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Q: How to write exact values for points on line graphs? import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

objects = ('A', 'B', 'C')
avgA, avgB, avgC = 0.009990256984352774, 0.0014206548643907065, 0.055161861569464204
performance = [avgA, avgB, avgC]
exact = plt.plot(performance, alpha=0.5, color= 'purple')
plt.xlabel('Compression Method')
plt.ylabel('Average Distance b/w Uncompressed & Compressed Point')
plt.title('Evaluation of Different Compression Methods - Averages')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

There are 3 issues with my graph:

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*I'd like the X axis labels to be A, B & C instead of 0.0 ,1.0 & 2.0. The values on y-axis are correct.

*How can I display the exact value on my line graph for A/B/C? For instance, A on the x axis corresponds to 0.00999 on the y axis but on the graph the exact value isn't written anywhere. Like in bar charts we can write values on top of the bar. Can we do so for line graphs?

*Also, how can I improve the scale? Currently, my graph displays y axis values from 0.0 to 0.5 but I want to make it more precise.

A: To set the xticks, best to just call plot with objects as its first parameter. To set more yticks, MultipleLocator can be used to indicate the distance between the major and the minor ticks (the major ticks display a number).
To add text to the plot, just call plt.annotate('text', xy=(x,y)) where the x goes 0, 1, 2 as the x are just labels. The y is the usual y-value.
You can add many option to position the text, with or without arrow, aligning etc. See the documentation.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.ticker import MultipleLocator

avgA, avgB, avgC = 0.009990256984352774, 0.0014206548643907065, 0.055161861569464204
objects = ('A', 'B', 'C')
performance = [avgA, avgB, avgC]
plt.plot(objects, performance, alpha=0.5, color= 'purple')
plt.plot(objects, performance, color= 'dodgerblue', marker='o')
ax = plt.gca()
ax.yaxis.set_major_locator(MultipleLocator(0.005))
ax.yaxis.set_minor_locator(MultipleLocator(0.001))
for i, avg in enumerate(performance):
    plt.annotate('%0.5f' % avg, xy=(i, avg), color='dodgerblue', xytext=(7, 2), textcoords='offset points')
plt.xlim(-0.1, 2.35) # set xlims to make place for the text
plt.xlabel('Compression Method')
plt.ylabel('Average Distance b/w Uncompressed & Compressed Point')
plt.title('Evaluation of Different Compression Methods - Averages')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

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Free to Be Tranquil Bra and Midnight Bloom Wunder Under Pant. I bought this bra today. I was pleasantly surprised at the coverage it had compared to the Free to Be Wild, which is super low cut on me. It's a low support bra but seems fine for low impact activities.
Deep Fuschia Align Crops and the Midnight Bloom Free to Be Zen Bra.


Four Cape Town entrepreneurs have launched an app that takes the hassle out of finding repair and technical services.
getTOD (get Tasks On Demand) allows users to seamlessly connect with service providers who meet their particular need using location based tracking and supplier availability in real time.
There are good people that work in the industry. This app was born out the desire to bring these people together, and get them to the consumers doors as and when they need them.
Co-founder of getTOD, Shannon Mackrill explains that the app seeks to change the perception that the industry is fraught with unreliability and tardiness.
He says that the app is not a directory, but rather, it is an Uber-like on demand service for people in the trades industry.
Currently the app will connect users with locksmiths, electricians, plumbers and handymen; Mackrill says says all service providers are thoroughly vetted to ensure high standards.
According to Mackrill, the business will soon expand to other service categories and has partnered with Build It.


In 2014 Denmark had a school-reform, where a new concept was born, The Open School, which means that the school should open itself to the society. Subsequently the municipality of Copenhagen asked UCC how the teachers could develop their competencies for cooperation with different agents from the surrounding society.
We developed a module, the School, the Pupil and the Museum, (which has 10 etcs) with focus on the cooperation between schools and all kinds of museums.
Which are the aims and goals of the museum, and of the museum teacher?
How does the teacher create connections between the curriculum and her specific plans and the agenda of the museum?
Which opportunities for learning do the pupils have and how do they describe what they have learnt?
During the last 3 year, we have had 10 classes, where the students as their final product have analyzed the cooperation between schools and museums.
In my paper, I am analyzing the students work with different models, including those in the CEFR-VL reference paper, and I am doing it with a tentative intention, asking the audience, if the models are strengthening the understanding of the cooperation between schools and museum.


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The mission of Grand Blanc Community Schools, the hallmark of academic and personal excellence, is to ensure students actualize their own unique genius, freely and without fear, through a system distinguished by:
• Dedication to the discovery of profound learning
• Exemplary models of character and judgment
• Global experiences in life and living
• Emphasis on individual autonomy and self-direction
• Unremitting pursuit of the highest human ideals
School Name: School Type:
Distance/Virtual Learning (K-12)
Elementary School (2-5)
Elementary/Middle School (2-8)
Preschool and Latchkey
5290 LeRoy St
https://www.gbcs.org/anderson
1 Jewett Trail
https://www.gbcs.org/bobcatvirtual
Brendel Elementary School
223 Bush St
https://www.gbcs.org/brendel
11920 S. Saginaw Street
https://www.gbcs.org/childrensgarden
Cook Elementary School
4433 E Cook Rd
https://www.gbcs.org/cook
Grand Blanc East Middle School
6100 Perry Rd
https://www.gbcs.org/ems
12500 Holly Rd
https://www.gbcs.org/gbhs
Grand Blanc West Middle School
1515 E Reid Rd
https://www.gbcs.org/wms
Indian Hill Elementary School
11240 Woodbridge Dr
https://www.gbcs.org/indianhill
Mason Elementary School
https://www.gbcs.org/mason
McGrath Elementary School
5288 Todd St
https://www.gbcs.org/mcgrath
Myers Elementary School
6085 Sun Valley Dr
https://www.gbcs.org/myers
11920 S Saginaw St
https://www.gbcs.org/pic
Perry Learning Center
Reid Elementary School
2103 Reid Rd
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Q: How Should One Handle AWS SDK S3 Body Type aws-sdk for nodejs states a response for s3 client  with a Body as
export type Body = Buffer|Uint8Array|Blob|string|Readable;

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*What does the resulting type depend on?

*Can consumer choose the desired one with the request somehow

*Or what is the best way to convert it in general to Uint8Array or a Buffer without a switch matrix or intermediate toString


One of my favorite ways to cook is to grill. This recipe is one of my favorites for any time of year, but especially over the summer. It's the perfect size for the family or double it up for guests. If you are feeding a smaller family and not 6 ravenous wolves, you may even get a little left over for a sandwich, wrap or to throw on a salad for lunch later in the week. However, I will warn you that this is sooooo yummy, you may not have anything left but the bits on the cutting board.
There's just something about lime, chipotle and cilantro that scream summer to me. Easy and grilling also have the same effect. Let's face it, it's hot and we get lazy, so easy is a plus. I think you will agree with me that not only is this super easy, it is about the best you can get with easy, and your family will never know you didn't marinate or slave all day on this piece of meat.
Juice lime over both sides of steak and generously sprinkle with salt and pepper. Mix all the other dry spices in a small bowl. Put half on one side of the meat and rub it in by hand, flip the meat and add the other half of the spice mixture to the other side of the meat, again rub in all over the meat by hand. Set it aside as you start the grill and make the butter.
Soften the butter to room temperature or zap it in the microwave for a few seconds until you can smoosch it with a fork. Add your finely chopped cilantro, scallion, lime zest and a pinch of salt ( I love kosher salt for this) and pepper to the butter and mix and mash with a fork.
Now get that baby on the HOT grill – yeah HOT, no cooking on low, I leave it on HIGH the whole time which is about 6 minutes per side for rare…I do ours for about 8/9 min per side, I take it off and let it rest for 5 minutes then put the butter on top and start slicing it on an angle AGAINST the grain. The goal is super thin slices. The butter melts down in between….YUM YUM YUMMMMY.


Info about Burns High Future Business Leaders Of America members are listed below. Everyone listed below participated in Future Business Leaders Of America when they went to high school. Registering allows you to be listed with your fellow Future Business Leaders Of America members.
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by Eveline Chao
During the pandemic, April Htut '15 became an overnight food entrepreneur, launching Myanmar Food USA, a website selling imported Burmese food products such as pickled tea-leaf salad and instant milk tea. Soon the fun side project turned into a booming family business, receiving up to 100 orders a day.
Htut, who completed her MBA at Duke and now works for tech multinational SAP, handles financial reporting and marketing. "It's a lean, bootstrap business, but we work fast. Orders ship out within 12 hours, so if you live on the East Coast, it's faster than Amazon Prime," Htut says.
She was drawn to Bucknell due to its long-standing connection with Myanmar, where Htut was born.
Growing up in the U.S., she helped her mother sell Burmese treats at weekend festivals. At Bucknell, her family helped cater food for annual Burmese dinners. "My whole life, food has been at the center of how I interact with my family and my Asian community," she says.
photograph by Lisa Helfert


Rollasole – perfect for the party season!
Wowzer – Guinness world record is set for the world's most expensive bottle of white wine ever sold!
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After over 20 years of making some of the world's most brutal death metal, Dying Fetus prove that they still have something to say with their seventh studio album, 'Reign Supreme.' Boasting a more modern and crushing approach in the studio, the band has unleashed nine tracks of technical death metal mastery. It's unbelievable that a three-piece band could be this punishing. Add that with zenith songwriting and Dying Fetus' ability to keep their many breakdowns interesting, and you've got the best brutal death metal album of 2012 so far.


I am a resident of Enchanted Oaks and a member of the Mabank Garden Club, Enchanted Oaks Ladies Club, Star Harbor Watercolor Society, and the First United Methodist Church Mabank. I am a retired elementary principal and a local artist working in watercolor, acrylics, and soft pastel. My artwork is displayed at 211 Gallery in Athens, TX.
Communicating with water and pigment may seem unusual, but not to the members of Star Harbor Watercolor Society as they embrace American artist Edward Hopper's statement, "If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint." Organized in 2005, this group never dreamed their society would be known in the North Texas art scene or that members would win awards for their artwork and representation in prestigious juried art exhibitions.
Sunday, February 17th, marks the society's annual "For the Love of Art Show and Sale." The exhibition features a unique variety of artistic style, color, subject matter, and technique—all in original watercolor artwork. Artists will be present to meet those who attend the show. This is a free admission event complete with delicious refreshments (also free!) and a live painting demonstration held from 1-5 p.m. at the City Hall Building, 99 Sunset Blvd., Star Harbor, TX 75148. For additional information, call 903.451.4016 or visit the society's website at www.starharborws.org .


On Friday 15 September John Tipton DFC, LLB celebrates his 100th birthday. John held the post of Honorary Curator at Tenby Museum between the years 1983 and 1995.
Tenby born, John studied law at London University, becoming a member of Inner Temple, before joining the Royal Air Force at the outbreak of World War Two. John had a distinguished career with the RAF, serving as a navigator with 40 Squadron in Britain and Malta between 1941 and 1942, serving with 109 Squadron Pathfinder Force between 1943 and 1944 and as OBOE (Objective Bombing of Enemy) ground controller in the Netherlands between 1944 and 1945. His oral history about his time in the services can be heard on the Imperial War Museum website. John reached the rank of Wing Commander. For his services John was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar. An equally distinguished career in the Civil Service then followed, with John and his late wife Margaret enjoying postings around the world.
We wish Mr Tipton a very happy 100th birthday. Two portraits of John completed by Claudia Williams and Doreen Hammersley will be displayed in the museum.


Pictured at the RCI OSCAS Gala Awards: Howard Nusbaum, the President and CEO of the American Resort Development Association (left) and Tony Ridl, the Chairman of the Vacation Ownership Association of Southern Africa.
He said that 2017 was a strong year for the global timeshare industry, which today spans the globe with 5 491 resorts and over 20 million timeshare owners. Nusbaum added that $19,7 billion was earned in revenue and that the industry contributed a notable $147 billion to the worldwide economy. "By travelling to these resorts, holidaymakers make a positive impact on the global economy by supporting nearly 1.3 million jobs, making timeshare a true backbone to many local communities," he explained.
"From a growth perspective and paths of opportunity, regulatory regime has done more for consumers' confidence and safety, which has, in turn, fostered a more robust timeshare industry and formed the hinge around which the industry has turned for the better. I believe that the South African market has the best flexible products, vacation experiences and human resources to make the changes necessary for a successful future and we are looking to South Africa for great things to come," concluded Nusbaum.


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Pietro Correr, Piotr Correr (ur. ?, zm. 1301?) – włoski duchowny katolicki, w latach od 1286 do swojej śmierci około 1301 roku tytularny łaciński patriarcha Konstantynopola, w latach 1297 do około 1301 administrator apostolski diecezji Modeny.

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Piotr został nominowany 23 sierpnia 1286 tytularnym łacińskim Patriarchą Konstantynopola. Pełnił ten urząd swojej śmierci około 1301 roku. Od 1297 był też administratorem apostolskim diecezji Modeny.

Przypisy

Łaciński patriarcha Konstantynopola
Zmarli w XIII wieku
Włoscy duchowni katoliccy

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SOLA Deli, operated by Camdon Richardson, is an internationally-inspired and Louisiana themed deli concept in Auction House Market. The company focuses on creating small-batch products with locally sourced ingredients. Hailing from his native Shreveport, Camdon has spent years working in retail and specialty environments.
The menu focuses on cured and cooked meats made onsite and cut to order, and fresh, house-made accoutrements, including aiolis, pickles, and jellies. You can expect a po-boy with in-house brined and roasted Cajun turkey, green onion cream cheese, and apple slaw on traditional French bread. He also blends in other inspirations using local ingredients like the pork tenderloin sandwich with Spanish-seasoned shaved pork, manchego cheese, house-made chimi-churri, and pickled redonions on a ciabatta loaf. Additionally, SOLA Deli offers salads, prepared meals to-go, and their bottled spices and olive oils.


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Pursuing Policies to Drive Economic Growth and Reduce Emissions
October 16, 2019 28 min read Download Report
The objectives of creating and sustaining better living standards for all Americans and protecting the environment are not mutually exclusive. Pro-growth policies are pro-environment, too. To that end, reforms should break down unnecessary barriers to technology innovation, permitting new projects and energy trade. Furthermore, policymakers should provide efficient pathways to commercialize research at America's national laboratories, and states should champion competitive electricity market policies that empower consumers to choose what type of energy they want. Improving access to markets in the U.S. and abroad through pro-growth policy frameworks will continue to move the economy and the environment in the right direction.
Economic growth and a clean environment are not mutually exclusive objectives. Rather, it is economic progress that drives positive environmental outcomes.
Extreme, top-down climate regulations significantly harm Americans both as taxpayers and energy consumers—all for negligible environmental benefit.
Pro-growth policies are pro-environment, too. Reforms should break down barriers to technological innovation, empower consumers, and improve access to markets.
Through investment in new technologies and through legislation, environmental trends have improved significantly in the United States. Pollutants known to cause harm to public health and the environment are declining.REF As a country grows economically, it increases the financial ability of its citizens to care for the environment and reduce pollutants emitted from industrial growth. In fact, The Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom and Yale University's Environmental Performance Index show a highly positive correlation between a country's environmental performance and its economic freedom.REF
In a competitive marketplace, companies respond to price signals, and entrepreneurs continually search for promising new opportunities. Market pressures to attract customers incentivize improvements in operations, investment, and resource use. These efficiency gains provide price-competitive products with smaller environmental footprints.
For example, beverage manufacturers have significantly reduced the amount of plastic to make and package water bottles; moreover, Coca-Cola's PlantBottle, which is made partially from plants, is a decade old—and market access continues to expand.REF Grocery stores and office buildings use energy-efficient lights and install motion-activated lights in less trafficked areas to cut costs. On a microeconomic level, individuals and businesses have a financial motivation to do more with less. On a larger scale, the cumulative effect of this incentive structure is that companies provide consumers with the goods and services they want—while using fewer resources and emitting fewer unwanted emissions.
However, profits alone do not drive investment decisions. Businesses could be responding to shareholder, social, or consumer pressures. Owners and investors may have their own non-monetary objectives, combating climate change being one of them. Indeed, investments in climate mitigation and adaptation continue to grow across many sectors of the economy. Entrepreneurs have found creative solutions that create new job opportunities and generate higher levels of prosperity while reducing emissions in the process.
Some compelling consumer-centric, industry-led examples include:
The energy industry has undergone a massive transition over the past decade, largely because of market forces.REF In 2008, coal provided roughly 50 percent of the country's electricity generation. A decade later, coal's share of the pie was 27.4 percent.REF The increased penetration of natural gas through smart extraction technologies and declining costs of renewable power have fundamentally changed the energy landscape. In places like Pennsylvania, more residents are moving away from home heating oil to cheaper, cleaner natural gas. More than 50 percent of Pennsylvania households use natural gas for their home heating source, compared to just 17 percent using fuel oil.
The U.S. natural gas industry's ascension as a leader in exports is paying dividends economically and environmentally across the globe. A new study from the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory analyzed life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. In different scenarios of comparing U.S. LNG shipped to European and Asian markets, when compared to coal use or Russian piped gas, the life cycle emissions from U.S. LNG exports are lower.REF
In direct response to tough economic competition, the Nuclear Energy Institute organized nuclear power plants nationally to find operating efficiencies that reduced costs by 19 percent, resulting in $1.6 billion in savings and keeping emissions-free electricity in the marketplace.REF
The U.S. has become the world's leading oil and natural gas producer, providing affordable, reliable power to families and businesses. At the same time, methane emissions from the natural gas industry have fallen from 1990–2017, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.REF
Electricity market choice at the wholesale and retail levels empowers households and firms. Businesses have committed to using more renewable power,REF driven in part by what the Stanford Social Innovation Review calls "strategic concern driven by market forces."REF Where retail choice exists, households have the opportunity to choose from what generating source they receive their electricity. Additionally, increased demand response and real-time pricing enables consumers to reduce energy consumption, thus saving money and lowering emissions.
Despite the regulatory morass and government subsidies that impede technological breakthroughs, financiers and entrepreneurs are progressing to advance alternative energy sources. Several advanced nuclear start-up technologies are emerging,REF and developers of the technologies believe they can be cost-competitive with conventional sources of energy without subsidies.REF Companies are making improvements in large-scale and small-scale battery storage.REF While utility-scale energy storage is currently cost prohibitive, research and investment in various battery technologies (e.g., lithium-ion and sodium-sulfur) have investors and entrepreneurs hopeful.REF Furthermore, natural gas combined-cycle generators continue to evolve, improving efficiency and consequently reducing sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide.REF
The demand for plant-based and lab-grown meat has increased over the past several years. Fast-food restaurants sold 228 million plant-based burgers so far this year, up 10 percent from the previous year.REF While the figures pale in comparison to beef consumption, demand is on the rise.
The cement industry is collaborating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore how to improve efficiencies in cement processes, which will improve resiliency, reduce emissions, and save lives.REF New investments in cement, steel, plastic, and other building materials will make our houses and highways sturdier and our products more durable—with a smaller environmental footprint.REF
The cryptocurrency industry, labeled as a major climate problem because of its energy-intensive operations, is becoming part of the solution. Cryptocurrency miners are turning associated gas that would be flared into usable energy. Energy companies can install facilities and datacenters to mine cryptocurrency, which generates "over 15 times more revenue than the market price of the fuel, while limiting carbon footprint."REF
Markets and investments are occurring for carbon-dioxide removal, and those markets are taking a number of different forms. Some companies and nonprofit organizations are protecting forests and planting more trees, while others are investing in direct air capture or topsoil-management programs for farmers and grazers.REF Interestingly, voluntary markets are emerging for these carbon-removal processes.REF In the agricultural space, farmers and researchers have found that some crops pair well with the shade provided by solar panels; as a result, their growth increased their carbon-dioxide uptake.REF
For several reasons, including economic opportunity and shareholder pressure, investors have taken initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Led by Bill Gates, Breakthrough Energy Ventures is a more than $1 billion investor-led fund "to make sure that everyone on the planet can enjoy a good standard of living, including basic electricity, healthy food, comfortable buildings, and convenient transportation, without contributing to climate change."REF According to 2017 report from the World Wildlife Fund, 48 percent of Fortune 500 companies have a climate change or clean energy target.REF Amazon's recent announcement to have 100,000 electric delivery vehicles on the road by 2030 is just one of many examples.REF
The aforementioned examples provide a mere snapshot of industry-led initiatives driving economic growth and reducing emissions. Some of those endeavors will have bigger economic and environmental impacts than others. Nevertheless, it is clear for a variety of financial and non-financial motivations that the private sector has led, and continues to lead, in creating jobs, investing in innovative ideas, and fueling the economy—while reducing emissions. The American entrepreneurial spirit will meet consumers' needs while taking environmental strides forward.
Federal Policies: Increased Costs and Unintended Consequences
Unlike "win-win" private-sector-led initiatives, federal climate policy that drives energy prices higher will exact significant harm on American households and on the economy broadly. Policies like the Green New Deal would cost Americans both as taxpayers and energy consumers. Notably, higher energy bills affect low-income households disproportionately because these homes spend a higher percentage of their budgets on energy costs. Americans with after-tax incomes of less than $30,000 spend 23 percent of their budgets on energy, compared to just 7 percent for those earning more than $50,000.REF According to the 2011 National Energy Assistance Survey, a poll of low-income families, 24 percent went without food for a day, and 37 percent decided to forgo medical and dental coverage, in order to pay higher energy bills. Nearly one in five had a family member who became sick due to the home being too cold.REF
Moreover, the direct energy and taxpayer costs are a small component of the overall cost Americans would suffer. Energy is a necessary input for nearly all goods and services we consume. Consequently, Americans would pay more for food, health care, education, clothes—and every other good or service that requires energy to make and transport. When it comes to businesses, large or small, they will either pass higher costs onto consumers or absorb them. Passing higher prices onto consumers suppresses demand. If businesses can manage to absorb the pricier energy, it means less money is available for investing in new technologies or hiring more people. Green New Deal–type policies act as a vice that squeezes both the production and consumption sides of the economy, resulting in lower output, lower household income, and higher rates of unemployment. Depending on the policy, the costs of stranded assets and lost shareholder value could easily end up in the trillions.
Americans have little appetite to pay such costs. A January 2019 poll conducted by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 68 percent of Americans oppose paying an additional $10 per month to fight climate change.REF Forty-three percent of respondents were not even willing to pay an additional dollar on their electricity bill to combat climate change.REF Similarly, a more recent Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 51 percent of respondents would not be willing to pay an additional $2 per month on their residential electricity bill, and 71 percent of respondents would be unwilling to pay an additional $10 per month.REF Importantly, the polls fail to include how much abated warming Americans would receive from paying an additional $1, $20, or $50 per month—which would be insignificant.
In addition to the economic harm caused by government intervention, these policies cause a number of unintended consequences. They include:
Cronyism, corporate welfare, and less innovation. Americans distrust the federal government intervening in decisions better left for producers and consumers to make on their own.REF Federal and state subsidies and mandates enacted to slow global warming have concentrated benefits for politically preferred energy projects—and dispersed the costs to the rest of America. Energy cronyism benefits a select few and creates a vicious loop of politicians, lobbyists, and special interests. The economic pain cuts deeper than wasted taxpayer money because government interventions distort free enterprise, create government dependence, and allow Washington to direct the flow of private-sector investments. Perhaps most perverse is that energy cronyism obstructs the long-term success and viability of the technologies and energy sources they intend to promote. Instead of relying on a process that rewards competition, taxpayer subsidies prevent a company from truly understanding the price point at which the technology will be economically viable. When the government plays favorites, valuable resources get stuck in unproductive places.
Fewer resources available for environmental protection. Economy-killing climate regulations would not only harm the livelihoods of the American people—but it would leave us in a worse position to improve the environment. By making us poorer, we would have fewer resources available to address climate and environmental challenges that exist today and in the future. Money diverted to higher energy bills could otherwise be spent on practical purposes that help households and businesses adapt to a changing climate. For instance, investing in more robust infrastructure can sensibly protect homes and storefronts against natural disasters, no matter the cause of the extreme weather event.
Shifting emissions to countries with less rigorous environmental and safety standards. Despite the increased use of emissions-free energy sources and technologies, conventional resources such as coal, oil, and natural gas will likely dominate the energy and transportation landscape well into the future. Therefore, policies that restrict natural-resources production in the U.S. will not measurably affect energy consumption behavior, nor will it affect which type of energy consumers buy domestically or internationally. Higher energy prices from curtailed domestic supply could reduce consumption marginally, but it would also provide opportunities for increased natural resource production around the world—in places where environmental standards are not as rigorous as in the United States. Energy-intensive manufacturers that built their plants in America, citing affordable energy as a reason, may choose to build their next factories elsewhere. Decisions to curtail resource extraction in the U.S. would likely have the unintended environmental consequence of increasing global greenhouse gas emissions and criterion pollutants that adversely affect public health and the environment.
Climate Science: Certainties and Uncertainties
Climate change is real, and it is clear that man-made emissions are having an impact. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 5th Assessment (IPCC) attributes at least half of the warming from 1951–2010 to human activities.16 Sea levels have been rising since the planet gradually warmed after the Little Ice Age. However, the IPCC does not conclude that the world has until 2030 to avoid catastrophic global warming.REF Distinguishing what climatologists know, what they do not know, and what they might know is necessary so that objective, transparent science can guide public policy.
For instance, uncertainty exists with regard to the accuracy of climate models (running too hot), how a doubling of carbon-dioxide emissions impacts global temperatures, and which trajectory greenhouse gas concentrations most accurately reflects the future. Furthermore, the Integrated Assessment Models used to justify the social cost of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions are not credible for policymaking: The outputs change significantly with reasonable changes to the inputs. Subjecting the models to reasonable inputs for climate sensitivity and discount rates dramatically lowers the figure for the social cost of carbon dioxide. Furthermore, attempts to forecast economic damages centuries into the future (as the integrated assessment models do) strain credibility when moving to the real world of policy implementation.
With regard to extreme weather events, the IPCC report and other mainstream science confirms the lack of trends for frequency and intensity of natural disasters. Tropical cyclone activity is not becoming more frequent. The IPCC notes in its most recent scientific assessment that "[n]o robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin," and that there are "no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency." Further, "confidence in large scale changes in the intensity of extreme extratropical cyclones [such as "Superstorm" Sandy] since 1900 is low."REF A recently published article in the American Meteorological Society further shows that there has been no increase in trends for frequency or intensity of land-falling hurricanes in the continental U.S. since 1900.19
Warming could impact future tropical cyclone intensity and rainfall rates, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration clearly states:
In terms of detection and attribution, much less is known about hurricane/tropical cyclone activity changes, compared to global temperature. In the northwest Pacific basin, there is emerging evidence for a detectable poleward shift in the latitude of maximum intensity of tropical cyclones, with a tentative link to anthropogenic warming. In the Atlantic, it is premature to conclude with high confidence that human activities—and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming—have already had a detectable impact on hurricane activity.REF
Moreover, the IPCC found evidence for increases, decreases, and "no trend at all" in flood activity or severity.21 As the U.S. National Climate Assessment summarized:
The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report did not attribute changes in flooding to anthropogenic influence nor report detectable changes in flooding magnitude, duration, or frequency. Trends in extreme high values of streamflow are mixed across the United States. Analysis of 200 U.S. stream gauges indicates areas of both increasing and decreasing flooding magnitude but does not provide robust evidence that these trends are attributable to human influences.REF
Trends in local events like hail and thunderstorms were also inconclusive.23 Data for tornado activity in the U.S. shows tornadoes occur no more frequently now than in the past and that the number of strong tornadoes (category F3 and above) has actually decreased.24 As for droughts, the IPCC overstated previous conclusions about increasing trends and that "the compelling arguments both for and against a significant increase in the land area experiencing drought has hampered global assessment."25
Science should be a guiding principle for Congress; however, the politicization of science jeopardizes sound policymaking.
Policies to Drive the Economy and Environment Forward
Skepticism of costly, ineffective climate policies is not an excuse to do nothing. Americans want affordable, reliable energy and they want a clean environment. Policy and regulations significantly lag behind innovation, market trends, and consumer preferences. Institutional barriers stymie economic and environmental progress.
Policymakers should advance policies that will drive energy and environmental innovation. Breaking down barriers to competition, freeing up innovative pathways for new technologies, and freely trading energy technologies will meet America's—and the world's—energy needs while reducing emissions. Specifically, Congress and state policymakers should:
Open Access to America's National Laboratories. The Department of Energy's role, through its system of national laboratories and scientific research facilities, should be to conduct basic research to meet national objectives that the private sector would not undertake. Too often, advocates of government spending on technology-specific activities tout the federal government's involvement in commercial successes, such as the Internet or the Global Positioning System. Yet, the initial intention for these government projects was not any private commercial need. Entrepreneurs saw a commercial opportunity in these defense technologies and created commercially viable products.
Congress should create a pathway that allows the private sector, using private funds, to tap into that research and commercialize it. Congress should also give lab directors more autonomy and allow federal lab employees (when appropriate and without violating conflict of interest rules) to push research into the marketplace if they see an opportunity. While these activities happen to some degree today, giving the labs more autonomy with proper oversight and transparency will encourage more innovation at the national labs.REF
Allow Department of Defense Energy Research to Expand Commercial Opportunities. The Department of Defense can also serve as a good conduit for innovative breakthroughs on energy technologies, but spending on energy use should be mission-driven first. Certainly, alternative technologies provide advantages that enhance mission capabilities. Lighter, more efficient batteries lengthen the duration of a foot soldier's mission and reduce the weight of a soldier's backpack. Solar photovoltaics can also lighten a soldier's load and extend the travel distance of a drone. More fuel-efficient engines reduce the need for refueling. Developing micro grids and utilizing very small modular nuclear reactors can safely provide reliable power to isolated bases for long periods.REF
Fix the Regulatory and Policy Obstacles for Commercial Nuclear Power. Facing a complex and burdensome regulatory system, commercial nuclear power in the U.S. has unnecessarily high construction costs. The regulatory system that licenses and permits nuclear reactors has failed to keep up with technological innovations and overregulates existing nuclear technologies. Instead of addressing underlying government-imposed problems, policymakers have focused on mitigating the cost of those policies through subsidies, leading to a predictable path of failure: While such an approach may spur some amount of commercial activity, it is limited only to what is subsidized.
Nuclear plants in America today continue to exhibit superior safety performance. Policy and regulations should reflect that track record. Congress should instill regulatory discipline at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), encourage the Environmental Protection Agency to right-size radiation-exposure standards, review foreign ownership caps, reform the NRC's cost-recovery structure, and introduce market principles into spent-fuel management.REF
Fix the Regulatory and Policy Obstacles for Renewable Energy. Like most other energy projects, renewable power projects face excessive and duplicative regulations that increase costs and cause delays. Siting and permitting issues can be particularly problematic for wind and solar because the most advantageous locations for generations are in more remote areas. Therefore, additional transmission lines are necessary to take the power to densely populated places. Complex regulatory processes mean a company has to hire more lawyers and compliance officers to navigate complex, unclear regulatory schemes and fend off legal challenges to development.
Two of the biggest hindrances to energy project development are the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Congress should repeal NEPA and reform ESA laws by removing redundancies and transitioning authority to the states when applicable. Congress should also allow renewable energy companies to form Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). Under an MLP, businesses have the tax structure of a partnership or a limited liability company, but ownership equity trades publicly on a securities exchange. The combination of the partnership tax status and the liquidity of a publicly traded company make MLPs an attractive investment vehicle.
Yet another policy that senselessly drives up the cost of renewable energy is the Trump Administration's stance on tariffs. Section 201 tariffs hurt the growth of the solar industry,REF and steel and aluminum tariffs increase construction costs of wind turbines.REF Most important, these tariffs hurt consumers.
End Tariffs, Promote Free Trade, and Expand Technological Innovation Internationally. In addition to solar tariffs, the Administration should pursue a zero-tariff policy and end tariffs for all energy sources. Tariffs adversely affect investment in new, cleaner energy technologies. The economic uncertainty created by the tariffs and the threat of tariffs and inaction in company exemption requests results in investment dollars sitting on the shelf. Companies do not know whether to move forward with projects or whether the costs of the tariffs mean that projects will become uneconomical. Opportunities for renewable natural gas and nuclear buildout and for new manufacturing factories may no longer be available.
In addition to removing the tariffs, policymakers should work with other countries to open up their energy markets. For instance, the shale revolution in the U.S. is largely responsible for providing families and businesses with cheap energy while also lowering emissions. Investment and innovation have the power to unlock an abundance of shale resources in developing countries like China. Currently, China has the world's largest shale gas reserve.REF
Commercial nuclear energy trade is another avenue that can meet the world's energy needs while reducing emissions. For instance, Saudi Arabia is an important new market in the nuclear industry from both nonproliferation and commercial standpoints. Completing such an agreement would also allow the U.S. industry to compete in Saudi Arabia. Even where an American company fails to win a bid to build a reactor, U.S. companies can supply technical expertise and supply components for new nuclear power plants. Expanded commercial nuclear trade would incentivize both cooperation and competition—and help bring new nuclear technologies to the market.
Encourage Choice in Electricity Markets. Competitive electricity markets have served customers well. Some states have accomplished transition from monopolies to competition more successfully than others, and additional free-market reforms are necessary to spur more entrepreneurial activity in electricity markets. However, when the underlying structure of competition is sound, the benefits to energy consumers are unambiguously positive.
Competition in electricity services allows greater customer choice through the power of the consumers' own dollars rather than through the disconnected votes of a small panel of public utility commissioners. Consumer choice comes not only in the form of resource choice (renewables, conventional fuels, or a mix) but also in financial choices (e.g., fixed rates, risk preferences, indexed rates, or short-term or long-term contracts). In the end, because electricity providers have to work for their customers, prices are competitive and quality improves.REF States should fix anti-competitive energy policies such as renewable energy mandates, which have wreaked havoc in the electricity sector by putting politics and special interests over customers.
Eliminate All Subsidies for All Forms of Energy. Favoritism in the energy sector takes many forms. Over the years, Congress has implemented numerous policies that use the political process to support the production or consumption of one good over another, including direct cash grants, special tax treatment, taxpayer-backed loans and loan guarantees, and socialized risk through insurance programs, mandates, and tariffs. Whatever shape the favoritism takes, the results are the always the same: The government delivers benefits to a small, select group—and spreads the costs across families and consumers. Eliminating cronyism and corporate welfare has bipartisan support. If Congress removes all of the policies that pick winners and losers, the most innovative and cost-competitive fuels and technologies will flourish.
Expand Energy Infrastructure. A significant obstacle that prevents investment in cleaner energy sources or fuel switching is the lack of infrastructure to deliver the energy where it needs to go. Natural gas to the northeast region offers a price-competitive alternative to home heating oil; however, pipeline infrastructure is lacking. Out of the 5.7 million households who still rely on home heating oil, 85 percent reside in the northeast.REF Last year, a tanker carrying Russian natural gas docked in Boston to supply Americans with energy despite the abundance of resources domestically.REF Moreover, efficiently siting and permitting new transmission lines could expand the consumption of renewable power where, for example, there is a surplus of hydroelectric power in Canada.REF Additional infrastructure would also allow energy-intensive manufacturing processes, like the cement industry, to fuel switch to save money and reduce emissions.REF
Streamlining the environmental review and permitting processes for new pipelines and grid investments would be a welcome step in the right direction. However, taxpayers should not subsidize those investments, and Congress should eliminate any federally imposed cost-socialization requirements through which regulatory agencies support expensive, uneconomic projects by spreading the costs to citizens who derive little, if any, benefit from those projects. Congress should be mindful of protecting private property rights and respect the state authority to control local and regional needs.
Make Immediate Expensing a Permanent Fixture of the Tax Code. Immediate and full expensing for all new plant and equipment costs—for any industry or type of equipment—would allow newer equipment to come online faster, which would improve energy efficiency and overall economic efficiency. The current system of depreciation raises the cost of capital and discourages companies from hiring new workers and increasing wages for existing employees.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act allows for full expensing for short-lived capital investments until 2022. Policymakers should expand this to all investments and extend it permanently to encourage investment in capital that will drive growth and reduce industry's environmental footprint.
Repeal New Source Review (NSR). NSR is a vaguely written rule that disincentivizes efficiency improvements in power plants and other major industrial plants.REF In areas that meet air-quality standards, plants must follow Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) rules to demonstrate that the construction and operation of new projects and major modifications will not increase emissions above a specified threshold. There are several problems with NSR and PSD. What constitutes a significant modification is subjective under the rules. The amendment excludes routine maintenance, repair, and replacement, but what falls under the definition of "significant modification" remains murky—despite multiple administrative attempts to clarify the meaning. Plant upgrades can improve efficiency and reduce operational costs, thereby lowering electricity costs, increasing reliability, and providing environmental benefits. Nevertheless, NSR requirements for upgrades discourage these activities.
Repeal the Foreign Dredge Act and the Jones Act. Congress enacted the Merchant Marine Act (more colloquially known as the Jones Act) and the Foreign Dredge Act in the early 20th century to protect American maritime interests from foreign competition. These efforts to bolster the domestic shipbuilding industry have failed. By restricting competition, these laws not only increase costs to consumers but also increase congestion on the roads and at America's ports. As North Carolina State University professor Thomas Grennes points out, "The long-term trend toward moving cargo traffic from water to land has increased congestion on highways, railroads, pipelines and ports."REF Providing more pathways to transport U.S products by repealing these protectionist statutes would save consumers money while reducing increased emissions due to artificially higher levels of congestion.
Americans want a clean, healthy environment; they want breathable air and drinkable water. Americans also need affordable, reliable power to light and heat homes, to power schools and hospitals, and to get to work every day. Economic growth and environmental protection should not be thought of as balancing priorities, but instead of pursuing policies that will move the country in the right direction on both. Policy reforms that open access to markets, eliminate cronyism, and remove burdensome regulatory obstacles for all energy sources and technologies will improve the economy and the environment.
Nicolas D. Loris is the Deputy Director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in Energy and Environmental Policy, of the Institute for Economic Freedom, at The Heritage Foundation.


In that low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhood, it's pretty hard for a kid to avoid sugar. Last year, doctors at St. John's Well Child and Family Center, a nonprofit community clinic seven blocks away, became alarmed by the rising weight of Diaz's son, Adrian Mejia. They persuaded him to join an intervention study run by the University of Southern California and Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) that weans participants off sugar in an effort to reduce the rate of obesity and diabetes among children.
It also targets a third condition fewer people have heard of: fatty liver disease.
Linked both to genetics and diets high in sugar and fat, "fatty liver disease is ripping through the Latino community like a silent tsunami and especially affecting children," said Dr. Rohit Kohli, chief of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at CHLA.
Recent research shows about 1 in 4 people in the U.S. have fatty liver disease. But among Latinos, especially of Mexican and Central American descent, the rate is significantly higher. One large study in Dallas found that 45% of Latinos had fatty livers.
The illness, diagnosed when more than 5% of the liver's weight is fat, does not cause serious problems in most people. But it can progress to a more severe condition called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, which is linked to cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver failure. This progressive form of fatty liver disease is the fastest-growing cause of liver transplants in young adults.
The USC-CHLA study is led by Michael Goran, director of the Diabetes and Obesity Program at CHLA, who last year made an alarming discovery: Sugar from sweetened beverages can be passed in breast milk from mothers to their babies, potentially predisposing infants to obesity and fatty livers.
Called HEROES, for Healthy Eating Through Reduction of Excess Sugar, his program is designed to help children like Adrian, who used to drink four or more sugary drinks a day, shed unhealthy habits that can lead to fatty liver and other diseases.
Fatty liver disease is gaining more attention in the medical community as lawmakers ratchet up pressure to discourage the consumption of sugar-laden drinks. Legislators in Sacramento are mulling proposals to impose a statewide soda tax, put warning labels on sugary drinks and bar beverage companies from offering discount coupons on sweetened drinks.
In 2016, 45 deaths in Los Angeles County were attributed to fatty liver disease. But that's a "gross underestimate," because by the time people with the illness die, they often have cirrhosis, and that's what appears on the death certificate, said Dr. Paul Simon, chief science officer at the L.A. County Department of Public Health.
Still, Simon said, it was striking that 53% of the 2016 deaths attributed to fatty liver disease were among Latinos — nearly double their proportion of total deaths in the county.
Medical researchers consider fatty liver disease a manifestation of something called metabolic syndrome — a cluster of conditions that include excess belly fat and elevated blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol that can increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
Until 2006, few doctors knew that children could get fatty liver disease. That year Dr. Jeffrey Schwimmer, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California-San Diego, reviewed the autopsies of 742 children and teenagers, ages 2 to 19, who had died in car crashes or from other causes, and he found that 13% of them had fatty liver disease. Among obese kids, 38% had fatty livers.
After Schwimmer's study was released, Goran began using MRIs to diagnose fatty liver in living children.
A 2008 study by another group of researchers nudged Goran further. It showed that a variant of a gene called PNPLA3 significantly increased the risk of the disease. About half of Latinos have one copy of that high-risk gene, and a quarter have two copies, according to Goran.
He began a new study, which showed that among children as young as 8, those who had two copies of the risky gene and consumed high amounts of sugar had three times as much fat in their livers as kids with no copy of the gene. Now, in the USC-CHLA study, he is testing whether reduced consumption of sugar decreases the fatty liver risk in children who have the PNPLA3 gene variant.
At the start of the study, he tests kids to see if they have the PNPLA3 gene, uses an MRI to measure their liver fat and catalogs their sugar intake. A dietitian on his team educates the family about the impact of sugar. Then, after four months, they measure liver fat again to assess the impact of the intervention. Goran expects to have results from the study in about a year.
More recently, Goran has been investigating the transmission of sugar from mothers to their babies. He showed last year that in nursing mothers who drank beverages sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup — the primary sweetener in standard formulations of Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other sodas — the fructose level in their breast milk rose and stayed elevated for several hours, ensuring that the baby ingested it.
This early exposure to sugar could be contributing to obesity, diabetes and fatty livers, based on previous research that showed fructose can enhance the fat storage capacity of cells, Goran said.
In neighborhoods like South Los Angeles, where Saira Diaz and Adrian Mejia live, a lack of full-service markets and fresh produce makes it harder to eat healthily. "Access to unhealthy food options — which are usually cheaper — is very high in this city," Derek Steele, director of health equity programs at the Social Justice Learning Institute in Inglewood, Calif., told Kaiser Health News.
The institute has started farmers markets, helped convert two corner stores into markets with healthier food options and created 109 community gardens on public and private lands in South L.A. and neighboring Inglewood, which has 125 liquor and convenience stores and 150 fast-food outlets.
At Torrance Memorial Medical Center, 10 miles down the road, Dr. Karl Fukunaga, a gastroenterologist with Digestive Care Consultants, said he and his colleagues are seeing so many patients with fatty liver disease that they plan to start a clinic to address it. He urges his patients to avoid sugar and cut down on carbohydrates.
Adrian Mejia and his mother received similar advice from a dietitian in the HEROES program. Adrian gave up sugary beverages, and his liver fat dropped 43%. Two months ago, he joined a soccer league.
Test your knowledge of this week's health news.
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Telemundo News featured KHN's recent Bill of The Month story about a soccer player who was stuck paying big bucks for a fancy hinged knee brace. Paula Andalo, KHN's ethnic media editor, offered advice about how to avoid overpaying for medical equipment you may not need.
You can read KHN's full story here.
Among the topics covered were what might happen to parts of the Affordable Care Act if a lawsuit now working its way through the courts succeeds in declaring the health law unconstitutional, and how Medicare and Medicaid deal with surprise medical bills from out-of-network providers.
This week's panelists are Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Jennifer Haberkorn of the Los Angeles Times, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner.
What would happen to the Medicare Part D "doughnut hole" if the entire ACA is struck down, and would newer bills, such as the Bipartisan Budget Act, which helped close the coverage gap for brand-name drugs one year early, prevent this feature of the ACA from being eliminated?
Will the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 remain if the ACA is completely overturned?
Since surprise medical bills aren't allowed in Medicare and Medicaid, what happens when an anesthesiologist or contract emergency room doctor who doesn't accept Medicare or Medicaid treats an enrolled patient? Do they take a lower rate? Does the hospital make up the difference? Why can't this be applied to all out-of-network arrangements?
Statistics show that approximately 5% to 10% of the population accounts for about 50% of total health care spending. Who makes up this population? Are there any reasonable proposals to address the health of this population and perhaps reduce spending while improving outcomes?
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Editorial writers weigh in on these health topics and others.
Media outlets report on news from Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Alaska, California, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maryland, Georgia, Kansas, Washington and Minnesota.
While revenue and earnings have been lackluster for Watson for Drug Discovery, other companies are making profits in developing software that improves the clinical trials process for drugs. Also in the news: Hospitals are making improvements by using data from certain electronic health record systems.
Even with insurance, health care bills can be daunting and prompt people to delay care for problems that could have been caught earlier. Women with low incomes who had high-deductible insurance plans waited an average of 1.6 months longer for diagnostic breast imaging, 2.7 months for first biopsy, 6.6 months for first early-stage breast cancer diagnosis and 8.7 months for first chemotherapy, compared with low-income women with low-deductible plans.
People are going to these communities in vans and offering to swab residents' cheeks purportedly for DNA checks for cancer and other diseases. It's not clear who is behind the reported activity. In other public health news: asbestos, candida auris, prostate drugs, three-parent pregnancies, syphilis, and more.


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Довжина — 29 км.

Бере початок в масиві Повазький Іновець — на висоті 780 метрів. Протікає біля села Златники і через Тврдоместиці. Серед приток — Железніца та Сливниця.

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The autobiographical Tin Duarer Kole unveiled by Mr. Aly Zaker
Recently the launch ceremony of Tin Duarer Kole, the autobiographical memoir by Subhash Ghosh took place at the ABC Garden, Anwar Jong Road, Ashulia.
Mr. Ghosh is currently the Chairman of Associated Builders' Corporation (ABC) Limited, who hails from Sujanagar, Pabna. He has led an eventful life as an innovative and conscientious businessperson, while being witness to the major times of turmoil; Partition, sectarian riots in the '60s, the Liberation War. His memoir depicts the journey of an entrepreneur in a war-torn country, who happens to be from a minority community, and in documenting the details from his point of view in flowing approachable prose, the book becomes an important narrative for those interested in the social history of the land.
The special guest and speaker for the discussion session was the prominent actor and cultural figure Mr. Aly Zaker, also the group chairman of Asiatic 3 sixty. In discussing the book, he mentioned that while reading he imagined himself as being the author's brother, and acclaimed the book as one of the best autobiographical memoirs written in Bangladesh, something he believes will be widely accepted as well. He also wrote the foreword to the book citing it as 'Unputdownable' (i.e. so engrossing that one can't stop reading it); while a critical review was penned by eminent economist Dr, Debapriya Bhattacharya.
Other discussants of this session were Ar. Mostaqur Rahman, Mr. Kanutosh Majumder, Mr. D.N. Chatterjee, author's brother Dr. Sujit Ghosh & daughter Srabanti Datta, along with the author himself while Mr. Rakhal Raha moderated the discussion. Mr. Kanutosh Majumder complimented the book, calling it literature and not simply an autobiography; through which Subhash Ghosh had transformed from an engineer into a writer.
Also present on the occasion was Mr. Mohiuddin Ahmed, UPL's publisher and Managing Director who expressed his optimism in saying that such books will go a long way to reduce the dearth of good writers in this country; and requested the author to continue with his writing ventures.
The event included a discussion session with the aforementioned, followed by the formal launching ceremony and luncheon for the attendees. The event concluded with a very emotionally gripping performance which included reading of selected parts of the book accompanied by songs depicting the time and emotion captured in those.
In his foreword, Mr. Aly Zaker spoke about the author's early years. He fondly related to the commonality of experiences between them, sharing the identity of two Bengali boys of that era of simple childhood or the painful experiences of riots & wars despite the differences in upbringing and religion.
Also in a laudatory message, renowned journalist and Editor of 'Prothom Alo' Mr. Matiur Rahman congratulated the author on delivering such a memoir enriched with his detailed personal accounts as well as the struggles behind his success; which will surely be a source of inspiration to many.
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Armenia, a Caucasus country, has a fraught relationship with its western neighbor, Turkey. On April 24, Armenians around the world mark the anniversary of what they call genocide by Ottomans in 1915.
1.5 million Armenians were massacred in the Ottoman empire during World War One. Turkey, the Ottoman Empire's successor, is strongly opposed to qualifying the deaths as genocide, saying that hundreds of thousands of both Turks and Christian Armenians lost their lives in the struggle between the Ottoman forces and the Russian Empire over eastern Anatolia during that time.
Proponents of organic farming say that this softer way of producing food can help poorer countries achieve several of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. That's partly why the EU backed Organic Agriculture Support Initiative has been promoting organic farming in Armenia since 2015. Christian Cummins went to find out how it is working.
Armenia is facing many economic challenges, and people are expecting great things to happen in the years ahead. Armenian-born philanthropist and entrepreneur Ruben Vardanyan tells DW more about his country's development.
After Armenia's snap parliamentary election – how will the economy develop. There's a spirit of optimism in the country. Young Armenians want change – an end to corruption and nepotism, and a government that can finally tackle unemployment.
A victory for the Yellow Vests in France - George Soros-funded university is forced out of Hungary - The far-right makes gains in Spain - Ireland advances the Occupied Territories Bill - Uncertain times in Mariupol - Boom and bust for Turkey's construction industry - The Dutch clergy rally to prevent a deportation – The Dutchman who wants to change his age - An Italian man who's also a mother.


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Q: Using jQuery to calculate offset in an absolutely positioned container All of my content is within an absolute container, #content, which is 100% width and height. So when scrolling, we are scrolling through the container, not the body.
I am trying to caclulate the offset of a series of sections within the page like so:
$('.advance').on("click", function(){
     var nextSection = $(this).parent('.section').next('.section');

     var nextDistanceTop = nextSection.offset().top - 25;

     $("#content").animate({ scrollTop: nextDistanceTop });
});

Because the container is absolutely positioned, the offset().top is giving me the offset from the top of the viewport. I need to calculate the offset relative to the top of the screen/header, or the scroll position. Any other workarounds to accomplish this?
Here is an example:  http://jsfiddle.net/pkxDY/6/

A: Use own jQuery scrollTop method:
$('.advance').on("click", function(){
   var nextSection = $(this).parent().next();
   var nextDistanceTop = nextSection.offset().top + $("#content").scrollTop();
   $("#content").animate({ scrollTop: nextDistanceTop });
});


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Whatever the name, solitary confinement should be banned by States as a punishment or extortion technique . . . Solitary confinement is a harsh measure which is contrary to rehabilitation, the aim of the penitentiary system . . . Social isolation is one of the harmful elements of solitary confinement and its main objective. It reduces meaningful social contact to an absolute minimum . . . A significant number of individuals will experience serious health problems regardless of the specific conditions of time, place, and pre-existing personal factors . . . Considering the severe mental pain or suffering solitary confinement may cause, it can amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment when used as a punishment, during pretrial detention, [or] indefinitely. . .
In this case, ongoing and enforced solitary confinement is being used against Mr. López as punishment for his political activism, during pretrial detention, and has been imposed for over five months, with no sign it will ever end. Even worse, it has been imposed arbitrarily - no government official has been willing to name for Mr. López or his counsel who ordered that he be held in solitary confinement or for what reason. Mr. López's arrest, indictment, and ongoing persecution is a direct result of his exercising his rights of freedom of opinion and expression and peaceful assembly.
1UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Calls for Prohibition of Solitary Confinement, United Nations, Oct. 18, 2011, available at http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=11506&.


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The Data Scientist's Toolkit: SQL
By Kat Campise, Data Scientist, Ph.D.
When it comes to all things machine-oriented, we need specific languages for communicating what we want the machine to do: calculate, extract data, store data, produce an image, search for a word or a sentence, etc. Some languages have broad capabilities (e.g., Python, C++, Java, R), whereas others have a narrower function, such as SQL.
Pronounced like the word "sequel," the structured query language known as SQL is a particular method for interacting with a relational database (RDMS). If you peruse data science job postings, you'll notice there is also NoSQL, which is used for non-relational databases and for the same purposes as SQL: storage, retrieval, and updating/writing data. While it is important for data scientists to understand the differences between relational and non-relational databases, especially since many companies may use MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra (or other non-relational database management systems), SQL continues to be one of the most popular programming languages within data science. So, having a solid foundation — if not expertise — in the language is still an in-demand skill for data science.
SQL: It's Probably Older than Most Data Scientists
At the very least, SQL predates the title of data scientist by roughly 40 years when, at the dawn of the 1970's, two Ph.D. students devised SQL based on the relational database model initially conceived by IBM researcher E.F. Cobb (for those of you who are information addicts, Cobb's paper can be found here).
By the close of the decade, Oracle jumped on the bandwagon and created their own SQL which it began to offer to its customer base, and IBM quickly followed suit. After roughly 6 to 7 years of use, two standardization organizations, ANSI and ISO, issued an official "Database Language SQL" definition. If we view the continued use of SQL from the perspective that not all languages survive the test of time (Fortran, BASIC, Cobol, Lisp — while they may not be completely dead, you'll be hard-pressed to find these in data science job descriptions), then SQL is still going strong. Of course, the hurricane of data that was triggered by our infamous internet of things may have been what saved SQL from its death march.
Why SQL Instead of Excel?
On the surface, the SQL vs. Excel question may seem harmless enough. After all, we want clean datasets with the data nestled comfortably in columns and rows (without NULL or missing values, of course). Prettified datasets are easier to understand and analyze. Excel and CSVs are still widely used in data science, but when the data exceeds one million rows and tens of thousands of columns, our nifty Excel workbook begins to malfunction.
The other consideration is that Excel is not a database management system. When you're collecting terabytes, petabytes, and exabytes of gnarly data that may be structured, unstructured or semi-structured, then it needs to be prepared and stored in a database that can handle massive data collections. We do use Excel and CSV files in data science — R and Python both have an export to CSV/Excel function — but these are for generally used for smaller datasets, e.g., a sample population.
How Easy is SQL to Learn?
Most of the verbiage used in SQL should be familiar: SELECT, FROM, WHERE, AND, OR, NOT. Analogous to everyday language of speaking and writing, there are a set of rules — syntax — for how to connect the aforementioned query declarations. Also, the queries can become complex depending on the amount of data you're querying and what you are trying to achieve through the query.
If you have no programming background, it may require more effort to understand when, where, and how to use the statements and operators (e.g., equal to, greater than or equal to, less than, etc.) In comparison to Python or R, SQL can be easier to learn since it's a declarative language where you're telling the system what to do without having to go through the tedium of listing the logical steps towards the end goal.
SQL Learning Resources
We're in an open source world where SQL learning resources can be found through a simple Google search. However, for the more structured learners out there who don't necessarily want to return to a university just to pick up a targeted skill, there are several options:
Coursera is an excellent resource for SQL courses and certifications: Excel to MySQL, Managing Big Data with MySQL, SQL for Data Science, and Introduction to SQL can be audited for free (no certificate), or you can earn a certificate for a nominal fee. If you're curious about NoSQL, Coursera has an introductory course for the non-relational database query language as well.
edX is another solid avenue for increasing your SQL knowledge base. UC Berkeley and Microsoft (among others) have partnered with edX to offer SQL Server Database Administration, Using Non-Relational Data in SQL, and Managing SQL Database Transactions and Concurrency. Granted, many of these are geared towards the data engineering side of SQL, but having a data engineering background as a data scientist is a bonus — the more you know about building data pipelines, constructing and maintaining database infrastructures, and the ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading) process, the more marketable you will be.
DataCamp offers an Introduction to SQL for data science which you can start for free. If you're always on the go, they provide an app that you can download onto your phone for snippets of practice time in between your usual daily activities.
Codecademy provides a limited amount of lessons free of charge, but for more in-depth practice they will prompt you to upgrade to their pro-level
When you need a refresher on SQL, w3schools.com has a selection of mini-tutorials that will take you through the basic and not-so-basic portions of the SQL syntax. It's completely cost-free (except for your self-tutoring time investment).
Becoming a data scientist requires a commitment to learning (and mastering) several skillsets, and as technology swiftly moves forward there will be more to learn. But, once you have the foundational skills (including SQL) you'll be able to quickly scale your expertise in all things data science.
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