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Naeglaria fowleri, the brain-eating amoeba (8 ways to protect yourself)
by Kunlere Idowu November 22, 2017 0 comment
The brain-eating amoeba, Naeglaria fowleri
Naeglaria fowleri, popularly known as the "brain-eating amoeba", is a thermophilic, free-living, single-celled organism in the family Vahlkampfidae. It grows best at a temperature between 25oC and 40oC and is commonly found in soils near warm-water discharges of industrial plants and warm freshwater such as ponds, lakes, rivers, and hot springs, swimming pools.
It also thrives in hot regions in slimy films and sediments of poorly maintained, minimally chlorinated, and/or unchlorinated swimming pools, hence, protection from this organism is imperative.
Naeglaria fowleri is the causative agent of the fatal disease called Naegleriasis, which is also known as Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM), with a fatality rate of over 97%, meaning once contracted (and due to some factors), it almost always leads to death (CDC, 2017). PAM is a disease of the central nervous system which disproportionately affects males and children, although the reason for this distribution pattern is unclear but may reflect the types of water activities (such as diving or water sports) that might be more common among young boys (Griffin, 1972).
This young girl, Kalie Ann, died from an infection by Naegleria floweri (Image credit: abcnews)
However, infection by the parasite occurs when humans are exposed to the organism via swimming, bathing, or other recreational activity during which water is forcefully inhaled into the upper nasal passages. The Naeglaria fowleri then travels along the olfactory neuroepithelium, passes through the cribriform plate to reach the brain, and leads to brain tissue destruction causing brain swelling, hence the term "brain eating amoeba".
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According to LiveScience, in 2013, a 12-year-old girl from Arkansas State who contracted naegleriasis was the last person to survive it. She was treated her with a cocktail of anti-fungal medications, and miltefosine, a experimental drug originally used to treat breast cancer but which also had been shown to kill the amoeba in lab experiments.
It takes 1-9 days (average 5 days) for symptoms to appear after nasal exposure to Naeglaria fowleri flagellates. Symptoms include stiff neck, lack of attention, loss of balance, confusion, hallucinations, vomiting and seizure which eventually result to death within two weeks of infection.
Naegleriasis (infection by Naegleria fowleri) is widespread and common worldwide, however, does not occur in oceans and other salt waters. Naegleriasis is a deadly disease. For example, between 1962 and 2015, out of the 140 people that contracted the disease, only 4 survived, implying it has close to 98% fatality. Only recently, another fatal case of a young girl died in Ohio, USA.
A diagrammatic illustration of the etiology of Naeglaria fowleri (Image credit: Livescience)
8 things you must know
Consequently, in order to protect your swimming pools from the risks of Naeglaria fowleri infection, it is imperative to ensure that the following safety precautions are taken:
Ensure swimming pools are adequately chlorinated and well maintained.
A free chlorine level of 0.5 milligrams per litre (mg/l) (1-3 parts per million range of pools) is said to be effective in killing the amoeba. The pool pH should be maintained at a range of 7.2 to 7.8 thereby inhibiting thriving of the amoeba. The use of rapid pool testing kits may be adopted in order to check the chemistry of the pool before swimming to ensure that it is safe to swim in (Queensland Government, 2017).
Before discharging into swimming pools, get rid of stagnant water inside the pipelines leading to the pool and ensure that clean and uncontaminated water is discharged into the pool aftermath.
Since any water body that seasonally exceeds 30oC or continually exceeds 25oC can support the growth of Naeglaria fowleri, it is imperative to ensure that the temperature level of swimming pools water must be kept below this temperature.
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When you go swimming in warm freshwater, avoid water entering your nose by holding it closed, using nose clips or keeping your head above water, the CDC says.
8 year old Blake Driggers succumbed to an infection by Naeglaria fowleri. He died in 2012
As the amoeba thrives in sediments, regular vacuuming of the pool is ideal in order to remove slimes and sediments where the parasite may reside. But for effectiveness, the swimming pool must be sun-dried after emptying.
Dredging is also another method whereby the organic sediment is manually removed from the water body with a dredge. However this method has its drawbacks since some of the sediments may remain in the system.
Regular check is also advised. Samples of suspected water bodies can be regularly cultured to ascertain the presence or absence of the protozoan, and
Alternatively, making use of the Clean Flo program which enables the reduction of organic sediments in water bodies by the use of inversion oxidation systems and bioaugmentation is also a reliable method as it continually rids of organic sediments in the water as well as improving the water quality (CLEAN-FLO, 2017).
Written by: Ajeigbe Sheriffdeen K. and Sipho Sibanda and Kunlere Idowu O.
(The trio are volunteers at wastesmart.org).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 2017. "Naegleria fowleri — Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM) — Amebic Encephalitis: Illness & Symptoms". Retrieved June 26, from https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/illness.html
Queensland Government. 2017. "Naeglaria fowleri: Qs and As". Retrieved June 26, from http://conditions.health.qld.gov.au/HealthCondition/condition/14/165/101/Naegleria-fowleri-Qs-As
CLEAN-FLO. 2017. "Reducing the Risk of Naegleria fowleri with CLEAN-FLO". Retrieved June 27, from https://www.clean-flo.com/naegleria-fowleri/
Griffin JL (1972) . Temperature tolerance of pathogenic and nonpathogenic free-living amoebas. Science. 178 (4063):869-70.
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/health/arkansas-amoeba-survivor/index.html
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Classical music is a transcendent art, so it is no surprise it shares with spiritual teachers a history of debunked leaders. Among the many spiritual leaders who have been found to have toes, if not feet, of clay are Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Chögyam Trungpa and Shimano Roshi. But in a memoir touching on the life of the controversial mystic and Sufi teacher Reshad Feild, author Bruce Miller makes the thought-provoking observation that in the barzakh - the realm in mystic Islam where the soul resides between death and resurrection - the unity of teacher, sinner and saint freely co-mingle. He goes on to explain that in the barzah, the teacher is neither sinner nor saint, but their teaching simply occupies the space in between those two polarities.
In support of his viewpoint Bruce Miller offers the quote that "Judging a spiritual teacher by what you assume them to be their role or how you expect them to deliver it only mirrors your personal expectation of such a relationship. How can anyone be seriously surprised that a teacher is also a human being?" He goes on to report his refreshingly untarnished mentor Bhagwan Awatramani as explaining that 'Becoming a spiritual leader is the ultimate trap'.
Many great musicians have inhabited that space between heaven and hell where saint and sinner intermingle. Pau Casals declared that "A musician is also a man, but more important than his music is his attitude to life". But if Wilhelm Furtwängler was around today, he would doubtless counter this by explaining that 'Becoming an acclaimed conductor is the ultimate trap'. The debate about Furtwängler's Nazi links is well past its sell-by date, so it will not be rehearsed again here. Instead I will revisit his recorded legacy as captured in the boxed CD set in the header image. Furtwängler was cleared by a de-Nazification tribunal in December 1946 and four months later conducted his first post-War public performance with the Berlin Philharmonic, a programme of Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. This and subsequent concerts were broadcast and recorded by 'Radio in the American Sector' (RIAS), a US funded station countering Soviet propaganda broadcasts. As the original Philharmonie had been destroyed by Allied bombing the orchestra's post-war home was the Titania-Palast, a 2,000 seat cinema built in 1928.
RIAS recorded and broadcast Furtwängler's post-war concerts from the first one onwards. Very fortuitously these recordings were made on reel-to-reel tape running at 76 cm/s. Although almost all the recordings in the Audite box seen above have previously been available commercially, these earlier releases originated from off-air recordings or from second-generation slower speed copies of the master tapes. The Audite set is the first time the original master tapes have been used; this certainly shows in the sound quality which is far superior to other archive material dating from this period. It is worth pointing out that, despite the privations of immediate post-war Berlin, the audiences are far less bronchial than those at today's BBC Proms. And the visceral string tone captured in the two Handel Concerto Grosso remind us that it is the music-making and not the designer concert hall that matters.
There are 12 CDs in the set plus a bonus CD of a German interview with Furtwängler dating from 1951. Musically the content is surprisingly varied: Beethoven predominates with two Eroicas and two Pastorals plus Yehudi Menuhin's well-known performance of the Violin Concerto. Bruckner - a stunning Eighth Symphony - and Brahms, Schumann, and Wagner (forget the backstory, the Prelude to Die Meistersinger is simply sensational) are also among the composers programmed. But in addition there is Gerhard Taschner playing Wolfgang Fortner's Violin Concerto, Boris Blacher's Concertante Musik für Orchester, and Paul Hindemith's Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 38 and Symphony 'Die Harmonie Welt'. Plus, as a bonus, a wonderfully inauthentic Bach D Major Orchestral Suite.
The unblemished Theravadian Buddhist teacher Ajahn Sumedho explained "But the idea of a normal person is a fantasy of the mind. Do you know any really normal people? I don't". This post does not judge Wilhelm Furtwängler against the spurious concept of 'a normal person', or as saint or sinner. Instead it draws attention to profoundly moving performances from his later years that vividly illustrate how becoming a great conductor is the ultimate trap. Sinner perhaps: but just as I would not be without Chögyam Trungpa's Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism and Osho's The Discipline of Transcendence series, so I would not be without Furtwängler's RIAS recordings.
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I was pleased to see you mention supporting independent retailers. I use Presto myself, from time-to-time. However, I see that MDT called in administrators last week - a great shame as I have always found them competitive and reliable in the past. So, apart from Presto, there is really only Europadisc left? Perhaps we should find out just who can supply 'physical media' nowadays, apart from Amazon?
Mark, thanks for that, and thanks, in these days of micro attention spans, of reading right to the end of my posts - including the small print.
Any recommendations from readers about independent alternatives to Amazon are very welcome.
Not sure what's going on here, but the newly released Furtwangler RIAS recordings are not available at Presto Classical site when I go there and search "Furtwangler". Best option is to just go straight to Audite's own site.
If I were Norman Lebrecht I would boast that as a result of my post On An Overgrown Path readers cleaned Presto out. But I'm not; so please add as comments more non-Amazon sources for this very desirable box.
My personal experience if that there is a break point below which the sound quality of archive recordings precludes them from any serious listening. Thankfully the Audite RIAS discs are considerably above this break point. Reports on the DG remasters when released would be appreciated.


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Gary Gibbs enters his second season as the Chiefs linebackers coach in 2010. He joined Kansas City after spending three years as the defensive coordinator in New Orleans (2006-08).
Respected in both the NFL and college football ranks, Gibbs enters his ninth season in the pro game after a 22-year career on the collegiate level that featured six seasons as the head coach at the University of Oklahoma ('89-94).
Kansas City's defense ranked eighth in the NFL in three-and-out percentage (24.4%) in 2009, while the club registered 19 takeaways over the final eight games of the 2009 season. LB Tamba Hali made the successful transition from a 4-3 defensive end to a 3-4 linebacker under Gibbs' tutelage, establishing career highs with 66 tackles and 8.5 sacks.
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Gibbs began his football career at Oklahoma, spending 23 years at the school as either a player or a coach. Over that span, the Sooners appeared in 16 bowl games and won three national championships ('74, '75 and '85). In his six seasons as head coach, Gibbs guided the Sooners to three bowl games: '90 Gator Bowl, '93 John Hancock Bowl and '94 Copper Bowl. In total, he posted a 44-23-2 overall record and posted a winning record in Big 8 Conference play each season.
Gibbs was largely successful in cleaning up a program that was placed on probation by the NCAA in '88. Gibbs produced 25 NFL draftees during his head coaching stint despite probation stipulations that severely limited the school's scholarship allotment. His defense averaged 4.09 sacks per game during the '89 campaign, a mark that remains the highest single-season average in school annals.
Gibbs began his coaching career at Oklahoma as a graduate assistant in '75 before being promoted to linebackers coach in '78. He guided the Sooners linebackers for three seasons before taking over the club's defensive coordinator duties in '81.
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Q: Is blob datatype in sql same as blob in spring I'm having a service which accepts post request and get the data in the body and save it in a MySQL DB. I'm having a blob data type in MySQL, and I am trying to save such data in spring Blob data type. Is this the right way or not?
EDIT:  I am using hibernate to store data in mysql

A: If you are using Spring JdbcTemplate, then it works fine with Blob type in JDBC. Here is an example:
DB schema:
CREATE TABLE  `imgs` (
  `img_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `img_title` varchar(45) NOT NULL,
  `img_data` blob NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`img_id`)
);

Java code:
public interface ImageDao {
 public void insertImage();
}

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.sql.Types;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

import org.springframework.dao.DataAccessException;
import org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate;
import org.springframework.jdbc.core.support.SqlLobValue;
import org.springframework.jdbc.support.lob.DefaultLobHandler;
import org.springframework.jdbc.support.lob.LobHandler;

public class ImageDaoImpl implements ImageDao {

 private DataSource dataSource;

 private JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate;

 public void setDataSource(DataSource dataSource) {
  this.dataSource = dataSource;
  this.jdbcTemplate = new JdbcTemplate(this.dataSource);
 }

 @Override
 public void insertImage() {

  try {
   final File image = new File("C:\\test.jpg");
   final InputStream imageIs = new FileInputStream(image);
   LobHandler lobHandler = new DefaultLobHandler();
   jdbcTemplate.update(
         "INSERT INTO imgs (img_title, img_data) VALUES (?, ?)",
         new Object[] {
           "test",
           new SqlLobValue(imageIs, (int)image.length(), lobHandler),
         },
         new int[] {Types.VARCHAR, Types.BLOB});

  } catch (DataAccessException e) {
   System.out.println("DataAccessException " + e.getMessage());
  } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
   System.out.println("DataAccessException " + e.getMessage());
  }

 }
}

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Q: Sympy not finding a solution to equation, would numpy work? I'm trying to build a system for simulating sliding done arbitrary slopes, but it requires that I find the intersection of half a circle and an arbitrary function. However, when I use sympy, it does find a solution despite one clearly existing.
Is there a numerical approach I could take to this in NumPy?
See code below, where x, y, and r and all constants:
z = symbols('z')
print(solve(z * 1, ((r**2 - (z - x)**2) ** 0.5) + y))
p1 = plot(z, show=False)
p2 = plot(((r**2 - (z - x)**2) ** 0.5) + y, show=False)
p1.append(p2[0])
p1.show()

This results in:
[]

Despite a solution clearly existing:

Note that in the case used for testing, x=0.4, y=0.4, r=1

A: You are passing two arguments to solve but it should be a single argument as an equation (Eq):
In [58]: eq = Eq(z * 1, ((r**2 - (z - x)**2) ** 0.5) + y)

In [59]: eq
Out[59]:
                    0.5
    ⎛             2⎞
z = ⎝1 - (z - 0.4) ⎠    + 0.4

In [60]: solve(eq)
Out[60]: [1.10710678118655]

A second argument, if provided, should be the symbol to solve for or a list of symbols to solve for e.g.:
In [61]: solve(eq, z)
Out[61]: [1.10710678118655]


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Today we're sharing the very best way to prepare those purple sweet potatoes sold at the supermarket!
Miso Glazed Japanese Sweet Potatoes are loaded with flavor as well as healthy nutrients!
Looking for a side dish that's just a little bit different? Check out these delicious Miso Glazed Japanese Sweet Potatoes!
What are Japanese Sweet Potatoes?
There was a time – not too long ago – when Japanese sweet potatoes were unheard of, or (at the very, very least) hard to come by. Japanese sweet potatoes are purple in color with a yellow inner flesh, and many supermarkets now sell them in the bins right alongside the other more-recognized sweet potatoes.
Unfortunately, some supermarkets still incorrectly call Japanese sweet potatoes "yams" – but don't be confused. Japanese yams have a long white root and can be difficult to find unless you are shopping at an Asian market, whereas Japanese sweet potatoes are the same size as a standard sweet potato but have a purple skin.
In addition to its yellowish color, the inside flesh of Japanese sweet potatoes is also denser and firmer, and loaded with tons of nutrients. The flavor is slightly sweeter than a common sweet potato – and it is that sweetness that complements the flavor of the miso glaze in today's recipe for Miso Glazed Japanese Sweet Potatoes.
Miso is a shelf-stable fermented soy bean paste with a very unique flavor that is absolutely delicious! It is another Asian ingredient that can now be found at most supermarkets, right in the Asian foods aisle.
Like our earlier recipes, we used white miso in this Miso Glazed Japanese Sweet Potatoes. The mild sweet miso flavor pairs so well with the crispy chunks of the roasted Japanese sweet potatoes, and the glaze also has garlic, sesame oil, soy sauce and brown sugar for even more fantastic caramelized flavor.
We serve our Miso Glazed Japanese Sweet Potatoes with a sprinkle of sesame seeds on top.
Leave the skins on the potatoes and cut away any spots or blemishes, then cut into 1½ inch cubes, skin left on. Place into a large bowl as you cut and drizzle on some of the oil to coat, which will stop them from oxidizing (turning brown) in the air. Continue cutting and oiling using up all of the oil.
Sprinkle on the pepper as you toss the oiled potatoes so the pepper gets distributed evenly. Then pour out onto a foil lined sheet pan and place in the oven in a single layer. Roast for 20 minutes, remove from oven and flip the potatoes then roast for 15 minutes more or until tender.
While potatoes are roasting, make the glaze by heating a large skillet or sauté pan over medium heat with the butter and sesame oil. Add garlic and cook for two minutes then remove from heat and stir in the miso, soy, brown sugar and water. Stir to mix then set aside. It won't look like much but it is just enough to glaze the potatoes.
When the potatoes come out of the oven, return the skillet to high heat and pour in the cooked potatoes, including any oil left on the sheet pan.
Use a rubber spatula or turner and gently toss the potatoes and glaze until they are coated. Cook just long enough to crisp them up a bit then remove from heat and sprinkle on the sesame seeds while tossing with the spatula. The seeds will stick to all wet surfaces. If you wait too long, the potato surface will dry and the sesame seeds won't stick.


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Q: How to bound variable which I pass through function to a specific parameter Very stupid question. For example I have a variable data and I have function DoSomething with two parameters par1 and par2. they are both optional parameters that would be null if I pass nothing. But I have only one variable data which I want to bound to the second parameter without touching first parameter. In different language I should write something like DoSomething(par2 = data) or DoSomething(par2: data) but all these examples will raise exception Uncaught SyntaxError: missing ). So what I did wrong?

A: If you have two optional parameters in JavaScript, just pass undefined to the first argument.
DoSomething(undefined, data);

undefined is the default value of arguments when they aren't passed in (DoSomething() would have both arguments be undefined) except when you set default values for optional arguments.
Another alternative is to pass in the arguments as an object, which requires changing the definition of the function and all calls to it: (?? is the Nullish coalescing operator
function DoSomething(args) {
  const par1 = args.par1 ?? "default value";
  const par2 = args.par2 ?? "default value";
}

// ....
DoSomething({ par2: "custom value" });
DoSomething({ par1: "custom value", par2: "customValue" });

Using TypeScript or JSDocs allows you to give guidance on how to send arguments in the IDE

A: You always can pass undefined or null as first parameter. SO it will be something like this:
DoSomething(undefined, data);

A: If you have multiple optional parameters, if you don't want to pass undefined.. you should use an object as the parameter.
// instead of DoSomething(param1, param2)
function DoSomething(param = {}) {
  const { param1, param2 } = param;

  //..do something with param1 and param2
}

DoSomething({ param2: 'somevalue' })

If you consider using typescript, it's even better because you can add the
type to the param.

A: First of all, if you don't pass a parameter, it would be undefined, not null.
If you want to skip the first parameter, you still have to pass it in, just pass it in as something falsy (assuming your doSomething function handles that case).

const data = 'foo';

function doSomething(param1, param2) {
    if (param1) console.log(param1);
    if (param2) console.log(param2);
}

doSomething(null, data);

If you a similar functionality to Python, you can take in a single parameter, which is an object.

const data = 'foo';

function doSomething({ param1, param2 }) {
    if (param1) console.log(param1);
    if (param2) console.log(param2);
}

doSomething({ param2: data });


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Share this Story: College Football Frenzy: Bring on NCAA chaos with OK/OK State Bedlam
College Football Frenzy: Bring on NCAA chaos with OK/OK State Bedlam
Todd Saelhof
Nov 30, 2019; Stillwater, OK, USA; Oklahoma State Cowboys running back Chuba Hubbard (30) runs the ball against Oklahoma Sooners defensive lineman Dillon Faamatau (91) during the second half at Boone Pickens Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Rob Ferguson-USA TODAY Sports ORG XMIT: USATSI-404607 Photo by Rob Ferguson /USA TODAY Sports
We want chaos to wreak havoc on the NCAA football landscape.
Not the COVID kind, of course.
Nobody wants that.
Rather, we want new teams playing their way into the College Football Playoff at the expense of the tried and true ones getting upset along the way.
A defeat hung on the No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide (7-0) would do the trick.
So, too, would just a drop — a second one — suffered by the No. 4 Clemson Tigers (7-1).
Or how about the No. 9 Indiana Hoosiers (4-0) tossing a loss on the No. 3 Ohio State Buckeyes (3-0) at The Horseshoe this Saturday (noon ET, Fox)?
Bring it all on.
If not, we'll settle for 'Bedlam' in Week 11, a good start in a hopeful shakeup of the staid final four that's usually delivered to us at the end of the campaign.
After all, Bedlam — the annual contest featuring the Oklahoma Sooners in a showdown with the Albertans Chuba Hubbard, Amen Ogbongbemiga and the Oklahoma State Cowboys — could have serious repercussions on the 2020 College Football Playoff.
That's typically the case when this meeting of in-state rivals takes place.
But befitting such a strange season, it's not the No. 18 Sooners (5-2) in the hunt for a final-four spot heading into 2020's Bedlam. With two losses, they're done in the CFP conversation.
Instead, it's the No. 14 Cowboys (5-1) who have that shot on behalf of the Big 12.
In fact, the much-maligned conference is hanging its cowboy hat on the Cowpokes — and no other folk — to field a team in the final four.
So it won't be OK for OK State to drop this one to OK (say that five times fast) on Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET, ABC) because a CFP berth is already a long-shot for the Cowboys with that one loss hanging off them.
That is unless constant buzz to expand the playoff to eight teams — if only for this crazy campaign — is somehow fast-tracked into reality.
While such a notion is likely just talk, the constant 2020 COVID decree of the sports world that 'everything is on the table' does remain in play.
Eight berths, suddenly, instead of just four?
Imagine the chaos.
Clemson Tigers quarterback Trevor Lawrence leaves the field with his teammates after Clemson lost to Notre Dame 47-40 in two overtimes at Notre Dame Stadium. Photo by Matt Cashore /USA TODAY Sports
SECOND DOWN
This will make OK State fans cringe — head coach Mike Gundy is just 2-13 in Bedlam action . . . QB Trevor Lawrence is back for No. 4 Clemson (7-1), fresh off two hell weeks — for his team without him — from COVID-19. They visit floundering Florida State (2-6), which turns back to QB Jordan Travis with last week's starter, Chubba Purdy (broken collarbone), set for season-ending surgery on Saturday (noon ET, ABC) . . . No. 12 Miami (7-1) is messed up by the bug, leading the ACC to smartly shuffle its schedule over the next month to give D'Eriq King & Co. two weeks off to recover. Six games, three involving Miami, have been affected in the ACC reset . . . All told, a whopping 15 Week 12 games have been called off — seven of them postponed, including No. 5 Texas A&M (5-1) vs. Ole Miss (3-4), Miami vs. Georgia Tech (2-5), Charlotte (2-3) vs. No. 15 Marshall (7-0), No. 22 Texas (5-2) at Kansas (0-7) and Houston (3-3) at SMU (7-2) . . . A request by Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott to delay the start of the post-season due to the ever-increasing number of games being called off fell largely on deaf ears belonging to the College Football Playoff Management Committee this week. So the schedule will remain the same — New Year's Day for the semifinals, and Jan. 11 for the CFP National Championship — unless COVID cases really get out of hand among programs . . . Speaking of which, the first College Football Playoff rankings come out Tuesday (7 p.m. ET, TSN2).
THIRD DOWN
Shake-up at South Carolina to kick off Week 12, as head coach Will Muschamp was sacked by the SEC squad after a pedestrian 28-30 record — including a 2-5 record this year — over more than four seasons in Columbia. Then, the team's top two cornerbacks, Jaycee Horn and Israel Mukuamu left the program, announcing they will begin preparing for the NFL Draft . . . Names in the running to replace Muschamp include Group of Five head coaches Luke Fickell, Jamey Chadwell, Hugh Freeze and Billy Napier at respective AP Top-25 schools Cincinnati (No. 7, 7-0), Coastal Carolina (No. 15, 7-0), Liberty (No. 21, 8-0) and Louisiana (No. 24, 7-1) . . . Check out QB Kyle Trask's stats package. It's living up to what Joe Burrow did last year in winning the Heisman Trophy and leading LSU to the national title. The double for Trask is certainly not out of the question — No. 6 Florida (5-1) can certainly benefit CFP-wise from top-shelf chaos — and he'll no doubt add to his Heisman-hunting numbers (70.1 completion percentage, 2,171 passing yards and a 28-3 TD-INT ratio) when FLA visits winless Vanderbilt (0-6) in SEC Saturday action (noon ET, TSN2) . . . In other SEC play, Alabama hosts Kentucky (3-4) on Saturday (4 p.m. ET, TSN3).
Remember when UCF, once upon time declaring itself the de facto national champion, ran the gauntlet but was heartbreakingly frozen out of the final four? It can save Cincy (7-0) the same end-of-year agony in a Group of Five meeting of then- and now-perfection Saturday (3:30 p.m. ET, TSN2) — and Central Florida might just do that . . . Northwestern (4-0) is off to a perfect start through four games for the first time since 1996 but has its hands full with No. 10 Wisconsin (2-0) visiting Evanston on Saturday (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC). The winners get a leg up in the Big Ten West . . . No. 15 Coastal Carolina (7-0) is trying to keep its perfect season intact but plays feisty Appalachian State (6-1), winner of all six meetings between these teams, on Saturday (noon ET). The last win by App State over a ranked team came eight tries ago in 2007 against — wait for it — then-No. 5 Michigan . . . Ottawa's own Jesse Palmer, one of the best analysts in the game, does a spot-on hilarious impression of legendary coach Steve Spurrier, under whom Palmer QB'd for in Florida. Catch it if you can from the former Canadian fastballer.
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UCF Knights running back Otis Anderson is tackled by Houston Cougars linebacker Grant Stuard during the second quarter at TDECU Stadium. Photo by Maria Lysaker /USA TODAY Sports
AP TOP 25
Rank (last week) Record
1. Alabama (1) 6-0
2. Notre Dame (2) 8-0
3. Ohio State (3) 3-0
4. Clemson (4) 7-1
5. Texas A&M (5) 5-1
6. Florida (6) 4-1
7. Cincinnati (7) 7-0
8. BYU (8) 8-0
9. Indiana (10) 4-0
10. Wisconsin (13) 2-0
11. Oregon (11) 2-0
12. Miami (9) 7-1
13. Georgia (12) 4-2
14. Oklahoma State (14) 5-1
15. Marshall (16) 7-0
Coastal Carolina (15) 7-0
17. Iowa State (17) 5-2
18. Oklahoma (19) 5-2
19. Northwestern (23) 4-0
20. USC (20) 2-0
21. Liberty (22) 8-0
22. Texas (21) 5-2
23. Auburn (24) 4-2
24. Louisiana (25) 7-1
25. Tulsa (NR) 4-1
NR — not ranked
GAME TO WATCH
#9 INDIANA @ #3 OHIO STATE (-20.5)
Saturday, noon ET, Fox, in Columbus, Ohio
OK, I'm drinkin' Tom Allen's Kool-Aid. The emotional coach has the Hoosiers believin'.
PICK: INDIANA
(-6) #7 CINCINNATI @ UCF
Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET, TSN2
Host UCF's still a Group of Five powerhouse that should score on Cincy's vaunted defence.
PICK: UCF
#14 OKLAHOMA STATE @ #18 OKLAHOMA (-7)
Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET, ABC
Sooners don't deserve to rep the Big 12 in the CFP, but they're still the best team in the conference.
PICK: OKLAHOMA
#21 LIBERTY @ NC STATE (-3.5)
Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET
Flames are no pushover, but it's asking a lot for them to beat another solid ACC foe on the road.
PICK: NC STATE
Last week: 3-1: Season: 22-17-1


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Erigeron compositus es una especie perteneciente a la familia Asteraceae. Originaria del oeste de Norteamérica hasta Groenlandia y este de Canadá.

Descripción
Es una planta perenne, que alcanza un tamaño  de 5-15 (-25 cm) de altura. Los caudices simples suelen ser relativamente gruesos y corto, delgado y rara vez como un rizoma, los tallos erectos. Hojas mayormente basales (persistentes); hojas espatuladas a obovado-espatuladas, 5-50  ×  4-12 mm, los márgenes  lobuladas. Involucros  de 10.5 × 20.8 mm. brácteas en 2-3 series (violeta en la punta),  corolas de color blanco a rosa o azul, por lo general 6-12 mm. El número cromosomático es de 2 n = 18, 36, 45, 54.

Distribución y hábitat
Se encuentra en prados subalpinos, acantilados, taludes y cantos rodados; (en Canadá, Groenlandia y el Ártico e Asia (Lejano Oriente ruso).

Taxonomía
Erigeron compositus fue descrita por  Frederick Traugott Pursh y publicado en Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, . . . 2: 535. 1814[1813].
Etimología
Erigeron: nombre genérico que deriva de las palabras griegas: eri = "temprano" y geron =  "hombre viejo", por lo que significa "hombre viejo en la primavera", en referencia a las cabezas de semillas blancas mullidas y la floración temprana y fructificación de muchas especies.

compositus: epíteto latíno que significa "compuesta".
Sinonimia
Cineraria lewisii Richardson
Erigeron gormanii Greene
Erigeron multifidus Rydb.
Erigeron multifidus var. discoideus (A.Gray) Rydb.
Erigeron multifidus var. incertus A.Nelson
Erigeron pedatus Nutt.
Erigeron trifidus var. discoideus (A.Gray) A.Nelson
Erigeron trifidus var. prasinus J.F.Macbr. & Payson

Referencias

Enlaces externos

compositus
Flora del Ártico
Plantas descritas en 1813
Plantas descritas por Pursh

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On the buses: Passenger recalls hilarious moment man burst into Pavarotti impression
Despite learning to drive two years ago, Laura, 34, still prefers to take the Metro to work
Translink ambassador Laura Mackin
Free entertainment on your way home it isn't exactly a benefit that springs to mind when you buy your bus ticket.
But for Laura Mackin, after 20 years of riding the buses around Belfast, nothing surprises her. So when a fellow passenger stood-up and burst into song, giving his own take on Pavarotti, it was just another day on the Metro.
Laughing at the memory Laura said: "I would regularly take the Annadale Embankment Metro and there was a guy who did little Operatic performances on board. I thought it was hilarious and he was actually quite good, the whole thing was great! Who needs the Paris Metro with their men on saxophones?!" she joked.
Laura is such a firm champion of the Metro service she's become a volunteer Translink ambassador, singing the praises of the bus service she grew up with.
"It sounds very clichéd but it starts my day the right way and ends my day the right way. Working in advertising, it's just go, go, go from the second and hour you start the day.
"I like the fact that my bus stop is right outside my door. I walk straight outside, pop the headphones on and I'm relaxed, because I'm not driving and I'm not stuck in traffic."
Despite learning to drive two years ago, Laura, 34, still prefers to take the Metro to work.
"It also gives me the ultimate flexibility to change my plans, to go out and meet people. You're whizzing down the road and you are almost laughing at the cars sitting in traffic," she said.
However, on the day Belfast Live caught up with Laura, these words had come back to haunt her, as she was forced to take her car to a work meeting in Dublin.
Laura's usually relaxed 20 minute bus journey, from her Belmont Road home to her work in the Cathedral Quarter, turned into a nightmare.
"It took me an extra 40 minutes to get into work this morning taking the car," she revealed.
"It took me three times as long because I was stuck in traffic at every junction. There's nearly a bus lane all the way down from my home to work. I was looking over at the bus lane thinking, 'seriously, I could have been in work ages ago... I could be in the Cathedral Quarter ordering a nice coffee!'
"Instead I was having to find a car parking space, pay a ridiculous amount of money and wasn't able to get a coffee because I was late for work and had to dash. It was stressful and I just couldn't believe the time difference," she said.
The East Belfast woman is also on a mission to get more commuters using the Translink app and Twitter account that she rates.
"The Translink app is fantastic. I have it on my phone so I can access the timetables easily. It is linked into Google maps so it gives you where your nearest bus stop is - you can type in where you want to go and it tells you how to get there through various Metro buses and trains."
She added: "I also think Metro's Twitter account is unreal – it is so well managed, it's like a live feed. If my bus is ever late I can go on to their Twitter page and know it will only be five minutes late. You are always kept up-to-date."
The benefits of using the Metro don't end there, because up until October 17, travelling throughout Belfast on a Saturday will cost you just £2 with a Daylink card, or £2.50 cash fare with the driver.
And as an added bonus of this Metro Saturdays promotion, the usual £1 fee will be waived for passengers purchasing a Metro Smartlink card on a Saturday during this time.
Check out www.translink.co.uk/metro or www.twitter.com/translinkmetro for more details.
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Q: Deserialize Json map to List in c# I need to convert this type of json
{
   "italy":[
      {
         "city":"rome",
         "people":100000
      },
      {
         "city":"milan",
         "people":50000
      }
   ],
   "spain":[
      {
         "city":"barcelona",
         "people":100000
      },
      {
         "city":"madrid",
         "people":2000
      }
   ]
}

into a list of this c# class
    class CityPeople
    {
        public string City { get; set; }
        public string Country { get; set; }
        public int People { get; set; }
    }

so, in this specific case i would like to have a List composed of 4 entries, 2 for italy and 2 for spain.
How can i deserialize the json into this class?
i tried to do a sandard deserialize like this but without success because the json is not a jsonarray
List<CityPeople> citiesPeople = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<CityPeople>>(myJson);

A: The simplest approach is often the best one.
Why not add a class to your project that represents exactly what the json is:
public class CityInfo
{
    public string City { get; set; }
    public int People { get; set; }
}

Then you can Deserialize into a Dictionary<string, CityInfo[]> and build your CityPeople objects like so:
List<CityPeople> cityPeople = new List<CityPeople>();
foreach(var f in JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, CityInfo[]>>(json))
{
    foreach(var i in f.Value)
    {
        cityPeople.Add(new CityPeople() {
            City = i.City,
            Country = f.Key,
            People = i.People
        });
    }
}

Working fiddle here

A: I solved doing a deserialize to a Dictionary<string,CityPeople> and then converting the dictionary to a list updating the city during conversion.

A: Another approach:
        var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<JObject>(jsonText);
        IEnumerable<CityPeople> cityPeople = obj.Cast<KeyValuePair<string, JToken>>().SelectMany(kvp =>
        {
            return kvp.Value.ToObject<List<CityPeople>>().Select(c =>
            {
                c.Country = kvp.Key;
                return c;
            });
        });


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You are here: Home › Zim paying dearly for rushed polls
Zim paying dearly for rushed polls
July 13, 2014 in News
In a fortnight, it will be one year to the day Zanu PF claimed a two-thirds majority in elections.
BY MOSES MATENGA
This time last year, President Robert Mugabe and his party were in a definite hurry for elections, their excuse being that the MDC formations were a hindrance to their "brilliant" economic turnaround strategies and planned empowerment of the black majority.
But one year after the elections and a Zanu PF landslide victory, promises for the jobs, empowerment and an improvement in civil servants' working conditions have not materialised, painting a classic case of a failed government.
Things are getting worse and the rulers of this country clearly do not know what to do.
MPs are not being paid — leading to some of them going to China using tickets for the disabled in a bid to make a saving.
Those MPs who served in the 7th session of Parliament are still owed between US$10 000 and US$20 000 each and some have been reduced to beggars.
Companies are closing down every week, with recent statistics from the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) placing the number of workers laid off every week at about 300.
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's traditional economic hub has been reduced to an industrial cemetery.
Formal employment has become virtually nonexistent. Statistics say there is above 80% unemployment rate in Zimbabwe. The manufacturing sector too is dead, with the country experiencing over US$1,5 billion trade deficit in the first half of 2014.
Most Zimbabweans are living on US$1 a day. Workers are perpetually a salary away from poverty and government is struggling to finance recurrent expenditure like civil servants salaries.
Even the ruling Zanu PF government has admitted the economy is in shambles and needs more than 40 years to recover.
From the words of the Zanu PF leadership, the Zimbabwean government is facing a myriad of challenges and its failure to arrest the economic free-fall has been a great cause for concern.
The national crisis, according to Harare Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni, has cascaded to local authorities that are finding the going tough.
"We have a crisis from the 2013 write off. Those who benefitted are saying it happened and it will happen again, so why pay while those who did not benefit are saying we paid but did not benefit the last time so why pay now. It's the mindset that needs to be changed," he said.
"We must realise that Harare does not operate in a vacuum and until the national problems are addressed, we are bound to have these problems," Manyenyeni said.
Many workers in the city have not been paid for the past three months and morale is at its all-time low, especially in Chitungwiza, workers have gone for 13 months without pay.
How can Zimbabwe get out of the crisis?
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai thinks that Zanu PF's Robert Mugabe should admit failure and call for talks with all progressive forces in politics, economy, student unions and civic society for dialogue.
"Zanu PF is failing to address the problems one year after elections. In 2008, it was a crisis and you engaged. It is difficult now even to get a dollar. Concede that you have failed unless you are cruel and want to see people suffer," Tsvangirai recently said.
He said he would not force Mugabe to the negotiating table but time would come when Mugabe would have to face it.
Tsvangirai also said in his reflection of the last 12 months that the situation on the ground was dispiriting.
He described the pre-election period last year as pregnant with hopes for change, determination for a cross-over to a new country with new opportunities under a new dispensation.
"Now it has been 11 months since the election on July 31 2013 and the swearing in of the current government of Zimbabwe; but the situation in the country is dispiriting," Tsvangirai said.
"The ordinary people of this country are simply failing to cope with life in the current socio-economic circumstances that are upon us. I spoke to pensioners that have found themselves pauperised, disenfranchised and smothered by the debilitating economic policies and unmitigated mismanagement by the Mugabe government."
"I saw parents struggling to pay for their children's school fees and health-care; men and women emasculated by Zanu PF's failing policies and company closures.
"I saw previously employed citizens and those seeking work who now cannot sustain a meaningful life, including university graduates vending airtime vouchers and anything else that can be sold," he added.
"Indeed, the nation has become one big mall, a huge 'Siyaso' market with everyone trying to sell something to someone just to make ends meet," Tsvangirai said.
MDC youths think that the only solution is to hold demonstrations.
They have threatened to take to the streets, declaring July the month of mass action until Mugabe departs State House.
July is almost halfway but it seems fear has gotten the better of them and now they have withdrawn into their shells.
Meanwhile Mugabe's camp seems to be clueless. They are begging for Zimbabweans to endure while they take maybe 40 years as said by Vice President Joice Mujuru to realise fruits of their economic blue-print Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (ZimAsset).
Analyst Alexander Rusero is of the view that Zanu PF should realise it is the only party in government now and should act.
"Zanu PF needs to be pragmatic and realise it's the party in charge and the revival of the economy is a matter of concern to the party. They should convert their victory into tangible results. We are now convinced that winning elections is one thing while winning the economy is another," Rusero said.
"They should know that their role now is not to attack the MDC or the West but to deal effectively with corruption, salarygate and the economy," Rusero said.
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa recently painted a gloomy picture of prospects to economic recovery and from the start to the end of his speech during the launch of a news agency called The Source; he painted the picture of a country in crisis.
Mujuru also seems clueless although consistent in urging Zimbabweans to be patient as Zim Asset will take longer than expected.
Her recent plea for patience was made at the National Heroes Acre where she said the economic turnaround would take longer than expected.
Even MPs have conceded that all is not well in the country and their botched Chinese trip was meant to make things better for them.
"It is known that MPs are broke. We are not getting our allowances, we are not getting our coupons and I am sure you have read stories that some of us are borrowing to go to Parliament," Zaka Central MP Paradzai Chakona told The Standard in an interview trying to justify why they went for the trip.
"We went there for business. We wanted to look for cheaper things we could resale and to look for business opportunities," he added.
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One Response to Zim paying dearly for rushed polls
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Collaborative effort in Kenya to manage the impact of scale insect in coastal region
Coffee is a value cash-crop for many in Africa but successful yields can be affected by scale insects including the coffee mealybug (Copyright Charles Agwanda/CABI)
By Fernadis Makale, CABI
Scale insects – such as the coffee mealybug and cassava mealybug – are some of the least studied group of invertebrates in East Africa. However, a collaborative effort has been made to address the threat they pose to smallholder farmers: despite their cross-cutting status as pests in all plant groups, crops, ornamentals, trees and weeds.
Several organisations* in Kenya including CABI, and in conjunction with the UK's Natural History Museum, have joined forces to train up to 30 new extension officers whose role will include identifying scale insects and communicating theirs risks and how they can be managed with smallholder farmers.
Agricultural extension officers from the two coastal counties Kilifi and Mombasa, plant inspectors and the county directors of Agriculture for both Mombasa and Kilifi, attended the two-day training session at the Agricultural Training Centre in Mtwapa. A key objective was to hone the skills of agricultural officers in communicating with farmers, quarantine and border inspection officers as well as the general public on the subject.
To recognize the scale insect's position as one of relatively less well recognized pests in agriculture, it was imperative to equip extension officers with the skills to identify this group of insects. In addition to enabling their identification, it was equally important to train agricultural officers in their management by applying sustainable practices.
Cassava mealybug threatens another important food crop (Copyright Phil Taylor/CABI)
Organizers described the training session as rigorous in identifying scale insects, their look-alikes and natural enemies (or beneficial insects) and in the last case, how to conserve them, their impact on pests and sustainable management. A variety of training methods were used including printed visual aids, examining and observing live specimens, field work, collecting, properly storing and labelling of sample scale insects, and the use of GPS online apps in recording information about samples of scale insects.
Information gathered will now be compiled and used to further develop awareness in different formats, including pest identification and management guides, policy documents, training and utilizing mass media, among others.
CABI is creating information packages for stakeholders on the identification and management of scale insects that will improve practices and increase responses to pest invasions. CABI is also providing technical support that will inform knowledge gaps through socio-economic surveys which are being led by Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO).
Together, the partners will deliver taxonomic training on scale insects – something which was previously unavailable, produce natural enemy inventories and provide enhanced insect reference collections and identification aids.
Photo: Correct identification of scale insects is key to their management
This would be followed by subsequent training on proper communication and alert reports on pest incidences to farmers and policy makers. A further objective was to determine the communication needs of extension officers and what products would be required to facilitate effective communication. Institutional relationships and collaboration, and the engagement of policy makers at both national and county level were also a theme covered by the trainers.
Monica Kansiime, Scientist – Agricultural Economist, based at CABI's Nairobi office,
said, "Outbreaks of alien scale pests are impacting a wide range of crops putting
smallholder farmers and foresters at risk of yield and income loss – yet their
awareness of this growing problem is low to non-existent.
"Increasing the capacity of stakeholders on the identification and management of
scale insects will not only raise awareness of the problems caused by these pests
but will also provide a platform for stakeholders to respond to the invasions
effectively."
Trainees were awarded certificates at the end of the session to mark their commitment to being ambassadors on the subject of scale insects.
The next steps will be to organize write shops with representation from agricultural extension officers and for CABI, in particular, to develop awareness material. A second step will be to prepare policy documents which will form the basis for engagement for policy makers while a third measure will be to engage and organize similar and/or equivalent training sessions in Kwale county to reach agricultural extension officers who did not attend these training sessions. Finally, a fourth step will be to include forestry extension officers at the next training event.
Project implementers from these organizations were represented in the training.
* The National Museums of Kenya, Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), the University of Nairobi, Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI).
Scale insects project page
Find out more about 'Addressing the scale insect threats in Kenya' – including the full list of partners – from the dedicated project page.
See also the news story 'Fighting the scourge of scale insects affecting livelihoods and food security in Kenya'.
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The 34th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) will take place April 25-29, 2018, at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The AAPM 34th Annual Meeting will offer attendees more than 30 hours of educational programming over a four-day period.
A multidisciplinary program committee co-chaired by James Atchison, MD and Vitaly Gordin, MD, selected from more than 100 session proposals to create the AAPM 34th Annual Meeting educational agenda. The objective of the meeting is to present recent advancements in research, clinical best practices, patient management, practice management, and the diagnosis and treatment of patients in pain to pain medicine clinicians. The meeting will provide a forum for pain medicine clinicians to present ideas in a multidisciplinary, multimodal environment to address the public health issue of pain and improve participant knowledge, competence, practice, and patient outcomes.
The fundamentals of multidisciplinary pain management have been the gold standard for pain care and have been promoted by AAPM since it was established over 30 years ago. Therefore it is timely and relevant that the AAPM 34th Annual Meeting will focus on the theme Managing Acute & High-Impact Chronic Pain through Multidisciplinary Care. The meeting has been designed to provide key stakeholders – especially physicians and members of their treatment teams – with the skills and knowledge necessary to more fully incorporate multidisciplinary care into their practices in order to improve care and optimize patient outcomes.
AAPM 34th Annual Meeting preconference programs will take place on Wednesday, April 25, 2018, and Thursday, April 26, 2018.
Many healthcare professionals do not feel adequately trained to evaluate and treat the patient in pain. The Pain Medicine Best Practices: Integrative Solutions for Critical Challenges Preconference is designed for pain specialists and subspecialists, primary care providers, and trainees interested in learning how to optimize the management of chronic pain with opioid analgesics and non-opioid therapies.
This preconference will provide timely and practical information for pain management delivered through didactic lectures, case studies with audience response participation, and interactive small group discussions. Attendees have been encouraged to bring their toughest clinical dilemmas as they join expert faculty to examine the compelling challenges facing pain medicine practitioners today as well as in the coming decades. Together, faculty and attendees will explore current evidence, best practices, and emerging therapies to develop practical and integrative solutions.
In light of the National Pain Strategy and treatment guidelines supporting a shift towards population-based multidisciplinary care, the role of structured interdisciplinary treatment programs and team-based care has found itself at the frontline of pain management. This preconference will provide a broad stakeholder examination of multi- and inter-disciplinary pain management programs. Participants will be highly engaged throughout the day, rotating through active workshop breakout sessions and participating in didactic lectures and panel discussions that have been designed to incorporate attendee ideas and experiences.
The AAPM 34th Annual Meeting educational program will kick off on Thursday, April 26, 2018, with the Opening Session from 5-6 pm, titled "Stakeholder Collaboration in Moving Pain Management Forward: A Payer's Perspective."
Kimberly George, SVP at Sedgwick Claims, will examine healthcare reimbursement issues, such as prior authorizations, that are commonly seen as barriers by clinicians. Ms. George will guide meeting attendees through novel payer initiatives including development of top-tiered outcomesbased referral networks and other initiatives to improve patient outcomes and support evidencebased quality care. These collaborative partnerships between payer and clinician can help in the quest to better manage high-impact chronic pain in an ever-changing healthcare market.
Friday morning, April 27, 8:15-9:15 am, the General Session will feature opening remarks by AAPM President, Steven Stanos, DO, and the AAPM 34th Annual Meeting Keynote Address by Amy L. Compton-Phillips, MD. Dr. Compton-Phillips is executive vice president and chief clinical officer for Providence Health & Services. She has an extensive background in directing patient care programs and leading healthcare organizations. She will share a physician executive's perspective while speaking to AAPM Annual Meeting attendees about navigating healthcare system changes, systems' responses to pain management issues, and the general state of health care and its impact on pain physicians practicing at both private and academic institutions.
"The world is changing rapidly," Dr. Compton-Phillips says. "The way we communicate, the way we learn, the jobs we do and the environment we live in, all have changed radically in the past 20 years and with this the transformation of medicine has begun."
New for 2018, all AAPM Annual Meeting registrants are invited to participate in Special Topics in Pain Medicine Tracks on Sunday, April 29. Attendees can select to attend the full Cancer/Palliative Care, NANS Neuromodulation, or Behavioral Health track Sunday morning, or they can mix and match track sessions and presentations throughout the morning.
The Cancer/Palliative Care track is an innovative interdisciplinary track brings together experts in managing pain and collateral symptoms in the cancer patient, recognizing new pain problems resulting from novel therapies, emphasizing the utility of interdisciplinary assessment and management approaches, and considering contexts for providing palliative care strategies.
In the past several years, technological advances in spinal cord stimulation (SCS) have led to significant and rapid improvement in outcomes. The NANS Neuromodulation track will present advances in SCS, including the current understanding of mechanism of action, emerging wave form modalities, and evidence-based data supporting expanded patient selection and disease-specific indications.
Back by popular demand, the interactive Behavioral Medicine Track will give participants a solid understanding of the bio-psychosocial model of pain. Targeted outcomes include increased confidence and the ability to facilitate patient receptivity and engagement in behavioral pain medicine. Attendees will leave with clinical toolkits, enduring resources, and scripts for difficult topics.
The 35th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine will take place March 6- 10, 2019, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO. The Academy will begin accepting session proposals and scientific abstract presentations during the summer of 2018 for this meeting.


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Black River-Matheson is in the midst of an upswing in business growth spearheaded by our local mining industry. Not only do we have a number of mining extraction and exploration activities, but we are also developing a secondary mining manufacturing industry that will serve the needs of mining companies in the region and across Canada. Our "unfair advantage" in marketing terms is the fact that we are situated in the center of one of the world's most productive gold and base metal mining regions.
Black River-Matheson is the ideal place to locate your business or company. Our pro-active municipal government is committed to assisting new development projects. We have a proven track record of helping businesses cut through red tape at all levels of government. As one of the largest municipalities in Ontario with a land mass of over 300,000 acres there are many commercial and industrial properties available for development. One of the lowest tax rates in Northeastern Ontario makes Black River-Matheson even more appealing. A central location allows Black River-Matheson to be serviced by excellent transportation services both on the highway and railway. Natural gas is available to commercial and industrial properties as the main TransCanada pipeline is accessible in many town sites. Whether you are looking to open a new business, relocate or expand your current business we urge you to consider Black River-Matheson.


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Features Genetics Research
CPRC Update: April 2014
By CPRC
Poultry Science Cluster – Version 2
Minister Gerry Ritz announced that Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) will contribute $4 million to Canadian poultry research under the AgriInnovation Program (AIP), part of Growing Forward 2. The announcement was made at Kay House at the Arkell Poultry Research Station, University of Guelph on Feb. 18. Funding will support a Poultry Science Cluster, which CPRC will administer. CPRC was the recipient of funding for research for a previous Poultry Science Cluster under the first Growing Forward program that concluded March 31, 2013.
A "cluster" brings together multidisciplinary teams of scientists to solve complex problems and to create synergies in research efforts. It is a way to make the most of available resources and supports a strong business case for investing in Canadian poultry research. Pooling intellectual and financial resources to address issues of common interest is a powerful way to maximize the impact of our collective investment in research.
Total funding of almost $5.6 million, including industry contributions of $1.45 million and the balance from government, will support 17 research activities on four themes that reflect industry priorities as identified in the National Research Strategy for Canada's Poultry Sector, available at www.cp-rc.ca under the Research tab. Cluster research themes include:
Poultry Infectious Diseases, as they impact poultry health and/or zoonosis (four activities).
Alternative Animal Health Products and Management Strategies that enhance avian immune function and mitigate the impact of infectious pathogens while displacing the need for traditional antimicrobials (four activities).
Poultry Welfare and Wellbeing throughout the production chain, as impacted by early immune function, bird harmony within various alternate farm production systems, bird stocking density, and the effects of temperature extremes during live bird transport (five activities).
Environmental Stewardship as impacted by emissions of particulate matter, ammonia and greenhouse gases and their effect on poultry, poultry workers and the industry's environmental footprint (four activities).
Anticipated outcomes of the Cluster research include:
As an extension of work accomplished in the first Poultry Science Cluster, an increased understanding of the biology of necrotic enteritis (NE) and continued progress towards an effective vaccine that can be used to complement current NE-management strategies
Optimization and validation of a prototype avian influenza vaccine and vaccine delivery method developed in the first Cluster
Multimedia training tools on biosecurity principles and measures made available to Canadian poultry producers
Demonstration of several alternatives to traditional antimicrobials used in the poultry industry
Information for the egg layer industry on the impact of genetics and management on productivity and general wellbeing of hens in alternative production systems
Information for the broiler industry on strategies to monitor foot pad dermatitis and mitigate its effects
Information for the turkey industry and development of best practices regarding stocking density in the production setting and management of conditions during live transport
Further reductions of the environmental footprint of commercial poultry production
The 17 research activities will be conducted by 59 researchers from 24 organizations. These organizations include 11 universities (four international); five government departments (federal and provincial) representing both agriculture and human health; and eight companies involved in poultry research. Each research activity is led by a Principal Investigator from a Canadian university.
The Poultry Science Cluster provides capacity to resolve many current issues facing the poultry industry. The unique cooperation among scientists, industry partners and government departments across Canada will synergize efforts to address these issues. The scale of the Cluster allows for basic research and more near-term, applied studies that will provide both immediate answers and future information for the poultry and food industries, as well as factors impacting consumer wellbeing.
For more details on these or any other CPRC activities, please contact The Canadian Poultry Research Council, 350 Sparks Street, Suite 1007, Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 7S8, phone: (613) 566-5916, fax: (613) 241-5999, email: info@cp-rc.ca, or visit us at www.cp-rc.ca.
The membership of the CPRC consists of Chicken Farmers of Canada, Canadian Hatching Egg Producers, Turkey Farmers of Canada, Egg Farmers of Canada and the Canadian Poultry and Egg Processors' Council. CPRC's mission is to address its members' needs through dynamic leadership in the creation and implementation of programs for poultry research in Canada, which may also include societal concerns.
CPRC Update – April 2012
Poultry Research
Editorial Poultry April 2014


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Fozzy es el álbum debut de la banda de heavy metal Fozzy, liderada por el luchador profesional Chris Jericho y el guitarrista de Stuck Mojo Rich Ward. Salió a la venta el 24 de octubre del 2000.

Información del álbum
El concepto en el que se basa el álbum es el de hacer versiones de canciones de grupos de heavy metal tales como Dio, Iron Maiden y Ozzy Osbourne. Aparte de eso, el álbum tiene dos canciones originales: "End of Days" y "Feel The Burn", escritas por la propia banda.

Lista de canciones

Personal

Músicos
 Chris Jericho - voz solista
 Rich Ward - voz y guitarra
 Dan Dryden - bajo
 Frank Fontsere - batería
 Ryan Mallam - guitarra
 Butch Walker  - guitarra y vocales adicionales en "Over the Mountain".
 Andy Sneap - vocal principal en "Blackout".

Producción
 Michael Alago - Productor Ejecutivo
 John Briglevich - Productor
 Fozzy - Productores

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Web oficial (en inglés)
 Palm Pictures Web (en inglés)
 Web oficial de Megaforce Records (en inglés)

Álbumes debut de 2000
Álbumes de Fozzy
Álbumes en inglés


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Middle East & Europe >
Keep hope alive! Olive Tree Planting Campaign
Read the most recent update here
Olive trees have been cultivated for over 4,000 years and are known as an international symbol of peace. The olive tree and the prickly pear cactus are also traditional symbols of the Palestinian people and their connection to their homeland. This connection has remained strong despite occupation and long years of exile and displacement.
The olive tree has been a target of Israel's destruction to Palestinian land. The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture has revealed that over 250,000 olive trees have been uprooted. Olive trees have been destroyed as part of the collective punishment policies the Israeli military use on Palestinian civilians. For many Palestinian farmers, the olive trees were a sole income for their families. Many of the trees are also being uprooted because of the building of the wall around the West Bank.
The YWCA of Palestine and YMCA of East Jerusalem, both longstanding partners of Global Ministries, are carrying out a campaign to replant 50,000 olive trees from areas where they have been uprooted. Replanting olive trees in Palestinian territories will encourage Palestinians to "keep hope alive" and to reaffirm their commitment to work constructively toward peace-building. Contributions in the first season of the Olive Tree Campaign have resulted in the planting of several thousand olive trees. Trees have been planted in the Bethlehem area and in the fields of Nablus, Ramallah, and in the Jerusalem area.
A gift of $20 covers the cost of the young tree, distribution, planting, and information for farmers on the best techniques for olive tree care. Sponsor labels are inscribed with the donor's name and the quote "chose to keep hope alive."
Update: June 2019
The Keep Hope Alive! Olive Tree Campaign continues to be an opportunity to support and show solidarity with the Palestinian Farmers in Area C (West Bank). The OTC is an educational, solidarity and advocacy tool with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom and just peace. In the upcoming 2019-2020 olive tree planting and harvesting season, the Joint Advocacy Initiative has made a goal to plant 25,000 olive trees in Area C where Palestinian farmers have limited access to their land, water, power, and building permits. Beginning in December 2019 through March 2020, trees will be planted in coordination with agricultural committees, village councils, and the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture. A gift of $20 for the Keep Hope Alive! Olive Tree Campaign, provides a young olive tree, protective cover, support stick, and a portion of the costs for transportation, promotion materials, staff time, and a plaque including the name of the donor. In May 2020, each donor is able to look up the location of their tree(s) using GPS, a photo of the land benefited, a brief description of the farmer and family, and a photo of the plaque with the donor's name.
To read more about the 2019-2020 olive tree planting and harvesting seasons, in addition to travel opportunities to participate in a week of planting or harvesting olive trees, continue reading here.
Learn more about our work with:
YWCA of Palestine (Palestine)
To make a gift for this ministry online or by check use the online donation page.
100% of your gift will be directed to Keep Hope Alive! Olive Tree Planting Campaign
You will receive updates on the work in this area as they become available.
Share in the vision of God's abundant life for all people
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At the "8th symposium for engine acoustics" in Magdeburg, Germany, TrelleborgVibracoustic presents an active vibration control for electric vehicles with range extender. The system enhances driving comfort by eliminating vibrations of the 3- or 4-cylinder combustion engine used to extend the driving range.
Electric vehicles with range extending internal combustion engines represent a particular noise and vibration (NVH) challenge. The quiet and smooth operation in electric mode is contrasted by the rather loud and harsh running range extender that might affect interior comfort and therefore undermines one of the electric vehicle´s unique selling propositions.
This situation is often exacerbated by the need for weight reduction throughout the vehicle to maximize the electric driving range. The omission of passive noise reduction measures like insulation material and engine balance shafts reduces weight but further increases perceived noise and vibration. An internal combustion engine generates a large variety of excitations, manifesting themselves as vibrations and noise, transmitted either structure borne or air borne. The structure borne vibrations propogate through the engine mounts, the car body etc. all the way to the interior of the vehicle and become apparent either in the form of a vibration at the steering wheel, seat tracks or floor pan, or indeed translate into disturbing sounds within the cabin. These unwanted characteristics often change in frequency as the engine speed changes, making a conventional (passive) approach unable to follow and remove them before they become prevalent in the cabin.
The TrelleborgVibracoustic Active Vibration Control (AVC) system identifies and cancels specific dominant structure borne vibrations and resultant sounds to improve the NVH standard of a vehicle. The basic principle is to fight incoming sinusoidal vibrations with specifically generated counter-vibrations of equal frequency and amplitude but opposite phase. The active approach here, within the AVC system, involves controlling an electrodynamic actuator (active damper) which provides into the rail or vehicle body, the conduit for vibration, this counter–vibration or rather counter-force, shifted in phase. This out-of-phase force and its frequency are resolved by a series of complex algorithms within the Electronic Control Unit, and are either based upon a lookup table in the case of an open loop system, or via a feedback sensor (either microphone and or accelerometer) in the case of a closed loop system.
With the development of an active vibration control (AVC), TrelleborgVibracoustic demonstrates that a single actuator AVC system with open loop control is sometimes already sufficient to meet the customers NVH requirements. It is able to reduce interior noise over a wide range of frequencies to levels otherwise only achievable through balance shaft units or the like.
With the increasing number of hybrids, the use of downsized 3- and 4-cylinder engines and ever more lightweighting efforts throughout the automotive industry, active solutions are bound to become a part of the standard NVH solution toolbox.
TrelleborgVibracoustic is the leading provider of anti-vibration solutions for the global automotive and commercial vehicle industries. Founded as a joint venture by Freudenberg and Trelleborg in 2012, the company generated sales of approximately 1.7 billion Euro in 2013. TrelleborgVibracoustic has around 10,000 employees at 38 locations in 18 countries who develop and produce powertrain and chassis components for anti-vibration control. For more information, see www.tbvc.com.