information on such a sensitive subject?
Thanks for the question, Heather. I have actually already discussed that issue. As the article I linked explains, the vaccines that are grown on fetal cells use self-perpetuating lines from abortions that took place more than 40 years ago. New abortions are not used to produce these vaccines. Thus, the use of the vaccines does not, in any way, affect the number of abortions done. This is why even the Vatican encourages people to use the vaccines while at the same time pushing for alternatives. Also, please note if you think using such vaccines is not morally correct, there are only four that you need avoid: rubella (the "R" in "MMR"), rabies, chicken pox, and hepatitis A. They are the only ones on the standard schedule that are grown in fetal cells. There are also some alternative versions of the vaccines that might be hard to find but are worth asking about.
I appreciate your question and request gracekalman. I am also interested in further details. My Mom has always bee leery of vaccinations, in fact, I have never had shots. I was home schooled, so I wasn't really around a lot of people every single day, however, my Dad is a school teacher in a public school, so I imagine he would bring home germs and virus's from school that I would have been exposed to. I have also heard (sorry I don't have any examples) that some vaccinations just don't work, you get the illness again years later.
What are some of the reason for the so called conspiracy-theories behind vaccines? There must be some reason there are so many anti-vaccine people out there.
Amuzani, the idea that some vaccinations just don't work isn't true. In order for a vaccine to be approved for use, it has to pass a series of clinical tests that demonstrate it is effective against the disease and the risk of any possible side effects is very low compared to the risk of the disease itself. This is why vaccines can be demonstrated to be very effective.
There are probably several reasons for the anti-vaccination movement. Mathematics demonstrates, for example, that there will be 46.8 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome deaths within 24 hours of a pertussis vaccination by sheer coincidence. Parents of these unfortunate children will see that the children got a pertussis vaccine and then died within 24 hours. It is natural for them to blame the vaccine and thus become anti-vaccination, even though we know that the pertussis vaccine actually reduces a child's risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome! So in the end, grief-stricken parents end up putting blame on something that isn't at fault. This happens with many medical conditions. Indeed, people still think that vaccines cause autism (despite the studies that clearly say they don't) specifically because they notice the autism symptoms a short time after the child gets vaccinated. There are also some who make money by keeping people from getting vaccines, as they sell "alternative" ways to keep your children healthy. There are others who are very emotional about vaccines, because of the fetal tissue issue that Heather brought up. This makes them "hate" vaccines, and as a result, they want to fight against vaccines.
There are many movements in the U.S. that have no basis in fact but are nevertheless somewhat popular, such as the "we never went to the moon" movement. There are a variety of reasons why people buy into them, but as is the case with evolution, the fact that people believe in something doesn't make it correct.
As you pointed out, correlation does not imply causation.
A common denominator in all the studies you mentioned could be low socio-economic status. Low socio-economic status is correlated with a host of medical problems. So, autism may or may not have anything whatsoever to do with metabolic problems. They could both be the result of stress from poor living conditions, for example. So hard to prove causation in free-living human beings.
Common Sense, I agree that it is hard to demonstrate causation, but it is not impossible. For example, consider the study about vitamins. Sure…low income could correlate with not taking vitamins, but the study went farther than that. It showed the effect of not taking vitamins was significantly increased by specific gene variants. It's hard to see how gene variants could be correlated with low income or something like that. Thus, I do think there is strong evidence to suggest some kind of metabolic link. Once again, causation hasn't been demonstrated, but these studies could lead to other studies that do demonstrate causation.
Vivielle, the third study I discussed does, indeed, bring this up. We know that at least one reason autism rates are on the rise is that parents are getting older, and the older the parents, the more likely the child is to be autistic. The authors of the study mention this fact and then go on to say that metabolic conditions are also on the rise, and the apparent link between metabolic conditions and autism might be another part of the explanation for why autism is on the rise.
Dr Wile, how about the problem of a mom who did NOT live within 1/4 mile of a freeway, took prenatals, definitely not obese, nor type-2 diabetes, nor hypertension, yet has a child diagnosed with an ASD? My brother and sister-in-law fit this category. Their oldest has been diagnosed with Aspergers. There are 5 factors you listed in the article, yet my brother and sister in law do NOT fit a single one. (They were also still in their 20's when they had their children.) The only one thing I can think of is undiagnosed Celiac in my sister-in-law. (Once they removed gluten from their diet, the oldest improved dramatically, but still has problems.) It's like I read that you're more likely to be diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes if someone else in your family has it, but most people who are diagnosed have no one in their family with Type 1 diabetes. I can't wrap my head around that.
Trish, there is a lot about medicine that we don't know. One thing we do know, however, is that many maladies don't have straightforward causes. There are things that increase your risk for certain maladies, but they are not necessarily direct causes. For example, smoking strongly increases your risk for lung cancer. However, even people who have never smoked, never been exposed to second-hand smoke, and never been exposed to air pollution can still get lung cancer. They are significantly less likely to get it, but sometimes they get it. So even if these metabolic conditions are true risk factors for autism, that doesn't mean only people with such conditions will have children with autism. Just as some non-smokers will get lung cancer, some very healthy parents who live in pristine conditions will still have autistic children.
In regards to Type 1 diabetes, there are many different risk factors. Family history is one, but geography is another (type 1 diabetes increases as you travel away from the equator). In addition, diet seems to play a role (although much smaller than for type 2 diabetes), viral exposure seems to play a role, and low Vitamin D seems to play a role (perhaps that is the reason it increases as you travel away from the equator). It is well known that geography is the most important: people in the U.S. are 400 times more likely to have type 1 diabetes than those in Venezuela. Most likely, some of the other risk factors are more important than family history as well. Thus, while having someone in your family with type 1 diabetes does increase your risk, other factors are more important, which is why more people who are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes have no family history of it.
I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to respond to my question and linking to your earlier article! Thanks so much!
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