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S.F. Sheriff Mirkarimi reeling from scandal over forced fights
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March 31, 2015 Updated: March 31, 2015 5:35 p.m.
1of2Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi Mirkarimi dismissed any suggestion that he would pull out of the election.Michael Short / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of2S.F. Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi listens in to public defender Jeff Adachi during a news conference about S.F. sheriff deputies staging cage-fight style matches between inmates for their entertainment and gambling purposes, pictured at the S.F. Public Defender's Office, Thursday, March 26, 2015, in San Francisco, Calif.Santiago Mejia/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi may be the loneliest person at City Hall these days, after last week's allegations that deputies had forced prisoners to fight each other has eroded support among those who had stood behind him through his previous troubles.
Allegations by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi that at least four sheriff's deputies arranged and gambled on fights between inmates couldn't come at a worse time for Mirkarimi. The former city supervisor is trying to burnish his legacy as a progressive, forward-thinking sheriff in advance of the November election despite the lingering taint of domestic violence charges against him three years ago.
Two other recent revelations — a mistake by sheriff's deputies last week led to the escape of a federally indicted drug trafficker and a video camera in December recorded a sheriff's deputy choking and then arresting a patient at San Francisco General Hospital — add to a perception that the Sheriff's Department is poorly managed.
"Voters don't have a lot of trust in this sheriff, and this kind of exacerbates that," said Nicole Derse, who ran Mirkarimi's campaign for supervisor in 2004 but has since become a strong critic.
Campos weighs in
Supervisor David Campos, who voted to keep Mirkarimi in office after Mayor Ed Lee suspended him following the 2011 domestic violence incident, in which Mirkarimi admitted bruising his wife's arm during an argument, said the latest allegations "shock the conscience."
"The idea that there is an environment where in our jail system inmates can be forced to fight each other. There is something that goes to the heart of how the day-to-day operations of a jail function," Campos said.
Supervisor Jane Kim, who also voted to reinstate Mirkarimi, said she lost faith in his ability to lead the department.
"I think Ross shares a lot of the values I care about. I think he's a true believer," she said. "But there has to be a way of balancing progressive values with gaining respect ... and have the entire department implement those values."
Finding that balance requires both political and management skill.
Eric Balaban, a senior staff counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union National Project who represents prisoners in abuse cases, said a key to ferreting out misconduct is to have systems in place "where prisoners aren't fearful of reporting." The alleged abuse, he said, "points to a really serious operational problem."
Mirkarimi's challenger in the November election, retired Chief Deputy Vicki Hennessy, said the recent mishaps point to a lack of leadership. Hennessy filled in for Mirkarimi after Lee suspended him. Mirkarimi ultimately pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of false imprisonment, while maintaining his innocence.
The "buck stops with the sheriff on any issue occurring within the department. The sheriff's job is to set the tone and culture of the department and to be aware of the department's operations," Hennessy said in a Facebook post on Friday.
Mirkarimi has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct an independent investigation into the allegations, in addition to the one started by his department's internal affairs unit. On Monday, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said he is forming a task force to look into misconduct in the police and sheriff's departments, and the inmate fights at the jail will be examined.
Mirkarimi dismissed any suggestion that he would pull out of the November election, saying he was "absolutely" going to run. "I am not one of the good old boys. I have always been very independent of machine politics. And I am a reformer."
Derse doubts Mirkarimi retains the grassroots support he'll need to keep his job.
"The most important thing to win any type of contested race is you have to have a coalition of supporters behind you," she said, "and since progressive activists have basically spent the last three years wishing Ross Mirkarimi would disappear it's hard to imagine he is going to have the ground game he needs to stand a chance."
Corey Cook, a political science professor at the University of San Francisco, said Mirkarimi now faces a "twin challenge" in his re-election bid.
"He's not able to run a campaign based on voters personally liking him," Cook said. "So his message had to be around his effectiveness as sheriff and certainly in the last month that has been called into question by all the allegations of misconduct by the deputies."
Immigrants' backing
But Mirkarimi still has the support of many in the immigrant community, for whom he has been a forceful advocate. He has refused to participate in the controversial federal immigration Secure Communities program, in which local law enforcement officers check the immigration status of anyone arrested for possible deportation.
San Francisco immigration attorney Karl Krooth said that when Hennessy filled in for Mirkarimi "she was taking systematic withdrawals" from existing protections for undocumented immigrants in the jails. Krooth said that when Mirkarimi returned he spearheaded programs to keep undocumented immigrants in the country despite pressure from federal officials.
Cook said it's too early to discount Mirkarimi. "Crazier things have happened," he said. "San Francisco voters have proven in the past to be somewhat forgiving."
But political consultant Nathan Ballard, a spokesman for Gavin Newsom when he was mayor, disagrees. He said Mirkarimi's biggest challenge in the campaign is still the taint of the domestic violence charges.
"It could be any woman with law enforcement credentials," Ballard said. "She'll kill him at the polls."
Emily Green is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: egreen@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @emilytgreen
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Q: How do I check if the following items are in the a list? I need to check if list f is inside bolsa. Then, i should add f in carteira_acoes.
bolsa = {"ibm": 100.0, "google": 200.0, "microsoft": 100.0, "x": 40.0}
carteira_acoes = [["ibm",10],["google",20]]
f = ["x", 40]
if (f[0]) in bolsa.items():
    carteira_acoes.append(f)
print (carteira_acoes)

A: From what you give here, I think the problem may be simple:  you're looking in bolsa.items(), when all you need is to find the key.  Try changing this one line:
if f[0] in bolsa:

Referring to the dictionary name returns a list of the keys.
You will also want to iterate through the "wants" list f.  Note that all you really need in the list is the key, x, rather than trying to look for the 40 as well (if that was in your plans).  You can simply extract the 40 from the original dictionary.

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Killing and Dying
(Faber & Faber, 2018); pbk, £12.99
Killing and Dying, the latest comics anthology from Adrian Tomine is a collection of well-crafted shorts that reflect on modern life with dark wit but also poignant humanity.
The collection comprises six stories, all of which work well both alone and in tandem with each other. Longer works are followed by shorter pieces. 'Amber Sweet' lightens the mood between two longer works featuring weighty social issues such as domestic violence. 'Translated From the Japanese' is a slower, more thoughtful story than its brash almost sensational predecessor, 'Go Owls', and picks up on themes of familial love that appear more substantively in the next story, 'Killing and Dying'. Essentially, Killing and Dying has a natural flow to it.
The stories fit with one another not simply in terms of length, but also thematically and tonally. 'Amber Sweet' seems, on the surface, a lighter story complete with a happy ending, but lingering questions regarding the fate of the title character and her possible relation to the protagonist introduce an element of doubt. 'Intruders' likewise ends with its narrator hopeful but facing an uncertain future: 'I walked up the block into the stream of oblivious, happy people…and starting right there, I tried my best to become one of them.' Conversely, 'Go Owls', perhaps the darkest story in the collection, is peppered with comedy, and ends on the possibility of at least one character taking the chance to escape her unhappy situation. 'Killing and Dying', a deeply moving story filled with grief and bitter disappointment, is also a story about love, and filled with stand-up of both the cringe-worthy and laugh-out-loud variety.
This sense of dark undercurrents, nagging doubts but also unexpected moments of humour and pathos ties in with Tomine's larger theme of exploring and satirising modern – especially American – life. An example of this satire would be the middle-class suburban mothers in 'Go Owls' meeting their dealer, whom they suspect of being a child predator, in a play park. 'A Brief History of the Art Form Known as "Hortisculpture"' is a subtler example. Essentially, the story is of a gardener who discovers his life's passion: creating sculptures fused with living plant life. When his idea fails to gain any traction, he destroys the sculptures himself. This particular story is formatted in the style of old black and white newspaper comics: it is arranged in groups of four panels, with three panels setting up a joke and the fourth telling a punchline. Occasionally, this is swapped for a full-spread comic in colour, much like a special issue taking up an entire newspaper page. These odd splashes of colour keep the format dynamic and engaging.
With this style, Tomine harkens back to the history of comics, eliciting a feeling of nostalgia. However, while every fourth panel may be a punchline, unlike in the comics of old where the status quo was usually maintained, each new four-panel-group in Tomine's line up shows the consequences of the last, as we watch the protagonist's family come under strain for the six years of his 'calling'. The times Tomine is harkening back to, if they ever really existed, are gone. This is also another story with a seemingly happy ending that doesn't quite sit right. Seeing the toll that pursuing his art has taken on his loved ones, the protagonist writes off his sculptures as 'ugly', and he and his daughter destroy them together. But was the protagonist deluded for six years, or is he deluding himself now? And why should someone have to choose between artistic fulfilment and happiness or stability for himself and his family? These are just some of the questions Tomine's collection raises.
Overall, this collection a smart and sophisticated. Its playfully self-referential use of form lends additional dimensions to its stories. In tales filled with humour and heartbreak, Tomine exposes a dark undercurrent to everyday life, but also includes the odd glimmer of light breaking through.
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Codecademy CEO talks bootcamp growing pains, new 'Pro' courses
Recovering from its near-death experience, Zach Sims' company is focusing on additional content, help and mentorship
Codecademy
Roger Riddell @EdDiveRoger
The coding bootcamp space has seen its fair share of turbulence recently. But despite recent announcements that longtime players like Dev Bootcamp and The Iron Yard will shut their doors at the end of the year, rumors of the sector's demise are likely greatly exaggerated. It is much more likely that these recent woes are merely growing pains, brought on by a large number of providers competing for a finite number of students in an environment where they don't yet have the same access to support from federal funding that their traditional for-profit peers enjoy.
Codecademy is no stranger to this struggle.
Launched in 2011 with a goal of teaching people the programming skills they needed to find jobs via an engaging, accessible and flexible product, the free service became incredibly popular, growing to 45 million users and partnering with several governments. But in 2015, it faced an existential crisis that necessitated monetization. Enter Codecademy Pro, three new paid products offering additional help, content, structure and a credential.
We recently caught up with Codecademy Co-Founder and CEO Zach Sims to talk about the current bootcamp environment and his company's new products, which launched last Thursday.
EDUCATION DIVE: The coding bootcamp space is going through some growing pains right now. What are some of the biggest ongoing challenges?
ZACH SIMS: I saw your posts on bootcamps shutting down and I think you hit the nail on the head. The challenge for a lot of these bootcamps appears to be scale. There are a lot of costs involved in the bootcamp model. Obviously, you're paying for the instructors, paying for the real estate of the classrooms where you're teaching people, you're paying for curriculum development — and doing so in a way that still requires really hands-on, intensive faculty-to-student ratios. It appears to be really, really hard to scale. I think that most of the best bootcamps today have a model where they have really, really strict, excessive criteria, and they make sure that people are super motivated and they're able to kind of have good raw clay to mold their graduates from. As you scale, it becomes much harder to maintain that level of selectivity, as well as to provide an accessible education to people that isn't $15,000-20,000 for a three-month experience.
What do you think will ultimately end up stabilizing the situation? I know, for example, there's been talk of opening federal funding to bootcamps. Do you think that would potentially help with the scaling issue?
SIMS: There's a lot of potential for federal funding for bootcamps and alternate forms of vocational education. As you know, the previous administration did a bunch of work on EQUIP in an attempt to find alternate methods of funding vocational education, and a lot of the challenge is in figuring out what would that look like. A lot of these different bootcamps promise different types of jobs, and the ability of the bootcamp to provide those kind of outcomes is challenging.
I think federal funding could unlock a lot of new opportunity in the bootcamp space. It could also lead to a lot of dangerous circumstances where students are taking on lots of debt for sub-optimal programs that aren't necessarily providing them the ability to pay back the debt they're taking on — which we've seen, in large part, in a lot of the for-profit higher ed coverage in general. And that's what led to gainful employment, obviously. It's plenty of opportunities, but also lots of risky waters ahead.
We definitely participated in some of those [EQUIP] conversations with the Obama administration, and it goes back to a lot of the questions I'm sure you ask a lot of these bootcamps, like what are the standards, basically, that they're being held to? An interesting angle on a lot of this comes from a lot of the lenders that are doing this now. I know institutions like Climb Credit or SkillsFund … approach potential applicants differently based on what they anticipate the outcomes to be, so I wonder if there's a way for the government to try to find a similar solution to judge outcomes for bootcamps that acquire federal funding.
Do you think that with the high number of bootcamps in existence overall, it was kind of inevitable that a few would fall to competition?
SIMS: There's definitely a lot of bootcamps. One of the big questions has always been is there a network effect or any kind of scale advantage for bootcamps across lots of markets — where you have regional players that are super strong, and then you have players that focus on opening as many different bootcamps as you possibly can? And that's where the model starts to struggle, when you go from being like the Harvard of teaching people this stuff to an organization that tries to scale at all costs. I haven't really seen that be super successful yet. There's a lot of competition. There also remains to be a question of "Does the market size tap out at any point?" Because I've seen so far, if you look at a lot of the studies that are being done, there's just been tremendous growth in the number of people participating in bootcamps and interested in getting these technology-enabled jobs. There seems to be a space where maybe they're not all necessarily competing with each other for students yet because there are enough students to go around, but I'm sure that'll happen soon, where there won't necessarily be enough students to fill all of these.
I heard Codecademy had its own near-death experience. What led to that and how did you all recover?
SIMS: [In about late 2015] we realized that we needed to figure out the next step for the business, and needed to figure out how to do so in a way that would keep the company sustainable and growing. 2015 was a time when there was a lot of global macroeconomic instability, and we saw a lot of challenges in the funding climate. To date, the company had raised about $12.5 million and we were really focused on providing that accessible, free education to people. It was purely about putting up big user numbers under the belief that, as you know, in education, brands are built over a really long timespan. And building a brand with tens of millions of people that had taken courses, we thought, would be really important when figuring out how to monetize.
We picked our heads up in August 2015 and realized that the next step for the business was figuring out how to generate revenue and build something our learners wanted in order to do so. That realization came among all of this macro instability, and it happened at a time when the company had about nine months of runway left in the bank. So we had this real issue of figuring out "There's nine months. We have this product that's growing that's available to people for free. But we think the real next step for the business is trying to become sustainable and profitable and making sure that we don't have to rely on future venture capital financing and can really build a sustainable education technology business. There are plenty of carcasses in the space, and we didn't want to end up one of those.
We went back to the drawing board and started talking to a lot of our learners — something we do normally around here but did very much more so this time around, with the whole team getting on calls with people that were using the product and figuring out what their biggest wants and needs were.
A couple of key things kept surfacing. Among them was people wanted a lot more reinforcement, so figuring out ways to really solidify the concepts they already learned. People wanted extra help, so when they're confused, they would press a button and get extra help. And lastly, people wanted an easy way to piece together everything they were learning in order to figure out how to combine it all to get a job.
We spent some time taking those nuggets that we learned from our learners and trying different permutations of those as the clock ticked on the amount of runway left in the bank. We sent out emails, tried to figure out what people clicked on, spoke to learners, and ran some small tests for coaching people over text message, for instance, trying to figure out the right recipe of products to help our learners most and also to help keep the company afloat.
In November 2015, we set an internal revenue goal to try to get to a million-dollar run rate by the end of that year and figured we had to launch something to a small test group of learners to hit that and figure out if we could scale something to a much wider group of our learners. We launched an early version of a product then that was originally called Codecademy Pro. It gave people lots of extra content like quizzes and projects and different new learning modalities. It gave people instant access to extra help, so when you pressed a button, a chat window popped out so you could get your questions answered. And the last thing was that personalized learning plan that I mentioned.
We launched that in small numbers and hit a revenue run rate that was higher than we anticipated — we got to a $1.5 million run rate. We kept iterating on that product and felt pretty confident that we struck something that really, really helped our learners get closer toward the jobs they wanted. At the same time, we ended up raising another round of capital — $30 million last June.
Tell me about the new products.
SIMS: Thursday, we're launching Codecademy Pro, which is a set of products for our learners that helps them get even closer to learning the skills they need to find jobs, with more intensive learning experiences. As you know, the free version of Codecademy is pretty large at this point and has more than 45 million people who are taking courses all around the world. Those people use the free product and engage with it, and I think at this point, that makes Codecademy the largest place anyone goes in the world to learn technology skills.
At the same time, with the launch of Pro, we have three new premium products that will help them get even further on their learning journey. The first that I mentioned is Codecademy Pro. That, for $20 a month, gives people access to extra help in the form of the advisers that I mentioned. We have dozens of those people around the country now who help when you're confused, most of whom we hire from our learner base. We've got a bunch of extra content, quizzes and projects, and the learning plans I mentioned, as well.
We think of that kind of as the Amazon Prime of learning for people who are learning these technology skills, where people should be perpetual subscribers to that product. The next product that we're launching, Codecademy Pro Intensive, is something that you'll take probably on a yearly basis [at $200 annually]. With Intensive, you're taking an 8- to 12-week class that comes time-boxed, a certificate, review from mentors who read your code and give you feedback, weekly video seminars, and also a cohort of other students who you are learning with. The real focus is giving people that intensive, short, time-based experience where they learn a set of skills and earn a certificate.
The last component of that is Codecademy Pro Intensive at $500, which offers everything the $200 Intensive offers but with mentors. That product is, again, designed for a 30-minute, one-on-one conversation every week on top of all the certificate offerings you can get for $200 with Codecademy Pro Intensive.
We're launching five of those over the course of the rest of this year, starting with two that we're launching on Thursday. The first is "Building Websites From Scratch," and the second is "Building Front-End Web Apps." Both of those really aim to give people basic skills they can use to apply technology on their jobs and be better at those jobs, hopefully get promotions, or be able to change into new jobs — all while kind of staying true to this same product ethos we've had from the beginning. Building something that's engaging and super interactive, something that's accessible and at a low price point, and something that's flexible that fits into your life.
We've messed around with the features of all of these products over the past 18 months to try to get them right, and at this point in our beta groups have more than 20,000 actively paying for these products that we've marketed to a small subset of our user base. And we've done more than $6 million in revenue on this small group of learners.
With the certificates, what format do those come in? Are they like a digital badge that can be displayed on a LinkedIn profile?
SIMS: Right now, it's a feature on your Codecademy profile, and we're looking at ways to make those much more applicable over time.
One of the things that also sticks out to me is the parallels with some of the MOOC providers, with how they started out offering services for free and scaled up with paid offerings and credentials.
SIMS: Yeah. For us, the really key thing is not just offering the credential — I think that's almost a secondary thing that we're offering. But the real thing we're offering here is the extra help and support. It's really about finding a way for people to get instantaneous help when they're confused, extra content, a cohort of other people that they're learning with. It's much more about that extra support to make people successful than it is about the credential. The credential is meaningless if you don't finish the course in the first place.
Which also all makes sense in the context of research on the benefits of peer-to-peer learning.
SIMS: Exactly. And that's a lot of what we think about when designing products like this, is how can the product feel more like a classroom so we can enable students to have that really important student-to-student interaction. We're providing the scaffolding around the learner experience, and from there, people are able to help each other and really build community. We can help with a lot of extra help, but really the community can help itself, as well.
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SilverStone announced a new entry to the Precision series, the PS12 Micro-ATX chassis. The PS12 was created with the goal of exceeding user experience and expectation for affordable PC chassis by offering a wide range of features and complete it off with great build quality.
The SilverStone PS12 offers two external 5.25-inch drive bays as well as four internal 3.5-inch and one 2.5-inch drive bays. The is one 120mm fan included and mounted in the front where you also can mount an 80mm fan. The rear or the chassis can hold an 80mm or 92mm fan while the side panel features oversized vents. Overall, plenty of cooling for a small chassis.
You can mount Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX motherboards in this chassis and it takes normal PS2/ATX sized power supplies. It is compatible with expansion cards, IE graphics cards, with a length of up to 14.1-inch, allowing you to use even bigger graphics cards.
The CPU cooler has to stay within the 140mm height specifications, but there are quite a few to pick from in a size up to that. You get two front USB 3.0 ports as well as headset connectors. Overall, everything you want from a chassis without having to pay a premium for something that just needs to work.
SilverStone also added removable fan filter, created the PS12 with all black painted interior, and a CPU backplate cutout. The recommended end user price for the SilverStone PS12 is set to $45 USD excl. VAT and it will be available on November the 25th.


Krystal Resorts Scam Prevention Team prides itself on staying up to date with all the most current and useful information related to travel scams. One that looks to be the biggest scam of 2013 is the unsecured Wi-Fi scam. Everyone these days is very dependent on the internet and travelers often end up using free wireless networks to surf the internet and maybe even check private personal information. What they may not realize is that scammers could be watching all of this so that they can later use the traveler's information. Krystal Resorts Scam Prevention Team learned of this scam last year after many reports from tourists in Europe. However, the scam is happening all over the globe wherever there is free Wi-Fi.
When the vacationer's plane lands at their destination they may immediately want to use these wireless connections to look at email or even check bank account and credit card information. When they are doing this, it all could be monitored by a scammer looking to take their information and use it maliciously. This could make the unsuspecting travelers go through the beginning of their vacation not knowing that someone has access to their private data. Krystal Resorts Scam Prevention Team suggests that vacationers be very careful when they use and free public Wi-Fi hotspot. Unsecured ones should be avoided at all costs.
There are different options for wireless connections that allow the traveler to pay a fee for a secure connection. A secure connection is much safer to use but Krystal Resorts Scam Prevention Team recommends that travelers wait until they get to their hotel to check on any personal information. If travelers use these precautions they can enjoy themselves and not have to worry about someone accessing their sensitive information.
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Women Choose Business Over Political Careers
By David Mielach, BusinessNewsDaily Staff Writer March 28, 2013 06:46 pm EST
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Why don't more women run for political office? It might be that they just aren't all that interested.
Overall, women are less likely than their male counterparts to have considered running for office and to express interest in political candidacy in the future. In fact, 63 percent of women say they have never thought about running for political office as a career path, compared with 43 percent of men who have a similar lack of interest.
Instead, the research found, women would rather be their own boss and run their own business when given a choice for their career. Forty-four percent of women surveyed said they would want to own a business and 42 percent of women said they would choose to be a teacher. Just 8 percent said they would choose to be mayor of their town.
Similarly, women would also pass over being a member of Congress for a number of other careers. Women say they would rather be a business executive, lawyer or principal before becoming a member of Congress. Men, on the other hand, are more likely to want to be a business executive or member of Congress if given the choice.
"Given this persistent gender gap in political ambition, we are a long way from a political reality in which young women and men are equally likely to aspire to seek and hold elective office in the future," wrote study co-authors Jennifer Lawless, professor and director of the Women and Politics Institute at American University and Richard Fox of Loyola Marymount University. "Certainly, recruitment efforts by women's organizations — nationally and on college campuses — can chip away at the gender imbalance in interest in running for office."
Researchers have a few ideas as to why women hold these feelings about political aspirations. Chief among them are the fact that men are more likely to have been socialized by their parents to think about other career paths, the research found. Additionally, it was found that men are more likely to believe they will be qualified to run for office in the future.
To that end, women were less likely to be encouraged to run for office by their mother and father. Women also say both their parents have told them they would rather they not go itno politics. Both parents also say they would rather their daughter goes into a different line of work than politics. However, researchers believe there are a few quick and easy steps that can be taken in order to improve the way women feel about political jobs.
"Encouraging parents, family members, teachers, and coaches to urge young women to think about a political career can mitigate the gender gap in ambition, too," the authors wrote. "And spurring young women to immerse themselves in competitive environments, such as organized sports, can go a long way in reinforcing the competitive spirit associated with interest in a future candidacy. But women's underrepresentation in elective office is likely to extend well into the future."
The research was based on the responses of 2,100 college students, 1,020 of whom were men and 1,097 of whom were women. All participants were between the ages of 18 and 25.
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This post was originally published on November 21st, 2017.
Michigan is a state lucky enough to experience all four seasons. Our numerous lakes make for fantastic summer destinations, and spring and fall have enough good weather to stretch camping and road trips through most of the year.
However, Michigan is notorious for its brutal winters, especially in the western and northern parts of the state. The good news is that our gorgeous summer attractions translate beautifully into scenic winter trips. Here are three amazing winter drives perfect for a cold weather adventure.
Petoskey Pierhead Lighthouse. Photo courtesy of WCMU.
In the summer, this beautiful route is known as the Tunnel of Trees. Though it may be hard to imagine, it's equally as stunning in the winter! Plus, the 30-mile route is clogged with tourists in the warmer months, so enjoy the tranquility during the chillier parts of the year.
On a clear day, you'll be blown away by bluffs, beaches, stately trees, and some truly awesome houses. Stop in Petoskey for some great views, eats, and souvenir shops. Stafford's Perry Hotel offers a spectacular view of Little Traverse Bay from the H.O. Rose Dining Room year round!
If you're lucky enough to catch the falls completely frozen, you're in for a breathtaking view – but the falls are beautiful enough any day. And at the end of your journey, the Tahquamenon Falls Brewery and Pub will be waiting for you with Porcupine Pale Ale and Lake Superior Whitefish!
Some people aren't into the great outdoors, and that's okay! This long, scenic drive along Michigan's thumb (a.k.a. the Lake Huron coastline) has something for everyone. Small towns full of gorgeous Victorian houses, pretty roadside parks, and great shops and restaurants make this the perfect winter road trip.
As we already know, Port Huron itself is pretty awesome. Explore the Port Huron Museum, view the Blue Water Bridge, and wander around the historic downtown district before setting off. Stop off in towns like Harbor Beach, Port Austin, Caseville, and Sebawaing before ending your journey in Bay City. You can even continue on to Tawas City to complete the trip around Saginaw Bay if you're feeling particularly adventurous!
While winter in Michigan usually makes residents want to hunker down and stay home, it can be a great opportunity for some eclectic, low-key getaways.
What are your favorite winter drives? Let us know in the comments!
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Robert Irwin recently visited The BUILD SERIES in New York City with sister Bindi.
Robert's dad was the famed adventurer Steve Irwin. Robert in his own right has many projects and television shows. He stars on his own channel on Australia Zoo TV, Robert's Real Life Adventures. He co-hosted the Discovery Kids Channel TV series Wild But True and co-created the book series Robert Irwin: Dinosaur Hunter.


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Q: How to make hover effect work onclick for images and links on tablets and mobile phones I'm trying to create responsive web page(using Bootstrap,media queries) and have 2 problems
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I have read all the posts about this topic ,tried to use :active , :focus ,also changing :hover into .hover,but nothing seems to help me.Sorry if  my question is a little bit confusing, but I am fairly new to responsive web development.
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Poll: Mass. residents concerned about climate change, but more worried about health care, education & jobs
MassINC Polling Group for Barr Foundation
Topline-2022-04-Barr-Climate-Change.pdf
Massachusetts residents are concerned about the impacts of climate change, with majorities saying that climate impacts like heat waves, coastal flooding and more powerful storms are already or very likely to hit the state in the next five years. However fewer than half of residents (47%) list climate change as a high priority -- it trails behind worries about health care, jobs and the economy, education, taxes, and fuel costs. The new survey suggests concern over climate change has declined since a similar poll in 2019 in which 54% of residents called climate change a high priority for state government.
Majorities of MA residents support climate and energy policies including:
Update the states' building codes to require buildings to be better protected against climate change (76%)
Require new or renvoated buildings to be ready to charge electric vehicles (70%)
Require new or renovated buildings to be fully electric, using no oil or natural gas (57%)
Additional analysis and data visualizations in this article from WBUR.
Polling & Surveys


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Rebecca's Tale is a 2001 novel by British author Sally Beauman. The book is a sequel to the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca and is officially approved by the Du Maurier estate. It continues the original plot and is also roughly consistent with the 1993 sequel Mrs de Winter by Susan Hill.

Background
The main story is set about two decades after the death of the ravishingly beautiful yet evil Rebecca de Winter and follows the attempts of the former magistrate Colonel Julyan to uncover the truth behind her enigmatic life and death, with the help of his daughter Ellie and a mysterious young scholar. There is also a "prequel" section that reproduces a journal that Rebecca wrote shortly before she died.

The novel summaries the original events from Rebecca to the extent where it can be read alone, though reading it as a sequel is preferable. It has been criticized for Beauman's revisionist interpretations of characters created by du Maurier, and for certain aspects of her own invented characters. Nevertheless, it continues to be popularly read by fans of Rebecca.

Structure
Rebecca's Tale is set in the summer of 1951 in England. The action is centered in Kerrith and the surrounding area, including the district near Manderley.  The book is narrated in the first person in the style of du Maurier; however, unlike the original book, the narrator changes with each of the four sections. Part 1 is told from the perspective of the septuagenarian Colonel Julyan, who had led the initial inquests into Rebecca's death. Part 2 is told by Terence Gray, an original character, whose on-going investigations are driven by a mystery from his own past. Part 3 is an extract from a journal kept by Rebecca, detailing the events of her early life. The final part is told by Ellie Julyan, the Colonel's youngest daughter, who cares for her father at home.

The narrative shifts produce a very different structure from the original Rebecca, as well as a more postmodern tone that emphasizes the various narrators' unreliability. Also, the book is sometimes placed in a separate genre: while Rebecca is classified as a Gothic novel (du Maurier detested its categorization as a romance), Rebecca's Tale is often considered a mystery.

Plot summary
Rebecca's Tale continues twenty years after du Maurier's conclusion and begins with the same classic line: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." Most of the characters from the original novel have left the area: Maximilian de Winter died in a car accident before this sequel begins and Colonel Julyan has retired to a quiet life at home. None of the other characters from the original novel make significant appearances, although some have brief cameos. While in the original novel, Rebecca was ultimately described as a cruel and wanton woman, in this sequel she is presented as a tormented girl, haunted by her traumatic childhood and deeply sad despite her outward boldness.

Although the connection was unknown to most of Rebecca's acquaintances in adulthood (including her eventual husband Maximilian de Winter), her mother was the younger sister of Maxim's mother. Maxim's father had seduced his young aunt before she was sent away in disgrace to France, potentially making Rebecca Maxim's half-sister as well as his first cousin. However, Rebecca's father was generally understood to be "Black Jack" Devlin, an Irish gambler and speculator.

During Rebecca's early childhood in Brittany, she was raised to believe that Devlin had died while sailing to South Africa, where he was in fact alive and investing in diamond mines. She and her mother were supported by money sent from their relations in England. When she was still a young girl, she was raped by a boy in their French village, teaching her to mistrust, loathe, and manipulate men. Rebecca, however, is self-sufficient, assertive, and strong in her own right, and thus refuses to be held back or shamed by this terrible experience.

At the end, taking partial inspiration from Rebecca's more positive ideals, Ellie Julyan rejects the conventionality of her bucolic country life to pursue her own dreams and ambitions, while Terence Gray reconciles with his own identity and opens himself to love.

External links
 Rebecca's Tale Official Site
 Synopsis
 Du Maurier Website

Works based on Rebecca (novel)
2001 British novels
Sequel novels
Fiction set in 1951
British mystery novels
Little, Brown and Company books

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Soil & Liquid Remediation Facility: We Make Dirt Look Pretty
The arid and sun-drenched Coachella Valley has been the home of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians since ancient times. Like most tribes, they have faced struggle, opposition, and finally independence over the years. Since 1987, they have led the wave of economic development in Indian country.
The Recovery Park
In 1999 the Tribe first conceived the vision for a square mile business park in which every business leasing land would feedstock the next business, effectively creating a zero footprint industrial park. Little did they know how that vision would change and develop over time.
Because the Tribe remains connected to the earth and changing environment around them, this concept of eliminating waste and providing a purpose for everything lines up with their cultural values. Caring about their home, the Tribe was determined not to turn their valley into a dump site, therefore everything, even waste, needs to be given a new purpose.
Before MRF
Turning a Problem into Opportunity
The first effort towards the Tribe's vision was faced with many challenges. Unsubstantiated environmental complaints in 2010 led to a loss of trust between the community and the Tribe which they worked fervently to rebuild. A grant from the EPA further enabled the Tribe to end relations with prior tenants of the Recovery Park and set in place innovative environmental standards.
After MRF
These standards and the Tribe's vision for a sustainable Recovery Park led to a partnership with management firm Scape Group to create an operational plan and manage the facility. This would ensure the site would focus on sustainable operations, and Mecca Remediation Facility (MRF) was launched. Scape Group brought the vital expertise for MRF to bring in new California Non-Hazardous material and incorporate it into processing the old material or "legacy soil" using heavy equipment and the latest remediation techniques.
The new, reinvigorated team started their bold action plan with remediation of the legacy soil. They were able to incorporate it into the processing of the new material and place the remediated soil on the Tribe's land for future industrial growth. To date, 95,000 tons of legacy material have been remediated, and 15,000 tons of construction and demolition have been removed.
The Cabazon Band of Mission Indians and Mecca Remediation Facility worked together to not only drastically improve the current health of the site but also to increase environmental standards by which the site was operated. Through these efforts, the EPA Administrative Order to Consent (AOC) against the prior tenant was removed from the location.
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namespace spvtools {
namespace reduce {

// A finder for opportunities to remove struct members that are not explicitly
// used by extract, insert or access chain instructions.
class RemoveUnusedStructMemberReductionOpportunityFinder
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  std::string GetName() const final;

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We're onto week three of #MedMon18 and today I'm sharing an excerpt from Cathy MacRae's The Highlander's Crusader Bride.
Her perfume drifted to his nose. Something he could not place. His first wife had favored heavy floral scents, but Arbela's was earthier, warm, spicy and intoxicating. Sensual.
Caelen risked a look at his bride. She faced away, speaking to one of her da's knights. A pang shot through Caelen's midsection. Jealousy? Ridiculous. The man had likely known her all her life. 'Twas natural they spoke together.
You can find my excerpt on Cathy's blog. Please join Cathy next week on Jenni Fletcher's blog http://www.jennifletcher.com/ for the next excerpt from The Highlander's Crusader Bride!
Thank you, Bambi! I love how Dar is branding the series.
Thanks for hosting me today, Elisabeth! You have such a lovely site!
Thank you. I'm really glad you could join me.
Another great excerpt! I'm really enjoying following your weekly posts.


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The Internet Journal of Nutrition and Wellness
The Analyses Of Amino Acid, Fatty Acid And Mineral In A Legume-Cereal Based Complementary Food Blend Used In Jos, Nigeria
M Solomon, H Owolawashe
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M Solomon, H Owolawashe. The Analyses Of Amino Acid, Fatty Acid And Mineral In A Legume-Cereal Based Complementary Food Blend Used In Jos, Nigeria. The Internet Journal of Nutrition and Wellness. 2006 Volume 4 Number 1.
Background: Inadequate nutrient intake is an important issue in Nigeria, where under nutrition is common among infants of weaning age and young children. The formulation of complementary foods using available/affordable staple food commodities is one approach that has been recommended to reduce malnutrition in children. This approach is achievable because the foods are intended to be prepared at household level. Various communities are endowed with staple foodstuff that can be utilized to formulate foods that are suitable to their settings. Where the food does not contain sufficient of any nutrient, especially the essential ones, correction may be needed.
Objective: The study sought to know through analyses, the amino acid, fatty acid and mineral element composition of the composite blend of a legume-cereal complementary food (SBG-C), and to ascertain its potential in meeting the recommended daily nutrient intake of infants.
Methods: Gas-Liquid chromatography, Reversed-Phase high performance liquid chromatography and atomic emission spectrophotometer were used to determine fatty acid, amino acid and mineral content of the blend respectively. Results were compared with WHO recommendations.
Results: The blend SBG-C contained all the essential amino acids, which also compared favourably with the "WHO ideal" protein. The fat content of the blend stood at 2.61g/g dm. Total saturated and unsaturated fatty acids were 16.57% and 83.43% respectively. Linoleic acid (18:2n-6) was the most abundant unsaturated fatty acid, while palmitic acid (16;0) was the most abundant saturated acid. A wide range of mineral elements were detected. K,P,Mg,and Ca were the most notable followed by Fe,Na,Al,Zn and Mn.
Conclusion: The complementary food SBG-C contains substantial amounts of essential nutrients, which would significantly supplement breast milk. Frequent feeding may however be necessary to ensure optimal growth and development in infants.
Complementary foods are semisolid or solid foods which are introduced to the diets of breast or formular-fed infants during transition to an adult diet .Sometimes such foods are also used to rehabilitated undernourished children especially those recovering from illness.
In most developing countries, where inadequate intake of nutrients has continued to be the major cause of under-nutrition, and the resultant deficiency disorders in children, appropriate feeding practices play a vital role in ensuring that the infant gets the right and adequate food at the right time. This should not only be seen as a stepping stone to the adult (Family) diet, but also as a necessary source of additional nutrients required for optimal growth and development [1]
In Nigeria, most rural and urban mothers practice breastfeeding, some exclusive, others mix(breast and bottle feeding) [2].Although complementary feeding usually begins at 4-6 months, it is not uncommon for children to be breast-fed past two years [1,2],which is the best recommended practice. The type complementary food used may vary depending on the available foodstuff and resources. For most rural and poor urban mothers, it involves the use of traditional home-made semisolid porridges prepared from staple cereals, tubers, legumes and condiments [3,4,5]. Due to time-related constraints, inadequate and inappropriate processing and preparation of home-made weaning foods often result to stiff consistency and bulk that combine to offer a low cost filling meal that lack adequate nutrient value[1]. It is however believed that well formulated, processed and hygienically prepared home-based diets remain the most practicable option and practice that would ensure availability and affordability by the low-income "bracket"[4,5].To reduce time-related constraints faced by mothers, it is important that foods are prepared in forms that can increase the shelf-life and reduce the frequency of preparation.
The analyses of locally formulated complementary foods do not often pay attention to essential nutrients that must be supplied in the diet. The aim of this study therefore was to formulate a composite powdered blend and analyses carried out on the essential fatty acids, amino acids and mineral elements, to ascertain the adequacy the nutrients in meeting the needs of infants and young children.
Preparation of composite blend of SBG-C.
The food commodities used in the formulation of composite SBG-C are; soyabeans (Glycine max), groundnut (Arachis hypogea), acha (Digitaria exalis) and crayfish (Macrobracium spp). The food commodities were purchased from local markets in Jos, Nigeria, and processed using methods employed by the communities .Soyabeans was soaked in tap water for 3hours, washed to remove testa, boiled for 20minutes, sun-dried for 48hrs and roasted slightly. Groundnut was washed, sun-dried and roasted slightly. Acha and crayfish were simply cleaned to remove sand particles.
The processed foodstuff were mixed in the ratio 60:20:10:10 %w/w of acha:soyabeans:groundnut:crayfish. The mixture was ground to a smooth homogenous powder with the aid of a stainless steel mill, and dried under vacuum at room temperature until a constant weight was obtained. Sample was maintained under the same conditions until required for analysis. All analysis were carried out in triplicates.
Amino acid analysis.
Five milligram of the powdered sample was weighed and placed in 2ml ampoules, to which the internal standard (norleucine) and 0.45 ml of 6N HCl were added. Norleucine was used as internal standard because it is an amino acid not commonly found in proteins. The ampoules were evacuated, sealed and placed in an oven for 24 hrs at 110 ° C.
After hydrolysis,20µL aliquots of the hydrolysates were dried, mixed with 10µL of redry solution (ethanol:water:triethylamine,2:2:1v/v), dried again, and finally derivatized with 20uLphenylisothiocynidereagent(ethanol:water:triethylamine:phenylisothiocyanide,7:1:1:1v/v) for 20min at room temperature [6].Excess reagent was removed with the aid of a vacuum at room temperature. Derivetized samples were dissolved in 0.1ml of 0.14 M sodium acetate that had been adjusted to pH 6.4 with dilute aceti acid.A 20µL aliquot was injected onto the column. Quantization of amino acid was performed using a Waters C18 column (3.5x150 mm)with gradient conditions as described elsewhere[7]. Derivatized amino acids were eluted from the column with increasing concentrations of acetonitrile. The eluate was monitored at 254 nm and the areas under the peaks were used to calculate the concentrations of the unknowns using the Pierce Standard H amino acid calibration mixture (Rockford,IL). Norleucine was the internal standard used in all amino acid determinations. A sample of egg white lysozyme analyzed in duplicate, served as the control protein.
Samples intended for the determination of cysteine were first oxidized with performic acid (80% formic acid and 30% hydrogen peroxide,9:1) for 18 hrs at room temperature[6].The oxidizing reagent was removed with the aid of an evaporative centrifuge and the samples were with 6N HCl as described above.
The tryptophan content was determined in a separate analysis. The weighed samples were placed in polypropylene tubes and after the addition of the internal standard (norleucine), they were hydrolyzed in 4.67M KOH containing 1% w/v thiodiglycol for 18hrs at 110 ° C.After hydrolysis the KOH was neutralized with 2.4M perchloric acid, and the supernatant was adjusted pH 3.0 with acetic acid. A 20µL aliquot of the hydrolysed sample was subjected to derivatization as described above. The solution of amino acid standard was supplemented with tryptophan. Quality assurance for the tryptophan determination was obtained by demonstrating that the method yielded the correct number of tryptophan residues for egg white lysozyme.Tryptophan analysis was performed using a Waters C18 reversed phase column (3.9 x150 mm) (Waters Milford,MA) and the solvents and gradient conditions were as described by Hariharan et al [8].Use of this elution protocol was necessary in order to adequately separate tryptophan from ornithine which results from the alkaline hydrolysis of arginine.
Fatty acid analysis. The dried powdered blend of SBG-C was extracted with chloroform:methanol (2:1v/v) and solid non-liquid material was removed by filtration. The total extracted lipid material was recovered after solvent removal in a stream of nitrogen. The samples were the redissolved in anhydrous chloroform/methanol (19:1 v/v),and clarified by centrifugation at 10,000 x g for 10min.Tranmethylation was performed using 14% (w/v) boron triflouride(BF3) in methanol[9].Fifty nanograms of heptadecanoic acid (internal standard) and 1ml aliquot of each sample were transferred to a 15ml Teflon-lined screw-cap tube. After removal of solvent by nitrogen gassing, the samples were mixed with 0.5 ml of BF3 reagent (14% w/v),placed in warm bath at 100 ° C for 30 min and cooled. After the addition of saline solution, the transmethylated fatty acids were extracted into hexane. A calibration mixture of fatty acid standards was processed in parallel.
Aliquots of the hexane phase were analyzed by gas chromatography. Fatty acids were separated and quantified using a Hewlett-Packard gas chromatograph (5890 Series II) equipped with a flame-ionization detector. Two µl aliquot of the hexane phase were injected in split-mode onto a fused- silica capillary column (Omegawax:30m x 0.32mm ID, Supleco, Bellefonte, PA).The injector temperature was set at 200 ° C,detector at 230 ° C,oven at 120 ° C initially, then 120-205 ° C for 18min.The carrier gas was helium and the flow rate was approximately 50 cm/sec. Electronic pressure control in the constant flow mode was used.The internal standard (heptadecanoic acid,C17:0) and calibration standards (NuCheck, Elysian, MN) were used for quantitation of fatty acids in the lipid extracts. The fatty acids reported represent the average of three determinations.
Mineral analysis.
Three replicate aliquots (50-500 mg) from the dried powdered complementary food SBG-C were weighed, then wet-ashed by refluxing over night with 15 ml of concentrated HNO3 and 2.0 ml of 70% HCLO4 at 150 ° C.The samples were dried at 120 ° C and the residues were redissolved in 10 ml of 4.0N HNO3-1%HCLO4 solution. The mineral content of each sample solution was determined by inductively coupled argon plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES,Jarrel-Ash) as described elsewhere[2,4].The mineral content of the samples were quantified against standard solutions of known concentrations which were analyzed concurrently.
Amino acid content. The amino acid content of the complementary food SBG-C is shown in Table 1. All the essential amino acids as well as the non essential ones were detected. The total weight of (mg/g dm) of the amino acids was 265. Mean % of total showed that glutamic acid (17.2%), aspartic acid (10.8%), leucine (8.90%),and arginine(7.09%), were reasonably present, while cysteine (1.43%) and methionine (1.15%) were found to be the least.
Table 1:Amino acid content of SBG-C
Table 2 shows the essential amino acid content compared to "WHO Ideal" amino acids. All the essential amino acids detected in SBG-C blend compared favorably with the WHO ideal.
Table 2: Essential amino acid content of complementary food SBG-C compared to the WHO "ideal protein "
Fatty acid content of SBG-C
The fatty acids detected in the composite blend of SBG-C are as shown in table 3.The percentage of each fatty acid in the total is also shown. Unsaturated fatty acids were the most present (83.3%). Linoleic acid 18:2n-6 was the most abundant (45.7% of total), followed by oleic acid 18:1n-9 (31.9 % of total). Total saturated represented only 16.7%, with palmitic acid 16:0 as the most abundant (11.2% of total), followed by stearic acid 18:0(3.75% of total).Dihomo-linoleic 20:2n-6 (0.05% of total) was the least unsaturated, while myristic 14:0 (0.06% of total) was the least saturated fatty acid.
Table 3: Total lipid and fatty acid content of SBG-C blend
The comparison of fatty acid composition to WHO/FAO recommendations, and the calculated daily intake of essential fatty acids compared to RDV are shown in tables 4&5 respectively. Total saturated (16.7%) and total unsaturated (83.43%) as well as ratio of unsaturated: saturated (15:1), well exceeded the WHO/FAO recommendations of 3.5,52.9-44.8,1.16-0.84 respectively. The ratio of 18:2n-6 : 18:3n-3 was 11:1 as compared to 5;1-10:1 recommended by WHO/FAO. The daily consumption of 65g of SBG-C would provide 77.35g of linoleic acid and 7.15g of linolenic acid, which are higher than RDV values of 0.5 and 0.05-0.1g/day respectively.
Table 4: Essential fatty acid content of SBG-C blend compared to WHO/FAO recommendations
Table 5:Estimated daily intake of essential fatty acid(EFF) in SBG-C blend (g/65g ) compared to RDV (g/day)
Mineral element composition of SBG-C blend
The results in table 6 show that K,Ca,Mg and P were the most abundant mineral elements (6220,1330,1370,3330 µg/g dm respectively). The concentrations of Fe,Zn and Mn were also reasonably high(107.3,35.9,16.3 µg/g dm respectively). Elements such as Pb,Cd and Cu, considered to be heavy metals were also detected in minute quantities.
Table 6: Mineral content of SBG-C blend
Inadequate nutrient intake is an important issue in Nigeria where under nutrition is common in infants and young children of weaning age. The development and use of nutritious complementary foods from available and affordable food commodities, is one approach that is being encouraged as part of effort to reduce morbidity and mortality in children. This is achievable because such foods are intended to be prepared at household level. The preparation and use of home-based foods in Nigeria have been observed to be deficient in some essential nutrients [1,2,5,14]. In circumstances where the diet does not contain sufficient nutrients, correction may be needed particularly micronutrients, essential amino and fatty acids.
The formulation and analyses of the complementary food SBG-C afforded the researchers to determine both in qualitative and quantitative terms, the adequacy of the blend to meet the recommended dietary requirements for essential amino acids, fatty acids and mineral elements in infants and young children.
Amino acids. The quantity and quality of protein is an important consideration in child nutrition as both are required for optimal growth and development. Protein quality is a function of the amino acids present. The essential amino acids which can only be provided in the diet must be adequate for normal protein turnover in the body. The protein and amino acids contents of the analyzed blend compared favorably with the WHO "ideal protein" for children. Only lysine was observed to score slightly below (5.2) the ideal level (5.8).The results tend to agree with the assertion that high protein content of legumes increases the protein content of cereal-based complementary foods and supplement the deficient amino acids [11].
After ascertaining that the complementary food contain all the essential amino acids, the researchers sought to see in specific terms, the total amino acids (in grams) which represents the amount of protein in the diet by comparing with RDA for a six month old infant which is put at 13-14 g per day [19].The computed result shows that 65g(dry weight estimate of the daily intake of weaning food by a six-month old infant in the study area [1],of SBG-C would provide 17.2g of protein per day, thereby meeting the RDA criteria for infants. The digestibility of the protein remains to be established.
Fatty acids. The blend of SBG-C contains appreciable amounts of both saturated and unsaturated (MUFA&PUFA) acids. The World Health Organization/Food and Agricultural Organization recommend that during weaning, and at least until two years of age, the child's diet should contain 30-40% from fat and provide similar levels of essential fatty acids as are found in breast milk. The fatty acid composition of the blend was therefore compared to WHO/FAO recommendations based on the average fatty acid contents of human milk in Europe and Africa.[12,13].It was found that the blend would provide 2.61 g/g dm and the essential fatty acids linoliec 18:2n-6(45.7% of total) and linolenic 18:3n-3 (4.06% of total).The saturated and unsaturated as well as ratio of saturated:unsaturated well exceeded the WHO/FAO recommendations. Similar observation was made in a soyabean-based weaning food studied in the same locality [1] The ratio of std:unstd fatty acid is used to express the health value of a fat, The balance is important with respect to coronary heart disease [19].This is exemplified by the fact that saturated acids elevate serum cholesterol and LDL, while unsaturated lowers same [18] Additionally, essential fatty acids are vital for normal fetal development and infant growth, since Infants generally utilized the EFF to synthesize other long chain PUFA used extensively for the central nervous system membrane and photoreceptor cell development during the first year of life [1]
Mineral elements. With regards to mineral content, the complementary food SBG-C contained appreciable amounts of the mineral Fe,Mn,Mg,Cu , Cr andMo and comparatively low in Ca, P and Zn. Similar inadequacies of some minerals have been observed in various home-made formulations in Nigeria [1,5,15].In this regard, supplementation of household complementary foods with mineral-dense foodstuff and condiments have been suggested to include, baobab fruit pulp which is rich in protein, iron and calcium[16] ,and crushed giant grasshopper rich in calcium, phosphorus and zinc [17].
However, since complementary foods are intended to supplement breast milk, it is hoped that the deficient minerals in the blend would probably be met by the mother's milk. Importantly too, it is not enough to have sufficient amounts of minerals in complementary foods, it is more important to have them in a form in which they are easily digestible and available to the body. This is an especially pertinent issue in a country such as Nigeria where most of the diets are of plant sources with inherent antinutritional factors which lower the utilization of nutrients unless they are processed. Breast milk provides the best forms of minerals and other nutrients to the infant.This are why it is recommended that breastfeeding continues, while food supplements. Minerals and vitamins are essential for normal growth and development, utilization of macronutrients, maintenance of an adequate defense against infectious diseases, and for many other metabolic and physiological functions .The bioavailability of the minerals in this study is yet to be established.
It is worth noting that the powdered blend of SBG-C is prepared for consumption by the addition of boiled water to make a liquid porridge, which results in an easily digested and feeling meal for the infant but which contains a lower nutrient density than the dry matter. So one would not assume that the nutrient content of the studied powdered blend of SBG-C, is an accurate predictor of the nutrients actually being consumed and utilized by the child. In this regard, the researchers recommend that feeding with the prepared porridge of SBG-C blend be more frequent and the period of breast feeding be extended to at least two years.
Conclusion. The study has shown that the formulated powdered complementary diet which can be prepared at household level, contains appreciable amounts of essential amino acids, fatty acids and minerals. The blend would however require some level of supplementation with mineral-dense sources, while breast feeding is encouraged for a longer period with improved maternal diet. It is anticipated that data from this study would make contribution to databank for locally formulated complementary foods used in Africa and Nigeria in particular. It is hoped that dissemination of such knowledge to the benefiting communities would improve child care and feeding practices.
Authors are grateful to Professor R.H Glew of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, who facilitated the sample analysis in his Laboratory.
1.	Fernandez RA, Vanderjagt JD, Williams M, Huang Y-S, Chuang Lu-Te, Millson M, Andrews R, Pastuszyn A, Glew HR. Fatty acid,Amino acid and Trace mineral analyses of five weaning foods from Jos,Nigeria.Plant Foods for Human Nutrition 2002;57:257-274
2.	Nout MJR.Processed weaning foods for tropical climates.International J. Food Sci.Nutr 1993;43:213-221
3.	Solomon M.Nutritive Value of three potential complementary foods based on cereals and legumes.African Journal of Food and Nutritionan Sciences AJFAND ONLINE 2005;5(2):1-14
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Mariam Solomon
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Hauwa Owolawashe
Dietetic Unit, Jos University Teaching Hospital


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Cold Caps: How I Kept My Hair During Chemo
By Erin Lindsay
22nd Feb 2018
As a woman, arguably your hair is as much a statement of your identity as your outfit. This is why for many women diagnosed with cancer, the idea that they may lose their hair during treatment can be such a blow.
A cancer diagnosis by itself is a massive thing to have to face. The concept of being a lot more sick than you thought, that the next few months, years, won't be what you had planned. The sickening thought that maybe nothing that you had planned might come to fruition. Losing your hair is yet another psychological obstacle that comes with cancer. It's a time that you need something to repair your confidence, to make you feel like yourself when everything is changing.
Women deal with hair loss in different ways. Wigs and scarves look wonderful on women who have lost their hair through chemotherapy and provide them the opportunity to style themselves in a new way. And of course, there are those who brave going bald, looking just as stunning as they ever did before. And for some women, their own natural hair is too precious to give up, and so they look for other alternatives to losing it.
Cold caps are an option to prevent the loss of a woman's natural hair through treatment. They work by being placed tightly on the patient's scalp, either before, during or after chemotherapy treatment, and cooling the scalp to narrow the blood vessels beneath the skin. This reduces the amount of chemotherapy medication that reaches the hair follicles, thus reducing the risk of the medication causing the hair to fall out. The cold temperature also decreases the hair follicle's activity, reducing cell division and further decreasing the risk of hair being affected by the chemotherapy.
Studies by the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) showed that using a cold cap prevented complete hair loss in 60% of the women who used it during their treatment for breast cancer. These are positive findings when you compare it to the control group, all of whom experienced complete hair loss.
But as always, good stats don't tell the full story. The use of a cold cap is not available to everyone, with factors like age, type of cancer and type of chemotherapy medication all coming into play. For those who do have the option, using a cold cap can be uncomfortable, and as it prolongs the days of treatment (you have to wear it before, during and after the chemotherapy, so it means a longer time spent in the hospital), it can be an arduous undertaking.
For Karen*, her hair had always been a point of pride for her. "I've always had really long thick hair and the thought of losing it really affected me. When I was first diagnosed 14 years ago, there wasn't any option to prevent hair loss. I was going to lose my hair and that was it".
After having treatment for breast cancer 14 years ago, when she found a lump again in early 2017, it was a shock. "It's unusual for that to happen," she said. "I was diagnosed in April last year and started treatment again in June."
When her consultant gave her the option to use a cold cap during her treatment this time around, it was a no-brainer. When Karen began treatment, it was worth the discomfort. "It was very heavy and the cold did get to me. And the most annoying thing was probably the length of time it took around my chemotherapy treatments. But it was worth it to me."
Karen still experienced hair loss, losing almost 50% of her hair. But without the cap, she would have lost it completely. "I didn't keep all of my hair, but because I kept it long, it meant that I could tie it up and style it in such a way that I still looked like myself". For many women, the thoughts of looking sick and not like themselves during treatment is a big concern.
Now, Karen is beginning recovery. "I finished up treatment in December and now I'm happy and healthy, feeling great!" And she wouldn't think twice about recommending scalp cooling to other women. "If I would have to go through treatment again, I would absolutely use it. It was a great solution for me."
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Survey research is a way to learn about a large population by studying a small random sample of that population. Survey Research is used for many reasons including reducing a company's risk of making wrong decisions, providing companies with a "picture" of its clients or customers, and "weighs" the public's perception of a particular issue. In order to make data driven decisions, you first have to ensure that the data that you are basing your decisions on is both valid and reliable.
Below are three common sources of bad data and how you can avoid them.
Sampling Bias- A good sample is one that is representative of the population as a whole. For example, if you are doing a survey of Stark County adults and you know that 48% of Stark County adults are women, then a good final sample will be 48% women. Sampling bias is introduced when a sample does not accurately represent the population. An example of sampling bias is undercoverage. This occurs when some members of the population (like young adults or minorities) are underrepresented in a sample. How to avoid sampling bias: Monitor your sample demographics throughout the data collection process so that you can ensure that the final sample is representative.
Questionnaire flaws- A questionnaire is a series of questions asked to your sample to obtain information about a particular topic. How a questionnaire is designed can have an effect on the quality of data that is collected. There are many, many ways that a questionnaire can be flawed. Some of the most common flaws include questions that are written above or below the knowledge level of the sample, leading or biased questions, double-barreled questions, long questions with a long list of response choices, and questions with response choices that are not mutually exclusive. How to avoid questionnaire flaws: Make sure that your final questionnaire is short, clear and understandable to your target sample. There are many resources available on-line and at the local library on how to write a good survey instrument. Also, it is important to pre-test your survey instrument prior to full implementation.
The Interviewer Effect- The Interviewer Effect is the variation in answers associated with the person conducting the interview. The Interviewer Effect can happen when interviewers do not read questions thoroughly, direct respondents to certain answers, or record answers incorrectly. How to avoid the Interviewer Effect: Make sure that your interviewers are properly trained on the importance of consistency, standardization, and neutrality.
Remember, if you are trying to make data-driven decisions, you must make sure that you are not using bad data. Making decisions using bad data is many times worse than making decisions on no data at all.


It's the day we ask mom to stop, relax, kick her feet up and be pampered by the very people she pampers all year long. Be sure you shower her with gifts, take her to be primped at her favorite spa and finish the day with a lovely meal. Check out these healthy and vegan Mother's Day recipes as well as last year's brunch menu!
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So, there are times where despite our best efforts, our only options just might be fast food, especially on vacation or a trip. On a road trip or in a podunk town with little to zero options for a healthy meal, I've found ways to navigate the fast food menu. I do not, I repeat, do not, advocate the consumption of fast food except for in a pinch and other compromising situations. So I suggest you print this blog in case of emergency!
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Carolyn Scott-Hamilton celebrated her 10 years as a vegan as well as an entrepreneur in 2009. After college, Carolyn moved to Los Angeles from Miami in 1998. Shortly after arriving and becoming vegan, she studied holistic nutrition as well as dabbled in the culinary arts before she opened Ineventions, originally a pr & event firm, it is now a full film, TV and web production branch under the umbrella of her original business.
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It's the new year and you're looking for ways to eat your favorite foods in a healthier, lower calorie way. Well, if mashed potatoes are a weakness, you'll love this veggier, less carbier alternative to your favorite comfort food! Even if you scoff at cauliflower, you'll never know that this dish isn't made from a spud!
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While flexing a disc spring, the superior layers of the disc are put under compression tensions, whereas the inferior layers are put under traction tensions. These tensions of traction are those that after an excessively high number of flexions can induce to the breakage. When the number of flexions is inferior to 5000 it can be considered as a static application.
The number of cycles that can be expected from a disc spring before it fails / breaks is determined by the magnitude of the change of tensions that occurs, at one determined point of the inferior surface while moving from the smaller flexion to the greater flexion.
Depending on the dimensions of the disc spring, this variation of tensions will be greater at point II or at point III, therefore the critical point will be point II or or point III.
Statistically, we can say that for a heavy disc the critical point may be the II and for a thin disc the critical point will be the point III.
The effects of the traction tensions can indeed be resisted to a certain extent by means of the preload of the spring in their use. The mini preload must be from approximately 15% to 20% of the total flexion, depending on the general level of tensions in the disc spring.
Another aspect that we must consider in the use of the disc spring is the relaxation. This concept shows us the pressure loss which the disc spring is exposed to in function of time (Helical or Disc). This process is function of the pre-compression to which the spring is mounted, of the temperature of work and mainly of the precision with which the different processes of manufacturing were made such as: Heat treatment, Presseting, Hot-Presseting, etc. As an example we can say that for a high quality manufactured spring and working to room temperature the relaxation would have to be despicable.
Consult with our engineer, to calculate the form of optimal use of spring piling up and to guarantee a greater life of the same one.


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Student of the Week: Donovan McKoy '23
Donovan McKoy is a creature of habit, and a busy one at that. He doesn't have time for too many hobbies, too many video games or too many trips to the mall.
The Englewood Cliffs native has a routine that takes him from school to practice and workouts before homework and a trip to bed.
Nonetheless, it's a routine that serves him well. The SJR junior earned a 94 GPA for the first marking period, up 8 points from his sophomore year. AP Law & Government marks his first foray into Advanced Placement classes and he describes it as his favorite class.
Outside the classroom, he's acquitted himself equally as well. McKoy led all SJR receivers with four touchdowns this season, averaging a whopping 20.4 yards per catch for the Green Knights. While he's received interest from college football coaches, his best sport may in fact be basketball.
The 6'5" forward excelled for SJR in a Covid-shortened season in 2021 and looks to lead the team this year. Coach Mike Doherty described him as unselfish and humble, "he doesn't act like an All-State guy, but he plays like one."
In his spare time in summer, McKoy coached youth basketball in the Englewood area and, while he loves being in the gym, he hopes to pursue a career in the FBI. Looking to major in criminal justice, he has a passion for the field with several family members in the military or the FBI.
While McKoy was nominated by Principal Bruno, he cites Mr. Oddi as his favorite (non-family) basketball fan.


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Pulling references from her original introduction in Batman: The Animated Series and her more modern appearances in both the comics and the video game Injustice 2, her costume redesigns in Suicide Squad 2 pay homage to the character while also developing her outfits to reflect her journey thus far. There are a few different iterations of the Joker's backstory, but the original one is by far the most compelling. Are you? She broke up with the Joker and will be running things on he own terms. They all are unique and offer diverse flair, fitting in any possible category a player could want. When you want a costume, but you remember that you are pregnent. And you just feel so great once you finish a costume, it's just a great accomplishment. A red and black striped corset, leggings with one black leg and one red leg, some great patent leather boots, and a pair of wristbands are what this cosplayer made her Harley Quinn costume from. The shoes are kind of hard to see but I got them from Plato's Closet.
In the early 2000s, her comic incarnation still largely resembled her animated self, at least physically, as in writer Jeph Loeb's and artist Jim Lee's famous Hush story arc (still one of the single greatest artistic depictions of Batman — if you get a chance to see the collected edition featuring Lee's original pencil artwork, I urge you to check it out, it's awe-inspiring). Made of high-quality PVC, and featuring detailed sculpting and paint applications, this piece comes packaged in a full-color window box. In January, Snyder dropped a still from his original footage featuring Ryan Choi, aka Atom. The best part about graphic prints is that they can still represent the character while having more creative freedom than what's represented in the film. " more direct quotes from Facebook. This Harley Quinn look introduces blue into her color palette and also brings out a more fashion-forward, modern Harley. I then printed out a diamond, traced it on the same material used to make the skirt and cut them out. While this may be enough to turn a sane man into a mad man, according to the 1988 comic "Batman: The Killing Joke," Joker would then grow up to become a failed comedian who just didn't have what it takes to make it in the world of stand up comedy.
2011 saw the birth of the Batman: Arkham video game series, beginning with Batman: Arkham City, which was adapted into a comic series written by Paul Dini with art by Carlos D'Anda. Fortnite was the top-earning game for consoles and third on PC in December 2018, according to SuperData. Make sure to wipe that all off, too – only you should use a damp cloth for that, so your gourds don't smell like old Sriracha next year. But, just like any trend, you can easily put your own spin on the costume and show off your make-up skills at the same time, and we're here to help you do just that. You can buy her outfits for your girlfriend, sister, and any friend to top up like her with the Harley Quinn Bombshell Leather Jacket. Some of this year's most popular outfits include DC supervillain Harley Quinn, made famous by Margot Robbie, Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton, Sandy from Grease and the Ghostbusters squad. She also transitions from the original Harley Quinn to the Suicide Squad Harley Quinn. She wears two new costumes in the film that mark a major aesthetic shift from her previous films, channeling the original design from Batman: The Animated Series.
The original costume rules, and this new costume wins all the points for incorporating major elements of it into its design. Sniper perches abound, as do choke points and narrow corridors. Well me and my boyfriend decided we wanted to do a couples costume this year and he thought we should do the Joker and Harley Quinn. D And I am already thinking about what I'll be next year for Halloween! I'm thinking about wearing this Harley Quinn costume again to the next Comic Con. As for Angela, this bona fide cat lady is all about wearing modest clothes. For example, "The Dark Knight" hoodie features a direct image from the film showing Heath Ledger with full Joker makeup on and wearing his distressed purple suit. I wore the black and white zip up front body suit with boots, the bat from the new Haley Quinn Suicide movie, girls harley quinn costume blue and red makeup on my eyes and the heart under my eye. Is the in the mood to be frilly and girly, or for a darker look like a witch, complete with makeup? But it's in line with her character – it's not like a hole-ridden T-shirt and hot pants were the most couture of costumes – and speaks to her fun-loving side that will likely come through in the film.
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SPACESHIP_ELIXIR_PREFIX="${SPACESHIP_ELIXIR_PREFIX="$SPACESHIP_PROMPT_DEFAULT_PREFIX"}"
SPACESHIP_ELIXIR_SUFFIX="${SPACESHIP_ELIXIR_SUFFIX="$SPACESHIP_PROMPT_DEFAULT_SUFFIX"}"
SPACESHIP_ELIXIR_SYMBOL="${SPACESHIP_ELIXIR_SYMBOL="💧 "}"
SPACESHIP_ELIXIR_DEFAULT_VERSION="${SPACESHIP_ELIXIR_DEFAULT_VERSION=""}"
SPACESHIP_ELIXIR_COLOR="${SPACESHIP_ELIXIR_COLOR="magenta"}"

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# Section
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# Show current version of Elixir
spaceship_elixir() {
  [[ $SPACESHIP_ELIXIR_SHOW == false ]] && return

  # Show versions only for Elixir-specific folders
  [[ -f mix.exs || -n *.ex(#qN^/) || -n *.exs(#qN^/) ]] || return

  local 'elixir_version'

  if spaceship::exists kiex; then
    elixir_version="${ELIXIR_VERSION}"
  elif spaceship::exists exenv; then
    elixir_version=$(exenv version-name)
  fi

  if [[ $elixir_version == "" ]]; then
    spaceship::exists elixir || return
    elixir_version=$(elixir -v 2>/dev/null | grep "Elixir" --color=never | cut -d ' ' -f 2)
  fi

  [[ $elixir_version == "system" ]] && return
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  # Add 'v' before elixir version that starts with a number
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To ensure the data of its Indian users remains secured and to provide faster and more reliable services, Truecaller today confirmed that its entire Indian user data is hosted in India. Truecaller is one of the first international tech companies to proactively take the step of storing its Indian users' data locally in India. This is a user-centric move that is aimed at safeguarding personal data and encouraging more transparency in the ecosystem.