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On her way to class one day, Annika meets Brendan, an immigrant from England who has enrolled in Callicles College. But as a relationship blossoms between them, Brendan is harboring a terrifying secret. Will it tear them apart or bring them together for good?
It's late summer 1838. President Martin Van Buren issues an order that the fifteen thousand Cherokee Indians living in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina are to be evicted from their homeland. Forced to migrate to Indian Territory, the Cherokees begin their tragic, one-thousand-mile journey westward. Most of the seven thousand soldiers escorting them along the way are brutally cruel. But Cherokee Rose, an eighteen-year-old Indian girl, finds one soldier, Lieutenant Britt Claiborne, willing to stand up for them. Both Christians, Cherokee Rose discovers that Britt is also a quarter Cherokee himself. It's upon the Trail of Tears that they fall in love, dreaming of one day marrying and finding a place to call home together.
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Q: Handling connection given a ServerSocketChannel restart when a client is already open My SwingWorker's doInBackground() creates (and registers with OP_ACCEPT) a fresh ServerSocketChannel when the user clicks the "Connect" button.
When a client isAcceptable(), the SwingWorker registers the SocketChannel with OP_READ.
When the user clicks the "Disconnect" button, the SwingWorker closes() the ServerSocketChannel and selector(). However, the client is still open.
Problem: if the user clicks "Connect" again, it seems to me that the process above repeats except that the client is still in OP_READ mode and isn't being freshly accepted by the ServerSocketChannel.
Is there a way to overcome this? Does a ServerSocketChannel restart require that clients restart as well?

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Does a ServerSocketChannel restart require that clients restart as well?

No. The existing clients remain connected. They won't go through another connect phase just because you close the server socket.
Contrary to my comment above, the disconnect button should close the server socket, not the client socket(s). But it's mislabeled. The buttons should be 'start' and 'stop', or 'start listening' and 'stop listening'. It's the clients that do the connecting.

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A spokesperson for ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, says the choice of a former governor of Borno State, Modu Sheriff, as the acting national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party is wrong.
Okupe said it was unfortunate that the PDP was in the habit of making grave errors in its choice of leadership.
He said with the emergence of Sheriff as the national chairman of the PDP, the opposition party risked total disintegration.
In an article published on his officialFacebook page on Wednesday, he said although Sheriff was his long-standing political associate, the former governor lacked the capability to hold the party together.?
Okupe said, "Some of us have vowed not to leave the party (PDP). We still will not leave the party. We will continue to engage all who care to listen and seek help from everyone ready to revive this severely challenged sickened giant.
"For a morose political party, thanks to the overwhelming and effective propaganda machinery of the party in power, this may yet be the mortal wound that may cause the eventual depletion of its long perplexed following.
He lamented that making wrong judgments had become a trait of the party.
"The capability of our party, the PDP, and its leadership to make grave errors in judgment is legendary. What is intriguing is that even when the party is out of power, that tendency seems not to reduce.
"Alhaji Sheriff is a long-standing political associate of mine and a very astute politician of, perhaps, a sublime class. But for the post of the national chairman of the PDP, he is a wrong candidate and (he is) also coming in at a wrong time," he said.
Okupe said with the crisis rocking the PDP, the emergence of Sheriff might deplete the membership base of the opposition party.
The former presidential spokesperson listed impunity, presumptive reasoning, restrictive consultative process as the 'diseases' killing the PDP.
Okupe said the PDP leaders who supported the emergence of Sheriff hinged their argument on the fact that, being a wealthy politician, he (Sheriff) would be favourably disposed to fund the activities of the party.
He, however, said other leaders within the party felt that Sheriff would compound the problems of the party and bring 'a crushing weight of burden capable of fatally destroying the few strands of moral fibres in the party'.


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Six Things Stalling Your Account-Based Marketing Strategy, and How to Fix Them
by Mike Raley
Account-based marketing (ABM) has taken marketing by storm. Buyers have become increasingly intolerant of irrelevant, badly timed, interruption-based tactics. ABM offers the promise to add relevance, differentiation, and value-add to the buying experiences, in turn building credibility, trust, marketing efficiency... and more sales.
But despite their best efforts, some marketers are frustrated that they're not seeing expected results from ABM and can't seem to pinpoint where they're going wrong.
The issue: their cultural and technological foundation.
If your organization is experiencing frustration, there's likely a crack in your foundation that's undermining your ABM strategy.
This article, will explore how to diagnose six common issues and offer ways to fix them.
1. There's friction between Sales and Marketing
In successful account-based programs, marketing and sales teams work together, hand-in-glove, throughout the buyer journey, to deliver a relevant and personalized end-to-end experience to a defined set of agreed-upon companies. That requires working together in new ways, strong leadership, and change-management training.
Signs of trouble: Your teams aren't working well together. Your sales team doesn't want the marketing team to look at what they're writing to prospects. Leads aren't getting enough follow-up. Efforts are misaligned.
How to fix: Effective programs require deliberate strategizing, planning, and orchestration between teams. Setting out with a shared vision, goals, aligned incentives, clear focus, roles, etc. will equip team members to collaborate with ease. To get on the same page, consider following the SiriusDecisions ABM framework. It provides a great outline of the necessary steps to take across Sales and Marketing to build a solid ABM foundation. It outlines what needs to get done and allows you to determine who should do which parts.
2. Your goals are unclear or misaligned
Getting ROI from your efforts starts with knowing what kind of return you are expecting... and when.
Signs of trouble: Sales leaders feel that Marketing is not doing enough. Marketers have no way to measure the success of their contributions. Marketing doesn't know where to invest next.
How to fix: Set your ABM goals together with Sales and use the goal-setting process to drive your program design:
Are you trying to build a pipeline and need meetings for account executives?
Do you need to reach higher-ups in your accounts?
Do you need to get more exposure across your customer accounts?
Answering those questions together is critical because a shared vision of success with Sales will ensure that you're celebrating your wins and developing programs that will lead to each other's success.
3. You're not sure which accounts to focus on
With no shortage of businesses to target, knowing where to start can be a challenge. Or, even if you have a starting point in mind, it can be hard to shake the feeling that you're leaving money on the table by focusing on only a few companies.
Signs of trouble: Arbitrarily coming up with a wish list of desired logos and expecting Marketing to magically build demand is the surest way to burn through your resources without getting any results.
How to fix: Follow the interest... and the money. An ABM strategy requires focus on accounts that match your ideal customer profile, that have needs you can serve, and that are willing or interested to do something about it soon. Start by developing a shared understanding of your ideal customer profile (ICP) based on your best customers, and collaborate with Sales on account/cluster specifics if you have several segments to go after. Share any intent and account profile data you have (from your website's anonymous visitors, program engagement, and third-party data services such as Bombora or HG Data) to show Sales where there may be interest and potential.
4. You can't reach buyers
The success of your ABM strategy will largely depend on your ability to reach your target audiences. Without a good understanding of whom you're targeting, trying to reach them with outdated tactics will continue to be a challenge and a waste of money.
Signs of trouble: You're still running blanket banner ad buys, unpersonalized email programs, and generic field marketing, all of which used to work in the past but are now showing signs of fatigue. You're not investing in new methods to reach people and teams in your target audience.
How to fix: Depending on your audience, consider shifting your efforts to reach buyers by using intent-based ad campaigns: Focus on terms and categories of interest that you can cater to, and aim at only those from your target account universe. You may spend more to achieve that degree of granularity, but your marketing dollars will yield greater return because you will have been more deliberate about who is seeing your content and you'll have given that audience an opportunity to learn more.
5. Your CRM was structured for the last decade
Many companies that have recently shifted to an ABM approach have found themselves in some significant "data debt." The historical transaction data in their CRM systems is opportunity-centric rather than account-centric.
Signs of trouble: You have no way to score accounts as the people who work at them engage with your marketing. You have no meaningful way to identify buying teams or "demand units" of people who are interested in your solution. Your CRM does not link up subsidiaries with parent accounts.
How to fix: Patching together the full picture of a target account is essential for planning an account-centric program. Create that full picture by reuniting disparate division or subsidiary records and unifying a view of all the engagements, transactions, and wins/losses throughout the account. Data service vendors, such as Dun & Bradstreet and DiscoverOrg, can help you create those account maps and supplement the right names and titles of potential buyers. Companies such as Engagio and LeanData provide you the ability to better identify and score engagement so the best companies rise to the top of the sales team's list for follow-up.
6. You're not delivering relevant, personalized experiences
Perhaps the most common thing that holds ABM strategies back is an organization's ability to use its data to create a personalized experience. Providing your visitors with contextually relevant, personalized content and recommendations leads to more time spent on-site and higher conversions. Your data should be telling you who's on your site. When you know who you're talking to, you can leave a lasting impression.
Signs of trouble: Many marketers know that personalization is the "holy grail" of marketing. They also know that the information required for that kind of individualized relevance is in the data, but the idea of analyzing it seems like a herculean task. So, instead, they settle for a generic website, untailored and potentially irrelevant content, and a lackluster customer experience. That inevitably leads to low engagement and even lower conversions.
How to fix: Serving relevant, personalized content and recommendations to your website visitors has never been easier, thanks to the capabilities of insight engines—which are powered by AI and machine-learning technologies—and third-party data services.
An insight engine can help you offer every visitor personalized content and contextual recommendations (to content, offers, products, and more) based on what other similar visitors have done and found valuable. Moreover, the analytics from insight engines can give you a better understanding of your customers and improve your content and product strategy (with reports on content gaps and more). In addition, you can use data services such as Demandbase and Clearbit to better know your site visitors and use what you know to regionalize and personalize pages and pre-filled Web forms with the data you already have.
It's time to stop wasting your time and budget and start focusing on the accounts most likely to convert. To do so, your company's culture and supporting technology must be the crux of your ABM strategy.
(If you have questions about how an insight engine can help drive the success of your ABM strategy, reach out to me on Twitter.)
Continue reading "Six Things Stalling Your Account-Based Marketing Strategy, and How to Fix Them" ... Read the full article
Mike Raley is vice-president of marketing at Coveo, a leader in predictive search and relevance.
LinkedIn: Mike Raley
Twitter: @mraley
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Matchday 14 in the Sky Bet Championship is spread over three days this weekend, with all 24 teams in action.
Leeds United and Blackburn Rovers kicked-off the action on Thursday when they met at Elland Road, where Rovers won 2-0.
Early goals from Craig Conway and Jordan Rhodes gave Rovers their 2-0 success at Leeds, and that was the first away victory of the season.
The three other matches live on Sky Sports this weekend are Brentford's West London derby against Queens Park Rangers, Birmingham's clash against Wolves, and Bolton's visit to Preston.
Leaders Brighton are in action at 3pm on Saturday when they go to Reading with their unbeaten run of 2015/16 still intact.
The Seagulls have won eight and drawn five over their 13 games this season, and are four points ahead of second-placed Hull City, who travel to Milton Keynes Dons this weekend.
The Tigers tasted Capital One Cup Round 4 success in midweek against Leicester City, while fellow Championship sides Middlesbrough and Sheffield Wednesday also advanced to the Quarter-Finals.
Boro saw off Manchester United 3-1 on penalties following a 0-0 draw – they entertain managerless Charlton on Saturday – while the Owls eased past Arsenal 3-0 ahead of their league match at home to Nottingham Forest.
The Football League and Mitre have teamed up to back the campaign by using a special 'Mo' branded Delta Hyperseam Fluo ball in all of this weekend's fixtures.
The officials appointed to this weekend's Football League matches have been announced.
You can keep up with all of the action from Matchday 14 of the Sky Bet Championship by following our divisional Twitter feed, @SkyBetChamp.


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Uhuru -Raila Handshake May Have Changed Kenyan Politics For Generations To Come-Political Commentator Samuel Omwenga
Former Lawyer, seasoned Political Commentator, and Digital TV Host says the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga has changed dynamics in Kenyan politics
The impact of the memorable 9 March 2018 handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta, and his opposition challenger Raila Odinga may changed Kenyan politics for generations to come, says Samuel Omwenga. In an interview to discuss recent developments in Kenya, the former Lawyer, seasoned Political Commentator, and Digital TV Host says something definitely changed and things have been turned upside down in the country for the better.
"More than 2 years later, the handshake is holding and this has not only stabilized the political situation in Kenya, it has the potential of reaching the handshake's ultimate goal, and that is, removing catalysts for electoral misconduct and disputes, destruction of property, violence and deaths that follow each general circle," says Mr Omwenga.
Talking about Deputy President Ruto, Mr Omwenga says corruption charges against him are real though the extent may not be fully known yet. Mr Omwenga dissects the complex political equations, and opines that with the impending implementation of BBI, Kenya may be on the way to finally enjoying the fruits of independence that have eluded the country for decades..
We hear accusations of corruption labelled against Ruto and his associates, are the corruption charges real or just giving a dog a bad name to hang it?
The corruption charges are real, though the extent of the corruption is hard to tell simply because those accused of corruption often find ways to camouflage the corruption or altogether make evidence disappear. For example, the government has reopened a corruption case against the DP going back to 2001 where all these charges started. In that case, Ruto and two co-defendants were charged with fraudulently obtaining Sh272 million from a state corporation by selling it public land.
The case dragged on in the court system for years and was ultimately dismissed for "lack of evidence" The government has now reopened this case as it is believed the dismissal of the case itself was the product of corrupt influence. Ruto's name has also been linked or mentioned in connection with a number of mega corruption cases and his efforts to downplay those cases has led to conclusions there must be a reason and that can only be it is true he is involved or at least the beneficiary of the proceeds.
If the corruption charges against Ruto and associates are real, what does it say about the judgement of President Kenyatta, I mean, he picked Ruto as running mate twice , is he not at fault for making a choice of Deputy that he now regrets?
I think the best way to answer this is to say everyone in government has been involved in corruption of one kind or another. There are no saints in government or in politics, except rare unknown players. If they are household name politicians or people in government, you can rest assured they have been involved in some corruption either directly or the indirect beneficiaries of corruption.
So, starting from that perspective, one cannot say this says anything about the judgment of President Uhuru Kenyatta in having Ruto as his running mate in 2013 and 2017. However, it should be noted that what makes Ruto the exception, is because he has amassed so much wealth in the years since becoming DP that can only be possible if one was engaged in the mega corruption he is accused of being engaged in. There is just no other way to explain the wealth.
What options are there for President Kenyatta, does the Law permit him to fire his Deputy in case the relations continue to get frail and Mr Ruto refuses to resign or step down?
Unlike under the old constitution where the president picked his deputy and had the power to fire him at will, the new constitution promulgated in 2010 makes removal of deputy president extremely difficult. For one, the president cannot just fire the DP. The only way a deputy president can be removed from office besides resignation or death, is either by establishing mental incapacity or by impeachment, both of which require legislative action. More significantly, a motion to impeach must be supported by two-thirds majority in the National Assembly and the impeachment charges must be upheld by two-thirds majority in the Senate upon hearings or trial.
It was previously believed these votes were just not there, given inroads Ruto had made in Central Kenya with many MPs there supporting him, but this is now in doubt as Uhuru has been able to easily purge Ruto's loyalists from their Jubilee party, leading many to believe this belief Ruto had the numbers was a farce propagated by Ruto and his supporters.
Besides accusations and going after what some see as associates of Deputy President Ruto, what palpable results has Kenya seen in the fight against corruption?
The fight against corruption in Kenya has become a cliché. To be sure, there has always been corruption in Kenya since independence, with each successive government announcing various efforts to "fight corruption" only for the corruption to get even worse with each successive government. Kenya, like many other countries in Africa and elsewhere, is breeding ground for "state capture," which is defined by Catrina Godinho and Lauren Hermanus as ". . . a political-economic project whereby public and private actors collude in establishing clandestine networks that cluster around state institutions in order to accumulate unchecked power, subverting the constitutional state and social contract by operating outside of the realm of public accountability."
In other words, private individuals and their cohorts in high places in government collude to form a cartel that controls mostly procurement in a manner such that they line their pockets with large sums of money in ways no one outside that cartel would know or even do anything about even if they know. This is the system President Uhuru has been trying to dismantle to no success thus far, and many believe Ruto has been the beneficiary at least until he fell out of Uhuru's favor.
There have been echoes that opposition leader Raila Odinga is open to joining the government, if this were to happen, what impact will it have on the political dynamics in Kenya?
Raila is effectively in government since his famous handshake with Uhuru back in 2018. Although his primary focus has been spearheading efforts to turn Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) into law, he has no doubt been one of the key advisers of the president at least in as far as handling Ruto and those opposed to BBI goes.
More recently, there has been talk of formalizing his role in government in forming a government of national unity (GNU) but this is now less likely because it would require Raila and ODM being fused into Jubilee, which is an undesirable prospect for many political and practical reasons. As a result, what is likely to happen, is Raila continuing to act as co-president without the title but helping Uhuru accomplish his legacy objectives, some of which overlap with Raila's own political and party interests. Presently, one of these is making sure Ruto's power is sufficiently clipped as to not to be an obstacle to BBI implementation or having Uhuru succeeded by someone other than Ruto.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga have been moving in sync since the famous handshake. The playbook could help leaders in other African countries to diffuse political tensions, says Samuel Omwenga. Photo credit REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya/
Do you share the view from many other observers that something definitely changed in Kenyan politics following that memorable handshake 9 March 2018 handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Mr. Raila Odinga, and in follow up to that what lessons do you think African leaders both in power and in the opposition can learn from the détente between these two fierce rivals?
Yes, something certainly changed in Kenyan politics following the memorable handshake of 9 March 2018 between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga. Nobody saw that coming even among the closest advisers and insiders of these two men. That is how secretive and monumental the pact was because the men knew the handshake will turn things in the country upside down though for the better as it has.
More than 2 years later, the handshake is holding and this has not only stabilized the political situation in Kenya, it has the potential of reaching the handshake's ultimate goal, and that is, removing catalysts for electoral misconduct and disputes, destruction of property, violence and deaths that follow each general circle. As things stand now looking ahead, implementation of BBI, which is the byproduct of the handshake is well under way and poised to happen and, when it does, Kenyans can go into the next election circle more confident the elections will be credible and without the disputes, destruction of property, violence and death that would otherwise be lurking to yet again rear their ugly heads.
For this reason, I would say, yes, African leaders both in power and in the opposition should borrow the playbook and apply the same in their respective countries. A key element to note here is, even as this handshake remains intact and BBI is likely to be implemented, what is happening is those in the system are not simply giving up control; rather, they are allowing more inclusivity in the government and that is key because one of the reasons those in power never want to give it up is because they do not wish to give up control. In this setting, they retain control, but power is shared more widely than before. That may be hard to understand but the short of it is, it is better to have that than nothing or status quo.
Mr Kenyatta is approaching the sunset of his second and last term of office as President, how has he fared so far, where has Kenya seen progress and failure under his leadership?
If you ask most Kenyans the question how has Uhuru fared thus far, you will find a surprising answer as those who supported and voted for him twice, will tell you Uhuru has been a total failure and they will throw in a few epithets and insults to make the point while those who did not vote for him and even hated him, now find him acceptable and say he is doing a good job.
The explanation is simple: the handshake and the reason being Raila. It is not possible to go into details here but the short of it is when Uhuru and Ruto joined forces to face Raila in the 2013 elections, they took advantage of dislike and even hatred of Raila in Mt. Kenya region, which is Uhuru's backyard and demonized him there and a good part of Rift Valley, which is Ruto's backyard with the promise they elect the duo, power will remain in the two communities for at least another 20 years, with mutual benefit.
It was not the winning formula as neither Uhuru nor Raila had the requisite 50%1 majority vote in the 2013 elections, but putting together the two strange bedfellows and their respective communities gave the system enough votes and cover to rig in Uhuru in the first round of the elections—though I should hasten to add I and others long ago conceded Raila would have likely lost in the second round, had there been a run-off between him and Uhuru as should have been had the constitution been followed, but the system chose to rig Uhuru in therefore doing away with the required runoff.
This, then, became the basis for the two men (Uhuru and Ruto) to have the pact they had to keep the presidency in their respective communities for at least 20 years or "kumi kumi" as they baptized the illegal power grab, meaning 10 years for Uhuru, followed by 10 years by Ruto.
The handshake tossed that agreement out of the window, or shred it to pieces and thus the flip in Uhuru support from those diehards who bought into the kumi kumi nonsense now hating him and calling him names, while those in the opposition and, specifically, supporters of Raila see the handshake as paving the way for Raila to be finally sworn as president.
Objectively, I would say the country's economy under Uhuru has been nothing but mediocre at best if the comparison is to previous years when the economy was worse but on the political front, the handshake is making it possible for Uhuru to reshape his legacy such that by the time he is done with his two terms, things would have picked up enough to lift his performance to acceptable levels on both fronts, namely, economically and politically.
The wild card here is COVID-19 and the aftermath but, with the handshake in place and Raila being positioned to be a key player in the post-COVID-19 economic recovery, things will be far much better than they would be were the handshake not in place.
Mr Raila Odinga has been unsuccessful in previous attempts to seek the top job in Kenya, how are things shaping out for him, could 2022 finally be his year?
Just so it is clear, it is not true that Raila has been "unsuccessful" in his previous attempts to seek the top job in the country; rather, on at least 2 tries, he was successful except the system (those in power) denied him the opportunity to be sworn in after flooring his opponents at the ballot. Given that, the right question to ask is, will he (a) be as successful as in the past come 2022 and (b) will the system allow him to be sworn as president if he is. The answer to the first question is even though Raila remains to be a popular opposition figure, now quasi-in government, his level of support is not at the same level as it was back in 2007 when he clearly won the election, and each election circle since where support is strong but less so than all these other years.
For Raila to win at the ballot as he did previously, he has to be the flagbearer for the grand coalition being formed to take care of and ensure Uhuru's successor. If he is the flagbearer for that coalition, then it's hard to imagine how he is not successful and, if he is successful, the system will not prevent him from being sworn because the grand coalition being formed has its blessings, which answers the second part of the question.
Elections in Kenya are often fraught with tensions, what lessons have been learned over the years and what reforms have been put in place to minimize tensions, and prospects of fraud and violence?
As noted above, the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga was specifically to make sure we no longer have circular disputes, destruction of property, violence, and deaths each election circle. The BBI team was tasked with canvassing the country and gathering views to formulate proposals to make this a reality and what they have proposed is what was in the process of being brought up as a referendum to make it law but the process is halted owing to COVID-19.
The key proposal in BBI that will make a big difference in making elections disputes and violence a thing of the past, is restructuring the Executive branch to allow for sharing of power between the president and a prime minister, rather than having all executive power resting in the president's office. Kenya has had this power structure before; at independence for a brief period and in 2008 as means of avoiding a civil war following the post-election violence that rocked the nation. However, in both cases, the prime minister was not what is envisioned in BBI. The details of what the new structure would be are yet to be hammered out but, it is expected the PM position will be very powerful position with a weaker presidency and this may end this winner take all associated with the current US-style presidential system.
President Uhuru Kenyatta (centre), Deputy President William Ruto (left) and ODM leader Raila Odinga . Deputy President Ruto may be the big loser in the high stakes political games with corruption charges against him and his associates gaining steam
What is your take on the way the government of Mr Uhuru Kenyatta has handled the coronavirus pandemic?
Uhuru is certainly doing a far much better job in handling the coronavirus pandemic in Kenya than President Donald Trump is doing for America.
More specifically, actions taken by the Kenya government to strengthen the health system and caring for the infected as well as health policy measures such as promotion and encouragement of social distancing, working from home, travel restrictions, the closure of schools, the suspension of public gatherings, and a nightly curfew have all thus far been effective in keeping the spread of the virus at relatively low rates ditto deaths from the pandemic. However, the poor and most vulnerable are bearing the brunt of these policies as the government is not proving enough assistance to enable them to feed themselves and have access to essentials for their daily living. To compound the problem, it is feared money provided by the World Bank and other sources to combat the pandemic has either been stolen or misused, which is a shame but, nothing surprising at all. The CS for Health has been doing a good job and he promises to make sure all the funds are accounted for, which means if there is any monkey business with it, those culpable will be held responsible.
We end with a last word from you on the future of Kenya, what makes you hopeful, and what are your fears?
Kenya is a beautiful country with an abundance of natural resources, human capital, and great potential to become an emerging economy. Bad governance, disputed elections and tribalism have all combined to become a roadblock to reaching this utopia. However, I am hopeful with the impending implementation of BBI, we can go over this roadblock and finally get to enjoy the fruits of independence that have eluded us all these decades.
My biggest fear is fear of uncertainty from the pandemic for we truly don't know how this ends, but we hope and pray for the best.


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Warning! Do not use this company! After a good first impression, that's where it all falls down. The dispatch and supervisory staff are below par on every level. Not ONE single return call despite many attempts. No show, No call. This company is the one assigned by my home warranty company and the technician actually ended up VOIDING the entire warranty because of the wrong diagnosis of the problem. The unprofessional conduct, complete disregard for customer service, and complete unwillingness to correct the problem. The utter complacency and arrogance is staggering. Don't be fooled. Go elsewhere, save yourself the heartache and frustration ahead of time.
We have been using them for 10 or 11 years. In fact, I know the owner by his first name. We bought a new air conditioning unit from them. They did the installation on the new one and got a 10-year warranty with it. They are very nice people. The office manager just got married, it was in the paper. We have a service contract with them and they come out twice a year.
It did not go very good. After the 1st scheduled appointment, they did not show up. I needed heat so I called them and informed them how cold it was! They finally came another day and informed us we needed a new unit. Another company informed us that our ducts were not connected however this company told us that it was. This company are liars and cheap! They took my $5,500 AC unit (that i had for 2 years) and installed a $4,300 unit. They charged me $4,500 + the cost of my AC unit that they took. They are thieves!
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On June 3, 2016 David and another man showed up as scheduled. We had requested an a/c clean and service only. Neither man was dressed as you might expect for a technician; they were dressed more like salesmen with clean shoes, nice shirts, etc. The weirdest thing is they were at our home with us for 3-1/2 hours, but spent less than 15 minutes looking at and explaining to us the condition of our unit. The coils were really caked with debris and dust. This was why we had them out in the first place. These guys did not even bother to use a brush to remove any debris so they could see the coils. Instead they tried to convince us that the only way to clean it would be to spray it with a harsh chemical that would bubble up and then hose it off. David then said that they would be doing us a disservice to do that, because if they did, the chemical would destroy our coils since they were (in their opinion) in such bad shape. At that point David said that he was actually refusing to do any service on our unit because if they did and the coils got destroyed then we would still have to get a new unit. He was adamant about not being willing to service the unit. We then went inside and we sat in the living room while they gave us their sales pitch and estimate. The paper they gave us, which we still have 8 months later, says: coil completely impacted, pressure is low. They quoted $4550 for a 3 ton 14 seer unit plus a new concrete pad, if needed. Freon replacement was NOT on the estimate, which explains other reviews that express surprise when charged extra for freon. At the bottom in big letters where the customer would normally sign to accept the quote, it says Estimate Only. During the 3-1/2 hour visit David and buddy were very cordial and easy to talk to. I was in shock that they stayed so long but let them go on to see how far they would go. We told jokes and it was a friendly visit, but right from the start we knew something didn't seem quite right. We told them that we were going to get another estimate and would call if we decided to move forward. Another red flag was that we never even received a follow-up call from them. We contacted someone else who cleaned the coils for us. His total charge was less than $50 and it took him less than an hour. The unit has been working perfectly ever since which is for the last 8 months! It is still working great. It made it through the entire summer and we've even used a/c this winter when we've had hot Florida days. AVOID THE AC GUYS! Run the other way.
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Q: Does the iPhone 6 "CPU-throttling" feature stop after the battery is replaced? There is recent news (acknowledged by Apple) of a feature in some software versions of iOS that reduces the current usage of the iPhone6 and 6S when the battery ages and is less able to supply current, and this makes sense. It tries to prevent the phone from suddenly shutting down when the battery can not supply the required current.
I've suffered from those shut-downs first hand by trying to get the last few weeks out of a clearly-dead battery - which is unadvisable to say the least!
Is it known for a fact if this feature reinstates the phone to original performance and speed after the battery is replaced?

A: It seems that the CPU throttling will stop once device's battery is replaced.
In a statment to TechCrunch, Apple says they will throttle devices "only when needed."

Last year we released a feature for iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE to smooth out the instantaneous peaks only when needed to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down during these conditions.

As this happens "only when needed," replacing the battery should stop CPU throttling from happening. Explaining his experience with the same issue, Forbes contributor Antony Leather says that performance did increase on his iPhone 6 after replacing the battery.

My iPhone 6 was a prime candidate - I had actually replaced the
  battery myself a couple of years ago, but I'm a heavy user and already
  noticed its longevity had started to decrease again...
Finally, I replaced the battery with a new one from Amazon, charged it
  to be well away from the low power mode level and re-ran the test. The
  difference was incredible. The single core score rose from 1038 to
  1562 - an increase of precisely 50%.

Check out Forbes' Boost Your iPhone Speed By 50%: How To Replace The Battery And Stop Apple Degrading Performance
Check out this excerpt from How-To Geek's You can Speed Up You Slow iPhone by Replacing the Battery, which suggests that replacing the battery will improve performance.

If your phone is indeed slowing down as a result of poor battery health, replacing the battery will give your phone new life. Not only will you get a longer-lasting battery by replacing an old one, but your phone should jump back up to its top speed.

A: I replaced the battery on my iPhone 6s and the cpu is still throttled at 600 MHz.  Run a cpu MHz year after swap and you will see the truth that it's the software update that is the issue.

A: Not sure why someone is downvoting these alternate observations, but I have similar experience.
I just replaced my son's iPhone 6 battery with a new third party one that seems technically ok (coconut and a few battery apps I tried claim full capacity, voltage and no prior charge cycles). Still the CPU is throttled to 839 MHz at full charge and 600 MHz at lower charges.
EDIT: tried a DFU restore too, didn't help

A: I replaced my battery on iPhone 6 and it's still throttled the same as the previous battery. At 100% charge it's only 1127 MHz vs spec of 1400Mhz. At lower charges it decreases to 600 MHz.
All battery indicators (coconut, and multiple battery apps) say that voltage is at 4.2V (at full charge) and capacity is at 1810 mAh, so technically a perfect battery. Note that it's a 3rd party battery not an apple one.
I wonder if they're punishing users for not using OEM batteries. All tech indicators say that the battery is in good health and throttling should not be happening.

A: Not really. Mine went down to 600 - 911 MHz after just 18 charging cycles.


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The exhibition "105 years Albanian Independence"
The Virtual Museum "the Flag of the Albanian Nation", The Albanian Nationwide Collectors Center in cooperation with the National Historical Museum, with the support of "Bijoutiful" company, organize on the 28th of November 2017 "105 Years of Albanian Purses". The Opening Ceremony of the Exhibition will be held on Sunday...
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Exhibition in Tirana, Pristine and Vlora for the 100 Anniversary of the establishment of the Albanian State
QMKSH enriched the celebrations of the 100 Anniversary of the Independence with three exhibition of rare flags. In both of Albanian capitals and in Vlora, visitors had the opportunity to admire the amazing collections of QMKSH. In the National Historical Museum...
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The exhibition "Albanian National Flag", Pogradec 23 November 2011
The ancient history of the Albanian nation is accompanied by the symbol of the eagle. The red and black flag has survived for centuries from the barbaric attacks of enemies. He has lived and actually is living in the culture of the...
The Exhibition " The history of the Albanian National Flag 1910-1937", and the roundtable of "The ancient origin of the Albanain Flag" topic
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The presentation on media of the Virtual Museum the Flag of the Albanian Nation, (Top-Channel)
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The presentation on media of the Virtual Museum the Flag of the Albanian Nation, (Klan TV)
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The Statute of the People's Republic of Albania in 1946
Part Three Art.95 The flag of the People's Republic of Albania represents a red field with a two-headed eagle in the middle. Above the eagle is a red star with five-pointed, embroidered with gold around. The rapport between the width and length of the flag is 1x40.
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The Constitution and explanatory material, 1998
Article 14 1.The official language in the Republic of Albania is Albanian. 2. The national flag is red with a black two-headed eagle in the middle. 3.The emblem of the Republic of Albania is an escutcheon with a red field with a black double-headed eagle in the middle. At the top of the escutcheon,...
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Nowhere Future Coffee Roasters: Italian specialty coffee with a touch
Meet Nowhere Future Coffee Roasters, the newest Italian specialty coffee roaster who is helping to push the envelop further
If you're a specialty coffee drinker and you think about Italy, you might feel a little conflicted. On the one hand, Italy is the spiritual home of the barista, cappuccino, moka pot and many global espresso brands while on the other hand, specialty coffee is still relatively hard to find there. For the large part, you have to put up with bitter robusta-heavy Italian espresso that comes out of a dirty machine.
There are, of course, many reasons for this. From the €1 caffè that people slurp at the counter to a relatively weak public relations effort by the major specialty coffee bodies, Italy often appears to be trapped in the past and constrained by its own culture, despite the curious fact that it is home to the second biggest number of SCA (Specialty Coffee Association) trainers. This begs the question: 'where the hell are they all?'
Luckily, there are some bright lights at the end of the tunnel and across major Italian cities, specialty coffee is slowly but surely becoming more and more popular, thanks to growing interest from its cosmopolitan crowd and its many expats.
Milan is a great example of an Italian city where specialty coffee has found a firm footing. From numerous brunch places that serve excellent coffee to renowned coffee bars like Orsonero and ONest, Milan easily has Italy's most vibrant specialty coffee scene.
One of its most recent arrivals is Nowhere Future Coffee Roasters, a café and roastery where Australian-inspired café culture meets Italian design and passion. It is one of three talented roasters chosen for the upcoming August 2022 Coffeevine box.
I first came across Nowhere Future Coffee Roasters after reaching out to my dear friend Valentina of @specialty_pal fame and asking her if she knew of any good places in the city where I could potentially host a public cupping. This was in March of 2022 when many Covid restrictions were still in place and I needed a space that could easily accommodate around 20 people. Her first recommendation was Nowhere Future Coffee Roasters' café in the heart of Milan.
A few emails and phone calls with co-founder Luciano Bramante later and we had an event that was sold out only a few hours after tickets going on sale. When I arrived for the cupping a few weeks later, I found a bright and welcoming space that did not feature a big coffee counter right by the entrance as I was accustomed to in most specialty coffee bars in Italy – a nod to the local habit of drinking a quick caffè at the counter rather than sitting down – and was staffed by a hodgepodge of friendly characters.
Luciano, a tall man with earrings and tattoos, came around the bar to give me a big hug and walk me through the plan for the evening. I instantly felt a connection with these guys and the fact that their wild card entry coffees for the cupping did extremely well despite the fact that they were not actually available for the April box at the time bode well for a potential future partnership.
"We're not shying away from pushing more experimental coffees because we want people to taste just how much variety is out there."
Their approach, according to Luciano is to bring together the best elements of Australian coffee culture – specifically, high quality coffee and excellent service – and the best parts of Italian culture – design and passion. Both of these go hand in hand with Italy's biggest industries, from cars to fashion and food. Each one of the four co-founders that include Luciano, Andrea Prayer, Federico Griffa and Francesca Cavazza brings a unique skill to the table and together, they've created a forward-thinking business that's trying to effectuate a change of mindset.
Sadly, the truth about specialty coffee in Italy is also one of struggles, red tape and culture wars. Not long ago, Florence's Ditta Artigianale made worldwide headlines after a customer called the police because he was being charged €2 for an espresso instead of the customary €1 and as the customer alledged, because the price was not being displayed correctly. Although the whole thing sounds comical, it's a great frustration for people like Ditta's founder Francesco Sanapo who told me in Milan a few weeks ago that while this might be the best PR money can buy, it's also living proof of how narrowminded some people and authorities still are. He's contesting the €1000 fine in court.
That's why, according to Luciano, people like Valentina of @specialty_pal are so important. "She has a very unique voice that speaks directly to consumers via social media," Luciano said. "She talks about many aspects that are hugely relevant and is helping the average consumer to understand what makes specialty coffee so unique and different."
Indeed, much of the education for the end-consumer is coming from public figures like Valentina rather than big international bodies, which might also explain why Italy is still lagging behind most of its northern neighbours when it comes to the third wave. Luckily, more and more businesses like Nowhere Future Coffee Roasters are popping up across the country and doing their part to make specialty coffee more accessible and most importantly, fun.
What initially started out as just a café has since evolved to include a fast-growing roastery too. At the time of my last visit in March, they only bought one or two bags of green per coffee to minimise the risk but more recently, demand for their roasted coffees has grown significantly and now they're feeling confident enough to buy larger quantities of each coffee such as the truly delicious anaerobic Colombian from El Vergel in Tolima that they will roast for the upcoming August 2022 Coffeevine box. Think of a rich and sweet fruit cocktail in a beautifully balanced cup.
I asked Luciano, who joined me for a chat through video call from his holiday in Greece, what the average person thinks of coffees like this. "Surely, many of your customers have not had this kind of coffee," I suggested.
"Definitely, but we're not shying away from pushing more experimental coffees because we want people to taste just how much variety is out there," he said. At the roastery, the goal is to showcase each coffee in its most delicious form, looking for sweetness, brightness and clarity in the cup and the only way to find this is by working with the best quality green coffee you can get. Otherwise, the old computer science mantra GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT always applies.
Beyond the coffee, Australia's influence can also be tasted in the food they serve at their café. Luciano, Andrea and Francesca all, spent many years living and working in downunder where the local brunch and coffee culture seriously rubbed off on them. From 'smashed avo toast' to 'sweet bravas', all served with a big Aussie smile, Australia's vibes are omnipresent.
Interestingly, Luciano also shared with me that around 70% of their customers are foreigners and the truth is that recent big events like World of Coffee or the Host Milano have not had much of an impact on the local community. According to him, many people who picked up a World of Coffee flyer at the café had no idea what it was or said something along the lines of 'but yes, of course this event should take place here. Italian coffee is the best in the world.' This might still be up for debate.
Luckily, outspoken places like Nowhere Future Coffee Roasters are pushing the envelope further and the more places like this pop up across Italy, the more access end-consumers will have to specialty coffee and thus, begin to understand what makes specialty coffee better than commodity coffee. It all begins with that one special cup of coffee.
This coffee is part of our upcoming August 2022 Coffeevine box that also features other delicious coffees from Awaken and Rum Baba. To choose your ideal box and get in on the fun, just pop over to our shop now.
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Q: Possible identifiability issue in hierarchical model I'm trying to fit some data using a hierarchical normal model
$y_i \sim N(\theta_i,\sigma^2)$
$\theta_i \sim  N(\mu, \sigma_\theta^2)$
$(\mu,\sigma^2,\sigma_\theta^2) \sim diffuse$
I fit this model and I'm getting posteriors for $\sigma_\theta^2$ and $\sigma^2$ that are nearly identical. Is this an identifiability issue or a coincidence? There's no other information in the data to use to determine where the variability is coming from. Is there any way to still use this type of model, or is it just not useful without more data?

A: Your notation is a little strange (what do you mean by "diffuse"?), but I suspect that your prior on $\sigma^2_\theta$ is leading to an improper or nearly improper posterior, for one thing. See here for a detailed exposition of just this model and appropriate prior specification.
In short, yes, this model can be very useful and there probably ought to be some information about the variance parameters even in relatively small samples - but you need to be careful in how you specify and fit it.
Edit: When I wrote this answer I apparently hadn't read the OP properly (see my comment to @probabilityislogic's answer). Anyway as this model is written the parameters $\sigma, \sigma_\theta$ aren't separately identifiable as @probabilityislogic points out. I suspect that if you looked at the posterior distribution of $\sigma^2 + \sigma_\theta^2$ it would be doing something much more reasonable, and if you looked at the joint posterior of $\sigma, \sigma_\theta$ there would be a strong negative correlation.
You should go back to the original problem and try to reformulate this model - either it's not posed correctly in the OP or you're hosed, I think.

A: Because you are dealing with normal-normal model, its not to hard to work out analytically whats going on.  Now the standard argument for "diffuse" priors is usually $\frac{1}{\sigma}$ for variance parameters ("jeffreys" prior).  But you will be able to see that if you were to use jeffreys prior for both parameters, you would have an improper posterior.  But note that the main justification for using jeffreys prior is that it is a scale parameter.  However you can show for your model, that neither parameter sets the scale of the problem.
If we consider the marginal model, with $\theta_{i}$ integrated out.  It is a well-known result that if you integrate a normal with another normal, you get a normal.  So we can skip the integration, and just work out the expectation and variance.  We then get:
$$E(y_{i}|\mu\sigma\sigma_{\theta})=E\left[E(y_{i}|\mu\sigma\sigma_{\theta}\theta_{i})\right]=E\left[\theta_{i}|\mu\sigma\sigma_{\theta}\right]=\mu$$
$$V(y_{i}|\mu\sigma\sigma_{\theta})=E\left[V(y_{i}|\mu\sigma\sigma_{\theta}\theta_{i})\right]+V\left[E(y_{i}|\mu\sigma\sigma_{\theta}\theta_{i})\right]=\sigma^{2}+\sigma_{\theta}^{2}$$
And hence we have the marginal model:
$$(y_{i}|\mu\sigma\sigma_{\theta})\sim N(\mu,\sigma^{2}+\sigma_{\theta}^{2})$$
And this does show an identifiability problem with this model - so the data cannot distinguish between the two variances, it can only give information about their sum.  You may have been able to see this intuitively.  For example, we can always take $\theta_{i}=y_{i}$ for all $i$ and hence this will set $\sigma=0$.  Alternatively we can set $\theta_{i}=\mu$ for all $i$ and this will set $\sigma_{\theta}=0$.  Both of these scenarios will be indistinguishable by the data - in the sense that if I was to generate two data sets, one from the first case, and one from the second (but ensured that $\sigma^{2}+\sigma_{\theta}^{2}$ was the same in both cases), you would not be able to tell which data set came from which case.  This suggests that it is fundamentally the sum that sets the scale and so we should apply jeffreys prior to the parameter $\tau^{2}=\sigma^{2}+\sigma_{\theta}^{2}$.  Now suppose that $\tau^{2}$ was known, I would have thought a non-informative choice of prior for $\sigma^{2}$ would be uniform between $0$ and $\tau^{2}$ (for a more informative choice I would use a re-scaled beta distribution over this range).  So we have the prior:
$$p(\tau^{2},\sigma^{2})\propto\frac{1}{\tau^{2}}\frac{I(0<\sigma^{2}<\tau^{2})}{\tau^{2}}$$
If we make the change of variables to $\sigma^{2},\tau^{2}\to\sigma,\sigma_{\theta}$ so that.  We then get:
$$p(\sigma_{\theta},\sigma)\propto\frac{1}{(\sigma^{2}+\sigma_{\theta}^{2})^{2}}|\frac{\partial\sigma^{2}}{\partial\sigma}\frac{\partial\tau^{2}}{\partial\sigma_{\theta}}-\frac{\partial\sigma^{2}}{\partial\sigma_{\theta}}\frac{\partial\tau^{2}}{\partial\sigma}|
=\frac{2\sigma\sigma_{\theta}}{(\sigma^{2}+\sigma_{\theta}^{2})^{2}}$$
Note that the non-identifiability is preserved in this prior because it is symmetric in its arguments.  Another not so obvious symmetry is that if you were to integrate out either one of the variance parameters you would be left with the jeffreys prior for the other one:
$$\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{2\sigma\sigma_{\theta}}{(\sigma^{2}+\sigma_{\theta}^{2})^{2}}d\sigma=\frac{1}{\sigma_{\theta}}$$
Hence, all you are required to input is the prior range for one of the parameters, as this will stop you from getting into trouble with improper priors.  Call this $0<L_{\sigma}<\sigma<U_{\sigma}<\infty$.  It is then easy to sample from the joint density using the inverse CDF method, for we have:
$$F_{\sigma}(x)=\frac{\log\left(\frac{x}{L_{\sigma}}\right)}{\log\left(\frac{U_{\sigma}}{L_{\sigma}}\right)}\implies F^{-1}_{\sigma}(p)=\frac{U_{\sigma}^{p}}{L_{\sigma}^{p-1}}$$
$$F_{\sigma_{\theta}|\sigma}(y|x)=1-\frac{x^{2}}{y^{2}+x^{2}}\implies F^{-1}_{\sigma_{\theta}|\sigma}(p|x)=x\sqrt{\frac{p}{1-p}}$$
So you sample two independent uniform random variables $q_{1b},q_{2b}$, and then your random value of $\sigma^{(b)}=U_{\sigma}^{q_{1b}}L_{\sigma}^{1-q_{1b}}$ and your random value of $\sigma^{(b)}_{\theta}=U_{\sigma}^{q_{1b}}L_{\sigma}^{1-q_{1b}}\sqrt{\frac{q_{2b}}{1-q_{2b}}}$.  Combine this with the usual flat prior for $-\infty<L_{\mu}<\mu<U_{\mu}<\infty$ generated by a third random uniform variable $\mu^{(b)}=L_{\mu}+q_{3b}(U_{\mu}-L_{\mu})$ and you have all the ingredients to do monte carlo posterior simulation - note that this is much better than "Gibbs sampling" because each simulation is independent, so no need to wait for convergence (and also less need for a large number of simulations) - and you are dealing with proper priors - so divergence is impossible (however some moments may or may not exist, but all quantiles exist).


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Despite the disappointing nature of Friday's defeat for Ireland 'A' against England Saxons, Ulster back rower Stephen Ferris still took a lot of positives from the clash at Ravenhill.
Ferris, 21, was delighted to be back playing for his country, having just returned from time out with a thumb injury.
He returned from the sidelines last month – playing for Ulster against Toulouse and making a try-scoring return to Magners League action against the Ospreys. One of the 'A' team's better performers against the Saxons, he was watched closely by Eddie O'Sullivan and Niall O'Donovan in Belfast.
Ferris showed signs of a return to his 'hard-hitting' best – particularly with a strong tackle on Chris Jones in the opening skirmishes. He said after the 32-5 defeat: "It was a very quick game – the lads are punctured in there (in the dressing room).
"We only had one training session as a squad in the lead-up to this game, but I thought we did well. It was a good first half performance – we did a lot of good things, but it's a pity we just couldn't see it through."
The Irish 'A' side leaked three tries after the break and Ferris paid tribute to the Saxons's strength afterwards.
"They're a good side, you'd have to give them that bit of respect. They've come over here and done a job on us. We needed to be a bit more organised and that showed in the final score."
Ferris has plenty to look forward to during the remainder of the season, with Ulster still going strong in the Magners League, the Ireland 'A' side in action in May's Churchill Cup and the senior squad's tour to Argentina, World Cup warm-up schedule and the tournament itself in September.
Admitting it was "magnificent to wear an Irish jersey again", he added: "From a personal point of view, it was good to be back in the mix again and hopefully I can get back into contention for a call-up to the senior squad."
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733,506 pilgrims arrive in Saudi Arabia through all entry ports
MAKKAH. KAZINFORM - The Saudi Ministry of Health confirmed that it has so far not recorded any case of epidemics or quarantine diseases among pilgrims and that the health situation is reassuring, WAM reports.
In a report carried by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, the Ministry said that it focuses on the precautionary aspects of pilgrims, and follows developments and changes in the global health situation, in cooperation with the World Health Organization and international health authorities, such as international disease control centers, also it has taken many precautionary measures, including issuance of mandatory health requirements for pilgrims in Hajj season according to global epidemiological variables.
The Ministry also noted that it has provided precautionary services to 666,045 pilgrims coming through health outlets since the beginning of this month.
The total percentage of the commitment of pilgrims to precautionary vaccines to date is 88.5% for meningitis, 80.5% for yellow fever and 89.8% for poliomyelitis.
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Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CMFT) is using pioneering new technology to improve the speed and accuracy in diagnosing pre-cancerous conditions of the cervix.
The Trust has introduced the innovative cervical cancer diagnostic system called ZedScan™ at the Gynaecology department at Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester - a centre of excellence in the field of gynaecological oncology, uro-gynaecology and reproductive medicine.
The system offers real-time and more accurate detection of pre-cancerous cells than standard colposcopy (a procedure for examining the cervix), enabling clinicians to make better informed decisions at a patient's first visit.It means appropriate treatment can offered immediately to women identified with severe abnormalities or reassurance swiftly provided to patients with no evidence of disease, whilst also reducing the number of biopsies required.
Dr Ursula Winters, Consultant Gynaecologist and lead consultant for colposcopy at Saint Mary's, said:"The introduction of Zedscan will provide us with the ability to assess women presenting with abnormal cervical smears more quickly and accurately.
"Having access to the latest in advanced diagnostic technologies such as ZedScan means we can offer our patients efficient and rapid access to appropriate treatments when they need them." The technology behind the system was developed by Manchester company Zilico Ltd, based at MedTech Centre Incubator, following a collaboration between Professor Brian Brown, a medical physicist at the University of Sheffield, and Professor John Tidy, a consultant gynaecological oncologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
The ZedScan™ system, which uses its patented Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) technology to detect dysplasia and cancer of the cervix, consists of a portable handset, docking station, single use sensor and software application.


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New test delivers early identification of TB in exotic animals
Bovine tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium bovis, is a growing problem for zoos and wildlife parks, especially with the disease's potential to spread from one species to another, creating a natural reservoir that is difficult to control.
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PBD Biotech's new test, Actiphage®, which enables rapid early identification of the strain of mycobacteria, is being discussed at the British Veterinary Zoological Society (BVZS) Congress in Birmingham today.
Antelopes, elephants, tigers and kangaroos are among the species that have been tested with the easy-to-use diagnostic, offering a new way to detect and manage TB, as Dr Ben Swift, R&D Director at PBD Biotech and Research Fellow at the Royal Veterinary College, will explain to vets and other exotic species specialists at the annual conference.
TB in zoos came to public attention last year when Devon's Paignton Zoo detected a single case in one of its antelope. Without access to a test that would deliver rapid results, the zoo had to cull the remaining 10-strong herd of Kafue Flats lechwe.
The Actiphage test has the ability to identify TB and other mycobacterial diseases in animals before clinical symptoms of infection are observed.
It can detect with high specificity the presence of any mycobacteria in animal blood within 6 hours in comparison to culturing mycobacteria, which can take up to 12 weeks.
The technology has been successfully applied to blood samples from 17 different species so far, including alpacas, deer, goats and badgers as well as exotic animals such as lions, giraffes and camels. Trials have confirmed PBD Biotech's assay can detect live mycobacteria in blood or milk samples at very high sensitivity, of less than 10 mycobacterial cells per ml of sample.
At the BVZS Congress, PBD Biotech's Director of R&D, Dr Swift, will share insights and findings from Actiphage studies.
He said: "The Actiphage detection method provides a major step change in the detection of viable mycobacteria and has the potential to revolutionise the control and understanding of mycobacterial diseases in zoo animals, wildlife and a range of other species.
"The use of bacteriophage means the test can detect mycobacteria before an immune response is fully developed, giving vets, zoo-keepers and other exotics experts a head start on the race to catch TB and other diseases in the hope of preventing the unnecessary cull of protected animals."
Arden Farms first to test deer for Johne's Disease using Actiphage
Arden Farms are the first to use the Actiphage® blood test to test their herd of Red Deer for Johne's Disease. This wasting condition is difficult to detect as it can lay dormant in the animal for many years until...
Arden Farms are the first to use the Actiphage® blood test to test their herd of Red Deer for Johne's...
Bovine tuberculosis in camelids and other species
Bovine tuberculosis is a chronic, infectious disease caused by the slow growing bacterium Mycobacterium bovis. It can infect humans, livestock, wildlife, and exotic species.
Bovine tuberculosis is a chronic, infectious disease caused by the slow growing bacterium Mycobacterium bovis. It can infect humans, livestock,...
Actiphage reveals early-stage active TB infection in lions
Introducing new animals to an existing group brings a risk of disease; however there are few validated screening tests for many exotic species. A new study in endangered Asiatic lions shows the benefit of using Actiphage®, a new diagnostic that...
Introducing new animals to an existing group brings a risk of disease; however there are few validated screening tests for...
Dairy Sheep and Goat Conference to hear about new bovine TB and Johne's test
Vet Yoav Alony Gilboa, Chair of the Dairy Sheep and Goat Conference, believes PBD Biotech's Actiphage shows promise as a rapid test for Johne's disease and bovine TB.
Vet Yoav Alony Gilboa, Chair of the Dairy Sheep and Goat Conference, believes PBD Biotech's Actiphage shows promise as a...


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Christopher Riccio and Erik Bryant have joined Ziemer Stayman Weitzel & Shoulders, LLP as associate attorneys.
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Chris Riccio's practice is focused on civil litigation, family law, and municipal law. Chris, a native of Owensboro, Kentucky, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Wake Forest University in 2012 with Honors with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a minor in Chemistry. While at Wake Forest University, he was inducted as a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and received the Jack D. Fleer Award for Excellence in Honors in Political Science, which is given to the graduating senior who has qualified for Honors and is deemed by a departmental committee to have written the best senior thesis. Before law school, he interned in Washington, D.C. in the United States Senate. Chris obtained his law degree from Duke University School of Law in 2017. Chris is licensed to practice law in Indiana and Kentucky.
Erik Bryant's practice is focused on a wide range of civil litigation matters, including corporate defense and municipal law. Erik, an Evansville native, graduated from Wabash College in 2014 with a major in Spanish and a minor in Rhetoric. As an undergraduate, Erik also participated on the baseball team and studied abroad in Valencia, Spain, where he gained valuable speaking skills in the Spanish language. Erik received his law degree from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. During his time in law school, Erik served as a clerk in the chambers of the Honorable Judge Melissa S. May and assisted in the drafting of appellate opinions. Erik also worked as a clerk for the Office of the Indiana Attorney General ("OIAG") in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. After successfully passing the Indiana Bar Exam, Erik served as a Deputy Attorney General handling cases from nearly every section of the OIAG, including Consumer Protection Litigation, Medical Licensing Enforcement Litigation, Criminal and Civil Appeals, Asset Recovery and Bankruptcy Litigation, Administrative and Regulatory Enforcement Litigation, and Correctional Litigation. Erik is licensed to practice law in Indiana.
If you would like more information about Chris Riccio, please call Mr. Riccio at (812) 424-7575 or email him at criccio@zsws.com.
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module Clockface
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    let(:task) { create(:task) }

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    it "renders the flash" do
      render
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    end

    it "renders the heading" do
      render
      expect(page).to have_content(t("clockface.tasks.edit.heading").downcase)
    end

    it "renders the back link" do
      render
      link = page.find(
        ".tasks-edit__heading-banner .tasks-edit__heading-banner-link"
      )

      expect(link["href"]).to eq(clockface.tasks_path)
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    end

    it "renders the tasks form" do
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Stacey Abrams calls Kemp investigation into Georgia Democrats a 'witch hunt'
Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Monday her Republican opponent, Georgia Secret...
Posted: Nov 6, 2018 5:38 AM
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Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Monday her Republican opponent, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, was abusing his power by investigating the Georgia Democratic Party over what his office describes as an attempt to hack the state's voter registration system.
Georgia Democrats have vehemently denied the claim. A series of email chains obtained by CNN late Sunday indicate that, rather than taking part in any alleged "hack," the Georgia Democrats had simply passed along information about security concerns from a voter to a private cybersecurity firm, which in turn shared the issue with Kemp's office.
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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement Monday that its Georgia Cyber Crime Center had opened a criminal investigation at the request of Kemp's office.
As secretary of state, Kemp is overseeing an election in which he is also running, and he has resisted calls to step aside to avoid potential conflicts of interest.
"It's wrong to call it an investigation," Abrams told CNN's John Berman on "New Day." "It's a witch hunt that was created by someone who is abusing his power."
Abrams pointed to a recent federal lawsuit in which Kemp was accused of failing to secure his state's voting system and allowing a massive breach that exposed voter records and other sensitive election information.
"Instead of owning up to it, taking responsibility and seeking a way to fix the flaw, he instead decided to blame Democrats, because he does that," Abrams said. "He doesn't take accountability, he doesn't take responsibility -- what he does instead is find someone else to blame."
"It's a complete and utter fabrication," she added.
Kemp defended the move in comments to reporters Monday after a rally, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
"I'm not worried about how it looks. I'm doing my job," Kemp said. "This is how we would handle any investigation when something like this comes up. Because I can assure you if I hadn't done anything and the story came out that something was going on, you'd be going 'Why didn't you act?' "
In a press release Sunday morning, Candice Broce, a Kemp spokeswoman, would not comment on "the specifics of an ongoing investigation" but confirmed that the state Democratic Party was "under investigation for possible cyber crimes."
The Secretary of State's Office later said the decision to launch the investigation was made after "receiving information from our legal team about failed efforts to breach the online voter registration system and My Voter Page."
Broce said the office immediately alerted the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. The FBI declined to comment.
Kemp's allegations came amid a surge of voter enthusiasm ahead of Tuesday's election.
Early voting has exploded in Georgia. Fewer than a million people voted early in 2014, the most recent midterm election, according to data provided to CNN by the political research firm Catalist. More than 2 million have voted early in 2018, either in person or by mail, according to the Georgia Secretary of State's office.
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Abrams acknowledges Kemp win in Georgia race
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Sports minister visits Asian Games athletes at nat'l training center
JINCHEON, South Korea, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- Sports Minister Do Jong-whan visited South Korean athletes preparing for the Asian Games at the national training venue Thursday.
Do met with the athletes in volleyball, judo, boxing, taekwondo and karate at the Jincheon National Training Center in Jincheon, about 90 kilometers south of Seoul, and was also briefed on South Korea's preparations for the Aug. 18-Sept. 2 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia.
Do also spoke with players on the unified Korean women's basketball team, which is made up of nine South Koreans and three North Koreans.
The Koreas will also have joint teams in dragon boat racing, a canoeing discipline, and three events in rowing. The canoeists and rowers began training together at Chungju Tangeum Lake International Rowing Center in Chungju, 150 kilometers south of Seoul, earlier this week, and Do visited them Tuesday.
At Jincheon, Do mingled with athletes in other sports as he had lunch with them in the cafeteria.
"You are the pride of the nation," Do addressed the athletes and coaches. "I hope you will all achieve the desired results, and send a message of peace and harmony at the Asian Games."
South Korea will send 960 athletes and officials for 39 sports to Indonesia.
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It was kind of a gloomy morning, but it was still a really nice day.
found a perfect shell treasure that made her day.
All in all it was just a nice morning outing.


Traditionally, wood-burning freestanding stoves were used in ski cabins and lodges, but today thanks to new design concepts they have become a welcome addition to any home.
Wood-burning stoves can be installed in any room of your house, but most often they are placed in living or dining rooms, as well as in patios. While traditional fireplaces generally work as a piece of décor, free-standing wood-burning stoves are generally used for more practical purposes, namely, for heating and even cooking. Thanks to new designs, your wood-burning stove will look attractive and still remain perfectly functional. Because it isn't attached to the wall, a wood-burning stove will radiate more heat throughout a small or large room.
When picking a place to put your new stove, avoid traffic areas such as doors. A stove surrounded by windows may be a good solution. The fire chamber door should face the room. Don't forget to take stovepipe requirements into the account, making sure they are in compliance with your local building codes. Since wood-burning stoves are not strictly fireplaces, they don't require any clearance between the fire chamber and surrounding combustible materials, such as wood or fabric.
Conventional wood-burning stoves vary in heat efficiency because their construction can be very different, too. The efficiency of a wood-burning stove depends on how much of its combustion energy turns to heat, which in its turn depends on how well it burns wood. Even the best wood-burning stoves don't burn all wood completely. The smoke is actually composed of unburned wood particles. Another factor that impacts the wood-burning stove's efficiency is how much heat escapes through the chimney.
To improve the efficiency of your wood-burning stove, consider a chimney sweep in the first place. This should be done by a professional fireplace expert. If you noticed that a lot of smoke is produced during the wood burning, you may need to alter the size of your stove opening, or reconfigure the existing fire chamber. If you notice that a lot of hot air escapes through the chimney, you may consider replacing the fire basket - the metal rack that supports the burning logs. New designs of fire baskets can greatly improve air circulation and heat efficiency.


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I have a new friend I've known less than a month and she wants me to diy make her a guest book for her wedding that's in less than 40 days I'm gonna mail it to her ... What should I charge her ? Its just a one time thung and I could use the money. I've made a few books before ! Thanks y'all !!
PS how do I make the Libes for the guest book ??
Idk but make sure she pays before you send it.
A guest book? Did your Hallmark Store close? How many pages?
Seems like it's a computer project.
Thanks mrsmiller! She wants it handmade !
It would depend on the time you spend and the cost of material you use.
Maybe just make it a gift.
That was my thoughts too Don. Whenever I make anything for anyone I know, its a gift.
However, the supplies are expensive - if it was not in my budget to do a book for someone else, I would ask for supplies be reimbursed.
I feel very blessed that the books I've done for other people, I have been able to give them all as gifts. But if budget was tight, I would ask for supplies.


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Spain announces extended holiday leave for working parents to spend more time with their children
Spain's government has announced details of a wide-ranging family bill which will allow working parents more time off to spend with their children.
The package unveiled in Madrid by social rights minister, Ione Belarra, on Tuesday would permit up to nine days of paid caregiver leave a year.
It would also extend family rights to people living under the same roof, even if they have no formal family ties.
Employers would have to pay for the extra leave which would put Spain well ahead of most countries in enforcing such a concept.
Ione Belarra said: "We are asking parents to be superheroes, and my intention with this law is that they can just be mums and dads, which is asking them enough as it is."
If passed by Congress, the family law would also increase the right to paid leave from two to five days a year for any worker whose close relatives are ill or hospitalised.
It also accommodates four days paid leave a year for parents to deal with unforeseen emergencies regarding their families.
Another eight weeks of unpaid leave would be made available annually for parents to take care of their children until they are eight years old.
Belarra said this was designed to help parents care for children during the long summer school holidays.
The change would be phased in with six weeks leave next year rising a further two weeks in 2024.
The law would also give the same benefits in education and transport discounts to single-parent households with two or more children that are currently available for families of two parents and three or more youngsters.