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The annual RCYC / Navy race will take place on Saturday 14th September 2013. First Gun 1355 for a 1400 start. All NSYS boats intending to take part, please contact Sailing Sec with boat details, sail No. and ECHO / IRC Handicaps. Any persons intending to attend the prize giving and post race BBQ are requested to confirm numbers attending before close of business Thursday 12th Sep 2013.
Course will be drawn from the standard RCYC list and will finish at No 15 Starboard Buoy. The course may be communicated on VHF Ch 71 so keep a listening watch for details.


As we continue to make improvements on the affiliation agreement, we're looking for chapter leaders who are also attorneys who could help us revise the legal language and formatting of the agreement.
Our goal is to create an affiliation agreement that offers chapters and National the legal protections we need while adhering to our values and containing the plainest language possible. We think our chapter leaders can help us develop something that meets those goals.
Our dream? An affiliation agreement that's as clear as Pinterest's or 500px's terms of service. If you're a chapter leader who is also an attorney or if you have an attorney on your board who might be able to help us achieve that goal, get in touch with Co-Executive Director Jamie at jamie@ynpn.org.


This is what God has done for me every single time I've done it, when I have cried out for help, he has healed me/the situation. So when I am feeling low, when I am in a situation in which I feel there is no way out, I KNOW from previous occasions and from knowing the love of God that all will be fine, no matter how it looks now. A lot of the stuff I worry about actually does not even matter.
This doesn't mean it is easy, I find it very difficult when I'm lost in whatever has happened, or in circumstances or even my own feelings, but this does not detract from the truth that he heals and restores. He gives joy in the midst of mourning and difficulties as well as in the good times. It is a very weird thing, I've tried finding my own joy and it is impossible, but when I look at God, at who he is, at what he says in the bible and in my own quiet (or noisy) times with him, Joy comes.
So look at him, He knows where you are, He knows your tears and your fears and is with you, you don't have to be any certain way with God. He created you and knows you inside out, every last little bit of you, every thought before you think it, every action. With Jesus, everything you have ever done wrong, everything you are doing wrong, every future sin, is forgiven. He is the giver of life and joy.
I am preaching to myself, yet again too, I'm feeling subdued and a little lacklustre at the moment, I really need to know his goodness and love and I am learning every day that all of this comes from Him. I don't need to manufacture it myself.
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I don't feel very inspired at the moment, life is good in so many ways and I am so grateful for my life and know compared to so many others it is very easy, but I also find life hard. I know how easy it is to make mistakes and get into trouble, I know how easy it is to get into debt (I was in a lot of debt years ago and Christians against Poverty helped me get out of it). I am prone to being analytical and looking at all the what if's and whys, I am prone to being self critical and that doesn't help anything really. Self absorption doesn't help anyone.
Waiting to find out where we will be living is hard, We put our trust in God but it is an active process of keeping deciding to do that because if we don't, we start worrying. Especially with having 2 small children and potentially nowhere to live shortly. But we are choosing to be thankful and trust Him with our lives.


My smarty-pants muse was right… again. I needed to write and pelted out 62,000+ words and a sketchy rough draft of the first book in a new series.
To celebrate, I thought I'd share the opening scene. It's unfinished and undoubtedly will change as the story unfolds (bobs eyebrows mysteriously). I hope you enjoy it.


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The Division 2 PC Features and Specifications Have Been Released
Posted by cageymaru 5:00 PM (CST)
The Division 2 has a March 15, 2019 release date and Ubisoft has announced the PC specifications and features that will be in the game. The PC version of the game will feature an uncapped frame rate, uncapped display resolution, full UI and HUD customization, multiscreen and widescreen support, variable refresh rate support, and HDR support. As far as PC specifications go, Ubisoft and Massive have taken the time to create 4 theoretical PC builds ranging from minimum - 1080p | 30 FPS to Elite - 4K | 60 FPS. They are detailed in the chart below. There is a beta signup here.
Those of you eager to save Washington, DC from the brink of total collapse can pre-order the Standard, Gold, or Ultimate PC editions of The Division 2 from the Epic Games Store or Ubisoft Store. Additionally, players who pre-order the PC version of the game on the Epic Games Store, Ubisoft Store, or at select online or physical retailers will get access to the Private Beta, while all other players can register online for a chance to be selected for the beta. The Division 2 launches on March 15 on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

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In 2009, 400+ employed providers were pulled into one operating unit from several hospital-centered care systems to form Fairview Medical Group (FMG). Led by Dr. Brent Asplin and Dr. Patrick Herson, Senior Executive Medical Director, FMG consists of 40 primary care clinics, all of which are certified health care homes by the Minnesota Department of Health.
in the CG-CAHPS bottom quartile. "The PEC sees itself as a 'culture' inoculating our clinics and providers, we figure reaching this goal this will take at least 5 years" Dr. Herson explains. The committee knew that they needed a plan in order to accomplish their goals. Together the committee built 3 primary levers to support their ambitious improvement efforts.
"It is all about the purpose-why we are working in healthcare in the first place." Dr. Herson states. In an effort to establish a patient- centered culture, FMG worked with TruthPoint, a real-time patient feedback improvement system, to provide actionable and timely patient insights at the clinic and individual provider level. Clinic level feedback was reviewed at monthly clinic leadership meetings and individual results within clinics were reviewed monthly at provider and staff meetings.
tied to performance on CG-CAHPS. Key driver reports had shown that the patient-provider relationship is the primary driver for outpatient satisfaction results. In this model, 10% of the primary care provider salary would be tied directly to each care provider's clinic's 'rate your provider' result. FMG clinics performing well can earn up to 50% in additional compensation.
To help engage and train providers and staff, FMG enlisted the services of Nancy DeZellar Walsh, Principal of DeZellar Walsh Consulting who had already been working within FMG to help improve patient experience. Based on leader feedback and observations, DeZeller Walsh was successful at facilitating an improvement model that involved localized design, behavior-based training, measurement and training reinforcement.
"We wanted to assume that all clinics will need to get to top decile eventually – we all need to do it, so let's roll it out in our neighborhoods and get going!", states DeZeller Walsh to identify clinics in the lower percentiles, with the goal of moving some of the low and middle performers up.
and their families. At the beginning of the patient encounter, each patient was asked if they were willing to provide anonymous feedback about their experience at the clinic that day. If the patient agreed the provider, rooming staff, and receptionist names were entered into the TruthPoint application on the in room computer so that responses could be tied to all members of the care team.
To ensure HIPAA compliance, the TruthPoint application would only run once the Electronic Medical Record was completely closed. At the end of the visit, the last person in the room would remind the patient to provide feedback about their experience before the patient left. Once completed, the feedback is immediately encrypted and sent directly to TruthPoint. Targeted and individualized reports were sent directly to each provider, rooming staff, and receptionist and included only relevant results for only patients for which they provided care.
Personalized feedback was key to hardwiring and reinforcing the behavior-based training and understanding what patients liked and disliked about their clinic visit. Each clinic team member received a weekly individualized report and monthly graphic trending report to monitor their improvement over time.
After a few months when CG-CAHPS scores started to rise, several clinics approached Dr. Herson's team, asking if they could receive the same support to help their sites improve. "We found that those especially interested were providers who score well on CG-CAHPS individually but work in a clinic that struggles overall." Dr. Herson recalls.
All clinics within the cohort began their patient experience improvement journey near the 70th percentile on CG-CAHPS overall rating of provider and within a 2 months, 4 out of the 5 clinics reached the 90th percentile. Moving forward, a detailed plan was put into place for replication over the remaining 35 FMG clinics. As of today, all clinics have received the behavior-based training and are receiving individualized reports for how their patients are perceiving their care and service. Positive behavior changes have now expanded throughout all FMG clinic locations and as a result, patients and their families are receiving a better quality of care.


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Bitcoin Job Fair Proves Digital Currency Needs More Than Code
May 5, 2014 at 19:45 UTC Updated Dec 22, 2014 at 10:01 UTC
Daniel Cawrey
More than 400 attendees and 34 startups came together on 3rd May for the first-ever Bitcoin Job Fair.
The event, held in the auditorium space at the Plug and Play Technology Center in Sunnyvale, California, was an opportunity for job seekers to learn more about the growing digital currency industry and the varied positions the sector now supports.
Scott Robinson, who heads bitcoin projects for Plug and Play and organised the fair, said that the attendance numbers alone show a growing amount of interest in digital currencies, adding:
"The Bitcoin Job Fair exhibited a growing ecosystem with a large contingent of the community present today."
Major bitcoin employers
Some of the biggest bitcoin companies in the industry were on hand looking to hire talent, including Circle Internet Financial, Blockchain and BitPay.
Many of the companies at the fair were looking for software development talent, but there was also a demonstrated need for marketing and sales skills as well.
Alain Meier, co-founder of automated regulatory compliance solution provider BlockScore, told CoinDesk that his startup was looking for data engineers and developers.
By comparison, Danny Bocanegra of bitcoin wallet and secure storage provider Xapo said that it was searching for business development and marketing people to promote its consumer and investor bitcoin services.
According to Robinson, the gathered employers told him that the job fair would result in the hiring of individuals:
"Many [companies] felt like they would be making a number of hires in the coming weeks as a result of the event."
Increasing variety
Many of the job seekers at the fair came equipped with software development experience. But as the industry matures, positions are now available to more than just those with coding expertise.
Sarah Hody, a lawyer from the Washington, DC, area, was an example of someone from outside the coding discipline with an interest in digital currencies. At the fair, Hody spoke with companies about her legal skills and why bitcoin was a good fit for her career goals:
"It's an intersection of my passions, which are business, finance and international law. I see bitcoin technology changing the future of all of that."
Dan Roseman, founder of bitcoin jobs site Coinality and a key figure helping get the job fair off the ground, said that an understanding of bitcoin's potential is key for non-developer jobseekers in the market:
"You should know the basics, you should probably have interacted with bitcoin at some point, so you know how it works and you know what it feels like. Other than that, just be good at whatever your skill or trade is."
Future job fairs
Roseman told CoinDesk that the idea for the job fair came from a tweet to Andreas Antonopoulos, who then put his name behind the effort and spoke briefly at the event.
The organisers are now considering holding a quarterly job fair in Silicon Valley going forward, as well as possible other similar events on the East Coast, and perhaps even in Europe.
Coinality now has more than 280 jobs on its site, many of them technical. But there is significant growth in other roles as well, according to Roseman:
"When I started Coinality, it was almost entirely technical people. [Companies] looking for block chain experience. Now I'm starting to see marketing and sales coming in, and I see legal and regulation experts are needed."
"That's like the last piece of the puzzle, I think. Once you've got developers and legal and then admin, now you've got the full spectrum of services that a company employs," he added.
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4-H Teams Compete in FIRST Tech Challenge
Willie Lantz
Maryland 4-H teams were very active in the year's FIRST Tech Challenge. FIRST which stands for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology" is an international youth organization that operates robotics competitions for elementary through high school students. FIRST Tech Challenge is for students in grades 7 to 12. Teams consisting of around 10 members design, build, program and operate robots to compete in a two on two robot contest on a 12' X 12' playing field. These competitions combine the excitement of sports with the rigors of science and technology. A new challenge is released every September and competitions are held throughout the winter months. The competitions in Maryland are organized by STEMaction a non-profit organization based in Columbia, MD. This year over 100 teams competed in FIRST Tech Challenge in Maryland. Teams first compete in one or more of six State Qualifiers to earn a spot in the Maryland State Championship. The top eight teams from the Maryland State Championship move on to the East Superregional which takes in statesfrom Virginia to Maine. The top teams from the East Superregional move on to the FIRST World Championships to be held in St. Louis, MO.
This year seven of the 100 teams competing in Maryland were 4-H based teams. Those teams are:
Team 10025 - Hunt Valley Foxes from the Hunt Valley 4-H Robotics program in Baltimore County
Team 8521 – 4-H Hard-Hitting Hardware Hooligans from the 4-H Mindstorm Maniacs of Montgomery Co
Team 7393 – electronVolts – Gearbox 4-H Club from Montgomery County
Team 7182 – Mechanical Paradox – Horizon 4-H Club from Howard County
Team 4318 – Green Machine Reloaded - Horizon 4-H Club from Howard County
Team 4240 – 4-H Technoclovers - GEARS and Garrett County 4-H
Team 2818 – G-FORCE – GEARS and Garrett County 4-H
This year five of the teams qualified to participate in the Maryland State Championship. Three of the teams made it to the Finals. Team 8521 4-H Hard-Hitting Hooligans and Team 2818 were on the Winning Alliance and Team 7393 electronVolts was on the Finalist Alliance. Teams receiving awards at the Maryland Championship were 7128 Mechanical Paradox – 2nd place Inspire Award (top award given) and the Think Award, 2818 G-FORCE – 3rd place Inspire Award, 4318 Green Machine Reloaded – Motivate Award. Team 7393 electronVolts set a new high score of 300 points among teams world wide. Team 4318 Green Machine Reloaded also participated in the West Virginia Championship and received the Inspire Award. Team 2818 G-FORCE participated in the Pennsylvania State Championship were they were on the Winning Alliance and received the Rockwell Collins Innovate Award. G-FORCE was also award the Promote Award for creating the best promotion video at the Pennsylvania State Championship. Phil Malone long time mentor of the team 2818 and 4240 in Garrett County receive the Compass Award at the Maryland State Championship. Phil helped create the GEARS (Garrett Engineering And Robotics) center in Garrett County and has been coaching FIRST Teams in Garrett County for the past 12 years. Teams 2818, 4318, 7182 and 8521 will move on to the Superregional being held in Scranton, PA on March 17-19th. They will be competing for spots at the FIRST World Championship in St. Louis in April. Congratulations to all the teams and thanks to all the great volunteers who help to mentor the teams. If you are interested in more information about FIRST in Maryland visit their website at https://firstinmaryland.org/first-tech-challenge-program.
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Six Detroit Firefighters Injured When Roof, Wall Collapse in Burning Building
08/16/2010 // West Palm Beach, FL, USA // Sandra Quinlan // Sandra Quinlan
Detroit, MI—Six firefighters suffered various injuries when a wall collapsed as they battled a blaze in a retail building on Detroit's east side Friday morning, August 13, 2010. Fire personnel were dispatched to the scene after a fire they believed was extinguished somehow reignited, according to information provided by the Detroit Free Press.
Reports indicated members of the Detroit Fire Department (DFD) responded to the scene of the fire for the first time around 5:30 a.m. Fire crews worked to put of the fire until shortly before 7 a.m., when they believed they had completely extinguished the inferno. Lt. Robert Puckett, 50, was hospitalized for unspecified injuries sustained in the blaze. He has since been released.
However, the flames began to spread only moments after fire crews left the area. While they subsequently returned to the scene, something went wrong as they fought the blaze. A roof collapse seemingly caused a brick wall to fall onto the firefighters, trapping several underneath the rubble.
Detroit firefighter Gerald (Razzy) Rutkowski, 46, became pinned beneath the bricks as he worked to extinguish the incessant flames. His 53-year-old brother Tom Rutkowski quickly jumped into action to dig him out from the under the bricks.
"I thought he was done," Tom Rutkowski said, adding that his younger brother fractured his hip, pelvis, foot and several ribs in the incident. Rutkowski was rushed to Beaumont Hospital and listed in serious condition as of Friday night.
The most seriously injured firefighter was believed to be 31-year-old Brendan Milewski. Fellow firefighters alleged Milewski might have been paralyzed as a result of the wall collapse. He was listed in critical condition at Detroit Receiving Hospital.
Also injured in the accident were Shayne Raxter, 37, who suffered a broken leg and has since been released; Jeron Whitehorn, 30, who was treated for undisclosed injuries and released; Brian Baulch, 31, who was being treated for critical injuries at St. John on Friday night; and Eric Jurmo, 31, who was also listed in critical condition at Detroit Receiving Hospital.
Injuries sustained in the incident included "broken bones, head wounds and spinal-cord injuries."
Arson investigations are expected to be underway.
Legal News Reporter: Sandra Quinlan- Legal News for Michigan Personal Injury Lawyers.
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Access Profiles, Inc.: Tips to Help You Gain Focus & Get Active!
No doubt about it. It is time to Get Active!
After these holiday months, I am ready to put some focus on me! The problem? I still need to work. I have clients to keep happy and bills to pay. I also have blogs to write and social media obligations.
I answer with a resounding "Yes"!
The key for me has been to not deny myself. I have implemented a work schedule with built in "me time". I find that when it is scheduled into my day, I do it!
As an added benefit, I found that taking an "active" break recharges me. I gain better focus, added energy, and even find that I am more creative.
Taking an "Active Break" is Good for Your Health & Your Business! "Tweet This"
Regular active breaks get you away from your desk and out of your seat. Like most people, I enjoy and am energized by my breaks from work.
Taking an active break does not have to be a huge commitment. It can be as simple as a 10 or 15 minute walk around the block or, as it sometimes is for me, a quick stepping or boxing session with my Wii.
What is important is planning these breaks into your day. I find it best to begin each day with something active. It gets my metabolism moving and revs up my energy to tackle the work ahead.
The next break I take is usually around lunch. If I can, I like to get outside and take a brisk walk. If the weather isn't cooperating, once again it is my Wii to the rescue.
I end the day much the same way. Many times it is a longer walk or Wii session after dinner. The longer Spring and Summer days really help.
It is Good for My Body and Health ~ My body is not designed for sitting hours on end. I know my back, neck, and shoulders feel the strain, along with my eyes from staring at my screen. Getting up and moving has made all the difference.
I Feel More Creative & Effective ~ I have found that when I return after a brisk walk (or a session on my Wii!), my mind is clearer. Often something that has been puzzling me, or a blog article that just won't come together, is suddenly not so daunting.
I Become more In-tune with my Surroundings ~ Without sounding too "zen", I find real peace being outside and moving (and if that outside happens to be the beach, watch out!).
I Feel Much Better at the End of the Day ~ Stress levels and headaches are lessened and my energy high. I have also found I sleep much better!
you can do this even from an outside office.
Go for a Short Walk Every Day ~ It can be outside or indoors, just get moving! Over time you can increase your distance, or simply take a few short walking breaks each day (even three 15 minute breaks work great).
Join a Fitness Program ~ Choose a time that works for you. Try to choose an activity that you can also do on your own time. This will help you keep it up even on weekends.
Support a Fund-Raising Walk or Run ~ Join with co-workers or, if you work from home, recruit other local at-home workers. Train for the event as a group daily or at least several times a week. This type of active break is great for team building.
it is important that you Get Active!
While I have certainly not always been the "poster child" for healthy living, I have discovered that I really need to do this for me. It is not simply about fitting into nicer clothes, it is about my overall physical and mental well being.
Occasionally I am able to take a much longer than normal break in downtown Washington D.C. I will meet my husband for lunch, then spent the rest of the afternoon walking down to the Tidal Basin to see the cherry blossoms if they are in season. I then make my way to the WWII Memorial, walk along the reflecting pool to the Lincoln Memorial, and then the Korean and Vietnam War Memorials.
I even get to see the the Einstein statue (one of my favorites)! I then make my way along Connecticut Ave., up 17th, to Farragut Park and back on the Metro.
***Side note ~ I took all the pictures in this post during that walk!
taking an extended break can be glorious.
I hope each of you can do it too. You are worth it!
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From 26 February till 30 March 2018, Emily Fang, HOD of Science at Keming Primary School, underwent four weeks of Teacher Work Attachment at S.E.A. Aquarium. Turns out, her experience was a far cry from what she had anticipated – in a positive way. Emily shares her story.
My Teacher Work Attachment at S.E.A. Aquarium over the past 4 weeks was a great contrast from what I had expected it to be.
The initial intention was to find out more about the Educational Programmes so that I could bring the students to the aquarium to learn about the different adaptive features of marine animals, as required by the MOE school syllabus. However, after my attachment to the different teams at S.E.A. Aquarium, it has completely transformed what I think about the work done at the aquarium.
Initially, I thought that the planning of educational programmes at S.E.A. Aquarium is a very straightforward process, and that it will be focused on facts about the different marine animals. I was pleasantly surprised to find out how much effort and coordination it takes to run an educational programme.
Apart from carefully choosing which marine animals to focus on, the Education Team has to work very closely with the Conservation Team to plant messages on marine conservation as part of the tour. They also have to work with the S.E.A.A. Operations team to ensure the educational facilitators are well trained and equipped with the right knowledge.
I helped out at an educator's preview earlier this year where we showcased educational programmes at the Maritime Experiential Museum.
In order to engage with schools, the Education Team actively arranges previews for educators to inform them about the variety of educational programmes available for their students in both the Maritime Experiential Museum and S.E.A. Aquarium.
Conservation is a very hot topic given the amount of environmental problems we are currently facing.
My initial perception of what the Conservation Team does is that they just talk to the public to educate them on marine conservation topics. Although that is what the team does, there are plenty of other things that they do as well.
They are highly involved in collaborative works with local schools, such as the Bring Your Own (BYO) programme. They also work internally with other departments in Resorts World Sentosa to push for greener initiatives within S.E.A. Aquarium and other attractions. An example would be the reduction of plastic products found within S.E.A. Aquarium.
That's me manning the booth at a careers fair for early childhood educators. My job was to inform the educators about our preschool educational programme – Mai's Underwater Journey.
Additionally, the Conservation Team looks after S.E.A. Aquarium's very own conservation group, Guardians of the S.E.A.A., where they engage and gather like-minded people to participate in activities to protect our oceans and the animals that live in them.
Before my attachment with the Curatorial Team, I thought that the job of an aquarist would be fairly simple. All they had to do was to feed the fish and clean the tanks, how hard could it be? Well I found out that it can be pretty tough, especially when you have over 100,000 marine animals, all of different sizes and needs, in over 50 different habitats to care for!
Luckily, the aquarists at S.E.A. Aquarium are so passionate about marine animals that they do a fantastic job looking after every single fish, whether tiny or gigantic, fragile or sturdy. They take special care to ensure that the animals are feeding well by hand prepping all their food each morning, including peeling prawns and chopping up fish and squid into manageable sizes.
To keep the habitats well-maintained, they painstakingly scrub the habitats to ensure that the animals in the aquarium thrive for a long, long time. Kudos to the Curatorial Team!
Group photo with the Education Team.
Lunch with the Conservation Team.
And thank you S.E.A. Aquarium for all the great work done to protect our ocean, and encouraging others to do the same so that there will still be a rich marine life in the future!
S.E.A. Aquarium's Teacher Work Attachment (TWA) is a 4 to 12-week professional development programme where teachers work alongside our Conservation and Education unit, as well as other business units within the aquarium such as the Curatorial unit.
By working closely with these professionals, they pick up new skills and experiences. More importantly, they get to broaden their perspectives of an aquarium facility, particularly the roles in which education and conservation play.
After their attachment, the teachers can apply the new knowledge and skills back in their classrooms to enhance their teaching methods and student engagement.
Teachers interested in applying for TWA can do so through the Academy of Singapore Teachers. Simply indicate your interest in joining the Conservation and Education team at S.E.A. Aquarium and specify your attachment period. Please note that only one teacher attachment is available at any one time.


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Q: Issue while Comparing Strings I have a problem with the following:
I have a sequence that comes with the value:
"ORA-00904: TESTE: identificador inválido"
I need to replace this test field to empty ( '') in my query .
But if my query contains other field with the name for example TESTETE and I replace for '', it staies wrong, replacing TESTE for and TESTETE forTE
I want to replace the TESTE for `` and the TESTETE let how it is.

my example query is :
SELECT TESTE, TESTETE, fld1 FROM TBL

My logic is as follows:
String oracleMsg = "ORA-00904: TESTE: identificador inválido";
String query = "SELECT TESTE, TESTETE, OUTRO FROM TBL";
String comp = "TESTE";

if (oracleMsg.contains(comp)){
    query = query.replace(comp, "''");
}
System.out.println(query);

Result:  SELECT '', ''TE, OUTRO FROM TBL
Expected Result? SELECT '', TESTETE, OUTRO FROM TBL
Thank you a lot!!!

A: Use regular expressions and surround your pattern with word-boundary anchors.
 query = query.replaceAll("\\b"+comp+"\\b", "''");

In case you want to replace only one instance of the pattern, use replaceFirst instead of replaceAll.

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The analogy can be made that microphones are to audio production what colors are to painting. The more colors and hues available to a painter, the greater the possibilities for coloration on a visual canvas. In recording sound, the more models of microphones, the greater variety of tones on the sonic palette and, hence, the greater the possibilities for coloration in designing an aural canvas.
When choosing a microphone, or mic, consider three basic features: operating principles, directional characteristic(s), and sound response. Appearance may be a fourth feature to consider if the mic is on-camera. Cost and durability may be two other considerations.


The CBC 2016, co-hosted with the Cambridge Union Society, aims at generating a nexus of ideas that will combine the knowledge, creativity and experience of students, business community, politicians and academics to take lead in the discussions of the current state and the future of technology and governance.
The broad heading of Technology and Governance gives the conference an opportunity to discuss various matters: e-health, fintech, e-governance, talent attraction and modern diasporas, big data and governance, and much more.
The conference will also be a part of the British Estonian Chamber of Commerce's (BECC) trade mission to the UK. The BECC's delegation, which includes a number of business leaders from Estonia, will be taking part in the conference.
The Cambridge Baltic Conference (CBC) project was initiated in 2013 to gather leaders from various fields to discuss topics that are important to both the Baltic countries and the European Union. Every year it brings together speakers, students and guests of incredibly high calibre.
The beginning of the 21st century marked the start of a true technological revolution and finance along with banking has changed from orthodoxy into Fintech. The focus of this panel will be placed on whether ordinary banks are required for Fintech ventures to succeed. What is the true role of Fintech and to what extent does it walk hand-in-hand with orthodox banking and finance.
The Baltics have lost over a million talents over the last few decades but yet continue to thrive and lead the way in various technology fields. Now is the time to create, engage with the opportunities and witness the extraordinary Baltics transformation. The best talent attraction practices will be discussed in this panel, followed by the workshop on 'Baltics - Talent Magnet'.
Extracting knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of data available to governments could be extremely beneficial. How to improve health care, employment, economic productivity, security and governmental processes using data mining? What are the big data future perspectives in private and public sectors?
14:30 - 15:30Baltics - Talent Magnet!
In the last decades Baltic countries have faced brain drain rather than attracting talents. People are leaving not only to seek higher standards of living but also eager to gain international education and experience. This modern diaspora has a lot of well established professionals who could be the best ambassadors for their countries. How can the Baltics engage and connect with them? On the other hand, what should we do to become the Talent magnet for our own nationals as well as foreign talents? This workshop will come up with bright recommendations on the strategy and innovative solutions for this to become the reality.
The financial sector has been traditionally heavily regulated by the EU and the regulatory burden has been especially heavy during the post-crisis era. The growing importance of crowdfunding, payment services and fintech is dramatically changing our understanding of the financial sector. The regulators in Brussels are experiencing difficulties with keeping up with the rapidly changing environment. The underlying question is whether we actually want Brussels to keep up the pace and provide us with new rules for new technologies?
E-health is an innovative sector which aims to make healthcare accessible and efficient through using digital technologies. This panel will explore the challenges as well as the opportunities for e-health and bring together the governmental and personal perspectives.
E-governance takes many shapes and forms, but the underlying idea behind is increasing the operational governance efficiency and making the interaction between the government and its citizens more transparent and accessible. This panel focuses on the current stage of e-governance and will outline its future perspectives.
Join us for a formal dinner at Christ's College Hall, one of the finest amongst the Cambridge Colleges, on the 12th of November at 19:15. Dress code will be formal/ black tie optional. Guests shall inform us about the dietary requirements a couple of weeks before the event. There will be wine and non-alcoholic drinks served. We look forward to meeting you at Christ's College!
The dinner tickets are currently sold out, but a few more may become available.
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'Mixed messaging': Call for clarity on whether people should cancel holidays abroad
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said it is important to reopen the economy, "but not at the risk of another wave".
Updated Jun 30th 2020, 9:15 PM
LAST UPDATE | Jun 30th 2020, 9:15 PM
THE IRISH TRAVEL Agents Association (ITAA) has called on the Government to clarify the "mixed messaging" on whether people should travel abroad or not.
The ITAA said a clear decision must be made on whether international travel is permitted following Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan's plea for people to cancel holiday plans abroad over the coming months.
If the Government is advising people not to travel abroad, the association said, it should cancel all flights and ensure people are refunded.
At Monday's briefing at the Department of Health, Holohan advised against all non-essential travel over the coming weeks and months.
"It makes much more sense to not go ahead with that booking and to risk travelling abroad, picking up this infection, risk for you, for any family member you be travelling with or indeed any close contacts you have," he said.
He said of the 24 new cases yesterday, at least six were associated with international travel.
The Government has been intending to put in place 'air bridges' with countries with low coronavirus infection rates by 9 July, allowing people travelling between countries paired together to bypass quarantine in an effort to boost international tourism and allow more people to take overseas holidays.
The ITAA CEO Pat Dawson said this mixed messaging is causing "huge confusion" for customers and travel agents alike.
"If the Department of Health, the Chief Medical Officer and the Department of Foreign Affairs wish to uphold these restrictions, they will have to support inbound and outbound tourism and compensate affected consumers – a decision must be made on this," Dawson said.
"No one in the Irish travel industry is advocating unsafe travel, the response of the Irish people to the pandemic has been astounding, they are not going to start going on holidays and taking risks."
The European Union today agreed to reopen its borders to 15 countries excluding the virus-stricken US, as the pandemic accelerated globally with more than 505,000 deaths worldwide.
As Ireland is not in the Schengen Area it is exempt from the recommendation and can decide for itself which citizens to let in.
The ITAA said that are currently 250,000 jobs at risk in the tourism sector as the industry relies on overseas tourism for 70% of its revenue.
Mandatory quarantine
Speaking in the Dáil for the first time as Minister for Health this afternoon, Fianna Fáil's Stephen Donnelly said a debate is currently ongoing in government about whether legislation is needed to make quarantine for 14 days mandatory for people arriving in Ireland.
Social Democrats co-leader Róisín Shortall said the Chief Medical Officer has been "ringing alarm bells" over the last week about international travel.
EU lifts travel restrictions for 'safe' countries, excluding virus-stricken US
Shortall asked the minister today if legally-based supervised quarantine is introduced, would legislation be required. She also asked if the new government would introduce such a measure.
Donnelly told the Dáil there is the debate is ongoing "in relation to that question right now".
There had been concerns among some in the last Cabinet that making it mandatory for Irish citizens or visitors coming into the country to self-isolate would be a "step too far".
The Chief Medical Officer has recommended designated facilities might be used for the 14-day period. Ministers of the last government were of the view that it was something that if given the green light could have caused a major split around the Cabinet table.
In what was seen as u-turn on the issue, the former Health Minister Simon Harris this month that "at the moment, I am satisfied with where we are" with the guidance on the 14-day quarantine period.
The government has put the passenger locator form on a statutory footing, meaning that at ports and airports it is now an offence for someone to refuse to give their name and address of where they are staying. Gardaí can do "spot-checks" as a result, said Harris, stating he was satisfied that is enough for now.
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has previously raised serious concerns with the Dáil Covid-19 Committee in relation to extra powers and laws relating to mandatory isolation.
Oireachtas.ie Fianna Fáil TD Stephen Donnelly speaking in the Dáil in the Convention Centre today. Oireachtas.ie
Speaking in the Dáil today, Donnelly said:
It is, of course, very important that we reopen society and our economy but we cannot do so at the risk of another wave of infection around the country. I ask people to follow the advice of the experts, who have guided us very well so far.
Donnelly said he is "deeply conscious of the impact of Covid-19 on the people living in our country".
"We have seen our safe, well-ordered worlds of routine turned upside down. We have lost beloved friends, family members and neighbours and have been unable to mourn them as we want to. We have asked more and more of the people working on the front lines and behind the scenes in our health service.
"We have asked them to work relentlessly in the face of what must have seemed like endless days and nights. I thank every one of them from the bottom of my heart for all they have done," he added.
- With reporting from Adam Daly
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Here we report the first results of combined scanning calorimetric and dilatometric investigations carried out on bovine serum albumin in aqueous solution at 30-97°C. Comparison of experimental data obtained by the two techniques suggests a "steps" model for the thermal denaturation of the protein. Moreover, the results in the high-temperature region, after aggregation of the unfolded chain, show a subsequent, previously unreported, spatial rearrangement of the polypeptidic chain network, during which the order of the system increases with an increase in temperature. The results indicate that scanning dilatometry is a very useful method of detecting phenomena which are not seen by calorimetry. The results also demonstrate the determinant role of water in the unfolding process. © 1994.
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Pacific Blue Energy Corp. Secures Joint Venture with Builder of Solar Energy Projects
Published Sun, May 9 20108:00 PM EDT Updated Fri, Sep 13 20134:33 PM EDT
PHOENIX, May 10, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Pacific Blue Energy Corp.
(OTCBB: PBEC), a publicly traded developer of renewable energy projects, today announced that it has entered into a joint venture with another company that has extensive experience in designing and building solar farms.
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"This company is a perfect fit for us because they have the experience to build our projects, but have no desire to hold onto the assets, contracts or sell the electricity - all elements that will be part of PBEC's production goals," said Joel Franklin, the Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Blue Energy Corp.
As it develops into a renewable energy provider, Pacific Blue Energy Corp. has sought to partner with professionals with experience in site acquisition, zoning and construction management. The company is also seeking out professionals who have environmental and geotechnical expertise, as well as those who have backgrounds in solar engineering, design, installation, testing and maintenance.
"With each new step, we are methodically and thoughtfully putting all the pieces into place to help us become a leading energy developer here in Arizona and throughout the southwest," Franklin said. "This joint venture moves us even closer to our goal of developing a 20 megawatt solar facility in Northern Arizona - our first of what we hope to be many successful renewable energy projects." About Pacific Blue Energy Corp.
Pacific Blue Energy Corp. (PBEC) is a publicly traded solar energy company that seeks to build and manage large renewable energy projects. PBEC's goal is to maximize shareholder value through select property acquisition, timely renewable energy facility construction and informed management of those projects.
Headquartered in Arizona, one of the prime solar energy markets in the United States, PBEC is positioned to take advantage of technological advances that will drive the coming surge in the U.S. solar generated electricity market.
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Citigroup Toll Free Number, Customer Support Number, Headquarters Address, Contact Info, and More
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So, let's see contact details of Citigroup, including Toll Free Number, Customer Support Number, Headquarters Address, Contact Info, and More.
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\section{Introduction}

The emergence of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) prompted a worldwide research response. In the first 120 days of 2020, researchers published over 10,000 articles related to SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19. Together with articles about similar viruses researched before 2020, the body of research approaches 60,000 articles.  Such a large body of research results in a considerable burden for those seeking information about various facets of the virus, including researchers, clinicians, and policy-makers.

To help improve COVID-19 search, we introduce \textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace: a simple yet effective zero-shot baseline for coronavirus \underline{S}cientific know\underline{LEDGE} search. \textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace adapts the successful BERT-based \cite{Devlin2019BERTPO} re-ranking model (Vanilla BERT, \citet{MacAvaney2019CEDRCE}) for COVID-19 search with three simple techniques. First, we propose a training data filtering technique to help the ranking model learn relevance signals typical in medical text. The training data we use comes entirely from another dataset (MS-MARCO, \citet{Campos2016MSMA}), resulting in our model being zero-shot. Since MS-MARCO is a large collection of real user queries (over 800,000), it allows us to filter aggressively and still have adequate training data. Second, we replace the general contextualized language model BERT with one pre-trained on scientific literature (SciBERT, \citet{Beltagy2019SciBERTPC}). This pre-training prepares the model for the type of language typically seen in scientific articles. Since the document collection (CORD-19, \citet{Wang2020CORD19TC}) contains articles about prior viruses, we filter out articles published before 2020 to eliminate less pertinent articles. An overview of this process is shown in Figure~\ref{fig:sledge-fig}.

\begin{figure}[t]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{sledge-fig.pdf}
  \caption{Overview of \textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace.}
  \label{fig:sledge-fig}
\end{figure}

We show that each of the techniques mentioned above positively impacts the ranking effectiveness of \textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace through an ablation analysis. Our zero-shot approach performs comparably to (or outperforms) top-scoring submissions to the TREC-COVID document ranking shared task~\cite{trec-covid}, a new testbed for evaluating of search methods for COVID-19. \textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace tops the Round~1 leaderboard in the zero-shot setting, which is important in low-resource situations.
Overall, our method establishes a strong performance for COVID-19 literature search. By releasing our models and code, we hope that it can help in the current global COVID-19 crisis.\footnote{Code and models available at: \url{https://github.com/Georgetown-IR-Lab/covid-neural-ir}.}

\section{Related Work}

Ad-hoc document retrieval (of both scientific articles and general domain documents) has been long-studied~\cite{Lalmas2007INEX2,hersh2009trec,Lin2008IsSF,medlar2016pulp,sorkhei2017exploring,huang2019holes,Hofsttter2020InterpretableT,nogueira2020document}. Most recent work for scientific literature retrieval has focused on tasks such as collaborative filtering~\cite{Chen2018ResearchPR}, citation recommendation~\cite{Nogueira2020EvaluatingPT}, and clinical decision support~\cite{Soldaini2017LearningTR}.

Pre-trained neural language models (such as BERT~\cite{Devlin2019BERTPO}) have recently shown to be effective when fine-tuned for ad-hoc ranking \cite{Nogueira2019PassageRW,Dai2019DeeperTU,MacAvaney2019CEDRCE}.
These models also facilitate relevance signal transfer; \citet{Yilmaz2019CrossDomainMO} demonstrate that the relevance signals learned from BERT can transfer across collections (reducing the chance of overfitting a particular collection).
Here, we use relevance signal transfer from an open-domain question answering dataset to the collection of COVID-19 scientific literature.

Others have investigated COVID-19 document ranking. \citet{zhang2020rapidly} chronicled their efforts to build a search engine for COVID-19 articles, using a variety of available ranking techniques, such as T5~\cite{Raffel2019ExploringTL}. In this work, we find that our approach outperforms this system in terms of ranking effectiveness. \edit{Contemporaneously with our work, \citet{Das2020InformationRA} demonstrate how document clustering and summarization can be effective for COVID-19 retrieval. This paper extends our shared task submissions in Round 1~\cite{macavaney:arxiv2020-sledge}. We note that the TREC COVID task proceeded for a total of 5 rounds, with various techniques emerging, such as passage aggregation~\cite{Li2020PARADEPR,Nguyen2020Searching}, and ensemble methods~\cite{Bendersky2020RBF102}.}

\section{\textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace: Zero-Shot COVID-19 Search}

To build a ranking model for COVID search, we modify the standard zero-shot Vanilla BERT document re-ranking pipeline~\cite{Yilmaz2019CrossDomainMO,MacAvaney2019CEDRCE}. We find that while these modifications are simple, they are effective for maximizing ranking performance. We note that this process neither requires COVID relevance training data nor involves a priori inspection of the queries and their characteristics. Thus, we consider our method zero-shot.

To train in a zero-shot setting, we employ a large dataset of general-domain natural language question and answer paragraphs: MS-MARCO~\cite{Campos2016MSMA}. However, na\"ive domain transfer is not optimal since most questions in the dataset are not medical-related, causing a domain mismatch between the training and evaluation data. To overcome this challenge, we apply a heuristic to filter the collection to only medical-related questions. The filter removes questions that do not contain terms appearing in the MedSyn~\cite{Yates2013ADRTraceDE}, a lexicon of layperson and expert terminology for various medical conditions. \edit{We manually remove several common terms from the lexicon that commonly introduce queries that are not medical-related. For example, MedSyn includes the term \textit{gas} (referring to the medical concept of flatulence in North American English), commonly also refers to gasoline or natural gas. See Appendix~\ref{sec:sup:medsyn-excl} for a complete list of excluded MedSyn terms. Note that we made these decisions without considering COVID-19 specifically---only a broad relation to the medical domain.} MS-MARCO originally consists of 809K questions. After filtering, 79K of the original questions remain (9.7\%). We refer to this subset of MS-MARCO as Med-MARCO. From a random sample of 100 queries from Med-MARCO, 78 were judged by the authors as medical-related, suggesting the filter has reasonable precision. \edit{Examples questions from this process include \textit{causes of peritoneal cancer prognosis} and \textit{what is squalene anthrax sleep apnea}.} We make a list of the query IDs corresponding to Med-MARCO available,\footnote{\url{https://github.com/Georgetown-IR-Lab/covid-neural-ir/blob/master/med-msmarco-train.txt}} as well as additional examples of filtered queries (see Appendix~\ref{sec:sup:filter-examples}).

Second, we replace the general-language BERT model with a variant tuned on scientific literature (including medical literature). Specifically, we use SciBERT~\cite{Beltagy2019SciBERTPC}, which has an identical structure as BERT, but was trained on a multi-domain corpus of scientific publications. It also uses a WordPiece lexicon based on the training data, allowing the model to better account for subwords commonly found in scientific text. During model training, we employ the pairwise cross-entropy loss function from~\citet{Nogueira2019PassageRW}. Relevant and non-relevant documents are sampled in sequence from the official MS-MARCO training pair list (filtered down to Med-MARCO queries).

Third, we apply a filter to the document collection that removes any articles published before January 1, 2020. This filter aims to improve the retrieval system's precision by eliminating articles that may discuss other topics. The date was chosen because little was known about COVID-19 prior to 2020, and some documents do not include a full publication date (only a year), making this filter simple to apply. In real-life search engines, date filtering can often be applied at the discretion of the user.

\section{Experimental setup}\label{sec:exp}

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We now explore the ranking effectiveness of our approach. We evaluate the performance of \textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace using Round 1 and 2. \edit{At the time of writing, the only training data available for the task was the Round 1 data.} of the TREC-COVID Information Retrieval Benchmark~\cite{trec-covid}.\footnote{Round 2 uses \textit{residual collection} evaluation, meaning that all documents judged in Round 1 are disregarded. Although this is an important setting for building up a dataset and allows for approaches like manual relevance feedback, we feel that this setting does not mimic an actual search engine, especially in the zero-shot setting. Thus, we evaluate on the concatenation of Round 1 and 2 settings and mark the systems that use Round 1 judgments for training or tuning of their system.} TREC-COVID uses the CORD-19 document collection~\cite{Wang2020CORD19TC} (2020-05-01 version, 59,943 articles), with a set of 35 topics related to COVID-19. These topics include natural questions such as: \textit{what is the origin of COVID-19} and \textit{how does the coronavirus respond to changes in the weather}. The top articles of participating systems in each round were judged by expert assessors, who rated each article as non-relevant (0), partially-relevant (1), or fully-relevant (2) to the topic. In total, 20,728 relevance judgments were collected (avg. 592 per topic), with 74\% non-relevant, 12\% partially relevant, and 14\% fully-relevant. These rates remained nearly constant between rounds 1 and 2.

We use normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain with a cutoff of 10 (nDCG@10), Precision at 5 of partially and fully-relevant documents (P@5), and Precision at 5 of only fully relevant documents (P@5 (F)). Both nDCG@10 and P@5 are official task metrics; we include the P@5 filtered to only fully-relevance documents because it exposed some interesting trends in our analysis. We also report the percentage of the top 10 documents for each query that have relevance judgments (J@10). In an additional evaluation, we measure the performance using only judged documents to ensure that unjudged documents do not impact our findings. We used \texttt{trec\_eval}\footnote{\url{https://github.com/usnistgov/trec\_eval}} for all metrics. These measures represent a precision-focused evaluation; since re-ranking methods like ours focus on improving precision, we leave recall-oriented evaluations to future work.

Our initial ranking is conducted using BM25 with default settings over the full document text\edit{ to adhere to the zero-shot setting}. Re-ranking is conducted over the abstracts only\edit{, avoiding the need to perform score aggregation (since BERT models are limited in the document length)}. We utilize only the natural-language question (ignoring the keyword query and extended narrative). We conduct an ablation that compares \textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace to versions using BERT (instead of SciBERT), and the full MS-MARCO dataset (MSM) (rather than the Med-MARCO subset (MedM)). We compare with several baselines under the same evaluation settings.

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\item[-] \textbf{BM25}: the initial BM25 ranking.
\item[-] \edit{\textbf{ConvKNRM}: The convolutional KNRM model~\cite{Dai2018ConvolutionalNN}, trained on MS-MARCO data.}
\item[-] \edit{\textbf{CEDR KNRM}: The KNRM model, augmented with contextualized embeddings~\cite{MacAvaney2019CEDRCE}, trained on MS-MARCO data. We use the \texttt{bert-base-uncased} model for the contextualized embeddings.}
\item[-] \edit{\textbf{Seq2seq T5}: The text-to-text-transformer (T5) model~\cite{Raffel2019ExploringTL}, tuned for ranking by predicting \textit{true} or \textit{false} as the next term in a sequence consisting of the query and document~\cite{Nogueira2020DocumentRW}.}
\item[-] \textbf{Fusion}: a reciprocal rank fusion method~\cite{Cormack2009ReciprocalRF} of BM25 over the abstract, full text, and individual paragraphs. Fusion1 uses a concatenation of the keywords and question, and Fusion2 uses the entity extraction technique from the Round 1 \texttt{udel} submission.\footnote{\url{https://github.com/castorini/anserini/blob/master/docs/experiments-covid.md}}
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Our work utilizes a variety of existing open-source tools: OpenNIR~\cite{macavaney:wsdm2020-onir}, Anserini~\cite{Yang2017AnseriniET}, and the HuggingFace Transformers library~\cite{Wolf2019HuggingFacesTS}. We utilize a held-out subset of 200 queries from the MS-MARCO training set as a validation set for the sole purpose of picking the optimal training epoch. Model hyper-parameters were chosen from values in prior work and can be found in Appendix~\ref{sec:sup:params}\edit{, along with information about the hardware used}. The Vanilla BERT and SciBERT models take approximately 3 hours to train/validate, and inference on TREC-COVID takes approximately 15 minutes on modern GPUs. The BERT model has 157M parameters, and the SciBERT model has 158M parameters.

\section{Results}\label{sec:res}

Ranking effectiveness is presented in Table~\ref{tab:main}. We first compare the ablations of our approach (top section). We note that SciBERT significantly ($p<0.05$, paired t-test, Boneferroni correction) outperforms BM25 and BERT trained on MSM across all metrics. There is a less dramatic jump between BERT MSM and BERT MedM, demonstrating the importance of filtering the training data properly. This is echoed between SciBERT MSM and SciBERT MedM, though the difference is only significant for P@5 when only considering the judged documents. These results demonstrate the importance of both pre-training on appropriate data and fine-tuning using a proper subset of the larger data. While both yield improvements (that can be additive), the pre-training objective appears to be more impactful, based on the overall better scores of SciBERT.

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\edit{Compared to baseline systems (bottom section), we observe that \textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace offers superior effectiveness. Specifically, we see that ConvKNRM, CEDR-KNRM, and Seq2seq T5 all improve upon the initial BM25 ranking. Training on Med-MARCO (rather than the full MS-MARCO) also improves each of the baselines, except, curiously, Seq2seq T5. This model may benefit from the larger amount of training data the full MS-MARCO dataset offers. Finally, both fusion methods outperform the base BM25 model. However, we note that these models utilize two fields available for each query: the keyword-based query and the full natural-language question text---a luxury not available in practical search environments. (Recall that \textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace and the other baselines in Table~\ref{tab:main} only use the natural-language query.)}

\edit{We now compare our approach with the top-performing submissions to the TREC COVID shared task \edit{(many of which are not zero-shot methods)}. Full participating system descriptions are provided in Appendix~\ref{sec:sup:rnd1}. We note that these experimental settings for these runs differ from our main experiments. For instance, \texttt{mpiid5\_run3}~\cite{Li2020PARADEPR} and \texttt{SparseDenseSciBERT} use relevant information from Round 1 as training data, and \texttt{covidex.t5} uses combined keyword query and natural-language questions. Therefore, these performance metrics are not directly comparable to our zero-shot runs. Despite this, \textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace still achieves competitive performance compared to these models. For instance, it consistently scores comparably or higher than \texttt{covidex.t5} (includes a more powerful language model, a more effective initial ranking model, and multiple topic fields) and \texttt{SparseDenseSciBert} (which uses neural approaches for the initial ranking stage). Our method even performs comparably to the \texttt{mpiid5.run3} model, which was trained directly on Round 1 judgments. Interestingly, we observe that our simple baseline approach of re-ranking using T5 strictly with the natural-language question against the paper title and abstract (Seq2seq T5 in Table~\ref{tab:main}) is more effective than the more involved approach employed by \texttt{covidex.t5}. When we apply the same date filtering to the official runs, we observe that the differences narrow. We also present \textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace topping the Round~1 leaderboard in Table~\ref{tab:rnd1}. We observe again that our model excels at finding highly-relevant documents.}

To gain a better understanding of the impact of filtering the document collection to only articles published on or after January 1, 2020, we first compare the performance of \textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace with and without the filter. Disregarding unjudged documents, it has an nDCG@10 of 0.668 ($-0.051$), P@5 of 0.777 ($-0.069$) and P@5 (F) of 0.589 ($-0.108$). All these differences are statistically significant. By far the largest reduction is on fully-relevant P@5, meaning that it can be more difficult to find highly relevant documents when considering the full document collection. We observed similar trends for BM25, with and without the 2020 filter. These trends also align with observations we made from the judgments themselves; we find that only 16\% of judged documents from prior to 2020 were considered relevant (with only 5\% fully relevant). Meanwhile, 32\% of judged documents after 2020 were considered relevant (19\% fully relevant).

\section{Conclusion}

In this work, we present \textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace, an adaptation of a neural ranking pipeline for COVID-19 scientific literature search. The approach is zero-shot and adapts to medical literature by filtering the training data, using a contextualized language model based trained on scientific text, and by filtering the document collection. \edit{The zero-shot setting is important because it suggests that the approach can be generally applied to similar problems---even when no training data are available (which can be expensive to collect).} Through experiments and analysis on TREC-COVID, we find that each component of our approach is beneficial, and it outperforms or is comparable to approaches that are trained or tuned on TREC-COVID judgments. These observations underscore the importance of properly considering the domain when building medical search engines. We hope that techniques like \textsc{Sledge-Z}\xspace can help overcome the global COVID-19 crisis.

\section*{Acknowledgements}

\edit{Experiments on T5 models were supported by TPU machines provided by Google. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback.}

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Who Killed Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform?
By Frank Marafiote
Pretending they've discovered the most pressing domestic issue of the 2008 Presidential campaign, Obama and Edwards are touting their universal health care plans like astronomers that have just discovered a planet to replace Pluto.
In case they haven't been paying attention. someone else made that discovery first: Hillary Clinton. And she clearly paid -- and is still paying -- a dear political price for trying to reform health care. As Rake frequently reminds me, "No good deed goes unpunished."
In fact, while we were publishing the print version of the Hillary Clinton Quarterly, no issue was given more attention in HCQ than health care reform. Aside from our own personal concern that upwards of 35 million Americans (at the time) did not have health insurance, the media made it clear that Hillary Clinton's legacy -- indeed the future of women in politics -- depended on the success of health care reform, led by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
There are other articles from HCQ that might be of interest on this topic: In Sickness and In Health: Hillary Clinton Takes Charge of Health Care Reform is one worth reading, We will upload others over the next few days.
As we look back over our notes from that period, it is clear the the demise of health care reform came about due to the massive, almost obscene lobbying efforts and payola lavished by the drug cartels, the American Medical Association, the American insurance industry, and from the healthcare providers themselves, especially the hospital industry.
But the damage that tony group inflicted did could not compare to the vituperous, sleazy and low-ball political antics of two men in particular: former Republican senators Bob Dole and Phil Gramm. The two of them were the nastiest tag-team act ever to play in the U.S. Senate. Their criticism of First Lady Clinton was personal, sexist, condescending, and consisted of outright lies and exaggerations fed into their right ears verbatim by the anti-reform lobbyists. Their bank accounts did not suffer, either.
As it inevitable became obvious -- the Beltway powers were intent on putting their greedy self-interests ahead of sick babies, children, old people -- Hillary kept fighting, though her tendency to smooth over the rough edges of the criticism began to wearing thin. The following exchange between then First Lady Hillary Clinton and several reporters took place shortly after another grueling day on Capital Hill. The opening comments are Frank's.
The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: Hillary Clinton Fights Back
(This article also appears as a stand-alone story on this web site>)
Edited by Frank Marafiote
Evidently, we're not the only ones who have noticed an increase in the anti-Clinton invective (see Editor's Notebook). After enduring months of highly personal attacks against herself and her husband, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton lashed back at her most outspoken critics in a discussion of health care reform with reporters. The White House faxed HCQ a copy of her remarks. Here is a verbatim transcript of the highlights.
Reporter: You told Peter Maier that there are right-wing radical ideologues who don't want people to have health care in this country. Who are you talking about? Who are these folks?
Mrs. Clinton: Well, you know I think they are a combination of the same kind of people who have been around in our country since its beginnings, the sort of ideologically-opposed who think that nobody should get anything from anybody else. And there's a streak of that in American politics. There always has been.
There are people who opposed social security, opposed civil rights, opposed minimum wage, opposed Medicare, opposed Medicaid. I mean at every step along the way, there is this small core of people who do not believe that government should do anything. Now they're the same people who drive down highways paid for by government funds. They are the same people who love the Defense Department which is funded by government money, but they have a different mind set when it comes to social policy in trying to be a compassionate and caring nation.
Then there are the people who for opportunistic reasons are opposing health care reform both because it is in their financial interest to do so because they want to be able to maintain the status quo and they are not above inciting other people to be very emotional about helping them to sustain their favored position. And then there are those who are for political reasons opposing health care reform because there are lots of people who don't want any changes and particularly don't want changes by this President to occur.
Now, most of the people I've just described are ones who pull the strings of others and inflame people by making charges of socialized medicine, for example, or the government is going to take over the health care system. And there's a very well-organized and well-financed effort to convey that message so that, for example, when you see people protesting in the streets as we saw a couple of weeks ago, as I personally saw in Seattle, they were there in large measure because they'd been inflamed by a local radio talk show host who finds it in his own personal financial opportunistic interest to take this position. I had no idea whether the man was insured or not, but he inflames people who are sitting at home that somehow the Clintons are going to take over the government and they're going to find themselves without a doctor or whatever their arguments are.
And if you talk to these people very often they don't have a clue about what health care reform is about. They are responding to these emotional kinds of attacks. And I just think that's part and parcel of what you always find when you look at moments of a lot of change converging at the same point in American history. You will find that strain of people. And I think it's very unfortunate, but it's something that is part of our political scene.
What I do not like and what I find regrettable is the amount of hatred that is being conveyed and really injected into our political system. I don't have any problem with anybody disagreeing with this President on any policy position. I don't have a problem with any member of Congress opposing health care reform because he doesn't think it's a good idea or he wants to use it as a political weapon. I mean, that's politics.
But this personal, vicious hatred that for the time being is aimed primarily at the President, and to a lesser extent myself, I think is very dangerous for our political process. And I think those who are encouraging it should think long and hard about the consequences of such encouragement. And in a free society, certainly people are free to say or do what they think furthers their political agenda.
But we have to draw the line on violence, and you have to draw the line on protests that incite violence. And a lot of the talk that is coming out is, to me, very sad, and I think we'll have very unfortunate consequences for our entire body politic and not just for this Administration.
Reporter: Mrs. Clinton, you said earlier that the debate has heightened public understanding of the health care issues. But as we approach the elections the rhetoric is getting increasingly more partisan. Do you think that helps public understanding or just adds to some of the confusion?
Mrs. Clinton: I think that's a fair question because it has, in the last couple of weeks, gotten increasingly partisan and it's brought out all the old bromides. I see some of these signs that look like they've been around since Social Security, about socialism. And I don't think that's particularly beneficial for the substantive debate. But actually, it may be helpful in sharpening the differences, because when someone gets on TV as a member of the Congress and says health care reform which is meant to guarantee you private insurance is socialism, I think it's fair then to ask, well, you must be against Social Security and Medicare, right? Oh, no, that's different.
So I think that, in effect, the partisan rhetoric which is now filling the airwaves and the halls of Congress may help politically because it's so far-fetched. And I think that once that becomes clear to people, then we can go back to hammering out the substance of what needs to be done.
Reporter: You talk a lot about the power of special interests. And I don't want to prejudge the outcome of the debate at all, it seems like a toss-up to me, but should health care reform fail, what do you think that history will record as the reason? Have you been -- you talk a lot about special interests, have you been sobered at all -- discovered the American electorate is --
Mrs. Clinton: No, no. But I think it's just reinforced what is an unfortunate fact of life, which is that huge amounts of money spent to convey an intense negative message has a very powerful impact. We know that. It's one of the real unfortunate effects in our political life of negative advertising. And it is always easier to be against something than to be for something, particularly if being for something means you are for changes that affect a lot of people and which have a very broad constituency instead of a narrow focused constituency.
So nothing about this has been surprising. It's been right in line with what has always happened. I mean I saw a study that seemed to suggest that in 1947 or '48 the special interests -- largely at that time, organized medicine against Harry Truman's health care reform -- spent $60 million. Now $60 million in the late '40s was a whole lot of money.
And that was before commercial insurers took off; it was before a lot of the interests we're up against today that have a vested stake in how the system currently runs were very well established. So now the latest survey or the latest amount of money that has been guessed at having been spent against us in the whole campaign for health care reform and trying to get the message out to people is about $120 million. I think that's what the Annenberg Institute or somebody -- the Annenberg Institute which has followed the debate said their estimate was that $120 million had been spent against the idea of health care reform.
So when you've got that kind of money being spent when its message is very simple -- its message is, don't do it -- whereas the positive message ranges from physicians who are for universal coverage but concerned about a willing provider, to pharmaceuticals that are for universal coverage but are concerned about any impact on drug pricing, to community action groups that are for universal coverage but want a single-payer system.
I mean, you go down the line of everybody who's for health care reform, particularly defined as universal coverage, it's a very broad group of organizations and interests. They cannot possibly have the intensity that the negative forces have. That is just, I think, to be expected.
Reporter: You just said, and the President has said a lot, that every time you moved toward the Republicans, they step back. Well, there are actually a number of Democrats that have also been equally as unyielding, and some -- Senator Breaux, for example, has actually moved away from positions he held earlier, like the trigger mandate. What do you have to say for them? Does that frustrate you; does it anger you? Or why hasn't the Democratic Party been more united on this issue?
Mrs. Clinton: Oh, please, Hillary. (Laughter.) I mean, this is part of being a Democrat. (Laughter.) Think of where we were a year ago -- the budget would never pass, you'd never get a majority, the Democrats were deserting the President, it will never work, it will raise unemployment, it will destroy interest rates, and on and on and on and on.
Well, we got it done and, by golly, it worked. And we got it done with all Democrats. And actually, we don't need quite as many Democrats because Senator Jeffords understands health care reform, unlike many others. And in fact, his support for health care reform has increased, as I understand it, his ratings in Vermont by 20 points.
So we're going to have a hard-fought battle down to the very end with a small group of Democrats and all but one of the Republicans claiming the sky is falling and that all kinds of terrible things will happen. And then, eventually, we will get a vote that will be a majority vote for a decent bill.
Reporter: Will you get it done with all Democrats again?
Mrs. Clinton: No, we've got Senator Jeffords. (Laughter.)
Well, we didn't have him on the budget and, I mean, I don't think you should -- that's not insignificant. And I think that -- the thing about those who understand the issue -- and I cannot stress this enough because many of the opponents of health care reform get away with rhetoric. It's like Senator Gramm going on TV and saying, it's socialized medicine, socialized medicine. And because our TV culture is such that the idea of getting at the truth is to have one side say the sky is falling and the other side say no it's not, then at the end of 30 minutes they say, thank you very much. And nobody presses these guys to say, oh, really? And how is it that it's socialized medicine? What does that mean? Does that mean that private insurance is going to start telling Americans what doctors they can use? Does that mean Medicare, which is paid for by a payroll tax, which is certainly a mandate, is going to all of a sudden start telling my mother what doctor she can use?
Nobody ever presses these guys. They get away with it day in and day out. So my hope is that as the debate actually is joined, and people have to defend their positions in public over a sustained period of time, this will become clearer to the American public about what really is at stake in this debate. And I have a lot of confidence that the outcome is going to be positive. And if it's a 51 vote, fine. If we hadn't had a 51 vote on the budget, we would not have 4 million new jobs, in my view.
So these are the kinds of trade-offs you make in life. And if you are trying to stand for something, and you believe it's bigger than yourself and you think it's the right thing to do, you stand up and get counted, no matter what the opposition or the political flack might be.
Reporter: Do you want to comment on the press coverage, print and press coverage?
Mrs. Clinton: Oh, I think the print press has been terrific. (Laughter.) No, I'm serious. If this debate had been played out based on what most of you -- not all -- but the vast majority of you have written, we would be further along. And I really mean this. Most of you have really gotten into the issue; you have studied it. What you've written has been clear and understandable to people. You've covered all sides of it, you've asked the hard questions.
And again, that's the difference between 1994 and 1934. I mean, it is not thoughtful print journalism, unfortunately, in many respects which drives these social policy debates. It is the 30-second ad; it is the very well organized direct mail campaign; it is the radio talk show network. So I wish that all this debate were played out on the basis of what the majority of you have written, because I think you've done a real service.


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Cycle campaign toolkit – spec
Martin August 30, 2011 Cyclescape (campaigner toolkit)1 comment
We're pleased to publish an updated specification for the campaigner toolkit, following consultation with groups and including further changes.
There's been lots of useful feedback submitted by e-mail, twitter, blog replies, and in meetings we've had. These comments were turned into about ten pages of bullet-points (165 points!) for working into the spec.
Many of the points raised were useful points for clarification, or small new features, and a few raised issues relating to group structure. There were no problems raised with the substantive direction and nature of the toolkit.
The Description of the toolkit and what it will do is still available and has not needed to be updated. However, the full detailed functional specification has been updated and is below.
We were delighted to receive various positive comments which very much reflect our hopes for the system. For instance:
"One great advantage I can see is that it'll potentially help balance out the workload within our cycle campaign by allowing the latest status on any particular issue to always be seen on the system. Getting more campaign member involvement will also help with our committee's workload."
"I like the push/pull options of mail list and forum. Can't think of anything you've missed. I'm hopeful that this will encourage common issues to do with rules or conventions to float to the top and be tackled at source."
Things that have been updated or added in the spec, as a result of the consultation are:
Clarification of the idea of a 'Library' of best practice
Presence of tips to help best practice in campaigning
Specification of the polls and petitions components
Issues relating to federated/overlapping groups
Committee privacy basis
Notion of groups having democratically-agreed policy stances that members must adhere to
Clarifications about grouping and splitting of threads
Ability to involve elected Councillors rather than just officers
Tightening of a few areas regarding mail integration
Emphasis on outcomes rather than endless discussion
Notion of cross-member 'recommended campaign' topics
Removal of the notion of a compromise objective, which could undermine a group's negotiating position
Addition of avoidance of uploading very large volumes of documents, which could create costs
And various other minor changes
The latest version of the specification is available. It is now a living document that incorporates updates in the light of implementation as we move into the coding/design phase.
A draft Module structure (work in progress) which describes an implementation of the functional specification, is being finalised. This will form the basis of the developers' work.
CycleStreets has secured £27,000 of funding as a winner of Geovation – GeoVation is an Ordnance Survey initiative and forms part of the Ideas in Transit project with funding from the Technology Strategy Board and the Department for Transport.
Cyclescape website redesign coming soon
One thought to "Cycle campaign toolkit – spec"
Shaun McDonald	 August 31, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Why just councilors? Why not also involve other elected politians that may be interested in helping with the campaign, such as London Assembly members, MSPs, MPs, Welsh Assembly members etc?