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Classifind Cut – 1993 Toyota Celica Convertible – Sold?
Nov 2020 | Classifind Cut, Classifinds, NEW Award, Topless Thursday
January 7th, 2021 Update – We just confirmed the Craigslist ad for this ride expired. With no replacement listing found, we’re assuming this car sold. This one may have got away, but if you have your heart set on something similar, email us the details of what you’re looking for or call Rudy directly at (908)295-7330.
November 23rd, 2020 Update – Apparently, reality quickly set in with this private seller that $12,000 is way too much to ask for their Celica convertible. We predict the price will need to come down another $3,000 before buyers become interested.
By the early 1990s, convertibles had made such a resurgence that even Japanese manufacturers wanted to cash in on the trend. A prime example is this 61K original mile 1993 Toyota Celica GT convertible originally listed in November 2020 on Craigslist in Plainsboro, New Jersey equipped with a rare manual transmission and a very optimistic asking price of $12,000. Comparing this price against the NADA Guides Classic Car Online Valuation Tool confirms this private seller has his Celica priced nearly three times above this guide’s current “High” retail estimate of only$4,675. Consequently, with no other syndicated pricing guide available to justify such a high ask, we’re awarding the seller our latest “NEW!” (short for “No Effin Way!) Award for asking a classic car price on what is still considered a used car. Given the short-term ownership, we smell an egregious flip here, so we would start by confirming what the seller paid for the car and what they have into it.
“The listing is for a 1993 Toyota Celica Convertible with only 61,000 original miles.
I bought this car for my son about a year ago and spent a lot of time and money getting it fixed. It belonged to a person who had parked it and did not used it for a long time. The prior owner bought it and painted it.
I made the following repairs:
a) Changed both axles.
b) Changes all shocks and struts
c) Changed the timing belt/Water pump
d) Changed one of the headlamps
e) Changed the rotors and brake pads
f) Changed the spark plugs, wires and distributor cap
The car needs a new roof motor.
The car runs and drives as it should.. the gears shift smoothly and the engine has a lot of power.
The body has no sign of rust.. pretty amazing for its age.
I used it for a two months to drive to work which put ~4000 miles on it, and then covid hit..
The car has been sitting since…
My son is more interested in newer cars and I do not have room for this beauty.“
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Ed Lincul on November 30, 2020 at 12:44 PM
The owner must be reading this column because it now is listed at $9,000. LOL
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Woman carjacked
A woman told police she was carjacked at a gas station in the 13500 block of Telegraph Road the night of Feb. 7.
The victim said she was parked next to the gas pumps in front of the door of the gas station at about 9:30 p.m. She went inside the station, while her cousin remained in the car.
When she came back out of the station, a man approached her and then got into the driver’s seat of the car. He pulled out a black pistol and told the cousin to get out of the car. The man then drove away in the car.
The man was described as black, about 19-20 years old, with dark acne spots on his face and crooked teeth. He was wearing a black Nike sweatshirt, black Nike sweatpants, blue Nike shoes and a do-rag, according to police reports.
Gun gone after party
A Redford resident’s gun came up missing after he had a “few people” over for a Super Bowl party.
The victim, who lives in the 19400 block of Garfield, told police he showed his guests the firearm, which he had just purchased, at the party.
After showing off the firearm, he said that he left it locked it in its case and left it on the dining room table, police reports said.
When the Super Bowl was over and his guests had left, he noticed the gun and its case were missing, reports said.
Complaint vs. ex-girlfriend
A resident of the 19900 block of Delaware reported that his ex-girlfriend drove past his house twice at around 7 a.m. Feb. 7 even though he has a personal protection order against her.
The victim told police she drove past in her blue Chevrolet Impala and that he would like to sign a complaint.
Man takes off with energy drinks
A man grabbed five cases of Five Hour Energy drinks, stuffed them in his jacket and ran off without paying for them at a Redford business, at 10 a.m. Feb. 7
The manager of the business in the 25700 block of Six Mile told police a man parked in front of the store, came inside, looked around and then grabbed five cases of Five Hour Energy drinks with 12 bottles in each case.
He then stuffed them in his jacket and ran from the store without paying. He got in the vehicle and drove away east on Six Mile.
The store employee ran after the man and wrote down the license plate number before calling police.
The man got away with more than $200 worth of the drinks in berry, grape, lemon and orange flavors.
The culprit was described as black, wearing a black jacket, and in his 40s. He left in a silver vehicle with front-end damage and a black front passenger side rim while the others were chrome. There may have been a woman in the passenger seat, reports said.
Residents locked out
Some residents of an apartment in the 24300 block of Plymouth Road returned to find their possessions gone and the locks changed at about 9 a.m. Feb. 9.
The victims told police they have lived in the apartment since October of last year and were in the process of moving items out of the apartment.
When they returned after moving some items into a storage unit, they found the rest of their things were gone and the locks were changed.
The victims told police the landlord told them they were in violation of policy and that they were not welcome and that their property was in police custody.
Police officers talked to the grounds manager who said the landlord wanted the items removed from the apartment and that the items were in the basement of the main building.
She said she also changed the deadbolt on the door to apartment.
Officers informed the grounds manager that even if the residents are in violation of the apartment policy, they need to be formally evicted. The residents’ personal items were returned and they were let back into the apartment without incident.
The grounds manager said she would inform the landlord to seek an eviction order from the 17th District Court if she wished them to vacate the premises.
– Compiled by Beth Jachman from reports filed with the Redford Police Department
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Air India announced Discount to the Elderly People
60 years or older will get 50% discount in Basic Fair, must book 7 days in advance.
Mrunal Jadhav Send an email 2020-12-17
The loss-making Air India has announced a 50% discount on tickets for senior citizens. People 60 years of age or older will get this discount. The plan was announced by the Ministry of Civil Aviation on Wednesday. The ticket needs to be booked at least 7 days before the day of travel.
This plan is for domestic flights. If the valid ID is not shown while checking in, the basic fare will be forfeited and no refund will be given. Full details of the scheme are given on the Air India website.
The passenger must be an Indian citizen and have completed 60 years of age.
Must have a valid photo ID with date of birth.
For booking the economy cabin, the 50 per cent of the original fare should be paid
This offer will be valid for travel to any regions in India.
This offer is valid for one year from the date ticket is issued.
Earlier, the scheme was made by Air India, but now the government has approved it.
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How to get free school meal vouchers during lockdown in England
Here's how to get free school meal vouchers during lockdown three. Picture: Getty Images
How do I get free school meals for my children during lockdown? Here's what you need to know...
Boris Johnson announced England would be heading into a third lockdown on Monday January, 4.
This means schools across the country have been forced to close, with children once again having to learn from home.
But the Prime Minister has reassured parents that free school meals will continue for those who need them.
He told the nation on Tuesday: "We will provide extra support to ensure that pupils entitled to free school meals will continue to receive them while schools are closed, and we’ll distribute more devices to support remote education."
Boris Johnson has forced schools to close. Picture: PA Images
How do I get free school meals in lockdown?
The Government hasn’t yet finalised how parents and guardians will receive free school meals, but it is expected to work the same way as the lockdown back in March.
Read More: Are post offices open in lockdown 2021?
During the first lockdown, families of children who qualify for free school meals received either supermarket vouchers or food sent to their home.
It was up to the schools to decide which support was offered, with some sending vouchers via email or via post.
The vouchers were issued per child and were worth £15 per week and were eligible to be used in Aldi, Asda, McColl’s, Morrisons, M&S Food, Sainsbury's, Tesco or Waitrose.
Alternatively, some schools chose to send out food directly to children using their cooks or a local meal delivery service.
The costs were covered by the Department for Education (DfE).
How to claim free school meals
This can be different depending on where you live.
It can be done via the child's school or their local authority and if you claim housing benefit or council tax support already, you can apply for free school meals on the same form.
Enter your postcode into the Gov.uk website to see what the process is in your area.
Is my child entitled to free school meals?
Eligibility for free school meals is different across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Children ages of 4 to 16 from households who claim the following support are typically eligible:
Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
The guaranteed element of pension credit
Child tax credit (provided you’re not also entitled to working tax credit and have an annual income of no more than £16,190)
Working tax credit run-on - paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for working tax credit
Universal Credit - if you applied on or after April 1, 2018 your household income is less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits you get)
Separately, in England all pupils in reception and year's one and two, regardless of income, can get free school meals during term time in state schools.
In Scotland, all children in primary, year's one, two and three can get free school meals.
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Archives of Psychiatry and Mental Health
Title Abstract Introduction Method Result Discussion Limitations
Submitted: 29 October 2020 | Approved: 02 December 2020 | Published: 03 December 2020
How to cite this article: Husain W, Mobeen S. The relationship between IT consumption and anxiety in Pakistani youth. Arch Psychiatr Ment Health. 2020; 4: 084-086.
DOI: 10.29328/journal.apmh.1001026
Copyright: © 2020 Husain W, et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The relationship between IT consumption and anxiety in Pakistani youth
Waqar Husain1* and Sehrish Mobeen2
1Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Humanities, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan
2Psychologist, Department of Humanities, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan
*Address for Correspondence: Waqar Husain, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Humanities, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan, Email: drsukoon@gmail.com
The present study was designed to measure the relationship between the consumption of Information Technology (IT) and anxiety among Pakistani youth. The inquiry included 200 conveniently selected Pakistani youth aged 16 to 24 years from 4 cities. The anxiety subscale of Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale was administered along with a demographic information questionnaire. It was hypothesized that higher use of IT would be positively correlated with higher levels of anxiety among Pakistani youth. The results significantly supported the hypothesis, and it was established that the excessive use of IT is positively and significantly correlated with anxiety. The results are consistent with similar studies carried out in countries other than Pakistan.
The debate of the pros and cons of Information Technology (IT) from a psychosocial and cultural perspective has been widely generated. IT, without any doubt, has facilitated humans in their daily lives by making their tasks easier and easier; hence creating a dependency on its frequent use. Apart from the positive contributions of IT for human beings, there are still certain areas which are badly affected by the spread of IT around the globe. Professor Dr. Allama Mohammad Iqbal, the national poet of Pakistan, sensitized his nation on the cultural impact of technological advancements some hundred years ago. Several researchers, during the last two decades, have noticed the negative outcomes of IT. Hacker and Barden [1] blamed IT for causing major social problems. Modern information technology was positively associated with psychological stress and anxiety by Raub [2]. Interacting with technology and being anxious are found correlated with one another [3]. Person spending more time with computers is more prone to develop anxiety symptoms as compared to others e.g., spending less time with technology [4].
Anxiety is considered as an undesired mental state in which one feels unknown danger and worries without logic. The intensity of this danger has full potentials to disturb the daily life patterns of the anxious. Anxiety, being an umbrella term, refers to certain specified symptoms which are labeled individually as generalized anxiety disorder, phobias, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder [5]. Generalized anxiety disorder involves an extravagant fear and its symptoms include restlessness, impatience, disturbed sleep, unpleasant physical symptoms and inability to concentrate. A consistent and vexatious terror or horror from a specific item, action, circumstance or location is named as phobia. Phobias can further be categorized as specific and social phobias. Unforeseen and unexpected rush of devastating anxiety and fright is called a panic situation. This situation may be short lived, stretched out to highest level and may vanish in almost ten minutes [6]. Tenacious thinking, imaginations and urges that devastatingly impact one’s life are defined as obsessions. The compulsions are reoccurring and firm behaviors that are considered important to be performed to vanish anxiousness [7].
“Information technology rage” [8] or “technostress” [8] appears when individual finds himself incapable to deal with modern technology. This puts individual in a state of frustration eventually decreasing the use of technology and enhancing anxiety level while interacting with contemporary technology. Brod [9] calls it as a disease of adaptation when individual feels that he is deficient of skills to adopt computer technology. “Diconnectivity anxiety” is another type of anxiety related to modern information technology in which individuals can totally quit the use of modern technology e.g. computers because of stress and anxiety [10]. Low motivation, absenteeism, group conflicts and eventually low output are the results created by technology anxious individuals at work place [11,12].
The relationship between the excessive uses of information technology with anxiety related problems is not much studied in Pakistan. The current study, therefore, was designed to explore the relationship between the consumption of IT and the levels of anxiety among Pakistani youth. It was hypothesized that higher use of IT would be positively correlated with higher levels of anxiety among Pakistani youth.
The consumption of Information technology in the current study was operationally defined as the total minutes spent per day for using internet and making phone calls or text messages.
The sample of the study comprised of 200 conveniently selected participants with age range of 16 to 24 years from 4 cities of Pakistan i.e. Islamabad, Peshawar, Jhelum and Rawalpindi.
Demographic information questionnaire: The demographic information questionnaire included age and information on the frequencies of daily usage of information technology by the respondents.
Depression, anxiety and stress scale [13,14]: The sub scale of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) for measuring anxiety comprising of 14 items was administered. It is a self-report inventory and measures major characteristics of anxiety i.e. autonomic arousal, skeletal muscle effects, situational anxiety, and subjective experience of anxious affect. Respondents are asked to use 4-point severity/frequency scales to rate the extent to which they have experienced each state over the past week. Gamma coefficients that represent the weight of the scale on the overall factor (total score) is .86. Reliability of the scale is considered appropriate and test-retest reliability is similarly considered adequate with .79 Brown, et al., 1997. The DASS anxiety scale correlates .81 with the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI).
The participants of the study were contacted by the researchers by visiting different academic institutions of the conveniently selected cities of Pakistan. The issues of confidentiality and compliance to the ethical standards were given proper consideration. The data obtained was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).
The table 1 indicates that the Anxiety sub-scale of DASS was found excellently reliable in the current study i.e. (.97).
The table 2 reveals a highly significant positive correlation between IT consumption and anxiety.
Table 1: Chronbach’s Alpha reliability for Anxiety sub-scale of DASS (N =200).
Scale No of Items Reliability
Anxiety sub-scale of DASS 14 .97
p < .001.
Table 2: Pearson Product Correlation coefficient for IT consumption and Anxiety (n=200)
IT consumption .592***
***p < .001
The current study was aimed at analyzing the relationship between IT consumption and anxiety among Pakistani youth. It was hypothesized that higher IT consumption would be positively correlated with higher levels of anxiety. The results confirmed the hypothesis on a highly significant degree and are in aligned with earlier studies of similar nature.
The intensive use of computers is heavily associated with several psychological problems [15-17]. Internet, being a significant part of information technology, is frequently used by youth for several purposes e.g. chatting, social networking, viewing movies and pornographic content, etc. The available literature reveals a strong and positive association between internet use and anxiety disorders [18]. Excessive use of internet may also lead to several social fears [19]. Youth that use internet excessively may also spoil academic performance [20] which may cause anxiety related symptoms. Social networking is another purpose for which youth is heavily inclined towards IT. The websites associated with social networking offer their users to modify and manage their image to the society. Rejection or being removed from a friend’s list (cyberostracism) and other unpleasant incidents on social networks may lead to psychological problems including anxiety.
The findings of the current study would alarm Pakistani youth to remain careful and purposeful in using information technology as the improper and excessive use of computers, internet, mobile and smart phones may lead them to several psychological problems including anxiety disorders.
The current study did not involve other relevant psychological conditions with relation to the consumption of information technology. Future researchers can see the relationship between the consumption of information technology with fear of missing out and may associate their findings with certain other demographic factors such as gender, age, and marital status.
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Home » Graduate Studies » Alumni » Alumni Services
Alumni Research Grant
The Institute of Ismaili Studies has an established Alumni Research Grant. The purpose of this grant is to support alumni who wish to pursue further research, present research papers at academic conferences (not including papers that are based on research undertaken during their studies at the IIS), publish articles, or undertake field studies in areas of relevance to the IIS.
More information on the grant cant be found in the document below:
iis_alumni_research_grant_-_terms_of_reference_2020.pdf
To apply for the Alumni Research Grant and secure support for presenting papers, publishing your work, or undertaking further research following their studies at the IIS, please apply here:
https://portal.iis.ac.uk/limesurvey/index.php/174542?lang=en
Since its creation, grants have been awarded to the following members of the alumni body:
Nosheen Sadruddin, Class of 2016
Presented a paper entitled "Co-teaching with Audio-Visual Resources (AVRs): How do AVRs Impact Students' Historical Thinking Skills (HTS) in Karachi, Pakistan" at the International Conference for Academic Disciplines, Harvard Medical School, Boston 2018.
Nisha Khorasi, Class of 2016
Presented a paper entitled "Impact of Using Creative Arts Strategies on Students’ Perceptions of Learning Literature " at the International Conference for Academic Disciplines, Harvard Medical School, Boston 2018.
Shehzeen Alamir, Class of 2016
Presented a paper entitled "Exploring how STEP Teachers Promote Critical Thinking: A Study in a Karachi RE Classroom" at the International Conference for Academic Disciplines, Harvard Medical School,Boston 2018.
Aslisho Qurboniev, Class of 2014
To attend a Manuscript Studies Workshop at the IIS entitled "The Written Word".
Mir Baiz Khan, Class of 1983
Seema Lalani, Class of 2010
Presented a paper entitled “Investigating Children’s Spiritual Development by Using Narratives in Religious Education Classrooms” at the Fifth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, Berkeley, USA.
Shelina Adatia, Class of 2014
Presented a paper entitled “Toques and Tea, or Chappals and Chai: Muslims, Media, Masti, and Meaning”, at the 2015 conference of the British Research Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS), London.
Tanya Panjwani, Class of 2012
Conducted the second phase of her field work which was centred on Sufi poetry in Pakistan, particularly Sindh and Punjab.
Zohra Surani, Class of 2014
Presented a paper entitled “Facilitating Reflexivity: A Study Promoting the Use of Discussion and Debate in the context of Mumbai” in the Annual Conference of International Journal of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School, USA.
Dagikhudo Dagiev, Class of 2003
Conducted field research in Tajikistan to collect materials relating to Ismaili Studies for the Bibliographical Studies of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet scholars
Azmeena A Goawala, Class of 2010
Presented a paper entitled “Understanding the ways and the impact of students making personal connection with the content of the curriculum in Pakistani Religious Education context” at the International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS) Conference for Academic Disciplines, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Abdulmamad Iloliev, Class of 2002
Presented a paper entitled “Migration and Racism: A Case Study of Tajik Labour Migrants in Russia” at a Joint Regional Conference of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies and the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Astana, Kazakhstan
Munir Jaria, Class of 2012
Presented a paper entitled “International Islam On The Crossroads Of Religio-Cultural Appropriation: Case Of Nairuzi (Mwaka Koga) And Pomeri Chid (Pamiri House)” at the International Journal of Arts and Science Conference, Ryerson University's International Learning Center, Toronto, Canada
Shahida Khan, Class of 2010
Presented a paper entitled “An Investigation of the Impact of Active Learning Approach within an Ismaili Religious Education Class in Karachi, Pakistan” at the International Journal of Arts and Sciences Conference for Academic Disciplines, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Parvez Kotadia, Class of 2012
Presented a paper entitled “Use of Problem-Based Learning Approach to teach Islamic Ethics: An Action Research in the Indian context” at the International Academic Forum, International Conference on Social Sciences, Brighton, UK
Nacim Pak-Shiraz, Class of 2002
Presented a paper entitled “Constructions of Masculinity in Iranian Cinema” at the Tenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference, International Society for Iranian Studies, Montreal, Canada
Muzaffar Zoolshoev, Class of 2004
Conducted research to identify archives and material relating to the Panjebhais in the state library and regional archives in Tajikistan
Karim Javan, Class of 2004
Conducted research to identify Ismaili texts and manuscripts in library collections in Iran
Anisha Lakhani, Class of 2011
Presented a paper entitled “Kohlberg in Mumbai: A Study of Cultural Implications of the Moral Reasoning of Indian Secondary Religious Education Students” at the Joint National Conference, Centre for Islamic Studies, Baton Rouge, USA
Sultonbek Aksakolov, Class of 2002
Conducted field research on the Soviet state policy towards Islam (Ismailis) 1941-1991 in archives and libraries in Russia and Tajikistan
Karim Mitha, Class of 2011
Presented a paper entitled “A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Name: The Role of the Faith-Based Community in Developing Mental Health Resiliencies amongst Diasporic and Post-Diasporic Muslim Youth in Australia” at the Health and Mental Resilience Conference, Krakow, Poland
Presented a paper entitled “The View ‘Down Under’: Australian Ismaili Muslim Youth and the Quest for Identity” at the International Conference ‘Interculturalism, Meaning and Identity’, Lisbon, Portugal.
Shezeleen Kanji, Class of 2011
Presented a paper entitled “Addressing Challenges of Globalisation Faced by Ismaili Muslim Students of Gujarati Ancestry in Toronto, Canada” at the Gujarat Studies Association 4th Biennial Conference, Dubai, UAE
Dr Khurshid Sana Khan, Class of 2002
Presented a paper entitled “Community Connectedness and School Choice of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Ismailis in Karachi: A Story of Success or Encapsulation?” at the European Society for Central Asian Studies Conference, University of Cambridge, UK
Presented a paper entitled “Social Capital and Community in the Lives and Education of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Ismailis in Karachi” at the 4th International Social Science Research Society Conference, Izmir, Turkey
Sharaf Oshurbekov, Class of 2005
Conducted doctoral research on Ismaili Muslim Shrines in Tajikistan
Sehreen Noor Ali, Class of 2006
Participation in the Concordia Forum in Spain
Dr Zuhal Avzalshoeva, Class of 2005
Participation in the International Summer School at Osnabruck University, Germany
Aziz Ali Dad, Class of 2003
Conducted research on material culture across Gilgit-Baltistan focussing on music, Pakistan
Nazmin Halani, Class of 1998
Conducted doctoral research in ethnographic field work to investigate the religious nurture of Muslim children growing up within mixed faith families in the UK
Dr Anil Khamis, Class of 1992
Participation in Action Research study on quality of education in Puntland, Somalia
Dr Miriam Ali-de-Unzaga, Class of 2000
Presented a paper entitled “Travelling Motifs and Motifs of Travel: Andalusi and Fatimid Textiles (Two Case Studies)” at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK
Presented a paper entitled “Bridging the Gap between Muslims, Christians and Jews: Andalusi Textiles” at the Third World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, Barcelona, Spain
Dr Amal Sachedina, Class of 2000
Conducted doctoral research at the British Library (India Office Records) and the National Archives in London
Dr Karim Gillani, Class of 2003
Presented a paper entitled “New Sufi Trends in the Popular Music of India and Pakistan” at the 54th Annual Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology, New Mexico
Dr Otambek Mastibekov, Class of 2002
Presented a paper entitled “The Leadership and authority of Ismailis: A case study of the Badakhshani Ismaili community in Tajikistan” at the Central Asia and Caucasus Studies Conference, University of St Andrews, Scotland
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Plateletpheresis adverse events in relation to donor and plateletpheresis session profile
Rajni Bassi, Kusum K Thakur, Kanchan Bhardwaj
Department of Transfusion Medicine, Government Medical College, Patiala, Punjab, India
Date of Submission 09-May-2017
Date of Web Publication 9-Oct-2017
Rajni Bassi
12-A, Ranbir Marg, Model Town, Patiala - 147 001, Punjab
DOI: 10.4103/ijh.ijh_14_17
Introduction: Increasing demand of platelet transfusions for patients has led to a trend in the increased use of automated blood collections. These share many of the same reactions and injuries seen with pooled platelets obtained from whole blood donation but also have unique complications.
Aims And Objectives: To study the adverse events (AEs) of plateletpheresis procedure and their relationship with donor and plateletpheresis procedure session profiles.
Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective observational study conducted from January 2016 to December 2016. A two-hundred and thirteen (213) plateletpheresis procedures were performed after taking informed and written consent from the donor. All the donors were male and selected according to the guidelines laid down by Director General of Health Services. The AEs were classified into donor related, kit/equipment related and technique related.
Results: A total of 13 AEs were noted; of which, 8 (61.53 %) events were associated with donors, 3 (23.07 %) were owed to fault in kit/equipment and 2 (15.384 %) were due to technical aberrations. Donor related AEs included vascular injuries [n = 3 (1.40%)], vasovagal reactions [n = 2 (0.938%)] and perioral tingling sensation [n = 3 (1.40%)]. Technique related AEs [n = 2 (0.938%)] and kit/equipment related AEs [n = 3 (1.40%)] were due to faulty technique and defective kits respectively.
Conclusion: Apheresis donations performed on cell separators are safe. Meticulous donor vigilance, superior technical personnel training and experienced transfusion medicine specialist's supervision will make donor's experience more pleasant.
Keywords: Citrate reactions, donor adverse events, donor profile, plateletpheresis donation, vascular injuries, vasovagal reaction
Bassi R, Thakur KK, Bhardwaj K. Plateletpheresis adverse events in relation to donor and plateletpheresis session profile. Iraqi J Hematol 2017;6:38-42
Bassi R, Thakur KK, Bhardwaj K. Plateletpheresis adverse events in relation to donor and plateletpheresis session profile. Iraqi J Hematol [serial online] 2017 [cited 2021 Jan 18];6:38-42. Available from: https://www.ijhonline.org/text.asp?2017/6/2/38/216218
Over decades, increased demand of platelet transfusions for patients with various medical and surgical conditions led to accelerated use of technologically advanced “apheresis” for platelet concentrates.[1] This has led to a trend in the increased use of single donor platelets obtained by automated blood collections. These collection methods not only share many of the same reactions and injuries seen with pooled platelets obtained from whole blood donation, but also have unique complications due to the collection method and the frequency at which donation can occur.[2]
Apheresis procedures are usually well tolerated, but adverse events (AEs) occur in a few cases. They may occur during or after the procedure. The overall rate of AEs with apheresis donation is approximately ten times less than that seen with pooled platelets obtained from whole blood donation, with mild events outnumbering the more severe ones, although the frequency of events requiring hospitalization may be higher in apheresis than with whole blood donation.[3] Hospitalization is still extremely rare; it occurred in only 0.01% of donations.[4] AEs associated with apheresis donation can be due to delivery of the anticoagulant, vasovagal, allergy, venous access, or machine malfunction. These can be of variable severity.
Aims and objective
To study the AEs of plateletpheresis procedure and their relationship with donor and plateletpheresis procedure session profiles.
This is a retrospective observational study which was conducted from January 2016 to December 2016 in the Department of Transfusion Medicine, Government Medical College, Patiala, Punjab, India. A total of 213 plateletpheresis procedures were performed on Trima Accel ® after obtaining informed written consent from the donors. All the donors were selected according to the guidelines laid down by the Director General of Health Services.[5] All the donors were of the age between 18 and 60 years, weighing >60 kg and were medically fit. Complete hemogram and ABO and Rh grouping of donors were done. All the donors had hemoglobin level ≥12.5 g/dl and platelet count ≥150 × 109/L. Tests mandatory for transfusion-transmitted infections (HIV-1 and 2, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, syphilis, and malaria as per guidelines laid down by the Director General of Health Services of India [5]) of donors were done prior to procedure and nonreactive donors were selected for the procedure. History of nonconsumption of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the past 72 h was taken. The AEs were classified into donor related, kit/equipment related, and technique related.
Donor-related adverse events
They were divided into local reactions and systemic reactions. AEs were classified according to severity into mild, moderate, and severe and according to etiology in a donor into hypotensive reactions, citrate reactions, hematomas, loss of consciousness, seizures, and allergy.
Hypotensive reaction
Hypotension during apheresis donation can result from a number of causes, including intravascular volume depletion, vasovagal reactions, citrate toxicity, and severe allergic reactions. Of these, the most common are vasovagal reactions and citrate toxicity. Symptoms and signs of a vasovagal reaction include lightheadedness, hot flushes, pallor, diaphoresis, nausea, vomiting, decreased heart rate, and decreased blood pressure. Preventive steps include helping the donor feel comfortable and confident throughout the procedure. This is especially important for first-time apheresis donors, as they are more likely to be anxious about the procedure.[6] Treatment of vasovagal reactions includes pausing the procedure, lowering the head and raising the feet of the donor (Trendelenburg position), applying cold compresses to the forehead and neck, and reassuring the donor. If moderate or severe symptoms are present, the apheresis procedure should be discontinued.
Citrate reactions
Citrate reactions are the most common adverse effects seen with apheresis procedures. They result from ionized hypocalcemia caused by the infusion of citrate anticoagulant during the procedure. The lowered ionized calcium levels allow spontaneous depolarization of neurons and resulting symptoms include numbness and/or tingling in the lips and nose and sneezing. Moderate symptoms include nausea and/or vomiting; progression of paresthesia to the hands, feet, and/or chest; intense vibrating sensation throughout the body; chills; abdominal cramping; and lightheadedness or hypotension. Severe symptoms include painful muscle cramps, tetany, blurred or double vision, loss of consciousness, cardiac arrhythmia, and seizure.[3],[7] These symptoms are usually progressive in adult donors, so moderate and severe symptoms can usually be avoided through close monitoring and treatment of earlier symptoms.[3],[7] Interventions for mild symptoms include reducing the return rate of the instrument or pausing the procedure to allow the donor to metabolize some citrate and release bound calcium. Additional treatments include administration of oral calcium carbonate or, in severe cases, an intravenous calcium solution.[3],[7]
Hematoma formation
Complications of venous access can occur at any time during an apheresis donation. Hematoma formation and thrombosis are among possible acute complications. Symptoms include pain and/or pressure and bruising and/or swelling at the needle site. If venous access fails during the procedure, the procedure may not be completed and the resulting physical discomfort may influence the donor's decision about donating in the future.[6] Treatment includes discontinuing the collection, removing the needles, and applying pressure to the site. Since a major risk factor for these reactions is inexperienced phlebotomy staff, prevention strategies include maintaining apheresis personnel competency. Preventive strategies for donors include encouraging donors to be well hydrated before the donation and instructing them to keep the needle sites secure and stable during the donation.[6]
Loss of consciousness and seizures
Loss of consciousness is uncommon and usually occurs as a result of a vasovagal reaction or severe citrate toxicity. It may be accompanied by tonic-clonic seizures; however, this does not represent true seizure activity.
Allergic reactions occur due to reaction to ethylene oxide used to sterilize the disposable set. They occur predominantly in donors who have donated several times. There is intense itching, widespread urticaria, hives or welts, rhinitis, wheezing, tongue or facial edema, shortness of breath, hypotension, diarrhea, laryngeal edema, and cardiopulmonary arrest. This is treated by prescribing antihistaminic and hydrocortisone/epinephrine.
Kit/equipment-related adverse events
These are secondary to improper disposable sets. These are hemolysis, thrombus formation, air embolism, leakage, infection, etc.[7]
Technique-related adverse events
These are due to improper mounting of the set.
All the 213 donors were male, out of which 136 (63.84%) were voluntary and 77 (36.15%) were replacement donors. Maximum donors (68.07%) were in the age group between 21 and 30 years, minimum age being 19 years and maximum being 60 years. The weight of donors ranged from 60 kg to 115 kg, maximum donors (47.88%) were in the 61–70 kg category; the mean donor height was 170 cm. The prevalent blood type was O positive, which accounted for 35.6% of the donations. The predonation mean hemoglobin and hematocrit values were 13.76 g/dl and 41.2%, respectively. The mean preprocedural platelet count was 281 × 109/L. In maximum donors (31.92%), preprocedural platelet count was between 201 and 250 × 109/L, preprocedural platelet count of donors ranged from 170 to 450 × 109/L.
Plateletpheresis session profile
In maximum donations 114 (53.52%) platelet yield was 3 × 1011. In 32 (15.02%) donations platelet yield was 6 × 1011. The mean amount of platelet yield estimated for collection was 3.83 × 1011. With mean platelet yield of 3.83 × 1011, mean post procedural platelet count reduction in the donor was 71.09 × 109/L. The mean volume of blood processed by the equipment was 2362 ml and the mean volume of the product obtained was 310 ml. The mean amount of Acid Citrate Dextrose (ACD) used during the procedures was 258 ml. The mean duration of a plateletpheresis session was 51.04 minutes.
With platelet yield of 6 × 1011, the mean volume of blood processed by the equipment was 2792 ml, the mean volume of the product obtained was 428 ml and the mean amount of ACD used during the procedures was 310 ml. Donor who had maximum platelet count (450 × 109/L) with platelet yield of 6 × 1011, the volume of blood processed, ACD used during the procedures and duration of the run was less as compared to donor who had minimum platelet count (260 x109/L) with 6 × 1011 platelet yield [Table 1].
Table 1: Donor parameters of plateletpheresis session with a platelet yield of 6×1011
A total of 13 AEs were noted; of which 8 (61.53%) events were associated with donors, 3 (23.07%) owed to fault in kit/equipment, and 2 (15.384%) were due to technical aberrations. However, all the AEs associated with donors were mild and none of the donor was hospitalized in the study [Table 2].
Table 2: Adverse events occurring during plateletpheresis
Vascular injuries were seen in three donors. Bruising was seen in only one donor while hematoma formation was seen in two cases who were first-time donors
Vasovagal reaction was seen in two donors out of whom one donor was a teenager. Second donor was replacement donor and was reluctant in donating
Citrate toxicity manifested as perioral tingling sensation was seen in three donors. In these donors, platelet yield was 6 × 1011, ACD infusion was more. Oral mouth dissolving calcium tablets had been given to all the cases in routine to prevent hypocalcemia.
Technique-related AEs included 2 (0.938%) events; due to low inlet pressure, donor line clamp was not opened on time.
Kit/equipment-related AEs included three defective kits (1.40%).
The potential donor should meet several requirements to be accepted as a suitable candidate for blood component donation.[8] Criteria such as hematocrit or hemoglobin levels, age, weight, and minimum platelet count are important for the safety of the donor.[9] In this study, all the donors were male. Females did not fulfill the criteria for selection of apheresis donors. Most of the females were anemic, underweight, or had poor veins. Alloimmunization due to repeated pregnancies also make the females unfit for donation.[10] Several studies show a common profile for donation, in which there are larger number of male donors.[11],[12],[13],[14],[15] Some studies also show that men have lower rates of AEs compared to women in plateletpheresis donation. Another study also pointed out that only women were associated with complications related to the venipuncture.[16] Weight or body mass is indicated as criterion to maximize plateletpheresis donation because higher platelet yields can be obtained from larger donors with higher blood volume.[11]
In the present study, technique and equipment-related complications were more as compared to study conducted by Dogra et al.[1] [Table 3]. Technique related complications can be reduced by superior training of technical personnel and strict follow-up of standard operating procedure. Kit/equipment-related complications were due to lot of defective kits. The whole lot of defective kits was replaced by the manufacturer.
Table 3: Comparison of adverse events in plateletpheresis procedure with other studies
The percentage of AEs among healthy donors undergoing plateletpheresis procedures in the present study was 3.7% which was lower as compared to the study by Dogra et al.[1] and Khajuria et al.[17] and higher than the studies conducted by Philip et al.[2] and McLeod et al.[18] [Table 4]. This low incidence is consistent with the literature, which indicates that the plateletpheresis procedure was well tolerated by donors.[11]
Table 4: Comparison of donor-related adverse events in plateletpheresis in various studies
Vascular injuries
In this study, the frequency of vascular injuries in plateletpheresis was 1.30% which is similar to that reported in literature. [1,[2],[17],18] These are usually due to faulty phlebotomy technique by inexperienced technical staff, the number of prior apheresis donations, and the anatomy at the venipuncture. Unlike citrate reactions, which are more likely to occur in repeat donors, the probability of bruising reduces with the number of donations.[18],[19]
Citrate-related adverse events
In this study, the frequency of citrate reactions was 1.4% which is almost equal in comparison to the study done by McLeod et al.[18] and Philip et al.[2] In the study conducted by Dogra et al.[1] and Khajuria et al.,[17] citrate reactions were slightly more, i.e. 2.7% and 3.03%, respectively. In the present study, the mean volume of blood processed, the mean amount of ACD used, and the duration of run were more in donors with low platelet count as compared to donors with high platelet count with same platelet yield. This is due to the fact that machine has to process more blood volume with more infusion of ACD to donor to achieve the same platelet yield in donors with low platelet count, thus more AEs. These findings are consistent with the study of Mercan et al. who showed that donors who undergo the procedure repeatedly or for prolonged periods are susceptible to an accumulation of citrate as levels exceed the amount that can be metabolized by the body.[19] Another study revealed that AEs occurred in apheresis procedures which took more time (mean: 77.1 min) and had a higher infusion of ACD (mean: 301.5 ml) compared to those without AEs.[13]
Citrate can chelate magnesium as well as calcium. Divalent cations (iCa[+], TCa[+], TMg[+]) showed a statistically significant decline after donation (P< 0.0001).[20] However, magnesium supplementation has not been shown to decrease mild citrate-related symptoms. Hence, prophylactic magnesium supplementation is not recommended for plateletpheresis donation. While we did not determine preprocedural ionized calcium level in the present study, Bolan et al.[21] found an average fall in ionized calcium of 33% from baseline which produces the signs and symptoms of citrate toxicity. In our study, we prescribed mouth-dissolving oral calcium tablets to all the donors during the procedure. In the study conducted by Philip et al.,[2] calcium supplementation was given in the form of 1 g capsules of calcium carbonate orally. The results of administration of oral calcium carbonate and its effects on citrate toxicity by Bolan et al.[21] reported that the administration of 2 g of calcium carbonate was associated with a statistically significant reduction in the severity of paresthesia.[21],[22] The treatment of citrate reactions includes slowing the re-infusion rate, increasing donor blood-to-citrate ratio, oral calcium supplementation, and if required, giving intravenous calcium.[4],[23],[24],[25]
Vasovagal reactions
Vasovagal reactions may be attributed to apprehension due to mechanical and psychological factors. In our study, vasovagal reactions were almost similar to that of the study done by Dogra et al.[1] while it was lower in the study conducted by McLeod et al.[18] and Philip et al.[2] and higher in the study done by Khajuria et al.[17] In a study done by Tomita et al.[14] examined that the incidence of vasovagal reactions among male apheresis donors and whole blood donors were 0.83% and 0.99% respectively. They also found that the incidence of vasovagal reactions increased with age among apheresis donors, unlike what has been reported with whole blood donors.
The AEs of plateletpheresis donation are relatively mild and easily treated. Meticulous donor vigilance, superior technical personnel training, and experienced transfusion medicine specialist's supervision will make donors' experience more pleasant, thereby promoting and preparing a voluntary apheresis donor pool in India.
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Studying abroad is an enriching experience in one's life. The experience of studying abroad stands top recommended for anyone who wishes to explore the globe and the various nuances each place carries. From making friends in a new country to enjoying local festivals and cuisines, there's a lot one can do by studying abroad.
Choosing a country to study abroad can be an uphill task though the fact that so many countries having varied things to offer makes it all worth it. To make it simpler for you, we have collated a list that features the top 10 countries to study abroad in 2020.
Based on various international student experiences, points below highlight the top 5 features of studying abroad –
High-Quality Education
Global Networking / Exposure
Opportunity to Explore
Before going forth, let us look at some of the benefits of studying abroad. Check out this list of statistics that are gathered from real-life study abroad experiences -
95% of the students who were surveyed admitted that studying abroad helped them to mature personally
96% reported increased self-confidence and
95% said it had a lasting impact on their worldview
94% stated that their study abroad experience continues to influence interactions with people from different cultures
82% said that it helped them develop a more sophisticated way of looking at the world
98% of the students stated that study abroad helped them better understand their own cultural values
Source – IES (International Education of students)
Want to know which countries qualify as top 10 amazing places to study in 2020? Check out the list below:
South Korea is highly ranked on the list of top preferred countries to study abroad. South Korea is officially known as the Republic of Korea. It is located in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. South Korea’s capital offers a number of activities to foreign students and locals alike.
1 Won= 0.061 INR
Top five universities of South Korea to study in 2020 –
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
Located between Europe and Asia, Turkey is the perfect destination for students looking for adventure besides studying. Currently, there are nearly 150 colleges and universities in Turkey where over 30,000 foreign students are seeking their higher education. The popular fields of study include Business and Management, Humanities, and Marketing.
1 Lira= 12.61 INR
Top five universities of Turkey to study in 2020 –
Bogaziçi Üniversitesi
The United Arab Emirates is part of the best study abroad destination for Indian students because it is a perfect place to get hands-on experience in the Middle East. UAE is located near the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) shares borders with Qatar, Oman, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
1 Dirham= 19.57 INR
Top five universities of UAE to study in 2020 –
Khalifa University of Science and Technology
It comes as no surprise that China is considered among the list of best place to study abroad for Indian students. The country is rapidly growing as a top study abroad destination for medical students as well as for other popular courses due to the quality of education and affordability.
1 Yuan = 10.21 INR
Top five universities of China to study in 2020 –
Thailand is the 20th most populous country, with approximately 69 million people. Thailand has a number of good universities that offer quality education and the job prospects are also bright especially for commerce and management streams.
1 Baht = 2.38 INR
Top five universities of Thailand to study in 2020 –
Italy is known for its rich art and culture and serves as the perfect study abroad destination for students across the globe. It is the ultimate place for art lovers. The capital of Italy is Rome which is a popular tourist destination too.
1 Euro = 79.54 INR
Top five universities of Italy to study in 2020 –
Sant’Anna – Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pisa
Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologona
The United Kingdom is considered as the best country to study abroad for Indian students 2020. The UK is also known to be the Education Hub of the world. You can acquire heights in your career with ingress to first-rated knowledge from recognized universities and courses that are followed globally. Choosing the UK will also help you build and develop your overall skills. There are several top-ranked universities and institutions that you can enroll into.
Also read – How to apply to study in a university in The United Kingdom
1 Pound = 92.75 INR
Top five universities of the United Kingdom to study in 2020 –
Germany has gradually acquired the position among the best three countries to study abroad. More and more Indian students prefer to study in Germany especially because of reasons such as affordability, opportunities, and exposure. It is especially suited for individuals looking to pursue higher education Engineering or Management courses.
Top five countries of Germany to study in 2020 –
Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Undoubtedly Australia makes it to the list of top 10 perfect places to study abroad. The education system and the job opportunities are especially abundant in Australia. The grading system in Australia is also quite unique – For example, scoring a D grade in Australia is considered to be very good. Canberra is the capital city of Australia.
1 Dollar = 48.96 INR
Top five universities of Australia to study in 2020 –
The Australian National University
The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
Japan is ranked among the best education destinations for Indian students because of several reasons. The country is filled with new courses and the rich culture is also something that is worth experiencing. The country’s capital and largest city – Tokyo, is a major hub of technology, finance, and global innovation.
1 Yen = 0.66 INR
Top five universities of Japan to study in 2020 –
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)
Top university listing sources – www.topuniversities.com
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About Aparna
Aparna Iyer is a Mass Media and Communications graduate who enjoys composing content of various sorts. When she is not writing, you can find her spending time with animals or playing a sport or watching a movie/series. She is also very keen on researching historic subjects and hopes to explore unseen parts of the world gradually.
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Heartbroken wife describes horrific moment husband eaten by shark in front of her
Dr Thomas Smiley, from California, was on holiday with his wife in Maui when the shark attacked him 60 yards from the shore
Tanveer MannDeputy News Editor
Dr Thomas Smiley died after he was attacked by a shark in Hawaii (Image: CBS Los Angeles/MAUI 24/7)
The heartbroken wife of an optometrist who died after he was attacked by a shark in Hawaii watched helplessly as he was eaten in front of her.
Dr Thomas Smiley as on holiday with his wife Gale at their summer home in Maui and had been swimming about 60 yards from the shore when he got into difficulty in the water.
Gale says she had spotted someone struggling in the water but did not initially realise it was him.
It was only when she saw a police rescue unit run past her that she realised it was her husband because of his bathing suit.
Dr Thomas Smiley, from Granite Bay, was on holiday with his wife Gale at their summer home in Maui when the attack happened (Image: CBS Los Angeles/MAUI 24/7)
Thomas, from Granite Bay, California, was brought out of the water on a jet ski and given CPR but could not be revived. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Gale, who had been been married to Thomas for 42 years and had three kids with him, told ABC News: "I looked out and I thought, well, he was an amazing swimmer, he was a swimmer in school, snorkeler, water skier.
"I thought, that can't be him. So I watched for awhile, and the police rescue unit wave runner started over in our area."
When she realised it was her husband she said she screamed out.
"I must have probably hollered down in horror and got down there and they had him in the ambulance...I saw his face...I was pretty much in shock," Gale said.
Dr Smiley was unresponsive when he made it onto the beach (Image: CBS Los Angeles/MAUI 24/7)
British personal trainer Dannie Lea, 29, found beaten to death in the Bahamas
Reports say warning signs had been set up along the beach but Gale believes there were none where Thomas was attacked.
She said: "They should've had that warning. It's an unfortunate thing. I come from a family of first responders. He should have been made aware when there was a problem."
But Gale insists she does not want to blame anyone.
A witness told Hawaii News Now Thomas suffered horrific injuries during the attack.
The shark bit off part of the retired optometrist's leg (Image: CBS Los Angeles/MAUI 24/7)
Allison Keller said: "I saw blood on his stomach and then I got looking a little bit more and his wrist, it looked like the skin on his wrist was just torn off."
The couple were high school sweethearts and had both grown up in Southern California.
The last fatal shark attack in Hawaii was in 2015, when a snorkeler off Maui was killed.
Other shark incidents this year include a tiger shark in Hanalei Bay injuring a surfer's left leg and a cookiecutter shark in the Kaiwi Channel biting a swimmer's back.
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ISSCR Comments on NIH Draft Guidelines for Embryonic Stem Cell Funding
In the interest of improving world health we urge the NIH to open discussions on funding research carried out with human pluripotent stem cell lines derived from sources other than excess reproductive IVF embryos, including SCNT embryos, if they become available and are derived under rigorous ethical standards.
Stem Cell Society Leaders Receive Nation's Top Science Awards
The ISSCR congratulates two board members who were named recipients of two of the nation’s top science awards, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD (Kyoto University), and Elaine Fuchs, PhD (Rockefeller University).
Tumors After Attempted Stem Cell Therapy Highlight Importance of Rigorous Standards Before Clinical Treatment
The ISSCR is concerned and saddened by the recent report of nervous system tumors that developed in a child who had previously received injections of cell preparations referred to as “neural stem cells.” This illustrates the concerns that prompted the ISSCR to develop Guidelines for the Clinical Translation of Stem Cells, released in December 2008.
Scientists See Progress in FDA Stem Cell Trial Approval
The ISSCR shares in the excitement generated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration‘s landmark decision to approve the first clinical trials using the products of human embryonic stem cells, yet advises the public to maintain realistic expectations at this early stage.
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AIMER COLLABORATES WITH TAKA FROM ONE OK ROCK, TK FROM SIGURE LING TOSITE AND YOJIRO FROM RADWIMPS
by Melissa 5 years ago 5 years ago
RADWIMPS’ Noda Yojiro & ONE OK ROCK’s Taka sing to support disaster stricken areas
J-POP, J-Rock, Music, News
RADWIMPS drummer Yamaguchi Satoshi to indefinitely halt activities
RADWIMPS drummer Yamaguchi Satoshi has announced that he will indefinitely halt his band activities. According to the band’s official website, Yamaguchi developed a neurological condition...
RADWIMPS announce overseas tour & appearance in ‘SUMMER SONIC 2015’
RADWIMPS have announced that they will hold an overseas tour titled “RADWIMPS 2015 Asia-Europe Live Tour” in October. The tour, which will kick off on...
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KZA – 3 EPs review
Artist: KZA
Title: K EP, Z, EP, A EP
Label: Endless Flight
Over the past few years, Tokyo label Endless Flight (a sub-label of Mule Musiq) has released a plethora of music from artists such as Tensnake, Optimo and Betty Botox (aka JD Twitch of Optimo). This time, the label unleashes three singles from KZA, half of Japanese duo, Force of Nature.
A renowned DJ around the clubs and bars of Tokyo, KZA is lauded for having one of the largest vinyl collections in the country, one which spans spans the last fifty years. It is from this diverse and eclectic record collection that he sources the string of obscure rock, jazz and disco samples which make up these tracks, all originally released several months ago on KZA’s debut solo full-length album, Dig & Edit.
With this in mind, it is unsurprising to learn that Force of Nature’s earlier incarnation as Yotsukaido Nature delved firmly into hip hop territory. KZA retained this heavily sample-based style of production with his foray into the world of dreamy, cosmic disco. Supported by Kuniyuki Takahashi (aka Koss) on keyboards and synthesizer, KZA’s sample-heavy aesthetic gets your imagination running wild, with snippets here and there grabbing your attention because they sound unrecognizably familiar, or because they are just downright interesting.
“Aneugalam” is a slow grooving number featuring horns that conjure up scenes of bullfighting and a slowed down bassline taken from Chic’s 1978 classic, “I Want Your Love.” “Gothenergy” conjures up Giorgio Moroder and Midnight Express, with its thumping mechanical bassline. The synth melody of “Open Up” keeps your head bobbing while the otherworldly layers that creep up underneath keep your mind interested.
A little birdie told me that a track remix by Glasgow’s The Revenge is in the works, set to be released in the next few months – keep an ear out for it.
Review: Helen Luu
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Zenith Star Resin Trophy Awards
This resin award is a unique combination of modern design with an old school look. Encased by silver chevrons on both sides, a gold victory "V" rises from the base.
Zenith Star Resin - Baseball
This resin award is a unique combination of modern design with an old school look. Encased by silver chevrons on both sides, a gold victory "V" rises from the base and supports a full color realistic baseball. With layers of dimension for visual appeal and available in 3 sizes, it's a perfect way to celebrate the zenith of your team's baseball season.
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This resin award is a unique combination of modern design with an old school look. Encased by silver chevrons on both sides, a gold victory "V" rises from the base and supports a full color realistic basketball. With layers of dimension for visual appeal and available in 3 sizes, it's a perfect way to celebrate the zenith of your team's basketball season.
Zenith Star Resin -Football
This resin award is a unique combination of modern design with an old school look. Encased by silver chevrons on both sides, a gold victory "V" rises from the base and supports a full color realistic football. With layers of dimension for visual appeal and available in 4 sizes, it's a perfect way to celebrate the zenith of your team's football season. The large 15" resin is perfect for fantasy football leagues!
Zenith Star Resin -Soccer
This resin award is a unique combination of modern design with an old school look. Encased by silver chevrons on both sides, a gold victory "V" rises from the base and supports a full color realistic soccer ball. With layers of dimension for visual appeal and available in 3 sizes, it's a perfect way to celebrate the zenith of your team's soccer season.
Zenith Star Resin -Softball
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KILLER HORROR CRITIC
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RLJE Films and Shudder Bringing Western Horror 'The Pale Door' to Blu-ray in October!
Something wicked this way comes...
...RLJE Films has announced that they, along with Shudder, will be releasing director Aaron B. Koontz's (Scare Package) western horror flick, The Pale Door, on Blu-ray/DVD this October! If you haven't seen the film yet, our reviewer Amylou Ahava referred to the film as a visually stunning piece that opens the gateway for more period piece horror (read her review here).
In The Pale Door, written by Koontz, Cameron Burns (Camera Obscura) and Keith Lansdale (“Creepshow”):
"The Dalton gang find shelter in a seemingly uninhabited ghost town after a train robbery goes south. Seeking help for their wounded leader, they are surprised to stumble upon a welcoming brothel in the town’s square. But the beautiful women who greet them are actually a coven of witches with very sinister plans for the unsuspecting outlaws – and the battle between good and evil is just beginning."
The film stars Devin Druid (“13 Reasons Why”), Zachary Knighton (“Happy Endings”), Noah Segan (Knives Out), Stan Shaw (The Monster Squad), Pat Healy (Cheap Thrills), Bill Sage (We Are What We Are), Melora Walters (“PEN15”, Magnolia) and Natasha Bassett (Hail, Caesar!).
The Pale Door releases on Blu-ray/DVD October 6th from RLJE Films. Pre-order your copy here and check out the special features below!
The Making of THE PALE DOOR
Filmmaker Commentary
Editing THE PALE DOOR
By Matt Konopka
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APPLICATIONS / REALab Customer Stories / Indiana University
Imitation of Life – Alphaviruses Inspire Metamaterials at Indiana University
The acquisition of a new 300 kV Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) from JEOL distinguishes Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana as a major United States research facility where scientists can examine both biological and materials science structures at nanoscale resolution.
In February 2007 an NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grant was awarded in parallel with a $1M investment made by the University’s College of Arts and Sciences. The state-of-the art TEM will be housed in the University’s newly-constructed multidisciplinary science building, Simon Hall.
The TEM, a model JEM-3200FS, will be used for multiple disciplines by students and researchers in the fields of biology, chemistry, materials science, biochemistry, environmental and evolutionary sciences, geology, microbiology, and behavioral science - reflecting the University’s stated philosophy of achieving new vistas of understanding through interdisciplinary research: “If we unite great scientists of diverse backgrounds, they can solve problems together that they cannot solve alone.” Biologist and Assistant Professor Tuli Mukhopadhyay serves as Principle Investigator on the five-member team responsible for acquiring the TEM that will meet the requirements of several departments at the University.
Cryo TEM and 3d Tomography Used to Study Alphaviruses
Dr. Mukhopadhyay’s biology lab studies alphaviruses which are transmitted by mosquitoes to a variety of hosts, including mammals. The virus is responsible for symptoms of arthritis, muscle aches, joint pain, fever, and certain alphavirus species can cause fatal encephalitis. The alphavirus particles, or virions, have an external diameter of approximately 700 angstroms. Dr. Mukhopadhyay’s lab will use the microscope for cryo-electron microscopy and 3D image reconstructions on virus particles as well as for tomography studies on viral assembly intermediates. Studies of Sindbis virus are important because these particles are very closely related to studies of the more pathogenic Flaviviradae viruses responsible for yellow fever, West Nile, and hepatitis C.
(images courtesy of Dr. Mukhopadhyay)
According to Dr. Mukhopadhyay, “Our primary tool for structure determination is cryo electron microscopy, which has become a powerful tool for determining three-dimensional structures of specimens that are too heterogeneous, too large, or too transient for conventional X-ray crystallographic methods. Rapid freezing of samples can trap viral intermediates and their real-time structures can be determined.”
The TEM will be used to produce an entire reconstruction of the virus particle using a combination of cryo tomography, 3d image reconstructions and atomic structures determined from NMR and X-ray crystallography. Researchers in the biology department will create a 3-D image reconstruction of the virion, and then begin to fill it with what they know about the proteins inside.
“We’ll fit in the atomic structure of individual proteins that make up a virus or the intermediates we have isolated,” says Mukhopadhyay. “It’s like putting together a puzzle. We have an idea of where different protein combinations would fit. It’s as though image reconstructions will give us the outline of the human body, while atomic structures of the proteins give us the thigh bone and the thumb bone and the shin bone. We’ll rely on biochemistry, genetics, and immunology data to figure out where everything belongs.”
Viruses Serve as Building Blocks for Metamaterials
Reconstructing the viruses with the help of the TEM not only advances research in virology, it provides a model for nanotechnology in materials science.
Dr. Bogdan Dragnea, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Adjunct Professor of Physics at IU, will use the TEM in his nanoparticle research. Dragnea’s research focuses on mimicking virus self-assembly in developing self-assembled molecular layers and nanoparticles for materials science applications. Dragnea’s group pioneered a technique to promote the self-assembly of a virus capsid around a functionalized nanoparticle.
Virus-like particles encapsulating a gold core have been also shown to have promising properties as building blocks for metamaterials. Metamaterials have optical (or more general, electromagnetic) properties determined by their organized structure rather than inherited directly from the material properties of individual subunits. The optical response of metallodielectrics is intensely studied at present because of their freedom of design and promise for novel properties, including better lenses, exotic coatings, new lasers, and miniaturization of photonic technologies beyond the diffraction limit. Research in Dragnea’s group has shown how biomimetic self-organization can be employed to combine the natural characteristics of virus capsids with the physical properties of inorganic nanoparticles -- the goal being to obtain metamaterials with novel optical properties.
Simultaneous Characterization of Inorganic and Biological Materials
The key element in both research directions is understanding the role of the core-capsid interactions in assembly and structure of virus-like particle complexes. Here, both inorganic and biological material aspects have to be characterized at the same time, hence the requirement for a hybrid high-resolution/ cryo-em instrument. Lyudmila Bronstein, Senior Scientist at the Department of Chemistry, will design nanoparticles for enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and virus studies in collaboration with Bogdan Dragnea’s group. She has used TEM at high resolution to determine the fine structure of the magnetic nanoparticles (see fig 1), the properties of which are directly dependent of the nanoparticle size and structure. The advanced techniques of TEM sample scanning will allow mapping of different elements of nanoparticles thus revealing the composition of complex core-shell particles as shown in figs 2a and 2b.
Tuli Mukhopadhyay's Faculty Page and Research Group.
Bogdan Dragnea's Research group.
Lyudmila Bronstein's Research Group.
Additional Research Planned for the TEM
Bacterial Morphongenesis and Cell Division
Biological research of a different nature will be done to understand the basic mechanisms of bacterial cell division and cell differentiation, and to determine how and why bacteria undergo specific changes in morphology. Yves Brun uses Caulobacter crescentus and Hyphomonas neptumium as model systems to focus on the synthesis and function of the stalk appendage. Synchronized populations of swarmer cells, which have no stalks, can be isolated for both bacterial species, making these ideal systems for characterizing the morphogenesis of the stalk.
Brun’s group has taken a new approach and has begun to study the 3D structure of Caulobacter and Hyphomonas cells using cryo tomography. “Our goal is to obtain ultrastructural information of the morphogenesis of the stalk during the bacterial lifecycle,” Brun says. “We have already obtained mutants that are deficient in stalk synthesis or that synthesize stalks at the wrong subcellular site. We will analyze these mutants to determine the structural nature of their defects.”
Prokaryotic Cell-to-Cell Interactions
Clay Fuqua’s laboratory studies the proteins and genetic networks involved in prokaryotic cellular interactions, specifically quorum sensing and biofilm formation. In particular, the lab has a strong interest in the structures and regulation of the components involved in these processes. laboratory works with Lingling Chen’s laboratory (IU Biology) to study the structure and association of TraR and TraM, two proteins involved in quorum sensing in the plant pathogen A. tumefaciens50. Atomic structures of TraR and TraM homodimers have been determined, but the proposed octomer complex has been recalcitrant to structural analysis, suggesting it may be heterogeneous or labile under crystallographic conditions. We need to use cryo-EM to determine the structure of the TraM/TraR complex. A three dimensional structure, determined by single particle reconstruction, can be obtained from a heterogenous population. The atomic structures of TraM and TraR will be placed into the cryo-EM reconstruction generating a quasi atomic structure. Quorum-sensing regulatory mechanisms. Adhesive surface structures within bacterial biofilms. The structures required for biofilm formation in A. tumefaciens are likely to be proteins, proteoglycans or polysaccharides54,55. “Our lab has attempted to compare wild type and mutant strains to identify polar structures on whole cells using fluorescence microscopy and TEM,” Fuqua says. “We have been unable to definitively visualize such structures, beyond the presence of simple flagella (fig. 13). Under cryo conditions, the delicate surface features will remain intact, and the FEG-TEM is ideal for visualizing and imaging the cells.
Juergen Schieber: Mudstones and the Hydrocarbon System
The Schieber lab studies mudstones, fine grained sediments that constitute approximately two thirds of the sedimentary rock record. Mudstones are an important component of the hydrocarbon system because they are simultaneously the source rock of hydrocarbons, as well as the seal rock that later on prevents their escape from reservoirs. Because of their fine grain size, compacted and consolidated mudstones have very tiny pores, the size and geometry of which are critical parameters that determine whether in a given situation, a mudstone unit will be an effective seal for hydrocarbons, and also whether gaseous hydrocarbons that are adsorbed to the mudstone components can migrate out and support natural gas production.
Chen Zhu: Natural Nanoparticles and Mineral Surface Chemistry
“Our lab quantitatively studies nanoparticles and mineral surface properties related to reaction kinetics, specifically the movement and distribution of mass and isotopes in groundwater systems due to fluid flow and water-rock-gas-microbe interactions,” Zhu says. The lab studies the sediment coating materials from the Atlantic Coastal Plain, and will use EDS/EDX to observe the lattice fringes and perform elemental analysis. The group has recently discovered a 10nm thick amorphous layer on naturally weathered K-feldspar in the Navajo Sandstone. “Whether such an amorphous layer widely occurs in geological systems, whether such a layer originated by being leached rather than re-precipitated by origin, and whether such a layer can result from reaction with near neutral pH water systems are fundamental problems that geologists must answer in order to understand the mechanisms and rates of reactions in natural systems,” Zhu adds.
Dongwhan Lee: Self-Assembly of 3D Chemical Structures
This group is investigating elaborate 3D organic materials that can self-assemble into higher order structures. Recent synthetic efforts have been directed toward planar rigid structures that can afford 1-dimensional (1D) columnar stacks both in solution and solid states. Precisely aligned π–stacks can serve as effective conduits for mobile electrons and excitons in optoelectronic devices. “Imaging on the HR-EM, using STEM and dark field, will tell us if such planar building blocks do form one-D stacks or any other supramolecular structures,” Lee explains. “Visualizing our particles will immediately allow us to modify our synthesis and install appropriate steric and electronic controller groups required for selfassembly. Using cryo-TEM, we will synthesize shape-adaptive amphiphiles that self-assemble into micellar, vesicular, or double-layer structures.” By using advanced image-processing procedures and 3D reconstruction techniques that will available on the FEG-TEM, they will obtain class-sum images of structurally persistent micelles47. This research will contribute significantly to a detailed molecular-level understanding of the macroscopic structural changes triggered by external stimuli such as changes in pH or applied potential.
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CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
Year : 2009 | Volume : 1 | Issue : 2 | Page : 87--92
Extended spectrum beta-lactamase detection in gram-negative bacilli of nosocomial origin
Dechen C Tsering1, Shyamasree Das1, Luna Adhiakari1, Ranabir Pal2, Takhellambam S.K Singh1,
1 Department of Microbiology, Sikkim-Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences(SMIMS) and Central Referral Hospital (CRH), Gangtok, Sikkim, India
2 Department of Community Medicine, Sikkim-Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences(SMIMS) and Central Referral Hospital (CRH), Gangtok, Sikkim, India
Ranabir Pal
Department of Community Medicine, Sikkim-Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences(SMIMS) and Central Referral Hospital (CRH), Gangtok, Sikkim
Background: Resistance to third generation cephalosporins by acquisition and expression of extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) enzymes among gram-negative bacilli is on a rise. The presence of ESBL producing organisms significantly affects the course and outcome of an infection and poses a challenge to infection management worldwide. Materials and Methods: In the period from June 2007 to 2008, we collected 1489 samples from patients suspected of nosocomial infection. The isolates were identified based on colony morphology and biochemical reaction. Gram negative bacilli resistant to third generation cephalosporins were tested for ESBL by double disc synergy test (DDST- a screening test )and then phenotypic confirmatory test. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was done by modified Kirby Bauer disc diffusion method. Results: From the sample of 238 gram-negative bacilli, we isolated Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Citrobacter freundii, Proteus mirabilis, Morganella morganii and Enterobacter cloacae. Following both methods, 34% isolates were ESBL-positive. The ESBL producing isolates were significantly resistant (p < 0.01) to ampicillin, piperacillin, piperacillin/tazobactam, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, tetracycline, ciprofloxacin and gentamicin as compared to non-ESBL producers. Multidrug resistance was significantly (p < 0.01) higher (69.14%) in ESBL positive isolates than non-ESBL isolates (21.66%). Conclusion: High prevalence of ESBL in our hospital cannot be ignored. ESBL producers can be detected by DDST and phenotypic confirmatory test with equal efficacy. The sensitivity of screening test improved with the use of more than one antibiotic and addition of one or two antibiotics would not increase cost and labor. We recommend DDST using multiple antibiotics in all microbiology units as a routine screening test.
Tsering DC, Das S, Adhiakari L, Pal R, Singh TS. Extended spectrum beta-lactamase detection in gram-negative bacilli of nosocomial origin.J Global Infect Dis 2009;1:87-92
Tsering DC, Das S, Adhiakari L, Pal R, Singh TS. Extended spectrum beta-lactamase detection in gram-negative bacilli of nosocomial origin. J Global Infect Dis [serial online] 2009 [cited 2021 Jan 18 ];1:87-92
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Since the first description of plasmid-mediated extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) in 1983, ESBL-producing gram-negative organisms have posed a significant threat to hospitalized patients due to their hydrolyzing activity against extended spectrum cephalosporins often employed in the treatment of hospital-acquired infections. Detection of organisms harboring ESBLs provides clinicians with helpful information. Treatment of infections caused by ESBL-producing organisms with extended-spectrum cephalosporins or aztreonam may result in treatment failure even when the causative organisms appear to be susceptible to these antimicrobial agents by routine susceptibility testing. [1],[2] In addition, patients colonized or infected with ESBL-producing organisms should be placed under contact precautions to avoid hospital transmission. [3] These benefits warrant the detection of ESBL-producing organisms in clinical laboratories. They can be found in a variety of Enterobacteriaceae species; however, majority of the ESBL producing strains are Klebsiella pneumoniae, Klebsiella oxytocaand Escherichia coli. They have also been found in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other Enterobacteriaceaestrains like Enterobacter, Citrobacter, Proteus, Morganella morganii, Serratia marsescens, Burkholderia cepacia and Capnocytophaga ochracea. [4],[5]
Several phenotypic tests for detection of ESBL-producing organisms have been developed since the 1980s. All methods utilize the two characteristics of ESBLs: reduction of susceptibility to extended-spectrum cephalosporins and inhibition by clavulanate. The CLSI (Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute) recommends screening of E. coli, K. pneumoniae, and K. oxytoca (and Proteus mirabilis, if clinically relevant such as bacteremic isolates) for potential production of ESBL. The CLSI method for ESBL detection consists of the initial screen test and phenotypic confirmatory test. [6] Susceptibilities to more than one of cefpodoxime, ceftazidime, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, and aztreonam are evaluated using disk diffusion or broth dilution method in the initial screen test. A decrease in susceptibilities to one or more antibiotics tested may indicate production of ESBLs and warrant performance of the subsequent phenotypic confirmatory tests.
In phenotypic confirmatory tests, susceptibilities to cefotaxime and ceftazidime alone and those with clavulanate are compared using disk diffusion or broth dilution method. If the susceptibility of either antibiotic tested increases significantly (a more than or equal to five mm increase in a zone diameter or a more than or equal to three two-fold decrease in an MIC) in the presence of clavulanate, the result is interpreted as confirmatory of ESBL production. [7]
There is considerable geographical difference in ESBLs in European countries. Within countries, hospital-to-hospital variability in occurrence may also be marked. [8] A large study from more than 100 European intensive care units (ICU) found that the prevalence of ESBLs in Klebsiellae ranged from as low as 3% in Sweden to as high as 34% in Portugal. [9] In Turkey, a survey of Klebsiella spp. from ICUs from eight hospitals showed that 58% of 193 isolates harbored ESBLs. [10] Moland and colleagues have shown that ESBL-producing isolates were found in 75% of 24 medical centers in the United States. [11] ESBLs have also been documented in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and a variety of North African countries. [12],[13],[14] From China, the figures of ESBL producers vary between 25-40%. [15] National surveys have indicated the presence of ESBLs in 5-8% of E. coli isolates from Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore but 12-24% of isolates from Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines and Indonesia. [16]
In India, the prevalence rate varies in different institutions from 28 to 84%. [17] A study from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, showed the presence of ESBLs to be 40% while from Nagpur this figure was 50% in urinary isolates. [18],[19] Another comparatively recent study in 2005, from New Delhi, showed 68.78 % of the strains of gram negative bacteria to be ESBL producers. [20]
This study was undertaken in a 500 bedded tertiary care teaching hospital located at Gangtok (capital of Sikkim, India) to find out the prevalence of ESBLs in gram negative bacilli isolated from in patients and their antibiotic susceptibility pattern as well as to see whether routine detection of ESBLs is necessary. Although the CLSI recommends the combined disc method and MIC broth micro-dilution for ESBL detection, [7] in our study, we used DDST as a screening method and cephalosporin /clavulanate combination discs as phenotypic confirmatory test to detect ESBLs. Disc diffusion method is easy to perform and it is comparatively simple and cost effective.
Central Referral Hospital is a tertiary healthcare teaching hospital. During the study period from June 2007 to June 2008, 1489 specimens were collected from patients with suspected nosocomial infections, according to definitions described by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). [21] In particular, infections were considered nosocomial if symptoms and signs appeared after 48 hours of hospitalization. Various samples included in the study were urine, pus, sputum, blood and cerebrospinal fluid.
Bacterial strains and susceptibility testing
One thousand four hundred and eighty-nine specimens collected from patients with suspected nosocomial infections were cultured on blood agar (Hi media, Mumbai, India) and MacConkey agar (Hi media, Mumbai, India) except for urine samples which were plated on Cysteine Lactose Electrolytes Deficient (CLED) agar (Hi media, Mumbai, India). Isolated strains were identified on the basis of colony morphology and biochemical reactions. [22]
The susceptibility of gram negative bacilli to antimicrobial agents was performed on Muller Hinton agar (Hi media, Mumbai, India) by modified Kirby Bauer disc diffusion method following the criteria put forward by the CLSI, [23] with 30μg each of the third generation cephalosporins (3GCs), ceftazidime, cefotaxime and ceftriaxone. The inoculated plates were incubated for 16-18 hours at 37C. Isolates found resistant or with decreased susceptibility (Intermediate) to any one of the 3GC antibiotics were selected for the presence of ESBLs. [24]
Antibiogram of each isolate was also determined for the following antimicrobials by modified Kirby Bauer disc diffusion method [25] ampicillin (10μg), ampicillin/sulbactam (10/10μg), piperacillin (100μg), piperacillin/tazobactam (100/10μg), tetracycline (30μg), trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (1.25/23.75 μg), ciprofloxacin (5μg), gentamicin (10μg), and imipenem(10μg).
Testing for presence of ESBL
ESBL detection was carried out by two procedures
1. Screening for ESBL producers - Double disc synergy assay
The DDST was performed as a standard disc diffusion assay on Muller Hinton Agar (MHA). Discs containing 30μg aztreonam and 30μg of ceftazidime, ceftriaxone and cefotaxime each were placed 30mm apart (centre to centre) around a disc containing amoxicillin plus clavulanic acid (augmentin 20μg + 10μg). The MHA plate was incubated at 37ΊC for 24 hrs. Enhancement of inhibition zone of any one of the test antibiotics towards augmentin disc was regarded as presumptive ESBL production and subjected to phenotypic confirmatory test. [26],[27] If the screening test was negative it was repeated placing the discs 20mm apart. [28]
2. Phenotypic confirmatory test
Cephalosporin /clavulanate combination discs: This test was performed on Muller Hinton agar by disc diffusion test as recommended by CLSI. A greater than or equal to five mm increase in zone diameter for either ceftazidime (30μg) or cefotaxime (30μg) tested in combination with clavulanate versus its zone diameter when tested alone confirmed an ESBL producing organism.[27]
Every batch of the media prepared was checked for sterility for 24 hours. E. coli ATCC 25922 and P. aeruginosa ATCC 27853 were used as quality control strains for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Quality control when performing screening and phenotypic confirmatory tests: Simultaneous testing with a non-ESBL producing organism E.coli ATCC 25922 and an ESBL-producing organism K. pneumoniae ATCC 700603 was performed.
A total of 258 bacteria were isolated from 258 patients. These consisted of 152 urinary tract infections, 70 wound infections, 12 blood stream infections, 22 cases of pneumonia and 2 cases of meningitis. Of these 258 bacterial isolates, 238 were gram negative bacilli and the remaining 20 were Staphylococcus aureus. These gram-negative isolates were identified as Escherichia coli (n=130), Klebsiella pneumoniae (n=35), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (n= 46), Proteus mirabilis (n=7), Enterobacter cloacae (n=8), Morganella morganii (n=7) and Citrobacter freundii (n=8) [Table 1].
Out of 238 Gram negative bacilli, 102 showed resistance or decreased susceptibility to any one of the three 3GC. These were then tested for ESBL production by Double disc synergy test and phenotypic confirmatory test. Eighty one isolates were positive for ESBL by both the methods. Of these 34 isolates were E. coli, 20 isolates were K. pneumoniae, 15 isolates were P. aeruginosa, 3 isolates were P. mirabilis, 5 isolates were M. morganii and 4 isolates were C. freundii [Table 1].
We observed that ceftazidime was the most effective in detecting ESBL producers among the third generation cephalosporins [Table 2].
Our study revealed 100% agreement of the two methods - DDST and phenotypic confirmatory test [Table 3] in detection of ESBL producers.
A significant proportion of the ESBL producing strains were found to be resistant to antimicrobial agents including ampicillin (100%), ampicillin/sulbactam (81.29%), piperacillin (70.88%), piperacillin/tazobactam (51.89%), trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (78.48%), tetracycline (74.68%), ciprofloxacin (51.89%) and gentamicin (54.43%). Imipenem was found to be the most effective antibiotic against ESBL producers (97.53% of isolates were sensitive), while in non-ESBL producing isolates resistance was nil. ESBL producing isolates were resistant to more antimicrobial agents than non-ESBL producing isolates. The highest rate of resistance in ESBL negative isolates was seen against ampicillin (81.29%) which was significantly (p 0.05) [Table 4]
Multidrug resistance was seen in 56 (69.14%) ESBL- positive isolates and 34 (21.66%) non- ESBL isolates. This difference was highly significant (p et al. [29] and Duttaroy et al. [30] indicating multidrug resistance pattern. Mechanisms of co-resistance are not clear, but one possible mechanism is the co-transmission of ESBL and resistance to other antimicrobials within the same conjugative plasmids. [31]
The prevalence of ESBL producers varies across continents and countries and also within hospitals. [8],[9],[10],[11],[12],[13],[14],[15],[16] In India, the prevalence rate varies in different institutions from 28 to 84%. [17] In our study the prevalence of ESBL was 34.03%. E. coli (26.15%); K. pneumoniae (57.14%); P. aeruginosa (32.61%), P. mirabilis (42.86%), M. morgani (71.43%), C. freundii (50%) were found to be ESBL positive by DDST. On detection of ESBL producers, we saw 100% agreement in DDST and phenotypic confirmatory test [Table 3]. Although the specificity of DDST has been well documented [24],[32] its sensitivity has been variably reported as 76.5%, [24] 3%, [33] 87% [34] and 79% [28] in various studies. Various factors like precise placement of the disc, correct storage of the clavulanate containing disc and performance of appropriate control tests are critical to the sensitivity of DDST. [24],[34],[35] DDST can lack sensitivity because of the problems of optimal disc spacing, the inability of the clavulanate to inhibit all ESBLs and the inability of the test to detect ESBLs in strains producing chromosomal cephalosporinases. [35] To overcome the problem of optimal disc spacing, Thomson and Sanders used the recommended disc spacing of 30mm and then repeated at 20mm to see if the former disc spacing was negative. [28]
By routine disc diffusion susceptibility test, 26.15%of ESBL positive E. coli, 57.14% of ESBL positive K. pneumoniae, 32.60% of ESBL positive P. aeruginosa, 42.85% of ESBL positive P. mirabilis, 71.42% of ESBL positive M. morganii, 50% of ESBL positive C. freundii showed a resistance profile to the 3GCs, indicating that 28.53% to 73.85% of the ESBL isolates would have been reported as susceptible. Researchers also reported the resistance profiles of 58%, [36] 48% [29] and 82% to the 3GCs. [28] Thus it is clear that additional specific tests are required for detection of ESBL enzyme. [28],[29]
We agree with observations of previous studies considering ceftazidime to be most effective in detecting ESBL producers among the 3GCs; [34] though some other workers reported maximum ESBL detection rate by ceftriaxone followed by cefotaxime and lastly ceftazidime. [37],[38]
The strength of our study is that in our study population the screening test is as good as the phenotypic confirmatory test.
The limitation of our study was that we could not use any advanced molecular methods due to lack of infrastructure.
To sum up, the prevalence of ESBL was found to be 34.03% in our hospital which cannot be ignored. Since ESBL producers were detected with equal efficacy by screening test DDST and phenotypic confirmatory test; and the sensitivity of screening test improved with the use of more than one antibiotic, addition of one or two antibiotics would not increase the cost and labor, we recommend DDST to be used routinely as a screening test using multiple antibiotics in all microbiology units.
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Iowa's wine culture
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By Mark Yontz
The history of wine-making spans many different cultures and goes back to a time pre-dating Ancient Greece. So it should come as no surprise that wine — especially wine made from grapes — remains a popular drink for many people worldwide.
When compared to other states and countries, Iowa’s wine-making history is clearly more recent. In 2000, there were only about 30 acres of commercial grapes in the entire state, but that would soon change. A 16-year period of growth was about to begin.
According to Michael White, a viticulture specialist with Iowa State University Extension, there are currently 104 commercial wineries and 267 commercial vineyards, covering approximately 1,100 acres, in Iowa. Over the last six years, in particular, the industry has seen a great deal of growth, and there are now wineries and/or vineyards located in just about every county in Iowa.
In fact, to explore what the Iowa wine industry offers all you need to do is get out a map and literally drive in just about any direction, as you will likely be close to one of the state’s many wineries, like Snus Hill Winery and Penoach Vineyard and Winery.
“We opened the winery to the public in September 2006, but began planting grapes in 1999,” says Chris Hudnall, co-owner and general manager of Snus Hill Winery near Madrid. “We grow approximately 10 acres of grapes, which are French-American hybrids that can handle our cooler climate here in the Upper Midwest.”
Hudnall says winemakers in Iowa face the same challenges as other wine-growing regions, as they are constantly trying to find a balance between what customers like and expect from a local producer and what is actually possible given the state’s climate and the types of grapes that can be grown here. For example, he says making a dry red wine, like you would find in Europe or California, has proven to be challenging in Iowa. However, they have found success with other types of grapes and currently grow six different varieties of white and three different varieties of red.
“Snus Hill has had success with white wine production, and I believe as this industry matures, the state will gain more recognition as a white wine producing region,” offers Hudnall, who says Iowa’s wine industry has benefitted from grape hybridization programs in New York and Minnesota that have created new cold-climate cultivars.
Penoach Vineyard and Winery located north of Adel also planted its first grapes in 1999, but they originally just sold grapes to other wineries. They transitioned to being a grape nursery, selling cultivars to other vineyards. It wasn’t until September 2006 they opened the winery and tasting room, which is located in a re-purposed 1917 barn.
“There are really good people in the grape business here in Iowa,” says Stan Olson, who owns and operates Penoach Vineyard and Winery with his wife, Joanie. “This isn’t a get-rich-quick type of thing, because there is a lot of work and hours involved. It’s nice being your own boss, though.”
Stan says they currently grow eight different varieties of grapes on about 5 acres and they only use Iowa grapes to make their grape wines. And like Snus Hill and many other wineries today, they also offer people opportunities to not only sample their wines on site, but also enjoy music, special dinners and other events.
“One of the most surprising things of this business has been realizing that we’re not just a place to buy wine, but a destination for people,” offers Joanie, who says they offer events about every other week, April through October.
Granted, Iowa isn’t like California’s Sonoma County, or France, or any of the world’s other top wine-producing regions that have become top tourism destinations. But many of the state’s wineries boast award-winning wines, so Stan and Joanie Olson encourage everyone to take time to explore what the state has to offer.
“If a person is willing to open their eyes and palettes to something different, you can find some good wines unique to Iowa,” Stan said.
Mark Yontz is a freelance writer from Urbandale.
find a winery
There are plenty of online resources for anyone interested in Iowa’s wine industry, so visit any of the following sites to plan your next wine-themed adventure!
Heart of Iowa Wine Trail: www.heartofiowawinetrail.com
Iowa Wine Trail: http://iowawinetrail.com
Loess Hills District Wine Trail: www.loesshillswinetrail.com
Northwest Prairie Wine Trail: www.northwestprairiewinetrail.com
Scenic Rivers Wine Trail: www.scenicriverswine.com
The I-80 Wine Trail: http://i80winetrail.com
Western Iowa Wine Trail: www.westerniowawinetrail.com
Iowa Wine & Beer Promotion Board: www.iowawineandbeer.com
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Where to go in India, from Bengal tiger spotting to boarding a Darjeeling mountain train and coasting the life-blood canals of Kerala to chasing sun beams through Jaisalmer’s Golden City
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U18 REPORT: Leyton Orient 5-3 Luton Town
The O’s survived a Luton Town comeback thanks to a second half Sam Dalby brace as they picked up a 5-3 victory.
The young O’s made an emphatic start to the game, with Tristan Abrahams opening the scoring less than two minutes on the clock. Josh Koroma produced a fine run down the left flank, before playing in Pat Adamson, who then found Abrahams. His initial shot was saved but he made no mistake in converting the loose ball.
Richard Thomas’ side were determined to assert their dominance in the opening stages and within five minutes had doubled their lead. Koroma was again involved as he held up the ball well and timed the pass to Abrahams perfectly to set him through on goal. Abrahams used his pace to break away from the defence and slotted his shot past the goalkeeper.
A dream start for the O’s continued and with 18 minutes they were 3-0 up. Adamson’s floated free-kick into the box found Dan Happe who rose highest to head home off the underside of the bar.
The visitors pulled a goal back soon after though as Scott Belgrove scored from 30 yards. Arthur Janata seemed to have the shot covered but the pace on the ball meant he could only parry the effort and the ball spilled into the bottom of the net.
Within minutes, Belgrove scored another when his shot deflected off of Happe and gave Janata no chance in the O’s goal.
The O’s managed to hang on to their one-goal lead at half time, but 10 minutes after the break Luton had equalised as Geo Craig converted from inside the box – the first time they had squandered a lead all season.
After losing a three-goal led the O’s made a change with Dalby replacing Andrew Tayaca to partner Abrahams up front, and the swap worked to good effect.
Dalby had only been on the pitch for two minutes when he put the O’s back in front with his first touch. Toby Stevenson put in a long cross from the left and Dalby was positioned perfectly to flick the ball out of the reach of the goalkeeper and into the net.
The game seemed to be over on 70 minutes as Dalby doubled his tally and gave the O’s a two-goal advantage. The goal was almost identical to his first with the ball in from Stevenson and Dalby taking the shot first time to beat the keeper in the same bottom corner.
The O’s saw the game out and maintained the two-goal lead. Credit must go to the mental strength of the young player after initially losing a three-goal advantage, to still compete and come out on top after the 90 minutes.
Next up for the O’s is their first FA Youth Cup game of the campaign, with a trip to Southend Untied on Wednesday night, 7.30pm kick off at Roots Hall and the O’s will be looking to repeat the two-goal victory they picked up against them in the league.
ORIENT: Arthur Janata, Andrew Tayaca (Sam Dalby 61), Toby Stevenson, Henry Ochieng, Dan Happe, Teddy Perkins, Steven Alzate, Rian McLean, Tristan Abrahams (Ruel Sotiriou 85), Josh Koroma, Pat Adamson
SUBS: Sam Roach, Ernold Haxhiu, Elliot Usher
GOALS: Abrahams (2), Happe, Dalby (2)
GALLERY: Morecambe (H)
Photography by Simon O'Connor
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Annual Molloy College gala shifts to virtual format amid ongoing pandemic
Posted Friday, November 20, 2020 9:54 am
Dr. James Lentini, president of Molloy College, with Molloy College Cap21 students.
Courtesy Mike DeVito
Dennis Collins, Molloy College student Nichelle Lewis, Sharon Jerry-Collins, Paul Shaffer and Vanesse Thomas.
Courtesy Angelo Fraboni
Dr. James Lentini with honorees Wayne and Karen Lipton.
Molloy student Krissy Dewar, Molloy student Alexis Gilliard, Lillias White, Molloy alumna Mickaila Perry and Molloy student Paige Decena
By Jill Nossa
For more than 20 years, Molloy College has hosted a gala for alumni and community that provided top-notch performances and brought people together, while raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship funding. This year, despite an ongoing pandemic, the upcoming gala on Nov. 28 promises to be just as spectacular, although it has shifted to a virtual format.
“We had a very solid format that worked for us for two decades,” Ed Thompson, vice president of Molloy, said. “We wanted to maintain the same level of quality and entertainment, minus the sit-down dinner.”
The virtual gala will take place on Saturday, Nov. 28, at 7 p.m. and will celebrate the alumni and community leaders who have been on the frontlines fighting against the pandemic. It will recognize nurses, respiratory therapists, social workers, business postgraduates and others who have invested in Molloy and its four schools of learning: Arts & Sciences, Business, Education and Human Resources, Nursing & Health Sciences.
“In a difficult time for our country, our colleges, and for Molloy, we wanted to celebrate the many accomplishments of our students and alumni,” Thompson said. “We totally revamped our primary external fundraising event of the year and can now reach alumni all across the country. Our alumni include nurses, social workers and other who did an outstanding job and deserve to be recognized.”
It will also aim to impress as in years past, with entertainment from Paul Shaffer, Melissa Manchester, Lillias White, the South Shore Symphony and cameo appearances by additional entertainers, students and alumni.
“We are confident in Molloy’s mission and want to express our gratitude for our alumni, our gratitude for the support of friends,” Thompson said, “and are confident we can enjoy an evening together in a year that’s been difficult to say that.”
Angelo Fraboni, artistic director of the Madison Theater at Molloy College, said he thought the idea of shifting the format would be the best way to showcase Molloy’s talent and success.
“It will be formatted kind of like a telethon,” Fraboni said, “and we’ll make it about Molloy, with a section devoted to each of the colleges.”
A big challenge faced with the virtual format, Fraboni said, was figuring out how to create the opening number. Fraboni said they took five pop songs, changed the lyrics to reflect Molloy and created a music video that includes a montage of people getting prepped, Molloy getting prepped and moves into the opening segment.
“It has taken an army to put this on,” Fraboni said of the recorded production. All of the colleges and deans were involved in producing the segments, which were filmed across the campus, with final number on stage at the Madison Theater.
The gala is the annual student scholarship drive, the biggest fundraiser of the year, generally raising $325,000. With all of the financial hardships facing the college because of the pandemic, “We felt it was important to still support the students,” Fraboni said.
Preregistration is requested, though not required, and donations are suggested. Typically, tickets cost $500 apiece, and while it brings in the money, Fraboni acknowledged that this prohibits many people from attending. The hope is that by inviting the entire community to a free virtual gala, the number of smaller donations will be equivalent to what is typically raised through a smaller number of higher ticket prices. “I’m hoping people will have watch parties,” he said. “Hopefully getting more attendees will mitigate the lack of bigger dollar amounts with smaller donations.”
While the gala is recognizing front line workers, it will also honor Rockville Centre residents Wayne and Karen Lipton as the Lifetime Achievement Honorees, recognized for their years of strong leadership and corporate citizenship.
“Wayne and Karen Lipton have done a lot for the college,” Fraboni said. “Wayne and I have worked together a lot and I’ve brought him into my productions. He and Karen have been huge supporters and we felt it was time to honor them. No one is more deserving than them.”
The Liptons have lived in Rockville Centre for the past 40 years and have been actively involved in the schools and village over the years. Karen, a former assistant district attorney, said she is honored to have the award bestowed upon them, though for her, she doesn’t consider it so much about what she’s done for the college as it is about her active role in the Rockville Centre community, including involvement with the PTAs and the Education Foundation. Wayne served as deputy mayor, is on the board of Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital, former member of the Rockville Centre Community Fund Board of Trustees, chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Rockville Centre, president of the RVC Guild for the Arts, president and principal cellist of the South Shore Symphony.
“We’ve watched Molloy move from a modest sized college to fulfilling an important role on Long Island,” Wayne said.
About 10 years ago, the Liptons became involved with helping to make the South Shore Symphony’s home at Madison Theater and outreach to support the arts. Wayne has collaborated for the past nine years with Fraboni, and has done a variety of performances including operas, musicals, and galas, and has performed with stars like Judy Collins, Keith Emerson, and Tony Danza. “We’ve had a nice collaborative effort in growing the arts through the orchestra and its outreach,” Wayne said, “and have also secured funds to grow the programs, and even donated a Steinway grand piano last year.”
The virtual format is an “interesting twist” and Wayne said he hopes people will tune in and catch the surprise: a duet between him and Dr. James Lentini, president of the college.
“People should tune in just to get a sense of what is going on at Molloy,” Wayne said. “It’s such a vibrant place and has turned into a rather substantial college. The gala will be happy event and we could all use some happiness in our lives right now.”
The event can be viewed at molloycollegegala.com, and those interested in donating can call the live call-in center during the event: 516-323-4750.
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Throwback Thursday: Destiny’s Child Bring Out Lil Wayne To Perform “Soldier” In Atlanta [Video]
June 25, 2020 in Other
For #ThrowbackThursday today, here is a cool video from the Atlanta, Georgia stop of Destiny’s Child‘s final tour, “Destiny Fulfilled… And Lovin’ It”.
Beyonce, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams brought out both T.I. and Lil Wayne to perform their “Soldier” single live at the Philips Arena back on July 15th, 2005.
You can check out the R&B trio bringing out Wayne in a clip from the “Destiny’s Child Live In Atlanta” DVD after the jump below. Enjoy!
Feature Friday #177: Kelly Rowland – All On You (Feat Lil Wayne)
August 2, 2019 in Feature Fridays
I have chosen a track from Kelly Rowland titled “All On You” featuring Lil Wayne for this week’s “Feature Friday” installment.
The song, which surfaced online back in 2007, appeared on numerous RnB mixtapes after originally being recorded for Rowland‘s Ms. Kelly album.
“I get low like limbo, I got the truck on timbos; I ride so in like dimples, that’s how we do it in the N.O.; Kelly what you know about a rendezvous on a island for two? You sexy black beautiful…”
You can listen to “All On You” below.
Kelly Rowland Reacts To Hearing Lil Wayne Is Now The Sole Owner Of Young Money, Would Be Down To Collaborate Again [Video]
September 23, 2018 in Interviews
Kelly Rowland recently sat down with Entertainment Tonight and during their interview, she revealed that she would be down to collaborate with Lil Wayne again.
The singer and actress mentioned she loves Tunechi and after hearing the news from the host that Tune is now the sole owner of Young Money, Kelly added:
“Wow! Wayne already knows that I’m here, big up to Wayne.”
You can watch everything that Rowland had to say after the jump below! Would you like to hear a “Motivation” part 2?
Feature Friday #41: Trina – Here We Go (Remix) (Feat Lil Wayne & Kelly Rowland)
November 7, 2014 in Feature Fridays
After getting the Trina interview about Lil Wayne yesterday, I thought it was only right that this week’s “Feature Friday” edition should be Trina‘s official “Here We Go” remix featuring Wayne and Kelly Rowland.
The original version of this Jim Jonsin-produced song can be found on Trina‘s Glamorest Life album, which dropped back in 2005, but the remix appears on her Rockstarr: The Baddest Bitch Reloaded mixtape that dropped in 2006.
You can listen to the “Here We Go” remix below!
Nicki Minaj Not Worried About Lil Wayne’s Health Recovery, Kelly Rowland Releases “Ice” Video
November 14, 2012 in Interviews, Music Videos, Young Money Ent
Here is the official music video for Kelly Rowland‘s “Ice” single featuring Lil Wayne. Unfortunately, Weezy F Baby does not make an appearance in the visual, which was directed by Matthew Rolston.
Kelly‘s forthcoming fourth studio album, Year Of The Woman, is set to be released sometime in 2013. You can view the lyrics for “Ice” here!
In other news, MTV recently interviewed Nicki Minaj about a Young Money tour and Tunechi‘s health scare after he suffered from two seizures on his private jet in the space of 24 hours.
Nicki says she does not know if YM will ever do another tour again and she’s thankful that Tune is okay. Watch the interview below:
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Ratings of Catlin, Lancashire, Partner Re and Platinum Underwriters highlight the fundamental impact of ERM vs. capital on S&P’s reinsurer ratings
Home → All → Ratings of Catlin, Lancashire, Partner Re and Platinum Underwriters highlight the fundamental impact of ERM vs. capital on S&P’s reinsurer ratings
This is a technical article reviewing recent actions by S&P in implementing their new criteria on the reinsurance sector. If you are interested in understanding this further, would like further clarification or would like to comment please feel free to mail us at info@litmusanalysis.com.
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The recent S&P rating updates of the core operations of Catlin, Lancashire, Partner Re and Platinum Re highlight the profound impact of truly qualitative factors (and especially ERM) in S&P’s reinsurer ratings.
For Catlin and Lancashire this was of critical importance as the rating implications of not scoring highly in S&P’s ERM analysis were stark.
The financial strength rating anchor* for both groups is ‘bbb+’, which is below what is often perceived as a key threshold of market acceptance. However, each achieved a ‘strong’ score for ERM. The ERM analysis acts as a modifier to the initial rating anchor and was enough to push the indicative rating up one notch to the crucial ‘A-‘ level.
In Catlin’s case a further notch uplift to ‘A’ was achieved through S&P’s ‘holistic’ analysis whereby the agency may add or subtract a rating notch based on a final view of particularly strong or weak credit factors not already sufficiently captured by its analysis. For Catlin this reflected in particular S&P’s view of the strength of its competitive position and the relative quality of its earnings versus its peer group.
The S&P ratings anchor combines the “Business Risk Profile” and “Financial Risk Profile” assessments of each company. For Catlin a key constraining factor for the rating anchor is having only a ‘moderately strong’ Capital & Earnings score within its Financial Risk Profile despite S&P’s assumption of strong prospective earnings. By contrast Lancashire achieved a ‘very strong’ result for Capital & Earnings but this was offset by its Risk Position being scored as ‘very high’ and its Business Risk Profile score being reduced to ‘satisfactory’, despite receiving a ‘strong’ for its Competitive Position. Both constraints on the rating derive from its concentration in severity lines with large limits.
For both organisations the ERM score is clearly a powerful affirmation of management quality, however we would presume they would be far more comfortable being able to achieve the ‘A-‘ rating level via the Business Risk and Financial Risk profiles that drive the initial rating anchor, not least given that what constitutes high quality ERM is a bar that is consistently being raised. Moreover for Lancashire achieving an ‘a-‘ rating anchor from S&P might be difficult as the key drivers of this are heavily influenced by S&P’s interpretation of its high risk lines business model.
A.M. Best assigns ‘A’ financial strength ratings to both Catlin and Lancashire. Best does not publish the equivalent of a rating anchor but the positive deviation in its view from that of S&P on Lancashire’s strength can be further seen in the positive outlook Best’s assigns to its ‘Issuer Credit Rating’ (ICR) of the group’s underwriting operations. The ICR ‘translates’ the AM Best scale to the S&P scale and basically means Lancashire has a reasonable future chance of achieving an FSR rating from Best equivalent to ‘A+’** on the S&P scale. In rating terms that’s a long way from the ‘A-‘ S&P rating.
By contrast, Partner Re was assessed with a ‘aa-‘ level rating anchor from S&P but the final financial strength rating is reduced to the ‘A+’ level. Again Best is more positive with an ‘A+’ rating on its own scale that maps** to ‘AA-‘ on the S&P scale.
Within the S&P analysis of Partner Re the fundamental components of its rating anchor are almost as strong as they can be for a reinsurer. Only risks intrinsic to the reinsurance industry drag this down from the highest possible ‘anchor’ level of ‘aa+‘. However, given their size and sophistication, we assume they will be disappointed with S&P’s assessments of their Management & Governance being only ‘fair’ whilst their ERM is assessed as being ‘adequate with strong risk controls’. Both judgments on the key qualitative factors are below most of the group’s peers.
Platinum Underwriters was however assessed below Partner Re on these combined factors; also receiving ‘fair’ for Management & Governance, but a lower assessment of ‘adequate’ for ‘ERM’. This would have had the effect of pushing the indicative rating down to the ‘BBB+’ level. However in a further indication of the fundamental role of qualitative factors in their analysis, S&P’s final ‘holistic’ review raised it back to the ‘A-‘ level. Again AM Best is more bullish, rating Platinum ‘A’ on its own financial strength scale with a mapping to ‘A’** on the S&P scale.
*The ‘ratings anchor’ is not a rating (hence the use by S&P of the lower case symbols) but rather is the initial outcome of S&P’s rating review of a re/insurer. It addresses the core elements of financial and business risk analysis but is prior to S&P’s review of the key qualitative aspects of the re/insurer’s management profile; namely the quality of management, governance and its ERM. These may modify the rating anchor outcome positively or negatively. A further ‘holistic’ review is then applied which may adjust the rating up or down by one notch. S&P then may apply a ‘cap’ to the rating based on concerns around either liquidity or sovereign risk. Finally the rating may be adjusted due to wider group or government support.
** AM Best’s rating scale for financial strength ratings (FSRs) has fewer gradations than that used by S&P and some of the symbols common to both stand at different points in their respective scales. However Best also publishes ‘issuer credit ratings’ (ICRs) on rated re/insurers. Since the ICR for an operating re/insurer is the same as it’s FSR, for those carrying a financial strength rating the ICR effectively acts as a mapping of the AM Best scale to the S&P scale. Thus a Best’s ‘A+’ maps to an ‘AA-‘ or ‘AA’ on the S&P scale and a Best’s ‘A’ maps to an S&P ‘A’ or ‘A+’. It should be noted that typically for both S&P and Best’s the ICR of holding companies is below that of a given group’s core operating re/insurers.
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Singapore Botanic Gardens Seed Bank: Conservation, Research & Education
Lester Ng
The Queen Coralbead vine was thought to be extinct in Singapore until recently when it was rediscovered on Coney Island. Now, its seeds, along with thousands of other plant species, are amongst those stored the Singapore Botanic Gardens Seed Bank.
The new facility, located close to the Healing Garden in a colonial building opposite the NUS Law Faculty, has been set up to support plant biodiversity conservation efforts and research into seed preservation.
The Singapore Botanic Gardens Seed Bank will also play an educational role with visitors to the two-storey building being able to peer into laboratories and watch researchers going about their work.
Preserving Seed Biodiversity
The work of preservation starts with the collection of seeds in the field.
These seeds are then returned to the lab to be thoroughly cleaned. They are then sent to a drying room where their moisture content is reduced before transferred to a cold room for storage at -20 degrees Celsius.
The preservation process does not stop there as the seeds must then be periodically tested to check if they can still be germinated.
While the drying process applies to the majority of seeds, there are also “recalcitrant seeds” which cannot germinate if dried out. These include the Singapore’s favourite seed – the durian.
Instead, a different process is required for such plant seeds. This involves freezing them with liquid nitrogen – putting them into “cryogenic stasis”.
Research Work at the Singapore Botanic Gardens Seed Bank
For around 10% of plant species, the suitable storage process is still unknown and continues to an area of research.
While much of the global research into seed biology is focused on plant species from temperate regions, the Singapore Botanic Gardens Seed Bank will conduct its research into seed preservation of tropical plants.
Visitors to the Seed Bank can learn more about the science of seed preservation through information panels and exhibits throughout the centre. During the opening period, there will also be guided tours conducted as part of the Singapore Botanic Gardens Heritage Festival 2019.
With the introduction of the Seed Bank, Singapore Botanic Gardens will now be able to store the seeds of up to 25,000 plant species. This is more than double of the 10,000 plant species in its living collection.
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There is also an outdoor Seed Dispersal Garden which highlights the different ways in which seeds can be spread.
The Singapore Botanic Gardens Seed Bank is now open to the public.
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Masks to be distributed after rise in COVID-19 cases in PNG
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12:49, July 22, 2020
Papua New Guinea's prime minister has announced eight new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the capital Port Moresby.
James Marape's announcement takes the total number of cases confirmed in PNG so far to 27, over half of them having emerged in the past week.
Most of the new cases are health workers at Port Moresby General Hospital where all non-essential services have now been suspended.
This week, a terminally ill patient with advanced cancer who died at the hospital was found by a post-mortem examination to have had the coronavirus.
Earlier the government announced a cluster outbreak at the Central Public Health Laboratory on the hospital premises.
"So far, there is a high number of our health officials confirmed with COVID-19," Mr Marape said in his public address.
"Therefore, it is best to avoid visiting the Port Moresby General Hospital if you are sick or just visiting patients."
He urged residents of the capital to be vigilant in taking precautionary measures that the government has been recommending for the past four months.
These include hand washing, maintaining hygiene standards and social distancing, which Mr Marape said remained the most effective steps to preventing the spread of the virus.
Masks will be distributed to all residents of the city.
"Mask wearing will be mandatory requirement if you want to travel in public places, or participate in public occasions in a safe distance," Mr Marape said.
He added that there is a high probability of continued community transmission in the National Capital District as well as its border area and surrounding provinces.
Regarding health workers at the country's main hospital, Mr Marape indicated a renewed effort to ensure all were able to access Personal Protective Equipment.
He said in the coming days he expected to be furnished with a report from health officials regarding how the hospital cluster came about.
Contact tracing efforts are reportedly under way by the country's COVID response operations team.
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When it comes to conversations about Hawaii, O‘ahu tends to divide the room in half. Though it still harbors pockets of “old Hawaii” if you know where to look, it is by far the most developed island in the chain, with an international city on its shoreline and a population approaching a million people. Some shy away from it for its traffic and hustle; others appreciate its combination of urban and outdoor lifestyles.
Either way, there’s one thing everyone can agree on: O‘ahu is the most diverse of the islands, with a wide-range of people, landscapes, and lifestyles. From the city streets of Honolulu to the surf-inspired shores of Haleiwa, from the islands off of Kailua to the farm fields of Wahiawa and the agricultural valley of Waianae on the west coast, it’s possible to experience a little bit of everything Hawaii has to offer on O‘ahu.
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KLEIN Family History
This surname is an epithet type, referring to a person who was small in stature. The surname can be German, Dutch or Jewish (Ashkenazic). From its German and Jewish origins it is common throughout central and eastern Europe. Another derivation may be relevant: the sense being an epithet for a junior son of a family, a cadet. Kleine and Kleiner are the main variants.
In Germany, Klein ranks as 15th in the country?s rankings with a population of approximately 105 000 bearers. It was formerly found more in south and west Germany, in the provinces of Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz, and Baden-Württemburg than elsewhere. However, this surname, together with its Jewish cognomen has long been widespread throughout central and eastern Europe.
Dutch immigrants, bearing the surname (De) Klein(e) were the earliest settlers of the name in the American Dutch province of New Netherlands in the mid 17th century. German immigrants so-named began to arrive in New York at the beginning of the 18th century. Statistics in the U.S. Federal Census of 1920 show that these bearers spread into the states of New York (3,163 families), Illinois (1, 143), Ohio (867) and Pennsylvania (844). These states were all recipients of German immigrants. The New York figures, however, likely contain a number of Dutch and Jewish families.
In the U.S.A. of today, Klein stands at 359th place with a population of 79, 685 bearers (U.S. Census Bureau).
The coat of arms for the German family of Klein is a bear, proper, standing on its hind legs, holding up a green trefoil in its dexter (right) paw on a red shield; the image is repeated in the crest. (Source: Siebmacher?s ?Wappenbuch?, 1701 edition).
THREE FAMOUS KLEINS
Felix Klein (1849-1925): born in Prussia, he was a mathematician who was renowned for a study which extended the understanding of Geometry, through developing a system of describing the properties of a space as invariant; this was known as the ?Erlanger Programm?.
Abraham Moses Klein (1909-1972): born into an Orthodox Jewish family in the Ukraine, he emigrated to Canada, and there became known as a poet of the ?Montreal Group?. His works, such as ?Hath not a Jew?? (1940), ?Poems? (1944) and the ?Hitleriad? (1944) focused on persecution of the Jews by the Nazis. He was an ardent Zionist.
Calvin Klein (b. 1942): born in New York City, he became fabulously wealthy through his fashion creations for both women and men: an unmistakeable blend of classicism and innovation. Klein was the first designer to win the coveted Coty Award for womenswear, on three consecutive occasions: 1973, 74, 75.
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COROMANDEL PENINSULA TOUR – ONE DAY TOUR FROM AUCKLAND
New Zealand Nature with an Artisan Culture
‘The Coromandel’ is known for its natural beauty – breathtaking views, native forests and dramatic coastline – all set against the backdrop of the island-studded Hauraki Gulf and the Pacific Ocean. It attracts both artists and holiday makers seeking inspiring surroundings and a laid back life style.
Join us on this small group day tour from Auckland to the beautiful Coromandel Peninsula.
Coromandel Peninsula Tour
The Coromandel Peninsula is on the eastern coast of the North Island within easy reach of Auckland. The peninsula projects north with the Hauraki Gulf on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other giving the two coasts quite different characters. The mountain range down the middle is cloaked with Rain Forest. The tumbling streams of the western side were once rich with gold and New Zealand’s gold rush gave this area its quaint colonial character still evident in the buildings of Coromandel town and the names of many of the streams. The east coast by contrast looks out to the Pacific Ocean. Its pristine white sand beaches make it a popular holiday destination with tourists and locals alike and in the Christmas holiday season it feels like half of Auckland is here enjoying the sun and the beaches.
Coromandel Town and Driving Creek Mountain Railway
The spectacular west coast road to Coromandel Township affords stunning views of the Hauraki Gulf. Coromandel town is the artistic hub of the Peninsula. Originally developed in New Zealand’s gold rush, “The Coromandel” now attracts many artists and craftspeople as well as holiday makers. We visit the quirky and eclectic Driving Creek Mountain Railway and Pottery, originally started by local potter Barry Brickell to transport clay from the hillside down to his pottery studio, the railway is now a tourist attraction both for its essential “craftiness” and for the brilliant views of the Hauraki Gulf from the “eye-full” tower at the top. The buildings, cuttings and tunnels have all been designed with an artists eye and lovingly hand crafted – they are works of art of themselves. The railway zig zags up the hill through native rainforest and crosses tumbling streams. It is decorated with the potters hand wherever there is a man-made structure. A truly unique experience.
Rainforest and Hot Water Beach
Heading into the hills to cross the mountain range that divides the east coast from the west we experience the Coromandel’s mountainous beauty at its best. We take a short, easy walk in the pristine rainforest to view some of the magnificent 600 year old Kauri trees. Kauri are among the world’s mightiest trees, and can live for over 2000 years so these are young ones! Enjoy the peace and almost spiritual serenity of this special place.
Our winding road takes us up and over the mountain divide. The road was named in gold rush times the 309 road, because three hours and nine minutes was the fastest you could travel it by horse and carriage! Among the many pristine beaches of the east coast is the famous Hot Water Beach. We take a short walk along the beach where a hot water spring runs under the sand and out to sea. At low tide the locals dig in the sand to create their very own spa baths and paddling pools for the children. We walk barefoot along the beach to watch the locals at work with their spades and feel the warm water coming up from beneath the sand.
Hahei and Cathedral Cove
From the hill above Hahei you can view this spectacular coastline from the lookout or choose from a number of short and long walks along this unique coastline. The optional 45 minute walk to Cathedral Cove requires moderate fitness. At Cathedral Cove, the Pacific Ocean washes through a natural stone arch onto a white sandy beach, set among cliffs sculpted by the ocean waves – New Zealand’s natural beauty at its best.
Real New Zealand Ice Cream
We stop in Tairua for an ice cream made with real fruit before the drive across the mountain range again by another route and back to Auckland. Our tour has taken us through history, art and craft, natural rainforests and beaches in one fabulous day.
Coromandel Peninsula Tour – Highlights
Dramatic Coastal Drive
Driving Creek Railway and Pottery
Coromandel Town and Craft Shops
Kauri Grove
Hot Water Beach (only possible at low tide)
Operates: Daily except 24th December to 2nd January
Price includes free pick-up from central Auckland hotels and admission. Lunch is at own expense
Times: Central Auckland 7am – 6pm
Notes: Dress for an easy walk in the forest and on the beach. Bring a small towel to dry your feet after the beach
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Column: News getting better at Spitzer Motor Speedway
Rob McCurdy
MANSFIELD - The news out of Spitzer Motor Speedway keeps getting better.
Earlier this month, Full Throttle Racing Promotions, which is based in Mansfield, announced it was taking over the promotion of the former Mansfield Motorsports Park for 2016. That's certainly good news for local racing enthusiasts and folks looking for something to do on the summer weekends.
This week details were given on how the 2016 schedule will look, including affordable ticket prices and an engaged marketing strategy. It appears as if the half-mile oval is turning a corner in the second season of its reboot.
And that's the best news of all.
“I honestly believe this is going to be a huge success," Racing Director Chris Mize said.
Driving it will be a return to grassroots racing at the north side speed plant. If all goes well, the goal is to make Friday nights fun in the summer, and they are banking on the compact cars and small trucks bringing that excitement.
Spitzer Motor Speedway will feature front-wheel drive street stocks, outlaw mini stocks and mini trucks in its biweekly racing shows.
“We’ve got an outlaw class and there’s only going to be a few rules in place," Mize said. "It is what it is; it’s an outlaw class and it’s pretty unlimited. Then you have our compact class and that will be an only-stock class, like a beginner class. There are rules and the rules will be implemented. I’m big on that.”
As for the mini trucks, Mize has been assured there will be 13 to 16 showing up to race.
Mike Yunker, who is the promotion's president, loves the idea of compact car and truck racing.
"They're not afraid to bang and bump out there. It reminds me of the way NASCAR used to be," he said.
And the beauty of it is drivers don't have to grind through the season. None of them are pros and all have real jobs with racing as a hobby. By running every other week, it gives them time to get their equipment in order and save costs.
“Guys want to run and they love this biweekly schedule," Mize said. "In today’s world it’s hard to have the money to run every week. The guys want to run biweekly like this, 10 to 12 times a year. It’s less expense on them, too. The younger generation isn’t coming into this like we’d like it to or like it used to be. There are guys out there my age and middle age that don’t want to do this week-in and week-out from April 'til October. This fits the perfect scenario."
Specifics in regards to rules, purses and points system will be released later this winter.
Maybe the best thing of all is the ticket price: $5 with children 15-and-younger getting in for free. In 2015, that's cheap entertainment. Throw in a band or DJ for an after-race party on those Friday night's, and it will be no different that going to a bar or club and paying a cover charge.
"You went to a party and watched a race," Yunker said of the vibe they're trying to create on Friday nights.
And if there is a special event the next night or Sunday, the track will knock off $5 for the patrons who save their ticket stub and show it at the gate.
Sounds like good news for racers and fans alike.
Spitzer Motor Speedway Special Events
May 20: Friday night biweekly racing.
May 22: Must See Sprints and Top Speed Modified Series.
June 3: Friday night biweekly racing.
June 11: Mansfield bull riding and concert.
June 17: Friday night biweekly racing.
June 18: Must See Sprints and ARCA Truck Series.
July 1: Friday night biweekly racing.
July 15: Friday night biweekly racing.
July 17: Auto Value Sprints and Top Speed Modified Series.
Aug. 4-6: Bud St. Amant Memorial for ARCA/CRA Super Series and JEGS CRA All-Stars Tour with Friday night biweekly racing.
Aug. 13: Mansfield bull riding and concert.
Aug. 19: Friday night biweekly racing.
Aug. 27: Auto Value Sprints and ARCA Truck Series.
Sept. 3: Mansfield bull riding and concert
Sept. 9: Friday night biweekly racing.
Sept. 10: King of the Hill with Must See Sprints vs. Auto Value Sprint Series, MSA Supermodifieds, Friday night biweekly racing championships.
Note: Friday night biweekly racing includes street stocks, outlaw mini stocks and mini trucks and tickets are $5. Tickets for all other events are $15. Children 15-and-younger admitted free to all events.
Rob McCurdy covers motorsports at the News Journal and can be reached at rmccurdy@gannett.com or 419-521-7241. On Twitter follow @McMotorsport.
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The Supply > Thought Leadership > Social ads
Thoughts on Spotify Ad Studio: Stop Consumers In Their Tracks
by Marketing Supply Co. Team | October 3rd, 2017
Published by Marketing Supply Co. Team on October 3, 2017
If you haven’t heard, which you probably haven’t because the release was on the DL (down low), Spotify just launched the beta version of “Spotify Ad Studio”. This inclusive ad platform (build a campaign with a minimum $250 budget)—similar to Facebook or Pinterest’s ad managers—is a complete 180 from Spotify’s original (and incredibly inclusive with its $25,000 minimum) ad platform.
For digital marketing agencies like Marketing Supply Co., this is likely the best thing that has come out of 2017 (we realize that’s not too hard to do in light of current events, regardless). Spotify already plays a major role providing the background music for our office, but now you can read why we think Ad Studio is a game changer for startup marketing strategies.
How Spotify’s “Ad Studio” Works
The Beta version, that is…
Based on first impressions, Ad Studio is fairly similar to Facebook Ad Manager. This is good news for any agency who uses Facebook Ad Manager religiously like we do. We’re hoping that this will equate to a seamless transition into creating audio ads for our clients. To be perfectly honest, when we heard the words “audio ads”, our minds immediately went to purchasing a mic, soundproofing material, etc., but just like Spotify makes your morning commute a breeze, audio ads are much easier done than said.
According to Spotify, using Ad Studio is as easy as telling Spotify how your ad should sound, and they’ll take it from there—but you also have the option to upload your own audio ad. Here are the steps, directly from Spotify.
Step 1: Create your ad (or upload your own): Give Spotify a script, and they’ll give your ad a voice. Seriously—they’ll record a voiceover and mix the music.
Step 2: Pick your audience: Target based on age, gender, location, activity, and music taste. Select mobile, desktop or both so your ad reaches listeners in the right context. More on this further down.
Step 3: Customize your campaign: You’ve got the keys. Just set your budget and campaign dates, then sit back, relax, and see how listeners engage with your ad.
In our humble opinion, step 2 is where social advertising agencies can really step in. Agencies like Marketing Supply Co. will dive deep into research about your target audience to discover their music tastes and habits—we promise we won’t base our research on our own, kick-ass music taste.
Once you have your campaign set in motion the self-service ad platform allows you to forecast impression estimates based on your target audience, and track and manage all your campaign reporting.
Why Audio Ads?
The best of traditional advertising in the digital space.
If you are a startup, small business, or any business that focuses its advertising efforts exclusively online, audio ads are likely a foreign concept. Here’s why we think they’ll work. We are a digital agency, so we love online advertising as much as we do it, but because we know it so well, we know where it’s lacking. Social media advertising tends to be pretty visual, which is great, but visual ads can’t be everywhere—yet.
Radio ads and regular commercial spots may be old school, but no marketer can deny that the audio aspect of these traditional forms of advertising makes ads that much more engaging. Another way to think about it: the average person doesn’t have a screen in their shower, on their morning commute, or exercising outdoors, but they are probably listening to something. Whether it’s through headphones, an Amazon Alexa, or car speakers, audio ads go where visual ads can’t. Not to mention, Spotify has over 140 million listeners worldwide so the chances of you reaching your audience are pretty high.
Why Advertise With Spotify?
& some potential pitfalls…
We are music lovers. The only thing we talk about more than digital marketing is LCD Soundsystem’s “American Dream” album. We’re not alone in this though, millions of people every month tune into Spotify to listen to music that speaks to them. We believe—so does Spotify—that the music people listen to says a lot about them. I mean why would I listen to “Bodak Yellow” if I didn’t want to feel like an empowered woman? That being said, we see marketing your product/service to someone based on their listening habits as a can’t miss opportunity.
Nothing is perfect, except, of course, Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” album [Note: our CEO believes that Dr. Dre’s “The Chronic” album is also perfect]. There are a few areas that we think Ad Studio might fall short, starting with Spotify Premium:
Spotify Premium and Premium For Family customers make up a large chunk of Spotify’s network, this means that this group of potential consumers won’t be exposed to audio ads. Depending on your audience, this could be a major downside to audio ads.
Second, you can’t target by zip code or geo-radius, only by country, state, or designated market areas. So, while the minimum to create a campaign is low, audio ads may not be the best option for super local products.
Third, there is no way to know exactly which playlists, albums, etc. that the ad played on. This isn’t necessarily a major pitfall of Ad Studio, but definitely something to keep in mind.
Why Work With MSC?
Aside from having excellent taste in music, the MSC team is the perfect digital agency to partner with when it comes to marketing with Spotify. Not only are we one of the few companies that are already off the waitlist (we can get your campaigns rolling like a stone asap), but we also have the resources and experts that are willing and able to conduct in-depth audience research to help ensure that your ads are being put in the ears of the right people. Ready to stop your consumers in their tracks? Contact us today!
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Home / Press Releases / MailPix Celebrates with Anniversary Sale
MailPix Celebrates with Anniversary Sale
MailPix Celebrates a year of rapid growth with Anniversary Sale
Huntington Beach, CA – MailPix.com, is commemorating its anniversary of making real photo memories with a sale from Aug. 4-10. MailPix is offering these great deals:
Free 4x6 Brag Books
Penny Prints
$1.00 8x10's
$3.00 5x7 Canvas
$5.00 8x10 Canvas
Free Photo Magnet w/any Purchase
“Since embarking on this journey, bringing together this talented and knowledgeable e-commerce photo team with more than 100 years of photo imaging experience, I’ve been impressed with our growth,” says Fred H. Lerner, founder and CEO. “The opportunity for photo printing is expanding, and MailPix is at the forefront of website usability, product offerings and e-commerce technology. Also, our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee and our low prices are big winners for our customers.”
MailPix has quickly expanded its services this past year to add Facebook and Instagram printing (October), video transfer services (November), iPhone and tablet cases (December), aluminum prints (January), home decor (February), scrapbook pages (March), premium photo canvas (April), and photo sharing games (April).
MailPix actively engages with customers through social media, including Facebook, Google+, Pinterest and Twitter, as well as its blog (www.mailpixblog.com).
MailPix.com is the pre-eminent site for preserving photo memories as photo books, prints, cards, enlargements, canvas prints and other products. Everyone now has a camera in their pocket with priceless memories. MailPix’s passion is to make it easy to upload, share and print your photos.
MailPix is seamlessly integrated to print your or your friends’ 240 billion-plus Facebook and Instagram photos…and photos from any device, computer or phone.
Fred H. Lerner is the founder and CEO and is Fred’s latest startup. He previously founded Ritz Interactive which included RitzCamera.com, WolfCamera.com and others. Fred also founded two imaging companies which was acquired by Kodak and became the CEO of Kodak Processing Labs. He is a Hall of Fame recipient at the United Nations’ International Photographic Council and Past President of the Photo Marketing Association International. Peter Tahmin, joined as co-founder and COO, MailPix.com, and was former vice president, Ritz Camera and Image, and SVP and COO of Ritz Interactive.
The MailPix board of advisors includes Oscar B. (Bud) Marx III, chairman of Amerigon (NASDAQ: ARGN) and is the former President & General Manager, Ford of Mexico and CFO of Ford, Europe; William A. Roskin, board member of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (NYSE: MSO) and is the former Executive Vice President of Viacom, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB); Ted McGrath former President of Fujifilm, USA and General Manager of Kodak’s Consumer Imaging Division; James Joaquin, former president and CEO of Ofoto, leading that company from its start through the successful acquisition by Kodak; and Gary Pageau, of InfoCircle and former Publisher, Content Development and Strategic Initiatives at Photo Marketing Association International (PMAI).
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Autodesk Launches Mudbox 2010 Digital Sculpting and Painting Software
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New Version Offers Increased Model Quality, New Presentation Capabilities and Easier Integration with Digital Entertainment Workflows
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At SIGGRAPH 2009, Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has launched Autodesk Mudbox 2010 software, the latest version of its digital sculpting and painting application. The 2010 release makes it easier for artists to use Mudbox alongside Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Softimage software. Mudbox 2010 now also features a host of new creative tools and workflows, as well as a software development kit (SDK) that enables production teams to customize and integrate Mudbox into pipelines.
Mudbox 2010 will ship as a part of the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites, making it more affordable to incorporate the technology into film, games and television workflows.
"Autodesk Mudbox gives artists the freedom to create 3D digital artwork as easily as working with clay and paint," said Stig Gruman, vice president, Autodesk Digital Entertainment Group. "The software empowers artists to add a level of detail to their 3D characters, objects and environments that can be difficult to achieve in traditional 3D modeling applications."
Christoph Schadl, character artist at RABCAT Computer Graphics GmbH, was a beta tester for Mudbox 2010. "I love to work with Mudbox because the intuitive user interface lets me focus entirely on my creative vision," said Schadl. "My favorite feature in the 2010 release is the ability to paint across multiple texture maps, in different paint channels without any seams. That means you can paint really huge textures -- up to 50K and more."
New Feature Highlights
-- Interoperability with Adobe Photoshop: New workflows make using Mudbox
in conjunction with Photoshop easier. Mudbox 2010 can import PSD files
to use as paint layers, as well as export paint layers as PSD files for
touchup.
-- Simpler interoperability with Maya, 3ds Max and Softimage: Mudbox adds
support for Autodesk FBX file transfer technology, enabling artists to
import and export scene data containing more information than the usual
OBJ file format. Painted texture maps, cameras and image planes can be
retained, resulting in higher-fidelity transfers that help to save
artists' time.
-- Software development kit (SDK): Mudbox 2010 introduces a C++ SDK that
production teams can use to customize and integrate Mudbox into
pipelines.
-- New creative tools and workflows: The 2010 version also includes new
brushes, support for reordering of paint layers, ambient occlusion map
baking, new viewport filters as well as the ability to render images
directly from the viewport -- making Mudbox a great presentation tool.
Autodesk Digital Entertainment Creation Suites
Autodesk's new Entertainment Creation Suites offer customers a choice of either Maya 2010 or 3ds Max 2010 software, together with Mudbox 2010 and Autodesk MotionBuilder 2010 software. The Suites give artists and production facilities access to a range of powerful creative tools at more than 35 percent* cost savings, compared to purchasing each product separately. With Autodesk FBX 2010 data exchange technology, the Suites provide a cohesive, efficient pipeline. Used together, the products in these Suites help artists maximize creativity and optimize productivity.
Autodesk anticipates that Mudbox 2010, as well as the new Digital Entertainment Creation suites, will be available in August 2009. The 32-bit version of Mudbox 2010 will be supported on the Windows Vista Business (SP1), Windows XP Professional (SP2) and Apple Mac OS X 10.5.7 operating systems. The 64-bit version of Mudbox 2010 will be supported on the Windows Vista Business (SP1) and Windows XP x64 Edition (SP2) operating systems.
The Autodesk suggested retail price for a license of Mudbox 2010 is US$745**. The suggested retail price to upgrade from Mudbox 2009 to Mudbox 2010 is US$375**. Autodesk Subscription is available for purchase simultaneously with the product or upgrade purchase. The Autodesk suggested retail price for Autodesk Subscription for Mudbox 2010 is US$250 per year**.
*International savings may vary.
**International pricing may vary.
Autodesk, Inc., is a world leader in 2D and 3D design software for the manufacturing, construction, and media and entertainment markets. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk has developed the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art Digital Prototyping solutions to help customers experience their ideas before they are real. Fortune 1000 companies rely on Autodesk for the tools to visualize, simulate and analyze real-world performance early in the design process to save time and money, enhance quality and foster innovation. For additional information about Autodesk, visit www.autodesk.com.
Autodesk, AutoCAD, FBX, Maya, Mudbox, Softimage and 3ds Max are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. SIGGRAPH is a registered trademark of the Association of Computing Machinery, Inc. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product offerings and specifications at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document.
Contact: Brittany Bonhomme, 416.874.8798 / Karen Raz, 310.450.1482
brittany.bonhomme@autodesk.com / karen@razpr.com
Autodesk Introduces Mudbox 2009 Digital Sculpting and Texture Painting Software
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Autodesk Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Skymatter, Makers of Mudbox 3D Brush-Based Modeling Software
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Lakhmir Singh Manjit Kaur Biology for Class 10 Science Chapter 4 - Heredity And Evolution
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Which of the processes, sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction, bring about maximum variations in the offsprings?
Maximum variations in the offsprings occur in the process of sexual reproduction.
Name one variation in humans connected with ears.
In ears, free earlobes and attached earlobes are an example of variation in humans.
What constitutes the link between one generation and the next?
Gametes constitute the link between one generation and the next. They pass on the paternal and maternal characteristics to the offspring.
If the trait A exists in 10% of a population of an asexually reproducing species and a trait B exists in 60% of the same population, which trait is likely to have arisen earlier?
Trait B is likely to have arisen earlier, as it is prevalent in a greater proportion in the population.
Mendel said that the characteristics or traits of organisms are carried from one generation to the next by internal factors which occur in pairs. What is the modern name for these factors?
The modern name of these factors is genes.
Some plants occur in one of the two sizes : tall or dwarf. This characteristic is controlled by one pair of genes. Tallness is dominant to dwarfness. Choose suitable letters for this gene pair.
Let 'T' stands for tall, and 't' stand for dwarf. Hence, the gene pair will be Tt.
What are the chromosomes XY and XX known as?
Chromosomes XY and XX are known as sex chromosomes.
Which of the two, sperm or ovum, decides the sex of the child?
The sperm decides the sex of a child.
State whether the following statement is true or false :
The sex of an infant is not a case of inheritance of characteristics.
False. The sex of an infant is a case of inheritance of characteristics. This is because an infant's sex is determined by the sex chromosomes that come from parents.
A new born child has an XY pair of chromosmes. Will it be a baby boy or a baby girl?
The child will be a boy.
Which of the following combinations of sex chromosomes produce a male child : XX or XY?
Combination XY of sex chromosomes produces a male child.
Name the first scientist who studied the inheritance of traits from one generation to the next.
Gregor Mendel was the first scientist, who studied the inheritance of traits from one generation to the next.
What type of plants were used by Mendel for conducting his experiments on inheritance?
Mendel used different varieties of pea plants (Pisum sativum) for conducting his experiments on inheritance.
The gene for red hair is recessive to the gene for black hair. What will be the hair colour of a person if he inherits a gene for red hair from his mother and a gene for black hair from his father?
The hair colour of the person will be black because the gene for red hair is recessive compared to black.
What are the four blood groups in humans?
The four blood groups in humans are A, B, AB and O.
Name one reptile in each case where higher incubation temperature leads to the development of : (a) male progeny, (b) female progeny.
(a) Lizard (Agama agama)
(b) Turtle (Chrysema picta)
Fill in the following blanks with suitable words :
(a) Genes always work in ................ .
(b) In pea plants, the gene for dwarfness is ..............whereas that for tallness is ............ .
(c) Most people have ............earlobes but some have ............earlobes.
(d) A human gamete contains.............. chromosomes whereas a normal body cell has .......... chromosomes in it.
(e) All races of man have...........blood groups.
(f) The...............chromosomes for a ............are XX whereas that for a ..............are XY.
(a) Genes always work in pairs.
(b) In pea plants, the gene for dwarfness is recessive, whereas that for tallness is dominant.
(c) Most people have free earlobes but some have attached earlobes.
(d) A human gamete contains 23 chromosomes, whereas a normal body cell has 46 chromosomes in it.
(e) All races of man have different blood groups.
(f) The sex chromosomes for a female are XX, whereas that for a male are XY.
Which of the following represent tall plants and which represent short plants (or dwarf plants)?
(a) Tt
(b) tt
(c) TT
Give reason for your choice (The symbols have their usual meaning).
(a) Tt represents tall plants, as T (tall) is dominant over t (dwarf).
(b) tt represents dwarf plants, as t (dwarf) is present in homozygous recessive state.
(c) TT represents tall plants, as T (tall) is present in homozygous dominant state.
A man having blood group O marries a woman having blood group B and they have a daughter. What will be the blood group of the daughter?
The answer to this question depends on whether the blood group B of the woman has gene combination IBIB or IBIO.
In the first case (i.e., when the blood group B has genotype IBIB), the daughter will have blood group B. This is because here the gene IB is dominant over gene IO.
In the second case (i.e., when the blood group B has genotype IBIO), there stands an equal chance for the genotype of the daughter's blood to be either IBIO or IOIO. Due to this, there is an equal chance for the daughter to acquire blood group B or blood group O.
(a) Name the scientist who gave the laws of inheritance.
(b) Name an animal in which individuals can change sex. What does this indicate?
(a) Gregor Mendel gave the laws of inheritance.
(b) Snail is an example of an animal that can change sex. This indicates that sex in snails is not determined genetically.
Explain with an example, how genes control the characteristics (or traits).
A gene is the section of DNA on a chromosome that codes the formation of a protein controlling a specific characteristic of the organism.
Suppose, a plant progeny possesses gene for the characteristic called 'tallness'. The gene for tallness will give instructions to the plant cells to generate many plant-growth hormones due to which the plant will grow tall. On the other hand, if the plant has the gene for shortness, less plant-growth hormones will be produced, due to which the plant will not grow much and remain a dwarf plant.
(a) State one advantage of variation to a species.
(b) What are sex chromosomes? How many sex chromosomes are there? Name them.
(a) The one advantage of variation to a species is that it increases the chances of the species' survival in a changing environment.
(b) The chromosomes that determine the sex of a person are called sex chromosomes. There are two types of sex chromosomes, the X chromosome and the Y chromosome.
Explain how, sex is determined in human babies.
In humans, sex is determined at the time of fertilisation. If the father contributes X chromosome during fertilisation through his sperm, then the baby born will be a girl. On the other hand, if chromosome Y is contributed through his sperm, then the newborn will be a boy.
What do the following symbols used in the topic on heredity represent?
(c) XX
(d) XY
(a) TT represents a tall plant.
(b) tt represents a dwarf plant.
(c) XX represents a female.
(d) XY represents a male.
(a) What will you get in the F1 and F2 generations in the following cross?
Pure tall pea plant × Pure dwarf pea plant
(b) It it an example of monohybrid cross or dihybrid cross?
(a) In the F1 generation, we will get all tall plants. In the F2 generation, we will get tall and dwarf plants in the ratio 3:1.
(b) It is an example of monohybrid cross, as only one character (i.e., plant height) is considered for crossing.
In the F2 generation of a cross, progeny having different traits are produced in the ratio 3 : 1. State whether it is a monohybrid cross or a dihybrid cross? Give one example of such a cross.
It is a monohybrid cross. When a tall pea plant (TT) is crossed with a dwarf pea plant (tt), then in the F1 generation, all tall pea plants (with genotype Tt) are obtained. If these tall plants (Tt) are self-crossed, then in the F2 generation, the tall and dwarf plants will be in the ratio 3:1.
(a) What is the genotype of dwarf plants which always produced dwarf offspring?
(b) What is the genotype of tall plants which always produced tall offspring?
(c) What is the genotype of (i) dwarf plants, and (ii) tall plants, whose parental cross always produces tall offspring?
(a) tt is the genotype of dwarf plants which always produces a dwarf offspring.
(b) TT is the genotype of tall plants which always produces a tall offspring.
(c) (i) tt is the genotype of dwarf plants; and,
(ii) TT is the genotype of tall plants. The parental cross of (ii) always produces a tall offspring.
(a) If a normal human cell has 46 chromosomes, how many chromosomes will be there in a human (i) sperm cell, and (ii) zygote?
(b) What sizes of plants are produced if both parents have genes Tt?
(a) (i) A sperm cell will have half the number of chromosomes than present in a normal cell. Hence, the number of chromosomes present in it will be 23.
(ii) Number of chromosomes in a zygote will be same as present in a normal cell. Hence, the number of chromosomes present in it will be 46.
(b) Tall and dwarf plants will be produced in the ratio 3:1.
In a human, how many chromosmes are present in :
(a) a brain cell?
(b) a sperm in the testes?
(c) an egg which has just been produced by the ovary?
(d) a skin cell?
(e) a fertilised egg?
(a) In a brain cell in a human has 46 chromosomes.
(b) A sperm in the testes has 23 chromosomes.
(c) An egg which has just been produced by the ovary has 23 chromosomes.
(d) A skin cell has 46 chromosomes.
(e) A fertilised egg has 46 chromosomes.
Gregor Mendel's first law of genetics states "Of a pair of contrasted characters, only one can be represented in a gamete by its internal 'factor'.
(a) Give the modern name for this 'factor'.
(b) State where these factors are found in gametes.
(a) The modern name for this 'factor' is genes.
(b) These factors or genes are present on chromosomes in gametes.
Does genetic combination of mother play a significant role in determining the sex of a new born baby?
Genetic combination of mother does not play a significant role in determining the sex of a new born baby. Genetic combination of father decides the sex of the baby which the mother will give birth to.
Give the contrasting traits of the following characters in pea plant and mention which is dominant and which is recessive :
(a) Yellow seed
(b) Round seed
(a) Green seed. Yellow seed is the dominant trait and green seed is the recessive trait.
(b) Wrinkled seed. Round seed is the dominant trait and wrinkled seed is the recessive trait.
(a) What is meant by 'heredity'? What are the units of heredity.
(b) State Mendel's first law of inheritance.
(a) The transmission of characters from the parents to their offsprings is called heredity. Genes are the units of heredity which transfer characteristics from parents to their offsprings during reproduction.
(b) Mendel's first law of inheritance states that the characteristics of an organism are determined by internal factors which occur in pairs. Only one of a pair of such factors can be present in a single gamete.
(a) Why did Mendel choose pea plants for conducting his experiments on inheritance?
(b) State Mendel's second law of inheritance.
(a) Mendel chose pea plants for studying inheritance because of the following reasons:
Pea plants had a number of clear cut differences which were easy to tell apart. For example, some pea plants were 'tall' whereas others were 'dwarf'.
They were self pollinating plants.
Many generations of pea plants can be produced in a comparatively short time span and their study is much simpler than that of animals.
(b) Mendel's second law of inheritance states that 'in the inheritance of more than one pair of traits in a cross simultaneously, the factors responsible for each pair of traits are distributed independently to the gametes.'
(a) What do you understand by the term 'variation'?
(b) Name two human traits which show variation.
(c) How does the creation of variation in a species ensure its survival?
(a) The differences in the characters (or traits) among the individuals of a species is called variation.
(b) Human height and skin colour are two traits which show variation.
(c) The great advantage of variation to a species is that it increases their chances of survival in a changing environment. For example, the accumulation of heat resistant variation in some bacteria will ensure its survival even when the temperature in its environment rises too much, due to a heat wave or any other reason. On the other hand, the bacteria which did not have this variation to withstand heat would not survive under these circumstances, and die.
(a) What are genes? Where are they located in our body?
(b) What is meant by dominant genes and recessive genes? Give one example of each.
(c) Explain how, characteristics (or traits) are inherited through genes.
(a) Genes are units of heredity which transfer characteristics (or traits) from parents to their offsprings during reproduction. Genes are located on chromosomes.
(b) The gene which decides the appearance of an organism even in the presence of an alternative gene is known as dominant gene. The gene which can decide the appearance of an organism only in the presence of another identical gene is called a recessive gene. For example, in pea plants, the dominant gene for tallness is T and the recessive gene for dwarfism is t.
(c) Genes are responsible for the characteristic features of an organism. The characteristics or traits of parents are transmitted to their progeny through genes present on their chromosomes during the process of sexual recombination. There is a pair of genes for each characteristic of an organism. However, each parent passes only one of the two genes of the pair for each characteristic to its progeny through gametes. Thus, the male gamete and female gamete carry one gene for each characteristic form the gene pairs of parents. But when a male gamete fuses with a female gamete during fertilisation, they make a new cell called zygot,e with a full set of genes. This zygote grows and develops to form a new organism having characteristics from both the parents.
(a) How do Mendel's experiments show that traits may be dominant or recessive?
(b) How do Mendel's experiments show that traits are inherited independently?
(a) Mendel crossed pure-bred tall pea plants with pure-bred dwarf pea plants and found that only tall pea plants were produced in the F1 generation. From this, Mendel concluded that the F1 generation showed the traits of only one of the parents: tallness. The trait of other parent plant, dwarfness, did not show in the progeny of the first generation. When tall pea plants of the first generation were crossed, then in F2 generation, tall plants and dwarf plants were obtained in the ratio 3:1.
From these experiments, Mendel concluded that the trait for dwarfness of one of the parent pea plant had not been lost. It was merely concealed or suppressed in the first generation to reemerge in the second generation.
(b) Mendel chose two contrasting characters: shape and colour of seeds. The pea plants had round-yellow seeds and wrinkled green seeds. Mendel first crossed pure-bred pea plants with round-yellow seeds with pure-bred pea plants having wrinkled-green seeds and found that only round-yellow seeds were produced in the first generation. From this, he concluded that round shape and yellow colour of the seeds were dominant traits over the wrinkled shape and green colour of the seeds. When the F1 generation pea plants with round-yellow seeds were cross-bred by self pollination, then four types of seeds with different combinations of shape and colour were obtained in the F2 generation. Mendel observed that he had started with two combinations of characteristics in seeds and two new combinations of characteristics had appeared in the F2 generation i.e. round-green and wrinkled-yellow. On the basis of this observation, Mendel concluded that though the two pairs of original characteristics combine in the F1 generation, they separate and behave independently in subsequent generations.
When two parents are crossed, the offspring are referred to as :
(a) recessives
(b) test cross
(c) F1 generation
(d) F2 generation
When two parents cross to produce progeny, their progeny is called first filial generation (or F1 generation).
A cross between two individuals results in a ratio of 9 : 3 : 3 : 1 for four possible phenotypes of progeny. This is an example of a :
(a) dihybrid cross
(b) monohybrid cross
(c) test cross
A dihybrid cross gives progeny in the ratio of 9: 3: 3: 1.
For his experiments on heredity, Mendel used :
(a) papaya plants
(b) potato plants
(c) pea plants
(d) pear plants
Mendel used pea plants for his experiments on heredity.
The human animal which has an XY pair of chromosomes is called :
(a) male
(b) hybrid
(c) female
(d) doomed
In humans, XY combination of chromosomes represents a male.
The science of heredity is known as :
(a) biology
(b) embryology
(c) genetics
(d) biochemistry
The science of heredity is known as genetics.
A gene is a :
(a) hybrid
(b) heritable trait
(c) pure breed
(d) part of a chromosome that transmits a trait
A gene is a unit of heredity present on chromosomes that transfers characteristic from parents to their offsprings during reproduction.
A normal cell of human body contains 23 pairs of chromosomes. The number of chromosomes in a sex cell (sperm or ovum) of a human being is most likely to be :
The number of chromosomes present in a sex cell of a human being would normally be 23.
In order to ensure that he had pure-breeding plants for his experiments, Mendel :
(a) cross-fertilised each variety with each other
(b) let each variety self fertilise for several generations
(c) removed the female parts of the plants
(d) removed the male parts of the plants.
Mendel ensured that he used pure breeding plants for his experiments by letting each variety self-pollinate for several generations.
In the human blood grouping, the four basic blood types are type A, type B, type AB, and type O. The blood proteins A and B are :
(a) simple dominant and recessive traits
(b) incomplete dominant traits
(c) codominant traits
(d) sex-linked traits
Blood proteins A and B are codominant traits, as neither of these is able to dominate the other completely.
A plant with two 'small' genes breeds with a plant with two 'tall' genes to produce :
(a) small plants and tall plants in the ratio 1 : 3
(b) all small plants
(c) all tall plants
(d) tall plants and small plants in the ratio 3 : 1
All tall plants will be produced because tall genes are dominant over small genes.
A pregnant woman has an equal chance of her baby being blood group A or blood group AB. Which one of the following shows the possible genotypes of the woman and the father of her child?
(a) IA IA and IB IO
(b) IA IB and IB IO
(c) IA IO and IB IO
(d) IA IB and IA IO
Possible genotypes should be IAIA and IBIO because these two combinations will produce progeny either with blood group A or blood group AB.
The palisade cells of a species of plant contain 28 chromosomes. How many chromosomes will there be in each gamete produced by the plant?
Palisade cells of leaves are somatic cells. Each gamete produced by the plant will have half the number of chromosomes present in a palisade cell i.e. 14 chromosomes.
Which of the following may be used to obtain an F2 generation?
(a) allowing flowers on a parent plant to be self-pollinated
(b) allowing flowers on an F1 plant to be self-pollinated
(c) cross-pollinating an F1 plant with a parent plant
(d) cross-pollinating two parent plants
F2 generation can be obtained by allowing flowers on the plants of F1 generation to be self-pollinated.
The following results were obtained by a scientist who crossed the F1 generation of pure-breeding parents for round and wrinkled seeds.
Dominant trait Recessive trait No. of F2 offspring
Round seeds Wrinkled seeds 7524
From these results, it can be concluded that the actual number of round seeds he obtained was:
The round and wrinkled seeds will be obtained in the ratio 3:1.
Number of round seeds obtained will be =7524 ×34 = 5643
The visible characteristic in an organism is known as :
(a) prototype
(b) stereotype
(c) phenotype
(d) genotype
The characteristic (or trait) in an organism that is visible is called its phenotype.
The exchange of genetic material takes place in :
(a) vegetative reproduction
(b) asexual reproduction
(c) sexual reproduction
(d) budding
The exchange of genetic material occurs during meiosis, that takes place in the gametes of sexually reproducing organisms.
A cross between a tall plant (TT) and short plant (tt) resulted in progeny that were all tall plants because :
(a) tallness is the dominant trait
(b) shortness is the dominant trait
(c) tallness is the recessive trait
(d) height of plant is not governed by gene T or t
In progeny, all plants obtained will be tall because tallness is the dominant trait, while dwarfism is the recessive trait.
The number of pair(s) of sex chromosomes in the zygote of humans is :
(a) one
(b) two
(c) three
(d) four
The number of sex chromosomes in the zygote of humans is two-- XX in females and XY in males.
In peas, a pure tall plant (TT) is crossed with a pure short plant (tt). The ratio of pure tall plants to pure short plants in F2 generation will be :
(a) 1 : 3
(b) 3 : 1
(c) 1 : 1
(d) 2 : 1
The ratio of pure tall plants to pure short plants in F2 generation will be 1:1. The other two plants produced will also be tall, but they will not be pure.
The two versions of a trait (character) which are brought in by the male and female gametes are situated on :
(a) copies of the same chromosome
(b) sex chromosomes
(c) two different chromosomes
(d) any chromosomes
The two versions of a trait, which are brought in by the female and male gametes are situated on the copies of the same chromosome.
Select the statements that describe characteristics of genes :
(i) genes are specific sequence of bases in a DNA molecule
(ii) a gene does not code for proteins
(iii) in individuals of a given species, a specific gene is located on a particular chromosome
(iv) each chromosome has only one gene
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (i) and (iii)
(c) (i) and (iv)
(d) (ii) and (iv)
A gene is the section in a DNA on a chromosome that codes for the formation of a protein, controlling a specific characteristic of the organism. The two genes which are responsible for a particular characteristic are always present on the corresponding position of the pair of chromosomes. There are thousands of genes on a chromosome, which control various characteristics of an organism.
Select the group which shares the maximum number of common characters :
(a) two individuals of a species
(b) two species of a genus
(c) two genera of a family
(d) two genera of two families
Two individuals of a species share the maximum number of common characters.
A trait in an organism is influenced by :
(a) paternal DNA only
(b) maternal DNA only
(c) both maternal and paternal DNA
(d) neither by paternal nor by maternal DNA.
A trait in an organism is influenced by both maternal and paternal DNA. This is because in zygote, one half of the chromosomes is contributed by the mother, and the other half by the father.
In human males all the chromosomes are paired perfectly except one. This/these unpaired chromosomes is/are :
(i) large chromosome
(ii) small chromosome
(iii) Y chromosome
(iv) X chromosome
(b) (iii) only
(c) (iii) and (iv)
In human males, the X and Y chromosomes remain unpaired during meiosis.
The sex of a child is determined by which of the following?
(a) the length of the mother's pregnancy
(b) the length of time between ovulation and copulation
(c) the presence of and X chromosome in an ovum
(d) the presence of a Y chromosome in a sperm
The sex of a child is determined by the Y chromosome that is present in a sperm.
A zygote which has inherited an X chromosome from the father will develop into :
(a) baby boy
(b) baby girl
(c) adult
(d) either boy or girl
A zygote which has inherited an X chromosome from the father will develop into a baby girl. The combination XX of sex chromosomes tends to develop into females.
Which of the following statement is incorrect?
(a) for every hormone there is a gene
(b) for every protein there is a gene
(c) for production of every enzyme there is a gene
(d) for every type of fat there is a gene
Fats are not synthesised by genes present on chromosomes.
If the ratio of each phenotype of the seeds of pea plants in the F2 generation is 9 : 3 : 3 : 1, it is known as :
(a) tetrahybrid ratio
(b) monohybrid ratio
(c) dihybrid ratio
(d) trihybrid ratio
The ratio 9: 3: 3: 1 is known as the dihybrid ratio.
In humans, if gene B gives brown eyes and gene b gives blue eyes. What will be the colour of eyes of the persons having the following combination of genes?
(a) Bb
(b) bb
(c) BB
(a) Combination Bb will give brown eyes.
(b) Combination bb will give blue eyes.
(c) Combination BB will give brown eyes.
Pure-bred pea plants A are crossed with pure-bred pea plants B. It is found that the plants which look like A do not appear in F1 generation but re-emerge in F2 generation. Which of the plants A and B are : (i) tall, and (ii) dwarf? Give reason for your answer.
(i) Pea plants B are the tall ones. It is because these plants carry the trait for tallness, which is dominant.
(ii) Pea plants A are dwarfs. It is because these plants carry the trait for dwarfism, which is recessive. A recessive trait remains hidden in F1 generation but reappears in F2 generation.
Pure-bred tall pea plants are first crossed with pure-bred dwarf pea plants. The pea plants obtained in F1 generation are then cross-bred to produce F2 generation of pea plants.
(a) What do the plants of F1 generation look like?
(b) What is the ratio of tall plants to dwarf plants in F2 generation?
(c) Which type of plants were missing in F1 generation but reappeared in F2 generation?
(a) All plants in F1 generation will be tall.
(b) In F2 generation, the ratio of tall plants to dwarf plants will be 3:1.
(c) Dwarf pea plants were missing in F1 generation, but reappeared in F2 generation.
A plant has two varieties, one with red petals and the other with white petals. When these two varieties are cross-pollinated, all the offsprings have red petals?
(a) Which gene is dominant?
(b) Choose suitable letters to represent the two genes.
(a) The gene for red petals is dominant, while the gene for white petals is recessive.
(b) The gene for red petals can be represented by R and the gene for white petals can be represented by r.
A red-haired woman marries a brown-haired man, and all the children are brown haired. Explain this genetically.
Brown coloured hair is dominant over red. Hence, when a red-haired woman marries a brown-haired man, all their children are brown haired.
A black mouse mates with a brown mouse, and all the offsprings are black.
(a) Why are no brown offsprings produced?
(b) If two of the black offsprings mate with each other what kind of offspring would you expect and in what proportions? Give reason for your answer.
(a) No brown offsprings are produced because brown colour is recessive, while black is dominant. The recessive trait does not occur in F1 generation.
(b) We would expect black and brown offsprings in the ratio 3:1. It is because brown colour reappears in F2 generation.
(a) E is the gene for brown eye colour and and e is the gene for blue eye colour. which gene is (i) recessive, and (ii) dominant?
(b) Both father and mother have the genes Ee in their cells. What colour are their eyes?
(c) Which combination of genes in the zygote will produce children with blue eyes?
(d) Which combination of genes in the zygote will produce children with brown eyes?
(a) (i) e is recessive; (ii) E is dominant
(b) The colour of their eyes is brown.
(c) Combination ee will produce children with blue eyes.
(d) Combination EE or Ee will produce children with brown eyes.
What are the possible blood groups likely to be inherited by children born to a group A mother and a group B father? Explain your reasoning.
The mother with blood group A has genotype IAIO. The father with blood group B has genotype IBIO. Hence ,the possible genotypes of the children will be IAIB, IAIO, IBIO and IOIO. Thus, the possible blood groups of the children will be AB, A, B and O.
A couple with a newborn baby is troubled that the child does not resemble either of them. Suspecting that a mixup occurred at the hospital, they check the blood type of the infant. It is type O. Because the father is type A and the mother type B, they conclude that a mixup has definitely occurred. Are they correct? Give reason for your answer.
They are not correct. The father with blood group A has genotype IAIO. The mother with blood group B has genotype IBIO. Hence, the possible genotypes of the children will be IAIB, IAIO, IBIO and IOIO. Thus, the possible blood groups of children will be AB, A, B and O. Hence, if the father has blood group A, and the mother has blood group B, it is possible for them to have children with blood group O.
A man with blood group A marries a woman with blood group O and their daughter has blood group O. Is this information enough to tell you which of the traits-blood group A or O - is dominant? Why or why not?
No. There are two possibilities:
Case I: If the father's blood group is A, and is the dominant trait, his genotypes will be IAIA and IAIO ; and the mother's blood group O being a recessive trait, her genotype will be IOIO. So, the daughter can receive one recessive allele IO from the father and another from the mother to have genotype IOIO and the blood group O.
Case II: If the father's blood group A is a recessive trait, his genotype will be IAIA ; the mother's blood group O being a dominant trait, her genotype will be IOIO and IOIA. So, the daughter can receive one dominant allele IO from the mother and one recessive allele IA from the father to have genotype IOIA and blood group O.
A Mendelian experiment consisted of breeding tall pea plants bearing violet flowers with short pea plants bearing white flowers. The progeny all bore violet flowers, but almost half of them were short. This suggested that the genetic make up (or genotype) of the tall parent can be depicted as :
(a) TTWW
(b) TTww
(c) TtWW
(d) TtWw
Give reason for your choice.
The genotype of the tall parent can be depicted as TtWW. It is because T is the gene for tallness, t for dwarfness; W is the gene for violet flowers, while w is for white flowers. Thus, T and W are dominant genes, whereas t and w are recessive genes.
A person first crossed pure-bred pea plants having round-yellow seeds with pure-bred pea plants having wrinkled-green seeds and found that only A-B type of seeds were produced in the F1 generation. When F1 generation pea plants having A-B type of seeds were cross-bred by self-pollination, then in addition to the original round-yellow and wrinkled-green seeds, two new varieties A-D and C-B type of seeds were also obtained.
(a) What are A-B type of seeds?
(b) State whether A and B are dominant traits or recessive traits.
(c) What are A-D type of seeds?
(d) What are C-B type of seeds?
(c) Out of A-B and A-D types of seeds, which one will be produced in (i) minimum numbers, and (ii) maximum numbers, in the F2 generation?
(a) A-B type of seeds are round-yellow.
(b) A (round) and B (yellow) are dominant traits.
(c) A-D type of seeds are round-green.
(d) C-B type of seeds are wrinkled-yellow.
(e) In the F2 generations, (i) A-D type seeds will be produced in minimum numbers; (ii) A-B type of seeds will be produced in maximum numbers.
The person A has only B chromosomes in all its gametes. On the other hand, another person C has chromosome D in half of gametes and chromosome E in the other half of gametes. When chromosomes B and D combine during fertilisation, a female zygote results. On the other hand, combination of B and E chromosomes produces a male zygote.
(a) What are chromosomes (i) B (ii) D, and (iii) E?
(b) Out of B, D and E, which two chromosomes are of the same type?
(c) Which chromosome is smaller in size?
(d) What is the general name of chromosomes such as B and E?
(e) Out of the two persons A and C, which one is (i) male, and (ii) female?
(a) (i) B is X chromosome; (ii) D is also X chromosome; (iii) E is Y chromosome.
(b) Chromosomes B and D are of same type.
(c) Chromosome E is smaller in size.
(d) Chromosomes B and E are called sex chromosomes.
(e) (i) A is female; (ii) C is male.
Mendel first crossed pure-bred pea plants having round-yellow seeds with pure-bred pea plants having wrinkled-green seeds and found that only round-yellow seeds were produced in the F1 generation. When F1 generation pea plants having round-yellow seeds were cross-bred by self pollination, then peas having round-yellow seeds, round green seeds, wrinkled-yellow seeds and wrinkled-green seeds were produced. Mendel collected a total of 2160 seeds.
(a) What will be the number of (i) round green seeds (ii) wrinkled green seeds (iii) round yellow seeds, and (iv) wrinkled-yellow seeds?
(b) Which 'ratio' as established by Mendel have you made use of in answering the part (a) above?
(i) Number of round green seeds = 216016×3 =405(ii) Number of wrinkled green seeds = 216016×1 =135(iii) Number of round yellow seeds = 216016×9 =1215(iv) Number of wrinkled yellow seeds = 216016×3 =405
(b) The dihybrid ratio (which is 9: 3: 3: 1) has been used to answer part (a).
Pure-bred round-yellow pea seeds have genotype RRYY and the pure-bred wrinkled-green pea seeds have genotype rryy. Keeping this in mind, write the phenotypes of the following genotypes of hybrid pea seeds :
(a) Rryy
(b) rrYy
(c) rrYY
(d) RrYy
(e) RRyy
(a) Round-green
(b) Wrinkled-yellow
(c) Wrinkled-yellow
(d) Round-yellow
(e) Round-green
What name is given to the sequence of gradual changes over millions of years in which new species are produced?
The sequence of gradual changes which take place in primitive organisms over millions of years, in which new species are produced is called speciation.
Name the scientist who gave the theory of evolution.
It was Charles Robert Darwin who gave the theory of evolution.
Human beings have evolved from chimpanzees.
False. Both chimpanzees and human beings evolved from a common ancestor long ago.
State one characteristic which shows that the birds are very closely related to dinosaurs.
The presence of feathers on birds indicates that they are very closely related to dinosaurs. This is because like birds, even dinosaurs had feathers, though they could not fly using their feathers.
Name an animal having rudimentary eyes.
Flatworms (Planaria) have rudimentary eyes.
Name the ancestor of the following :
Broccoli, Kohlrabi, Kale
Wild cabbage is the common ancestor of broccoli, kohlrabi and kale.
Where did life originate on the earth?
Life on earth originated in sea water.
Match the terms given in column I with those given in column II :
Column I Column II
(i) Fossil (a) A famous evolutionist
(ii) A theory of evolution (b) Survival of the fittest
(iii) Probable ancestor of birds (c) Petrified remains of prehistoric life
(iv) Charles Darwin (d) Father of genetics
(v) Gregor Mendel (e) Archaeopteryx
(i) Fossil (c) Petrified remains of prehistoric life
(iii) Probable ancestor of birds (e) Archaeopteryx
(iv) Charles Darwin (a) A famous evolutionist
(v) Gregor Mendel (d) Father of genetics
What is meant by acquired and inherited traits? Explain with one example each.
The traits of an organism that are not inherited, but develop in response to the environment, are called acquired traits. For example, if a mouse's tail gets cut, the cut tail is an acquired trait.
The trait of an organism that is caused by a change in its genes is called an inherited trait. Inherited traits can be passed on to the progeny of the organism. For example, eye colour in humans is an inherited trait.
Why are the traits acquired during the lifetime of an individual not inherited?
Traits acquired during the lifetime of an individual are not inherited, as these traits develop in the individual in response to the environment. Only those traits which are associated with the DNA of the parents are passed onto children. Acquired traits do not make any changes in the DNA; hence, they are not passed from parents to children.
Can the wing of a butterfly and the wing of a bat be considered homologous organs? Why or why not?
The wings of butterflies and bats cannot be considered homologous organs, as their basic designs are different.
Name two animals having homologous organs and two having analogous organs. Name these organs.
Lizards and frogs have homologous organs; their forelimbs are homologous.
Insects and birds have analogous organs; their wings are analogous.
What are fossils? Giving one example, explain how fossils provide evidence for evolution.
The remains of animals or plants that lived in the past are known as fossils. The fossil bird Archaeopteryx looks like a bird, but it has many other features that are also present in reptiles. This is because Archaeopteryx had feathered wings like those of birds, but teeth and tail like those of reptiles. Thus, the study of fossils provide evidence for evolution.
Give an example of characteristics being used to determine how close two species are in evolutionary terms.
(i) The study of fossils provide direct evidence of evolutionary relationship among species. For example, dinosaurs had feathers, as fossils indicate. However, they could not fly. Later on, birds adapted the feathers to use them for flight. This means that birds are very closely related to reptiles as dinosaurs were reptiles.
(ii) Another method is of comparison of the DNA of different species. The more closely the DNAs of two species are related, the more common evolutionary history these species have.
In what way are homologous organs evidence for evolution?
Homologous organs are those organs which have same basic structure, but perform different functions. For example, the forelimbs of humans, cheetahs, whales and bats have the same basic structure. But humans use forelimbs for grasping, cheetahs for running, whales for swimming and bats for flying. The presence of homologous organs indicate that all these forelimbs have evolved from a common ancestral animal which had a 'basic design' of limb.
Why are the small numbers of surviving tigers a cause of worry from the point of view of genetics?
The small numbers of surviving tigers is a cause for worry from the point of view of genetics, because if all tigers perish and become extinct, their genes will be lost forever.
Will geographical isolation be a major factor in the speciation of an organism that reproduces asexually? Give reason for your answer.
Geographical isolation cannot be a major factor in the speciation of an asexually reproducing organism, as it does not require the aid of any other organism to carry out reproduction.
Name the various tools of tracing evolutionary relationships which have been used for studying human evolution.
The various tools of tracing evolutionary relationships that have been used for studying human evolution are: excavation, carbon-dating, study of fossils and determination of DNA sequences.
Out of bacteria, spider, fish and chimpanzee, which organism has a better body design in evolutionary terms? Give reason for your answer.
Spiders, fish and chimpanzee have a better body design compared to bacteria, as they can adapt to the changes in the environment in a better way, due to their complex body structure; that increases their chances of survival.
With the help of an example, explain how variation leads to evolution.
Variations which are beneficial to the organism is passed on to its progeny, leading to evolution of species. For example, the green colour of a beetle is an inherited trait, that helps in its survival (as it can by mix with green bushes to hide). It is a beneficial variation and is brought about by a change in the genes of the reproductive cells.
(a) What is meant by a species? Give two examples of plant species and two of animals.
(b) State the various factors which could lead to the formation of new species.
(a) A species is a population of organisms consisting of similar individuals which can breed together and produce fertile offspring. Wheat and paddy are examples of plant species. Humans and cats are examples of animal species.
(b) The important factors which could lead to the formation of new species are:
(i) Geographical isolation of a population caused by various types of barriers
(ii) Genetic drift caused by drastic changes in the frequencies of particular genes, by chance alone
(iii) Variations caused in individuals due to natural selection.
What evidence do we have for the origin of life from inanimate matter (lifeless matter)?
The experiments conducted by Stanley L. Miller and Harold C. Urey provided the evidence that the life originated from inanimate matter, like inorganic molecules.
Does geographical isolation of individuals of a species lead to the formation of a new species? Provide a suitable explanation for your answer.
Geographical isolation of individuals of a species leads to the formation of a new species, as it interrupts the flow of genes between their isolated populations through the gametes.
Write the names of at least three inorganic molecules which helped in the origin of life on the earth.
Methane, ammonia and hydrogen sulphide are three inorganic molecules, which helped in the origin of life on the earth.
Name the famous book written by Charles Robert Darwin.
The famous book written by Charles Robert Darwin is The Origin of Species.
The forelimbs of a frog, a bird and a man show the same basic design (or basic structure) of bones. What name is given to such organs?
The forelimbs of a frog, a bird and a man have the same basic design, but they perform different functions. Organs such as these are called homologous organs.
Name two organisms which are now extinct and studied from their fossils.
Trilobites (marine arthropods) and dinosaurs are now extinct and are studied from their fossils.
Out of the wing of a bird, wing of an insect and the wing of a bat :
(a) which two are homologous organs?
(b) which two are analogous organs?
(a) The wings of birds and bats are homologous organs, as despite the fact that they have the same basic structure, they perform different functions.
(b) Wings of birds and insects are analogous organs, as their basic structures are different, but they perform the same function (i.e., flying).
Why are human beings who look so different from each other in terms of size, colour and looks said to belong to the same species?
It is because human beings, despite these differences, can interbreed to produce fertile offsprings.
Name five varieties of vegetables which have been produced from 'wild cabbage' by the process of artificial selection.
Broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kohlrabi and kale are five varieties of vegetables, which have been produced from 'wild cabbage' by the process of artificial selection.
Choose the one term from the following which includes the other three :
broccoli, wild cabbage, cauliflower, cabbage
Wild cabbage includes the other vegetables: broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage. These three have evolved from wild cabbage by the process of artificial selection.
(a) The human forelimb and bat's forelimb are an example of .......... organs whereas an insect's wing and a bat's wing are an example of ........... organs.
(b) The evolution of eye is an example of evolution by ............
(c) The scientific name of all human beings is ..............
(d) Broccoli has evolved from .............. by the process of artificial selection.
(e) The theory of natural selection for evolution was proposed by ..............
(a) The human forelimb and a bat's forelimb are an example of homologous organs, whereas an insect's wing and a bat's wing are an example of analogous organs.
(b) The evolution of the eye is an example of evolution by stages.
(c) The scientific name of all human beings is Homo sapiens.
(d) Broccoli was developed from wild cabbage by the process of artificial selection.
(e) The theory of natural selection for evolution was proposed by Charles Darwin.
Bacteria have a simpler body plan when compared with human beings. Does it mean that human beings are more evolved than bacteria? Explain your answer.
Despite the fact that humans have a more complex body plan than bacteria, it does not mean that they are more evolved than bacteria. Bacteria still inhabit some of the most inhospitable habitats such as hot springs, deep-sea thermal vents and ice in Antarctica. Most other organisms cannot survive in such harsh environments.
(a) Name the scientist who gave the theory of origin of life on earth. What is this theory?
(b) How are those species which are now 'extinct' studied?
(a) The theory of origin of life on earth was given by J.B.S. Haldane in 1929. He suggested that life must have evolved from the simple inorganic molecules such as ammonia, methane and hydrogen sulphide that were present on earth when it was formed. He said that conditions on earth at that time could have converted simple inorganic molecules into complex organic molecules necessary for life. These complex organic molecules must have combined together to form the first living organisms.
(b) The species that are extinct are studied through their fossils that are found by digging the earth. Carbon-dating method is used to find the age of a fossil.
What do you understand by the term 'evolution'? State Darwin's theory of evolution.
Evolution is the sequence of gradual changes which take place in the primitive organisms over millions of years, during which new species are produced.
Darwin's theory of evolution:
(a) Within any population, there is natural selection. Some individuals have more favourable variations than others.
(b) Even though all species produce a large number of offsprings, population remains fairly constant naturally.
(c) This is due to the struggle between members of the same species and different species for food, space and mate.
(d) the struggle within populations eliminates the unfit individuals. The fit individuals possessing favourable variations survive and reproduce. This is called natural selection.
(e) The individuals having favourable variations pass on these variations to their progeny from generation to generation.
(f) These variations when accumulated over a long period of time lead to the origin of new species.
(a) Explain the terms 'analogous organs' and 'homologous organs' with examples.
(b) In what way are analogous organs evidence for evolution?
(a) Analogous organs are those organs which have different basic structure, but perform the same function. For example, the wing of an insect and a bird have completely different basic structure, but they perform the same function—of flying.
Homologous organs are those organs which have same basic structure but perform different functions. For example, the forelimbs of humans, cheetahs, whales and bats have the same basic structural plan. But the forelimbs in humans are used for grasping, in cheetah for running, in whales for swimming and in bats for flying.
(b) The presence of analogous organs in different animals provide evidence for evolution by telling us that though they are not derived from common ancestors, they can still evolve to perform similar functions to survive, flourish and keep on evolving in the prevalent environment. Thus, the presence of analogous organs provide a mechanism for evolution.
(a) Define 'speciation'. Explain how speciation occurs.
(b) Will geographical isolation be a major factor in the speciation of a self-pollinating plant species? Give reason for your answer.
(a) The process by which new species develop from the existing ones is known as speciation. Speciation occurs when the population of the same species splits into two separate groups, which then get isolated from each other geographically by barriers such as mountain ranges, rivers or the sea. The geographical isolation of the two groups of population lead to their reproductive isolation due to which no genes are exchanged between them. However, breeding continues within the isolated populations producing more and more generations. Over the generations, the processes of genetic drift and natural selection operate in different ways in the two isolated groups of population and make them more and more different from each other. After thousands of years, the individuals of these isolated groups of population become so different that they will be incapable of reproducing with each other, even if they happen to meet again. In this way, two new species have been formed.
(b) Geographical isolation cannot be a major factor in the speciation of self-pollinating plant species, as it does not have to look to other plants for its process of reproduction to be carried out.
(a) Define 'natural selection'.
(b) "Only variations that confer an advantage to an individual organism will survive in a population". Do you agree with this statement? Give reason for your answer.
(a) Natural selection is the process of evolution of a species in which characteristics that help individual organisms to survive and reproduce are passed on to their offsprings and those characteristics which do not help are not passed.
(b) Yes, we agree with the statement. Some changes always appear when animals produce their progeny by sexual reproduction. One of the progeny may be taller than the other. The advantage of long legs to the progeny is that when no food is available on the ground, those with long legs can reach the leaves on tall trees, eat them and survive. On the other hand, the progeny that are short cannot reach the leaves on tall trees. They will not get any food and eventually die from starvation. Now, since long legs are a beneficial variation, the long-legged animals will live long enough to produce their offsprings. So, all the future generations will be long-legged.
In evolutionary terms, we have more in common with :
(a) a chinese school boy
(b) a chimpanzee
(c) a spider
(d) a bacterium
In evolutionary terms, we have more in common with a chimpanzee because both human beings and chimpanzees had a common ancestor, long time ago.
The human species has genetic roots in :
(a) America
(b) Africa
(c) Australia
(d) Antarctica
Earliest members of the human species came from Africa.
Which of the following gas was not present in early earth atmosphere?
(a) Ammonia
(b) Oxygen
(c) Hydrogen sulphide
(d) Methane
Oxygen was absent in early earth atmosphere.
A gradual change, over a long period, in a form of life is known as :
(a) erosion
(b) evolution
(c) revolution
(d) evaluation
Evolution is the sequence of gradual changes, which take place in primitive organisms over millions of years, due to which new species are formed.
Scientists believe that all life originated in :
(a) the sea
(b) the soil
(c) the ground
(d) the air
Scientists believe that all life originated in sea water.
According to scientists, aves have evolved from :
(a) mammals
(b) amphibians
(c) reptiles
(d) arthropods
According to scientists, aves have evolved from reptiles.
The theory of evolution of species by natural selection was given by :
(a) Mendel
(b) Darwin
(c) Dalton
(d) Lamarck
The theory of evolution of species by natural selection was given by Charles Darwin in his book The Origin of Species.
The term 'father of genetics' is used for the scientist :
(a) Morgan
(b) Mendel
(c) Darwin
(d) Marie Curie
Mendel is known as the 'father of genetics'.
One of the following traits cannot be inherited. This one is :
(a) colour of eyes
(b) colour of skin
(c) size of body
(d) nature of hair
Body size is an acquired trait, and cannot be passed on to the progeny.
Only one of the following characteristic of the parents can be inherited by their children. This one is :
(a) deep scar on chin
(b) snub nose
(c) technique of swimming
(d) cut nose
Snub nose is an inherited trait, and can be can be passed on to the progeny.
The organs which perform different functions but have the same basic structure are known as :
(a) homologous organs
(b) analogous organs
(c) homolytic organs
(d) analytic organs
The organs that perform different functions but have the same basic structure are known as homologous organs. For example, forelimbs of humans and lizards are homologous.
The organs which perform similar functions but have different basic structure are called :
(a) asymmetric organs
(c) homologous organs
(d) homophonic organs
The organs which perform a similar function, but have different basic structures are called analogous organs. For example, wings of insects and birds are analogous.
Wing of an insect and forelimb of a bird are :
(a) analogous organs
(b) analeptic organs
(c) homologous
(d) homophobic organs
Wings of an insect and forelimbs of a bird are analogous organs, as they have different structures but perform the same function of flying.
If the fossil of an organism is found in the deeper layers of earth, then we can predict that :
(a) the extinction of organism has occurred recently
(b) the extinction of organism has occurred thousands of years ago
(c) the fossil position in the layers of earth is not related to its time of extinction
(d) time of extinction cannot be determined.
Fossils found in the deepest layers of earth are the oldest ones. From these, scientists conclude that the extinction of an organism has occurred thousands of years ago.
Which of the following statement is incorrect with respect to variations?
(a) all variations in a species have equal chance of survival
(b) change in genetic composition results in variations
(c) selection of variations by environmental factors forms the basis of evolutionary process
(d) variations are the minimum in asexual reproduction
(a) all variations in a species have an equal chance of survival
All variations in a species do not have an equal chance of survival. Variations may either be beneficial or harmful to the species.
One of the following traits of the parents cannot be passed on to their future generations. This trait is :
(a) cleft chin
(b) pointed chin
(c) scarred chin
(d) broad chin
Scarred chin is an acquired trait, which an individual gets due to an accident. It cannot be passed on to the progeny.
Some dinosaurs had feathers although they could not fly but birds have feathers that help them to fly. In the context of evolution, this means that :
(a) reptiles have evolved from birds
(b) there is no evolutionary connection between reptiles and birds
(c) feathers are homologous structures in both the organisms
(d) birds have evolved from reptiles
In the context of evolution, it means that birds have evolved from reptiles.
Select the incorrect statement from the following :
(a) frequency of certain genes in a population changes over several generations resulting in evolution
(b) reduction in the weight of an organism due to starvation is genetically controlled
(c) low weight parents can have heavy weight progeny
(d) traits which are not inherited over generations do not cause evolution.
Reduction in the weight of an organism due to starvation occurs due to scarcity of food in the environment. It is not genetically controlled.
New species may be formed if :
(i) DNA undergoes significant changes in germ cells
(ii) chromosome number changes in the gamete
(iii) there is no change in the genetic material
(iv) mating does not take place
(c) (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(d) (i), (ii) and (iii)
New species may be formed if DNA undergoes significant changes in germ cells and chromosome number changes in the gamete.
According to the evolutionary theory, formation of a new species is generally due to :
(a) sudden creation by nature
(b) accumulation of variations over several generations
(c) clones formed during asexual reproduction
(d) movement of individuals from one habitat to another.
According to Darwin's theory of evolution, variations, when accumulated over a long period of time lead to the origin of a new species.
The presence of which of the following types of organs in two animals indicates that they are not derived from a common ancestor?
(b) excretory organs
(c) analogous organs
(d) reproductive organs
Analogous organs have a different basic design, so they indicate that the animals are not derived from a common ancestor.
The presence of which of the following types of organs in two organisms indicates that they are derived from the same ancestor?
(b) respiratory organs
(c) digestive organs
(d) homologous organs
The presence of homologous organs indicates that the two organisms are derived from the same ancestor.
One of the following has not been produced from wild cabbage by the process of artificial selection. This one is :
(a) kohlrabi
(b) cabbage
(c) spinach
(d) kale
Spinach has not been produced from wild cabbage by the process of artificial selection.
The fossil trilobite was originally :
(a) an arthropod
(b) an invertebrate
(c) a reptile
(d) an ave
Trilobites were marine arthropods which were common 400–600 millions years ago.
One pair of organs in the following animals are not homologous. This is :
(a) forelimbs in humans and lizard
(b) forelimbs in lizard and frog
(c) wings in butterfly and bat
(d) wings in bat and bird
Butterfly and bat wings cannot be considered homologous organs as they have different basic designs.
The wings of a housefly and the wings of a sparrow are an example of :
(b) vestigial organs
(c) respiratory organs
The wings of a housefly and that of a sparrow are an example of analogous organs, as their basic structure is different, but they are used for the same purpose; i.e., flying.
Some of the important fossils which have been studied are those of organisms X, Y and Z. X were marine arthropods which were common between 400 to 600 million years ago. Y were the invertebrate animals (molluscs) with a flat, coiled, spiral shell which lived in the sea about 180 million years ago. Z are the extinct carnivorous or herbivorous reptiles which appeared on the earth about 250 million years ago and became extinct about 65 million years ago. What are X, Y and Z?
X are trilobites, Y are ammonites and Z are dinosaurs.
The farmers have been cultivating a food plant X for over two thousand years and have produced as many as five entirely different looking vegetables A, B, C, D and E from it.
(a) What could the plant X be?
(b) What are A, B, C, D and E?
(c) What is the process of evolution involved in this example known as?
(a) X is wild cabbage.
(b) A is cabbage, B is broccoli, C is cauliflower, D is kohlrabi, E is kale.
(c) The process of artificial selection is involved in this example.
There are five animals A, B, C, D and E. The animal A uses its modified forelimbs for flying. The animal B uses its forelimbs for running whereas the animal C uses its forelimbs for grasping. The animal D can live on land as well as in water and uses its forelimbs to prop up the front end of its body when at rest. The animal E which respires by using spiracles and tracheae uses wings for flying but its wings are analogous to the modified forelimbs of animal A.
(a) What could the animals A, B, C, D and E be?
(b) Why are the forelimbs of animals A, B, C and D called homologous organs?
(c) What does the existence of homologous organs in animals A, B, C and D tell us about their ancestors ?
(d) Why are the modified forelimbs of animal A and the wings of animal E called analogous organs?
(e) State whether animals A and E have a common ancestor or not.
(a) The animal A could be a bird or a bat, animal B could be lizard, animal C could be human, animal D could be frog, animal E could be an insect.
(b) Forelimbs of A, B, C, and D are called homologous organs because they have the same basic structure but different functions.
(c) It suggests that these organisms have evolved from a common ancestor.
(d) It is because forelimbs of animal A and wings of animal E have different basic structures but perform a similar function.
(e) Animals A and E do not have a common ancestor.
X, Y, and Z are three animals. The animal X can fly but animal Y can only run on ground or walls. The forelimbs of animals X and Y have the same basic design but they are used for different purposes such as flying and running respectively. The animal Z became extinct a long time ago. The study of fossils of Z tells us that it had some features like those of X and some like those of Y. In fact, Z is said to form a connecting link in the evolutionary chain of X and Y.
(a) What could the animals X, Y and Z be?
(b) What name is given to the forelimbs like those of X and Y which have the same basic design but different functions?
(c) Name one feature in which Z resembled X.
(d) Name one feature in which Z resembled Y.
(e) Which is the correct evolutionary chain involving X, Y and Z : X → Z → Y or Y → Z → X?
(a) X is birds, Y is reptiles and Z is Archaeopteryx.
(b) Forelimbs like those of X and Y are called homologous organs.
(c) X and Z had feathers.
(d) Z had teeth and tail like Y.
(e) The correct evolutionary sequence is Y → Z → X.
A population of red beetles lives in green bushes in a garden. Once during the process of breeding, a green beetle is produced.
(a) State whether the change in colour of beetle is a process of evolution or not.
(b) Can the new colour of green beetle be passed on to its next generations?
(c) What will be the advantage (if any) of the green colour to the beetle?
(d) State whether the production of green colour involved a change in genetic material or not.
(a) It is a process of evolution.
(b) The green colour of the beetle is an inherited trait, which can be passed on to the next generation.
(c) It helps in survival of green beetle as it can mixing with green bushes, and hide from predators.
(d) The production of green colour has been brought about by a change in the DNA of the reproductive cells.
The organs P and Q of two animals have different structures but similar functions. On the other hand, the two organs R and S of two other animals have the same basic structure but different functions.
(a) What are the organs like P and Q known as?
(b) Name the organs like P and Q. Also name the animals which have such organs.
(c) What are the organs like R and S called?
(d) Name the organs like R and S. Also name the animals which have such organs.
(a) Organs P and Q are known as analogous organs.
(b) Wings of an insect and a bird are like P and Q.
(c) Organs R and S are called homologous organs.
(d) Forelimbs of humans and wings of birds are like R and S.
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Prevalence and pattern of alcohol-induced psychosis and personality profile of male alcohol use disorder patients: A hospital-based study
Gowtham C Reddy1, PS Murthy1, Suprakash Chaudhury2
1 Department of Psychiatry, Santhiram Medical College and General Hospital, Nandyala, Andhra Pradesh, India
2 Department of Psychiatry, Dr. DY Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Center, Dr. DY Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Date of Submission 06-Sep-2018
Date of Decision 20-Oct-2018
Date of Acceptance 07-Jul-2020
Date of Web Publication 7-Sep-2020
Suprakash Chaudhury
Department of Psychiatry, Dr. DY Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Center, Dr. DY Patil University, Pimpri, Pune - 411 018, Maharashtra
DOI: 10.4103/mjdrdypu.mjdrdypu_147_18
Background: There is a paucity of data on the prevalence and pattern of alcohol-induced psychotic disorder (AIPD) and the role of personality traits in alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and AIPD. Aim: This study aims to study the prevalence and pattern of AIPD and personality profile in AUD and AIPD patients. Materials and Methods: Consecutive sample of 100 patients with AUD fulfilling Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM 5) criteria and between 18 and 60 years old were included in the study with their informed consent. Psychotic symptoms were assessed in keeping with DSM 5 criteria for substance (alcohol)-induced psychosis. The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) was used to explore personality traits. Results: In the present study, middle class and lower middle class people were found to develop AUD. Early age of initiation of alcohol intake placed the individual at risk of developing severe AUD and psychotic symptoms. Psychotic symptoms were seen in 9% of the individuals. Persons with severe alcohol dependence and longer duration of alcohol use were at increased risk for developing psychotic features. The most common psychotic symptom was auditory hallucination. The EPQ showed that 65.93% of the individuals had psychoticism trait; 67.03% were extroverts. Persons with psychoticism trait were found to start taking alcohol at an early age and develop severe AUD. In the neurotic dimension, 54.95% were highly neurotic; 45.05% had average emotional stability. Conclusions: Psychotic symptoms were seen in 9% of patients with AUD. Psychosis in AUD was associated with severity of alcohol dependence, early initiation, longer duration of alcohol intake, and psychoticism personality trait. Psychoticism and extraversion personality traits were predominant in AUD compared to neuroticism trait.
Keywords: Alcohol use disorders, neuroticism, personality, psychosis, psychoticism
Reddy GC, Murthy P S, Chaudhury S. Prevalence and pattern of alcohol-induced psychosis and personality profile of male alcohol use disorder patients: A hospital-based study. Med J DY Patil Vidyapeeth 2020;13:512-8
Reddy GC, Murthy P S, Chaudhury S. Prevalence and pattern of alcohol-induced psychosis and personality profile of male alcohol use disorder patients: A hospital-based study. Med J DY Patil Vidyapeeth [serial online] 2020 [cited 2021 Jan 18];13:512-8. Available from: https://www.mjdrdypv.org/text.asp?2020/13/5/512/294339
Alcohol abuse is a major public health problem all across the planet. Alcohol use disorder (AUD) has multifactorial causation and one among those factors is personality of the individual. Personality is one of the psychological factors most consistently associated with alcohol use. Interest in understanding the personality traits that are related to AUD have led to a variety of research studies in this area. There is increasing realization among substance use disorder specialists that personality and temperament are important determinants of vulnerability to develop alcohol dependence. In general, there are two types of approach regarding personality assessment. In the first, personality pathology is conceptualized within the context of categorically defined personality disorders, with most studies focusing on antisocial and borderline personality disorders (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [DSM] cluster B personality disorders). In the second, a dimensional approach of normally distributed personality measures is used. Among the foremost influential personality models those of Eysenck, Cloninger, and McCrae and Costa's five factor model are especially relevant.[1] AIPD is a rare complication of alcohol dependence which should be discerned from alcohol-withdrawal delirium and schizophrenia, since the treatment and prognosis of those disorders differ from that of AIPD. A general population-based study of 8028 individuals reported that the lifetime prevalence for AIPS was 0.5% and was highest (1.8%) among men of working age. Risk of AIPS was related to younger age at onset of alcohol dependence, low socioeconomic status, father's mental state or alcohol problems, medical comorbidity, and multiple hospital treatments.[2] AIPD usually manifests acutely with auditory hallucinations, and less commonly with delusions and visual hallucinations, in the background of prolonged and excessive consumption of alcohol. The content of the auditory hallucinations is usually derogatory in nature or convey unpleasant messages. In contrast to delirium tremens sensorium is clear and withdrawal symptoms are mild or absent. The symptoms of AIPD usually resolve within a week, although they sometimes persist, especially in the presence of ongoing alcohol misuse. The recognized treatment for AIPD is antipsychotic medication. Abstinent patients usually do not require a long-term antipsychotic treatment and the prognosis is usually favorable, although 10%–20% may progress to schizophrenia.[3]
Despite the actual fact that AUD is a major public health problem in India, there is a paucity of studies especially focusing on the association of AIPD and personality factors. The present research aimed to study the personality profiles and pattern of psychosis in AUD patients.
The study was conducted in the Department of Psychiatry, Santhiram Medical College and General Hospital, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh. The proposal for the study was approved by the Institutional Ethical Committee of this institution vides their letter dated December 7, 2017. All the individuals were explained the purpose of the study and were included in the study after obtaining written informed consent.
The sample for the study consisted of a consecutive sample of 100 patients with AUD attending the psychiatry outpatient department/inpatient department in Santhiram General Hospital, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, from December 1, 2015, to June 31, 2017, and the sample was selected by purposive sampling. Patients fulfilling the DSM 5th Edition diagnostic criteria for AUDs were included in the study.[4] Patients having psychosis due to organic illness such as diabetic ketoacidosis, hypertensive encephalopathy, infections such as meningitis, meningoencephalitis, cerebral malaria, liver diseases, and electrolyte imbalance were excluded from the study. Data for personality assessment included only patients whose lie score was A on Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ).
Self-designed questionnaire was used to collect information about sociodemographic variables. Eysenck Personality Questionnaire.[5]
The data were statistically analyzed by the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) software 20 version. (SPSS, IBM, Chicago, USA) Relationship between two variables was tested by Chi-square test.
In the present study, all the individuals were male. Majority (77%) of the individuals were in the age group of 30–50 years, hailing mostly from rural (49%) followed by semi-urban (30%) geographic areas. Majority (52%) of the individuals were consuming alcohol for more than 16 years. Psychotic symptoms were seen in 9% of the individuals. Patients with AIPD were older in age, mainly from rural area, less educated, and longer duration of alcohol intake. At the time of assessment during study, most of the individuals (64%) were in precontemplation stage of motivation [Table 1]. Most of the individuals (n = 7) had psychotic symptoms after alcohol intoxication, while some (n = 2) had psychotic symptoms during withdrawal. Of total 9 individuals with psychotic symptoms majority (78%) of the subjects had hallucinations and only 22% of the individuals had both delusions and hallucinations. Of 7 subjects who had hallucinations 6 (86%) individuals had auditory hallucinations and 1 (14%) individual had both auditory and visual hallucinations.
Table 1: Demographic and alcohol related characteristics of alcohol use disorder patients and alcohol use disorder patients with and without alcohol.induced psychotic disorde
In this study, 9 patients who scored high lie score (>5) were excluded from the assessment of personality profile and remaining 91 individuals were only included. In the study group, in the psychoticism dimension majority (65.93%) of the individuals had high psychoticism trait while rest (34.07%) had low psychoticism (Psychoticism Fisher's Two-tailed: P = 0.0031; P < 0.01). In extraversion dimension, 67.03% were extrovert and 32.97% were ambiverts (Extraversion: Fisher's two-tailed: P = 0.0015; P < 0.01). In the neurotic dimension, 54.95% were highly neurotic, while 45.05% had average emotional stability (neuroticism two-tailed: P = 0.4018 ns (P < 0.10) [Table 2]. Comparison of AUD patients with and without AIPD revealed that patients with AIPD had significantly higher psychoticism trait and significantly lower extraversion trait. Majority (66.7%) of the individuals with significant psychoticism were severe AUD patients. This correlation between severity of AUD and psychoticism trait was statistically significant (P < 0.05) [Figure 1] but not for extraversion and neuroticism [Figure 2] and [Figure 3].
Table 2: Personality profile of the alcohol use disorder patients (n=91) on the Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire
Figure 1: Severity of alcohol use disorder and psychoticism trait
Figure 2: Severity of alcohol use disorder and extraversion trait
Figure 3: Severity of alcohol use disorder and neuroticism trait
Sociodemographic variables
In the present study, 77% of the subjects belonged to the age group of 31–50 years. The large number in this group may be due to the emergence of alcohol-related problems and the need to seek help in that age group. The pressure from family members, peers, and superiors might force this group to attend the clinical setting more often than others. This is in concordance with earlier Indian studies in this area.[6],[7] A recent study also reported that majority of the patients of alcohol dependence belonged to the age group ranging from 30 to 50 years (76.6%).[8] All the patients with AIPD belonged to the 40–60 years of age group which is consistent with earlier literature.[3]
Prevalence and pattern of psychotic symptoms
In the present study, psychotic symptoms were seen in 9% of the subjects. All the patients had the psychotic symptoms either after acute alcohol intoxication (n = 7) or during withdrawal from alcohol (n = 2). This finding is in agreement with an earlier Indian study.[9]
The most common psychotic symptom in the current study was auditory hallucinations. This finding was similar to an earlier Indian study.[10] Higher figures were reported by a Malaysian study which found that among the 34 subjects with alcohol-induced psychotic disorder (AIPD) 26 (76.5%) subjects had auditory hallucinations, 3 (8.8%) subjects had visual hallucinations, and 16 (47%) subjects had delusions.[11] Similarly, a study from Nepal observed that 12.36% of the patients with alcohol dependence had AIPD.[12] However, findings of the present study markedly differ from a study among patients with alcohol dependence treated in psychiatric hospitals in Germany, in which it was found out that 0.6%–0.7% had alcohol-induced psychotic disorder.[13] This difference may be due to differences in the study sample, awareness of alcohol-related problems and better access to health-care facilities in Germany.
Duration of alcohol use and psychotic symptoms
In the present study, among the total subjects who experienced hallucinations 86% were consuming alcohol for more than 16 years whereas 14% were consuming for 11–15 years. In agreement with our findings a Malaysian study of alcohol dependents with AIPD reported a mean duration of drinking of 14.2 years.[11] This shows that subjects with a history of longer duration of alcohol intake were at risk of developing psychotic symptoms compared to those with less duration of alcohol intake.
Age of onset of alcohol intake and psychotic symptoms
In the current study, all the subjects who had psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations have started consuming alcohol between 16–25 years. This finding was in concordance with studies which found that younger age of onset of alcoholism was associated with alcoholic hallucinosis.[2],[14]
Severity of alcohol use disorder and psychotic symptoms
In the current study, all the persons who had psychotic symptoms were diagnosed with severe AUD [Figure 4]. The underlying mechanisms of alcohol-induced psychosis are complex involving the neurotoxicity of alcohol and its damage at the genetic, biochemical, and cellular levels leading to neurological pathology. The findings in the present study were in line with an earlier study which observed that alcohol-dependent subjects with psychotic features face more alcohol-related life problems. This indicates that a high degree of alcohol dependence may predispose an individual to develop psychotic features.[14]
Figure 4: Severity of alcohol use disorder and psychotic symptoms
Personality profile in alcohol-induced psychotic and alcohol use disorder
In the present study, the patients with AIP had significantly higher psychoticism and lower extraversion trait as compared to AUD patients without AIP. Neuroticism trait though higher in AIP patients was not significantly different from the AUD groups.
In this study, it has been observed that high psychoticism and high extraversion traits were significantly associated with AUD. Although AUD subjects had high neuroticism, it was not statistically significant. In Eysenck's theory, psychoticism is anchored at one end by aggressiveness and out-of-the-box thinking and at the opposite end by empathy and caution. This trait is so named because individuals with a highPlevel are significantly more at risk of psychotic disorders. In agreement with the above all the AIP patients in the present study had high psychoticism levels [Table 2]. Extraversion is represented on a bipolar scale anchored at one end by sociability and stimulation-seeking, and at the opposite end by social reserve and avoidance of stimulation. N is anchored at one end by emotional instability and spontaneity and at the opposite end by reflection and deliberateness. Subjects with a high N score are more at risk of anxiety-based problems.[15] When individual traits were compared, it was found that individuals with AUD had significantly higher levels of psychoticism and extraversion. Neuroticism was also high in AUD patients but not significant. These findings are in agreement with the finding that higher psychoticism levels are strongly associated with alcohol consumption,[11] and several other studies have shown a link between higher extraversion levels and alcohol consumption in nonalcoholics and alcoholics alike.[16],[17],[18]
This finding is consistent with the suggestion that impulsivity measured by the psychoticism part of EPQ was more associated with substance use.[19],[20],[21] Neuroticism appears to correlate positively with alcohol consumption specifically among those with clinically significant alcohol problems.[22] Individuals who consume alcohol heavily may develop high levels of Neuroticism and anxiety to buffer the negative affect related to alcohol dependence.[23]
These findings are partly in agreement with the results of studies which found that alcoholic men have high neuroticism, high psychoticism, and low extraversion.[15],[24] Similarly, another study, using Cloninger's temperament and character inventory, observed that alcohol-dependent patients were characterized by higher novelty-seeking and lower self-directedness which reflect psychoticism and neuroticism than nonpsychiatric controls.[25]
The results in the current study correlated with a meta-analysis to quantify the relationship between the five-factor model of personality and alcohol involvement and to identify moderators of the relationship. The meta-analysis showed alcohol involvement was associated with low conscientiousness, low agreeableness, and high neuroticism.[26]
Similarly, two studies found high levels of neuroticism to be associated with increased level of drinking.[27],[28] Possible explanation for the high neuroticism in alcoholics is higher levels of depression and anxiety which in turn have been linked with alcohol abuse. Thus, for neurotic individuals, drinking is a means of coping with negative emotions.
The results in the current study were not in concordance with the results of an Indian study in which majority of the patients had ambivert personality (76.6%), while 20% were extroverts and 3.3% introverts.[6] This finding suggests that significantly higher number of ambiverts were susceptible to AUDs than extroverts and introverts. The results of the current study were in contrast to the findings of a study that found low psychoticism in alcohol-dependent individuals.[29]
Biological basis of neuroticism originates from the sensitivity of the limbic autonomic system, which determines reactivity to environmental and psychological stimuli. Highly reactive individuals are typically easily startled and agitated. These individuals may be expected to use addictive substances for their calming and rewarding effects. Addictive behaviors are adopted and utilized because they serve as useful function for individual. In other words, it can be interpreted as the nature of addictive behavior gives certain benefits to the user. Hence, that type of behavior is continued even though there may be unwanted or negative consequences.
An individual with relatively high levels of impulsivity/behavioral disinhibition could hypothetically: Display a range of externalizing behaviors during childhood that may overlap with personality through common genetic factors, affiliate with deviant peer groups that have access to alcohol during adolescence, subjectively enjoy drinking because the effects of alcohol are especially rewarding by reducing stress, become increasingly involved in a heavy drinking lifestyle that includes using alcohol to increase positive moods and/or decreases negative moods. The psychoticism dimension is linked with higher impulsivity and lower self-regulation. Psychoticism-related characteristics are impulsivity, under controlled temperament, antisocial characteristics, low agreeableness, proneness to school, and behavioral problems. Future alcohol problems can be predicted by traits related to behavioral disinhibition and to a lesser extent, neuroticism.
The results in the present study indicate the need for the routine assessment of personality profile in alcohol-dependent individuals. This will help in better understanding of the addictive behavior in the individual patient and facilitate the best strategy for tailoring standard interventions to the individual needs and requirements. Understanding why high psychoticism and neuroticism places persons at increased risk for alcoholism would help in better understanding and conceptualizing AUDs, which will lead to improved treatment and prevention. This has important implication in the psychological management as well. Integrated psychological interventions should be considered to reduce negative emotional state and bring balance in physiological response and to improve coping with stress. Interventions like counseling should be considered to decrease neuroticism and interventions ranging from cognitive skills programs to exercise regimes should be considered to increase self-regulation and therefore, to decrease impulsivity. Efforts must be directed toward educational intervention for quitting alcohol among lower middle class and middle class. As coping motives appear to be an important mediator of the personality and alcohol relation, treatments targeting coping skills may also result in reductions in alcohol problems. Family-related genetic and environmental factors in developing psychosis related to alcohol are important themes that warrant future studies. Making the distinction between alcohol-induced psychosis and primary psychotic illness is essential in broadening knowledge and understanding of alcohol-induced psychosis and planning appropriate treatment for patients.
Sample for the study, having been taken from a hospital-based population, may represent the more severely alcohol-dependent patients. This leads to difficulty in generalizing the results of the study to the general population. The sample size was small and all participants were male. Furthermore, the data were cross-sectional, rather than longitudinal, and therefore, the findings cannot be used to explain causal relationships. There was no control group in the study. Personality of alcohol dependence subjects should have been compared with personality of healthy controls. As the investigator was not blind to the diagnosis, while administering the questionnaire and pro forma, the chances of observer bias creeping into assessment has to be considered.
Alcohol-induced psychosis was found in small but significant proportion of hospitalized patients with alcohol dependence. The most common psychotic symptom was auditory hallucinations. The propensity to develop psychotic symptoms appears to increase with longer duration of alcohol use. Psychoticism and extraversion personality traits were predominant in AUD while psychoticism trait was associated with AIP.
Future studies should include a larger sample from multiple centers, and include both sexes.
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HomeHeadlinesHeadlines: David Archuleta Kids Story, Diana Degarmo & Ace Young Debut
Headlines: David Archuleta Kids Story, Diana Degarmo & Ace Young Debut
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World Premiere of Hit Her With the Skates Begins Performances March 10 –Performances for the world premiere of Hit Her With the Skates begin March 10 at Chicago’s Royal George Theatre. The musical follows rock star Jacqueline Miller as she headlines her first national tour. Trouble arises when she agrees to kick off the re-opening of her childhood roller rink, Windy City Skates, forcing her to take a look back at her life growing up. American Idol finalists, and real-life couple, Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young star as Jacqueline and Blake/Russ, respectively. Rounding out the cast are Chris Walker as Jack/Danny, Nik Kmiecik as Brad, Amy Toporek as Jackie, Marvin Malone II as Scotty, Norrell Moore as Rebecca, Karl Hamilton as Hank, Kelly Felthous as Meghan, and Madeline Fansler as Tonya. Adia Bell and Adam Fane are swings. – Read more at Playbill
David Archuleta Lends Voice to NPR Children’s Story
It’s called “Song of the Horse.”
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to lend my voice and bring a character to life on @WBUR's @ComeCircleRound! It’s an NPR program for kids. The story is called "Song of the Horse" where I play a young shepherd, named Sohu, whose goal is to make music. https://t.co/w7evdXrkX2 pic.twitter.com/9QrEKiKLk9
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American Idol’s Jovin Webb chats with Tpot and Speedy – Louisiana’s Jovin Webb is bringing his “barbecue sauce” to Hollywood after advancing through the American Idol tryouts. He stopped by the B97 studio and chatted with Tpot and Speedy about his audition, his musical background and much more. – Read more at b97.radio.com
‘The Voice’ Winner Jake Hoot Calls Growing up Without Electricity an ‘Adventure’ (Exclusive) – Season 17 winner of The Voice, Jake Hoot, definitely had an unconventional childhood. The Tennessee native spent much of his childhood in a remote area of the Dominican Republic, along with his eight siblings and parents, who were missionaries. His family moved to the Dominican Republic when he was 9 years old, forcing him to give up many of the things he was accustomed to, like electricity and running water, which he says became one of the biggest blessings in his life. “We were so young, we looked at it as like an adventure, not having electricity or running water,” Hoot told PopCulture.com. “Growing up here in the United States, especially now that I’ve been back for so long, it becomes a necessity. But when you’re over there it becomes … I always say it makes for a good story. Anytime anything goes wrong it makes for a good story. – Read more at Popculture.com
On TV singing contests, black women — whether rising stars or legends — seldom prevail – Aretha. Mahalia. Whitney. Black women have possessed some of the greatest voices of all time. Yet, when it comes to singing competitions and American television audiences, one would be hard-pressed to find black women singers celebrated.Only a few black women (including multi-racial contestants) have won across all the runs of contemporary top television singing competitions. “American Idol,” now in its 18th season, has seen three win the title: Fantasia Barrino in the third season, Jordin Sparks in the sixth and Candice Glover in Season 12. “The Voice,” meanwhile, also in Season 18, has produced just one black female winner: Jamaican singer Tessanne Chin back in Season 5. (The series’ first two winners were black men, and Chris Blue became the third in Season 12.) It’s not just emerging performers who are denied a crown for their vocal prowess. – Read more at Chicago Sun Times
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Yankees, Corey Kluber Agree To Deal
Judge Rules In Orioles’ Favor In MASN Dispute
By Jeff Todd | November 4, 2015 at 2:20pm CDT
New York Supreme Court Judge Lawrence Marks has ruled in favor of the Orioles and against the Nationals in a long-running dispute relating to the rights fees owed to the latter team by the jointly-owned Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN). (Hat tip to James Wagner of the Washington Post, on Twitter.) MASN, which is controlled and majority-owned by the Orioles, brought the lawsuit to challenge an arbitration award that purported to settle the annual television broadcast fees owed by the network to the Nationals (who own a minority share of MASN).
Today’s ruling vacates that award. If the decision is upheld on appeal, it would require the parties to renegotiate and/or re-arbitrate the rights fees. Importantly, the decision does not address the underlying substantive dispute, let alone decide that in favor of the Orioles/MASN.
The root of the dispute dates back to the dealmaking that paved the way for the Expos-turned-Nationals organization to move to D.C. The Orioles opposed the intrusion on their market, of course, and the compromise ultimately included a deal in which the O’s would maintain a significant ownership percentage of MASN.
Annual fees for the Nationals’ broadcast rights were also covered in the resulting set of contracts, with the first several seasons’ fees pre-established at fairly low rates. Pursuant to the agreement, the annual rights value was to be re-negotiated after 2011 (and every five years thereafter) to arrive at a fair market value of those rights.
When that negotiation failed, the arbitration was initiated, with the Orioles proposing a $34MM payout for 2012 and the Nationals requesting $109MM. The panel hearing the case was a league committee known as the Revenue Sharing Definitions Committee (RSDC). Its members, at the time, were Rays owner Stuart Sternberg, Pirates president Frank Coonelly, and Mets COO Jeff Wilpon. MLB itself, including now-commissioner Rob Manfred, also played a major role in the arbitration.
The panel ultimately decided upon a $53MM rights fee value for the 2012 season, which would rise steadily to $66MM in 2016 (thus covering the five-year period in question). But it held off on formally issuing its decision for about two years, allowing then-commissioner Bud Selig to attempt to work out a compromise, which (per the ruling) would have involved a $1B+ sale of MASN to Comcast (which obviously never occurred). In the meantime, MLB fronted the Nationals the difference between the fees they were receiving from MASN and the value that the panel had determined.
A formal decision was issued on June 30 of last year, and the Orioles instituted the present litigation shortly thereafter. Baltimore challenged a number of aspects of the arbitration, including the involvement of the league at the time and its decision to advance money to the Nationals.
Though overturning an arbitration award is an exceedingly difficult task, the court sided with MASN and the Orioles. Interestingly, though, none of the above factors played into the decision, which focused on the highly deferential standard of review and noted that the agreement had contemplated an “inside baseball” arbitration panel.
The ultimate basis cited by the court in vacating the award — and the issue that will presumably be tested on appeal — is the involvement of the law firm Proskauer Rose LLP. Not only was Proskauer representing the Nationals in the arbitration, the court explained, it was currently representing Major League Baseball in numerous other matters — with four particular attorneys sharing responsibility for both clients. Though MASN and the Orioles repeatedly raised this issue, the panel didn’t take “any step at all” to deal with the potential bias that resulted.
Applying the relevant standard of “evident partiality,” the court determined there was sufficient cause to overturn the decision of the panel. Judge Marks explained (quoting a prior case): “[T]his complete inaction objectively demonstrates an utter lack of concern for fairness of the proceeding that is ’so inconsistent with basic principles of justice’ that the award must be vacated.”
The actual basis for the ruling is important in several regards. For one, it narrows the issues to be addressed on appeal, though the Orioles could attempt to challenge the judge’s refusal to offer relief on the other grounds argued. (Notably, the court noted in its ruling that the factual setting it considered was without precedent, making this case ripe for consideration in an appellate proceeding.) And it also leaves open the possibility that the parties could return to the same panel that decided the dispute in the first place in a second arbitration.
All said, the ruling represents a significant victory for the Orioles’ side of things — in large part because of the leverage it gives the organization in negotiations. Continued litigation and re-arbitration will, obviously, be quite expensive. And the Nationals now have no argument to demand immediate payment of a vacated award, keeping the cash in Baltimore’s pocket. It’s notable, also, that the original five-year rights fee period is now almost up, meaning the parties will soon need to sort out fees for the 2017-2021 time frame as well.
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Baltimore Orioles Newsstand Washington Nationals
White Sox Decline Option On Alexei Ramirez
Reds Promote Dick Williams To GM; Jocketty To Serve As President Of Baseball Ops
Does this mean Chris Davis stays and the right to Armando Benetiz Hall of Fame jersey?
Poor choice by MLB to not recognize the conflict of interest and provide otherwise. Interesting that MLB has the authority to front that kind of money out of general coffers to one team.
start_wearing_purple
First they sign Baker then they lose the MASN dispute… bad week for the Nats.
johnsilver
It is the nation’s capitol you know. Plenty of terrible decisions have came out of there for several years now.
The Nationals mistake could be fixed by maybe undoing that particular mistake (infringing on another market) and moving the franchise back to Montreal, once decent ownership and a good stadium is built?
BarrelMan
Baseball in Washington is not a mistake. Further, the Legislature did not make this decision. Therefore, not the capitol, you know.
Eh, I like having baseball in Washington. Just really happy they didn’t decide to name them the Senators again.
They should have SWP.. Then it would really remind me of Hondo Howard, Teddy Williams (only respectable manager they ever had), Ed “steady eddie” Brinkman, Jim Schellenbach, who had one of the worst mugs in baseball history..
it’d remind of the old classic guys every time see the name!
Which only proves that the commish is the tool of the owners and the owner who throws the biggest temper tantrum gets his way.
crazy Jawa
PA: cool I just got a bunch more money! Sign Davis? Sign top end ace pitcher? Naaaa I need a fleet of yachts that I won’t set foot on, but I will brag about it.
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People’s Climate March Subway Posters: A Ray of Hope, A Schmear of Fear
September 19, 2014 by Kerry Trueman
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Tickets to a Broadway show can cost hundreds of dollars. But, as any New York City subway rider knows, $2.50 gets you a front row seat to an ever-changing cast of characters delivering monologues, dance routines, musical numbers, and other diversions to liven up your morning commute. With a daily ridership of 5.5 million, we’re a massive captive audience, a potential goldmine for the panhandlers, hip-hoppers and doo-woppers who compete for our spare coins.
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Rules committee narrow minded?
#1 Sep 5, 2020
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After watching some videos from SCG with Sheldon is anyone else particularly bothered by their reasoning? To me the rationale is “in our small play group we found this to be true”. I find it extremely disturbing that we have the rules committee basing their decisions off an extremely extremely small sample size.
Here are some of the videos in particular that raised some red flags:
https://youtu.be/kCzZbgsasYg
https://youtu.be/dGK8S94omcU
https://youtu.be/3oeTEhizjQQ
https://youtu.be/jtrD61cPPlo
https://youtu.be/LoY37QAOhII
Am I overreacting to their rationale or is it legit?
There's a very good reason that the banlist makes absolutely no sense and seems to be applied inconsistently: the RC's metagame is stagnant, inbred, and trapped in 2010.
The RC likes to play EDH in a very, very particular way, and anything that breaks their trudging Jund-y value battlecruiser meta gets banned or frowned out of the group, so they never have to evolve their play or improve their decks. As such the things that are too good in that exact meta get banned, and things that are too good in evolving, real-world metas stay unbanned.
All of that said, there's nothing inherently wrong with the way they choose to enjoy the game. There is, however, something very problematic with the format's stewards having an incredibly narrow view of it. Their rhetoric very clearly and consistently demonstrates that point, especially in their vitriol for anyone who finds enjoyment in pushing the limits of the format.
Obviously the format is still a ton of fun and very popular, but this is in spite of the above, not because of it. Just because its good doesn't mean it couldn't be even better.
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You are not overreacting at all. I've played with two of them in previous events and both exuded this feeling in person.
The unfortunate part is that after years of this with many people voicing similar opinions, there really hasn't been much change to how they advocate their format "should be played."
The best advice is for you and your local meta to develop your own banlist and regulate it as problems start showing up. Just make it fair to every member of your group, as some people like cards and strategies that others do not.
This has been my tables best approach. But it does cause problems when we go to events or stores and play with strangers. I run many many decks, so it's no problem for me to have a bag of edh decks specific for outings, but not all of my friends can afford this. They would rather keep their decks designed for our local meta and tend to just borrow from me when out.
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Primary EDH; Rakka Mar Token Perfection, Crosis Mnemonic Betrayal, Cromat Villainous, Judith Gravestorm, Rakdos Empty Storm, Exava Artifacts, Bant Trash, & Fumiko Voltron!
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Latulla Burns, Akroma Smash, Jeska Voltron, Rakdos Storm, Bladewing Darghans, Lyzolda Worldgorger, Xantcha Steals your Heart, Jori Storm, Wydwen Permission, Gwendlyn Paradox, Jeleva Warps, & Sigarda Brick!
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The fourth one is the most bothersome. If players have to pressure their peers into not playing certain cards regularly, how do they think this is being done? I don't like it. It's their format, and this is a time in Magic's history where formats are seeing more and more aggressive banwaves, so it's okay that they're more conservative with putting things on the banlist, I think, but I would also think they could have a larger circle to talk with about this stuff.
ilovesaprolings
You can always create your own variant like the guys of Centurion, Leviathan and Oathbreaker did.
How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
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It worked though... *points at the popularity of the format*
I think if they tried to control everything that is broken in EDH there would be not a lot of cards left and a lot of really fun cards would be banned. It is so easy to break things, but there isn't actually much incentive to do so in a casual format.
Are some of these issues due to people going online with their EDH play during the pandemic?
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Idk about their involvement helping the formats popularity. Looking back over the past 8+ years my interest has grown mainly due to the loss of extended, the gradual decay of modern, the lack of legacy support, and a personal hatred for standard.
Many content creators have voiced a similar situation, where edh has kinda just defaulted to being popular since wotc has repeatedly made it clear that older formats are not how they make money.
On top of that, while I love the core flavor and concepts of edh, every time a needlessly random rule change or ban occurs, I just want the RC to stop tampering with the format.
It's understandable for those who control the banlist and rules for major formats like standard to tune and ban frequently, since they have event results, mtgo data, arena data, and access to hundreds of employees that can understand the dynamics of a format at any given time.
But a handful of people deciding rules for an entire format based on very little data and personal opinion is just bad.
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EDH was created to be on the more casual side than cutthroat. Should RC open up and observe the rest of the community? Definitely, but their style of EDH seem to fit its ideal well, flavor + big plays > quick combo with high % of success, just like my own group. (Though we all have competitive decks when we're in the mood for blood)
I don't mind the current ban list. Some cards may no longer be an issue so they could be taken down, but there are several cards I wouldn't mind see put on it either. I also wouldn't mind seeing a separate ban list for EDH and cEDH, though RC noted that they won't draw the line between the two.
If there's one change I'd like to see immediately, would be lowering starting life total to 30.
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Idk about their involvement helping the formats popularity.
Lol. Yeah it's not RC's merit. It totally got popular because competitive players found the format and said "hey, let's twist this!".
You are wrong if you think that the majority of EDH players started because they weren't happy with competitive format anymore like you.
#10 Sep 6, 2020
A lot of people conflate the format's success with the RC's involvement, which is an understandable logical leap, but there's really no evidence of such. If anything, the format is popular because of WotC's involvement, as there have been incredibly sharp jumps after every Commander set release.
Sheldon took the idea from Adam Staley who created the format up in Alaska, brought it to the rest of the US, and the populace took it and ran with it because it was a good idea. The RC's involvement since then has had a neutral to slightly negative effect on the format, while WotC has smartly thrown their weight behind it and exploded its popularity via constant support.
I only follow Shivam on Twitter, i don't know how the rest of them feel about stuff, but I definitely don't think that the health of the format can be attributed to someone who given his own way would ban ALL planeswalkers and Sol Ring. A lot of the banned stuff would just naturally be discouraged, and he seems to have a lot of disdain for the Commander specific cards that do such a good job of getting new people to join. there could be some room in between, but I don't think the RC is any better for this format than the Pro Tour was for Modern as far as choices with them in mind.
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I can't even wrap my head around how terrible their meta must be that planeswalkers are more than a slight nuisance. Play creatures with CMC less than 7 ffs. I do agree that Sol Ring (and Crypt and probably Vault) would be banned in an ideal world, but they're not the worst offenders still legal.
More than that though? For the life of me I can't understand how backwards people are about the Commander-specific cards. I've been playing EDH since it first started gaining traction among the general populace (~Shards I'd say) and the cards WotC has specifically designed for the format have been some of the coolest things to happen to it. Derevi would've been banned when the tuck rule got changed if the RC was competent, but other than that one slip I'm very happy with WotC's exploration of the design space.
Then I remember that the average player thinks Oloro is busted beyond belief and sigh heavily.
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You think that wotc decided to get involved with a fanmade format for the first time ever just because, or because that format was really really popular?
You thinking that designs like planeswalker and Oloro are good for the format because "they are not busted enough" shows how much you understand nothing of this format. If EDH started with this phylosophy, it would have become a forgettable format really fast.
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Format is created by fans (not the RC) > Format is co-opted by the RC which establishes initial ban list > Format gains a modest amount of popularity > WotC supports the format > The format explodes in popularity > People begin realizing that the RC is out of touch (which is what we're discussing here)
Seems like a pretty clear progression to me.
I don't understand why you have to be so combative and put up straw-men like you're doing, its not super productive. You doing alright bud?
Format is co-opted by the RC which establishes initial ban list > Format gains a modest amount of popularity
That's just your opinion based on your personal bias for RC and treat it like it's the golden truth.
You ok bro? Try to play with planeswalker more, maybe you'll feel better. May i suggest you Oathbreaker?
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while i don't agree with the style of gameplay the rules committee advocates, and i too feel they're stagnantly stuck in 2010, i think they do an okay enough job for now.
the ever rising prices of some reserved list cards may call a lot of that into judgement very soon. the difference between owning a gaea's cradle, and an earthcraft, and not owning them is pretty huge with the disparity growing larger all the time. some of these reserve list cards are just going to make an entire class of player unable to compete against the other - which causes interest to wane on a longer timeline. the point here being that they may have to revise their stances on expensive cards being banned to prevent ubiquity, or start adding things over an identifiable value to the ban list. the social contract and talk it out with your group doesn't hold water any more because of the surge in popularity. you walk into a store you want the same banned list as the other store you walked into.
while wizards has continued support for the format, and run with it, and yes that has caused a huge surge in popularity, i do sometimes wonder if that's what's really wrong with the format right now. so many of these newer cards, or edh designed cards, just break the format in half. they do out of control absurd things, or combo in ways no one saw right away. its changed the nature of deckbuilding, especially since 2010. its less about finding obscure stuff or cute interactions and way more easy these days to go OOPS THAT'S EXPROPRIATE MANA AND I CAN COPY IT TOO! one approach is definitely more in line with deckbuilding in 2010, than deckbuilding in 2020. there is a little bit of a disconnect there sometimes it seems.
i think those are where the rules committee is weakest right now, and are definitely slow to act.
for now they stay largely hands off, and that's... honestly i can appreciate that. what i enjoy in edh, and the cards i enjoy using, are much different from sheldon's favored ones - most of them showing up on his do not play these cards list - but because they're hands off... well i can still play those cards and strategies for now. it means we all get a more diversified environment rather than some kind of iron will being executed that makes playing entire archetypes impossible. it means that we're free to explore different archetypes, different cards, and basically do whatever we personally want with the format instead of just lining up craw wurms the way he seems to favor.
now if we really want to discuss something problematic let's talk about sheldon's renown and platform, and how his insistence to avoid certain cards/strategies translates to the community largely trying to deligitimize those cards/strategies resulting in less experienced players being unable to handle those cards/strategies and how that may eventually lead to a banning due to unpopular opinion of them... yeah i think that has some merit too and that social contract against things like the cards on his list needs to be dropped from all edh terminology.
There's a few picks like Sylvan Primordial that I would like to see as playable but it's not a big enough issue to matter.
I mean there were a few situations like when Flash was legal and Sylvan Primordial was banned which made no sense. People where scooping just when a Flash was played.
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Yeah we've moved pretty far past Sylvan Primordial as a format now. Sure, its a big powerful effect but we've got better things to do with our mana these days. Remember when Deadeye Navigator and Seedborn Muse were considered unstoppable, game-breaking cards? Man the format has evolved a lot lol.
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i do sometimes wonder if that's what's really wrong with the format right now.
Congratulations, you got it.
RC's "style gameplay" is what made the format popular. A lot of people wanted to play that kind of magic and couldn't everywhere else.
Then wotc came and printed a lot of bull*****. They were clearly clueless about what the format was about (and it's not hard to see. Maro still is. They tought that tucking was a feature and not a bug. 2013 commanders were a broken mess. And so on).
So nowadays the format evolved and became way more broken. It's natural of course, after all more cards = more broken combinations, it's inevitable. But with commander it happened too fast. "2010 gameplay" is what many people still want to play, so i can't blame the RC for clinging to it.
yeah. i find my old lists sometimes, back from 2010. they're vastly different. way more laid back, slower, but way more complex, synergistic, and more fun to play. games were wildly unpredictable because you were trying to make a perfect machine using imperfect parts.
i look at my lists in 2020 and a lot of them are similar to each other now with the majority of the deck not even having existed 10 years ago. everything has kinda become jam these newly printed format aimed cards that are ridiculously strong, and bolster them with some reserve list power. if you're in blue you need XYZ, if you're in green you must run this. its not even about synergizing with your commander either most of the time. its about keeping up with the other people who also run xyz because if you don't you just get steamrolled because of how quickly card design out paced the format. if you don't run those you end up at this severe disadvantage.
its wildly different, not necessarily bad, just different. if anything i wouldn't mind the committee being more aggressive in banning some of those cards. the ones specifically designed for edh with big splashy effects that break games, designed by people who don't necessarily play the format or understand its nuances.
its also made deck building somewhat harder as you go man i need this this and that, but for each one of those that became a defining card, thats one less fun card you can jam, and if you dont' run them you end up with a deck operating on a much lower tier than your store regulars so now everyone is involved in this arms race. who can power out expropriate fastest, who can copy it the most, how many cyclonic rifts can we see go off in the next hour. the format as a whole moves away from being about a commander and more about a subset of cards.
Here's the thing: EDH has become wildly more popular since WotC started paying attention to the format and it is intellectually dishonest to say otherwise. All of the sales data and even simple logic bears that out.
With every Commander release EDH becomes more popular, meanwhile the RC lazes about and ignores obvious areas of improvement for the format. Occam's razor wants to have a word with you, and its not 'The RC is responsible for the format's popularity.' If people wanted to play the RC's way at first, we've collectively moved past that now, and the people are hungry for more and more new toys. On a personal level I know that I start losing interest in EDH when there's a long dry spell for interesting goodies, YMMV of course.
This is purely speculation, but I'd bet dollars to donuts that if the Commander products hadn't been printed we'd have all lost interest by now because the format would've gotten stale. Cool new toys get us pumped!
There's a lot of misinformed folks who claim that WotC is killing EDH when that couldn't be further from the truth. The precons bring more people in, more legends in each set bring more people in, more big splashy multiplayer cards bring more people in, and honestly the things breaking the format at any given point are usually older cards that either take waaaaayyyyy too long to get banned, never get banned, or in fact get unbanned inexplicably (coughProteanHulkcough).
As to lists becoming more streamlined and less varied: that is a consequence of time and internet access, it was always going to happen. The hive mind weeds out what is good and what is bad at an exponentially accelerating rate, which is honestly fine since most people would agree that doing powerful things is fun. Slamming haymakers is one of the most enjoyable parts of the game (after interaction I'd say personally), its just that the collective definition of what constitutes a haymaker has... evolved.
Yeah and why wotc choose EDH and not something else to print a dedicated product? Why they didn't choose pauper, simple highlander, 2hg?
If wotc intervetion is the only thing that made the format popular and the RC has no merit, why wotc isn't pushing other thing like tiny leaders or oathbreaker?
Why other casual wotc products like planechase or archenemy sucked balls compared to commander?
Seems pretty clear that "wotc decides to print a dedicated product" is a factor, but not the only one.
Maybe you are just ignoring the fact that, while indeed wotc greatly boosted the format popularity, it choose EDH because it was already a very popular casual variant. And why is that? Because of RC.
If people wanted to play the RC's way at first, we've collectively moved past that now, and the people are hungry for more and more new toys.
Oh, i love how you can decide what people should like. I'll surely stop to play slower decks and start to play ramp+expropriate now!
Look, I feel like I've stated pretty clearly that the RC took the format from its originators, brought it to the masses, and it was popular. That can't be discounted and credit is given where it is due. You are however overestimating the importance of their continued involvement after that initial instance, given that the largest periods of growth have unequivocally been following WotC's involvement, specifically the release of preconstructed decks.
As to your second point, I'm not sure why you're being so combative. People literally, demonstrably get hyped for the newest, coolest new cards, and literally, demonstrably lose interest in the old stuff as cool new cards and strategies come out. I mean, look at the top commanders on EDHRec, they're almost all cards designed by WotC for EDH. That paints a very clear picture of what people want out of the format.
New players enjoy the RC's style of ramp+expropriate/big dragon/other bomb, and for the most part very quickly evolve their play into something more inherently interesting as they grow. Not everyone gets to the point where they find a cEDH level of interaction and complexity enjoyable, but I've been playing EDH for a decade and watched new players slowly lose interest in the stale ramp>dragon>swing format the RC advocates and move into more complicated, interactive decks with more engaging play patterns and knobs to turn.
Hell, my first deck was Karrthus dragons built just the way the RC would build it with 4-cmc ramp spells and way too many bombs and no removal, and I had a blast, but that ***** gets old pretty fast. I thank the RC for their role in taking the format from its creators and showing it to the masses, but I'm enjoying the format more than ever right now, and there's more players in the format than ever right now, the impetus for both being very easy to point to: WotC's involvement in the format.
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As to your second point, I'm not sure why you're being so combative.
...New players enjoy the RC's style..., and for the most part very quickly evolve their play into something more inherently interesting as they grow.
I'm going to jump in and suggest it may have to do with the dismissive assumptions you state as fact. There is nothing "more inherently interesting" about your preferred playstyle over another person's preferred way, and the fact that you assume it is inherent means you are blind to your own bias.
Now, I happen to agree that new players don't appreciate things like watching their mana curve and running less-splashy utility cards. I also think that they can grow through experience and speaking with more experienced players. But growing does not equate to changing playstyle. You can grow and build better decks that are still intended to achieve more casual fun. It's all a matter of what you want to get out of the game.
Not everyone gets to the point where they find a cEDH level of interaction and complexity enjoyable, but I've been playing EDH for a decade and watched new players slowly lose interest in the stale ramp>dragon>swing format the RC advocates and move into more complicated, interactive decks with more engaging play patterns and knobs to turn.
I've been playing EDH since 2009, and I've seen it go both ways. I've seen people try to go more competitive, and I've seen people get sick of competitive and just want to have fun and be social. I myself have fluctuated multiple times, whether to match an evolving group's power level (down and then back up as they got better) or simply because I found combo decks super boring and linear.
Interaction and complicated gameplay is a spectrum, not a binary state. Your rather dismissive opinion of the RC's playstyle makes it sound like there isn't any way to play casually and be interactive, but that's just a disingenuous strawman.
One of the great things about Magic is it can be played different ways. The RC likes one pattern of play - great! The format has grown steadily under their supervision. Wizards started promoting it, and it grew more - great again! You know what hasn't had the same consistent growth? Standard, a format entirely under WOTC control, with so many bans that players get whiplash. I've seen lots of players leave standard because they got sick of the format when it was dominated by one deck/playstyle or because they got sick of cards they bought not being usable anymore either due to bans or rotation.
Personally, I tend to side with the RC even when I don't always agree with them. I'd rather see a conservative approach to managing the format than a meddling, micro-managing one. You can't please all the people all the time, and even attempting to do so would be a disaster. The format has been doing well under their purview, and I hope to see it continue.
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I also think that they can grow through experience and speaking with more experienced players. But growing does not equate to changing playstyle. You can grow and build better decks that are still intended to achieve more casual fun.
I've been playing EDH since 2009, and I've seen it go both ways. I've seen people try to go more competitive, and I've seen people get sick of competitive and just want to have fun and be social.
Thank you. For some people is really hard to understand these points.
EDH became popular because it was the safe space where you could finally play your janky wurm tribal deck (it's a quite dumb metaphor that oversemplies the issue, but i think it does a great describing what was about for many people). And it still need to be that safe space, because otherwise it will just become vintage #2 or legacy #2.
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Major Groups > Gilled Mushrooms > Pale-Spored > Armillaria > Armillaria gallica
Armillaria gallica
[ Basidiomycota > Agaricales > Physalaciaceae > Armillaria . . . ]
This honey mushroom is widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains, and is typically found on the ground or near the bases of hardwoods. It is smaller, on average, than Armillaria mellea, and its ring tends to be cobwebby or ephemeral, almost like a cortina. It is more apt to grow alone or in loose groups than in densely packed clusters that cause the stem bases to be pointed. In fact, the stem base of Armillaria gallica is often a bit swollen, exhibiting, in the words of Armillaria expert Tom Volk, a "bulbicitiness" not found in most other honey mushrooms.
Although it can be found in late summer and early fall, Armillaria gallica is usually a late-fruiting species, appearing in the colder weather of late fall and early winter—or even in the depths of winter, during warm spells. In urban areas it is not uncommon in places where hardwood trees were removed several years beforehand, popping up as a "lawn mushroom" without any immediately obvious relationship to rotting wood—though the tree's decaying root system is the actual substrate for the fungus.
Armillaria calvescens is similar to Armillaria gallica—so similar that the two species cannot reliably be separated without attempting to "mate" them in a laboratory or sequencing their DNA (have fun). The range of Armillaria calvescens is more northerly, however; it appears to be rare or absent south of a line roughly below the southern edge of the Great Lakes. A 2011 study (Kim & Klopfenstein) found only Armillaria gallica present in a Nebraska nature preserve; Armillaria calvescens was absent.
Armillaria lutea and Armillaria bulbosa are synonyms.
Ecology: "[U]sually an innocuous saprophyte, living on organic matter in the soil and not harming trees to any great extent" (Volk & Burdsall, 1993); growing on the wood of hardwoods and occasionally on conifer wood; appearing alone, gregariously, or in loose clusters; often appearing terrestrial (but actually attached to roots)—but sometimes fruiting from the bases of trees and stumps; late summer, fall, and winter; widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
Cap: 3–10 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat; dry or sticky; bald underneath scattered, tiny, yellowish to brownish scales and fibrils (often concentrated over the center); pinkish brown to tan or, occasionally, yellowish; fading markedly as it dries out; the margin sometimes featuring whitish to yellowish partial veil material when young, becoming lined with age.
Gills: Running down the stem or nearly so; close; short-gills frequent; whitish, discoloring pinkish to brownish.
Stem: 4–7 cm long; 1–3 cm thick; usually club-shaped, with a swollen base; finely lined near the apex; with a yellow ring zone or, occasionally, with a flimsy white ring that features a yellow edge; whitish to brownish when fresh, becoming dark watery brownish to olive gray from the base upward; base sometimes staining yellow; often attached to black rhizomorphs.
Flesh: Whitish; unchanging when sliced.
Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive; taste not distinctive, or slightly bitter.
Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface yellowish to golden, or negative.
Microscopic Features: Spores 7–10 x 4–6 µm; ellipsoid with a fairly prominent apiculus; smooth; hyaline to yellowish in KOH; inamyloid. Basidia 4-sterigmate; basally clamped. Cheilocystidia 15–40 x 2.5–5 µm; cylindric-flexuous to somewhat irregular or contorted; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH. Pleurocystidia not found. Pileipellis a cutis or ixocutis with areas of upright elements; cutis elements 5–15 µm wide, smooth, hyaline to brownish, with terminal cells cylindric with subclavate to slightly narrowed apices; upright elements 5–15 µm wide, smooth or finely roughened, brownish in KOH, often slightly constricted at septa, with terminal cells cylindric with rounded or slightly narrowed apices.
REFERENCES: Marxmüller & Romagnesi, 1987. (Moser, 1983; Berube & Dessureault, 1988; Volk & Burdsall, 1995; Volk, 2003; Binion et al., 2008; Vesterholt, 2008; Kim & Klopfenstein, 2011; Buczacki, 2012; Kuo & Methven, 2014.) Herb. Kuo 09210401, 11020401, 09150721, 11121102.
Kuo, M. (2017, January). Armillaria gallica. Retrieved from the MushroomExpert.Com Web site: http://www.mushroomexpert.com/armillaria_gallica.html
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Tags: Trump Administration | Donald Trump | GOP2016 | Hillary Clinton | hillary | trump | sanders
Hillary Lacks Trump's Sizzle
By Armstrong Williams Tuesday, 28 June 2016 02:12 PM Current | Bio | Archive
"All sizzle and no steak," is a long-standing American idiom denoting someone who is full of style and flash, but lacks substance. But what about the opposite? — all steak and no sizzle. Well, that might be OK, at least you’re getting a steak. But Hillary Clinton’s campaign of late may be a case of the worst of both worlds: all fizzle and no sizzle.
While Donald Trump has had some recent stumbles, there is no doubt about one thing; among likely voters, the Trump brand sizzles.
Despite failing to unify the Republican Party going into the convention, and lagging Hillary Clinton in fundraising by a mile, Trump is still polling strongly. Under normal circumstances a candidate trailing so far behind in the money race would be all but dead in the water going into the general election.
How could this possibly be? Clinton is by far the more skilled politician and should ostensibly benefit from the tailwind created by a popular two-term Democratic presidential incumbent.
On it’s surface the math is pretty simple; Trump leads among all white prospective voters, and he leads by double digits among white males. Clinton leads among white females, but not by as large a margin as Trump leads among white males.
Clinton carries the so-called minority vote by a landslide. This core calculus is not likely to change significantly before the election, and so it will come down to who’s voters turn out more passionately.
If Trump’s performance in the Republican primary is any indication of how he will perform among his constituency in the election, Trump can expect a strong showing from his base.
Clinton, on the other hand, has struggled with the mobilization game. Although ultimately victorious, she floundered in some state Democratic nomination contests against a left-flank insurgency from Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The Clinton campaign has yet to negotiate a truce in the internecine battle between Party officials and Sanders delegates. While Clinton has likely clinched the nomination, she hasn't emerged unscathed. One wonders whether she can generate enough unity, and momentum, coming out of the Democratic Convention to withstand a Trump train that, though slightly off track, continues to gather steam among voters, especially after the Orlando Florida terrorist attack.
The Clinton camp has voiced concerns that the presumptive Democratic nominee can generate passion among the Democratic base, and, perhaps more importantly, win over fence-sitting independents and undecided voters. The problem comes down to one thing: likeability. People respect Clinton, or they loathe her. But they are not passionate about her, and her tepid campaigning style isn’t winning many raving fans.
Her campaign has not found a way to grow her likeability, although staffers are obviously aware of the problem and have said so openly. Instead, they’ve essentially started circling their wagons for now — sending out multiple television ads and fundraising emails attacking Donald Trump.
Trump’s likeability is also low among significant segments of the electorate, but it’s hard to see Clinton winning a battle of the uglies. Trump has openly embraced the role of the spoiler and seems to revel in upsetting the status quo. Clinton has to get more traction from people who actually like her, rather than those who merely dislike Trump, and that’s going to be difficult for her going forward.
This current state of affairs is somewhat problematic for Clinton, who is arguably the most prepared and qualified candidate to have ever run for office. She has held the highest legislative and executive roles in the nation: Secretary of state, and U.S. senator from New York. Her name recognition is at least as high as Donald Trump’s. She is a schooled and skilled operative of the highest order.
But she may lack the "it" factor that is often so important in presidential contests. Unlike Trump or even Obama, her negatives are not countered by legions of ardent fans who are willing to get out and evangelize for her. She operates very much at the machine level, orchestrating her campaign through party mechanisms with which she is familiar and comfortable.
But where is her appeal to the American people? Why can’t she just let her hair down and have a bit of fun? Unlike other politicians at her level, most notably her husband Bill, Hillary does not make it look easy. Perhaps she's been coached and managed to the point of rigidity. She may also be so hemmed in by her years of on-the-record positions that she cannot maneuver effectively against a foe who has no problem reversing on a dime.
There is much to be said for holding your fire, saving your powder for the real fight. But Clinton has been so lacking in fireworks that she’s not even inspiring the base. She has withstood a withering fight against Bernie Sanders' insurgent campaign to win the nomination. But there is a real concern among Clinton insiders as to whether she will inherit the approval, and more importantly, the passion, of the Sanders movement.
A negotiated treaty with the Sanders camp is all but a fait accompli, but the prospect of Sanders himself getting out and stumping for her with any of his customary gusto seems remote.
Clinton’s problems in many ways mirror Trump’s successes. While Trump can claim the rights to the popular movement, but not the party, Clinton has the party, but not the movement.
This election will in a sense be a real litmus test as to whether teams or players make championships. Trump has shown himself to be game despite constant communication miscues and intra-party war that has raged from almost the moment he announced his Candidacy. Clinton has the Democratic Party firmly in her corner, but seemingly lacks that breakaway quality we used to call sizzle.
Clinton has the Democratic Party firmly in her corner, but seemingly lacks that breakaway quality we used to call sizzle.
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Home Florida Daytona Faxes and email: Old technology slows COVID-19 response
Faxes and email: Old technology slows COVID-19 response
WASHINGTON – On April 1, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emailed Nevada public health counterparts for lab reports on two travelers who had tested positive for the coronavirus. She asked Nevada to send those records via a secure network or a “password protected encrypted file” to protect the travelers’ privacy.
The Nevada response: Can we just fax them over?
You’d hardly know the U.S. invented the internet by the way its public health workers are collecting vital pandemic data. While health-care industry record-keeping is now mostly electronic, cash-strapped state and local health departments still rely heavily on faxes, email and spreadsheets to gather infectious disease data and share it with federal authorities.
This data dysfunction is hamstringing the nation’s coronavirus response by, among other things, slowing the tracing of people potentially exposed to the virus. In response, the Trump administration set up a parallel reporting system run by the Silicon Valley data-wrangling firm Palantir. Duplicating many data requests, it has placed new burdens on front-line workers at hospitals, labs and other health care centers who already report case and testing data to public health agencies.
There’s little evidence so far that the Palantir system has measurably improved federal or state response to COVID-19.
Emails exchanged between the CDC and Nevada officials in March and early April, obtained by The Associated Press in a public records request, illustrate the scope of the problem. It sometimes takes multiple days to track down such basic information as patient addresses and phone numbers. One disease detective consults Google to fill a gap. Data vital to case investigations such as patient travel and medical histories is missing.
None of this is news to the CDC or other health experts. “We are woefully behind,” the CDC’s No. 2 official, Anne Schuchat, wrote in a September report on public health data technology. She likened the state of U.S. public health technology to “puttering along the data superhighway in our Model T Ford.”
HOLES IN THE DATA
This information technology gap might seem puzzling given that most hospitals and other health care providers have long since ditched paper files for electronic health records. Inside the industry, they’re easily shared, often automatically.
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TriBeCa in New York can be found in Lower Manhattan. Where exactly? Well, it’s all in the name. TriBeCa is an acronym for ‘Triangle Below Canal Street’. That means the TriBeCa neighbourhood is located between the Hudson River, Canal Street, Broadway and Vesey Street, roughly speaking. In the North-West of this area you can find the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, connecting New York to New Jersey.
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Although TriBeCa in New York is pretty popular nowadays, it hasn’t always been. The warehouses that now have a mostly residential function, date back to a time when this neighbourhood was still an industrial area. After a period of vacancy and decay, a group of artists started to squat in the attics of the abandoned warehouses in the 80’s. This triggered the beginning of the neighbourhood’s revival. Companies moved here and, within 10 years, TriBeCa was back on the map. This time as a desirable and thriving neighbourhood in Lower Manhattan. TriBeCa has been voted one of the safest areas in New York City and many movie and pop stars call it home: Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Meryl Streep, Justin Timberlake and Leonardo DiCaprio, to name a few. TriBeCa is now one of the most expensive neighbourhoods to live in New York.
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Pier 25 in TriBeCa
On the TriBeCa side of Hudson River Park, you’ll find a huge playground paradise: Pier 25. This part of the park has something to offer every age. From the children’s playground with water features, to the climbing wall, in addition to the beach volleyball courts. Theres even a miniature golf course and a sun deck with lounge chairs. From April to October you also find the oyster bar Grand Banks here, located on a permanently docked sailing boat. An atmospheric place to have a cocktail and a bite amongst the locals, with a nice view of the buildings of Downtown Manhattan. Furthermore, Pier 25 is the departure place of the high speed boat tour in New York: the best activity for adrenaline junkies who like to include some sightseeing.
To shift the focus after the 9/11 attacks as well as to support the area’s reconstruction, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff founded the TriBeCa Film Festival. It boosted the reputation of New York as a ‘movie town’ and also became one of the most prominent film festivals in the world. In addition to the huge number of documentaries, shorts and family films to watch, there are the annual Artist Award and lots of free activities. For the ultimate American vibe I recommend the Tribeca Film Festival Drive-In, at World Financial Plaza. The name ‘Drive-In’ might be a little misleading, since it’s basically an open-air screening. Watching movies, at a small harbour by the Hudson, underneath the stars. Around the screening there are also lots of family friendly activities planned, in the theme of the movie.
In 2021 the TriBeCa Film Festival will be from the 9th to the 20th of June.
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Pence Visit Indicates Trump Campaign Sees N.H. As Potential Battleground State
By Josh Rogers • Sep 21, 2020
Republicans line up to get into Vice President Mike Pence's visit to Gilford on Sept. 22, 2020.
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N.H. looks like a battleground state once again, with the Trump-Pence campaign making notable stops ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.
Vice President Mike Pence will hold a rally in the Lakes Region Tuesday. Pence’s trip is the latest indication that the Trump campaign sees New Hampshire as a potential battleground.
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Pence will rally supporters of President Donald Trump in a hangar at the Laconia Municipal Airport. Pence’s trip follows visits last week by first lady Melania Trump and the president’s son, Eric Trump.
The president himself campaigned at Manchester Airport last month. Trump narrowly lost New Hampshire to Hillary Clinton four years ago, and the Trump campaign thinks it’s a state he could win in 2020.
Neither Democratic nominee Joe Biden or his running mate Kamala Harris have campaigned in New Hampshire since the February's presidential primary. Their spouses, Dr. Jill Biden and Douglas Emhoff, visited Bedford last week.
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Biden Enters Campaign's Final Stretch With Cash Advantage Over Trump
By Tamara Keith & Sean McMinn • Sep 21, 2020
Updated at 6 p.m. ET
Democrats go into the final weeks of the presidential campaign with a cash advantage.
As of the beginning of this month, former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign, combined with the Democratic Party, had about $30 million more in the bank than President Trump's reelection effort and the Republican Party, according to campaign finance filings made public Sunday evening.
Poll: Most Young Americans Prefer Biden, But Trump Backers Are More Enthusiastic
By Juana Summers • Sep 21, 2020
Young Americans favor Joe Biden over President Trump, according to a new survey, but Trump's supporters appear more enthusiastic about that choice.
Sixty percent of likely voters under the age of 30 say they will vote for Biden, compared with 27% for Trump, according to a poll from the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics out Monday. But 56% of likely voters who support the president are "very enthusiastic" about voting for him, compared with 35% of likely voters who back the Democratic nominee when asked about their enthusiasm.
Democrats Raised More Than $46 Million Following RBG's Death
By Tamara Keith • Sep 19, 2020
In politics, money can be a pretty good stand-in for enthusiasm. And the donations pouring in to the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue since Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death indicate there is a lot of energy and money on the left.
According to the constantly-ticking tracker on ActBlue's website, in the hours from 9 p.m. ET, when the news of Ginsburg's death became widely known, to Saturday afternoon, more than $46 million was donated to Democratic candidates and causes. The number keeps rising by thousands every second.
Kamala Harris And Her Husband Make Stop Outside The Supreme Court
By Benjamin Swasey • Sep 19, 2020
Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, stopped outside the Supreme Court Saturday morning, following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
"Justice Ginsburg was a titan—a relentless defender of justice and a legal mind for the ages," Harris said in a tweet. "The stakes of this election couldn't be higher. Millions of Americans are counting on us to win and protect the Supreme Court—for their health, for their families, and for their rights."
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When Joe Biden seeks to inspire or comfort, he turns to his faith. He speeches are woven with references to God, biblical language or the pope.
On Monday, the Democratic presidential nominee spoke to the faith-based anti-poverty group the Poor People's Campaign, and described the United States under President Trump as a "nation in the wilderness."
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New product development: incrementality not always driven by uniqueness
By Thais Gill, Director - Nielsen Innovation Practice
Perspectives 02-09-2019
Throughout my time at Nielsen, I’ve been part of a team that has tested the viability of around 200 new products and concepts for FMCG clients across a range of categories.
One thing I’ve learned from all of this new product testing is that having a good product is only half the battle in achieving innovation success. There are a number of other strategies that can be used to achieve success in innovation; and not every new product needs to be completely unique to have a positive impact on their category.
A well-defined strategic approach to marketing, distribution and targeting is just as crucial, as well as a clear understanding of where the launch or activation profile of a product fits. At Nielsen, we work with closely with our manufacturer clients to measure whether or not a product will deliver incremental growth with our BASES solution. We can also help them focus on exactly how to support the truly viable initiatives in a way that creates a portfolio win for their brand.
MAKE YOUR EXISTING PRODUCT ‘GOOD FOR ME’ AND ‘GOOD FOR WE’
Make it ‘good for me’ (health concerns) and ‘good for we’ (environmental concerns) are two key areas where we have seen successful innovation within existing brand portfolios.
There are many examples of where manufacturers have made product or packaging adjustments or extensions to their existing brands that tap into consumers’ growing concerns around sustainability and the environment. Skincare and personal care brands are increasingly ditching chemicals for locally-made, natural ingredient-based and cruelty-free products. In the UK, vegan and cruelty-free personal care increased 21% over the past three years, while these products in the US grew 40% over the same period.
In Australia, 74% of consumers say we are not doing enough to protect the environment. Brands that have made strides toward plastic reduction, recycled packaging or reducing food waste have been met with favourable results in a number of grocery categories including eco household products, plant-based meat alternatives and ‘ugly’ fruit and vegetables.
UNDERSTANDING THE KEY REASONS WHY NEW PRODUCTS FAIL
Global BASES metrics have shown that 85% of new product launches fail. According to Nielsen’s 2018 How to Launch more Incremental Innovations Report, there are three major reasons why innovations often fail to deliver incremental growth:
Lack of action standards for incrementality: Many innovation processes don’t effectively identify the initiatives with the highest incrementality potential until it is too late. The new Activation Profiles framework from BASES incorporates incrementality from an early stage.
Underestimating cannibalisation from line extensions: Closer-in line extensions can be highly cannibalistic to the brand they’re trying to build upon because they’re so similar to existing products.
Failure to account for marketing support trade-offs: New product launches draw their funding from their parent brand’s marketing budget. BASES has a dedicated model to help understand true incrementality after taking into account how much the line extension will cannibalise the parent brand due to executional elements (i.e. stolen facings from parent brand, borrowed support, distribution, etc)
While it’s true that not all new product launches are designed to be truly unique or incremental, it’s still risky to overlook their cannibalisation potential. Some cannibalisation and marketing plan reallocation is expected when launching line extensions, but the key to incremental volume is to minimise the effects so that growth can be achieved.
For these reasons, brands should understand the incrementality potential of their new product launches early in the innovation process. This is true even for “small” innovations, such as new flavors, varieties and package sizes, which are frequently overlooked for incrementality assessment because marketers underestimate their potential to impact the parent brand negatively.
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https://www.nielsen.com/au/en/insights/article/2019/new-product-development-incrementality-not-always-driven-by-uniqueness/
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Whakaari / White Island eruption: Who could WorkSafe charge?
By: Samantha Olley
sam.olley@nzme.co.nz
The outcome of WorkSafe's Whakaari / White Island investigation is expected in the next week.
More than 25 fulltime WorkSafe staff have been involved in the probe into possible breaches of health and safety law, leading up to the eruption last year.
Twenty-two people died from their injuries from the explosion on December 9 and at least a dozen others suffered critical injuries.
Before the eruption, there had been eight deaths from adventure activities in New Zealand since 2014.
Whakaari / White Island in the hours after the December 9 eruption. Photo / File
A WorkSafe summary document, now released under the Official Information Act, identifies duty holders in New Zealand workplaces as part of background research into the Whakaari/White Island eruption done this year.
Any duty holder can be prosecuted under the Health and Safety at Work Act following an investigation but prosecutions have to be made within a year of a workplace accident.
The document shows the "primary duty of care" lies with "a person conducting a business or undertaking" and at Whakaari that included tour operators, landowners and even emergency services.
Two tour companies - White Island Tours and Volcanic Air - had tourists and staff on the submarine volcano when it erupted.
The Buttle family was the landowner and emergency services responding after eruption included St John and NZ Police.
The document says these groups must do "what is reasonably practicable to ensure the health and safety of workers is not put at risk".
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The next duty holder mentioned in the document is any "officer".
This includes directors, partners and senior leaders in businesses who have "significant influence in management" and make "policy and investment decisions that affect health and safety".
The WorkSafe summary says these officers need to exercise "due diligence" to ensure the business complies with its duties.
"Officers must take reasonable steps to understand how their business works and how it manages work health and safety."
It says workers are also duty holders.
They have to take "reasonable care" for their own health and safety, the document states, and co-operate with their workplace policies and procedures and comply with instructions, to avoid harm to themselves and others.
Finally, visitors, customers and volunteers are also duty holders, the document states.
They need to comply with instructions and take reasonable care for their own health and safety and avoid adversely affecting others.
WorkSafe investigations normally entail a scene examination and evidence gathering, interviewing people, reviewing documents related to the work operation, engaging experts to help WorkSafe understand what happened and why and engaging with other agencies.
When the investigation is completed, WorkSafe then decides whether to prosecute.
The health and safety regulator can lay charges, often leading to convictions and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and reparations, determined by a judge.
WorkSafe can also refer the incident to another agency, it can provide a report to the Coroner and ensure immediate action is taken to reduce harm.
Flowers beside the Whakatāne River after the Whakaari eruption in December 2019. Photo / File
In a statement this week, a WorkSafe spokeswoman said: "Multiple duty holders can be charged in relation to a single incident."
WorkSafe cited last year's prosecution against a building company and an engineering company in Invercargill as an example.
Phil Stirling Building Ltd and Duncan Engineering Ltd were both fined, convicted and ordered to pay reparations over the same incident, where two workers were seriously injured while building a milking shed in Southland in 2017.
A WorkSafe investigation found the companies failed to ensure other workers onsite knew to keep clear of the risk area.
NZ Police staff are investigating Whakaari / White Island deaths on behalf of the Coroner and this is expected to continue into 2021.
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Madison Square Garden Heats Up for Stanley Cup Finals
Published June 9, 2014 by OCR Editor
The heavy hitting NHL Stanley Cup Finals between the Rangers and the Kings gets underway tonight at 02:00am UK time.
The Kings are up 2-0 in the Stanley Cup finals after beating the Rangers in LA in incredible feats of teamwork and never giving up even when down by big deficits. The Kings have been able to rally back from not 1 but 4, two goal deficits in the first 2 games, including 3 in Game 2 alone. Both wins have come in OT and both teams have left it all on the ice throughout every period played giving fans at the arena and at home exactly what they want.
The series goes to Madison Square Gardens tonight for Game 3 and the Rangers are in a must win situation. For NY to fall behind 3-0 in the series is to basically put the nails in ones own coffin. The Rangers have only been able to win 2 series' out of the last 7 in which they were down by 2 games, all coming after 1996. The Kings are on a hot streak and have won 7 straight series' in which they held a 2-0 lead and in fact the sole loss that they suffered when up 2-0 was in 1968 against the Minnesota North Stars.
The game tonight will be aired late night in the UK and in most of Europe and it will be on the major sports channels but there is another way to catch the game and that is online. Missing the NHL Stanley Cup Finals is unacceptable and with online sportsbooks airing the games live online with the option of watching it on your computer or your smartphone, you won't have to. bet365 is one of the online sportsbooks that is offering both pre-game and live-in play bets for tonight's head to head game.
The Kings may be the visitors tonight but bet365 have posted them as the favorites by a range of 1.36 to the Rangers 3.25. They have also listed the Money Lines, Highest Scoring Period and much more.
It should be a fantastic game and staying awake to watch every hit, every shot and every goal will be worth your while.
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Openet Inks a Deal with Juniper
DUBLIN -- Openet, the most innovative provider of Subscriber Optimization Software to tier one communications and media service providers, today announced that Juniper Networks has selected the Company as a strategic partner, and will resell Openet's policy management and charging platforms as part of Juniper's MobileNext solution announced in February.
Juniper Networks will offer Openet's Policy Manager, a fully compliant 3GPP Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF), and Online Charging System (OCS) product suite, which includes Convergent Charging, Network Edge Rating and Balance Manager. This software integration will provide increased visibility and control over network resources in real time.
"Harnessing the innovation from the mobile ecosystem has become increasingly critical as subscribers consume more multimedia content than ever before," said Mike Marcellin, vice president, product marketing and strategy, Juniper Networks. "We are pleased to partner with Openet as part of our MobileNext solution to deliver flexible policy and billing solutions to help mobile operators profitably navigate the smartphone revolution."
The combined solution enables operators to optimize network resources, personalize the subscriber experience and monetize operator services.
"Openet's partnership with Juniper continues to identify the need for intelligent and dynamic control over network resources," said Michael Manzo, chief marketing officer, Openet. "This partnership showcases the reputation and reliability of our solutions in the market, as well as a growing mobile foothold for Juniper Networks. The demand for policy and charging solutions has drastically increased with the release of dynamic next-generation devices and applications."
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1:1 Chromebook Program
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Chromebook Quick Start Guide New
For the 2016-2017 school year, OPRF has launched its 1:1 Chromebook Program, which provides every student with a school-owned Chromebook computer not only to use in class but also to take home.
Our goal is to prepare students for their future: a global, digital world where they will be expected to use information and technology to create, examine, explore, communicate, and collaborate. Technology in the classroom helps students solve problems, gather and evaluate information, and disseminate work efficiently, through learning that is either self-paced and individualized or collaborative and cooperative. Using technology in the classroom expands the possibilities of teaching and learning.
Using 1:1 technology is the first step in enabling our students to become responsible, productive, and innovative lifelong learners.
Click the links to the left to learn more.
Note: Chromebooks use the Chrome operating system and thus are not compatible with most standard desktop applications. We encourage students to use school-appropriate Chromebook apps by clicking the search tool in the lower left of their screen, then clicking Web Store.
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Lily Collins stars as Emily, an ambitious twenty-something marketing executive from Chicago, unexpectedly lands her dream job in Paris when her company acquires a French luxury marketing company — and she is tasked with revamping their social media strategy. Emily’s new life in Paris is filled with intoxicating adventures and surprising challenges as she juggles winning over her work colleagues, making friends, and navigating new romances.
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Beaverton cloud computing company Bigleaf Networks raises $21 million
By Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/OregonLive
A Beaverton startup called Bigleaf Networks said Tuesday it has raised $21 million in its second round of funding.
Bigleaf, which employs about 40, had previously reported close to $7 million in backing. Tuesday’s round comes from Updata Partners and some prior investors, including the Oregon Venture Fund.
Founded in 2012, Bigleaf’s technology is designed to improve companies’ connections to their cloud computing networks by automatically choosing the nest networking connection and automatically re-routing traffic to and from data centers.
Even as Oregon’s broader economy slows, the tech sector is enjoying a modest revival. And unlike the state’s last tech upsurge, which was driven by startups in and around downtown Portland, much of the activity is in the city’s suburbs.
Clark County is home to some of the region’s most promising companies, including RealWear and nLight Corp., which held an initial public offering last year; two companies that supply the chip industry are each opening new factories in Hillsboro; and Intel is building a multibillion-dollar expansion at its Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro.
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iPhone Gets Google Search By Voice
By Daniel Ionescu
Google launched a new application for Apple's iPhone that uses voice recognition technology to enter queries in the company's search engine. The free app should be available now from the iPhone's App Store and through iTunes.
The new apps lets iPhone users query Google outside the phone's built in Safari browser and also search through their contacts by using the phone's accelerometer and proximity sensors, the New York Times reports. Google's app can tell when you are lifting the phone up to your face and automatically triggers the voice recognition software that will process your voice and send it as a search query to Google.
Processing your voice does not take place on the iPhone though. When you ask your phone a question, the sound is converted to a digital file and sent off to Google's servers, which will analyze the file and transform it into a search query. Then, the results are sent back to your iPhone. This whole process lasts reportedly only seconds, depending of course of the speed of the network you are connected to.
Google's voice activated search app also uses iPhone features that let it determine your location. For example, you can ask "Where is the nearest Starbucks?" and the app detects where your are situated using the iPhone's location services, returning a list of the nearest shops. Google's app makes recommendations as well, and can return lists of restaurants and bars with starred reviews from Google users. The app also provides links to phone numbers and directions to the businesses listed in the results.
In addition, the new apps serves as a voice-powered contact search tool also. By saying the name of one of your contacts, the app brings up the relevant person's details. Then, to dial a result, you just click on the person's number.
However, the Google researchers behind this application say that the voice recognition technology is only in its early days, and that users could get gibberish results at times. But the researchers hope that in the coming year this technology with evolve more rapidly, improving the quality of the results users get.
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The red-brick building, with window boxes, located in historic Kingman, Kansas.
Nestled on Main Street USA, only 40 minutes west of the largest city in Kansas (Wichita), the 101-year old completely renovated Savannah House Bed & Breakfast provides each guest with a taste of yesteryear, plus the fine amenities expected of a 5-Star hotel.
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OSA Publishing > Optics Express > Volume 26 > Issue 2 > Page 1255
Giant enhancement of stimulated Brillouin scattering with engineered phoxonic crystal waveguides
Zejie Yu and Xiankai Sun
Zejie Yu and Xiankai Sun*
Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China
*Corresponding author: xksun@cuhk.edu.hk
Xiankai Sun https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9137-0298
Z Yu
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Zejie Yu and Xiankai Sun, "Giant enhancement of stimulated Brillouin scattering with engineered phoxonic crystal waveguides," Opt. Express 26, 1255-1267 (2018)
Design of a hybrid on-chip waveguide with giant backward stimulated Brillouin scattering (OE)
Suspended mid-infrared waveguides for Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (OE)
Stimulated Brillouin scattering in silicon/chalcogenide slot waveguides (OE)
Integrated Optics
Brillouin scattering
Light fields
Radiation pressure
Stimulated Brillouin scattering
Stimulated scattering
Integrated optics (130.0130)
Photonic crystal waveguides (130.5296)
Scattering, stimulated Brillouin (290.5900)
Original Manuscript: November 13, 2017
Revised Manuscript: December 5, 2017
Manuscript Accepted: December 5, 2017
2. Derivation of the SBS gain of a phoxonic crystal waveguide
3. Engineering the phoxonic crystal waveguide for obtaining simultaneous slow light and slow sound
4. Calculation of the SBS gain in the engineered phoxonic crystal waveguide
Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is a third-order nonlinear process that involves the interaction of two light fields and an acoustic wave in a medium. It has been exploited for applications of optical communication, sensing, and signal processing. This effect, originally demonstrated in long optical fibers, has recently been realized in silicon waveguides on a chip-scale integrated platform. However, due to the weak per-unit-length SBS gain, the length of the silicon waveguides is usually several centimeters, which prevents device miniaturization for high-density integration. Here, we engineer a phoxonic crystal waveguide structure to achieve significantly enhanced SBS gain in the entire C band, by taking advantage of its simultaneous confinement of slow propagating optical and acoustic waves. The resulting SBS gain coefficient is greater than 3 × 104 W−1 m−1 in the wavelength range of 1520–1565 nm with the highest value beyond 106 W−1 m−1, which is at least an order of magnitude higher than the existing demonstrations. This giant enhancement of SBS gain enables ultracompact and high-performance SBS-based integrated optoelectronic devices such as Brillouin lasers, amplifiers, and signal processors.
© 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is a nonlinear optical process in a bulk material where traveling light waves are scattered by traveling acoustic waves [1]. This effect is greatly enhanced in nanosized waveguides owing to the mutual optomechanical interaction: the interplay between the pump and the Stokes waves generates dynamic optical forces via optical radiation pressure and electrostrictive effect; the mechanical vibration of the waveguide excited by the optical forces in turn scatters light from the pump into the Stokes wave [2]. Exploiting this physical mechanism, Brillouin photonics has rapidly grown as a new branch of cavity optomechanics, producing various applications for wideband RF and photonic signal processing [3–6]. For example, traveling-wave Brillouin processes have enabled unique schemes for optical pulse compression, pulse and waveform synthesis [4, 7–9], coherent frequency comb generation [4, 7, 10], variable-bandwidth optical amplifiers [9, 11], reconfigurable filters [12], coherent beam combining [13], and nonreciprocal transmission and light storage [14, 15].
More recently, the creation of strong Brillouin nonlinearities has been achieved in nanoscale silicon waveguides on an integrated platform [16–18]. SBS was first achieved in a bare silicon waveguide with amplification of 0.5 dB (12%) by using suspended silicon nanowire structures [16]. Later, Kittlaus et al. reported large Brillouin amplification in a membrane-suspended silicon waveguide, which efficiently suppresses other nonlinear effects such as the two-photon absorption and the subsequent carriers-induced free-carrier absorption [18]. The devices achieved amplification levels greater than 5 dB and demonstrated a record low (5 mW) threshold for net amplification. However, all the realizations are based on waveguides extending several centimeters in length to obtain sufficiently strong interaction between light and sound. Such long waveguide lengths are incompatible with device miniaturization and thus undesirable for on-chip integration. Additionally, compared with silica, the relatively high stiffness of silicon makes guiding of acoustic waves a challenging task, thus motivating fabrication of a delicately suspended waveguide [16] or a complicated membrane waveguide [18] to reduce the phonon dissipation.
Photonic and phononic crystals are artificial periodic structures which exhibit frequency bandgaps for optical (light) and acoustic (sound) waves, respectively. Structures that are designed to have simultaneous photonic and phononic bandgaps are referred to as phoxonic crystals. They possess all the optical and acoustic properties of the individual photonic and phononic crystals. As such, phoxonic crystal waveguides can guide propagating optical and acoustic waves [19] and can even achieve simultaneous slow light and slow sound if properly designed [20]. Phoxonic crystal cavities can confine standing optical and acoustic waves, producing large modal overlap and enabling strong optomechanical interaction [21, 22]. These phoxonic crystal structures have been employed for a wide range of optomechanical applications.
In this paper, we engineer a two-dimensional phoxonic crystal waveguide structure [20, 23–30] which simultaneously confines and guides slow traveling optical and acoustic waves in a nanoscale line defect to achieve strong SBS and to obtain giant enhancement of SBS gain. The defect-guided optical and acoustic waves can both be slowed down due to their relatively flat dispersion, leading to substantially increased interaction time between the light and sound. In addition, the phoxonic crystal structure also reduces phonon dissipation from the defect waveguide due to the complete structural suspension and the absolute phononic bandgap. The proposed structure is also easy to fabricate by using one step of electron-beam lithography and dry etching followed by underlying oxide removal on a standard silicon-on-insulator wafer. Our theoretical and numerical results show that the slow light and the phase-matching condition among the pump light, Stokes light, and acoustic wave can both be achieved in the entire C band, covering the wavelength range of 1520–1565 nm. As a result, the SBS gain is enhanced significantly, with the calculated gain coefficient greater than 3 × 104 W−1 m−1 in the entire C band and the highest value beyond 106 W−1 m−1. This is at least an order of magnitude higher than those in the existing demonstrations, which are 3,055 W−1 m−1, 2,750 W−1 m−1, and 1,020 W−1 m−1 in [16], [17], and [18], respectively. This giant enhancement of SBS gain will lead to significant reduction of device footprint and thus can tremendously increase the integration density of the SBS-based optoelectronic devices such as Brillouin lasers, amplifiers, and signal processors on a chip.
We use the Bloch wavevector k (q) to characterize the propagating optical (acoustic) mode of a phoxonic crystal waveguide with periodicity along the x direction. In a typical SBS process, the pump (p) and Stokes (s) waves can be described by vector fields
(1)Ep(x,y,z,t)=ap(x,t)ep(x,y,z,t)+c.c.,
(2)Es(x,y,z,t)=as(x,t)es(x,y,z,t)+c.c.,
where the pump and Stokes modal fields with respective wavevector kp and ks are expressed as
(3)ep(x,y,z,t)=e˜p(x,y,z)exp[−i(ωpt−kpx)],
(4)es(x,y,z,t)=e˜s(x,y,z)exp[−i(ωst−ksx)].
Here, ap and as are the envelope functions of the electric fields. ẽp and ẽs are the basis functions of the electric fields which vary periodically in the x direction. ωp and ωs are the angular frequencies of the pump light and the Stokes light. The pump and Stokes light’s energy flux and energy stored within one period of a phoxonic crystal waveguide can be expressed as [31]
(5)Pp=2∫x^⋅{[ep(x,y,z,t)]*×hp(x,y,z,t)}dydz,
(6)Ps=2∫x^⋅{[es(x,y,z,t)]*×hs(x,y,z,t)}dydz,
(7)ξp=2∫0adx∫ε(x,y,z)[ep(x,y,z,t)]*⋅ep(x,y,z,t)dydz,
(8)ξs=2∫0adx∫ε(x,y,z)[es(x,y,z,t)]*⋅es(x,y,z,t)dydz,
where a denotes the period of phoxonic crystal waveguide in the x direction. The energy flux is independent of position in the phoxonic crystal waveguide along the traveling direction [31]. The energy flow rates, or group velocities, of the pump and Stokes light can be expressed as vp = aPp/ξp and vp = aPs/ξs, respectively.
Similarly, an optically generated acoustic wave can be expressed as
(9)U(x,y,z,t)=b(x,t)u(x,y,z,t)+c.c.,
where the acoustic modal field with wavevector q = kp − ks and angular frequency Ω = ωp − ωs is expressed as
(10)u(x,y,z,t)=u˜(x,y,z)exp[−i(Ωt−qx)].
Here, b is the envelope function of the acoustic wave, and ũ is the basis function of the acoustic wave which varies periodically in the x direction. The acoustic energy flux and energy stored within one period of a phoxonic crystal waveguide can be expressed as
(11)Pb=−2iΩ∫∑jmlcxjmluj*∂ul∂mdydz,
(12)ξb=2Ω2∫0adx∫ρ|u|2dydz,
where c is the stiffness tensor and ρ is the density of the medium. ∂/∂m denotes the spatial derivative with respect to the m direction (m = x, y, z). The acoustic energy flux is also independent of position in the phoxonic crystal waveguide along the traveling direction. The acoustic energy flow rate can be expressed as vb = aPb/ξb.
Next, we adopt the method in [32] and extend it to the case of a longitudinally varying waveguide [33] to derive the light–sound interaction equations. The acoustic field induces perturbations to both electric fields (∆E) and electric displacements (∆D), which should also satisfy the Maxwell equations, so we can write the wave equation as
(13)∇×∇×(E+ΔE)+μ0∂(D+ΔD)∂t=0.
Under the phase-matching condition, we can express ∆E and ∆D as
(14)ΔE=Δesapb*+Δepasb+c.c.,
(15)ΔD=Δdsapb*+Δdpasb+c.c..
Then, we evaluate the contribution from the pump light to Eq. (13),
(16)0=∇×∇×(ases+Δesapb*)+μ0∂(asds+apb*Δds)∂t,
(17)0=as(∇×∇×es+μ0∂ds∂t)+[x^×(∇×es)+∇×(x^×es)]∂as∂x−2iωsμ0ds∂as∂t+apb*(∇×∇×Δes+μ0∂2Δds∂t2)+h.o.t.+c.c.,
where “h.o.t.” stands for the higher-order terms in the perturbations and higher-order derivatives of the envelope functions. We can neglect “h.o.t.” under the slowly-varying-envelope assumption. We can also drop all the complex conjugate terms after projecting onto the mode es and averaging over a time interval much longer than the optical time scale. Multiplying (es)* on both sides of Eq. (17) and integrating it over one period in the x direction yields
(18)−iωsaPs∂as∂x−iωsPsvs∂as∂t=apb*∫x0x0+adx∫[(es)*⋅(−iω)2Δds−(−iω)2ds⋅Δes]dydz.
Since the envelope functions as, ap, and b vary slowly and can be treated as constants over a period, they can be taken out of the integral in the above equation. Following the same steps, we can also obtain the equation for the envelope of the Stokes light which is similar to Eq. (18), so we arrive at a set of coupled equations for the envelope functions
(19)vs∂as∂x+∂as∂t=−iωsQOMsξsapb*,
(20)vp∂ap∂x+∂ap∂t=−iωpQOMpξpasb,
(21)QOMp=∫x0x0+adx∫[(ep)*⋅Δdp−dp⋅Δep]dydz,
(22)QOMs=∫x0x0+adx∫[(es)*⋅Δds−ds⋅Δes]dydz.
On the other hand, the acoustic wave in the phoxonic crystal waveguide is governed by
(23)ρ∂2Ui∂t2+∑jml∂∂j[cijml+ηijml∂∂t]∂∂mUl=−Fi,
where η is the viscosity tensor. The source term F on the right-hand side is the external driving force field per unit volume, through which the coupling to the electromagnetic fields is introduced. The driving force density F can be expressed as
(24)F(r,t)=f(r,t)as*(x,t)ap(x,t)+c.c..
Substituting this ansatz into Eq. (23) and dropping higher-order terms eventually yields
(25)−iΩ∑jml[(cixml∂∂m+∂∂jcijxl)ul∂b∂x−2iΩρui∂b∂t+∂∂jηijml∂ul∂mb+fias*ap]+c.c.=0.
After projecting onto the mode u under the phase-matching condition, we arrive at the equation for the acoustic envelope function
(26)vb∂b∂x+αbb+∂b∂t=−iΩQOMbξbas*ap,
where αb is the loss rate of the propagating acoustic wave and
(27)QOMb=∫x0x0+adx∫u*⋅fdydz.
As the acoustic frequency is orders of magnitude smaller than the optical frequency, we can treat the frequencies of the pump (ωp) and Stokes (ωs) light to be the same (ω), then we get the relationship if we ignore the irreversible optomechanical coupling in the phoxonic crystal waveguide [32]
(28)QOMs=(QOMp)*=QOMb,
so that we can use a single parameter QOM to characterize the optomechanical coupling [34]. In the steady state, all the time derivatives (∂/∂t) become zero. Equations (19), (20), and (26) reduce to a set of coupled equations for the time-independent envelope functions of the pump, Stokes, and acoustic waves in the phoxonic crystal waveguide:
(29)vs∂as(x)∂x=−iωsQOM*ξsap(x)b*(x),
(30)vp∂ap(x)∂x=−iωpQOMξpas(x)b(x),
(31)vb∂b(x)∂x+αbvbb(x)=−iΩQOM*ξbas*(x)ap(x).
The optomechanical coupling is the sum of the coupling coefficients from the photoelastic effect QPE [35] and from the moving-boundary effect QMB [36]. The photoelastic effect refers to the variation of a material’s electric susceptibility (or dielectric constant) due to the strain. The photoelastic contribution can be derived from a first-order perturbation theory [37]
(32)QPE=ε0∫Vd3r∑ijmlεr2(Eip)*EjspijmlSml,
where εr is the relative permittivity (dielectric constant) of the periodic waveguide and ε0 is the vacuum permittivity, p is the rank-four photoelastic tensor, and S is the strain tensor. The moving-boundary effect refers to the frequency variation of an optical mode due to the displacement of structural surfaces. As an acoustic wave propagates along a waveguide, it induces a strong change to the optical fields over a very small area at the waveguide surfaces. The moving-boundary contribution can be expressed as [19]
(33)QMB=∫Sd2r(u*⋅n^)[(εr−εair)ε0(n^×Ep)*(n^×Es)−(εr−1−εair−1)ε0−1(n^⋅Dp)*(n^⋅Ds)],
where n^ is the unit vector of surface normal pointing outward, εair is the relative permittivity of air, and dp and ds are the basis electric displacement fields of the pump and Stokes light. The optomechanical coupling parameter QOM depends on the magnitudes of the optical fields and the mechanical displacement of the acoustic field. In the community of cavity optomechanics, the optomechanical coupling coefficient gOM is defined as the frequency shift of the optical mode per unit length of mechanical displacement. Therefore, the gOM in our case can be defined as
(34)gOM=ωQOMsQOMp/(ξsξp),
where the normalized acoustic modal field [max(|u|) = 1] should be used.
Lastly, the SBS gain coefficient in units of W−1 m−1 under the phase-matching condition can be expressed as [32]
(35)G=Ω|gOM|2ωvpvsvbαb(ξb/a),
where ξb should also be evaluated by using the normalized acoustic modal field. According to Eq. (35), the SBS gain is inversely proportional to the group velocities of both the pump (vp) and Stokes (vs) waves. Therefore, the SBS gain will be enhanced by slowing down both the pump and Stokes light’s speeds in the waveguide. Additionally, acoustic waves of a slower group velocity will induce a larger strain in the core of the waveguide than that in the slab, leading to stronger modal confinement to the waveguide core with a higher modal amplitude [24]. As a result, the SBS gain will also be enhanced by slowing down the group velocity of the acoustic wave.
A two-dimensional phoxonic crystal structure can be formed by periodic arrangement of cross-shaped openings in a silicon slab, with the unit cell depicted in Fig. 1(a). Among various lattice structures, we choose the square lattice because the triangular lattice cannot achieve a sizable phononic bandgap and the hexagonal lattice’s photonic bandgap is unsuitable for practical use [27]. The geometric parameters of the unit cell are the thickness h = 340 nm, the array pitch a = 490 nm, and the cross-shaped slot size 0.2a × 0.8a. We use the following material parameters for silicon: refractive index n = 3.47, Young’s modulus E = 170 GPa, Poisson’s ratio ν = 0.28, and density ρ = 2329 kg/m3. We also assume that the [100], [010], and [001] crystalline directions are aligned with the x, y, and z axis respectively, where the photoelastic tensor pijkl in the contracted notation is (p11, p12, p44) = (−0.09, 0.017, −0.051) [15]. Figures 1(b) and 1(c) show the quasi-TE photonic and phononic band diagrams calculated from MPB [38] and COMSOL Multiphysics, respectively, where the bandgaps are marked in red and the light cone is marked in gray.
Fig. 1 (a) Unit cell of a two-dimensional silicon phoxonic crystal structure. The structural parameters are h = 340 nm and a = 490 nm. (b, c) Calculated quasi-TE photonic (b) and phononic (c) band diagrams of the phoxonic crystal structure with the unit cell shown in (a). The bandgaps are marked in red and the light cone is marked in gray.
By removing a row of cross-shaped slots along the Γ–X direction from the above two-dimensional phoxonic crystal structure we create a W1 phoxonic crystal waveguide as shown in Fig. 2(a). This phoxonic crystal waveguide has three symmetry planes x = 0, y = 0, and z = 0, which should be aligned with the respective crystalline planes of the material so that its anisotropic optical, elastic, and photoelastic constants have simple expressions. We calculated the photonic [Fig. 2(b)] and phononic [Fig. 2(c)] band diagrams along the x direction, where the defect-guided optical and acoustic modes (marked in red) are clearly identified in the respective bandgaps. The right panel of Fig. 2(a) shows the modal profiles of the defect-guided optical (upper two) and acoustic (lower two) modes. Figure 2(d) shows the calculated group velocities of the defect-guided optical mode (in units of the speed of light in vacuum, c) and acoustic mode (in units of m/s). Both the light and sound speeds are slowed down remarkably in the defect phoxonic crystal waveguide band and diminish to zero at the edge of the Brillouin zone where the propagating waves reduce to standing waves.
Fig. 2 (a) Left: Schematic of the W1 phoxonic crystal waveguide structure. Right: Profiles of the defect-guided optical mode (|Ey|2) and acoustic mode (Uy). (b) Photonic band diagram of the W1 phoxonic crystal waveguide structure. The cyan-shaded regions denote the slab-guided band continuum, where the modes in the dielectric (air) band reside mostly in the material (air holes). The black and red lines in the bandgap denote the defect-guided optical modes which do not cross each other in the entire kx range. (c) Phononic band diagram of the W1 phoxonic crystal waveguide structure. The light blue regions denote the phononic bandgaps. The red line denotes the defect-guided acoustic mode. (d) Group velocities of the defect-guided optical (vl,g, in red) and acoustic (vs,g, in blue) modes propagating in the phoxonic crystal waveguide.
The SBS gain in a phoxonic crystal waveguide can be greatly enhanced if the three requirements are satisfied: (i) simultaneous slow optical and acoustic propagating waves, (ii) phase matching among the pump light, the Stokes light, and the acoustic wave, and (iii) strong optomechanical coupling between the slow optical and acoustic modes. First, let us consider a forward SBS process where a defect-guided pump light wave (angular frequency ωp, wavevector kp) interacts with a defect-guided acoustic wave (Ω, –q), producing a scattered Stokes light wave (ωp – Ω, kp + q). Since the acoustic frequency Ω is typically orders of magnitude smaller than ωp, the scattered Stokes light mode is in the same defect-guided band as the pump light. In addition, due to the substantially different slopes of the dispersion curves, the acoustic wavevector q which matches the difference between the wavevectors of the pump light and Stokes light should approach zero. Therefore, all the three waves, the pump light, the Stokes light, and the acoustic wave, are in the respective slow-light and slow-sound regions, simultaneously.
Next, we explain how the phase-matching condition can be achieved among the pump light, the Stokes light, and the acoustic wave. As shown in Fig. 3, the pump light and Stokes light are both in the slow-light region of the defect-guided optical mode. In the right zoomed-in diagram, the green (red) line denotes the dispersion curve of the defect-guided optical (acoustic) mode traveling in the x direction of the phoxonic crystal waveguide. We superimpose the phononic band diagram onto the photonic band diagram by aligning the origin of the former to the operating point of the pump light in the latter. Since the frequency variation of an optical mode is orders of magnitude larger than that of the acoustic mode with the same wavevector, the dispersion curve of the optical mode should be much steeper than that of the acoustic mode, as shown in the right zoomed-in diagram of Fig. 3. Therefore, an intersection point between the photonic and phononic dispersion curves should always exist, which sets the phase-matching condition for the Stokes light.
Fig. 3 Illustration showing the phase matching among the pump light, the Stokes light, and the acoustic wave in the engineered phoxonic crystal waveguide. The pump light and Stokes light are both in the slow-light region of the defect-guided mode. In the right zoomed-in diagram, the green (red) line denotes the dispersion curve of the defect-guided optical (acoustic) mode traveling along the x direction in the phoxonic crystal waveguide. The phononic band diagram is superimposed onto the photonic band diagram with the origin of the former aligned to the operating point of the pump light in the latter.
Third, a large optomechanical coupling coefficient gOM can be obtained with all the three waves confined laterally and propagating slowly in the phoxonic crystal defect waveguide because of a large overlap between their modal fields. Actually, those defect-guided light modes can be categorized into “yeven/yodd (zeven/zodd)” according to the symmetry of their fields with respect to the y = 0 (z = 0) plane. As seen from the right panel of Fig. 2(a), the dominant component of the electric field |Ey|2 is both yeven and zeven. Since the pump light and the Stokes light share similar modal field patterns, the resulting optical force distribution is also symmetric with respect to planes y = 0 and z = 0. In addition, the right panel of Fig. 2(a) also shows the acoustic modal profile Uy (mechanical displacement relative to the structural surface) of the phoxonic crystal waveguide. It is easy to find that the acoustic mode shares the same field symmetry with the optical force distribution, which renders a strong optomechanical coupling coefficient in the phoxonic crystal waveguide.
In order to calculate the SBS gain coefficient in Eq. (35), we need all the six parameters gOM, ξb, vp, vs, vb, and αb. Owing to the intrinsic material loss [39], the acoustic wave is attenuated as it propagates along the waveguide. According to the measurement data from bulk-mode acoustic resonators, it is reasonable to assume a dissipation rate αbvb of 1.63 × 107 rad/s [40]. In typical cases of optical fibers and waveguides, the propagation loss of the pump and Stokes waves is negligible over the acoustic attenuation length αb−1 [33, 34]. In the case of phoxonic crystal waveguide considered here, the per-unit-length loss rates of optical and acoustic waves are both enhanced due to the slow-light and slow-sound effects. We calculated the group velocities vp, vs, and vb in the slow-light region. Since the frequency difference between the pump and Stokes light is quite small compared with their optical frequencies, the pump light and Stokes light can be regarded to share the same group velocity. Figure 4(a) shows the group velocities of the pump and Stokes light vl,g and acoustic wave vs,g with the pump light wavelength varying in 1520–1565 nm under the phase-matching condition. It is clear that the three waves, the pump and Stokes light as well as the acoustic wave, all exhibit a great amount of slowing effect in the entire C band. It should be noted that the group velocity of light maintains larger than 0.005c from 1520 to 1565 nm, indicating that the optical slow-down factor is less than 100. In contrast, the acoustic wave under the phase-matching condition is slowed down by more than 1000 times. In this regard, it is still valid to assume negligible propagation loss of the pump and Stokes waves over the acoustic attenuation length αb−1.
Fig. 4 (a) Calculated group velocities of the pump and Stokes light vl,g (red) and acoustic wave vs,g (blue) at the phase-matching condition with the pump light wavelength in the C band. (b) Calculated SBS gain coefficient (red) and optomechanical coupling coefficient gOM (blue) at the phase-matching condition with the pump light wavelength in the C band.
Due to their small frequency difference, the pump light and Stokes light can also be regarded to share the same modal fields. The blue line in Fig. 4(b) shows the calculated gOM with the pump light wavelength varying in 1520–1565 nm under the phase-matching condition, where the red line shows the forward SBS gain coefficient. It is easy to find that as the pump wavelength moves from 1520 to 1565 nm, the gOM increases by a factor of two while the SBS gain coefficient is enhanced by near two orders of magnitude, which confirms that the giant enhancement of the SBS gain results predominantly from the simultaneous slow-light and slow-sound effects.
It should be noted that the advantage of engineering simultaneous slow light and slow sound in a phoxonic crystal waveguide is to enhance the spatial interaction of light and sound, so as to increase the Brillouin scattering rate per unit length. The scattering rate is not enhanced in the time domain. Assuming a forward evolution direction (+x) of the acoustic wave, we solve Eqs. (29)–(31) by the Green’s function method [32],
(36)b(x)=−iΩgOM∫0+∞dx′[as*(x−x′)ap(x−x′)exp(−αbx′)]=igOMas*(x)ap(x)αbvb.
Actually, the factor αbvb in Eq. (36) which characterizes the acoustic loss per unit time is a constant for a certain acoustic mode. Therefore, |b(x)| in the final steady state depends only on the optical fields as*ap and the optomechanical coupling strength gOM, while the slow group velocity vb does not play a role. Here, the advantage of the slow sound lies in the reduction of the device size that is required for the acoustic wave to reach its final steady state. The acoustic wave needs a length to build up from zero to its steady-state amplitude which is set by the optical fields as*ap. We solved b(x) numerically based on Eqs. (29)–(31) with initial ap and as (|ap| >> |as|). Figure 5 plots the evolution amplitude |b(x)| for acoustic waves of slow (vg = 1.08 m/s) and normal (vg = 5,330 m/s) group velocities. It is clear that they increase at the same rate in the end, but the length required to reach the final steady rate depends on the group velocity. Therefore, it is in this way that the engineered slow sound can effectively enhance the SBS gain and reduce the device size.
Fig. 5 Evolution of the amplitude of the acoustic wave |b(x)| along the propagation direction, where red solid and blue dash-dotted lines correspond to acoustic waves of slow (vg = 1.08 m/s) and normal (vg = 5,330 m/s) group velocities, respectively.
We have engineered a suspended phoxonic crystal waveguide structure for giant enhancement of the forward stimulated Brillouin scattering. The designed structure can provide tight lateral confinement for both optical and acoustic modes to copropagate within a guided line defect thus enabling strong optomechanical coupling between them. We have also engineered the photonic and phononic band structures to achieve simultaneous slow light and slow sound. The combination of these two effects results in significantly enhanced SBS nonlinearity over that in conventional nonlinear fibers, suspended silicon waveguides, and hybrid Si/Si3N4 waveguides, etc. The calculated SBS gain coefficient is greater than 3 × 104 W−1 m−1 in the entire C band with the highest value beyond 106 W−1 m−1. This is at least an order of magnitude higher than those in the existing demonstrations in silicon. The giant SBS gain will enable high-performance Brillouin photonic devices with substantially reduced footprint and open up applications of photonics-assisted RF and microwave signal generation, amplification, and processing.
Hong Kong Research Grants Council Early Career Scheme (24208915); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) / Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme (N_CUHK415/15).
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27. S. Mohammadi, A. A. Eftekhar, A. Khelif, and A. Adibi, “Simultaneous two-dimensional phononic and photonic band gaps in opto-mechanical crystal slabs,” Opt. Express 18(9), 9164–9172 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
28. V. Laude, J. C. Beugnot, S. Benchabane, Y. Pennec, B. Djafari-Rouhani, N. Papanikolaou, and A. Martinez, “Design of waveguides in silicon phoxonic crystal slabs,” in 2010 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium(2010), pp. 527–530. [CrossRef]
29. Q. Rolland, M. Oudich, S. El-Jallal, S. Dupont, Y. Pennec, J. Gazalet, J. C. Kastelik, G. Lévêque, and B. Djafari-Rouhani, “Acousto-optic couplings in two-dimensional phoxonic crystal cavities,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 101(6), 061109 (2012). [CrossRef]
30. S. El-Jallal, M. Oudich, Y. Pennec, B. Djafari-Rouhani, V. Laude, J.-C. Beugnot, A. Martínez, J. M. Escalante, and A. Makhoute, “Analysis of optomechanical coupling in two-dimensional square lattice phoxonic crystal slab cavities,” Phys. Rev. B 88(20), 205410 (2013). [CrossRef]
31. T. Søndergaard and K. H. Dridi, “Energy flow in photonic crystal waveguides,” Phys. Rev. B 61(23), 15688–15696 (2000). [CrossRef]
32. C. Wolff, M. J. Steel, B. J. Eggleton, and C. G. Poulton, “Stimulated Brillouin scattering in integrated photonic waveguides: Forces, scattering mechanisms, and coupled-mode analysis,” Phys. Rev. A 92(1), 013836 (2015). [CrossRef]
33. W. Qiu, P. T. Rakich, M. Soljacic, and Z. Wang, “Stimulated brillouin scattering in slow light waveguides,” arXiv:1210.0738 (2012).
34. C. J. Sarabalis, J. T. Hill, and A. H. Safavi-Naeini, “Guided acoustic and optical waves in silicon-on-insulator for Brillouin scattering and optomechanics,” APL Photonics 1(7), 071301 (2016). [CrossRef]
35. D. K. Biegelsen, “Photoelastic tensor of silicon and the volume dependence of the average gap,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 32(21), 1196–1199 (1974). [CrossRef]
36. S. G. Johnson, M. Ibanescu, M. A. Skorobogatiy, O. Weisberg, J. D. Joannopoulos, and Y. Fink, “Perturbation theory for Maxwell’s equations with shifting material boundaries,” Phys. Rev. E 65(6), 066611 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
37. J. Chan, A. H. Safavi-Naeini, J. T. Hill, S. Meenehan, and O. Painter, “Optimized optomechanical crystal cavity with acoustic radiation shield,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 101(8), 081115 (2012). [CrossRef]
38. S. Johnson and J. Joannopoulos, “Block-iterative frequency-domain methods for Maxwell’s equations in a planewave basis,” Opt. Express 8(3), 173–190 (2001). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
39. S. A. Chandorkar, M. Agarwal, R. Melamud, R. N. Candler, K. E. Goodson, and T. W. Kenny, “Limits of quality factor in bulk-mode micromechanical resonators,” in 2008 IEEE 21st International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems(2008), pp. 74–77. [CrossRef]
40. G. Chen, R. Zhang, J. Sun, H. Xie, Y. Gao, D. Feng, and H. Xiong, “Mode conversion based on forward stimulated Brillouin scattering in a hybrid phononic-photonic waveguide,” Opt. Express 22(26), 32060–32070 (2014). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
R. W. Boyd, Nonlinear Optics (Academic, 2003).
P. T. Rakich, P. Davids, and Z. Wang, “Tailoring optical forces in waveguides through radiation pressure and electrostrictive forces,” Opt. Express 18(14), 14439–14453 (2010).
P. Dainese, P. S. J. Russell, N. Joly, J. C. Knight, G. S. Wiederhecker, H. L. Fragnito, V. Laude, and A. Khelif, “Stimulated Brillouin scattering from multi-GHz-guided acoustic phonons in nanostructured photonic crystal fibres,” Nat. Phys. 2(6), 388–392 (2006).
M. S. Kang, A. Nazarkin, A. Brenn, and P. S. J. Russell, “Tightly trapped acoustic phonons in photonic crystal fibres as highly nonlinear artificial Raman oscillators,” Nat. Phys. 5(4), 276–280 (2009).
P. T. Rakich, C. Reinke, R. Camacho, P. Davids, and Z. Wang, “Giant enhancement of stimulated Brillouin scattering in the subwavelength limit,” Phys. Rev. X 2(1), 011008 (2012).
J. Wang, Y. Zhu, R. Zhang, and D. J. Gauthier, “FSBS resonances observed in a standard highly nonlinear fiber,” Opt. Express 19(6), 5339–5349 (2011).
D. Braje, L. Hollberg, and S. Diddams, “Brillouin-enhanced hyperparametric generation of an optical frequency comb in a monolithic highly nonlinear fiber cavity pumped by a cw laser,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102(19), 193902 (2009).
T. Schneider, M. Junker, and D. Hannover, “Generation of millimetre-wave signals by stimulated Brillouin scattering for radio over fibre systems,” Electron. Lett. 40(23), 1500–1502 (2004).
T. Sakamoto, T. Yamamoto, K. Shiraki, and T. Kurashima, “Low distortion slow light in flat Brillouin gain spectrum by using optical frequency comb,” Opt. Express 16(11), 8026–8032 (2008).
M. J. Damzen and M. H. R. Hutchinson, “High-efficiency laser-pulse compression by stimulated Brillouin scattering,” Opt. Lett. 8(6), 313–315 (1983).
N. Olsson and J. V. D. Ziel, “Characteristics of a semiconductor laser pumped brillouin amplifier with electronically controlled bandwidth,” J. Lightwave Technol. 5(1), 147–153 (1987).
T. Tanemura, Y. Takushima, and K. Kikuchi, “Narrowband optical filter, with a variable transmission spectrum, using stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fiber,” Opt. Lett. 27(17), 1552–1554 (2002).
B. C. Rodgers, T. H. Russell, and W. B. Roh, “Laser beam combining and cleanup by stimulated Brillouin scattering in a multimode optical fiber,” Opt. Lett. 24(16), 1124–1126 (1999).
C.-H. Dong, Z. Shen, C.-L. Zou, Y.-L. Zhang, W. Fu, and G.-C. Guo, “Brillouin-scattering-induced transparency and non-reciprocal light storage,” Nat. Commun. 6, 6193 (2015).
J. Kim, M. C. Kuzyk, K. Han, H. Wang, and G. Bahl, “Non-reciprocal Brillouin scattering induced transparency,” Nat. Phys. 11(3), 275–280 (2015).
R. Van Laer, B. Kuyken, D. Van Thourhout, and R. Baets, “Interaction between light and highly confined hypersound in a silicon photonic nanowire,” Nat. Photonics 9(3), 199–203 (2015).
H. Shin, W. Qiu, R. Jarecki, J. A. Cox, R. H. Olsson, A. Starbuck, Z. Wang, and P. T. Rakich, “Tailorable stimulated Brillouin scattering in nanoscale silicon waveguides,” Nat. Commun. 4, 1944 (2013).
E. A. Kittlaus, H. Shin, and P. T. Rakich, “Large Brillouin amplification in silicon,” Nat. Photonics 10(7), 463–467 (2016).
A. H. Safavi-Naeini and O. Painter, “Design of optomechanical cavities and waveguides on a simultaneous bandgap phononic-photonic crystal slab,” Opt. Express 18(14), 14926–14943 (2010).
V. Laude, J.-C. Beugnot, S. Benchabane, Y. Pennec, B. Djafari-Rouhani, N. Papanikolaou, J. M. Escalante, and A. Martinez, “Simultaneous guidance of slow photons and slow acoustic phonons in silicon phoxonic crystal slabs,” Opt. Express 19(10), 9690–9698 (2011).
M. Eichenfield, J. Chan, R. M. Camacho, K. J. Vahala, and O. Painter, “Optomechanical crystals,” Nature 462(7269), 78–82 (2009).
A. H. Safavi-Naeini, J. T. Hill, S. Meenehan, J. Chan, S. Gröblacher, and O. Painter, “Two-dimensional phononic-photonic band gap optomechanical crystal cavity,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 112(15), 153603 (2014).
R. Zhang, G. Chen, and J. Sun, “Analysis of acousto-optic interaction based on forward stimulated Brillouin scattering in hybrid phononic-photonic waveguides,” Opt. Express 24(12), 13051–13059 (2016).
J. M. Escalante, A. Martínez, and V. Laude, “Design of single-mode waveguides for enhanced light-sound interaction in honeycomb-lattice silicon slabs,” J. Appl. Phys. 115(6), 064302 (2014).
F.-L. Hsiao, C.-Y. Hsieh, H.-Y. Hsieh, and C.-C. Chiu, “High-efficiency acousto-optical interaction in phoxonic nanobeam waveguide,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 100(17), 171103 (2012).
Y. Pennec, J. O. Vasseur, B. Djafari-Rouhani, L. Dobrzyński, and P. A. Deymier, “Two-dimensional phononic crystals: Examples and applications,” Surf. Sci. Rep. 65(8), 229–291 (2010).
S. Mohammadi, A. A. Eftekhar, A. Khelif, and A. Adibi, “Simultaneous two-dimensional phononic and photonic band gaps in opto-mechanical crystal slabs,” Opt. Express 18(9), 9164–9172 (2010).
V. Laude, J. C. Beugnot, S. Benchabane, Y. Pennec, B. Djafari-Rouhani, N. Papanikolaou, and A. Martinez, “Design of waveguides in silicon phoxonic crystal slabs,” in 2010 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium(2010), pp. 527–530.
Q. Rolland, M. Oudich, S. El-Jallal, S. Dupont, Y. Pennec, J. Gazalet, J. C. Kastelik, G. Lévêque, and B. Djafari-Rouhani, “Acousto-optic couplings in two-dimensional phoxonic crystal cavities,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 101(6), 061109 (2012).
S. El-Jallal, M. Oudich, Y. Pennec, B. Djafari-Rouhani, V. Laude, J.-C. Beugnot, A. Martínez, J. M. Escalante, and A. Makhoute, “Analysis of optomechanical coupling in two-dimensional square lattice phoxonic crystal slab cavities,” Phys. Rev. B 88(20), 205410 (2013).
T. Søndergaard and K. H. Dridi, “Energy flow in photonic crystal waveguides,” Phys. Rev. B 61(23), 15688–15696 (2000).
C. Wolff, M. J. Steel, B. J. Eggleton, and C. G. Poulton, “Stimulated Brillouin scattering in integrated photonic waveguides: Forces, scattering mechanisms, and coupled-mode analysis,” Phys. Rev. A 92(1), 013836 (2015).
W. Qiu, P. T. Rakich, M. Soljacic, and Z. Wang, “Stimulated brillouin scattering in slow light waveguides,” arXiv:1210.0738 (2012).
C. J. Sarabalis, J. T. Hill, and A. H. Safavi-Naeini, “Guided acoustic and optical waves in silicon-on-insulator for Brillouin scattering and optomechanics,” APL Photonics 1(7), 071301 (2016).
D. K. Biegelsen, “Photoelastic tensor of silicon and the volume dependence of the average gap,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 32(21), 1196–1199 (1974).
S. G. Johnson, M. Ibanescu, M. A. Skorobogatiy, O. Weisberg, J. D. Joannopoulos, and Y. Fink, “Perturbation theory for Maxwell’s equations with shifting material boundaries,” Phys. Rev. E 65(6), 066611 (2002).
J. Chan, A. H. Safavi-Naeini, J. T. Hill, S. Meenehan, and O. Painter, “Optimized optomechanical crystal cavity with acoustic radiation shield,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 101(8), 081115 (2012).
S. Johnson and J. Joannopoulos, “Block-iterative frequency-domain methods for Maxwell’s equations in a planewave basis,” Opt. Express 8(3), 173–190 (2001).
S. A. Chandorkar, M. Agarwal, R. Melamud, R. N. Candler, K. E. Goodson, and T. W. Kenny, “Limits of quality factor in bulk-mode micromechanical resonators,” in 2008 IEEE 21st International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems(2008), pp. 74–77.
G. Chen, R. Zhang, J. Sun, H. Xie, Y. Gao, D. Feng, and H. Xiong, “Mode conversion based on forward stimulated Brillouin scattering in a hybrid phononic-photonic waveguide,” Opt. Express 22(26), 32060–32070 (2014).
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Baets, R.
Bahl, G.
Benchabane, S.
Beugnot, J. C.
Beugnot, J.-C.
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Braje, D.
Brenn, A.
Camacho, R.
Camacho, R. M.
Chan, J.
Chiu, C.-C.
Cox, J. A.
Dainese, P.
Damzen, M. J.
Davids, P.
Deymier, P. A.
Diddams, S.
Djafari-Rouhani, B.
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Eftekhar, A. A.
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Escalante, J. M.
Feng, D.
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Fragnito, H. L.
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Gazalet, J.
Gröblacher, S.
Guo, G.-C.
Han, K.
Hannover, D.
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Hollberg, L.
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Hsieh, H.-Y.
Hutchinson, M. H. R.
Ibanescu, M.
Jarecki, R.
Joannopoulos, J.
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Joly, N.
Junker, M.
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Khelif, A.
Kikuchi, K.
Kittlaus, E. A.
Knight, J. C.
Kurashima, T.
Kuyken, B.
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Makhoute, A.
Martinez, A.
Martínez, A.
Meenehan, S.
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Nazarkin, A.
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Oudich, M.
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Poulton, C. G.
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Rakich, P. T.
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(3) e p ( x , y , z , t ) = e ˜ p ( x , y , z ) exp [ − i ( ω p t − k p x ) ] ,
(4) e s ( x , y , z , t ) = e ˜ s ( x , y , z ) exp [ − i ( ω s t − k s x ) ] .
(5) P p = 2 ∫ x ^ ⋅ { [ e p ( x , y , z , t ) ] * × h p ( x , y , z , t ) } d y d z ,
(6) P s = 2 ∫ x ^ ⋅ { [ e s ( x , y , z , t ) ] * × h s ( x , y , z , t ) } d y d z ,
(7) ξ p = 2 ∫ 0 a d x ∫ ε ( x , y , z ) [ e p ( x , y , z , t ) ] * ⋅ e p ( x , y , z , t ) d y d z ,
(8) ξ s = 2 ∫ 0 a d x ∫ ε ( x , y , z ) [ e s ( x , y , z , t ) ] * ⋅ e s ( x , y , z , t ) d y d z ,
(9) U ( x , y , z , t ) = b ( x , t ) u ( x , y , z , t ) + c .c . ,
(10) u ( x , y , z , t ) = u ˜ ( x , y , z ) exp [ − i ( Ω t − q x ) ] .
(11) P b = − 2 i Ω ∫ ∑ j m l c x j m l u j * ∂ u l ∂ m d y d z ,
(12) ξ b = 2 Ω 2 ∫ 0 a d x ∫ ρ | u | 2 d y d z ,
(13) ∇ × ∇ × ( E + Δ E ) + μ 0 ∂ ( D + Δ D ) ∂ t = 0.
(14) Δ E = Δ e s a p b * + Δ e p a s b + c .c .,
(15) Δ D = Δ d s a p b * + Δ d p a s b + c .c ..
(16) 0 = ∇ × ∇ × ( a s e s + Δ e s a p b * ) + μ 0 ∂ ( a s d s + a p b * Δ d s ) ∂ t ,
(17) 0 = a s ( ∇ × ∇ × e s + μ 0 ∂ d s ∂ t ) + [ x ^ × ( ∇ × e s ) + ∇ × ( x ^ × e s ) ] ∂ a s ∂ x − 2 i ω s μ 0 d s ∂ a s ∂ t + a p b * ( ∇ × ∇ × Δ e s + μ 0 ∂ 2 Δ d s ∂ t 2 ) + h .o .t . + c .c . ,
(18) − i ω s a P s ∂ a s ∂ x − i ω s P s v s ∂ a s ∂ t = a p b * ∫ x 0 x 0 + a d x ∫ [ ( e s ) * ⋅ ( − i ω ) 2 Δ d s − ( − i ω ) 2 d s ⋅ Δ e s ] d y d z .
(19) v s ∂ a s ∂ x + ∂ a s ∂ t = − i ω s Q OM s ξ s a p b * ,
(20) v p ∂ a p ∂ x + ∂ a p ∂ t = − i ω p Q OM p ξ p a s b ,
(21) Q OM p = ∫ x 0 x 0 + a d x ∫ [ ( e p ) * ⋅ Δ d p − d p ⋅ Δ e p ] d y d z ,
(22) Q OM s = ∫ x 0 x 0 + a d x ∫ [ ( e s ) * ⋅ Δ d s − d s ⋅ Δ e s ] d y d z .
(23) ρ ∂ 2 U i ∂ t 2 + ∑ j m l ∂ ∂ j [ c i j m l + η i j m l ∂ ∂ t ] ∂ ∂ m U l = − F i ,
(24) F ( r , t ) = f ( r , t ) a s * ( x , t ) a p ( x , t ) + c .c ..
(25) − i Ω ∑ j m l [ ( c i x m l ∂ ∂ m + ∂ ∂ j c i j x l ) u l ∂ b ∂ x − 2 i Ω ρ u i ∂ b ∂ t + ∂ ∂ j η i j m l ∂ u l ∂ m b + f i a s * a p ] + c .c . = 0.
(26) v b ∂ b ∂ x + α b b + ∂ b ∂ t = − i Ω Q OM b ξ b a s * a p ,
(27) Q OM b = ∫ x 0 x 0 + a d x ∫ u * ⋅ f d y d z .
(28) Q OM s = ( Q OM p ) * = Q OM b ,
(29) v s ∂ a s ( x ) ∂ x = − i ω s Q OM * ξ s a p ( x ) b * ( x ) ,
(30) v p ∂ a p ( x ) ∂ x = − i ω p Q OM ξ p a s ( x ) b ( x ) ,
(31) v b ∂ b ( x ) ∂ x + α b v b b ( x ) = − i Ω Q OM * ξ b a s * ( x ) a p ( x ) .
(32) Q PE = ε 0 ∫ V d 3 r ∑ i j m l ε r 2 ( E i p ) * E j s p i j m l S m l ,
(33) Q MB = ∫ S d 2 r ( u * ⋅ n ^ ) [ ( ε r − ε air ) ε 0 ( n ^ × E p ) * ( n ^ × E s ) − ( ε r − 1 − ε air − 1 ) ε 0 − 1 ( n ^ ⋅ D p ) * ( n ^ ⋅ D s ) ] ,
(34) g OM = ω Q OM s Q OM p / ( ξ s ξ p ) ,
(35) G = Ω | g OM | 2 ω v p v s v b α b ( ξ b / a ) ,
(36) b ( x ) = − i Ω g OM ∫ 0 + ∞ d x ′ [ a s * ( x − x ′ ) a p ( x − x ′ ) exp ( − α b x ′ ) ] = i g OM a s * ( x ) a p ( x ) α b v b .
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Jr. Senators name leadership group ahead of 2020-2021 season
Ottawa, ON – The Ottawa Jr. Senators announced Saturday the appointment of their 2020-2021 leadership group.
Ethan Mulhearn will serve as the team’s captain, while Thomas Freel, Tyler Orban, and Curtis Fabbro will assume the roles of alternate captains.
“As a coaching staff, we are extremely happy with the players that were chosen as part of our leadership group, said Jr. Senators Head Coach Martin Dagenais. “Ethan Mulhearn is a well-respected veteran in the CCHL so making him the captain was a no-brainer. I was glad to see his teammates agree with the coaching staff on his selection.”
Mulhearn, 20, is in his final season of junior hockey and in his second season with the Jr. Senators. The Williamstown, Ontario native was acquired from the Cornwall Colts prior to last season and took home the OJS 3 Stars Award, along with the team’s Top Scorer Award.
“It’s a humbling feeling to be recognized by the team as a leader,” said newly named captain Ethan Mulhearn. “I hope to follow in the path of the captains before me and represent the organization with the highest standards.”
Freel, 19, enters his second season with OJS after stops with the Jr. Senators u18 program and the Ottawa Jr. Canadians in the CCHL2. He lead the team in goal scoring last season with 26 goals.
Orban, 20, is also in his final CCHL season and his first with the Jr. Senators after an offseason trade with the Nepean Raiders. The Robert Morris University commit served as Raiders captain during the 2018-2019 season, before donning the C yet again with the Corpus Christi IceRays in the NAHL last season.
Fabbro, 19, joined OJS at last year’s trade deadline from the Kanata Lasers and put up five points in 20 games. The Ottawa native originally was apart of the Jr. Senators organization back in 2017 but was sent to Navan in a three-way trade that landed OJS Nick Lalonde.
“Thomas Freel, Tyler Orban, and Curtis Fabbro combine for almost 10 years of junior hockey experience,” added Dagenais. “It’s the perfect trio to support Ethan (Mulhearn) as team captain. They are all hard workers in practice, which is exactly what we’re expecting from our veterans. They will set the tone and our younger players will follow.”
The Jr. Senators continue to play pre-season action, awaiting the start of the CCHL season.
Stay up to date with OJS news on the team’s social media platforms.
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Sean David O'quinn
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Total Bond: 35000
Booking Date: 2020-11-30 17:13:10
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LG Commits To Air Solution Business Expansion Strategy in Middle East and Africa
By: Noble HorvathPosted on October 7, 2020
A senior executive at LG Electronics communicated the company’s intention to expand its presence in the Middle East and Africa HVAC industry. At a virtual conference, the head of LG’s Air Solution business division explained LG’s brand philosophy to become a trusted partner in the region based on the values of integration, expertise, and commitment as well as a new portfolio of air purification solution products for residential, office and commercial environments.
“Most people may think of LG as a washing machine and refrigerator brand but we provide solutions in many sectors that consumers don’t see,” remarked Dr. Lee Kam-gyu, head of LG’s Air Solution business unit. “LG is constantly investing in capabilities to raise the trust of our customers and we will reinforce this commitment through better integrated solutions, expert insights and more dedicated support to become a trusted partner for HVAC in the region.”
Since the pandemic outbreak and the increasing time spent indoors, concerns over indoor air quality have grown. Needs for high quality HVAC and air management solutions have increased due to the pandemic with LG’s products – which not only meet but surpass guidelines for clean air in the region – seeing unexpected demand.
To further raise the value for MEA customers and enhance the level of trust in the brand, LG is focusing on its three core values of integration, expertise and commitment. As an integrator, LG will deliver even more optimized HVAC and energy management solutions for each and every project to achieve the minimal total cost of ownership (TCO) for its clients. With its deep expertise, LG will advise its customers with its technological experience-based knowledge to find the most effective and efficient solution to any problem. And as a committed partner, LG promises to go beyond the installation of its solutions to service, maintain and help manage its products through the system’s lifecycle.
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Please note: Uniformed RCMP or members of a police force who are part of an organized police presence are not welcome to participate. Symbols associated with the RCMP or other police forces are also not welcome. Members of the RCMP who are part of the LGBTQ2S+ community or allies are, as always, welcome to participate as civilians.
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Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters
By Angel Martinez
Book 1 in the Offbeat Crimes series
Kyle Monroe, his irritating new partner and their fellow freaks at the 77th Precinct must learn to work together to stop a vicious murderer that might not even be human.
Kyle Monroe’s encounter with a strange, gelatinous creature in an alley leaves him scarred and forever changed, revealing odd abilities he wishes he didn’t have and earning him reassignment to a precinct where all the cops have defective paranormal abilities.
Just as he’s starting to adjust to his fellow misfit squad mates, Kyle’s new partner arrives. Tall, physically perfect, reserved and claiming he has no broken psychic talents, Vikash Soren irritates Kyle in every way. But as much as he’d like to hate Vikash, Kyle finds himself oddly drawn to him, their non-abilities meshing in unexpected ways. If they can learn to work together, they might be able to stop the mysterious killer who has been leaving mutilated bodies along the banks of the Schuylkill.
Publisher's Note: This book has previously been released elsewhere. It has been revised and re-edited for re-release with Pride Publishing.
General Release Date: 16th August 2016
Strange how half the briefing room chairs were empty and still there was no place to sit. Kyle surveyed his choices, trying to pick the least of several evils, mindful that he was ten minutes early with greater evils yet to come.
He decided on a chair far to the left, in the row behind Loveless and in front of Zacchini. That way he might have odd cravings or sudden flashes of disconnected images for the next two hours, but he could handle it. Neither of these would harm anyone around him. The precinct didn’t have enough officers to fill the room, so no one would need to sit near him.
Someone always seemed to forget.
Krisk shambled in, blinked slowly at Kyle with his slit-pupiled golden eyes, and wandered to the other side of the room. No one could explain to him how Krisk had made it through the police academy, or why he had wanted to. The lizard man seemed to understand human speech, though he never spoke, and the legality of his arrests had to be questionable.
Gatling, Lourdes and Wolf all wandered in with early-morning bleary eyes but were aware enough to avoid Kyle’s side of the room. Only Lourdes should have been worried, but it was becoming habit for his department colleagues to give him a wide berth.
The steady, military tick-tick-tick of Lieutenant Dunfee’s heels reached them from the hallway and everyone scrambled to settle, eyes front and at least pretending attention. She patted Kyle’s shoulder absently as she stalked by, perhaps reminding him that she, at least, had no need to fear his abilities.
The lieutenant tapped her papers straight on the lectern at the front of the room, her hard gaze pinning her officers one by one. “Good morning, ladies and gentle—”
Running footsteps interrupted her as Officer Virago skidded to a halt in the hallway then changed course to rush into the briefing room.
“Damn it, Vance, if you can’t get here on time, don’t make such a production out of gracing us with your presence,” Lieutenant Dunfee snapped.
Virago shot her an unrepentant grin and plopped down two chairs over from Kyle. Normally, Kyle would have moved or warned him off, but the lieutenant was speaking again. Interrupting her a second time, now that she’d started roll call, didn’t feel like the best idea. I can hold this together. Just a few minutes. Nothing has to happen.
“Loveless?”
In front of Kyle, Carrington Loveless III raised his marshmallow-white hand languidly. “Here.”
See? Nothing’s happening. It’s fine.
“Monroe?”
Kyle raised his hand in acknowledgment and a gout of flame rocketed from his fingers to slam into the ceiling. He yanked his hand down, tucked both hands under his thighs and cringed amid a rain of burned ceiling tile shreddings and mortification.
“Here,” he choked out.
“Vance! Move!” the lieutenant bellowed. “Damn it, you know better!”
Virago scrambled out of his seat and claimed a spot standing along the opposite wall. “It’s raining out, ma’am! How’m I supposed to know Kirby can suck up my shit when I can’t even get a spark?”
“Watch the language, and what did I tell you about that nickname?”
Virago ducked his head with a muttered apology, but more than one person in Kyle’s hearing grumbled that the nickname fit too well.
“Sorry, ma’am.”
“Not something you can control, Monroe. But these other chuckleheads can be a little more cognizant of where they are in relation to you.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
With an exasperated shake of her head, she finished roll call, confirmed assignments, then waved someone unfamiliar up from the front row. “Boys and girls, this is our newest officer, Vikash Soren.”
Kyle sat up straighter, shifting to see between the heads in front of him. Soren looked like a poster boy for the model police officer, tall and straight, uniform crisp and sharp. He stood at parade rest beside the lieutenant, impassively surveying his new colleagues. A little knot of resentment lodged in Kyle’s stomach. At his own introduction to the 77th, he’d been nervous and fidgety, freaked out by the collection of…freaks. How can he be so calm?
“Officer Soren transferred from the Harrisburg PD—”
“Don’t they have enough freaky shit of their own up there?” Wolf called out in his rasping growl.
“Since Harrisburg is in our jurisdiction,” she continued with a quelling glance, “he’ll start out partnered with Monroe.”
“What does he do, ma’am? That it’s safe to put him with Kirby, er, Kyle?” Shira Lourdes asked as she flicked nervous glances across the room at Kyle. An empty chair slid away from her and fell over. Her partner, Greg Santos, shook his head and righted the unfortunate piece of furniture.
“Officer Soren’s abilities are his business, which he may or may not choose to share if you ask. And don’t bully him about it either, any of you.” Lieutenant Dunfee swept the room again, pinning each of her officers like captive butterflies with her needle-laser gaze. “Monroe, my office after briefing. Info on your current case.”
She dismissed them, stalking from the room with thunderclouds in her eyes. Kyle found himself approaching the new guy and trying his best not to be awkward. Did he offer to shake hands? Was it safe? Would the guy flinch like so many people did at the sight of Kyle’s scarred hands? Soren was even taller up close, six-foot-three of lean inscrutability, his blue eyes startlingly bright against smoky bronze skin.
“Um, hi, I’m Kyle Monroe.” Kyle fidgeted when Soren didn’t offer his hand either. “You’re with me, I guess. I’ll show you our spot in the squad room.”
Soren followed him silently and Kyle was starting to wonder if he was like Krisk in the not-speaking department until he finally spoke in a smooth, soft baritone, making Kyle startle and miss a step. “Why do they call you Kirby?”
“You’d hear it sooner or later, I guess.” Kyle shrugged. “It’s this thing I do, absorbing other people’s talents temporarily. If they’re close to me. Or touch me. Like Kirby, the little pink dude in the video game.”
Just that? Soren didn’t edge away, or change expression at all. Was he made of stone? “It’s a thing. Everyone here has a thing.”
After a few more steps, Soren asked, “Always?”
“What… Oh, was I always like this? Who knows? I mean, maybe I’ve picked up stray thoughts or something, but no. It’s pretty recent. Knowing that I do this.”
Kyle took a wide arc around Vance as he entered the squad room, pointing to the double desk in the far corner, well removed from everyone else. “That’s ours. Coffee’s over there, but you might not want that coffee. Let me grab my file and we’ll go see the lieutenant.”
A flutter of wings sounded overhead—a brilliant flash of feathers shooting in front of Kyle to land on Carrington’s desk at the back of the room. With a raucous call, the pink and neon-blue raven folded his wings and waddled over to snap at Carrington’s pen.
“Stop it, Edgar.”
“You couldn’t get laid at a clusterfuck!” Edgar squawked, making another grab for the pen.
Carrington sighed and handed the ballpoint over. “There. Go play. Try not to get ink all over your feet this time.”
Edgar seized the pen in his Pepto-Bismol-colored beak and flew to his perch on the other side of the room where he called out, “Fuck you very much!” then proceeded to draw random lines on the paper tacked up beside his perch for Edgar’s art projects.
“So what’s your story, Soren?” Vance called across the squad room. “What flies your freak flag?”
“Yeah, what do you do?” Jeff Gatling stopped teleporting his banana from one corner of his desk to the other.
“I don’t really do anything,” Soren answered as he hefted the empty coffeepot. “Guess I’ll make fresh since I’m the new guy.”
He opened the top to remove the filter and every human voice in the squad room yelled out, “No!”
Most people would have startled, maybe dropped the carafe. Soren just blinked at the roomful of people gesturing wildly. He took the filter out and emptied it over the trashcan. “Why not?”
“You don’t want to do that.” Kyle stayed by his desk, a nice safe distance from the coffee station. “That’s Larry’s job.”
“Larry’s not keeping up then.”
The container of sweetener packets began to rattle. It shivered across the counter and leaped to a messy end, ceramic shards skittering across the floor. The desk that Krisk and Wolf shared rose from the floor several inches then slammed back down. Wolf fled with a squeaking yelp just before the desk flipped on its side.
Soren glanced toward Kyle. “Larry’s not a cop, is he?”
“He is…he was! A dead cop. Larry’s a ghost. He gets ticked if anyone else makes the coffee. Put the stuff back, please!”
“Larry?” Soren raised his voice but to all appearances remained completely unruffled. “I’m new here. I’m very sorry I invaded your jurisdiction. See? I’m putting the carafe back. Closing the top. Are we good, Larry?”
A breeze ruffled through a stack of papers, but no further mayhem ensued. The carafe slid from its pad on the coffeemaker and floated to the water cooler where Larry, who never manifested in a visible form, whistled tunelessly while he filled the carafe.
From his dim corner of the room, Carrington said in his dry, genteel way, “Welcome to the Island of Misfit Freaks.”
Half an hour later, with Soren briefed on the case and instructions to meet Chris Hardin from homicide at the ME’s office, Kyle led his new partner down to their assigned squad car. Vikash Soren remained a puzzle, which didn’t help Kyle’s already jangled nerves.
“I’ll drive.”
Soren sipped the coffee he’d snagged from a nearby food truck, apparently having reached the conclusion everyone else did with one sip of Larry’s coffee. It was on par with wood varnish. “You sure you can reach the pedals?”
Kyle stared at him. If he hadn’t seen the man’s mouth move, he would’ve sworn he’d imagined those words. “I am not short.”
One perfect black eyebrow rose a fraction.
“I’m average. Sure you’ll fit in the car?” Kyle shot back, knowing it was childish.
Soren merely smiled without showing his teeth. It wasn’t even a pissed-off, tight smile—more like the serene expression on a statue of some ancient, smugly contented god. He folded his long frame into the passenger seat without another word.
I think I hate him. He’d better have some serious flaws, or I’m really going to hate him.
Even his posture sitting in the squad car was perfect. Kyle kept his attention on the Market Street traffic, trying to unclench his jaw.
They’d almost reached the Schuylkill River when Soren, in a voice barely loud enough for conversation, asked, “Island of Misfit Freaks?”
“That’s what you’ve been chewing on all this time?”
“Yes.” Soren sipped his coffee, a little V forming between his perfect black eyebrows. “I think I was expecting something…else.”
Kyle blew out an explosive breath. Yeah, he got that. “I did, too, when they transferred me. I mean, you hear about other cities, and it’s more X-Files, right? And if there’s any paranormal cops from Philly with useful talents, they probably get shipped somewhere else. But here, sorry, no. You’re stuck with the rejects.”
“I understand why you’d be a problem.” Soren held up a hand when Kyle sputtered. “Dangerous thing you do, which you can’t control, it seems. But the others?”
“Yeah. All of them. Us.” Kyle winced at the slip. Four months in this precinct and he still felt like an outsider. “Virago? The one who got chewed out this morning? He’s a firestarter.”
“All right. But that doesn’t sound so odd.”
Kyle snickered. “He can only do it when it’s dry. Rain, snow, too much humidity, and poof! Nothing. Shira Lourdes is a stress telekinetic. Shit flies around when she gets jumpy or upset.”
“Hmm. Edgar?”
“We’re not sure what his deal is. He came with the lieutenant. My theory is he got caught in some magical crossfire to get the Technicolor feathers. Where the foul mouth, er, beak on him came from is anybody’s guess. And Jeff Gatling? Guy with the banana?”
“He does apportation. I could see that.”
“Yeah, but he can only teleport fruit.”
“Oh.” The V-furrow had deepened. Mr. Perfect could be blindsided, apparently.
“That’s why they wanted to know what you do. ’Cause seriously? We all do something and we all suck at it.”
The Schuylkill, sparkling in the October sunshine, lay behind them before Soren answered. “I don’t really do anything.”
“Then why the hell did they send you to us?” Kyle’s voice cracked as his volume rose. He hadn’t meant to get snappy, but damn, it was like pulling mastodon teeth using two spoons.
Another sip of coffee, another long silence. “Bad things happen around me.”
“Oh, great. That’s just great.”
“Not all the time.” Still Soren managed that soft, even tone, no show of temper, no defensiveness. “Just…when I’m angry.”
At the next stoplight, Kyle turned to stare at him. “Soren, do you even get angry? Ever?”
“Oh, I do.” That smug little smile was back. “You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.”
Well, crud. Avengers. Sense of humor. And I was just starting to really hate him. “Ha. Can I call you Bruce?”
“Only if I can call you Tony. Though I’d rather Vikash.”
Kyle mulled that over as he turned down 34th, heading into university territory. Hard to get a good vibe from someone so reserved, but he finally decided that Soren—Vikash—was trying his best to be friendly. Maybe he was shy, or maybe he was seriously weird. Whatever. Kyle had been partnered with some real bastards over the years. Weird, he could deal with.
By the time Kyle had parked the white squad car, Vikash had finished his coffee, and like a good Mr. Perfect, took the empty cup and napkin with him and threw them away in the proper receptacles.
“Have you ever even had a parking ticket?”
Vikash gave him an odd look. “No. Why?”
“Never mind.” Kyle led the way inside to where Detective Hardin was waiting for them. He nodded to the detective, who he’d worked with on the previous murder. “This look like the same?”
“’Fraid so. Wanted you to take a look, though, since you were on scene with the other one.”
“Where was this one?”
“Just past the Waterworks. Some of the kids out at rowing practice found her.”
There was always that moment of oh, shit, I can’t do this for Kyle when he walked into a morgue with a body on the table. He’d seen a number of corpses as a cop, but he could never quite disassociate as some officers did. That was a person on the slab, someone’s mom or sister, someone with dreams, who might have hated pistachio ice cream and might have stood near him at a fireworks display—and he had to stomp all those thoughts down hard.
Professional mask carefully in place, Kyle struggled not to flinch when the med tech pulled back the sheet. This young woman, like the previous victim, had deep, V-shaped gashes on her body, the one on her throat most likely the one that killed her.
“Doc’s placing the time of death at between midnight and two.” Hardin’s raspy, smoke-ruined voice raked through the terrible stillness. “Blood loss from the neck wound listed as cause of death, though there’s blunt force trauma to the head, too.”
“Do we have an ID yet?”
“Nothing. Killer may have taken the purse if there was one.”
“Any speculation on the weapon?” Kyle asked as he bent to examine the strangely shaped gashes.
“Almost looks like the shape of a bulb-planting trowel,” Vikash murmured. He had produced a neat little notebook and pen, and was taking notes in quick, precise strokes.
Kyle stared at him. “Why is that a thing you know?”
Vikash muttered something about his grandmother before he added, “Those shouldn’t be sharp enough for this, though.”
“ME doesn’t have any thoughts on the weapon.” Hardin regarded Kyle’s new partner with a sideways glance. “Gardening tools or otherwise. You have any doubts about this being related to the other one, Monroe?”
Kyle shook his head. “No. Same injuries. Time of death. Not the same area but still along the river. All right if we go take a look at the scene?”
“Joint investigation on this one, so go on down there. And don’t hold out on me if you find something. I don’t care if it’s some weird, psychic thing you people don’t think normal folks would understand.”
That you people dig. Kyle’s jaw tightened as his stomach did a slow roll. Four months ago, he hadn’t been anything special. Just another cop doing his job. Now, he was one of them, one of the freaks the department employed to handle the bizarre, unexplainable crimes, a necessary, distasteful evil to many normal cops.
Vikash glanced up from his notebook, pen still poised over the page. “Was that a racist comment, Detective?”
Hardin sputtered. “What? Fuck, no. But your precinct’s full of weirdos. You do know that, right?”
“I’ve no idea what you mean.” Vikash’s blank expression gave Hardin nothing to work with and Kyle wrestled down a laugh, nearly asphyxiating himself.
“All right, I think that’s all we need here. I’ll email updates,” Kyle managed when he rediscovered breathing.
They left Hardin sputtering and Vikash remained nearly stoic when they got back in the car. The only change? That damn smile was back.
“You just like messing with people, don’t you?”
“Yes.” Vikash tucked his notebook away. Not even a chuckle. “To the crime scene?”
“Well, we’re sure as hell not going to the Bat Cave.” That got Kyle a strangled sound. Maybe that was a laugh, or Vikash was stifling a cough. “I’m calling in to see if Loveless and Zacchini can meet us there.”
“Useful talents?”
Back across the river, back to the strange silence Kyle was still trying to break. He wished Vikash would make a little effort. Silence was fine, but not this weird, prickly silence.
“So was one of your parents from India?”
“No. Why?”
Kyle actually had to tighten his grip on the wheel to keep from smacking his partner. “Um…your first name?” Your gorgeous, thick black hair. Your ridiculously beautiful skin. Your long, royal nose for looking down at people.
“Mom thought it was a cool name.”
“Uh-huh.” Kyle wasn’t buying it, but Vikash went back into statue mode and Kyle needed to recharge his social energies before trying to draw him out again.
There were forensics techs on the scene still, but Kyle got permission from them to nose around the edges. The body had been found at the river’s edge, still half in the water. Photos at the time of recovery showed that the young woman had died in a moment of abject terror, her expression frozen with her dying scream.
They made their careful, sometimes sliding, way down the bank, eyes to the ground as they scanned for anything unusual and in deference to the treacherous footing.
Kyle slithered in the mud, flinging his arms out though there were no branches to catch here. A strong hand seized his elbow, steadying him. For a single heartbeat, Vikash’s face showed anxious concern before his smug serenity returned.
“Maybe you and your stumpy legs should stay up top.”
“Shut up.” Good one, Kyle. Really biting and witty.
Any further witticisms were scuttled by Loveless’ and Zacchini’s arrival. In a broad-brimmed hat and gloves despite the mild weather, Loveless stood at the top of the embankment, mouth set in an unhappy line.
“Amanda, dear, you’re going to have to help me if you expect to me to make it down there to Kyle.”
Officer Zacchini rolled her eyes but took her partner around the waist, one hand clamped under his elbow to support his shaky steps down the bank. Vikash did the one eyebrow thing at Kyle.
“Vampire,” Kyle whispered. “Daylight is really bad for him. But I think he likes the attention.”
“You know I can hear you,” Loveless said peevishly. “Want to tell me what I’m looking for?”
“Not sure. Any impressions of things that don’t belong? Something that doesn’t smell human?”
“On a riverbank. You are joking.”
“Wish I could be specific. Don’t have a lot yet.”
Carrington Loveless III, silver spoon only child of a wealthy Main Line family, sighed as he gazed at his erstwhile clean shoes squishing on the marshy ground. He closed his eyes and drew a deep breath in through his nose, crouched down, head turning, and breathed in again.
“There is…something.” Loveless held his hand out and waited until Zacchini had a good grip on him before he stood. Sniffing like a narcotics dog, he walked several yards downriver and stopped. “Something odd.”
“Kyle.” Vikash pointed and took Loveless’ other arm to prevent him taking another step. “There in the mud. Think we can get one of the crime scene guys to get some photos?”
With a hand clutching the back of Vikash’s uniform jacket so he didn’t tumble into the water, Kyle leaned over to see what had his colleagues in a frozen tableau. Right where water met land, with the river’s wavelets working on washing it away, was a print from…something. Maybe. Four long gashes closer to the water with an oval impression behind them. If it was a footprint, the foot was larger than a kitchen sink.
“Carrington? Is it a print?” Kyle asked softly, as if a loud voice might wash it away.
“Yes. Oh, very much yes.” Loveless shivered.
Kyle called over to the crime scene unit and soon had someone snapping photos. Not that it would help much if they couldn’t figure out what the thing was, much less find it.
“Any thoughts on what?” Kyle asked their vampire. “What’s it smell like?”
“Cold. Slimy. Hard.”
“How can something smell hard?”
“I don’t know,” Loveless muttered irritably. “Amanda, I can’t do this. Please.”
Kyle glanced up at Zacchini, realizing with some irritation that everyone present was taller than he was. “You picking up anything, Amanda? And is he drama queening?”
Zacchini shrugged. “I got nothin’. Water flowing. Things living in the mud. And no. He can’t fake that gray color. I’d better get him in the car before he face-plants in the mud. You need piggyback, Carr?”
“No, no.” Loveless tucked his hand into the crook of her offered arm. “I’ll make it, thank you.”
A quick survey of the ground nearby didn’t turn up any more of the strange prints and when Kyle turned to suggest they go back up, he found Vikash staring after Loveless and Zacchini.
Vikash hesitated before asking, “Are they a…thing?”
Christ on a cracker, is Mr. Perfect embarrassed? “Why, ’cause she’s so careful with him?”
“Does she need to be careful?”
Kyle shrugged. “He’s a little delicate, our vamp. Wasn’t always, I hear. Decorated officer, amateur boxing titles before he was turned. But no, they’re not a thing. He’s more into Neanderthal jocks and she’s into artistic, brooding women. They both get their hearts stomped on.”
“Ah.” Vikash started up the slope and Kyle thought that was the end of a long conversation for them until his partner spoke again, still in that puzzled tone, “I asked because I thought maybe she feeds him. If he does so badly in daylight.”
“Ha. No. Remember, we’re all kinda broken. Loveless can only drink skim blood. That’s what he calls it. The packets he gets from the blood bank are labeled washed RBC’s. No platelets, no plasma, low on the white blood count. He gets really sick on whole blood.”
“I think I need a program. With footnotes.”
“Nah. Small squad room. You’ll know too much about everybody inside a week.”
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4WEB Medical Announces Launch of Stand Alone Cervical Spine Truss System
Company showcases new product launch at the Cervical Spine Research Society meeting in New York
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Nov 20, 2019, 10:59 ET
NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- 4WEB Medical, an orthopedic device company focused on developing innovative implants utilizing its proprietary Truss Implant Technology™, announced the initial launch and completion of the first procedures with the Cervical Spine Truss System-Stand Alone™ (CSTS-SA).
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The CSTS-SA implants incorporate an Advanced Structural Design comprised of the company's proprietary Truss Implant Technology. Since receiving 510(k) clearance in August, the system has been utilized in multiple surgeries, contributing significant revenue growth that is expected to continue into 2020.
Tasha White, 4WEB's Director of Marketing said, "CSTS-SA is the latest product offering showing our continued commitment to innovative solutions that improve clinical outcomes. Recently completed studies show the hierarchical surface roughness of the Truss Implant Technology drives osteogenic cell differentiation. Combined with the mechanobiologic properties of the truss structure, the osteogenic gene expression is better optimized than competitive devices."
CSTS-SA is a complete, zero-profile, construct solution that eliminates the need for traditional plate and screw fixation. The device also features an easy-to-use single-step locking mechanism, increasing surgeon confidence and improving procedural efficiency.
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Channeling Marx
February 5, 2007 Marc Lee 2 comments
As we have been hearing about the legacies of the great minds of economics, a name that has not cropped up much lately is Marx. The first article below suggests that Marx’s ideas live with us in the global economy, and growing inequality has awoken the old guy’s spirit. With it we are seeing a resurgence of the word “capitalism” rather than the more tame “free market”. The second article argues that the global elites at Davos have noticed, and that progressive taxation is ready for a comeback.
Marx is being proved right
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that globalisation is laying bare the contradictions of capitalism.
Could those pontificating at Davos perhaps have missed something? The capitalist system over which they were fussing may be in direr straits than they appreciated. For globalisation, once seen by both its friends and enemies as the apotheosis of capitalism, seems instead to be turning into its nemesis.
We all know that the “free” market can function effectively only when subject to rigorous controls. These entail not just the entrenchment of property rights and the rule of law, but also oversight of the market’s workings, provision of the infrastructure it requires and management of the resources it consumes. Victims of its workings who have the capacity to disrupt it may also need to be appeased.
Nation-states have shown themselves capable of providing these facilities successfully, at least within their own borders. However, businesses are compelled to look beyond the countries that sustain them by the urge to expand their activities. Ironically, the dangers implicit in this paradox were mitigated for much of the last century by the existence of societies based (in theory, at any rate) on the insights of that tireless student of such contradictions, Karl Marx.
Until a couple of decades ago, the cold war kept globalisation in check. However, once it had ended, not only were existing enterprises freer to widen their horizons, but new forces based in formerly communist countries were able to join the fray. In the process, capitalism managed to escape the nationally-rooted constraints that used to moderate its intrinsic absurdities.
The consequences are familiar enough when considered separately. We are all aware that unbridled economic activity is now destroying the world’s climate, water supplies, farmland, forests and fish stocks, while global environmental management remains a dream. We know that mountainous trading, governmental, corporate and personal debt threatens to precipitate world-wide economic collapse, even though only individual states have the means to modify financial conditions.
Less remarked upon is the threat to capitalism posed by the ever-deepening inequality that globalisation inevitably engenders. Within the last two decades, the pay of a typical top American manager has risen from 40 times that of the average employee to 110 times. Meanwhile, more and more ill-rewarded workers are seeing their jobs disappear completely, not just to their even-worse-rewarded counterparts overseas, but to processes, such as computerisation, that squeeze workers out of the economy altogether.
Unfortunately for capitalism, as its victims become more numerous, they also become more powerful. In democracies, the consequences are already being felt. Protectionism is reasserting itself in America, with potentially catastrophic consequences for world trade. In places where capitalism is unaccompanied by democracy, rebellion may take less orderly forms, as burgeoning unrest in the Chinese countryside is already demonstrating.
At Davos, the Yale economist Robert Shiller warned of the threat posed by worker disaffection. His answer was progressive taxation. Sadly, globalisation has made this potential solution as unworkable as some that might once have addressed the other problems of contemporary capitalism. Only national governments can tax, and those that tax more than their counterparts will drive business elsewhere and impoverish their citizens. So, increasingly, they dare not do it.
Nothing but the re-engineering of global capitalism can head off the crisis that is beginning to confront it. Unfortunately, the machinery to perform such a task does not exist. It is to be hoped that the masters of the universe enjoyed their Alpine jaunt this year. In the winters that lie ahead, they may find the mood at Davos growing less cheery.
Target rich or reap growing anger, warn economistsLarry Elliott, economics editor
A backlash against the economic insecurity caused by globalisation is looming in the west unless governments tackle growing inequality by raising taxes on the rich, economists said in Davos yesterday. After years in which workers have received an ever-smaller share of national incomes, business leaders arriving for the World Economic Forum were told to expect a reversal of pro-rich tax policies.
Robert Shiller, a Yale economics professor, said: “We need mechanisms to adjust tax systems so that they become more progressive if inequality gets worse.
“There are people left behind [by globalisation]. We need to take steps now to design a plan so that if inequality gets worse, governments raise taxes on the wealthy. It’s got to be that way.”Professor Nouriel Roubini, chairman of Roubini Global Economics, said the old social contract in which governments ensured good wages, social security and health care was under pressure from the rise of China and India.
Besides higher taxes on the rich, governments needed to invest in training, education and be prepared to subsidise wages. “We have to do something or the backlash is going to be very, very severe”, he said.
Stephen Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, said there were signs that inequality was leading to political shifts. “Look at the shares of national income in the major economies of the developed world. The share going to labour is at historic lows; the share going to capital is at historic highs.
“The [political] pendulum is moving left towards politicians more in favour of pro-labour economic policies. There is potential for a shift in the relationship between labour and capital.”
The warnings came as a PricewaterhouseCoopers poll of senior executives found that the longest sustained period of economic growth since the second world war had left more than 90% expecting their businesses to grow in the coming year – twice the figure five years ago.
Prof Roubini said there was a risk in the United States that the good times were coming to an end.
“The Goldilocks economy is being threatened by the three bears. I worry about a US hard landing.” He described the threats as a housing crash, higher interest rates and – despite the recent fall – the price of oil.
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Larry Gambone
February 5, 2007 1:06 pm
I have two observations: The American democratic socialist Irving Howe wrote toward the end of his life about the “death of socialism” announced at that time (1980’s) He said that he had lived long enough to see socialism declared dead about half a dozen times, yet it keeps reviving. Could say the same about Karl Marx. Seceond point is, wouldn’t it be a good idea to focus on “pulling the plug” on corporations as well as controlling them with laws? After all they are creatures of the state. Abolish limited liability, the insane notion of the corporation as fititious individual, replace patents with limited time royalties, abolish all corporate welfare, take back the Central Banks from the corporations and have the government borrow from itself, democratize the corporation – one shareholder-one vote, etc. Do this and the corporations would be ccut down to size and would not be such a problem
Leo Petr
February 6, 2007 6:14 am
In addition to polluting profusely (because heavy industry is cool), the Soviets destroyed the Caspian and Aral seas (because irrigating the desert is cool). Thanks to one-party rule and disincentives for dissent, the environmental movement did not materialize in the USSR the way it did in the west.
Of course, the Yankies are likely to destroy Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario in the next couple of decades (because suburbanites in Phoenix think it’s their God-given right to have a green lawn in the desert).
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Final Order Cutoff for Wednesday 4th December
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BUTCHER OF PARIS #1 (OF 5)
(W) Stephanie Phillips (A) Dean Kotz (CA) Dave Johnson
In 1944, as Swastikas flew over Paris, one of the most notorious and prolific serial killers in history turned the occupied city into his personal hunting ground.
Under the guise of opportunity and freedom, a killer preys on those desperate to flee . . . until a gruesome discovery alerts the police. In a city on the brink of war, the hunt for a serial killer begins as a French detective races to catch the villain before the Nazis beat him to it.
Written by Stephanie Phillips (Descendent, Devil Within) with art by Dean Kotz (Mars Attacks), The Butcher of Paris is a historical, true crime thriller about a killer wanted by both the Nazis and allied forces for the death of nearly two hundred victims.
ART OF THE LAST OF US PART II HC
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Extensive insights into the making of the long-awaited sequel to the award-winning The Last of Us. From Ellie's peaceful life in Jackson, Wyoming to her merciless pursuit of retribution in Seattle, Washington, this essential companion features hundreds of pieces of concept art, character designs, stunningly detailed environments, and more that chronicle the captivating and emotional story at the heart of The Last of Us Part II.
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STRANGER THINGS ZOMBIE BOYS VOL 01 TP
(W) Greg Pak (A) Valeria Favoccia (CA) Ron Chan
It's spring in the normally quiet town of Hawkins, Indiana. Mike, Lucas, Dustin, and Will are still grappling with the traumatic encounters with the Demogorgon and the Upside Down in season one of the hit Netflix series. As tensions rise and fractures begin to form in the group, a new kid shows up to AV club with a Betamax Camcorder and a vision. The new Spielberg-wannabe friend, Joey Kim, wants to make a zombie horror movie based on Will's drawings, and in the process they come to terms with the real horrors they've already faced.
An all-ages story following the events of season one of the popular Netflix show!
INFECTED DEATHBRINGER #1
(W) Zoe Quinn (A) Ben Oliver (CA) Viktor Bogdanovic
Donna Troy is a hero. She fought alongside friends, led the Titans into battle, and buried more friends in the line of duty than she cares to remember. She's strong, she's brave, she's one of the fiercest warriors on the planet...and she's the Batman Who Laughs' next target for infection! Spinning out of the events of The Batman Who Laughs and Batman/Superman comes the story of a hero who is done with bringing peace to a world that cannot be trusted with it. A woman who's past has been her greatest adversary, and whose newly awakened dark side is ready to burn it all down and forge a new destiny. No more peace. Only... Deathbringer!
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS DAYS OF ENDLESS ADVENTURES TP
(W) Jim Zub (A) Max Dunbar, Nelson Daniel, Netho Diaz (CA) Hydro74
Go beyond your tabletop campaign-or fuel it with new material-in this trio of immersive adventures set in the boundless world of the Forgotten Realms.
A new generation of heroes, led by a revived Minsc and Boo, rises to protect Baldur's Gate, but they'll soon find themselves fighting evil forces throughout the Realms and beyond. Whether they're stopping a plot by the Cult of the Dragon to destroy the city; escaping from the endless night of Ravenloft in the Demiplane of Dread; or facing down frost-giant raiding parties in the frigid Spine of the World, the action never stops! GO FOR THE EYES, BOO!
Collects Dungeons & Dragons: Legends of Baldur's Gate, Dungeons & Dragons: Shadows of the Vampire, and Dungeons & Dragons: Frost Giant's Fury.
TRANSFORMERS LEGACY ART OF TRANSFORMERS PACKAGING SC
(W) Jim Sorenson, William Forster
Presenting hundreds of beautifully airbrushed paintings from the iconic first decade of The Transformers, as archived by Hasbro, Takara, and private collectors around the world. Extras include never-before-seen artwork from toys that never were, original design sketches, catalog artwork, and more.
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(W) Ryan Parrott (A) Simone Di Meo (CA) Dan Mora
THE MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS AND THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME!
The Power Rangers arrive in New York City to find Tommy Oliver (a.k.a. The Mighty Morphin Green Ranger) but soon discover he's joined forces with the villainous Shredder and the Foot Clan!
As the Rangers are sent reeling by this betrayal, they 're confronted by another (fr)enemy... the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Can these heroes find a way to work together to defeat the bad guys and save the world from total destruction?!
Written by Ryan Parrott (Power Rangers: Necessary Evil) and illustrated by Simone di Meo (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Venom Annual), the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fight - and maybe team up with - the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the first time.
MARVEL'S AVENGERS IRON MAN #1
(W) Jim Zub (A) Paco Diaz (CA) Stonehouse
THE FIRST PREQUEL TO THE UPCOMING VIDEO GAME, MARVEL'S AVENGERS!
Avengers Assemble! The road to Marvel's Avengers begins here, with an all-new story leading directly into the events of the highly anticipated video game! IRON MAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA, BLACK WIDOW, THOR, and HULK are the mighty Avengers, but as the LETHAL LEGION strikes, it's going to take more than their usual teamwork to save the day! When TONY STARK discovers his enemies have co-opted Stark technology for nefarious purposes, it's up to him to stop the leak. But can his teammates be trusted, or is something more sinister at play?
Featuring the debut of the game's AVENGERS, as well as never before seen takes on some classic villains, you won't want to miss this landmark moment in comics history!
SPIDER-MAN 2099 #1
(W) Nick Spencer (A) Jose Carlos Silva (CA) Viktor Bogdanovic
Miguel O'Hara is a rising star at Alchemax, but his world is about to come crashing down.
The future of the Marvel Universe is about to die and the world needs a hero.
As Miguel faces a destiny he's tried to run from all his life, the secrets of 2099 begin to unravel here.
Rated T
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End Predatory Costs and Fees Imposed by State Agencies and Authorities
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New York State’s tolling authorities have granted themselves the authority to attach ridiculous fees to the Toll By Mail program, enforceable by suspending vehicle registrations, with collection practices that would make the worst debt collectors blush. What’s worse, these fees of up to $100, apply to every crossing—not every bill. If your Toll By Mail gets lost in the mail, or New York State has the wrong address on file (because the DMV inexcusably fails to link car registration addresses to driver’s license addresses), a monthly commute could cost you more than $2,000 in additional fees with no clear legal recourse.
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With a price tag of more than $139 billion and carve outs for public sector unions, a single-payer healthcare system is simply not affordable in New York state. If the state legislature is serious about making affordable health care available to all New Yorkers, it will eliminate more than $4 billion in taxes on our premiums and direct care costs, remove expensive coverage mandates on insurance plans, and adopt new federal marketplace standards to improve competition and prices for New Yorkers who buy their own policies.
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Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Market Research Report 2018 |
Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Market Research Report 2018
Published : May-2018 |
Pages : 96 |
Publisher : QY Research
This report studies the global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors market status and forecast, categorizes the global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors market size (value & volume) by manufacturers, type, application, and region. This report focuses on the top manufacturers in United States, Europe, China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan and other regions.
The global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors market is valued at xx million US$ in 2017 and is expected to reach xx million US$ by the end of 2025, growing at a CAGR of xx% between 2018 and 2025.
The major manufacturers covered in this report
Geographically, this report studies the top producers and consumers, focuses on product capacity, production, value, consumption, market share and growth opportunity in these key regions, covering
We can also provide the customized separate regional or country-level reports, for the following regions:
On the basis of the end users/applications, this report focuses on the status and outlook for major applications/end users, consumption (sales), market share and growth rate for each application, including
To analyze and study the global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors capacity, production, value, consumption, status (2013-2017) and forecast (2018-2025);
Focuses on the key Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors manufacturers, to study the capacity, production, value, market share and development plans in future.
Focuses on the global key manufacturers, to define, describe and analyze the market competition landscape, SWOT analysis.
In this study, the years considered to estimate the market size of Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors are as follows:
Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Manufacturers
Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Distributors/Traders/Wholesalers
Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Subcomponent Manufacturers
Downstream Vendors
With the given market data, QYResearch offers customizations according to the company's specific needs. The following customization options are available for the report:
Regional and country-level analysis of the Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors market, by end-use.
Detailed analysis and profiles of additional market players.
1 Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Market Overview
1.1 Product Overview and Scope of Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors
1.2 Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Segment by Type (Product Category)
1.2.1 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production and CAGR (%) Comparison by Type (Product Category)(2013-2025)
1.2.2 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Market Share by Type (Product Category) in 2017
1.2.3 Single Ended
1.2.4 Surface Mount
1.3 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Segment by Application
1.3.1 Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption (Sales) Comparison by Application (2013-2025)
1.3.2 Consumer Electronics
1.3.3 Automotive
1.3.4 Defence
1.4 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Market by Region (2013-2025)
1.4.1 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Market Size (Value) and CAGR (%) Comparison by Region (2013-2025)
1.4.2 United States Status and Prospect (2013-2025)
1.4.3 EU Status and Prospect (2013-2025)
1.4.6 South Korea Status and Prospect (2013-2025)
1.4.7 Taiwan Status and Prospect (2013-2025)
1.5 Global Market Size (Value) of Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors (2013-2025)
1.5.1 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue Status and Outlook (2013-2025)
1.5.2 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production Status and Outlook (2013-2025)
2 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Market Competition by Manufacturers
2.1 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production and Share by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
2.1.1 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity and Share by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
2.1.2 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production and Share by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
2.2 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue and Share by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
2.3 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Average Price by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
2.4 Manufacturers Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Manufacturing Base Distribution, Sales Area and Product Type
2.5 Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Market Competitive Situation and Trends
2.5.1 Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Market Concentration Rate
2.5.2 Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Market Share of Top 3 and Top 5 Manufacturers
3 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production, Revenue (Value) by Region (2013-2018)
3.1 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity and Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
3.2 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production and Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
3.3 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Value) and Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
3.4 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
3.5 United States Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
3.6 EU Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
3.7 China Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
3.8 Japan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
3.9 South Korea Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
3.10 Taiwan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
4 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Supply (Production), Consumption, Export, Import by Region (2013-2018)
4.1 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption by Region (2013-2018)
4.2 United States Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption, Export, Import (2013-2018)
4.3 EU Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption, Export, Import (2013-2018)
4.4 China Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption, Export, Import (2013-2018)
4.5 Japan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption, Export, Import (2013-2018)
4.6 South Korea Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption, Export, Import (2013-2018)
4.7 Taiwan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption, Export, Import (2013-2018)
5 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Revenue (Value), Price Trend by Type
5.1 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production and Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
5.2 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue and Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
5.3 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Price by Type (2013-2018)
5.4 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Growth by Type (2013-2018)
6 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Market Analysis by Application
6.1 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption and Market Share by Application (2013-2018)
6.2 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption Growth Rate by Application (2013-2018)
6.3 Market Drivers and Opportunities
6.3.1 Potential Applications
6.3.2 Emerging Markets/Countries
7 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Manufacturers Profiles/Analysis
7.1 Panasonic
7.1.1 Company Basic Information, Manufacturing Base, Sales Area and Its Competitors
7.1.2 Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Product Category, Application and Specification
7.1.3 Panasonic Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
7.2 KEMET
7.2.3 KEMET Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
7.3 AVX
7.3.3 AVX Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
7.4 Nippon Chemi-Con
7.4.3 Nippon Chemi-Con Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
7.5 Nichicon
7.5.3 Nichicon Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2018)
8 Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Manufacturing Cost Analysis
8.1 Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Key Raw Materials Analysis
8.1.4 Market Concentration Rate of Raw Materials
8.2.1 Raw Materials
8.2.2 Labor Cost
8.2.3 Manufacturing Expenses
8.3 Manufacturing Process Analysis of Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors
9 Industrial Chain, Sourcing Strategy and Downstream Buyers
9.1 Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Industrial Chain Analysis
9.2 Upstream Raw Materials Sourcing
9.3 Raw Materials Sources of Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Major Manufacturers in 2017
9.4 Downstream Buyers
12 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Market Forecast (2018-2025)
12.1 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production, Revenue Forecast (2018-2025)
12.1.1 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production and Growth Rate Forecast (2018-2025)
12.1.2 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2018-2025)
12.1.3 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Price and Trend Forecast (2018-2025)
12.2 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption , Import and Export Forecast by Region (2018-2025)
12.2.1 United States Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Revenue, Consumption, Export and Import Forecast (2018-2025)
12.2.2 EU Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Revenue, Consumption, Export and Import Forecast (2018-2025)
12.2.3 China Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Revenue, Consumption, Export and Import Forecast (2018-2025)
12.2.4 Japan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Revenue, Consumption, Export and Import Forecast (2018-2025)
12.2.5 South Korea Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Revenue, Consumption, Export and Import Forecast (2018-2025)
12.2.6 Taiwan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Revenue, Consumption, Export and Import Forecast (2018-2025)
12.3 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Revenue and Price Forecast by Type (2018-2025)
12.4 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption Forecast by Application (2018-2025)
Figure Picture of Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production () and CAGR (%) Comparison by Types (Product Category) (2013-2025)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Market Share by Types (Product Category) in 2017
Figure Product Picture of Single Ended
Table Major Manufacturers of Single Ended
Figure Product Picture of Surface Mount
Table Major Manufacturers of Surface Mount
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption (K Units) by Applications (2013-2025)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption Market Share by Applications in 2017
Figure Consumer Electronics Examples
Table Key Downstream Customer in Consumer Electronics
Figure Automotive Examples
Table Key Downstream Customer in Automotive
Figure Defence Examples
Table Key Downstream Customer in Defence
Figure Others Examples
Table Key Downstream Customer in Others
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Market Size (Million USD), Comparison (K Units) and CAGR (%) by Regions (2013-2025)
Figure United States Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) and Growth Rate (2013-2025)
Figure EU Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) and Growth Rate (2013-2025)
Figure China Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) and Growth Rate (2013-2025)
Figure Japan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) and Growth Rate (2013-2025)
Figure South Korea Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) and Growth Rate (2013-2025)
Figure Taiwan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) and Growth Rate (2013-2025)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) Status and Outlook (2013-2025)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production (K Units) Status and Outlook (2013-2025)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Major Players Product Capacity (K Units) (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity (K Units) of Key Manufacturers (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity Market Share of Key Manufacturers (2013-2018)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity (K Units) of Key Manufacturers in 2017
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Major Players Product Production (K Units) (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production (K Units) of Key Manufacturers (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Share by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
Figure 2017 Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Share by Manufacturers
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Major Players Product Revenue (Million USD) (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue Share by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
Table 2017 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue Share by Manufacturers
Table Global Market Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Average Price (USD/Unit) of Key Manufacturers (2013-2018)
Figure Global Market Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Average Price (USD/Unit) of Key Manufacturers in 2017
Table Manufacturers Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Manufacturing Base Distribution and Sales Area
Table Manufacturers Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Product Category
Figure Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Market Share of Top 3 Manufacturers
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity (K Units) by Region (2013-2018)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
Figure 2017 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity Market Share by Region
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production by Region (2013-2018)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production (K Units) by Region (2013-2018)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
Figure 2017 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Market Share by Region
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) by Region (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
Table 2017 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue Market Share by Region
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Table United States Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Table EU Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Table China Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Table Japan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Table South Korea Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Table Taiwan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption (K Units) Market by Region (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
Figure 2017 Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption (K Units) Market Share by Region
Table United States Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption, Import & Export (K Units) (2013-2018)
Table EU Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption, Import & Export (K Units) (2013-2018)
Table China Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption, Import & Export (K Units) (2013-2018)
Table Japan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption, Import & Export (K Units) (2013-2018)
Table South Korea Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption, Import & Export (K Units) (2013-2018)
Table Taiwan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption, Import & Export (K Units) (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production (K Units) by Type (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Share by Type (2013-2018)
Figure Production Market Share of Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors by Type (2013-2018)
Figure 2017 Production Market Share of Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors by Type
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) by Type (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue Share by Type (2013-2018)
Figure Production Revenue Share of Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors by Type (2013-2018)
Figure 2017 Revenue Market Share of Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors by Type
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Price (USD/Unit) by Type (2013-2018)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Growth by Type (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption (K Units) by Application (2013-2018)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption Market Share by Application (2013-2018)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption Market Share by Applications (2013-2018)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption Market Share by Application in 2017
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption Growth Rate by Application (2013-2018)
Figure Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption Growth Rate by Application (2013-2018)
Table Panasonic Basic Information, Manufacturing Base, Sales Area and Its Competitors
Table Panasonic Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Figure Panasonic Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Panasonic Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Market Share (2013-2018)
Figure Panasonic Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue Market Share (2013-2018)
Table KEMET Basic Information, Manufacturing Base, Sales Area and Its Competitors
Table KEMET Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Figure KEMET Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure KEMET Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Market Share (2013-2018)
Figure KEMET Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue Market Share (2013-2018)
Table AVX Basic Information, Manufacturing Base, Sales Area and Its Competitors
Table AVX Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Figure AVX Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure AVX Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Market Share (2013-2018)
Figure AVX Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue Market Share (2013-2018)
Table Nippon Chemi-Con Basic Information, Manufacturing Base, Sales Area and Its Competitors
Table Nippon Chemi-Con Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Figure Nippon Chemi-Con Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Nippon Chemi-Con Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Market Share (2013-2018)
Figure Nippon Chemi-Con Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue Market Share (2013-2018)
Table Nichicon Basic Information, Manufacturing Base, Sales Area and Its Competitors
Table Nichicon Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Capacity, Production (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Figure Nichicon Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Nichicon Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production Market Share (2013-2018)
Figure Nichicon Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue Market Share (2013-2018)
Figure Manufacturing Cost Structure of Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors
Figure Manufacturing Process Analysis of Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors
Figure Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Industrial Chain Analysis
Table Raw Materials Sources of Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Major Manufacturers in 2017
Table Major Buyers of Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors
Table Distributors/Traders List
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Figure China Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) and Growth Rate Forecast (2018-2025)
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Figure Japan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) and Growth Rate Forecast (2018-2025)
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Figure South Korea Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) and Growth Rate Forecast (2018-2025)
Table South Korea Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption, Export and Import (K Units) Forecast (2018-2025)
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Figure Taiwan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) and Growth Rate Forecast (2018-2025)
Table Taiwan Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Production, Consumption, Export and Import (K Units) Forecast (2018-2025)
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Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Revenue (Million USD) Forecast by Type (2018-2025)
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Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Price Forecast by Type (2018-2025)
Table Global Conductive Polymer Electrolytic Capacitors Consumption (K Units) Forecast by Application (2018-2025)
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Kanata’s Castle #75: From General to Jedi Master Leia
by Kanata's Castle January 21, 2020
In this episode of Kanata’s Castle, Becca and Devon take a closer look at Leia’s arc in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. They go over her transition from General of the Resistance to Master Leia, the mentor for the last remaining Jedi, Rey. But first, your hosts discuss some of the recent Star Wars News: Baby Yoda coming to Build-A-Bear, The Rise of Skywalker Novel postponement, and Star Wars Resistance!
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Liverpool held 2-2 at third-tier Shrewsbury in Cup
By Martyn Herman
(Reuters) - Liverpool surrendered a two-goal lead as they were held to a 2-2 draw by third-tier Shrewsbury Town in the FA Cup fourth round on Sunday after second-half substitute Jason Cummins struck twice to inject some much-needed late magic into the competition.
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The Shrews, 59 places below runaway Premier League leaders Liverpool, faced a seemingly impossible task when Donald Love’s own goal 28 seconds after halftime put Juergen Klopp’s much-changed side 2-0 up after Curtis Jones had opened the scoring.
But unlike Championship side Fulham and League One outfit Tranmere Rovers, thrashed earlier on Sunday by Manchester City and Manchester United respectively, Shrewsbury staged some Cup heroics to roar back and shake their illustrious visitors.
Scottish striker Cummins began the comeback with a penalty after 65 minutes for a foul by Yasser Larouchi on Josh Laurent. Liverpool were rattled and the New Meadow stadium erupted when Cummins raced on to a long ball and fired past keeper Adrian.
In a nailbiting finale Klopp, who had made 11 changes to the side that beat Wolverhampton Wanderers on Thursday, even sent on Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain but Laurent almost won it for Shrewsbury with an audacious attempt.
The final whistle provoked a good-natured pitch invasion as Shrewsbury’s ecstatic fans celebrated their side’s best Cup result since beating Everton in the 2002-03 season.
It will also have put a smile on the faces of neutrals pining for a return of the FA Cup’s glory days.
“I told the players at halftime that the game was there for them,” said Shrewsbury manager Sam Ricketts.
“The belief within the group is unbelievable. Jason (Cummings) came on (after 60 minutes) and he’s a goalscorer.
Klopp insists no first-teamers will play in Cup replay
“I was waiting and waiting to put him on then I finally did and he gets the chances and takes them.”
Shrewsbury’s reward will be a replay at Anfield.
“We just said to the lads, ‘You could have won it, but you all wanted to go back to Anfield didn’t you?’” Ricketts said.
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Liverpool’s lineup was not the familiar-looking one that has seen them waltz 16 points clear towards a first league title in 30 years. But it still contained the likes of Champions League final scorer Divock Origi, Fabinho, Joel Matip and Dejan Lovren.
Klopp has never taken seven-time winners Liverpool past the fourth round but when 18-year-old Jones finished well after 15 minutes and then Love got his angles wrong when making a clearance and gifted Liverpool a second it seemed like job done.
But Shrewsbury had shown an adventurous spirit all game and European champions Liverpool, for once, lacked discipline and focus and invited the hosts to have a go. The home fans were not disappointed with the response from their team.
Cummins was a livewire when he came on and wrote his name into Cup folklore with his second-half double.
“I could have got a hat-trick. It was a dream come true against the best team in the world. Going to Anfield is what it’s all about,” he said.
The late collapse means Liverpool will have an unwanted fixture in what is supposed to be a winter break and Klopp was far from happy with his side’s failure to see it out.
“We don’t have enough time to say all the things which weren’t right today,” the German said. “It just didn’t look like it was 2-0 on the pitch. It looked like we were 2-1 down.
“But well deserved for Shrewsbury, it was the minimum they deserved. Congratulations to them.”
Earlier, Harry Maguire’s thunderbolt for Manchester United started a goal rush at Tranmere where the Reds scored five times before halftime. Diogo Dalot, Jesse Lingard, Phil Jones, Anthony Martial and Mason Greenwood also scored.
Holders Manchester City’s task was made easier when Fulham’s Tim Ream was sent off after six minutes as he conceded a penalty which was converted by Ilkay Gundogan.
Bernardo Silva made it 2-0 and Gabriel Jesus scored twice after the break as City reached 100 goals for the season.
Reporting by Martyn Herman, editing by Pritha Sarkar and Ken Ferris
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The touchscreen control panel of the Tesla Model S electric sedan is seen at the car's unveiling in Hawthorne, California in March 2009 Robyn BECK AFP/File
Washington (AFP)
US regulators asked Tesla Wednesday to recall 158,000 cars in the United States because of a safety-related defect.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a letter to Tesla that a problem with the cars' display screen and related failures result in loss of rearview camera and other safety-related vehicle functions.
The agency said the defect has been found in certain 2012 through 2018 Tesla Model S cars and 2016 through 2018 Model Xs.
Safety investigators have "tentatively concluded that the failure of the media control unit (MCU) constitutes a defect related to motor vehicle safety," the letter said.
In the vehicles, failed media control units can result in a car's touchscreen going blank, at which point "a rearview/backup camera image is no longer available to the driver. If this image is not available, the risk of crash increases potentially causing injury or death."
The MCU failure can also prevent use of the vehicle's windshield defogging and defrosting system, impact the autopilot system and affect the turn-signal functionality "due to the possible loss of audible chimes, driver sensing and alerts associated with these vehicle functions."
The failure rate "in this investigation is significantly greater than the failure rate for vehicles involved in prior recalls involving similar behavior," the statement read.
In the letter regulators asked Tesla to "initiate a recall to notify all owners, purchasers and dealers" about the safety defect "and provide a remedy."
Tesla, under the leadership of brash founder and CEO Elon Musk -- the world's wealthiest person -- is under no obligation to comply with the federal agency's request, but has until January 27 to provide an explanation.
The request is a major headache for the company, as 158,000 vehicles represent nearly one-third of all cars delivered by the manufacturer in 2020.
It also comes at as the price of shares in the California-based company are on the rise, fueled by the assumption that electric technology is the medium-term future of automobiles.
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Mark Wahlberg doesn't hold back on Gogglebox Ireland
He's joined by Daddy's Home 2 castmates Mel Gibson, Will Ferrel, and John Lithgow
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The cast of Daddy's Home 2 are on the sofa next week for Gogglebox Ireland: Celebrity Special.
Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, John Lithgow, and Will Ferrell watch an episode of Fair City and an unidentified Irish reality TV show.
Fair City is currently running the love triangle storyline between Mondo, Kerri-Ann, and Melanie, so the four lads were definitely not short on drama.
They were told Fair City was an Irish Days of Our Lives.
TV3 have exclusively revealed that one show on the Irish TV schedule prompts Mark Wahlberg to ask "Is it 1993?"
Mark Wahlberg says the women of Ireland are 'beautiful'
During the episode, Will Ferrell admits he'd love to take part in an Irish reality show.
The cast were in Dublin to promote Daddy's Home 2 which releases in Ireland next week and as well as walking the red carpet at The Odeon for the premiere, they appeared on last night's Late Late Show.
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AS IT HAPPENED: The Late Late Show with Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell, Mel Gibson, John Lithgow, Christy Moore, Peter Kay, Alison Spittle and James Nesbitt
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RTE's Dermot Bannon says he was bullied in school for being 'the fat kid'
Being picked on in school spurred the Room To Improve star on to make it in TV
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Dermot Bannon has opened up about being bullied at school for being the "fat kid".
The RTE star said that being picked on in school spurred him on to make it in TV and taught him to become more resilient.
"While I was bullied at school it didn't define me. I was always fiercely independent," Dermot explained.
"I learned to use humour as a defence mechanism.
"I was never great at sports and was always the fat kid.
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"I was different so you learn those mechanisms and maybe it made me more resilient but bullying is not good for you."
The Room To Improve architect says working on TV might have given him a sense of achievement he never felt when he was growing up.
He continued to the RTE Guide: "I often wonder if that's the reason why I pushed myself into TV or whatever, looking for recognition because I didn't get it as a kid because of the bullying? Really, I don't know."
Dermot also told of how glad he is that this generation of children are more comfortable in confiding in their parents if they're being bullied at school.
"Kids are talking about bullying now, which is brilliant," he said.
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"Keeping the communication lines open with your children and talking about it is so important."
But the Dublin man admitted that he didn't tell his own parents about his experience with bullying, adding: "No, you didn't back then, because you felt ashamed.
"Our parents instilled a great self belief in us.
"They were strict but they always supported us in what we wanted to achieve."
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Indian Wicket keepers ~ seriousness of Saha's injury !?!
To the Cricket fan with unquenching desire to know more and more of the game. Way back in Feb 1976, India played New Zealand in ODI no. 36 - 3 south Indians – R Sudhakar Rao and Pochaiah Krishnamurthy alongside veteran Bhagwar Chandrasekhar made their debuts. Years later in Asia cup match in May 2000 India beat Bangladesh at Dhaka – curiously, Ganguly used 8 bowlers – AjitAgarkar, T Kumaran (!), SouravGanguly, Anil Kumble, Sunil Joshi, HemangBadani, Robin Singh &Sachin Tendulkar. Kumble had ordinary figures of 9-0-43-0 – did not beat the batsman much – but one of his deliveries beat the bat, jumped, and hit the wicketkeeper injuring his eye. He rushed to Chennai for treatment – did not play any one dayer after that. How many Indian wicket-keepers do you remember ?
That man is part of selection committee now – that injury to Syed Saba Karim provided an opportunity for Mongia to come back into the side. To be fair, there was no way Karim could have got out of the way as the ball ricocheted too quickly off the pads. Saba Karim was a surprise choice for the tour of West Indies in 1989 but being the reserve wicketkeeper, never got to play a single international game. He was forgotten for some time but came back into the Indian side during the 1996 tour of South Africa.
In the world of Wicket keepers, the mercurial Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a jadugar. He has been brilliant behind the stumps, some great dives, flashy stumpings and .. .. and – some brilliant run-outs collecting the throw, facing them, and hitting the stumps in style with accuracy without even caring to turn back, thus catching the batsmen in surprise. The speedy and agility are unmatched – this is no post on his batting abilities as a finisher – but more on wicketkeepers of India.
MSD is a thinker – as revealed by an interesting anecdote in journalist Bharat Sundaresan's book The Dhoni Touch. Sundaresan reveals how Dhoni asked his team not to celebrate exuberantly when India were on the verge of beating Australia in a one-day international at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in 2008. Dhoni’s thinking was, it will show the formidable Australians that the Indian victory was no great surprise, and definitely not an upset.Australia were the reigning world champions back then and Dhoni was leading India for only the 15th time in ODIs. After India chased down the 160-run target with five wickets in hand, Dhoni advised a young Rohit Sharma to make the customary post-match handshakes as deadpan as possible, just to let their opponents known that India treated a victory over Australia the same way they treated a win over any other nation and an Australian defeat was no longer an upset.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant has earned plaudits for his flamboyant batting in the shorter formats, but India A coach Rahul Dravid believes he has the "temperament and skills to bat differently" in the longer formats too.Pant earned his maiden call-up to the Indian Test side riding on impressive knocks for India A during the recently concluded tour of the UK, where he hit crucial half-centuries in four-day games against West Indies A and England Lions.
His active international career started in 1961 and continued to 1975, and he was India's first-choice wicket-keeper for most of that period, keeping wicket for the spin quartet of Bedi, Prasanna, Chandrasekhar and Venkataraghavan. He was also a highly useful, stylish and very aggressive batsman, scoring two Test centuries.
He was the wicketkeeper for the "Rest of the World" team that played matches against England in 1970 and against Australia in 1971-72. Farokh Engineer was the first Indian cricketer to endorse Brylcreem and was known as a 'Brylcreem Boy'.
Engineer’s 109 as opener in the third Test against the West Indies at Madras in 1966-67 turned out to be a career-defining innings for him. Prior to the match, he had been in and out of the Test team as he faced stiff competition from BudhiKunderan and KS Indrajitsinhji.
After his scintillating hundred (94 of which came in the first session of the Test), Engineer was a regular member of the side till his retirement. He played in English league too.
Pochaiah Krishnamurthy made his test debut against the West Indies during the victorious Indian tour of West Indies in 1970-71, under the captaincy of AL Wadekar. He played in all the 5 tests but later went out of favour. He toured NZ in 1976 too, making his debut and playing his solitary ODI. Syed Kirmani was the quietly efficient worker ant who replaced the flamboyant Farokh Engineer. His 12-year stint at the top saw a sea-change in the way India played. The early part of Kirmani's career was spent keeping wicket to the famed spin quartet, never the easiest of tasks. After they faded away, he had to step back a few paces to deal with a seam attack spearheaded by Kapil Dev.
The TN camp was gaga about Bharath Reddy who toured as understudy of Kirmani, and played when Kiri was dropped for WC 1979 and subsequent tour. In the 1983 tour to WI, India recalled couple of veterans AnshumanGaekwad and Srinivasan Venkatraghavan under Kapil Dev – Kiran More a youngster was part of the squad. After a fairly long spell as understudy to Kiran More, Mongia made it to the Indian team in the mid 90s and from then on was been India's No. 1. In between, there was ChandrakantPandit, who played more than a couple of tests alongside More as a batsman.
Ajay Ratra gritted 115 not out in Antigua in 2002, becoming the youngest wicketkeeper to score a Test century. He was just 20 and it was only his third Test, but later the summer proved to be cruel as he lost his place in the Test side to Parthiv Patel, and in the one-day side to the appointment of Rahul Dravid as keeper in the quest for balance. SadanandViswanath dazzled in 1985 down under, but failed miserably in Sri Lanka to fizzle out. The other keepers would include - Deep Das gupta, Dinesh Karthik, MSK Prasad, Vijay Dahia, Sameer Dighe, Pankaj Dharmani, Naman Ojha .. .. .. ..
WriddhimanPrasantaSaha was drafted into the Bengal Ranji side after regular wicketkeeper Deep Dasgupta signed up with the Indian Cricket League. He grabbed the chance becoming the 15th Bengal player to score a hundred on Ranji debut. A last-minute injury to Rohit Sharma handed Saha an unexpected debut in Nagpur - as a batsman.His second Test appearance - against Australia in Adelaide in January 2012 - was also somewhat accidental, a result of MS Dhoni's suspension due to a slow over rate. In between, Saha played two ODIs against New Zealand. Dhoni's retirement from Test cricket after the Boxing Day Test against Australia in Melbourne in 2014 opened the doors for Saha, who had long been an understudy, to firm up his position in the team.
Now there are clouds over his playing for India.WriddhimanSaha is set to undergo surgery on his right shoulder in Manchester in the last week of July or early August. There is no timeline for his return to action after that, but it is likely that he won't be able to even lift a bat for two months after such a surgery. This bulletin was made public on the BCCI website on Saturday, three days after Saha was left out of the England tour with no reason given.Even the head of the national selection panel MSK Prasad seemed to have been unaware of the shoulder injury. A day after the selection meeting in England, Prasad was quoted by the Kolkata-based Telegraph as saying that Saha's thumb fracture had not healed in time. However, it emerged later that Saha had been struggling with a shoulder injury for close to six months.
Over the last six months, India's first-choice Test wicketkeeper WriddhimanSaha has been struggling with a shoulder injury, for which he has been to the National Cricket Academy (NCA) for various rehab sessions, has seen three different doctors, has taken three injections, and will now need a surgery after which he won't even be able to lift a cricket bat for two months. He is likely to lose a year of cricket, if you don't count the few IPL matches he managed in between. If he doesn't make it to the Australia tour at the end of this year, Saha will have missed 12 straight Tests, the only format he represents India in. He will be 34 by the end of this year and it does appear doubtful whether he will be able to regain his position after so many tests and passage of time.
23rd July 2018.
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The City’s COVID-19 Job Training Program Offers a Fresh Start
San Antonio's COVID-19 Workforce Recovery Program offers hope and new opportunities for those whose incomes have been impacted by the pandemic
BY Jade Esteban Estrada
Published: January/February 2021
After struggling to cover his family’s bills through much of 2020, Juan Hernandez started a better paying position as an entry-level IT specialist in the fall.
The change was possible thanks to the City of San Antonio’s COVID-19 Workforce Recovery Program, which aims by September to serve up to 10,000 residents whose incomes have been impacted by the pandemic. Funded through Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and city general fund dollars, the program works to connect people with in-demand occupations by providing them a stipend while they complete their GED or other training. Voters in November also passed a separate SA Ready to Work program that will build on the effort by funding job training through 2025.
“It freed up the time for me. I was working a dead-end, part-time job,” says Hernandez, who was the Workforce Recovery Program’s first GED graduate. He says that prior to the program, providing for his wife and two young daughters was a priority over his education and there was simply no time to study while working 12 to 16 hours a day for a towing company after having hours cut early in the pandemic.
Before earning his GED, Hernandez had applied for the IT job, but learned a key requirement was having a high school diploma or GED. The company told him they were interested if he completed the education requirement by their deadline. Though he had hit this brick wall before, this time, he was able to get the support he needed.
“Getting my GED really feels like I actually accomplished something,” says Hernandez, 32. “It feels like new doors are opening.”
Restore Education, who worked with Hernandez, is one of the city’s partners. For Hernandez, they provided GED preparation classes that he earned a stipend for completing, allowing him to put food on the table while reaching his goal. Case management is also offered to participants.
Not only was the stipend a deal maker, the program also paid for the GED processing fee, a $145 barrier for many San Antonians. “One thing about our program is that it’s very flexible and very individualized,” says Kelli Rhodes, executive director of Restore Education.
Now that he has a job with benefits, Hernandez says he feels more secure about supporting his family, even if the economic crisis worsens. “Growing up and being poor, it sounds kind of bad to say, but that’s where I came from,” he says. “But now I’m able to take my family out of that situation.”
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Shimbashi is an actual district in Tokyo where the first train rail was built in Japan in 1872. It’s also famous for Izakaya-style bars and restaurants for businessmen for after work relaxation and an opportunity to unwind after a busy day.
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Japan’s traditional culture is often described as a seasonal culture, for so much revolves around the changing of the seasons, and the “sense” of season is highly valued. As the seasons change, so will the menu offerings, with a premium placed upon freshness and flavor to deliver the best of ingredients for the “shun” or, in English, now-in-season.
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Tri Track Rundown: Craig Lutz pushes to Monadnock win in series debut
Two months delayed due to COVID-19, the Tri Track Open Modified Series finally opened the 2020 season on Sunday evening at Monadnock Speedway in Winchester, New Hampshire. There were 37 of the top Tour Type Modified drivers in the Northeast at the high-banked oval, with four heat races, two consolations, and a 100-lap feature keeping […]
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Two months delayed due to COVID-19, the Tri Track Open Modified Series finally opened the 2020 season on Sunday evening at Monadnock Speedway in Winchester, New Hampshire.
There were 37 of the top Tour Type Modified drivers in the Northeast at the high-banked oval, with four heat races, two consolations, and a 100-lap feature keeping fans busy throughout the day. Monadnock’s NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series divisions were also on the track, along with the Pro Truck Series.
The Tri Track Rundown is a quick look back at the most recent series event.
LUTZ PUSHES HINCKLEY INTO THREE, WINS DRAG RACE TO THE LINE
Not bad for a debut.
Craig Lutz, a rising Modified star in New England, entered the final corner of Sunday’s Tri Track Open Modified Series opener in second, a car length back from race leader Les Hinckley. By the time they hit the middle of turn four, Lutz was under Hinckley and winning a drag race to the line, pocketing a $6,000 check as part of a more than $40,000 purse. But the way he made the move was what set off some major controversy post-race.
Lutz slammed the back bumper of Hinckley at the bottom of turn three, sending Hinckley up the track, and Lutz by to the win. In the debut start on a competitive series, Lutz was holding the checkered flag at Monadnock.
“It’s Modified racing,” said Lutz. “You have to understand that I’m going for the win, he’s going for the win. He’s hanging on for dear life. I gave him a little tap that he wasn’t expecting and I was able to open up the bottom. We both finished… he still finished second.”
RECAP AND RESULTS: Here’s the full rundown from the 2020 season opener
The day didn’t start off well for Lutz. After a blind draw, he started last in the second heat race, and finished sixth, missing a qualified spot by one. When he rolled out for the consi, he started at the front, and picked up the win – advancing him to the main event, with a 22nd place starting spot.
It took him 99 laps to find the lead.
“A little bit of both, you come in here and you think the setup is going to work and it just didn’t,” Lutz said of what happened in the heat, with a bad draw and the setup off. “We drew last for the heat race, and the whole field is stacked because there are so many good cars. We had to be patient with a small track and not a long of room to make passes. I just tried to pass everyone smart and keep the wheels on it so I could be at the front.”
Lutz, who drove a family-owned car with help for Russell Goodale and Goodie Motorsports, plans to be back with Tri Track on July 25 at Star Speedway for the annual SBM showdown.
HINCKLEY NEARLY BREAKS WINNING DROUGHT
Les Hinckley was one corner away from his first career Tri Track Open Modified Series win. But it all went away in the final 500 feet. After the push from behind, Hinckley lost control, and nearly saved it enough to beat Lutz to the line. But it was the final drag race that hurt his chances, while he was still trying to collect the car.
Hinckley started at the bottom of the top five, led laps, and was in contention in the final corner.
“We found a home in the first two-thirds of the race to ride and keep our spot,” Hinckley said. “I just tried to take care of the car. After the competition caution, we made the right adjustments and to the front we went. They weren’t going to catch me without the cautions. He tried to drive through me on the restart but drove over the left-rear and bottomed out the car. I would have been a fool if I gave up the bottom, and he had no chance of going around me on the outside. He never tried. If you could pull up record books, I’ve never driven through anyone like that for a win. I never squared a guy up, punted him in the back, moved him up two grooves and felt good about myself. That was his only shot.”
After the checkered, Hinckley showed his displeasure with Lutz, driving up beside him coming to the start/finish line for Victory Lane ceremonies. He was also visibly and verbally upset with Lutz.
“Craig wasn’t faster than I was. He didn’t have a shot to pass me,” Hinckley said. “He didn’t have any turns left to get it done. That was his move. Not lift, drive in the corner, and use me for the brake.”
Hinckley will have his next shot to earn his first career Tri Track win at Star Speedway on July 25, another track he is familiar with. Hinckley had plenty of background experience at Monadnock, both in Modifieds and Pro Stocks.
Notebook: Monadnock Regulars Impress; Some Tri Track Stars Were Quiet
-Ben Byrne, who won the NHSTRA Sportsman Modified race at Monadnock on Sunday, a drove a crate motor in the Tri Track Series race and pulled off a third-place finish, leading laps in the middle stages. Byrne also showed success at Monadnock last year, where he nearly won the Tri Track race. For his third-place effort, the team collected a $300 bonus courtesy of Barlow Construction for being the highest finishing crate motor in the field.
-Matt Kimball, who was fastest in practice, struggled in his heat, missing a qualified spot. He rebounded in the consi and drove through the field late to finish fourth.
-Ron Silk and Chase Dowling finished fourth and fifth — strong runs to open the season for the veterans. Dowling was looking for his third straight Tri Track win driving for Jimmy Paige, dating back to last year. He was on the bumper of Hinckley with 10 laps to go, but got shuffled on the outside lane on a restart and missed his opportunity.
-Matt Hirschman, Woody Pitkat and Ronnie Williams all finished at the bottom of the top-10, but all three seemed off on the setup all day. Williams earned the final qualifying spot in heat one, while Hirschman did the same in heat four. Pitkat struggled in both the heat and the consi and didn’t qualify. He earned a provisional, and started deep in the field — driving through for an eighth-place finish. Courtesy of Green Construction, Pitkat earned the Hard Charger award worth $500.
The Tri Track Open Modified Series, along with the $40,000 purse/6,000 winning prize, also paid out a long list of contingency awards through sponsorship from supporters of the series.
Superior Refinishing was also providing a $200 award if the polesitter had won the race. However, since Tommy Barrett didn’t take the checkered flag first, the $200 rolls over to the next stop at Star Speedway and raises another $200. If the driver who starts on the pole wins at Star, they will collect $400 in bonus money on top of their winnings.
CONTINGENCY AWARDS: MONADNOCK SPEEDWAY; JULY 5, 2020:
-Green Construction Hard Charger: $500 – Woody Pitkat
-Pepsi Challenge Heat Winners: $300 each – Brian Robie, Chase Dowling, Ben Bryne, Dave Sapienza
-Pepsi Challenge Consi Winners: $300 each – Matt Swanson, Craig Lutz
-Barlow Construction Top Crate Motors: $300 (Ben Byrne) & $200 (Brian Robie)
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Mexican cartels infiltrate Australia
LOS ANGELES: Violent Mexican drug cartels, including the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, have infiltrated Australia, a senior US government official has confirmed.
The chief of intelligence at the Drug Enforcement Administration, Rodney Benson, painted an alarming picture of the growing influence Mexican cartels have in trafficking cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine around the world and also the violence they inflict while fighting for market share.
Underground crops ... Mexican cartels are trafficking cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine in Australia. Credit:Reuters
In Mexico last year, there were more than 15,200 drug-related murders.
''Of the Mexican drug trafficking organisations, the Sinaloa Cartel has the broadest reach into Europe, Asia and Australia,'' Mr Benson said during testimony to two US House of Representative sub-committees last week.
The Sinaloa Cartel is a powerful consortium of independent Mexican drug trafficking groups operating as an alliance with ''the common goal of trafficking multi-tonne quantities of cocaine from South America into the United States'', Mr Benson said.
The cartel is composed of many independent leaders, notably kingpins Joaquin Guzman-Loera, Ismael Zambada-Garcia and Juan Jose Esparragoza-Moreno. Mexico is not a coca-producing country, but traffickers have extended their reach into sources of cocaine in South America.
''Demonstrating an even further reach into global cocaine markets, Mexican drug traffickers have evolved into intermediate sources of supply for cocaine markets in Europe, Australia, Asia and the Middle East,'' Mr Benson told the sub-committees.
A report released by the Australian Crime Commission in April noted ''Mexican criminals have become more prevalent as principals in the importation and supply of cocaine and associated money laundering'' in Australia.
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Offensive lineman Jeremiah Sirles had a bad taste in his mouth after Sunday’s win against the Packers.
Why? After all, the Vikings rushed for more than 100 yards for the fourth time this season (they’d done so just twice all of last season). Sirles jumped in to start for injured left guard Nick Easton, yet the Vikings’ reinvigorated offensive line didn’t skip a beat as running back Jerick McKinnon averaged 4.3 yards per carry and quarterback Case Keenum wasn’t sacked.
“We’re not pumped with the way we finished running the ball,” Sirles said. “I felt we could’ve done more in that aspect. Eat the clock a little bit.”
After two lengthy 11- and 12-play scoring drives in the third quarter, the Vikings run game stalled when given the chance to close out the 23-10 win. McKinnon and Latavius Murray collectively churned out 7 rushing yards on five carries in the fourth quarter, which included two three-and-outs.
“When you get the ball back with, I think it was five minutes left, you look at everyone in the huddle and say, ‘Hey, let’s finish the game here. Let’s not even give them a heartbeat,’ ” Sirles said. “And then to go three-and-out like that, that’s tough. We put our defense in a tough spot.”
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The Vikings defense held up against Packers quarterback Brett Hundley. McKinnon, who has 245 yards from scrimmage and three touchdowns in the past two games, tipped his cap to the much improved offensive line anyway.
“Those guys are doing a really good job this year,” McKinnon said. “They’re healthy. We’re getting a lot more movement.”
A ‘bad, bad’ defense
Defensive end and team captain Everson Griffen had a fairly simple explanation for why the Vikings defense is the NFL’s best on third downs. Through six games, the Vikings are allowing just a 25 percent conversion rate on the critical down.
“ ’Cause we bad. ’Cause we bad,” said Griffen, who leads the team with seven sacks. “Any time we get the rush, we’re going to be bad. We got that confidence. That swag. We’re not going to let anything interfere with that.”
The Vikings defense is playing lights-out, ranking as one of the NFL’s top five in nearly every major category, including third downs (first), rushing yards (third), points (fifth) and total yards (fifth).
Veterans stand tall
The two defensive elders for the Vikings, cornerback Terence Newman and defensive end Brian Robison, played critical roles in Sunday’s victory over the Packers.
Newman was the primary slot cornerback in a game where coach Mike Zimmer decided to play with three cornerbacks for all four quarters. The 39-year-old saw a season-high 51 snaps and finished with five tackles. Robison, the 33-year-old end, racked up five of the Vikings’ 13 quarterback hits on Aaron Rodgers and Hundley.
“I thought Brian played well,” Zimmer said. “He did a good job in the run game, good job in pass rush. Got a chance to move around on some different guys, I think that helped.”
McKinnon, the reliever?
For a second consecutive game Sunday, McKinnon outperformed Murray in the Vikings backfield, but Zimmer doesn’t sound close to changing much. Murray has started two games in Dalvin Cook’s absence while McKinnon has eventually finished with more touches and yards in each.
“I like it the way it is,” Zimmer said.
The Vikings’ run game hasn’t stalled after Cook’s injury, despite Murray’s 2.4 yards per carry. They’ve run for 159 yards and 112 yards in two division wins since Cook tore his ACL.
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19 of the restaurants that opened in Bath and Somerset in 2019
Have you discovered a new favourite eatery?
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THE LATEST NEWS AND UPDATES ACROSS BATH STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX
Though possibly largely remembered as being a year in which we lost a great deal of high street stores, 2019 did bring with it some new places to enjoy some tasty food.
We saw old favourites return after years of being away, restaurants rebranded and a host of new eateries that were instant hits with the locals.
Whether you were after fried chicken, tacos, fish and chips or pizza, 2019 gave us some wonderful dining experiences.
Have you visited any of these newest additions, yet?
1. KFC
New KFC restaurant in Bath (Image: Artur Lesniak/Reach)
Back by popular demand, KFC returned to Bath in December after two years away.
The fast-food giant shut after 17 years at Cambridge House in Henry Street after closing down in August 2017 and is now "back for good" in a new location at Lower Borough Walls.
2. Bandook
Outside the new Bandook Restaurant (Image: PAUL GILLIS / paulgillisphoto.com)
Another December opening saw Indian street food restaurant, Bandook, welcome diners through its doors in Milsom Place.
Bandook already had a popular sister restaurant in Bristol's Wapping Warf and its new venue is open seven days a week.
The menu incorporates light snacks, small and large plates, with signatures such as Grandma’s curry, samosa chaat and melting Peshwari lamb cutlets.
This is all served alongside new additions, such as naanwiches, dosas and cheese and chilli toasties.
The interior is in the style of Hindustani cafés, featuring a mixture of emerald hues, stained-glass panels, wooden furniture, pendant lights and a stainless steel and copper bar.
The restaurant has moved into the spot vacated by Carluccio's in July 2018.
3. Kekolo Coffee
The newly opened Kekolo Coffee at 3 New Bond Street Buildings (Image: PAUL GILLIS / paulgillisphoto.com)
People queued into the street when Kekolo Coffee opened at the end of November.
Its owners were joined by Mayor of Bath, Jerry Curran, to cut the ribbon and officially open the coffee shop, which can be found at 3 New Bond Street Buildings.
They later took to Facebook to say that their first day had been "incredible" and the support they had received was "overwhelming".
4. Dos Dedos
Inside Bath's new taco and nacho bar, Dos Dedos (Image: Ferla Paolo Photography)
At the start of November, Bath was treated to the opening of a new taco and nacho bar, called Dos Dedos.
Translating to "two fingers" in Spanish, the restaurant also has a bar at its location in Edgar Mews, Bartlett Street.
Its Facebook Page logo reads "tequila and tacos".
5. Goa Lounge
Inside the new restaurant, Goa Lounge (Image: Artur Lesniak)
Goa Lounge opened on November 7, in a building that had previously been ravaged by an intense fire.
The restaurant, which serves food from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, opened its doors at 28 Charles Street where, more than two and a half years before, six fire engines and around 30 firefighters tackled a fire in the building's extension.
Previously the residence of the Bombay Lounge restaurant, the Goa Lounge's manager previously managed Indian restaurant, Bombay Nights, which was voted Best Restaurant in Bath twice while he was there.
6. The Oyster Shell
GV of new fish and chip shop, the Oyster Shell - Moorland Road (Image: Artur Lesniak/Reach)
Family fish and chip shop, The Oyster Shell opened on Moorland Road, Oldfield Park at the start of October.
In its first weekend alone, the new chippy had around 1,000 orders.
The 26-year-old son of the family had worked with his father for many years at The Scallop Shell, which was chosen as one of the UK's best fish and chip shop restaurants, but left four years ago to pursue his passion of becoming a chef.
He's now the captain of The Oyster Shell, after working in Dartmouth, London's Mayfair and even Sinagpore.
Cappadocia Restaurant - Newmarket Row, Bath (Image: Artur Lesniak/Reach)
At the start of August, the doors were opened once again on Newmarket Row, to a new "one of a kind" Turkish restaurant in Bath, called Cappadocia.
Serving Turkish food alongside a choice of cocktails, it has made its home in place of another Turkish restaurant, called Marmaris, which closed in March.
Along with a ground-floor restaurant, which serves Turkish and Mediterranean food, there is an upstairs cocktail bar that looks out onto the weir.
The interior features murals of hot air balloons - a true nod to the real Cappadocia's balloon-filled skies.
8. The Vegan Cafe
Inside the new Vegan Cafe - Moorland Road, Oldfield Park (Image: Artur Lesniak/Reach)
August also saw the opening of "a place like no other" in Bath, when The Vegan Cafe opened its doors in Oldfield Park.
The owners met during a vegan activist demonstration by Bath Abbey back in March and soon started planning their own vegan cafe.
They claim the idea came about when the pair discussed that Bath doesn't have much to offer when it comes to non-meat eaters.
After months of searching, they came across number 52 Moorland Road and then leapt at the opportunity to start their new enterprise there.
They say that their gamble has paid off, with positive feedback and customer numbers in the short time they've been open.
9. Bath Fish and Chips Company
Manager Elliott Hinton with cod and chips at The Bath Fish & Chip Company (Image: PAUL GILLIS / paulgillisphoto.com)
Dubbed a “good old fashioned fish and chip shop”, The Bath Fish and Chips Company opened its doors in July, replacing the Gourmet Scoffs cafe which closed in 2017.
Its takeaway shop at number 9 Terrace Walk is open seven days a week, offering gluten-free and veggie options in addition to classics like cod, haddock, scampi and pies.
The menu also includes whitebait, a seafood basket, halloumi fries and pea fritters.
Upon opening, the owners expressed their wishes of opening an upstairs eating area in the near future.
10. Alex's BBQ & Tapas
Two empty business units have been transformed by new owners in Bridgwater town centre. (Image: Google)
Bridgwater town centre was left looking bare when a number of shops and restaurants closed down, leaving buildings standing empty for more than a year.
Shane's Gourmet Burgers on Eastover was one of those such places until, in June, Alex's BBQ and Tapas Bar moved in and re-vamped the place, receiving many positive reviews from diners.
11. Lana's
Just next door, in the building previously owned by knitwear shop Buzy Beez, a dessert restaurant called Lana's opened its doors on June 13.
The new eatery is decorated with rainbow pinstriped walls and serves "light bites and sweet delights", including ice cream, milkshakes and waffles.
12. Barnett's
A vault bar offering "English tapas and English cocktails" is one of three elements to Barnetts at the Bank House
Described as a "fine dining revolution", Barnett's at the Old Bank House opened its doors on High Street in November.
The 18th century building in which the restaurant sits has been given a major facelift, with multiple areas for diners with different needs.
The chef's table offers a five-course taster menu with matching wines for those who seek a luxurious meal, while next door sits the cheese and wine lounge, offering seven of the best cheeses produced in Somerset washed down with a drink to match.
Downstairs is the vault bar, offering what its owner has dubbed a range of "British tapas and British cocktails", which can be enjoyed without booking and seat up to 32 at a time.
The restaurant is owned and run by a self-made chef who left home in Leicester to learn his trade in London aged just 16.
His CV boasts stints in a number of one and two Michelin starred restaurants and time as a private chef for several professional footballers.
13. Stony Street House
Stony Street House is the new wine bar that has opened in Frome
Stony Street House (Eight Stony Street) opened all the way back in February, in the former home of Sam's Kitchen, a restaurant which closed a year before.
Frome's first dedicated wine bar and shop, Stony Street House had been teasing residents in the weeks prior to its opening, with pictures of the food and decor.
The restaurant serves pastries, small plates and pizzas, but its main focus is on the wine.
The upstairs area has a comfy lounge and an all-day dining area, while downstairs has more casual seating along a glass-fronted bar.
14. Pillars Bar & Grill
Pillars opened on April 10 2019 (Image: staff photographer)
Pillars opened in the former Maxime Theatre, which became a cinema and nightclub before a successful entrepreneur transformed it into the restaurant you see today.
The building was closed as nightclub Envy after a final party on New Year's Eve in 2016.
Then two years ago, the building was bought by owner of the Swan Hotel in Wells who had plans to turn this Street building into an upmarket venue with good food and live music, all while trying to reflect its history.
Paying homage to the days of the cinema, he has even included a popcorn machine.
Pillars Bar and Grill is open from Wednesday to Saturday, from early until late.
Brunch is between 11am and 5pm on Sundays, accompanied by jazz.
There is also live music on Friday and Saturday and a piano, which plays automatically, the rest of the week.
15. Fondo Lounge
The café-bar and restaurant group operates several sites in the region including Velo Lounge in Bath and Cordero Lounge in Frome.
You may have heard of Loungers, the West Country based cafe-bar restaurant group.
There are many Lounges around Bath and Somerset and, back in April, Street became home to one more.
Fondo Lounge opened its doors on the High Street, after spending around £600k transforming the site into a family-friendly retro-themed cosy retreat.
Made to be somewhere for families to spend their time, the lounge has a selection of games, books, colouring equipment, a full children's menu, high chairs and baby-changing facilities.
The all-day menu features everything from hearty breakfasts and packed paninis to the famous Hero burger and an array of tapas dishes.
16. McDonalds
McDonald's has opened a brand new branch inside Asda supermarket in Taunton (Image: Michael Taylor)
On November 20, Asda shoppers in Taunton were treated to the opening of a new McDonald's branch in the supermarket.
The chain converted the supermarket's cafe into a new fast-food outlet on Creechbarrow Road.
On its first day, customers praised the change and were particularly excited by the fact that they could use UberEats to deliver food from this restaurant, to their homes and businesses.
Its the third McDonald's branch in Somerset's county town, with others located in East Street and Hankridge Farm.
17. Miller & Carter
Miller and Carter's new Weston restaurant opens just in time for Christmas (Image: Bath Chronicle)
Weston's new Miller and Carter steakhouse opened its doors on December 6, just in time for Christmas.
The national chain took over the site of the former Harvester restaurant in Yew Tree Drive on the Weston Gateway.
The site underwent a four-week extensive refurbishment to transform the restaurant both inside and out, with a new layout, open kitchen and new furniture.
The chain also employed more than 50 new members of staff and lowered Christmas booking availability to ensure staff weren't overwhelmed.
According to Miller and Carter, the chain serves only premium-graded beef, sourced from sustainable British and Irish farms.
It also has a slightly more formal dress code than the family restaurant Harvester which used to occupy the building.
Diners won't be allowed in if they are wearing a hoody.
18. Papa John's
Papa John's opened in Yeovil (Image: Getty Images)
Pizza giant, Papa John's, opened a new takeaway in Yeovil on December 12 - its first in the town, ever.
Located on Bond Street in Yeovil's town centre, it resides in the former home of Puffin Cleaners.
Yeovil isn't shy of Italian restaurants, with Domino's and Pizza Hut, who already have restaurants in the town, its main competition.
There are also a further four Italian eateries in Yeovil.
19. The Ox
(Image: Len Copland)
The Ox Oriental Conexions opened its doors on Union Street in the town centre on November 18, with the help of the Mayor of Yeovil.
The restaurant, bar and takeaway, which resides in the former home of Mulberry's, serves traditional South East Asian and Filipino cuisine.
It also features regular karaoke and live music.
The unusual eatery is serving up traditional Filipino soups, stir fry dishes, lobster dishes and much more.
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Joe Biden used his first trip to Florida since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee to try to make up ground with Hispanic voters and hammer President Donald Trump on veterans issues, particularly his alleged comments denigrating American war dead.
Biden returned multiple times to reports that Trump described dead soldiers as “losers” and “suckers,” which were relayed to The Atlantic magazine by anonymous sources and confirmed by other media outlets. The former vice president said during a veterans roundtable in Tampa that wounded soldiers often told him they wanted to return to their units and asked if that sounds “like the heart and the grit and patriotism of a sucker or a loser?”
“Sounds like heroism to me,” Biden said, his voice rising inside the gymnasium at Hillsborough Community College, which is near MacDill Air Force Base.
More personally, Biden noted that his son, Beau, who died of cancer, served in Iraq.
“He’s gone now, but he was no sucker,” Biden said before donning a mask for a roundtable that often veered off into other topics, including the coronavirus, Social Security and offshore oil drilling.
Trump has forcefully denied making the comments about dead soldiers. His supporters said Tuesday that they don’t believe the media reports and attacked Biden’s record on military issues.
About 50 protesters waving Trump flags greeted Biden in Tampa at the entrance to the community college.
“Trump definitely is a better supporter of the military than Biden,” said Clifton Alexander, a Riverview resident who left the Air Force in June after attaining the rank of captain and wore a red Make America Great Again hat to Tuesday’s protest. “Biden doesn’t even know what day of the week it is.”
Standing with Alexander, Trinity resident Carl Prewitt called the reports about Trump’s comments “fake news” and questioned the use of anonymous sources.
Biden touched on other veterans issues Tuesday as he sought to put Trump on the defensive with a key base of his support in Florida, which has a large number of veterans and military bases. He pledged to help veterans struggling with mental health issues, get them good medical care and support their families while they’re deployed, while also veering off into a range of other issues.
Saying Trump needs to get off the golf course “figuratively and literally,” Biden argued the president should be doing more to push Congress to approve more coronavirus relief. He criticized Trump’s effort to boost paychecks by suspending Social Security payments, saying it “makes no fiscal sense,” and listened as one of the roundtable participants called Trump’s executive order extending a moratorium on offshore drilling an election-year ploy.
Biden's play for military voters at the Tampa roundtable got a thumbs up from a military veteran seeking a congressional seat in South Florida.
Pam Keith, a Democrat running in a north Palm Beach County and Treasure Coast district, said its veterans and military families are a voting bloc that is very much in play, and could prove decisive in Florida, a state known for narrow margins.
"There are some fundamental core values that all people in the military, and who served in the military share, and one of them is honor and the way we conduct our mission," said Keith, who served in the Navy. "It's a core cultural norm. In the military, we do not lie, we do not cheat. When we brief that we are accurate and we go out of our way not to embellish or exaggerate. Our word is our bond."
Trump, she said, has fundamentally trampled over those virtues as commander in chief.
"What has happened over these three years is the Trump administration has shown it has absolutely no respect or grasp of any of those concepts," Keith said.
That includes the nonresponse to the intelligence reports alleging Russian bounties for killing U.S. military members, the abandonment of Kurdish forces and the disrespect shown to U.S. allies. These are betrayals, Keith said, that weigh heavily on all who have worn the U.S. military uniform.
"It's not just how Trump makes decisions that puts the lives of those in uniform at risk," she said. "But also in the dishonorable way that he makes decisions that heavily affected our allies and our partners on the ground."
Add to that, she said, the way he has disparaged Americans who served, from such generals as James Mattis and John Kelly, to even the disgraceful attempt to fire Brett Crozier as commanding officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier after Crozier tried to protect the ship's crew during an outbreak of COVID-19.
"He has looked down upon those who have served in the military over long periods of time and earned the respect of their subordinates," Keith said. "That is what obtaining rank is. It is obtaining the respect of those beneath you, those parallel to you and those above you."
But Biden was playing catch-up in Florida Tuesday with a key group of Florida voters, attending a Hispanic Heritage Month event in Kissimmee near Orlando, which has a significant number of transplants from Puerto Rico.
Biden’s jaunt down the all-important Interstate 4 corridor comes as Florida Democrats are increasingly worried about his prospects for carrying a state where he led by significant margins in many polls taken over the summer.
An NBC News/Marist poll released last week had Trump up by four percentage points with Florida Hispanics. Other polls have been better for Biden, he was leading with Florida Hispanics by 16 points in an August poll by Equis Research, but that’s still well below Hillary Clinton’s 2016 margin with such voters.
Biden led by three percentage points in a Florida Atlantic University poll released Tuesday, within the poll's margin of error. Biden was up by six in an FAU poll from May.
The latest FAU poll found Trump supporters are more enthusiastic than Biden supporters.
“Florida continues to be too close to call, but the enthusiasm still favors President Trump, and that could be the difference,” said FAU political science professor Kevin Wagner.
Biden held a 5-point lead among registered voters and those who are "highly likely" to vote in another Florida poll released Tuesday by Monmouth University, outside the 4.7 point margin of error.
State Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith, an Orlando Democrat of Peruvian heritage, said Biden still has plenty of time to make up ground with Hispanic voters.
"This is the time where folks are really paying attention," Smith said.
Smith's husband moved to Florida from Puerto Rico shortly after the 2016 election and will vote in a presidential race for the first time. Many other Puerto Rican transplants living in Florida are in the same situation, and Smith said they are open to hearing Biden's message.
“This is a novelty for Puerto Rican voters who have moved to Florida since Hurricane Maria" in 2017, Smith said. “They won’t forget the long list of insults and indignities that Trump has thrown toward Puerto Rico, his failed response after Hurricane Maria that has cost lives.”
But Biden could have a tougher time winning over Hispanics in Florida — where they make up about 20% of eligible voters according to the Pew Research Center — than elsewhere.
Many Florida Hispanics are of Cuban descent, and some may be wary of the push by Biden and former President Barack Obama to normalize diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba, something Trump reversed. The president has targeted Cuban voters and those from other oppressive socialist regimes, such as Venezuela.
Those outreach efforts appear to have paid off, and Trump's hard-line immigration policies have received less emphasis in recent months and may be less of drag for him with Florida Hispanics.
“It’s important Democrats are proactive in their message," Smith said. "Joe Biden I think understands really well that Hispanic voters who fled totalitarian regimes… don’t want any dictator left- or right-wing, and Donald Trump has demonstrated in so many ways his love for dictators and his totalitarian tendencies.”
Jorge Duany, director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University, said it is no shock that Trump is winning the majority of Cuban-American voters, but it is significant that he is running up the score on Biden in Miami.
"What is noticeable is that the actual numbers of Cuban-American voters that Trump has increased," Duany said. The institute is polling now, and Duany said he would not be shocked if the next round of findings "shows a substantial consolidation of the Cuban-American vote for Trump and the Republican Party."
Duany said the gains are very much policy-driven.
"I think it has to do primarily with his U.S.-Cuba policy, the fact that Trump overturned the Obama policy of rapprochement since 2014," he said. "Even though he has not closed down the U.S. Embassy, that would probably be the next step."
The policy moves play especially well older Cuban-Americans, who are a reliable voting bloc.
"They are very happy with the hard-line policy of the Trump administration and they support him on that account," he said.
The anti-socialism and anti-communist rhetoric also is a factor.
"His tough stance on Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are quite popular here in Little Havana and among Cubans in the United States," Duany added.
That being said, Duany said there lots of other votes out there for Democrats to seek among the Hispanic demographic, including Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans and others.
He says that is why Biden campaigned in Central Florida Tuesday, and why the Trump campaign is investing in the I-4 corridor, too.
"They do know there is a significant number of undecided voters that might go either way, which is the reason why they are trying to capture that vote that's not Cuban-American voters, which I think is decidedly with Trump," Duany said.
Hours before Biden visited Kissimmee, Republicans held a news conference in the Central Florida town to tout Puerto Rican GOP candidates and issues.
Helen Ferre Aguirre, executive director of the Republican Party of Florida, taunted Biden's campaign stop in Central Florida.
"We've been here all along," she said. "We don't need an election to bring us here."
Aguirre said the Trump campaign and GOP candidates will succeed by talking up public safety and key issues like school choice.
"They are worried and concerned about the violence in the streets," Aguirre said of voters she's spoken to along the I-4 corridor. She touted the Trump administration's efforts to produce a COVID-19 vaccine and promised there would be an economic revival, if Trump is reelected, that would lower the Hispanic jobless rate to under 3.4%.
Aguirre also criticized Jill Biden for, she said, a 2014 trip to Cuba and said she was waiting for the former vice president to call out the Cuba dictatorship.
"She's had four years to speak up, and so has Joe Biden," Aguirre said.
Also speaking was Leo Valentin, the GOP candidate for Congressional District 7.
Valentin noted how the Trump administration is returning pharmaceutical manufacturing to Puerto Rico, which he said evaporated after Democrats removed the erstwhile Sec. 936 law that gave the island preferences on drug production. Instead, that production went to China.
"As President Trump said, we are firing China and hiring Puerto Rico again," Valentin said.
Biden is getting help in his Hispanic outreach effort from billionaire former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who announced recently that he will spend up to $100 million in Florida to back the former vice president. Part of that effort will target Hispanic voters.
Biden's campaign event in Tampa Tuesday contrasted sharply with the rallies Trump has begun holding again despite public health guidelines warning against large gatherings.
There were six veterans at the roundtable. They were outnumbered by the media. There was no clapping or cheering and Biden largely spoken in a subdued, low-key tone, his voice occasionally becoming more forceful when criticizing Trump.
Tampa Pastor Allen Temple, an Army veteran who participated in the roundtable, said the event was "appropriate for the uncertain times that we're in."
"I'm thankful that Vice President Biden is getting out but doing it in a safe way and relying on science," Temple said.
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Windows 10 vs. Windows 8.1 vs. Windows 7 Performance
Page 7 : Faster, Slower, Better?
By Steven Walton on August 10, 2015
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Faster, Slower, Better?
After watching near-identical results pour in on most tests, from application to encoding, to storage and gaming, it's hard to read too much into results as there are many variables we can't control.
The same hardware that currently runs Windows 7 competently can be upgraded to Windows 10 with no issues whatsoever on the performance front.
We can ensure that the operating systems were evaluated using the exact same hardware, benchmarking software and methodology. However, we can't ensure that something such as GPU drivers didn't cause variations in performance. Moreover, technologies such Intel's Turbo boost feature can impact the accuracy of the results, though we generally run all tests at least three times, taking the average from multiple runs.
The short version of this conclusion is that a properly set up Windows machine equipped with semi-modern hardware should be capable of running Windows 7 or above more than adequately. The same hardware that currently runs Windows 7 competently can be upgraded to Windows 10 with no issues whatsoever on the performance front.
It used to be the case a few generations back that a new Windows release would need time to be at least on par with the performance of its predecessor. Possibly the most extreme example I can recall was the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista. Though that was partly due to immature drivers on the all-new platform, Vista was a resource hog, too.
We wouldn't be surprised if certain aspects of Windows 10's performance are improved over the coming months and into next year, but most importantly today, you can feel free to upgrade and know you won't be sacrificing performance in the process.
There are going to be future performance benefits of Windows 10 that we can't measure yet, and even once we can, we won't be able to compare the changes with previous operating systems -- DirectX 12 gaming, for example, will only be supported by Windows 10 and later.
On that subject, 3DMark features a DX12 API Overhead test but this is only useful for comparing different hardware as there isn't a DX11 version and it can only be run using Windows 10.
There are going to be future performance benefits of Windows 10 that we can't measure yet, and even once we can, we won't be able to compare the changes with previous operating systems -- DirectX 12 gaming, for example...
Benchmarks aside, Windows 10 appears to be a solid operating system, though my experience hasn't been quirk-free on the seven systems I have running Windows 10 (six of which have been upgraded from 8.1). The upgrade process is shockingly quick and easy. One of the systems I upgraded for example has well over 1TB worth of applications installed and it went smoothly all around regardless.
There have been a few minor issues so far. I haven't looked into this yet, but my photo and media libraries with thousands of items take a long time to load in Windows 10, whereas they loaded instantly before the upgrade from 8.1. Clearly a bug waiting to be fixed.
On the gaming front, I found strange input lag in StarCraft II. It wasn't hugely noticeable but scrolling and commands took slightly longer than they did in Windows 8.1, just enough that in a competitive game it felt sluggish.
After a quick Google search I found a number of users complaining about the same thing and all sources blamed Windows 10's Xbox application which is built into the OS and cannot be removed via conventional methods.
Despite never running this app or having an Xbox account to actually use it, it appears this was my problem. Fortunately, there's a Powershell command to disable the Xbox app and doing so eliminated the lag, allowing StarCraft II to play like it did on Windows 8.1. It was a disappointing discovery, but I'm glad it was relatively easy to overcome with some help from the Internet.
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Bale relaxed over duo's Wales absence
Written By Matthew Rogerson
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Chris Coleman's side hostBosnia-Herzegovina and Cyprus in the next week but will do so without Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey and Liverpool midfielder Joe Allen.
The pair are recovering from injuriesand will play no part in either qualifier as Wales look to build on their 2-1 win over Andorra in the opening game of Group B.
Bale scored both goals in Andorra but the Real Madrid man does not feel extra pressure to perform in the absence of Ramsey and Allen.
"I don't feel any more pressure," BBC Sport quotes him as saying.
"I want to go out and do my best for my country and that's all that I can do.
"It'sa big blow. They are two fantastic players.
"But we have players that can come in and do a good job for us, the same as they would do and I'm looking forward to the game."
Having made a positive start in their attempts to qualify for the competitionin France two years' time, Bale warned of the need to take one game at a time.
"They are massive games for us but I think for us we want to concentrate on Friday's game [against Bosnia] not think about anything else, not think about the next game," he added.
"Just purely concentrate on that and hopefully we can get the win."
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Newcastle United 1 Liverpool 0: Perez seals victory
Written By Russell Greaves
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The Spaniard netted the decisive goal in the 2-1 triumph at Tottenham last Sunday and came off the bench at St James' Park to earn Newcastle's fourth win in a row in all competitions and move them to within a point of Liverpool.
The Premier League's highest scoring fixture - having yielded 129 goals before this meeting - looked set to be heading for a goalless draw until Perez's 73rd-minute strike, which condemned the visitors to their fourth top-flight defeat of the season.
Both clubs progressed to the League Cup quarter-finals in midweek, with Newcastle having further alleviated the pressure on manager Alan Pardew by producing a shock 2-0 success over holders Manchester City.
It was two much-changed sides that lined up on Saturday and Pardew reaped the rewards from having rested several key players for Wednesday's trip to the Etihad Stadium.
Pardew admitted that the weakened team he named against City was a nod towards the importance of this fixture, with five players - Tim Krul, Steven Taylor, Moussa Sissoko, Sammy Ameobi and Papiss Cisse - returning, while Mehdi Abeid earned a Premier League debut.
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers also made numerous changes from the League Cup success over Swansea City, and Mario Balotelli was rewarded for his equalising goal off the bench in that 2-1 triumph as the Italian was handed a start, with Steven Gerrard and Raheem Sterling coming back into the side.
The hosts had appeals for a penalty waved away by referee Andre Marriner in the 10th minute when Sissoko went to ground under a challenge from Joe Allen, with replays suggesting they had cause to feel aggrieved.
Newcastle suffered a blow midway through the half when Gabriel Obertan, scorer of the winning goal in his side's last home match against Leicester City, pulled up while chasing a long ball down the right, with Rolando Aarons introduced in his place.
Liverpool survived a scare late in the half when Cisse's goal-bound shot was headed away by the alert Glen Johnson, while Martin Skrtel headed Gerrard's corner wide from eight yards at the other end.
The Senegal striker did not return for the second half as Perez was brought on to add fresh impetus to Newcastle's attack, with that change ultimately proving crucial.
Tempers flared on the hour mark when Daryl Janmaat scythed down Balotelli and was, perhaps, a little fortunate to escape with just a yellow card.
Former Sunderland man Fabio Borini threatened with a powerful low strike from the edge of the area two minutes after coming off the bench, but it was Perez who made the breakthrough.
Sissoko's cross was not dealt with by Alberto Moreno and Perez was on hand to fire the ball home.
A rapid breakaway almost led to a second when Remy Cabella and Perez linked well, but the Frenchman's effort was kept out by the right foot of Simon Mignolet.
Liverpool offered little in the closing stages and, with a trip to the Santiago Bernabeu to take on European champions Real Madrid coming up on Tuesday, Rodgers was left with plenty to ponder.
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Ramsey upbeat despite defeat
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QPR interim boss Chris Ramsey believes the club can have plenty of hope in their bid for Premier League survival despite their dramatic 1-0 defeat to Southampton.
Ramsey and Kevin Bond took charge for Saturday's clash at Loftus Road following the exit of Harry Redknapp, who resigned as manager on Tuesday citing the strains of imminent knee surgery.
The relegation-threatened London club held firm for much of the encounter and had chances to take all three points, only for an injury-time strike from Sadio Mane to doom them to a 15th league loss of the season.
Defeat appears to have been doubly damaging for QPR, who saw defender Richard Dunne limp off late on with reported knee ligament damage while they also lost top scorer Charlie Austin to a suspected broken bone in his right foot.
Yet Ramsey sees plenty of reason for supporters to be upbeat over their prospects.
"If I'm being honest, first half I think we rode our luck a little bit," Ramsey said. "It's always difficult when you give away a goal at such a late time - very difficult to take.
"It gives a lot of hope to the owners and fans that at least the players are trying their best to keep the club in the division.
"On another day, you come away with a victory or draw for sure.
"It's always very difficult when you're at the bottom. It seems like the luck always goes against you. It's very difficult to keep believing in whatever gameplan you put together, but you have to have one plan.
"You put two wins together and you could end up well away from the people in the relegation zone. Everybody in the bottom is still in with a fighting chance."
Former Tottenham boss Tim Sherwood is the heavy favourite to take over from Redknapp, but Ramsey confirmed he and Bond will oversee Tuesday's trip to Sunderland.
"All they've [the club's hierarchy] said is that myself and Kevin will run the team on Tuesday," he added. "From the players' point of view, all I can say is they've responded quite well.
"I can keep the seat warm for as long as the owners see fit."
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Scottish Premiership Review: United take Dundee derby spoils, Celtic smash Inverness
Written By Ryan Benson
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Dundee United ended their Scottish Premiership season with a result to remember as Nadir Ciftci inspired a 3-0 defeat of arch-rivals Dundee, while champions Celtic obliterated Inverness 5-0 to cap off another dominant campaign in style.
Dundee went into their final game of the season aiming to arrest an alarming run of five defeats in six league games, though by no means were United in a forgiving mood.
Ciftci opened the scoring in the eighth minute after pouncing on an error by Dundee goalkeeper Kyle Letheren and the Turk doubled his tally for the day with a little over half an hour played, winning a penalty from Thomas Konrad and dispatching it himself.
United wrapped things up early in the second half, as Blair Spittal raced on to John Rankin's incisive through pass and slotted into the net.
Celtic have cruised to a fourth successive league title this season and they brought things to a close in fitting fashion, Stefan Scepovic netting twice as Inverness suffered a 5-0 mauling.
The Serbian striker was making only his fourth start of the season, but he took just five minutes to break the deadlock, Stefan Johansen extending their lead in the 18th minute.
Scepovic found the net once again 20 minutes from time before Leigh Griffiths and Kris Commons completed the rout.
Chris Kane's second-half winner for St. Johnstone in a 1-0 triumph at Aberdeen leaves Tommy Wright's men with a chance of securing a Europa League place.
St. Johnstone will earn a spot in Europe's second-tier competition for next year if Inverness beat Falkirk in the Scottish Cup final on Saturday.
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Squillaci extends Bastia deal
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Sebastien Squillaci has extended his contract with Bastia for a further year in a deal that will see him stay at the club until June 2016.
The central defender, whose contract was set to expire at the end of the season, moved to the Ligue 1 club from Arsenal in 2013 and has since made 58 appearances in all competitions, scoring four goals.
Squillaci was also the hero earlier this month when he netted the winning penalty in a shootout to take Bastia to their first Coupe de la Ligue final since 1985, the Corsicans knocking out his former club Monaco.
Ghislain Printant's side are 13th in the table following an eight-match unbeaten run in the league.
Monaco 0 Bastia 0 (aet, 6-7 pens): Squillaci returns to haunt hosts
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Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications
18th International Conference, CARDIS 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, November 11–13, 2019, Revised Selected Papers
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Buchreihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Herausgeber: Sonia Belaïd, Tim Güneysu
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-42067-3
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-42068-0
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, CARDIS 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in November 2019.
The 15 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: system-on-a-chip security; post-quantum cryptography; side-channel analysis; microarchitectural attacks; cryptographic primitives; advances in side-channel analysis.
CARDIS has provided a space for security experts from industry and academia to exchange on security of smart cards and related applications.
System-on-a-Chip Security
In-situ Extraction of Randomness from Computer Architecture Through Hardware Performance Counters
True Random Number Generators (TRNGs) are one of the most crucial components in the design and use of cryptographic protocols and communication. Predictability of such random numbers are catastrophic and can lead to the complete collapse of security, as all the mathematical proofs are based on the entropy of the source which generates these bit patterns. The randomness in the TRNGs is hugely attributed to the inherent noise of the system, which is often derived from hardware subsystems operating in an ambiguous manner. However, most of these solutions need an add-on device to provide these randomness sources, which can lead to not only latency issues but also can be a potential target of adversaries by probing such an interface. In this paper, we address to alleviate these issues by proposing an in-situ TRNG construction, which depends on the functioning of the underlying hardware architecture. These functions are observed via the Hardware Performance Counters (HPCs) and are shown to exhibit high-quality randomness in the least significant bit positions. We provide extensive experiments to research on the choice of the HPCs, and their ability to pass the standard NIST and AIS 20/31 Tests. We also analyze a possible scenario where an adversary tries to interfere with the HPC values and show its effect on the TRNG output with respect to the NIST and AIS 20/31 Tests. Additionally, to alleviate the delay caused for accessing the HPC events and increase the throughput of the random-source, we also propose a methodology to cascade the random numbers from the HPC values with a secured hash function.
Manaar Alam, Astikey Singh, Sarani Bhattacharya, Kuheli Pratihar, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Optimized Threshold Implementations: Minimizing the Latency of Secure Cryptographic Accelerators
Threshold implementations have emerged as one of the most popular masking countermeasures for hardware implementations of cryptographic primitives. In this work, we first provide a generic construction for \(d+1\) TI sharing which achieves the minimal number of output shares for any n-input Boolean function of degree \(t=n-1\) and for any d. Secondly, we demonstrate the applicability of our results on a first-order and second-order \(d+1\) low-latency PRINCE implementation.
Dušan Božilov, Miroslav Knežević, Ventzislav Nikov
Breaking the Lightweight Secure PUF: Understanding the Relation of Input Transformations and Machine Learning Resistance
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and, in particular, strong PUFs such as the XOR Arbiter PUF have gained much research interest as an authentication mechanism for embedded systems. One of the biggest problems of strong PUFs is their vulnerability to so called machine learning attacks. In this paper, we take a closer look at one aspect of machine learning attacks that has not yet gained the needed attention: the generation of the sub-challenges in XOR Arbiter PUFs fed to the individual Arbiter PUFs. Specifically, we look at one of the most popular ways to generate sub-challenges based on a combination of permutations and XORs as it has been described for the “Lightweight Secure PUF”. Previous research suggested that using such a sub-challenge generation increases the machine learning resistance significantly.
Our contribution in the field of sub-challenge generation is three-fold: First, drastically improving attack results by Rührmair et al., we describe a novel attack that can break the Lightweight Secure PUF in time roughly equivalent to an XOR Arbiter PUF without transformation of the challenge input. Second, we give a mathematical model that gives insight into the weakness of the Lightweight Secure PUF and provides a way to study generation of sub-challenges in general. Third, we propose a new, efficient, and cost-effective way for sub-challenge generation that mitigates the attack strategy we used and outperforms the Lightweight Secure PUF in both machine learning resistance and resource overhead.
Nils Wisiol, Georg T. Becker, Marian Margraf, Tudor A. A. Soroceanu, Johannes Tobisch, Benjamin Zengin
Improving Speed of Dilithium’s Signing Procedure
Dilithium is a round 2 candidate for digital signature schemes in NIST initiative for post-quantum cryptographic schemes. Since Dilithium is built upon the “Fiat Shamir with Aborts” framework, its signing procedure performs rejection sampling of its signatures to ensure they do not leak information about the secret key. Thus, the signing procedure is iterative in nature with a number of rejected iterations, which serve as unnecessary overheads hampering its overall performance. As a first contribution, we propose an optimization that reduces the computations in the rejected iterations through early-evaluation of the conditional checks. This allows to perform an early detection of the rejection condition and reject a given iteration as early as possible. We also incorporate a number of standard optimizations such as unrolling and inlining to further improve the speed of the signing procedure. We incorporate and evaluate our optimizations over the software implementation of Dilithium on both the Intel Core i5-4460 and ARM Cortex-M4 CPUs. As a second contribution, we identify opportunities to present a more refined evaluation of Dilithium’s signing procedure in several scenarios where pre-computations can be carried out. We also evaluate the performance of our optimizations and the memory requirements for the pre-computed intermediates in the considered scenarios. We could yield speed-ups in the range of 6% upto 35%, considering all the aforementioned scenarios, thus presenting the fastest software implementation of Dilithium till date.
Prasanna Ravi, Sourav Sen Gupta, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Shivam Bhasin
An Efficient and Provable Masked Implementation of qTESLA
Now that the NIST’s post-quantum cryptography competition has entered in its second phase, the time has come to focus more closely on practical aspects of the candidates. While efficient implementations of the proposed schemes are somewhat included in the submission packages, certain issues like the threat of side-channel attacks are often lightly touched upon by the authors. Hence, the community is encouraged by the NIST to join the war effort to treat those peripheral, but nonetheless crucial, topics. In this paper, we study the lattice-based signature scheme qTESLA in the context of the masking countermeasure. Continuing a line of research opened by Barthe et al. at Eurocrypt 2018 with the masking of the GLP signature scheme, we extend and modify their work to mask qTESLA. Based on the work of Migliore et al. in ACNS 2019, we slightly modify the parameters to improve the masked performance while keeping the same security. The masking can be done at any order and specialized gadgets are used to get maximal efficiency at order 1. We implemented our countermeasure in the original code of the submission and performed tests at different orders to assess the feasibility of our technique.
François Gérard, Mélissa Rossi
Side-Channel Analysis
Side-Channel Attacks on Blinded Scalar Multiplications Revisited
In a series of recent articles (from 2011 to 2017), Schindler et al. show that exponent/scalar blinding is not as effective a countermeasure as expected against side-channel attacks targeting RSA modular exponentiation and ECC scalar multiplication. Precisely, these works demonstrate that if an attacker is able to retrieve many randomizations of the same secret, this secret can be fully recovered even when a significative proportion of the blinded secret bits are erroneous. With a focus on ECC, this paper improves the best results of Schindler et al. in the specific case of structured-order elliptic curves. Our results show that larger blinding material and higher error rates can be successfully handled by an attacker in practice. This study also opens new directions in this line of work by the proposal of a three-steps attack process that isolates the attack critical path (in terms of complexity and success rate) and hence eases the development of future solutions.
Thomas Roche, Laurent Imbert, Victor Lomné
Remote Side-Channel Attacks on Heterogeneous SoC
Thanks to their performance and flexibility, FPGAs are increasingly adopted for hardware acceleration on various platforms such as system on chip and cloud datacenters. Their use for commercial and industrial purposes raises concern about potential hardware security threats. By getting access to the FPGA fabric, an attacker could implement malicious logic to perform remote hardware attacks. Recently, several papers demonstrated that FPGA can be used to eavesdrop or disturb the activity of resources located within and outside the chip. In a complex SoC that contains a processor and a FPGA within the same die, we experimentally demonstrate that FPGA-based voltage sensors can eavesdrop computations running on the CPU and that advanced side-channel attacks can be conducted remotely to retrieve the secret key of a symmetric crypto-algorithm.
Joseph Gravellier, Jean-Max Dutertre, Yannick Teglia, Philippe Loubet Moundi, Francis Olivier
Optimal Collision Side-Channel Attacks
Collision side-channel attacks are effective attacks against cryptographic implementations, however, optimality and efficiency of collision side-channel attacks is an open question. In this paper, we show that collision side-channel attacks can be derived using maximum likelihood principle when the distribution of the values of the leakage function is known. This allows us to exhibit the optimal collision side-channel attack and its efficient computation. Finally, we can compute an upper bound for the success rate of the optimal post-processing strategy, and we show that our method and the optimal strategy have success rates close to each other. Attackers can benefit from our method as we present an efficient collision side-channel attack. Evaluators can benefit from our method as we present a tight upper bound for the success rate of the optimal strategy.
Cezary Glowacz, Vincent Grosso
Microarchitectural Attacks
A Bit-Level Approach to Side Channel Based Disassembling
Side-Channel Based Disassembling (SCBD) is a powerful application of side-channel analysis that allows recovering instructions executed by a processor from its physical leakages, such as the electromagnetic field (EM) emitted by the chip. These attacks directly compromise code confidentiality, but they can also reveal to an adversary many critical information on the system’s internals. In this work, we propose a new approach for SCBD that directly focuses the bit encoding of an instruction using local EM leakage. We exploit a very precise bit-level leakage model and derive from it new algorithms that aim at recovering the actual bit values. We also propose strategies to automate the complex tasks of finding the best EM probe positions and combining them to improve results. On a PIC16 target, our method succeed in recovering the bits of an instruction with an average rate of 99,41% per bit. Compared to the state of the art, our disassembler is easier to train, recovers more information about instructions than just opcode and requires almost no modifications to target other processor architectures. Thus, this kind of disassemblers might become a threat to more complex processors, where side-channel disassembling has not been proved to be feasible yet.
Valence Cristiani, Maxime Lecomte, Thomas Hiscock
CCCiCC: A Cross-Core Cache-Independent Covert Channel on AMD Family 15h CPUs
Spectre and similar microarchitectural attacks have recently caused a major paradigm shift in hardware and software development to restrict attacker-controlled speculative execution and microarchitectural sampling. So far, research has focused on cache interaction, instruction scheduling, microarchitectural sampling and speculative side effects, whereas instruction decoding research has been notably absent. We disclose two cross-core covert channels on multiple AMD processor generations (Family 15h) spanning from Bulldozer to Excavator with partial applicability to Zen.
In this work, cross-core instruction decoding and synchronization interactions are explored as a source of information leakage on these processors to yield multiple cache-independent covert channels in a non-SMT environment. In contrast to other attacks, we do not rely on memory interaction nor on speculative execution. None of the existing mitigations in the Linux kernel and processor microcode against transient execution attacks have any measurable effect on the CCCiCC covert channels. To the best of our knowledge, this is not fixable with a microcode update since any updated instruction would also become usable for signaling.
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger, Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Christof Paar
Design Considerations for EM Pulse Fault Injection
Electromagnetic-fault injection (EM-FI) setups are appealing since they can be made at a low cost, achieve relatively high spatial resolutions, and avoid the need of tampering with the PCB or packaging of the target. In this paper we first sketch the importance of understanding the pulse characteristics of a pulse injection setup in order to successfully mount an attack. We then look into the different components that make up an EM-pulse setup and demonstrate their impact on the pulse shape. The different components are then assembled to form an EM-pulse injection setup. The effectiveness of the setup and how different design decisions impact the outcome of a fault injection campaign are demonstrated on a 32-bit ARM microcontroller.
Arthur Beckers, Masahiro Kinugawa, Yuichi Hayashi, Daisuke Fujimoto, Josep Balasch, Benedikt Gierlichs, Ingrid Verbauwhede
Cryptographic Primitives
Lightweight MACs from Universal Hash Functions
Lightweight cryptography is a topic of growing importance, with the goal to secure the communication of low-end devices that are not powerful enough to use conventional cryptography. There have been many recent proposals of lightweight block ciphers, but comparatively few results on lightweight Message Authentication Codes (MACs).
Therefore, this paper focuses on lightweight MACs. We review some existing constructions, and revisit the choices made in mainstream MACs with a focus on lightweight cryptography. We consider MACs based on universal hash functions, because they offer information theoretic security, can be implemented efficiently and are widely used in conventional cryptography. However, many constructions used in practice (such as GMAC or Poly1305-AES) follow the Wegman-Carter-Shoup construction, which is only secure up to \(2^{64}\) queries with a 128-bit state.
We point out that there are simple solutions to reach security beyond the birthday bound, and we propose a concrete instantiation, \(\mathsf {MAC611}\), reaching 61-bit security with a 61-bit universal hash function. We wrote an optimized implementation on two ARM micro-controllers, and we obtain very good performances on the Cortex-M4, at only 3.7 c/B for long messages, and less than one thousand cycles for short messages.
Sébastien Duval, Gaëtan Leurent
FELICS-AEAD: Benchmarking of Lightweight Authenticated Encryption Algorithms
Cryptographic algorithms that can simultaneously provide both encryption and authentication play an increasingly important role in modern security architectures and protocols (e.g. TLS v1.3). Dozens of authenticated encryption systems have been designed in the past five years, which has initiated a large body of research in cryptanalysis. The interest in authenticated encryption has further risen after the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced an initiative to standardize “lightweight” authenticated ciphers and hash functions that are suitable for resource-constrained devices. However, while there already exist some cryptanalytic results on these recent designs, little is known about their performance, especially when they are executed on small 8, 16, and 32-bit microcontrollers. In this paper, we introduce an open-source benchmarking tool suite for a fair and consistent evaluation of Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) algorithms written in C or assembly language for 8-bit AVR, 16-bit MSP430, and 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 platforms. The tool suite is an extension of the FELICS benchmarking framework and provides a new AEAD-specific low-level API that allows users to collect very fine-grained and detailed results for execution time, RAM consumption, and binary code size in a highly automated fashion. FELICS-AEAD comes with two pre-defined evaluation scenarios, which were developed to resemble security-critical operations commonly carried out by real IoT applications to ensure the benchmarks are meaningful in practice. We tested the AEAD tool suite using five authenticated encryption algorithms, namely AES-GCM and the CAESAR candidates ACORN, ASCON, Ketje-Jr, and NORX, and present some preliminary results.
Luan Cardoso dos Santos, Johann Großschädl, Alex Biryukov
Advances in Side-Channel Analysis
A Comparison of -Test and Mutual Information as Distinguisher for Side-Channel Analysis
Masking is known as the most widely studied countermeasure against side-channel analysis attacks. Since a masked implementation is based on a certain number of shares (referred to as the order of masking), it still exhibits leakages at higher orders. In order to exploit such leakages, higher-order statistical moments individually at each order need to be estimated reflecting the higher-order attacks. Instead, Mutual Information Analysis (MIA) known for more than 10 years avoids such a moment-based analysis by considering the entire distribution for the key recovery. Recently the \(\chi ^2\)-test has been proposed for leakage detection and as a distinguisher where also the whole distribution of the leakages is analyzed.
In this work, we compare these two schemes to examine their dependency. Indeed, one of the goals of this research is to conclude whether one can outperform the other. In addition to a theoretical comparison, we present two case studies and their corresponding practical evaluations. Both case studies are masked hardware implementations; one is an FPGA-based realization of a threshold implementation of PRESENT, and the other is an AES implementation as a coprocessor on a commercial smart card.
Bastian Richter, David Knichel, Amir Moradi
Key Enumeration from the Adversarial Viewpoint
When to Stop Measuring and Start Enumerating?
In this work, we formulate and investigate a pragmatic question related to practical side-channel attacks complemented with key enumeration. In a real attack scenario, after an attacker has extracted side-channel information, it is possible that despite the entropy of the key has been significantly reduced, she cannot yet achieve a direct key recovery. If the correct key lies within a sufficiently small set of most probable keys, it can then be recovered with a plaintext and the corresponding ciphertext, by performing enumeration. Our proposal relates to the following question: how does an attacker know when to stop acquiring side-channel observations and when to start enumerating with a given computational effort? Since key enumeration is an expensive (i.e. time-consuming) task, this is an important question from an adversarial viewpoint. To answer this question, we present an efficient (heuristic) way to perform key-less rank estimation, based on simple entropy estimations using histograms.
Melissa Azouaoui, Romain Poussier, François-Xavier Standaert, Vincent Verneuil
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