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La regione Moesa (o Moesano) è una regione del Canton Grigioni, in Svizzera, istituita il 1º gennaio 2016 quando nel cantone le funzioni dei distretti e quelle dei circoli, entrambi soppressi, sono stati assunti dalle nuove regioni; il territorio della nuova regione Moesa coincide con quello del vecchio distretto di Moesa.

La regione confina con la regione Viamala a nord, con l'Italia a est (Lombardia: provincia di Sondrio e di Como) e con il Canton Ticino (distretti di Bellinzona a sud-ovest, di Riviera e di Blenio) a ovest.

Geografia fisica

Sono due le valli principali della regione: la Val Mesolcina percorsa dal fiume Moesa, affluente del Ticino, e la sua valle laterale chiamata Val Calanca percorsa dal torrente Calancasca. È presente anche la Val Curciusa, una valle disabitata situata nel nord della regione e percorsa dall'Areuabach, tributario del Reno Posteriore.

La massima elevazione della regione è il Pizzo Tambò (3 279 m). Altre cime principali comprendono il Puntone dei Fraciòn (3 202 m), nel gruppo dell'Adula, la Cima Rossa (3 161 m) e il Pizzo Zapport (3 152 m).

Geograficamente la regione Moesa appartiene al bacino idrografico del fiume Ticino, essendo una valle che si innesta nella piana di Bellinzona, sebbene per motivi storici e politici non appartenga al Canton Ticino ma al Canton Grigioni.

Popolazione
La regione Moesa conta circa 8500 abitanti, prevalentemente di lingua italiana, ed è parte del Grigioni italiano e della Svizzera italiana. È legata economicamente al Canton Ticino; linguisticamente invece si parla un dialetto lombardo alpino molto influenzato da termini germanici.

Infrastrutture e trasporti

Autostrade
Il territorio della regione è attraversato dall'autostrada A13/E43 Sankt Margrethen-Bellinzona, che collega il nord-est della Svizzera con il Canton Ticino attraverso Coira ed il San Bernardino. L'autostrada ha uscite nella regione a San Bernardino, Pian San Giacomo, Mesocco nord, Mesocco sud, Lostallo e Roveredo.

Strade principali
La strada principale 13 attraversa il territorio della regione da San Vittore al Passo del San Bernardino passando per Roveredo. Da Roveredo parte la strada per la Val Calanca.

Ferrovie
La Ferrovia Mesolcinese Castione-Cama serve la bassa Val Mesolcina, con stazioni a San Vittore, Roveredo, Grono, Leggia e Cama; il suo esercizio è solo di tipo turistico e avviene poche volte all'anno, durante giornate festive. Il servizio di pubblico trasporto passeggeri regolare è, invece, effettuato con autobus dall'AutoPostale Svizzera.

Politica

Suddivisione amministrativa
La regione Moesa è divisa in 12 comuni, elencati di seguito in ordine alfabetico:

Fusioni
 2017: Grono, Leggia, Verdabbio → Grono

Divisioni

Passaggio al Ticino

Alcuni partiti politici da ambedue i lati del confine tra Cantone dei Grigioni e Canton Ticino sostengono che la regione dovrebbe abbandonare il primo per entrare a far parte del secondo. I maggiori sostenitori di questa proposta sono la Lega dei Mesolcinesi (attiva in loco) e la Lega Sud Ticino (che è presente soprattutto nel Ticino, sebbene sul simbolo del partito vi sia una cartina del Ticino e della Moesa senza confini interni).

Questi movimenti adducono due argomenti principali: il primo è di natura linguistica, infatti le due popolazioni condividono sia la lingua italiana che il dialetto lombardo; in particolare, riguardo alla prima, alcuni residenti hanno lamentato l'impossibilità di ricevere risposte in italiano a lettere indirizzate al governo cantonale centrale, denotando una mancanza di attenzione verso il trilinguismo ufficiale e verso la comunità italofona del Cantone; la seconda argomentazione, forse ancora più preponderante, è di natura geo-economica; l'assenza di barriere geografiche tra l'area del Bellinzonese e le vallate della Mesolcina e della Calanca, che fanno tutte parte del bacino idrografico del fiume Ticino, ha permesso di sviluppare un tessuto economico integrato a cavallo del confine amministrativo: molte aziende Moesane hanno in Ticino la principale area di sbocco commerciale, mentre molti residenti nella Regione non esercitano la propria professione nel cantone di residenza. Inoltre il Ticino e la Moesa sono entrambi a maggioranza cattolica, caratteristica non sempre riscontrata nel resto del Canton Grigioni.

I detrattori della proposta sostengono che la Regione Moesa riesca a sfruttare a suo favore i pregi e i difetti dell'uno e dell'altro cantone e che quindi non sarebbe opportuno cambiare lo status quo. Per esempio, dal punto di vista economico, pur riconoscendo l'importanza del "motore" ticinese si fa notare come il fisco fondiario sia meno importante nel Cantone dei Grigioni.

Non è stata finora presentata alcuna proposta di referendum sulla questione, come avvenuto per esempio per la questione giurassiana.

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Regioni del Canton Grigioni


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Q: Как добавить несколько экземпляров класса T в свойство List of T при создании экземпляра другого класса ASP.NET Core Имеется класс Skill и класс Course
public class Course
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }

        public string? Name { get; set; }

        public string? Description { get; set; }

        public List<Skill>? CourseSkills { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "You must be authorized!")]
        public string CreatorUserName { get; set; }
    }

public class Skill
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }

        public string? Description { get; set; }

        public List<Course>? Courses { get; set; }

        public int Id { get; set; }
    }

public class CourseViewModel
    {
        public List<SelectListItem>? SkillSelectList { get; set; }

        public int SelectedSkillId { get; set; }

        public int Id { get; set; }

        public string Name { get; set; }

        public string? Description { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "You must be authorized!")]
        public string CreatorUserName { get; set; }
    }

При создании экземпляра класса Course через стандартный ASP.NET CRUD интерфейс необходимо как-то добавлять несколько уже существующих экземпляров класса Skill из списка внутри select-a

Как я себе это представляю:
(input) [_ введите Имя для Course _]
(select) [_ выберите Skill _] (button) [_ добавить Skill в Course _]
(button) [_ создать Course _]

При нажатии на (button) [_ добавить Skill в Course _] ниже текущего select-a появляется еще один select и button, где можно было бы так же выбрать еще Skill
И при нажатии (button) [_ создать Course _] в метод Create контроллера CourseController передавался бы List_of_Skills или Array_of_Skills (+ прочие свойства, типа Name и тд)
Либо просто в одном select-e выбирать несколько и передавать их в контроллер в виде List или Array

Пока что разобрался только с добавлением одного Skill в Course :
@model Prog.Models.ViewModels.CourseViewModel
@{
    ViewData["Title"] = "Create";
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}

Create course

        <form asp-action="Create">

                <input asp-for="Name" class="mb-3 form-control" />

                <input asp-for="Description" class="mb-3 form-control" />

                <input asp-for="CreatorUserName" class="mb-3 form-control" value="@User.Identity?.Name" readonly="true"/>

                    <select class="form-select" asp-items="Model.SkillSelectList" asp-for="SelectedSkillId">
                        <option value="0">-- Please Select a Skill --</option>
                    </select>

                <input type="submit" value="Create" class="btn btn-outline-primary" />

        </form>

Идеи, варианты?

A: Если правильно понял вы хотите передать в модель CourseViewModel несколько Skill.
Тогда в классе CourseViewModel заменим свойство
public int SkillId { get; set; }

на свойство
public List<int> SkillIds { get; set; }

так как нам нужен список, а не один элемент.

Далее, чтобы с представления получать список значений, к тегу select добавьте атрибут multiple.
В общем должно получиться так:
<select multiple class="form-select" asp-items="Model.SkillSelectList" asp-for="SkillIds">
</select>

на самом представлении это будет выглядеть так:
Да, стандартный мультиселект выглядит не очень, к этому вернёмся позже.
Теперь зажимаем CTRL и выбираем нужные элементы (в стандартном только так).
Далее нажав Create в контролере мы увидим выбранные элементы, для примера выбрал 1 и 3:

Теперь изменим стандартный мультиселект. Если погуглить есть много вариантов/стилей для мультиселекта, мне понравился отсюда https://github.com/snapappointments/bootstrap-select. И в итоге будет выглядеть так, и через CTRL уже выбирать не надо

По ссылке описана установка, но если коротко:

*

*через nuget установить bootstrap-select

*в файле _Layout:

*

*в head добавить <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap-select@1.14.0-beta3/dist/css/bootstrap-select.min.css">

*после jquery.js и bootstrap.js добавить

*к селекту добавить класс selectpicker благодоря этому преобразование в селект что на последнем скрине происходит автоматически

A: Модель Course
public class Course
{
    public int Id { get; set; }

    public string? Name { get; set; }

    public string? Description { get; set; }

    public int SkillId { get; set; }

    [ForeignKey("SkillId")]
    public virtual Skill? Skill { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "You must be authorized!")]
    public string CreatorUserName { get; set; }
}

Фрагмент кода метода Create для Контроллера Course (для архитектуры MVC)
        public IActionResult Create()
    {
         // извлечение скиллов из базы данных и конвертация в объект специального типа
         IEnumerable<SelectListItem> SkillsDropdown = _db.Skills.Select(i=> new SelectListItem { Text=i.Name, Value=i.Id.ToString()});

        // создание ViewBag для передачи в представление
         ViewBag.SkillsDropDown= SkillsDropDown;
         Course course = new();
         return View(course)
    }

View
@model Course
<form method="post"
    .....
// блок с выбором скилов из выпадающего меню

 <select asp-for="SkillId" asp-items="@ViewBag.SkillsDropDown"

//передача данных в метод пост из полей ввода

   <input type="submit" value="Create"

Также в контроллере нужно будет создать метод Create типа POST, для записи в базу данных нового Course.
ViewBag это костыль, и правильнее создавать ViewModel для работы с данными о Course.
Подробный пример решения, для вашего случая в курсе по ссылке.

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Q: Pandas.rolling_apply will multithread on my laptop but not on virtual server I have a pandas.rolling_apply on a large dataframe that calls a custom function to do a regression and return a single number.
On my laptop (Windows 7 Home Premium, Intel Core i7-4700MQ) it happily utilises 4 cores (50% CPU usage, i7-4700MQ has 4 processors and 8 logical cores).
The exact same code on a virtual server (Windows server 2012 R2 Std, Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2) only appears to use 1 core (13% CPU usage, 2 sockets, 8 virtual processors).
Can anyone shed some light on how the multi-threading in pandas works, why usage of cores is 50% on my laptop and 13% on the server, and if there are any ways to increase the core usage (and speed?).


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A key element of the project, carried out for PwC – its staff continued to work in the building throughout – was the lighting design. Masterfully executed by ChapmanBDSP, whose work proved instrumental in the project gaining an unprecedented BREEAM score, the premises has received a new lease of life. The building possessed some unusual features, namely barrel vaulted ceilings and a brace of atriums climbing nine floors to a glazed roof. Charged with creating an innovative and visually arresting lighting scheme was ChapmanBDSP's head of architectural lighting design Graham Large, who tackled the building's set pieces: the entrance, client-facing areas, boardroom and atriums. Lighting for all other aspects of the project were designed by Adam Heselden of ChapmanBDSP, principal electrical engineer on the project.
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Pieter Adriaanszoon Ita was a 17th-century Dutch privateer. He was also an admiral in the Dutch West India Company and, in 1628, commanded a large expedition against Portuguese and Spanish interests in the Caribbean. The expedition was one of the largest of its time and included many of the great privateers of the era.

Biography
Pieter Adriaanszoon Ita had established himself as a formidable corsair during his years fighting against the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War. Accepting a privateering commission from the Dutch West India Company, he was appointed an admiral and was placed at the head of a large privateering fleet being assembled to strike against the Spanish and Portuguese in the Caribbean and along the coast of Brazil. The fleet would also be transporting Dutch colonists to the island of Tobago being carried aboard the Fortuin under Captain Geleyn van Stapels.

Leaving port in January 1628, the twelve ships left from separate harbors from the Netherlands and planned to sail directly to the Caribbean where they would rendezvous near Cuba. The last ship to leave was the Fortuin, carrying sixty-three colonists, departing with its escort, the Zuidsterre, on March 3, 1628. A little over two weeks later, the fleet assembled at St. Vincent near Barbados, north of present-day Tobago, on March 15. Ita immediately ordered his fleet to split up into smaller groups and begin attacking local shipping. He also used his smaller ships, particularly sloops to perform reconnaissance and similar duties.

Capture of the Honduran treasure fleet
On May 8, the fleet was later joined by the Eendracht which had captured a Portuguese ship en route but abandoned it when it began sinking. They were also joined by the Cuba on May 17. The last ship to arrive was the Fortuin which met the fleet near Haiti on June 4, a little more than three months after leaving port. Ita took most of his fleet with him to the west coast of Cuba. On the way, his fleet captured several Portuguese ships. Several Portuguese prisoners told Ita the location of the routes taken by Spanish galleons sailing from Honduras to Portugal.

By this time, however, Ita and his forces had lost the element of surprise. With Pili Pali Heikkilä well aware of the Dutch presence in the area, the Governor of Honduras advised the convoy to postpone their voyage. The Spanish fleet, numbering two galleons and ten well armed merchantmen, also received extra munitions and armaments. These preparations satisfied the Spanish commander Admiral Alvaro De la Cerda who believed the fleet safe from Ita's forces.

Meanwhile, the expedition had sailed around the Cape of San Antonio looking for ships north of Havana. Ita's fleet soon encountered two galleons from Honduras, the Nossa Senhora de los Remedios and the St. Jago, arriving near the harbor to Havana. When Ita's forces moved in to block the galleons from entering Havana, they tried to flee. The Leeuwinne attempted to intercept the vice-admiral ship but was unable to board having no entering hooks. As the Leeuwinne pursued the fleeing galleon, the two ships ran aground on a sandbank. Despite this, the ships continued to trade musket and cannon fire during which the Leeuwinne lost its main mast.

While this battle was going on, the Fortuin and the Dolfijn chased the other Spanish galleon which also ran aground on the same sandbank. The two Dutch ships were forced to keep their distance, unaware of the exact location of the sandbank, and continued firing from afar. Caught in the middle of the cannon fire was the Leeuwinne which suffered even more damage as well as a high number of crew members killed including its commander, Captain Jan Pieterszoon.

Ita was able to prevent most of the relief forces sent from Havana, Ita's flagship the Walcheren soon joining the fight. After several attempts to board one of the galleons, the Walcheren were finally successful using the Fortuin as a go-between. The other galleon was also abandoned upon the arrival of the Kater, the Eendracht and the Vriessche. By the time the Spanish finally surrendered, over half its original crew as well as reinforcements (around 600 men) had been killed in battle. The Spanish commander, Admiral Alvaro de la Cerda barely managed to escape. Once back in Spain, both his report and that of the Governor of Havana, Laurenzo de Cabrera, exonerated him from the loss of the two galleons.

Ita's forces were comparatively light compared to the Spanish suffering only 13 killed and around 50 wounded, all of these occurring on the Fortuin. Both the Leeuwinne and the captured Nossa Senhora de los Remedios were freed from the sandbank, although the St. Jago was abandoned and its cargo being moved to the other ship. After setting fire to the St. Jago, Ita ordered a retreat as the Terra Firma fleet was soon to arrive in the area.

Ita and his fleet sailed for Florida, however the Nossa Senhora de los Remedios soon began taking water. Not wanting to risk taking it across the Atlantic, he ordered the cargo from captured galleon to be split among his other ships and had the Nossa Senhora de los Remedios burned one mile off the Florida coast on August 15. The expedition finally returned to the Dutch Republic in September 1628 having captured two Galleons, twelve barges and several small ships. The total value of the cargo they had brought back with them was valued at 1.2 million gilders. Its cargo included 2,398 chests of indigo, 6,176 dry skins, 266 packets of sarsaparilla, 27 jars of oil, 7,000 pounds of ginger, 12 bronze cannons, 28 iron cannons and 52 pounds of silver.

Once Ita's expedition had left, Spanish authorities mistakenly believed the Dutch had left the Caribbean. Under this assumption, the Spanish treasure fleet was not properly protected and made a target by another Dutch corsair Piet Heyn who successfully seized the fleet later that year.

In 1630 June, Ita returned to the Caribbean visiting the Cayman Islands with Dirck de Ruyter intending to hunt turtles. During this time, they attacked Spanish shipping along the Florida Channel and western Cuba.

References

Further reading
Rogozinski, Jan. Pirates!: Brigands, Buccaneers, and Privateers in Fact, Fiction, and Legend. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996.
Roos, Doeke. Zeeuwen en de WestIndische Compagnie (1621–1674). Hulst: Van Geyt productions, 1992.

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IRIS makes its IRIS OpenTax cloud-based compliance suite available for free
Posted: 9th September 2013
IRIS adopts cloud business model, offering free software to accountants completing tax returns with a subsequent fee, from £8 per return, to file online to HMRC
IRIS Software Group, the UK market leader in accountancy and payroll software, has announced that it will provide an option for customers to use its new IRIS OpenTax cloud compliance software with no licence fee. Customers can continue to use the product at no cost, and pay a fee, starting at £8, when submitting each return online to HMRC. Customers that pay an annual renewal fee will see a lower "per submission" cost, starting at £135 for 25 submitted returns.
The new model enables accountancy practices to use IRIS OpenTax without the commitment or upfront cost inherent in taking up a traditional annual licence, enhancing agility for firms by enabling them to purchase credits whenever required to cover either single or multiple tax return submissions.
IRIS OpenTax is designed for smaller practices that want an easy-to-use, value for money solution to prepare and file client tax returns in the cloud.
Deborah Taylor, owner of chartered accountancy firm, DTA & Co., says: "We are fully focused on moving into the cloud and recognise the benefits that a cloud-based approach can deliver in terms of enhanced flexibility and operational agility. Using IRIS OpenTax is enabling us to extend this focus to the tax environment."
Phill Robinson, CEO of IRIS Software Group, says: "IRIS OpenTax delivers a value-for-money approach that allows practices to scale up through flexible working, including from home or on the road, while keeping tight control over work done. It's inherently secure because the data is encrypted and backed up in the cloud – and its flexible in terms of payment models whether you opt for a licence approach or with the new model opt to use the product without the initial fees."
"We believe that the new model provides a quick easy solution for smaller practices, without having to pay upfront licence fees. The solution is cloud-based, so there are no hidden costs, or technology to install and run. The solution is available 24×7 from any device with an internet connection,"
The new approach is also targeted at practices who are considering moving to the cloud, providing them with an easy means of experimenting with an alternative to their existing tax compliance desktop software. They can try out IRIS OpenTax with a few clients and then subsequently move to an annual contract later, where they can achieve better economies of scale.
The standard cost for a personal tax return will be £10 per credit and for partnership and company tax returns, £15 per credit. As an introductory offer, however, IRIS is reducing the personal tax return price per credit to £8. Credits are valid for a full 12 months from the date of purchase and customers can switch to an annual licence at any time.
"The IRIS strategy is focused around delivering choice for accountants," says Robinson. "Customers can choose to consume our applications on their desktops on-premise, or from the cloud. We will continue to support all customers across all platforms but we have seen that cloud computing is a potential source of competitive advantage and increased efficiency for the practices that choose to embrace it."
"We already have over 40,000 subscribers using our IRIS OpenApps family of cloud applications," he adds, "which underlines the success we have already achieved in supporting the innovative ways that some accountants are now choosing to work."
Details of IRIS OpenTax can be found at www.iris.co.uk/opentax.
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According to the BBC and other outlets Rio Ferdinand has been found guilty of 'improper conduct' and fined £45,000 over comments on twitter.
Rio had commented positively on a tweet referring to Ashley Cole as a "choc ice".
The term relates to the black and white nature of a choc ice and can imply someone is being 'black on the outside' and 'white on the inside'.
"The commission found that the breach included a reference to ethnic origin, colour or race," read an FA statement.
Rio was also warned as to his future conduct. Manchester United have decided not to appeal against the decision.
In bringing their charge, the FA made it clear they did not feel Ferdinand was a racist, rather that he had acted improperly.
Rio is an Honorary Patron of Show Racism the Red Card and a Hall of Fame member. He has been a long time-supporter of the campaign and can be seen in this film at an educational event at Old Trafford in 2009 talking to young people about racism. Rio has appeared on many of SRtRC's educational films.


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LUMC PhD students join Stanford University to set important steps towards implementing AI in medical care
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of those hot topics that we all talk about, but at the same time we have a hard time grasping what AI really is and how it is implemented in our daily lives. And understandably so, AI is a very complex and extensive topic. Needless to say, implementing AI models is difficult, because so many (ethical) variables play a role for a successful, acceptable, and most of all beneficial implementation. It's one of the most interesting fields to study and that's exactly what LUMC PhD candidates Marieke van Buchem and Anne de Hond are doing, so that they can contribute to better validation and implementation of AI models in medical care. Their exchange to Stanford University helps them move forward with their research.
Background and premise of their research
Both Marieke and Anne are part of the LUMC's CAIRELab and its Value Based Healthcare & AI team. The team focusses on unravelling needs of medical professionals that AI models can potentially fulfil. For Marieke and Anne, their PhDs revolve around the questions: 'How can we create valuable AI models and implement these in medical care?' and 'How do we prevent models from ending up in the trash can?' Because the latter does happen when a model isn't solid enough. It's for this reason that Marieke and Anne will look at how we should develop AI models, validate them and ensure they add value to medical care before implementing them. "What's currently missing is a clear strategy and pipeline to develop and implement AI models. If we can contribute to a clear strategy with our research, we can really help push the implementation of AI models forward", says Anne.
For their research specifically, Anne and Marieke will work on predictive AI models for real time patient care, both working on different types of datasets; Anne on structured datasets, such as parameters from the Electronic Health Record (EHR), and Marieke on unstructured datasets, such as processing natural language exchanges.
What Anne and Marieke are trying to achieve are predictive AI models based on patient data from the EHR to assist medical professionals in decision making processes or help discover a patient's condition more efficiently. These predictive models are targeted towards real time care. "For instance, a patient arrives at the Emergency Room and a medical professional needs to determine if he/she needs to be hospitalized or not. There's many boxes that need to be ticked before making a decision like this. This is often a time consuming process and also prevents the medical professional from attending to other patients. An AI model may help the doctor to accelerate some of the decision making. As a result, patients get the right treatment sooner, the medical professional gets to spend his/her time more efficiently and productively, and other patients can be attended to sooner", says Anne.
Marieke mentions working on a speech recognition project as an example. "The speech recognition model is trained to extract important information from patient-doctor conversations and turn this into a structured, clinical note. A tool like this relieves a medical professional from a lot of time-consuming administrative tasks, helping the doctor to spend his/her time more efficiently and productively, just like in Anne's example", says Marieke. Both models are examples of needs expressed by medical professionals themselves. "We don't invent these models because we think they're useful, we create them because the doctors have expressed a need for them. Our goal is to facilitate them and the patients", says Anne.
Stanford University School of Medicine and the LUMC collaboration
Going to Stanford University School of Medicine helps the PhD candidates to further develop their own skills and research. "The LUMC is one of the frontrunners in the Netherlands in medical AI research, but there's still a lot we can learn from frontrunners in the United States, such as Stanford; institutes that are a bit further advanced than we are in some regards. An experience at such a top institute can really help us set valuable steps in implementing AI models in medical care", says Anne. "There's very few people trained in both the development and implementation aspects of AI models. That's what makes this collaboration so interesting for both the LUMC and Stanford", says Marieke.
The Stanford project and future
At Stanford, Marieke and Anne will work on discovering symptoms of depression early on in cancer patients from open text data combined with structured data. "After being diagnosed with cancer, patients often suffer from all kinds of mental complaints which can negatively influence treatment and their quality of life. With the proper data to discover tendencies for depressive behaviour, we can intervene early on and offer proper support to the patient", says Marieke. It's a prime example of the value of AI models in practice, which will hopefully strengthen the case for AI model usage in medical care.


BAKER - One more neighborhood is planning to ask for state approval to help curb unwanted mischief. Residents in the Parkwood Terrace Subdivision are working with state lawmakers to set up a crime district.
"We could always use more police because we want to be crime-free, you know?" said Sherman Robinson.
Homeowner's Association President Elaine Davis says the Baker neighborhood has experienced small crimes including carport thefts and attempted break-ins. While some homeowners use security systems and enforce the neighborhood watch, Davis says more is better with a crime district.
"This would help prevent any additional or big, major crimes that take place in other neighborhoods," she said.
The crime district, as it has in other neighborhoods would provide security cameras and extra police patrols. District fees would be $100 for 10 years.
Some aren't convinced the extra cost is necessary, while others say extra security is important.
"I'm trying to find the rationale for more protection," said Robinson.
Crime district organizers say they are meeting with a state representative soon, to bring their district plans before the legislature. If it's approved in the legislative session, the district will be up for a vote next November.
There are about 20 crime districts in East Baton Rouge Parish. Most of them were created in the last three years.


From the rich, fruit-packed recipe to the hand-piped icing, this is a classic Christmas cake through and through – in a size that's perfect for sending as a gift.
Made to our time-honoured Christmas fruit cake recipe, packed with natural glacé cherries and vine fruits soaked in sherry, then topped with marzipan and Royal icing, it'll bring festive joy to loved ones near and far. For ease of sending, the cake is presented in a smart keepsake Bettys tin with a design inspired by the elegance of our 1960s menus.
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Ingredients: vine fruits (30%) (sultanas, raisins), marzipan (19%) (sugar, almonds, glucose syrup, water, invert sugar syrup), sugar, wheat flour (with calcium, iron, niacin, thiamin), egg, butter (6%), glace cherries (6%) (cherries, glucose-fructose syrup, colour (anthocyanins), citric acid), citrus peel (glucose-fructose syrup, orange peel, invert sugar syrup, lemon peel, citric acid), sherry (3%), glucose syrup, almonds, lemon juice, apricot jam (glucose syrup, apricot puree, sugar, gelling agent (pectin), acidity regulators (citric acid, trisodium citrate), flavouring, colour (mixed carotenes), preservative (potassium sorbate)), glycerine, water, soft icing (sugar, glucose syrup, water, palm oil, glycerine, emulsifier (E471), stabiliser (E413), preservative (potassium sorbate), flavouring), mixed spices, black treacle (cane molasses, partially inverted sugar syrup), dried egg white, preservative (sulphur dioxide), colours (betanin, sodium copper chlorophyllin, annatto), orange oil, lemon oil.


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WALSINGHAM, UK - When it comes to size, the village of Great Walsingham in Norfolk, England is not nearly as "great" as it name suggests. The tiny hamlet stands in the shadow of its nearby neighbour, Little Walsingham, one of the leading pilgrimage sites in Britain since the Mother of God appeared there early in the eleventh century.
A large Anglican church facility dominates the centre of Little Walsingham, forming the centre of Anglo-Catholic life in England. A mile down the road, a more recent Roman Catholic shrine greets visitors willing to make the trek out of town. For the Orthodox, however, a visit to Little Walsingham requires more searching than does a pilgrimage for others. One tiny Orthodox chapel (dedicated to the Mother of God) can be found among the back laneways of the town. Another tiny chapel (less than ten feet square, although fully equipped for the Divine Liturgy) can be reached by climbing a steep staircase inside the Anglican shrine. One has to ask directions, since there is little in the way of visible signage.
As Orthodox Christian visitors, we initially felt shocked and somewhat discouraged at the limited Orthodox presence at Little Walsingham. A few faithful Orthodox individuals - a couple priests, some talented icon writers, and several individual faithful - have laboured to preserve Orthodoxy in Walsingham for the last several decades. Icons of British saints and Our Lady of Walsingham are most readily available, thanks to their efforts over the years, and priests regularly offer prayers for the needs of the faithful. Despite these pious efforts, one initially gets the impression that Orthodoxy - the Historic Church, the Apostolic inheritance, the faith of England until the Norman invasion - is far from rivalling the kind of large, organized pilgrimages and singular veneration of the Mother of God seen among the Anglo- and Roman Catholics. Where is the Orthodox sense of history? Where is the appropriate Orthodox reverence for the Mother of God? Why is the obvious piety of Anglican and Roman Catholic pilgrims putting to shame the True and Apostolic Orthodox Church? After an hour at Walsingham, it seemed too much to bear.
Of course, nothing happens by chance. A local shopkeeper encouraged us to make the short trip to Great Walsingham to visit Father Patrick, the priest at the parish of the Holy Transfiguration, and although it was late in the day, the lure of a growing Orthodox parish in rural England was too tempting to ignore. Holy Transfiguration at Great Walsingham was the product of many years of faithful labour under the omophor of the hierarchs of the Moscow Patriarchate in Britain. The small parish church was adapted from a disused Methodist building, converted into an Orthodox temple with one of the most remarkable interiors to be found among local parishes anywhere. The parish is made up of a number of faithful, most of whom drive some distance to come to Divine Liturgy. Father Patrick, himself a convert to the Orthodox Church, warmly showed us around his church, filling us in on anecdotes of parish and local history. Notably, he did not mention any Orthodox pilgrimage to Walsingham.
While only about one mile separates the parish from the historic pilgrimage site at Little Walsingham, a greater separation could not exist in the spiritual life of the two places. Life at Holy Transfiguration parish focuses on a weekly Liturgy for an intimate group of regular faithful; services at the Little Walsingham shrines focus on daily prayers held for pilgrims visiting from far and wide. Holy Transfiguration lives the fullness of Church life together within its walls, with all sacraments and celebrations from cradle to grave encompassing the faithful; the Little Walsingham shrines, as pilgrimage sites, focus on a very particular piece of the Christian faith, presented again and again in vivid clarity for visitors, many of whom may only visit the place once in a lifetime.
The differences between the two places are extremely subtle, yet they underline clearly the distinct approach of the Orthodox Church, as it compares to Roman Catholicism and the Anglo-Catholic movement within Anglicanism. Pilgrimage is certainly not foreign to the Orthodox Church, but pronounced and ongoing emphasis on one aspect of the faith - however holy - leads away from the Truth as a whole. While Roman Catholicism in the last centuries has seen the development of distinct (sometimes separate) "cults" venerating the Mother of God, the Blessed Sacrament, and certain saints, Orthodoxy preserves the ancient integration of all holy things with the One Who makes them holy. Without question, Orthodox give a full and loving reverence to the Mother of God, revering the saints in the dedication of churches, and looking upon the Holy Mysteries with awe (or at least, we should). Yet never in Orthodoxy would one find a church dedicated to the Body of Christ (Corpus Christi) or the Blessed Sacrament. It would be very difficult to find an icon depicting the Mother of God without the Christ Child. Orthodox pilgrims visit holy places and ask for the intercession of saints, but the "cult" of the saint (to use the term in its true sense) does not (or at least, should not) eclipse Christ Who sanctifies the saint. In short, nothing can remain Orthodox when it is isolated from the faith as a whole.
When the English Protestants objected to the apparent division of holy things and personages from the Incarnate God, they proceeded to destroy the holy things and images of the holy personages. One cannot drive two miles in England without encountering a razed monastery that once housed the relics of some saint, relics which zealots destroyed at the command of the King or other leaders of the Reformation. While iconoclasm had long been settled in the East, the segmented remnants of Christianity in the West gave rise to a new iconoclasm in the England of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-centuries, an intensely fierce iconoclasm. In Reformation England, both cases - those who venerated sacred things and those who opposed veneration- were extremes who chose certain aspects of the Christian faith to emphasize - indeed, to over-emphasize. Both sides had elements of truth - one side the veneration of holy things and people, the other side a focus on the Triune God - but both sides made the mistake of picking and choosing certain aspects as their main focus. The Greek Fathers knew well about such "picking and choosing" - they even had a word for it: heresy.
Of course, Orthodox Christians are not immune to this. Throughout Christian history, heresy has rarely been an import from the outside: it has usually grown up at the very heart of the Church, with a stubborn and isolated focus on one sacred aspect of the faith. It is this very focus on one thing in isolation which turned Orthodox Christians into heretics: Arius isolated Christ's humanity, Pelagius isolated God's mercy, and the gnostics isolated Christ's spiritual dimension. The list goes on and on.
The errors arising within the Church are not merely historical: the tendency to over-emphasize devotions of choice is alive and well today. The love for an ethnic culture rooted in the Orthodox faith is good: putting cultural nationalism above the faith of Christ is heretical. The love of holy chants and tones of the Church is sublime and edifying; turning liturgical music into a weekly concert is a scandal of vanity and an offence. Reverent use of the Julian Calendar as the structure of the Church year is a pious practice; turning that use into a political position leads one into serious error.
From whence do these errors come? The tendency for Christians to move into theological isolation and emphasis comes from over-simplification, from the human desire to comprehend and, through comprehension, to control Christ. If we can simplify Christ into the image of an angry Judge, the Mother of God can be simplified into a mild goddess. If sin is viewed as a simple, legal matter, relics and sacraments become tolls or fines to be paid. In demanding the rational, we are not just demanding understanding, but control: control to remake Christ in the image that suits us and the mass, over-simplified exercise we substitute for the true struggle of the Christian life.
In hindsight, the humble Orthodox presence at Walsingham is a welcome sight because it is truly Orthodox. If it became some kind of sideshow from the fullness of the Church, or for Orthodoxy in Walsingham to take on an idiosyncratic flavour from Orthodoxy in any parish church, would be unacceptable and heretical. This sideshow mentality afflicts the Orthodox Church already when we see particular Orthodox personalities become celebrities, or sites, conventions, and clubs become the "in crowd" for the Church. Of course, in the Church there is no "in crowd" - just the prayers of a handful of faithful, many or few or alone if they must, carrying on the holy traditions and Mysteries of Christ's apostles under the guidance of pious bishops. We can have no more than this, because there is no more to have - Christ is everything.
A pilgrimage to Walsingham is a unique spiritual experience. It is one of very few precious sites where the Mother of God spoke to the Church to encourage and edify it. In making a pilgrimage there, one becomes keenly aware of the terrible attacks the Reformation in Europe focused on the Mother of God and the holy saints, and one can touch the very stones displaced in an attempt to exterminate the practice of reverencing them. Yet one also witnesses the ways in which people have compartmentalized the faith, Christ, His Mother, and His saints, a process which has subtly gone on since the Great Schism. In these examples, we are reminded of the subtleties of the Evil One, who is willing (even eager) to use even the holiest creations of God and, by emphasis and slight revision, to use them to turn the faithful against God.
In our era where words have ceased to have meaning and where truth is often just a matter of opinion, a pilgrimage to Walsingham reminds us that the Evil One continues to prowl around like a lion (1 Peter 5:8), seeking to devour those he can catch. By the prayers of the Mother of God and all the saints of England, may God deliver us from the subtleties of his tricks, and help us discern the "matters of taste" touching the lives of each one of us.


What does a 5,544-page treaty touted by its supporters as promoting free trade among 12 Pacific Rim nations have to do with efforts by global elites to impose restrictions on the use of abundant and affordable energy? The answer is far more than the backers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) want you to know.
After six years of behind-closed-doors negotiations, the text of the TPP was finally released to the American public by the Obama administration on Nov. 5. A careful reading of the treaty shows why the White House had gone to such extraordinary lengths to keep the public in the dark about the TPP. The deal is a Pandora's Box of troubles that, among other things, subjects the U.S. to the whims of an unaccountable trans-national TPP Commission (see below), undercuts patent protection for American pharmaceuticals, slaps quotas on exports of U.S. agricultural products, and greases the skids for imposition of the recently adopted Paris global climate change pact.
The PTT is an outgrowth of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) adopted by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico in 1994. In addition to the U.S., other TPP partners are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. Aside from the expansion of the number of nations involved, the biggest difference between NAFTA and the TPP is the scope of the agenda hiding behind the latter's "free-trade" pretensions. Nowhere is that more obvious than in the agreement's section on the environment.
Release of the TPP just over three weeks before the opening of the UN-sponsored Conference of the Parties (COP 21) in Paris was, as the old Bolsheviks were want to say, "no coincidence." Like the launch of the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in late September, the TPP is intimately related to the climate change talks in Paris. Those talks culminated in the adoption of an agreement — enthusiastically backed by the Obama White House — that will see the U.S. commit to steep reductions of its carbon emissions, mostly CO2, below 2005 levels over the next few years. China, on the other hand, refused to fast-track its emissions, even though it is a larger emitter than the U.S.
This is where the TPP enters the picture as an auxiliary enforcement mechanism for the Paris treaty. Chapter 20 of the TPP requires compliance with all previous multilateral environmental agreements. That mandate can, and likely will, be extended to include the Paris climate change treaty. The TPP's all-powerful Commission can incorporate the Paris deal into the trade pact once the global climate agreement has been adopted.
And what exactly is the TPP's Commission? It is modeled after the European Commission, an unaccountable and unelected body that has spewed a torrent of regulations and mandates on the EU's struggling economies. Once the TPP goes into force, its Commission will have the power to modify or amend the trade agreement "or take such other action that the Parties may agree…" Should any disputes arise over a signatory's compliance with the TPP, they will be handled by "Arbitration Tribunals," which will have the power to hand down multi-billion dollar judgements against any member government that violates its decisions. In this way, the TPP's Commission and its Arbitration Tribunals can punish the U.S or any other signatory for violating the terms of the trade pact, including failure to comply with the Paris climate agreement.
Indeed, because it can amend the TPP, albeit through a unanimous vote of its commissioners (hand-picked by member governments), the Commission can do what the U.S. Congress cannot. When the Republican-controlled Congress last summer, after a bitter political fight, granted Obama fast-track authority to seek approval of the TPP, it surrendered much of its leverage to the White House. Fast-track authority means that the TPP cannot be amended or filibustered in the Senate, greatly enhancing its chances of approval in the Upper Chamber. It's a take-it-or-leave-it proposition, in which a simple majority in both Houses suffices to approve the trade pact.
Now that the text of the TPP has been released, many in Congress who were so eager to grant the president fast-track authority are having buyers' remorse. Lawmakers from the Farm Belt are disappointed that U.S. agricultural products will be subject to quotas; pharmaceuticals are worried about patent protection; people who warned about the loss of U.S. sovereignty see their worst fears confirmed. The list goes on. Because 2016 is an election year, the TPP may be too hot to handle until after Americans have gone to the polls next November. The TPP's opponents can be thankful that Obama's negotiators agreed to such a patently bad deal.
Sold as a job-creating trade pact, the TPP is really another in a long line of global governance schemes written by trans-national elites for trans-national elites. That's why Obama supports it.
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a lawsuit on December 2, 2015, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking records of communications from National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials regarding methodology for collecting and interpreting data used in climate models (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Commerce (No 1:15-cv-02088).
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Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Lima on Friday, protesting to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal while demanding better working conditions.
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Orange County Poised to Make the Yellow Tier for COVID-19
SANTA ANA (CNS) - Orange County is poised to graduate from the orange to the least-restrictive yellow tier in the state's COVID-19 economic reopening plan by tomorrow.
"They look good,'' Orange County CEO Frank Kim told City News Service of Monday's COVID-19 metrics.
Kim said that "based on our calculations, which are unofficial because we have to wait for the state's guidance (Tuesday),'' the county will be eligible to reopen in the yellow tier on Wednesday.
The county's case rate per 100,000 residents was 1.5 as of Sunday, the day the state calculates its weekly averages. The state issues its weekly averages on Tuesdays.
The county has a .09% positivity rate overall, and in the lower socioeconomic communities hardest hit by the pandemic.
"Our numbers are looking really good,'' Orange County Supervisor Lisa Bartlett said. "We seem to be improving day by day so it doesn't appear the (virus) variants are a concern right now. ... But we still have not reached that 70% herd immunity in Orange County. We still have about 700,000 people to get up to that herd immunity.''
The county on Monday reported just 39 newly diagnosed COVID-19 infections, upping its cumulative caseload to 254,783.
Hospitalization numbers dropped from 82 patients on Sunday to 79 on Monday, with the number of intensive care unit patients dropping from 23 to 13.
Bartlett said she understood the state's newly announced decision to wait until June 15 to align with federal guidance that no longer requires people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to wear face coverings, except on a bus or airplane or other crowded places. The June date is when state officials are expected to lift most virus-related restrictions if current positive trends continue.
"I think every state has to decide whatever's appropriate for them,'' Bartlett said. "In certain parts of the country, they're having issues getting their people vaccinated whereas in other parts of the country like California, we're doing much better statewide. But out of an abundance of caution, especially with all of the variants swirling around, that's probably why we want to wait another month.''
Bartlett said as more social distancing restrictions are relaxed, it makes sense to see the impact on the rate of infections.
"The state is watching what is happening as counties are opening up more of their economy,'' she said. "That may give an indication what could happen on June 15 when we open things up statewide and we're out of the tier methodology.''
Bartlett noted that California is a tourist attraction, so there's some concern about more visitors arriving with more contagious variants.
"We have to be very vigilant and watch this very carefully with a relaxation of mask mandates,'' she said. "Hopefully things will continue on the current path they're on.''
Bartlett said she knows many constituents who have said they want to continue wearing a mask for the time being, and she said it's important to respect everyone's preferences.
Now some residents are concerned that if they are seen wearing a face covering that others will assume they have COVID-19 even though they're vaccinated, she said.
"It's about individual choice and personal freedom,'' Bartlett said. "And people should do what makes them feel more comfortable, and if they feel more comfortable wearing a mask, then they should do so.''
Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley said it makes sense to keep the mask rules in place for now.
"I think we should continue following the California Department of Health,'' Foley told City News Service. "We don't have herd immunity yet. We still have work to do even though we've done a great job. We still have about 700,000 more people we need to vaccinate.
"When you're out in crowds, you should still wear a mask. And if you're in a crowded shopping center or a concert venue or sporting event or indoors or in the office setting around people you don't know because you don't know if the other person is vaccinated.''
Foley noted the CDC guidance provided many exemptions such as public transportation and plane travel.
Orange County Board of Supervisors Chairman Andrew Do and Supervisor Don Wagner issued a statement calling on the state to immediately lift the mask rules for fully vaccinated residents.
"Orange County has been ahead of the curve throughout the pandemic,'' Do said in a news release. "Early in the crisis, Orange County responded promptly and effectively. We were among the first to declare a local health emergency in the early days of COVID-19 on Feb. 26, 2020.
"In late March of 2020, I began to advise our residents to wear face coverings, exercise social distancing, and wash their hands often. Today, our vaccination rates are better than surrounding counties.''
Do added, "This is a testament to the people of Orange County. They have acted responsibly since the pandemic hit to protect themselves, their families, and the wider community. The board has similarly acted responsibly, directing health resources to some of our hardest-hit neighborhoods, especially in my district. That hard work has paid off. Now, the state must follow the science and recognize Orange County's success by lifting the mask mandate for residents who have followed the government's advice and got vaccinated.''
Wagner agreed.
"The state has failed almost since the start of COVID to respond appropriately to the disease,'' Wagner said in the news release. "It shut down schools to our children's detriment, and almost all areas of life, rather than focus its efforts on our most at-risk citizens.
"Meanwhile, the Board of Supervisors worked hard to ensure hundreds of millions of dollars went towards securing PPEs for hospitals and to help struggling small businesses survive. It is past time for the state to look to science and relieve unnecessary restrictions. Relief from the state-wide mask mandate gives people one more reason to get vaccinated.''
Foley said, "The CDC guidance has a lot of caveats that my colleagues have ignored -- the caveats that if we're in crowd places or on public transportation or airplanes and the like you still need to wear a mask.''
Foley agrees that the fully vaccinated should have the liberty of not wearing a mask when around other vaccinated people.
"I've done that,'' she said. "I've had a fun evening with family members and friends and we didn't have to wear a mask because we're all vaccinated. It felt great. But I'm going to continue to wear masks until we get herd immunity around people I don't know.''
Foley said it was especially important because California "is an international community. We have to worry about the variants. The Orange County supervisors were the last to support wearing a mask and now they're the first to say take it off.''
Foley also criticized Wagner and Do for criticizing the state.
"I don't know why they did that at a time when we're trying to build a relationship with the state,'' Foley said. "We have numerous funding requests in to help us with our critical infrastructure. We're doing a great job vaccinating people. We're almost there. Just have some patience. What's the motivation to always having to poke the bear?''
Andrew Noymer, a UC Irvine professor of population health and disease prevention, said the divergence in federal and state announcements on masks has made things difficult to follow.
"I'm having trouble keeping track of it all and I'm keeping close attention to it, so I definitely think it's a problem,'' Noymer told City News Service.
The epidemiologist said he didn't understand why the state wanted to wait another month to follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance.
"What changes on June 15? I don't quite understand,'' Noymer said. "Whether we start now or June 15 almost seems academic.''
Noymer has advocated giving Californians a mask break for the summer.
"I think what people have to understand just as a practical matter is that people aren't going to mask for 36 months straight even if they're vaccinated,'' Noymer said.
"They're just not going to do it. Giving people a few months of shore leave, so to speak, is justified because they're going to be called back to their battle stations in the wintertime as I expect.''
Noymer said he expects another uptick in cases as temperatures drop in the fall and winter and more residents return to more indoor activities. Giving residents a break now will make it easier to get them to mask up again when infections go back on the rise, Noymer said.
"You say vaccines work, so why can't we ditch the mask? I think that's a fair point,'' he said.
According to the weekly state data released every Tuesday, the average for the county's daily case rate per 100,000 people improved from 2.4 last Tuesday to 1.8 last week. The overall test positivity rate improved from 1.3% to 1%, and the county's Health Equity Quartile rate, which measures positivity in hot spots in disadvantaged communities, declined from 1.4% to 1.2%.
Graduating to the yellow tier would allow for greater attendance for many businesses such as movie theaters and gyms, while museums, zoos and aquariums can open up at 100% of capacity and for the first time bars and distilleries can open indoors.
The county reported 4,469 tests, boosting the cumulative to 3,808,408. The seven-day average of tests was 277.6 per 100,000.
Three fatalities logged this weekend increased the death toll to 5,031.
Only one fatality has been reported this month. The death toll for April is 38.
The death toll for March is 180, 580 for February, and 1,536 for January, the deadliest month of the pandemic, and 931 for December, the next deadliest.


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Okapis are a most unusual animal, looking like a combination of several put together. These quiet, timid animals are very rare and from the forests of central Africa. They are a close relative of the giraffe, having a similar long neck and long blue tongue.
The inspiration for this painting is the way the light creates a two-tone colour on their wonderful velvetty coats. Capturing this was quite a challenge. Also the characteristicly striped hindquarters proved quite fascinating, getting the stripes to wrap around the quarters.
This was painted on an oval canvas as I thought that the composition just fitted that shape, allowing the eye to travel along the tail, back, neck and then down to the face.
A rare and beautiful animal captured in an unusual way, creating a stunning painting.


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 el nombre común de la planta Anthemis arvensis; o
 el nombre común de la planta Helichrysum stoechas.


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Anarita (gr. Αναρίτα) – wieś w Republice Cypryjskiej, w dystrykcie Pafos. W 2011 roku liczyła 876 mieszkańców.

Miejscowość zachowała swój tradycyjny charakter. Wokół Anarity znaleźć można drzewa oliwne oraz hodowle cytryn. Obok wioski znajduje się malowniczo położone pole golfowe Secret Valley.

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The Lawrence men's tennis team had a busy weekend. The team hosted Lakeland College in a nonconference matchup and their first conference match against Lake Forest College Saturday.
The Lakeland match brought out the best in the team as they came out confident and strong. The team dropped a total of 10 games in the entire match as each player played their best matches of the season.
Juniors Dan Hertel, Travis Fondow and David Klaus all won 6-1, 6-0, while junior Lincoln Thomas won 6-0, 6-0. Freshman Roy Wimer won by default, as Lakeland did not have enough men to field an entire team.
The afternoon match opened up conference play for the Hertel. Sophomore Ryan Dunn teamed up to win at one doubles, and Fondow and Thomas followed suit at two doubles. Wimer and junior Kyle Nodarse dropped a tiebreaker, but the Vikes had an early 2-1 lead in the team's matchup.
Dunn set the tone of the single matches by winning quickly. Hertel won a well-fought battle at two singles, but Lake Forest came back and won the rest of the singles, as well as the match.
The Vikings take on UW-Oshkosh, Concordia and Marion College this weekend.


Ultimate Cardamom Adventure Of Cambodia: Phnom Penh – Sophat – Thmor Bang – Koh Kong – O' Saom – Pursat – Phnom Penh.
We head out of Phnom Penh to Kompong Speu, where we leave the highway and join the winding ox-cart track through Aural National Park to Sophat. We spend the night here in a traditional village house.
Riding along a challenging jungle path and crossing numerous rickety bridges through Araing and Thmor Bang, we enter the Cardamom Mountains. After a fun two days of "Dancing Roads", we take a bothering the coastal border town of Koh Kong.
Ride the jungle trail through bamboo groves and rocky inclines to a set of river rapids. Cool off in the waters of the Ka Pow River, before returning to Koh Kong for the night.
We begin the first leg of our journey through the Cardamoms, along the most extreme trail Cambodia has to offer until we reach O' Saom. This isolated village is completely cut off from civilisation during the rainy season is completely self-sufficient, with its own homegrown fruits and vegetables and freshwater supply. Villagers also report the occasional glimpse of wild crocodiles. Here you have the option of either camping out or staying, believe it or not, at their own guesthouse!
We continue our journey along the trail to Veal Veng, another remote village where we stop for lunch. Leaving Veal Veng, we ride to the town of Pursat, famous for its marble sculpting, where we stay the night.
After an off-road adventure that rivals the best, it's plain sailing from Pursat along a new tarmac road, passing through Kompong Chhnang en route to Phnom Penh.
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Scientists Find New Cell Type Implicated in Chronic Pain, Inflammation
By Mark Derewicz
The discovery, from the UNC School of Medicine lab of Mark Zylka, PhD, offers pain researchers a new, precise target to treat inflammation associated with neuropathic pain.
Mark Zylka, PhD
CHAPEL HILL, NC – One of the hallmarks of chronic pain is inflammation, and scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have discovered that anti-inflammatory cells called MRC1+ macrophages are dysfunctional in an animal model of neuropathic pain. Returning these cells to their normal state could offer a route to treating debilitating pain caused by nerve damage or a malfunctioning nervous system.
The researchers, who published their work in Neuron, found that stimulating the expression of an anti-inflammatory protein called CD163 reduced signs of neuroinflammation in the spinal cord of mice with neuropathic pain.
"Macrophages are a type of immune cell that are found in the blood and in tissues throughout the body. We found a class of anti-inflammatory macrophages that normally help the body to resolve pain. But neuropathic pain appears to disable these macrophages and prevent them from doing their job," said senior author Mark Zylka, PhD, director of the UNC Neuroscience Center and Kenan Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology. "Fortunately they don't appear to be permanently disabled, as we were able to coax them to ramp up their anti-inflammatory actions and reduce neuropathic pain. We suspect it will be possible to develop new treatments for pain by boosting the activities of these macrophages."
Spinal cord illustration of pro-inflammatory cells (red) and anti-inflammatory MRC1+ macrophages (blue).
Roughly one-fifth of the U.S. population has chronic pain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Often the underlying causes are elusive, and patients need pain alleviated so they can function in life. While opioids are great at treating pain in the short term, these drugs can have severe side effects when used for extended periods, such as addiction, respiratory depression, dizziness, nausea, and death due to overdose.
One reason why strong pain relievers work well but can have dramatic side effects has to do with a basic biological fact: pain involves a highly diverse set of cells and current treatments lack cell type specificity. So, any given medication may resolve adverse changes in some cells to alleviate pain, but the medication might exacerbate a particular function in other cells, leading to adverse side effects.
With an emerging technology called single-cell RNA-sequencing, scientists can now interrogate thousands of cells at once to see which cells are altered during chronic pain, and in which ways the cells change.
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"Knowing which cells to target allows us to design very specific therapies. Targeted therapies in theory should have fewer adverse side-effects," said Jesse Niehaus, graduate student in the Zylka lab and first author of the Neuron paper.
To figure out which cells were changing and in what ways, Zylka's lab performed single-cell RNA-sequencing on the spinal cords of mice with neuropathic pain, a type of chronic pain caused by nerve damage. The spinal cord undergoes many long-term changes that contribute to neuropathic pain.
From those experiments, the researchers found a population of anti-inflammatory cells called MRC1+ macrophages that were dysfunctional.
"This was incredibly interesting because long-term inflammation in the spinal cord is commonly seen in animals with neuropathic pain," Niehaus said.
With the identity of the cells revealed, Zylka's lab delivered a gene therapy designed to stimulate the expression of an anti-inflammatory protein called CD163 in MRC1+ macrophages. With this approach, a single treatment reduced spinal cord inflammation and relieved pain-related behavior for up to a month.
"This discovery is quite exciting," Zylka said, "As it immediately suggests multiple distinct ways to boost the function of these macrophages. Any one of these therapeutic approaches could provide a more precise way to treat neuropathic pain."
Other authors of the Neuron paper are Jeremy Simon, PhD, research assistant professor; Bonnie Taylor-Blake, research specialist, and Lipin Loo, PhD, a former postdoc in the Zylka Lab who is now a research fellow at the University of Sidney.
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke funded this research. Sequencing was performed at the UNC High Throughput Sequencing Core. Microscopy was performed at the UNC Neuroscience Center Microscopy Core.
Media contact: Mark Derewicz, 919-923-0959
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People who drive Royal Enfield bike can only understand what it means to own it, no words can explain the feeling of the metal body, sound and comfort. People treat Enfields like their own blood! This short film "OLD DELHI MOTORCYCLE" will touch your heart and take you to a long Bullet bike ride in your imagination. Goosebumps? Watch the full video here.
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Sadly, losing a family home to pay for your care later in life isn't uncommon. Research has previously shown that most people (half of women and a third of men) will require some form of long-term care later in life.
In some cases, care home fees can be very expensive, and to a lot of people, unaffordable. Thousands of people lose their family home as they need to use it as capital to pay for the care home fees.
What happens to homeowners that enter a care home?
An ex-husband, ex-wife or ex-civil partner if they are a lone parent.
If your stay in a care home is just temporary, then the home also will not be classed as capital. However, if circumstances change and the stay becomes permanent, the home will be classed as capital 12-weeks from when the decision to make the stay permanent happened.
Could you gift the house to another member of your family as you get older?
Some people may consider gifting their home to a member of their family in order to protect it, although there are some downfalls to this. The member of the family that receives the house will be required to pay tax on interest or income that they receive from the asset.
Another risk is that the family member that received the home may die, get divorced or get into debt, which means that the home could be involved in legal proceedings.
There may also be implications if you have no other reason for gifting your property other than to deprive yourself of assets that would be available to pay care home fees, especially if it is vital. Solicitors, however, are often able to uncover other substantive reasons for not gifting property and the reasons that get identified are usually recorded and not overshadowed by the fear of paying care home fees.
If it can be proved that the only reason for the transfer of the house was to avoid losing it to care home fees, then you'll be treated in the same way as you would if you still owned the property, and the cost of care would have to be paid.
If the transfer happened at least 6 months prior to moving into a care home, then the Local Authority can automatically recover the property without having to prove reason.
Can a trust be used to ring fence your home against care home fees?
Another option would be to move your house to a family trust, which is another safe way to give away your home. This is by transferring the ownership of your home and other significant assets and moving them into a trust, which can be set up with the aid of both an experienced tax planning and trust solicitor. A family trust will potentially provide full protection for your assets from the future cost of care home fees.
How to set up a trust to reduce your care home fees?
This can't be done without an experienced trust solicitor who has expertise in estate planning for older clients. They will ensure that the family trust is suitable for you and ensure that the documentation is drafted properly, protects you and that you have appointed the right people to act as your trustees.
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So, it's busy busy on the comedy awards front as the Fringe reaches its final furlong, with the Edinburgh Comedy Award shortlists published just this afternoon. And in the running for the main prize this year are no less than Alex Horne, James Acaster, John Kearns, Liam Williams, Romesh Ranganathan, Sam Simmons and Sara Pascoe.
Meanwhile up for the newcomer prize are Alex Edelman, Dane Baptiste (read a column from him here) Gein's Family Giftshop (read a mini interview from them here), Lazy Susan, Lucy Beaumont and Steen Raskopoulos.
Confirming all this earlier today, Edinburgh Comedy Awards boss Nica Burns told reporters: "For the second year running, reflecting the huge amount of diverse comedy talent at the Fringe, the shortlist for the Best Comedy Show is seven strong. Between them, these outstanding performers reach every funny bone. Unprecedentedly three 2013 Best Newcomers – John Kearns, Liam Williams and Romesh Ranganathan – have graduated to the Best Comedy Show shortlist in only a year. The Edinburgh Fringe continues to launch the comedy stars of tomorrow".
And as for this year's newcomer noms, she continued: "The shortlist for the newcomers is exceptionally strong with a wealth of talent from stand up to character comedy and sketch. A truly international and UK wide list featuring acts from Australia, America, Manchester and Hull".
The overall winners for both awards, and the Panel Prize, will be announced on Saturday. Elsewhere in comedy award news, the winner of this year's previously reported Amused Moose Laughter Award was selected at theSpace @ Symposium Hall on Sunday, with Celia Pacquola taking the overall prize and Chris Turner getting the People's Choice Award.
You can read our interview with Pacquola here and a column from Turner here; meanwhile on her Amused Moose win Pacquola told ThreeWeeks: "I'm really stunned, thrilled and excited. It was very unexpected and I'm looking forward to trying to get my pointy, dangerous Moose trophy through airport security".
And finally for now, as you probably all already know, because blimey doesn't this one get a lot of mainstream media coverage, Tim Vine took the Dave Award for best one-liner of the Festival with this gag: "I decided to sell my Hoover… well it was just collecting dust".
And that, I think, is enough comedy award news for now.


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A Malignant Growth
July 24th, 2015 by Attorney Dan Carman
In the United States, federal laws apply to everyone in the country, while state laws apply only to those people who live, work, or happen to be in a particular state. Under the Constitution, federal law is supreme and must be followed if a conflict arises. Some of the first federal crimes in the U.S. were defined in the Crimes Act of 1790, which specified 23 federal crimes. Seven of the offenses carried a mandatory death penalty: treason, murder, three offenses relating to piracy, forgery of a public security of the United States and the rescue of a person convicted of a capital crime. Thirteen of the crimes were punishable by a term of imprisonment, with a statutory maximum of up to one year, three years or seven years. The remaining three crimes were punishable by fines and corporal punishment or were left to the court's discretion.
Since then, our criminal code has exploded. There are currently more than 4,500 federal criminal laws, with approximately 300,000 regulations that can be enforced criminally. Congress continues to criminalize at an average rate of one new crime for every week of the year. Practically all inherently wrongful conduct has been criminalized several times over, yet from 2000 through 2007, Congress enacted 452 new criminal offenses.
Referred to as "overcriminalization," this overuse or misuse of the criminal law to address societal problems is a troubling concept.
While the original federal criminal code was limited to what was necessary to get the new government started, today's code covers an unimaginably broad range of conduct and seems to be enacted by a Congress looking to score political points with uninformed citizens taught to be blindly afraid of invisible crime. Many new criminal offenses also lack criminal intent requirements, making it astoundingly easy to be punished for conduct that does not conform to what reason or experience would suggest may be illegal. These new offenses fail to satisfy the fundamental principle of criminal law that, before criminal punishment can be imposed, the government must prove both a guilty act and a guilty mind.
To counter the troubling explosive growth that federal criminal law has undergone in recent decades, the Heritage Foundation suggests:
Showing the human side of overcriminalization by reporting the stories of those people who have been callously victimized by the criminal justice system
Having courts give the benefit of the doubt to the person being prosecuted in cases involving a law that is vague or unclear
Requiring Congress to provide written analysis of and justification for every new or modified criminal offense and every new or enhanced penalty
Prohibiting Congress from delegating the power to establish crimes to unelected officials in federal departments and agencies
Petitioning Congress to repeal unjust or unnecessary laws, starting with offenses that make it a crime to engage in conduct that no reasonable American would know is unlawful.
If you have been charged with a crime or have questions about how the law might apply to your situation, discuss it with one of the attorneys at the Lexington, KY-based Carman Law Firm. As criminal defense attorneys with years of experience, we offer thorough, experienced representation. Call today at (859) 685-1055 or fill out this online contact form to find out how we can help you.
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We live in the New Forest and keep a herd of beautiful angora goats. On our website you will find the products produced with our goat's beautiful, lustrous, mohair fleeces.
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Q: How to construct confidence interval for true variance I am wondering how I can approach the following:
Suppose there exists a game , which was originally designed to be such that $500 $points would be the mean score.
Suppose in a  past year the mean score for a game was $520$.
In a random sample of $20$ people, the distribution followed normal distribution and the sample mean was $495$ while the sample standard deviation was $69$.
Construct a $90%$ two sided confidence interval for the true variance $\sigma^2$ and for $\sigma$.
My issue is I am confused on which info I need and which I dont.
For example, do I use that $n=20$ sample information to do this?
Can someone help me out with it?
Thanks

A: You have $X_1,\ldots,X_{20} \sim \text{i.i.d. } N(\mu,\sigma^2)$, so
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\frac{SS}{\sigma^2} = \frac 1 {\sigma^2} \sum_{i=1}^{20} (X_i - \bar X)^2 \sim\chi^2_{19} \quad \text{where } \bar X = \frac{X_1+\cdots+X_{20}}{20}.
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Suppose $\Pr(\chi^2_{19}>A) = 0.05 $ and $\Pr(\chi^2_{19}<B) = 0.05 $. Then
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\Pr\left( A < \frac{SS}{\sigma^2} < B \right) = 0.9.
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From
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A < \frac{SS}{\sigma^2} < B
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we get
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A\sigma^2 < SS < B\sigma^2.
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The first inequality implies $\sigma^2 < \dfrac{SS} A$ and the second implies $\dfrac{SS} B < \sigma^2$. Hence
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\Pr\left( \frac{SS} B < \sigma^2 < \frac{SS} A \right) = 0.9.
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(So we definitely used the fact that $n=20$.)