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Translating for the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Posted by Dynamic Language on July 10, 2018
One of the most important sporting events is scheduled to occur on July 15, 2018. The world will watch as teams face off in the 21st FIFA World Cup. This massive event attracts viewers from around the world, making its translation incredibly important.
How Soccer Has Influenced the World
Many countries across the world participate in soccer, or football as it is called in most of the world. There are more than 265 million active players. Many families cite the importance of the sport in their lives from playing as young children to watching games on a regular basis surrounded around the television. Players of the sport say that the soccer brings their people together. The World Cup offers an equalizer in which smaller countries like South Korea, Japan, Algeria, Slovakia and Honduras can compete on an equal footing against larger countries with more prominent athletes. The World Cup offers a collective viewing experience to the world. Billions of viewers will anxiously watch this event. Viewership is further enhanced because FIFA provides free-to-air-broadcasting, allowing the event to achieve maximum audience participation.
Importance of Translation
The World Cup is comprised of 32 teams from countries around the world. FIFA's language services department estimates that half of the world will watch the World Cup. However, the official languages of FIFA only include four languages: English, Spanish, French and German. Other prominent languages that make up FIFA representation include Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Korean, Dutch, Croatian, Arabic and Russian. Since the event will be held in Russia this year, it is critical that translators are available to communicate the events to the 144 million Russian speakers in Europe and the 260 million people who speak Russian around the globe. Russia has developed a remote translation centre in Moscow where press conferences can be translated in as many as nine languages at a time.
An event with such a large global following and many languages being spoken by players and fans is only made possible by translators and interpreters working behind the scenes. FIFA relies on its language services department, outsourced translators and volunteers to provide translation services for the global event. The language services department alone interprets approximately three million words per language per year. They translate for hundreds of events surrounding the World Cup. Translators serve important functions during the event, including interviewing players after the game, translating marketing materials, providing information about upcoming matches and accommodating people in hospitality industries. More than 150,000 volunteers are estimated to be providing translation services for the World Cup.
Translating during these events can be complex because of the great number of languages. Additionally, each team may have its own soccer-specific slang, which can make interpreting these comments even more difficult.
Staying Connected during the World Cup
Some ways that fans can stay connected during the World Cup include:
Translation Apps
For fans who will be on the ground in Moscow, translation apps can help ease the language barrier. Translation apps can serve as a powerful tool for tourists who need to get around the city, check into their hotel, find transportation and making their way to the stadium.
Today's viewers are more connected than ever through social media. The World Cup attracts fans from all over the world who have different language backgrounds. Social media is a place for fans to connect with each other and follow their favorite teams. Due to these reasons, translation of social media should be considered an essential part of fan engagement.
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Q: Has the existence of anyons been experimentally verified? I've been wondering whether there has been any experimental evidence for the existence of anyons or are they just objects of purely mathematical interest?

A: The only direct experimental evidence for anyons which the scientific community broadly accepts is the evidence described here for $\nu = 1/3$ Laughlin states in the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Experimental evidence for nonabelian anyons (which are necessary for universal topological quantum computing) is much weaker.  The only promising lead seems to be the possible observation of Majorana zero modes trapped at the ends of superconducting wires, as described by the theoretical model of the Kitaev chain.  There are two broad classes of systems that may have been found to support these: (a) indium antimonide wires studied at the University of Delft and subsequently duplicated at other institutions, and (b) ferromagnetic iron-atom chains studied at Princeton University.
(If I recall correctly, a year or two ago the Delft group improved their experiment to bring the zero-bias conductivity peak measurement - the key finding in support of Majorana zero modes - exactly in line with the theoretical prediction, but I don't have a citation for that.)

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As Roseville, Calif.'s public works director, Rob Jensen hears plenty of complaints about his growing community's problems with traffic congestion. But,
Written by Robert Barkin
As Roseville, Calif.'s public works director, Rob Jensen hears plenty of complaints about his growing community's problems with traffic congestion. But, when he proposed a solution at one intersection — to allow three lanes of traffic to turn left on the same signal — neighborhood associations did not buy the idea.
So, last year, he suggested a test at one stoplight in the Highland Reserve neighborhood, and Rita Brohman, the president of the neighborhood association, agreed to the experiment. "Instantly, it made a difference," she says. Now, triple left turn lanes are an accepted way to resolve traffic congestion in Roseville.
Brohman says that Jensen's willingness to listen to residents' concerns and find ways to meet them is just one example of his skill at dealing with people. "[The neighborhood groups] went to the city council and presented him with a trophy," she says. "He is just awesome."
The introduction and acceptance of triple-lane turns in Roseville is one of a host of Jensen's significant accomplishments in 2006, a year that City Manager Craig Robinson likens to "a triple play." Roseville also received federal recognition for its flood control efforts, completed a major reconstruction of a key intersection, and installed a traffic synchronization system that regulates about half of the city's traffic signals.
As with many large public works projects, the milestones completed in 2006 began years — in some cases decades — ago. In all of the projects, though, Jensen was deeply involved in designing and implementing the significant changes that have transformed the city's infrastructure. For his leadership and management skills during an extraordinary year, American City & County has named Jensen the 2007 Public Works Director of the Year.
Over troubled waters
Characteristically, Jensen, 46, attributes the achievements to a "team effort," involving not only his department but also city officials, neighbors and regional leaders. But, those who work with him say that Jensen's breadth of knowledge and his ability to convey complicated concepts in simple terms is critical to the city's success. "He is one of the smartest individuals you will ever meet," Robinson says. "But, he has an unassuming, 'Aw shucks' style that makes him extremely approachable. He's a great leader and a great manager."
Jensen's education began when he arrived in Roseville in 1990, soon after graduating with a civil engineering degree from the University of Nevada in Reno. He was interested in land development, California was booming, and working in the public sector meant he could help design growth policies that would suit the needs of developers and residents.
He was hired by then-Public Works Director Larry Pagel as an assistant engineer, charged with ensuring that development plans met city standards, and moved up in the department until he was a senior engineer. In 2002, when Pagel retired, Jensen was selected to replace him.
In the last 17 years, Roseville has doubled in size to more than 100,000 residents and has become a regional shopping destination, drawing from the entire Sacramento area. The economy has grown, as well, with many residents now working in Roseville rather than commuting to Sacramento.
With the growth, however, has come a host of issues that the city has asked Jensen and his public works team to resolve within the constraints of limited budgets while maintaining friendly relations with neighboring communities. By far, the city's most ambitious project is a two-decades long effort to eliminate major flooding, which caused more than $13 million in damage in two events in 1986 and 1995. Though the project began before his arrival, Jensen has been immersed in the improvements since he began working for the city.
Flooding in Roseville was the result of overflows of seven creeks running through the city that empty into Dry Creek, a tributary to the Sacramento River. During the 1986 storm, more than 350 structures were damaged by the high waters, including entire homes that were submerged. All of the affected structures were built before 1980.
After that, the city council asked for a complete map of the flood plain and mandated that all new homes be built at least two feet above the flood line. However, that still left large sections of the city vulnerable to flooding, which occurred again in 1995. After a visit from President Bill Clinton, and with the assistance of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the city began a thorough effort to eliminate the flooding problem in its neighborhoods.
Since 1995, the city has completed $20 million in flood control improvements through city and FEMA funding. Projects included replacing culverts, removing homes along creeks, and building new bridges and floodwalls. As a result, the city has protected 481 of the 569 structures in the flood plain and reduced the flooding risk for 56 others.
In addition to the construction, the city lifted 26 homes above the flood line, allowing water to pass under the homes rather than through their living rooms. Roseville also installed a flood alert system that includes rain and stream level gauges, and a computer monitoring system that warns residents of pending dangers.
With the flood control projects completed last year, Roseville received a FEMA "Class 1" flood protection rating — the only such rating in the nation. With FEMA's top rating, homeowners will save up to 45 percent on their flood insurance premiums, amounting to hundreds of dollars each year.
Jensen calls the cross-divisional project a "cohesive response" to the dangers of flooding in the city and says that some staff in his department have devoted their entire careers to the project. "We work closely with the city planners to make sure that all new projects meet the requirements," he says. "All the departments work together collaboratively."
While perhaps not as dramatic as flooding, traffic congestion directly affects most city residents. With more than 50,000 vehicles passing through Roseville's streets daily, there are often bothersome backups. Jensen led a broad task force of city, Placer County and state highway officials in completing a $40 million interchange project at the city's busiest intersection, which required an extensive two-year reconstruction of highway entrances, and construction of a new system of flyovers and tunnels that took traffic out of the intersection before it could back up onto Interstate 80.
The city also installed a $13 million Intelligent Transportation System, consisting of a fiber optic cable network with connections at each intersection, which allows engineers to monitor traffic flow and signal operations from city hall. By installing the fiber optic traffic signaling system, coordinating traffic flows and changing the structure of key intersections, the city has saved thousands of hours of wait time, Jensen says.
Working with residents on solving traffic problems has been a major component of Jensen's work for the city. In one contentious roadway-widening project, he held a series of about a dozen meetings over a year, which helped him understand residents' concerns, educated them about the changes and reduced their anxieties. The series began with considerable opposition from residents and officials, but eventually resistance transformed into support, and finally the city council adopted all recommendations to improve the roadway.
"You begin this job thinking that you will sit behind a desk all day and crunch numbers," Jensen says. "But I learned as I went along that it's critical to gain the public trust, to get residents' buy-in to move forward. I didn't want to be a public speaker, but I learned it's a key component of the job."
Brohman says that the ability to discuss issues with Jensen and his staff makes his department popular with civic associations. "His availability and accessibility mean that anyone can have a voice," she says. "You can't always affect the change you want, but you know you're being heard."
City Manager Robinson praises Jensen and his department for their work on finding solutions to traffic congestion. "It could have been a problem politically," he says. "He implemented a strategy that was critical to the city, and he deserves tremendous credit."
More than an engineer
Jensen did not always want to be an engineer. In fact, he began college as a music major, playing piano, but decided to change course. He still plays piano, supporting local choirs and performing at library events. "It lets people view me as more than an engineer," he says.
There are moments, though, when he can see the results of his efforts to make a difference in the community. In 2005, when much of the flood control project was completed, another storm hit the city. The hardest downpour came at night, and Jensen could not sleep, so he went out to one of the previously hardest hit neighborhoods to see how the new project was holding up.
When he got there, the neighbors were outside admiring the city's handiwork. "I was euphoric," he says, as the water rushed, controlled, under bridges and within creek banks. "There are studies and designs, but until it's tested, you don't know if it works."
Residents came up and patted him on the back, saying, "Great job." "It was awesome," he says about the flood control effort that night. "It worked perfectly. For an engineer, it was like Barry Bonds hitting number 714."
Robinson predicts that the city will grow from its current 105,000 residents to more than 175,000 in the next 20 years and that the population in the surrounding region will reach nearly 250,000. To accommodate that growth, Roseville will need a broader public transportation system and infrastructure to meet the needs of an expanding university system in the area. "Our plate is very full," he says, "and I am very happy that Rob is leading that effort."
Robert Barkin is a Bethesda, Md.-based freelance writer.
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Lenovo settles lawsuits with 32 states over Superfish
06 Sep 2017 6 Cryptography, Privacy, Security threats, Vulnerability, Windows
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by Kim Crawley
From August 2014 to December 2014, Lenovo sold laptops that had Visual Discovery spyware pre-installed, as Naked Security's Paul Ducklin discussed back in February 2015. Visual Discovery is software that's developed by Superfish, which describes itself as a marketing company.
Visual Discovery compares images you see in your web browser to its massive cloud database of images. A compared image is then associated with a related image. For example, if I were looking at a picture of the North American cover of Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2 for the PSVita, Visual Discovery could possibly link it to an image of the North American cover of Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 3. If I hadn't already purchased that game, Superfish's adware could remind me that the game exists. If, hypothetically, Neptunia publisher Idea Factory International were one of Superfish's clients, Superfish would make some ad revenue from them.
If a Lenovo customer agreed to have Visual Discovery installed on their laptop for whatever reason, there would have been less of an ethical problem. But a lot of people who bought Lenovo laptops in the last quarter of 2014 were unaware that what amounted to spyware was pre-installed on their Windows OEM PCs.
It gets worse. Visual Discovery isn't a web browser plugin. The Lenovo laptops in question were designed to send all web traffic to a Superfish proxy server regardless of which web browser the customer uses. Here's where the major cybersecurity problem comes into play. Visual Discovery performed as a man in the middle for all HTTPS connections. Ducklin wrote:
Instead of treating your HTTPS traffic as sacrosanct, and leaving it alone so it remains end-to-end encrypted all the way from the server to your browser, Superfish uses keybridging, also known as Man in The Middle, or MiTM.
The Superfish MiTM works pretty much as the name suggests.
When your browser connects to, say, https://example.com/, the connection is handled directly by Visual Discovery.
Your encrypted connection actually terminates inside Superfish's filter.
The filter then connects onwards to https://example.com/ and grabs the content on your behalf (that's why this sort of software is called a "proxy"), using an HTTPS connection of its own.
Of course, that means the HTTPS replies from example.com actually terminate inside the filter, too, so your traffic is unencrypted, both outbound and inbound, with the result that Superfish can read it…
Your browser thinks it made an end-to-end encrypted connection, and in a sense it did, except that the other end of the connection was not the example.com server – it was the Superfish filter on your own computer."
Also, Superfish's spyware was configured in such a way that users would not be notified of a TLS (for HTTPS) certificate problem, because Superfish itself was signing certificates. That's a clever – and dislikeable – MiTM attack.
Once this was discovered and widely discussed, users were urged to uninstall Visual Discovery via Programs and Features in Windows' Control Panel. By early 2015, according to Lenovo, the company had ceased selling laptops with Superfish's unwelcome additions.
Fast forward to now, September 2017, and Lenovo has settled a lawsuit from the US's Federal Trade Commission, the state of Connecticut, and 31 other American states, for $3.5m. Said acting FTC chairman Maureen Ohlhausen:
Lenovo compromised consumers' privacy when it preloaded software that could access consumers' sensitive information without adequate notice or consent to its use. This conduct is even more serious because the software compromised online security protections that consumers rely on.
Lenovo said in response:
While Lenovo disagrees with allegations contained in these complaints, we are pleased to bring this matter to a close after two and a half years. To date, we are not aware of any actual instances of a third party exploiting the vulnerabilities to gain access to a user's communications.
Hopefully this sets a precedent within the PC manufacturing industry, as well as the mobile device manufacturing industry. Preloading adware that could compromise user security might look like a tempting way to make extra profit from PCs, which have notoriously slim profit margins. But compromising user security isn't worth it.
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Poor choice for a title image, the Think Pad line was the one line of Lenovo PCs that didn't have Superfish installed.
Kate Bevan says:
You have a point – we don't have a great choice of images for this story but I've changed it. Thank you!
Lenovo: "we are not aware of any actual instances of a third party exploiting the vulnerabilities to gain access to a user's communications"
Well, of course aside the third parties who exploited these vulnerabilities by asking us to do it for them…by proxy, if you will.
"That's a clever – and dislikeable – MiTM attack."
I would edit that line to change "dislikeable" to "despicable".
On another note, speaking of MitM, here's yet another case of government jumping in the middle to grab the money and not doling it out to those who were the actual victims.
Zakiyah says:
Will any of this $3.5 be paid out to consumers? And what about Lenovo users outside the US – does anyone know what options they have?
Leopold says:
I would certainly appreciate learning what my UK based options are. I discovered that "LenovoCustomerFeedbackProgram64" was running in the BIOS of a brand new Lenovo IdeaPad 500 I bought last year, and was obliged to download a third party app to remove it.. but not before experiencing serious problems. LenovoCustomerFeedbackProgram64 was a sequel to Superfish
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FRANKLIN, Tex. (KBTX) - William Rabe, 46, is being charged with murder after investigators say he shot another man at close range.
According to Robertson County Sheriff's investigators, the victim is Terry Darnell, Jr., 35, from Franklin. Rabe and Darnell were at a crawfish party Saturday when they started to fight.
According to court documents, the two men started to fight around 1:00 a.m. Sunday. Rabe was asked to leave by the property owner, but he returned 10 minutes later. That's when investigators say he shot Darnell from about 10 feet away.
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Q: Thymeleaf: validation error by field Using Thymeleaf + Spring and form validation, I want to display errors that are related to a field next to this field.
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Second language acquisition (SLA) is a hot field of study that has attracted interest from a wide range of groups: the military, international businesses, and education technology startups.
Dr. Barbara Oakley (pictured), a professor of engineering at UCSD, has described how she used her skills in learning a language (Russian) to excel at math. Her course on "learning how to learn," in which she expands on this idea, is one of the most popular on Coursera. Some of the core ideas of SLA look poised to become buzzwords in all of education, and with good reason.
It used to be thought that learning a second language as a child would hurt a child's performance in their native language. The idea was that there would be too much information for the child to digest. Two silly ideas supported this notion: one, that learning a language is about memorizing a certain quantity of information and two, that people are like computers.
A potential blind spot in this research is the focus on a "second" language. Third language acquisition researchers (a very new field) have found some interesting results: bilinguals are better at picking up a third language than monolinguals, which should be expected if we are treating language as a skill rather than a set of things to memorize. SLA researchers take it as fact that the more similar the second language, the easier it is to pick up. But it seems (with some complications, of course) that a wide difference between the first and second language arms the learner with skills that make it easier to learn a third language.
An elegant argument for a broad education.


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Flora Borsi
is a young fine art photographer from Hungary.
She uses exquisite photo manipulation to create surreal images that are thematically focused on identity, relationships, emotions and dreams. Her immaculate technique and subtle conceptual ideas create beautiful evocations of universal emotions, from lust and desire to despair and loss. Flora at once captures the complex strength and fragility of the human psyche. She expertly visualises dark fantasies and atmospheric dreams, utilising the uncanny and clever metaphor, while unlocking what it means to think, feel, dream and express in the urban world. Her work often features the female body and she plays with hiding and revealing the eyes or face to leave only the feminine form, exploring questions of female representation and the relationship between body and self. Flora has exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions in Europe and the USA, and has most notably taken part in the recent "Continental Shift" group exhibition at Saatchi Gallery. Her ethereal aesthetic has won multiple art prizes and garnered critical acclaim from press including The Guardian's Observer and BBC Culture.
We featured Flora Borsi a few years ago here and here.
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Reply June 2, 2015
Graydon Wilson
Articles published in April 2014 and in June 2014 are not "a few years ago". But I'm nonetheless glad to see you giving Flóra another go. She's truly imaginative and resourceful and glad to have found her art.


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There are at least 178 named lakes and reservoirs in Carbon County, Montana.

Lakes
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 Elpestrine Lake, , el.
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 Frosty Lake, , el.
 Gallery Lake, , el.
 Ghost Lake, , el.
 Glissade Lake, , el.
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 Golden Lake, , el.
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 Hairpin Lake, , el.
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 Lake Elaine, , el.
 Lake Gertrude, , el.
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 Lake Susanne, , el.
 Lake Sylvan, , el.
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 Lower Arch Lake, , el.
 Lower Basin Creek Lake, , el.
 Mariane Lake, , el.
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 Martin Lake, , el.
 Martin Lake, , el.
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 Medicine Lake, , el.
 Moon Lake, , el.
 Navajo Tarn, , el.
 North Hidden Lake, , el.
 Nymph Lake, , el.
 Oly Lake, , el.
 Omega Lake, , el.
 Otter Lake, , el.
 Ouzel Lake, , el.
 Pat Lake, , el.
 Picket Lake, , el.
 Planaria Lake, , el.
 Pleiades Lakes, , el.
 Rachel Lake, , el.
 Rainbow Lake, , el.
 Red Rock Lakes, , el.
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 Robble Lake, , el.
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 Russell Lake, , el.
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 Scat Lake, , el.
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 Senal Lake, , el.
 September Morn Lake, , el.
 Shadow Lake, , el.
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 Sheep Lake, , el.
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 Ship Lake, , el.
 Shrew Lake, , el.
 Shrimp Lake, , el.
 Silt Lakes, , el.
 Silver Run Lakes, , el.
 Silver Tarn, , el.
 Sky Pilot Lake, , el.
 Sliderock Lake, , el.
 Slough Lake, , el.
 Smethurst Lake, , el.
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 Wand Lake, , el.
 Whitcomb Lake, , el.
 Widewater Lake, , el.
 Widowed Lake, , el.
 Wild Bill Lake, , el.
 Wright Lake, , el.
 Z Lake, , el.

Reservoirs
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 Cooney Reservoir, , el.
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 Depression Reservoir, , el.
 Glacier Lake, , el.
 Glacier Lake, , el.
 Hunters Reservoir, , el.
 Jones Reservoir, , el.
 Monroe Reservoir, , el.
 Shupak Ponds, , el.
 V O Reservoir, , el.

See also
 List of lakes in Montana

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Oh, wow, that looks amazing!
Oh, this slow cooked egg thing is really going round. I saw it a while ago and did it at home (with much impatience). I read somewhere that the concept originated from eggs being placed in hot springs in Japan which were at that temperature. But, who knows?
I am just regurgitating, badly.
Catherine you minx I am totally taking you there for brunch one day. John and I both reckon you'd love it. Maybe when they reopen in Jan, eh?
Hey bunches, love your theory re Japanese hot springs. I haven't tried making them at home yet... my cooking utensils are pretty primitive and I tend to have very little patience watching a pot of water.
Feel free to regurgitate anytime!
The shady deal is simply sensational.
That being said, we've dropped off the radar since the menu change - we miss those beans.


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Pittsburgh gun safety proposal would ban semiautomatic rifles
Tags: gun preemption, Pennsylvania, state preemption
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December 14, 2018-
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto was joined by Gov. Tom Wolf, members of City Council and state Democratic lawmakers Friday in proposing legislation that would ban semiautomatic rifles and certain ammunition and firearms accessories within city limits. Citing the 11 people killed in the Oct. 27 mass shooting at Squirrel Hill's Tree of Life synagogue, Peduto said the ban is necessary to protect the safety and welfare of Pittsburgh residents. He vowed to build a coalition among municipalities and residents across the nation to fend off legal challenges from gun rights activists that are certain to come. Peduto said he's written letters to more than 100 cities seeking support.
"We intend to work not only in this council chamber but across the state of Pennsylvania in council chambers, in every town and village across this state, to get the support that is needed to change the laws in Harrisburg, but we won't stop there," Peduto said.
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heard on WLLH this coming season, according to the team's general manager.
the new radio home of the Spinners and listing the ad packages available.
team, Drew Weber, who indeed confirmed the deal.
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«Faith» —en español: Fe— es una canción del cantautor Stevie Wonder, junto a Ariana Grande. Forma parte del soundtrack de la película animada de 2016 Sing. La canción fue escrita por Ryan Tedder, Benny Blanco y Francis Farewell Starlite.

Producción
La canción fue anunciada como el primer sencillo de Sing: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, con el cantante y compositor estadounidense Stevie Wonder y la cantante estadounidense Ariana Grande.

Recepción
La canción estuvo nominada como Mejor Canción Original en la ceremonia 74 de los Golden Globe Awards.

Video musical
Un video musical fue lanzado en diciembre de 2016, en el aparecen los dos intérpretes de la canción junto con algunos de los personajes animados de la película.

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Monthly Science & Research Report for August 2020
by MPI | Aug 17, 2020 | Blog
By Dr. Derick Pasternak, Malaria Partners International Malaria Science & Research Coordinator
With the proliferation of web-based publications, information on biomedical sciences is becoming much more broadly-based, but also fragmented. It is no longer sufficient to study the National Library of Medicine website, nor the once limited number of general scientific publications (Science, Nature, etc.). The result is that at times articles that may have been missed will show up in the secondary references in recent publications. Such is the case of an article in this report, seen below in the Prevention category. Another necessary consequence is that of the articles published one has to make certain choices, so that this summary of the literature remain useful to the reader.
Two articles by Wadi and colleagues (one from 2019) discuss the implications of finding agents that prevent the transmission of malaria. They are : Recent Advances in Transmission-Blocking Drugs for Malaria Elimination, Future Med Chem 2019 Dec;11(23):3047-3088. doi: 10.4155/fmc-2019-0225 and Malaria Transmission-Blocking Drugs: Implications and Future Perspectives, Future Med Chem 2020 Jun;12(11):1071-1101. doi: 10.4155/fmc-2020-0026. Abstracts are available.
Troye-Blomberg and colleagues summarize discoveries from investigations of ethnic groups of West Africa who have different susceptibility to malaria in What Will Studies of Fulani Individuals Naturally Exposed to Malaria Teach Us About Protective Immunity to Malaria? Scand J Immunol, 2020 Jul 11;e12932. doi: 10.1111/sji.12932.
Malaria in the Pregnant Traveler, J Travel Med, 2020 Jul 14;27(4) discusses the imperative of prevention strategies of pregnant travelers in view of the risk of severe illness and pregnancy complications. The 9-page article is available for review.
In view of the recent Malaria Partners International interest in working in the Gambia, Knudsen et al.'s article, Measuring Ventilation in Different Typologies of Rural Gambian Houses: A Pilot Experimental Study, Malaria Journal 2020 vol. 19, Article # 273, which discusses implications of bed-net use, is of interest.
Bromeliad malaria is primarily a condition in the Caribbean and surrounding areas. It is spread by a subgenus of Anopheles. Control of these vectors is discussed in Multini et al., Neotropical Anopheles (Kerteszia) Mosquitoes Associated with Bromeliad-Malaria Transmission in a Changing World, Acta Trop, 2020 May;205:105413.
Mbanefo & al.'s paper, Evaluation of Malaria Diagnostic Methods as a Key for Successful Control and Elimination Programs, Trop Med Infect Dis, 2020 Jun 19;5(2):102, reviews and highlights the importance of accurate, sensitive and affordable diagnostic methods in the fight against malaria. "Currently used diagnostic methods include microscopy, rapid diagnostic tests (RDT), and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Upcoming methods were identified as loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA), isothermal thermophilic helicase-dependent amplification (tHDA), saliva-based test for nucleic-acid amplification, saliva-based test for Plasmodium protein detection, urine malaria test (UMT), and transdermal hemozoin detection. RDT, despite its increasing false negative, is still the most feasible diagnostic test because it is easy to use, fast, and does not need expensive equipment. Noninvasive tests that do not require a blood sample, but use saliva or urine, are some of the recent tests under development that have the potential to aid malaria control and elimination." The article is 15 pages long; it, and its abstract are available.
Plasmodium malariae infection does not carry implications of high mortality; nonetheless, as reported by Kotepui M, & al., Global Prevalence and Mortality of Severe Plasmodium malariae Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Malaria Journal 2020, vol. 19, Article # 274, some of the complications (anemia, kidney and lung damage) can be just as frequent with P. malariae as with P. falciparum.
Screening for malaria and treatment if appropriate in prenatal care in Tanzania are discussed by Walker and colleagues, Modelling the Incremental Benefit of Introducing Malaria Screening Strategies to Antenatal Care in Africa, Nature Communications 2020, vol. 11, Article # 3799. We have both the abstract and the article.
Two recent articles appear to draw conclusions that may or may not be consistent with each other about coexisting malaria and Burkitt's lymphoma in East Africa. While Redmond, & al., Endemic Burkitt Lymphoma: A Complication of Asymptomatic Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa Based on Published Literature and Primary Data from Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya, Malaria Journal 2 020, vol. 19, Article # 239, conclude on the basis of epidemiologic data that children with asymptomatic parasitemia/antigenemia may be the population at highest risk of endemic Burkitt's Lymphoma (eBL). On the other hand, Quintana and colleagues argue that exposure to P. falciparum appears to be essentially a prerequisite to the development of eBL, whereas other types of malaria parasites that infect humans have no impact. [They] summarize how malaria exposure may precipitate the malignant transformation of a B-cell clone that leads to eBL, and propose an explanation for why P. falciparum uniquely has this capacity. See Endemic Burkitt Lymphoma – An Aggressive Childhood Cancer Linked to Plasmodium falciparum Exposure, But Not to Exposure to Other Malaria Parasites, APMIS, 2020 Feb;128(2):129-135. doi: 10.1111/apm.13018. The entire former article and both abstracts are in our Library.
"The deployment of artesunate for severe malaria and the artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) for uncomplicated malaria has been a major advance in antimalarial therapeutics. These drugs have reduced treated mortality, accelerated recovery, and reduced treatment failure rates and transmission from the treated infection. Artemisinin derivatives remain highly effective against falciparum malaria in most malaria endemic areas but significant resistance has emerged in … Southeast Asia. Resistance to artemisinins was followed by resistance in the ACT partner drugs, and fit multidrug resistant parasite lineages have now spread widely across the region. … As new drugs will not become widely available in the near future, active measures to preserve the current antimalarials should be given the highest priority." In addition to this article, Hanboonkunupakam and White Advances and Roadblocks in the Treatment of Malaria, Br J Clin Pharmacol, 2020 Jul 12, doi: 10.1111/bcp.14474, two articles cited under Basic Research deal with artemisinin resistance, which will presumably not be confined to Asia for long.
"Despite potent anti-malarial treatment, mortality rates associated with severe falciparum malaria remain high. To attempt to improve outcome, several trials have assessed a variety of potential adjunctive therapeutics, however none to date has been shown to be beneficial. This may be due, at least partly, to the therapeutics chosen and clinical trial design used. [Varo et al.] highlight three themes that could facilitate the choice and evaluation of putative adjuvant interventions for severe malaria, paving the way for their assessment in randomized controlled trials." Clinical Trials to Assess Adjuvant Therapeutics for Severe Malaria, Malaria Journal Jul 2020, vol. 19, Article # 268. The abstract is available.
WHO published two major pamphlets: The Potential Impact of Health Service Disruptions on the Burden of Malaria: A Modeling Analysis for Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (44 pages) and Tailoring Malaria Interventions in the COVID-19 Response (34 pages), as well as an information sheet, WHO Urges Countries to Move Quickly to Save Lives from Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa. These issues are also reflected in Chiodini J, COVID-19 and the Impact on Malaria, Travel Med and Inf Dis, 2020 35:101758. All four publications are available in their entirety.
"As the Plasmodium parasite does not enter the brain, but resides inside erythrocytes and are confined to the lumen of the brain's vasculature, the neuropathogenesis leading to these neurologic sequelae is unclear and under-investigated. Interestingly, postmortem [cerebral malaria] pathology differs in brain regions, …" The article, Schiess & al., Pathophysiology and Neurologic Sequelae of Cerebral Malaria, Malaria Journal Jul 2020, vol. 19, Article # 266, focuses primarily on this conundrum.
Two articles on artemisinin resistance report on investigations of the basic mechanisms of that resistance. They are:
Imwong et al., Molecular Epidemiology of Resistance to Antimalarial Drugs in the Greater Mekong Subregion: An Observational Study, Lancet Inf Dis 2020 JU 14, https://doi.org/10.1016/ S1473-3099(20)30228-0 and
Blank BR & al., Antimalarial Trioxolanes with Superior Drug-Like Properties and In Vivo Efficacy, ACS Infect Dis 2020 Jul 10;6(7):1827-1835. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.0c00064.


My husband Paul and I paddled our canoe – its multiple leaks patched with generous amounts of duct-tape-- into Silver River State Park, located east of Ocala.
It proved to be an incredible journey.
The river is incredibly clear and deep in most spots, and it feels as if you are in the middle of a Tarzan movie. Cyprus trees with their knees folding up in huge tangles line the shores, and birds of all kinds call to each other and glide past in the air and on the water and even under the water. The diver types, anhingas, dry their wings by holding them stretched out from their sides as they perch on stumps or trees.
We saw the biggest gator we've even seen in the wild – we're guessing 13 feet – and enormous fish, plus tons of turtles. And then we spotted the monkeys! They jumped from tree to tree and played; one ran out on a log we pulled up to.
The monkeys aren't native, and apparently were placed on an island in the river during the 1930s by a concessionaire who operated the Jungle Cruise boat ride. The monkeys promptly escaped, because they can swim really well. Now they live in the neighboring forest.
If you want to explore Silver River, too, but you can't fit your paddles and boat in your suitcase, no worries. Canoe rentals are available from the park.
Other park activities include hiking or biking the nature trails and watching the birds and wildlife.
The picnic area features pavilions with grills and a playground for the youngsters. You can even camp there; the park features a full facility campground and 10 luxury cabins.


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Please click on the link below to print the HHS Link Leader application. Please fill out and submit by April 18th at 3:30 PM.
Whatever interview time you sign up for is your interview time. Everyone will get their first choice so please plan on being at your interview you signed up for.
Even when students feel safe and informed, they may not successfully transition into a new school if they do not develop a sense of connection. In every transition in our lives we need to feel a sense of connection to the new situation. This is true whether we are connecting to a new job, a new child, or a new reality in our own lives.
The more connected students are to their new school, the better they will do in all the measures that are important in tracking their success: grades, test scores, attendance, and discipline. All these measures are positively affected when students are connected.
Schools try to promote this crucial component of transition by offering co-curricular activities, athletics, and special events in the hopes that kids will connect. Unlike the two other components to a successful transition, this one is left to chance. Even the most robust co-curricular programs only involve a percentage of the students.
Link Crew creates a structure that connects every incoming freshman with a caring upperclassman from their first day through the end of their freshman year.


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Don't let DREAM die!
Last week the House took a historic and courageous action and voted to pass the urgently needed Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. However, the Senate is stalled because there is an insufficient number of members willing to permit a vote on the DREAM (S3992).
DREAM would allow young undocumented immigrants, who were brought to the United States before they turned 16, a path to U.S. citizenship.
That's why we need you to urge your Senator to support the DREAM Act. This bill provides a much-needed route to lawful citizenship to the country many immigrant young people call home - contact your Senator today, and demand that we do this right away!
CONTACT YOUR SENATOR NOW!
Call the Senate switchboard at (202) 224-3121.
Tell your senator that you want their VOTE for the DREAM Act.
Though all calls are necessary - if your senator is one of the following on this list - your voice is especially needed!
These members are considered to be "on the fence" and need an extra push to do what's right and vote for DREAM:
Bob Bennett (R-UT), 202-224-5444
Susan Collins (R-ME), 202-224-2523
Kay Hagan (D-NC), 202-224-6342
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), 202-224-5922
Landrieu (D-LA), 202-224-5824
Mary LeMieux (R-FL), 202-224-3041
Claire McCaskill (D-MO), 202-224-6154
Lisa Murkowski (R-AL), 202-224-6665
Olympia Snowe (R-ME), 202-224-5344
George Voinovich (R-OH), 202-224-3353
For more information on the DREAM Act, its impact on the economy and your community, please view the Immigration Policy Center's resource page.
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The number of hog lagoons at risk was updated from 80 to 110 at 4:16 p.m.
Flood damage from Hurricane Florence is jeopardizing roughly 110 of the state's 3,300 hog lagoons, but there is another route for waste to leave these farms: runoff from the sprayfields.
Farmers routinely pump waste from the lagoons onto the fields, which they use to grow hay and other crops to feed livestock. But spraying waste on saturated agricultural land violates both EPA regulations and the terms of the state general permits under which North Carolina's hog farms operate. When waste-laden water runs off these fields, it can contaminate nearby rivers, streams, wetlands or adjacent properties.
During a flyover of eastern North Carolina on Monday, Policy Watch observed at least two farms that were spraying waste from their hog lagoons, ostensibly to keep them from overflowing — an even more severe environmental disaster in its own right. From the air, it was unclear whether the farms were contracted with Smithfield or Prestage Farms. Riverkeepers reported at least a dozen more incidents of spraying, but Policy Watch has not been able to independently verify those accounts.
A Department of Environmental Quality spokeswoman said state inspectors couldn't yet get to the farms to follow up on their operations. The Fayetteville Regional Office, located downtown near Cross Creek, was evacuated. Regional offices in Washington and Wilmington are not fully functioning because of power outages and flooding.
It is also illegal to spray within 48 hours of the issuance of a hurricane watch or severe thunderstorm warning.
Hog farms and their lagoons in eastern North Carolina, Sept. 17, 2018. The bottom lagoon appears inundated, but it's unclear whether a breach has occurred.
After Hurricane Floyd, Nowlin, then an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center, successfully sued the state environmental agency over how it allowed farms to spray their waste. As part of a settlement agreement, the state agreed it would prohibit spraying in the aftermath of a storm, Nowlin said. "If the state turns a blind eye, it's in violation of that agreement," she added.
The Coastal Plain is less than optimal for industrialized animal operations. Hurricanes and inland flooding imperil the animals themselves, as well as the lagoon-and-sprayfield method of waste management.
The storm killed 5,500 of the roughly 9.3 million hogs housed in industrialized farms in North Carolina, and that number will likely increase as flood waters recede and reveal the carcasses.
Smithfield tried to stem the number of fatalities by transferring hogs from farms that were flooded in 1999 during Hurricane Floyd to operations outside that vulnerable area. Floyd was a catastrophic turning point for the hog industry; it killed an estimated 30,000 hogs and unleashed a 500-year flood, meaning the chances of such an event occurring in a given year is 1 in 500, or 0.2 percent.
However, Hurricane Florence outdid Floyd, with eastern rivers rising at least 5 feet from record levels. "It was new territory for the industry," said Kraig Westerbeek, senior director of Smithfield Renewables and Hog Production Division Environmental Affairs.
Prestage Farms couldn't be reached for comment.
The poultry industry sustained even greater losses: at least 3.4 million birds.
The NC Department of Agriculture has issued protocols for the disposal of animal carcasses, including buffer zones between the composting area and waterways and property lines. In some cases, the bodies can be deposited in landfills.
"One of the disconnects here is dealing with the mortalities," Nowlin said. The disposal falls under not DEQ but the NC Department of Agriculture's veterinary division, which focuses on preventing disease. "Where the animals are disposed and how," is important, Nowlin added. If they are improperly disposed of, the decaying bodies can contaminate groundwater.
It takes about 28 days for a chicken carcass to decompose, and six months or more for larger animals.
This hog waste lagoon appears to have been spared.
All North Carolinians have a vested interest….both in clean air & water and in an affordable food supply. Agribusinesses and neighbors in close proximity are at odds over definable boundaries which is a problem best solved in cooperation not litigation. Most.. if not all.. family operated farms are sincerely active in the stewardship of these resources. Keep in mind that these facilities were constructed years ago PER THE SPECIFICATIONS OF STATE OF NC ENGINEERS & ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICIALS and operate per those requirements. Its time for new science and better practices to preserve both natural resources and our food economy. The blame game only serves to entrench old positions .


married 21 years to Kevin, Simon (18) college freshman and Ian (15) high school sophmore!
Do you have the FIAR cookbook?
Jamon Serrano for Ferdinand. You could make a potato omelet called Tortilla Española. They take a while, though. About an hour to make a real tortilla.
You could have "nice hot apple pies" like Mrs. McGillicuddy makes for Mike Mulligan. If there were no allergies you could have peanuts (like the people threw to Mr. and Mrs. Mallard) for Make Way for Ducklings. Another kind of hot drink would be nice after a night of owling - since you've already done hot chocolate, maybe apple cider?
The cookbook is a really wonderful addition if you want to add it to your collection. We have loved this part of FIAR. Sounds like y'all are having a great time at your co-op!


Regarding the letter claiming that the Houston/Race connector road would "interfere with pristine wildlife habitat," I disagree.
While attempting to count birds in that area (for the Whidbey Audubon Society's Christmas Bird count) I observed no birds for several annual counts.
This was on account of that area consisting solely of dense second-growth forest that apparently supports no wildlife.


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Revolution's aftershocks still rattling Egyptian universities
Fight for campus access symptomatic of larger problems facing scientific research.
Katharine Sanderson
A pitched battle between two scientific institutions highlights the difficulties facing Egyptian research, which is being held back by a government in chaos in the wake of the country's revolution, observers say. This week an Egyptian court overturned prime ministerial decrees at the heart of a fight for access to Nile University (NU), a private, not-for-profit research institute near Cairo.
The dispute began in early 2011, when, in the wake of the Egyptian revolution, buildings that had been allocated to NU by ousted president Hosni Mubarak's government were returned to the country's flagship science project the Zewail City of Science and Technology, led by Ahmed Zewail, an Egyptian chemist and Nobel laureate who is based at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
The current government now needs to act on the court's decision before the NU students are allowed back on to the campus, but both sides have different interpretations of exactly how much of the campus the verdict relates to.
Science, interrupted
This and other disruptions caused by post-revolution regime changes are adding to concerns about the future of scientific research in Egypt. "There is some sort of administrative chaos" that might hinder progress, says Nazar Hassan, unit chief in science and technology at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Cairo.
Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, NU's nanotechnology programme director, says that things have become worse for researchers since the revolution. "Lots of funding has dried up," he says. And he is concerned that science, technology and research are not a priority in the first draft of the new constitution. "This sends the wrong message," he says.
We are not against Zewail City as a project.
Hassan says that universities need to be given more autonomy to make decisions. At present, the Egyptian government sets student numbers and must approve all degree programmes offered by a university. "There are a lot of restrictions on universities," says Hassan.
Progress in improving Egypt's research environment is slower than Hassan had hoped. "The talk is there, but who is going to set up a strategy?" he asks. "Administrators are waiting to see what will happen [with the government] before they make any decisions."
But things are moving forward. On 19 November Hassan met with the directors of Egypt's Science and Technology Development Fund and Education Development Fund, along with 30 vice-principals of public universities. "We were talking about what we can actually do to make things better," says Hassan. This includes offering graduates diplomas that do not need to be accredited by the government, which would give the universities more autonomy in what they teach, and making efforts to bring together industry and academia to promote entrepreneurship and innovation. These initiatives are part of UNESCO's Network for Expansion of Converging Technologies in the Arab Region project, launched in 2011.
Uncertain outcomes
There had been hope that Zewail's project would revitalize science and technology in the region. But the NU conflict might change things. "I don't know if Zewail will take it lying down," says Morad Abou-Sabe, a cell biologist at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, and former president of the private Misr University for Science and Technology near Cairo. There are concerns that Zewail might now leave the project. Moustafa Ghanem, vice-president for research at NU says that this would be a shame. "We are not against Zewail City as a project," he says.
But Tyseer Aboulnasr, an electrical engineer who is spending time at NU while on leave from her position at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, thinks that there is still a chance for the two institutions to work together to drive research and innovation in Egypt. "I believe the conflict was ludicrous to start with and did not have to happen," she says. She hopes that both institutions can work together in future despite being adversaries now, and adds that fostering healthy competition between them will help to propel research in Egypt forward.
Abou Sabe agrees: "These two elements could be a very positive force," he says.


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Statement from James Ackerman's parents
Thu 25 Jun 2015, 04:30 PM
Please see below a statement from James Ackerman's parents, Sonya and Michael
While we are mourning and grieving the loss of our beautiful son James, we have found some comfort in knowing he has helped save a number of lives through organ and tissue donation.
While James has gone, his spirit remains and we are very proud that he is helping other people and their families.
We are pleased two people have already received lifesaving organ transplants as a result of James' generous donation and in the near future up to 18 other people will benefit from James' precious gift of tissue donation.
We would like to add our support of organ and tissue donation and encourage Australians to consider becoming donors.
To find out more on organ and tissue donation visit: www.donatelife.gov.au
The funeral for James Ackerman will be held at the Sunshine Coast Stadium at 11am on Wednesday 1 July, 2015.
The Sunshine Coast Falcons are one of Storm's two feeder teams playing in Queensland's Intrust Super Cup.
The Sunshine Coast Stadium is the home ground of the Falcons Rugby League Club and James' funeral service will be held where he last played on the Sunshine Coast prior to the events at Bishop Park.
Members of the public are invited and welcome to attend the funeral. The Ackerman family ask that donations be made to the James Ackerman Family Trust Fund in lieu of flowers.
Further details of the funeral will be released early next week.
James' parents Michael and Sonya Ackerman, brothers Andrew and Thomas, wife Saraa and children Olliver and Milly have been overwhelmed by heart warming support from the community and rugby league fraternity and wish to express their sincere gratitude to everyone for their love, support and prayers at this difficult time.
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Q: What is max Vce for a transistor with Ic of 50 mA and without exceeding PD(max) of 1.2 W What is max Vce for a transistor with Ic of 50 mA and without exceeding PD(max) of 1.2 W?

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What is max Vce for a transistor

Max Vce has nothing to do with the current you may be drawing thru the collector - it's a limit imposed by the manufacturer of the part irrespective of current flow.
Any transistor conducting 50mA thru the collector may indeed be dissipating 1.2 watts but that tells you nothing about the voltage waveform.


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Mainland China reports 12 new COVID-19 cases vs 17 a day earlier
People wear face masks as they walk past a slogan at a construction site following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Beijing
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Mainland China reported 12 new COVID-19 cases on Dec. 15, down from 17 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Wednesday.
The National Health Commission, in a statement, said all of the new cases were imported infections originating from overseas. The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, rose to nine from eight a day earlier.
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in mainland China now stands at 86,770, while the death toll remained unchanged at 4,634.
(Reporting by Jing Wang and Josh Horwitz; writing by Se Young Lee; Editing by Himani Sarkar)


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Recent Updates -- Made me feel like crying: Harbhajan Singh picks 2 from Pakistan in his top 5 toughest batsmen - cricket
Made me feel like crying: Harbhajan Singh picks 2 from Pakistan in his top 5 toughest batsmen - cricket
Harbhajan Singh, in his 18-year-long international career, has played against some of the greatest batsmen of the modern era. Regarded as one of the best off-spinners India has ever produced, Harbhajan, had duels with the likes of Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden, Brian Lara, Jacques Kallis, Hashim Amla, Kumar Sangakkara, Inzamam-ul-Haq and many more. Against some, he emerged on top while some had the better of Harbhajan.
When asked to talk about the toughest batsmen he has played against by former teammate Rohit Sharma in an Instagram live session on Thursday, Harbhajan, who has 417 Test wickets and 239 in ODIs, did not have much difficulty.
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Harbhajan named one each from South Africa and Australia, two from Pakistan and one from West Indies in his list of top five batsmen who troubled him the most during his career.
Jacques Kallis
The first name that Harbhajan took was of South Africa's Jacques Kallis. The South Africa all-rounder, who is the country's highest scorer in both forms of the game – 13289 runs in Tests and 11579 runs in ODIs – has a good record against Harbhajan. The right-hander was particularly severe against Harbhajan in ODIs. While Harbhajan did get him out a few times but in ODIs, he has never been able to dismiss Kallis. "I found Jacques Kallis very difficult to bowl at in Tests," said Harbhajan.
Matthew Hayden
The second name that Harbhajan took was of Australia opener Matthew Hayden's. Regarded as one of the best openers of the game, Hayden was ruthless against the spinners. His tactic of running down the track and sweeping gave a hard time to spinners all around the globe and Harbhajan was no stranger to it.
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Brian Lara
The West Indian legend Brian Lara was the third in Harbhajan's list. Though Harbhajan has not run into Lara that often in international cricket but the India off-spinner said the left-hander was brilliant. Lara retired with 11953 runs in Tests and 10405 runs in ODIs.
Younis Khan
Former Pakistan batsman Younis Khan was next in Harbbhajan's list. "Younis Khan troubled me a lot," said Harbhajan and when Rohit reminded of the Pakistan batsman sweeping him repeatedly, Harbhajan said: "Yes, all the time, he made me feel crying," added Harbhajan. Younis Khan scored 10099 runs for Pakistan in 118 Tests with an average of 52.05.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
"Inzamam is also someone I found hard to dismiss. There are many but I would choose these five," Harbhajan took former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq's name while completing his list. Inzamam scored 8830 runs in Tests and 11739 runs in ODIs for Pakistan.


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Q: How to edit part of string value in an array in PHP and use it in Javascript? I am a novice, and I am trying to learn.
First of all, on my Javascript code in the same file, it does NOT recognize a path when specified as c:/wamp/www. I need to use /videolibrary/ instead (which is configured in httpd.conf).
Now, I need to pass a list of files from PHP which sees it as C:/wamp/www... and does not understand /videolibrary/. This is the code I have;
$videolibrary = "C:/wamp/www";
$filelist = array();
$filelist = glob("$videolibrary/$usr/*.webm");
$arrlength = count($filelist);
foreach ($filelist as $file)
{
    echo $file;
}

Now, how, do I use this $filelist on Javascript wherein its values are like {/videolibrary/1.jpg, /videolibrary/2.jpg....} instead of {c:/wamp/www/1.jpg, c:/wamp/www/2.jpg....}. Please help. On the JS side;
fl1 = <?php echo json_encode($filelist);?>;
for (i=1; i < sources.length; i++) {
      sources[i]=fl1[i-1]; //however this has c:/wamp/www and NOT /videolibrary
      var srcName=sources[i];
      }

Thank you for the help.

A: After I posted the question, a wave of enthusiasm took over me and I solved this myself.
I did this;
foreach ($filelist as $file)
{
    $file1=str_replace($search,$replace,$file);
    $filelist1[]=$file1;
}
foreach ($filelist1 as $file1){
    echo $file1;
}

Now, I could pass the modified $filelist1 as the array to Javascript. Yes. Here search is the string to search and replace is the string to replace (/videolibrary/).