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What is the Socio-Historical Method in the Study of Religion?
Darren M. Slade
The purpose of this article is to answer what the socio-historical method is when applied to the study of religion, as well as detail how numerous disciplines (e.g. archaeology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, theology, musicology, dramatology, etc.) contribute to its overall employment. In the broadest (and briefest) definition possible, a socio-historical study of religion coalesces the aims, philosophies, and methodologies of historiography with those of the social and cultural sciences, meaning it analyzes the interpretation and practice of religion through the lens of social/historical contexts, scientific discovery, and from within each faith tradition. The result is that the contexts surrounding a particular religion becomes the primary subject of study in order to better understand the origin, development, and expression of the religion itself. This article explains that the socio-historical study of religion is, in essence, an eclectic methodology that focuses on describing and analyzing the contexts from which the interpretation and practice of religion occurs. The goal is to examine how different aspects of a religion function in the broader socio-political and cultural milieu. Its most fundamental postulation is that the social history of a religious community affects how it interprets and practices their faith. By approaching religious inquiry from a socio-historical perspective, researchers are better able to recognize religion as a cultural and institutional element in ongoing social and historical interaction. Three sections will help to explain the socio-historical method: 1) a definitional dissection of the term "socio-historical"; 2) an elaboration of the principles inherent to the methodology; and 3) a case study example of the socio-historical method in practice.
Essays Introducing a Jewish Perspective on the Gospel of John
Charles David Isbell
This article's aim is to highlight the impact that plain sense readings of the Gospel of John have on educated Jewish and Christian lay persons but who typically do not aspire to learn or appropriate current scholarly theories seeking to explain sacred texts in a technical and often inordinately complex fashion. Essay topics include: 1) the anonymous author ("John"), the relationship of his gospel to the Synoptic Gospels, his interpretation of Jewish actions and customs, and his influence on a distinct group of early Christians, the "Johannine" community; 2) John's portrayal of Jesus' self-identification in using the divine name YHWH; 3) John's description and interpretation of various Jewish responses to Jesus, as well as the author's understanding of the reasons for Jews rejecting the message and person of Jesus; and 4) John's portrayal of the early break between Judaism and Christianity, laid entirely at the feet of "the Jews."
Craig on the Resurrection: A Defense
Stephen T. Davis
This article is a rebuttal to Robert G. Cavin and Carlos A. Colombetti's article, "Assessing the Resurrection Hypothesis: Problems with Craig's Inference to the Best Explanation," which argues that the Standard Model of current particle physics entails that non-physical things (like a supernatural God or a supernaturally resurrected body) can have no causal contact with the physical universe. As such, they argue that William Lane Craig's resurrection hypothesis is not only incompatible with the notion of Jesus physically appearing to the disciples, but the resurrection hypothesis is significantly limited in both its explanatory scope and explanatory power. This article seeks to demonstrate why their use of the Standard Model does not logically entail a rejection of the physical resurrection of Jesus when considering the scope and limitations of science itself.
Imagined as us-American: Patriotic Music, Religion, and Violence Post-9/11
David Kwon
With the common correlation of the patriotic music community to "America," country music after 9/11, in many respects, could be seen as a site for the reinforcement and construction of American national identity. This article particularly explores the use of country music in the United States to represent and create a political ideology of "imagined" national identity in the time period between September 11, 2001 and the invasion of Iraq in the Spring of 2003. However, the nation, as imagined in these country song lyrics, has very specific dimensions. It is not just any nation. It is perceived (and valued, for that matter) as justifiably aggressive. It is a Christian nation defined in opposition to the Islamic "other." This targeted racial and religious group is not just an outside foreign "other" but a heavily stigmatized foreigner from within their own country. The mapping of these particular concepts of nation and religion onto mainstream country music constitutes its primary imagined identity.
Identifying the Conflict between Religion and Science
David Kyle Johnson
Inspired by Stephen J. Gould's NOMA thesis, it is commonly maintained among academic theists (and some atheists) that religion and science are not in conflict. This essay will argue, by analogy, that science and religion undeniably are in conflict. It will begin by quickly defining religion and science and then present multiple examples that are unquestionable instances of unscientific reasoning and beliefs and show how they precisely parallel common mainstream orthodox religious reasoning and doctrines. It will then consider objections. In essence, this article will show that religion and science conflict when religion encroaches into the scientific domain. But in closing, it will show that they might also conflict when science encroaches into domains traditionally reserved for religion.
Agnomancy: Conjuring Ignorance, Sustaining Belief
Jack David Eller
Recent years have seen an increased interest in the construction and exploitation of ignorance, with the establishment of a field of agnotology (ignorance studies). This effort has focused almost exclusively on governments and corporations, though little or none on religion. After exploring work in agnotology and introducing the concept of agnomancy (the creation or conjuring of ignorance), the present article offers a preliminary application of these perspectives to religion, investigating what light agnotology sheds on religion and when and for what reasons religion engages in agnomancy.
Is Faith a Path to Knowledge?
Evan Fales
In this paper, I consider whether (religious) faith has any role to play in conferring positive epistemic status to (especially religious) beliefs. I outline several conceptions of faith that have been historically important within Western religious traditions. I then consider what role faith might be supposed to play, so understood, within the framework of internalist and externalist accounts of knowledge. My general conclusion is that, insofar as faith itself is a justified epistemic attitude, it requires justification and acquires that justification only through the regular faculties for contingent truths: sense perception and reason. I also argue, however, that the operations of our cognitive faculties in arriving at epistemic judgments on matters of substance are sufficiently complex, subtle, and often temporally prolonged, to make it exceptionally difficult to reconstruct the cognitive process and to judge whether it meets standards of rationality.
Faith and Epistemology: Religious Truth Claims and Epistemic Warrant
Julius Gurney III
This essay argues for the rationality of truth claims arising from religious faith over against the contention that such claims are, at best, viewed as subjective "value" language or, at worst, strictly irrational. An argument will be offered for the epistemic warrant of faith-based claims, not for the objective veracity of the religious claims themselves.
Judaism and Evolutionary Astrology: Insights from a Jewish Astrologer
Elisa Robyn
While the Torah instructs Jews not to practice soothsaying or divination, the Talmud includes several discussions about the power of astrology with many Rabbis even arguing that the use of astrology is both permitted and meaningful. Add to this discrepancy the numerous astrological mosaics on the floors of ancient synagogues, as well as certain Kabbalistic practices, and it becomes clear why there is confusion within the Jewish community. This article examines Jewish perspectives on evolutionary astrology throughout Jewish history and its link to current mystical applications.
Book Review: The Case Against Miracles, Edited by John W. Loftus
Gregory Michna
A review of John W. Loftus's edited volume, The Case Against Miracles.


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A Very Gallant Gentleman
Colonel Francis Thornhaugh (1617-1648) and the Nottinghamshire Horse
Stuart B. Jennings
First ever account of a Civil War officer well-known to Thomas Fairfax, Oliver Cromwell John Hutchinson, Henry Ireton and Sydnam Poyntz, whose rising military career was cut short by his death at the Battle of Preston. Thornhagh's early life, successful military and political carer as an MP are examined fully in this biography.
34 b/w illustrations, 3 b/w maps
Dimensions : 9.75 X 7 inches
Stock Status : Available
Colonel Francis Thornhagh figures prominently in Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel John Hutchinson, an essential source for information about the English Civil War in the East Midlands. Yet with no biography until now, little is known about this influential parliamentarian officer outside of Hutchinson's writings.
By the time of his death at the age of 31 at the Battle of Preston in 1648, Francis Thornhagh had achieved considerable military and political success. Appointed colonel and commander of the Nottinghamshire at the age of 26, with Henry Ireton as his major, he saw considerable military action, including fight against Prince Rupert and Charles Gerard. This book explores both his military activities alongside other leading parliamentarians such as Cromwell, Poyntz and Hutchinson and his support of the army as an Independent MP over the years 1646-48.
This new piece of research examines thoroughly Thornhagh's important contribution to the events of the period 1642-1648.
Stuart Jennings is an Early Modern Historian and a Methodist Minister. He completed an MA in history at Nottingham University and a PhD at Nottingham Trent University. He has published a number of peer reviewed academic papers, three chapters in books of academic essays and two books as sole author. His book 'These Uncertaine tymes' won the Alan Ball Local History prize in 2010. He lectures in history at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Warwick and serves as part of s team of academic advisors to the National Civil War Centre at Newark upon Trent.
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Pigs, Missiles and the CIA
Linda Rios Bromley
Infantrymen of the Air
Jeffrey W.S. Leser
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Q: Why a bubble is needed? Consider the following MIPS instructions:
lw $5, 8($5)
sw $5, 12($6)
Now, as far as I understand, Memory[8 + $5] is available to us at the begining of stage #5, whereas sw needs $5 information at stage #4 so we can just forward. Why do we also need a bubble/stall?

A: Usually you either forward or place a bubble, unless you do not have the datum required to forward in which case you may need to stall anyways.
In your example, suppose your pipeline allows forwarding from MEM stage to EX stage.
You can do a time diagram showing in which stage is each instruction.
Without forwarding:
time              1  2  3   4  5   6   7  8
lw $5, 8($5)      IF ID EX MEM WB
sw $5, 12($6)        IF ID-------> EX MEM WB

you have to stall two cycles for $5 to become available to the EX stage of the second instruction.
With forwarding:
time              1  2  3   4  5   6  7
lw $5, 8($5)      IF ID EX MEM WB
sw $5, 12($6)        IF ID---> EX MEM WB

In this case the data read from memory is available to be forwarded the EX stage of sw instruction.

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Legal & General Group Plc increased its stake in Zendesk Inc (NYSE:ZEN) by 8.9% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 52,596 shares of the software maker's stock after purchasing an additional 4,317 shares during the period. Legal & General Group Plc's holdings in Zendesk were worth $3,070,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in ZEN. Westfield Capital Management Co. LP boosted its stake in Zendesk by 97.9% in the 4th quarter. Westfield Capital Management Co. LP now owns 1,498,026 shares of the software maker's stock worth $87,440,000 after purchasing an additional 741,013 shares during the period. 1832 Asset Management L.P. boosted its stake in Zendesk by 80.6% in the 4th quarter. 1832 Asset Management L.P. now owns 1,317,500 shares of the software maker's stock worth $75,062,000 after purchasing an additional 587,800 shares during the period. Bank of New York Mellon Corp boosted its stake in Zendesk by 114.3% in the 4th quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 1,012,123 shares of the software maker's stock worth $59,077,000 after purchasing an additional 539,839 shares during the period. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. boosted its stake in Zendesk by 1,198.6% in the 4th quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. now owns 525,307 shares of the software maker's stock worth $30,662,000 after purchasing an additional 484,856 shares during the period. Finally, Capital World Investors boosted its stake in Zendesk by 124.2% in the 3rd quarter. Capital World Investors now owns 818,500 shares of the software maker's stock worth $58,114,000 after purchasing an additional 453,500 shares during the period. 96.55% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Shares of NYSE:ZEN opened at $83.22 on Tuesday. The company has a current ratio of 1.67, a quick ratio of 1.67 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.10. Zendesk Inc has a one year low of $45.60 and a one year high of $86.85. The stock has a market cap of $9.13 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -87.60 and a beta of 1.66.
Zendesk (NYSE:ZEN) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, February 5th. The software maker reported $0.10 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($0.28) by $0.38. The company had revenue of $172.25 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $165.56 million. Zendesk had a negative net margin of 21.89% and a negative return on equity of 24.19%. Zendesk's quarterly revenue was up 41.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned ($0.01) EPS. As a group, equities analysts forecast that Zendesk Inc will post -0.96 EPS for the current fiscal year.
A number of brokerages recently weighed in on ZEN. Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of Zendesk from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research note on Thursday, March 21st. Deutsche Bank boosted their price target on shares of Zendesk from $88.00 to $94.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research report on Friday, March 29th. KeyCorp boosted their price target on shares of Zendesk from $71.00 to $92.00 and gave the stock an "overweight" rating in a research report on Wednesday, February 6th. Royal Bank of Canada boosted their price target on shares of Zendesk to $90.00 and gave the stock an "outperform" rating in a research report on Wednesday, February 6th. Finally, Wedbush cut their price target on shares of Zendesk from $75.00 to $71.00 and set an "outperform" rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, February 4th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, seventeen have issued a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company. The stock has an average rating of "Buy" and an average target price of $79.14.
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Tennis star Eugenie Bouchard agreed to date a fan if the Pats won the Super Bowl. Oops.
Confident the Atlanta Falcons would win Super Bowl LI after they built a big lead Sunday, Bouchard agreed to go on a date with a Twitter user if the New England Patriots found a way to come back and win (which, of course, they did).
After her losing wager became a Twitter Moment, Bouchard asserted the date still is on.
In an apparent accident, Shapovalov lost his temper and hit a ball into an umpire's eye.
Denis #Shapovalov fined $7,000 for hitting chair umpire with a ball during the @DavisCup.
In addition to his team's Davis Cup match disqualification, Shapovalov was fined $7,000.
Overall, Sunday's antics were a rough look for Canadian tennis, as one journalist noted.


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Smart electricity meter data analysis
SustLabs uses automated metering and big-data analytics to 'decode' real-time electricity consumption data at residential level up to heavy appliance level by analysing smart meter data. This unlocks a wealth of information that electricity supply carries, generating insights for utilities, appliance manufacturers, market research companies, etc., which creates data driven revenue opportunities. SustLabs predicts this will transform compulsive electricity consumers to informed users.
SustLabs
Smart micro-grid for clean energy
Basil Energetics offers a solution to manage green power at the tail end of the grid or at the load end, to help cater for both urban and rural areas through its decentralized approach. The offered solution is provided in the form of a package, consisting of not only standalone solar panels, but also includes a range of innovative hybrid household electrical appliances such as a ceiling fan, LED lights, air conditioner, refrigerator etc. The demand and supply is managed using a smart micro-grid (SMG) controller, called an iGrid. This scheme eliminates the requirement of electrical conversions, particularly DC to AC in hybrid appliances, to a large extent.
Basil Energetics Private Limited
Smart rice cultivation
Farmers can use Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) as a more efficient method of rice cultivation. This involves allowing fields to dry down between floods on rice fields. By decreasing the amount of time fields remain flooded, AWD reduces water use, fuel and electricity use for running irrigation pumps, and the need for nitrogen fertilizers, while also slowing down the anaerobic activity that creates methane gas. However, AWD can be challenging. It requires farmers to control water levels carefully across large tracts of land. It also introduces risk to the rice crops, as it can be difficult to assess depth accurately with only a few measurements at various points in the fields. Together, these barriers have slowed adoption of AWD. AT&T connectivity enables water-level data to be remotely collected and connected to pumping systems to automatically control the water level in the rice fields. This helps both with the implementation of the AWD process and with the data collection required for verification of the carbon credits. Thus the technology helps to overcome barriers to implementation and increases the AWD adoption rate.
Current avoided annual emissions calculated based on adoption of IoT-enabled AWD expanded to all rice farmers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas.
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Solar energy harvesting in Chile's desert
The Atacama Desert, located in northern part of Chile, has special conditions that need the development of technologies to allow an efficient solar energy generation. The area presents an average direct global radiation level of 3.500 kWh/m² per annum and an horizontal global radiation level of 2.500 kWh/m² per annum, one of the highest in the world. The solution is a new optimal solar technology to be used in the Atacama Desert. The development includes new materials to resist high radiation levels, a bifacial photovoltaic panel to take advantage of the radiation and the ground and new methods for operation and maintenance considering the lack of water in the desert.
AtaMos-TeC
Solar powered small-scale agricultural machines
ALTO precision's aim is to develop a range of solar-powered small-scale decentralised machinery for remote small holding agri-processing needs in India. Their current developments include a range of small-scale rice processing machines. The solar rice huller is a 360 W machine that can produce 100 kg/hour with a hulling efficiency of 98% in the first pass, which ALTO precision claims is the most efficient small-scale rice processing machine in the world, almost 50% more efficient than any other machine, at a low price. The machines are solar powered, high capacity and very efficient, giving farmers access to a sustainable energy source and providing food security and the opportunity to create an additional income.
ALTO precision
Solar service for urban multi-tenant buildings
EINHUNDERT Energie deliver solar power as a service with digital metering services to multi-tenant and commercial buildings. As well as offering solar power for multi-tenant-buildings EINHUNDERT Energie has an app that unites and visualizes digital metering data (energy, heat, water). The German "Energiewende" (energy transition) is therefore made accessible to millions of people living or working in rental and shared spaces, giving access to clean technology as a service.
EINHUNDERT Energie GmbH
Solar steam for industrial processes
Solatom is a solar concentrator designed for generating high temperature heat (steam, hot water or thermal oil) in industrial processes. Solatom's modules are formed by rows of mirrors that track the sun, reflecting the sunlight on a vacuum tube. The fluid circulating through the tube absorbs the reflected energy producing an increase in the temperature of the fluid (up to 300 °C). Each module has a nominal power of 15 kW thermal. When more capacity is needed, the modules are joined together, increasing the total power of the plant. The system is designed for be deployed on the rooftop, with a specific weight under 23 kg/m².
Solatom
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Solid-state refrigerator
India's National Physical Laboratory has developed a portable, solid state cooling technology that does not require the compressor or refrigerant found in conventional refrigerators. It can therefore be operated at a low-power supply of only 75 Watts DC, e.g. directly from solar photovoltaic cells and batteries. The cooler was developed for two main applications:
1. As a low-cost refrigerator for rural populations to store food and provide affordable comfort
2. To compliment India's immunization program for rural populations of children by storing vaccines at low temperatures for a long time.
With a long lifespan and needing little maintenance, the solid state cooler maintains 5 °C at an ambient temperature of 40 °C but can cool to -2 °C if required.
National Physical Laboratory New Delhi
Speed control technology to capture slip-loss energy
Jiangsu Cigu Science and Technology Co., Ltd produces winding permanent magnetic coupling adjustable speed drive in motor system. It is a kind of non-contact permanent magnetic drive technology which consists of permanent magnetic rotor, winding rotor and the control system. When there is speed difference between the p-m rotor and winding internal rotor, induced electromotive force will be generated in the winding. By controlling the induced current, speed control and soft start can be realized. During power transmission, the slip power is converted into electric energy to be fedback and reused, which is efficient and energy saving; completely solving the problem of temperature rise of other variable speed regulating devices.
Jiangsu Cigu Science and Technology Co., Ltd
Spinning cylinder for wind power of vessels
Windjammers were a class of sailing vessels built from the 1870s to 1900. As engine technology developed, they were slowly phased out and replaced by steamships which were faster and could stay on schedule regardless of wind conditions. But what if the power of wind could be harnessed to create a hybrid solution for today's modern fleets? That's the idea behind Norsepower's Rotor Sail Solution – a spinning cylinder that harnesses wind power to generate the thrust needed to propel vessels. When conditions are favorable, the Norsepower Rotor Sails allow the main engines to be throttled back, saving fuel and reducing emissions while providing the power needed to maintain speed and voyage time.
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5 Dec 2015 dj blendz Politics
Nearly 50,000 East New York residents face displacement under rezoning plan…
Gentrification run amok… >>
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's bold plan to build 200,000 affordable units in New York City over the next ten years was designed to serve as a protective measure against resident displacement. Unfortunately, it's turning out that the one-size-fits-all prophylactic it was intended for may do more harm than good.
First, let's look at the word "affordable." Affordable for whom?
For example, the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York– already deemed the next new target for mass development (read: gentrification)– is first up on the mayor's list for rezoning for affordable housing. However, according to a report released today by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, these so-called affordable units (at around $1,300/mo), by the City's own standards would be too expensive for 55 percent of the neighborhood's current residents.
"There's nothing affordable about a housing plan that is beyond the reach of half the community," said Stringer.
And unlike neighborhoods like Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, which have enforceable rent regulation laws, and Greenpoint and Williamsburg which have enforceable rules prohibiting tenant harassment, East New York has zero protection for 21,788 units that house low-income tenants. In other words, once the rezoning and development is completed, it will potentially displace close to 50,000 of its current residents.
The number of rent stabilized units in the 37th Council District (which includes part of East New York and the surrounding communities) already has dropped by more than 14 percent between 2007 and 2014 —the eighth largest decline among the City's 51 Council Districts. The rezoning will only add fuel to the fire.
Stringer noted that for generations, East New York has been overlooked and under-resourced by the City in the way of its schools, parks, public transit and affordable housing. He added, the City's new plan to add a large number of so-called affordable and market rate units would make matters worse by effectively pushing more than half of its residents right out of the neighborhood.
According to the report, the rezoning plan would add a total of 6,312 new apartments to the neighborhood. However just 1,724 of these would be affordable rental units available to existing neighborhood residents, and in certain circumstances that number could drop to low as 948 units.
The report shows East New York's Area Median Income (AMI) at $32,815. Using City and State metrics which define an affordable rent as 30 percent of income, a family of three would have to earn at least $46,620 a year to afford one of the new units– a difference of nearly $14,000 between what it would cost and what a family actually earns.
Further, for that same family to move into a market-rate unit in that same new building, it would have to make upwards of $83,484 – more than double the current AMI in East New York and still far beyond the median income for Brooklyn, which was $47,520 in 2013.
Comptroller Stringer shared the data with the City Planning Commission on Wednesday, along with a letter addressed to the commission's Chair Carl Weisbrod: "Instead of strengthening the affordability of this community, the proposed rezoning would serve as an engine for displacement," said Stringer in the letter.
The Comptroller urged the commission to "amend the current proposal and chart an alternate course," one that abandons the one-size-fits-all approach to rezoning based off a citywide standard and instead takes into full account the income levels of each local community.
Another recommendation was to included establishing clear, enforceable rules prohibiting the harassment of existing tenants to reduce the threat of displacement.
"We have to do this right," said Stringer. "One-size-fits-all doesn't work for New York City. We must find ways to ensure community-based development is the way we move forward together.
"When it comes to urban planning, we need to do a better job of listening to existing communities, engaging residents, and considering the long term impact of rezoning on the people who have lived in our neighborhoods most, if not all, of their lives."
Listening to and engaging the current, local residents in the planning process.
How about that? Maybe it made too much sense.
*To read the full report, go here.*
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In vitro CRISPR system allows scientists to detect broad outcomes
December 6, 2019 -- As CRISPR technology advances, it is crucial to identify all unintended and potentially harmful changes introduced by gene-editing processes. A new study published in Communications Biology introduces a new system that details broad spectrum outcomes of gene-editing reactions in an unbiased fashion.
Clustered regularly interspersed palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated Cas nucleases have provided researchers with novel tools to correct single-base mutations or gene deletions that can be life-changing. Specifically, when DNA is cleaved, several error-prone reactions, such as non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) and homology-directed repair (HDR) compete at the site. Clinicians need to know all outcomes of specific gene-editing reactions to enable more educated choices of the type and amount of genetic engineering to employ for treatment of a genetic disorder.
"We've developed a new process for rapidly screening all of the edits made by CRISPR, and it shows there may be many more unintended changes to DNA around the site of a CRISPR repair than previously thought," said Eric Kmiec, PhD, director of ChristianaCare's Gene Editing Institute and the principle author of the study.
The researchers used a system that employs mammalian cell-free extract to drive gene-editing reactions and control the level of reaction in order to catalog the distribution of insertions, deletions, and duplications as the function of a specific genetic tool. Using plasmids, the scientists were able to eliminate much of the biological complexity that makes it difficult to isolate the full array of DNA changes introduced by CRISPR. The tool can provide results in just 48 hours, expediting a process that often requires up to two months of expensive and complicated DNA analysis. The tool also allows scientists to execute and screen multiple trial edits and catch unintended mutations that they would not otherwise notice.
"It's important to note that in all instances we were still seeing CRISPR achieve a fantastic level of successful repairs that would have been unimaginable even five years ago," added lead author Brett Sansbury. "But we saw a lot of other changes to DNA near the site of the repair that needs to be better understood so that when we correct one problem, we're not creating another." They believe that the vast majority of unintended edits may have no consequence for patients, but it's important to identify them and determine which ones might pose a risk.
The researchers observed error-prone events in multiple CRISPR templates, including Cas9, Cas12a, 1364-S, and 1364-NS, all of which had unique reaction profiles. The rate of "precise repair"--repairs that are accomplished without introducing unintended mutations--varied considerably depending on the enzyme and template employed, ranging from a low of five percent to a high of 64 percent.
"CRISPR will probably never be perfect 100 percent of the time," Kmiec said. "But CRISPR tools are constantly improving. And if we can achieve a 70 or 80 percent rate of precision--and reveal and understand the importance of any changes that occur alongside that repair--that brings us much closer to safely using CRISPR to treat patients. We hope our new tool can help accelerate efforts to achieve that goal."
The researcher's greater goal is to develop better CRISPR screening systems in DNA plasmids extracted from human cells. They have already used this cell-free approach to engineer multiple edits simultaneous and have partnered with a biotech firm to developed personalized cancer treatments.
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Colorado Paper's Editor Implies If Bombing Syria Is Justified, So Are Acts Of Terror On Americans
"If the oil and gas industry puts fracking wells in our neighborhoods, threatening our lives and our children's lives, then don't we have a moral responsibility to blow up wells and eliminate fracking and workers?" Andrew O'Connor wrote in a letter to the paper's editors.
By: Marc Morano - Climate DepotApril 25, 2017 12:45 PM
By Chris White
An editor of a Colorado newspaper argued that environmental activists could morally justify committing violent acts of terror on Americans in the fracking industry, similar to how President Donald Trump justified bombing Syria, in a brief email exchange Saturday with The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Boulder Daily Camera Executive Editor Kevin Kaufman believe citizens who support Trump's decision to bomb Syria had no grounds to contest the idea that anti-fracking activists were justified blowing up oil and gas wells in the U.S. He told TheDCNF that the two issues are essentially one and the same.
"I suspect it was a violent act supported by both the right and left, but it also was one fundamentally based upon a moral question," Kaufman wrote in email about Trump's decision to strike a Syrian air base in response to a chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"So it's ok for the U.S., currently under the leadership of a right-leaning president, to take violent action on moral grounds, but it is not ok for citizens of Boulder County to ask fellow citizens to consider even violent actions?" Kaufman asked.
Kaufman's statement was in response to questions about whether it was appropriate for The Camera to publish a letter promoting violence against the fracking industry. Kaufman's paper published a letter April 19 suggesting Colorado citizens have a moral obligation to destroy pipelines and eliminate oil jobs.
Editors altered the piece after publication, but left the writer's basic thesis in place: violence may be the only way to prevent pipeline construction.
The piece was edited the following day to read "don't we have a moral responsibility to take action to dissuade frackers from operating here?" The editorial staff included in the edits its reason for not retracting the letter entirely.
O'Connor's piece is worthwhile, the editorial board noted, because it brings up philosophical ideas that are important to consider when discussing fracking.
"This letter was edited to delete references that may have been construed to expressly advocate violence or property destruction," the editors wrote. "The Camera does not condone or endorse violence or property destruction of any kind."
The Camera's editorial page editor, Dave Krieger, apologized Monday for not paying enough attention to the content of the letter.
"Last week, I failed to do my job," he wrote. "It was a momentary failing, but in this business, as in many others, a momentary mistake can turn into hours of cleanup."
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Clif High- halfpasthuman.com
Thread starter crazycharlie
goyacobol
Scottie said:
So, he has cancer, and in this vid he refers to people who promote Vit C as a cancer cure as "f*cktards".
Admittedly those with sensitive ears should be forewarned before watching Cliff's videos. He does use the "F" word frequently and maybe more so now that he sees himself becomes less patient with stressors in his life to the point of calling it a form of PTSD.
The thing is that most of this video is in praise of vitamin C and also C60 (which I haven't looked at much before). His reference to "f" cktards" was talking about those who see the Gerson Therapy as a cure for cancer. He is still using vitamin C and C60 daily as part of his own regimen.
You don't have to like Cliff High to maybe get some useful information.
At the end he talks about David Wilcox's lack of critical thinking and weird statements.
Not sure why you zeroed in on only one expletive and didn't mention the rest.
PS: Cliff still looks healthier than I expected and I hope he stays around for awhile.
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Well, I have to admit that most of the time, I don't understand what the heck he is talking about these days, and I'm pretty sure it's not just me. Rich Dolan interviewed him and I listened to that last night. Aside from the fact that I didn't come away with any useful information, the entire thing was utterly bizarre.
Lots of words, little substance. Which is very much like his computerized word analysis/whatever predictions. I read them for quite awhile, and generally I found them to be pretty inaccurate.
So then I listened to this cancer ward episode today. It's rather difficult to take him seriously when he starts by saying that one must rationally analyze things and pay attention lest we become like roadkill, and then he subsequently starts "F-tarding" people - PTSD or not.
Besides, I tend to agree with what Laura said about his whole process:
At this point, he's embarrassed himself so many times and made so many excuses for his non-hits that he ought to just give it up I think.
Perhaps if he had started a project where his web bot collected data, he published it raw, and had open discussions about it, some headway might have been made. But he was all about selling it from the beginning. Plus, bringing in remote viewers is just muddying the waters.
I think we do a lot better assessing situations and getting a handle on what is possible and probable here just using the data we collect on SOTT and rational discussion.
While sites like RT may be more popular, personally, I have never found a site that presents more accurate and sane analyses of world events than SOTT. And I'm not the one doing those analyses for ages now, so I think I can say that without that much bias.
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I agree with those thoughts. Cliff's videos with Dolan seemed to go off the deep end quite a bit. It sounds like he has been experimenting with some psychedelics and "seeing" some weird stuff that sounds like 4D STS creatures so I take him with a grain of salt. When I said I was keeping "tabs" on him it is because I am not follower but more like a curious observer.
I should have reviewed this whole thread too so that's my bad. And you are right SOTT shines more light than even RT or other alternative news sources. Hope Cliff hasn't fallen off the cliff. Good thing he's still taking vitamin C I guess.
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I have been very disturbed all day that you posted this statement. Please me exactly where Clif said this. I listed to all three again completely and nowhere in them does he say that people who promote Vit Cas a cancer cure are are"f*cktards".
I respect you a great deal as a longtime Admin for this forum. If I am wrong, I apologise profusely right now. However, if you have made a very disparging remark about Clif, I expect you retract the statement.
In addition, I agree with most all of your and goyacobal's opinions about Clif. As I said, I have folowed him for many years. I take it all with many grains of salt. But, he is really hurting and feel he does not need the low blows about his sruggle right now. Time will tell. I think he has a great mind, is very clear about his process and then the woo woo insects creep in. I like him. Just my 2 cents.
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Clif High Future Forecast, Disclosure, Antartica, Red Oceans, Cryptos & Much More! . . .
i am a member of the web bot forum ..( hah where our GURU is Clif High ! )
mind you I can be very sARCASTIC ! .................
WE DO not WORSHIP cLiF ...........
latest video/interview ....
Show Description: Clif High comes out of retirement to rejoin the program and discuss his latest trends forecast. We discuss what forecasts have come true from the past and what is yet to occur. He shares super interesting information on the coming ice age, Antartica, Red Oceans, Cryptos and much more.
Clif High hung out with Jay Weidner, as I recall, and I also seem to recall that at one time, at least, appeared to make deliberately disparaging remarks (though veiled), at me and my work. His success rate, as noted, is dismal, and everything taken together inclines me to not wish to feed any energy into what seems to be a rather STS operation. I'm certainly sorry that the guy has cancer and wish him well in that regard.
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lara4unow said:
I think he already referenced that here: Clif High- halfpasthuman.com
Like Scottie, I found it almost impossible to listen to the guy because he made so many sounds with his mouth, and said so little of any import, that I found my brain just turning to mush listening to him.
Maybe you should just stick with Clif and hang out there if you are that emotionally attached and like his work so much? Conserving energy is important and people need to make choices about where they put theirs.
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Just an observation on my part regarding RT, I noticed a marked difference in RT's reporting after RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan came under heavy fire from the presstitutes that control Time-Warner, Reuters, Turner broadcasting and other media conglomerates, along with a heavy push for RT to register as a foreign agent. Add, the March 11, 2016 unsolved death of the founder of RT, Mikhail Lesin in a Washington DC Hotel Room and reports that Lesin's daughter works at RT's Washington, D.C. branch. It's like - RT toned down their hard hitting "truth-based" reporting on events outside the Russian sphere. RT is still truth-based in it's reporting but they cut back on deep investigated reporting. Exception was Simonyan's exclusive interview in the Skripal case.
In respect to SOTT, it's no stranger to "attacks" and the danger is far from over?
As for Clif High, in the beginning I took an interest in his work but at this stage of the game, I'm prone to placing him in the same category as the Q-Anon databits? Raw bits of information with little cohesion or direction to where it's going or how it relates to any one subject. Not to get off topic but in my apartment, I have "a junk drawer". I'm the type, everything has a place, based on need and everything is in it's place. What doesn't fit - get's tossed out or recycled BUT I have a drawer in my utility closet - of things I consider useful or valuable but don't know where to put it? Eventually, I come to my senses and throw half of the stuff out - because it doesn't belong anywhere and serves me no useful purpose. Clif High's evolving work and Q-Anon's disjointed collection of tid-bits of raw information remind me of the "junk drawer"? Might be useful but for what and where?
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First, the only reason I was actually listening to him again lately was because of this thread - because he has cancer, I saw Dolan interviewed him, and I admit I felt sorry for him. I was fully aware of the "history" with him as L has described, but I was also "curious" to see what Clif and Rich might be talking about these days.
As to what he actually said in the video: he resents little f-tards that say that Gearson therapy cured their cancer. So, cancel my previous claim! My mistake. Vit C is part of Gearson therapy, but so is juicing and organic foods, other vitamins, etc.
As for this part:
It's rather difficult to take him seriously when he starts by saying that one must rationally analyze things and pay attention lest we become like roadkill, and then he subsequently starts "F-tarding" people - PTSD or not.
I get it that he's upset, has cancer, and obviously the Gearson thing won't work for him, but that doesn't mean it didn't work for other people. And it's quite possible that there is more backstory that I'm not aware of. Maybe somebody attacked him or whatever. At the same time, I can't ignore his track record, which IMO isn't too good in multiple respects as we've already noted.
I think my reaction to him stemmed from this:
That's pretty much it. I've been observing this lately from various angles, and it's pretty interesting. That is exactly how some people react to me and some things I've said in my YT videos (the controversial stuff like 5G/WiFi). Stop making crazy noises with your mouth, you're talking gibberish, I feel dumber now, insults, etc.
Then again, there are a ton of other people who obviously get something out of what I am saying, they are supportive, ask for help with things, etc. Instead of complaining about "mouth noises" or "ums" or whatever, they will also often tell me what a soothing, calm voice I have! Well, that's just WEIRD because that is NOT how I sound in my own head! And it's totally at odds with what these other people are saying. The same is true of, say, Joe and Niall's vids and podcasts over the years.
So what I've been thinking is that it works in two directions:
1. If you cannot "hear" what a person is saying due to your own lack of knowledge, emotional investment, and so on, then your brain turns to mush. In this case, they are saying something true or more closer to reality, at least at that time. Since you are not "ready" or able to hear it, you react emotionally to push them away, misinterpret what they are saying, etc. We see this A LOT today.
2. If you cannot "hear" what a person is saying because of their lack of knowledge or their emotional investment, then there is a similar defense mechanism that kicks in, and your brain turns to mush. More often, you are aware that your brain is mushifying, but in many cases your response will still be more of an emotional reaction that again pushes you away from them. IOW, they are NOT saying something true, but something that is a lie, that increases entropy, disperses information instead of concentrating it, or however you want to put it.
Option #2 could be due to the person's word salad, background processing of information archived long ago, a "blink", or even an intuition. In all cases, the more emotional reaction is pretty much your brain taking a shortcut and efficiently getting you moved on to more important things with a minimal amount of energy expenditure.
Of course, in both options, the best thing to do is to collect all the actual data and present a nice, complete, well-reasoned argument. But that requires WAY more energy to analyze (or re-analyze) everything, write it all out, blah blah blah.
My original f-tard post was factually wrong, but the intention was to warn people off. Well, obviously I could have done a better job, because here I am again writing even more!
At the same time, this thread is now 42 pages long, and I doubt many newer people here have gone back to re-read all the posts, starting with the first post from 10 years ago!!! That's very time consuming, and there are other more important topics to look into these days. Those of us who've been around awhile look at it again quickly, and go, "Nope! More of the same. ABORT! AVOID! RUN, LUKE, RUN!"
IMO Clif's work is almost sad when you think about it. Here's a guy doing "big data" type processing, supposedly for good. Yet what effect has it actually had? And what about Big Data in the form of this forum + SOTT, which isn't just some program that spits stuff out, it gets interpreted, and then we sell it. Instead, it's lots of people doing lots of work, lots of reading, lots of research, learning, sharing, refining theories, struggling to see the world more clearly while they purge themselves of their own rose-colored glasses, etc.
You can't program something like that, and you certainly can't do it alone. Even doing C's sessions requires time, lots of energy, and hard work - and that's just on our little 3d realm.
THAT is the Good Guys version of Big Data, IMO. Except I think we should call it Big InformationTM.
That gives me an idea though: We can start giving tours of the bookcases here in the house so that people can begin to get an idea of just how many books Laura has read...
Pierre: "Don't worry, Laura. I gonna build you more bookcases!"
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wodasi said:
"Quantum entangled communications devices" for everyone by 2028, say the "data sets", through which we can talk to anyone in the entire universe with no radiation. Seems to me that Clif High's '"data sets" are merely the product of him free associating when looking at the information generated by web crawler bots. It's fun for listeners, I suppose, kind of like a sci-fi novel, but it's beyond me why anyone gives this guy any credence.
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Generally speaking, people hear/see/interpret things as THEY are, not as what they are hearing/seeing actually IS. Witness the number of times interviewers of JBP appear to be completely unable to actually HEAR what he is saying.
Subjectivity and projection rules down here, and it usually creates a big old mess of everything. It's amazing most people can function properly even at a very basic level, then again, most people only function at a very basic level.
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Generally speaking, people hear/see/interpret things as THEY are, not as they thing they are hearing/seeing actually IS. Witness the number of times interviewers of JBP appear to be completely unable to actually HEAR what he is saying.
So what you're saying is, that I think that people who use Vit C against cancer are tards?
(Sorry, just had a Cathy Newman moment there...)
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BTW, in that video on Vit c High also talked about "C60", which he is taking, which seems to be Buckminsterfullerene, which is an allotrope of carbon that was "first generated" in the 1980s using a laser to vaporize carbon in a supersonic helium beam.
Buckminsterfullerene - Wikipedia
Apparently it's sold as C60 which is carried in "black seed oil". Clif High also referred to it as "monoatomic" which seems to be a new age science word salad term, which made me think of "monoatomic gold" that was popular quite a few years ago.
At least the wiki page says
"Solutions of C60 dissolved in olive oil are nontoxic to rodents. "
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Why yes, that's exactly what I was saying. How very perceptive of you!
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Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
By filmlover,
February 1, 2012 in Your Favorites
filmlover
Theorizing that one could time travel within the twentieth century, filmlover stepped into the Quantum Time Tunnel DeLorean Accelerator and vanished. He woke to find himself trapped in 1939 for a year, seeing newspaper movie ads and articles, and driven by an unknown force to report history as it happened for the TCM Message Board. And so filmlover finds himself leaping from time to time, hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
To all who can see this...I left 1939 and thought I would be coming back to 2012, but woke up here in 1955. Oh...boy.
Tues., Feb. 1st, 1955
EugeniaH
Terrific new thread, filmlover! Great, I'm the first to start the applause....
VP19
You've got nine months and a few thousand miles to go before you can meet up with Marty McFly, so enjoy the Twin Cities for a while. When the weather warms come April, take in some baseball with the St. Paul Saints or their American Association archrivals, the Minneapolis Millers, who are playing their final season in Nicollet Park. Come next year, they'll be playing not in Minneapolis at all, but in a new stadium in some little suburb south of town called Bloomington. Who'd want to do anything there?
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filmlover, if you don't mind my asking, how did you get these 1955 clippings? Did you buy them and scan them in, or did you do research at the library...?
Purchased a lot of old newspapers.
By the way, to those who think we are in 1955 for the rest of the year...the Quantum Time Tunnel DeLorean Accelerator has a habit of pulling one out when you least expect it and depositing you elsewhere in time, so don't get too comfortable.
fredbaetz
LocationWashington state
-Anyone notice that Radio City Theater promoting the "Last Day" for the "Silver Chalice" with Jack Palance, Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, but no Paul Newman.His first film. Maybe he was happy about the omission. Remember he took a ad out when it played on TV asking people not to watch it and apologizing for his performance. It drew high ratings. The film also became known as "Paul Newman and the Holy Grail"....
The Feb. 1st ad shows "Introducing Paul Newman" after the three others.
Saturday, Feb. 5th, 1955
It's kind of amusing to see Porky Pig along with Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Pluto in the 'Disneyrama' ad. I wonder if he was having a contract dispute with "J.L." like Elmer Fudd had in THE BIG SNOOZE?
This is a special day for ol' filmlover. It may have been why I was yanked from my time travel in 1939 right to 1955 without getting home to 2012. It was on this day in 1955 that I was born. And it seems like the newspaper for that day must have known how much of a film lover filmlover would be because there are a LOT of ads and articles today:
Sunday, February 6th, 1955
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We really need to get a lot of text messages in here. As it is now, the many images in this thread take minutes to download before it opens. That being the case, I guess I will have to skip a few days of these ads and articles until it is easier to open with more more text. By the by, there is a surprise coming to this thread at the end of this month!
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Want more text? I'll just say that I disagree with Walter Winchell. Ida Lupino was *not* miscast in *Women's Prison*.
Thanks. Keep it going.
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Home » Mineral Rights and Your Ex – What Not to Do
Mineral Rights and Your Ex – What Not to Do
Today the Arkansas Supreme Court issued an opinion in a case that no doubt has some people doing some cussing. The ex-wife ended up with a bunch of mineral rights that were supposed to be her in-laws'. Even with natural gas prices way down, people are still making good money from what was basically pasture in the Fayetteville Shale. The property at issue in this case is in Scott County, south of Fort Smith, but you never know.
The case is Sutton v. Sutton, and involves Ronald and Bonnie Sutton (parents), Lonnie Sutton (son) and Lorene Sutton (ex-wife). Parents originally come to Arkansas and buy the property, and get 1/2 the mineral rights as well. The sellers keep the other half.
Parents subsequently add the then married son and his wife to the deed, resulting in son and wife having 25% of the mineral rights and 50% of the surface rights and parents having 25% of the mineral rights and 50% of the surface rights. The previous sellers still have the other half of the mineral rights.
Here's where the fun starts. Lonnie and Lorene get divorced. The parents subsequently deed their interest in the surface rights to Lonnie via warranty deed and include the following paragraph regarding the mineral rights:
SUBJECT, however, to a reservation by the seller of an undivided one-half interest in and to all of the oil, gas, coal and other minerals in and under the said property, together with the right to enter on the property for the purpose of exploration for or development of the same.
Lonnie then, for reasons unknown, deeds all his interest in the surface rights to Lorene, his ex, reserving 50% of the mineral rights. Confused yet? Parents think they still have all their mineral rights (the 50% they originally had) and Lorene testifies she thinks she has 25% and the parents have 25%. The circuit court and the Supreme Court disagree with both.
The parents say the paragraph above just put Lonnie on notice that he wasn't getting any mineral rights and that theirs and Lorene's testimony reflects that intent. The Supreme Court says intent doesn't matter, and finds:
Because the deed purports to reserve fifty percent of the mineral rights and convey fifty percent of the mineral rights, the deed attempts to convey one-hundred percent of the mineral rights. However, appellants owned only twenty-five percent of the mineral rights, so both the grant and reservation cannot be given effect. Therefore, the reservation must fail, and the risk of title loss is on
the grantor.
The court calls the reasoning behind that the "Duhig rule". In English, it means that since the paragraph makes it sound like the parents tried to reserve 50% of the mineral rights and give to Lonnie 50%, without making it clear that they only owned 25% of the mineral rights in the first place, the whole clause is void and thus they conveyed all the interest, mineral and surface, to Lonnie. Who then passed that interest plus his previous 25% on to his ex, Lorene. Can you feel the love toward Lorene, who now has all the surface AND the 50% of the mineral rights parents bought years ago?
What's the reasoning behind the Supreme Court ruling? Clarity. Without using the Duhig rule, subsequent purchasers could never be sure exactly what they were getting in terms of mineral rights just by looking at the deed. If one looked at the deed from the parents to Lonnie, you would think the highlighted paragraph would mean they were reserving half of the mineral rights and giving Lonnie the other half. Problem is they only owned a quarter of them. The Court doesn't want to have a lawsuit to determine intent everytime, so it has applied a blanket rule designed to promote clarity. In short, if you've started carving up your mineral interests, when you convey the property you had better be drafting the deed carefully.


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Q: Does MS SQL Server Management Studio have a size limit associated with temp tables? I am running a large query that uses a 710-row temp table of PIDs.
Something like :
insert into #AdelText values /* these are my PIDs*/

('0YyGRz5sYOFlDtmRArU9'),
('f9982cdb-dcd8-4aed-b534-566b65963a09'),
('4db7a20d-7b47-494f-9397-a0e5df6c059d')
-- 700 MORE
('4db7a20d-7b47-494f-9397-a0e6c059d')

Well then I have to run a query on it that is a pivot like so( note that the PID here corresponds to the temp-table PIDs):
select * from

(

    select bis.SupplierID, bis.PID, rp.QuestionID,rp.Condition from  respondentprofiles RP (nolock)
    inner join BI_Sessions BIS (Nolock)
    on bis.RespondentID = rp.RespondentID
    inner join #adeltext at (nolock)
    on bis.pid = at.pid
    where
     rp.QuestionID in
        (
            51, 48
        )
        and bis.surveyid = 14893
)

 as sourcetable

PIVOT
(
    MAX(condition)
    for QuestionID in ([51],[48])
 )
PivotedTable

I expect to get 710 rows back, but I am getting 360 rows back. this is very puzzling to me. any help is appreciated. thanks


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Q: How can I publish posts on Instagram via API I was browsing through the documentation and I wonder if I can publish posts on instagram without being an instagram partner as they are not accepting any partnership at the moment. However, is there also a way to publish posts on instagram if I publish it on the connected facebook page?
Also, any idea if facebook is going to open up Content publishing API for public access?
I had gone through this document to publish to feeds but its supported only for the native apps and also it just passes it to the instagram app.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram/sharing-to-feed
I'm looking for some that could be used to directly publish a post to the instagram.
Do correct me if any of my assumptions are wrong.


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Analyzing Additional Insured Endorsements
by Kent Holland | Jul 18, 2012 | Newsletter Article | 0 comments
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Additional insured endorsements are a routine request for policyholders having to satisfy contractual obligations to their clients and other parties. But, there is a seemingly limitless variety of endorsements and an equally impressive amount of case law out there interpreting these various additional insured provisions – quite often with unexpectedly expansive results (from the perspective of the party extending such coverage whether it be the insured or its insurer).
Take, for example, a recent case from the New Jersey Appellate Division. In Marshall v. Raritan Valley Disposal, 2012 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 544 (3/13/2012), the court was confronted with a dispute between two insurance companies concerning their respective monetary contributions, if any, towards the settlement of a personal injury lawsuit. The underlying lawsuit involved a tragic and fatal accident involving a garbage truck. The town of West Amwell (the "Town") had contracted with Raritan Valley Disposal ("RVD") to place a garbage truck on a site one day a week for residents to empty their garbage. The contract only required that RVD bring the truck to the site, park it where told by a municipal employee and then remove it at the end of the day. Additionally, for purposes of the dispute herein, the contract required that RVD add the Town as an additional insured under the policy as well as to indemnify and hold it harmless from and against, among other things, claims resulting directly or indirectly from the performance of the contract.
On May 12, 2001, a resident backed his pickup truck pinning another resident against the stationary truck causing her fatal injuries. Her estate sued the Town for its failure to maintain the premises in a safe condition and failure to warn of unsafe and dangerous conditions at the facility. The Town's general liability insurer undertook the defense of the suit and also filed a third party complaint against RVD's insurer seeking coverage under the additional insured endorsement to its Business Auto policy.
Endorsement #10 to that policy defined "insured" as follows:
WHO IS AN INSURED
A. The "Named Insured" for any covered "Auto" and
B. At the option of the Named Insured, any entity or individual prior to or after an "Accident" for any
covered "Auto".
The lower court held that the Town was an insured pursuant to the terms of RVD's policy. The court found the provision to be "not ambiguous" but even if it were, the court concluded that the contract required RVD to obtain primary additional insured coverage for the Town. The court added that the Town was specifically insured for the accident because it resulted from the use of the garbage truck.
The matter was appealed and the New Jersey Appellate Division affirmed the lower court's finding of coverage for the Town under the RVD policy. The court rejected RVD's insurer's argument that the terms of the waste collection contract were intended to limit the scope of the Town's status by excluding liability coverage for the Town's own negligence. The court found the endorsement on its face to be unambiguous – the Named Insured could (and did) designate any entity "without regard to a reason". Because the language of the endorsement was plain and unambiguous on its face, the court did not need to resort to review of any extrinsic information (such as the underlying contract) to distill its meaning. That said, the court did look at these collateral documents and found no support for the claimed limitation regarding negligence. The court also addressed the carrier's argument that the accident did not "result from the use of the garbage truck" as to implicate the auto policy. The court quickly dispatched with that argument finding that the activities at the Town facility involved the proper use of the garbage truck within the reasonable intendment of all concerned. The victim had been using the truck to dispose of trash; the Town was using the truck as a means of affording a public service to its residents; and the truck was used to fulfill the Town's provision of such services. The court was therefore satisfied that the policy's employment of the word use "fully embraced the circumstances of this tragic accident".
Maybe the court's conclusion was one you would expect or maybe not. But at the very least, this case, like those preceding and (likely) succeeding it should serve as a reminder that while these endorsements can be an effective risk management tool, policyholders and their advisors should make sure that the wording of the additional insured endorsement is reviewed carefully and clearly articulates the parties' expectations and obligations.
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Incidentally diagnosed Takayasu arteritis on thyroid ultrasonography showing prominent collateral vessels of thyroidal arteries and common carotid artery occlusion
Publication date (electronic) : 2014 April 3
Se Jin Nam , Eun-Kyung Kim
Department of Radiology, Research Institute of Radiological Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Correspondence to: Eun-Kyung Kim, MD, Department of Radiology, Research Institute of Radiological Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-752, Korea Tel. +82-2-2228-7400 Fax. +82-2-393-3035 E-mail: ekkim@yuhs.ac
Received 2014 January 22; Accepted 2014 April 3.
We report a case of middle-aged woman incidentally diagnosed with Takayasu arteritis during the ultrasonography of a thyroid gland nodule. Prominent collaterals of the thyroidal arteries and a thin common carotid artery with mural thickening and deficient intraluminal flow signals were initially depicted on the ultrasonography with color Doppler. Subsequent magnetic resonance angiography and computed tomography aortography confirmed the diagnosis with the imaging features of a bilateral long segment common carotid artery occlusion and segmental stenosis of the left subclavian artery in addition to the suggestive physical findings.
Keywords: Takayasu arteritis; Ultrasonography; Carotid artery, common
Takayasu arteritis is a chronic vasculitis of unknown cause predominantly affecting large vessels, such as the aorta and its main branches including subclavian artery, common carotid artery (CCA), renal artery, pulmonary arteries, and coronary arteries, preferentially affecting young women in the second and third decades of life in Asian and Middle Eastern countries [1,2]. Its histopathology is known to be granulomatous panarteritis characterized by inflammatory cells infiltrating the arterial wall, typically the media and adventitia causing proliferation of the intima and degeneration of the external elastic lamina resulting in arterial wall thickening and formation of stenosis, occlusion, and aneurysm of the affected arteries [3]. Due to the chronic feature of this disease entity, Takayasu arteritis is often accompanied by collateral formation. Here, we report a case of incidentally diagnosed Takayasu arteritis with prominent collaterals of thyroidal arteries and CCA occlusion primarily depicted on the neck ultrasonography (US) during the evaluation of a thyroid nodule.
A 53-year-old female patient was referred for US of a thyroid nodule incidentally detected on chest computed tomography (CT) for the evaluation of pneumonia. She had no other prior history such as diabetes mellitus and no smoking history. On physical examination, there was no palpable mass in the anterior neck. At the time of US, the white blood cell count was within the normal range (3,740/μL), and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein were elevated at 21 mm/ hr and 1.840 mg/dL respectively. The thyroid nodule detected on chest CT was revealed on US as a 9-mm, well-defined, mixed-echoic nodule in the lower pole of the thyroid gland left lobe, suggesting a benign lesion. However, several serpentine anechoic structures were detected medial to the right lobe of the thyroid gland, between the trachea and the right lobe of thyroid gland (Fig. 1A). The anechoic structures showed internal blood flow signals on color Doppler US (Fig. 1B) and were suggested to be enlarged vascular structures. Furthermore, bilateral CCAs were unusually small with diffuse homogeneous mural thickening with barely visible intraluminal flow signals (Fig. 1B-D).
Neck ultrasonograms of a 53-year-old female performed to evaluate a known thyroid nodule.
A. On the transverse gray-scale image, several serpentine anechoic structures (arrows) are defined medial to the right lobe of the thyroid gland, between the trachea and the right lobe of the thyroid gland. B. Color Doppler image shows internal flow signals (arrows), suggesting enlarged vascular structures. Right common carotid artery (CCA) looks unusually small, measuring about 0.5 cm on the transverse scan image (arrowhead) with minimal internal vascularity. C. Left CCA is also unusually small, measuring about 0.4 cm without visible vascularity on the transverse color Doppler image (arrowhead). D. Longitudinal gray-scale image shows diffuse homogeneous mural thickening (arrowheads) of left CCA. There is no echogenic calcification along the arterial wall of bilateral CCAs.
Magnetic resonance (MR) angiography was recommended to evaluate the vascular structure of the neck, and complete long segment occlusion of bilateral CCAs from the orifice was found, while bilateral internal and external carotid arteries were patent. Segmental occlusion of the left subclavian artery just distal to the vertebral artery orifice and stenosis of the left proximal subclavian artery were noted. Extensive collateral vessels were demonstrated on the right side including inferior and superior thyroidal arteries, which were detected on previous US (Fig. 2). These imaging findings suggested Takayasu arteritis. Other vascular structures were evaluated by CT of the aorta, and there was no grossly depicted other vascular involvement for the aorta, renal arteries, or pulmonary arteries. For the exact diagnosis, blood pressure was measured on both arms, and there was a 27-mmHg difference: right side, 130 mmHg; left side, 103 mmHg. Physical examination was performed again, and the bruit over left subclavian arteries was noted. Based on all these imaging features and physical findings, the patient was diagnosed with Takayasu arteritis according to the criteria laid out by American College of Rheumatology [4].
Magnetic resonance (MR) angiography and contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) performed to evaluate neck vessels after ultrasonography.
A. On intravenous contrast-enhanced MR angiography, bilateral common carotid arteries (CCAs) are not visualized due to complete occlusion. Bilateral internal and external carotid arteries are patent (thin arrows) and extensive collateral vessels are demonstrated on the right side which were detected on the ultrasonography (thick arrow). Left subclavian artery shows segmental occlusion and focal stenosis (arrowheads). Takayasu arteritis could be suspected on the basis of these imaging findings. B-D. Serial axial images of contrast-enhanced CT show unusually small bilateral CCAs (arrowheads on B) without filling of contrast agent and extensive collateral vessels (arrows) corresponding to the ultrasonographic features.
There are several reports about US findings of the CCA in patients with Takayasu arteritis. Maeda et al. [5] described a "macaroni sign" as an indicator of the disease, and characteristic circumferential arterial wall thickening of the common carotid arteries as a macaroni-like, diffusely thickened intima-media complex. If CCA occlusion is detected on US, the differential diagnosis should include atherosclerosis, Takayasu arteritis, postirradiation arteriopathy, and cardioembolism [6]. The echogenicity of the occluded material tends to be homogeneous in patients with Takayasu arteritis, while it looks rather heterogeneous in patients with atherosclerosis and those with postirradiation arteriopathy [6]. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no case of Takayasu arteritis presenting as bilateral CCA occlusion and perithyroidal collateral vessels incidentally detected during thyroid US like our case.
Collateral formation is frequently accompanied in Takayasu arteritis due to the chronic features of the disease. It is contributable to the imaging feature of sparing of the internal carotid artery and external carotid artery with CCA involvement in Takayasu arteritis. In our case, dilatation of the superior thyroidal artery branching from the external carotid artery and inferior thyroidal artery branching from the thyrocervical trunk play the role of a collateral pathway. Detection of these collateral vessels accompanied by CCA occlusion on US was a key clue to the suspicion of Takayasu arteritis in our case.
If Takayasu arteritis is suspected on neck US, the evaluation of other vessels should be followed with conventional, CT, or MR angiography to confirm the disease and evaluate other vessel involvement besides CCA. Angiography, which has been the procedure of choice for the diagnostic evaluation of Takayasu arteritis, often shows long, smooth, tapered stenosis ranging from mild to severe or frank occlusions, collateral vessels, or the subclavian steal phenomenon [7]. Smoothly tapered luminal narrowing or occlusion accompanied by thickening of the wall of the vessel could be depicted better by CT or MR angiography than by conventional angiography [8-10].
In summary, we would like to report a case of a middle-aged woman with Takayasu arteritis initially suspected during the neck US, presenting as prominent collaterals of thyroidal arteries and CCA occlusion.
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https://www.barrons.com/articles/wework-ceo-adam-neumann-is-stepping-down-51569348124
WeWork CEO Adam Neumann Is Stepping Down
Connor Smith
Co-Founder and CEO of WeWork Adam Neumann Photograph by Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch
Adam Neumann is stepping down as chief executive of WeWork, the company announced Tuesday afternoon. The change is effective immediately, the company said.
WeWork, which filed to go public as We Co., has received around $11 billion in investment from SoftBank—about $4 billion of that from its Vision Fund. SoftBank bought its shares at an average cost that implied a $24 billion valuation for the office-space company.
Last week, We Co. decided to delay its initial public offering. The company had already considered pricing its IPO at a level that would value We Co. at $20 billion, well below its peak private market value of $47 billion. The company's announcement Tuesday did not include an update on the IPO timing.
Neumann will stay on as nonexecutive chairman. Sebastian Gunningham and Artie Minson will serve as co-CEOs.
"Our core business is strong, and we will be taking clear actions to balance WeWork's high growth, profitability and unique member experience while also evaluating the optimal timing for an IPO," Gunningham and Minson said in the company's statement. "We are committed to the continued success of our members, partners, employees and shareholders on this new journey."
Multiple media outlets reported over the weekend that members of the board had planned to ask Neumann to step down. This group reportedly included those with ties to one of WeWork's biggest investors, SoftBank Group.
The Wall Street Journal also recently detailed allegations of self-dealing and drug use by the CEO.
Write to Connor Smith at connor.smith@barrons.com
Adam Neumann is stepping down as chief executive of WeWork, the company announced Tuesday afternoon.