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Why Is iPhone So Popular?
By Brent Cohen September 8, 2022December 4, 2022
Since the iPhone's debut in the industry in 2007, its popularity has only soared higher. In the first four years, Apple recorded selling over 100 million units. And as of 2018, this record skyrocketed to 2.2 billion. Even though several phones can do everything an iPhone can do or even more and cost less, people prefer to buy an iPhone. So, why is the iPhone so popular?
Apple's brilliant marketing strategy is one of the main reasons iPhones are so popular. The truth is that when you buy an iPhone, you aren't merely buying a phone but a status. Additionally, Apple designed the iPhone with several desirable features that make it stand out.
To many people, Apple products, including the iPhone, are overpriced. But if they were to do more digging, they would realize that otherwise is the case. The configuration of iPhones shows the build quality, internal parts, software integration, and other things are much higher than on most smartphones. Let's take a deeper dive into the reasons people buy an iPhone.
Reasons People Buy iPhones
Reason #1: Design
Reason #2: Power
Reason #3: Multimedia Feature
Reason #4: App Store
Reason #5: Easy To Use
Reason #6: Apple's Ecosystem
Reason #7: Better Support
Reason #8: Better Security
Reason #9: Apple Pay
Reason #10: Family Sharing
Arguably, the iPhone is the most popular smartphone in the world. You must have either owned an iPhone or heard about it at one point or the other. Every user who has owned or owns an iPhone has different reasons why they do. Below, we elaborate on why people choose the iPhone over other smartphones.
One of the main reasons people love the iPhone is its sleek design. The packaging of any product is the first thing that lures people to buy or not buy. As for iPhones, Apple has consistently been delivering designs that many people love. At the time of release, the iPhone had a significantly different design from other smartphones.
Another reason iPhones are so popular is because of the quality of their components. The processor, storage, and display of iPhones are always top-of-the-line. Unlike some smartphones, iPhones run on high-end hardware, which is why it is capable of multitasking and seamless operation. The display of iPhones, like the retina display, is so fine that its pixel is not visible at average viewing distance, which creates an impressively sharp picture.
The multimedia features of the iPhone are one of the reasons it is so popular. The audio and video quality on the iPhones are top-notch. Particularly, the camera of iPhones is so well-engineered that some professional photographers prefer to use an iPhone to take pictures or videos in some of their projects rather than a digital camera.
The App Store of the iPhone is another reason the iPhone quickly grew in popularity. The iPhone was the first smartphone to integrate the software with the device so its users could understand. Even though other smartphones could install and run programs long before the release of the iPhone, they were still able to overtake this industry. Today, the App Store offers over two million apps.
Another advantage the iPhone has over other smartphones is that they are relatively easy to use. There is a learning curve even for some experienced tech users with Android devices. But with iPhones, the operating system is simple and intuitive, and their model has stayed more or less the same since 2007. However, even though their basic setup has remained the same doesn't mean Apple isn't making improvements.
In recent years, there has been a range of Apple products. Apple started by making computers, then added music players, smartphones and tablets, smartwatches, and other products we see today. But one thing about Apple products is that they all work seamlessly together. You don't have to download or install a separate application to link Apple products. By signing the devices with the same Apple ID, your photos, notes, emails, calendar, and so on will be shared with all the devices.
Irrespective of how well a system is designed, there would be times it would run into troubles. Hence, having a reliable support team to assist customers during these times is one of Apple's strategies to grow its popularity. Apple has a great customer service line and a specialist at every store where you can work to get help from an expert that has access to the corporate headquarters.
Regarding security, Apple is one of the most secure in the industry. Apple's iPhone encryption is so advanced that even the FBI can't crack iPhone security. In addition to this, it is more difficult for an iPhone to be infected with malware. This is because Apple is cautious in selecting app developers for the so-called Apple ecosystem. So, getting an app that contains malware into the App Store is practically impossible.
Apple Pay is another reason iPhones are so popular. Apple Pay is a payment service from Apple that makes it easy to make payments online without using your card. And the best part about Apple Pay is that it works the same way a contactless debit or credit card works, by placing your phone by the card reader.
Another feature of iPhones that makes them so popular is family sharing. What this feature does is that it makes it easy for a family to share, for example, music, purchased apps, film, and even a photo album. This feature also makes it easy for guardians to better watch over kids by protecting them from downloading paid or inappropriate apps.
Out of all Apple products, the iPhone is by far the best-selling product by a significant margin.
Most of the time, Apple uses expensive materials and parts to build its products, including iPhones. This explains why iPhones are more expensive than most smartphones and are also popular. However, this is not to say that Apple iPhones are superior to other smartphones. Other smartphones may perform better than the iPhone in your particular need. So, it all depends on your needs.
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Nearly £20bn of pensions unclaimed in the UK: can you trace your lost pots?
The equivalent of £13,000 per pot is yet to be claimed
By Kim Kaveh
Around 1.6m pension pots worth £19.4bn have not been claimed by their owners because they've either been lost or forgotten, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) says.
The ABI has found that this is the equivalent of almost £13,000 per pension pot.
Providers have been attempting to reunite people with their lost pensions by sending letters to their addresses. However, the ABI says just one in 25 people tell their pension provider when they move home, making it more difficult for them to track people down.
Here, Which? explains how to find out if you have lost or forgotten pensions and how you can trace and claim them.
Why are pensions not being claimed?
Nearly two thirds of UK savers have more than one pension and changing work patterns means that the number of people with multiple pensions will increase. People typically lose track of their pensions when moving jobs or changing home, the ABI says.
It notes that the average person will have around 11 different jobs over their lifetime and move home eight times.
In 2017 more than 375,000 attempts were made to contact customers, leading to £1bn in assets being reunited with them. However, the ABI has found that firms are unable to 'keep pace with a mobile workforce that moves jobs and home more often than ever before'.
Find out more: how to plan for retirement
How to know if you have unclaimed pensions
It's really important that you do claim your lost or forgotten pension to ensure you have enough to live off in retirement, and the sooner you do this the better.
However, sometimes even if you have a certificate from a scheme which says you're a member, it doesn't always mean you have a pension entitlement.
As a rule of thumb if you left your employer:
Before April 1975 – it's likely you'll have already received a refund on your pension contributions. If you didn't pay into the scheme (a non-contributory pension) you probably won't be entitled to a pension benefit.
Between April 1975 and April 1988 – you should have a pension provided you completed at least five years in the scheme. If not, you'll likely have already had a refund.
Between April 1975 and December 1985 – you would have had to be at least 26 in addition to completing five years in a scheme to be entitled to a pension.
On or after 6 April 1988 – you'll be entitled to a pension as long as you completed two years in the scheme. If you left before this, you'll probably have already had a refund.
Find out more: how much do I need to retire?
How to trace a lost pension
If you think you have a lost or unclaimed pension, you can contact the government's Pension Tracing Service, which has a register of all workplace schemes.
The ABI can also help with this. It has a guide on its website to help track your pension policies, gives tips on responding to tracing letters, and contact details which may be useful to you.
You could also try to get in touch with your old employers to find out who your pension providers are and then contact them directly to get details about your pensions. You'll probably need to provide some information, such as your name, address and National Insurance number.
Find out more: what can I do with my pension pot?
How to reduce the risk of losing track of a pension
The best way to keep track of your pensions is to be organised and keep all of your pensions paperwork in one place.
You should also be sure to tell your previous scheme administrator about any changes of address so they can contact you if there are any issues.
It could be worth considering consolidating your pension pots, but make sure you don't lose out on any benefits by doing so.
By consolidating you:
can keep track of and manage your pot more easily;
save money, but only if you transfer from a higher-cost scheme to a lower-cost one;
have more investment choice if you consolidate into one flexible scheme.
However, if you were in a defined benefit (DB) scheme which provides a guaranteed income and shields you from investment risk, it is generally a bad idea to transfer into a defined contribution (DC) scheme, which exposes you to more risk as it is invested.
We have put together a comprehensive guide about consolidating your pots, so you can weigh up the pros and cons.
If you do wish to consolidate, it's really important to check whether you'll be charged by any previous providers for transferring out.
If you can, you should seek financial advice, to find out if consolidating is a good option based on your individual circumstances.
Find out more: how to get retirement and pensions advice
How the pensions dashboard can help
In 2018, the government predicted that there could be as many as 50m dormant and lost pensions by 2050. At the same time, it put in motion plans to unveil the long-awaited pensions dashboard, the online platform which will allow individuals to see and manage their pensions from multiple organisations in one place.
Which? has long been calling for the introduction of a pensions dashboard and has pressed the government to ensure that it shows users their state pension entitlement, projected private retirement income and information about pension charges. It also puts people in control of their data.
To work effectively the dashboard should:
help savers to locate their various pensions;
help them to understand the value of their pensions in terms of an estimated retirement income;
help savers to plan for retirement.
However, the dashboard, which was confirmed in last year's Pensions Bill, has been delayed further due to the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. It was meant to go live last year but was put on hold because of Brexit and the November general election.
The Dashboard Delivery Group – established by the Money and Pensions Service (Maps) – said that although the industry has called for a clear delivery timetable with firm dates, it's unable to provide further information yet.
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Q: Vmware/Linux 64 vs 32 bit I have some old supermicro servers with over 16GB of ram in them which are still running 32bit version of linux with 2.6.x kernels and vmware on top of it.
I wonder if there is any advantage of upgrading the distro/kernel to a 64-bit Debian.
The only problem is that right now I cannot create 64 bit guest vms in vmware.
I would also like to know that, upgrading this system to 64bit have any performance advantage or maybe the more appropriate question would be that would it have any disadvantage?

Yes indeed it was a VS question and the only reason why I want to have 64 bit guests is btrfs, nothing else. I don't really have database, memcache or other vms which would take advantage of the 64 bit, also none of the VMs have more than 4 gigs of memory. The most I think has is around 2GB.
"32bit only rules in the 4GB or less RAM space" so many of my guests are just fine with being 32bit guests but my host OS which have 24GB ram and runs a 32bit kernel does some PAE tricks to access the memory over the 4GB.
So let me put it this way. If my main goal here is to have faster (or at least not slower) vms, would it be an advantage for the HOST os to be 64 bit? Would it access the memory area faster over 4GB than it does it right now?

A: If you're installing any OS in 2014 on modern hardware without 64-bit capabilities, you're making a bad design decision.
Even with the hardware RAM/CPU footprint you're describing for your VMware Workstation setup, it makes sense to utilize 64-bit versions of your operating system for forward compatibility, future-proofing and the very clear requirement you have for BtrFS 64-bit libraries.

A: 64bit is slower and takes more RAM than 32 bit.
64bit addresses larger than 4GB RAM faster than 32bit can address it (and more smoothly). Individual programs can address more RAM natively on a 64bit system. As you already know you can't run a 64bit guest on a 32bit system.
Updated for your comment below:
My answer above was giving a 'vs' answer because you had a 'vs' question. But don't forget that 32bit is limited to 4GB RAM.  That's fine when you have less than 4GB (the bios and memory mapped devices nick some of the 4GB address space).
But when you have more than 4GB RAM then a 32bit system has to resort to 'paging' tricks to address the extra RAM. Your underlying system has more than 4GB of RAM so it will normally go faster because of that.
64bit is slower (and bigger) than 32bit because all the pointers are bigger, take twice the space in memory of the smaller and therefor faster 32bit pointers.
But offset against the slowness when you address the full RAM via paging, you probably find that 64bit is faster for that case.
32bit only rules in the 4GB or less RAM space regardless of whether it is a program or an operating system.
Don't upgrade your guests though unless you have a clear advantage or a need for 64bit in your guests.

I see from downvotes that more people disagree than agree with my statements above. I just happened to be on a site researching an unrelated topic (Linux CC & ITSEC Certification) and noticed this interesting paragraph on the subject:

Going back years we have run 32-bit vs. 64-bit Linux benchmarks. While
  the results seldom change, we keep running them as the question of
  choosing between a 32-bit and 64-bit Linux distribution image is still
  a popular question… These tests drive in a surprising amount of
  traffic and I continue to be flabbergasted by the number of people
  still asking this question when nearly all modern x86 Intel/AMD
  hardware fully supports x86_64 and it generally means much better
  performance. Usually the only caveat in not using a 64-bit Linux
  image is if running a system with less than 2GB of RAM.
  (italics added - see original article)

Seems I'm not the only one doing some actual real world work finding that 64bit isn't always the answer.

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CW Adding 2 New Series, "Smallville" Ending
By AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff
Published May 21, 2010 at 12:23 AM | Updated at 12:30 AM EDT on May 21, 2010
Actors Robbie Jones, Aly Michalka, Ashley Tisdale, Matt Barr and Sharon Leal attend the 2010 The CW Network UpFront at Madison Square Garden on May 20, 2010 in New York City.
Ashley Tisdale of "High School Musical" is coming to the CW network this fall in a series about life at a big college campus in the South.
Tisdale's character will be the roommate of a girl played by Aly Michalka from the movie "Bandslam" in the Wednesday-night drama that will debut in the fall. The CW has one other new series, "Nikita," about a young woman seeking revenge after being trained as a spy and assassin as a teenager.
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The network also said Thursday the Superman drama "Smallville" will have its 10th and final season this year.
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The media are invited to join ESA's science and mission control experts and partners on Wednesday 6 August, from 09:30 CEST, at ESA's Operations Centre for the day-long event celebrating the arrival and presenting the latest, high-resolution images of the comet's nucleus.
The press briefings will be live-streamed at www.esa.int/rosetta and www.livestream.com/eurospaceagency.
Why have we to wait until August to see "high-resolution images of the comet's nucleus"?
This is absolutely shameful: The latest images that you have had the decency to share with us are 5 days old. Right when the moment some of us have been eagerly awaiting for (!!!) more than 20 years (!!!) is approaching. [In 1990 I worked -in the Spanish company GMV- in the development of the algorithms needed for the navigation in the vicinity of the comet and during the landing phase].
You cannot have an idea of how disappointed I am with your "dirty and shortsighted policy" regarding the sharing of the new information that you're getting, and how much I'm starting to agree the opinion of all those who believe that it's not worth funding space exploration with public money.
Maybe when you won't longer have the comfortable jobs that you are having today, you will realize the historical mistake that you are carrying out right now.
"Why have we to wait until August to see "high-resolution images of the comet's nucleus"?" – could it be because Rosetta actually arrives at the comet in August?
"Images are five days old!!!!" – Didn't a scientist reply a few days ago to a post that they weren't seeing any newer images, so why would the public?
I don't quite understand this sort of resentment that not all images are immediately sent unprocessed directly unto some public website. Are you checking Curiosity's image archive every day? Really? If you are and hold that as a standard for every other extraterrestrial mission that is (to their dismay) or will ever be then write a letter to ESA headquarters or something, this is such a fantastic mission that it seems like a bit of a shame if 50% of comments are going to be of this type.
It is really needed that Rosetta is that close to Chury to get Hires images? Do you know how an instrument like OSIRIS works? Do you know how a camera with narrow angle lens works?
Who is asking for all unprocessed images and scientific data in real time? We are requesting that few processed images are released to the public that is supporting this incredible and inspiring mission with their taxes. We want to be part of this amazing mission! But it seems that some people's ego is more important than scientific knowledge sharing with the rest of humanity. Very sad indeed.
It seems that you don't see (or maybe you don't want to see) the differences between the communication policy of ESA and that of other space agencies (NASA, for example).
Have you had a look (a critical look, I mean) to the post entitled "Access to Rosetta Data" (http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/07/16/access-to-rosetta-data/) where they state and justify the "dirty and shortsighted policy" they are going to follow with the OSIRIS images, only to safeguard some particular interests inside a project paid with public money?
"Didn't a scientist reply a few days ago to a post that they weren't seeing any newer images, so why would the public?": And, of course, you believe it: Congratulations!
I agree with you in a single thing: This is a fantastic mission. Do not let them hide Rosetta to us, delaying the information just to serve the particular interests of some people being paid with money from all of us.
I am fully agree with you. But I have signed in for the press release to make my protest on the 6th of August.
It is not just shameful, it is very stupid as well. You could have a very large crowd celebrating each new picture. Together with the press reactions that would create history!
Instead you make the public very angry.
The difference will certainly have strong consequences for the budget of ESA in the next years.
I for one will be tuning in for the live stream and am very grateful for the opportunity to do so.
To clarify for others who are impatient for images… how can ESA release images more than once a week when they are only imaging the nucleus once a week just like they said months ago?
The arrogance of the previous comments is ridiculous. If you have worked on this mission 20 years ago, then you surely now the limitations of the hardware.
It seems that you have not seen the post in http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/07/16/access-to-rosetta-data/ ("Access to Rosetta Data") where they state and justify the "dirty and shortsighted policy" they are going to follow with the OSIRIS images, only to safeguard some particular interests inside a project paid with public money?
I agree, i am confident that when Rosetta is station keeping with the comet pictures and data will come on a regular basis. Too much work & effort has gone into where we are now . Let's congratulate the team instead of blasting them . If there are some who take all this for granted remember the Mars Observer spacecraft that failed a few days before entering orbit. This is not a Big Brother camera in space.These people are just doing their job and are doing it well in my humble opinion.
Please, have a look to the post in http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/07/16/access-to-rosetta-data/ ("Access to Rosetta Data"), and you will see that they are not "doing it well", but thinking in their own and private interests.
On 16/07/2014 ESA made a statement that it was unwilling to provide recent pictures to the public. The "leak" the day before that, proved that indeed there were spectaculair pictures planned to be *not* released.
Now 2 posts make us believe that there are no other pictures than published in this blog.
2 state that the 16/07 statement is not true or not limiting.
And the public will fully agree and be happry!.
I tried to register for the event on August 06.
However, the link for registration does not work.
The link from the blog is working now, apologies for the inconvenience.
For those debating the frequency/availability of OSIRIS images – this via the mission team: the imaging schedule is variable and the camera is not necessarily taking images every day due to demands of other instruments and also the fact that there is not much downlink volume available. Normally speaking, getting all the images down can easily take a few days at the current telemetry bitrate. For occasions like 6 Aug, special exceptions are made by storing one of the OSIRIS images in a high priority queue where normally only NAVCAM/navigation data are stored. Thus we will be able to present a new high-resolution image on the same day as arriving.
I am insanely excited! What an awesome thing to be doing. I don't care when you release the data! It's AMAZING!!!!!


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Q: Is a free alternative to MathSciNet possible?
How could a free (i.e. free content) alternative for MathSciNet and Zentralblatt be created?

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*Some mathematicians have stopped writing reviews for MathSciNet because they feel their output should be freely available. (The Pricing for MathSciNet is not high, but it is not the point.)

*Two related questions: Are there any good websites... and Errata database?;
see also r-forum, nLab and wikademic.
What can be done (based on answers below)

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*One thing that can be really useful and doable is to create (and maintain) a database of articles (and maybe abstracts), where you can find all the articles that were referring to a given one.

*Once it is done we can add lists of errors --- it will add something new and valuable for the project (but this will take a while).

*The above two things might be already enough for practical purpose. It will be even better if it will attract enough reviewers to the project.

A: It seems strange that nobody has mentioned (as far as I see) that Zentralblatt allows for restricted search for free, meaning that you only get the first three results out of the whole matching items. Concretely, if you know "enough" about the paper you are looking for, you are pretty sure to pin it down uniquely, and access the review. This is basically the only reason why I keep on writing reviews for Zentralblatt – because I think this is a great tool.
As for MathSciNet I second some answers above saying that not being free is a feature, not a bug. I write reviews and consider it part of my job as mathematician and I am happy with the constant friendly and extremely professional contact I have with MR people each time I have a problem – it would not be equally easy to provide professional editing only relying upon mathematicians. Moreover, as it seems that one of the issues motivating this question was about not being able to access MathSciNet from outside an academic Institution, an "AMS Mobile" service has been introduced some six months ago allowing you to install some cookie on your Notebook/Tablet/Mobile allowing you to access MathSciNet (and many AMS Journals) from everywhere in the world.
It seems to me that the discussion is also somehow turning into a political debate as whether these tools (and someone may wish to include even publications) should or not be free. It seems to me that the main arguments for this is: since the job of mathematicians has already been paid by University, they should not paid for it twice. I personally find it a non-argument, because

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*One can simply say that the cost for University is not only paying employees (like researchers) but also for "machineries" which in our world does not mean proton synchrotron boosters or tons of chemical products (which nobody asks chemical industries to give to Universities for free) but could mean MR

*The day that MathSciNet became free, it means it would be paid by someone without it being noticed by others – namely, US citizens would have to pay for it and in the rest of the world it would be really free. So, in this case, non-US University would pay for the job zero-times, not twice...

A: I've been thinking about this and similar issues myself lately.
There have been two aspects that were raised in this discussion and I would like to address both.  First, the website for reviewing papers, noting errors in papers etc. A few months back Scott Morrison, Jessee Johnson and myself were chatting and decided to open such a website. The result, a wiki, is wikademic.org and it has very few submission and even fewer users...I am the main user and I use it as a sketch pad for scribbling my notes about papers that I read. The current idea for wikademic.org is that it will be a place to discuss papers: the difficulties therein, the mistakes, the missing references, a summary that isn't just what the authors want it to be, the nice parts, the parts that are an obvious copy from a different paper...you get the point.
So far it has failed to attract people because it is small, and vice versa. I have recently discovered another, slightly larger website that has a similar goal (but it leans more towards the humanities), acawiki.org and was thinking about integrating the two websites. This has yet to happen, and I'm not sure it will. I think that some sort of institutional backing is very important so that the people who donate their time and effort to writing in the site feel that whatever they write will be available to them later if they want. Perhaps this can be solved technically by providing an easy way to email a review page or a set of pages to yourself or something like that.
If you are interested in wikademic.org please drop me a note.

The second thing that was mentioned in this discussion is the possibility of finding papers that are interesting to you. I was just thinking about how such a program would be a fantastic time saver. Imagine having a program/webiste know the people and papers that interest you and by looking at the arxiv and other various (free or locked) sources of titles/abstracts/authors/fulltext could alert you whenever a paper that you "should" read comes up. This could happen because the paper is new, or because your interests have shifted/expanded (the program should find this out by trivial actions on your part such as downloading a new paper to your computer, or adding a contact to your email program, or by starting to write a new paper yourself, and not by explicit actions such as you creating a filter or somesuch).
If such a program exists, I'd love to hear about it. And if someone wants to write it, I would applaud them, and possibly help too!

A: I could be mistaken, but the way I understand it many people on MO are voting members of AMS, and combined together could ask it to change MathSciNet's current policy.
However, as others pointed out, MathSciNet works as a funding channel for AMS which would have to be either replaced by some other method of funding or leave AMS with less funds overall. A responsible proposal for making MathSciNet free would also somehow address the above alternative.

A: It seems to me, that one thing that can be really useful and doable is at least to create a database of articles, where you can find all the article that were referring to a given one. This is one of the main skills of MathSciNet.

A: I discussed similar ideas with Peter Storm and Tamar Ziegler about a year ago. It is not that hard to build an abuse safe system - everything gets some score:
Any review has two scores:

*

*The review reputation, dependent on votes from other reviewers, and the reviewer reputation and the score it assigns to a paper.

*The reviewed paper score.

Reviewers have scores which are a function of the scores of reviews they write, and the papers they write.
Papers have scores, which are a function of the reputation and score of the reviews they get (yes, a paper may have several reviews).
This system assures that important papers will be reviewed very fast and very thoroughly. The downsides we saw are:

*

*As Peter put it: it would be an excellent system for Vulcans, but mere humans may get hurt.

*bootstrapping

A: One alternative would be to make it free for "independent users" but fee-based for universities and other institutions around the world. One could in worst case maintain a large database of IP addresses to sieve out universities and (e.g.) companies from "independent users".
This is a trust based system and, of course, there would be scammers but I think most universities are honest and would pay the license fee. But then again, what stops ScamA Uni., ScamB Uni. and ScamC uni. from creating a VPN tunnel, splitting the fee and getting by the system that is used right now?

A: It seems an alternative has just been created :  it is called the Selected Papers Network, and Tim Gowers has blogged about it here.

A: This was discussed a little on the algebraic topology list last autumn, you can look up the archives to see what was said.
Technologically, this is easy.  The problems come in when you think beyond that.

*

*How would such a site start?  Initially, there would be very few reviews so no one would have a reason to visit the site (the probability of the paper wanted being reviewed being almost nil).  For obvious reasons, importing an initial dataset from MathSciNet or Zentralblatt is extremely unlikely.  If no-one visits, no-one's going to contribute.

*How would such a site maintain itself?  The big problem with reviews is that the person writing the review gets almost no gain from it but (to do it properly) has to put in a fair amount of effort (which is why so many reviews on MathSciNet and Zentralblatt are so appalling, just copying out the summary of the paper, and why the few gems are so greatly appreciated).  That's a huge imbalance.  MathSciNet sorts this out by awarding "points" to reviewers ("And points mean prizes!").  What would a free alternative offer?

*How would such a site maintain its standards?  Here, one gets into extremely murky waters.  One idea suggested on the alg-top list was to use something like the stackoverflow model, but as this is going to involve opinions it could be extremely dangerous.  Often, the most useful information in a review is a reason not to read a given paper - if you're looking at the review, you are probably already inclined to read it - and some of the classic reviews are those that rip apart a paper.  Who's going to write those on an open system?
There are other ways of essentially filling the same role as reviews.  You read a review to find out whether or not it's worth reading a paper.  But the main problem comes before that, which papers should I read?  Once I've found that, then I use the review more to figure out whether or not I should bother finding the paper in my library or not.  If the paper is freely available, it's almost as quick to read the paper itself as to read the review (but I often read the review first because I find the paper via MathSciNet so the review is there anyway).  So I would much prefer something to speed up finding papers.  A better system of linking papers together: "If you enjoyed this paper, you might also enjoy ..." sort of thing.
So a really useful thing to do would be to have a "related papers" section linked to a given paper.  This could be started by the author - who would have every incentive to do so (since it increases the likelihood that their paper is understood) and who would find it very easy to do (since they would have such a list of papers lying on their desk - it's all the articles, books, and so forth that they read when writing the paper in the first place).  Basically, it's an expanded and commented reference list, and one which can be added to by others (so that if reading a paper, you find some other paper very useful which the original author didn't know about, or knew so well they didn't think to mention it, then you can add it).

Added later in response to some of the comments and the changes in the question.
First, a minor point.  MathSciNet and the arXiv already have the capability to link articles together.  If you look at a typical MathSciNet review then you'll see at the top right corner a box linking to where the article was cited, either in articles or reviews.  I've found this an invaluable tool and I hope that the AMS will extend it historically (the links are only to recent articles where this data could be found fairly automatically).  The arXiv has experimental support for full text search, so you can search for the arXiv identifier of one of your articles and find all those that cite it, for example.
Now on to my major point.  "Someone should set up a site that ...".  Who's to say that this has to be centralised?  After the discussions on the alg-top list and the subsequent discussions on the rForum, I've come to the conclusion that having a central system isn't the best idea.  All that is really needed is a central place from which all other places can be reached.  And that already exists.  It's called the arXiv.  The arXiv accepts trackbacks (subject to some approval) so when you blog about a paper, send a trackback to the arXiv and then you should get linked to from the page on the paper.
Of course, this only works for articles that are on the arXiv.  So then lobby the AMS to accept trackbacks as well (they can bung their standard "the AMS has no responsibility for non-AMS sites" disclaimer on).  The basic information in MathSciNet is freely available, these trackbacks can easily be added to those.
In the meantime, instead of waiting for someone to come along with some central setup (which probably won't be quite what you personally were thinking of) simply put your notes online.  Here's the message from the front page of the nLab:

We all make notes as we read papers, read books and doodle on pads of paper. The nLab is somewhere to put all those notes, and, incidentally, to make them available to others. Others might read them and add or polish them. But even if they don't, it is still easier to link from them to other notes that you've made.

On the nLab you will find information about papers that people have found useful.  You can search for a particular paper to see if anyone's commented on it, use it, or cited it.  Some papers/books have their own pages.  Here's one example http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Topological+Quantum+Field+Theories+from+Compact+Lie+Groups and here's another http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Elephant.
The basic point is that you can do this yourselves, now, without needing someone else to say "Here's the way to do it".  You benefit right now without doing loads of extra work, and everyone else benefits incidentally as a result.  Everyone wins.  It doesn't have to be the nLab, you can use whatever software you like.  Just put it online.  Somewhere.  Anywhere.  Stick the arXiv/MR identifier somewhere prominent and the search engines will pick it up.
Then the rest of us will get into the habit of searching on the internet for articles of articles and find your comments.
(Incidentally, along with this, make sure that you put your own articles on your webpages.  Every journal that I've ever encountered allows you to do this and this is really a Must-Do for academics.  Even if you just put a scan of older papers, it's invaluable for those whose libraries don't carry subscriptions to every single journal under the sun (and those that have no library at all).  There is No Excuse for not doing this, especially given that photocopiers now can easily scan straight to PDF.)

A: In my view, the non-freeness of MathSciNet is a feature, not a bug.  The MathSciNet fee is essentially a tax on universities by the AMS; when you pay for MathSciNet, you're actually paying for everything else the AMS does: the employment services (without the AMS, there would be no MathJobs!), the lobbying, the conferences, the public awareness.  It's not clear to me that the other things that libraries would do with that money would bring as much benefit to the mathematical community as a whole.
Of course, there is a certain redistributivity involved, in that most AMS money stays in the US, and lots of foreign schools subscribe to MathSciNet, but it is worth pointing out that AMS does do discounts for institutions of poorer countries (as Bjorn noted), and plenty of US universities subscribe to Zentralblatt.

A: Rather than creating a "free alternative for MathSciNet", it seems more useful to do what MathSciNet does not, e.g. make a site that maintains lists of errors in published papers.
I personally think MathSciNet is a great product, very much worthy of support, and I do not get the argument "since MathSciNet is not freely available, one should not support it".
Just stop using MathSciNet for a few months and see how it feels. Finally, posting your reviews on your own homepage will make them publicly available; I see no problem here as well.

A: I stopped to write reviews for MathSciNet because I think such information should be completely free.
You are a kindred spirit : so did I.  I no longer write for Zentralblatt either.  Why should I review papers which are not freely available to me, or to almost everyone ?
It did occur to me to review papers from the arXiv that I like, but there is no place really where these reviews could appear.  If someone starts a substitute for MathSciNet or the Zentralblatt, I would be willing to contribute in my small way.

A: According to this, zbmath will go open access by 2021. I haven't seen the fine print, though.

A: The answer to the question (if one interprets "free" in the strongest sense) is obviously NO:
 there are hidden costs associated to almost any such system.   For example, the arxiv is far from cheap to run, and it may need to switch to a new funding model. See http://arxiv.org/help/support/whitepaper.

A: Everyone I know in the AMS would like to make MR/MathSci free, but the problem is that it costs millions of dollars to produce and maintain (it requires a large staff in Ann Arbor and elsewhere, including many mathematicians), and no one has managed to find any other way to pay for it*. This is certainly something the mathematicians in the AMS are aware of and have thought about. The AMS attempts to make it as widely available as possible given the constraint that it has to be paid for. As far as I know, the revenue from MR/MathSci only pays to support it, not any of the AMS's other activities [not so; see below.]
Posters don't seem to realize the huge effort that goes into maintaining a project like this (for example, every article has to be assigned to a reviewer, and every review has to edited). Certainly, I don't believe a free alternative would be able to come anywhere near the quality MathSci maintains, so my answer is no, a free alternative to MR/MathSci is not possible.
Perhaps free supplements to MathSci could be useful, but anything that drew potential reviewers away from MR/MathSci would harm, not help, what is an extremely valuable resource.
*Of course, the intelligent thing would be for the funding agencies in the wealthy countries (US,EU,Japan,...) to pay for MR/MathSci directly, so that it could be distributed freely, but getting them to do this seems to be hopeless.
Added: In response to Anton Petrunin's comment, here are some numbers. The AMS employs 15 mathematical editors (i.e., mathematicians) and a total staff of over 70 at Mathematical Reviews (in Ann Arbor). The total direct cost of producing MR/MathSci in 2008 was 6,569,000USD. However, contrary to what I thought, the AMS does use the revenue from MR/MathSci and its other publications to support a large part of its other activities (Member and professional services, general and administrative expenses). In 2008, about 24% of total publication revenue was used in this way. See 2008 report and ad.

A: There's not much of a theoretical difficulty, is there?  You just need to scrape titles and abstracts from whatever journals' websites that you choose to include -- this seems like something a reasonably net-savvy programmer could put together rather quickly (heck, you could probably write a quick GreaseMonkey script to do most of this).  Then you just need a user-base of "open-source reviewers," a catchy domain name and some web-hosting, and you're good to go.
If you're talking about the added access to articles through MathSciNet, then I think you're out of luck for the immediate future -- support the Arxiv and free online journals and hope for the best.


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Q: class method_1 doesn't pass the test, but it works in rails console I have two following models:
class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
 has_many :tasks, inverse_of: :project
 attr_accessible :tasks_attributes

 def method_1
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    t.name
  end
 end

class Task < ActiveRecord::Base
 belongs_to :project, inverse_of: :tasks

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i'm writing the test for project_spec.rb. I test the association and validations, they are all fine. but somehow i can't pass the test of method_1. I changed method_1 code as followed, just to check. the result i got is [nil], ie tasks.first is nil. I don't know what I'm missing.
 def method_1
  [tasks.first]
 end

my test code is,
...
let(:project) do
   build_stubbed(:project, :project_data)
end

describe "#method_1" do
 before do
   project.stub_chain(:task, :name).and_return("task A")
 end
 subject {project.method_1}
  it "should be the name of the task of the project" do
    should eq ["task A"]
  end
end

when i run localhost:3000, it has the same problem. but in rails console, the method_1 works fine too. Anyone can help? it bothers me for days.

A: Here are some comments that might help:

*

*method_1 relies on tasks, but you've stubbed task (singular), so it's not having any effect.

*perhaps method_1 works in the Rails console because you have a tasks related to the project in your development database

*problems using localhost:3000 could be due to any number of things, since you don't use model methods directly through the web


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Go as a River
Read, Shelley: Go as a River
Verlag: Random House UK
'Shelley Read's lyrical voice is a force of nature and when she lends it to a woman leading a hardscrabble life in rural Colorado, the result is tragic, uplifting and completely unforgettable' BONNIE GARMUS, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
'A lush, beautiful, strong book. It took me on such a transformative life journey. I could not put it down' CLOVER STROUD
I've come to understand how the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary like the deep and mysterious world beneath the sea.
On a cool autumn morning, Victoria Nash heads into her village pulling a rickety wagon filled with late-season peaches. As she nears an intersection, a stranger in town stops to ask her the way.
She makes the decision to walk with him. 'Go as a river,' he tells her as they part ways.
So begins a mezmerising story of split-second decisions and considered acts that make up one woman's tumultuous life, as Victoria begins to absorb and follow his words.
Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, spinning through the eddies of desire, heartbreak and betrayal, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life for ever.
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Scientists discover new threat to birds posed by invasive pythons
by Smithsonian
Burmese pythons, native to southern Asia, have taken up a comfortable residence in the state of Florida, especially in the Everglades. In addition to out-competing native wildlife for resources and habitat, the pythons are eating the native wildlife. Credit: Sarah L. Stewart
Smithsonian scientists and their colleagues have uncovered a new threat posed by invasive Burmese pythons in Florida and the Everglades: The snakes are not only eating the area's birds, but also the birds' eggs straight from the nest. The results of this research add a new challenge to the area's already heavily taxed native wildlife. The team's findings are published in the online journal Reptiles & Amphibians: Conservation and Natural History.
Burmese pythons, native to southern Asia, have taken up a comfortable residence in the state of Florida, especially in the Everglades. In addition to out-competing native wildlife for resources and habitat, the pythons are eating the native wildlife. Burmese pythons (Python molurus bivittatus) were first recorded in the Everglades in 1979—thought to be escaped or discarded pets. Their numbers have since grown, with an estimated breeding population in Florida in the tens of thousands.
In an ongoing study to better understand the impact of this snake in the Everglades, scientists from the Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service and others have been examining the contents of the digestive tracts of pythons in the area. They have shown that Burmese pythons consume at least 25 different species of birds in the Everglades, but until now no records documented this species eating bird eggs.
Two Limpkin (Aramus guarauna) crushed but intact eggs (top) recovered from a Burmese python digestive tract and compared to a reference Limpkin specimen from the Smithsonian's collection (below) for size and color patterns. The arrow shows fragments of eggshells from the python sample placed on the Smithsonian specimen for color comparison. Credit: Don Hurlbert, Smithsonian Institution
"This finding is significant because it suggests that the Burmese python is not simply a sit-and-wait predator, but rather is opportunistic enough to find the nests of birds," said Carla Dove, ornithologist at the Smithsonian's Feather Identification Lab in the National Museum of Natural History and lead author of the study. "Although the sample size is small, these findings suggest that the snakes have the potential to negatively affect the breeding success of native birds."
Scientists collected a 14-pound male python that was 8 ½ feet long near a property with free-ranging guineafowl. The snake regurgitated 10 whole guineafowl eggs soon after it was captured. The team discovered the remains of two bird eggs in another python collected for the study―a 30-pound female more than 10 feet long. Scientists used DNA tests on the membrane of the crushed eggs and comparisons of the shell fragments with egg specimens in the Smithsonian's collection to determine what the female snake had eaten. Their research revealed the species to be the limpkin (Aramus guarauna), a large wading bird found in marshes and listed as a "species of special concern" by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
This image shows five of 10 entire Guineafowl eggs regurgitated by a Burmese python. Credit: R.W. Snow, Everglades National Park.
There are several species of snake known to eat bird eggs. Those species are equipped with pointed or blade-like extensions on the vertebrae in their esophagus that punctures the eggshell, making it easy for the snake to crush the egg and digest its contents. Burmese pythons do not have these adaptations. However, the pythons studied were so large in relation to the eggs they ingested that the scientists believe these specialized vertebrae may not have been needed.
"Our observations confirm that invasive Burmese pythons consume not only adult birds but also eggs, revealing a previously unrecognized risk from this introduced predator to nesting birds," said Dove. "How frequently they are predating on bird eggs is hard to know."
In an earlier stage of the study, the scientists collected more than 300 Burmese pythons in Everglades National Park and found that birds, from the 5-inch-long house wren to the 4-foot-long great blue heron, accounted for 25 percent of the python's diet in the Everglades.
Scientists find that non-native snakes are taking a toll on native birds
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Citation: Scientists discover new threat to birds posed by invasive pythons (2012, April 5) retrieved 20 January 2021 from https://phys.org/news/2012-04-scientists-threat-birds-posed-invasive.html
US bans import of Burmese pythons
'Vicious' Giant Python Invading Florida
Pythons apparently wiping out Everglades mammals
Florida bill would ban pythons as pets
Salt water alone unlikely to halt Burmese python invasion


THE CENTRAL KALAHARI GAME RESERVE (CKGR) was established in 1961 by the British colonial powers as a sanctuary for the San, a place where they could practise their traditional hunter/gatherer lifestyle. More than 20 years later, it opened its gates to visitors; today, it's a prime tourist destination in Botswana.
, this park takes up 9% of Botswana's surface area and forms part of the Kalahari Basin.
private roads leading to the mine.
also be accessed via the Khutse entrance gate.
Gemsbok. Springbok. Lion. Cheetah and Leopard.
Bigfoot Safaris operate the majority of the park's campsites with the remainder run by Botswana's Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP). A number of upmarket lodges are also found in the park. Accommodation reservations and pre-payments are essential, but park entry fees can be paid at the gate on arrival (in cash, Botswana Pula only).
Visitors must pay a Park Entry fee and Vehicle entry fee and campsites must be booked in advance.
A good off-road vehicle is required to travel the two-spoor tracks in the CKGR.
It's impossible to travel from the northern region of the park to Khutse Game Reserve in the south, in a single day.
The region is vast, roads are either muddy in the rainy season, or very sandy in the dry season, which makes for slow progress. Driving at night is strictly prohibited so overnighting at either Xade, Xaxa or Bape campsites en-route is required. If you arrive at a park entrance gate just before closing time, you won't be allowed to enter and make the long trip to your campsite. You will be forced to spend the night at the park entrance gate.
If travelling here during December, sand will not be a problem for a vehicle like a Toyota Prado or similar, just deflate your tyres to approx 1.8 bar if loaded. Rain could be a problem during December though - there will be mud, so take care when you pass close to pans or have to cross them. Take appropriate recovery equipment in case. Travellers have reported deflating to 1.6 bar in April during the drier season.
Reportedly a traveller went here in April 2013, without any driving problems due to water or rain, as most of the water was absorbed by then. But take note that weather is very unpredictable now, and Botswana is now a more 'wet' country than it was 20 years ago. Often in the rainy season you might encounter a muddy patch or so, but no deep water crossings, bottomless bogs etc. - only surface mud in the CKGR. At the very worst you might get stuck for a while until you get extricated by a passing vehicle or manage yourself, but getting stuck is highly unlikely if you drive sensibly. Travellers have travelled the CKGR in January after days of torrential rain deep into an already very wet rainy season and had no hassles. (Mar-14).
No petrol, diesel or food supplies available in the reserve.
Camps in the park aren't fenced so it's possible (and common) for predators and other game to enter the campsites. Look around for dangerous game before exiting your vehicle, and stay close to your campsite at all times if on foot. Unguided walks in the park are prohibited as these could have disastrous consequences should you encounter dangerous game. If predators enter your campsite at night, stay in your tent or vehicle, and enjoy this incredible experience until they leave. Don't attempt to chase them away, as this may result in an attack (fight) rather than flight. Pack away all food at night, as this may attract scavengers such as hyena.
As there are no facilities, it's recommended that inexperienced travellers visit the park in the company of a guide, or someone who's an experienced overland traveller. Stay on the tracks at all times - driving off into the open veld is strictly prohibited.
There's no water inside the park and visitors must be totally self-sufficient when staying here due to the absence of facilities. Most campsites consist simply of a wooden shelter with concrete floor, bucket shower, and a surprisingly 'unsmelly' long drop chemical toilet. There's no running water. Depending on the rainfall, borehole water may be available at the various entrance gates, but this isn't guaranteed.
Firewood may not be collected in the park so stock up en-route. Visitors are requested to consider the environment, and limit the fires to cooking and small fires to socialize around. Avoid huge bonfires which burn unnecessary wood and run the risk of starting veld fires.
Driving from Xade to Piper Pan took a traveller about 6 hours in April 2010, as it was pouring with rain. The track can then get extremely muddy, and where there is no mud, it will be covered in water.
In the dry season it can take anywhere between 3 and 6 hours as it's a very bumpy and rough track.
Visitors to the area must be self-contained as the park is very undeveloped. You are no longer allowed to collect wood from the bush in the CKGR, bring your own firewood!
If you want to pay your park entry fees upon arrival at the park, you must have the correct amount in hand in Botswana Pula; there are no credit card facilities at the entrance gates and change for large denominations may not be available. You can pay your park entry fees in advance with a credit card at the DWNP reservations office in Gaborone.
Be sure to stock up on fuel and produce in either Maun, Ghanzi, Gaborone or Serowe - there's limited shopping opportunities in the smaller towns en-route to the park.
Plan your trip with the aid of Tracks4Africa map products, these reflect actual travel times between camps.


Guests staying at Oasis Pool Villa can have a swim in the private outdoor pool, followed by a meal on the deck, surrounded by palm trees. The 2-bedroom villa is situated in Malolo Lailai, west of Nadi on Fiji's main Island Viti Levu. The island is 50 minutes' from Port Denarau, when using the Malolo Cat, a catamaran, or a 10-minute flight from Nadi Interantional Airport to Malolo Lailai Airport. Inside Oasis Pool Villa you will notice the traditional decor, high ceilings, wicker chairs and ceiling fans. The kitchen has a microwave, oven, kettle, refrigerator and a toaster. There are a range of restaurants at Musket Cove, a 1-minute walk from the property, Plantation Island, a 25-minute drive from Oasis Pool Villa or Lomani Island, a 26-minute drive away.


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Q: How to run DBCC CHECKDB with both REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS and NOINDEX I have a very large database (233GB), and running DBCC CHECKDB with REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS is taking WAY too long (over 15 hours). There are a lot of indexes on a table that I would rather have removed, but cannot remove the table until the database is back up and running. Each index is taking AT LEAST 2 hours to check. Is there a way to run CHECKDB with both REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS AND NOINDEX?

A: When you run DBCC CHEKDB with NOINDEX then, it skips indexes completely. NOINDEX does not affect system tables because integrity checks are always performed on system table indexes.
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In August 2016, Hawai'i CFS announced a new advisory body comprised of local leaders and advocates to help oversee and guide its work in Hawai'i.
The advisory board will convene to review and evaluate HCFS's work, and help plan its strategic partnerships and projects.
On September 28th, the Hawai'i Center for Food Safety ("CFS") advisory board met for the first time. CFS staff and several stakeholders attended. We discussed the organization's strategic direction and heard concerns from key leaders in Hawai'i's food movement. We had a robust discussion, and the advisory board extends a warm mahalo to everyone who participated. CFS remains committed to safe and sustainable food systems for Hawai'i. We believe Kanaka Maoli and local communities should continue to have central roles in our food movements, and the advisory board looks forward to assisting HCFS strengthen its capacities in this regard.
At the conclusion of the meeting, the advisory board noted its unanimous support of HCFS, its director Ashley Lukens, and staff members. The advisory board further concluded that, as with any complex challenge, tactics and strategy can and should be reexamined from time to time. The advisory board is committed to work with CFS in this process, so as to achieve our shared goal of making Hawai'i's food system safe for the people and the 'āina.
Five years ago today, I closed out my first legislative session as a grassroots lobbyist.


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TREE LIGHTING Mount Eaton will have a holiday tree lighting at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 on the town square with caroling. Following the lighting, people will be able to enjoy hot chocolate, coffee and cookies at the firehouse.
KARAOKE Shreve American Legion Forest Post 67 will offer karaoke on Saturday, Nov. 30 from 7 to 10 p.m. It will be offered through Dream Come True Karaoke with DJ Larry Conner. In addition to an evening of karaoke, music and dance, there will be 50/?50, food and drink available. The event is open to the public.
CORNHOLE Orrville American Legion, 237 E. Market St., will offer a cornhole tournament on Saturday, Nov. 30. Competition will start at 5 p.m, with registration and practice from 3:30 to 4:40 p.m. Blind draw for partner will take place at 4:40 p.m. It will be a double elimination tournament with no premier of Div. 1 ranked players on the same team. All new pro boards will be used and participants may take own bags. Entry fee is $10 per person plus a $2 cover charge. Cash prizes will be awarded. People may come early for Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, and stay after for karaoke. The club is open to public for food and beverages. No outside beverages are allowed. For tournament information and to register, call 330-682-6606.
NUTCRACKER Ohio Conservatory of Ballet will present "The Nutcracker" on Saturday, Nov. 30, at 6 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 1, at 2 p.m. at Green High School Auditorium, 1474 Boettler Road, Uniontown. The production includes Wooster dancers Eliza Symonds, 15, and Faith Chanay, 12. Reserved seat tickets may be purchased online at Etix.com (search for: Green High School) or at the door and range from $16-$25. It is the beginning of "Nutcracker" performances in the area. A sensory friendly "Nutcracker" will be offered Dec. 6 by Holmes Center for the Arts at 6 p.m. at West Holmes High School. This show will seek to provide a welcoming environment for children and families and for guests with sensory, social and cognitive disabilities. The sensory friendly show will be just one hour with quieter music, a brighter theater and fewer flashing lights. Guests will be free to talk or move about during the show. The cost of this show is set at $8 a ticket. Holmes Center for the Arts will have two other "Nutcracker" performances on Dec. 7 and Dec. 8 at 2 p.m. both days at West Holmes High School. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit https://?www.holmescenterforthearts.org/?the-nutcracker. Tickets also are available by calling 330-473-2879 and at the door. And Ballet Wooster, with a cast of 90 dancers, will present its "Nutcracker" on Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 8 at 2 p.m. at the Wooster High School Performing Arts Center. Adult tickets cost $14. Tickets for students, seniors and children are $10. Tickets may be purchased at www.balletwooster.org.
PAINTING Holmes Center for the Arts will offer a winter-themed paint night from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4 at Olde World Bistro in Millersburg. The evening will include step-by-step painting instruction, all art supplies, as well as an appetizer and the first beer, wine or soda. Cost is $40 per student. Visit holmescenterforthearts.org/?art to register by Monday, Dec. 2. and pay online.


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Video shows deputy's husband using chokehold on man who died after confrontation at Denny's
By: Tribune Media Wire
***Warning: The video above may be disturbing to some viewers. Discretion is advised.***
HOUSTON, Texas — A video released Monday shows a 24-year-old man who died after a confrontation with a Harris County deputy's husband outside a Denny's restaurant struggling on the ground while being put in a chokehold, PIX11 sister station CW39 reports .
The footage was captured by a concerned citizen who recorded the May 28 incident despite being told by the deputy to stop filming. The video is confirmation of a cover up, according to the family attorney for John Hernandez.
"This is what witnesses have been saying all along," said Randall Kallinen, a civil rights lawyer. "The Harris County deputies actively tried to cover up the killing at the scene and let a killer go free because he was married to a deputy."
Hernandez died May 31, three days after the encounter, after being taken off life support at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital. His family made the decision to remove breathing tubes after doctors ruled that Hernandez was brain dead.
The family is now seeking justice and feels that his death could have been prevented.
Investigators said the deputy's husband drove up to a Denny's restaurant at about 11:40 p.m. Sunday in the 17700 block of the Crosby Freeway. His children were in the car with him as they waited to meet with his wife, an HCSO deputy who was off-duty at the time.
While waiting in the parking lot, deputies said the husband saw Hernandez urinating in public and went to verbally confront the man about his behavior. Officers said the argument escalated to a physical altercation. Moments later, the deputy, who was off-duty at the time, arrived in a separate vehicle.
Video shows the deputy's husband on top of Hernandez's back with a chokehold around his neck. Hernandez is seen on the video kicking his back legs, and making audible sounds of struggle.
The husband would not let go. The deputy began telling the person capturing footage of the fight to stop recording her husband because it was "illegal."
The deputy allegedly called the sheriff's office for backup and emergency medical services before helping her husband restrain Hernandez, investigators said.
The man did not get off of Hernandez until the 24-year-old stopped moving. When the deputy realized Hernandez was not breathing, she began to perform CPR on him until paramedics arrived, witnesses said.
Neither the deputy nor her husband were injured during the altercation, authorities said. No charges have been filed at this time. The deputy will remain on active duty while Internal Affairs investigates her involvement in the incident, the sheriff's office said.
The Hernandez family is left in disbelief, and says the attack happened in front of Hernandez's young daughter.
"John's 3-year-old daughter witnessed the killing and begged the killer to stop hitting her daddy," the girl's mother Maria Toral said.
Kallinen has demanded the sheriff's office allow an independent outside investigation of the incident.
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez didn't beat around the bush regarding how the internal investigation may look to the public, but added that he's confident in the office's ability to be transparent, thorough and unbiased. He said the deputy's husband was not receiving preferential treatment because of his wife's position.
Gonzalez said the investigation is still in its early stages, and the sheriff's office does not want to rush to any judgments.
It "was an altercation that occurred between two parties, and obviously, it was fatal for Mr. Hernandez, unfortunately," Gonzalez said.
"But part of [the investigation] is to see what led to that. What was the actual cause? That's why we could look at video footage, but a medical examiner needs to tell us this was cause of death, this is what led to the death. Not, yes, he died. But, he was on top? Was there another health issue? There's different factors in this type of case."
Attorneys for the Hernandez family and several witnesses said the video leaves no doubt as to what caused the young father's death.
"An anonymous concerned citizen brought me the video because he said it shows murder," criminal defense lawyer Jack Carroll said. "I concur."
The Harris County Sheriff's Office released the following statement:
"Harris County Sheriff's Office investigators are aware of the cell phone video that was made public today. The investigation into the death of John Hernandez remains a high priority and will be referred to the Harris County District Attorney's Office for consideration in a timely manner."


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Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas (FCFAR) - Araraquara
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas
Artigos - Ciências Biológicas - FCFAR
Evidence for conformational changes in the yeast deoxyhypusine hydroxylase Lia1 upon iron displacement from its active site
Cano, Veridiana S. P.
Medrano, Francisco Javier
Park, Myung Hee
Valentini, Sandro Roberto
The unique amino acid hypusine is formed exclusively in eIF5A by the successive action of deoxyhypusine synthase and deoxyhypusine hydroxylase (yeast Lia1, human DOHH). Although the first enzyme has been extensively studied, both Lia1 structure and the mechanism of action remain unclear. Hence, a multi-approach was used to evaluate Lia1 catalysis, metal/substrate binding, structural conformation and stability. Mutational analyses of Lia1 revealed fine differences in the mode of substrate binding between the human and yeast counterparts. Like human DOHH, recombinant Lia1 is an iron metalloenzyme. Iron is essential for enzyme activity since its loss renders the enzyme totally inactive. The separation of iron-free and iron-bound forms by gel filtration and native electrophoresis suggests differences in Lia1 tertiary structure related to the iron binding. The ability of Lia1 to undergo conformational changes prompted us to use a set of complementary spectroscopic approaches and SAXS to obtain detailed information on the processes underlying dissociation of iron from Lia1 at different levels of the protein organization. The additive effect of weak interactions, especially within the metal center, resulted in an active enzyme in a stabilized and compact three-dimensional fold. Loss of tertiary contacts upon iron displacement led to an elongated conformation of Lia1, in which the N- and C-terminal domains are no longer in close proximity to guarantee the proper orientation of the active groups within the active site pocket. Our results demonstrate an essential structural role for iron binding in addition to its contribution to the catalysis of hypusine formation in the eIF-5A precursor.
Cano, Veridiana S. P. et al. Evidence for conformational changes in the yeast deoxyhypusine hydroxylase Lia1 upon iron displacement from its active site. Amino Acids. New York: Springer, v. 38, n. 2, p. 479-490, 2010. Available at: <http://hdl.handle.net/11449/7436>.
eIF5A
Hypusine
Deoxyhypusine hydroxylase
HEAT-repeat containing protein
Iron metalloenzyme
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)