All Raw Signal Events have a Code of Conduct (see below) that we require all participants to read in advance, and adhere to throughout.
We have set aside 10% of our total ticket pool for subsidized tickets, prioritizing underrepresented and economically disadvantaged individuals. If you want to attend but feel that you'll need a subsidized ticket to be able to do so, email us.
Our venue has accessible entrances, and we will use amplified sound for those with hearing difficulties. You will be asked about any other accommodations you may need during registration.
While the venue's restrooms are gendered, we encourage you to use whichever one feels appropriate to you.
Finally we acknowledge, with gratitude, that our event is happening on land that is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Toronto is in the 'Dish With One Spoon Territory'. The Dish With One Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect.
This policy is a "living" document, and subject to refinement and expansion in the future. Last updated Jan 2, 2019.
Everyone participating in a Raw Signal Event—including, but not limited to the event itself and alum communities—is required to agree to the following Code of Conduct. This includes all attendees, speakers, performers, patrons (sponsors), volunteers, and staff.
Raw Signal Group is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neurotype, physical appearance, body, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, language, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
Anyone who violates this Code of Conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the Raw Signal Group partners. Refunds will not be given.
If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, Raw Signal Group may take any action we deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all Raw Signal Group spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser to other event participants or the general public.
If you are being harassed by an attendee at a Raw Signal Event or other member of the Raw Signal Group community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact us immediately via email at events@rawsignal.ca.
Please contact any member of our staff, volunteer or security team. Our team will be identified at the beginning of each event, and will be trained in how to address and report any incidents that attendees bring to their attention.
If the person who is harassing you is a member of staff or a volunteer, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident.
This policy is based in large part on the XOXO Festival's 2018 CoC, and we are grateful beyond measure for their choice to license their policy under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. This policy is likewise licensed CC-BY.


LinkedIn is a networking site used by professionals from all across the globe. Making the network a uniquely focused avenue for B2B business to run their paid marketing campaigns.
On LinkedIn it's all business, all the time.
Advanced targeting options, including job title, function, and industry.
Ad options that range from self-serve ads to partner solutions.
Performance measurement through analytics and tracking tools.
LinkedIn gives you the option of creating three types of ads.
Sponsored content are native ads that have the same appearance as regular posts. With Sponsored Content, you can share posts to your company page with a targeted audience on the network. The ads help you raise awareness about your brand, build relationships, and drive leads.
Extend the reach of your content.
Attract more followers to the Company Page.
Get more users to view and click the content across multiple devices.
Integrate lead generation forms to capture more leads.
Text ads feature a headline, a description and an image and allow you to capture user attention and drive clicks by being short and succulent. The ads are a desktop only option, and work well if you're looking to attract the attention of a busy LinkedIn professional.
With the help of text ads, you can promote job opening to a busy professional browsing through the network.
You can easily get started.
You can target your audience with B2B filters.
You can track conversions with the analytics tool.
To ensure that your Sponsored InMail ads get noticed, LinkedIn only sends the recipients the emails when they are active on the network. The ads work if you're looking for a more personalized approach to getting your target audience's attention.
Just enter your company name, a LinkedIn public URL and you're done. Once you have the company page all set up, follow the steps mentioned below to start advertising on LinkedIn.
Each option will require you to create a campaign name and choose your target audience language.
Let's select the Text ads option for the purpose of this guide.
You also have the option of linking a Company or Showcase page with the text ad campaign.
The audience you can potentially reach with your ads depends on the target audience language you select. Most advertisers select English as the default language to maximize the scale of their campaigns.
One thing to remember is that the ad copy should match the language you selected, if you've selected English as the audience language you can create ad copy in your available local language as well.
The first thing you need to select at this step is where you would like users to go after they click the ad. You have the option to send them to your LinkedIn page, or select a website.
You should opt to direct users who click your ad to a relevant post-click landing page instead of your website homepage.
A relevant post-click landing page highlights only the offer you've promoted in the ads, reassuring the visitor that they have come to the right place. Contrary to your website homepage, that is created to highlight all your offers, benefits and services, a post-click landing page is created to promote a single offer.
All post-click landing page elements are dedicated to highlight the promoted offer – starting from the headline down to the call to action button.
The page headline highlights the Gartner report mentioned in the ad text.
The image establishes relevancy, letting the visitor know that they've come to the right place.
The copy highlights the review of the report, and why the visitor should read it.
The form collects the lead information needed to access the report for free.
The CTA button lets visitors know they can now download the report.
The visitor would have to sift through a lot of navigation links and copy to get to the report they wanted to download. Directing visitors to a standalone post-click landing page ensures that they don't have to work to get to the promoted offer, which isn't something you should expect your visitors to do in any case.
Make sure to add an attention-grabbing headline in your text ads to entice the user to read the rest of the ad and eventually click. Try adding a statistic in the headline, or asking a question that piques their interest.
LinkedIn gives you the opportunity to use a matched audience, this is a custom targeting option to reach website visitors, contacts, and target audience. You can create an audience list for retargeting, or upload a list of companies or email addresses you want to target with your ads.
Select the location where your target audience resides. You can target by country, state, city, or town. You can also choose to include or exclude certain locations for your ads.
LinkedIn also pre-selects the 'Enable Audience Expansion' option, the feature helps broaden the reach of your campaign by showing it to audience that have the same characteristics or attributes as the target audience you've selected.
You can choose to set up conversion tracking by installing an Insight Tag to gather insights into post click and view through conversions of your campaigns.
You can now select your bid type. With CPC, you only pay when a user clicks your ad. Your daily budget is the amount of money you've decided to spend for your ad campaign in a single day, the daily budget limit for LinkedIn is $10.
Once the daily budget is reached, your ads stop showing. However, there may be a short period of time your ads are still displayed after your daily budget is reached, you are charged for clicks at that time amounting to up to 20% of your daily budget.
After you've selected the daily budget, it's time to select your bid. The bid is the maximum amount you're willing to spend for each ad click. Because you're competing with other advertisers for ad clicks, there is no determined net cost. So, the higher you bid the more competitive your campaign is in the auction.
Plus, with a high bid you are likely to receive more ad clicks, as your ad is shown more than the ads of the other advertisers.
Based on the audience you've selected, LinkedIn gives you an estimate of what amount other advertisers are bidding for a similar audience. The maximum bid amount is $2.
For ad schedule, you have two options – either start running your ads immediately, or choose a specific date for your ads to begin showing. You can also choose a campaign end date.
1. Optimize for clicks: Better performing ads appear more often.
2. Allow ads to enter auction evenly: Your ads are entered into the auction evenly, this doesn't guarantee that better performing ads will be displayed more often.
LinkedIn ads allows you to access a range of metrics that help you measure and optimize your campaigns. The metrics include impressions, clicks, and ad spend. The network also lets you measure "social actions," the actions capture how LinkedIn members interact with your content, giving you an insight into how to create future LinkedIn campaigns.
LinkedIn should be your PPC advertising network of choice if you're a B2B business. The network has a growing user base of professionals, plus it gives you the opportunity to target professionals with various variables such as seniority and job function. The performance measurement analytics help you see how your campaigns are doing and helps you make informed decisions about your future campaigns.
Pay-per-click marketing is an advertising bidding option that allows you to pay only when your audience clicks an ad. Depending on the advertising platform you choose, you get to set desired bids, choose keywords, target customers, and showcase ads to your target audience.
To ensure that your PPC campaigns yield a higher ROI, it's important you connect all ads with relevant conversion-centric post-click landing pages. Haven't created post-click landing pages yet?
Create one today with Instapage – a platform that empowers you to create fully customizable post-click landing pages that increase your conversion rates and ROI.


AWA is back with its annual preseason camps to help you get ready for the High School season! We will be hosting a camp at all of our locations and each one will have a different positional focus. The idea is for you to be able to pick one area you need help in and get some much needed attention to that position before the HS season starts! In the past these camps have filled up quickly, make sure you get your spot. All locations will have same date and times!
Cost: $50 for non AWA members, $40 for AWA members. Price includes T-Shirt and Lunch.


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UGA lacrosse player shot during armed robbery at bus stop
Athens-Clarke County police say they were called to the shooting at a bus stop on South Milledge Avenue near the 10 Loop just after 7:15 a.m. Monday.
By: Richard Elliot
Updated: May 15, 2019 - 11:16 AM
CLARKE COUNTY, Ga. — The search is on for a gunman who police say robbed a man at gunpoint and then shot another a few minutes later. The victims are both University of Georgia students.
Athens-Clarke County police said they were called to the shooting at a bus stop on South Milledge Avenue near the 10 Loop just after 7:15 a.m. Monday.
When police arrived, they found the 22-year-old victim identified as Tate Prezzano on the ground. They said he'd been shot multiple times and was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
#Breaking Friends and teammates confirm that UGA lacrosse player Tate Prezzano is the student shot in a robbery attempt this morning. They say he's in stable but critical condition. More at 5. pic.twitter.com/IITxW3OsO4
— Richard Elliot (@RElliotWSB) April 22, 2019
Friends of Prezzano say he's from Alpharetta and is a member of the UGA lacrosse team.
Not long before that shooting, police say the same man robbed another student at a nearby apartment complex.
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Chief Cleveland Spruill thinks the gunman didn't get enough from his first robbery, so he tried to rob Prezzano around the corner.
"So if that individual was looking for money or things of value, he doesn't look like he got it out of the first incident, and maybe he goes on to a second to try and do that," Spruill said.
Channel 2 Action News obtained an email to students, faculty and staff sent Monday morning about the armed robberies.
"We are deeply saddened by these tragic and shocking events," the email said, in part.
Police are searching for a black male with dreads or twists driving an early 2000 model, white Ford Mustang convertible with a tan roof.
#breaking This is a sketch of the man wanted for robbing two UGA students, shooting one of them. More at 4. pic.twitter.com/wXhAJr30cN
Zac Hendrix lives barely five yards from where the shooting happened. He heard the whole thing.
"So I was just lying in bed. I heard, 'Pow! Pow!' and I was, like, 'Whoa.' So then I woke up immediately, ran outside and I looked on the ground, and there was a picture I never want to see again," Hendrix said.
Justin Bray grew up in Athens and lives down the street from where the shooting happened. He said he never expected to see something like this in his neighborhood.
"It's always been a very safe part of town. I mean, Athens is always safe. I was born and raised here, and I've never felt unsafe here," Bray said.
Anyone with information about the shooter's whereabouts is asked to call the Athens-Clarke County Police Department at 706-613-3330.
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Yohimbine as a serotonergic agent: evidence from receptor binding and drug discrimination.
J C Winter and R A Rabin
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics November 1992, 263 (2) 682-689;
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Stimulus control was established in rats trained to discriminate either 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin (DPAT) (0.2 mg/kg) or yohimbine (3 mg/kg) from saline. Tests of generalization were then conducted with a group of drugs thought to act via the 5-hydroxytryptamine1A (5-HT1A) receptor and a group of drugs thought to act as antagonists at alpha 2 adrenoceptors. In addition, each drug was characterized in terms of its affinity for 5-HT1A and alpha 2 adrenoceptors by means of radioligand binding techniques. It was observed that the stimulus effects of DPAT generalized fully to those of the alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonists, yohimbine, rauwolscine and L-657,743, but not to idazoxan or atipamezole. The dissociation constants (Kd, nM) of the alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonists at the 5-HT1A receptor were 74, 52, 80, 199 and 13,000, respectively. Thus, the discrimination data are explicable in terms of a direct action of yohimbine and some other alpha 2 adrenoceptor antagonists upon 5-HT1A receptors. In yohimbine-trained rats, full generalization to DPAT, flesinoxan and tandospirone was observed. In light of the negligible affinity of flesinoxan and tandospirone for the alpha 2 adrenoceptor (9000 and 8800 nM, respectively), and high affinity for the 5-HT1A receptor (0.3 and 43 nM, respectively), a mechanism mediated by the latter site is suggested. We would emphasize two implications of the present study. First, the present data suggest that rats trained with yohimbine as a discriminative stimulus generalize to drugs with minimal affinity for the alpha 2 adrenoceptor but with high affinity for 5-HT1A receptors.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics November 1, 1992, 263 (2) 682-689;


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Herbert Wimmer, född 9 november 1944 i Eupen, Belgien, är en tysk före detta professionell fotbollsspelare, mittfältare.

Herbert Wimmer kom fram under 60-talet i det kommande storlaget Borussia Mönchengladbach tillsammans med spelare som Günter Netzer och Berti Vogts. Herbert Wimmer bildade tillsammans med Netzer ett av Bundesliga bästa innermittfält i början av 1970-talet och båda var ordinarie i det tyska lag som vann EM i stor stil sommaren 1972.

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EM i fotboll: 1972, 1976
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Grafoid Inc.
Grafoid Inc. is a privately held graphene research, development and investment company partnered with Focus Graphite Inc., owner of the high-grade Lac Knife technology graphite deposit in Quebec. Grafoid invests in, manages and develops markets for processes that produce economically scalable, high-purity graphene used for industrial-scale applications by leading corporations and institutions. The company's leading investment produces high-energy, few-layer graphene from a safe, stable graphite ore-to-graphene transformation process that leaves the lowest possible ecological footprint. This game-changing process sets the global standard for economically scalable graphene products using MesoGraf, the first globally trademarked graphene that can be tailored to both industrial and commercial applications.
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What do you feel when you push or pull? Are these two actions the same or different? How can understanding them help us think about building up? In this episode, Nitch is trying to stack as many blocks as he can, but every time he tries, they just keep falling down. Let's see how his friend Glitch can help him work through this.
Join Glitch and Nitch as they continue exploring the concept of force. Glitch introduces Nitch to the concept of center of mass. See how Nitch uses this new information to rethink his design for building the tallest tower.


Could it be a primary source of energy around the world in the future? Jessica got a large dose of it when she visited Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA. There, in what they call the National Ignition Facility, they are building the world's largest laser...actually 192 lasers that multiply and combine into a very powerful laser that creates nuclear fusion to reproduce the same kind of energy process that happens on the sun and stars. It's 100% clean energy and produces no reactive waste. This story has a big WOW factor!


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Russia casts shadow over European Union summit
Lorne Cook And Raf Casert CP
BRUSSELS — Russia had no seat at the European Union's table Thursday but it cast a shadow over the summit as a target for criticism of its role in the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's influence over the wars that have dragged on for years deeply frustrated a Europe limited to diplomacy, money or humanitarian aid to try to change facts on the ground.
"Faced with the brutality of the Syrian regime and its supporters, notably Russia and Iran, we are not as effective as we would like to be," EU Council President Donald Tusk told reporters. "Unfortunately, I know who is effective enough, not in humanitarian assistance, but in bombing."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "We are all seeing something in the 21st century that is shameful, that is heart-breaking, that shows we haven't been able to act politically how we would like to act."
A great unknown also weighs on the Europeans: exactly what U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's attitude toward Russia will be, given the benevolent view of Putin that he expressed during the election campaign.
The EU has slapped sanctions on Russia for annexing Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, and the leaders gave their greenlight Thursday for some of them to be rolled over for a further six months. But cracks have appeared in Europe's facade, with Italy notably pushing for an easing of the punitive measures.
Any sign that Trump will be more tolerant of Russia's actions is only likely to deepen the EU divide.
Tusk said it was too early to assess what might be possible effects of U.S. policy toward Russia. "We have to wait for the declaration of the new president."
In any case, new sanctions over Russia's backing of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime in crushing the besieged eastern city of Aleppo were not on the table, despite stiff criticism expressed by some member states.
"I have been talking constantly to Russia, and Russia makes commitments that it is not keeping. Now it is time for us to conclude a cease-fire," French President Francois Hollande told reporters.
Putin also cast a shadow as the leaders struggled to broker a compromise with the Netherlands that would allow the EU to enact a long-standing agreement with Ukraine on closer ties.
The agreement is the same one that sparked the Maidan Square popular uprising in Kyiv three years ago. Protests broke out in November 2013 when then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych abruptly decided to abandon the pact with the EU and seek closer co-operation with Moscow instead.
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets. Later, the protests later turned violent and more than 100 people were killed, many of them by sniper fire.
The EU compromise involved a legally binding text explaining that the agreement does not mean membership for Ukraine or military support or more money beyond the billions already poured into the country from Europe.
It may be enough to persuade Dutch lawmakers to approve a pact that was rejected by voters earlier this year. But those guarantees may also be music to Putin's ears.
Associated Press writer Geir Moulson contributed to this report.
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Sincerity, as defined by Webster's dictionary, is a fine print apology following the airing of a grievance of a trivial matter, e.g., size of ketchup packets.
I always wondered why they don't make little containers for ketchup a la sweet and sour or bbq sauce. It would be so much easier than squeezing it out!


Susan is a dynamic and engaging talent development professional. In her role as Senior Consultant and Assessment Specialist with CCI, she partners with our clients on assessments, coaching, training, engagement survey's and development needs. She is a resourceful and versatile member of the Talent Development Practice.
Susan provides keen insight and clarity to individuals and teams as they seek to gain perspective and guidance in their professional development. She administers and debriefs Leadership Development testing and assessments including: Myers Briggs, DiSC, PDI Profiler 360, Assess Development and 360, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Conflict Mode Instrument Indicator, Strong Interest Inventory, Career Anchors and Life Options.
In addition to her expertise in individual and team assessments, Susan has significant experience managing Employee Engagement Surveys, measuring employee satisfaction and engagement for multiple global organizations. Integral to the design of the survey, she also analyzes, debriefs and provides recommendations for implementing improved management practices.
Susan is an artful facilitator and trainer, helping our clients with a myriad of learning and development solutions. Susan is an instructor in the University of Pennsylvania's Essentials of Management Program and their Management Development Program on topics including improving Emotional Intelligence, Dynamic Communications and Managing Generations-Multigenerational Teams. Other examples of her expertise include instructor led seminars including Leveraging 7 Habits of Highly Effective People for a global organization's Leadership Development; Everything DiSC (behavioral styles awareness), and Pre-employment Testing-Checking the Fit of Candidates. In addition, Susan is certified in Career Partners International's Talent Management Programs, Create Your Own Career GPS and New Horizons, a program to map your path to retirement.
Susan received her Master's in Psychology in Clinical Counseling from LaSalle University and a Bachelor's degree in Management/Marketing from the University of Scranton. She is an adjunct faculty member at Arcadia University, member of American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) and the Delaware Valley Association for Psychological Type.


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Held in January, the Dusseldorf boat show in Germany is massive. With almost 2,000 exhibitors from 73 countries and displays covering 220,000 m², nearly 250,000 people came from over 100 countries. The 'boot', as it is known, is the leading public boating exhibition in the world.
Let me say that for the ones that really like sailboats, Dusseldorf boat show is a bit like Christmas, a yacht Christmas, where one is able to see many new boats, revisit some favorite ones and take the pulse on yacht industry.
The relative importance of bigger cruising yachts has become dominant. Brands chose to expose mainly boats 44 feet and over and the number of exposed cruising boats with 40ft or less is shrinking every year and the few that are there almost pass unnoticed among the bigger ones.
What is the explanation? I believe we have to look at the global sailing picture and regarding that it is also true that weekenders and daysailers, some of them quite luxurious, are presented in large number. This probably means that more and more sailors only buy cruising yachts when they retire and before, besides doing charter, they buy much smaller boats to enjoy sailing or week end cruising.
Like on cars and houses, Europeans have become used to travel and live in increasingly bigger spaces and since cruising boats are bought mostly at retirement age (or close) to live considerable time aboard, most cruising boats that are now bought are 44ft or more. The increase in yacht size has a parallel in the increasing living space in houses.
Of course, not all have the money for a new boat but the ones that can't buy a new 45ft boat prefer to buy one with that size on the used market, than buying a new 37 or 40 ft boat. People become used to living with more space and small cruising boats that were once considered more than enough to live aboard are today considered, by most, cramped and uncomfortable.
A more unfortunate tendency regards the diminution of the sailing market and the increasing of the motorboat market. In that regards, Dusseldorf boat show is by far the one where that disproportion is smaller but even so, talking with people from brands that produce sailing boats and motorboats, they all say that they are making much more motorboats than sailboats and in many cases they were brands that started doing exclusively sailboats.
And cruising sailboats are becoming less and less sailboats and more and more second houses that can be moved around and that can also sail.


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As CJI, Justice Ramana Needs to Act Like Former Election Commissioner T.N. Seshan
History will not be kind to the Indian judicial leadership of recent years, for it has undermined public trust in the institution. Ramana has his task cut out to restore the lost public faith in the judiciary.
T.N. Seshan, Supreme Court of India and Justice N.V. Ramana. Photos: Rishabh Tatiraju (CC BY-SA 3.0)/The Wire
Harish Khare
08/Apr/2021
On Tuesday, the President of India named Justice N.V. Ramana as the next chief justice of India. He will take up office on April 24. His appointment comes at a time when it is clear that the judiciary is in the throes of extreme confusion over its role as mandated by Article 32 of the Indian constitution.
Can India's citizens hope that under a new chief, the apex court will attend to the urgent task of restoring public confidence and trust in the judiciary as the empowered custodian of constitutional values and virtues?
For now, the only hope citizens can entertain is that the next CJI will not be another S.A. Bobde, Ranjan Gogoi, or Dipak Misra. But can we hope that Ramana will do to the office of the chief justice what T.N. Seshan did for the election commission when he overhauled the poll body and restored faith in the election process?
Also read: Andhra CM Jagan Declares War on Justice Ramana, Next-in-Line to be Chief Justice of India
The legend of T.N. Seshan
Before Seshan was chosen to preside over Nirvachan Sadan in 1990, he had earned a well-deserved reputation of being a competent but compliant and complicit bureaucrat, eager to attend to the whims and fancies of the political bosses. Once he entered high constitutional office, however, the same Seshan was a different man: he demonstrated a pronounced backbone and a certain kind of moral clarity. Every constitutional office carries with it institutional dharma and Seshan was conscious of his duty to explore the extent of the Election Commission's mandate, prescribed in Article 324 of the constitution.
T.N. Seshan in 1994. Photo: Rishabh Tatiraju/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
Before Seshan, all his predecessors were happy to let the Election Commission function as a glorified extension counter of the prime minister's office. The EC had no pretension of being a growling watchdog over the fairness of the electoral process; but, to be fair, neither was the ruling party of the day overly demanding. The election process was undoubtedly flawed and often unsavoury but it did produce outcomes that would reflect, mostly, the prevailing political realities in constituency after constituency. No one felt that the elections were stolen or manipulated.
As chief election commissioner, Seshan promised that he would clean up the election process, minimise the role of violence and money power, and make it a reasonably fair game. Above all, he proceeded on the morally powerful proposition that a ruling party should not be able to use its incumbency at the Centre or in a state to perpetuate itself in power.
A single man was thus able to renew the legitimacy of the entire electoral process, which in turn enabled perennially squabbling politicians to acquire a reasonable amount of democratic respectability. There is no doubt that this outcome helped introduce the painful but necessary change of direction in the management of the national economy.
Can the judiciary hope for a similar transformative Seshanite experience under a new CJI? Certainly, citizens have the right to expect such a change.
Also read: T. N. Seshan, the Unyielding Force That Cleansed India's Elections
Headstart for Justice Ramana
Justice Ramana starts with an advantage. Now that the Supreme Court has cleared him of the charges of impropriety levelled by the Andhra Pradesh chief minister, his potential weakness has been converted into a source of strength. While questions have been raised about the transparency of the court's 'in house process', the fact remains that he has formally been exonerated and gets to start his new innings with a clean slate. He is thus less likely to be vulnerable to pressure from the Shah and Shahenshah regime in Delhi during his tenure as CJI.
The Ramana announcement has come at a time when the two senior-most executive functionaries are embroiled in demeaning campaign rhetoric, behaving like the kind of street-brawlers found in every mohalla in Uttar Pradesh or Bihar. The incoming chief justice cannot possibly allow himself to be overly impressed with the grandiloquent claims and proclamations made by the two gentlemen when they arrogantly position themselves on to a superior moral perch. The least that is expected of any constitutional functionary is that she/he not be easily impressed with bombast.
Also read: Restoring Public Trust in the Indian Judiciary Calls for More Scrutiny, Not Less
The Ramana announcement is also an occasion to remind ourselves that a judicial appointment — or for that matter, any other office — is not a personal favour from an imperial seat. The Supreme Court derives its mandate and legitimacy from the constitution of India, and not from the benevolence of this or that demagogue who may happen to have hoodwinked the electorate.
Justice Ramana must be aware that the last time the apex court denied the regime something it desperately wanted was when it ruled against the National Judicial Appointments Commission in 2015. The judges knew that the institution's autonomous existence was sought to be constricted.
That bruising confrontation left the judicial brass rattled and shaken, and soon the institution settled down for some kind of an entente with an unforgiving regime. The standard operating procedure becomes one where the higher judiciary would occasionally make a caustic comment against this or that executive functionary – though never against the principal demagogue – but never become the source of discomfort, policy-wise or politically, to the imperial darbar.
Judicial pusillanimity
Justice Ramana will take over as CJI at a time when entrenched judicial pusillanimity has worked its way down to all other constitutional institutions. To be fair, they cannot be faulted for having noticed that the apex court has abandoned its role as preserver of constitutional equilibrium.
Because of this judicial over-indulgence, a maximalist government has been allowed to use, misuse and abuse the Indian state's instruments of coercion to manufacture for itself extreme political dominance of the kind India has not seen for decades, if ever. Granted, it is the very nature of political power to maximise itself, but it is also the very essence of institutional arrangements in a democratic system to see to it that no authority elevates itself above the mechanics and protocols of accountability.
Supreme Court of India.
It is possible that this pusillanimity is the product of some kind of institutional predilection rather than individual cowardice. Perhaps the judicial elite in the country has acquired a new philosophical outlook; it is conceivable that individually and collectively the honourable judges have concluded that it is not the judiciary's business to position itself as an overseer of the government's morals and manners.
Many of them may individually subscribe to the correctness and justness of the claims of majoritarian politics. Or they may believe that it is not their job to maintain fairness, balance and reasonableness in the Republic.
Mercifully, this outlook has not yet become a collective judicial orientation. Should it become a working philosophy, it would be a betrayal of Article 32 and all that flows from that provision.
History will not be kind to the judicial leadership of recent years. It is now up to the incoming chief justice to decide whether he wants to refurbish the judiciary's image. He can do so only if he settles down to become an apprentice Seshan.
Harish Khare is a journalist who lives and works in Delhi.


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Health COVID-19 Coronavirus: The Stages of Public Concern
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Coronavirus: The Stages of Public Concern [Updated April 20]
Fear is a powerful motivator. Maybe the most powerful. And, we have entered the closest thing to a fear stage at this point. Though, we should probably say that fear is not overly present when it comes to the Coronavirus. Most Canadians did not become fearful. Only one in five is very afraid according to Leger polling. There is not universal concern with personal safety. In fact, the overall response feels particularly Canadian.
Notably, Canadians are just as concerned with Coronavirus as they were with SARS concern in 2000. Of course, SARS quickly moved off the radar. COVID-19 remains an active concern and has deeply affected more Canadians.
Early on, Canadians could appreciate the global threat the virus posed. And, importantly, see the economic consequences. They were not however particularly worried for Canada or themselves. Now we are more concerned. There is some evidence that social distancing and other controls are limiting the spread of the Coronavirus and Canadians seem to have plateaued in terms of concern.
With public concern elevated but neither rising nor universal, it is tempting to pause and think about the different individual responses to threat and perhaps assessments of risk. Rightly or wrongly, many Canadians are not all that worried so overall concern is no higher really than it was during the SARS period.
Although there is much we do not know, the virus is clearly more deadly than the traditional influenza. The idea of a massive pandemic is something in both our history (think Spanish Flu) but also our cultural imagination. Movies have frequently use the idea of a pandemic for dramatic effect. Interestingly, despite some stockpiling and profiteering, reality has not reflected the doomsday scenarios of the movies.
The first case was identified on December 31, 2019 in China and China quickly became the epicentre. China gave way to Italy and finally the U.S. Hotspots in Iran, South Korea, Spain and other European countries were also evident as countries were not able to stop the spread fo the virus.
Personal versus Global Concern
We can think of the timeline of concern in terms of two key stages with a transition between them.
In stage 1, public awareness and global concern was high but concern in Canada was quite muted. Concern rose into early March but was well below the concern that SARS generated in 2003.
The transition from stage 1 to stage 2 witnesses a quite dramatic surge in concern that corresponded with the WHO labelling the virus a pandemic. It also corresponded with government action to bring in social distancing efforts (e.g. closing schools, declaring states of emergency.
Stage 2 is the fear stage.
STAGE 1: Initial Concern with the Coronavirus
An early DART and Maru/Blue poll found that 98% of Canadians have heard of Coronavirus (Field: January 31-February 2). This is consistent with other polls that show Canadians were well aware of the virus outbreak. Awareness did not translate into concern.
By March concern had risen somewhat. We now have some tracking across multiple indicators. The Angus Reid Institute and polling by DART and Maru/Blue start to show rising concern. But concern at the personal level is relatively low.
During the early days polls consistently show elevated concern at the global level but relatively modest concern at the personal level. Take the same DART and Maru/Poll that shows only 7% of Canadians have very much concern. Three in ten have at least somewhat concern. This is certainly not panic levels. By March 1, the proportion at least somewhat concerned had risen to 31%.
By early March, concern was rising at the personal, family and community levels. It was not rising when it comes to global. Several polls shows the early period dynamic.
At the global level an Angus Reid Institute survey show in March that 73% of Canadians are concerned (very or moderately) about people all of the world becoming sick. Only 26% are very concerned. The concern declines when we ask about community, family or oneself. But concern clearly rose between early February and early March. Only 7% are very concerned about themselves but now 40% are at least somewhat concerned. This is up from 30% at the beginning of February
Leger also asked about the threat to Canada and your community in their February polling. The threat to Canada (26% very or extremely concerned) is higher than for the threat to the community (19%).
Ipsos polling confirms this. Forty-nine per cent think the virus is a high or very high threat for the world. Only 16% think it is a very high or high threat to them personally. Notably, the perceived threat has not really changes in the past month. Overall, the threat question is very similar to the concern question. Seventy-two per cent of Canadians are at least somewhat concerned about the threat to Canada (Leger). Seventy-one per cent of Canadians view the threat to Canada as at least moderate.
Early Stage Polling on Coronavirus Concern
Is the Threat Overblown?
The Angus Reid Institute also asked concern as either a serious threat or overblown. In early February, only 31% think there is a serious threat of an outbreak of Coronavirus in Canada. But by early March, the willingness to call this a serious threat had risen to 42%. So while the majority still thought the threat is exaggerated, public opinion was moving as we see in Stage 2.
It is noteworthy, that despite rising concern only about 1 in 4 would definitely avoid sporting events and concerts according to the Angus Reid Institute. Most would still go. There is, however, more trepidation about going to an airport.
The Transition and Flattening of Concern with Coronavirus in Stage 2
Several key dates factor into the transition between Stage 1 and Stage 2. The WHO labelled the virus outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. One the same day, the WHO identified Canada's first death (which had occurred on March 9). It took several days for governments to take serious action. For example, Ontario starting shutting down public events and services on March 17.
Around March 15, multiple polling firms showed concern rising above 50%. Different questions and scales were used, but overall the results when looked at together show that something happened between March 6 and 15th. The public or the public and governments together responded together to a new reality in Canada. We can't be certain from this data whether government action helped spurn concern or was a coincidence (both government and the public responding to the same underlying cause).
It is interesting that despite more deaths in Canada and abroad, there is a general indication of a flattening of concern with the virus. And, perhaps, if the latest Angus Reid Institute poll is indication, a decline in concern. This is evident in both the Angus Reid Institute polling and the polling by Leger. Are Canadians anticipating that the virus is more under control or are some people immune to concern?
According to the WHO, the SARS epidemic affected 26 countries. In total more than 8000 cases were confirmed in 2003. Of the 774 deaths were recorded. In Canada, 251 people were diagnosed with the virus. Forty-three people died. On its face, Coronavirus is so far a much bigger deal than SARS globally but its impact in Canada has been quite small. Canada had one of the largest levels of confirmed cases of SARS outside of China.
Canadians then have a previous experience that was significant. They also can draw on the SARS experience to moderate, somewhat, their local concern.
In 2003, concern was certainly elevated. More than 6 in 10 Canadians were at least somewhat concerned in an early April Ipsos/CTV/Globe and Mail survey. Concern dropped quickly, however, over the next two months. This reflected the path of the virus's impact.
So while early polling showed that concern with Coronavirus was not as high as SARS, we eventually got there. That said, concern has not exceeded that level.
SARS moved off the agenda fairly quickly in 2003 and public concern declined as a result. Canada faces a much different reality in 2020 as the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is having a much larger and serious global impact. Canadians largely kept their calm early on even as they have recognized the global impact. The virus impact here was relatively small however. Stage 1 was, perhaps, a stage of naivety.
Viruses spread quickly. So does fear. With the WHO pandemic announcement and social distancing measures implemented in Canada and the U.S., there was no denying the virus impact. We quickly transitioned from awareness to concern. But that transition was not followed by panic. In fact, concern plateaued around the level that SARS peaked at.
Are those unconcerned naive? Are they unconcerned because they are not at high risk? Maybe they feel that the social distancing efforts are protecting them? So far, the polling has not shed a lot of light on what concern means. Clearly, fear of getting the virus is mitigated by other factors and this is important in understanding how people come to comply or not with recommendations.
It is a lesson in public opinion formation that touches on our emotional response to events (often that we don't understand) and our poor understanding of risk and statistics. A poll released earlier by Ipsos shows how globally, citizens fail to understand what actually kills us. We underestimate deaths by heart disease and other health problems but overestimate deaths by car accidents, violence, and substance abuse.
The world is not a perfect place but we view the world through tinted glasses. Most Canadians responded to the signals about the Coronavirus in expected ways but many others were not particularly moved. How then will this period shape our future? The answer to that is unclear but public opinion has some ideas to be discussed in a future post.
For a list of national polls on the coronavirus, please see this post.
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New research has shown how vitamin D may help protect heart tissue and prevent heart failure after a heart attack, potentially offering a low-cost addition to existing treatments for heart failure.
The team at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research found that vitamin D prevents excessive scarring and thickening of heart tissue following a heart attack, which may help reduce the risk of heart failure.
Researchers used mouse models to investigate the impact of 1,25D, a form of vitamin D that interacts with hormones, on the cells that form scar tissue after a heart attack. These cells are called cardiac colony-forming unit fibroblasts (cCFU-Fs).
Lead researcher Associate Professor James Chong, MBBS, PhD, says that vitamin D was known to help protect against heart failure, but its interaction with cCFU-Fs was not well established.
"The benefits of vitamin D are becoming increasingly known, but we still don't fully understand how mechanistically it can help with heart disease management. We wanted to know more about how vitamin D protects the heart after a heart attack," Chong explains.
Heart attacks occur when blood supply to the heart is blocked, leading to tissue damage. This triggers an inflammatory response where the cCFU-Fs replace the damaged tissue with collagen-based scar tissue.
"This is a problem because scarring of heart tissue can reduce the heart's ability to pump blood effectively, which can lead to heart failure," Chong says.
"Our research shows that vitamin D actually blocks the cCFU-Fs from forming scar tissue. By blocking cCFU-Fs, vitamin D may play an important role in lowering the risk of heart failure after a heart attack."
Heart failure is a life-threatening condition affecting an estimated 23 million people worldwide. Chong says that new treatments are necessary to reduce the global burden of heart failure.
"Cardiovascular diseases, including heart attacks and heart failure, are the leading cause of death worldwide," Chong says.
"To change this, we need to research heart conditions from every possible angle. This study is the first to demonstrate the role of 1,25D in regulating cardiac progenitor cells, and the findings are encouraging.
"With further study, vitamin D could prove to be an exciting, low-cost addition to current treatments, and we hope to progress these finding into clinical trials for humans," Chong concludes.


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Cross platform solutions are either oversold or an under sold in most cases and many developers and entrepreneurs even fail to make informed decision. So, here's our take on the current state of cross platform solutions.
In the most simple terms, each platform recommends a specific language to build your apps – For Android it is Java, and for iOS it is Objective -C. When an app is not written in a platform recommended language and runs on multiple platforms, it is called a cross-platform application.
Swift API is currently unstable, and Apple makes major breaking changes in every release.
Swift runtime doesn't ships with iOS, so it needs to be embedded within each application which significantly bloats app's size.
The main focus of React Native's team currently is on improving app performance, that being said the current performance won't be an issue for the majority of apps built on top of it. React native also updates frequently, which is kind of both good and bad thing for developers. For some it brings the news of fixed patches they requested, for others they need to match their existing code with the newly pushed changes.
Kotlin is a statically typed programming language developed by JetBrains, the team behind World's most popular IDEs. In case, you're wondering — Statically typed languages are faster because they check and validate the codes at compile-time rather than at run-time.
Kotlin has a multi-OS engine and a cross-platform serialization library, which increase the code shareability. Moreover, the multi-OS engine allows developers to build cross-platform applications for Android, and iOS using Java.
The developers coming from a Native(Java) background can understand how many boilerplate codes they had been dealing with. For instance, just look at their extension.
Java had a four-letter extension(.java) when most of the languages keep it to only three letters.
Kotline takes it further and reduces it only two letters(.kt). Boilerplate codes not only slow the performance but add additional load in the runtime.
Went back and removed all my for loops. Really liking changed operations (firstOrNull) with an expression brought down one of our models from 115 to 54 lines and I would argue it's a lot easier now what the class is doing.
Kotlin has an upper hand with its 100% interoperability with Java. The developers have the privilege to use any frameworks, or Native libraries that they want.
Every once in awhile, the developer gets frustrated with common programming errors like null pointers and other syntax errors. With Kotlin, if you are not sure about a syntax or null function, then put a ? at the end, and it will return a default value when found the thing.
For Instance, if you're making a server call to get some data, and the function couldn't execute, then Kotin will use a default instead of showing an error.
Kotlin wasn't just built on academic theories. But to solve real problems of modern developers who are working with large databases, and complex architectural applications.
Many startups including Pinterest, Evernote have already integrated Kotlin in their applications. And we are going to see a much more rapid adoption in the coming years.
Flutter is a UI framework based on Dart, developed and maintained by Google. Fluther is definitely promising with its React Inspired development model and native-like UI for pixel perfect design.
With Flutter, you can do fast iterations and instant UI updates with hot reloading. The architecture is far superior to React Native, which allows developers to put everything in a single codebase and build a high performing application.
Aside from other languages, Flutter promises to be a more interesting framework for developers, as it allows to write apps for ios, Android, and the new unreleased OS, Fuchsia by Google.
At this moment, we are not sure about Google plans, but what if Google replaces Android with Fuchsia, and put Flutter as its app development framework.
You can build anything on the UI side, that means it's highly customizable. You have not limited to OEMs widget anymore.
Flutter is blazing fast, and use a single codebase for both Android and iOS.
Java codes can be copied and run in Dart Framework without any complexity. It gives you more Native flexibility.
Flutter has built-in native ios widgets, which drastically reduces the engineering burden.
Security It supports most of the security implementations of Android. Authentication, and authorization supported along with oAuth for social logins. Authentication, and oAuth 2.0 supported.
Xamarin is said to be the closest thing to Native when you are not using any native language. People love Xamarin and it has evolved as one of the most successful cross-platform solutions today.
It's buggy – Xamarin isn't full of bugs as many reports. Often these reports are a result of a code optimized for local values. To deal with any uncaught expressions, Xamarin allows stack trace with the number line.
Xamarin.Forms == Xamarin. Actually, Xamarin.Forms != Xamarin. There's a flying misconception about Xamarin Forms as being the primary UI library for building apps. Xamarin facilitates a more comprehensive set of libraries to build native UI codes.
Xamarin doesn't cover many native features. Xamarin actually covers almost 100% of the native APIs and provide access to almost all native features.
Limited documentation – Xamarin actually has a complete set of documentation with 300 example apps to help you.
Xamarin is not just a FAD, it's a real thing, so what's bad about it? Well, there's a serious concern about memory management stemming from a disposable C# wrapper around native objects.
Which brings us to the question "When should one use Xamarin?".
The first and most obvious case for using Xamarin is when you are low on resources and you still wish to publish on all major platforms. Secondly, if you are developing a Windows app it does makes a lot of sense to use Xamarin, it works seamlessly with Windows ecosystems.
Lastly, if your business is already using Microsoft based technologies, using Xamarin could bring in a lot of ease.
PhoneGap is an Adobe-owned cross-platform solution that helps developers to launch their apps on all platform. PhoneGap runs on top of Apache Cordova. Most of the developers using HTML5 apps are now utilizing the Ionic framework to get performance focused and well-designed components. Ionic relies on Angular-JS and Sass and provides UI components that you can use in your apps, reducing any need for to optimize UI in most cases.
Most of the problems that developers face arise from the fact that they are either using 3rd party libraries or are doing things synchronously instead of doing it asynchronously.
The thing about using these two platforms is that a developer should try to do his best, otherwise he would end up with an app that has choppy and slow animations. And while testing code on computer browsers seems okay, the code would not perform comparably on real mobile devices.
While there has been some support for Apple Watch and Android Gear, PhoneGap and Cordova clearly doesn't fit properly for this wearables right now.
The following charts sum up the performance of some of these cross-platform computing tools.
Performance of Xamarin vs Java on Android.
The results below illustrate cross platform vs native code performance.
Imagine an enterprise whose mobile strategy is web and mobile only, they are an iOS-focused organization. Two years later they re-assess their mobility needs and find that cost-effective Android handsets could bring a lot more savings. They look into the costs of porting their iOS apps to Android which brings additional costs. Now as you can imagine a native app would mean a lot of lost opportunities in this case, while having a cross-platform based app would allow them the flexibility of easy migration to Android, thereby being truly beneficial.
But when cross-platform apps are this awesome, Is there a need for this discussion?
We will now discuss these one at a time.
No doubt that you can develop and replicate almost any user interface, but how well that UI performs is very important. A user perceives a system that has a response time of 0.1 seconds as a responsive and continuous system. Third party development platforms do suffer from this issue of Jank or Lag.
With each release of a feature in mobile phones and wearables, the cross-platform tools always find themselves chasing deadlines and fixing a number of bugs. Which could be a huge missed opportunity. As it often takes days if not months to come up with a solution, let alone a perfect one.
Often underlooked on mobile strategies, especially by small developers, it is one of the most important parts of your future mobile growth. Often many cross-platform solutions are way too immature to accept or to bind with the new SDKs. We have often seen cases when the entire app had to be redeveloped natively to allow growth critical SDKs to be integrated with them.
Both native and cross-platform apps have their own type of security concerns. But native app development provides us the opportunity to bring more and more natively built solutions that could make the work of attacker comparatively very difficult. More specifically when cross-platform apps are coded by a Rookie, they are more prone to JS injections, weak SSL implementations, and caching issues.
We have no multithreading on the hybrid app development platforms, which is always an option when you are doing native app development. Some solutions like Titanium allows multi-threading and some don't.
While these are just some of the factors that should be considered before selecting a cross-platform technology, but many of them are unique that requires close inspection. For example, if the OEM's brought in some changes that would render a particular cross-platform solution unsuitable.
What does 2018 hold for cross-platform application development?
Apple has already released Swift 4, which holds great promises for the developer community. Google's Flutter is still in Alpha, and we are not too sure about them releasing it next year.
Aside from some performance issues, React Native and Xamarin offers excellent code sharability, faster shipping time, third-party libraries, and Native UI components to build scalable hybrid applications.
Ionic, on the other hand, is still immature, and not suitable for Enterprises.
Maitrik leads the Digital Enterprise team at Simform. Under his leadership he helps businesses leverage digital transformations through advanced digital and customer experience strategies.


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Guillaume Glairon Mondet (* 10. prosince 1986 Albertville) je francouzský sportovní lezec, mistr Francie v boulderingu a juniorský mistr světa v lezení na obtížnost.

Výkony a ocenění
 2001: na mistrovství světa juniorů obhájil titul v lezení na obtížnost v kategorii B
 2009 a 2014: na mistrovství světa skončil ve finálové šestici čtvrtý
 2014: získal svou pátou medaili na mistrovství Francie v boulderingu, které vyhrál 2012

Závodní výsledky

* pozn: nalevo jsou poslední závody v roce

Odkazy

Reference

Film
 2013: Out of Sight

Externí odkazy

 https://www.ffme.fr

 Guillaumeglaironmondet.blogspot.fr

Francouzští bouldristé
Francouzští sportovní lezci
Mistři Francie ve sportovním lezení
Juniorští mistři světa ve sportovním lezení
Narození 10. prosince
Narození v roce 1986
Narození v Albertville
Žijící lidé
Muži


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KARACHI: Where the business in the opening week sets the tempo of a film's progress on the box office, the second week ensures the ultimate fate of the film. Ho Mann Jahaan has sustained a healthy business after the completion of its second week. The movie has ticked the Rs100 million mark – a figure quoted by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ARY Films, Jerjees Seja.
However, despite reaching the milestone, Ho Mann Jahaan'sperformance witnessed a slight dip after a very successful first week. Upon its opening, the coming-of-age film had grossed approximately Rs32.5 million in the space of two days but it has only earned approximately Rs70 million since then.
While the movie may have impressed multiplex audiences, its life is on the verge of being cut short at single screen cinemas. Farrukh Rauf, director of Capri Cinema, hinted that they may take the film down this week. "Barring the second weekend where we saw an excellent turnout, occupancy has been close to 20%," Rauf told The Express Tribune.
Although he was unable to single out a particular reason for the decrease in demand, Rauf felt the success of Dilwale made it difficult for the film to sustain on single screens.
It will be interesting to see whether Ho Mann Jahaan will cross the Rs200 million mark at the local box office or not, but owing to Mahira's popularity among expats living in North America and United Kingdom, it is likely that its international collection would help exceed that mark.
Ho Mann Jahaan was released on January 1 across 85 screens in Pakistan.


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Brachyplatystoma es un género de gigantescos peces de agua dulce de la familia Pimelodidae en el orden Siluriformes. Sus 7 especies habitan en aguas cálidas del centro y norte de América del Sur. Son denominadas comúnmente cumacumas, lecheros, piraíbas, bagres, etc. La especie que alcanza mayor tamaño (Brachyplatystoma filamentosum) llega a tener 360 cm de largo total, con pesos de 200 kg.

Distribución

Brachyplatystoma habita en aguas cálidas del centro y norte de América del Sur, en las cuencas del Amazonas, del Orinoco, y cuencas atlánticas en las Guayanas, con representantes en Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Venezuela y Trinidad y Tobago. También cuenta con un registro cuestionado de una especie (Brachyplatystoma filamentosum), basado en ejemplares juveniles capturados en la cuenca del Plata en el río Paraná, Corrientes, en el nordeste de la Argentina.

Taxonomía

Este género fue descrito originalmente en el año 1862 por el ictiólogo holandés Pieter Bleeker.

 Etimología

Etimológicamente, el término Brachyplatystoma se construye con palabras del idioma griego, en donde: brachys significa 'corto', platys es 'plano' y estoma es 'boca'.

 Especies
Este género se subdivide en 7 especies vivientes:

 Subgénero Brachyplatystoma
 Brachyplatystoma juruense (Boulenger, 1898)
 Brachyplatystoma platynemum Boulenger, 1898
 Brachyplatystoma tigrinum (Britski, 1981)
 Brachyplatystoma vaillantii (Valenciennes, 1840)

 Subgénero Malacobagrus
 Brachyplatystoma capapretum Lundberg & Akama, 2005
 Brachyplatystoma filamentosum (M. H. C. Lichtenstein, 1819)
 Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii (Castelnau, 1855)

 Especies fósiles
Se exhumó una especie de este género de sedimentos del Mioceno de Colombia.
 † Brachyplatystoma promagdalena Lundberg, 2005.
También se colectó una especie en la formación fluvial Ituzaingó (Mioceno tardío) de la región mesopotámica de la Argentina.
 † Brachyplatystoma elbakyani Agnolín & Bogan, 2020.

Referencias

Enlaces externos


The Eagle's Dec. 5 editorial promoting ridgeline wind farms in the Berkshires is seriously flawed. The Eagle presents wind projects as "beneficial" but it fails to describe the extensive blasting often needed to create the massive pads for the turbines, the largest of which are as tall as 50-story buildings, and the extensive blasting also needed to prepare a deep base for roads as wide, in parts, as Route 7 – roads which traverse steep slopes, destroy hundreds of acres of forest, disrupt hiking trails and drainage routes, and destroy wildlife habitats. Nor does The Eagle mention the wide corridors for transmission lines, which are built without any legal recourse for the landowners whose land is impacted.
The Eagle praises wind projects for reducing our carbon footprint, but it fails to mention that the wind-resource in the Berkshires is very marginal, and that even the draconian approach of erecting many hundreds of turbines on our ridges would not even produce 5 percent of our energy needs. Indeed, the dollars being spent by ratepayers and taxpayers to subsidize wind farms could be used in a much more productive and efficient way to sponsor other green projects, including conservation and efficiency programs, and small and large solar, hydro-electric, and geo-thermal projects.
Contrary to the Eagle's accusations, promoting wind projects is "environmentally irresponsible" as it promotes wasting valuable human, financial, and natural resources needed to reduce our carbon footprint. The Eagle clearly favors the prospect of a wind farm in Otis, and holds out the carrot of increased revenue. But, imagine the impact on our ridgelines if every Berkshire town and city decided to make either private or public wind farms a permanent tool for increasing their revenue and lowering their tax rates. Imagine if even one-third of our municipalities do. Imagine the many miles of ridgeline and the thousands of acres which would be removed from habitable use. Such environmental damage cannot be justified, when there are viable alternative ways for us to produce energy in a green way.
Hopefully, local officials throughout the Berkshires will shore up their bylaws to prohibit wind farms and will urge state officials to shift their course away from on-shore wind and toward more sensible, renewable projects.


I have a post sitting in my drafts, nearly written except for the parts that require real thought. I am kinda short on that right now, as I've just started my last class for my Master's(!!), I have just taken a wee part-time job I am unsure about, and Em has decided he likes to walk more often than not. Eep!
Until I have some spare thoughts to share, I will offer up pictures. Pictures placate, right?
I do love zucchini, especially grilled.
Though also a little scared.
I have knitting nearly done and some fab spinning action to show. I'll be back soon enough for that!
Em turned one last week.
There was one thing to be done before his party. Not cleaning, not unpacking (still), not preparing food. Nope. Em needed his first hair cut.
See how long that hair was?
Mama loves you, little one.


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Q: Recognising Emojis in typed text In my hybrid Android/Cordova app I want to allow users to associate an Emoji with a descriptive "handle"/name.  I have found that in Android 8+ the default HTML input box - rememember this a hybrid app so the UI is in fact a WebView derived directly from Chrome - it is possible  to simply switch to the Emoji keyboard and choose an Emoji.  My understanding is that these Emoji's are from Google's Noto font project.  The format I want the user to be able to use for entering the emoji + handle is
 handle

where the handle is required to be alphanummeric.  Testing the alphanumeric part and the preceding space with a regex is not a problem.  However I also want to institute a check that the first two bytes are an Emoji (not obligatory).  Once again this can be done by getting the first two characters as userhandle.charCodeAt(0|1).
To check the validity of the numbers thus returned I need to know what constitutes a valid Noto font Emoji code.  This article seems to suggest that all valid Emojis should have 0xF09fFor0xE29C` as the value at Char 0 - I am going to ignore the three byte Emojis listed in that resource as being invalid for simplicity.
However, before I implement this I would like to know - is there an established way to validate Emoji unicode that I am unaware of here?

A: This article gives a lot of details about emojis in javascript and gives a regular expression you can use.  I think this works for all emojis, but you will want to test it.
Here I will test for an emoji using the  emoji:
/(?:[\u2700-\u27bf]|(?:\ud83c[\udde6-\uddff]){2}|[\ud800-\udbff][\udc00-\udfff])[\ufe0e\ufe0f]?(?:[\u0300-\u036f\ufe20-\ufe23\u20d0-\u20f0]|\ud83c[\udffb-\udfff])?(?:\u200d(?:[^\ud800-\udfff]|(?:\ud83c[\udde6-\uddff]){2}|[\ud800-\udbff][\udc00-\udfff])[\ufe0e\ufe0f]?(?:[\u0300-\u036f\ufe20-\ufe23\u20d0-\u20f0]|\ud83c[\udffb-\udfff])?)*/.test(String.fromCodePoint("".codePointAt(0)))  //returns true

Using the same regular expression but testing the "A" character:
/(?:[\u2700-\u27bf]|(?:\ud83c[\udde6-\uddff]){2}|[\ud800-\udbff][\udc00-\udfff])[\ufe0e\ufe0f]?(?:[\u0300-\u036f\ufe20-\ufe23\u20d0-\u20f0]|\ud83c[\udffb-\udfff])?(?:\u200d(?:[^\ud800-\udfff]|(?:\ud83c[\udde6-\uddff]){2}|[\ud800-\udbff][\udc00-\udfff])[\ufe0e\ufe0f]?(?:[\u0300-\u036f\ufe20-\ufe23\u20d0-\u20f0]|\ud83c[\udffb-\udfff])?)*/.test(String.fromCodePoint("A".codePointAt(0)))  //returns false

If you just want to get the codepoint, you can use:
"".codePointAt(0)  //returns 127828

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Our extant records refer to the May family reunion of 1929 as the "First May Reunion." It was held on Sunday, August 25th at the county home of Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Robinson on Stepstone Road near Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. We know of the reunion from a newspaper article telling of the gathering of 85 descendants of Samuel May (1820-1904).
The host, Dr. William Boyd Robinson, graduated from Cincinnati Veterinary College in 1909 and practiced in Montgomery Co., Kentucky for forty years. President of the Mt. Sterling Stock Yards for 26 years, he was a prominent citizen of the county, serving as a City Councilman of Mt. Sterling, County Commissioner, and County Sheriff. He also made an unsuccessful bid for Kentucky State Senator. His wife, who made the extensive preparations for the reunion, was Carrie Vice Robinson.
As you can see from the account in the article, the ancestry of the family was thought to connect with John May, a famous Kentucky pioneer and the man for whom Mays Lick and Maysville, Kentucky were named. Subsequent genealogical research has shown that there is no connection between our ancestor, John May (1760-1813), and John May (1744-1790), a prominent Virginia attorney who speculated in Kentucky land.
Speakers at the gathering were Daniel Mark Hager of Prestonsburg, Frank May of Wilmore, and David May of Nicholasville. Their orations "extorted their hearers to press forward to the mark of the high calling, which is in Christ, pleading with all to preserve the family name and teachings of their forefathers."
Telegrams were also read to the gathering from Rev. Sam Robinson of Tennessee and Rev. Ernest Robinson of Texas, brothers of Dr. Robinson who could not attend the reunion.
Dr. W. B. Robinson (b. 1877 d. aft. 1949) was a grandson of Samuel May (1820-1904) and great-grandson of Thomas May (1787-1867).
David May (1847-1943) was a son of Samuel May (1820-1904); Frank May (1869-1949) was David's son; and Daniel Mark Hager (1846-1942), widower of Elizabeth Magdaline May (1849-1908), was David's brother-in-law.


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It is official: The School Board on Tuesday approved a contract with local educator Jayne Ellspermann to be Oakcrest Elementary's external operator if the school doesn't improve to at least a C grade this summer.
Oakcrest has received five consecutive D grades and must earn at least a C after this spring's Florida Standards Assessments. The testing kicked off earlier this month and continues into May.
If Oakcrest doesn't make the grade, then the district must close the school, turn it into a charter school, or hire an external operator. The board decided last fall on the latter.
Ellspermann LLC will be paid $300,000 for the service. From July through October, the company will receive $36,000 per month ($144,000 total for those months).
From November through February, the company will receive $24,000 per month ($96,000 total). From March through June 2020, the company will receive $15,000 per month ($60,000 total), according to the contract.


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[SЁCU](https://secu.su/) is a web application design to create, store and provide [SËCU API](https://github.com/secusu/secusu) self-destructing data payloads.

## Server Configuration

### NGINX

```nginx
server {
    listen      127.0.0.1:80;
    server_name secu.int;

    rewrite ^/(.*)/$ /$1 permanent;

    root `{/path/to/secu/web-app}`/public;
    index index.html;

    location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|pdf|ppt|txt|bmp|rtf|js)$ {
        expires 7d;
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html?$query_string;
    }
}
```

## Installation

```sh
npm install
```

## Rebuild web application

You can build public directory using Gulp.

```sh
gulp
```

## Contributing

Please refer to [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/secusu/web-app/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for information on how to contribute to SËCU and its related projects.

## License

The SËCU web application is an open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

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Dear Readers Examguruadda.in presents Current Affairs quiz of 21 May and 22 May 2016 that cover important current affair events. Current Affairs quiz prepared according to the latest Bank, SSC and other competitive exams.
1. Who was appointed as UN special envoys for El Nino, Climate?
2. Who was elected the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)?
3. Which state government of India has launched PEHAL programme for raising education standards?
4. Who is the author of the book "Dr. Ambedkar: Life and Mission"?
5. Who is the author of the book "Curfew in the city"?
6. Srabani Nanda is associated with which sports?
7. Which Emmy award-winning English-born actor died at the age of 96 recently?
8. Turrialba volcano which erupted recently at which place?
9. Union Government launched an indigenously developed affordable faecal incontinence management system. It is called as.......?
10. The Red Line campaign that was in news related to.......?
11.Which city hosted the 1st World Conference on Tourism for Development?


The Coffs Coast has been a favourite holiday destination for families since your parents were kids, and while some of the same attractions remain, like the beautiful beaches and the Big Banana, there are plenty of new additions. Here are five of the best.
This icon is far more than just a large fiberglass banana these days. They still sell chocolate-coated bananas and recently the banana has found a mate, a large fiberglass monkey. Be sure to have a ride on the downhill toboggan and a game of laser tag while you're here.
This marine park still puts on a great display, showcasing the skill and agility of these clever marine mammals, but these days there's a far greater emphasis on education and marine conservation with the daily Marine Discovery presentations and behind the scenes tours. The daily Marine Discovery presentation shows kids what they can do to help protect the world's oceans and every visitor gets an opportunity to receive a free kiss from the friendly dolphins and cheeky seals.
3. Sea Kayaking and Surf Rafting.
Sea Kayaking is the perfect way to get up close with the dolphins and turtles that frequent the sub-tropical waters here, whereas if you want something a little more adrenalin-pumping, try surf rafting. It's a bit like white water rafting except you catch waves instead of navigating rapids.
Jetty Dive can take you out to the South Solitary Islands to explore sub-tropical waters, complete with pretty corals, and plenty of marine life. You're almost guaranteed to spot turtles, and if you're really lucky, manta rays. In the winter months, the Jetty Dive boat transforms into a whale-watching boat, which gets you out to the whale-breaching action so fast you won't have time to be seasick.
There are lots of great surf beaches along the Coffs Coast,and if you need lessons, there are several surf schools to choose from, including Solitary Islands Surf School, Lee Winkler's Surf School and East Coast Surf School.


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NYU student Josh Begley is tweeting every reported U.S. drone strike since 2002, and the feed highlights a disturbing tactic employed by the U.S. that is widely considered a war crime. Known as the "double tap," the tactic involves bombing a target multiple times in relatively quick succession, meaning that the second strike often hits first responders. A 2007 report by the Homeland Security Institute called double taps a "favorite tactic of Hamas" and the FBI considers it a tactic employed by terrorists. UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Christof Heyns said that if there are "secondary drone strikes on rescuers who are helping (the injured) after an initial drone attack, those further attacks are a war crime." The U.S. refuses to discuss the merits of its overtly covert drone program, but the reports featured on @dronestream clearly document that U.S. hellfire missiles have intentionally targeted funerals and civilian rescuers.
And that's only a 10-month window in Pakistan. It has happened in Afghanistan as well, and the first instance of "explicit intelligence posthumously proving" that an innocent civilian had been killed happened in Yemen. In September the NYU and Stanford law schools released a report detailing how double taps by U.S. drones affect the Pakistani population, and noted that "high-level" militants killed only accounted for two percent of U.S. drone strike casualties.


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Summary: John and Ed will talk about water issues related to the Truckee and Carson Rivers, respectively, including their operating priorities, mitigation of drought impacts, efforts to promote community water conservation, and future plans, including those aimed at reducing energy usage at their faci lities.


If you've recently switched from an iPhone to an Android, you might stop receiving text messages.
That's because Apple iPhones have a system where they automatically turn texts from one iPhone to another iPhone into iMessages. So when people with iPhones send you texts to your new Android phone, Apple is routing them to an iPhone that doesn't exist anymore.
There's one easy way to fix it: A hidden page on Apple's website lets you deregister your phone number from iMessage.
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