Heralding the message of peace on earth, "The Nutcracker" is performed around the globe during the holiday season. Producing this delightful ballet every other holiday season, the Dance Repertory Company once again brings this magical experience to the Winona area community for it's tenth biennial production.
The cast includes 103 dancers including students from Saint Mary's, Winona State University, and children and community members from the Winona and surrounding areas.
"The Nutcracker" will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 28, through Saturday, Dec. 1, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2. Tickets are $12 for adults, $5 for students and senior citizens.
A special abridged version, ideal for young audience members who may not be able to sit through the full-length ballet, will be presented at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28. The cost for this afternoon matinee is $5 for everyone.
Tickets may be ordered online at www.pagetheatre.org or at the Saint Mary's Box Office, 507-457-1715 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays. For more information about MCA or the DRC, visit www.mnconservatoryforthearts.org, e-mail mca@smumn.edu, "like" them on Facebook, or call 507-453-5500.
The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts offers programming in dance music, visual art, and theatre, year-round. Classes, lessons, workshops, and camps are offered for children ages 18mo. and older through adults at the Valéncia Arts Center, located at 1164 West 10th St.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts is an affiliate program of Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.


Victims of asbestos related disease caused by exposure to W.R. Grace products may have to wait longer to receive compensation from the W.R. Grace Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust. Although the company has been in bankruptcy for eleven years, appeals may still be filed up until July 11th, 2012, contesting the U.S. District Court's confirmation of the company's reorganization plan.
From 1963 until 1990, W.R. Grace operated large scale vermiculite mines in Libby, Montana. The vermiculite W.R. Grace mined was used in production of it's product Zonolite attic insulation. It is estimated that as many as 35 million businesses and homes were insulated with Zonolite attic insulation between 1920 and 1990. However, unbeknownst to the general public, the vermiculite being mined by W.R. Grace at Libby was contaminated with asbestos.
In 2005, W.R. Grace and 7 executives at the Libby, Montana site, were indicted and faced prosecution from the U.S. Department of Justice for "knowingly" harming the people of Libby, Montana, and concealing information regarding the health hazards associated with it's mining operation. According to the indictment, over 1200 Libby residents were suffering from an asbestos ailment. The case went to trial in 2009. Ultimately the company was acquitted in criminal proceeding that lasted over four years with appeals reaching the Supreme Court.
W.R. Grace sought bankruptcy protection in 2001. The company has faced over 270,000 lawsuits stemming from asbestos related claims, with approximately 120,000 cases still unsettled. It was alleged by the Justice Department, that prior to filing for bankruptcy, W.R. Grace illegally transferred four billion to five billion to other companies, to shield it from the bankruptcy court. Thereafter the Court ordered approximately one billion dollars be returned to the company coffers.
It is anticipated that there will be many more claims filed with the W.R. Grace Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust, by individuals who were exposed to Zonolite vermiculite contaminated with asbestos, and have since developed asbestos related diseases.
Vermiculite is a naturally occurring mineral that expands with the application of heat. Asbestos is a naturally occurring fibrous mineral that is highly resistant to heat, and is virtually indestructible. Due to it's heat resistant and strength properties, asbestos was widely used in insulation and construction materials for the greater part of the twentieth century. Asbestos was used in the production of asbestos cement pipe, also commonly referred to as transite, pipe insulation, drywall, drywall finishing materials, acoustic materials, stucco, concrete, floor tiles, gaskets, roofing materials, and in automotive friction components such as brakes and clutch parts.
Individuals exposed to asbestos are at risk for developing asbestos related diseases, including asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma.
Asbestosis is chronic scarring of the lungs that makes it more and more difficult for an individual to breathe. Individuals with severe asbestosis often cannot breathe without the aid of oxygen and become increasingly immobile.
decades after the exposure to asbestos has occurred.
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Лото () облик је коцкања у којој се погађа комбинација бројева која ће бити извучена у предстојећем догађају. Ове комбинације се најчешће означавају на мањим листовима хартије, штампаним специјално за ову прилику. Када сви играчи означе своје комбинације, водитељ почиње са извлачењем насумичних бројева. Играч добија награду уколико је на свом листићу означио довољан број извучених бројева.

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Најстарији познат запис о лотоу везан је за Кину и династију Хан између 205. и 187. п. н. е. Верује се да су лутрије организоване како би држава дошла до новца за велике пројекте попут Великог кинеског зида.

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У појединим државама лото као вид коцкања је забрањен, док у неким монопол над лотом држи држава преко националних лутријских организација.

Лото у Србији
Емисија "Лото" у Србији се емитује на Првој. Емисију води Марина Матијевић (у појединим издањима Нађа Кљајић), а бивше водитељке су Мира Лекић, Александра Гудељ и Анђела Ђурашковић. Лото на Првој се емитовао од 3. јуна 2011. до 29. јануара 2016, и поново се емитује од 2. фебруара 2018. Лото се у Србији развио и много градова, општина, насеља и села су добиле трафике под именом Државна лутрија Србије. Од 18. јануара 2005. до 31. маја 2011. Лото се емитовао на Пинку. Водитељка је била Ана Пендић (у појединим издањима Дарко Пановић). Од 2. фебруара 2016. до 30. јануара 2018. Лото се емитовао на РТС 1. Водитељка је била Лидија Кљаић (у појединим издањима Ана Рељић).

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 A History of English Lotteries, by John Ashton, London: Leadenhall Press, 1893
 Fortune's Merry Wheel, by John Samuel Ezell, Harvard University Press, 1960.
 Lotteries and Sweepstakes, 1932 by Ewen L'Estrange
 The Lottery Encyclopedia, 1986 by Ron Shelley (NY Public Library)
 Fate's Bookie: How The Lottery Shaped The World by Gary Hicks, History Press, 2009

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Home Books Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatrics, 24e
Chapter 41: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
Elizabeth J. McFarland
McFarland EJ. McFarland E.J. McFarland, Elizabeth J.Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection. In: Hay, Jr. WW, Levin MJ, Deterding RR, Abzug MJ. Hay, Jr. W.W., & Levin M.J., & Deterding R.R., & Abzug M.J.(Eds.),Eds. William W. Hay, Jr., et al.eds. Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatrics, 24e. McGraw Hill; 2018. Accessed January 16, 2022. https://accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2390&sectionid=189086482
McFarland EJ. McFarland E.J. McFarland, Elizabeth J. (2018). Human immunodeficiency virus infection. Hay, Jr. WW, Levin MJ, Deterding RR, Abzug MJ. Hay, Jr. W.W., & Levin M.J., & Deterding R.R., & Abzug M.J.(Eds.),Eds. William W. Hay, Jr., et al. Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatrics, 24e. McGraw Hill. https://accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2390&sectionid=189086482
McFarland EJ. McFarland E.J. McFarland, Elizabeth J. "Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection." Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatrics, 24e Hay, Jr. WW, Levin MJ, Deterding RR, Abzug MJ. Hay, Jr. W.W., & Levin M.J., & Deterding R.R., & Abzug M.J.(Eds.),Eds. William W. Hay, Jr., et al. McGraw Hill, 2018, https://accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2390&sectionid=189086482.
PERINATALLY HIV-EXPOSED INFANT
ADOLESCENTS WITH HIV EXPOSURE
PROGRESSIVE HIV DISEASE
QUALITY ASSURANCE & OUTCOME METRICS
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that infects cells of the immune system, including helper T lymphocytes (CD4 T lymphocytes), monocytes, and macrophages. The function and number of CD4 T lymphocytes and other affected cells are diminished by HIV infection, resulting in profound defects in cell-mediated and humoral immunity. In the absence of treatment, HIV infection causes progressive immune incompetence, leading to conditions that meet the definition of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and, eventually, death. The clinical diagnosis of AIDS is made when an HIV-infected individual develops any of the stage 3 opportunistic illnesses or other conditions listed in Table 41–1. In adults and children older than 6 years, the criteria for a diagnosis of AIDS also include an absolute CD4 T-lymphocyte count of 200 cells/μL or less.
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Table 41–1. HIV related symptoms in children.
Mild symptoms
Having two or more of the following conditions:
Recurrent or persistent upper respiratory infection, sinusitis, or otitis media
Moderate symptoms
Anemia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia
Bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, sepsis (single episode)
Candidiasis, oropharyngeal, persisting > 2 mo, in a child > 6 mo of age
Cytomegalovirus infection with onset < age 1 mo
Diarrhea, recurrent or chronic
Herpes simplex virus stomatitis (> 2 episodes in 1 y), bronchitis, pneumonitis, esophagitis at < 1 mo of age
Herpes zoster, two or more episodes or more than one dermatome
Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia
Nephropathy
Nocardiosis
Persistent fever (lasting > 1 mo)
Toxoplasmosis with onset < age 1 mo
Varicella, complicated
Severe (stage 3-defining) opportunistic illnesses and other conditions
Bacterial infections, multiple or recurrenta
Candidiasis of bronchi, trachea, or lungs
Candidiasis of esophagus
Cervical cancer, invasiveb
Coccidioidomycosis, disseminated or extrapulmonary
Cryptococcosis, extrapulmonary
Cryptosporidiosis, chronic intestinal (> 1 mo duration)
Cytomegalovirus disease (other than liver, spleen, or nodes) with onset > age 1 mo
Cytomegalovirus retinitis (with loss of vision)
Encephalopathy attributed to HIV
Herpes simplex virus: chronic oral lesions (> 1 mo), or bronchitis, pneumonitis, or esophagitis (onset at > age 1 mo)
Histoplasmosis, disseminated or extrapulmonary
Isosporiasis, chronic intestinal (> 1 mo duration)
Lymphoma: Burkitt, immunoblastic, or primary lesion in brain
Mycobacterium avium complex or Mycobacterium kansasii, disseminated or extrapulmonary
Mycobacterium tuberculosis of any site, pulmonaryb, disseminated, extrapulmonary
Mycobacterium, other species or unidentified, disseminated or extrapulmonary
Pneumonia, recurrentb
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
Salmonella septicemia, recurrent
Toxoplasmosis of the brain with onset > age 1 mo
Only among children age < 6 years.
Only among adults, adolescents, and children ≥ 6 years.
Data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Revised surveillance case definition for HIV infection—United States, 2014, MMWR Recomm Rep 2014 Apr 11;63(RR-03):1-10 and AIDS info Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Pediatric HIV infection, 1/21/16.

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A randomized controlled trial of topical benzoyl peroxide 2.5% gel with a low glycemic load diet versus topical benzoyl peroxide 2.5% gel with a normal diet in acne (grades 1-3)
G. Pavithra, Gatha Upadya, M. Rukmini
Department of Biochemistry, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore
Background: The improvement in insulin resistance and acne lesions on low glycemic load diets in various studies suggests that diet plays a significant role in acne pathogenesis. Aims: To compare the efficacy of a low glycemic load diet plus topical benzoyl peroxide 2.5% gel with that of only topical benzoyl peroxide 2.5% gel in grades 1, 2 and 3 of acne vulgaris. Methods: In a randomized controlled trial, 84 patients with grades 1, 2 and 3 acne vulgaris were divided into two groups, to receive a low glycemic load diet and no dietary intervention respectively. Acne lesions (face) were scored and graded at baseline and 4, 8 and 12 weeks. Homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance and body mass index were measured during the first and last visits. Statistical analysis was done with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, version 17.0. Results: Both groups showed significant reduction in acne counts at 12 weeks (P = 0.931) with no statistically significant difference between the groups. The differences in body mass index and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance between the groups were statistically significant (P = 0.0001). Group 1 showed reductions in body mass index and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance values at the end of the study, whereas group 2 did not. Limitations: Application of mild topical cleanser in both the groups might have contributed to the improvement in epidermal barrier function, and topical application of 2.5% of benzoyl peroxide gel in both groups contributed to the improvement in acne counts. Conclusions: A low glycemic load diet did not result in any significant improvement in acne counts.
Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
https://doi.org/10.4103/ijdvl.IJDVL_109_17
Pavithra, G., Upadya, G., & Rukmini, M. (2019). A randomized controlled trial of topical benzoyl peroxide 2.5% gel with a low glycemic load diet versus topical benzoyl peroxide 2.5% gel with a normal diet in acne (grades 1-3). Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, 85(5), 486-490. https://doi.org/10.4103/ijdvl.IJDVL_109_17
Pavithra, G. ; Upadya, Gatha ; Rukmini, M. / A randomized controlled trial of topical benzoyl peroxide 2.5% gel with a low glycemic load diet versus topical benzoyl peroxide 2.5% gel with a normal diet in acne (grades 1-3). In: Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology. 2019 ; Vol. 85, No. 5. pp. 486-490.
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Correlation of formative assessments as the means of predicting summative performance in paramedic students
William J. Leggio Jr, Creighton UniversityFollow
Alan M. Batt, Fanshawe College, ON, CanadaFollow
Jennifer C. Berry, FisdapFollow
Tom Fentress, Methodist HospitalsFollow
Marilee L. Vosper, American AmbulanceFollow
Kelly Walsh, Advance Medical Transport of Central IllinoisFollow
James Dinsch, Indian River State CollegeFollow
Background: Paramedic programs use formative assessments to determine cognitive competency. Understanding the number of failed formative units as a probability of passing the summative exam will allow programs to set additional benchmarks. The purpose of this study was to determine whether failure in formative exams determines success on a summative exam.
Methods: Formative and summative scores from 2011 – 2016 for paramedic students with accounts in Fisdap™, an Internet-based administrative database, were retrospectively reviewed for the following criteria: provided consent for research, completed all six formative (unit) examinations, and completed a summative (comprehensive) examination. Analyses were performed with Pearson correlations and linear regression. Results: A total of 1,406 student records were included based on inclusion criteria. Correlation with each formative and the summative examination were all significant, p < 0.001: Cardiology 0.597; Airway 0.571; Medical 0.571; Trauma 0.566; Ob/Pediatrics 0.549; Operations 0.495. The cardiology exam was shown to have a moderate correlation on summative performance, whereas the operations exam had the weakest correlation. The number of formative examination failures was a significant predictor of the probability of passing the summative examination, t(1405) = –31.02, p < 0.001. Zero failed unit examinations yielded a 100% probability of passing. Three failed formative exams yielded a 60.4% probability. Four failed attempts yielded a 44.8% probability. Failure of all six formative exams yielded a 13.4% probability of passing the Paramedic Readiness Exam Version 3. Conclusion: Not all formative examinations hold the same predictive power on the probability of passing a summative examination. Each had their own correlation value. Students who did not fail formative examinations have a 100% likelihood of passing the summative examination.
Author Bio(s)
William Leggio, EdD, NRP is assistant professor and paramedic program coordinator at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
Alan Batt, MSc, CCP, is faculty in the paramedic programs at Fanshawe College, Ontario, Canada
Jennifer C. Berry, BA, NREMT is a Product Owner at Fisdap in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Tom Fentress, BS, NRP is EMS Coordinator at Methodist Hospitals in Gary, Indiana.
Marilee L. Vosper, M.Ed., NRP is Community Education Manager at American Ambulance in Fresno, California
Kelly Walsh, BSN, RN is EMS Academy Program Director at Advance Medical Transport of Central Illinois in Peoria, Illinois.
James Dinsch, MS, NRP is Department Chair and Program Director of Emergency Medical Services Academy at Indian River State College in Fort Pierce, Florida
1.	This study was conducted during the Fisdap Research Summit in February, 2016. 2.	The findings of this study were presented as an abstract poster and oral presentation during the annual Prehpospital Care Research Forum at the National Association of EMS Educators conference in August, 2016.
Leggio WJ, Batt AM, Berry JC, Fentress T, Vosper ML, Walsh K, et al. Correlation of formative assessments as the means of predicting summative performance in paramedic students. The Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice. 2017 Oct 03;15(4), Article 2.
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By Mesh Editorial Team, Natalie Hunter
When Brazilian clinicians first noticed an unusually high number of babies born with microcephaly being brought to them in 2015, few would have predicted the little-known Zika virus could be to blame. Three years since the public health emergency was announced by the WHO, we now know a great deal more about how the Zika virus infects people, especially pregnant women; how it can damage cells that would have gone on to become neurons in the foetus, causing a host of congenital disorders, microcephaly being just one. These impacts are grouped together as Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS). We also know something about why certain communities in Brazil may have been so badly affected, while others saw very few cases. It is clear that socioeconomic factors played a major role in the transmission of Zika virus.
During the height of the outbreak, mosquitoes - the vectors that transmit the disease to humans - were the main target of public health campaigns across Latin America. For public health campaigners, the message was clear: Avoid mosquitos, avoid Zika. However Gustavo Matta, a social science researcher at FioCruz, a research institute based in Brazil, feels that not enough attention was paid to the sexual transmission of Zika virus, and that this meant that the outbreak continued for longer than it might have. João Nunes, professor of political science at the University of York, points to the socioeconomic factors that contributed to the spread of Zika in certain regions: a lack of good sanitation and running water may have meant more standing water, where mosquitoes breed; poor housing may mean less protection from bites. And importantly for those concerned with community engagement: both argue that the response of many Western research groups was problematic. Processes of consent were undermined as CZS-affected families used in many studies - were given forms to sign which were written in English, not Portuguese. Also, these gave little or no information about why they were being asked to be involved in the study, what the outcomes of the research were or how it would benefit them. This lack of effective basic engagement led many families to become resistant to participating in research, and to be distrustful of science in general.
Despite this failure, some of the voices of women and the children who continue to face the brunt of this disease are finding their channels of expression. Although Zika has been out of the international news for a long time, its impacts are still felt across Latin America. Hannah Kuper, head of the Disability Research Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine highlights that it is one of few epidemics where the major impact is not death, but disability. This means that interrupting the transmission of the virus was just the first step; support for the babies born with CZS and their families represented a whole new challenge. Germana Soares gave birth to her son Guilherme during the earliest signs of the Zika epidemic. He was born with microcephaly. Since his birth, she has formed a group with other mothers, called União de Mães de Anjos, the 'United Mothers of Angels' (UMA). They campaign for children and families' access to their legal rights and the day-to-day support they require. For Germana and other mothers in similar situations, such as Vanessa Aguiar, a representative from the campaign group Anjos de Minas ('our angels'), Zika has been an issue of gender rights too; in all too many cases, mothers are left alone to care for their disabled children as well as to provide financially for their families. It is important to recognise that these social movements, and opportunities to hear or engage with these, are part of the engagement spectrum.
Germana, Vanessa, João, Gustavo and Hannah all attended the 'Afterlives of Zika' conference at York University in 2018. In the videos below, each discusses their experience of the Zika epidemic, as mothers of affected children, researchers in Brazil and researchers in the UK. They touch on issues such as how to ensure effective engagement of disease-affected families in research; how to move from 'involvement' to 'co-production' of research; the difficulties faced by CZS-affected families; and the lessons that can be learned from this outbreak.
Video 1: What is the value of social campaigns in the aftermath of Zika Virus?
Video 2: What lessons should researchers learn from the Zika outbreak?
Watch the videos below for longer discussions from Hannah, Gustavo and Joao on their work in this area.
Hannah Kuper
Joao Nunes
Gustavo Matta
Follow the links below to watch roundtable discussions from the Afterlives of Zika event in York, featuring policy and research experts, and community leaders and groups.
Afterlives of Zika: The role of Civil Society - roundtable discussion
Afterlives of Zika: The challenges for policymakers and scientists - roundtable discussion
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Charles Sturt University (CSU) welcomes Professor Amanda Barnard as interim Head of School for the Charles Sturt University and Western Sydney University (WSU) Joint Program in Medicine.
Professor Barnard commenced at CSU on 5 November 2018.
CSU Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew Vann said Professor Barnard's extensive experience in rural health and her leadership skills will shape the CSU and WSU Joint Program in Medicine into a school that will produce exceptional graduates with a focus on rural health and the community.
"We are privileged to have the experience and knowledge of Professor Barnard who will develop a school and program that will be a leader in rural health education," Professor Vann said.
Professor Barnard said she saw the CSU and WSU Joint Program in Medicine as an opportunity to build a sustainable rural health model.
"The health education model is premised around teamwork and involving medicine and all health programs to achieve better health outcomes for rural and regional communities," Professor Barnard said.
"I welcome the opportunity to work with Professor Hennessy and the Western Sydney University team in creating this model," Professor Barnard added.
Professor Barnard said as a small school there was an opportunity to be innovative in its education program and that she also looked forward to collaboration opportunities.
Professor Barnard said she is focused on building a roadmap to develop the school and program by talking with stakeholders.
"I will be talking and meeting with people to understand resource requirements, what admission policies and criteria are required and what new facilities will be needed at the school located at Charles Sturt University in Orange.
"I will also meet with external stakeholders, to understand how we can maximise relationships with the community health and hospital groups," Professor Barnard said.
Professor Barnard said she valued the relationships with health professionals, seeing them as crucial for embedding and engaging students from the beginning.
"It's important for students to have relationships with health professionals who can act as mentors and for them to picture themselves as rural practitioners and rural generalists right from the start of their education," Professor Barnard said.
Professor Barnard added staff involved in the CSU and WSU Joint Program in Medicine were excited to build a program focusing on inter-professional learning and rural generalist skills, to help deliver exceptional standards of care and health services in rural and regional Australia.
Prior to her appointment as interim Head of School, Professor Barnard was an academic at the Australian National University and GP in rural NSW. Professor Barnard's research interests include medical education, rural medical education, primary care, asthma and COPD primary care as well as gender issues in health care.


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'Why Lee was Defeated.' in the 'Illinois State Register, 9 July 1863'
'Mr. Lincoln's plan of
'The Plan of the Campaign.' in the 'Illinois State Register, 20 July 1861'
'Injustice Towards Mr. Lincoln.' in the 'Illinois State Register, 13 January 1863'
'Letter from Ex-Governor Reynolds.' in the 'Illinois State Register, 12 January 1863'
'The News.' in the 'Illinois State Register, 5 May 1863'
'Gen. McClernand's Report of the Battle of Belmont.' in the 'Illinois State Register, 22 November 1861'
'Crittenden on Abolitionism.' in the 'Illinois State Register, 2 August 1863'
'God Bless Egypt.' in the 'Illinois State Register, 18 September 1861'
'Illinois Colored Regiment.' in the 'Illinois State Register, 13 November 1863'
'Best News of the Year.' in the 'Illinois State Register, 9 April 1863'
'Lovejoy Making Mischief.' in the 'Illinois State Register, 03 July 1861'
'The News' in the 'Illinois State Register, 07 June 1865
'The 'Nigger' in the Convention.' in the 'Illinois State Register, 05 March 1862'
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Q: Conditionally delete rows by ID in Pandas I have a pandas df:
ID Score C  D
1  2     x  y
1  nan   x  y
1  2     x  y
2  3     x  y
2  2     x  y
3  2     x  y
3  4     x  y
3  3     x  y

For each ID, like to remove rows where df.Score = 2 but only when there is a 3 or 4 present for that ID. I'd like to keep nansand 2 when the only score per ID = 2.
So I get:
ID Score C  D
1  2     x  y
1  nan   x  y
1  2     x  y
2  3     x  y
3  4     x  y
3  3     x  y

Any help, much appreciated

A: Use:
df[~df.groupby('ID')['Score'].apply(lambda x:x.eq(2)&x.isin([3,4]).any())]

   ID  Score  C  D
0   1    2.0  x  y
1   1    NaN  x  y
2   1    2.0  x  y
3   2    3.0  x  y
6   3    4.0  x  y
7   3    3.0  x  y


Directed by Nicole Arends and produced by Mary Barnes Amoroso, Arlene Stanley and Kristine Greenaway, Michael Jacob's story surrounds the audience with Impressionist works of art as friends and gallery coworkers Katherine and Thomas revisit painful memories and learn to let go of past traumas to move onto a brighter future.
Impressionism closes out Alumnae's impressive "The Art of Living" 101st season, which looked at shows grappling with the intersection of art's ideal and life's realities.
Impressionism runs at Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkley Street from April 12 till April 27. The audience is invited to arrive 30 minutes early for a pre-show experience at the Gallery, onstage. There is a post-show Panel Discussion (Sunday, April 14th) and a post-show Talkback (Sunday, April 21st). Our Sunday, April 21st performance is a Relaxed Performance.
For tickets and more information please visit www.alumnaetheatre.com.


Pencil grips can be pricey, especially if you are buying a big batch to try and find the right fit for a single child. Then, add a classroom of kids or a caseload of 50-60 children who each have different pencil gasps, different strengths, different handwriting quirks, and you can go pencil grip bankrupt! This easy, DIY, custom-made, and cheap coban pencil grip is one that will work with every child no matter what their current pencil grasp looks like. The secret weapon? Self-adhesive, removable (yet still totally stick-able and re-usable) coban!
What is coban??? Is a question you might be asking right now. Perhaps you've seen it before. If you've ever had a surgical wound or a bad wound of any kind, you might have come across coban before. It's a self-adherent wrap that works a lot like surgical tape. It's rally a pretty cool material. It sticks to itself again and again and it requires no adhesive to stay in place. My days as a hand therapist brings back memories of coban in my therapy tool box. It's a great device for applying compression to edema, immobilization, and a wrap to dressings.
But it also makes a pretty awesome pencil grip!
Coban is unique in it's ability to stick to itself, so why not use it to create a customized and DIY pencil grip? Being that a roll of it is pretty inexpensive, you can create pencil grippers for every pencil in the pencil box as well as colored pencils, mechanical pencils, and even markers. These writing tools usually don't work with conventional pencil grips, but coban can be fit to any writing device.
We tried a bunch of different writing tools and then made a variety of pencil grippers with the coban. A child that needs just a tactile cue to pinch the tip of the pencil can use a thin ribbon of coban around the tip of the pencil.
The child that uses too much pressure on the pencil could benefit from a foam-y thick layer of coban the whole way around the tip of the pencil.
The child that needs cues to open the thumb web space could have a small "pocket" of coban formed at the end of the pencil gripper.
The possibilities are endless with this custom-made pencil grip material.
And the best part is that when the pencil needs sharpened, you peel off the coban and move it on up the pencil.
Using a thicker width of coban is fine (it is available in a variety of widths) as it can easily be cut or folded to fit the needs of your child.
When making your pencil gripper, fold the end of the coban over once to make a thicker end that will be easier to find and peel off when it comes time to sharpen the pencil or adjust the coban.
Let me know how this DIY pencil grip works for you!


How much does it cost to have a doula attend a birth?
A birthing doula package starts at about $500 while some doulas charge over $1000. This depends on experience and the amount of time the doula will spend with you before and after the birth. On the other hand, some doulas are willing to negotiate costs in special circumstances. The doulas listed on findadoula.com.au have their own rates so please contact them to confirm costs.
I would like a doula. What's the first step?
Use the search interface here to find a doula in your area who is available around your due date. Read the doula profiles, contact the doula/s that suit you and make a time to meet so you can see whether they suit you and your family. This initial meeting doesn't cost anything and carries no obligations at all. It is recommended that you make doula meetings in a public place such as a café, until such time as you know and trust this person.
I can't afford a qualified doula. How can I find a doula-in-training?
Doulas-in-training are required to attend three or more "training" births during their course, at no cost to the birthing couple. They may just ask that you cover their travel expenses. You will also be asked to fill in feedback forms as part of their assessment and you may be called by their tutor. Just be aware that you may have a trainee on her very first birth, which comes with the territory. Feel free to be choosey – you should have the right doula for you, regardless of the free offer. The doula profiles on this website will say whether a doula is certified or in training.


Paper 2 SPM Biology – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for General Answering e!"nique – Paper 2 Se!
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Peru's BabyCottons sold to L Catterton and Grupo de Narvaez
LVMH's investment arm L Catterton and Argentinian company Grupo de Narvaez have acquired South American childrenswear brand BabyCottons for an undisclosed sum. The purchase follows their investment in Argentinian lingerie company Car Cuore in October 2017.
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Francisco de Narvaez, chief executive of the group, said in a press release that the BabyCottons acquisition marks a key step in his strategic plan of positioning the business as a leading international fashion group.
"We expect to double BabyCotton's revenue in the next five years through international growth, the launch into new markets and by strengthening its presence in the countries it is already well known," said Narvaez.
Dirk Donath, managing partner of L Catterton Latin America, highlighted BabyCottons as a strong and internationally recognised brand. "BabyCottons is a brand that shows great potential for growth in new and existing markets", he said as he confirmed plans to expand the brand's product categories and design proposition.
BabyCottons was founded by Maria Paz de la Piedra in Peru in 1999, and was taken to an international level after being acquired by Paraguayan group Vierci in 2011. It currently has more than 30 directly-operated and franchised stores in Argentina, Peru, the United States, Colombia, Ecuador, Kuwait, Mexico, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic.
In October 2017, L Catterton and Grupo de Narvaez acquired lingerie brand Caro Cuore with a view to becoming a leading retail group in the clothing sector in Latin America. The lingerie brand operates more than 300 stores in Argentina and sells over 1.4 million garments per year.
L Catterton first linked with Grupo de Narvaez in February 2017, when the private equity company invested in womenswear company Rapsodia, where Francisco de Narvaez has a stake. According to Narvaez, the Rapsodia deal marked L Catterton's first strategic move into the Argentinian clothing market.


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Bits | Oracle Will Not Build a Giant Cloud System Like A.W.S.
Oracle Will Not Build a Giant Cloud System Like A.W.S.
By Quentin Hardy
October 27, 2015 10:49 am October 27, 2015 10:49 am
Mark Hurd, co-chief executive of Oracle, at the company's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday.Credit John G. Mabanglo/European Pressphoto Agency
SAN FRANCISCO — Counter to the expectations of many industry watchers, Oracle, the world's largest maker of software for businesses, is not planning a global computing system to rival Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, the other big global cloud companies.
While it has built out a network of 20 data centers, largely filled with Oracle equipment, it now plans to go after customers by offering faster updates of its core products, new ways of customizing applications and a much younger, retooled sales force.
"We've made our investments," Mark Hurd, co-chief executive of Oracle, said in an interview. Compared with A.W.S., he said, "the place we like is one of higher profit margins."
Besides applications, Amazon sells raw computing and data storage, which are generally lower-margin businesses. Oracle is expected Tuesday to announce better security inside its cloud because of changes from its proprietary hardware, but won't sell access to the machines on their own.
Oracle's better margins, Mr. Hurd said, will come from selling large-scale software that can be customized by its buyers to suit local markets and products. He hopes to lower his sales costs and bring in younger companies with salespeople recruited straight from college and given crash courses in selling Oracle cloud products.
In the last four years, he said, the company has hired 1,000 graduates a year. "We train them in products, sales skills and processes," said Mr. Hurd. "They're selling within a year, with a much lower cost of sales."
Oracle's sales force, some 30,000 people globally, is considered among the most aggressive and highly compensated in the tech business. Now, Mr. Hurd said, "we have to do some branding" to entice the kind of smaller companies and start-ups the new sales team is chasing.
The ease of modification and the faster sales force illustrate how, while still far apart, Oracle and A.W.S. are becoming more like each other as cloud computing goes mainstream.
For its part, a few weeks ago A.W.S. dropped all pretense and made a direct bid for Oracle's customers. A.W.S. even put up a thinly disguised picture of Oracle founder and executive chairman Lawrence J. Ellison.
Mr. Ellison, by contrast, was unusually low-key in his presentation on Sunday, when he kicked off Oracle's annual customer event. He said Oracle no longer paid attention to IBM or SAP in cloud computing, and compared unfavorably to Oracle both Salesforce and Workday, two leading cloud applications companies. For him that was pallid fare.
What he did say was that virtually all of Oracle's applications have been updated to the cloud — a minimum to go after A.W.S. on cloud applications — and cloud systems for running global manufacturing systems and doing e-commerce.
A.W.S. has some of those commerce capabilities, but can't match that complex manufacturing application. It probably doesn't want to – yet. While Amazon's cloud origins are in helping start-ups that want to do things cheaply, Oracle's cloud strategy is to enable the biggest companies in the world to move into the cloud.
"We don't have anybody chasing us," Mr. Hurd said. "We don't have anybody doing what we're doing."
That may not be completely the case. SAP, Oracle's top competitor for business applications, has its own offerings and is also has products running on A.W.S.
Oracle does have a way for its legacy customers to gain the flexibility, and possibly cost savings, of cloud computing, however. Amazon may offer to take their data and compute for less, but most companies are conservative and will likely stick with what they know if they get most of the new capabilities.
There may also be harsher pragmatism in the decision not to compete with A.W.S. or Microsoft with a bigger cloud: It's prohibitively expensive.
If Oracle were to go after A.W.S. and Azure, something IBM is pursuing, it would probably cost more than $1 billion a year just to keep pace with the leaders. And that is if they could find the talent to build such facilities.
Safra Catz, the other chief executive at Oracle, recently said cloud margins at the company would soon double. The big costs are behind them and wouldn't be if Oracle kept in the chase.
"We've crossed the chasm" from the old world to the new, Mr. Hurd said. But with Oracle's stock off about 15 percent this year, investors seem unsure if the new world is so profitable. Still, the historically feisty company does seem willing to join in today's fray.
A version of this article appears in print on 11/02/2015, on page B6 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Oracle Prioritizes High- Profit Plans.
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Who is Dr. Dipesh Navsaria?
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Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD is a pediatrician working in the public interest. He blends the roles of physician, occasional children's librarian, educator, public health professional and child health advocate. With graduate degrees in public health, children's librarianship, physician assistant studies, and medicine, he brings a unique combination of interests and experience together.
An associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, he has practiced primary care pediatrics in a variety of settings with special interest in underserved populations. With a graduate degree in children's librarianship, he has the right skill set to be the founding medical director of Reach Out and Read Wisconsin and the founder and director of the Pediatric Early Literacy Projects at the University of Wisconsin. With respect to education, Dr Navsaria is heavily involved in advocacy training for and is frequently involved in medical student and physician assistant education from the clinical arena through myriad small group and lecture formats. He serves as the medical director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's physician assistant program, and is also the director of the MD–MPH program.
Dr Navsaria works with the American Academy of Pediatrics on a state level, serving as the current vice-president of the Wisconsin Chapter. He also has served nationally on a number of committees, including being the founding co-chair of the Early Literacy Subcommittee of the Council on Early Childhood. He regularly writes op-eds on health-related topics, does radio and television interviews, and frequently speaks locally, regionally and nationally on early brain and child development, early literacy, and advocacy to a broad variety of audiences. He also has a modest professional presence on social media.
Born in London, England and raised in New York City, Dr Navsaria attended the Bronx High School of Science.
His undergraduate education was at Boston University, majoring in Biology and English Literature. He completed a Master's in Public Health at Boston University and Physician Assistant training at The George Washington University in the District of Columbia. He practiced as a pediatric physician assistant in East Central Illinois before attending medical school at the University of Illinois in Urbana. During his time there, he also completed a master's degree in library and information science at the University of Illinois, focusing on children's librarianship. He then completed his residency in pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics.
Dr Navsaria also does some work in the common-sense, intelligent application of technology to practical projects and situations. As a devoted user of Apple hardware for over twenty years, Dr Navsaria also cares deeply about visual presentation and typography — information should be clear and beautiful in how it is passed on.
He lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his family. He has a lovely, supportive wife and two children. They not only put up with his sense of humor, they encourage it! Well, at least his wife does — his teenage children now just roll their eyes.
Committed to understanding how basic science can translate into busy primary-care settings via population health concepts and policy initiatives, Dr Navsaria aims to educate the next generation of those who work with children and families in realizing how their professional roles include being involved in larger concepts of social policy and how they may affect the cognitive and socioemotional development of children for their future benefit.
Shorter biography suitable for oral introductions at conferences.
A full curriculum vitæ (CV) is available upon request.
Institutions, Projects and Programs
that Dr Navsaria is affiliated with.
American Family Children's Hospital
Physician Assistant Program
Department of Population Health Sciences
MD–MPH Dual Degree Program
UWSMPH MEDiC Student-run Free Clinics
School of Library and Information Studies
Outreach, Service & Professional Organizations
Reach Out and Read
Pediatric Early Literacy Projects
Wisconsin Early Childhood Association
The Literacy Network
The Campaign for a Commerical-Free Childhood
Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant
Ascend at the Aspen Institute
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin
Reach Out and Read Wisconsin
Early Brain and Child Development Leadership Group
Neuromotor Screening Expert Panel
Council on Early Childhood Early Literacy Subcommittee
Bright Futures 4th Edition Expert Panel
Wisconsin Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
CATCH Program
Chapter Child Care Contact
Academic Pediatric Association
Child Poverty Task Force
These links are provided for informational purposes only; the agencies, programs and projects above have not endorsed or have any input into the pages on this website.
"But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— EB White


A spicy, robust Argentine red wine made from the classic Malbec grape. Aromas of ripe blackberries, black plums, black pepper and smoke. The vines are planted at 960 metres above sea level in the Andes Ridge of the Mendoza region. Pair with a rare steak.
Aromas include blackberries, blueberry, with a bit of spice and smoke. Full bodied and robust on the palate, with some smooth tannins. Lots of fruit coming through on the finish. Enjoy with grilled meats with herbs.


The calm waters of Mission Bay are perfect for paddleboarding, and the Mission Bay Aquatic Center has everything you need for an easy day on the water. Enjoy a relaxing stay at the tropical Catamaran Resort or in a private beach bungalow at Paradise Point Resort & Spa. Feeling adventurous? Feel the wind in your hair at Belmont Park as you conquer the Giant Dipper, a towering wooden rollercoaster dating back to 1925. Cannonball is great for sushi and ocean views, and you can get a taste of the tiki trend at Miss B's Coconut Club.
San Diego's "Jewel by the Sea" bustles with beach bums, savvy shoppers and discerning diners in search of the best scenery. The views don't get much better than at The Marine Room, where ocean waves lap at the windows at high tide. Patrons at George's at the Cove can marvel at the sunset over the sea from its terrace. If you're craving something more casual, try foodie favorite The Promiscuous Fork or the ever-popular Galaxy Taco. La Jolla rates pretty high for family-friendly activities, too. Visit the seals at La Jolla Cove or marvel at the sea life in Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The lively, youthful stretch between La Jolla and Mission Bay is filled with waterfront bars, trendy restaurants, chic hotels and some of the best spots to watch local surfers hang 10. Hit the boardwalk for prime people-watching—you might run into a few roller skaters, jugglers and musicians. Enjoy the San Diego sunshine while you sip a cocktail on the patio at the new hangout Mavericks Beach Club or longtime favorite Lahaina Beach House, or check out the new seafood hot spot Waterbar. Speaking of patios, stop by the dog-friendly Patio on Lamont for a fresh salad or tasty flatbread. Crushed is great for a flight of brunchtime mimosas, The French Gourmet puts a California spin on bistro favorites and Pacific Beach Fish Shop is known for its scrumptious fish tacos.
must-visit. Enjoy the laid-back vibe of our coastal communities.
This breezy community's claim to fame is its quirky, laid-back feel. Its main drag, Newport Avenue, is lined with funky vintage shops, fun brewpubs and an eclectic mix of eateries. Start the day on the cliffs overlooking the sea at Little Lion Cafe for Belgian waffles or a Mermaid Bowl of fresh fruit, coconut yogurt and toasted nuts. Indulge in one of San Diego's favorite burgers at Hodad's, or a steaming bowl of pho at OB Noodle House. The deck at Sunshine Company Saloon is perfect for people watching, or strike out at Voltaire Beach House & OB Lanes. Bringing Fido along? Dog Beach at the end of Voltaire Street is the place to be for off-leash fun.


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← BLACK EARTH, BLACK IDENTITIES, AND AFROFUTURISM ring messages at CTIJF 2019: Flautist Nicole Mitchell and the Black Earth Ensemble.
April International Jazz Month brings Cape Town Jazz Mania, festivals and marathon hysteria →
by Carol Martin | 11th April 2019 · 9:59 am
Jazz Trumpeter Keyon Harrold talks Black experience at CTIJF 2019
Two American artists of notoriety drew audiences wanting diversity, style, and message in the music. Both spoke to the Black condition in contemporary American society; one wooed the younger fans with his pizzaz which elegantly matched their heartthrobbing outbursts of "Cory, I love you!" The other musician hailed from Ferguson's steaming racial struggles.
Briefly, a major draw card for the festival was New Yorker organist/rapper Cory Henry who ignited a packed-full Masterclass room of some 500 loving youthful fans, whistling and wooing in awe when Henry breathed one word or played one chord. Then complete utter silence when he opened his mouth to speak. Henry wanted to chat with this audience, and rightly so. His kinetic energy prevailed. We heard only one song performed at the end. But he made us all feel young again with his youth appeal, his experimental musical audacity on the organ, and his friendly acceptance of all. No attitude in this vibrant man!! But he then disappeared….from press interviews.
Keyon Harrold March 2019
Trumpeter Keyon Harrold, another jazz-hip hop cross-over draw card performed at the same time as Henry, both closing the 2nd day of the Festival in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Not only did Henry not show up for his press conference and scheduled one-on-one interview with me, but I missed his performance. A downer for this writer, indeed! But I had to choose. And choose I did…..
Keyon Harrold – one of 16 siblings, a brother drummer with Gregory Porter, a policeman grandfather who worked young Keyon into music education projects with hundreds of others, a policeman father who carried forward this young talent, to calm and educate the Black kids who were viewed as potential threats to the 'established order' of urban St. Louis and Ferguson – rose in ranks with such positive backing amidst horrors of being a Black male in middle America……
I interviewed and watched the performance of this soft spoken trumpeter, who hails from the civil strife in his home town of Ferguson, Missouri, known for its extensive police brutality. Coming from a musical family, Harrold has articulated his stance against injustice with truthfulness. His unadulterated views on police brutality (followed by questionable judiciary proceedings) towards African Americans and other Blacks from the Diaspora, shone through a surprising musical gentility during his performance. Harrold is humble, yet savvy with the 'celebrity' world, having befriended and doubled with actor Don Cheatle in the memorable (Hollywood) film, Miles Ahead, about jazz trumpeter, Miles Davis. Harrold played the music; Cheatle mimicked on camera.
During his performance on the Moses Molelekwa stage late Saturday night, Harrold's melodies and songs, backed by a stellar set of musicians including pianist Gerald Clayton (no stranger to Capetown stages), produced both memory and emotion: some wailing, joyful runs, pensive and sometimes mournful moods from bassist Burniss Travis, and other mixes of improvisation, rock and blues.
Gerald Clayton
His opening song set the mood for honouring memory: his mother's voice message left on his phone applauding him for being strong in the struggle led into a soft blues ballad remembering her; she had passed on in December 2018. But when popular rapper Pharoahe Monch came on stage towards the end of Harrold's moving episodes from his album, Mugician, the audience was set alight. The hip hop rap pounded on serious themes of injustice, warnings, and call for unity. The fans were on their feet, many seeming to know the rapper better than Harrold himself.
Pharoahe Monch
Harrold's press conference revealed his experience and knowledge of the truth behind what it's like to live, learn, and walk as a Black man in American cities. When asked about his social activism, he replied, "When I'm moved by something, I must write about it…. That's my calling."
When asked by Cheatle and producer Robert Glasper to play Miles Davis (who also grew up in St. Louis) behind the scene, Harrold quipped: "Technically, the music of Miles was in my DNA. I already knew it. I was already transcribing Miles and listening to so much of his music as part of my own development." Harrold knew the technicalities of playing trumpet. In the comforts of his home studio, he played and recorded: "With only three valves to play on, I watched Don's fingering, and had to go through some 7 types of possible fingers to get the right sound."
Harrold's social activism revolves around musical attitude and youth development. "I'm lucky that I've had such opportunity to learn, and that I try my best to give back as much as I can, whether it's working in schools or in a community center." He doesn't shy away from telling the true story: "I've been blessed in life with a story (police brutality) that requires me to talk about it. My parents encouraged this. I'm touched by certain things so I feel I have to tell it and write it in my music. If something is going on, like the refugee crises or the Michael Brown killing, I have to write about it. "
What is it like to be invited to a festival in Africa? Harrold expressed his yearning as an African American, living in the United States, that something was 'missing'. "But when I come here, I can find a way to complete what my psyche is missing. It's such a pleasure to perform on this continent. Africa gave birth to the root of jazz, the soul, the rhythm, the intensity. The heart of jazz, for me, comes from the Black experience. It's a homecoming to me, so coming here is very very special." In a careful and calculated way, Harrold admits he will continue to fight against the "global matrix of anti-black sentiments", and to be part of the solution, "to advance culture and the majesty of Black people".
So how would you define your music, I asked Harrold sheepishly, knowing full well no one likes to be asked that question. Keeping to his polite demeanor, he shared: " My music is not traditional, with trumpet, bass, etc. but sometimes rap, sometimes beats from the machine. It's everything. That's why I brought my man, Pharoahe Monch, with me. His music is a living kind of thing, so I use it." Monch had brought the final performance of the Festival on that one stage to an utter frenzy, as security mustered up their wits to prepare for a jovial crowd of over 1000 people to exit the hall en mass, down the narrow escalators, almost single file, to exit the Center at ground level.
But I can't stop here…. There's more to tell about this creative thinker and grassroots activist. Wanting to look right into the soul of this artist, I asked: "What really moves you?" Appropriately, he quickly replied: "You said it – 'move' is key. I like to use the word,' vibration'. Blowing the horn, there's a vibration for every note. So everytime I play the trumpet, I get moved, I can't explain it. I just like to send out those vibrations, in the spirit of love and peace."
Keyon Harrold is determined to return to South Africa, and is ever ready to workshop with youth, something he's used to doing for several decades, with grace and a giving spirit. We were blessed to have his presence, even though short. Watch this delightful video:;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Yx-cWkYWo&list=RDEMjtGg6C4kL0ghpt3y2va-6A&start_radio=1
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Air quality in Europe is slowly improving, thanks to past and current policies and technological developments, according to the EEA's Air quality in Europe — 2017 report. However, high concentrations of air pollution still have significant impacts on Europeans' health, with particulate matter (PM), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ground-level ozone (O3) causing the biggest harm.
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Q: What is the fastest way of reading the standard output stream of a process I would like to know the fastest way of reading the standard output stream of a process here is my example code. When reading large amounts of data from the standard output stream is slow.
 Dim myprocess As New Process

 Dim programOutput As List(Of String) = New List(Of String)

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    .StartInfo.FileName = "C:\myconsoleapp.exe"
    .StartInfo.Arguments = "my args"
    .StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden
    .StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = True
    .StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False
    .StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = True
    .Start()
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Q: UICollectionView cell creation bypassed `willDisplay cell:` call? I have an UICollectionView with .layer.masksToBounds set to false.
I do this so that way I can achieve a fade-out effect of any cells that scroll out of the collection view's proper bounds.
In order to ensure that I don't display out of bounds cells (when the UICollectionView loads them in), I use the delegate callback:
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, willDisplay cell: UICollectionViewCell, forItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
   // pseudo code
   if !cell.frame.intersects(collectionView.frame) {
      cell.alpha = 0
   }
}

However, it appears this callback is not invoked when the CollectionView populates an out-of-bound cell?
While obviously I am always informed if a cell is constructed through the cell provider function (i.e. the function where I invoke the dequeueReusableCell call), I cannot determine whether the cell I construct is out of bounds.
Is there any way I can be informed of when the UICollectionView constructs an out-of-bounds cell?


Keanu Reeves returns as the one-man killing machine.
Keanu Reeves returns as the title character while Laurence Fishburne joins the cast.
Fishburne's addition will remind people of him and Reeves working in The Matrix. That in turn prompts some thoughts on how Reeves turned that movie into a franchise with his star power. He's apparently doing the same with John Wick. How many actors can still do that in the second decade of the twenty-first century?
Meanwhile, between the teaser and now the full trailer, Fishburne looks like he's having a good time in his supporting role. And if that's true, it won't be surprising. After all, supporting characters are often more interesting than main characters, and it would make sense if they are equally fun to portray on film.
John Wick: Chapter 2 is currently scheduled to open in theaters on Feb. 10, 2017.


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On Amazon, a "Second Life" for Dispensary Data
By Hilary Corrigan Jul 6, 2020
One company's cannabis industry data can now reach a much larger audience through Amazon Web Services (AWS).
On Monday, "cannatech" company Enlighten said it had started sharing business data on the AWS Data Exchange. Enlighten, claims to be the first cannabis company providing information to the global platform used by investors, analysts, researchers and marketers.
Bowling Green, Ky.-based Enlighten offers a suite of services for brands to advertise in dispensaries. Nationwide, it controls screens in about 1,300 pot shops.
The screens employ a tool called TrafficWise, a small device that collects information on dispensary visitors. It collects information such as the number of customers in a store, how long they stay, whether they return and outdoor foot traffic.
TrafficWise works by picking up cell phone signals, similarly to how a phone locates wifi availability, CEO Jeremy Jacobs said. The company says it does not access private phone data and the signals it picks up are anonymous.
Similar data is widely available to mainstream retailers. Enlighten set up the technological infrastructure to let the cannabis industry do the same. "We laid the lines," Jacobs said.
Among other uses, this information helps advertisers know how many people see their promotions on dispensary displays. It also offers dispensaries insights into their customers. By overlaying traffic and transaction data, for instance, a retail chain may be able to better understand store performance. "That data has a second life," Jacobs said.
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Starting earlier this year, much of the information Enlighten collects became available on the AWS Data Exchange, a global platform for business information.
Enlighten has a deal with Amazon where the tech giant gets a share of revenue when people subscribe to Enlighten's data through AWS. Subscribers can customize the data they receive, with prices ranging from a few hundred dollars monthly to tens of thousands of dollars annually.
The data Enlighten makes available through Amazon does not identify individual stores. Instead it provides information on stores within a geographic area. The idea is to generalize traffic data so anyone can study relevant patterns.
Data Exchange users have access to vast data troves from a wide range of industries. Enlighten claims to be the first cannabis company to list data on the service. Ultimately, the idea is to foster growth within the industry and for Enlighten.
Numerous cannabis data services alredy exist. Several, for example, collect point of sale information from dispensaries. But the information available to cannabis executives pales in comparison to options available to their counterparts in federally legal businesses.
Who can access the data? "Anyone in the world," Enlighten's Jacobs said. That includes investors, or analysts trying to figure out, say, how the pandemic has changed consumer behavior. It might be of use to marketers looking for high-traffic dispensaries and retailers considering expansions or moves into other states.
Jacobs expects the data to foster better business decisions. "We want the industry to grow," he said.
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Kiva's case for innovative edibles
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Network coordinates in the wild
by Jonathan Ledlie, Paul Gardner, Margo Seltzer - In Proceeding of USENIX NSDI'07 , 2007
"... Network coordinates provide a mechanism for selecting and placing servers efficiently in a large distributed system. This approach works well as long as the coordinates continue to accurately reflect network topology. We conducted a long-term study of a subset of a million-plus node coordinate syste ..."
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Network coordinates provide a mechanism for selecting and placing servers efficiently in a large distributed system. This approach works well as long as the coordinates continue to accurately reflect network topology. We conducted a long-term study of a subset of a million-plus node coordinate
Abstract Network Coordinates in the Wild
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"... Network coordinates provide a mechanism for selecting and placing servers efficiently in a large distributed system. This approach works well as long as the coordinates continue to accurately reflect network topology. We conducted a long-term study of a million-plus node coordinate system and found ..."
Network coordinates provide a mechanism for selecting and placing servers efficiently in a large distributed system. This approach works well as long as the coordinates continue to accurately reflect network topology. We conducted a long-term study of a million-plus node coordinate system and found
Predicting Internet Network Distance with Coordinates-Based Approaches
by T. S. Eugene Ng, Hui Zhang - In INFOCOM , 2001
"... In this paper, we propose to use coordinates-based mechanisms in a peer-to-peer architecture to predict Internet network distance (i.e. round-trip propagation and transmission delay) . We study two mechanisms. The first is a previously proposed scheme, called the triangulated heuristic, which is bas ..."
In this paper, we propose to use coordinates-based mechanisms in a peer-to-peer architecture to predict Internet network distance (i.e. round-trip propagation and transmission delay) . We study two mechanisms. The first is a previously proposed scheme, called the triangulated heuristic, which
Next century challenges: Scalable coordination in sensor networks
by Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, John Heidemann , 1999
"... Networked sensors-those that coordinate amongst them-selves to achieve a larger sensing task-will revolutionize information gathering and processing both in urban envi-ronments and in inhospitable terrain. The sheer numbers of these sensors and the expected dynamics in these environ-ments present un ..."
Networked sensors-those that coordinate amongst them-selves to achieve a larger sensing task-will revolutionize information gathering and processing both in urban envi-ronments and in inhospitable terrain. The sheer numbers of these sensors and the expected dynamics in these environ-ments present
Vivaldi: A Decentralized Network Coordinate System
by Frank Dabek, Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris - In SIGCOMM , 2004
"... Large-scale Internet applications can benefit from an ability to predict round-trip times to other hosts without having to contact them first. Explicit measurements are often unattractive because the cost of measurement can outweigh the benefits of exploiting proximity information. Vivaldi is a simp ..."
simple, light-weight algorithm that assigns synthetic coordinates to hosts such that the distance between the coordinates of two hosts accurately predicts the communication latency between the hosts.
The interdisciplinary study of coordination
by Thomas W. Malone, Kevin Crowston - ACM Computing Surveys , 1994
"... This survey characterizes an emerging research area, sometimes called coordination theory, that focuses on the interdisciplinary study of coordination. Research in this area uses and extends ideas about coordination from disciplines such as computer science, organization theory, operations research, ..."
This survey characterizes an emerging research area, sometimes called coordination theory, that focuses on the interdisciplinary study of coordination. Research in this area uses and extends ideas about coordination from disciplines such as computer science, organization theory, operations research
Awareness and Coordination in Shared Workspaces
by Paul Dourish, Victoria Bellotti - Proc. of the Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW´92 , 1992
"... Awareness of individual and group activities is critical to successful collaboration and is commonly supported in CSCW systems by active, information generation mecha-nisms separate from the shared workspace. These mechanisms pena~ise information providers, presuppose rel-evance to the recipient, an ..."
, and make access difficult, We discuss a study of shared editor use which suggests that awareness information provided and exploited passively through the shared workspace, allows users to move smoothly between close and loose collaboration, and to assign and coordinate work dynamically. Passive awareness
Medium Access Control with Coordinated Adaptive Sleeping for Wireless Sensor Networks
by Wei Ye, John Heidemann, Deborah Estrin - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , 2004
"... This paper proposes S-MAC, a medium access control (MAC) protocol designed for wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing devices. A network of these devices will collaborate for a common application such as environmental monitoring. We expect senso ..."
This paper proposes S-MAC, a medium access control (MAC) protocol designed for wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing devices. A network of these devices will collaborate for a common application such as environmental monitoring. We expect
Span: An energy-efficient coordination algorithm for topology maintenance in ad hoc wireless networks
by Benjie Chen, Kyle Jamieson, Hari Balakrishnan, Robert Morris - ACM Wireless Networks Journal , 2001
Performance Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function
by Giuseppe Bianchi , 2000
"... Recently, the IEEE has standardized the 802.11 protocol for Wireless Local Area Networks. The primary medium access control (MAC) technique of 802.11 is called distributed coordination function (DCF). DCF is a carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) scheme with binary slott ..."
Recently, the IEEE has standardized the 802.11 protocol for Wireless Local Area Networks. The primary medium access control (MAC) technique of 802.11 is called distributed coordination function (DCF). DCF is a carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) scheme with binary


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Zulip has three major documentation systems:

- **Developer and sysadmin documentation**: Documentation for people
  actually interacting with the Zulip codebase (either by developing
  it or installing it), and written in Markdown.

- **Core website documentation**: Complete webpages for complex topics,
  written in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS (using the Django templating
  system). These roughly correspond to the documentation someone
  might look at when deciding whether to use Zulip. We don't expect
  to ever have more than about 10 pages written using this system.

- **User-facing documentation**: Our scalable system for documenting
  Zulip's huge collection of specific features without a lot of
  overhead or duplicated code/syntax, written in Markdown. We have
  several hundred pages written using this system. There are 3
  branches of this documentation:
  - [Help center documentation](#help-center-documentation)
    (with a target audience of individual Zulip users)
  - [Integrations documentation](#integrations-documentation)
    (with a target audience of IT folks setting up integrations)
  - [API documentation](#api-documentation) (with a target audience
    of developers writing code to extend Zulip)

These three systems are documented in detail.

## Developer and sysadmin documentation

What you are reading right now is part of the collection of
documentation targeted at developers and people running their own
Zulip servers. These docs are written in
[CommonMark Markdown](https://commonmark.org/) with a small bit of rST.
We've chosen Markdown because it is
[easy to write](https://commonmark.org/help/). The source for Zulip's
developer documentation is at `docs/` in the Zulip Git repository, and
they are served in production at
[zulip.readthedocs.io](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).

This documentation is hosted by the excellent [ReadTheDocs
service](https://readthedocs.org/). ReadTheDocs automatically [builds
a preview](https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/pull-requests.html)
for every pull request, accessible from a "Details" link in the
"Checks" section of the pull request page. It's nonetheless valuable
to submit a screenshot with any pull request modifying documentation
to help make reviews efficient.

If you want to build the developer documentation locally (e.g. to test
your changes), the dependencies are automatically installed as part of
Zulip development environment provisioning, and you can build the
documentation using:

```bash
./tools/build-docs
```

and then opening `http://127.0.0.1:9991/docs/index.html` in your
browser. The raw files are available at
`file:///path/to/zulip/docs/_build/html/index.html` in your browser
(so you can also use e.g. `firefox docs/_build/html/index.html` from
the root of your Zulip checkout).

If you are adding a new page to the table of contents, you will want
to modify `docs/index.rst` and run `make clean` before `make html`, so
that other docs besides your new one also get the new entry in the
table of contents.

You can also usually test your changes by pushing a branch to GitHub
and looking at the content on the GitHub web UI, since GitHub renders
Markdown, though that won't be as faithful as the `make html`
approach or the preview build.

When editing dependencies for the Zulip documentation, you should edit
`requirements/docs.in` and then run `tools/update-locked-requirements`
which updates docs.txt file (which is used by ReadTheDocs to build the
Zulip developer documentation, without installing all of Zulip's
dependencies).

## Core website documentation

Zulip has around 10 HTML documentation pages under `templates/zerver`
for specific major topics, like the features list, client apps,
integrations, hotkeys, API bindings, etc. These documents often have
somewhat complex HTML and JavaScript, without a great deal of common
patterns between them other than inheriting from the `portico.html`
template. We generally avoid adding new pages to this collection
unless there's a good reason, but we don't intend to migrate them,
either, since this system gives us the flexibility to express these
important elements of the product clearly.

## User-facing documentation

All of these systems use a common Markdown-based framework with
various extensions for macros and variable interpolation,
(`render_markdown_path` in the code), designed to make it convenient
to do the things one does a lot in each type of documentation.

### Help center documentation

Zulip's [help center](https://zulip.com/help/) documentation is
designed to explain how the product works to end users. We aim for
this to be clear, concise, correct, and readable to nontechnical
audiences where possible.

See our guide on [writing help center articles](helpcenter.md).

### Integrations documentation

Zulip's [integrations documentation](https://zulip.com/integrations)
is user-facing documentation explaining to end users how to set up each
of Zulip's more than 100 integrations. There is a detailed [guide on
documenting integrations](integrations.md), including style guidelines
to ensure that the documentation is high quality and consistent.

See also our broader [integrations developer
guide](https://zulip.com/api/integrations-overview).

### API documentation

Zulip's [API documentation](https://zulip.com/api/) is intended to make
it easy for a technical user to write automation tools that interact
with Zulip. This documentation also serves as our main mechanism for
Zulip server developers to communicate with client developers about
how the Zulip API works.

See the [API documentation tutorial](api.md) for
details on how to contribute to this documentation.

## Automated testing

Zulip has several automated test suites that we run in CI and
recommend running locally when making significant edits:

- `tools/lint` catches a number of common mistakes, and we highly
  recommend
  [using our linter pre-commit hook](../git/zulip-tools.md#set-up-git-repo-script).
  See the [main linter doc](../testing/linters.md) for more details.

- The ReadTheDocs docs are built and the links tested by
  `tools/test-documentation`, which runs `build-docs` and then checks
  all the links.

There's an exclude list for the link testing at this horrible path:
`tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/spiders/common/spiders.py`,
which is relevant for flaky links.

- The API docs are tested by `tools/test-api`, which does some basic
  payload verification. Note that this test does not check for broken
  links (those are checked by `test-help-documentation`).

- `tools/test-help-documentation` checks `/help/`, `/api/`,
  `/integrations/`, and the core website ("portico") documentation for
  broken links. Note that the "portico" documentation check has a
  manually maintained whitelist of pages, so if you add a new page to
  this site, you will need to edit `PorticoDocumentationSpider` to add it.

- `tools/test-backend test_docs.py` tests various internal details of
  the variable substitution logic, as well as rendering. It's
  essential when editing the documentation framework, but not
  something you'll usually need to interact with when editing
  documentation.

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Carragher set for England return?
Jamie Carragher is poised to answer Fabio Capello's World Cup SOS by scrapping his international retirement, according to reports.
The Liverpool star quit the England scene three years ago, frustrated at his lack of appearances.
However, a number of national newspapers claimed that Capello, who is due to name his 30-man provisional squad on Tuesday, is set to include Carragher. It is also believed Ledley King could be named in the squad.
Carragher won the last of his 34 caps against Brazil in May 2007, but was already harbouring serious doubts over his future, having been consistently overlooked, first by Sven Goran Eriksson, then Steve McClaren.
Although he has repeatedly claimed he has no regrets about the decision, Capello never gave up hope that the 32-year-old would change his mind in an emergency.
And, with Joleon Lescott and Wes Brown major doubts after missing the back end of the season through injury, Rio Ferdinand only just recovered from a groin problem and Ledley King unable to train due to chronic knee trouble, that emergency has arrived.
Two training camps in Austria and friendlies against Mexico and Japan offer the perfect chance to see how both men fit in to the Italian's planning.
The final 23-man squad is announced on June 1, although crucially, replacements required due to injury would not have to come from the seven men culled from the original party.


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