Friday, February 8 | Carrier Dome | 7 p.m.
Do I want to leave now and watch the Women's game, or do I want to be a productive member of society for two more hours before I head up?
Anybody have predictions? Feels like this will be closer than I think people realize. Colgate returns an awful lot on offense. Curious who Mellen guards, Cleveland is their top playmaker/assister but he stands 6'5. Anyone remember how 'Cuse matched up last season? Hoping for a good showing at the face-off X and for the offense to gel early.
I wouldn't put to much stock in last year. While SU rolled them Colgate was missing their best player and a few others due to injury and they were a total mess defensively. According to the limited information out there about the new staff and offense, the new Colgate O is much more free flowing and had a lot of success against both Delaware and Albany. I believe Colgate brought back most of the starting O save for the top guy so they have some depth/experience. They also dominated Albany at the X winning I beleive 75-80% of the draws per an Albany fan who watched the game.
That being said their defensive is still a major issue and Albany was apparently up 8-4 midway through the 2nd before Colgate went on a run playing make it take it. SU really should be able to score on this team, maybe not at will but at least 13+ goals. Bigger concern in my mind is the Syracuse defense. The early returns have been pretty bad with 11 goals to Vermont and 18 to yale. It appears slides continue to be a huge issue. Colgate has some scorers so if the D doesn't get its act together this could be a much closer game then people think. I could be way off but the 3 Daily Orange people all predicted SU by 10+ goals, I don't see that at all, hopefully I am wrong.
I predict it'll be a cold walk back to the car at 9 PM.
25 mph winds? Are you serious?
I think the Orange win this game comfortably, by 6. Mellen covers Hawkings, Bomberry covers Cleveland, and Cunningham has Cadigan. Colgate's top FOGO is gone and it looks like Feeney is the lone returner. I expect Varello and Phaup to have the edge there. I don't think Gate matches up well with the Orange's top 6. As a side note, I don't think Dordevic had any points in last years game. It comes down to how well the Orange execute.
If the is sloppy and O is rushing shots like last Sat this seems like a very likely outcome.
Their faceoff guy graduated and he seemed to be their best player when we played them last year. The chances of them having a back up able to match his numbers seems unlikely. Beating an Albany team at the X that thought they were set for the next two years at that position doesn't really say too much. Confident that our long poles can handle any one on one situations but I imagine they will get some scoring off of beating our SSDMs and our over eager slides. Varello apparently did great against Ierlan so one would think he can handle Colgate's new guy without too much trouble, which should hopefully lead to some make it take it runs and fatigue for their defense. Cuse 15-9?
I can see a 4-0 Cuse lead become 4-3. 6-4 become 6-6. 10-6 become 10-8. 12-8 to 12-10.
Ya I have no idea what to expect at the X I was just pointing out the success he had against ALbany, certainly doesn't mean a lot for this game necessarily especially with the way SU has been playing with Varello. I know that SU shut down Cleveland last year and that Abadessa (sp?) graduated but apparently their offense has looked pretty good in the two scrimmages but again one was Delaware and teh other was Albany whose replacing almost everybody on defense save for 1 guy. Getting out to a quick start like last year I think would go a long way.
That's kind of my thought to but I like to think SU could pull away late.
I will take any win but man that would be a bad sign.
A few other quick things I will be keeping an eye on.
How is the team with mental errors and turnovers. Those two were really an issue last year especially with turnovers, we had multiple games where we were in the high teens. Probably cost us the Cornell game in the tourney.
What does the second mid line look like with Buttermore Quinn and Carlin. Really interested to see how Buttermore and Quinn look with extended PT. Carlin's an enigma he's other on or hes quiet for 2 weeks, would love to see more consistency.
Does Cook see some time at middie? Who does he sub out for at attack? Does Seebold see any meaningful minutes after getting some extended pre-season run with out much in the stat sheet?
Does Fernandez play? Does Kennedy bump down to close if the D is a hot mess?
Anybody have predictions? Feels like this will be closer than I think people realize. Colgate returns an awful lot on offense. Curious who Mellen guards, Cleveland is their top playmaker/assister but he stands 6'5.
Don't know their lineup, but if Cleveland's their best attack then I put Mellen on him. Hopkins' Cole Williams is also 6'5" (dodger though) and Mellen would be my pick there. Just realized we don't have anyone on our team that size AND calibre so it should be valuable reps tonight.
EDIT: just checked their roster and stats from last season. I'd actually put Mellen on Hawkins, who is their top returning goal scorer, assuming he's not a crease type. I'd put Cunningham on Cleveland.
Mellen on Cole Williams would be tough thats a pretty big size disparity. I would rather see them bump Kennedy down to cover him one on one. Not sure what the plan is for tonight as I don't remember who marked him last year but they did a good job whoever it was.
Does Desko "tip his cap" to Colgate in the Post Game Presser?


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"Clear, concise, and convincing. . . Fea uses his training as a historian to trace a chronology of the evangelical attraction to political power . . . and offers an alternative way (relying on hope and humility) for evangelical leaders to think about their relation to power."
Review: Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump
"[Fea] ultimately asks which era Trump references by saying he wants to make America great again and advises evangelicals 'to take a long hard look at what we have become.' An interesting look at a topical issue."
"A heartfelt and clear presentation worth considering."
Christian Century
How the Culture Wars Made Trump
"Fea is uncommonly well positioned to make the case for turning away from the Donald and toward the Almighty. A prolific author and nonstop blogger, he is the very definition of an engaged Christian scholar."
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"Whether you belong to the 19 percent or the 81 percent, you'll find reading Believe Me a provocative and illuminating exercise."
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'Believe Me': Author on why white evangelicals got behind Donald Trump
"Fea, an American history professor at Messiah College, accuses this demographic of ignorance and hypocrisy in aligning itself with a narcissistic, vulgar and seemingly unChristian man as Trump."
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"Meticulously researched and grounded in historical and theological contexts. . . . An important book for anyone, Christian or otherwise, who wishes to understand the 2016 election and who believes that we can do better."
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"Fea walks a fine line between empathy for his fellow evangelicals and critical appraisal."
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CytRx Corporation Highlights Orphazyme's Completion of Rolling Submission of its New Drug Application with the U.S. FDA for Arimoclomol in Niemann-Pick Disease Type-C
Orphazyme expects to submit MAA for arimoclomol for NPC to European Medicines Agency in the second half of 2020
Arimoclomol progressing through registrational trials in two additional indications - ALS and sIBM
CytRx Corporation
LOS ANGELES, July 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- CytRx Corporation (OTCQB: CYTR), a biopharmaceutical research and development company specializing principally in oncology and neurodegenerative diseases, today highlighted that Orphayzme A/S announced they have completed their rolling submission of their New Drug Application (NDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for arimoclomol for the treatment of Niemann-Pick Disease Type-C (NPC).
Arimoclomol has received Fast Track and Breakthrough Therapy Designations for the treatment of NPC, in addition to Orphan Drug and Rare Pediatric Disease Designations. The FDA has up to 60 days to determine whether to accept the application for review.
A spokesperson from the Mayo Clinic Children's Center in Rochester, MN commented "Data from the randomized, controlled, clinical trial of arimoclomol for Niemann-Pick disease Type C support the positive effect of this agent in stabilizing neurologic progression of the disease, specifically in subgroups of patients over four years of age, and in those also taking miglustat. The data show clear evidence of target engagement, specifically an elevation of Heat-Shock Protein levels, with encouraging changes in biomarkers of excess lipid storage. These data support the role of enhanced Heat-Shock Protein 70 expression in Niemann-Pick disease Type C and may have applications in other lysosomal disorders."
A spokesperson from the National Niemann-Pick Disease Foundation (NNPDF) commented "The NPC patient community's need for disease-modifying therapy could not be more urgent as there are no FDA-approved treatments for this malicious disease. On behalf of the NNPDF and the Niemann-Pick community, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Orphazyme for their tireless commitment to improving the lives of NPC patients and congratulate them in their completed NDA submission for arimoclomol to the FDA as a treatment for NPC."
Orphazyme also re-affirmed they expect to submit a Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for arimoclomol in NPC in the second half of this year.
A spokesperson from Orphazyme stated "The rapid completion of the rolling submission of arimoclomol in NPC brings us one step closer to the potential approval of a new treatment option that can address a substantial unmet need for patients with NPC. We look forward to working together with the FDA as they review our application. If approved, arimoclomol would be the only FDA-approved treatment for NPC in the U.S. This exciting step adds to the momentum at Orphazyme, as we make progress in our commercial preparations in the U.S. and other major markets ahead of potential approval in NPC, and as we progress arimoclomol through clinical trials in additional indications with unmet medical needs – Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis (sIBM), and Gaucher disease."
"We are extremely pleased that Orphazyme has now submitted their complete NDA for arimoclomol in NPC and look forward to a potential successful launch in the U.S." said Steven A. Kriegsman, CytRx's Chairman and CEO.
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About CytRx Corporation
CytRx Corporation (OTCQB: CYTR) is a biopharmaceutical company with expertise in discovering and developing new therapeutics principally to treat patients with cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. In addition, one of CytRx's drug candidates, arimoclomol, was sold to Orphazyme A/S in exchange for milestone payments and royalties. Orphazyme is developing arimoclomol in four indications including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Niemann-Pick disease Type C (NPC), Gaucher disease and sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis (sIBM). CytRx Corporation's website is www.cytrx.com.
About Orphazyme A/S
Orphazyme is a biopharmaceutical company focused on bringing novel treatments to patients living with life-threatening or debilitating rare diseases. Their research focuses on developing therapies for diseases caused by misfolding of proteins including lysosomal storage diseases. Arimoclomol, the company's lead candidate, is in clinical development for four orphan diseases: Niemann-Pick disease Type C, Gaucher disease, sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. The Denmark-based company is listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen (ORPHA.CO). For more information, please visit www.orphazyme.com.
About NPC
Niemann-Pick disease Type C (NPC) is a rare, genetic and progressive disease that impairs the ability of the body to move cholesterol and other fatty substances (lipids) inside the cells. The result is an accumulation of lipids within the body's tissue, including the brain tissue, causing damage to the affected 2 areas. The symptoms upon onset of NPC vary from fatality during the first months after birth to a progressive disorder not diagnosed until adulthood. The disease affects neurologic and psychiatric functions as well as various internal organs. Systemic symptoms of NPC are more common in infancy or childhood and the rate of progression is usually much slower in individuals with onset of symptoms during adulthood. NPC is usually fatal and the majority of individuals with the disease die before the age of 20. NPC has been granted Orphan Drug Designation (EU and U.S.) for the treatment of NPC. It is conservatively estimated that the number of potential NPC patients in the United States and in the EU is between 1,000 and 2,000 individuals in total. There are no approved treatments for NPC in the U.S. and only one approved product in Europe called miglustat.
About Arimoclomol
Arimoclomol is an investigational drug candidate that amplifies the production of heat-shock proteins (HSPs). HSPs can rescue defective misfolded proteins, clear protein aggregates, and improve the function of lysosomes. Arimoclomol is administered orally, crosses the blood brain barrier, and has been studied in seven Phase 1 and three Phase 2 clinical trials. Arimoclomol is in clinical development at Orphazyme for the treatment of NPC, Gaucher disease, sIBM, and ALS.
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from the events or results described in the forward-looking statements, including risks and uncertainties relating to the ability of Orphazyme A/S to obtain regulatory approval for, manufacture and commercialize its products and therapies that use arimoclomol; the results of future clinical trials involving arimoclomol; the amount, if any, of future milestone and royalty payments that we may receive from Orphazyme A/S; and other risks and uncertainties described in the most recent annual and quarterly reports filed by CytRx with the Securities and Exchange Commission and current reports filed since the date of CytRx's most recent annual report. All forward-looking statements are based upon information available to CytRx on the date the statements are first published. CytRx undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
John Caloz
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Q: 2D character movement, map updating, position updating I'm a beginner programmer. How do i make the map update in this code. How do i make the players position update? I wanted to make him move by incrementing one of the values [x][y], but how do i do that? Is the code below a good start?
#include <windows.h>

int map[5][5]={
    {0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
    {0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
    {0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
    {0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
    {0, 0, 0, 0, 0}};

int m_print(int x) {
    int i, j;
    for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
        for (j = 0; j < 5; j++) {
            printf("%d     ", map[i][j]);
        }
        printf("\n");
    }
}

struct player {
    int pos[i][j];
    int show;
    int movement;
};

int map_update(int x) {

}

int p_show(int x) {

}

main() {
    int game_running = true;
}

A: First of all I have absolutely no idea about what you are trying to accompish. However I saw that you are a begginer with C and I thought of assembling a very quick example on something hopefully similar on what you are trying to do.
Some notes on the things that I had to fix from your code:

*

*int pos[i][j]; in the player struct makes no sense, if you need an array as a struct parameter, setup a pointer there and make sure to allocate it somewhere in your code to fit your needs. I replaced it with some int parameters for keeping track of the old and current player position

*The main function needs to run something

*By default there are no true/false values in C. Not sure about your compiler and compilation flags, but from linux I did some typedefs for a bool macro (which is actually handled as an int) just to show you how typedefs can be used

The code that I made does some very basic stuff. At first I allocate a player using the struct that we defined. Then I setup his position to 0,0 and also set map[0][0]=1 to indicate that the player is there.
I setup a while loop with a very simple input method that scanfs for input characters from the console. The accepted characters are w,a,s,d. These are passed to the move_player method which based on the input updates the position of the player struct. Then the map_update method gets a player struct as an argument and updates the map accordingly to show the player's new position. Note that both methods accept struct pointers as arguments. Using pointers we just pass the reference (a memory address of the struct) and not the actual value (a copy of all the data of the struct). Doing otherwise, we would not be able to update the player data as easily.
Finally, I print out the player's position and the map just to show to the user where he is at.
Round 32
Move Player [w,a,s,d]: a
Player Position [4,2]
Game Map
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0 0

Now I know that you're probably overwhelmed with information but I found it a very good start for a new C programmer like you to start with so I decided to help (PS: Compiling this answer took longer than writing/updating the code). I'm probably not doing everything as efficiently as possible, but for a case like this I think it has sufficient stuff to keep you occupied for a while. Have fun!
Here is the code
//#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

typedef int bool;
#define TRUE  1
#define FALSE 0

int map[5][5]={
    {0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
    {0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
    {0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
    {0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
    {0, 0, 0, 0, 0}};

int m_print() {
    int i, j;
    printf("Game Map\n");
    for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
        for (j = 0; j < 5; j++) {
            printf("%d ", map[i][j]);
        }
        printf("\n");
    }
}

struct player {
    int old_pos_x;
    int old_pos_y;
    int pos_x;
    int pos_y;
    int show;
    int movement;
};

void map_update(struct player *p) {
    map[p->old_pos_x][p->old_pos_y] -= 1;
    map[p->pos_x][p->pos_y] += 1;
}

void move_player(struct player *p, char move){
    //Save current player state
    p->old_pos_x = p->pos_x;
    p->old_pos_y = p->pos_y;

    switch(move) {
        case 'w':
            p->pos_x -= 1;
            break;
        case 's':
            p->pos_x += 1;
            break;
        case 'd':
            p->pos_y += 1;
            break;
        case 'a':
            p->pos_y -= 1;
            break;
    }
    //Fit position to map

    //Rotate right
    p->pos_x %= 5;
    p->pos_y %= 5;

    if (p->pos_x < 0)
        p->pos_x = 4;
    if (p->pos_y < 0)
        p->pos_y = 4;
}

void p_show(struct player *p) {
    //Report Player position
    printf("Player Position [%d,%d]\n", p->pos_x, p->pos_y);
}

int main() {
    bool game_running = TRUE;

    //Initialize Game
    struct player p;
    //Set player properties
    p.pos_x = 0;
    p.pos_y = 0;

    //Manually add player to map
    map[0][0] = 1;

    int counter = 0;
    char button;
    while (TRUE) {
        printf("Round %d\n", counter);
        //Get input
        printf("Move Player [w,a,s,d]: ");
        scanf(" %c", &button);

        //Update player position
        move_player(&p, button);

        //Update map
        map_update(&p);

        //Report Player
        p_show(&p);
        //Show map
        m_print();
        counter++;
    }

    return 0;
}

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AFRICA CYBER DEFENSE FORUM (ACDF) 2020
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AFRICA CYBER DEFENSE FORUM COLLABORATES WITH AFRALTI TO HOST VIRTUAL CYBER DEFENSE FORUM ALONGSIDE CYBERLYMPICS
Nairobi, 2nd June 2020: Africa Cyber Defense Forum (ACDF) in collaboration with African Advanced Level Telecommunications Institute, AFRALTI, is announcing the first African Virtual Cyber Defense Forum 2020 taking place on the 24th -25th June 2020.
The theme of the conference is A More Secure World, More Business Activity and More Jobs and focuses on the future of information security through better and safer cyber defense technology through
Participation in progressive business conversations
Inspiring and connecting thought-leadership, experts, and organizations to local, global, and societal trends in the cyberspace
Developing and Connecting Cybersecurity experts in a business conscious platform and globally.
According to an ICT security survey conducted by Kenya National Bureau of Statistics & Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), Kenya alone lost about Sh18 billion ($175 million) to cybercrime in 2016 while Markets and Markets analysis report on the African Cybersecurity published in its June 2015 publication suggested that the Africa cybersecurity market size is expected to grow from $0.92 Billion in 2015 to $2.32 Billion by 2020, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 20.41% from 2015 to 2020.
The 2020 forum will feature
Top-level presentations and panel discussions: From government and Corporate officials across Africa, Europe, and the US deployed across executive, technical, and solutions track to review and forecast the cybersecurity landscape.
Virtual Cyberlympics, (Africa Cyber Defense Competition – ACDC): The Largest Continental Cyber Defense Competition for innovation, competitiveness, and cyber security skills assessment program.
Expert Alliance, (The African Alliance of Cybersecurity Executives – AACE): Developing and connecting cybersecurity executives in a business conscious platform
The forum's chairman, Mr. William Baraza, Director and CEO of AFRALTI, who spoke on the sidelines of the Africa Cyber Defense Forum Advisory Meeting in Nairobi, said that Africa Cyber Defense Forum has put in place a robust framework to promote homegrown solutions and innovations through R&D in cybersecurity allowing local innovative cybersecurity companies to come and showcase their latest solutions during the Virtual Forum.
About Africa Cyber Defense Forum
The Africa Cyber Defense Forum is a continental platform for public-private cooperation. The forum through its well curated and world class content, engages top level government, Technology experts, business leaders and other leaders of society to shape the continental, regional and industry agendas in the African cyber space.
Our activities are anchored in our passionate pursuit of better and safer technology and we are seeking to shape the future of information security through progressive inspiring conversations in technology and offering thought leadership to both governments, society and private sector.
We believe that technology has the potential to bring transformative change in the continent, but we must ensure that it is equally secure. This is why by bringing together experts from all walks of life in a business conscious platform we can make a positive change in our society.
In 2020, we bring together open-minded, creative, and forward-thinking ICT experts, entrepreneurs, and individuals at the front-line of information security, cyber defense technology, technology review, and Business executives under the theme, A More Secure World, More Business Activity, and More Jobs.
For more information, visit: https://africacyberdefenseforum.com/
About AFRALTI
African Advanced Level Telecommunications Institute (AFRALTI) is an Inter-Governmental Institute established in 1993 to supplement and spearhead ICT development efforts mainly in English-speaking Africa. Currently the member States that have ratified the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) include Lesotho, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Kingdom of Eswatini, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, out of the 23 eligible members.
AFRALTI has an African footprint in the continent. The Institute has over the years expanded its tentacles and participants come from most African countries. AFRALTI trains in English speaking African countries through various collaborations. In the French speaking African countries, AFRALTI partners with Ecolé Supérieure Multinationale des Télécommunications (ESMT), a Centre of Excellence (CoE) partner in Dakar, Senegal. In the West African region, our collaboration with Ghana Telecommunication University College (GTUC) enables AFRALTI to reach the countries in that region and through The Institute's active member States in the Southern and Eastern Africa. The liaisons with all these partnerships enable the Institute to reach out to Africa.
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Relief at arriving on the jetty at briefly sunny Oban was short-lived, though, as we were ushered right on to the Milford Wanderer, a no-nonsense vessel with two masts, a stack of well-used kayaks at the stern, and nothing in the way of spa pools, sun decks or quoits courts. In no time, we were away, introductions and lifeboat drill done, and were back on the waves, rolling and pitching along the rocky coast, catching glimpses of the snowy peaks behind. Meantime, some of the crew made themselves busy folding open a supply of sick bags, in a not-very-reassuring manner.
There was morning tea – porridge cake, very sustaining – and then, thankfully, a mooring at Port Adventure for lunch. It didn't appear to live up to the name, being a secluded bay surrounded by bush, but Richard the nature guide/tour director gave us the history and the justification for it. I was actually more blown away by the lunch: home-made mushroom and cumin soup with good bread, then hot dogs, chicken and sundry salads. Just for lunch!
It didn't matter – I only borrowed it. The three hours down the coast to Port Pegasus were too lively for determination and/or a Scopaderm patch applied too late to counter. But there was no shame: according to Richard, 90% of people get sea-sick, and the others are liars. He also recommended the one sure cure: "Stand under a tree". The huge swells breaking on the rocks were pretty (and) spectacular but I slept and missed most of them.
Everyone had recovered by dinner, which was a most deliciously moist and tender roast beef with a pepper crust, with real fruit jelly for pudding. The seating on the Wanderer is four-seater booths, and everyone seems friendly and ready to mix, so there was plenty of good conversation. Travel and Trump sums it up, really – as well as lots of praise for Real Journeys from their many repeat customers.
Afterwards, Bec from the DoC crew on board told us all about kakapo, our famous nocturnal flightless parrot. There are now 153 of them in existence, thanks to huge effort and great expense, but we won't be hanging out to see one – none of the DoC people ever have. But there is a framed feather in the lounge.


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Twice-deported man arrested in Marshall rape case
Times Staff Report
Marshall County investigators arrested a man for a sexual assault on a 12-year-old female, according to Sheriff Phil Sims, and learned that he is in the country illegally after being deported twice.
David Ramirez Gonzalez is charged with first-degree rape, first-degree sexual abuse and resisting arrest. He's being held on bonds totaling $1 million.
Marshall County deputies and investigators responded Sunday to a reported sexual assault in the Pleasant Grove area, involving the juvenile victim.
The suspect left the scene before deputies arrived. After investigating the report, investigators got a warrant for Gonzalez's arrest. They found him later that night, hiding in a closet at a residence in the Arab area, Assistant Chief Deputy Steve Guthrie said in a press release.
A background check revealed that Gonzalez is in the U.S. illegally – that he was deported in 2008 and again in 2009 for illegal re-entry.
Gonzalez has been known to use several aliases, including a Facebook page under the name Noel Ramirez.
The Arab Police Department, Marshall County District Attorney's Office, Marshall County Child Advocacy Center and the Department of Human Resources assisted in the investigation.


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India is bestowed with several agro-climatic zones conducive for production of sensitive and delicate floriculture products. This era has seen a dynamic shift from sustenance production to commercial production. As per National Horticulture Database 2010 published by National Horticulture Board, during 2009-10, the area under floriculture production in India was 0.183 milliion hectares with a production of 1.021 million loose flowers and 666.7 million cut flowers. Floriculture is now commercially cultivated in several states with Tamil Nadu (25%) Karnataka (20%), Andhra Pradesh (14%) having gone ahead of other producing states like Mahrashtra, Punjab, Haryana, West Bengal, Gujarat, Orissa, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Chattisgarh.
India's total export of floriculture was Rs.286.45 crores in 2010-11. The major importing countries were USA, Pakistan, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Belgium and United Kingdom. There are more than 300 export-oriented units in India. More than 50% of the floriculture units are based in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. With the technical collaborations from foreign companies, the Indian floriculture industry is poised to increase its share in world trade.
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LOS ANGELES, April 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- In the annals of jazz history, few events have been more influential than the Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series, and the album series of the same name. From 1944 to 1957, pioneering impresario, Verve Records founder, Norman Granz organized a series of prestigious all-star concerts that featured a who's-who of the genre's most popular and influential artists. These shows were instrumental in raising jazz's public profile, and were among the first high-profile performances to feature racially mixed bands performing for integrated audiences.
Out today, Verve Records/UMe releases a trio of beloved gems from the legendary live series Jazz At The Philharmonic back on vinyl: 'Ella Fitzgerald's Jazz at the Philharmonic: The Ella Fitzgerald Set,' 'Jazz at the Philharmonic: Lester Young Carnegie Blues' and the all-star 'Jazz at the Philharmonic: Blues In Chicago 1955,' featuring Oscar Peterson, Illinois Jacquet and Herb Ellis.
Granz spun off Jazz at the Philharmonic into a series of album releases, which preserved historic performances from the JATP concerts. Granz licensed many of those live recordings to Mercury Records and later issued them on his own labels, Norgran, Clef and Verve. In the 1980s, Verve reached into the vault for an additional series of releases that included previously unissued performances. The JATP recordings have since attained legendary status, a status that was confirmed in 2010, when the series was chosen by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Recording Registry, which annually selects recordings that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."
On April 20, Verve Records/UMe issues a trio of beloved vinyl gems from the legendary live series issued in the 1980s: Ella Fitzgerald's Jazz at the Philharmonic: The Ella Fitzgerald Set, Jazz at the Philharmonic: Lester Young Carnegie Blues and the all-star Jazz at the Philharmonic: Blues In Chicago 1955, featuring Oscar Peterson, Illinois Jacquet and Herb Ellis. All albums are pressed on standard weight black vinyl.
Shining as brightly today as when they were recorded, these four long out-of-print classics can once again be enjoyed on vinyl, sounding better than ever.


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What is a Wiki
A wiki (wɪki/ WIK-ee) is a website which allows collaborative modification of its content and structure directly from the web browser. In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language (known as "wiki markup")The markup language used on a Wiki page is most commonly called Wiki Syntax. It uses common characters in uncommon ways (or character combinations that are not normally used together) and provides them with a special meaning. Some of the character combinations only work at the beginning of a line, while others can be inserted anywhere in the text and are active until they are turned off., and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor. A wiki Web site operates on a principle of collaborative trust. The simplest wiki programs allow users to create and edit content. The most popular wiki is Wikipedia.
A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine. There are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other software, such as bug tracking systems. Some wiki engines are open source, whereas others are proprietary. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access); for example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules may also be imposed to organize content. A wiki engine is a type of content management system, but it differs from most other such systems, including blog software, in that the content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little implicit structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users.
The encyclopedia project Wikipedia
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by largely anonymous volunteers who write without pay. Anyone with Internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles, except in limited cases where editing is restricted to prevent disruption or vandalism. Users can contribute anonymously, under a pseudonym, or, if they choose to, with their real identity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
is by far the most popular wiki-based website, and is in fact one of the most widely-viewed sites of any kind of the world, having been ranked in the top ten since 2007. (Wikipedia is not a single wiki but rather a collection of hundreds of wikis, one for each language.) There are at least tens of thousands of other wikis in use, both public and private, including wikis functioning as knowledge management resources, note-taking tools, community websites and intranets.
Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work"."Wiki" (pronounced WIK-ee) is a Hawaiian word meaning "quick". For more information please read on at Wikipedia Article on Wiki.1
If you click on the edit link that you will find on every wiki page, it's editing window opens. Now you can see the wiki code. With a click on "save", all changes you made will be interpreted and shown as a html and it is then published online.
Some well-known wikis
Wikipedia: Free Online Encyclopedia
Wikimedia Commons: The image library wiki
Wikispecies: Free species directory
Wikivoyage: The editable travel guide
TikiWiki: The software we use here in our own wiki
C2.com: The wiki that started the whole movement
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Exclamation Point Endorses Kate Stewart for Mayor
The Takoma Torch October 17, 2020 October 17, 2020
TAKOMA PARK, MD – In a shocking turn of events, the well known Exclamation Point on mayoral candidate Roger Schlegel's logo has decided to jump ship and endorse incumbent Kate Stewart for Mayor.
"At first, Roger seemed like a fresh candidate with an exciting vision, which made me feel like we'd be great running mates," said Exclamation Point. "But upon learning more about his campaign and plans to reduce the amount of cool projects happening in the city, I just felt more like a semi colon."
Exclamation Point is no novice when it comes to joining political tickets. In 2016, he was tapped to join early favorite Jeb Bush's presidential campaign after being recognized for helping women convey more friendliness in their professional emails and interactions. Jeb! was the front runner until the campaign released status quo policies forcing Exclamation Point to look elsewhere.
"What I'm really looking for is a candidate who excites me, and Kate Stewart is someone with bold plans for the future!!" said the tall, skinny punctuation mark. "Unfortunately, Roger wants to slow down economic development projects, reduce the library project scope, ignore a Junction intersection redesign that would create a lively public space, and lower property taxes making it much harder to fund any substantial progressive agenda. I'm not sure if those positions are appropriate for me to stand next to."
When asked his thoughts on the Mayoral race, Exclamation Point expressed an overall positive vibe. "Both candidates are smart, kind, and really care about Takoma Park. But my favorite thing is the heated rhetoric from the most extreme supporters on both sides," said Exclamation Point. "I am all over their Facebook and listserv fights!!"
Exclamation Point also told reporters that he will be joined by his upside-down cousin to help Kate Stewart win more endorsements from the Spanish-speaking part of the community.
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Genesis has done a series researches about relief pain of knee osteoarthritis (OA), carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and diabetic wound in 2010. In the knee OA study, we collected 30 patients with knee pain in the last two days and the last two months. The patients received 15 mins lighting on each knee eye of lateral and medial side, the total treatment time is 30 mins. For the CTS, there was 30 patients joined the study. Each of them received light treatment on palm, wrist and elbow for 10 mins to each point, the total treatment time is 30 mins. After one week treatment, one time per day, there was 56% patient with a significant decrease of pain and stiffness in knee arthritis; 74% pain improvement happened in carpal tunnel syndrome patient.
From 2011 June to September, we did an observational study of diabetic wound healing using Genesis health light. There was 15 diabetic patients enrolled the study with stalled wound ulcer more than 8 weeks. Each patient received 20-30 min light treatment every day and lasted for 60 days. At the end of the study, the wound size had reduced 67% and pain level improved 59% (Figure 1).
Figure 1. To evaluate therapeutic effects of light treatment, we compared the change of life quality score of pain, feeling loss, abnormal sensory, activity difficulty and emotional difficulty. From the above chart, the pain score reduced significantly (p<0.001). The activity and emotional difficulty scores also reduced dramatically (p<0.001). It shows that the light treatment improved wound healing and symptoms.
From December of 2011, we will study on various pain problems including neck pain, low back pain, tennis elbow, shoulder pain, plantar fasciitis, ankle pain and menstrual cramps. We will call volunteers through radio and newspaper advertisement and plan to collect 30 patients for each disorder. Each patient will receive a full course of treatment based on special protocols made for the above pain disorders. For example, a patient with neck pain will light on affected muscle and neck area for 10 min each, 1 time/day, 2-4 weeks. After the treatment course, patients will be asked to evaluate their pain level and functional disability by a valid questionnaire (Neck Pain Disability Index Questionnaire).
Severe symptoms from carpel tunnel syndrome caused me a great deal of pain day and night. The drastic improvement I felt even after one treatment was amazing to me. I have had several treatments now and I am sleeping so much better, undisturbed by constant pain and numbness.


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Most Americans don't think gatherings will be safe until at least June: poll
By Rebecca Klar - 04/21/20 12:43 PM EDT
Most Americans said they do not expect it will be safe to have social gatherings until at least June, according to a new poll.
Sixty-five percent of Americans surveyed said they expect the coronavirus pandemic to be controlled enough to allow for gatherings of more than 10 people by the end of June or later, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll released Tuesday.
The poll found that 20 percent believe it will have to be at least the end of June for such gatherings to take place, 13 percent said they expected that to be by end of July, 19 percent said later in 2020 and 13 percent said longer than that.
Just 9 percent of respondents said it would be safe to allow for gatherings by the end of the month, while 21 percent said it would be safe by the end of May, according to the poll.
The poll comes as officials weigh when to lift restrictions in place to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus and reopen economies.
The White House released guidelines last week that leave the ultimate decision up to governors, but President Trump Donald TrumpGiuliani used provisional ballot to vote in 2020 election, same method he disparaged in fighting to overturn results Trump gets lowest job approval rating in final days as president Fox News' DC managing editor Bill Sammon to retire MORE has also shown support for protests demonstrating against restrictions in states.
The Washington Post-University of Maryland poll found 54 percent of respondents said President Trump's response to the pandemic was not good and 44 percent said it was good.
But the poll found that 72 percent said their state governor's response was good and just 26 percent said their governor's response was not good.
Some governors have announced plans to begin reopening some businesses, including Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) who said gyms, hair and nail salons and bowling alleys will be allowed to open Friday.
The poll was conducted April 14-19 and surveyed 1,013 adults. There is a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
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Main Street Prices Public Offering of $300 Million of 3.00% Notes due 2026
Download as PDF January 12, 2021 6:34pm EST
HOUSTON, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Main Street Capital Corporation (NYSE: MAIN) ("Main Street") is pleased to announce that it has priced an underwritten public offering of $300 million in aggregate principal amount of 3.00% notes due 2026 (the "Notes"). The Notes will bear interest at a rate of 3.00% per year, payable semiannually, will mature on July 14, 2026 and may be redeemed in whole or in part at Main Street's option at any time at par plus a "make-whole" premium, if applicable. The offering is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close on January 14, 2021.
Main Street intends to initially use the net proceeds from this offering to repay outstanding debt borrowed under its credit facility and then, through re-borrowing under the credit facility, to make investments in accordance with its investment objective and strategies, to make investments in marketable securities and idle funds investments, to pay operating expenses and other cash obligations, and for general corporate purposes.
RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Truist Securities, Inc., SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. and Raymond James & Associates, Inc. are acting as joint bookrunners for this offering. Comerica Securities, Inc., Hancock Whitney Investment Services, Inc., WoodRock Securities, L.P., and Zions Direct, Inc. are acting as co-managers for this offering.
Investors should carefully consider, among other things, Main Street's investment objective and strategies and the risks related to Main Street and the offering before investing. The pricing term sheet dated January 12, 2021, the preliminary prospectus supplement dated January 12, 2021, the accompanying prospectus dated April 30, 2019, each of which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, any related free writing prospectus, and any information incorporated by reference in each, contain this and other information about Main Street and should be read carefully before investing.
A shelf registration statement relating to these securities is on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and effective. The offering may be made only by means of a preliminary prospectus supplement and an accompanying prospectus, copies of which may be obtained from RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Attention: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk, 200 Vesey Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10281, telephone: 866-375-6829, or e-mail: rbcnyfixedincomeprospectus@rbccm.com, Truist Securities, Inc., Attention: Prospectus Department, 303 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30308, telephone: 800-685-4786, or e-mail: TSIdocs@Truist.com, SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. at 277 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10172, Attn: Debt Capital Markets, 1-888-868-6856, or e-mail: prospectus@smbcnikko-si.com, or Raymond James & Associates, Inc., 880 Carillon Parkway, St. Petersburg, Florida 33716, telephone: 800-248-8863, or e-mail: prospectus@raymondjames.com.
The information in the pricing term sheet, the preliminary prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus and this press release is not complete and may be changed. The pricing term sheet, the preliminary prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus and this press release do not constitute offers to sell or the solicitation of offers to buy, nor will there be any sale of the Notes referred to in this press release, in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction.
Main Street, through its wholly owned portfolio company MSC Adviser I, LLC ("MSC Adviser"), also maintains an asset management business through which it manages approximately $950 million of investments for third parties. MSC Adviser is registered as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements which are based upon Main Street management's current expectations and are inherently uncertain. Any such statements other than statements of historical fact are likely to be affected by other unknowable future events and conditions, including elements of the future that are or are not under Main Street's control, and that Main Street may or may not have considered; accordingly, such statements cannot be guarantees or assurances of any aspect of future performance. Actual performance and results could vary materially from these estimates and projections of the future as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in Main Street's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such statements speak only as of the time when made and are based on information available to Main Street as of the date hereof and are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Main Street assumes no obligation to revise or update any such statement now or in the future.
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Ezra Miller as Barry Allen / The Flash in Justice League
Pre-production expected to start in January 2020
Ezra Miller is still attached to star as The Flash
Hodson also wrote Birds of Prey, part of DC universe
The standalone Flash movie has reportedly found a new director and writer in Andy Muschietti and Christina Hodson, respectively. Muschietti is best known for directing the critically-acclaimed and commercially successful 2017 adaptation of the Stephen King novel It, while Hodson was responsible for the screenplay of last year's Transformers spin-off Bumblebee, which brought the franchise back to life. The two replace the outgoing duo John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who had worked on the script and were slated as directors on The Flash, part of Warner Bros.'s DC Comics film universe.
The Hollywood Reporter was the first to bring word of the new development, with Variety confirming later that Muschietti and Hodson were in talks to board The Flash. Ezra Miller, who has played the DC superhero on the big screen on three previous occasions — 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2016's Suicide Squad, and 2017's Justice League — will continue in the role. If Muschietti is hired, his sister Barbara Muschietti will produce the film, along with Michael Disco, a former executive at Warner Bros.-owned New Line Cinema who founded his own production company back in February.
The Flash was expected to begin filming in March, per a report from last year that pushed its release date to 2021 then, but the film has gone through more script troubles since then. Goldstein and Daley's lighter approach was at odds with Miller favouring a darker tone for his standalone movie. The 26-year-old was so insistent on it that he went out and co-wrote a script himself with comic book writer Grant Morrison, who has worked on The Flash during the 1990s with Mark Millar. Warner Bros. wasn't reportedly pleased with that idea though, which is why it's hiring a new screenwriter in Hodson.
Miller's stay, as opposed to Goldstein and Daley's exit, in addition to horror movie director Muschietti's hiring, would suggest that The Flash might be heading for a darker take. But that needn't be true. For one, previous horror film directors who have found success under Warner Bros. have emerged to helm lighter fare, be it James Wan with Aquaman, or David Sandberg with Shazam!. Moreover, Warner Bros. has had more success with its superhero movies when they've stayed away from being too dark. Case in point: Wonder Woman, and Shazam!, partly.
Muschietti's next film is It: Chapter Two, the sequel to the first one out in September. Hodson is already part of the DC film universe, having written the Margot Robbie-starrer Suicide Squad spin-off Birds of Prey, which is slated to release in February 2020.
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Jacoby Ellsbury needs your help.
The Red Sox center fielder is in a tight battle with Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton in the voting for the third starting outfield spot on the American League All-Star team.
Ellsbury, who enters Tuesday batting .303 with an AL-leading 25 stolen bases, has slowly narrowed the gap on the reigning AL Most Valuable Player throughout June.
Over the past two weeks, the margin separating the two has gone from 351,624 to 151,085 to 121,325, according to MLB.com.
Jose Bautista of Toronto and Curtis Granderson of New York are comfortably settled in as the other two starting outfielders. Bautista is the leading vote-getter among all AL players. Granderson is third, just behind teammate Robinson Cano, who is running away with the second-base vote.
Voting at ballparks is complete, but fans can help Ellsbury's cause by voting online through 11:59 p.m. this Thursday.
The rosters will be announced on TBS on Sunday at noon. After that, a fan vote for the final player on both teams will be conducted. Kevin Youkilis lost out to Yankees right fielder Nick Swisher in that process last year.


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American Medical Student Association
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) was founded in 1950, as the Student American Medical Association (SAMA), under the auspices of the American Medical Association (AMA). The main purpose of the organization was to provide medical students a chance to participate in organized medicine.
The late 1960's saw dramatic changes in the organization's objectives and philosophy and in 1967 SAMA cut ties from the AMA and became independent and student-governed. The organization began to take a stand on more socio-medical issues, such as civil rights, universal health care and Vietnam.
SAMA quickly became a leader in medical education reform. In 1968, the SAMA Joint Commission on Medical Education, made up of students and medical educators, proposed numerous reforms and model curricula to make medical education more responsive to community needs. SAMA also helped to introduce the original Family Practice Act of 1970 and testified in support of legislation establishing and later expanding the National Health Service Corps.
In 1975, the organization changed its name to the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), in order to clarify its separation from the AMA. It also saw the election of the first woman president.
In 1977, AMSA and the AMSA Foundation, the programming arm of the organization were reorganized under the leadership of its now emeritus executive director, Paul R. Wright. The same year, national president became a full-time elected position. In 1978, the organization moved the national office to Washington, D.C. and later appointed its first full-time legislative affairs director in order to strengthen their leadership in the health care field.
The AMSA HEAL Deal, introduced by the AMSA Foundation in 1986, was the first discounted Health Education Assistance Loan program available to medical students on a national basis. This led to competition for student loans and a rapid decrease in interest rates for medical students borrowing to attend school.
AMSA has long been committed to training primary care physicians. Starting with the Appalachian Health Project in the 1970's and continuing with the Generalist Physicians in Training program (GPIT) in 1992, AMSA focused on developing a community-responsive physician work force and increasing the number of medical school graduates entering primary care fields. At its peak, GPIT had more than 9,000 students participating.
AMSA has developed strong international health interests as well. In the 1970's, AMSA led study tours to Cuba and China. In 1986, with the help of the Pew Memorial Trust and the "We are the World" Save Africa Rock Group effort, AMSA developed the first international consortium of medical schools for exchanging and training physicians in Nigeria, Ghana, Colombia and Mexico.
In 1995, AMSA helped convinced the National Resident Matching Program to change the Match algorithm in favor of students. In addition, AMSA succeeded in calling for full contract disclosure from residency programs before signing students on to the Match, and in calling for additional student representation on the NRMP Board of Directors.
For more than 60 years, AMSA has represented the voice of physicians-in-training in their efforts to best serve the public. There are four aspirations that AMSA members focus their activism: advocating for quality, affordable health care for all, global health equality, enriching medicine through diversity, and professional integrity, development and student well-being. AMSA's action committees and interest groups expose students to information on subjects not generally covered in traditional curricula.
AMSA remains a leader in the campaign for resident work hour reform—authoring the Patient and Physician Safety and Protection Act of 2003, introduced by Senator Jon Corzine (S. 952) and Representative John Conyers (H.R.1228).
In 2002, AMSA launched the PharmFree Campaign to educate and train our members to professionally and ethically interact with the pharmaceutical industry. It encourages medical schools and academic medical centers to develop policies that limit the access of pharmaceutical company representatives to their campuses and prohibit medical students and physicians from accepting gifts of any kind from these representatives. In May 2007, AMSA released its first PharmFree Scorecard, which was a first-of-its-kind ranking of medical schools according to their pharmaceutical influence policies. The PharmFree momentum continues to build as institutions across the country are announcing policy that limits pharmaceutical representatives from their campuses. Updated versions of the Scorecard were issued in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
AMSA became the U.S. member organization of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA) in 2008. The merger put AMSA members at the epicenter of the international medical student community, providing U.S. medical students the opportunity to participate in international exchanges and expand AMSA's programs throughout the globe.
AMSA local chapters continue to reach out to serve the health needs of their communities. Annually, local chapters contribute over one million hours of community service. The AMSA annual convention is the largest gathering of medical students and regularly draws an attendance of more than 1,500 physicians-in-training, medical educators and health policy innovators. AMSA continues to search for new and innovative ways to improve health care, health-care delivery and medical education.
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A letter signed by the experts suggests current funding patterns undermine public health and national interests.
This is because research funds are being diverted away from germs that are already important causes of disease.
US government funding for research into candidate bioweapons boomed after the anthrax attacks in the Autumn of 2001.
Addressed to National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Elias Zerhouni and published in Science magazine, the letter's 750 signatories include two Nobel laureates.
The protest's organiser Richard Ebright of Rutgers University in Piscataway says that while grants for potential bioterror agents such as plague, anthrax and tularaemia have skyrocketed, grants for other disease-causing germs and so-called "model organisms" such as Escherichia coli have fallen.
Prioritising research on poorly known agents could backfire - not least because the need for containment and the requirement for new experimental tools makes studying them inefficient.
Professor Ebright argues that biodefence money would be better spent researching related, but less pathogenic organisms.
He also believes that increasing the number of labs and people working on bioterror agents would raise the risk of an accidental release or deliberate attack.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAid) - the arm of NIH that deals with pathogenic organisms - awarded 15 times more biodefence grants between 2001 and 2004 than it did during the previous four-year period, says the letter.
Meanwhile, grants for work on non-biodefence disease germs fell by 27% and grants for studying model bacteria fell by 41%. The figures come from an analysis of NIH's own data. Professor Ebright believes this policy is preventing important advances in public health.
"From a public health perspective the figures speak for themselves," he told the BBC News website.
"For the range of prioritised bioweapons agents, there is an average of 0 cases per year in the US. For the range of agents that have been de-emphasised, there are thousands of cases and deaths per year."
But NIAid officials claim the figures quoted in the letter are misleading.
"The analysis was done on four study sections, but these aren't complete in terms of the overall bacterial pathogen research that we fund," said John McGowan, director of the division of extramural activities at NIAid.
He added that although there had been fluctuations in NIAid funding for different areas of bacterial research, there was no support for the drop in non-biodefence funding described by Professor Ebright.
However, Sidney Altman, a Nobel prize-winning molecular biologist at Yale University, and one of the signatories on the letter, is unconvinced.
"My own view is that... regardless of what officials in the government say, it has taken money away from basic research in microbiology," he said.
"There are clearly a lot of people who have done extremely valuable research over the years who find this objectionable."
Professor Ebright added that the letter was not questioning the decision to fund biodefence research through NIH, only what he called the body's narrow definition of biodefence - which limits research to a few agents.
NIAid's biodefence budget has risen from $42m in 2001 to $1.5bn in 2004, with $1.6bn projected for 2005.


One billion dollars… that is the price. The price upfront of resolving in the ACT at least, the scourge of loose-fill asbestos insulation that has persisted for five decades.
The ACT Government has today announced an agreement with the Commonwealth, that will give the territory access to financing of up to $1billion. The concessional loan will permit the ACT to conduct a buyback of the more than 1000 homes in the territory that had loose-fill asbestos insulation installed, and which to varying degrees still have traces of the carcinogenic and potentially lethal material present. The fate of those homes is simple – demolition. What possessions can be salvaged will be, the homes will be removed and the soil on the blocks remediated to remove any final traces of the fibres that since the material was installed in the 1960s and 70s, has trickled down from the roof and wall cavities above.
Once demolished, the land will be offered for sale, with first preference given to the original home owner.
When all the land is eventually resold and one money recouped, the expected final cost of the program is expected to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars; a near insurmountable cost for a jurisdiction the size of the ACT without assistance. While the Commonwealth's loan helps buffer the cost to the ACT and gives it access to favourable borrowing terms, it falls short of the territory government's desire for an actual contribution from the Commonwealth.
The report of the ACT Asbestos Task-force, also released today, makes clear that the only "enduring solution" for this issue is the demolition of the affected homes. There is no other long term solution that is safe, or that will bring to an end the consternation this issue continues to engender.
The sad truth however for those facing this issue now is that such a conclusion was already clear almost 30 years ago. As I wrote in August, official advice issued by the Department of Territories during the mid 1980s warned that attempting to remove the loose-fill asbestos would likely cause the further spread of the invidious and invisible fibres and it would be unlikely to remove all the material anyway. Despite this advice, and an attempt to clean up a home in 1986 that ended disastrously, when it came time for the new ACT Government to developing a solution, they elected to clean rather than demolish.
Only in the midst of struggles over costs and contracting did the notion of demolition even arise, when it was suggested that crudely bulldozing the homes may be a more cost efficient option. Fortunately the ACT Asbestos Branch resisted such suggestions, given the rightful fears this would spread invisible asbestos fibres across whole suburbs, contaminating many more homes potentially.
The choice was made to pursue a novel and expensive method, that from the outset was recognised as only capable of removing the majority of the material that was visible and accessible. Hindsight is of course a wonderful thing, and we should not underestimate the significant economic and political pressures that existed in the late 1980s making a buyback and demolition unpalatable for governments, but as decisions go it was none the less a bad one.
Whether it is right that the Commonwealth is only providing a finance facility and not actually contributing to the final cost is likely to prompt some controversy. There is no question that the Commonwealth has significant culpability, at least so far as the situation in the ACT is concerned. The Commonwealth was the administrator of the territory when the operators, D Jansen & Co and later J & H Insulations, were permitted to use brown and blue asbestos as home insulation. The Commonwealth permitted its use, despite clear warnings from its own Department of Health and a growing body of evidence more broadly that pointed to the installers, tradespeople and home owners being put at risk.
The Commonwealth contributed a majority of the funds for the $100m clean-up program that ran from 1989 to 1993 that was administered by the then new ACT Government, and is party to a Memorandum of Understanding that states such a funding share is to prevail for future remediation work.
Yet it was the ACT Government that chose to clean the homes and designed the method for doing so. And while the upfront cost is one that is near insurmountable for the ACT's finances, the final cost is one that the territory can absorb when one considers the relative cost of projects like the Capital Metro light rail.
How much each party should pay is a moral question, not a practical one. Ideally the Commonwealth would pay a share, but this isn't the first time the ACT has had to cover the costs of a legacy problem the Commonwealth has left, nor will it be the last, and accusations the territory has been short changed are more emotive than rational.
Ultimately though it is the people affected by this toxic and fear inducing legacy that matter, and with today's news, these people in Canberra will finally see some solace on the horizon. For those who have lost their home and for those who still have it but it feels like home no more, this program offers a resolution long overdue. A resolution that should never have been needed, but for which both the ACT and the Commonwealth should be commended for reaching.
Let us remember though that residents in New South Wales have long to lived with the burden and the risk of loose-fill asbestos insulation too. Properties in Queanbeyan, Yass, Bungendore and Batemans Bay are known to contain, or in the past contained, loose-fill asbestos insulation. New evidence points to properties elsewhere, including metropolitan Sydney, also being affected. Records suggest other operators used the material as far back as the 1950s, and that potentially asbestos containing insulations were also sold in New South Wales in the form of vermiculite. For residents over the border from the ACT, a resolution is still far from in sight, yet they are no less deserving of one.


We are all looking at the same set of facts, so let's zoom back and try a historical perspective.
Newspaper household penetration peaked in the 1920s at about 130%. In other words, 130 newspapers were sold for every 100 households in the USA. Now penetration is less than 50% and still falling.
Newspapers adapted to the decline and became better than ever at making money. First, they consolidated, shaking down to one per market in all but the largest metro areas. That gave them monopoly pricing power. And they used new technology to slash production costs: offset printing; using computers to capture the reporters' keystrokes for typesetting; and computer pagination to move composition from the back shop to the copy desk.
Now an even bigger technology change is upon us: electronic delivery of news and advertising direct to the home. At Knight Ridder in 1978, we tried to get an early start on this development with Viewtron because we could see the potential for eliminating newspapers' main variable costs: newsprint, ink and transportation. But it turned out there was a catch. The low cost opened the door to all kinds of upstart competitors. Lou Alexander is right. The future isn't rosy.
Newspapers' problem today is that they are trying to maintain monopoly pricing when they no longer have the monopoly.
Because Craig Newmark and his ilk do not have those high variable costs, they can eat newspapers' lunch in the classified business, which had became an increasingly important part of their revenue in the second half of the 20th century. Worse yet, Craig doesn't appear to be interested in making a lot of money -- he's what Michael Porter calls "a bad competitor" -- one willing to provide the same or better service to your customers at a lower margin.
Internet-based media are bad competitors for another reason. In addition to low variable costs, they have low entry costs, as Matt Drudge demonstrated with his obsolescent computer. Newspapers are responding by going into Internet businesses on their own, but it will never be the same because they have lost the monopoly power created by the high entry cost of buying a printing press.
Now consider one other historical trend. The same technologies that made newspapers cheaper to produce have spawned specialized media that grow faster than general media. Specialized media have been drawing the attention of young people and keeping them from starting the newspaper habit in the first place. John Morton is right. Newspaper readers are dying off faster than they are being replaced. If you are not yet convinced that generational replacement, far more than changing habits, is the problem, look at the chart below. Each generation has been keeping roughly the same readership habits it had when its members became old enough to be included in readership studies.
Newspapers have tried to adapt by including more specialized content in their umbrella packages. But the Internet now makes possible the ultimate in specialization, tailoring messages for an audience of one. Bundling all that content diversity into the same package for everyone is no longer efficient.
Here's the good news. As Donald Shaw has pointed out, new media never completely replace old media. They just drive the old media into more specialized niches. Newspapers will survive, but in radically different form, many less than daily. The University of Missouri Journalism School's current experiment with MyMissourian, a daily report online followed by a weekly print summary, shows one of the many variations that the new combination might take.
Today's newspapers are stuck in the old hunter-gatherer model of journalism. But now we need information processing more than information production. The market is calling for information that is easy to find and use, and that requires very good editors to help us navigate through all the noise. We need more specialists who can explain events in their arcane fields. We need more trusted sources to alert us when attention should be paid. These jobs will require more skilled, better paid journalists than the newspaper marketplace is able to attract now. Steve Lacy is right: Quality pays.
Newspapers' problem today is that they are trying to maintain monopoly pricing when they no longer have the monopoly. You can't blame them for trying. By milking their assets, they can keep the revenue that the present owners, public or private, have built into their expectations -- for a while. And while quality pays, we cannot be certain that adding new quality to the old business model will be enough to save it. Quality should start looking for another home.
Newspaper companies have lost their ability to adapt. They should hedge their bets by spinning off some of that harvested revenue into new and totally separate enterprises that would go after the younger audience, provide skilled and deep local reporting and attract advertisers that want to be associated with a credible and influential brand name. They should try to become somebody else's bad competitor. If they do not do these things, they will soon find that more Craig Newmarks are out there, waiting for them.
Philip Meyer is the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Precision Journalism and most recently, The Vanishing Newspaper. He is an original member of the Grade the News advisory board.


World Watercolor Month is well under away and the first week is complete. For me it be fun, but also challenging. The challenge of coming up with something new to paint each day and to be able to complete it. I am one who usually take my time, but this has really force to do things on the fly. Awhile there no requirement that each watercolor painting you do has be done at a specific time and/or submitted, I would like to do 31 watercolor paintings. I've been posting my watercolor painting on the World Watercolor month Facebook page, as well as on my Instagram with the #WorldWatercolorMonth. The best part is interacting with people from around the world, both beginner and experience watercolor users, plus see each other art work. We say that we are connect by internet, but we are much more connected through art. Here are my watercolor painting for the first week.
When you have to many thoughts race in your mind.


Continuing education courses and workshops are offered in Kentucky and Tennessee. Programs are assigned Category I (core education) or Category II (related education) Continuing Forestry Education (CFE) credits. Half a CFE credit hour (0.5) is assigned for every thirty minutes of interaction between learner and instructor. Credits are rounded down to the nearest 30 minute session and programs shorter than 30 minutes are not eligible for credit. Portions of programs such as introductory, welcome and closing remarks, meal breaks, or business and committee meetings are not eligible for credit.
More information about SAF's continuing education program please click here and to view a national list of events to received CFE credits please view the national events calendar on the national SAF website.
Please contact the Continuing Education Coordinator in your state to get approval of your event before it takes place.


The five-time K1 League champions have made a formal approach for the off-contract 25-year-old linchpin, with only the fine details of a deal to be worked out ahead of the April 1 closure of Korea's transfer window.
It's likely the Sky Blues would receive a nominal fee to cover the loss of a key player in their A-League title defence, with Brillante having racked up 20 appearances already this season.
However, coach Steve Corica wasn't willing to pick a player with an imminent move on his mind for the Group H game.
The club released a statement prior to kick off, which claimed the fringe Socceroo wasn't in the "right frame of mind" to play.
"There has been overseas interest in Josh which meant he wasn't in the right frame of mind for tonight's game," Sydney FC's statement read.
There has been overseas interest in Josh which meant he wasn't in the right frame of mind for tonight's game.
We have a big enough squad and need to have every player 100% focused on the match so the decision was made to leave him out.
Brillante is in his third season with Sydney and has been hankering after an overseas move after previous stints in Italy with Fiorentina, Empoli and Como.


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package uk.gov.dvsa.motr.web.handler;

import com.amazonaws.serverless.proxy.internal.model.AwsProxyResponse;
import com.tngtech.java.junit.dataprovider.DataProvider;
import com.tngtech.java.junit.dataprovider.DataProviderRunner;
import com.tngtech.java.junit.dataprovider.UseDataProvider;

import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.contrib.java.lang.system.EnvironmentVariables;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import uk.gov.dvsa.motr.web.performance.warmup.PingAwareAwsProxyRequest;
import uk.gov.dvsa.motr.web.test.aws.TestLambdaContext;
import uk.gov.dvsa.motr.web.test.environment.TestEnvironmentVariables;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

@RunWith(DataProviderRunner.class)
public class MotrWebHandlerNotFoundTest {

    @Rule
    public final EnvironmentVariables environmentVariables = new TestEnvironmentVariables();

    private final MotrWebHandler handler = new MotrWebHandler();

    @DataProvider
    public static Object[][] notFoundResources() {
        // @formatter:off
        return new Object[][]{
                {"/resource-that-does-not-exist"},
        };
    }
    // @formatter:on

    @UseDataProvider("notFoundResources")
    @Test
    public void return404WhenResourceDoesNotExist(String resourcePath) throws Exception {

        PingAwareAwsProxyRequest req = buildRequest("GET", resourcePath);

        assertEquals(404, handle(req).getStatusCode());
    }

    @UseDataProvider("notFoundResources")
    @Test
    public void returnHtmlResponseWhenResourceDoesNotExist(String resourcePath) throws Exception {

        PingAwareAwsProxyRequest req = buildRequest("GET", resourcePath);

        assertEquals("text/html", handle(req).getHeaders().get("Content-type"));
    }

    private PingAwareAwsProxyRequest buildRequest(String method, String path) {

        PingAwareAwsProxyRequest req = new PingAwareAwsProxyRequest();
        req.setPath(path);
        req.setHttpMethod(method);
        return req;
    }

    private AwsProxyResponse handle(PingAwareAwsProxyRequest req) {
        return handler.handleRequest(req, new TestLambdaContext());
    }
}

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Aris has been involved with the Chamber on various levels over the years but really dove in when she became a realtor in 2013. "I participate in the Wake Up West Coast Breakfasts as an attendee and a volunteer and in addition to being an Ambassador, I am the former Chair for the Ambassador Committee," she shared.
"I am a member of one of the Connect Groups and am currently serving as chair for my group and on the Leadership Committee for the Connect groups." Aris is another West Coast Leadership grad and recently started participating in the new affinity group for leadership class alumni. "I'm looking forward to the work of this group!" she said.
Aris received the Think Big Be Great award for her work as an Ambassador. "I am honored to have won an award that was voted on by my Ambassador peers; it means a lot to me," she shared. "It means the conversations I had are meaningful. It means showing up makes a difference."


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by Dar-Sandur on April 16, 2016
An origin story unlike the others
When Shaheer first brought his guitar to his training camp, little did he know it'll be a pathway for him to be a Nasheed singer. A military medic by day, Shaheer dons his headphones and composes lyrical notes by night, imagining and perfecting on what his songs would sound and feel like. After fervent prayers and lyrical compositions, Shaheer is now ready to unveil his first song to the world, aptly titled, 'The Veil':
The Absence of Convenience
A military medic by profession, Shaheer's talent blossomed when he sang with his friends during his military training. The lack of digital entertainment didn't hinder the trainees to find other alternatives: namely singing with a group of friends. Noting that he had a lovely voice, his friends suggested that he be an artist: and thus he took the challenge and became one. On reason of being a nasheed singer, Shaheer wanted his songs to be impactful to his audience, as a form of dua and inspiration to the public to find their inner peace and comfort with Allah. This noble idea and determination borne a fruit called 'The Veil'.
Path to clarity
'The Veil' came as reminder to both himself as well as to others. In the age of various distraction, to be focused and be mindful of our wondering mind is not a simple task. It requires effort, and leaving the worldly matters behind. And Shaheer has beautifully rendered this through his song, describing it as an unveiling of wearies that ultimately leads to the clarity of mind. Walking through a forest till we reach that calm lake-like state of our consciousness.
An Aspiring Artist
Shaheer in a way is still rough around the edges, but his songle The Veil shows a lot of potential and a very focused aspiration, to not just be a role model to those around him, but extended to those that he can touch through his songs. Insyallah, this will be one of the many steps that Shaheer will walk, in order to be a Man with a Dawaah Mission.
If you wish to find out more about him, you can find him on his facebook page , official YouTube page and his Twitter
P.S: In case you're wondering, we do have an exclusive interview coming this Tuesday! Of course the best is yet to come!
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