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import gzip, sys, random, os
from Bio.Range import GenomicRange
from Bio.Format.Sam import BAMFile

# Index file is a gzipped TSV file with these fields:
# 1. qname
# 2. target range
# 3. bgzf file block start
# 4. bgzf inner block start
# 5. aligned base count
# 6. flag

# Usage:
# name_to_num is used to get all the names at random
# get_longest_target_alignment_coords_by_name is used to get the best random
# coord hash is import for random access
# There are some inactive methods because the datastructures
# they needed were not getting used and were memory intensive.
# subsequent updates could put them back or even better only use them
# when the methods requring them are called the first time
# This class is actually incredibly bulky for working with a big index
# > 1M reads.  I think some more specific cases may need to be written
class BAMIndex:
  def __init__(self,index_file):
    self.index_file = index_file
    self._name_to_num = {} #name index to line number
    self._lines = []
    self._coords = {} # get the one indexed line number from coordinates
    inf = gzip.open(self.index_file)
    linenum = 0
    for line in inf:
        f = line.rstrip("\n").split("\t")
        name = f[0]
        if name not in self._name_to_num:
          self._name_to_num[name] = []
        self._name_to_num[name].append(linenum)
        self._lines.append({'qname':f[0],'rng_str':f[1],'filestart':int(f[2]),'innerstart':int(f[3]),'basecount':int(f[4]),'flag':int(f[5])})
        linenum+=1
        if int(f[2]) not in self._coords: self._coords[int(f[2])] = {}
        self._coords[int(f[2])][int(f[3])] = linenum
    inf.close()
    return

  def destroy(self):
    self._name_to_num = None
    self._lines = None
    self._coords = None
    return

  # Pre: nothing
  # Post: True if each chromosome is listed together as a chunk and if the range starts go from smallest to largest
  #       otherwise false
  def check_ordered(self):
    sys.stderr.write("error unimplemented check_ordered\n")
    sys.exit()
    seen_chrs = set()
    curr_chr = None
    prevstart = 0
    for l in self._lines:
      if not l['rng']: continue
      if l['rng'].chr != curr_chr:
        prevstart = 0
        if l['rng'].chr in seen_chrs:
          return False
        curr_chr = l['rng'].chr
        seen_chrs.add(curr_chr)
      if l['rng'].start < prevstart:  return False
      prevstart = l['rng'].start
    return True

  # Return how many entries have been indexed
  def get_length(self):
    return len(self._lines)

  def get_names(self):
    return self._name_to_num.keys()

  def get_coords_by_name(self,name):
    sys.stderr.write("error unimplemented get_coords_by_name\n")
    sys.exit()
    return [[self._lines[x]['filestart'],self._lines[x]['innerstart']] for x in self._queries[self._name_to_num[name]]]

  def get_longest_target_alignment_coords_by_name(self,name):
    longest = -1
    coord = None
    #for x in self._queries[self._name_to_num[name]]:
    for line in [self._lines[x] for x in self._name_to_num[name]]:
      if line['flag'] & 2304 == 0:
        return [line['filestart'],line['innerstart']]
    return None
    sys.stderr.write("ERROR: no primary alignment set in index\n")
    sys.exit()

  # Tak the 1-indexed line number and return its index information
  def get_index_line(self,lnum):
    if lnum < 1:
      sys.stderr.write("ERROR: line number should be greater than zero\n")
      sys.exit()
    elif lnum > len(self._lines):
      sys.stderr.write("ERROR: too far this line nuber is not in index\n")
      sys.exit()
    return self._lines[lnum-1]

  # return the one-indexed line number given the coordinates
  def get_coord_line_number(self,coord):
    if coord[0] in self._coords:
      if coord[1] in self._coords[coord[0]]:
        return self._coords[coord[0]][coord[1]]
    return None

  def get_unaligned_lines(self):
    sys.stderr.write("error unimplemented get_unaligned_lines\n")
    sys.exit()
    return [self._lines[x-1] for x in self._unaligned]
    #return [x for x in self._lines if x['flag'] & 4]

  def get_unaligned_start_coord(self):
    sys.stderr.write("error unimplemented get_unaligned_start_coord\n")
    sys.exit()
    if len(self._unaligned)==0: return None
    return [self._lines[self._unaligned[0]-1]['filestart'],self._lines[self._unaligned[0]-1]['innerstart']]

  def get_range_start_coord(self,rng):
    sys.stderr.write("error unimplemented get_range_start_coord\n")
    sys.exit()
    if rng.chr not in self._chrs: return None
    for l in [self._lines[x-1] for x in self._chrs[rng.chr]]:
      ####
      y = l['rng']
      c = y.cmp(rng)
      if c > 0: return None
      if c == 0:
        x = y.get_payload()
        return [x[1],x[2]] # don't need the name
    return None

  # return the line number 1-indexed of the first occurance after range
  def get_range_start_line_number(self,rng):
    sys.stderr.write("error unimplemented get_range_start_line\n")
    sys.exit()
    for i in range(0,len(self._lines)):
      if rng.cmp(self._lines[i]['rng'])==0: return i+1
    return None

# The best index class will read an index file and only provide access
# to primary alignment coordinates
class BAMIndexRandomAccessPrimary:
  def __init__(self,index_file=None,alignment_file=None,verbose=False):
    self.verbose=verbose
    self.alignment_file = None
    if alignment_file: self.alignment_file = alignment_file
    elif os.path.exists(input_index):
      if os.path.exists(input_index[:-4]):
        self.alignment_file = input_index[:-4]
    self.index_file = None
    if index_file: self.index_file = index_file
    elif self.alignment_file:
      if os.path.exists(self.alignment_file+'.bgi'):
        self.index_file = self.alignment_file+'.bgi'
    if not index_file:
      sys.stderr.write("ERROR: Someway and somehow you need to define an index file.  Either through an alignment with one or directly or both\n")
      sys.exit()
    fh = gzip.open(index_file)
    self.bests = []
    z = 0
    tot = 0
    for line in fh:
      z += 1
      f = line.rstrip().split("\t")
      if check_flag(int(f[5]),2304):
        continue # only process primary alignments
      tot += 1
      self.bests.append([int(f[2]),int(f[3])])
      if self.verbose and tot % 1000 == 0:
        sys.stderr.write(str(tot)+'/'+str(z)+' primary alignments read'+"\r")
    if self.verbose:
      sys.stderr.write("\n")
    return
  def destroy(self):
    self.bests = []
    return
  def get_random_coord(self):
    return random.choice(self.bests)
  #def get_alignment(self):
  #  if not self.alignment_file:
  #    sys.stderr.write("ERROR: alignment file needs to be defined on initialization for this method\n")
  #    sys.exit()
  #  v = random.choice(self.bests)
  #  bf = BAMFile(self.alignment_)

def check_flag(flag,inbit):
  if flag & inbit: return True
  return False

# Index file is a gzipped TSV file with these fields:
# 1. qname
# 2. target range
# 3. bgzf file block start
# 4. bgzf inner block start
# 5. aligned base count
# 6. flag
def write_index(path,index_file,verbose=False,samtools=False):
  if verbose:
    sys.stderr.write("scanning for primaries\n")
  reads = {}
  z = 0
  # force use of primary alignment flag if its not already used
  # require one and only one primary alignment for each read (or mate)
  fail_primary = False
  b2 = None
  if samtools:
    b2 = SamtoolsBAMStream(path)
  else:
    b2 = BAMFile(path)

  for e in b2:
    z+=1
    if verbose:
      if z %1000==0: sys.stderr.write(str(z)+"\r")
    name = e.value('qname')
    if name not in reads:
      reads[name] = {}
    type = 'u'
    if e.check_flag(64):
      type = 'l' #left mate
    elif e.check_flag(128):
      type = 'r' #right mate
    if not e.check_flag(2304):
      if type not in reads[name]: reads[name][type] = 0
      reads[name][type] += 1 # we have one
      if reads[name][type] > 1:
        fail_primary = True
        break # too many primaries set to be useful
  # see if we have one primary set for each read
  for name in reads:
    for type in reads[name]:
      if reads[name][type] != 1:
        fail_primary = True
  if verbose:
    sys.stderr.write("\n")
  if fail_primary:
    sys.stderr.write("Failed to find a single primary for each read (or each mate).  Reading through bam to find best.\n")
    best = {}
    # must find the primary for each

    b2 = None
    if samtools:
      b2 = SamtoolsBAMStream(path)
    else:
      b2 = BAMFile(path)
    z = 0
    for e in b2:
      z += 1
      if verbose:
        if z %1000==0: sys.stderr.write(str(z)+"\r")
      name = e.value('qname')
      type = 'u'
      if e.check_flag(64):
        type = 'l' #left mate
      elif e.check_flag(128):
        type = 'r' #right mate
      if name not in best: best[name] = {}
      # get length
      l = 0
      if e.is_aligned():
        l = e.get_aligned_bases_count()
      if type not in best[name]: best[name][type] = {'line':z,'bpcnt':l}
      if l > best[name][type]['bpcnt']:
        best[name][type]['bpcnt'] = l
        best[name][type]['line'] = z
    bestlinenumbers = set()
    for name in best:
      for type in best[name]:
        bestlinenumbers.add(best[name][type]['line'])
    if verbose:
      sys.stderr.write("\n")
  of = None
  try:
    of = gzip.open(index_file,'w')
  except IOError:
    sys.sterr.write("ERROR: could not find or create index\n")
    sys.exit()

  b2 = None
  if samtools:
    b2 = SamtoolsBAMStream(path)
  else:
    b2 = BAMFile(path)
  z = 0
  for e in b2:
    z+=1
    if verbose:
      if z%1000==0:
        sys.stderr.write(str(z)+" reads indexed\r")
    myflag = e.value('flag')
    if fail_primary: # see if this should be a primary
      if z not in bestlinenumbers:
        myflag = myflag | 2304
    rng = e.get_target_range()
    if rng:
      l = e.get_aligned_bases_count()
      of.write(e.value('qname')+"\t"+rng.get_range_string()+"\t"+str(e.get_block_start())+"\t"+str(e.get_inner_start())+"\t"+str(l)+"\t"+str(myflag)+"\n")
    else: of.write(e.value('qname')+"\t"+''+"\t"+str(e.get_block_start())+"\t"+str(e.get_inner_start())+"\t"+'0'+"\t"+str(myflag)+"\n")
  sys.stderr.write("\n")
  of.close()

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Q: pairwise operations on data.table I'm trying to calculate the correlations between pairs of columns, then fit n linear models on all columns to predict said correlations, then to predict correlations (and then use them to generate correlated random a, b, c, d, e but that's not really relevant).
I have done it. but now the code is really repetitive, and i wanted to know how to do it in a dynamic way to avoid repetitions in the code. I'm using data.table because performance is key as the table could be huge.
that is what I have at the moment:
data <-
  data.table(a = rnorm(20),
             b = rnorm(20),
             c = rnorm(20),
             d = rnorm(20),
             logret_a = rnorm(20),
             logret_b = rnorm(20),
             logret_c = rnorm(20),
             logret_d = rnorm(20))

corr <- function(y) cor(y[, 1], y[, 2])
corperiod <- 3

#1 here i would like one line instead of one line per ab, ac, ad, bc, bd
data$cor_ab <- c(NA, zoo::rollapplyr(data[-1, .(logret_a, logret_b)], corperiod, corr, by.column = FALSE, fill = NA))
data$cor_ac <- c(NA, zoo::rollapplyr(data[-1, .(logret_a, logret_c)], corperiod, corr, by.column = FALSE, fill = NA))
data$cor_ad <- c(NA, zoo::rollapplyr(data[-1, .(logret_a, logret_d)], corperiod, corr, by.column = FALSE, fill = NA))
# and so on...

#2 here i would like two lines instead of two lines per ab, ac, ad, bc, bd
fit_cor_ab <- lm(data=data, cor_ab ~ a + b + c + d + logret_a + logret_b + logret_c +  logret_d)
fit_cor_ab <- MASS::stepAIC(fit_cor_ab, direction="both", trace = FALSE)

fit_cor_ac <- lm(data=data, cor_ac ~ a + b + c + d + logret_a + logret_b + logret_c +  logret_d)
fit_cor_ac <- MASS::stepAIC(fit_cor_ac, direction="both", trace = FALSE)
# and so on...

simul <- as.data.table(matrix(0, nrow=100, ncol=ncol(data)))
colnames(simul) <- colnames(data)
simul[1] <- data[1]
# skipping for loop
i <- 2
#3 here i would like one line instead of one line per ab, ac, ad, bc, bd
simul[i, cor_ab := predict(fit_cor_ab, newdata = simul[i-1])]
simul[i, cor_ac := predict(fit_cor_ac, newdata = simul[i-1])]
# and so on...

what I would like then is to have a way to do these 3 operations as flagged in #1, #2, and #3 for any number of columns in the data.table data, and that would work whatever the name of the columns in data. my code works... just I have to amend it any time i change the content of data so it's not nice...
Any help appreciated!

A: Seems like a good candidate for a simple function and a nested for loop. Did you try something like this? Notice that the calculate_cor function modifies data in place, so you don't need to return anything.
# correlations
calculate_cor <- function(x, y){
  corr <- function(y) cor(y[, 1], y[, 2])
  corperiod <- 3
  newcol <- paste0("cor_", x, y)
  x <- paste0("logret_", x)
  y <- paste0("logret_", y)
  tmp <- data[-1, .SD, .SDcols=c(x, y)]
  out <- zoo::rollapplyr(tmp, corperiod, corr,
                         by.column=FALSE, fill = NA)
  data[, (newcol) := c(NA, out)]
}

cols <- c("a", "b", "c", "d")
for (x in cols) {
  for (y in cols) {
    if (x < y) {
      calculate_cor(x, y)
    }
  }
}

# regressions
fit <- list()
cols <- grep("cor_", colnames(data), value=TRUE)
for (x in cols) {
  f <- as.formula(paste(x, "~a+b+c+d+logret_a+logret_b+logret_c+logret_d"))
  mod <- lm(f, data)
  fit[[x]] <- MASS::stepAIC(mod, direction="both", trace=FALSE)
}

I don't quite understand what you are trying to accomplish with the 3rd step, but hopefully the same logic as above applies.

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Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana is the state regulatory and statutory representative body for lawyers practicing law in the three states of Punjab and Haryana and Union Territory of Chandigarh. It was constituted as per the mandatory requirement of Advocates Act, 1961 and Bar Council of India. In March 1953, the 'All India Bar Committee', headed by S. R. Das, submitted a report which proposed the creation of a Bar Council for each state and an All-India Bar Council as an apex body. Members of the Bar Council are elected from amongst members enrolled and practicing as lawyers in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, and they represent the state in Bar Council of India meetings. Bar Council enforces standards of professional conduct to be followed by member advocates, and designs etiquettes and has the power to enforce disciplinary guidelines over the members of Bar.

History
Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana was formed as per the requirement of Section 3 of Advocates Act, 1961 which mandates for each state of India to have its Bar Council. Accordingly, Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana was formed. As per the guidelines the legal profession in India and the standards of legal education would be regulated by All India Bar Council. The Law Commission of India was assigned the job of assembling a report on judicial administration reforms.

Functions
6. Functions of State Bar Councils.―(1) The functions of a State Bar Council shall be―

(a) to admit persons as advocates on its roll;
(b) to prepare and maintain such roll;
(c) to entertain and determine cases of misconduct against advocates on its roll;
(d) to safeguard the rights, privileges and interests of advocates on its roll;
[(dd) to promote the growth of Bar Associations for the purposes of effective implementation of the
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(e) to promote and support law reform;
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(f) to manage and invest the funds of the Bar Council;
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Constitution
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Suvir Sidhu was elected as youngest Chairman of Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana in 2022. Earlier he got elected as the youngest Member at the age of 27.

Enrollment of advocates
Graduates having a law degree from recognised universities permitted to impart legal education are admitted as advocates in Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana. Law graduates can enroll online for Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana. State bar councils are empowered by Advocates Act, 1961 to frame rules according to their convenience for enrolling advocates in council. The enrollment committee formed by Councils will scrutinise a prospective member's application. Enrolled advocates of any bar council in state are considered as eligible to write the All India Bar Examination conducted by the Bar Council of India. After clearing the exam, he is certified by the Bar Council of India and issued the 'Certificate of Enrolment', which facilitates him to practice the profession of law in any High Court based in India and lower courts of the country, as an advocate. Advocates are required to qualify in the exam known as "Supreme Court Advocate on Record Examination" which is conducted by the Supreme Court exclusively to practice in the Supreme Court of Country.

Important actions
In April 2021, Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana removed former IPS officer Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh after he requested for the same and also from the facility of Co-option and member of its disciplinary committee after some members complained against the position held by him.
In August 2021, Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana through its election tribunal had invalidated executive body elections of Chandigarh District Bar Association.

See also
Bar Council of India

References

External links
 official website

Legal organisations based in India
Organisations based in Chandigarh

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Q: execute the async task in serial order in android4.0 I have implemented the 2 asyn tasks, I am using android4.0. where one asyntask is executed continuously, second one is executed based on requirement(may be mulitpe times).
For example.
class AsynTask1 exetends AsyncTask<Void, Bitmap, Void>{
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
        while(true){
            publishProgress(bmp);
        }
    }
}

class AsynTask2 extends AsyncTask<String, Void,Void>{
    protected Void doInBackground(String... params){
        System.out.println(params[0])
    }
}

In activity class
class MainActivity extends Activity{
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        new AsynTask1().execute();

        int i=0;
        while(i<100)
        {
            if(i%2==0)
            new AsynTask2().execute("no is even"+i);
            i++
        }
    }
}

In the above case the AsynTask2 is not executed .
If tried with executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.THREAD_POOL_Executor,params), then both asyntask are executed and I am getting the print messages from the AsynTask2, but those are not in order(like 0 2 6 4 10 8 12 14 ....).
Is there any way to execute the AsynTask1 continuously and AsynTask2 in Sequential order so that the order(like 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14....) is prevented.
Thanks & Regards
mini.

A: Use SERIAL_EXECUTOR for Asynctask2
 new AsynTask2().executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.SERIAL_EXECUTOR ,"no is even"+i)

Edit:
Use for  Asynctask1 , so that same executor is not used
 new AsynTask1().executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.THREAD_POOL_Executor,params);

A: Try using call backs. Define the interfaces in your AsyncTask classes and implement them in the main class. Use the callBack on onPostExecute of AsyncTask2 to launch the next AsyncTask2. You'll guarantee the order.
 class AsyncTask2 extends AsyncTask<String, Void,Boolean<{
        //Your code. doInBackground must now return a boolean.
        protected Void onPostExecute(final Boolean success){
            myCallback listener = (myCallback) parentActivity;
            listener.call();
        }

        public Interface myCallback{
            void call();
        }
 }

And then on your main activity you implement myCallback.
[EDIT]
Here's a sample of what you could do.
Class MainActivity extends Activity implements myCallback{
    //Your code
    public void call(){
       new AsyncTask2().execute("no is even" + i);
    }
}

A: *

*You are not supposed to use AsyncTask for long-running threads (the way you are implementing AsyncTask1). See the documentation: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.html . Just create a separate thread for what AsyncTask1 is doing.

*Since you need serial execution for what you are doing in AsyncTask2 can be done by creating a ThreadPool of size 1.
// Creating ThreadPool
ExecutorService service = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(1);

// Submitting task
service.execute(task);

// Shutting down the thread pool when not required.
service.shutdown();

A:     int i=0;
    while(i<100)
    {
      new AsynTask1().execute();
        if(i%2==0)
      {
        new AsynTask2().execute("no is even"+i);
       }
        i++
    }


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Q: Power BI taking min value from Multiple text columns I have these data
ID  Daig 1  Daig 2  Daig 3  Daig 4
AA1     5    X        X      2
AA2     X    1        4      X
AA3     7    3        X      X
AA4     X    X        2      6
AA5     X    X        X      3

I want to extract the min values from the columns ignoring the text(X)
I wrote the below DAX
Min Value = VAR V1 = IF(Data[Daig 1 ]="X",100,VALUE(Data[Daig 1 ]))
            VAR V2 = IF(Data[Daig 2]="X",100,VALUE(Data[Daig 1 ]))
            VAR V3 = IF(Data[Daig 3]="X",100,VALUE(Data[Daig 1 ]))
            VAR V4 = IF(Data[Daig 4]="X",100,VALUE(Data[Daig 1 ]))
            VAR temp = {V1, V2, V3, V4}
            RETURN
            MINX(Data,temp)

and it give error

Expected Output

A: This one is a measure:
Min Value =
MIN (
    MIN (
        MIN (
            VALUE ( SUBSTITUTE ( SELECTEDVALUE ( Data[Daig 1] ), "X", 999 ) ),
            VALUE ( SUBSTITUTE ( SELECTEDVALUE ( Data[Daig 2] ), "X", 999 ) )
        ),
        VALUE ( SUBSTITUTE ( SELECTEDVALUE ( Data[Daig 3] ), "X", 999 ) )
    ),
    VALUE ( SUBSTITUTE ( SELECTEDVALUE ( Data[Daig 4] ), "X", 999 ) )
)

And this approach i use as new calculated column:
Min_Value =

var __innerTab =
    SELECTCOLUMNS(
        GENERATE( VALUES(Data[ID])
    , ROW(
        "d1", IF(Data[Daig 1]="X",100,VALUE(Data[Daig 1])),
        "d2", IF(Data[Daig 2]="X",100,VALUE(Data[Daig 2])),
        "d3", IF(Data[Daig 3]="X",100,VALUE(Data[Daig 3])),
        "d4", IF(Data[Daig 4]="X",100,VALUE(Data[Daig 4]))))
        ,
        "min", min(min( Min([d1], [d2]),[d3]),[d4]))
return
__innerTab


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Elder Gary E. Stevenson and Elder Neil L. Andersen both spoke about the importance of prophets. In "The Prophet of God" by Elder Andersen, he discusses why we follow the prophet, how to gain a personal witness of the prophet, and how he is our watchman on the tower. In "The Heart of a Prophet," Elder Stevenson explains the process of calling a new prophet as well as his testimony of our living prophet, President Russell M. Nelson today.
How did you feel in the Solemn Assembly sustaining President Russell M. Nelson and leaders of the church? Do you remember other Solemn Assemblies?
What do you think is the most important role of the Lord's prophet?
Is there anything new you learned about President Nelson from Elder Andersen's talk?
How would you defend our prophet to someone who might claim we follow him with blind faith?
Why are you willing to listen to a prophet?
What is a prophet's greatest gift to us?
Why do you follow the prophet?
How does our faith suffer if we do not study the words of the prophets?
How do we "anchor our souls to the Lord Jesus Christ"?
How have you seen the prophet in the role of a watchman?
What are some things that keep us from following the living prophet? What can we do to avoid such things?
How is your life different because you follow a living prophet?
What experiences have strengthened your testimony of a prophet?
How is the process by which a new prophet is called an act of love from our Heavenly Father?
What is the fundamental responsibility of a prophet?
What does it mean to you to sustain a prophet?
The Solemn Assembly was a very clear example that we sustain the prophet. Why then, can it be difficult to do so?
Can you remember other solemn assemblies and how did you feel?
Why do we sustain 15 men as prophets? Why is this important to the Lord's way of governance?
These two talks cover a very similar topic so I've combined them here to make it easier to find more ideas.
From the Church for Elder Gary E. Stevenson "To help members 'comprehend the magnitude' of the calling of a new prophet, you could invite members to search Elder Stevenson's message, looking for truths and insights that help them understand the significance and sacredness of this divine process. Consider inviting members to share what they felt during the solemn assembly in which President Nelson was sustained as President of the Church. You could also draw a heart on the board and ask members to write in it words or phrases that describe the heart and character of President Nelson. What has he taught that has blessed us?"
From the Church for Elder Neil L. Andersen, "Discussing Elder Andersen's message could strengthen members' faith in living prophets. You could invite them to search his message for something that helps them understand why God has prophets on the earth and why we follow them. How have we been blessed because we have a prophet? Members could share how they have gained a testimony that President Russell M. Nelson is the Lord's prophet and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
Elder Stevenson talks about the first prophet he can remember, President David O. McKay. Who is the first prophet you can remember? What do you remember about what he taught?
Divide your discussion in four parts to discuss the process by which a new prophet is called. Elder Stevenson outlines the process in four parts: the passing of a prophet, the apostolic interregnum, calling of a new prophet, and a solemn assembly. You could divide your class into four groups with each group presenting one part of the process.
Discuss President Nelson's teaching style when he was teaching at a medical school and how this differed from other teachers at the time.
Use some of President Nelson's previous talks to discuss how President Nelson teaches us about Jesus Christ.
President Nelson gave a wonderful talk in the October 2014 General Conference, "Sustaining the Prophets." It is a little long, but you could find a section you could show your class as you discuss the importance of how we sustain a new prophet.
Discuss some of the latest teachings from President Nelson using quote cards and comments from your class. There is one sheet of blank quote card for you to add in your own.
Elder Andersen's wife has known President Nelson for close to 30 years, and yet she prayed to gain a testimony of "President Nelson's great prophetic role." Ask your class if anyone has done this and what was their experience as they prayed to know about the calling of our prophet, bishop or other leaders.
There is a video on LDS.org called "Watchman on the Tower" you could use and discuss.
Elder Andersen used the example of "Thou shalt not commit adultery" as proof that the Lord gives us commandments and council many years before research proves it is a good idea. Discuss the commandments the Lord has revealed to us through His prophets- commandments that were years ahead of their time to protect us.
How does the prophet point the way to the Savior? Ask your class for examples of how President Nelson has pointed the way to the Savior thus far as well as how past prophets have done so. You can do this on the board with the word prophet pointing the way to the word Savior. Put ways he does so in the arrows pointing the way.
Does your family study the words of the living prophets along with the scriptures? Have class members share how they study the words of the prophets as well as ways they apply them into their lives.
Show the gospel library art pictures of Noah building the ark and Samuel the Lamanite. How are people today choosing to mock and shoot at our prophet? How can we help sustain him? What can we say to others who may not understand?


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Ariz. sees spike in salmonella seen in egg recall
Arizona has seen more than twice the number of infections caused by the specific salmonella strain associated with millions of recalled eggs since mid-May.Health Services Department food-borne disease epidemiologist Joli Weiss says investigators haven't been able to determine which infections...
Arizona has seen more than twice the number of infections caused by the specific salmonella strain associated with millions of recalled eggs since mid-May.
Health Services Department food-borne disease epidemiologist Joli Weiss says investigators haven't been able to determine which infections are normal background and which can be attributed to the recalled eggs.
No deaths have been reported, and a total number of hospitalizations wasn't available.
The state normally sees two to three cases a month, but the number surged to 16 in June.
An Iowa egg producer began recalling eggs on Tuesday and it surged to 380 million on Wednesday.
Weiss says undercooked eggs or products like homemade salad dressing or mayonnaise that use raw eggs can spread the disease.


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Man dies from eating bags of black licorice
On September 23, 2020 By A.P.In UncategorizedLeave a comment
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
A Massachusetts construction worker's love of black licorice wound up costing him his life. Eating a bag and a half every day for a few weeks threw his nutrients out of whack and caused the 54-year-old man's heart to stop, doctors reported Wednesday.
"Even a small amount of licorice you eat can increase your blood pressure a little bit," said Dr. Neel Butala, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who described the case in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The problem is glycyrrhizic acid, found in black licorice and in many other foods and dietary supplements containing licorice root extract. It can cause dangerously low potassium and imbalances in other minerals called electrolytes.
Eating as little as 2 ounces of black licorice a day for two weeks could cause a heart rhythm problem, especially for folks over 40, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns.
"It's more than licorice sticks. It could be jelly beans, licorice teas, a lot of things over the counter. Even some beers, like Belgian beers, have this compound in it," as do some chewing tobaccos, said Dr. Robert Eckel, a University of Colorado cardiologist and former American Heart Association president. He had no role in the Massachusetts man's care.
The death was clearly an extreme case. The man had switched from red, fruit-flavored twists to the black licorice version of the candy a few weeks before his death last year. He collapsed while having lunch at a fast-food restaurant. Doctors found he had dangerously low potassium, which led to heart rhythm and other problems. Emergency responders did CPR and he revived but died the next day.
The FDA permits up to 3.1% of a food's content to have glycyrrhizic acid, but many candies and other licorice products don't reveal how much of it is contained per ounce, Butala said. Doctors have reported the case to the FDA in hope of raising attention to the risk.
Jeff Beckman, a spokesman for the Hershey Company, which makes the popular Twizzlers licorice twists, said in an email that "all of our products are safe to eat and formulated in full compliance with FDA regulations," and that all foods, including candy, "should be enjoyed in moderation."
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/candy-man-dies-eating-bags-black-licorice-73203407
Eugene Shoemaker: the only person whose ashes have been buried on any celestial body outside Earth
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Eugene Shoemaker
Carolyn Shoemaker
Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker stand by the 18″ Schmidt Telescope at the Palomar Observatory. They used it to search for asteroids and comets that may come close to the earth's orbit.
Scientist Eugene Shoemaker (C) pictured on July, 17, 1994 in Greenbelt, Maryland, with a series of images of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact with Jupiter. At right is his wife Carolyn and at left is David Levy.
Today, we know Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as the first men to land on the moon, 51 years ago. But, if not for a turn of events, history may have also known another name: Eugene Shoemaker.
Thirty years after that one small step for mankind, Eugene would make his own, extraordinary journey to the moon.
Chapter 1: Boy meets girl
In the summer of 1950, Carolyn Spellmann was a college student living in Chico, California. It was there where she would first meet her future husband and science partner, Eugene Shoemaker.
"He came to be my brother's best man at his wedding," Carolyn recalled. "He came there, and I opened the back door, and there was Gene."
That first meeting turned into a long-distance pen pal relationship, and a year later, they were married.
Chapter 2: Reaching for the stars
It was Gene who would encourage Carolyn to step behind a telescope, sparking a lifelong passion and profession.
"Gene simply said, 'Maybe I would like to see things through the telescope,'" Carolyn remembered. "I thought, 'No, I've never stayed awake a night in my life, I don't think so.' But I gradually fell into the program, into the work."
Carolyn went on to become a celebrated astronomer, and even held the Guinness World Record for the greatest number of comets discovered by an individual. "That earned me the nickname of Mrs. Comet," said Carolyn.
While Carolyn focused her research on comets and near-Earth asteroids, her husband was interested in the things that asteroids created — craters.
"He always thought big, and so the origin of the universe was his project," Carolyn said. "The more we found that had craters on them, the more excited he was."
Chapter 3: Shooting for the moon
But for Eugene, the moon was always the ultimate goal.
"Gene wanted to go to the moon more than anything since he was a very young man," Carolyn said. "Gene felt that putting a man on the moon was a step in science … He felt that we had a lot to learn about the origin of the moon, and therefore, other planets."
So, in 1961, when President John F. Kennedy announced that the United States would be sending a man to the moon before the end of the decade, Eugene's life changed forever. As a geologist dedicated to studying craters, he wanted the chance to stand on the moon, study its surface with his own two hands.
"Gene thought that he was going to the moon," Carolyn said. "He wanted to, he worked very hard toward that end. Gene was terribly excited and worried, too, because he felt it was too soon. Too soon, he wasn't prepared and ready, yet, he was still learning lots of things that he would need to know."
Chapter 4: A dream deferred
But, it wasn't his time. A failed medical test stopped his dreams in their tracks.
"It was discovered that he had Addison's disease, which is a failure of the adrenal glands," Carolyn recalled.
"That meant that there was no prospect at all of his ever going to the moon."
Carolyn said Eugene "felt like his goal had suddenly disappeared."
"At the same time, he was not a quitter," she added.
Eugene continued to work to bring qualified people into the astronaut training program.
"He helped train Neil Armstrong, he helped train many of the astronauts," Carolyn said. "He took the first group, and then several other groups to Meteor Crater (in Arizona)."
Meteor Crater was used as a training ground for astronauts because it mimicked the surface of the moon, both being dotted with meteor-impact craters.
Chapter 5: Turning their attention
While Eugene tucked away his hope of going to the moon, he and Carolyn set up an observation program at Palomar Observatory in California, looking to uncover near-Earth objects. That led them to one of their greatest discoveries — Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, the comet that collided with Jupiter. It was the first time in history humans had observed a collision between two bodies in the solar system.
"He let the dream of going to the moon himself go, he was realistic about it," Carolyn said. "At the same time, it was still on his mind. When we would do our observing program, he would be looking at the moon with that in mind, I'm sure."
Eventually, Carolyn and Eugene would put space behind them and turn their attention to their own backyard.
"Our focus changed over the years from looking up at the moon and looking at the sky only, to considering what would happen on Earth," Carolyn said. "Gene had a dream of seeing an asteroid hit the Earth."
Their search for impact craters took them all over the world, with a special focus on Australia.
"The trips to Australia were rather special," Carolyn said. "We went to Australia because it had the oldest land surface available to study."
"We were living out of our truck … We were able to camp out under the stars, which was really special because their sky was just magnificent, and it was different from ours. It was upside down."
Chapter 6: A fateful day
On July 18, 1997, Eugene and Carolyn were driving to meet a friend who would help them with some crater-mapping.
"We were just looking off in the distance, talking about how much fun we were having, what we were going to do," Carolyn remembers. "Then suddenly, there appeared a Land Rover in front of us, and that was it."
The two vehicles collided, and Eugene died.
"I had been hurt and I thought to myself, 'Well, Gene will come around like he always does and rescue me,'" Carolyn recalls. "So I waited, and I called, and nothing happened."
Chapter 7: Getting the call
While Carolyn was recovering in the hospital, she received a call from Carolyn Porco — an ex-student of Eugene's who had been working on the Lunar Prospector space probe mission with NASA.
"She said, 'I'm here in Palo Alto with some people who are working on Lunar Prospector,'" Carolyn remembers.
"They're about to send a mission up to the moon, I wonder if you would like to put Gene's ashes on the moon?"
I said, 'Yes … I think that would be wonderful.'"
On January 6, 1998, the Lunar Prospector was sent off, carrying Eugene's ashes onboard. "The whole family was there to wave Gene goodbye," Carolyn said.
Chapter 8: A telling passage
Along with the space probe, an epigraph, laser-etched onto a piece of brass foil, was sent up with Eugene's remains. It included a passage from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
"And, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun."
After the Prospector's mission was completed, it ran out of fuel and crashed into the side of the moon, by the South Pole. The impact created its own crater, and that's where Eugene's ashes remain today.
"Gene spent most of his life thinking about craters, about the moon," Carolyn said. "It was ironic that he ended his life also with the moon … but he would have been very pleased to know that happened."
A few years prior to his death, while receiving the William Bowie Medal for his contributions to geophysics, Eugene noted that "not going to the moon and banging on it with my own hammer has been my biggest disappointment in life"
"But then, I probably wouldn't have gone to Palomar Observatory to take some 25,000 films of the night sky with Carolyn," he continued. "We wouldn't have had the thrills of finding those funny things that go bump in the night."
Carolyn misses him always. To this day, she'll look up to the moon and imagine him there with his rocks — looking down.
To hear her say it, he still lights up every single one of her night skies.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/26/us/man-on-the-moon-ashes-scn-trnd/index.html?utm_term=159628334818014c51a639e8f&utm_source=The+Good+Stuff+08%2F01%2F20&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=228899_1596283348182&bt_ee=1Cu9PD%2F%2FgVrCcw92d%2FAaZbpmmIocfY3gomZAPHzMl1dqSKup05CAB5fzEw%2FWW0gZ&bt_ts=1596283348182
Oleh Hornykiewicz, Who Discovered Parkinson's Treatment, Dies at 93
On June 14, 2020 By A.P.In Uncategorized1 Comment
Oleh Hornykiewicz in his Vienna office in 2009 He helped identify low dopamine levels as a cause of Parkinson's disease, a finding that led to an effective treatment.
Oleh Hornykiewicz, a Polish-born pharmacologist whose breakthrough research on Parkinson's disease has spared millions of patients the tremors and other physical impairments it can cause, died on May 27 in Vienna. He was 93.
His death was confirmed by his longtime colleague, Professor Stephen J. Kish of the University of Toronto, where Professor Hornykiewicz (pronounced whor-nee-KEE-eh-vitch) taught from 1967 until his retirement in 1992.
Professor Hornykiewicz was among several scientists who were considered instrumental in first identifying a deficiency of the neurotransmitter dopamine as a cause of Parkinson's disease, and then in perfecting its treatment with L-dopa, an amino acid found in fava beans.
The Nobel laureate Dr. Arvid Carlsson and his colleagues had earlier shown that dopamine played a role in motor function. Drawing on that research, Professor Hornykiewicz and his assistant, Herbert Ehringer, discovered in 1960 that the brains of patients who had died of Parkinson's had very low levels of dopamine.
He persuaded another one of his collaborators, the neurologist Walther Birkmayer, to inject Parkinson's patients with L-dopa, the precursor of dopamine, which could cross the barrier between blood vessels and the brain and be converted into dopamine by enzymes in the body, thus replenishing those depleted levels. The treatment alleviated symptoms of the disease, and patients who had been bedridden started walking.
The initial results of this research were published in 1961 and presented at a meeting of the Medical Society of Vienna. The "L-dopa Miracle," as it was called, inspired Dr. Oliver Sacks's memoir "Awakenings" (1973) and the fictionalized movie of the same name in 1990.
As a therapy for Parkinson's, L-dopa was further refined by other scientists, including George C. Cotzias and Melvin D. Yahr. But it was Professor Hornykiewicz, defying colleagues who had argued that post-mortem brain studies were worthless, who is credited with the critical breakthroughs.
His findings spurred the establishment of human brain tissue banks, research into dopamine and treatments of other diseases caused by low levels of neurotransmitters.
"Today, it is generally agreed that the initiation of the treatment of Parkinson's disease with L-dopa represented one of the triumphs of pharmacology of our time," Professor Hornykiewicz wrote in "The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography, Volume IV" (2004). "This provided, apart from the benefit to the patients, a stimulus for analogous studies of many other brain disorders, both neurological and psychiatric."
He received several distinguished awards, including the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 1979 and the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Research Foundation in 1993.
In 2000, when Dr. Carlsson, of Sweden, and others were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering dopamine and "allowing for the development of drugs for the disease," as the Nobel committee wrote, more than 200 scientists signed a petition protesting that the prize had not also been awarded to Professor Hornykiewicz.
Oleh Hornykiewicz was born on Nov. 17, 1926, in the village of Sychow, near Lviv, in what was then southeastern Poland and is now western Ukraine. His was a fourth-generation family of Eastern Orthodox Catholic priests. His father, Theophil Hornykiewicz, ministered to the village's several dozen parishioners and taught religion; his mother, Anna (Sas-Jaworsky) Hornykiewicz, managed the affairs of the village's 300-year-old wooden church.
When the Soviet Union invaded in 1939, the family fled to Austria, his mother's ancestral home, with whatever belongings they could carry. Oleh knew no German but learned it by reading Hitler's "Mein Kampf," which was readily available in Vienna. He suffered from tuberculosis and, when the war ended, decided to follow his eldest brother and become a doctor.
He received his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1951 and began his academic and research career in its pharmacology department. He held a British Council Research Scholarship at the University of Oxford from 1956 to 1958. Beginning in 1967, he headed the psychopharmacology department at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto (now the Center for Addiction and Mental Health), where he established the Human Brain Laboratory in 1978.
He was named a full professor of pharmacology and psychiatry at the University of Toronto in 1973 and, in 1976, appointed to head the newly-founded Institute of Biochemical Pharmacology of the University of Vienna. He held both posts concurrently.
He is survived by his daughter, Maria Hentosz; three sons, Nicholas, Stephen and Joseph; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. His wife, Christina (Prus-Jablonowski) Hornykiewicz, had died.
"He was a pharmacologist, biochemist and neurologist who wanted to find out how the brain works and how dopamine was involved," Professor Kish said. "And he wanted to be known also as a philosopher."
Despite being snubbed by the Nobel committee, Professor Hornykiewicz was philosophical about what he had accomplished and the degree to which it had been credited.
"I am surprised to see that I have achieved everything I could have wished for," he wrote in 2004. "The support and recognition I received for my work, I have accepted with gratitude, as a charming reminder to do more and better."
Professor Kish, who heads the Human Brain Laboratory at the University of Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, said L-dopa, or Levodopa, as it is also called, is today "the mainstay treatment for Parkinson's disease — no drug is more efficacious."
"Hornykiewicz," he added, "reminds us that before L-dopa, persons with Parkinson's disease were bedridden, crowding chronic hospital wards, and the doctors were powerless to do anything. His discovery changed all that —- it was a miracle."
https://bioreports.net/oleh-hornykiewicz-who-discovered-parkinsons-treatment-dies-at-93/
Dr. Richard Friedman, Who Debunked Homosexuality Myth, Dies at 79
On May 6, 2020 By A.P.In UncategorizedLeave a comment
Dr. Richard C. Friedman in an undated photo. "Straight people had the same personality issues, and they got away with murder," his wife said, "but gay people were stigmatized, and he didn't think that was right." In an important book, he challenged the widely held Freudian notion that same-sex attraction was curable, finding it instead rooted in biology.
By Kim Severson
In the 1980s, when marriage and adopting children seemed impossible dreams for gay men, the psychoanalyst Richard C. Friedman became their champion.
His 1988 book, "Male Homosexuality: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective," showed that sexual orientation was largely biological and presented a case that helped undermine the belief held by most Freudian analysts at the time that homosexuality was a pathology that could somehow be cured.
"I felt an ethical obligation to find the reasons for anti-homosexual prejudice," he once told an interviewer. His wife, Susan Matorin, a clinical social worker at the Weill Medical College of Cornell, put it more plainly: "Straight people had the same personality issues, and they got away with murder, but gay people were stigmatized, and he didn't think that was right."
Dr. Friedman's motivation wasn't political. "He very much felt like you followed the science, and it didn't matter what the political backdrop was," his son, Jeremiah, a screenwriter in Los Angeles, said in a phone interview.
Although the American Psychiatric Association, the dominant mental health organization in the United States, changed its diagnostic manual in 1973 and stopped classifying homosexuality as an illness, psychoanalysts continued to describe homosexuality as a perversion, and many believed it could be cured.
Dr. Friedman, using studies of identical twins and theories of developmental psychology, made a scholarly rather than ideological case that biology rather than upbringing played a significant role in sexual orientation.
It was a direct challenge to popular Freudian theories and thrust him into the center of debates among the more established heavyweights of psychoanalysis. It led to a model in which analyst and patient simply assumed that homosexuality was intrinsic, said Jack Drescher, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University who knew Dr. Friedman and would later offer his own critiques of Dr. Friedman's theory as new approaches to working with gay and lesbian patients emerged.
"Given that he was a younger colleague, it was brave of him to take older experts on," Professor Drescher said. But it was in keeping with who he was. "He had an edge and wasn't afraid of anybody," he said.
Dr. Friedman died on March 31 at his home in Manhattan. Though the specific cause was not clear, Ms. Matorin said, he had for years been grappling with a number of health problems, including cardiac and metabolic conditions. He was 79.
Richard C. Friedman was born on Jan. 20, 1941, in the Bronx, the oldest of three sons of William Friedman and Henrietta Fuerstein. His father was a food inspector for the city; his mother a teacher.
His parents instilled in their sons a deep love of learning — all three would go on to become doctors — and of music, insisting on violin and piano lessons. Dr. Friedman would help pay for medical school by playing the accordion at events, and he remained an excellent pianist.
Dr. Friedman's 1988 book showed that sexual orientation was largely biological and presented a case that helped undermine the belief held by most Freudian analysts that homosexuality was a pathology that could be cured.
At the time, a child could still get beaten on the streets of the Bronx for being, like Richard, Jewish, and his family was deeply affected by genocide in Europe during World War II.
While he was at the Bronx High School of Science, he received a National Merit Scholarship and used it to attend Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., graduating in 1961. Five years later he graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and became a psychiatric resident at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, both in Manhattan.
Although he was best known for his work on human sexuality, Dr. Friedman was equally proud of a study he did at the medical center that showed that medical interns performed poorly when they were sleep-deprived. The work helped change how medical schools trained up-and-coming doctors.
After enlisting in the United States Army Medical Corps, he became chief of inpatient psychiatry at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, where he treated traumatized young men returning from the Vietnam War. It was there, his son said, that his suspicion of ingrained authority deepened.
Dr. Friedman would go on to become a clinical professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a faculty member at Columbia University. He published more books and numerous articles on human sexuality, working with Dr. Jennifer Downey, a Manhattan psychiatrist and Columbia professor. He was also the longtime editor of the journal Psychodynamic Psychiatry.
Intellectually restless, Dr. Friedman was a civic-minded student of history who was well-versed in Shakespeare, a devoted reader of biographies and a fan of opera, not to mention the New York Knicks.
He was also a methodical man with distinct tastes, his family said. He always carried a copy of the United States Constitution, and without fail he would slip on gaberdine pants, an oxford shirt, a tie and a blue blazer when he went to his office on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Saturdays were more casual. He left off the tie.
In addition to his wife and son, he is survived by two daughters from a previous marriage, Heidi Friedman and Carla Greene; two brothers, Daniel and Joseph; and two grandchildren.
Although his critics found him to be unyielding in his views, coming off as if he thought he was the smartest person in the room (and often he was), he had a thriving private practice and devoted patients.
One was the author Andrew Solomon, whose book "The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression" won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2001. He was Dr. Friedman's patient for 25 years. Without him, Mr. Solomon said, he might never have understood that as a gay man he could be married and have a family, or that he was capable of professional accomplishment.
"What was most striking was just his confidence and clarity," Mr. Solomon said.
Composting the human body after death will be possible in Spring of 2021 in Seattle
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By Bryan Nelson
Many people like the idea of planting a tree next to the grave of a loved one so their bodies can live on, in a sense, by providing nutrients that get absorbed by the tree. But would you ever want to forgo the casket and the grave, and have your remains directly transformed into compost?
Washington, which earlier this year became the first state to legalize human composting, is giving residents options beyond burial or cremation.
"People from all over the state who wrote to me are very excited about the prospect of becoming a tree or having a different alternative for themselves," state Sen. Jamie Pedersen, who sponsored the bill, told NBC News when the bill was passed.
As a result of that legislation, the first human composting site is on a path to open its doors in spring 2021 in Seattle.
The law allows for the "recomposition" of human remains, a process that speeds up decomposition and turns the remains into nutrient-packed soil, which can be used as the family sees fit. That's where Seattle's Recompose gets its name and its mission: "Recompose takes guidance from nature. At the heart of our model is a system that will gently return us to the earth after we die."
The facility, which looks nothing like a traditional funeral home, will house 75 hexagonal-shaped vessels where bodies will be stored for decomposition. The breakdown takes about 30 days using wood chips, alfalfa and straw.
Cycle of life?
While some people might think there's something eerily cannibalistic about eating crops that were planted in grandma's remains, it's also a way of perpetuating the cycle of life that all of our food grows from. This is the mental hurdle that has likely prevented human composting from being legalized until recently.
Recomposition does have some practical benefits that are worth considering as well. For one, it's more economical. A traditional burial costs an average of $7,000, according to the National Funeral Directors Association. Recomposition will cost around $5,500. Moreover, composting is far healthier for the environment. No toxic embalming fluids are used, and the resultant nutrient-rich soil has a green thumb use.
There are safeguards in place to ensure that no harmful pathogens survive the recomposition process, which has been another sticking point in previous attempts to legalize human composting. A study led by researcher Lynne Carpenter-Boggs at Washington State University, which recomposed six donor bodies in a carefully controlled environment, has demonstrated that the process is safe.
https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/responsible-living/stories/would-you-want-your-body-turned-compost-when-you-die?utm_source=Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e194c0c1a7-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_WED1204_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fcbff2e256-e194c0c1a7-40844241
AI can determine if you're going to die soon from looking at your ECG, and even cardiologists don't understand how it does this.
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Researchers found that a black-box algorithm predicted patient death better than humans.
They used ECG results to sort historical patient data into groups based on who would die within a year.
Although the algorithm performed better, scientists don't understand how or why it did.
Albert Einstein's famous expression "spooky action at a distance" refers to quantum entanglement, a phenomenon seen on the most micro of scales. But machine learning seems to grow more mysterious and powerful every day, and scientists don't always understand how it works. The spookiest action yet is a new study of heart patients where a machine-learning algorithm decided who was most likely to die within a year based on echocardiogram (ECG) results, reported by New Scientist.
The algorithm performed better than the traditional measures used by cardiologists. The study was done by researchers in Pennsylvania's Geisinger regional healthcare group, a low-cost and not-for-profit provider.
Much of machine learning involves feeding complex data into computers that are better able to examine it really closely. To analogize to calculus, if human reasoning is a Riemann sum, machine learning may be the integral that results as the Riemann calculation approaches infinity. Human doctors do the best they can with what they have, but whatever the ECG algorithm is finding in the data, those studying the algorithm can't reverse engineer what it is.
The most surprising axis may be the number of people cardiologists believed were healthy based on normal ECG results: "The AI accurately predicted risk of death even in people deemed by cardiologists to have a normal ECG," New Scientist reports.
To imitate the decision-making of individual cardiologists, the Geisinger team made a parallel algorithm out of the factors that cardiologists use to calculate risk in the accepted way. It's not practical to record the individual impressions of 400,000 real human doctors instead of the results of the algorithm, but that level of granularity could show that cardiologists are more able to predict poor outcomes than the algorithm indicates.
It could also show they perform worse than the algorithm—we just don't know. Head to head, having a better algorithm could add to doctors' human skillset and lead to even better outcomes for at-risk patients.
Machine learning experts use a metric called area under the curve (AUC) to measure how well their algorithm can sort people into different groups. In this case, researchers programmed the algorithm to decide which people would survive and which would die within the year, and its success was measured in how many people it placed in the correct groups. This is why future action is so complicated: People can be misplaced in both directions, leading to false positives and false negatives that could impact treatment. The algorithm did show an improvement, scoring 85 percent versus the 65 to 80 percent success rate of the traditional calculus.
As in other studies, one flaw in this research is that the scientists used past data where the one-year window had finished. The data set is closed and scientists can directly compare their results to a certain outcome. There's a difference—and in medicine it's an ethical one—between studying closed data and using a mysterious, unstudied mechanism to change how we treat patients today.
Medical research faces the same ethical hurdles across the board. What if intervening based on machine learning changes outcomes and saves lives? Is it ever right to treat one group of patients better than a control group that receives less effective care? These obstacles make a big difference in how future studies will pursue the results of this study. If the phenomenon of better prediction holds up, it may be decades before patients are treated differently.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a29762613/ai-predict-death-health/
Loneliness is linked to increased risk of death in patients with heart disease.
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By Steven Reinberg
Loneliness can take a heavy toll on heart patients — including a higher risk of death in the year after hospitalization, researchers found.
"This study confirms what has also been indicated in previous research regarding the serious health consequences of loneliness," said lead researcher Anne Vinggaard Christensen, of Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark.
"Loneliness should be considered a serious risk factor in patients with cardiac disease and should be included in risk evaluation of patients," added Christensen, who is with the hospital's heart center.
The Danish researchers cautioned, however, that their findings can't prove that loneliness caused people to die, only that loneliness and the risk of death appear to be connected. But the differences in mortality between those who felt lonely and those who didn't can't be explained by their medical condition alone, they said.
Loneliness is a subjective experience, one that is distressing and unpleasant, the researchers noted.
The connection between loneliness and health is complex, Christensen said.
People who are lonely or socially isolated tend to have more unhealthy lifestyles. They smoke more, are less likely to be physically active and don't take their medication, she said.
"Having a social network helps motivate people to make healthier choices," Christensen said. "A social network can act as a buffer for stress."
Also, lonely people have been found to have higher levels of stress hormones and lower immune function, she added.
"These different pathways are interconnected and help us understand why people feeling lonely or socially isolated experience worse health," Christensen said.
James Maddux is a professor emeritus in the department of psychology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Reviewing the findings, he took issue with the study's methodology.
"My major concern about the methodology is that their measure of loneliness is rather weak and is not consistent with most studies about loneliness that I am familiar with," Maddux said. He explained that the question used to measure loneliness failed to capture loneliness "as a profound sense of isolation and disconnected from others, accompanied by sadness and a longing to be with others. In other words, loneliness is painful."
Still, even in its flawed state, the new study "adds to the growing research on the perils of social isolation among people in general and among older adults over 60 in particular," said Maddux. "These results help reaffirm what we've learned so far about how unhealthy social isolation can be."
For the study, Christensen and her colleagues collected data on more than 13,400 heart patients after they left the hospital from 2013 to 2014. Their average age was in the mid-60s.
Participants completed questionnaires on their health, psychological well-being, quality of life and levels of anxiety and depression.
Compared to people who didn't feel lonely, those who said they were lonely were nearly three times more likely to be anxious and depressed and have a lower quality of life, the researchers found.
A year later, Christensen's team found that feeling lonely had a significant impact on participants' health.
Regardless of other factors, lonely women were nearly three times more likely to die than women who weren't lonely, and lonely men were more than twice as likely to die, the researchers found.
Living alone, however, is not necessarily equal to feeling lonely, and it was linked to a lower risk of depression and anxiety than living with others.
But among men, living alone was tied with a 39% greater risk for poor heart health. This may be because men tend not to have an extensive support network after divorce or death of a spouse, compared with women, the researchers noted.
"Loneliness can have many causes and can occur even if you have people around you," Christensen said.
For some, it would help to have a family member who remembers to ask how they are doing and is ready to listen, she said.
"For others, help with practical things might be what they need, and for some, the opportunity to talk to other patients who have gone through the same thing is helpful," Christensen said.
She also stressed that the effects of loneliness are not confined to heart disease. "It's also [detrimental] for individuals who do not suffer from an illness. Loneliness seems to be damaging to your health no matter what," Christensen said.
The report was published online Nov. 4 in the journal Heart.
https://consumer.healthday.com/cardiovascular-health-information-20/misc-stroke-related-heart-news-360/risks-mount-for-lonely-hearts-after-cardiac-surgery-751879.html
Any amount of running can lower a person's risk of early death, an analysis of multiple studies finds.
By Jonathan Lambert
If you're looking for motivation to take up running, perhaps this will help. A new study finds that people who run as little as once a week have a lower risk of early death compared with people who don't run at all.
In fact, any amount of running was associated with a 27 percent lower risk of premature death. And researchers found no evidence that running more alters that number significantly, according to a new meta-analysis published November 4 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
"This is good news for the many adults who find it hard to find time for exercise," says Elaine Murtagh, an exercise physiologist at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland, who was not involved in the study. "Any amount of running is better than none."
While this conclusion might seem obvious to runners, the science has been fairly mixed, says public health researcher Željko Pedišić of Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. "Some studies found a significant benefit of running, but others did not," he says.
Also unclear was whether the duration or intensity of running mattered. Researchers who study the effects of running think about the activity in terms of doses, as though it were itself a medicine. Pedišić says that while it might make sense that more running would yield greater health benefits, some studies have sparked debate by suggesting that higher levels of running — more than 250 minutes a week — could actually negate any benefits in terms of mortality.
Pedišić and his colleagues tried to make sense of these conflicting findings by pooling and reanalyzing data from previous studies, an approach known as a meta-analysis. They settled on 14 previously published studies, which collectively asked 232,149 participants about their running habits and then tracked their health over a period of time from 5 ½ to 35 years.
Over the course of each study a total of 25,951 participants died, allowing the researchers to look for statistical associations between running and risk of death.
The researchers found that runners, even those who reported running as infrequently as once a month, had a 27 percent reduced risk of death from any cause compared with non-runners. Each study differed slightly in how they defined a runner, making it difficult to say exactly how little running is necessary for a benefit, though Pedišić says taking just a few strides a week is almost certainly not enough.
Still, the lower risk of early death was more or less the same across all running doses, from running no more than once a week for less than 50 minutes to running every day for a weekly total of 250 minutes. "All these doses of running are significantly associated with lower risk of death," Pedišić says. "There was no significant difference between frequency, duration or pace,"
"Not finding a trend does not mean that the trend does not exist," Pedišić cautions. A trend could be too small to be detected within the sample size. Studying the health effects of heavy running can be difficult because there aren't many people who run that much, he says.
While more evidence is needed to determine if there is an upper limit to how much running is beneficial, this study fits with other research finding health benefits for any level of activity, says Angelique Brellenthin, a kinesiologist at Iowa State University in Ames who was not involved in the study, "Any amount of physical activity that you can fit into your schedule is good for you," she says.
Running just once a week may help you outpace an early death
Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 was the first person to ever walk in space, has died.
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Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for a photo in 2013.
By Scottie Andrew
Alexei Leonov, the first person to perform a spacewalk, died this week. He was 85.
Russian space agency Roscosmos Space Corporation announced his passing Friday. State news agency RIA-Novosti reported he'd been chronically ill before his death.
Though Leonov wasn't the first man on the moon (a goal he wasn't shy about), he earned his own "first" in the space race between the US and Soviet Union. On March 18, 1965, he embarked on the first spacewalk, spending 12 minutes outside the Voskhod 2 capsule.
The first American to walk in space, Ed White, wouldn't do so until June that same year.
On the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975, Leonov met with US astronauts in space and gave TV viewers tours of their respective crafts, the first time Soviet and US cosmonauts collaborated in space. The mission is credited with kick-starting eventual international cooperation aboard the International Space Station.
Leonov was also a celebrated artist who brought colored pencils to space to sketch the view of Earth. His drawing of the sunrise is considered the first piece of art created in space.
His funeral will be held October 15 at Mytishchi Military Memorial cemetery outside Moscow.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/11/world/alexei-leonov-first-spacewalk-death-scn-trnd/index.html
Teacher writes own obituary before passing away at age 32
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A woman wrote her own obituary before passing away at the age of 32 after a brave battle with cancer.
Ashley Ann Kuzma began by saying, "When you have recurrent laryngeal cancer that just won't take no for an answer, you have a lot of time to think about death. The good thing is I no longer have to worry about saving for retirement, paying off student loans, or trying not to get skin cancer??? One positive outcome from having recurrent cancer was that it taught me to let go of the insignificant things and to just enjoy the people and places."
Kuzma said her body finally had enough after three recurrences of cancer. She passed away last month at the Cleveland Clinic.
She was a gifted teacher at a high school in Erie, Pennsylvania; and loved reading, cuddling with her cats and traveling.
Kuzma wrote that after she found out her cancer was back for the fourth time, she went to Mexico and saw Chichen Itza.
"I am extremely grateful for the life that I lived. I was fortunate to have a loving family, supportive friends, a stable and meaningful job, and a house to call my own. My wish for you is to stop letting insignificant situations stress you out. Do what is important to you. Relax and enjoy the company of those around you. What do you value in your life? In the end, that's what matters."
Kuzma's family told Good Morning America they didn't know she had written her obituary until they found it on her computer following her death.
Kuzma's mom, Vicky, said, "When we found it we were like, 'What do we do?' and I said, 'She wrote this. We have to publish this. ' This is her last message to us, how could we not?"
In her obituary, Kuzma asked that a celebration of life be held for her "since I think viewings are too sad for everyone."
She also asked that donations be made to the Humane Society of Northwestern Pennsylvania (Erie Humane Society), Orphan Angels Cat Sanctuary & Adoption Center Erie, Pa., or Hope Lodge, Cleveland, Ohio.
Ashley Ann Kuzma
Ashley Ann Kuzma Obituary
When you have recurrent laryngeal cancer that just won't take no for an answer, you have a lot of time to think about death. The good thing is I no longer have to worry about saving for retirement, paying off student loans, or trying not to get skin cancer??? One positive outcome from having recurrent cancer was that it taught me to let go of the insignificant things and to just enjoy the people and places. After three recurrences, my body finally had enough and I passed away on Sunday, September 22, 2019 at the Cleveland Clinic.
I was born on May 21, 1987 in Beaver County, Pa. I grew up in Conway and attended Freedom Area High School (class of 2005). I earned a Bachelor's in History and Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh (class of 2009), where I also became a member of Kappa Delta Sorority. I completed my teaching certificate and Master of Education degree at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. After I graduated high school, my family moved to Erie. While I spent a few years teaching in Lancaster County, I returned to Erie to plant my roots and became a gifted support teacher at McDowell Intermediate High School. In my spare time, I enjoyed reading, cuddling with my cats, wine tasting, relaxing on my dad's boat, watching movies, golfing, decorating my house, watching football (go Steelers!), appreciating a good sunset, and watching TV shows like Grey's Anatomy, the original Will and Grace, and Friends. While in college I spent a semester abroad in London and was able to travel to Paris, France, Krakow, Poland (it had been a goal of mine to visit Auschwitz for many years), Milan, Venice, Florence, and Rome, Italy. Some of my favorite family vacations include experiencing the awe of the Grand Canyon and enjoying the sun, sand, and family time in the Outer Banks. After I found out my cancer was back for the fourth time, I went to Mexico and saw Chichen Itza. I am extremely grateful for the life that I lived. I was fortunate to have a loving family, supportive friends, a stable and meaningful job, and a house to call my own. My wish for you is to stop letting insignificant situations stress you out. Do what is important to you. Relax and enjoy the company of those around you. What do you value in your life? In the end, that's what matters.
I am survived by my wonderful parents, John William Kuzma and Vicky Lynn (Barron) Kuzma of Fairview, Pa.; my sister, Kristen Marie Kuzma of Clinton, Pa.; our family dog, Lizzy; my cats, Archie and Stella; my maternal grandmother, Verda Ann (Durst) Barron of New Brighton, Pa.; and many aunts, uncles, cousins, and many friends.
I was preceded in death by my paternal grandparents, John Allen Kuzma and Dolores Marie (Gajewski) Kuzma; my maternal grandfather, Robert Eugene Barron; my childhood cat of 18 years, Sammy; our beloved family dog of 17 years, Dylan; and my cat, Leo.
Since I think viewings are too sad for everyone, I requested that my family host a celebration of my life. Please join them on Sunday, October 13, 2019 from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Perry Highway Hose Co. Oliver Rd., Erie, Pa. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Humane Society of Northwestern Pennsylvania (Erie Humane Society), Orphan Angels Cat Sanctuary & Adoption Center Erie, Pa., or Hope Lodge, Cleveland, Ohio.
This obituary was written by Ashley preceding her passing as part of the many preparations to make the transition easier on her family.
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The Hapa Japan Project and It's Role in Student Life
The Hapa Japan Project focuses on the study of mixed-race and mixed-roots Japanese people globally.
The project has sponsored three Festivals featuring an academic conference, mixed-raced Japanese novelists for a literary fair, musicians for a concert, comedians for a comedy night. The 2011 Hapa Japan Festival was held at UC Berkeley drawing over 1,200 participants. The 2013 Hapa Japan Festival held over five days in Los Angeles, which included the launch of an exhibit titled "Visible and Invisible: A Hapa Japanese American History," at the Japanese American National Museum drew over 4,000 participants. The 2017 Hapa Japan Festival was held at the University of Southern California and the project sponsored the national Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) Conference as a part of the festival. The 2017 event was featured in the New York Times and heralded as a festival of "love and happiness." Beyond the Japanese experience, the project also sponsored a 14-month Sawyer Seminar Series during 2013-2014 on "Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach" funded by the Mellon Foundation. In October 2017, the project officially launched a revamped website (www.hapajapan.com).
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The Hapa Japan Festival celebrates mixed race and mixed roots Japanese people and culture. Come join us at the Japanese American National Museum and the USC (University of Southern California) campus in Los Angeles.
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HOW TO USE ESSAYS COLLECTION IN STUDIES
When one needs to write essay on a topic that is not commonly known, they need to support their ideas with relevant arguments and examples. Hapa Japa essays collection is a great example of such resources for analysis and writing. If students can't cope with their academic papers themselves, they look for "write my essay" assistance from expert writing services, but still can use essay collection in their instructions for writers to get properly cited pieces of writing.
WHAT IS THE HAPA JAPAN PROJECT?
It is part educational. Part genealogical. And all connected. Welcome to the HapaJapan.com website, a global hub of information for and about the mixed race and mixed roots Japanese community. The Hapa Japan Project is based at the University of Southern California's Ito Center and sponsors events, publications, and this website that features news stories, longer form articles, and interviews. In 2017, the project released the edited volumes, Hapa Japan (vol. 1 History and vol. 2 Identity and Representations).


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Fitoor by Mumbai Music Artist Atteev Bhansali
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Today's second post is the news snippet about the release of the new song, Fitoor by Mumbai Music Artist Atteev Bhansali. The song, Fitoor…, was recently released by Selekt by Koinage Records. Read on to find out more:
Selekt by Koinage kickstarted the new year with its first release, Fitoor…
Selekt by Koinage, home to independent artists and music lovers, released its third song, titled Fitoor…; sung by Atteev Bhansali. Atteev Bhansali rose to fame from his single Way to go… and Fitoor… was released on YouTube and other major streaming platforms, recently. From its beautiful lyrics to passionate music, Fitoor… feels like a cool breeze in summertime.
Fitoor… is not just a song. It is a burst of emotions; one feels when one is in awe of someone. By confessing what one feels when one is falling in love, this song is just different from the other love songs out there. It has a surprising twist of words at the end of each hook. It's as if the singer is trying to confess his love through this song. But that is where the versatility of the song comes in.
The song isn't just for the person singing, it's for everybody who has ever fallen in love, for someone who has ever known what falling in love feels like. It resonates with one's feelings of being in love. It's a light and airy pop song with a guitar as the center focus. With its lush vocals that play rhythmically between the song becomes one which everybody can admire. Fitoor… has the power to transport you into a colorful world where love is the only feeling present. However, one is left with an air of mystery as the listener is unaware if the person is listening or not.
Talking about Fitoor…, Atteev said, "Fitoor… is the second Hindi song that I've worked on. And I can say for a fact that I have never worked on something like this before. It is a complete departure from Tu hi hai… It's a simple yet catchy pop song that describes the emotions one feels when one starts falling for someone. Fitoor… holds a special place in my heart as it's the first solo project that I've undertaken since the EP that I released way back in 2020. From January 2021, when I first wrote the song to now on its release it has been an eventful year. I am excited to see how my fans love this."
Atteev is a singer-songwriter/producer whose bedroom pop and R&B has sparked intrigue in the music industry. He brought something new to the market with his first single Way to go and was loved by the audience for it. From being broadcast on two of Europe's biggest radio stations to reaching No. 35 on the Hot New Tracks chart he has come a long way. In just six months, Atteev has amassed a collection of over 11 songs, partnering with artists such as Tansen, SMG and Trosk, among others. His music ranges from appealing pop tunes to deep, heartfelt ballads that everybody can relate to. For Fitoor…, Atteev was not just the singer, he was also the composer and writer, giving us a glimpse of the massive talent, he encompasses.
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Fitoor
Fitoor by Mumbai Mumbai Artist Atteev Bhansali
Mumbai Music Artist Atteev Bhansali
Music Artist Atteev Bhansali
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Selekt by Koinage Records
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