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Paralyzed man regains use of arms, hands after experimental stem cell procedure
By Beth Galvin
A Bakersfield, California 21-year old says he can move his paralyzed arms and hands after undergoing an experimental stem cell surgery.
Kris Boesen's life radically changed March 6th, when his car fishtailed on a wet road, hit a tree and slammed into a telephone pole, leaving the now-21 year old with a severe spinal cord injury. His doctors told him there a good chance he'd be paralyzed from the neck down.
"I couldn't drink," says Kris Boesen. "I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't text or, pretty much, do anything. I was basically just existing. I wasn't really living my life."
But Boesen got a huge break, when he qualified for a pioneering stem cell surgery at Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California.
There were no guarantees, but there was a chance the experimental procedure could restore some sensation and function is his arms and hands.
His father Rodney Boesen says Kris jumped at the chance to try the surgery.
"He was extremely excited about having an opportunity to try to do something to get better than he was at that point," his father says.
The surgery had to be performed between 2 weeks and 30 days of Kris Boesen's injury.
In early April, neurosurgeon Charles Liu and his team carefully injected 10 million stem cells known AST-OPC1 cells directly into Kris' damaged cervical spinal cord.
This is an early stage clinical trial, looking at whether the cells are safe and effective, but it could have huge implications for people with spinal cord injuries.
"Patients who suffer these disabilities want more than anything else to do something for themselves," says Dr. Liu, the director of the USC Neurorestoration Center. 'They want to be more independent, less dependent. It makes all of us appreciate how important it is that we can do these things."
Within two weeks, Kris began to show of improvement, according to doctors.
Now, three months later, he's back home in Bakersfield and able to feed himself, use his cellphone, and operate his motorized wheelchair.
According to a news release from USC, he can write his name and hug his family and friends.
Boesen says he's grateful for the team that gave him this opportunity.
"If I was there and I was able to thank them," he says. "I would just tell them, thank you for giving (me) my life back. Thank you for allowing me to live my life again."
Boesen has been evaluated 4 times since his procedure.
He will be monitored every few months.
Six centers around the country are taking part in the AST-OPC1 stem cell trial. To qualify, patients must be between the ages of 18 and 69 and be stable enough to undergo surgery between 14 and 30 days after sustaining their spinal cord injury,
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Q: fill out android listview dynamically I create the ListView , and i'm able to fill out the list statically ( it work well ) , but I'm not able to do it Dynamically ,.. after loading the list with feeds tweets After  nothing appears , here is the code:
list = new ArrayList<String>();
        arrayAdapter =  new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, list);
                listtwitt.setAdapter(arrayAdapter);
                TwitAsyncTask twitAsync = new TwitAsyncTask();
                twitAsync.execute();
    }
    @SuppressLint("NewApi")
    private class TwitAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void>{
        private ProgressDialog progressDialo;
        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
             progressDialo = ProgressDialog.show(SocialNetwork.this, "", "En cours...");
            super.onPreExecute();}

        @Override
        protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
             final Query query = new Query();
                query.setQuery("%23morocco");
             QueryResult result;
            try {
                result = twitter.search(query);
                 for (twitter4j.Status status : result.getTweets()) {
                            String stat = "@" + status.getUser().getScreenName() + ":" + status.getText() +":"+status.getGeoLocation() +":"+status.getCreatedAt();
                            list.add("tweet");
                             Log.i(""," tweeeeeeet"+stat);
                             Log.i("","list doInBack"+list.isEmpty());

                     }
            } catch (TwitterException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
                        return null;
        }
        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
            super.onPostExecute(result);
            progressDialo.dismiss();
            arrayAdapter.clear();
            arrayAdapter.addAll(SocialNetwork.list);
            arrayAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
        }

Any help :)

A: Just off the top of my head coding on StackOverflow:
new TwitAsyncTask(this, tweetListener).execute();

 private OnTweetsLoadedListener tweetListener = new OnTweetsLoadedListener {
     @Override
     public void onTweetsLoaded(List<String> tweets) {
             arrayAdapter =  new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, tweets);
             listview.setAdapter(arrayAdapter);
     }
 }

private static class TwitAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, List<String>>{

    private final Context context;
    private final OnTweetsLoadedListener listener;
    private ProgressDialog progressDialo;

    public interface OnTweetsLoadedListener() {
         void onTweetsLoaded(List<String> tweets);
    }

    public TwitAsyncTask(Context context, OnTweetsLoadedListener listener) {
        this.context = context;
        this.listener = listener;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
         super.onPreExecute();
         progressDialo = ProgressDialog.show(context, "", "En cours...");
    }

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
         List<String> tweets = new ArrayList<String>();
        try {
            Query query = new Query();
            query.setQuery("%23morocco");
            QueryResult result = twitter.search(query);
            for (twitter4j.Status status : result.getTweets()) {
                 String stat = "@" + status.getUser().getScreenName() + ":" + status.getText() +":"+status.getGeoLocation() +":"+status.getCreatedAt();
                 tweets.add(stat);
                  Log.i("TAG"," tweeeeeeet"+stat);
            }
        } catch (TwitterException e) {
            Log.e("TAG", "ASyncFail", e);
        }
        Log.i("TAG","done");
        return tweets;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(List<String> tweets) {
        super.onPostExecute(result);
        progressDialo.dismiss();
        if(listener != null) {
             listener.onTweetsLoaded(tweets);
        }
    }

If you have a problem with this code, then it means you are incorrectly using the Twitter4J library

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Acquisition of water from a contaminated well.
A lack of protein in an African's diet can lead to a form of severe malnutrition know as kwashiorkor.
Without good health even the smallest problems are overwhelming and when left unaddressed perpetuate a cycle even more detrimental to the wellbeing of the entire community. From birth and throughout their lifetimes, the villagers are exposed to numerous illnesses endemic in Togo. The high prevalence is directly linked to poverty, contaminated water sources, poor environmental management, poor hygiene, inadequate health services and ignorance of the dynamic between poor lifestyle habits and their impact on health. This photo is of the infected hand of a woman we met in the village. She was encouraged to come to our clinic for treatment but she did not. One month later she had her arm amputated due to infection.
Our priority is to initiate change resulting in the optimal functioning without the constant impact of illness. Implementing education and re-education programs is the starting point to gaining understanding and assuming responsibility for their own health. The video below is of Joseph's teaching regarding the importance of hand washing and proper handwashing technique.
In collaboration with local experts the education programs demonstrate and teach of the multiple illness directly related to ingesting contaminated water and how to eliminate them. Hygiene education is an essential element of our health programs. It is well documented that lack of sanitation systems and ignorance of good hygiene practices are the major contributors to the spread of parasitic infections as well as diarrhea, dysentary and chlorea.
Parasitic infections both blood borne and intestinal are endemic in all areas of Togo. Malaria, continues to be a leading cause of chronic and recurrent illness. The majority of its victims are young children. Those suffering from the genetic disease sickle cell anemia have a very complicated and life-threatening course when infected by the malarial parasite.
Community based health care and health education can greatly reduce the incidence of malaria. Multiply The H.A.R.V.E.S.T. has integrated health education programs to focus on the reduction in the number of cases of malaria as well as other endemic illness.
Along with initiating changes to reduce mosquito breeding sites, we also promote the use of WHO approved insecticide treated mosquito nets. Mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasite are active predominately at night and use of the nets greatly reduces the risk. Long-lasting insecticide treated nets (LLITNs) can be used for more than 3 years with proper use and care. We are involved in training community members in the proper use of these nets and implement monitoring systems to identify problems so they can be corrected as well as suggest improvements so they can be incorporated.
Addressing environmental and educational needs have great impact on the health of the entire village community, but it is still necessary to have access to adequate medical treatment. We work in collaboration with a small established clinic which offers limimted primary medical care. Although the small clinic has some basic services it is not capable of handling the demand of needed health care for the surrounding area. As an organization we have a goal to be involved in establishing a clinic which is well structured with staff to address the health needs of the area and is also actively involved in health education.
Additional health programs will address malnutrition and good nutrition, prenatal care, oral hygiene, preventative care, HIV/AIDS education, diagnosis and treatment as well as other areas of health concerns prevalent in the villages of Togo.


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Círio de Nazaré (właśc. port. Círio de Nossa Senhora de Nazaré) – coroczne obchody ku czci Matki Boskiej z Nazaretu w brazylijskim Belém. Punktem kulminacyjnym uroczystości jest procesja z figurą Naszej Pani z Nazaretu prowadzona w drugą niedzielę października.

W 2013 roku uroczystości Círio de Nazaré zostały wpisane na listę niematerialnego dziedzictwa UNESCO.

Historia
Według legendy drewniana figura Matki Boskiej z Nazaretu, czczona podczas uroczystości, miała zostać znaleziona na początku XVIII wieku nad brzegiem rzeki Murucutú przez Plácido de Souza, który zabrał figurę do domu. Ta jednak miała zawsze wracać na miejsce jej znalezienia. W końcu w miejscu tym zbudowano kaplicę a następnie bazylikę. Stolica Apostolska wydała zgodę na organizację pierwszego círio w 1792 roku, a uroczystości pod patronatem gubernatora stanu Para odbyły się kolejnym roku. Od tego czasu obchody organizowane są co roku, przyciągając około dwa miliony pielgrzymów.

Opis
Uroczystości rozpoczynają się w sierpniu. Punktem kulminacyjnym jest procesja z figurą Naszej Pani z Nazaretu w drugą niedzielę października. Wówczas tysiące bosych pielgrzymów (pt. romeiros) podąża w procesji z katedry Cathedral de Belém do Praça Sanctuário de Nazaré. Figura Matki Boskiej spoczywa w relikwiarzu (berlinda) umieszczonym na wozie ciągniętym przez wiernych na linie, plecionej specjalnie na tę okazję. Wielu wiernych wierzy, ze lina ma właściwości cudowne i celem pielgrzymów jest choćby jej dotknięcie. W procesji niesione są również wota – świece i drewniane figury uzdrowionych części ciała. Symboliczną rolę odgrywają również statki – Matka Boska z Nazaretu jest uważana za patronkę marynarzy. W domach wzdłuż trasy procesji buduje się ołtarzyki. Po zakończonej procesji pielgrzymi udają się na tradycyjny posiłek tacacá com tucupi – kaczkę z maniokiem.

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Linki zewnętrzne

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Kościół katolicki w Brazylii

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Disco Loadout – August 2018: Fishbone, Plini, Frontierer
Disco Loadout
The Load-In Yes yes yes, I know this is only the third installment of this column, but already I feel compelled to break the pre-designed format a little bit. During
The Load-In
Yes yes yes, I know this is only the third installment of this column, but already I feel compelled to break the pre-designed format a little bit. During August, I saw a total of twenty bands. With three very strong contenders for 'gig of the month', and plenty besides worth writing about, I was having a little bit of a crisis trying to pick one to write about in more detail. But then I remembered that I made the rules, so I can break them. Screw the rules. Here's a run through of my month in full.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster – The Black Heart
The month starts in celebratory fashion, with a show at The Black Heart held to mark the ten year anniversary of post-metal stalwarts, Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster. In a neat little touch, everyone who bought a ticket is presented at the door with a download code for the band's new single, set to drop a week after the show. I think this is something bands should do more often for release shows, and I certainly wouldn't mind a couple of extra quid on the ticket price for it in the case of album or EP releases.
The show is opened by Maziac, who are only playing their second ever set. They bring an enthusiastic crowd with them, and their set shows some promise, but it is nevertheless early days for the band, and they still have some work to do.
The peculiarly named post-rock instrumentalists Flies Are Spies From Hell are playing in somewhat emotional circumstances, as one of their number had suffered a family bereavement that day. The band rise to the occasion, and deliver the best set I've seen from them to date, with their achingly delicate beauty and huge crescendos taking on an added poignancy. Both guitarists spend some time offstage, wringing the notes from the necks of their guitars whilst getting up close and personal with the front rows of the crowd. Flies Are Spies From Hell are clearly a band who are really finding their voice, and they are now well worth half an hour of any post-rock aficionados time. Check them out.
Sadly, personal circumstances pull me unexpectedly away from the venue just before Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster take to the stage. This is a particular shame, because I have seen them numerous times over the ten years of their existence, through many and various line-up changes, including vocal and instrumental permutations. It would be fair to say that the current line-up is absolutely their strongest, and this is equally evident in the quality of "Truth Escapes". I'm leaving them in here, despite not actually seeing the show, simply to urge you to check them out next time. I will definitely be there.
Sumer – The Black Heart
This evening's run of mature, melodic prog starts in a slightly confusing manner. For no discernible reason, out of town quintet Visionist open the show at an early hour to an all but empty room. Visionist describe themselves as tech-metal, but roll out an almost full complement of modern metalcore tropes, complete with direction-less breakdowns. There's little if any distinction in their writing, the execution is scrappy and they have nothing in common with the following acts, leaving us wondering if the night would have been better arranged as a three-band bill with the remaining bands getting ten minutes of extra stage time each. I'm definitely not averse to a mixed-genre bill, but it's really very hard to see what Visionist bring to the event, especially in the pointed absence of tickets sold to punters wanting to see them.
Up next are Voices From The Fuselage, who have been rather quiet of late and we quickly find out why. It would be fair to say that the band relied on the material released in 2015 on Odyssey: The Destroyer of Worlds for just a little bit too long, but they return tonight with both a new bass player and a full half-hour of brand new material.
This new material ostensibly picks up where Odyssey left off, with shimmering, gentle and soothing prog shapes acting as a platform for Ashe O'Hara's truly exceptional vocal talents. It is unmistakably beautiful, but at the same time not especially exciting. The band have never really looked particularly comfortable onstage, and if anything they look less so now than before the break. It would be fair to say that the music absolutely does not lend itself to the band chucking themselves around with furious abandon, but with everyone rooted to the spot and staring at their fretboards, there's very little to hold the audience's attention.
New bassist Josh also spends the entire set both facing the drummer and clinging to the root note. This latter point is a particular shame, as there are numerous points in the set where it feels like there is a yawning great hole in the sound that would be neatly filled by a supple and tasteful bassline. With all of this considered, it does seem to me that Voices are most comfortable as a studio band, and that their music is best enjoyed on record, not really having the bite or the presence to successfully make the transition to the stage.
Deity's Muse have come to the UK from their native South Africa to play the Bloodstock festival, and are spending the preceding week touring the country with Sumer. It is a well balanced tour package, with the band's sharing enough common elements in their sounds, but remaining clearly distinct from each other. Both bands begin with a melodic prog skeleton, and whilst Sumer add more alt-metal muscles to these bones, Deity's Muse have more of a hard rock flavour.
It is my first exposure to the band, and their set is definitely an engaging one. At times, their sound could perhaps have done with just a bit more weight to it, but there's an evident maturity to their songwriting that suggests more concerted listening will unveil some hidden depths.
And so we come to Sumer. As I mentioned last month, I am an unashamed Sumer superfan, having watched them play more than twenty times since the release of their debut album, The Animal You Are, at the tail end of 2014. In a similar fashion to Voices, new material has been conspicuous by its absence, but times are a-changing.
With more bands on the bill, Sumer perversely end up with a shorter set as headliners than they enjoyed as main support to Voyager last month. Subsequently, they only have time for one of the two new tracks they played for us in July, and on second listen, it's driving rhythms and particularly satisfying chord progressions bode well for the future.
The Animal… material, though, has proved itself to be particularly hardy, and there certainly aren't many bands who can still hold my attention after twenty virtually identical shows. Nevertheless, that is exactly what their dynamic, melodic and occasionally muscular prog has done. Probably the real key to this success lies in the disciplined way they have written music for three guitars (and bass) that doesn't come across as a great big muddy mess of conflicting layers. This is a rare feat. Couple this with the raw dedication necessary to give me so many opportunities to watch them play, and they have been rewarded, over time, with steadily growing audience numbers. Here's to the next twenty.
Fishbone – The Underworld
For whatever reason, Fishbone have never quite gotten the attention they deserve on this side of the pond. As contemporaries of the likes of Faith No More and the Chili Peppers in 80's California, they were instrumental in formulating the funk-metal fusion that first spawned rap metal, and ultimately nu metal. But despite some of their peers becoming global superstars, this never quite happened for Fishbones soulful and energetic stew, which is something of a travesty. Personally, I discovered the band somewhere in the early nineties, and have followed their ups and downs ever since. Wandering into the venue to watch an agreeably bouncy and professional but rather derivative support slot from The Popes of Chilitown, the crowd is alarmingly sparse, but fortunately as Fishbone's time approaches, the venue fills to a respectable level.
Now, after many years of changes, Fishbone have reverted to as close to their 'classic' line-up as it is possible for them to get to in 2018, having at one point operated with just two founding members – frontman extraordinare Angelo Moore and bassist Norwood Fisher. To add to the nostalgia value of the show, it had been billed as a complete play through of their Truth & Soul album, to commemorate it's 30th(!) anniversary.
The start of the show is delayed by a series of technical issues, first with the keyboard, then Angelo's theramin (not a common problem these days) and finally with Norwood's bass. But when they finally lurch into the swagger of "I Like To Hide Behind My Glasses", it's immediately obvious that we're not getting a straight top-to-bottom play through. What we actually get, it transpires, is even better – effectively the greatest hits from both Truth & Soul and it's immediate successor, The Reality of My Surroundings. As the latter was one of the two albums that turned me on to Fishbone in the first place, suddenly hearing tracks like "Housework" and "Behaviour Control Technician" unexpectedly played live after loving them for a full quarter-century is, not to put too fine a point on it, a fucking delight. It is perhaps symbolic of the currently sad state of world affairs that Fishbone could write a song a full thirty years ago and have it still be painfully relevant, but that's exactly what has happened with "Subliminal Fascism"
Of course, these guys have been doing what they do for a really, really long time – so, it almost stands to reason that they're devastatingly good at it. Fate might not have plucked Fishbone out for commercial success, but the result of that, at least from our perspective, is that we get a genuinely world-class talent, especially where Angelo is concerned, playing in a 500 capacity room. Angelo's performance tonight is only constrained by the practical limitations the relatively small stage. His trio of variously sized saxophones, including a truly gigantic bass sax, have to be stored off to one side, which in turn means that he is forced to spend a proportion of the set picking his way through the other musicians standing between them and his mic stand. But, in terms of the quality of his singing, the stage presence, the between-song banter and even his crowd surfing, the venue is unlikely to see much better this year (especially as it is vanishingly unlikely Mike Patton will be returning any time soon).
In their hour or so onstage, they give us a combination of soundclash masterclass and trip down memory lane. With a bit of funk, quite a lot of ska, a pinch of jazz, bags of soul and a healthy dose of fuck-you punk attitude, Fishbone are a god damn institution.
A Night In Texas – Boston Music Room
I'm not going to say a tremendous amount about this evening's deathcore flavoured event, because it was largely underwhelming. Of the four bands I saw, two were not being especially ambitious with their talents and another was altogether too ambitious for their talents. I'll leave you to speculate about which is which out of Orchestrate the End, Human Error and A Night In Texas themselves.
So for me, the night belongs to Harbinger. Having watched them play their second ever show just a couple of years ago, watching Harbinger gradually develop and mature has been a genuine pleasure. Taking to the stage as main support, they deliver a set of headliner quality, and probably the best I have seen from them yet.
We get a new song, "Compelled to Suffer", taken from the batch of tracks Harbinger are currently in the process of recording for their debut full-length. The song fits in neatly with the songs from their existing pair of EPs, and packs a particularly chunky, nose-wrinkling breakdown. This is what we want.
The real key to Harbinger's success, and a strong reason why they stand out so vividly on tonight's rather lacklustre bill, is that it's not immediately obvious how to classify their sound. They explore some kind of borderland that pulls equally from the beard-stroking cleverness of tech/prog, and also the knuckle-dragging brute force of deathcore. In Ben Sutherland and Charlie Griffiths, Harbinger possess one of the most talented guitar pairings pretty much anywhere in the pointy-logo scene, and they are honing these raw talents into a fearsome and incisive weapon. Expect big things from Harbinger in 2019.
Plini – Islington Assembly
Instrumental prog-metal has been very much a growth industry over the last few years, probably driven in no small part by the relative ease with which it can be composed by a guitarist on their own in their bedrooms. It would be fair to say that, as a result, the market has become rather saturated with projects covering largely the same ground. However, tonight's show brings together three acts who are conspicuously pushing the form in new directions away from the twinkly pack with their own unique twists on the form.
But before we get to them, the show is opened by the debut solo performance from Polish guitar wunderkind Jakub Zytecki, best known for his work with Disperse, but also pulling a double-shift tonight as Plini's second guitar. Playing tracks from last year's Feather Bed/Ladder Head twin EPs, it is obvious that the tracks have sprung from the same fretboard as the Disperse material, but Jakub's solo material has a more dazed and dreamy vibe to it, pushing closer to the territory occupied by David Maxim Micic. The really unique twist that Jakub has put on this material is in his approach to rhythm, giving the tracks a kind of languid, shuffling funk vibe. In turn, this vibe is absolutely nailed by his live drummer, which goes a long way towards the overall success of the project's first venture on to the stage.
But, of course, the star of the show here was always going to be Jakub's guitar playing. As his set begins, the VIP area out on the floor quietly fills with pretty much every other musician playing tonight, all coming out to watch him play. There is an effortlessness to his virtuosity that is simply breath-taking, even after seeing many Disperse sets, and these songs are obviously tailor-made to showcase his talents. Much like Plini himself, Jakub isn't really a shredder, even if he can throw out a blizzard of notes when the moment demands, but his real skills lie in the almost playful voice he gives to his instrument. His set is a big, warm, soothing half-hour musical hug, and a positively lovely way to start the evening off.
Toska are unquestionably the heaviest band of the night and, in a bold move, play a forty minute set drawn exclusively from their upcoming debut album, Fire By The Silos. In a previous life, I have classified Toska's first EP, Ode to the Author, as 'Stunt Grunge' thanks to their riffier approach, but it would be fair to say that the new material takes them in more proggy directions. But, naturally, there are still some hulking great riffs on offer. Toska have been peppering their sets with new material for some time now, so a couple of the tracks are starting to sound a little familiar to me, including one aired tonight that boasts the single heaviest Toska riff to date. Beefy. But with their labyrinthine arrangements, push-pull time signatures and run-times averaging around eight minutes per track, properly getting one's head around Toska's music takes more time and effort than one can reasonably give when watching it performed.
But what it is possible to appreciate, however, is just how completely the three members of Toska operate as a single, finely tuned machine. Their unique twist is their slightly uncanny ability to play complex, technical music in a manner that feels as relaxed and organic as a jam session. It feels like prog that has been written standing up in a practice space, not hunched over a laptop. And, of course, everyone can get behind a big beefy riff, familiar or not. The show firmly whets my appetite for the album, and in turn for the first time I get to see them play these songs after properly getting acquainted with them. That's going to be a blast.
Plini takes to the stage to be greeted by a truly rapturous reception from the capacity crowd. This show, Plni's largest UK headliner to date, really throws into sharp relief the extraordinary journey Plini has been on these last few years. Barely three years ago, Plini came over to the UK to play his first show of any note at Tech Fest after completing his Trilogy of EPs, which then seems to have snowballed into a constant stream of tours and festival appearances, as well as finding the time to record an album and a recently released EP. He has, as some other Aussies like to say, been busy. And one of the rewards of all this activity, clearly, is a room filled with 800 adoring fans. Considering Plni's last headline show was in a room less than half this size, I think we can call it a significant step up.
Elements of that last London show are recreated and expanded upon tonight, as The 1975 saxophonist emerges again to join Plini onstage, contributing to a series of songs throughout the night and kicking off by reprising the performance of Handmade Cities we saw at the Borderline. Plini is also periodically joined throughout the set by his original collaborator, pianist Luke Martin, and the contributions of both broaden the palette and bring some diversity to the sound. Mixing old and new, the set draws liberally from the original Trilogy EPs, and also the new EP Sunhead gets aired in full.
Something that the larger stage, and larger band, showed more clearly tonight was how Plini himself appears to see himself more as a band leader than a solo artist with a backing band, to the extent of physically moving out of the way to give each musician a brief solo spot in which to really shine. There's a palpable absence of ego, evident in his collaborative approach which also manifests itself in the relaxed, matter-of-fact manner with which Plini talks to the crowd between songs, in much the same way you might talk to a group of friends in the pub. This bodes particularly well, I think, for Plini's future career and should help him to avoid painting himself into a sonic corner.
It would be only fair to admit, though, that I did duck out and leave a couple of songs before the end. As beautiful and diverse as Plini's set is, an hour of it is enough for me, especially when that hour includes your favourite tracks, and doubly so when it comes on top of two fantastic support slots. Frankly, I was full, and that's no bad thing.
Frontierer – Boston Music Room
It would be safe to say that everyone arriving at the Boston Music Room tonight is prepared for a pummeling, but for most opening act Itself Timeless are an unknown quantity. However, tonight is only their second show, and it proves to be something of a surprise attack. Mixing death and post metal, they come across as a more caustic and ferocious Amenra. Something that immediately stands out is just how well presented the band are despite their relative infancy as a performing band, to the extent that they clearly have someone who knows the set operating the lights, and having them properly sync with the music adds considerably to the atmosphere and impact of the dynamic shifts in the songs. It may be early days for the band, but it is a really strong showing, the band have definitely set out an ambitious and engaging proposition, and whilst there are understandably a few rough edges, they will undoubtedly be smoothed out over time, so definitely a band to watch out for.
I've not been writing for Heavy Blog for all that long, but I already feel like I've said a great deal about Conjurer. They're certainly putting in the work, and have given me opportunities to catch them every month for the last three straight months. What's more, they've also just been announced for Euroblast, so it's barely going to be another month until I see them again. So I don't think there's very much I can say here that I haven't already said recently. Taking the gamble that there wouldn't be too vigorous a moshpit, I got in close and, rather unsurprisingly, they damn near ripped my head off, especially during set closer "Hadal". You know the drill. Go and see Conjurer in a small space while you still can, because the chances are it won't be for long. Outstanding.
One of the most remarkable things about this European tour is that it has virtually doubled Frontierer's total gig count. Up till now, their live excursions have been limited to a few short bursts, usually centred around a festival appearance, so this was by far the longest run of shows they have undertaken to date. From following their social media, it has been apparent that every show has come close to measuring on the richter scale, so we are braced and ready for the onslaught as the band file onstage. But of course we're not really ready. This is now my fifth Frontierer show, and the savagery of it still has me taken aback. Somewhat rashly, I have taken up a position rather too close to the speaker stacks, on the corner of the stage. It is fearsomely loud. I last until the end of the second track, and fortunately my personal favourite, "Tunnel Jumper", before retreating to a safer distance to watch the band without my vision distorting from the volume.
The set is more weighted towards debut album Orange Mathematics than I had expected, and I regret not giving it at least a spin before the show as a refresher, but of the Unloved tracks aired "Glitcher" serves as a strong set opener, and "Electric Gag" gives the set a much-needed change of pace, with it's slow, budgeoning grind giving us at least a different type of punishment from the frenzied melee attacks. Two things really jump out at me about the show tonight, the first is that they are clearly knackered from the run, but this is the final show and so they're throwing everything they have at the set. Secondly, the net result of the run is that the performance itself is a lot more assured and they are really finding their feet as a live band. It now feels like they are really performing, rather than simply playing the songs.
We get a little taste of the future in the form of new track "The Molten Larva", another slow, grinding track that also featured an especially shouty guest vocal from Employed To Serve guitarist Sammy Urwin. Clearly, being a transatlantic band isn't holding Frontierer back. The main set concludes with "Bleak", and culminates with both guitarists Pedram and Dan lying flat on their backs on top of the crowd, which has become something of a signature move. It's probably going to be a little while now until Frontierer reconvene for some more live detonations, but I think it's going to take us all a little while to recover from what we witnessed. Simply watching a Frontierer set is an exhausting affair, so god knows how punishing it must be to play one, let alone fourteen in a row. But, rather than lying down somewhere very soft for A Very Long Time, the morning after the show, the majority of Frontierer set off on the long drive from London to Edinburgh, where they were to prepare for a Sectioned show the night after that. Maniacs.
Seething Akira – Elektrowerkz and God Mother – The Dev
Last month, I lightly ranted about how gig clashes were an awkward fact of life for London gig goers, forcing difficult decisions to be made. As it transpired, for my final live music excursion of the month, the best solution was to go to both of them for a bit. So my first stop of the evening was to see my favourite dance-rock herberts Seething Akira open for Cubanate at the infamous Elektrowerkz nightclub. Better known as host to the Slimelight goth club than as a live music venue, the building is an absolute delight, a decaying warren of industrial corridors and staircases leading in all directions, it's like something out of Blade Runner. The show tonight is only utilising a small proportion of the total club. Elsewhere in the building, there is a wedding reception. Entry to the show itself is a slightly fractious affair, as a condition of the venue's licence is that every single person entering the building must present photo identification. For London, this is absolutely not standard protocol, and those of us in our forties do not habitually need to carry ID. Fortunately, I had seen the warnings and come prepared, but many people had not, leading to some rather heated discussions with the understandably unsympathetic door staff. Always read the small print, folks.
The combination of the venue, its soundsystem, and an Electro-savvy sound man provide just about the ideal conditions for Seething Akira's rowdy mix of drum & bass, dubstep and punk energy. Having watched the band in various settings over the last five years, tonight really feels like the band sound how they have always meant to sound, and how the poky little soundsystems in the pubs and clubs I've seen them play in before simply don't do them justice. Of course, the work the band have put in over the years means that they are fully prepared to exploit these favourable circumstances to the full. Vocalists Kit and Charlie take turns in bouncing around on stage and out amongst the crowd, and this balance means that there's always something going on that's worth watching. The main entrance to the live room is virtually next to the stage, and for the duration of their set the traffic through that door is overwhelmingly heading into the room rather than out of it, which is a particularly good sign. The energy levels, despite the relatively early hour, start high and stay there, with the more uptempo songs in their set, like "Pack Animals" and "I Am The Devil" being the real stand-outs. It would be fair to say that Seething Akira have struggled a little to really find their audience, and tonight's showing suggests they are very much at home with an industrial crowd in a party mood.
As soon as Seething Akira have said goodnight and started to pack down their gear, I hot-foot it out of the venue, around to the nearest tube station and head a couple of stops north to Camden, in the direction of another long-standing iconic venue on the London metal scene, the Devonshire Arms – more commonly known simply as The Dev. The Dev literally is a pub. At one end, there is a small stage, and the sound desk sits on the bar, about ten feet from the lip of the stage. The only way to the ladies toilets is through that gap between the stage and the sound-desk. There is also a large, regular clientele who come to drink in the bar every weekend irrespective of whether or not there is a band playing. This is the environment into which I have come to watch two hardcore bands with pretty visceral reputations. Lordy.
Both bands are over for a UK tour built around their appearances at ArcTanGent. I've seen Irish quintet Ilenkus previously, and squeezing my way through the pub, having arrived just as they are setting up, I find myself stood directly in front of the stage. We get a good idea about how the rest of the evening is going to go as vocalist Chris starts the set standing on the bar rather than the stage. As soon as the music starts, things get lairy.
There is more to Ilenkus than brute hardcore force, though. There is depth to their songs as well as potency. Amongst the chaos, Chris picks up a third guitar for a couple of tracks, a guitarist takes a lead vocal turn, Chris spends an instrumental package systematically working his way through the crowd to give people hugs. And they have a song called "Hunny Bunny". What more do you want.
God Mother carry with them the weight of a full-bore endorsement from Dillinger Escape Plan. Signed to Party Smasher, and shipped out to New York to play at the final DEP shows, expectations are high. I've heard reports and seen pictures of the incendiary nature of their shows, and with the venue already noticeably on edge after the amount of off-stage activity during Ilenkus' set, I wonder exactly what is going to happen.
I try to find a safer spot from which to witness the carnage, but it is virtually impossible in this tiny space. Even standing close to a wall, I still find myself face to face with vocalist Sebastian on multiple occasions as he repeatedly ploughs through the churning crowd.
It is hard, in these circumstances, to really get a proper handle on the music itself, but it is as fast and feral as the performance. We get a little light relief too, as Sebastian contrives a limbo competition in the middle of the pit, using his outstretched and fantastically long mic cable. The whole experience is tremendously thrilling, with God Mother clearly having earned the plaudits they have been receiving.
The set is over all too quickly, even if they do rather cheekily pile into one last song after being told they've reached curfew, sending the somewhat harrowed soundman into a visible meltdown. I guess that is punk spirit in action. I head out afterwards, resolved to get better acquainted with their material, and to hopefully see them again in a venue where you don't have to be quite so mindful of tables and barstools.
The Encore
OK, I seem to have gotten a little carried away. It's been a busy month, and I've already said far too much. So this time, there will be no encore. I do know, however, that I have a significantly quieter September in store for me, so next month I'll have a bit more space to stretch my legs and think about some broader subjects for discussion. If you've made it this far and there's a subject you'd like to see examined here, then let me know in the comments.
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Speakers from the automotive industry (OEMs and Tier 1) will share their experience and challenges facing the automotive megatrends including best practice in automotive multi-core embedded development and tests. In this unique two-day forum, attendees can interact with other industry experts and exchange their views about real-time, safety- and performance-intensive embedded systems. In collaboration with our partners Infineon, Timing-Architects, and iSYSTEM, we have created an international conference that will bring together the multi-core community from along the value chain to elaborate single-core to multi-core migration methodologies, to give information about current trends, and to show how to take full advantage of the next generation of embedded multi-core systems.
Visitors can expect four sessions on software integration, timing design and verification, adaptive AUTOSAR and virtualization, and other industry-relevant subjects.
We are looking forward to meeting you at EMCC 2018.


The perfect furniture is the dream of every environmental expert as well as the user of that particular item. First and foremost, you should keep the factor of quality in mind. If you purchase the expensive product, indeed it will be long lasting and it will be the perfect value for your investment. The best suggestion is to go for the expensive wooden garden furniture that will offer tremendous resistance under all the climatic conditions.
If you are the person who does not possess but dreams of perfect garden with these products inside it, you should go for the consultancy and better start the work in the warm season.
The perfect placement of this type of luxury garden furniture is the patio or the garden itself. This is the reason that it is also called the patio or the garden furniture. In the present times, there is a growing trend of furniture that is quite simple in looks. This, in fact, is the perfect placement for the heavy furniture that is traditionally designed. The present trend is the light or the polished ones.
The sun room adjacent t the home can be an alternate place to keep the furniture if you do not possess the garden. When you possess these accessories, you can perform multiple tasks like sit, dine, enjoy. These provide the aristocratic look as well as the elegance. The perfect polishing of these outdoor products makes them the modern and the nest in this category.
When you are in the rattan garden furniture in summer, you will love to absorb the heat of the sun rays. It is healthy option for the purpose of skin and will provide cure against ailments like skin cancer. Why to get tired, you will love to sit on the luxury garden furniture.
You can also enjoy summer parties in the garden and take the full advantage of these luxury items. For the perfect looks and the suitable adjustment of such elegant products, it is very important to decorate the back yard area of the home.
It is better if you adjust the wooden garden furniture pieces to the areas that not frequented too much as far as your garden is concerned. It also, to a major extent, depends on the location of your garden. If the garden is on the coastal beach with the natural landscape of the woods, you can get some exclusive wooden pieces easily for the design of the exclusive furniture.
In this case, the combination of Adirondack chairs and the elegant side table will be a healthy combination. These are primarily installed in the coastal gardens that surround the beach houses.


San Luis Obispo city officials will move forward with changes to land-use designations in areas south of the city despite objections from the SLO County Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC).
Councilman Dan Rivoire, who had asked to continue the item from Dec. 2 because that was his first meeting with the City Council, cast the key vote on Dec. 9. Rivoire's vote gave the City Council the 4-1 majority needed to override the ALUC and move forward with an update of the Land Use and Circulation Elements (LUCE) of the city's General Plan.
"I believe deeply that moving forward with our LUCE update is one of the best ways we can move forward," Rivoire said, noting that he believed the update would help increase public safety and public health and address the shortage of affordable housing.
According to the 2010 Census, 36.7 percent of SLO residents own a home, as compared to the state average of 55.3 percent.
Several residents asked the city to hold off on its decision and to try to reach a compromise with the ALUC and the Caltrans Division of Aeronautics. City officials and residents have both alluded to the possibility that Caltrans, which has backed the ALUC's decisions, would file a lawsuit.
At issue are ALUC safety and noise buffers that city officials have called outdated and not supported by the facts. Airport commissioners, on the other hand, have held firm that high-density development and airports don't mix due to noise and safety concerns.
Mayor Jan Marx decried the ALUC and said commissioners were unwilling to budge. Marx said she hopes it will be possible to work more closely with new commissioners in the future.
Councilman Dan Carpenter was the sole dissenting vote.


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Q: Bounds of coefficient of convex univalent function Let $C = \{f: \mathbb{D} \to \mathbb{C} \ |\ f\text{ univalent},\ f(\mathbb{D})\text{ convex},\ f(0) = 0\text{ and } f'(0) = 1 \} $
I want to show that if $f \in C$ with the series expansion $f = z + a_2z^2 + a_3z^3+...$, then $|a_2^2-a_3| \leq \frac{1-|a_2|^2}{3}$
What I know is that if $f$ has the stated expansion, but not necessarily in $C$, then after considering $(f(z^{-1}))^{-1} = z - a_2 +(a_2^2-a_3)z^{-1} + ...$ with the area theorem, then $|a_2^2-a_3| \leq 1$. I can't think of anything else that relates to this. Please give me some clue.

A: Let $f\in C$. Then $
F(z)=zf^{\prime\prime}(z)/f^\prime(z)
$ satisfies the conditions
$$F(0)=0,\,\operatorname{Re} F(z)>-1 \,\,(|z|<1).$$
The linear transformation $$
w=\frac{z}{z+2}
$$
maps $\{z|\operatorname{Re}z>-1\}$ onto $|w|<1$. So $g(z)=\frac{F(z)}{F(z)+2}$ satisfies $
g(0)=0$ and $  |g(z)|<1 \,\text{for } |z|<1.$ Therefore, by the lemma of Schwarz, $h(z)=g(z)/z$ is analytic and $|h(z)|<1$ in $|z|<1$.
Lemma: Let $h(z)$ be analytic in $|z|<1$ with $|h(z)|<1$. Then$$
|h^\prime(z)|\le \frac{1-|h(z)|^2}{1-|z|^2}$$
holds for $|z|<1.$ Especially we have \begin{align}
|h^\prime(0)|\le 1-|h(0)|^2.\tag{1}
\end{align}
This is an easy corollary of the lemma of Schwarz.
If $f$ has the series expansion $$
f = z + a_2z^2 + a_3z^3+...\,,
$$
then it is easy to show that $h(z)=\frac{f^{\prime\prime}}{zf^{\prime\prime}+2f^\prime}$ has the series expansion
\begin{align}
h(z)=a_2 + 3(a_3-a_2^2)z \, + ... \,.
\end{align}
By ($1$) we have$$
3|a_3-a_2^2|\le 1-|a_2|^2,$$
which is the desired conclusion.


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The Women Empowerment Programme (WEP) on Saturday called for the inclusion of vulnerable groups in the implementation of policies and projects on plastic value chain to effectively eliminate plastic pollution across the country.
The Founder, WEP, Dr Priscilla Achakpa, said this at a Validation Workshop for Draft Narrative Report on Social Context Assessment for National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP) in Abuja.
She said that the WEP was consulted by the Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) in 2022 to conduct a Social Context Assessment for NPAP.
She said that the assessment was a national gender, equity and inclusion analysis of the plastic value chain and varied impacts of plastic pollution.
She said that the overall goal was to provide clear evidence that would feed into policies, planning and actions of the NPAP, to ensure that outcomes were gender responsive and inclusive.
Achakpa said that the aim of the workshop was to present the draft report for stakeholders to review the assessment findings, identify needs/gaps, and brainstorm possible responses to those gaps from across the communities.
She added that the assessment was conducted following the qualitative interactions with diverse categories of stakeholders through interviews and information from the experts.
She said that the assessment was focused on Lagos, Anambra, Kano, Benue and the FCT, between October and November 2022, which was based on the activities of plastics taken in those states.
The founder said that the WEP discovered during the assessment that the vulnerable were not really supported, adding that they needed financial assistance and should be involved in decision making.
"We discovered that lots of the vulnerable groups that are cleaning the streets and our government offices were not recognised while making decisions on the plastic value chain project.
"The activities of waste management or waste pickers are being done by the vulnerable, but when policies for waste management are enacted, these groups of people are not involved.
"Even the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) are not conscious of the fact that we have these vulnerable groups that are into this circular economy activities.
"So, we have done the study on the activities to know what is happening among the vulnerable communities.
"We will re-examine these reports from the states.
"We have discovered that there is nothing like Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) policies on waste management. It is completely silent, so we want their voices to be heard.
"When we are talking about vulnerable groups, we mean people with disability, women and the youth and when decisions on plastic value chain projects are being made, these people are not inclusive.
"These groups are the major key people that eliminate plastic pollution in the society,'' she said.
Achakpa said that the workshop was organised by WEP, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and GPAP, a multi-stakeholder platform at the world economic forum.
She said that the GPAP aims to shape a more sustainable and inclusive world through the eradication of plastic pollution.
The leadership of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has described the allegations against it by the President of the Committee of Maritime Truck Unions and Associations (COMTUA), Mr Yinka Aroyewun, as false and malicious.
Recall that COMTUA, had accused the MWUN of mounting 20 illegal extortion points between Coconut Bus Stop and Tin Can Island Port gate.
In a statement by MWUN, signed by its Secretary General, Comrade. Felix Akingboye, the union described the accusations as lies, while querying the possibility of having 20 checkpoints in a short distance of less than 1000 meters.
MWUN described the allegation by COMTUA as manipulative and laughable, adding that COMTUA has resorted to it's gutter tactics of wantonly peddling falsehood.
Akingboye explained that for the sake of clarity, MWUN confines its activities to areas clearly within its jurisdictional scope.
"Ordinarily, MWUN would not join issues with COMTUA, but we are compelled by the manipulative and malicious lies put into public space by a clearly-disgruntled and disoriented Prince Adeyinka Aroyewun to issue this refuttal.
"We wish to point out that MWUN and other reputable unions and Associations were founding members of COMTUA, but had to withdraw their membership because continually a faction of COMTUA led by Prince Adeyinka Aroyewun breached COMTUA Memorandum of Understanding and resorted to blackmail and threats to members, security agents and government alike.
The Kirikiri Lighter Terminal (KTL), Apapa Area Command, of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says there was a 21.6 per cent drop in cargoes at the command.
The controller in charge of the Command, Hammi Swomen, who disclosed this in Lagos, while addressing journalists during the unveiling of the command's clinic, said traffic congestion, a dilapidated section of the road and ongoing road construction on the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway posed a big challenge to the transfer of containers from mother ports to the Kirikiri Lighter Terminal.
Noting that the Command relied virtually on transfer by barge, the KLT Customs boss said it has been difficult for the command to get the required infrastructures they needed to operate.
"It has not been easy accessing the office, coming to work and going back home. So, the road is one of our major constraints.
"I also mentioned that this building is not ours. It belongs to Nigerian Ports Authority. So, it has affected us in putting some structures on the ground to help us perform Customs duties.
"For example, we don't have a functional cell in the command. We have to rely on Federal Operations Unit Zone A to keep our suspects," he explained.
Swomen blamed the unavailability of forex for importers and bad access roads to the command as a reason for the drop.
"Most of you are also aware of the trend in the economy last year. You know the prices of goods in the market. The exchange rate of the naira against international currencies has been a challenge but we didn't just sit down, fold our arms and say we have this problem", he stated.
According to him, since the Coand was created, it received the first vessel directly to the terminal in November 2022, adding that he has been able to increase the number of terminals under the command.
"We have a situation on the ground in the terminal where we are really solely on transfers. But I am happy to tell you that for the first time in the history of the command we received our first vessel in November 2022 from one of the terminals. So, it is no longer a case of relying on Apapa and TinCan but we also receive vessels directly.
"We also improve our revenue performance and create an enabling environment where the importers will have a seamless business environment. We are also hopeful that the full automation of our processes is coming along. We are also very hopeful that when this road is completed it will be a very different story for us," he noted.
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Police are investigating a man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman and leading officers on a chase through North Seattle before he was arrested Monday afternoon.
On Monday, a woman called 911, reported a man had sexually assaulted her and provided a description of the man and his vehicle.
When officers located the suspect driving on Aurora and attempted to pull him over, the suspect refused to stop his vehicle and fled. Because the man was suspected in a serious violent incident, officers pursued him on Aurora Avenue. The suspect eventually collided with several other vehicles near 85th and Greenwood Avenue before coming to a stop. No one was seriously injured in the collisions.
Officers arrested the suspect. Detectives are interviewing the suspect and plan to book him into the King County Jail.
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tGELF hosts SHURUAAT! gala in New York for Global Education
A star-studded SHURUAAT! gala was organised by the Global Education & Leadership Foundation (tGELF)*, bringing together the biggest celebrities from Bollywood and leaders from faith traditions, business, philanthropy, media, education and the arts, to work together on the challenge of Global Education, to address and achieve the 4th UN Sustainable Development Goal, Quality Education. All proceeds from the Gala will support work with global private and public sector partners to test and scale education innovation.
HH Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji – Muniji, President of Parmarth Niketan (Rishikesh), Co-founder of the Divine Shakti Foundation and the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance(GIWA), was asked to bless the gala with His words of inspiration, "I am so glad to be amongst you today, in a room filled with people who know that the true happiness and meaning in life is in giving and serving others, because to me giving is truly living and living is giving. You are a group of people who just by being here have said it's not 'What for me?' but 'What through me?' I am certain that with the able leadership of Shiv and Urvashi Khemka we can all join together in this vital cause of instilling our children with the core human values that inspire them to be leaders and problem solvers, where they know that no matter what challenge is in front of them they are the master key. Whether it's poverty, climate change, lack of WASH, gender equality or any of the global goals-together they are the solution."
Chairman of tGELF, Shiv Vikram Khemka, shared, "The challenges that face us over the coming years are daunting. We will all need to call upon our greatest reserves of human leadership in order to confront these issues over the coming decades. We will have to choose and support those young leaders who have the potential to lead our world through these challenges; leaders who can help resolve conflict, reduce inequity, and spread tolerance and understanding; leaders who are more interested in contribution than in accumulation. The Global Education & Leadership Foundation (tGELF) works towards preparing the next generation of leaders to be able to act as ethical global citizens in the face of daunting challenges that will be thrown open to them tomorrow. We are passionate about helping identify young leaders with strong values and then supporting them to develop to their full potential."
Amongst those gracing the event included: the extraordinary A.R. Rahmanji, the talented Anupam Kherji, Gulshan Groverji, celebrity Chef Vikas Khannaji, educator Gowri Ishwaran, Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji and many others.
Everyone was so touched by Pujya Swamiji and Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji, their message and their divine presence.
*tGELF is dedicated to creating a movement of ethical and altruistic young leaders to improve our world. Through a variety of programs, it invests in the people and projects with the most potential to transform India in its role as a world leader. tGELF continue to build on our commitment of 13 years, working in 14 countries, to strengthen partnerships with public, private, social and multilateral institutions to testing and utilizing innovative technology to achieve this Global Goal by 2030.


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Obama writes to murdered Bangladeshi LGBT activist's family
Bobby Rae June 3, 2016
President Barack Obama has written to the family of murdered Bangladeshi activist, Xulhaz Mannan.
The family of the gay rights activist said the US President had written to them mourning the late LGBT publisher's death and expressed support.
Mr Mannan, who also worked at USAID, was hacked to death in April, allegedly by an Islamic extremist.
Mr Mannan's brother Minhaz Manna told bdnews24 that USAID Bangladesh's Mission Director, Janina Jaruzelski, handed over the letter to them last Thursday.
In the letter, Mr Obama and his wife Michelle, expressed their condolences and commended Mr Mannan's "devotion" to establish human rights.
"It said Xulhaz's bravery and devotion to establish equal rights will inspire all," said Mr Manna.
Mr Mannan was attacked with his friend on April 25 and both were hacked to death.
Terrorist group, Ansar Al Islam, which claims to be the Bangladesh affiliate of al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the killings, but police doubted the claim and believed it was banned group, Ansarullah Bangla Team.
Mr Mannan's family had previously expressed frustration at the police's inability to make further headway in the investigation, as it took nearly a month to make an arrest.
After the killing, US Ambassador, Marcia Bernicat, said she had taken on the matter personally, while urging the Bangladesh government in the "strongest terms" to apprehend the murderers.
US Secretary of State, John Kerry, also weighed in and phoned Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, and expressed concern over the murder.
Mr Kerry had asked the prime minister to bring the killers to justice.
Recently, the UK also intervened in the humanitarian situation in the country by raising concerns about the LGBT population with the Government.
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IRA Conversions: What's Special About 2010?
As all us personal finance geeks know, 2010 is a special year with regard to converting your traditional IRA to a Roth. For the benefit of non-geeks who have accidentally brought up this blog on their browser, it is worth explaining that there are actually two separate changes in the rules that kicked in on January 1, 2010.
The second IRA conversion change for 2010, and the one that makes 2010 "special" is that if you convert during 2010, and only during 2010, you have the option of deferring the income from the conversion to 2011 and 2012. So if you convert $100K from your traditional to Roth, you have the choice of either increasing your taxable income by $100K in 2010 or by $50K in both 2011 and 2012.
Everything else equal, that is an interest-free loan from the government. Instead of paying the taxes on your conversion on April 15, 2011, you can put it off to April 15, 2012 and 2013. Cool.
Alas, that "everything else equal" phrase is a gotcha. It is only an interest-free loan if the tax rates you would pay in 2010, 2011, and 2012 are the same. If the rates were higher after 2010, then it might be a pretty expensive loan after all.
Well, guess what? Income tax rates will rise in 2011. We think.
As the law currently stands, the Bush tax cut package turns into a pumpkin at midnight December 31, 2010 and we will revert to the pre-cut rates. It is widely assumed that this will not happen, that some of the Bush cuts will be saved by new legislation, but as of right now we are on track for full expiration. Below is a table of 2010 income tax rates for a married couple filing jointly and the projected 2011 rates assuming no new legislation.
The consensus assumption, based largely on Obama campaign promises, is that the first four brackets will be saved and that only those greedy bastards making more than $209K will face higher rates. That sounds likely to me, but there is the minor complication that this will "cost" the government $1 trillion over ten years.
But even tax hikes that start at $209K can be a serious issue for those considering a Roth conversion. Imagine a married couple with a $100K traditional IRA and a household income of exactly $209,250. If they convert, they can pay $33K in additional taxes for 2010 or $36K split between 2011 and 2012. That works out to be the equivalent of a 6% loan. Not a terrible rate, but not the hoped for interest-free deal.
The problem, of course, is that an IRA conversion is treated as additional income. For folks with a decent amount of money socked away that means that the conversion will get them briefly categorized as rich by the rule makers in Washington. And that, in turn, may mean that deferring the tax otherwise due in 2010 is a bad deal after all.
So for some people, the special 2010-only aspect of IRA conversions, that you can defer the tax hit, turns out to be not so special. Abolishing the income ceiling is useful, but that's (presumably) permanent. As it turns out, what may make 2010 special is that it is the last time we will see marginal rates for the top brackets, the brackets in which a conversion might fall, so low.
So if I have $100,000 in an IRA, it's probably better to convert $5000 a year for 20 years.
I continue to appreciate your thoughtful writing on the Roth/Traditional question and the 2010 conversion opportunity in particular. I keep sifting the numbers, and I find myself thinking that locking in my income taxes on the nest egg at 33 at 35 percent is not a profoundly attractive deal, especially in light of all the caveats that apply (national sales tax, anyone?)…but then again, what do I really know about my situation in the year 2050 (when I hope to be as full of piss and vinegar as ever)?
Is there any likelihood that 10 or 20 years from now the federal government will renegotiate their promise not to tax Roth IRA income? I would hate to switch my traditional IRA now and have the rules retroactively changed. Or am I just paranoid?
mljhouse–There's nothing to stop them except the political environment in 10 or 20 years, so your guess is as good as anyone's. If Federal Income Tax rates end up surging by 10 or 20 percent, there might be a lot of pressure on Congress to make Roth investors pay "their fair share." Or, the government might address revenue shortfalls by instituting a new sales or value-added tax to the tax landscape, in which case your Roth would only get hit when you spent it, just like anything else. Or automation and information technology might multiply our productivity tenfold in the next 20 years, so tax rates don't have to rise at all. Or a comet could hit Washington. Or or or. How's your crystal ball?


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Buffalo Diocese hit hard by storm of abuse allegations
by Peter Feuerherd
The chill descending over the Diocese of Buffalo, New York, this fall is not just the cold winds blowing off Lake Erie.
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Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo, New York, speaks during a news conference during the 2015 fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (CNS/Bob Roller)
In this year of tumult for the church, from a damning Pennsylvania grand jury report to a cardinal called out for sexual harassment and abuse of a minor, perhaps no other region in the country is feeling the fallout more than the 721,000 Catholics of the Buffalo Diocese.
Catholics in the diocese were assuaged when their church seemed to weather previous storms, such as the 2002 Boston exposure, relatively unscathed. However, local investigative reporters discovered over the summer a series of sex abuse cases covered up by bishops. The result has been a call for the resignation of the current bishop, Richard Malone, who came to Buffalo from Boston in 2012. The publicity has also tarnished the tenures of Bishops Edward Head, Henry Mansell, and Edward Urban Kmiec, all of whom are now accused of covering up for sex abuse among diocesan clergy dating from the 1970s.
This past year, Buffalo Catholics learned that:
In March, prior to the release of the Pennsylvania grand jury report, Malone offered a list of 42 priests who were accused of sex abuse in the diocese. The actual number of accused priests is more than 100, according to a report from WKBW television news in Buffalo. The station said the source for their story was internal chancery documents released by a whistleblower. The diocese has responded that the discrepancy is due in part to accusations against religious order priests which were not a part of the original disclosure.
While the U.S. bishops pledged in 2002 to remove priests credibly charged with the sex abuse of minors from ministry, Malone returned Fr. Art Smith to ministry in 2012, despite allegations of inappropriate conduct with a child and adults, according to WKBW. Malone this summer removed Fr. Robert Yetter, pastor of St. Mary's Church in Stormville, New York, after allegations of misconduct against young adult men. Another priest, Fr. Fabian Maryanski, was suspended after allegations of abuse against a minor female decades ago. Fr. Joseph Gatto, director of the diocesan seminary, was suspended in September after an allegation of sexual harassment.
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The diocese said it is now cooperating with investigations from both the federal and state governments. Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, urged a Vatican investigation of the diocese. In response, Malone issued a statement, in an unusual public rebuke of a fellow bishop, that O'Malley had failed "to check on the facts and hear our side of the story." O'Malley was Malone's superior in Boston when Malone served as an auxiliary bishop.
In a signal of internal turmoil, the director of communications and the diocesan vicar abruptly resigned their posts this summer.
"We need help," Deacon Paul Snyder of St. Mary's Church in Stormville, told NCR. Snyder, a deacon for 15 years and owner of a prominent Buffalo business, has argued for Malone's resignation and a review of the diocese's response to sex abuse from wider church authorities.
In an Oct. 14 letter to papal nuncio Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Snyder wrote, that "the actions and inactions of Malone has scandalized the Diocese of Buffalo and had a severely detrimental impact on the Faithful People of Western New York."
Snyder told NCR that the diocese is suffering from "an unbearable toxicity" due to the sex abuse revelations of crimes and cover-up. He said he was most personally affected by the Yetter case, which involved the pastor of one of the diocese's wealthiest parishes, where Snyder serves. Yetter is charged with having groomed teenagers in his parish who were then harassed when they were young adults.
Malone knew of the charges, said Snyder, but failed to notify the parish, even though diocesan workers are informed of the need to disclose information about sex abusers. Malone only moved after the uproar generated by the release of the Pennsylvania grand jury report in August.
"I was blindsided, as was everyone else," said Snyder. "This is the scandal of the cover-up. You can't trust anything coming out of our chancery."
A spokesperson for the diocese said that Malone has no intention of resigning and declined to respond to the charges of cover-up made against the bishop.
[Peter Feuerherd is a correspondent for NCR's Field Hospital series on parish life and is a professor of journalism at St. John's University, New York.]
Source URL (modified on 10/25/2018 - 4:15pm): https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/buffalo-diocese-hit-hard-storm-abuse-allegations


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Tennis: Ostapenko outclasses Wozniacki to reach French semi-finals
Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko celebrates during her quarter final match. PHOTO: REUTERS
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PARIS (REUTERS) - Latvian Jelena Ostapenko's dream run at the French Open continued as she stunned former world number one Caroline Wozniacki to reach the semi-finals on Tuesday (June 6).
The world number 47 recovered from losing the first five games of a rain-ravaged match to outclass 11th seed Wozniacki 4-6 6-2 6-2 on Court Suzanne Lenglen.
The 19-year-old, playing in the main draw in Paris for only the second time, is the first teenager to get to the semi-finals at Roland Garros since Ana Ivanovic in 2007.
She will face Swiss Timea Bacsinszky in the semi-finals on Thursday when she will celebrate her 20th birthday.
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It Doesn't Always Get Better for Queer-Spectrum and Trans-Spectrum College Students
By Maren Greathouse
This post is the latest in a series on college student mental health and well-being.
On Sept. 21, 2010, Dan Savage launched the suicide prevention campaign "It Gets Better" to reassure queer-spectrum** and trans-spectrum youth that the stigma, bullying, and exclusion they navigate in school and home do not define the possibilities their futures hold.
Just one day after the rollout of this inspiring campaign, Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi died by suicide after enduring a combination of cyber-aggression and public humiliation at the hands of his college roommate. Like Tyler, many queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students continue to navigate stigma, peer aggression, and exclusion well into their college years—experiences that too frequently precipitate symptoms of depression, anxiety, and self-injury.
While institutional research instruments have historically omitted demographic questions capturing the sexual and gender identities of students, limiting our insight into the experiences of these populations, several national research centers have initiated a shift in this landscape by incorporating these items into instruments measuring student experience.
These centers—including the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University; the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles; the SERU-AAU Consortium; and the American College Health Association—have partnered with the Tyler Clementi Center at Rutgers University to examine the queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum student responses within their respective datasets.
This analysis, including findings relevant to campus climate, academic engagement, and overall health, spans 918 four-year colleges and universities, representing survey responses from 66,208 queer-spectrum students and 6,976 trans-spectrum students. The most notable findings from this analysis, which are the focus of this blog post, are relevant to disparities in mental health, self-injury, and suicidal ideation.
Cooperative Institutional Research Program's Freshman Survey
To begin the analysis, we looked at findings from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program's Freshman Survey, the oldest and largest survey of incoming college freshmen in the nation. Students participate in this survey during the summer before entering college, serving as a baseline for student mental health as they enter higher education.
Given that Tyler Clementi died by suicide only three weeks into his freshman year at Rutgers University, it is critical that higher education professionals anticipate the mental health needs of students entering our doors.
Among the 12,872 queer-spectrum students who completed this survey:
36.8 percent reported that they had a psychological disorder, compared to 8.8% of heterosexual students; and
35.2 percent reported feeling depressed more than three times that of heterosexual students (10.1 percent).
When asked to self-appraise their emotional health, queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students revealed dramatically lower scores than their heterosexual and non-transgender peers.
Self-rated Emotional Health (2016 TFS)
These findings are even more troubling when looking at students who self-identified as transgender.
More than half (52.3 percent) of these students reported having a psychological disorder prior to entering college, compared to just 11.1 percent of non-transgender students.
They also reported feeling depressed (48.6 percent) at four times the frequency of non-transgender peers (12.1 percent).
When asked to appraise their emotional health, nearly half (49.6 percent) rated themselves as below average/lowest 10 percent, compared to just 15.8 percent of non-transgender students.
American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment
We also examined the responses of 9,331 queer-spectrum students and 2,294 trans-spectrum students who completed the ACHA-National College Health Assessment (representing 126 four-year institutions). This survey examines mental health in greater depth and revealed several concerning findings:
Among queer-spectrum respondents:
23.5 percent had seriously considered suicide in the last 12 months (compared to 8.2 percent of heterosexual peers).
18.3 percent had engaged in self-injury (intentionally cutting, bruising, or otherwise injuring themselves) compared to 5.4 percent of heterosexual peers.
When asked if they had felt "so depressed it was difficult to function" at some point in the past 12 months, queer-spectrum students (59.3 percent) experienced this at almost twice the frequency of heterosexual students (33.7 percent).
Among trans-spectrum students:
26.3 percent had seriously considered suicide (compared to 9.9 percent of heterosexual peers).
22.0 percent had engaged in self-injury in the last 12 months, compared to 6.9 percent of non-transgender students.
When asked if they had felt "so depressed it was difficult to function" at some point in the past 12 months, over half of trans-spectrum students (56.2 percent) experienced this compared to 36.7 percent of non-trans-spectrum students.
Spring 2016 ACHA-NCHA Mental Health Findings
While queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students were more open to counseling/seeking out psychological services than their heterosexual and non-transgender peers (a finding on every survey measuring this attitude), their mental health challenges appear to be far more widespread and serious (in terms of suicidal ideation) than heterosexual and non-transgender peers.
Based on these findings in the data, we make several recommendations to campus administrators:
Develop curricular/co-curricular programming that convenes queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students and highlights positive aspects of these communities. When connected to other queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum peers, students are more likely to engage in positive identity development—a fundamental protective factor mitigating psychological distress (Bruce, Harper, and Bauermeister 2015; Evans and Broido 2002; Woodford et al. 2014).
Hold events that focus on mental health and wellness in partnership with queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum student organizations that (1) educate students on mental health and wellness, (2) provide concrete strategies for improved self-care, (3) prepare students to support one another, and (4) increase knowledge of mental health resources both on and off campus. Many schools have also found benefit in developing peer mentoring and/or education programs for queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students.
If possible, create satellite locations for mental health services on campus that provide greater access to queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students. Multiple campus counseling centers host office hours at LGBTQ campus centers, a strategy that provides clinicians an opportunity to build rapport with queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students, engender greater trust with students, and increase access and usage of support services. Engaging in more intentional outreach—particularly with first-year students—could perhaps improve mental health over the college lifecycle, reduce academic impediments and disengagement (e.g., skipping class, turning in assignments late, dropping out) caused by depression and anxiety, and most critically, reduce self-harming behaviors (e.g., substance misuse, self-injury, suicide) among queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students.
Conduct clinically based training with campus mental health professionals related to the unique psychological needs of queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students. Safe Zone or sensitivity trainings are not sufficient to serve this purpose.
Provide students access to online and passive materials on queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum health and wellness.
Develop policies and practices that affirm queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students in all facets of campus life: first-year programs, residential life, campus health services, student activities, etc.
Most important of all, add demographic variables measuring sexual identity and gender identity to instruments assessing student experience on campus: enrollment, health, campus climate, student engagement, etc.
Students and institutions may want to consider the following resources:
The JED Foundation offers a Mental Health Resource Center for Young Adult Emotional Health and Well-being. The site also offers resources for campus counseling centers, care teams, and campus administrators to assist in governing campus protocols and navigating things like FERPA/HIPPA.
The Trevor Project has a suicide/mental health distress hotline and resources that are specifically for LGBTQ youth.
Campus Pride is the leading national nonprofit organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a safer college environment for LGBTQ students. The site also provides a wealth of resources for engaging LGBTQ youth in positive identity development, cultivation of social support networks on campus, leadership development, and mentoring.
To learn more about the findings from this study, please visit the Tyler Clementi Center website to view or download this white paper.
**The terms queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum describe identities that depart from heterosexual and cisgender identities respectively, while honoring that sexual and gender identities are fluid and do not always align with socially constructed, fixed categories commonly conveyed by terms such as "LGBT."
The Tyler Clementi Center was established in 2013, in memory of the Rutgers University freshman who died by suicide following a series of bias incidents targeting his sexual orientation. The Tyler Clementi Center conducts research on the impact of bias, peer aggression, and campus climate on stigmatized student populations within higher education.
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2 Responses to "It Doesn't Always Get Better for Queer-Spectrum and Trans-Spectrum College Students"
Alisabeth MacLeod
Hi, I read this with great interest. I am a student at a community college in northern New Hampshire currently finishing up my Early Childhood Education degree. Through this process diversity has always been very important to me, especially as a bi-woman. In one of my classes, Understanding Children with Disabilities, I have become very interested in people, especially children, within the LGBTQIA community who are also living with a disability.
I was wondering if you have any articles, research or studies on this issue. Being an advocate for these young children has become part of my continuing education goals.
Thank you for any assistance.
March 4th, 2019 Reply
Laurie Arnston
Hi Alisabeth–
You might try the National Center on Disability and Access to Education
http://ncdae.org/
And this page might have some resources that can help:
https://www.copaa.org/page/LGBTQ
Maren Greathouse
Maren Greathouse serves as director of the Tyler Clementi Center. Prior to assuming this role, Greathouse founded and served as the inaugural director of the LGBTQ and Diversity Resource Center at Rutgers University-Newark, director of LGBT Student Development at Towson University, and student support specialist at the LGBT Campus Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Cummins is to power the world's first autonomous orchard sprayer, California-based Crinklaw Farm Services has announced.
The Global Unmanned Spray System (GUSS) is equipped with the engine manufacturer's QSB6.7 fully-integrated unit, rated at 173hp (129kW) and including cooled exhaust gas recirculation and high-pressure common rail fuel system.
The intention behind the autonomous vehicle is to help ease the labor challenges facing the agricultural industry, while also providing gains in efficiency, precision and safety. Using a combination of GPS, vehicle sensors and software, a single employee can monitor up to 10 GUSS machines at once across multiple orchards.
At present, seven of the sprayers have been built and deployed on mid- to large-scale tree farms as part of a custom spray application service, however Crinklaw expect to begin selling the sprayers later this year.
The company's marketing director, Gary Thompson, said, "GUSS's whole design philosophy is based around innovation, efficiency and performance – building a machine that can spray row after row, day after day. For that, we needed a power solution we could rely on and Cummins has been very supportive in providing an exemplary engine package coupled with machine integration expertise.