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  <artitle class= "blog-post" id="training-thoughts">

 Training Thoughts

 Thinking about time managent

 It's pretty nice to be able to sit down, as part of an assignment for DBC, and check in with myself to feel how my your journey is going so far, how my thinking may be a factor to to my success (or failure) with the program, evaluating strategies that can be useful in overcoming difficulties, and implementing an action plan to overcome these difficulties.

I am writing this as of the third week of DevBootCamp; and, in retrospect, there have already been many breakthroughs AND breakdowns. As we continue to blaze through  the DBC work-warp, I'm also seeing how just about every breakdown also leads to breakthrough, if you just stay at it.

There were times were I needed to GIT some fresh air because I was about to GIT a stroke…so much so that I ended up working remotely for most of the assignments in the beginning. It turned out that I had "git init" one too many repositories, which ended up provoking some pretty buggy behavior, along with a case of the DS.Store blues, and some files choosing to hide from being seen, added, or committed. But you know what, I can say I am no longer afraid of the command line and have actually begun to look forward to collaborating on larger projects through version control systems such as GIT.

GIT wasn't even close to being the main perpetrator here though. Nope. It was me causing most of ma' woes; and, primarily in the form of limiting mental constructs.

Here is the thought-loop that was most apparent and difficult to work with:

I can't do everything.

Sure you can, you're "Marlon".

Add more to my plate.

Now I have too much on my plate-STRESS

Work like crazy

Feel like I have room to breath

Put more on my plate because I'm feeling optimistic

Now I have too much on my plate, again-STRESS

I've feel as if I've identified two underlying causes reinforcing this loop:

-(REASON 1)My time estimation skills are HORRIBLE when it comes to projecting how long the assignment is going to take me and then consequently schedule the time to get it done. How can I estimate how long it is going to take me to accomplish something I have never done before?

-(REASON 2)I think I'm smarter, faster, more able than I truly am. Shucks. And therefore overcompensate by thinking I will accomplish things faster and understand things easier than I actually do.

Reason 1 + Reason 2 = TIMEBOMB

Solution: Open Work Blocks

I no longer try to estimate how long something is going to take and am trying to take my identity bias out of the equation entirely. How so?
I simply allocate a task to a pomodoro time block (25mins), enter it with an open mind, and just hammer away at it.  By actually working on the task, even if I can't finish it in that time block,
 I garner a working understanding of the task at hand and am then better positioned to devise a follow-up work plan. Aside from being a more pragmatic approach than blind-guestimation, working with this structure allows me to be completely invested in the task during that time block. Plus, working in this way is proving very rewarding as I am becoming more productive AND enjoy the complete task submersion.

This also complements my thinking style, Abstract Sequential, as this approach helps to ground my "love of theory and abstract thought".

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	2014
	Present Moment, Wonderful Moment.


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using System.IO;
using Aspose.Note;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing;

namespace Aspose.Note.Examples.CSharp.Tables
{
    public class SettingCellBackGroundColor
    {
        public static void Run()
        {
            // ExStart:SettingCellBackGroundColor
            // ExFor:Table
            // ExFor:Table.Columns
            // ExFor:Table.IsBordersVisible
            // ExFor:TableColumn
            // ExFor:TableColumn.Width
            // ExFor:TableRow
            // ExFor:TableCell
            // ExFor:TableCell.BackgroundColor
            // ExSummary:Shows how to set a background color for a cell.

            // Create an object of the Document class
            Document doc = new Document();

            // Initialize TableCell class object and set text content
            TableCell cell11 = new TableCell(doc);
            cell11.AppendChildLast(InsertTable.GetOutlineElementWithText(doc, "Small text"));
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            // Initialize TableRow class object
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            doc.AppendChildLast(page);

            doc.Save(Path.Combine(RunExamples.GetDataDir_Tables(), "SettingCellBackGroundColor.pdf"));

            // ExEnd:SettingCellBackGroundColor
        }
    }
}

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Study links FDA warnings to fewer fluoroquinolone prescriptions
Chris Dall | News Reporter | CIDRAP News
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A new study suggests that the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) warnings about adverse events linked to fluoroquinolone antibiotics may have helped lower prescribing of the drugs, but not all physicians have been responsive to those warnings.
The study, published this week in JAMA Network Open, looked at data on more than 1.2 million Medicare patients who received fluoroquinolones and found that overall fluoroquinolone prescribing started declining significantly in the 31 months before the FDA issued a warning on fluoroquinolones in 2013. The decline continued at a slower rate after the 2013 and 2016 warnings.
Declines in fluoroquinolone prescribing after the warnings were observed only among certain types of physicians.
Multiple FDA warnings
Fluoroquinolones are a broad-spectrum class of antibiotics used to treat a variety of common bacterial infections. Since being approved in the late 1980s, they have become one of the most commonly prescribed antibiotic classes. But over the last several years, the FDA has issued several warnings in response to adverse events that have been linked to fluoroquinolone treatment.
In 2008, the FDA added a black box warning that fluoroquinolone use was associated with the increased risk of tendinitis and tendon rupture. That was followed by the 2013 label update, which warned that fluoroquinolones could cause irreversible damage from peripheral neuropathy, a nerve condition that can cause weakness, numbness, and pain in the hands and feet.
In 2016, the FDA revised the black box warning to further address these adverse events, recommending that patients with acute sinusitis, acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis, and uncomplicated urinary tract infection (UTI) use fluoroquinolones only if no other treatment options are available. Since then, the FDA has issued additional warnings about the potential risks of mental health side effects, blood sugar disturbances, and aortic aneurysm and dissection.
To analyze changes in prescribing after the 2013 and 2016 FDA warnings, a team led by researchers at the University of Minnesota looked at administrative claims data from a 20% random sample of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries from Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2017.
The cohort consisted of more than 1.2 million unique patients (68.5% female, mean age 69.7 years) with a diagnosis of sinusitis, bronchitis, or uncomplicated UTI. The researchers also obtained data on 170,938 physicians who prescribed fluoroquinolones during the study period and their organizations.
Using an interrupted time series analysis, the researchers compared fluoroquinolone prescribing levels and trends during the 31 months prior to the 2013 warning (the baseline period), all months following the 2013 FDA warning (post-warning period 1), and all months following the 2016 warning (post-warning period 2). They then examined the association between fluoroquinolone prescribing levels and trends and the status of each physician, as well as the type of organization in which they practiced.
The analysis found a significant decline in fluoroquinolone prescribing before the 2013 warning, with the trend declining by 0.18 percentage points per month (95% confidence interval [CI], –0.19 to –0.18; P < .001) during the baseline period. The study authors suggest this could be linked to the 2008 FDA warning, which may have alerted physicians to be more cautious in their use of fluoroquinolones.
The decline continued after the 2013 and 2016 warnings, but more slowly. The immediate prescribing levels of fluoroquinolones in post-warning period 1 increased by 3.42 percentage points (95% CI, 3.23 to 3.62; P < .001) and declined by 0.77 percentage points (95% CI, –1.00 to –0.54; P < .001) in post-warning period 2.
Compared with the baseline period, the trend in fluoroquinolone prescribing increased by 0.08 percentage points per month (95% CI, 0.08 to 0.10; P < .001) in post-warning period 1 and 0.06 percentage points per month (95% CI, 0.04 to 0.08; P < .001) in post-warning period 2.
Variations in physician response
In their analysis of prescribing by physician characteristics, the researchers found that fluoroquinolone prescribing levels among physicians who were affiliated with a hospital with a top 10th percentile case mix index fell 1.13 percentage points (95% CI, –1.92 to –0.34; P = .005) compared with those without such affiliation in post-warning period 1, while the levels for primary care physicians (PCPs) declined by 1.34 percentage points (95% CI, −1.78 to −0.88; P < .001) compared with non-primary care physicians in post-warning period 2.
Physicians at teaching hospitals were the only ones who showed a decline in prescribing trend in post-warning period 1.
"Despite repeated warnings, some physicians were not responsive to the recommendations," the study authors wrote. "Although PCPs showed a general decline in prescribing trends compared with non-PCPs, they did not demonstrate a differential change in behavior after the warnings, perhaps because many PCPs wrongly believed that fluoroquinolones were more appropriate for dealing with uncomplicated UTI symptoms than the recommended first-line therapies for this condition."
The authors point out that the observed decline in fluoroquinolone prescribing could also reflect antibiotic stewardship measures that have specifically targeted inappropriate fluoroquinolone prescribing.
"Such efforts, in conjunction with the FDA warnings, might explain some of the decline in prescribing behavior over the study period as well as the specific changes in prescribing rates associated with certain physician characteristics," they wrote.
The authors say the findings could help identify certain physician and organizational characteristics associated with fluoroquinolone prescribing, which could ultimately lead to more targeted strategies to promote de-adoption of fluoroquinolones and improve patient safety.
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WHO announces effort to speed development of TB vaccines
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Study finds 'major reservoir' of resistance in wastewater of Southeast Asia, Western Pacific
AMR Action Fund invests in Swiss antibiotic maker
Right choice of antibiotic linked to lower risk of death from bloodstream infections
McDonald's sets targets for reducing antibiotics in its beef supply
Lack of vaccination, severe illness tied to higher risk of long COVID
Risk factors for persistent symptoms at 28 days included being unvaccinated at infection, moderate or severe acute illness, longer hospital stays, and underlying health conditions.
Review finds hybrid immunity provides best protection against Omicron
The authors say the findings indicate that the protection conferred by previous infection should not detract from the need for vaccination.

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It's time to get started. Full of energy, we are now taking the project into the funding phase.
Two weeks ago the documentary celebrated an amazing world premiere at the International Film Festival in Leeds, England.
And just now we found out that DOING NOTHING ALL DAY was one of the top ten audience choices from a total of 131 films! We are very delighted with these encouraging results.
And this success has made us even more excited about the launch of this campaign to publish the film.
We are always hearing about amazing documentaries that disappear onto shelves due to a lack of funding and energy We don't want this to happen with DOING NOTHING ALL DAY!
Therefore, our team got together once again and came up with a whole list of wonderful rewards for contributions. These will be sent out to our supporters as soon as we've reached the funding threshold.
The team of democraticArts will also be taking part in a campaign at the Munich students' congress besser::15.
Please help us spread the word so that as many people as possible can find out about our project.
You can share it on Facebook or per email, speak with friends and register on Startnext to become an official "fan".
We also hope you will join us in celebrating the German premiere in Munich in early 2016.


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Q: Universal property of the codomain fibration Let $\mathcal{C}$ a category with pullbacks. Does $\mathsf{cod}: \mathcal{C}^{\to}\to\mathcal{C}$ have any kind of universal property in the category of (co)fibrations over $\mathcal{C}$? I'd want it to be "terminal" in some way, or to play a role in factorizing certain (all?) (co)fibrations.
Note: I'm aware that $\mathsf{cod}$ can be easily interpreted via comma categories, but I'm not very familiar with them, so any pointer in that direction would be helpful, too.

A: First a note about terminology: older literature sometimes uses the term "cofibration" for a functor $p:E\to B$ such that $p^{\rm op} : E^{\rm op} \to B^{\rm op}$ is a fibration, but it's more common nowadays to call this an "opfibration", with "cofibration" used instead for a functor whose corresponding morphism $B\to E$ in ${\rm Cat}^{\rm op}$ is a fibration.  One reason for this is that opfibrations, like fibrations, are characterized by a lifting property, like fibrations in homotopy theory, whereas cofibrations (in the modern sense) are instead characterized by an extension property, like cofibrations in homotopy theory.
With that out of the way, the most basic universal property of $\rm cod$ is that it is the free opfibration over $C$ generated by ${\rm id} : C\to C$.  In other words, if $p:E\to C$ is an opfibration equipped with a section $s:C\to E$, such that $p s = 1_C$, then there is an essentially unique map of opfibrations $\tilde{s} : C^{\to} \to E$.  More generally, for any functor $f:A\to C$, the opfibration $A\times_C C^{\to}$ is the free opfibration generated by $f$.  This doesn't even need the fact that $C$ has pullbacks.
A fancier universal property, which does use finite limits in $C$ and the consequent fact that $\rm cod$ is also a fibration, is that in the "universe" of fibrations over $C$, the codomain fibration is the "free coproduct completion of a point", in the same way that $\rm Set$ is the free coproduct completion of a point in the universe of ordinary categories.  Here "coproduct complete" means having "indexed coproducts", meaning that a fibration is also an opfibration and satisfies the Beck-Chevalley condition.  Thus, for any fibration $p:E\to C$ with this property, and any object $X\in p^{-1}(1)$, there is an essentially unique $g:C^{\to}\to E$ that is a morphism of both fibrations and opfibrations and maps $1_1$ to $X$.

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Reisa Sperling, MD, provides an overview on Alzheimer's disease dementia and a new groundbreaking study, the Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer's Disease (A4) Study. The A4 Study is the first study to examine early treatment of older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease dementia — with the hope of preventing memory loss before it begins. The clinical trial is for people without symptoms but whose brain scans show the buildup of amyloid plaques that may lead to Alzheimer's disease. Dennis Selkoe, MD from Brigham and Women's Hospital, led research that discovered that buildup in the brain of the amyloid protein is largely responsible for the degenerative effects of Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Sperling is the Director of the Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the lead investigator for the A4 Study.
Dr. Selkoe is Co-Director of the Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
This entry was posted in Geriatrics, Medical Imaging, Neurology, Preventive Medicine. Bookmark the permalink.


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Q: PayFlow Pro Sale Transaction Issue I am trying to setup my site to accept credit card payment using PayFlow Pro. I am posting a Sale transaction with following data (account details removed) to sandbox (https://pilot-payflowpro.paypal.com):
PARTNER[6]=&VENDOR[27]=&USER[27]=&PWD[11]=&TRXTYPE[1]=S&TENDER[1]=C&CURRENCY[3]=USD&CREATESECURETOKEN[1]=Y&SECURETOKENID[29]=MySecTokenID-CPVMCKB4TSR0EN3Y&RETURNURL[35]=https://localhost:44387/payment/pay&CANCELURL[35]=https://localhost:44387/payment/pay&ERRORURL[35]=https://localhost:44387/payment/pay&AMT[1]=1&COMMENT1[48]=Name: pankaj negi , StudentID: 14809, TermId:384&ACCT[16]=&EXPDATE[4]=0217&CVV2[4]=&BILLTOFIRSTNAME[6]=pankaj&BILLTOLASTNAME[4]=negi&BILLTOSTREET[18]=15402 Dry Creek Rd&BILLTOCITY[11]=Noblesville&BILLTOSTATE[2]=IN&BILLTOZIP[5]=46060&BILLTOCOUNTRY[2]=US&
And I am getting following response back:
RESULT=0&SECURETOKEN=KDTWfZBwaYEaz5pPUNxJSKQM2&SECURETOKENID=MySecTokenID-CPVMCKB4TSR0EN3Y&RESPMSG=Approved
But this transaction does not show up on Paypal manager. What am I missing.

A: You are trying to create a secure token which will be used to launch the hosted check out page which is Payflowlink.
Remove the following in your request and try and it should work.
CREATESECURETOKEN[1]=Y&SECURETOKENID[29]=MySecTokenID-CPVMCKB4TSR0EN3Y
thanks


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Q: is there a way to take an item you have copied to clipboard and save it as a var or int is it possible to take something i have copied to clipboard and have it save as an int or a var?
i am trying to make something to take something i have copied to clipboard and make it able to paste it into a text document. is there any way to do this?
i have not found any good answers explaining this so any help would be appreciated.

A: #include <windows.h>
//get data
HANDLE clip;
string clip_text = "";

if (OpenClipboard(NULL))
{
  clip = GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT);
  clip_text = (char*)clip;
  cout << "Text: "<<clip_text<<endl<<endl;
  CloseClipboard();
}

works with WINDOWS ONLY!
Check these links:
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/27836/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/mfc/clipboard-using-the-windows-clipboard?view=msvc-160


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Q: Why I am getting this Compilation r error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type] newbie to c programming, even though I got the output in other IDE's.  One of the IDE's showed this problem.
#include <stdio.h>

int max(int a, int b, int c, int d) {
    if (a>b && a>c && a>d){
        printf("%d",a);
    }
    else if (b>a && b>c && b>d ) {
        printf("%d",b);
    }
    else if (c>a && c>b && c>d ) {
        printf("%d",c);
    }
    else {
        printf("%d",d);
    }
}

int main() {
    int a, b, c, d;
    scanf("%d %d %d %d", &a, &b, &c, &d);
    max(a,b,c,d);
    return 0;
}

A: The function int max(int a, int b, int c, int d) is declared to return int but does not return anything just change the declaration to void max(int a, int b, int c, int d).Or if you want to return the answer instead of printing you can just return and print in the main function.
int max(int a, int b, int c, int d) {
    if (a>b && a>c && a>d){
        return a;
    }
    else if (b>a && b>c && b>d ) {
        return b;
    }
    else if (c>a && c>b && c>d ) {
        return c;
    }
    else {
        return d;
    }
}

int main() {
    int a, b, c, d;
    scanf("%d %d %d %d", &a, &b, &c, &d);
    printf("%d",max(a,b,c,d));
    return 0;
}


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I just want to check that what I am doing is correct and is supported because I am seeing some strange behaviour where two different splitter's 'ResizeWithParentPane' settings are affecting each other.
I have tested the following demo in the RadWizard control and everything seems to be working fine. Could you please provide me a sample where I could observe the described.
Thanks, that demo doesn't have a RadWizard which is really what I am interested in. I will try to get a sample project loaded but in the mean time I just want to confirm that I am approaching this the right way as above?
I have tested the mentioned demo in the RadWizard and everything is working fine that is why I am asking for a project where I could reproduce the problem. This will allow me to debug it and confirm if the problem comes from the Wizard component.


This fabulous ode to one of our lovely dogs was written by his Aunty Liz.
Bajak was 17 at the start of June this year, I know, amazing hey. Here is a pic of the old boy from a few days ago, still goin' but goin' pretty slowly.
as a roast stolen from the kitchen bench.
as the Nike label was to his master.
for yet another filthy misdemeanour.
the precision of a lexographer.
He's a wolf in dog's clothing.
We love you, old boy!


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It's a Long Way Home
Each year gray whales make a long migration along the west coast of North America from the cold waters of the Arctic to the warm waters of the Baja lagoons and back, about 10,000 miles. They travel up to five miles per hour during the southbound migration. That's the longest migration of any mammal. Why this long journey? The whales spend their summers feeding on rich food on the bottom in the Arctic and then travel to Baja to mate and give birth in several lagoons.
Messy Eaters?
Gray whales are unusual in their feeding method. Whales feed on the bottom of the ocean. Like other baleen whales, they strain their food, but in their case it's mud they're straining to scoop-up mainly amphipods (small, shrimp-like animals), worms and other small invertebrates. Researchers can tell where the whales have been feasting by the pock-marks on the muddy ocean floor.
Once very numerous, the Eastern Pacific gray whales were listed by the U.S. as Endangered. Like other whales, they had been extensively hunted. After the species was protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972, their numbers rebounded and the whale population was doing well. The whales came off the Endangered species list in 1994.
But in recent years—2016 to 2020 – many dead whales have washed ashore in what NOAA calls "an unusual mortality event." The population declined by a quarter in those years. Could the problem be ship strikes, predation by orcas, or not enough food on their summer feeding grounds? NOAA is investigating why the whales are dying, but also notes that there was a similar event in 1999-2000 and the population did rebound after that.
If the scientists find that the cause is malnutrition, that means there's trouble in the benthic habitat in the Arctic where the whales feed in the summer. The culprit is likely climate change which is causing a loss of sea ice in the Arctic. This reduces the population of amphipods, the whales' favorite food.
A large population of algae grows on the underside of the sea ice. When that algae dies and falls to the sea floor, it becomes food for the amphipods. If there's not enough algae falling to the bottom, the amphipods aren't getting the nutrition they need. It's possible that this decline in the nutrition and population of the amphipod prey makes the whales weaker and so more vulnerable to orca attacks and toxins in their environment.
Is There Enough Food to Go Around?
Whale scientists think it's likely not one thing but several that are causing the decline of the gray whales. In addition to those possible reasons listed above, some scientists think the population has reached its "carrying capacity." That means that there might not be enough food to go around for the large population of an estimated 27,000 in 2016. Now, as of the last count in 2019-2020, the population estimate is about 20,000.
There's Hope!
Some gray whales have adapted to changes on their winter feeding grounds and are now "resident" of the Oregon coast. This group of about 200 whales are no longer making the long trip to the Arctic in the summer, but are feeding in shallow waters off the coast from Northern California to the central Oregon coast. These whales are referred to as the Pacific Coast Feeding Group.


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Nowadays, data protection and privacy are critical considerations for companies, employees and customers. Sensitive information commonly stored or accessible by companies, be that employee records, customer details, system access passwords, transaction records, intellectual property, or trade secrets, needs to be protected from unauthorized access and misuse. In addition, incompliance with data protection and privacy laws can be costly and leave yourself open to reputational damages, civil as well as criminal liabilities.
ONC is the go-to firm for data protection and privacy matters. We have notable expertise in the retail, financial services, healthcare, technology and communications sectors and have handled various global compliance projects and regulatory litigation over recent years. Whatever your business structure and problems, we provide on-time, pragmatic and up-to-date legal advice on a full spectrum of issues ranging from employment data protection, data security breaches to global data governance and compliance work. We also have experience in interfacing with regulators at the local and international levels in areas ranging from data loss to cybersecurity issues.
Our services include the following areas:
Management of employee personal information and sensitive information for advertising and marketing;
Employee monitoring and suspected-target screening;
Data collection via whistleblower hotlines;
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Cross-border data transfer projects;
Handling regulatory inquiries and litigation;
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Compliance projects and policies in collaboration with human resources and technology departments of business groups.
If you would like to seek advice on data protection and privacy issues, please contact us at (852) 2810 1212 or at onc@onc.hk.
Can police search your mobile phone?
Mobile phone privacy is always a concern for the public. With the advancement of technologies, mobile phones have become a convenient work tool for us and we rely on various smartphone features such as internet, instant messenger, email, etc. to communicate, share digital files and photos, and complete work tasks. In a recent judicial review before the Court of First Instance, Sham Wing Kan v Commissioner of Police [2017] HKCU 2725, an important question of whether the police has power to search and examine without warrant the digital content of mobile phones and other personal digital communications devices found on the person arrested was raised.
Proposed public inspection regime to limit access to company directors' data in Hong Kong – Potential shortcomings and our recommendations
Recently, the Government has begun its review as to whether personal data contained in the Companies Register (the "Register") such as information pertaining to addresses of directors should be maintained with the Register. In response, the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (the "Bureau") along with the Companies Registry (the "CR") submitted a paper to the Legislative Council on 29 March 2021 (the "Proposal"), which proposed to bring into operation a new inspection regime (the "Regime") that has been included the Companies Ordinance ("CO") when the legislation was made in 2012.
Hong Kong amends personal data protection laws to combat doxxing
With an aim to combating doxxing acts that are intrusive to personal data privacy, the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau proposed amendments to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) ("PDPO") on 11 May 2021. The amendment bill was passed on 29 September 2021 and the Personal Data (Privacy) (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 ("Amendment PDPO") has come into force on 8 October 2021. To facilitate implementation of the Amendment PDPO, the the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data ("Commissioner") issued a guideline in October 2021 to provide guidance on the scope of doxxing offences and powers of the Commissioner regarding doxxing acts under the Amendment PDPO ("Guideline").


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Testing for Antimicrobial Resistance using Artificial Intelligence
@CHU Henri Mondor
Coordinated by Fondation MSF, a group of researchers and engineers at Université d'Évry, the CEA, CNRS, Médecins Sans Frontières and the Bacteriology and Virology department at Henri-Mondor hospital (AP-HP) have developed a smartphone application that simplifies testing for antimicrobial resistance, a major public health concern.
Once clinical trials have been completed to validate it and it obtains CE certification, the app will be available to use, free of charge, by medical staff anywhere in the world.
Results of studies demonstrating the technical feasibility of the application were published in Nature Communications, on February 19, 2021.
Antimicrobial resistance is a major global health threat.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that antimicrobial resistance is one of the top global public health threats of the 21st century. It is possible that antimicrobial resistance will become the leading cause of death globally, ahead of cancer, accounting for 10 million deaths a year, 90% of which will be in Asia and Africa, due to the scarcity of resources. A more reasoned use of antibiotics is therefore crucial. To this end, a reliable test for bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics is needed. MSF has long been involved in efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance, primarily in conflict-torn regions where MSF treats people with war wounds that become infected with multidrug-resistant bacteria.
Antibiogram (Photo: Hôpital Henri Mondor)
In the industrialized world, identifying antimicrobial resistance is relatively simple thanks to automated electronic data systems developed to read and interpret antibiograms.
Microbiologists use Petri dishes containing an agar medium to culture bacteria samples taken from the patient being treated. Paper disks containing a given concentration of each antibiotic are placed in the dishes. The antibiotics diffuse into the agar, killing, or not killing, the bacteria present. If a bacterium is susceptible to the antibiotic, it disappears within a concentric zone around the disk: this is known as the inhibition zone. Antimicrobial resistance is categorized by measuring the diameter of these inhibition zones and comparing these measurements against reference charts, or breakpoint tables (see photograph on the right). Interpretation is based on precise rules specified by microbiologists.
Antibiograms are processed by technicians and are then usually analyzed using antibiogram reader-incubator systems, which are very expensive. Medical microbiology laboratories are thus able to provide clinicians with results that enable them to choose the most suitable drug to treat the patient and prevent the development of drug-resistant bacteria.
In developing countries, identifying antimicrobial resistance is much more complicated, as MSF discovered when it was setting up bacteriology laboratories in five low-resource nations.
To address this problem, Nada Malou, MSF Microbiology advisor, based on her many years of experience in the field, and Amin Madoui, a researcher at the CEA-Genoscope Genomics-Metabolics Laboratory, conceived the project to develop a smartphone application:
We needed an app that would cost nothing and be user-friendly, and we needed new algorithms to efficiently process antibiogram images on a smartphone".
MSF Fondation saw the project as an opportunity to develop an innovative technological solution to a very real problem and, in 2018, launched this collaborative project involving a team of scientists based at the Genoscope Genomics-Metabolics Laboratory (CEA/CNRS/Université d'Évry), Evry University Laboratory of Mathematics and Modeling (LaMME - CNRS/Université d'Évry, Genopole site), the Bacteriology department at Henri Mondor hospital (AP-HP Paris hospital system) and MSF, aiming to develop an open-source tool designed to analyze and interpret antibiograms, for use by healthcare professionals worldwide.
Analyzing an antibiogram (or AST e-plate) using the application (from the paper: AI-based mobile application to fight antibiotic resistance).
In 2019, the team was awarded funding under the "Google AI Impact Challenge" for projects aimed at applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address issues with strong social impact. This grant has been used to finance human resources (thirteen employees from Google/Google.org Fellows) and to conduct deep learning tests to improve the application's performance in recognizing data entries (the algorithm recognizes the names of every antibiotic).
The application developed works offline, an essential feature for use in countries with limited resources. A photograph of the antibiogram is taken using the phone camera, and the app then guides the user through the analysis steps. The user can interact with the app interface at any point to check and, if necessary, adjust the automatic measurements.
To do this, it combines original algorithms, using machine learning and image processing. Last, an embedded expert system checks that the data is coherent and displays the interpreted results. The measurement procedure is fully automatic and achieves very high levels of reliability, with 98% agreement with the most reliable manual measurement methods currently in use.
The aim now is to adapt the mobile application for use in the low-resource settings in which MSF works. It should then be used to obtain high-quality antibiotic susceptibility tests for patients anywhere in the world, and could help further global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance.
In 2021, MSF is currently assessing the clinical effectiveness of the application in three different countries with a view to deploying its use at MSF laboratories by the end of the year. The app will then be made available to all test laboratories in countries with low resources by 2022.
With just a few months to go before completing these assessments and rolling out the app, MSF is calling on everyone involved in efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance to come on board to make the app available to as many laboratories as possible in countries with limited resources.
AI-based mobile application to fight antibiotic resistance, Nature Communications
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HomeAssignment 2People in two 'world' face COVID-19
People in two 'world' face COVID-19
2020-04-21 Tong Mu Assignment 2 3
the concept photo of covid-19
Apart from Australia, many countries selected lockdown temporarily due to the high transmission of COVID-19 and the prevention of imported cases. In order to maintain normal supply chains of essential goods, especially for the medical equipment, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Chile, Brunei and Myanmar signed an agreement to face the COVID-19 crisis. Among these countries, Myanmar boasts the lowest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 119. In addition, Myanmar is the most economically backward developing country among them and it borders China where COVID-19 originated. How do Burmese face the COVID-19? How are the conditions of mandatory quarantine in Myanmar? This feature will show the current circumstance in Myanmar which is the most vulnerable partner of Australia and talk about the differences and similarities between Burmese and Australian facing and preventing COVID-19.
Why it is important?
Currently, COVID-19 has been found in at least 184 countries and territories. COVID-19 has seriously threatened people's lives and negatively affected the global economy. Apart from shutting down the country, the Australian government has created and implemented some mandatory measures to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 such as mandatory quarantine, maintaining social distances, staying at home and so on. However, some Australian people cannot accept mandatory measures, even violate governmental policies, then some people also unsatisfied the mandatory quarantine, even they had quarantined in 5-star hotels. More than 6600 people have been diagnosed as positive of COVID-19 in Australia so far, and the number of confirmed cases has been increasing.
Some Australian people criticized the mandatory quarantine, because they thought they were treated as criminals.
I hope that more Australian people can accept and support some governmental mandatory policies under COVID-19 and understand we are fortunate to live in a strong country and we have advanced living conditions through displaying the disadvantaged conditions of a vulnerable developing country. Apart from cherishing our livelihoods, if we have enough ability, we also should help some disadvantaged people.
How am I going to accomplish this?
There are two parts including information collection and interviews as the preparation process of this feature article.
(1) Information collection
Main platforms:
ABC News: https://www.abc.net.au/news/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/explore
Worldometer COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?
Global New Light of Myanmar: https://www.moi.gov.mm/npe/nlm/
Apart from these four main platforms, due to the attributes of search engine optimization(SE0), I will gather more information on the internet through utilizing keywords such as coronavirus, Australia and Myanmar.
(2) Interviews
In order to understand local people's thoughts on facing COVID-19 in Australia and Myanmar, I will interview two people. One is Elle, she is an Australian person and a part-time postgraduate at University of Technology Sydney. Another one is Kyaw, he is a Burmese and a full-time undergraduate at Bangkok University. Additionally, Kyaw had an extraordinary experience, because when he came back to Rangoon from Thailand, he took the same flight with 2 people who were diagnosed as positive of COVID-19.
Due to the social-distancing restriction in Australia and the geographical limitation with Myanmar, I will interview Elle and Kyaw by WhatsApp and Messenger.
What will it present?
This feature will utilize a combination of multimedia including pictures and videos, hypertext links and interactivity.
1. Multimedia:
(1) Images showing the current Australia and Myanmar
The infrastructure of quarantine in Myanmar.
The selfie of the interviewee Kyaw Khine and it was shot in his quarantine period.
The infrastructure of quarantine in Myanmar
The street of quarantine period
The Burmese interviewee will offer more pictures.
(2) Some relevant videos in Australia and Myanmar
https://www.meco6925.dmu.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/🍬Candice🍭-2020-04-04-17.54.38.mp4
Burmese applaud medical workers through an activity #cheer4frontliners at 8 p.m 16th April 2020, produced by Hhst.
2. Some relevant hypertext links.
3. Interactivity
In order to improve the interactivity and receive different perspectives from the public, I will leave my email address and my social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter on this feature.
Who will publish this feature?
The Sydney Morning Herald is an appropriate platform to release this feature, and the target audience is all Australian people.
COVID-19 is a worldwide focal topic at present, it is relevant to the health and the safety of all human beings. The Sydney Morning Herald has reported international and national current affairs frequently.
The Sydney Morning Herald owns a large number of readers in Australia, there are over 8.17 million.
The Sydney Morning Herald has different versions such as print newspaper, website and app to offer and cover different ages of Australian people.
Australia coronavirus
mandatory measures
Myanmar coronavirus
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Zhuoran Zhang says:
Hi Tong:
you have done very impressive work on the proposal, and this is obviously one of the most significant issues that everyone wants to learn more. Nevertheless, I have some suggestions that might be helpful to you. The first thing is that the angle you have chosen is a little broad. It is interesting to compare Australia and Myanmar, but it is better to narrow it down to a specific issue, such as how are they dealing with social distance? The other thing I want to point out is the interviewees. It is helpful to interview people who have personal experience, but you can interview some experts to have some information that most people might not know. Finally is to be careful about grammar. Overall, your ideas are great and I am looking forward to reading your final work!
Yumeng Zhu says:
Hi Tong,
– the topic "how people in the two countries face COVID-19" is timeliness and current. Mandatory measures taken by different governments is deserved to be discussed.
– As far as I know, Lao PDR and Uruguay are added in the statement on 6, April. Please do check it:
https://www.mti.gov.sg/Newsroom/Press-Releases/2020/04/Joint-ministerial-statement-ensuring-supply-chain-connectivity-amidst-the-COVID-19-situation
– According to the headline, the purpose of your feature, the chosen interviewees, and photos you provide, I suppose that you plan to report the quarantine experience from an Australian and a Burmese respectively. However, will you focus on "talking about the attitude of the citizens in the face of the quarantine between the two countries"? Or "introducing the quarantine measures and specific implementation plans adopted by the two governments"? Or something else? I think this is crucial to what questions will you ask in your future interviews.
– The #cheer4forntliners is interesting, I was curious if it would be included in your feature, if so, which part will you put it and what does this mean?
– If you would mention the similarities and differences in both countries as you mentioned, you could research how did Australia and Myanmar respond to the coronavirus and at what time to give some background information
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-prepares-quarantine-centers-official-covid-19-count-remains-zero.html
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/mandatory-quarantine-of-overseas-arrivals-rolled-out-in-australia-what-is-involved
-Some other news report about your topic:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-52115774/coronavirus-mandatory-quarantine-in-a-five-star-sydney-hotel
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarathiessen/2020/04/04/australian-travelers-complain-about-5-star-hotel-quarantine/#2c7e660b6dbe
-Do not forget that your links should be opened in a new web. The instruction is on Week4 slides P44. And it would be great to give a more specific caption to your images, such as "Myanmar's Quarantine condition".
I have talked too much! Please do not mind!
Tong Mu says:
Hi, Yumeng, I very appreciate your suggestion and those examples, thank u for your help!
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Last night I once again debated Dr. Robert A. Martin, a vertebrate paleontologist who is professor emeritus at Murray State University. The previous debate was on the broad subject of creation versus evolution. This time, the organizers of the event wanted us to narrow our discussion, so we chose to talk about dinosaurs and people. Before I discuss the debate, I want to thank Dr. Martin for participating in it. I personally think the best way to understand an issue is to hear from multiple sides, so I think debates can be extremely helpful to those interested in controversial topics. However, it is difficult to get evolutionists to participate in debates about the creation/evolution controversy. I thank Dr. Martin for being committed to education strongly enough to be an exception to that general rule!
Since Dr. Martin had the weaker position scientifically, I allowed him to choose whether to present his case first or second. He chose to go second, so I was up first. The initial activities (songs, introductions, and remarks from the organizers) made it clear that for some reason, the audience this year was overwhelmingly creationist. The previous year, creationists were in the majority, but there were many evolutionists present. That didn't seem to be the case this year, so I started by thanking Dr. Martin for being willing to act as a lion in a den of Daniels.
In making my case, I concentrated on the evidence that indicates dinosaur fossils are not millions of years old. I stressed the soft tissue that is being found in fossils that are supposed to be millions of years old (see here, here, here, here, and here, for example). I also discussed the fact that several dinosaur bones from different locations around the world all have enough carbon-14 in them to indicate that their maximum age is less than 40,000 years old. I also discussed how living organisms like the coelacanth, Wollemi pine, and tuatara falsify the geological-column thinking that leads most scientists to conclude that humans and dinosaurs didn't live at the same time.
I then moved on to human evolution, discussing the wealth of data that indicate humans did not evolve from an ape-like ancestor. I discussed how genetics and morphology (the study of the form and structure of organisms) disagree on our most recent common ancestor, how the similarity between chimpanzee and human DNA is far too low to allow for evolution, and how different data give completely different evolutionary histories when it comes to human evolution and evolution in general (see here and here). I also discussed the problems that exist with two of the main candidates for intermediate links between an apelike ancestor and people (see here and here). I also discussed the wide gap in fossils between the incredibly apelike fossils that supposedly represent our ancient ancestors and the incredibly humanlike fossils that supposedly represent early forms of people.
…it is curious that in a century-old race for superlative hominid fossils on a continent currently populated with African apes, we consistently unearth nearly complete hominid ancestors and have yet to recognize even a small fragment of a bona fide chimpanzee or gorilla ancestor.
Dr. Martin's presentation didn't include a lot of evidence. It mostly included declarative statements like, "We know how old these rocks are. Their ages aren't in dispute" and "Here's what paleontologists currently think" (not direct quotes). He gave the generally-accepted view that dinosaurs went extinct (probably by a meteor impact) about 65 million years ago, and the first apelike direct ancestor of humans probably existed 6-7 million years ago. Thus, dinosaurs and people did not live at the same time. He showed several of the supposed evolutionary ancestors of humans, giving a picture of the skull associated with the ancestor and then what he admitted was a "fanciful reconstruction." Unfortunately, he didn't really discuss what features of the skulls make paleontologists think these creatures are related to people. Most of his presentation had the message, "Scientists have been working on this for a long time, you should trust us" (once again, not a direct quote).
He did present evidence for one of the apelike ancestors (Australopithecus afarensis) having the ability to walk upright. It was the famous Laetoli footprints. He said that since they are dated at the same time as Australopithecus afarensis fossils, the footprints must be from them. Since the footprints look essentially like human footprints and show a human gait, they demonstrate that Australopithecus afarensis walked essentially like modern humans.
He did make a couple of rather silly statements. In defending the traditional ages of rocks, he showed a picture of the Mars rover and said something like, "We can put a rover on Mars. Surely we can date a rock. How hard can it be?" He also showed a common meme that you find in many places. It was captioned, "Creationism: Because it's a lot easier to read one book than a bunch of hard ones." He also claimed that there was no scientific material in the Bible.
In my rebuttal, I pointed out that we can put a rover on Mars, but we can't cure the common cold. Dating rocks is, in fact, very hard. If it were easy, there wouldn't be discordant dates or rocks on earth that date older than the supposed age of the planet itself. I told him that in my experience, creationists read a lot more books than evolutionists. The average creationist with whom I talk is much better informed on evolution than the average evolutionist is on creation. This is generally because informed creationists read both sides seriously, while most informed evolutionists read only one side seriously. I then listed some of the many examples of scientific content in the Bible.
I also discussed the Laetoli footprints, including the quote in the link above that says if it weren't for their date, they would be interpreted as human footprints, because they are essentially identical to the footprints a modern human would make. In addition, I pointed out that the only foot bone we have for Australopithecus afarensis is a single metatarsal, so we have no idea whether or not it could have made those footprints. In addition, there is a more complete foot fossil that is dated at the same time as Australopithecus afarensis, but since it couldn't have made the Laetoli footprints, it is thought to belong to some creature different from Australopithecus afarensis. Thus, it seems the footprints are being forced to belong to Australopithecus afarensis, regardless of their appearance or what else is found from that supposed time period.
In his rebuttal, Dr. Martin said that in listening to my presentation and rebuttal, it seemed to him that I had formed my opinion on origins and was forcing the data to fit that view. He said that soft tissue in dinosaur bones was not evidence they are young, but he couldn't say what it is. He suggested perhaps contamination or some unknown process that could keep tissue soft for millions of years. He said that the carbon-14 in dinosaur bones was not from the dinosaurs. It must be contamination. He also said that while individual paleontologists might disagree about individual human ancestors (like the ones I brought up), the overwhelming number of fossils and their correlation in time show that humans evolved from an apelike ancestor. He also said that you wouldn't always expect genetics to agree with morphology, because nature does strange things.
There was a question/answer session afterwards, which had some good questions. It also had some really bad ones. In addition, despite being told to be succinct several times, many questioners seemed more inclined to preach than to ask a question. Most of the questions were hostile to Dr. Martin's position. Only one was hostile to mine, and it was the question about how we see distant starlight on a young earth. I gave an answer based on general relativity. Dr. Martin said that it was a great answer, it just didn't agree with what the vast majority of physicists think.
I thought the best moment of the debate happened during the question/answer period. A questioner asked how reliable dating methods are. Dr. Martin said very reliable. He specifically said that carbon-14 dating is accurate to within 100 years or so. I chimed in with, "Well, unless it is dinosaur fossils being dated. Then, of course, it's useless." The audience applauded that, and Dr. Martin once again contended that the carbon-14 in dinosaur bones must be contamination. I discussed the several tests made to ensure that was not the case.
I really wish the audience had been more balanced. I would have liked some tough questions, and I think the audience would have benefited from hearing them. Nevertheless, they did benefit from hearing Dr. Martin's presentation, rebuttal, and answers, so overall, I thought it was another great debate.
UPDATE: I ran across this account of the debate, which was written almost 3 months after it happened.
This sounds very exciting. Will you update us when a video is available?
JoeCoder and Dan, this is the organization that hosted the event and will be making the DVD. They have a DVD of last year's debate, and they will be making one of this year's debate. They don't sell anything at their website, but if you contact them, I am sure they will arrange something with you.
This must have been very interesting. Is there a video of this debate, and also one of your debate with Dr. Martin previously?
Sounds like it was a great debate!
In your experience, Dr. Wile, do most evolutionists make appeals to consensus, or other such assertions, when asked for evidence of an old earth or macroevolution? I've found that textbooks and documentaries from an evolutionary POV tend to simply state these things as incontrovertible facts without presenting real arguments.
Caleb, the majority of evolutionists do use the consensus fallacy. However, there are a few evolutionists who have investigated the issue in detail and do concentrate on the evidence. I find that such evolutionists are few and far between.
When it comes to textbooks, I can understand why they simply make statements of fact. After all, the textbook's job is simply to teach the subject. It isn't to persuade the student.
I do agree that generally speaking Creationists know more about evolution than the Evolutionists do. Of course I have concluded that this is by choice weather it be conscious or not. Most people only gather enough information on a controversial subject in order to affirm their own world view.
Yet trying to convince them of this outright will only succeed in alienating the very person you are trying to help. I have lots of experience with failed attempts to justify my faith. Even if I take Plato's route and only ask questions, they most always become pointed or hostile which ends up being counter productive.
I feel I have reached an impasse with the countless unsaved who use evolution as an excuse to discount God. Of course the hardest part is convincing myself that in their hearts they know God exists else they are fools and are beyond a logical argument.
Ultimately I know that any topic that dictates how you live your life is controversial. This is why people avoid talking about politics or religion. Since if you are presented with a logical argument that conflicts with your lifestyle you are forced to make a choice. To either change your world view or defend it. Of course the most common approach to this problem is to simply ignore the facts presented and lie to yourself until it becomes your truth.
Aaron, I agree that many have become fools and are beyond a logical argument. However, many are not. I started my journey from atheism to Christianity because of a debate I witnessed. The Lord uses many different means to bring people to Him. One of those means is evidence-based arguments.
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Great debate, Dr. Wile! Enjoyed reading; thanks for sharing. Always learn a lot here, especially when you're debating someone.
I had a question about bone fossil archaeology which may be OT, but thought you might be able to shed some light. Are the reports of supersized human skeletal remains uncovered across the globe credible, or a hoax?
Here's an example of a website on this topic.
Thanks, Elizabeth! In answer to your question, I haven't seen a single piece of convincing evidence for giant human skeletons. The problem with most of these stories is that they don't provide references where you can go and check what's being claimed. Also, we know that many of the pictures are fakes. In addition, there is a fundamental limit to the size a human can attain and still look human. If a person were 30 feet tall, for example, the blood pressure he would require to get blood to his brain when he is standing would kill him when he bent over. Very tall mammals, like giraffes, have an incredibly well-designed system to deal with this issue. Humans don't have that system, because they don't need it. There are many issues like that. In the end, if something human-like were on the order of 20-30 feet tall, it would not look very human, because it would need all sorts of non-human features in order to survive.
The Bible discusses giants, but that term probably doesn't refer to people who were 20-30 feet tall. It simply refers to people who were significantly taller than everyone else. In the end, that could be someone who is 9 feet tall. The tallest known man reached a height of 8 feet 11 inches. He was a giant. The Bible says that Og, the king of Bashan, had a bed that was about 14 feet long (Deuteronomy 3:11), which means he was probably between 12 and 13 feet tall. That's a giant, but it's not the kind of giant discussed in most of the claims involving giant human skeletons.


Compared to Lucarotti's previous scripts, for Marco Polo, this adventure is notably pacier, and places a lot more emphasis on the regular cast. Comparing the climaxes is informative, because whereas the TARDIS crew slipped away during the confrontation between Marco and Tegana in the earlier adventure, here it's Ian who gets the showdown with Ixta. And whereas the last word in Assassin at Peking belongs to Marco, here it's an exchange between the Doctor and Barbara. This perhaps represents a slight refocusing for the series, from visiting and discovering strange environments to the regular cast being adventurers.
Barbara: Oh, I just want to get out of here as quickly as possible.
The Doctor: And the history?
The Doctor: Yes, we did. We had to.
Barbara: What's the point of travelling through time and space if we can't change anything? Nothing. Tlotoxl had to win.
Barbara: And the one man I had respect for, I deceived. Poor Autloc. I gave him false hope and in the end he lost his faith.
The Doctor: He found another faith, a better, and that's the good you've done. You failed to save a civilisation, but at least you helped one man.
This concluding dialogue is notable because it's basically the justification for all future adventures in history, right the way up to 2016. The Doctor might not be able to save Pompeii on volcano day, but he can save Caecilius and his family.
Hartnell and Hill have dominated these four episodes, and they're both absolutely on fire in The Day of Darkness. In particular, Hartnell finds unexpected ways to play every scene, from his panicked desperation when he thinks Ian is going to drown – begging Ixta to help rather than ordering him like a Sergeant Major; right to the final scene in Yetaxa's tomb, when he leaves Cameca's love token by the real Yetaxa's skeleton – only to dart back and pocket it. Particularly amusing are his raised eyebrows when Barbara has a fanciful 'moment' imagining the ghosts of the slaughtered dead watching her.
Having played with various duels in the previous episode, Lucarotti has everything come to a head in this episode in a pretty dramatic way: Ian's final showdown with Ixta; the resolution of the Doctor's relationship with Cameca; Autloc's final decision to turn away from the macabre teachings of the Aztec religion and seek enlightenment in the wilderness. It's all quite exciting and relentless. Perhaps this is to distract us, because Lucarotti doesn't actually have anything very positive for us to take from this story. Marco Polo felt like an exercise in keeping things going for seven weeks. The Aztecs is more purposeful, but only inasmuch as it's about the futility of one person trying to change the world. That's definitely not a lesson the 21st Century series would teach us. The 'good' characters get nothing – Cameca has 'lost all that is dear to my heart' and Autloc has entered exile. Tlotoxl is triumphant, the Perfect Victim is dead, and the Aztecs will continue towards their bloody date with the conquistadors. This is as bleak and horrifying as The Massacre.
Still, as if to reassure the audience that next week it's going to be alien planets, the next episode is called Strangers in Space. That sounds more like it.


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More than 200 women reveal what shoes they find most attractive.
You know that head-to-toe visual scan we all do when we first meet someone? Well, when women check men out, their visual scan prioritizes a few points over others. One of those points are a man's shoes. Your shoes, like few other pieces of clothing, broadcast what type of dude you are to those around you. Are you a sneakerhead? A hipster? A luxury-yacht-owning man of leisure? A crust punk? Or a grown-up Damn Daniel? But more than just a personality gauge, your shoes hold the power to attract or repulse (sorry) the woman of your dreams. "What about my great jokes and talents in the bedroom?" you ask. Those are important, for sure. But really it's the shoes she'll see first. For proof of this, and in the interest of anthropological research, we asked 200-plus women to help us help you. Here's what they said (note: all results based on our anonymous survey).
"The first thing I do when I see a guy I think is hot is check if he's wearing a wedding band. If he isn't, I check what kind of shoes he's wearing. It means that much to me."
"No holes, not overly worn, and no unbearable smells!"
"After you teach men to wear the right shoes, you need to convince them all to stop wearing boot-cut jeans."
"This is the best survey I've ever taken in my life."
Some participants were disappointed at the lack of sneaker choice.
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"I prefer non-leather shoes. Canvas, etc., so this was a tough-y for me."
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A few weeks ago I volunteered to organize the after-party/parties for this year's MidCamp. After getting some feedback from my initial post, Twitter, and Reddit, I began to brainstorm possibilities for catering and entertainment, working from some initial assumptions (since I hadn't gotten budget numbers from the Finance team yet).
While people didn't seem excited fully-structured group activities, it would be nice to provide a space for self-organized activities: board games, knitting circle, firespinning (okay maybe not that one), etc.
I'd wanted to include dinner (rather than just appetizers/snacks and drinks) as part of the event, so that attendees don't leave the venue for dinner and decide not to come back. However, since we're limited to catering provided by the venue, costs quickly skyrocketed beyond anything we could reasonably expect a sponsor to cover -- ten times the amount the Sponsorship team is trying to raise through the a la carte sponsor option.
This is at least partially a chicken-and-egg problem. We're trying to organize events for two to three times last year's attendee numbers, with last year's finance numbers. We also don't know how many attendees we're going to have, never mind how many of those would actually come to a social event on Friday and/or Saturday evening.
At this point in our planning, I can see where the benefits of going to a bar or restaurant begin to look enticing. In purely economic terms, you'll get more bang for your buck: cheaper food and drinks, options of open bar vs. cash bar vs. special discounts. However, relocating means that we lose control of the venue and start running into dark, noisy, and/or crowded environments that just aren't conducive to socializng and networking.
Option A: Hold a "Tea Party" social for a few hours in the evening, providing snacks/desserts and drinks at the venue. Leave some time between the end of camp sessions and the start of the social for attendees to head out into the neighborhood for dinner.
Option B: Try to convince a local bar or restaurant to host the group. We would need to provide dinner or appetizers in order to keep the group together as much as possible.
So again, I'm reaching out to the community. What would you prefer? What ideas have we missed?


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DVD: L'amour fou
Unsatisfying and overly cosy roam through YSL's back pages
by Kieron TylerTuesday, 15 November 2011
'L'amour fou': Yves Saint Laurent (left) and Pierre Bergé (right). Close in life, close after Saint Laurent's death
"I tell myself that I have created the modern woman's wardrobe," declares Yves Saint Laurent during the press conference that opens L'amour fou. Hubris, but the trouser suits, safari jackets and Mondrian dresses he created did – in other manufacturers' hands - become day-to-day wear. The gathering was called in 2002 so the designer could announce his retirement. Despite his death in 2008, the YSL brand lives on. The hagiographic L'amour fou won't undermine that.
Like the Simon and Garfunkel documentary reviewed last week on theartsdesk, L'amour fou is intimately entangled with parties linked to its subject. Pierre Bergé was Saint Laurent's partner and sponsor – they met at Christian Dior's funeral in 1957. Bergé is behind L'amour fou. A couple of Saint Laurent documentaries have already been made, and this one differs by hanging itself around the 2009 sale of the couple's museum-class art collection. The £300 million-plus proceeds went towards AIDS research.
Their house is seen being stripped of the objets, Bergé and others talk, clips of collections and catwalk shows are dropped in. There's talk of the couple's split in 1976, and of Saint Laurent's drug use. But there's no digging, it just is. False friends are mentioned. Bergé says Saint Laurent "found fame through haute couture but was never fooled by it". When the outside world is let in, it can fuel scorn. The May 1968 riots come up because the airports near Paris were closed and they had to drive to Belgium for a flight to Morocco. But Saint Laurent was revolutionary, as he'd introduced his ready-to-wear range in 1966 and went on to declare haute couture dead.
The masses of extras on the DVD include examinations of the various places the couple lived, the houses themselves and particular clothes. But L'amour fou itself is so stately, so raffiné and so close to its subject that these aren't enough. At his peak, Saint Laurent sought to excite. L'amour fou doesn't even try.
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All About Comment Clauses
An Introduction to Punctuation
Humanities › English
Common Aspect of Speech Adds Parenthetical Remark
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by Richard Nordquist
Dr. Richard Nordquist is professor emeritus of rhetoric and English at Georgia Southern University and the author of several university-level grammar and composition textbooks.
A comment clause, commonly heard in everyday speech and used in dialogue to give it a natural tone, is a short word group, such as "you see" and "I think," that adds a parenthetical remark to another word group. It's also called a comment tag, a commenting tag or a parenthesis. You might not have known the name of it, but it's guaranteed you use and hear it just about every day.
Examples and Observations of a Comment Clause
"Commonly occurring examples [of comment clauses] are 'I'm sure,' 'I'm afraid,' 'I admit,' 'I gather,' 'I dare say' and 'you see,' 'you know', 'mind you,' 'you must admit.' Many comment clauses are stereotyped fillers which are inserted into running speech in order to establish informal contact with the hearer. When the subject is realized by 'I,' their function is to inform the hearer of the speaker's degree of certainty (I know/I suppose) or of her emotional attitude to the content of the matrix clause." -Carl Bache, "Essentials of Mastering English" (2000)
"As you know, the concept of the suction pump is centuries old. Really that's all this is except that instead of sucking water, I'm sucking life." -Christopher Guest as Count Rugen in "The Princess Bride" (1987)
The presentation went quite well, I believe.
"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber." -Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969)
"They [comment clauses] are so called because they do not so much add to the information in a sentence as comment on its truth, the manner of saying it or the attitude of the speaker." -Gunther Kaltenbock, "Spoken Parenthetical Clauses in English: A Taxonomy" (2007)
"Fly high above the clouds
On the wings of a dream
I hear your whisper loud—
Or so it seems." -Jackie Lomax, "Or So It Seems"
Signals in Conversation
"The comment clauses 'you know' and 'you see' require some kind of response from the listeners, which, in a narrative turn, are more likely to be paralinguistic than vocal. Nods of the head, direct eye contact and minimal vocalizations like 'mm' will satisfy the speaker that he still has the audience's consent to continue dominating the turn-taking." -Sara Thorne, "Mastering Advanced English Language" (2008)
Comment Clauses and Relative Clauses
"In an example like 'Margaret Thatcher is now a life Baroness, which everyone knows,' we can replace 'which' with 'as' with virtually no change of meaning. But unlike 'which,' 'as' is not generally used as a relative but as a conjunction. Note also that 'as everyone knows' is positionally less restricted than 'which everyone knows': It could also be placed initially or medially. We, therefore, do not classify such an 'as'-clause as a sentential relative clause but as a comment clause." -C. Bache and N. Davidsen-Nielsen, "Mastering English" (1997)
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Echt super, Mr. Cooper (Originaltitel: Hangin' with Mr. Cooper) ist eine US-amerikanische Sitcom, die von 1992 bis 1997 auf ABC ausgestrahlt wurde. Der Hauptdarsteller Mark Curry spielt darin einen verhinderten Basketballprofi, der als High-School-Lehrer arbeitet. Die Serie umfasst 101 Folgen in fünf Staffeln. Die ersten Folgen der deutschen Synchronfassung wurden im September 1994 auf ProSieben gesendet.

Schöpfer und ausführender Produzent der Serie war Jeff Franklin. Gedreht wurde Echt super, Mr. Cooper in den Studios von Warner Bros. in Burbank.

Handlung
Der alleinstehende Mark Cooper hatte eine Karriere als professioneller Basketballspieler angestrebt. Stattdessen muss er sich in einer High School zuerst als Aushilfslehrer und später als Basketballtrainer verdingen. Cooper wohnt mit seiner Jugendfreundin, der Musiklehrerin Robin, und der hübschen Vanessa in einem Haus zusammen. Ab der zweiten Staffel zieht Robin aus, dafür stoßen Marks Cousine Geneva Lee und ihre Tochter Nicole zur Wohngemeinschaft hinzu. Der Nachbarjunge Tyler wird zum besten Freund von Nicole. Weitere Hauptfiguren sind die Rektorin P.J. Moore und Marks Schüler Earvin.

In der zweiten Episode hatten John Stamos, Mary-Kate und Ashley Olsen in ihren Rollen aus der ebenfalls von Jeff Franklin geschaffenen Sitcom Full House einen Gastauftritt.

Ausstrahlung
Die erste Folge von Hangin' with Mr. Cooper lief am 22. September 1992 auf ABC. In der ersten Staffel wurde die Sendung jeweils Dienstagabends zwischen Full House und Roseanne ausgestrahlt. Für spätere Staffeln wurde der Sendeplatz auf Freitag- und Samstagabend gewechselt. Die letzte Folge lief am 30. August 1997.

Die Erstausstrahlung der deutschen Synchronfassung Echt super, Mr. Cooper erstreckte sich zuerst über 42 Folgen von September 1994 bis November 1994 auf ProSieben. Danach übernahm Kabel eins von September 1995 bis Dezember 1995 mit 41 alten und 24 neuen Folgen. Die bis dahin ausgestrahlten Folgen und der Rest der Serie liefen dann von November 1996 bis Juli 1999 auf DF1 Comedy & Co.

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I am grateful for the opportunity to visit this land, so rich in history and culture, to admire its natural beauty, to witness for myself the creativity of the Turkish people, and to appreciate your ancient culture and long history, both civil and religious.
As soon as I arrived in Turkey, I was graciously received by the President of the Republic. And it was also a great pleasure for me to meet and greet the Prime Minister, Mr Erdogan, at the airport. In greeting them, I was pleased to express my profound esteem for all the people of this great country and to pay my respects at the tomb of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
I now have the joy of meeting you, the President of the Religious Affairs Directorate. I offer you my sentiments of respect, in recognition of your great responsibilities, and I extend my greetings to all the religious leaders of Turkey, especially the Grand Muftis of Ankara and Istanbul. In your person, Mr President, I greet all the Muslims in Turkey with particular esteem and affectionate regard.
Your country is very dear to Christians: many of the earliest Church communities were founded here and grew to maturity, inspired by the preaching of the Apostles, particularly Saint Paul and Saint John. The tradition has come down to us that Mary, the Mother of Jesus, lived at Ephesus, in the home of the Apostle Saint John.
This noble land has also seen a remarkable flowering of Islamic civilization in the most diverse fields, including its literature and art, as well as its institutions.
There are so many Christian and Muslim monuments that bear witness to Turkey's glorious past. You rightly take pride in these, preserving them for the admiration of the ever increasing number of visitors who flock here.
I have set out upon my visit to Turkey with the same sentiments as those expressed by my predecessor Blessed John XXIII, when he came here as Archbishop Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, to fulfil the office of Papal Representative in Istanbul, and I quote him: "I am fond of the Turks", he said, "to whom the Lord has sent me I love the Turks, I appreciate the natural qualities of these people who have their own place reserved in the march of civilization" [Journal of a Soul, pp. 228, 233-4].
For my own part, I also wish to highlight the qualities of the Turkish population. Here I make my own the words of my immediate predecessor, Pope John Paul II of blessed memory, who said on the occasion of his visit in 1979: "I wonder if it is not urgent, precisely today when Christians and Muslims have entered a new period of history, to recognize and develop the spiritual bonds that unite us, in order to preserve and promote together, for the benefit of all men, 'peace, liberty, social justice and moral values'" [Address to the Catholic Community in Ankara, 28 November 1979].
These questions have continued to present themselves throughout the intervening years; indeed, as I indicated at the very beginning of my Pontificate, they impel us to carry forward our dialogue as a sincere exchange between friends. When I had the joy of meeting members of Muslim communities last year in Cologne, on the occasion of World Youth Day, I reiterated the need to approach our interreligious and intercultural dialogue with optimism and hope. It cannot be reduced to an optional extra: on the contrary, it is "a vital necessity, on which in large measure our future depends" [Address to Representatives of some Muslim Communities, Cologne, 20 August 2005].
Christians and Muslims, following their respective religions, point to the truth of the sacred character and dignity of the person. This is the basis of our mutual respect and esteem, this is the basis for cooperation in the service of peace between nations and peoples, the dearest wish of all believers and all people of good will.
For more than forty years, the teaching of the Second Vatican Council has inspired and guided the approach taken by the Holy See and by local Churches throughout the world to relations with the followers of other religions. Following the Biblical tradition, the Council teaches that the entire human race shares a common origin and a common destiny: God, our Creator and the goal of our earthly pilgrimage. Christians and Muslims belong to the family of those who believe in the one God and who, according to their respective traditions, trace their ancestry to Abraham [cf. Second Vatican Council, Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions Nostra Aetate, 1,3]. This human and spiritual unity in our origins and our destiny impels us to seek a common path as we play our part in the quest for fundamental values so characteristic of the people of our time. As men and women of religion, we are challenged by the widespread longing for justice, development, solidarity, freedom, security, peace, defence of life, protection of the environment and of the resources of the earth. This is because we too, while respecting the legitimate autonomy of temporal affairs, have a specific contribution to offer in the search for proper solutions to these pressing questions.
A bove all, we can offer a credible respons to the question which emerges clearly from today's society, even if it is often brushed aside, the question about the meaning and purpose of life, for each individual and for humanity as a whole. We are called to work together, so as to help society to open itself to the transcendent, giving Almighty God his rightful place. The best way forward is via authentic dialogue between Christians and Muslims, based on truth and inspired by a sincere wish to know one another better, respecting differences and recognizing what we have in common. This will lead to an authentic respect for the responsible choices that each person makes, especially those pertaining to fundamental values and to personal religious convictions.
As an illustration of the fraternal respect with which Christians and Muslims can work together, I would like to quote some words addressed by Pope Gregory VII in 1076 to a Muslim prince in North Africa who had acted with great benevolence towards the Christians under his jurisdiction. Pope Gregory spoke of the particular charity that Christians and Muslims owe to one another "because we believe in one God, albeit in a different manner, and because we praise him and worship him every day as the Creator and Ruler of the world."
Mr President, I should like to finish by praising the Almighty and merciful God for this happy occasion that brings us together in his name. I pray that it may be a sign of our joint commitment to dialogue between Christians and Muslims, and an encouragement to persevere along that path, in respect and friendship. May we come to know one another better, strengthening the bonds of affection between us in our common wish to live together in harmony, peace and mutual trust. As believers, we draw from our prayer the strength that is needed to overcome all traces of prejudice and to bear joint witness to our firm faith in God. May his blessing be ever upon us! Thank you.