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The Impact of Patient and Public Involvement in the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium (November 2021)
This joint report, with the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium, celebrates and showcases the positive impact of involving patients and the public in immunology research.
Securing our Future: The Value of Veterinary Vaccines
This joint report, with the International Veterinary Vaccinology Network, reviews the current state of the veterinary vaccinology landscape and sets out the key recommendations to maintain the UK's leading role in this area.
Immunity & Covid-19 (February 2021)
This report from the British Society for Immunology's Immunology and COVID-19 taskforce rapidly reviews what we do and don't currently know about immunity to SARS-CoV-2 induced by vaccination and natural infection and outlines four research recommendations.
The Ageing Immune System and Covid-19 (November 2020)
This report from the British Society for Immunology's Immunology and COVID-19 taskforce analyses what we currently do and don't understand about the science behind why the immune systems of older people react differently to SARS-CoV-2 infection. The report also outlines five research recommendations to increase our understanding of how the older immune system responds to COVID-19, with a particular focus on issues around co-infections and multimorbidity.
Long-Term Immunological Health Consequences of Covid-19 (August 2020)
This briefing note provides a rapid review of current research on the long-term immunological health consequences of COVID-19. It also sets out key recommendations to help understand what SARS-CoV-2 and our immune response to it does to our health over the long term in a range of individuals, from asymptomatic to severe cases.
Covid-19 Immunology Research (May 2020)
We have joined forces with the Academy of Medical Sciences to publish a new expert summary, which rapidly reviews current COVID-19 immunology research and identifies urgent research priorities. The paper reviews what we know about COVID-19 from immunology research and highlights knowledge gaps that could hamper efforts to get the pandemic under control.
Protecting The World: Celebrating 200 Years of Vaccine Research (April 2020)
This new report, part of the BSI's Celebrate Vaccines work, examines the leading contribution that the UK has made to vaccine research and how this had improved global public health. It takes a look at our past successes and where we need to focus resources in the future to ensure we can continue to develop new vaccines to protect against emerging infectious diseases.
Careers in Immunology (October 2017)
The British Society for Immunology has conducted a careers mapping project focusing on the immunology workforce in the UK. This project was published in October 2017 and provides a snapshot of the current immunology workforce across multiple disciplines, providing a platform for further research and investigation. You can download the project report from the link below and find out further information from the careers review section of our website.
Immunology and The UK's Life Sciences Industry (May 2017)
This is an exciting time for immunology. The discipline sits at the sharp end of research and innovation in the life sciences sector, with decades of investment and collaboration in basic research beginning to yield exciting new breakthroughs in critical disease areas. Our new report 'Immunology and the UK's life sciences industry' highlights the importance of immunology to this sector and makes recommendations for actions the government should take to support life sciences. This report formed our response to the government's industrial strategy Green Paper.
60 Years of Immunology: Past, Present and Future (October 2016)
A report celebrating the 60th anniversary of the BSI highlighting selected areas of current immunological interest and identifying exciting new themes and trends.
Immunology: An International, Life-Saving Science (June 2016)
The UK ranks first amongst the G7 for the quality of its research in infection and immunology, a fact that is in no small part due to the numerous global links and relationships that support world-class immunological research in our institutions. Our new report Immunology: an international, life-saving science highlights why these international influences matter and makes a number of recommendations that can help ensure UK immunology continues to flourish on the international stage.
60 years of immunology: past, present and future


Creating content is one thing. However, doing so in such a way that ensures users are reading it, is quite a different thing.
Are you one of those who goes through a meticulous process when it comes to choosing which words to use? You think about the words that you think will generate more engagement among your readers and you adapt them to suit your content. But do you get good results?
If you've gotten this far, then it's probably because after a long, non-stop process of creating content, you still don't know what to do to make it attractive. Few people read your posts. Hardly any comments are left on them and nobody interacts with them on social media.
Do you really think you need to dedicate 10,000 hours to perfecting your writing skills? That's probably not the answer. In fact, creating attractive content is not just about the text itself.
Remember that when a user reads something its because it really has captured their attention. In fact, creating text content that engages users is one of the most difficult engagement techniques to get right. Watching a video is not the same as reading a text. The latter takes effort and requires an active approach.
If you want a user who lands on your blog to feel attracted to what you say and show interest in reading your content, then you must take certain basics into account. For example, the lettering.If you use very modern fonts that really don't make reading the text any easier, then that could be another one of your first errors.
The font you use is a big influence when it comes to deciding whether to read your content. There are currently billions of pages and blogs on the Internet. And be under no illusion: there are plenty of people writing about the same topics as you. Therefore, your audience will soon search for other content if yours is too complicated.
Or if their first impression is a bad one.In keeping with that initial impact and the basics of any optimum content, the colours and styles used throughout the article have a strong influence. Reading a plain text without paragraphs, bold font or subtitles is completely different from reading an organised and clear text.
And the last of these basics refers to the visual content. There's nothing like incorporating images and videos to facilitate reading.
The more you know about the users that most often read your work, the better you'll adapt it to suit them. This point is really easy to understand. In fact, transferred into real-life, it's just like how you'd treat those around you. Chances are you don't talk to your boss the same way you talk to your friends or clients.
In terms of the latter in particular, the odds are that if you want to sell them something, you'll need to know a little bit about them. What they like, how your product or service can meet their needs, etc. The same applies to content creation, even though your intention isn't making a sale.
You simply need to create a family ecosystem, know your audience, know how to speak, use the same language and provide visual content that you know will capture their attention. Not to mention the fact that the chosen topic must be the ideal one.
Facebook. Its statistics will reveal a lot about your readers.
What do you want to achieve with each publication? Imagine you want to share your knowledge on a subject as broad as Facebook. What is it that really intrigues your audience?
In the first point, you'll have collected sufficient information to define your objectives. If you audience has a certain type of behaviour, you'll know what circles they move in and what their problems are, so you can then provide them with solutions. This means that when you take on a subject as broad as Facebook, generally speaking you'll be able to determine what exactly the user is interested in knowing.
So before writing a post, the first step you should take is to determine what the objective of the post is. Then it's time to research what information has already been written on the subject, so that you don't risk being repetitive. Never forget that you should stand out from the crowd.
Look for your competitors' best articles, which links they use, their keywords, how users react to certain pieces of information… And with this in mind, draw your own conclusions so that you're not repeating the same old thing. Structure your content and, above all, include elements that are amiss in all those posts you've just read.
When it comes to creating content that generates engagement, the order is really important. You must be clear about one thing: the majority of users aren't going to read your whole post. So you need to do everything possible to engage them from the very start.
As you have already seen, your content is not to blame; it's just that written texts always require users to make more effort and take an active approach. And if you don't offer something very attractive or valuable, then very view people will waste their time reading it.
The majority of readers who land on your blog will only read a percentage of the page. It's your job lies in making them read the rest.
Can you imagine how to accomplish it?
The user will skim over the document, first of all. If the subtitles and sentences written in bold have convinced them, they will start reading the introduction.Just like in any communicative process, the introduction and the close are the most important points.
The first will determine whether the user carries on reading the main body of the content or not. It's the part in charge of engaging them. And the close, on the other hand, is the part that summarises all the content and clarifies the key points so they stick in the user's mind.
1. Introduction: Pose a problem that your audience may have.
2. Development or body: Explain how to solve it.
3. Ending or close: Review the key points and tips.
To ensure this point is fully effective, a certain degree of intrigue is recommended. If you offer solutions from the get-go, nobody will bother reading you. Reveal your information little by little.
In fact, one of the tricks to get your content readis to create stories. One tactic is to share a real life case from your business or rely on the Internet to rescue stories about someone who demonstrates exactly what you want to explain.
This is one of the mistakes of many bloggers: Repeating the same thing over and over again but in different words. Put yourself in the reader's shoes, would you really want to keep on reading an article if it doesn't offer anything new?
Once you've written it, read it out loud.
Find all the phrases and ideas that repeated over and over and delete them.
Ask someone else to read it, so you get a more objective point of view.
Then remove anything that does not offer any value.
A web usability study by Nielsen demonstrated that 79% of users skims instead of read. I.e., glances over the text without stopping to read the entire content. So if you are one of those who don't use subtitles or divide your text in paragraphs, here is one of the reasons why users don't read your content.
Put yourself in the shoes of a reader or think of how you act yourself against certain content. For example, if all the information you're currently reading appeared in one single paragraph without bold text or subtitles, what would you think? You wouldn't have gotten this far.
• Include short paragraphs and phrases that are legible and clear.
• Don't be afraid of lists. In fact, they are one of the most powerful tools when it comes to getting a user to read your content. They are attractive to the naked eye, easy-to-read and light.
• Don't forget about links. Link your content with other content on your blog which will make users spend more time on your website and realise that you've got plenty to say.
• Be careful with the use of bold text. This is another one of the parts skimmed over by users before they delve into the content. Don't overdo it or confuse the reader.
One of the first things the user looks for in an article are the images or videos. As you can see in the infograph, the human mind reacts differently to different types of content. And, perhaps, including some of them as a hook may get the user to read to the end.
However, you have to be careful about what you choose. Maintaining coherence between the text and the image is always important. But getting one thing to say the same as another isn't so much. Seek out visual content that works as a complement, that adds value to what has already been said.
In short, to create content you must consider many factors that help to enhance it. However, without a good foundation, it doesn't matter how well structured it is or how many colours it has, it'll be useless.
Would you like to dig deeper into content marketing? Coobis is a Content Marketing Platform where brands can get help to generate the content necessary to guide them in the right direction. Or to make their articles well known by using social media influencers. Are you up for creating and spreading better content?


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From Ant-Man to Captain America: Here's how Disney Cruise Line will bring Marvel actors aboard each sailing of its newest ship
Terri Peters
·Senior Lifestyle Editor
25 October 2021, 12:05 pm ·3-min read
Disney Cruise Line has announced that Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie and Brie Larson have filmed scenes for the Worlds of Marvel dining experience aboard the Disney Wish. (Photo: Disney)
Avengers fans will soon have a new way to get up close and personal with a few of their favorite actors from Marvel films: an interactive dining experience that takes place on the open ocean aboard Disney Cruise Line's newest ship, the Disney Wish.
Disney Cruise Line recently gave Yahoo Entertainment a first look at how Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Brie Larson and Anthony Mackie, the actors who play Ant-Man, The Wasp, Captain Marvel and Captain America, respectively, joined forces with the cruise line to participate in Avengers: Quantum Encounter, the cinematic dining adventure that takes place at Worlds of Marvel, the Marvel-themed restaurant aboard the Disney Wish.
Since the Disney Wish is still being built, Rudd, Lilly, Larson and Mackie filmed their scenes against realistic CGI backgrounds designed to look like mock-ups of the upper decks of the ship, where an epic battle against a familiar villain from the Marvel Cinematic Universe takes place. The show, which is exclusive to the Disney Wish, is now in post-production, and when the ship sets sail in summer 2022, guests will be able to watch the hero-packed action unfold on giant screens throughout the restaurants as they enjoy their meals.
Video: First look at Disney Cruise Ship's Marvel Restaurant & Star Wars Bar
The Marvel-themed dining experience will begin when Ant-Man and The Wasp embark on their first public speaking engagement on behalf of the Avengers, presenting technologies like Captain America's shield and Iron Man's arc reactor to their audience. In addition to seeing holographic models and field reports of these technologies, diners will experience them in use through iconic scenes from Marvel films, played on screens throughout the dinner service.
On screens throughout Worlds of Marvel, guests will see Ant-Man and The Wasp speak about Quantum Core technology and other Avengers tools. (Photo: Disney)
Each table in the restaurant will have its own interactive Quantum Core, a Pym Tech device that can cause objects to shrink and grow remotely. During their meal, guests will help Ant-Man and The Wasp attempt simple trials like shrinking oversized luggage for easy stateroom storage. But in addition to some amusing misfires and Ant-Man-style hijinks, there will be real trouble when Ultron shows up with an army of sentries and tries to get his hands on the technology.
"Avengers: Quantum Encounter is Disney Cruise Line's most ambitious dining experience ever," says Danny Handke, a senior creative director at Walt Disney Imagineering. "We're doing something that's never been done before in a restaurant: developing an exclusive Avengers adventure that will immerse our guests in the action through sophisticated technology and innovative storytelling."
Diners will also see Ant-Man and The Wasp in the dining room during their meal service. (Photo: Disney)
"It's the perfect complement to the incredible menu of story-driven dining aboard the Disney Wish," adds Handke.
The menu at Worlds of Marvel includes foods from real and fictional settings throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with dishes inspired by everywhere from Wakanda to the Avengers' home base of New York City.
The Disney Wish will take its maiden voyage in June 2022.
'A job not yet finished': 5 takeaways from Biden's press conference
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With Russia poised to invade, many Ukrainians express doubts about the threat
4 signs Omicron may soon peak in the U.S.
Senior US diplomats in Sudan for talks on coup crisis
Senior US diplomats met with pro-democracy activists Wednesday in Sudan as part of talks to discuss the way forward after last year's military coup, Washington's embassy in Khartoum said.
The "Doomsday Clock," representing the judgment of leading science and security experts about perils to human existence, remains at 100 seconds to midnight this year, with advances like Covid-19 vaccines balanced by rising misinformation and other threats.
The abandoned five-star hotel in Liberia's capital
The iconic Ducor Hotel overlooks the Liberian capital Monrovia. It was the first five-star hotel in West Africa when it was built in 1960. But in ruins since 2003 due to the brutal civil war, the Ducor has become a den of drug addicts and squatters.
Athlete surveillance warnings cloud China's Winter Olympics
A growing number of Western nations and cybersecurity groups have issued digital surveillance warnings for next month's Winter Olympics in Beijing, with some advising foreign athletes to leave personal phones and laptops at home.
Over a dozen dead as coalition bombs Yemen after UAE attack
The Saudi-led coalition killed 14 people in air strikes on Yemen's rebel-held capital, a medical source said, after an attack by Huthi insurgents on the United Arab Emirates sent regional tensions soaring. Sanaa residents were combing the rubble for survivors of the strikes that levelled two houses, hours after the Huthis had killed three people Monday in a drone and missile attack on the UAE capital Abu Dhabi.

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Surviving the Economic Collapse has one seriously important advantage over almost all other disaster preparedness books — the author has really lived through the disaster he writes about. Fernando "FerFAL" Aguirre was a young man in Argentina when the socialist government's tax and spend policies caused a drastic devaluation of the peso and a contraction of the economy so severe that is led to social collapse. In the last 42 years the Argentinian government has dropped thirteen zeros from the value of a peso. One 2011 peso is the equivalent of ten trillion 1969 pesos. This is inflation far surpassing anything which we in the United States faced even during the Jimmy Carter presidency.
Unsurprisingly, FerFAL's advice differs in a lot of ways from other authors in this field. Most preparedness authors recommend building a defensible compound far from civilization. Fernando points out the impracticalities of this approach and recommends a home in a nice quiet suburb and good relations with your neighbors.
This book isn't focused on a total TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) situation, but the far more common economic collapse. These occur all over the world when government becomes too powerful and too arrogant. As a result, the book focuses on issues like the practical bartering skills which become so important when money become unstable or effectively unusable.
The book is full of small tidbits of information which the author learned after the collapse. Less coverage is assigned to preparedness before a collapse, because the author was simply too young to do much preparation before the Argentinian collapse. We the readers, however, can learn and benefit from the authors lack of preparation and misfortune.
This book is a quick and easy read. The 250 pages don't contain enough information to make you feel full. But, it is a recommended addition to a complete preparedness library. This book is most recommended because it provides an extremely valuable viewpoint. For just $24.95 you can benefit from the experience of living through one of the worst disasters in Argentinian history.


Edoardo Mannucci was born in Prato, Italy, in 1965. Dr. Mannucci graduated as Medical Doctor from the University of Florence Medical School, Florence, Italy, in 1990 and received his postgraduate degree of endocrinology from the same University in 1995. He was an Assistant in geriatrics at the Careggi Teaching Hospital of the University of Florence in 2002. From 2004 to 2009, he worked as the Diabetologist in charge of the Diabetes Outpatient Clinic of the Geriatric Section, Careggi Teaching Hospital, the University of Florence. At present, Mannucci is Chief of the Diabetes Agency of Careggi Teaching Hospital in Florence. He is also Teacher of the Postgraduate School of Geriatrics, the School for Physiotherapists and of the Advanced School for Dietitians, the University of Florence. Dr. Mannucci has been a Member of the National Board and National Secretary of the Società Italiana dell'Obesità (Italian Society of Obesity) from 2000 to 2004 and the National Board of the Società Italiana per lo Studio dei Disturbi del Comportamento Alimentare (Italian Society for the Study of Eating Disorders) from 2004 to 2008 and the President of the Tuscany Section of the Società Italiana di Diabetologia (Italian Society of Diabetology) from 2004 to 2008. Presently, he is a Member of the Scientific Board of the Società Italiana di Diabetologia (Italian Society of Diabetology) and Coordinator of the Epidemiology Study Group of the same society. He is involved in clinical and experimental research on diabetes, obesity, and eating disorders; most notably, he has been involved in research on incretin hormones in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes, long-term outcomes of hypoglycaemic therapy, epidemiological definition of metabolic syndrome, and predictors of cardiovascular disease in diabetes. He has also participated, as Principal Investigator, in several phase II and phase III studies in GCP. Dr. Mannucci has published several books and over 180 papers in international journals.


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// obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
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// restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
// copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
// Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
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// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
// included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
//
// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
// EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
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// HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
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#ifndef __VERTICALGROUP_H__
#define __VERTICALGROUP_H__

#include "boxgroup.h++"

namespace Scr
{
	namespace Tk
	{
		//! Vertical widget grouping capabilities.
		/*!
		  Intelligently places the containing widgets among allocated space.
		  Widgets are placed vertically.
		*/
		class VerticalGroup:virtual public BoxGroup
		{
		protected:
			virtual void ArrangeContents()throw();

		public:
			VerticalGroup(const WidgetGroup & base)throw();
			VerticalGroup(Uint _height,
						  Uint _width,
						  const DisplayStyle & _style
						  = DisplayStyle(Fg::White,Fg::Dark,Bg::Black))
				throw();
			virtual  ~VerticalGroup()throw();
			RTTI_OBJ(VerticalGroup, BoxGroup);
		};
	}
}
#endif // __VERTICALGROUP_H__

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package abi

import (
	"fmt"
	"reflect"
	"strings"
)

// indirect recursively dereferences the value until it either gets the value
// or finds a big.Int
func indirect(v reflect.Value) reflect.Value {
	if v.Kind() == reflect.Ptr && v.Elem().Type() != derefbigT {
		return indirect(v.Elem())
	}
	return v
}

// reflectIntKind returns the reflect using the given size and
// unsignedness.
func reflectIntKindAndType(unsigned bool, size int) (reflect.Kind, reflect.Type) {
	switch size {
	case 8:
		if unsigned {
			return reflect.Uint8, uint8T
		}
		return reflect.Int8, int8T
	case 16:
		if unsigned {
			return reflect.Uint16, uint16T
		}
		return reflect.Int16, int16T
	case 32:
		if unsigned {
			return reflect.Uint32, uint32T
		}
		return reflect.Int32, int32T
	case 64:
		if unsigned {
			return reflect.Uint64, uint64T
		}
		return reflect.Int64, int64T
	}
	return reflect.Ptr, bigT
}

// mustArrayToBytesSlice creates a new byte slice with the exact same size as value
// and copies the bytes in value to the new slice.
func mustArrayToByteSlice(value reflect.Value) reflect.Value {
	slice := reflect.MakeSlice(reflect.TypeOf([]byte{}), value.Len(), value.Len())
	reflect.Copy(slice, value)
	return slice
}

// set attempts to assign src to dst by either setting, copying or otherwise.
//
// set is a bit more lenient when it comes to assignment and doesn't force an as
// strict ruleset as bare `reflect` does.
func set(dst, src reflect.Value, output Argument) error {
	dstType := dst.Type()
	srcType := src.Type()
	switch {
	case dstType.AssignableTo(srcType):
		dst.Set(src)
	case dstType.Kind() == reflect.Interface:
		dst.Set(src)
	case dstType.Kind() == reflect.Ptr:
		return set(dst.Elem(), src, output)
	default:
		return fmt.Errorf("abi: cannot unmarshal %v in to %v", src.Type(), dst.Type())
	}
	return nil
}

// requireAssignable assures that `dest` is a pointer and it's not an interface.
func requireAssignable(dst, src reflect.Value) error {
	if dst.Kind() != reflect.Ptr && dst.Kind() != reflect.Interface {
		return fmt.Errorf("abi: cannot unmarshal %v into %v", src.Type(), dst.Type())
	}
	return nil
}

// requireUnpackKind verifies preconditions for unpacking `args` into `kind`
func requireUnpackKind(v reflect.Value, t reflect.Type, k reflect.Kind,
	args Arguments) error {

	switch k {
	case reflect.Struct:
	case reflect.Slice, reflect.Array:
		if minLen := args.LengthNonIndexed(); v.Len() < minLen {
			return fmt.Errorf("abi: insufficient number of elements in the list/array for unpack, want %d, got %d",
				minLen, v.Len())
		}
	default:
		return fmt.Errorf("abi: cannot unmarshal tuple into %v", t)
	}
	return nil
}

// mapAbiToStringField maps abi to struct fields.
// first round: for each Exportable field that contains a `abi:""` tag
//   and this field name exists in the arguments, pair them together.
// second round: for each argument field that has not been already linked,
//   find what variable is expected to be mapped into, if it exists and has not been
//   used, pair them.
func mapAbiToStructFields(args Arguments, value reflect.Value) (map[string]string, error) {

	typ := value.Type()

	abi2struct := make(map[string]string)
	struct2abi := make(map[string]string)

	// first round ~~~
	for i := 0; i < typ.NumField(); i++ {
		structFieldName := typ.Field(i).Name

		// skip private struct fields.
		if structFieldName[:1] != strings.ToUpper(structFieldName[:1]) {
			continue
		}

		// skip fields that have no abi:"" tag.
		var ok bool
		var tagName string
		if tagName, ok = typ.Field(i).Tag.Lookup("abi"); !ok {
			continue
		}

		// check if tag is empty.
		if tagName == "" {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("struct: abi tag in '%s' is empty", structFieldName)
		}

		// check which argument field matches with the abi tag.
		found := false
		for _, abiField := range args.NonIndexed() {
			if abiField.Name == tagName {
				if abi2struct[abiField.Name] != "" {
					return nil, fmt.Errorf("struct: abi tag in '%s' already mapped", structFieldName)
				}
				// pair them
				abi2struct[abiField.Name] = structFieldName
				struct2abi[structFieldName] = abiField.Name
				found = true
			}
		}

		// check if this tag has been mapped.
		if !found {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("struct: abi tag '%s' defined but not found in abi", tagName)
		}

	}

	// second round ~~~
	for _, arg := range args {

		abiFieldName := arg.Name
		structFieldName := capitalise(abiFieldName)

		if structFieldName == "" {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("abi: purely underscored output cannot unpack to struct")
		}

		// this abi has already been paired, skip it... unless there exists another, yet unassigned
		// struct field with the same field name. If so, raise an error:
		//    abi: [ { "name": "value" } ]
		//    struct { Value  *big.Int , Value1 *big.Int `abi:"value"`}
		if abi2struct[abiFieldName] != "" {
			if abi2struct[abiFieldName] != structFieldName &&
				struct2abi[structFieldName] == "" &&
				value.FieldByName(structFieldName).IsValid() {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("abi: multiple variables maps to the same abi field '%s'", abiFieldName)
			}
			continue
		}

		// return an error if this struct field has already been paired.
		if struct2abi[structFieldName] != "" {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("abi: multiple outputs mapping to the same struct field '%s'", structFieldName)
		}

		if value.FieldByName(structFieldName).IsValid() {
			// pair them
			abi2struct[abiFieldName] = structFieldName
			struct2abi[structFieldName] = abiFieldName
		} else {
			// not paired, but annotate as used, to detect cases like
			//   abi : [ { "name": "value" }, { "name": "_value" } ]
			//   struct { Value *big.Int }
			struct2abi[structFieldName] = abiFieldName
		}

	}

	return abi2struct, nil
}


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Jubayr ibn Muṭim (), was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He accepted Islam in 628 or 629 after initially being an opponent.

Biography
A member of the Nawfal clan of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca, he was the son of Mut'im ibn 'Adi. He was renowned for his knowledge of genealogy, which he claimed to have learned directly from Abu Bakr.

Until , Jubayr was engaged to Abu Bakr's daughter Aisha. This arrangement was cancelled by mutual consent in May or June 620: Abu Bakr wished to accept Muhammad's proposal for Aisha, while Jubayr's parents did not want him to be influenced into becoming a Muslim.

In September 622 Jubayr was one of those involved in an unsuccessful plot to kill Muhammad.

At the Battle of Uhud Jubayr bribed his slave Wahshy ibn Harb with manumission to kill Hamza ibn 'Abdul Muttalib because Hamza had killed Jubayr's uncle at Badr.

He adopted Islam in the period between the Hudaibiah Treaty (628) and the Conquest of Mecca (630) and then settled in Medina.

He had two sons, Nafi, described as "prolific in relating tradition," and Muhammad, said to have been "the most learned of the Quraysh". However, his kunya, Abu Abdullah, indicates the possible existence of another son named Abdullah.

Narrations
Jubayr is included in the Isnad of several hadith.
Narrated Jubayr ibn Mut`im: My father said, "I heard Allah's Messenger reciting "at-Tur" (52) in the Maghrib prayer." Bukhari 1:12:732
Narrated Jubayr ibn Mut`im: That he heard the Prophet saying, "The person who severs the bond of kinship will not enter Paradise." Bukhari 8:73:13

Jubayr ibn Mut'im narrated from his father who said: "They told me that I was proud, while I rode a donkey, wore a cloak, and I milked the sheep. And the Messenger of Allah said to me: 'Whoever does these, then there is no pride (arrogance) in him.'" Sahih. Tirmidhi 4:1:2001

Narrated Jubayr ibn Mut`im: The Prophet talked about war prisoners of Badr saying, "Had [your father] Al-Mut`im ibn Adi been alive and interceded with me for these mean people, I would have freed them for his sake." Bukhari 4:53:367
Muhammad ibn Jubayr ibn Mut'im reported on the authority of his father that a woman asked Allah's Messenger about something, but he told her to come to him on some other occasion, whereupon she said: "What in your opinion [should I do] if I come to you but do not find you?" and it seemed as if she meant that he might die. Thereupon he said: "If you do not find me, then come to Abu Bakr." This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Jubayr ibn Mut'im through another chain of transmitters [and the words are] that a woman came to Allah's Messenger and discussed with him something, and he gave a command as we find in the above-mentioned narration. Muslim 31:5878

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Vinyl – Albums Live in conjunction with K Mase Productions and 105.9 The Rebel present: "Vinyl – Albums Live: V". Saturday, January 17, 2015 at The Palace Theater in Syracuse, NY. Doors at 6p. Show at 7p.
Our January performance will consist of three iconic 70's rock albums performed in their entirety. The three bands will feature 19 Syracuse musicians in total with nine who are new to the Vinyl – Albums Live family!
Vinyl – Albums Live: V is sponsored by AmeriCU Credit Union, 105.9FM The Rebel, Syracuse New Times and StudioDOG Pro. A portion of the evening's proceeds will be donated to Signature Music holistic education for teen musicians in Syracuse.
Released in December of 1973, Band on the Run was the third album released by Paul McCartney & Wings. Bolstered by the hits "Jet" and the title track "Band on the Run", the album reached #1 in the US on three separate occasions, and eventually went triple platinum. Also nominated for Album of the Year, Band on the Run took home the Grammy for Best Pop Performance in 1975. Vinyl – Albums Live musicians performing Band on the Run are Gary Frenay (bass & vocals), Arty Lenin (guitar and vocals), Steve Schad (keys and backing vocals), Kristopher Heels (guitar and backing vocals) and Pete Szymanski (drums).
Released in September of 1977, The Stranger was Billy Joel's fifth studio album and is considered his critical and commercial breakthrough effort, spending six weeks at #2 on the US Billboard 200. Featuring the singles "Just the Way You Are", "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)", "Only the Good Die Young", "She's Always a Woman" and "The Stranger", the album remains Joel's best-selling non-compilation album to date and was ranked number 70 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Vinyl – Albums Live musicians performing The Stranger are Bob Kane (drums), Dave Kane (bass), Tim Robinson (guitar) joined by Prime Time Horns musicians Brian Bird (sax), Tom Machuga (trumpet), Tony Greene (sax & flute),Bob Caraher (keys), Tom Hillenbrand (guitar) and Paul Valentino (vocals).
Bob Seger released Night Moves in October of 1976. It was his ninth studio album and his first with the Silver Bullet band. Night Moves included the singles "Mainstreet", "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" and "Night Moves". It peaked at #8 on the Billboard 200 in 1977. Vinyl – Albums Live musicians performing "Night Moves" are Mark Westers (guitar), Eric Wilson (drums), Andy Comstock (lead vox & bass), John Kapusniak (keys) and Todd Stiles (guitar).
Vinyl – Albums Live returns to Taste of Syracuse in Syracuse's Clinton Square! Join us at the Main Stage on Friday night, June 6, 2014, for Vinyl – Albums Live presents: The Music of the Black Crowes! From 8:10p until 9:20p, Vinyl – Albums Live musicians Jason Vaughn, Chris Eves, Todd Stiles, Steven T. Winston, Shane Kelsen, Bob Kane, Lisa Romano and Robyn Stockdale will be performing songs from The Black Crowes albums Shake Your Money Maker (1990) and The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (1992).
Rehearsals for the next Vinyl – Albums Live show have begun! The show will feature a set of all new albums and lots of new-to-Vinyl faces. One of the bands pictured here on Instagram from their first rehearsal… Who 'dat? Follow us on Instagram @vinylalbumslive and at the Vinyl – Albums Live Facebook page as we reveal details about the albums and musicians and share behind the scenes photos and video from rehearsals.


Weight gain is a common side effect during pregnancy. That being said, unhealthy weight gain can lead to postpartum weight retention.
In a new multi-ethnic urban population study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health have made a first-time discovery about the link between long-term weight retention and body fat and weight gain during pregnancy—also called gestational weight gain. The results suggest that excessive weight gain during pregnancy has a long-term effect in women who are slightly overweight or of normal weight before getting pregnant.
For the study, the researchers collected data from 302 African-American or Dominican mothers who had enrolled in the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health Mothers and Newborns Study in Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx between 1998 and 2013. Researchers discovered that mothers with excessive pregnancy weight gain had greater body fat percentages seven years after their babies were born, especially when they began pregnancy at either a normal weight or slightly overweight.
In the study, the researchers found that before pregnancy, 22% of the women were obese, five percent were underweight, and 53% were of normal weight. Overall, 64% of the mothers gained more weight than recommended. What's also interesting is that 38% were obese seven years after giving birth. Also, the mothers who had not been obese before pregnancy and had excessively gained weight increased their risk of obesity by 400% after the seven years.
It is typical to gain three to four pounds during the first three months (first trimester), eight to 12 pounds during the second trimester, and 13 to 20 pounds during the third trimester. According to the Institute of Medicine Guidelines (IOM), it is recommended that underweight women gain an average of 28 to 40 pounds, overweight women should gain 15 to 25 pounds, and obese women should only gain 11 to 20 pounds. It is thought that despite the guidelines, most women gain more weight during pregnancy than the recommendations.
Eating healthy meals allows for steady weight gain during pregnancy, while giving the baby proper nutrition at the same time. It is a good idea to eat plenty of vegetables, grass-fed meats, and healthy fat sources like extra virgin olive oil and avocados. Whole food sources should also be organic whenever possible. On the other hand, unnecessary weight gain will come from high consumption of processed and fried foods that are full of empty calories.
"Unhealthy pregnancy weight gain tips the scales for mothers even years later," ScienceDaily web site, October 22, 2015; http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151022141705.htm.
Widen, E.M., "Excessive gestational weight gain is associated with long-term body fat and weight retention at seven-year postpartum in African American and Dominican mothers with underweight, normal, and overweight prepregnancy BMI," American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2015, doi: 10.3945/ajcn.115.116939.


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TILLIS: DNC shows two paths offered to voters
August 20, 2020 Sen. Thom Tillis Article, Opinion
Sen. Thom Tillis
As the Democrats finish their virtual convention this week, it is clear that there are two very distinct paths being offered to voters this November. North Carolinians can either cast their votes to continue our economic recovery and get our state back to work, or they can choose to undo all of the progress we have made so far and pave the way for an extreme liberal takeover.
It is no exaggeration to say that a Biden presidency with a Democrat Senate would drastically change the direction of this country.
Just look at the tax-hiking agenda that Joe Biden and my opponent, Cal Cunningham, are proposing. Last time Cunningham was in charge during a recession he broke a no-tax-increase pledge and hiked taxes by $1 billion, which even liberal policy experts say "disproportionately hurt the lower class." Now, he is teaming up with Joe Biden to increase taxes again. The Biden tax plan would hike rates by $4 trillion and impact taxpayers of all income brackets. In a time where we should be focused on providing relief to those who are hurting, Joe Biden and Cal Cunningham would leave the most vulnerable North Carolinians holding onto their wallets.
The Biden-Cunningham money grab doesn't stop there. They both want to inject Green New Deal priorities into COVID-19 relief legislation and force us back into harmful environmental agreements where other countries would be able to regulate our farms and factories out of business. And in opposing President Trump's tough-on-China trade policies, Joe Biden and Cal Cunningham have shown that they do not have what it takes to stop China from stealing our jobs and intellectual property.
The damage Joe Biden and Cal Cunningham would do to the economy is amplified by the dangers they present to the safety of North Carolina families. Both Cunningham and Biden want to make it easier to sue police officers, which would lead to massive retirements and render our law enforcement ineffective. They would also "enable" sanctuary cities. Picture a world where violent illegal immigrants can commit crimes at will with members of law enforcement too underfunded or too timid to stop them. That's exactly what Joe Biden and Cal Cunningham are advocating for.
If the Biden-Cunningham vision for our country doesn't sound bad enough on its own, it got a whole lot worse this week when Kamala Harris' addition to the Democrat ticket was made official. This is another area where my opponent and I disagree. Cal Cunningham says that Kamala Harris' ideas make her "good for North Carolina." I think they make her a disaster for our efforts to get our state back on track.
As North Carolinians continue to struggle during this pandemic, I don't think Harris' idea to eliminate employer-based health insurance is the answer. And I certainly don't think opening up our borders so North Carolinians can foot the bill for the health care of illegal immigrants is the answer either.
President Trump and I have a much different vision for the next four years.
We want to build our economy back through lower taxes, reduced regulation and winning trade deals – just like we did when we turned the broken economy we inherited from Biden and his Democratic allies into one of the most prosperous economies in our nation's history.
Together, we completed a successful overhaul of our tax code and put money back into the pockets of hard-working North Carolinians. We slashed burdensome Obama-era red tape, which allowed our small businesses to flourish and brought jobs back for North Carolina's farmers and manufacturers through tough-on-China trade deals. Our pro-growth policies helped us see record job numbers, historically low unemployment for women and minorities and unprecedented wage increases for blue collar workers.
And throughout this virus, we've been fighting to protect North Carolina's frontline workers and small business owners. We've worked to hold the Chinese government accountable for its COVID-19 lies and cover-ups, expedited COVID-19 testing, secured more than $1 billion for North Carolina's healthcare providers and saved over 1 million jobs in our state through the Paycheck Protection Program.
President Trump and I know that the best path forward for our country is not through the job-killing agenda that our opponents are pushing, but through the same pro-growth policies that had North Carolina thriving in the first place. Before this virus, we built a record-setting economy and we'll never stop fighting until we do it again.
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California court gives reprieve to Uber, Lyft in California
March 19, 2020 Meg Kinnard, Associated Press Article
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First direct Israel-UAE flight lands in Abu Dhabi amid deal
August 31, 2020 Aron Heller, Associated Press Article, News
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Trump leaves hospital, declares 'I feel good'
October 5, 2020 The Associated Press Article, News
BETHESDA, Md. — President Donald Trump walked out the military hospital Monday night and returned to the White House to continue treatment for COVID-19. Back at the White House, he climbed the South Portico steps, […]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — His presidency over, Donald Trump said farewell to Washington on Wednesday but also hinted about a comeback despite a legacy of chaos, tumult and bitter divisions in the country he [...]
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China's ambitious young talent 'risking health to climb career ladder'
Ambitious young executives in China could be putting their health at risk through overwork to climb the corporate ladder, a director at an agency on the mainland has said.
The tragic loss of 24 year-old Ogilvy PR Beijing executive Li Yuan to a heart attack last Tuesday – believed to be stress induced – has brought into focus the importance of work-life balance in what a media agency boss calls "the most demanding market in the world".
"Junior people with drive are putting themselves at risk to climb the career ladder in China," an executive told Mumbrella under the condition of anonymity.
"Eager to please" young executives need to be careful to avoid becoming "a victim of the system" in which over-demanding clients, an intense work culture, peer pressure and their own personal ambition puts them under too much strain, he said.
Li had being working late for a month, not leaving the office until 11pm most nights, according to a report in the Yangzi Evening News – though this has not been confirmed by his employer. Ogilvy and WPP did not comment.
The tragedy should force agencies in China to re-evaluate how they manage their young staff, the executive said.
But it is not just young workers who are feeling the pressure in China, a media agency boss told Mumbrella.
"A decent work life balance in agencies in China is a challenge, particularly so for senior people," he said. "Due to rapid market growth there are many opportunities for younger people to job hop. This means that senior, experienced people have to overcompensate and suffer high workloads due to lack of a stable low to mid management base in agencies."
Agency bosses regularly clock up 70-80 hour working weeks, he said. "But that's China and everyone who works here accepts it."
The problem is not exclusive to agencies, he added.
"Many clients also face extreme pressure due to market complexities, highly aggressive financial targets and growth expectations," he said.
The trade-off is the lure of a lucrative pay packet.
"Salaries for agencies and clients – especially for senior people – tend to be extremely high. And anyone who works in China knows that it is the most demanding, fastest growing and most exciting market in the world. I guess it doesn't attract people who are looking for the ideal work like balance," he said.
topics Li Yuan, Ogilvy, Ogilvy Beijing, Ogilvy China, Ogilvy PR


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Dr Noor Hanif Said is the Medical Director of Renaissance Dermatology Specialist Clinic. He is a consultant dermatologist with more than 20 years of medical experience. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). He subsequently embarked on specialist training in Internal Medicine and attained the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. Following this, Dr Hanif completed his Advanced Specialist Training in Dermatology at the National Skin Centre. He is an accredited specialist with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and was conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine (Dermatology).
Prior to starting his private practice at Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre, Dr Hanif was a dermatologist at the National Skin Centre and a Visiting Consultant with the Khoo Teck Puat Hospital Dermatology Service. Apart from his expertise in the management of general dermatological problems such as eczema, psoriasis, hair loss and acne, he has special interests in pigmentary disorders and aesthetic dermatology.
Dr Hanif is active in research, having published in both local and international peer-reviewed medical journals. He was a co-author of one of the chapters in the Asian Skin Atlas of Dermatology and Venereology (2nd edition). He has presented academic papers in dermatology at numerous scientific meetings and seminars. In 2011, he received the prestigious Best Poster Award (Clinical Research) during the Singapore Health and Biomedical Congress.
He is privileged to be appointed as a Clinical Tutor and Examiner at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). Dr Hanif has been invited as a speaker at several public forums to educate the public on common skin, hair and nail conditions. In addition, as the first and only Malay MOH-accredited dermatologist in Singapore, Dr Hanif has been featured as a medical expert in both television as well as radio programmes on Mediacorp TV Suria and Mediacorp Radio Warna. He has also contributed many articles in print media.
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Most of the time, dogs are loyal companions and a source of joy to their owners, friends, and family. Unfortunately, even man's best friend can sometimes turn against humans in a nasty way, and anyone who has been victim of a dog attack can relate.
There are a few tips that can help you ward off the danger of a dog attack in the moment. First off, avoid panicking. Though it's hard to do, dogs do sense fear and may feel more confident or even threatened if you act in a fearful way.
Second, you should make yourself still and avoid eye contact with the dog. This will lessen the threat to the animal and minimize harm the dog may cause. Though it may be instinctual, you should avoid running from the dog and instead try to distract it with another object.
If and when the dog does attack, you'll need to step up your defense to get the dog off of you. Use your body weight to roll over the dog and use a commanding voice to tell it to back away. Use a stick or other weapon to hit the dog or use mace or pepper spray to fight back. Seek medical attention immediately if you have any broken skin or other injury.
If you've experienced any level of dog bite, you have the right to contact a lawyer for personal injury claims. Ahlander Injury Law in Las Vegas has dealt with many dog bite injuries and has an experienced staff of lawyers ready to get the compensation you deserve. Contact Ahlander Injury Law today to help resolve the scarring, emotional damages, and other issues that many come up as a result of dog attack.
According to records kept by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4.5 million people were bitten by dogs between the years 2001 to 2003. Every year about 850,000 people receive dog bites that are severe enough for them to seek medical help. A little over 350,000 of these dog bite victims had to go to the emergency room and every year a few dozen people are killed. For example, 35 people were killed in 2015 and 42 people were killed in 2014. Dog bites are the fifth most common reason why children are rushed to emergency rooms.


Over the summer I interned at Nottingham magazine LeftLion. I worked on their print magazine, online website, as well as being a key contributor on their Welcome to Nottingham guide. I got to interview Selasi from Bake Off for that, which was brilliant.
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Data intelligence specialist HAL24K has appointed Alan Nance as its fifth member of the advisory board. Nance has built up an impressive track record as an expert and leader of successful international business transformations.
Construction company Dura Vermeer and data intelligence scale-up HAL24K have entered into a partnership to solve complex, infrastructural asset and mobility issues. Thanks to this collaboration, Dura Vermeer will gain valuable data-driven insights into the condition of assets, traffic flows and logistics, and will also be able to increase its own operational efficiency.
Data intelligence specialist HAL24K has appointed Gerrit Schipper as Board Advisor. His years of experience working in technology, business and strategic management combined with his understanding of how significant data-driven decision making will be to organizations, made him a perfect fit for the company.
Engineering and project management consultancy Royal HaskoningDHV has entered into a strategic partnership with data intelligence scale-up HAL24K to unlock the huge potential of advanced data analytics and machine learning solutions for large and complex infrastructure environments.


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Indian telcos may double investments to strengthen network security for 5G
"With 5G, it is the first time they (the telcos) have a chance to put security at the core of the telecom operations. This will of course increase the need for investment to 2-2.5X from what they are doing now," said Ruchin Kumar, vice president, South Asia at Futurex, an enterprise-class data security solutions provider.
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MUMBAI: Indian mobile phone operators are expected to at least double their investments on network security with the 5G rollout expected to spark a surge in network vulnerabilities, which assume critical importance especially for enterprises, experts said.
Network security spending is part of a telcos' IT budget. Currently, telcos spend close to 4-5% of their IT budgets on network security (including internal networks and consumer facing aspects). Analysts peg the IT budget of Indian telcos at around 5% of revenue.
"Going forward, we will see 25-30% of the IT budgets being dedicated to (network) security. Not only will they have to secure the network on the backend, but also will have to ensure they monitor the data flow (on the consumer end) since it is expected to rise 5-10 times once 5G is fully launched," said Chetan Jain, managing director, Inspira Enterprise, a cybersecurity risk management firm.
Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel did not respond to queries ET sent at press time.
With 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem is expected to see a boom. This means there will be a significant increase in the number of connected devices at work, all of them feeding data into the network. As a result, network security will be paramount to ensuring data security at the consumer end as well.
"This will become more important as the enterprise use cases evolve in 5G. IoT and Industry 4.0 involve even more sensitive data and so network security will have to be ramped up," said Pareekh Jain, chief executive, EIIRTrend, an engineering research outfit.
While the need for security in the age of 5G is paramount, telcos are likely to face challenges. The upgrade to 5G itself is rife with security challenges say experts. 5G is not easily or directly compatible with previous-generation networks and as such requires replacement or addition of new equipment and upgrading or replacing existing software.
"There are two main security concerns associated with the transitioning process: the carryover of existing 3G/4G security problems; and the risks associated with equipment from untrusted suppliers," said Nishant Bansal, senior research manager, telecom, IDC Asia/Pacific.
Airtel may splurge around Rs 40k crore on 700 MHz spectrum to stay competitive vs Jio in 5G space: IIFL
It added that while Airtel may not need additional low frequency (read: sub-GHz) spectrum for 5G services in the next two years, it faces the risk of 700MHz spectrum getting allotted to PSUs by the government if it skips the auction of these airwaves next year.
Some priorities for telcos would be to implement network DDoS (distributed denial of service) protection, implement identity and access management systems, he added.
One area where a lot of the investments could be focused is in using and developing artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) for network security. With greater data traffic, more IoT devices, consumer and enterprise, getting connected to their networks, telcos will need sophisticated AI modules for threat detection and addressal.
"Telcos should consider automating network traffic filtering and security monitoring by using artificial intelligence. This way they can ensure that their networks are well protected with enhanced threat detection. In fact, with software defined networks, telcos can quickly detect the threats and greater visibility to the various components in the networks," said Pramod Gummaraj, chief executive, Aprecomm, a network intelligence firm.
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How the pistol shrimp inspired a fusion startup
By Andrew Wade	 17th May 2018 9:00 am 29th August 2018 10:04 am
Let there be light: Inspired by a humble crustacean that packs an outsize punch, Oxford startup First Light Fusion is aiming to achieve energy gain from fusion by 2024, as Andrew Wade explains
There are some who believe that energy gain from fusion will always be just out of reach, a mirage on the horizon that humanity is doomed to pursue forever in vain. However, the promise of limitless clean energy is difficult to ignore. It's an elusive prize that attracts some of science and engineering's brightest minds, not to mention vast sums of investment. But as billions are spent in the search for energy's Holy Grail, UK startup First Light Fusion is aiming to crack the code on a shoestring, and do so within just a few short years.
Nicholas Hawker explains the project inside the frame of the machine.
In theoretical terms, the basic science behind fusion is relatively straightforward. Hydrogen isotopes (deuterium and tritium) are forced together to form helium, expelling vast amounts of neutron energy as they fuse. While the physics may be simple, creating the conditions for the reaction to occur is anything but. It's the same process that powers stars, where enormous temperatures and pressures are at work. Replicating those conditions on Earth is a huge challenge, and one that has spawned massively complex machines such as ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) in France and the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany.
Those two engineering marvels use giant magnets to keep superheated hydrogen plasma confined in reactors. However, this is not the only way to achieve fusion. Scaling down, inertial confinement creates the extreme temperatures and pressures required in a tiny pellet, forcing outer layers inward so that fusion is achieved in the very centre of a miniscule target.
"Instead of there being this big external force of these huge magnets which are holding the plasma together, for inertial fusion there's not any external force holding the plasma together," explained Nicholas Hawker, co-founder and CTO of First Light Fusion.
"It's held together by its own inertia. So, it just can't get out of its own way fast enough. If you imagine the bit of plasma in the middle, it can't release its pressure until the bit next to it has released its pressure, and that can't be released until the one on the outside has."
The very centre of the pellet remains confined for just long enough that the temperature, pressure and density create the requisite conditions for fusion. Enormous amounts of energy are focused on a tiny target, usually in the form of a high-powered laser. This is the method used by the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California, the world's leading exponent of inertial confinement. First Light is taking a slightly different route, however, using hypervelocity projectiles to collapse targets in very specific ways.
In comparison with the vastly complex machines required for magnetic fusion, First Light's equipment is relatively simple. Its current experiments use two-stage gas guns and electromagnetic propulsion to achieve projectile speeds of around 8 kilometres per second. At its Oxford HQ, the company is working on Machine 3, a high-voltage pulsed power device that will deliver the equivalent of around 500 lightning strikes. Similar to a railgun, it will use electromagnetism to fire projectiles at around 20km/s.
"The cost per joule of energy is one of the most critical elements for fusion, and using Machine 3 to launch the projectile is 1,000 times cheaper, per joule of energy, than using a laser," said Hawker.
While the engineering is certainly impressive, the real complexity – and the key intellectual property – comes in the form of First Light's advanced fuel targets, designed to maximise fusion efficiency. Inspiration for the confinement process came courtesy of the pistol shrimp, a crustacean that clicks its claw to produce a shockwave which stuns its prey and causes the surrounding water to cavitate. The air and vapour inside these cavities is heated as they implode, causing a plasma to form. Apart from supernovas, it's the only known example of inertial confinement in the universe.
"This was the starting point for my PhD, to take this phenomena, boil it down and understand it," said Hawker, who completed his doctorate at Oxford in 2012.
The pistol shrimp's shockwaves are replicated at First Light using hypervelocity projectiles, with the geometries inside the target dictating how the cavities collapse. As the science and understanding of the target design improves, so too will the efficiency of the reaction.
"The complexity is in the target," said Hawker. "We try to keep the machines simple and finesse the target with a very high-quality understanding of the physics and dynamics of what's happening inside that target."
"By changing this target design and having this idea of the projectile, potentially we get to a much simpler, much cheaper, technology. The whole point of First Light right now is to find the target design that actually is going to work."
During a presentation at the company HQ, Hawker narrated an animation of the sole target design made public so far. Instead of a single cavity, the animation showed three, with two larger cavities directing energy into a smaller one as they collapsed into it, encouraging higher temperatures to be produced. Using advanced hydrodynamic simulation, the company is able to iterate target designs extremely quickly. This agile approach – taking as little as six weeks in some case – is where its competitive advantage comes in, according to Hawker.
"We did 17 products last year on advanced target designs, so it gets more and more painful that we can only show one publicly," he said.
"Our vision for the business is that we keep working on the target design. It's where the trade secret is. It's the most valuable part of the IP. And we think it's something that a startup can actually be world-leading at. We have a rapid iteration cycle, agile team… and we think this is an advantage that we can defend."
Sir David King, former chief scientific advisor to the government, is the most recent addition to that team, joining in April 2018. The advisory board also includes Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu, with further pedigree coming in the shape of COO Gianluca Pisanello, an F1 veteran of 14 years and former chief engineer of Manor Racing.
Having recently secured £23m in funding, the company is well on its way to getting Machine 3 up and running, hoping to have it commissioned by the end of the year. First fusion is planned for 2019, with energy gain – the promised land of fusion – tentatively targeted for 2024.
If gain can be achieved, the plan is to partner with third parties with the engineering capability to develop power plants, ideally in the 200-300MW range. But rather than replace wind and solar, Hawker sees fusion working in tandem with renewables, more likely to replace the gas-fired plants that currently provide flexible baseload.
"What fusion can deliver is baseload power," he said. "And what we think our technology is going to be able to do is address a need for flexible baseload. If you have existing nuclear, basically it's always on, and you might not want it to be always on. You would rather it flexed in response to what the solar output is."
"We're not saying we don't need renewables, that we don't need solar and wind. We do. We should be building all of that. But energy is not generated from a single technology."
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Trevor 17th May 2018 at 1:40 pm
'flexible baseload' sounds like an oxymoron to me … would you REALLY want to turn a fusion reactor on and off every day out of an oh-so-English sense of politeness (?) to the wind and solar sectors? After all they would be your competitors …
Alex 7th June 2018 at 4:08 pm
No, but you don't want to upset the renewables brigade.
James Stewart 17th May 2018 at 2:26 pm
I am sure that in the end, market conditions will undoubtedly prevail. No one is foolish enough to ignore capitalism in the long run…unless it is to their lasting detriment.
One begs also the question: what is the critical projectile velocity to target where "good" implosion kinetics prevail? What happens if the projectile is way too fast? Is there such a thing? Is the speed of 15 or greater Km/sec only achieved in hard vacuum (as I suspect)?
Inquiring minds want to know….how is this better than slamming microscopic charges particles of carbon in an underwater arc into ions or atoms of hydrogen, forcing them to collide, etc.? Bokris et.al. claimed over 600% excess heat, all the time, every time. I have an apparatus ready to attempt yet another confirmation on this, and more, I intend to harness it.
Tony Ruttle 17th May 2018 at 2:40 pm
Sounds very positive, almost unbelievable for a something that's generally regarded as the holy grail when producing power. Good luck is what I say
Ian Downie 17th May 2018 at 3:24 pm
It reminds me of a lecture I went to in 1975, where they were firing a pulse of laser light at a bead of frozen deuterium. The idea was that the shock wave would create sufficient pressure in the centre that the nuclei would fuse to helium.
Creating powerstation would be a challenge, but the speaker said there would be a conveyor belt of beads (sitting on needles). As soon as one was blasted, the next one would slot into place and be blasted.
So it wouldn't be a continuous process, it would be more like a nuclear internal combustion engine.
Graham Field 18th May 2018 at 2:00 pm
I'm assuming that all these nuclear techniques are still focusing on generating heat, which they will use to vaporize water to drive steam turbines to create electricity?
Can we not think about cutting out all these extra processes (heat, steam, rotating magnets) and consider ways to generate a current directly? (Stimulating the flow of electrons in a conductor.) That would give a fresh meaning to the term 'Direct Current.
c'mon … they are developing nuclear fusion for £23m … circumventing the 2nd law of thermodynamics as well … got to be worth £30m
Stuart Nathan 18th May 2018 at 3:17 pm
How are they circumventing the second law of thermodynamics?
LOL … I was referring to _Graham Field's_ request that in addition to perfecting nuclear fusion, the First Light team also develop an entirely new and hitherto unknown to physics technology for direct conversion of nuclear energy to electricity, saving all that messing around with Rankine cycles …
Michael Kenward 20th May 2018 at 6:24 pm
That makes at least two companies in the UK hoping to do for millions what the world has spent billions trying to achieve. First there was Tokamak Energy, which hopes to do a poor man's ITER.
Now First Light Fusion is trying to do what the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the USA is up to.
The NIF uses "inertial confinement fusion", the approach that Ian Downie refers to.
Now all we need is someone to revive cold fusion.
mike blamey 7th June 2018 at 1:38 pm
I just love the idea of the humble shrimp -which I gather is almost at the bottom (no pun intended) of the human effluent chain (no lavatory joke intended) showing the apparently higher forms of life a way forward. What can woodlice, fleas, snails, and the entire range of creepy-crawlies tell us?
messing around with Rankine cycles …
I do recall (as a second year? student) wondering why the lecturers who were teaching us what they called 'Heat Engines' -Carnot, Rankine, etc didn't relate such to cars and the fridge in my mother's kitchen. Perhaps doing that would make it far too easy to understand. They, sadly like far too many academics, wanted to demonstrate how clever they were and how thick we were?
mike blamey 9th June 2018 at 7:23 am
And ZETA: Zero Energy, Thermonuclear device : all the rage in the late 50s
I recall our Physics teacher (who had been at Uni with Kapitza) telling we VIth formers that energy so generated would be so cheap, it would not be economic to measure how much each household used! Anyone else recall this?


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It is said to be the most widespread mental disorder. It affects women far more than men, and is particularly prevalent in teens.
There are various opinions on what causes it, and even the role of brain chemicals is debated. Generally, though, it can be separated into two categories: circumstantial and clinical.
Circumstantial depression refers to feelings surrounding an event, such as a death in the family or having to sell one's house and move. The circumstances that can cause depression are extremely numerous, from kids having trouble with friends at school to the elderly in a nursing home. Circumstantial depression is also highly individualized.
Clinical depression defies circumstances and the depressed person may feel more depressed because he or she can't find a reason for such dreadful feelings. Clinical depression may baffle those around the patient, too, because they can't understand how a person could be depressed when his or her life seems to be going fine. This lack of understanding may make the patient's depression worse.
Treatment approaches differ according to the type of depression the patient is experiencing as well as the individual's personality and lifestyle.
* Isn't it just self-pity? – Depressed people may seem to be "wallowing" in their sadness, but it's not willful self-pity. It's a true medical illness, sources point out, that should be treated as such.
* Medication is overkill, and just treats the symptoms – For those on the outside, so to speak, medication can seem like putting a Band-Aid on a massive wound. But often, medication is what the patient needs to feel good enough to seek help for the underlying problem.
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It can be affected not only by circumstances; genetics, personality, psychology, and biology may also play a role. Women are far more likely to be diagnosed, indicating possible hormonal factors. Men, on the other hand, are more likely to succeed in suicide as a result of depression than women, although more women than men attempt suicide, sources report.


LONDON — The International Whaling Commission, after a heated debate, put Iceland's membership on hold Monday because of its refusal to sign a commercial hunting ban but gave it observer status.
Iceland, which applied to rejoin the organization last month after quitting nine years ago, angrily rejected the move which it described as illegal.
"Iceland's membership bid has not been rejected, but nor has it been accepted. It has been given observer status for the next year so it can talk but not vote," British delegation leader Richard Cowan told Reuters at the IWC's 53rd annual meeting.
Iceland, which walked out of the IWC nine years ago in disgust at its anti-whaling stance, applied for membership again last month while controversially insisting that it be allowed to resume commercial whaling.
The vote, on a resolution by the United States and Australia to condemn Iceland's refusal to sign the anti-whaling clause, stirred furious debate that revealed deep divisions in the 55-year-old organization.
The 38 nations with voting rights voted 19 in favor, with three abstaining and 16 describing the vote as illegal and refusing to take part.
move which it would ignore.
"It is completely illegal. We are full members and we want to show that by not backing down," Asmundsson told Reuters.
"It is like a whale, old and toothless," he said.
"This was a very difficult issue. It was certainly the most difficult I have had to face, but my IWC experience only goes back seven or eight years," he said later.
Summing up the tone of the 19 countries objecting to the Icelandic position, Irish delegation head Michael Canny warned of international anarchy.
"Ireland cannot accept that any country can become a member without adhering to the fundamental rules and regulations. It would lead to anarchy in international relations," he said.
Iceland, which said it had not resumed commercial whaling but would not be bound never to do so, argues that the rising whale population is consuming its vital fish stocks.
Environmentalists fear that Iceland's refusal to abide by the IWC's rules will cripple the organization whose only real muscle is consensus.
"We are relieved that Iceland's blatant attempt to undermine the IWC has been defeated, but are worried at the closeness of the vote," a spokeswoman for Greenpeace said.
She accused Japan of having tried to rig the vote by offering development aid in return for votes.
During a debate on the issue Japan denied attempted vote-rigging, but delegates from many nations said it had been the practice by many countries in the run up to the IWC's annual meeting.
Norway and Japan have consistently opposed the 16-year-old ban on commercial whaling of all species of great whale, and in 1993 Norway unilaterally resumed the practice.
Both countries were in the forefront of efforts to rally support for Iceland, against equally determined opposition from Britain and the United States.
Britain, which ceased commercial whaling in 1963 and fully endorses the ban, last month banned Norwegian whale research ships from its 200 nautical mile territorial waters to protest Oslo's resumption of whale product exports to Japan.