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Watch: Return to Hogwarts with new trailer for Harry Potter reunion special
Christian Bone Dec 20, 2021 11:51 am 2021-12-20T11:51:25-05:00
2021 marks 20 years since the Harry Potter franchise first premiered in theaters, and, though it's coming a little late, an anniversary special that's set to reunite the cast of the beloved eight-part film series is on its way to HBO Max this New Year's Day. We first found out about the much-anticipated reunion earlier this month, and today this first proper trailer has unveiled a taste of what we can expect from what promises to be an unmissable nostalgia ride.
Titled Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, the special brings the cast together at the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in London. The press release promises an "enchanting making-of story through all-new in-depth interviews and cast conversations, inviting fans on a magical first-person journey" through the legendary franchise that began with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in November 2001.
First look at 'Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts'
Those taking part in the special will include Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange), Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid), Ralph Fiennes (Lord Voldemort), Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy), Gary Oldman (Sirius Black), Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), James and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George Weasley), Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley), Mark Williams (Arthur Weasley), Alfred Enoch (Dean Thomas), Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom), and Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood).
However, the highlight of the reunion is obviously the chance to get the Golden Trio themselves, Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), back in the same room. Specifically, the Gryffindor common room, as this trailer teases the stars back together in the familiar halls of Hogwarts after so many years.
The trailer for the reunion comes hot on the heels of the first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, which dropped earlier this week ahead of the movie's release next April. As for the Harry Potter anniversary special, don't miss it when it arrives on Jan. 1 on HBO Max.


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Q: How to efficient find existent key-values of 2-dimensional dictionary in python which are between 4 values? I have a little Problem in Python. I got a 2 dimensional dictionary. Lets call it dict[x,y] now. x and y are integers. I try to only select the key-pair-values, which match between 4 points. Function should look like this:
def search(topleft_x, topleft_y, bottomright_x, bottomright_y):

For example: search(20, 40, 200000000, 300000000)

Now are Dictionary-items should be returned that match to:
                      20 < x < 20000000000
               AND    40 < y < 30000000000

Most of the key-pair-values in this huge matrix are not set (see picture - this is why i cant just iterate).
This function should return a shorted dictionary. In the example shown in the picture, it would be a new dictionary with the 3 green circled values. Is there any simple solution to realize this?
I recently used 2-for-loops. In this example they would look like this:
def search():
    for x in range(20, 2000000000):
        for y in range(40, 3000000000):
            try:
                #Do something
            except:
                #Well item just doesnt exist

Of course this is highly inefficient. So my question is: How to Boost up this simple thing in Python? In C# i used Linq for stuff like this... What to use in python?
Thanks for help!
Example Picture

A: You dont go over random number ranges and ask 4million times for forgiveness - you use 2 number range to specify your "filters" and go only over existing keys in the dictionary that fall into those ranges:
# get fancy on filtering if you like, I used explicit conditions and continues for clearity
def search(d:dict,r1:range, r2:range)->dict:
    d2 = {}
    for x in d:              # only use existing keys in d - not 20k that might be in
        if x not in r1:                        # skip it - not in range r1
            continue
        d2[x] = {}
        for y in d[x]:       # only use existing keys in d[x] - not 20k that might be in
            if y not in r2:                    # skip it - not in range r2
                continue
            d2[x][y] = "found: " + d[x][y][:]  # take it, its in both ranges
    return d2

d = {}
d[20] = {99:  "20",999:  "200",9999:  "2000",99999:  "20000",}
d[9999] = { 70:"70",700:"700",7000:"7000",70000:"70000"}

print(search(d,range(10,30), range(40,9000)))

Output:
{20: {99: 'found: 20', 999: 'found: 200'}}

It might be useful to take a look at modules providing sparse matrices.

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The propaganda on both sides of the aisle was intended to justify current and future opposing policies.
The struggle of the economy has so far proven fruitless. Uncertainties were not eradicated and insecurity was not stemmed. Naturally, no secure path to economic growth has emerged.
Most efforts seem geared simply toward managing the current situation, but without the vision and clear targets that might inspire Greece's embattled society.
Not a word was uttered about the overarching issues highlighted by a deep and protracted crisis.
There was no substantial discussion on the major, fundamental problem of Greece's limited production, the weakness of which is the source of most of the economy's ills – especially unemployment, slashed incomes, and a rapidly aging population.
Those with even a basic contact and connection with the economy insist that under the current conditions and with an enormous, extended crisis, Greek politics should have been preoccupied with seeking to bolster production and manufacturing.
During the crisis, manufacturing constituted only 8.4 percent of GDP, whereas in the rest of Europe that number was 15 percent.
Over the last years that rose to slightly over nine percent due to particular conditions.
Despite the contraction of the economy, the labour force numbers 1.2mn people. Needless to say that jobs in manufacturing are better paid and closer to technological developments, and thus have better prospects.
It is easy to understand that a take-off of manufacturing that would reach 15 percent of GDP, the EU average, would increase the number of employees in that sector to 2.5mn people. Anyone can see importance and benefits of such a development.
The aforementioned prospect would be enough to mobilise any political system that has even a rudimentary awareness of interventions to back the broader manufacturing sector.
If that target were reached, it would lead to a swifter and more organised cleanup of the credit and energy sectors, which currently impede the recovery of production and manufacturing.
If there is available credit and energy costs are checked, growth can take off, and Greece would not only exit the crisis – it will be truly transformed.
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ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
Foot and Mouth
12. Diana Organ: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what funds her Department has made available to areas most heavily affected by the foot and mouth outbreak. [63013]
Alun Michael: The Government put in place a range of schemes to help those affected by the disease and the measures to control it. These included:
the £80 million Business Recovery Fund, managed by the Regional Development Agencies (including £25 million reprioritised funding from RDAs' existing budgets) to help businesses adjust to changes in their markets;
discretionary interest-free deferral of income tax, VAT and National Insurance contributions, with over £250 million deferred;
increased central funding for local authorities to provide rate relief for businesses facing hardship (estimated at £22 million), and bringing forward mandatory rate relief for village shops, pubs and garages;
£15 million to match charitable donations towards relief of hardship;
£3.8 million to help local authorities reopen rights of way;
£18 million for tourism promotion;
£0.5 million from the Countryside Access Recovery Fund.
The Government are continuing to work with local authorities and partnerships in the worst-affected areas to help implement their recovery strategies.
27. Mrs. Dean: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when she expects to receive the report of the Royal Society inquiry into the foot and mouth outbreak. [63032]
Mr. Morley: The report of the Royal Society's inquiry into infectious diseases in livestock is currently expected to be published on 16 July.
World Summit on Sustainable Development
13. Mr. Connarty: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress there has been in preparations for the world summit on sustainable development. [63014]
Mr. Meacher: Broad agreement was reached at Bali on a Programme of Action to implement sustainable development. We also had very preliminary discussions on a Political Declaration for Johannesburg. At the EU level, the European Council at Seville has just agreed the EU's final negotiating position for Johannesburg.
Standstill Rule
14. Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans she has to modify the 20-day standstill rule. [63016]
Mr. Morley: Final decisions will not be made until we have seen the recommendations of the Royal Society and Lessons Learned Inquiries.
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15. Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement regarding the implementation of European recycling directives. [63018]
Mr. Meacher: The Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive came into force in 1994. It is implemented in the UK through the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997 and the Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 1998. The End of Life Vehicles Directive was adopted in 2000 and member states are now transposing it. The proposed Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive is expected to be adopted by the EC later this year. It may therefore come into effect in the UK in 2004.
18. Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the cost to local authorities of implementing the Government's recycling strategy. [63021]
Mr. Meacher: Regulatory impact assessments are developed by the Department to assess the costs and benefits of proposed measures to increase recycling. These RIAs are published in consultation documents and are available on the DEFRA website http://www.defra.gov.uk/.
16. Mr. Watts: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress her Department has made in its attempts to persuade other European Union countries to improve the welfare conditions of animals which are transported on long journeys. [63019]
Mr. Morley: The need for continuing improvements in the welfare of animals during transport is now generally accepted by member states. We will continue to press the European Commission to produce its proposals for changes to the present EU rules on the protection of animals during transport.
19. Mr. Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on the expenditure by the Government on flood defences in 2001. [63023]
Mr. Morley: This Department provides grant (and supplementary credit approvals to local authorities) to the Environment Agency, local authorities and internal drainage boards for flood and coastal defence capital works. The provisional outturn for 2001–02 is £91 million.
The Government also provided some £268 million in further funding for flood and coastal defence through local authority funding mechanisms. An estimated £40 million was provided from other sources.
22. Mr. Francois: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent representations she has received from the Environment Agency regarding flooding. [63026]
Mr. Morley: Given the Environment Agency's supervisory role for flood defence, it is recognised as a key stakeholder by this Department on flood and coastal
defence policy and operational issues. Therefore there is an on-going dialogue between the agency and Department, but recent representations have included the agency's response to the consultation on the Flood and Coastal Defence Funding Review.
21. Mr. Plaskitt: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps she is taking to encourage the staging of agricultural shows. [63025]
Alun Michael: We strongly support the work of agricultural shows which are staged at national, regional and local levels by independent show societies. It is a matter for these societies to decide upon the format for their events and how they will be organised, but we support the events by taking space at a number of shows each year and by attendance of Ministers and officials at several, including the Royal Show.
23. Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement regarding the implementation of the proposals in the report published by the Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food. [63027]
Mr. Morley: The Government intend to produce a strategy for sustainable food and farming in England in the autumn, following a wide-ranging process of stakeholder engagement. The strategy will incorporate a definitive response to each of the Policy Commission's recommendations.
24. Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent representations she has received on the recycling of fridges and freezers; and if she will make a statement. [63028]
Mr. Meacher: We have received five representations on the recycling of fridges and freezers since 14 May 2002. The representations have mostly been from the local authorities regarding funding and from consumers on how to dispose of old fridges.
We realise local authorities are in need of further funding and intend to make an announcement as soon as possible.
A leaflet for householders advising on how to dispose of old fridges, originally only on the DEFRA website, has now been published in hard copy as well, and widely distributed. Guidance on the disposal of commercial refrigeration equipment has been placed on the website and recently published in hard copy.
28. Mr. Swayne: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent progress has been made in implementing new recycling plants for refrigerators and freezers. [63033]
Mr. Meacher: Investors are in the process of providing a network of new recycling facilities in the United Kingdom. Two mobile plant are up and running and three further static plant will be operational by the end of July.
This should be sufficient to reprocess 1.2 million fridges a year. Further plant are scheduled to come online by the end of the year.
Milk Industry (Lancashire)
25. Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on the prospects for the milk industry in Lancashire. [63029]
Mr. Morley: In Lancashire, in common with the rest of the country, the farmgate price of milk has fallen over the last few months. The most recent official figures show that for milk delivered in April the average farmgate price of milk in the UK had fallen to 16.10 pence per litre and it is likely that the average figure for May will be even lower. As a result, some dairy farmers will be receiving less for their milk than it costs to produce it. A situation that is clearly unsustainable. However, these low prices have largely been caused by factors that are temporary in nature, most notably, oversupply of raw milk in the UK and the weakness of EU and world markets for dairy products.
For the longer term, it is likely that the next round of WTO agriculture negotiations will further restrict the use of export subsidies and increase the exposure of EU markets to world markets. In addition, enlargement of the EU is likely to lead to pressure on the Community budget, if the CAP is not reformed.
In order to produce a sustainable dairy industry that can compete successfully on the growing world market for dairy products, the industry must be given the opportunity to trade free of artificial constraints imposed by the WTO, as well as by the EU dairy regime. The EU price support system is focused on butter and skimmed milk powder, both in clear surplus, hampering the development of genuine markets, while milk quotas are bureaucratic, constrain production by the most efficient farmers and represent a significant financial burden to most farmers.
The Government therefore favour the orderly phasing out of milk quotas in combination with a reduction in EU support prices to world prices, and direct but digressive aid to help farmers adjust to the new regime. During the forthcoming review of the milk quota system, due to start in June, the UK will be pressing to achieve confirmation that quotas will not continue after they lapse on 31 March 2008. These changes are intended to provider longer-term direction within the framework of the dairy regime, which farmers need in order to plan their businesses effectively.
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Media / Racism
Is Britain really the most tolerant country in Europe?
by Matthew Smith · 7th October, 2018
Last Thursday, on the BBC's Question Time programme (a weekly late-night political panel show in which a panel of politicians and an academic, writer or other lay 'expert'), there was a contribution from an audience member who claimed that Britain is "one of the least racist societies across Europe" and that one of the supposed benefits of Brexit would be that it would end preferential treatment for (white) European immigrants and allow more people to come from places like Malaysia and Singapore. One panel member (who was Black) countered that he had been stopped by police while just sitting on his mother's front porch while a Muslim woman (wearing a headscarf) argued that he was a white man and that he wasn't the person experiencing racism, such as being screamed at while in hijab or being stopped by police while walking across the street. I saw a Twitter thread explaining various measures by which Britain could be considered the least racist or most tolerant country in Europe, in terms of things like positive attitudes to Muslims or other minorities as expressed in opinion polls. But that does not tell the whole story.
As a Muslim, I'm well aware that none of the laws which restrict the observance of Islam by ordinary people in some European countries apply here. We have no bans on hijab in school (although individual schools can ban them or impose "hijab uniforms" which many Muslims consider not to constitute hijab), no bans on wearing niqaab in the street or anywhere else, no ban or restriction on halal slaughter and no requirement to register religious observance. There are enough of us that businesses will take our needs into account in designing things like staff uniforms, which is not the case in some places in Europe where no legal discrimination exists. Unlike in some Muslim countries, mosques can remain open all day and night and you will not face arrest or intimidation for growing your beard or praying the dawn prayer in the mosque. That's the good news.
The bad news is that there is a commercial press which regularly demonises minorities, in some cases explicitly (e.g. Muslims) and sometimes implicitly; we have politicians who make threatening noises at Muslims and send vans into areas with a high non-White population with "GO HOME" printed on them in big letters; we have police who stop and search Black men for no real reason, and immigration officers who accost anyone who "looks foreign" demanding papers that they are not obliged to carry; we have ordinary members of the public who harass and abuse Muslim women in the street because all they know about Muslims is stories about terrorism (mostly by men); we have many stories from people working in the NHS and elsewhere of being told they do not want to be served or treated by them, or that they should go home. It does not matter if the situation is better or worse in France or anywhere else; Britain is the only home most of us have and we cannot up sticks and move to France where we know nobody and do not speak the language. Black and Asian people moved here in the 50s and 60s because their countries were or had been part of the British empire, not the French or Portuguese one.
And as a white man who has no relatives in any of the groups that regularly suffer harassment, even though as a Muslim I find the media coverage and political noises threatening, I am not in the "front line" as it were. The young man in the Question Time audience clearly has no idea; frankly he sounds like he comes from a posh background and went to a "nice school" and probably thinks Britain is a country where success is based on merit, not privilege, and that if you get into trouble it is your fault. I wonder if he actually works for a political party or a think-tank. But whether he does or not, it's offensive to counter stories of real racism with claims of how tolerant we as a country are, because laws and opinion poll results do not always reflect people's everyday experiences, and comparisons with other countries are irrelevant.
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The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note dropped to approximately 2.682 percent, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond fell to 3.037 percent. Bond yields move inversely to prices.
Market players continue to monitor the most recent round of negotiations between Beijing and Washington. The optimism has heightened over the chances of both countries securing a deal to end their protracted trade war, however, some experts say that the most difficult part is yet to come as high-level discussions continue into Friday.
During an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" last Friday, a senior investment manager at Aberdeen Standard Investments, James Athey, stated: "There's obviously an incentive for both sides to reach a deal."
He continued: "The problem is that you're now getting to the more difficult part of the negotiation, which is things like the IP (intellectual property) problem."
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Since the initial purchase of the BMW we have planned to take a slower path of progression with this car and enjoy it in all its' various stages of development. This will allow for us to provide a higher level of direct feedback to our customers. Our Team will complete this task by installing, driving, and understanding the real world effects of the products installed, thus translating to the driving experience.
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Q: Interpolation in c# - performance problem I need to resample big sets of data (few hundred spectra, each containing few thousand points) using simple linear interpolation.
I have created interpolation method in C# but it seems to be really slow for huge datasets.
How can I improve the performance of this code?
public static List<double> interpolate(IList<double> xItems, IList<double> yItems, IList<double> breaks)
        {
                double[] interpolated = new double[breaks.Count];
                int id = 1;
                int x = 0;
                while(breaks[x] < xItems[0])
                {
                    interpolated[x] = yItems[0];
                    x++;
                }

                double p, w;
                // left border case - uphold the value
                for (int i = x; i < breaks.Count; i++)
                {
                    while (breaks[i] > xItems[id])
                    {
                        id++;
                        if (id > xItems.Count - 1)
                        {
                            id = xItems.Count - 1;
                            break;
                        }
                    }

                    System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("i: {0}, id {1}", i, id));

                    if (id <= xItems.Count - 1)
                    {
                        if (id == xItems.Count - 1 && breaks[i] > xItems[id])
                        {

                            interpolated[i] = yItems[yItems.Count - 1];
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            w = xItems[id] - xItems[id - 1];
                            p = (breaks[i] - xItems[id - 1]) / w;
                            interpolated[i] = yItems[id - 1] + p * (yItems[id] - yItems[id - 1]);
                        }
                    }
                    else // right border case - uphold the value
                    {
                        interpolated[i] = yItems[yItems.Count - 1];
                    }

                }
                return interpolated.ToList();

        }

Edit
Thanks, guys, for all your responses. What I wanted to achieve, when I wrote this questions, were some general ideas where I could find some areas to improve the performance. I haven't expected any ready solutions, only some ideas. And you gave me what I wanted, thanks!
Before writing this question I thought about rewriting this code in C++ but after reading comments to Will's asnwer it seems that the gain can be less than I expected.
Also, the code is so simple, that there are no mighty code-tricks to use here. Thanks to Petar for his attempt to optimize the code
It seems that all reduces the problem to finding good profiler and checking every line and soubroutine and trying to optimize that.
Thank you again for all responses and taking your part in this discussion!

A: public static List<double> Interpolate(IList<double> xItems, IList<double> yItems, IList<double> breaks)
{
    var a = xItems.ToArray();
    var b = yItems.ToArray();

    var aLimit = a.Length - 1;
    var bLimit = b.Length - 1;

    var interpolated = new double[breaks.Count];

    var total = 0;
    var initialValue = a[0];
    while (breaks[total] < initialValue)
    {
        total++;
    }
    Array.Copy(b, 0, interpolated, 0, total);

    int id = 1;
    for (int i = total; i < breaks.Count; i++)
    {
        var breakValue = breaks[i];

        while (breakValue > a[id])
        {
            id++;
            if (id > aLimit)
            {
                id = aLimit;
                break;
            }
        }

        double value = b[bLimit];

        if (id <= aLimit)
        {
            var currentValue = a[id];
            var previousValue = a[id - 1];
            if (id != aLimit || breakValue <= currentValue)
            {
                var w = currentValue - previousValue;
                var p = (breakValue - previousValue) / w;
                value = b[id - 1] + p * (b[id] - b[id - 1]);
            }
        }

        interpolated[i] = value;
    }
    return interpolated.ToList();
}

I've cached some (const) values and used Array.Copy, but I think these are micro optimization that are already made by the compiler in Release mode. However You can try this version and see if it will beat the original version of the code.

A: Instead of
interpolated.ToList()
which copies the whole array, you compute the interpolated values directly in the final list (or return that array instead). Especially if the array/List is big enough to qualify for the large object heap.
Unlike the ordinary heap, the LOH is not compacted by the GC, which means that short lived large objects are far more harmful than small ones.
Then again: 7000 doubles are approx. 56'000 bytes which is below the large object threshold of 85'000 bytes (1).

A: Looks to me you've created an O(n^2) algorithm.  You are searching for the interval, that's O(n), then probably apply it n times.  You'll get a quick and cheap speed-up by taking advantage of the fact that the items are already ordered in the list.  Use BinarySearch(), that's O(log(n)).
If still necessary, you should be able to do something speedier with the outer loop, what ever interval you found previously should make it easier to find the next one.  But that code isn't in your snippet.

A: I'd say profile the code and see where it spends its time, then you have somewhere to focus on.
ANTS is popular, but Equatec is free I think.

A: few suggestions,

*

*as others suggested, use profiler to understand better where time is used.

*the loop

    while (breaks[x] < xItems[0])

could cause exception if x grows bigger than number of items in "breaks" list. You should use something like

    while (x < breaks.Count && breaks[x] < xItems[0])

But you might not need that loop at all. Why treat the first item as special case, just start with id=0 and handle the first point in for(i) loop. I understand that id might start from 0 in this case, and [id-1] would be negative index, but see if you can do something there.

*

*If you want to optimize for speed then you sacrifice memory size, and vice versa. You cannot usually have both, except if you make really clever algorithm. In this case, it would mean to calculate as much as you can outside loops, store those values in variables (extra memory) and use them later. For example, instead of always saying:

    id = xItems.Count - 1;

You could say:
int lastXItemsIndex = xItems.Count-1;
...
id = lastXItemsIndex;

This is the same suggestion as Petar Petrov did with aLimit, bLimit....

*

*next point, your loop (or the one Petar Petrov suggested):

while (breaks[i] > xItems[id])
{
  id++;
  if (id > xItems.Count - 1)
  {
    id = xItems.Count - 1;
    break;
  }
}

could probably be reduced to:

double currentBreak = breaks[i];
while (id <= lastXIndex && currentBreak > xItems[id]) id++;

*

*and the last point I would add is to check if there is some property in your samples that is special for your problem. For example if xItems represent time, and you are sampling in regular intervals, then

    w = xItems[id] - xItems[id - 1];

is constant, and you do not have to calculate it every time in the loop.
This is probably not often the case, but maybe your problem has some other property which you could use to improve performance.
Another idea is this: maybe you do not need double precision, "float" is probably faster because it is smaller.
Good luck

A: System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("i: {0}, id {1}", i, id));

I hope it's release build without DEBUG defined?
Otherwise, it might depend on what exactly are those IList parameters. May be useful to store Count value instead of accessing property every time.

A: This is the kind of problem where you need to move over to native code.


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At first sight, this seem rather a disappointing loss of attention to health issues as compared to the MDGs, where four out of eight goals directly addressed health. This time, merely goals 2 (an end to hunger and malnutrition) and 3 (to ensure healthy lives), directly address health, and goals 6 (water and sanitation) and 5 (gender equality and empowerment women) only a little less directly, since the connection both between sanitation and the position of women and (especially infant and maternal) health is well established. Thus, by comparison, one might conclude that health had been downgraded to give way to other developmental priorities.
This paper argues that nothing could be further from the truth. Without doubt, the MDGs presented an agenda strong on health, and in 2010 WHO prided itself about contributing to them in twenty ways. But, tellingly, all were policies that were directly tied to medical or health management procedures. What the step from MDGs to SDGs brought was not so much a weakening of a commitment to health as a shift in perspective on health from a primarily local and direct to a primarily global and indirect approach. This change is hardly out of line with earlier policies of international health. WHO, other institutions and scholars have insisted for a long time that health care provides only part of what is required to maintain good health. It is the social determinants which play an important, and arguably a much larger role.
In this sense, most or, indeed, all of the SDGs can be read as being related to health. Reducing poverty, improving education, providing sufficient energy which causes neither pollution nor nuclear contamination nor climate change, improving living standards, providing lucrative and healthful employment, reducing inter- and intrastate inequality, providing safe and healthy urban living environments, promoting sustainable economies and lifestyles, mitigating climate change, conserving ocean resources, preventing desertification and biodiversity loss, preventing warfare and promoting global partnership all interact in one way or the other with people's health around the world. Thus, the SDGs can be seen as a strongly social approach to health within the vacillations between bio-medical and social approaches which have characterized the approaches to international health policies throughout the twentieth century and beyond. Besides, it is difficult to conceive of developmental processes not having an impact on and being influenced by a country's development. So, simply by being the paramount recent initiative in global development, the SDGs are of relevance to considerations of global health.
The SDGs use the expression of "development" as though its meaning was clear and universally accepted. However, the concept is not easy to define and has become a vehemently contested field. Left-wing activists or scholars frequently reject the concept as a thinly veiled euphemism for a process of rigging global structures and perceptions of reality to benefit the global rich at the expense of the global poor, a view taken by writers such as Arturo Escobar and Gilbert Rist since the early 1990s. Public debate between experts has centered on whether financial transfers from the North to the South through development aid is necessary to improve living conditions in the South (argued e.g. by Jeffrey Sachs) or whether such assistance is counterproductive and should be discontinued (e.g. argued by his former student Dambisa Moyo). Still others, especially on the political right, have simply tired of seemingly endless and fruitless efforts to turn Africa and the world in general into a place without poverty and misery.
Given this record of pessimism and rejection, the SDGs are remarkably untouched by doubt and modesty. On the contrary, some of these goals seem ambitious to the point of utter neglect of realism. Already the first goal is downright provocative. Will it really be possible to end poverty in all its forms everywhere in a mere fifteen years? In fairness, UN officials are not the only ones who think so. Hans Rosling does, too. The Swedish professor with a mission to acquaint people with statistics argues passionately, that eradicating poverty is possible and perfectly in line with enormous reductions of world poverty since 1970s. And poverty as simple lack of income is not the only field that is improving more rapidly than is generally realized. As the ignorance project of the gapminder foundation shows, many people dramatically underestimate the impressive ways in which recent development has been successful. (Those who would like to test their own ignorance, can read the nine questions and compare their answers to those of Swedes, Norwegians, Americans, Germans or South Africans.) Key criteria of wellbeing, notably health data such as life expectancy, infant mortality and hunger, have improved substantially during the last 200 years, along with literacy and income (See the interactive graphs supplied by gapminder.) As a long-term trend, improvements in income and life expectancy are also borne out by the data by late economic historian Angus Maddison and, for the twentieth century, by the UN Development Programme. In its 2015 Human Development Report, it shows that the UN development index, an index consisting of per capita gross national income, education and health, shows improvements in all regions of the world.
These reports are in stark contrast to a persistent narrative regarding the uselessness of development. When Rist cites increasing global income inequality during the last forty years as proof of "undeniable failures in improving the condition of millions of the poor" he overlooks the very real improvements of health of millions of poor people, notably with regard to sanitation, nutrition or life expectancy. Clearly, recent global development has neither been limited to helping the rich, nor has it been fruitless, and whoever argues that falling infant mortality rates do not represent improvement lacks the experience or the empathy to imagine the pain of parents who lose a child. However, Rist is also right in pointing out that improvements have been very uneven and that they have been accompanied by marked deteriorations in other fields.
Part of the challenge is inequality within societies, which has clearly increased in many countries during the last decades. In part, this development is related to the systemically differing growth rates of capital and of the economies at large, as recently described by Thomas Piketty. But in a short-term perspective, this effect is amplified by political influence through legal donation and bribery, legal and illegal tax avoidance, and through an inflated financial sector which now accounts for one in five billionaires and which allows huge gains for some while reducing the bargaining position of labour. This goes hand in hand with a larger potentially destabilizing effect of a financial sector which is increasingly disconnected from the real economy. The danger showed during the recent financial crisis, which turned into debt crisis and then into an austerity crisis. Despite initial measures to reform the banking system, many of these are quietly being weakened or removed again. Besides, key structural risk factors such as multifunction banks, the separation of high-risk investment from accountability and generally a culture of too-big-to-fail remain in place. At the same time, economic inequality itself bears the risk of destabilizing financial systems, since the very poor are tempted to borrow money to achieve a living standard they cannot afford and the very rich have a lot of money which they wish to profit from by lending it out. Besides, inequality within wealthy nations is measurably and positively correlated to health impairment such as shortened life expectancy, higher rates of infant mortality, drug abuse, teenage pregnancies, obesity, homicides and mental illness.
Inequality between countries is more complicated. The issue came, once again, to the forefront of public attention when a recent Oxfam report declared that in 2015, a mere 62 individuals owned the same amount of wealth as the bottom half of the global population, 3.6 billion people. This forms a dramatic concentration of wealth even since 2010 when 388 of the richest people were needed to match the wealth of the bottom half. During those five years, the richest 62 people saw their wealth increase by 44 per cent, matched by a drop of wealth among the poorest half of the global population by 41 per cent.
However, this focus on the richest of the rich obscures the larger picture of the overall distribution of global wealth. True, the Gini coefficient (a measure of inequality with 0 expressing perfect equality and 1 perfect inequality or 1 person owning everything) of the world at large remains scandalously high, higher than any individual country. But according to calculations by Christoph Lakner and Branko Milanovic, the impressive economic developments in India and, particularly, in China have moved several millions of people from utter poverty to levels of modest comfort and thereby closer to a living standard enjoyed in high-income countries. As a result, global inequality has been falling since the late 1980s in the sense that wealth differences between a majority of global population are diminishing. However, not everyone participates equally in this move: large parts of people in Africa and the lower income sectors of traditionally high-income countries in Europe and North America have seen only modest increases, at best. As a result, most people in Africa tend to be even more on the losing end of development, relative to the rest of the world, while (lower) middle class people in North America and Europe barely hang on to their absolute wealth status which is still above that enjoyed by the average Indian or Chinese, but they are losing ground, relatively, both to these Indians and Chinese and to those with high incomes in their own countries. In crude terms, the growing number of refugees of recent times tend to be those whom global development has failed, and when coming to the traditionally rich countries in Europe and North America, they are meeting a growing percentage of people, whom global development seems to failing today. Clearly, it is an explosive – and clearly unhealthy – combination.
The picture becomes even bleaker when considering the reasons for the perceived positive development in Southern and Southeastern Asia, defined mainly as rapidly growing income. China provides a particularly revealing example. Approximately 600 million people have been raised from poverty, an immense achievement, whose beneficial effects for people's health and overall wellbeing should not be minimized. But the Chinese people have been paying a heavy price in terms of environmental destruction, pollution, increasing domestic inequality, growing risks to food security due to farmland degradation and widespread corruption. The development has privileged the urban over the rural population, involving some extreme concentration of wealth with five percent of the population owing an estimated 95 percent of the country's wealth. The environmental burden has been similarly dramatic. Accounts different as to whether seven or only two of the ten most polluted cities of the world are in China, but there is general agreement that the pollution level in Chinese cities is high. The massive demand of resources had increased the risk of widespread resources depletion. China has had to import dramatically increasing amounts of coal to sustain its economic growth, and 60 percent of Chinese cities with a population of over 100,000 people are experiencing water shortages. In the interest of rapid industrialization and GDP growth, huge amounts of concentrated organic waste water and hazardous wastes have been released into the environment. Two thirds of Chinese rivers are seriously polluted and over 80 percent of urban rivers are seriously degraded. People living in the vicinity of clusters of polluting enterprises are especially at risk, both from industrial accidents, releasing large amounts of toxic substances, and from ongoing high levels of emissions. A growing number of villages ("death villages") show significantly elevated numbers in cancer and overall mortality. Unlike in the European countries or in the US, it is not ethnic minorities or the poor who bear the highest environmental burdens but, on the contrary, it seems to be that those who have profited most from economic development also suffer most from its environmental repercussions.
Otherwise, China merely appears to show a concentrated form of the global development. Less polluted living conditions in wealthier countries notwithstanding, the world at large has gained economic wealth at the expense of future life support systems. Humanity probably began living beyond its ecological means in the early 1970s. Today, the world is using the resources and waste absorption capacities of approximately 1.5 planets per time unit. 15 out of 24 crucial ecosystem services, evaluated by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in 2005, were degraded or being used unsustainably, including fresh water, air and water purification, climate regulation and pest control. And the world may be heading towards a four degree temperature rise promising inundated coastal cities, increased food insecurity, frequent high-intensity tropical storms and further irreversible loss of biodiversity by the end of this century. Adding environmental to social challenges, the damages of climate change will be unevenly distributed, affecting primarily those already poor and vulnerable. If wellbeing has been improving worldwide during the last decades, there is reason to be skeptical about whether it will continue to do so in the future.
These developmental challenges have everything to do with other acute political problems we are facing today. Unequal development and economic instability provide conditions in which some will not find jobs and recognition and will be tempted to look for social respect in extremist ideologies. Unequal development produces the refugees who are fleeing from environmental degradation and poverty or from living conditions which, though not absolute poverty, they know to be immeasurably worse than those considered normal in high-income countries. Even those situations of repression and warfare, like in Syria, which are seemingly unrelated to development in a narrow sense often turn out to have been influenced by developmental factors. Thus, there is good evidence that unusual droughts in Syria between 2006 and 2009 reflected climate change and contributed to the social stress which led to the uprising against the government of Bashar al-Assad. It does not require a lot of imagination to realize that further environmental degradation, caused by climate change or otherwise, will further increase the numbers of disillusioned people, who will seek redress for their disadvantages – perceived or real enough – by seeking to move to other countries as refugees or terrorists.
Clearly, global development is both going well and going terribly wrong, and the big – and urgent – challenge is to find a mode of development that safeguards much of what is going well (the increasing income, increasing life expectancy, decreasing infant mortality…) while avoiding what is going wrong (climate change, environmental degradation, social fragmentation). The SDGs are the most serious and comprehensive international attempt, as yet, to galvanize a critical mass of organizations and institutions into taking serious steps towards such a form of development. While "sustainable development" has been derided by many, by those who see it as a front for business as usual as well as by those who believe in the long-term benefits of business as usual and see little need to change it. Indeed, the SDGs also entail inherent contradictions, particularly with regard to health, as, indeed, I have argued elsewhere. Thus, it is at present difficult to see how the calls for "per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances, and in particular at least 7% per annum GDP growth in the least-developed countries" (goal 8) and plans to "promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and by 2030 raise significantly industry's share of employment and GDP … and double its share in LDCs" (goal 9) can in practice be reconciled with the tasks to "integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning" (goal 13) and to "substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse" (goal 12). Thomas Pogge and Mitus Sengupta have criticized the SDGs for perceived crucial weaknesses: no clear responsibility and accountability for implementation, insufficient demand of structural reforms of the global institutional order, insufficient attention to human rights, an absence of suitable measurements of progress, insufficient clarity on necessary measures to combat climate change and a misguided focus on only the illegal portion of frequently destructive practices like arms trade and high-risk financial investments.
All this may be true. But the perfect is enemy of the good. And, compared to earlier plans, notably the MDGs, progress seems substantial. The MDGs, for all their – welcome – focus on health, took a largely end-of-pipe approach to development and health, assuming that (health) problems in parts of the world should be addressed by specific health policies directed at that part of the world. In other words, if children were dying in low-income countries, the remedy had to be found in health interventions directed at children in low-income countries, such as vaccinations. Vaccinations are important, and giving all children worldwide access to them is also an important goal. But children's health is affected by a lot of other factors as well, only some of which lie in their immediate surroundings.
But the MDGs set an important precedent by turning development into a global action, in which an unprecedented number of organizations cooperated on what was endorsed as a common responsibility towards the development of the world. By placing reports online, the MDG administrators also established an unprecedented impression of accountability regarding the record of global efforts towards these goals. In 2015, the final report was positive in a celebratory (partly self-congratulatory) way. Several goals had been met and even for those that were not met, many had seen substantial improvements. The proportion of people in "the developing world" living on less than $ 1.25 per day had dropped from half in 1990 to 14 per cent in 2015. During the same period, the global under-five mortality dropped from 90 to 43 deaths per 1,000 live births and maternal mortality ratio declined by 45 per cent worldwide. Even more impressing, the report claimed that over 6.2 million malaria deaths were averted between 2000 and 2015 and 37 million tuberculosis deaths prevented between 2000 and 2013. Worldwide, 2.1 billion people gained access to improved sanitation, the proportion of external debt service to export revenue in developing countries fell from 12 per cent in 2000 to 3 per cent in 2013. In fairness, the report also pointed out remaining serious shortcomings: global emissions of carbon dioxide had increased by over 50 per cent, and by the end of 2014 conflicts had turned 60 million people into refugees, the highest recorded level since the Second World War.
The numbers are doubtlessly impressive, though they must be seen in context. In some instances it seems unclear to what extent the improvements were indeed a result of MDG-related policies or simply a continuation of prior developments. Child mortality rates, for instances, had been falling since the 1960s. Similarly, according to UNCTAD, development assistance of OECD countries did increase in absolute terms, but as a percentage of Gross National Income it barely recovered the level of 1990, before attention to former Eastern Block countries had reduced assistance to the global South. However, UNCTAD does credit the MDGs with having increased aid to Sub-Saharan Africa. Generally, the mere generation and presentation of data must be considered progress in international development, since it enabled experts and public alike to identify problems and monitor pertinent progress (or lack thereof) in a broader range of fields than usually easily available.
The significance of data becomes particularly clear when noting some gaps in the final report. The text remains silent on five out of a total of sixty indicators on the official list. They include a conspicuous cluster of indicators regarding economic inequality: 1.2 (poverty ratio gap), 1.3 (share of poorest quintile in national consumption) and 1.4 (growth rate of GDP per person employed). While the exact history behind these absences still needs to be discovered, it is striking that they refer to one area of blatant developmental failure: the persistent global inequality, especially its apparent increase within numerous countries.
But in the long run, the true significance of the MDGs may not be their immediate outcome but their effect on an international infrastructure and public expectations regarding developmental policies. Most important, perhaps, was their implicit assumption that these goals would be achievable, and that those that were not achieved by 2015, could and should be met in the future. Thus, though originally used as a way to deflect more far-reaching, albeit diffuse, demands expressed in various international conferences during the early 1990s, by 2010 the MDGs had evolved into publicly visible moral obligations to continue and increase international developmental efforts. They also provided a blueprint for subsequent strategies, based on a list of clearly defined and quantified goals. Its result was a joint Colombian/Guatemalan proposal to replace the MDGs with "Sustainable Development Goals" (SDGs) after their termination.
In 2012, UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon launched the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), designed to mobilize a broad range of global scientific and technological expertise. The SDSN information found expression in several reports, including (The Action Agenda, Indicators and a Monitoring Framework for the SDGs) and side events and fed into a three-year process of intergovernmental negotiations. Early on, it became obvious that the new list would be incomparably longer and broader than the MDGs. In August 2015, numerous high-ranking delegates agreed on a global framework for financing development post-2015, reaffirming their commitment to a comprehensive development agenda. In September, in a glamorous ceremony attended by many heads of governments as well as celebrity heroes of development, such as Malala and Bono, and accompanied by performances by singers Shakira and Angélique Kidjo, the UN General Assembly accepted the SDGs.
They address numerous aspects where developmental improvements have been promised before but whose ongoing trends are uncertain or downright negative, such as climate change, global arms expenditures, deforestation, desertification, waste production or road traffic deaths. Most – or, indeed, all – of the demands formulated in the 169 targets have been voiced before, spectacularly in the Millennium Declaration in 2000, but also earlier at the UN conferences of the 1990s, notably the UN Conference on Environment and Development, held in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. In other words, the SDGs are addressing some of the essence of the challenge at hand: the fact that the benefits of development are being achieved at the price of serious damage, and that fundamental changes will be necessary, i.e. goals that are not satisfied easily (relatively speaking) by bringing the advantages of the well-off to the less well-off (vaccinations for children everywhere) but that will require finding a way to improve people's health through better jobs, more income and better living standards without, at the same time, compromising their health through land degradation, inequality, pollution and climate change.
No successful outcome is guaranteed. Even the incomparably more modest MDGs were only partially successful. But even some success in only some SDGs would be a vast improvement. A world in which everyone enjoys "access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy services," in which "inequality within and among countries" is seriously addressed, in which "the regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institutions" are improved and "the implementation of such regulations" strengthened, in which "per capita global food waste" and "the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination" are substantially reduced and in which "the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms" are actually promoted would be a much better place. Even halfway progress would be extremely good news. Above all, it would save lives. Many lives.
There is good reason to criticize the SDGs. But from a health point of view, there is little reason not to support them.


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The explosion in the port of Beirut shocked a city and country that was already going through a major economic crisis. We wanted to commit ourselves first and foremost to restoring confidence and hope and ensuring that the numerous supporters from all over the world who have responded to our appeal feel close to us.
Within just a few months of launching the emergency appeal for Beirut we have already managed to repair many families' homes and shops before winter sets in. "Thanks to the help we received, Dad who is 91 years old, and I were able to put the house back in order and repair the windows and doors just in time, two days before the rain," Maria told us.
Reciprocity is the characteristic feature of the numerous experiences of love in action we have heard about during this period: in fact, support has not only come from our fundraising efforts, but those same Lebanese people took action to support others within their community who had suffered even worse damage or who were living in more precarious situations.
Marlene told us that in addition to the presence and support received from members of Humanité Nouvelle which is in charge of managing operations at a local level, she also received support from other neighbours:
"They offered me French windows and lampshades early on they didn't need which really helped me to manage the situation. I was then able to restore electrical power to the apartment. The damage sustained to the balcony roofs, however, still needed to be repaired. I asked a friend to quote for the repair work but I couldn't afford it so he said to me: "Providence will come and you can pay me when it does. I can afford to wait a bit". It was really because of the support I received that I was able to pay for most of the work".
Repairing homes and making sure that people have decent living conditions is only part of our commitment. Accompanying those who have experienced trauma and such enormous and unexpected material losses also means trying to rebuild confidence in themselves and in the community by making them feel that they are not alone.
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Internet search at Bing: a vital skill?
You no longer need to be able to make a fire using two dry sticks, skin a rabbit, or even wield a soldering iron, but you still need certain skills to cope with modern life. According to a survey of 2,000 adults by UK-based OnePoll.com, the top four life skills are now searching the internet, operating a mobile phone, connecting to Wi-Fi, and mastering online banking.
Other tech skills -- using the word loosely -- include using a USB charger and an SD card, uploading photographs, downloading music, and booking cheap flights. It seems you also need to know how to use Facebook, eBay, Amazon, Google Maps, Skype and Twitter. The Top 50 list is below.
It's hard to believe that the ability to plug in a USB cable counts as a "skill". Presumably it is or Apple wouldn't have developed a port that removes the difficult challenge of getting it the right way up. Perhaps Apple babies will no longer need to practice putting wooden blocks in differently-shaped holes….
Are people who struggle to plug in a USB cable just not tech-savvy, but would still be able survive in the wilderness? The list's non-tech skills suggest not. They include learning to cook, reheating food in a microwave, and "How to order at fast food restaurants".
The extent to which modern life has been dumbed down is illustrated by a companion list of the "Top 20 skills no longer essential to know". This is headed by darning and kitting, but includes putting up a shelf, writing letters, and speaking a foreign language.
But many of the adults surveyed don't see the shift from physical to virtual skills as a dumbing down. Indeed, "85 percent of Brits think modern technology has simply changed the skills we need, with a third believing we are actually more skilled than previous generations." However, "six in ten Brits admitted they would struggle to do some of the 'outdated' skills."
The survey was undertaken for KAZ (from Keyboard A to Z), which provides software that quickly teaches people to touch-type. Happily for the company, touch-typing is still an important life-skill, and hasn't been replaced either by different approaches (eg Swype) or by voice dictation.
KAZ says: "If anything, touch-typing is only becoming more important over time as so many careers now rely on computers more than ever for their day-to-day work."


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The United Nations says its top official in Myanmar is being changed, with sources citing her failure to protect the rights of the oppressed Rohingya Muslims as the reason behind the decision.
Diplomatic and aid community sources in Myanmar's Yangon city told the BBC that the departure of Renata Lok-Dessallien, the UN resident and humanitarian coordinator in Myanmar, was linked to her failure to prioritize human rights, particularly those of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority.
The document prepared for the new UN secretary general also said there are "strong tensions" among different parts of the UN system.
Buddhist-dominated Myanmar has a history of discrimination against the country's Rohingya Muslims.
Nearly 75,000 people have fled from the Muslim-majority northern part of Rakhine to Bangladesh since Myanmar's military launched a crackdown there in October 2016, a UN report said.
The crackdown was launched after deadly attack on the country's border guards on October 9 left nine policemen dead. The government blamed the Rohingyas for the assault.
Back then, Lok-Dessallien and her team was strangely silent, declining simple requests for information.
She reportedly visited the conflict area on one occasion, but on her return refused to allow reporters to film or record her words at a news conference.
Lok-Dessallien is currently on leave, but has been told that her position is being upgraded, according to the report.


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Investigating the Role of Nuclear Receptor Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor δ in Obesity-Associated Osteoarthritis
Bethia C. To, The University of Western OntarioFollow
Collaborative Specialization
Musculoskeletal Health Research
Beier, Frank
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a heterogeneous disease, differentiated based by risk factors that drive joint damage. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta (PPARd) is a nuclear receptor previously implicated in cartilage damage in OA. Given its deleterious role in post-traumatic OA and in regulating metabolism, we hypothesized that PPARd inhibition will protect against obesity-associated OA. Diet-induced obesity was used to induce OA in mice. Mice fed the western diet for 40 weeks exhibited mild OA, with subchondral bone remodelling occurring alongside cartilage damage. Cartilage-specific Ppard knockout (KO) mice were generated to study its role in metabolic OA. Both wildtype and PPARd KO mice developed severe cartilage damage after 50 weeks on the western diet. Additionally, cartilage-expressed PPARd may play a role in mediating Prg4 expression in the liver. Altogether these data were not able to support the hypothesis but instead emphasized the context-dependent role of PPARd in obesity-associated OA.
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease that directly impacts over 10% of the North American adult population and is responsible for an increasing financial drain on the economy. Currently, the pathophysiology of OA is not fully understood, and treatment is focused upon suppression of present symptoms. Along with aging, injury and genetics, obesity has been identified as one of the main risk factors for OA. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta (PPARd) is a protein that is known to play a role in both metabolism and skeletal tissue health. This study aims to understand the role of PPARd in obesity-associated OA by comparing transgenic mouse models fed either normal or high-fat diets. By examining these models using histological techniques, this study will enhance our understanding of cellular mechanisms that promote the onset OA and potentially identify PPARd as a therapeutic target for the disease.
To, Bethia C., "Investigating the Role of Nuclear Receptor Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor δ in Obesity-Associated Osteoarthritis" (2020). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 6861.
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NEW YORK -- CVS posted a higher first-quarter profit on Wednesday as a more severe cold and flu season boosted sales and more new, profitable generic drugs hit the market.
Chief Executive Officer Larry Merlo said in a statement that the arrival of new generic drugs, which generate lower revenue but higher profits than branded medicines, was the key factor in the earnings growth.
Shares of CVS Caremark Corp. (CVS) were up 0.6 percent at $58.50 in trading before the market opened.
CVS said net income rose to $956 million, or 77 cents a share, from $776 million, or 59 cents a share, a year earlier.
CVS, which operates a chain of drugstores and has a pharmacy benefits management business, reported a profit of 83 cents a share from continuing operations, excluding special items. That was 4 cents more than what Wall Street was expecting, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
It was also 3 cents higher than the top of CVS' own forecast range.
Still, CVS didn't raise the upper limit of its earlier 2013 earnings forecast from $4 a share. It cited the across-the-board federal spending cuts known as sequestration, which have led to less spending on drugs for the U.S. government's Medicare program for older people.
CVS did increase the lower end of the profit outlook to $3.89 a share from $3.86. Wall Street was expecting $3.97 for the full year.
Revenue in the pharmacy benefits management unit, which administers drug benefits for employers and health plans and runs a large mail order pharmacy, rose just 0.1 percent to $18.31 billion. But its gross profit margin increased 1.2 percentage points to 4.2 percent of sales.
Generic drugs lifted profitability at CVS' retail business, where gross profit was 30.9 percent of sales, up 2.4 points. Revenue in the retail division rose 0.2 percent to $10.05 billion, while same-store sales of general merchandise items were up 1.2 percent.
Overall revenue slipped 0.1 percent to $30.76 billion, but exceeded the $30.36 billion that Wall Street expected, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Whether you rent or buy, it's best to keep your housing costs at a maximum of 31 percent.
A. Close old credit card accounts you no longer use.
B. Pay down your debt to at least 25 percent or less of each credit card limit.
C. Consolidate your debt on one balance-transfer credit card.
Canceling a credit card account could cause your credit score to decline because it lowers the overall available credit you have been granted. And while a balance transfer may help you pay your debt faster, watch out: Your credit score could go down if the money you transfer maxes out that single credit card.
B. Only when you've been turned down for a loan or credit card.
C. Three times per year.
If you are denied credit based on something in your credit history file, you are eligible for a free credit report from the reporting bureau used. However, regardless of your credit activity, you can get one free credit report each year from EACH of the three credit reporting agencies (Experian, TransUnion and Equifax). You ca access your free credit report at www.annualcreditreport.com.
While the amount varies according to your living costs, your other assets, and whether you are a one- or two-income household, a good starting place for emergency savings is having enough to cover six months of living expenses.
Life insurance is essential for someone who is the sole income provider for a family. So, while the others may want life insurance to provide for family members, the single mother needs the most protection for her children in the case of her death.
Credit reports do not take into account your income.
A. Jane, who makes the minimum payment on her credit card bill every month.
B. Joe, who pays the balance on his credit card in full every month.
C. Joyce, who sometimes pays the minimum, sometimes pays less than the minimum, and missed one payment on her credit card bill.
Skipping a payment -- or paying less than the minimum amount due -- is likely to cause your credit card company to raise your interest rate. Paying only the minimum will also result in paying large amounts of interest over time.
A. Pay your bills on time.
B. Hire a credit repair company.
C. Cancel your credit cards.
Cancelling your credit cards won't help because the balance owed and your payment history will stay on your credit report. A credit repair service cannot fix accurate negative information. Only time -- and a consistent ongoing payment record -- can fade the impact of negative information.
In general, most CDs limit your withdrawals to the end of the CD term; money market accounts allow only six withdrawals per month; and you can get money from a checking account as many times as you want. However, rules can vary from institution to institution. So know the terms on your account to avoid getting socked with a surprise fee.
A. Tom saves $1,000 per year from age 25 to 35 in an account earning 8 percent interest and then stops saving.
B. Tracy saves $1,000 per year from age 35 to 65 in an account earning 8 percent interest.
Surprise! Even though Tom invested only $10,000 and Tracy saved $30,000, Tom comes out ahead in this savings scenario with $169,000 in his account compared to Tracy's $125,000. That's because Tom's money had a longer time to grow. That's the miracle of compound interest in action.