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A Response to C. Ford Runge by Mairon G. Bastos Lima
12 Feb A Response to C. Ford Runge by Mairon G. Bastos Lima
I thank Professor C. Ford Runge for his comment on my article and agree with his analysis that places biofuels within a larger picture. From the Brazilian perspective, such heavy subsidies used by the United States and the European Union constitute the very "Gordian knot" of the negotiations in the Doha Development Round of the World Trade Organization. Naturally, that does not apply only to Brazil, but to all developing countries whose agricultural exports are heavily taxed. Ethanol from Brazil is just the newest product to face that barrier — currently circumvented, in limited amounts, through the Caribbean Basin Initiative, an agreement whereby Caribbean countries, who receive Brazilian ethanol, can export it into the U.S. duty free.
There is much debate and controversy regarding who would benefit from further world trade liberalization. However, even at current levels (of market openness), biofuels are expanding fast enough to consume many resources, take up substantive amounts of land, and raise social and environmental issues that we had better not abandon to market forces only. As Professor Runge correctly points out, a multilateral governance framework engaged on such issues seems necessary. The environmental and socio-economic effects of expanded biofuel production (e.g. on forests, climate, global food security) cannot be tackled by individual countries alone. Both the market forces and the political impetus for producing more biofuels are also very much internationalized (the EU-Africa energy partnership, whereby African countries are being incentivized by Europe to produce biofuels, is an illustrative case) (see Charles et al, 2009). If governments the world over are investing taxpayers resources and policy efforts into the expansion of biofuels, they should well engage in cooperative efforts to address biofuels' sustainability issues, too.
But Europe and North America must realize that large-scale biofuel production and its global trade (and their impacts) may well expand without them. The European Union is currently relying on its own unilateral sustainability criteria for biofuels. But South-South trade is increasing and, for instance, Asia is becoming an ever larger importer of South American agricultural goods — biofuels included. The multi-polar world of today requires that efforts to govern for sustainability also be multilateral. The alternatives are many, from the creation of a World Environment Organization capable of securing that, as mentioned, to the development of a biofuel governance framework within the scope of the UN-Energy interagency mechanism or of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Each alternative would naturally have advantages and difficulties to overcome, and these would need to be carefully thought out (see Bastos Lima and Gupta, 2009). In the end, how we will deal with these increasing issues of biofuel expansion, and whether that will prompt us to better collaboration on other energy and agricultural issues, remains to be seen.
Bastos Lima, M.G. and Gupta, J. (2009). Biofuel and Global Change: The Need for a Multilateral Governance Framework. Paper presented at the Amsterdam Conference on the International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. 'Earth System Governance: People, Places and the Planet'.
Charles, M.B., Ryan, R., Oloruntoba, R., Heidt, T. von der, Ryan, N. (2009). 'The EU-Africa Energy Partnership: Towards a mutually beneficial transport energy alliance?' Energy Policy vol. 37: 5546-56.
Articles, Trade & Economic Law
Melbourne Journal of International Law
The Melbourne Journal of International Law ('MJIL') is a peer-reviewed academic publication edited and managed by a team of law students at the Melbourne Law School.
Now in its second decade of publication, MJIL is a fully refereed journal and publishes articles by international law scholars and practitioners from both Australia and overseas. MJIL publishes on a range of international law issues, particularly those affecting the Asia-Pacific region.


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Q: Extract text from file in Linux: specific line; between 2 different patterns I have a bunch of text files, all with the same structure, and I need to extract a specific piece in a specific line.
I can easily extract the line with awk:
awk 'NR==23' blast_out.txt

CP046310.1 Lactobacillus jensenii strain FDAARGOS_749 chromosome,...  787     0.0

But I don't want the whole line, rather just the part between the first space on the left (after CP046310.1) and the double space on the right (before 787). The final output should be:
Lactobacillus jensenii strain FDAARGOS_749 chromosome,...

I tried several combination of awk and grep but cannot find the correct one to extract this specific pattern.

A: 1st solution: With your shown samples, please try following awk code. Simple explanation would be, nullifying 1st, 2nd last field and last field, then globally substituting starting and ending space with NULL, then printing the line.
awk '{$1=$NF=$(NF-1)="";gsub(/^ +| +$/,"")} 1' Input_file

OR to run it on 23rd line change it to:
awk 'FNR==23{$1=$NF=$(NF-1)="";gsub(/^ +| +$/,"");print;exit}' Input_file

2nd solution: Going through fields and printing values which are required as per need.
awk '{for(i=2;i<(NF-1);i++){printf("%s%s",$i,i==(NF-2)?ORS:OFS)}}' Input_file

OR on 23rd line try following:
awk 'FNR==23{for(i=2;i<(NF-1);i++){printf("%s%s",$i,i==(NF-2)?ORS:OFS)};exit}' Input_file

A: Using sed you can use this solution:
sed -En '23s/^[^ ]+ |  .*$//gp' file

Lactobacillus jensenii strain FDAARGOS_749 chromosome,...

Or using awk:
 awk 'NR == 23 {gsub(/^[^ ]+ |  .*$/, ""); print}' file

A: If I get what you ask, you want to extract the fields from the second (included) to the second-last (excluded).
I would go with:
awk ' FNR==23 {for (i = 2; i < NF - 2; i++) { printf("%s ", $i) }; printf("%s\n", $i); exit }' file_path

An example with the line you posted:
$ echo "CP046310.1 Lactobacillus jensenii strain FDAARGOS_749 chromosome,...  787     0.0" | awk '{for (i = 2; i < NF - 2; i++) { printf("%s ", $i) }; printf("%s\n", $i); exit }'
$ Lactobacillus jensenii strain FDAARGOS_749 chromosome,...

I assume that chromosome,... does not contains spaces and you have only single spaces separating the fields you want to extract. If the second condition is not true, those extra spaces are removed.

A: With Perl:
echo "CP046310.1 Lactobacillus jensenii strain FDAARGOS_749 chromosome,...  787     0.0"|perl -ne 'm/ (.*?)  /; print $1'

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Father's 'brave' decision hailed at Baltimore inquest
Updated / Tuesday, 26 Apr 2016 23:47
Niamh O'Connor, Barry Davis Ryan and Barry St John Ryan drowned off Baltimore in 2015
A coroner's court has been told how a 12-year-old girl ran for help after she saw her father dive into the sea off Baltimore in west Cork in an attempt to rescue her brother and his girlfriend.
Tourists who raised the alarm said Charlotte Davis Ryan was in shock and trembling and told them she saw her family drowned.
At Clonakilty courthouse, a verdict of accidental death was returned in the cases of 51-year-old Barry St John Ryan, his son Barry Davis Ryan, and Niamh O'Connor, both aged 20, who drowned on 30 June 2015.
Coronor Frank O'Connell said Barry Ryan Snr gave his life to try and save the two others.
Mr O'Connell said Mr Ryan could have made a different decision but he did not and described him as an extremely brave and courageous man - "his actions a testimony to his quality as a man."
In a statement, the now 13-year-old Charlotte told the court that all four of them had gone fishing on rocks below the beacon just after 6pm that day.
Her brother Barry went fishing off a rock, while the other three sat nearby on another rock. He asked if any one of them wanted to have a go and his girlfriend, Ms O'Connor, joined him.
Charlotte said both of them got splashed by a wave.
She said another big wave came and soaked her and her dad, pushing them up against the rocks.
The young couple were swept out to sea and she heard Niamh screaming.
Charlotte said her father took off his coat and told her to keep going up the rocks, but she said she kept looking back.
She saw her dad and Niamh going under but could not see her brother anymore and started to panic.
She met three Welsh tourists who raised the alarm and later they encountered a coast guard who told them they had recovered two bodies.
The court also heard the statement of a tourist from Australia, Sinead O'Sullivan, who was out on a walk with her family.
She said she had seen a girl in the water and there was a seal nearby.
The girl was shouting but the witness did not think anything was wrong.
Her aunt, Siobhan Murphy, told the court how they saw a man stripped to his trunks and get into the water "calmly".
He swam to the girl but she too did not think there was anything "distressed about them". It was only when they returned from their walk that they heard what had happened.
Kieran Cotter, Coxswain of the Baltimore Lifeboat, told how they quickly recovered the bodies of Barry Ryan and Ms O'Connor, and how the body of Barry Davis Ryan was recovered ten days later by divers.
He told the court that in his opinion anyone going rock fishing should wear a buoyancy aid and if they did there would be a reasonable chance of them surviving.
Assistant State Pathologist Dr Margot Bolster told the court that all three had died from acute cardio respiratory failure due to drowning.
Traumatic brain injury with subarachnoid haemorrhage was also a significant factor in the deaths of the young couple.
The coroner extended his deepest sympathies to both families.
The inquest was adjourned temporarily when Mr Ryan's widow, Ann Davis Ryan, fainted during her daughter's evidence but resumed after she received medical attention.
Couple swept out to sea by freak wave, inquest hears

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package com.navercorp.pinpoint.plugin.jetty;

import static com.navercorp.pinpoint.common.trace.ServiceTypeProperty.*;

import com.navercorp.pinpoint.common.trace.ServiceType;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.common.trace.ServiceTypeFactory;

public final class JettyConstants {
    private JettyConstants() {
    }

    public static final String TYPE_NAME = "JETTY";

    public static final ServiceType JETTY = ServiceTypeFactory.of(1030, "JETTY", RECORD_STATISTICS);
    public static final ServiceType JETTY_METHOD = ServiceTypeFactory.of(1031, "JETTY_METHOD");

    public static final String METADATA_TRACE = "trace";
    public static final String METADATA_ASYNC = "async";
    public static final String METADATA_ASYNC_TRACE_ID = "asyncTraceId";

    public static final String ATTRIBUTE_PINPOINT_TRACE = "PINPOINT_TRACE";
}

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Џејмс Адам Белуши (; 15. јун 1954) амерички је глумац албанског порекла.

Детињство и младост
Белуши је рођен у Чикагу, савезна држава Илиноис, као син Агнеш (рођене Самарас) која је радила на фарми коза и Адама Белушија, албанског имигранта и власника ресторана који је напустио родно село 1934. када је имао 16 година. Након матурирања на -{Wheaton}- централној гимназији, Белуши похађа -{College of DuPage}- и дипломира на универзитету Јужни Илиноис.

Приватни живот
Белуши се женио три пута и има троје деце. Оженио се Сандром Давенпорт 17. маја 1980. и са њом има сина Роберта, рођеног 1981. У браку са Марџори Бренсфилд је био од 1990. до 1992. У браку са Jennifer Sloan је од 2. маја 1998. са којом има кћерку Џејмисон (рођену 1998) и сина Џареда (рођеног 2002).

Џејмсов старији брат Џон Белуши (24. јануар 1949 — 5. март 1982) је био глумац и музичар, а остао је најпознатији по улози у филму Браћа Блуз.

Филмографија

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| 1981
| Лопов
| Thief
|Barry
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| 1983
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| Trading Places
|Харви
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| 1985
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| The Man with One Red Shoe
|Morris
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| 1986
| Мала продавница страве
| Little Shop of Horrors
|Патрик
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| 1986
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| Salvador
|Doctor Rock
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| 1986
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| Jumpin' Jack Flash
|Various - Cab Driver, Police officer, Repair Man
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| 1986
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| About Last Night
|Bernie Litgo
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| 1987
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| The Principal
|Rick Latimer
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| 1987
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| Real Men
|Nick Pirandello
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| 1988
| Црвено усијање
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|Det. Sgt. Art Ridzik
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| 1989
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| K-9
|Det. Mike Dooley
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| 1990
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| Taking Care of Business
|Jimmy Dworski
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| 1990
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| Mr. Destiny
|Larry Joseph Burrows
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| 1991
| Коврџава Сју
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|Bill Dancer
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| 1991
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| Diary of a Hitman
|Shandy
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| 1992
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|Traces of Red
|Jack Dobson
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| 1992
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| One Upon A Crime
|Neil
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| 1994
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|Royce
|Shane Royce
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| 1995
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| Canadian Bacon
|Reporter, Charles Jackal
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| 1996. || Турбо тата || -{Jingle All the Way}- || Деда Мраз у супермаркету
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| 1999. || Плес анђела || -{Angel's Dance}- ||
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| 2002
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|Snow Dogs
|Demon (глас)
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| 2005
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| Hoodwinked
|Woodsman (глас)
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|}

Извори

Спољашње везе

Рођени 1957.
Људи из Чикага
Амерички глумци
Амерички гласовни глумци
Албанци у САД

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Milford 'Mall Santa' Accused of Sexually Assaulting Co-Worker
Published December 8, 2020 • Updated on December 8, 2020 at 11:50 am
NBC Connecticut
A "mall Santa" in Milford is charged with sexually assaulting an underage co-worker, police said Tuesday.
Prince Carter, 45, is accused of hugging and grabbing an underage co-worker and exposing himself to the victim in the break room at the CT Post Mall, where he worked as a mall Santa, Milford police said.
Police said the alleged assault occurred Dec. 7 around 7:30 p.m.
Carter is charged with 4th degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor, according to police.
Carter is due in court on Tuesday and being held on a $25,000 bond, police said.


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mechanika tekutin
 proudění
 stacionární proudění (ustálené)
 nestacionární proudění
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 vířivé proudění
 turbulentní proudění
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 bystřinné proudění
 říční proudění
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termodynamika
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meteorologie
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psychologie
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COVAXIN™ (BBV152) Booster Dose Study Demonstrates Robust Immune Responses and Long-Term Safety – Yahoo Finance
Participants receiving a booster dose six months after second dose of COVAXIN™ saw significant increase (>10-fold across Alpha, Beta, Delta and Delta Plus variants) in neutralizing titers compared to baseline at six months
Persistence of memory B and T cell immune responses at six months post second dose
Pronounced SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell response to COVAXIN™ before and after the booster dose may confer durable and long-term protective efficacy
No serious adverse events such as hospitalizations or deaths were reported
Effectiveness of COVAXIN™ against the Omicron strain is currently being studied and will be reported shortly
MALVERN, Pa., Jan. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ocugen, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCGN), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing novel therapeutics and vaccines, announced that its partner, Bharat Biotech, posted positive results from a Phase 2 analysis of the vaccine candidate, COVAXIN™ (BBV152), in participants ages 12-64, receiving a booster dose six months following a second dose on the pre-print server, medRxiv. The analysis found that participants receiving a booster dose saw a significant increase in neutralizing titers, an important predictor of vaccine efficacy.
"As the COVID-19 virus continues to evolve, so does our understanding of the efficacy of vaccines and the critical role they play in protecting people from serious disease, hospitalization and death," said Dr. Shankar Musunuri, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Ocugen, Inc. "These booster data provide critical information about how COVAXIN™ can be used in the ongoing battle against COVID-19. We are encouraged by these results which continue to suggest that COVAXIN™ remains an important, broad-spectrum vaccine candidate with durability."
Additional data from the analysis found that more than 75 percent of all participants had a detectible neutralizing antibody response six months post their second dose of COVAXIN™. After receiving the booster, participants also saw an increase in antibody titers (at day 28) that were higher than those achieved after the two-dose primary series. Wild-type neutralizing antibodies (PRNT50) GMTs at one month after a booster dose against Alpha, Beta, Delta and Delta plus variants were increased 10·9, 161·0, 264·7, and 174·2 fold from baseline at six months post second dose, respectively.
"Although protection against severe disease remains high six months following the second dose, a decline in efficacy against symptomatic disease over time and the continued emergence of variants are expected and consistent with what we are seeing with other vaccines. Based on emerging data, a third dose may be beneficial to maintain the highest levels of protection," said Huma Qamar, MD, MPH, CMI, Associate Vice President, Clinical Development, Ocugen, Inc.
The booster dose analysis also found no serious adverse events, including hospitalization or death, were reported.
About COVAXIN™ (BBV152)
COVAXIN™ (BBV152) is an investigational vaccine candidate product in the U.S. It was developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) – National Institute of Virology (NIV). COVAXIN™ (BBV152) is a highly purified and inactivated vaccine that is manufactured using a vero cell manufacturing platform.
With more than 180 million doses having been administered to adults outside the U.S., COVAXIN™ (BBV152) is currently authorized under emergency use in 17 countries, and applications for emergency use authorization are pending in more than 60 other countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently added COVAXIN™ (BBV152) to its list of vaccines authorized for emergency use. And, as many as 110 countries have agreed to mutual recognition of Covid-19 vaccination certificates with India that includes vaccination using COVAXIN™ (BBV152). The trade name, COVAXIN™, has not been evaluated by the FDA.
About Ocugen, Inc.
Ocugen, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing gene therapies to cure blindness diseases and developing a vaccine to save lives from COVID-19. Our breakthrough modifier gene therapy platform has the potential to treat multiple retinal diseases with one drug – "one to many" and our novel biologic product candidate aims to offer better therapy to patients with underserved diseases such as wet age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema, and diabetic retinopathy. We are co-developing Bharat Biotech's COVAXIN™ vaccine candidate for COVID-19 in the U.S. and Canadian markets. For more information, please visit www.ocugen.com.
About Bharat Biotech
Bharat Biotech has established an excellent track record of innovation with more than 145 global patents, a wide product portfolio of more than 16 vaccines, 4 bio-therapeutics, registrations in more than 123 countries, and the World Health Organization (WHO) Pre-qualifications. Located in Genome Valley in Hyderabad, India, a hub for the global biotech industry, Bharat Biotech has built a world-class vaccine & bio-therapeutics, research & product development, Bio-Safety Level 3 manufacturing, and vaccine supply and distribution.
Having delivered more than 4 billion doses of vaccines worldwide, Bharat Biotech continues to lead innovation and has developed vaccines for influenza H1N1, Rotavirus, Japanese Encephalitis, Rabies, Chikungunya, Zika, and the world's first tetanus-toxoid conjugated vaccine for Typhoid. Bharat's commitment to global social innovation programs and public-private partnerships resulted in introducing path-breaking WHO pre-qualified vaccines BIOPOLIO®, ROTAVAC®, and Typbar TCV® combatting polio, rotavirus, typhoid infections, respectively. The acquisition of the rabies vaccine facility, Chiron Behring, from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has positioned Bharat Biotech as the world's largest rabies vaccine manufacturer. To learn more about Bharat Biotech, visit www.bharatbiotech.com.
Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. We may, in some cases, use terms such as "predicts," "believes," "potential," "proposed," "continue," "estimates," "anticipates," "expects," "plans," "intends," "may," "could," "might," "will," "should" or other words that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include information about qualitative assessments of available data, potential benefits, expectations for clinical trials, and anticipated timing of clinical trial readouts and regulatory submissions, including statements about data published on the preprint server, medRxiv, by Bharat Biotech, which found that COVAXIN™, when administered as a booster dose, generated a five-fold increase in neutralizing titers, an important predictor of vaccine efficacy, and the potential for this data to support our application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency use authorization (EUA) of COVAXIN™ in pediatric patients or our planned biologics license application (BLA), assuming the clinical hold is lifted, for approval of COVAXIN™ for use in adult patients, as well as statements regarding the potential short and long-term benefits of receiving a booster dose of COVAXIN™. This information involves risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Risks and uncertainties include, among other things, the uncertainties inherent in research and development, including the ability to meet anticipated clinical endpoints, commencement and/or completion dates for clinical trials, regulatory submission dates, regulatory approval dates and/or launch dates; the risk that we may not resolve the current clinical hold on COVAXIN™ in the near term or at all, or that the FDA could make other decisions that adversely impact our ability to advance the development of COVAXIN™ in the United States, and the implications that this clinical hold may have for our request for EUA of COVAXIN for pediatric use, including the timing and scope of any such authorization; risks associated with preliminary and interim data, including the possibility of unfavorable new clinical trial data and further analyses of existing clinical trial data; the risk that the results of in-vitro studies will not be duplicated in human clinical trials; the risk that clinical trial data are subject to differing interpretations and assessments, including during the peer review/publication process, in the scientific community generally, and by regulatory authorities; whether and when data from Bharat Biotech's clinical trials will be published in scientific journal publications and, if so, when and with what modifications; whether the data and results from the preclinical and clinical studies of COVAXIN™, which have been conducted by Bharat Biotech in India, will be accepted by the FDA or otherwise sufficient to support our EUA submission or planned BLA submission, assuming the clinical hold is lifted; the size, scope, timing and outcome of any additional trials or studies that we may be required to conduct to support an EUA or BLA; any additional chemistry, manufacturing, and controls information that we may be required to submit to the FDA; whether and when a BLA for COVAXIN™ will be submitted to or approved by the FDA; whether developments with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic will affect the regulatory pathway available for vaccines in the United States, Canada or other jurisdictions; market demand for COVAXIN™ in the United States or Canada; decisions by the FDA or Health Canada impacting labeling, manufacturing processes, safety and/or other matters that could affect the availability or commercial potential of COVAXIN™ in the United States or Canada, including development of products or therapies by other companies. These and other risks and uncertainties are more fully described in our periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the risk factors described in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the quarterly and annual reports that we file with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements that we make in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update forward-looking statements contained in this press release whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date of this press release.
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Upcoming Pokémon Go Updates Aim to Make Game Easier for Beginners [Update: Rolling Out]
Friday October 7, 2016 5:59 AM PDT by Mitchel Broussard
In the face of waning popularity, developer Niantic recently announced a few updates to Pokémon Go that aim to make the game easier for players, with a focus on training at friendly Gyms and capturing wild Pokémon (via Engadget). The updates are for "trainers of all levels," but they appear to mostly benefit newcomers who might have given up on the game prior to the changes.
The first update is a way to make it easier to catch rare Pokémon by incentivizing players to grind through common Pokémon. Through a "catch bonus," users will increase their chances of catching lesser-seen creatures every time they nab one that they've already caught a handful of times. These are tied to the game's existing medal system, so "for example, as you reach a higher tier for the Kindler Medal, your bonus to catch Fire-type Pokémon such as Charmander, Vulpix and Ponyta increases."
The second addition will focus on training at friendly Gyms, allowing players to bring a total of six Pokémon into training instead of the current limitation to one creature. The game will also temporarily adjust the CP of the opposing Pokémon to your level "to generally match your Pokémon's battle capabilities," making it easier for low-level users to boost their team's prestige at a Gym.
Basically, this will make it possible for lower level players to train Pokémon and get them into gyms at all. Under the current system, casual players stuck at lower levels or are just starting off can't do much to get a Pokémon into a friendly gym or snag the free bonus coins that are available as a result. It doesn't make it any easier to take the fight to other teams, but now even if you're at a lower level than other players in your area, you will have a reason to actually stop at gyms again.
Niantic didn't confirm when the updates would roll out, but the company did say they will be "coming soon." In late September, Pokémon Go ended its reign as the highest grossing app in the United States App Store, which it held for 74 days. Other major updates have introduced a buddy system, but players are still waiting for trading, friend battling, a new generation of Pokémon, and the Apple Watch app announced at Apple's September 7 iPhone event.
Update: Pokémon GO version 1.11.2 is rolling out as of October 10.
Tag: Pokémon GO
Pakaku
Any way to directly battle other trainers yet? I thought that was supposedly a big deterrent in keeping people interested.
That's not what the game needs. Start monetizing the game.
-Show Ads on the bottom of the game, with a permanent ad footer banner.
-from the money you get, create real-world gift card winnings at random pokestops
-pokestops with "possible" gift cards in them could be special color/type (businesses can contribute if they want)
-each gift card needs to be at least $50 or equivalent to cost of living based on the country the pokestop is in
-a few hundred gift cards a day all over the world OR based on revenue from the permanent ad footer banner
-this will re-energize the community into a long-term gameplay
-I'll accept $150K for this idea. Enjoy.
Horrible idea! Just fix the tracker and make pokehunts fun. Announce when the first legendary will appear possibly too.
Sasparilla
Still playing as the game makes my daily walking fun, I would have given up playing it otherwise as it becomes increasingly discouraging the higher you go - Pokemon's can break out of the capture process easier & more often the more experience you get wasting your time and capture balls, the amount of points it takes to get to a new level (and additional capture balls / temp incubators / Raspberry's / modules etc.) increases at stages as you go to higher levels - Level 19 and its 25k points to get to a new level, at level 20 it becomes 75k points). The game is almost perfectly designed to make people give up the higher they go.
Have noticed with the last release much of the glitchiness that was introduced with the "buddy" release was gone, now there are many more pokemon's popping up (including more rare ones) and I have to watch what I catch or I'd burn through my capture balls very quickly now which wasn't a problem prior to these last releases (which may be by design since they want to sell those to you).
Romy90210
This game is already dead.... Have not oppened the app for about a month now...
Everyone I know has stopped playing it. I figured they would when all you do is collect the same pokemon over and over and maybe go to a gym.


Through the power of the Internet, a photo came to light Daniel's gravestone.
(1) Across the curved top: Chips in the edge from the probably of being struck (vandalism?) or dropped in transport / delivery.
(2) Left of center: Lichen marks denote moisture variances and the stone's porous surface.
(3) Left side: Delamination, or water damage; difficult to ascertain from one photograph.
(4) Front face: Wind-shear has made the script at the stone base near impossible to read.
As the Spring weather is returning (2015), perhaps a graveyard rabbit (or genchat genie) might be in the area to snap a few new pictures, a little closer to the stone (for a better assessment)?
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London NHS trusts seek £400m patient records system
Procurement led by St George's includes clinical portal and hosting
Following last year's official cancellation of the failed £12.7 billion NHS National Programme for IT, nine London trusts are seeking a framework agreement for their own patient records technology and related systems.
St George's Hospital in Tooting is leading the procurement for a framework, worth up to £400 million, for a patient administration system, an electronic records system and related services.
The framework will be open to eight other NHS trusts: Barts, Croydon, Imperial College, Kingston, Newham, Royal Free Hampstead, South London Healthcare and Whipps Cross University.
It will run for four years, and be split into lots for the patient administration system and electronic records technology, a clinical portal solution, and hosting services. According to a contract notice issued this week by St George's, three of the trusts – Barts, Newham and Whipps Cross – are planning a merger during the period covered.
St George's said the patient administration system and electronic records needed to cover a "full range of administrative and clinical functional modules.
The clinical portal system needed to allow clinicians and patients to access relevant data in a secure and highly-configurable environment, it said.
With regards to the hosting, the technology needed to be robust, secure and flexible.
Suppliers have until 23 March to express their interest.


Jacksonville, Florida is included as one of the cities where the homicide rate is down compared to the previous year. The Associated Press reports that Jacksonville, along with Houston, Boston, San Francisco, and Minneapolis, had less homicides last year than the year before.
Chicago, Washington D.C., Seattle, and Charlotte are among the cities with rising homicide rates.
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In this quick post I'll share some code to submit a Ruby on Rails 4 model form via AJAX.
I created a new directory and added RVM files for Ruby version and gemset.
Generated the complete scaffolding for a Model called "Thing".
Added model validation, to test the ajax error response.
Revised the json format blocks for the update and create actions in the Things controller.
Submitting the form without entering a title will show the errors container. Submitting with a title will hide the errors and display a message that the Thing was saved.


The use of omega 3 sources in the athlete's diet is usually associated with the pro-health activity of fatty acids, which brings a number of benefits, includingfor the cardiovascular system.However, recent research shows that you can also get muscle thanks to krill oil.
The study was attended by 18 students who have a 3-year training experience.They received an identical training plan that they had to perform for 8 weeks.Half of the students received an additional 3 g of krill oil while the other half received a placebo.
Students received a product that had 1.3 g phospholipids, 963 mg omega 3 (240 mg DHA, 383 EPA).A 3 g portion of krill oil also contained 0.54 mg astaxanthin.
People supporting their training with krill oil built 1.4 kg of lean body mass, placebo group in turn 0.3 kg.What's more, participants using krill oil lost more fat and built up more muscle strength, but these differences were not statistically significant.
Researchers looking at research in muscle cell tubes found that phosphatidyl choline from krill oil stimulated mTOR activity.This means that the use of oil activated metabolic pathways supporting protein synthesis similar to leucine.


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Enhanced driver's licence or national identity card?
In the name of thrift and convenience, Canadian governments are opening the door to a privacy-threatening ID scheme imposed by the United States in the misguided pursuit of "secure" borders. Currently, the Ontario government is pushing through legislation – Bill 85, the Photo Card Act – that would "enhance" the provincial driver's licence to meet U.S. demands.
By Andrew Clement
Colin Bennett
Mon., Nov. 17, 2008timer4 min. read
In the name of thrift and convenience, Canadian governments are opening the door to a privacy-threatening ID scheme imposed by the United States in the misguided pursuit of "secure" borders. Currently, the Ontario government is pushing through legislation – Bill 85, the Photo Card Act – that would "enhance" the provincial driver's licence to meet U.S. demands.
As part of the Bush administration's war on terror, Canadians entering the U.S. will soon need to show a passport or equivalent document in compliance with the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. The U.S. has already put this requirement into effect for air travel and in June 2009 it will cover all land and water crossings.
In anticipation of this and to facilitate "the efficient and secure flow of cross-border travel and commerce," several Canadian provinces are instituting enhanced driver's licences (EDL). Enhancing a licence in accordance with standards set by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security involves including a citizenship indicator, an optical character recognition zone and a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip.
With these features, an EDL can serve as an alternative to a Canadian passport at an American border. Promoted as cheaper and more convenient than a passport, such a licence initially appear to be a good deal. A closer examination reveals several flaws with this approach.
One of the most serious problems with EDLs is the requirement to adopt a particularly insecure form of chip – the EPC Gen 2. Over stiff opposition from the "smart card" industry as well as civil liberties organizations, Homeland Security has insisted on a type of chip that is notoriously privacy-invasive in its potential. The chip on the card will hold a unique personal identification number that anyone in the vicinity (at least 10 metres) can read with commercially available equipment and link to any other information the person may have about the card holder.
Soon after B.C. announced its licence initiative in early 2008, Canada's privacy commissioners drew attention to the privacy risks of EDLs. In particular, they were concerned that the U.S. government's requirements for vicinity RFID technology "permits surreptitious location tracking of individuals carrying an EDL and ... does not encrypt or otherwise protect the unique identifying number assigned to the holder."
They called on the federal government and participating provinces "to ensure the security of personal information stored on EDL RFID (chips) and to prevent the possibility of surreptitious location tracking."
Since then, Quebec, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan have joined B.C. in announcing their intentions to develop an EDL, but without adequately addressing the privacy commissioners' concerns. None of these provinces has gone beyond reiterating the false and misleading claims that since the number on the EDL's chip is random and "meaningless," it contains no personal information, and that issuing a "protective sleeve" with the card will prevent unauthorized reading.
It is ironic that while some jurisdictions require the disabling of similar RFIDs in consumer items at point of purchase, there appears to be no effective way for individuals to do likewise with a card many will carry all the time. There has been no visible progress in developing less invasive features, such as a switch that would allow cardholders to turn the chip off until they want it read, or the option to request an EDL without a chip and only the optical character zone for machine reading.
If the new licence catches on, there will be strong pressures from many quarters to exploit its RFID capabilities in settings far from border crossings, such as stores tracking and identifying customers, or police monitoring public spaces. This will fuel pressure to turn the card from voluntary option to mandatory requirement. Such potential for "function creep" increases the urgency for public discussion of the policy issues and alternatives.
That Homeland Security and, apparently, our own federal government are adamant about deploying vicinity RFIDs with scant provision for even obvious protective measures, invites the conclusion that some in powerful government positions intend enhanced licences to serve wider surveillance purposes.
With earlier attempts at developing national ID card schemes in Canada and the U.S. having been thwarted by popular opposition, the current push for EDLs appears to be a soft-sell, backdoor approach toward national ID schemes that are harmonized across all of North America.
While the Ontario government is aware of the many serious concerns about the privacy-threatening aspects of the enhanced photo card initiative, and has been offered specific proposals for improving Bill 85, it has brushed them off and failed to amend the bill in a manner that will sufficiently safeguard the privacy and civil liberties of Ontarians.
In particular, the valuable recommendations of Ontario's information and privacy commissioner have been largely ignored. Rather than pass this flawed legislation, the government should send Bill 85 back to committee for a serious public discussion of the risks and alternatives.
Until these issues have been addressed satisfactorily, Canadians who value privacy, national sovereignty and good governance would be well advised not to apply for the enhanced card. Instead, for a modest extra $10 a year they would be better off investing in the more secure, more privacy protective and more versatile Canadian passport.
Andrew Clement is a professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Colin Bennett is a professor and chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Victoria.


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Microsoft Is Finally Killing Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 On January 12th
January 7, 2016 /in News /by Sara Szot
Microsoft is ending the support for Internet Explorer 8,9, and 10 on January 12th. This news has come as a breath of fresh air as it was considered a bane for many web developers, thanks to the endless security holes in the software.
On Tuesday, a new "End of Life" patch will go live that will ping the Internet Explorer users asking them to upgrade their browsers. This End of Life patch will mean that these older Internet Explorer versions will no longer get regular technical support and security fixes.
This step also means that Internet Explorer 11 is the last version of Microsoft's vintage browser that'll be supported. This patch will be delivered as a cumulative security update for these versions:
On Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 x64 Edition
On Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 x64 Edition
However, if you want to disable this update notification, follow these steps mentioned on Microsoft's support page.
It's expected that millions of users will choose to avoid these upgrade notifications, and thus will be prone to security risks. So, you are advisable to either upgrade your browsers, or switch to another web browser altogether.
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The Music People Announces Promotions
The Music People (TMP) announces some exciting promotions effective January 1, 2016. John and Sharon Hennessey will assume the role of Co-President, formerly held by their father Jim Hennessey.
Jim Hennessey founded TMP in 1979 and has held the title of President since. He will now serve as Executive Chairman and will continue to have an active role in the future direction of the company in financial oversight, strategy, and product development. "John and Sharon have been a large part of the company's growth and with this transition, TMP is in good hands" said Jim Hennessey.
Sharon Hennessey joined the company in 1989 and John in 1991, and both have filled numerous roles throughout their careers. Most recently, John served as Senior Vice President of Operations and Sharon served as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, both with TMP. The succession plan was put into place a couple of years ago, however 2016 marks the official changeover. "We have big shoes to fill, but feel prepared and excited to take the company to the next level" said John Hennessey. "We have positioned the company with many great initiatives over the last couple of years and look forward to providing our customers with the best products and service in the industry" said Sharon Hennessey.


The article pointed to the fact that Moody's recently downgraded the ratings of 22 colleges and universities and put a "negative outlook" on the entire higher education system in general. The Times argues that the poor economy has decreased endowments and created an environment in which schools can't raise their prices to make up for the discrepancy. But the economic situation is not only a disincentive to spend money on college; it has created a new reality that the entire higher education system must face if they are going to survive. Colleges and universities provide a service to their customers, and the customers expect a tangible result of that service.
As Lewis Black prophetically screams in the movie Accepted, "There's only one reason that kids wanna go to school — to get a good job with a good starting salary." Some kids to go college to expand their intellectual horizons. Some go to learn how to save the world. Most go so they don't have to live with their parents for the rest of their lives, and nowadays you need at least a Bachelors degree to get a decent job.
But, as the recent law school downfall has brought to light in the most extreme way, colleges and universities teach you how to think, not how to get and do a real job in the real world.
So, the suppliers aren't selling what the consumers want to buy. And the consumers are no longer willing to pay higher and higher prices for no promise of a substantial return. While I completely disagree with most of what Penelope Trunk writes in her article, "The Strongest Careers Are Non-Linear," she has a point when she suggests that people should prioritize their time on internships and not school. Internships certainly prepare one for a real job more than sitting in a classroom.
One of the dirty little secrets about higher education is that most scholarships given by individual institutions are paid with the tuition of students who can afford it. So wealthy students subsidize the education of poorer students. And that's great, except when the paying customers aren't getting what they want to be purchasing. In addition, the possible increase in the interest rate of federal Stafford loans and the uncertainty of that rate in the future has also created a disincentive for people to take out loans to pay for an education that won't train them to repay said loans.
The real issue is that higher education institutions need to realize that with the horrible economy and increased post-grad unemployment rate, they have to provide the tangible good of training their students to get a good job after college, not just how to think existentially about getting a good job. Until that happens, schools will continue the cycle of going broke because they're spending diminishing funds on grander projects instead of reevaluating how they serve their paying customers.


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How long do you wait for something to happen, or someone to come to your terms? That depends on the circumstances—whether they are promising or otherwise. Hope, I find is a matter of faith on your own beliefs. Rather than on any one's assurances or promises. Unflinching faith on our own intuition's judgement is all that we need to go through our life waiting for our wishes to fulfill.
I recently watched Hachiko– The Story of a Dog. For the first time in many years I could not stop feeling the loss of the Dog and the dejection it goes through each day of those nine years and the hope that sustains him through it before finally resting alongside his partner.
So while the rest of the family gets down to business and put their efforts in forgetting the one they lost, this dog remains adamant to its faith on the love of the man for it. It cannot take it that the man who loved it so much won't return to play again with it. It is not ready to take the argument that the feelings precipitate, people change, and humans remember new things, feelings and people by forgetting the older ones. NO—it is just doesnot buy this argument.
I'm a lot older than you but I tend to think that there's an element of music that cannot be captured. Life cannot be captured. Human heart cannot be captured. The moment of creation itself is fleeting.
Is this loyalty – for which all dogs are famous? I do not have words to describe it. The pain, I did feel it but how much I do not know. Music, emotions and feelings cannot be actually recorded in their originality. Nothing in this world is replaceable or exactly representational. No one can fill no one's vacuum. I wonder how many of these bottomless hollows we have in our lives.
Every time we lose one of our feelings, dreams or one of our plans, we earn ourselves a bottomless hollow. By this time, I have myself earned so much of hollows, but at the same time, I look at the green patches that I have earned. These green patches are the light of hope that still keep me on my feet and moving, while those hollows are the ones that constantly remind me of not being euphoric. Such a balance!
Love and Hope — keep us alive and guide us when we feel that the light is burning low, when we feel that we are all alone, when we feel that everything we touch, fades away, when we realize that empty feelings occupy our heart, when we stare at the dark ceiling while feeling the blues at the end of a gloomy day.


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"The Little Match Girl", analysis of the story by Hans Christian Andersen
History of creation
The story "The Little Match Girl" was written in 1844 when Andersen was staying at Augustenborg Castle on the island of Als. It was a story composed as an accompaniment to an engraving by Johann Lundby. The sacred story was published in 1845.
Literary direction and genre
The genre of the holy story implies a miraculous transformation of the hero, his achievement on Christmas day, when miracles and happiness occur. But The Girl with Matches is one of the saddest works of the writer. The heroine is dying, there is no hope for the transformation of her life, but this is from the point of view of the layman. And the narrator is a Christian, a romantic, for him the end of the tale is happy.
For romance, the ideal is unattainable. All the visions that pass before the eyes of a freezing girl are a beautiful world, which she dreamed of all her life, but she could only achieve after death.
Subject, main idea and problems
The theme of the story is the last evening of a poor girl whose life has no value in society. The main idea – happiness is not in wealth and not even in life. Happiness is the ability to see the invisible, to touch the eternal. The story raises serious social problems, describes the life of a city on the streets of which people from different worlds live. A girl loses her shoes when she is frightened of two carriages racing at full speed. In the world where carriage riders live, they don't notice the little saleswomen of matches.
The plot and composition
A two-page story reveals all the circumstances of a girl's life. The reader learns about some facts of her biography from the details. For example, a little girl wore shoes that her mother used to wear. Obviously, now mother has already died.
The world of poverty, in which the little matchmaker lives, is separated from the world of wealth hostile to the girl. She loses her shoes, her only inheritance, frightened by the carriages rushing at full speed. But the world of the poor is hostile. He is closer, the girl comes into contact with him and from this he sees his absurdity. The laws of nature reign in the world of human relations, where the fittest survives. The boy selects a wooden shoe to make a cradle out of it for future children. The absurdity of this act and the idea of the boy is obvious. Accustomed to poverty, the child is trying to resist the circumstances, storing things for all occasions.
The girl sold matches all day and did not sell a single one. She cannot return home because her father will beat her. In addition, the house is also cold, the cracks are covered with straw and rags. The girl is doomed to physical death, she ate nothing all day. But most of all she suffers from her own uselessness and loneliness.
In the near-death visions of the girl, all her needs are realized, first physical (warmth and satiety), then spiritual (cozy security and love). In the first vision, the match turns into an amazing candle, and the girl basks by the stove. In the second, the girl is at a rich table, and the roasted goose himself goes to feed her. The third vision takes the girl to a luxurious Christmas tree.
The girl resigns herself to the fact that visions disappear when the match goes out. But she is not ready to again lose the recently deceased grandmother that appeared in the vision. Love overpowers the fear of punishment, and the girl lights all the matches at the same time.
In the story, the two hypostases of the ambivalent, dual world freely flow into each other, for example, the lights of a wonderful Christmas tree turn into stars, and the light of the match into a blazing stove. Not only space is shifting, but also time. After all, a shooting star means the death of the girl herself, who is witnessing the fall of the star in earthly life.
At the end of the story, the two worlds regain their borders. The girl's body remains on earth, the soul belongs to heaven.
The image of the heroine
The heroine of the story is "a little impoverished girl with her head uncovered and barefoot." The girl experiences two constant feelings of the poor – cold and hunger. Her bare legs turned blue and reddened from the cold, her apron is old, snowflakes are falling on her beautiful blond hair.
The girl has no name. On the one hand, this is the principle of typification, because the world is full of such poor dying children. On the other hand, nobody needs the life of a girl on earth, as if it does not exist. Only the recently deceased grandmother loved the girl, and in addition to her, God. So the absence of a name is not so much a typification inherent in realism as a romantic separation of the heroine from the townspeople who did not understand her. People thought that she died in misery, but in fact the girl was illuminated with light and joy, she and her grandmother saw miracles and beauty, met New Year's Happiness .
Artistic originality
The story "The Little Match Girl" is based on contrasts. In it, wealth and poverty, the fragility and tenderness of a girl and the rudeness of the wall, at which she dies, coexist. Earthly suffering is contrasted with heavenly happiness, which managed to be reflected and imprinted in the blush and smile of a dead girl.
A girl with matches has become a symbol of a person who unjustly suffers in circumstances alien to her, although she belongs to another world, to which she unsuccessfully aspires. The gray wall of the house where the girl dies is a symbol of an insurmountable barrier separating these worlds and disappearing only by a miracle.
Symbolically, the time of action in the story. A time of miracles for a Westerner is Christmas. It has already passed without any relief. New Year becomes for the child the beginning of a new heavenly life, he plays the role of Easter – death and resurrection.
In "The Little Match Girl" the role of the storyteller is huge. He is omnipresent, as God, observes the visions, thoughts and feelings of the heroine, gives an assessment to them, her appearance and actions. Without a narrator, the story would have turned into a story about how on the New Year's Eve a small impoverished saleswoman of matches froze. This point of view is presented in a remark of people: "She wanted to warm herself." But this, of course, is not the point. Only the narrator can discover the true motives and dreams of the heroine, her past and even her eternal heavenly life.
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