title: Progress and autism

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When a child is diagnosed with autism, parents become charged with finding quality treatment – and the evidence-based recommendation is to seek out Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). Choosing the specific ABA program that is right for a child can feel daunting, especially if ABA is new territory for a family. In this article, we look at the benefits of a program incorporating both in-home and center-based programs.
Many proponents of ABA like to state, “ABA can be done anywhere.” It is true – but we shouldn’t overlook another important point: the environment itself is a critical component of therapy. Controlling the environment to some degree is frequently part of the teaching process. Selecting a teaching environment is a decision that impacts the rest of the teaching strategy and so also has an effect on progress.
Common teaching environments for young children with autism include center-based ABA therapy, private or public school, a childcare environment, and home programs. While there is not enough research to prescribe a particular environment or model generally for children with autism, many parents and professionals are finding that a multi-site model of a controlled environment (such as a center-based program) and a natural environment (home, childcare, school) provides the best of both worlds.
Benefit #1 – Social skills can be targeted consistently and with children in the child’s community.
It is necessary for peers to be available regularly for consistent teaching; in this respect, a clinic setting is ideal for having regular access to other children to practice target skills. Ultimately, the goal is for the child to interact with the other children in their community, their siblings, classmates, and neighbors. Having a regular home component allows the therapist to work on target skills with the people who will be important in their normal daily life, even if these opportunities aren’t as regular as those in a clinic setting.
Benefit #2 – Controlled Environment vs. Natural Environment: Best of both worlds
A multi-site model allows technicians to address the most challenging skills in a distraction-free environment, but still have access to the home or school setting, with all of its naturally-occurring distractions, to make sure that those learned skills are being put to use.
Benefit #3 – Consistency of the Behavior Plan
When a challenging behavior is treated differently across settings, it is more likely to persist; this set-up can even make the behavior worse in the long-run. The best treatment involves the same plan being followed across the day. Having professionals use a consistent plan in both the home and center environments also supports family members to do the same.
Benefit #4 – Assessment of Generalization
All programs must address the issue of generalization, but a multi-site model is tailor-made for this. Generalization can be specifically addressed right from the beginning, either by teaching in both environments, or by teaching in one place and testing generalization in the other.
Benefit #5 – Ease of Group Work Vs. Ease of Parent Training – You Get Both!
One of the most important aspects of the teaching environment is the people present. In a center-based program, other children are close at hand for social interactions, peer modeling, and working on group instruction, so these parts of therapy can happen regularly. When ABA sessions are at home, it can be more convenient for parents to make themselves available for training. In a multi-site model, the child benefits from both of these types of teaching opportunities.
Whichever provider a family selects, they should be sure to work closely with their team to personalize the child’s program to best meet their needs and the goals for their family.
– Richie Ploesch, M.A., BCBA & Katherine Johnson, BCBA


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shelf: finance

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Zomato’s 260% Stock Surge Has Analysts Scrambling To Catch Up
Price target upgrades for Zomato in the past 12 months exceed those for all other stocks in a Bloomberg Intelligence gauge of global ride sharing and delivery peers.
Zomato Ltd. has outpaced gains in all the world’s major delivery stocks over the past year, sending analysts scrambling to boost their outlooks for the Indian company as its profitability improves.
Price target upgrades for Zomato in the past 12 months exceed those for all other stocks in a Bloomberg Intelligence gauge of global ride sharing and delivery peers. At least five brokerages have lifted their estimates for the shares in just the past few weeks, including Citigroup Inc. and HSBC Holdings Plc.
The nearly 260% surge in Zomato since last April has made it difficult for consensus to keep up, but expectations continue to rise. Analysts have shifted earnings estimates into the black from previously expected losses, and optimism is growing for operations beyond the company’s core restaurant meal delivery business.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. expects profit forecasts to increase for Zomato’s “quick commerce” business Blinkit, analyst Manish Adukia wrote in a recent note. While “earlier investor conversations suggested skepticism around profitability of this business model,” concerns should ease as more results are reported, he said.
Some see the bull run in Zomato as stretched, with the stock showing technical signs of overheating. It’s also trading at 115 times forward earnings, well above multiples for global peers including Uber Technologies Inc., Deliveroo Plc and Meituan.
The Indian firm’s shares are pricing in profits of over $300 million when it only just recently reached breakven, says Rahul Jain, an analyst at Dolat Capital Market Ltd. Jain is one four analysts with a sell rating on Zomato, versus 24 buys and no holds, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The rich valuations for Zomato looked justified given “significantly higher” projected revenue and profits for the company, according to ICICI Securities Ltd. analyst Abhisek Banerjee. The broker adds that the stock has basically moved in line with Doordash Inc. over the past six months amid improving sentiment on tech stocks around the world.
Banerjee also notes recent awareness of the strong potential for quick commerce, which includes grocery delivery. The Indian market, where Zomato’s biggest competitor is unlisted Zepto, is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 29% to reach $36 billion by March 2033, according to the ICICI Securities analyst.
More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com


shelf: education

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From Dan Hamermesh, a professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin, on yesterday’s Freakonomics
"There’s a midterm this week in my class of 550 students, and
I have been deluged with emailed questions, many procedural, that are covered
in the online daily class summary. (For example, is the test being given in
class?) In the old days, when students came to office hours to ask
questions, I wouldn’t have gotten most of these queries. Regrettably, a
student’s opportunity cost of emailing is much less than the cost of an office
The message those students are sending their professor:
“I didn’t bother to read the online daily class summary that
you put together for us. And I don’t
want to take the time to go back and find the answer now. Instead, I’d like you to take the time to
answer the question for me (even though you’ve already done so before).”
That’s not a good impression to leave on your instructor.
Email is a wonderful communication tool, but it can also
make you look lazy. Before you fire off
an email to a teacher, a counselor, a college, or anyone else of consequence in
your education or work life, ask yourself—is this the only way to get the answer,
or is it just the easy way.
What if, instead, a student emailed the professor above
“I’m so sorry if you’ve covered this already, but I didn’t see
the answer in the syllabus or on the daily class summaries, which I just
reviewed. Will we be taking our final
exam online (as we did for the midterm) or in class? I found the date of the exam
posted on your class summary, but not the location, and I just want to make
sure I don’t miss it. Thanks so much—I’ve
really enjoyed the course and I’ve already enrolled for your Econ IIB course
Totally different vibe.
P.S. Thanks to Arun
for sharing this wonderful tool to gently respond to people who ask a question
that a simple Google search can answer.


shelf: home-craft

title: Jasbrzplat30

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Ditch the traditional box springs and foundations with the Jasmine Breeze Platform Base. The outside panels are upholstered in a warm, textural, 100% Polyester gray fabric that will match almost any decor. Slat rolls and all support pieces are made of solid wood, so you'll be able to rest easy knowing your mattress is on top of a structurally sound base. 13 black, solid wood legs are included to keep the platform elevated off the floor. The Breeze Platform comes disassembled, so it easily ships to your home via UPS. Assembly is quick and easy - you can put it to use within minutes of opening the box! Whether you're getting this base for a guest room, or a first apartment, or just want a simple, no-fuss frame, the Jasmine Breeze Platform is guaranteed to offer sleek, minimalist design and optimal support for all.
Fabric, Wood, Polyester |
Professional delivery and installation is available for every product we sell. We would be happy to coordinate delivery and installation for you.
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It's simple and inexpensive to purchase extended warranties and one of the smartest ways to protect your investment.
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should they break tomorrow, don't buy a warranty. But if you're like most of us, protect yourself by purchasing inexpensive extended warranties when you buy a new product and save yourself big money in the long run.


shelf: history-culture

title: Love quirks

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Love, laughter and everything in between; Love Quirks: A New Musical makes its UK debut this September.
After a celebrated Off-Broadway run, Love Quirks: A New Musical lands in London for its long awaited premiere this autumn. Featuring neurotic, poignant songs and deeply relatable characters, Love Quirks holds up a mirror to the awkward, honest and sometimes beautiful emotional chaos of adulthood.
Produced by Love Quirks Limited and General Managed by JAS Theatricals, the show is fifteen years in the making, which began as a song cycle before evolving into a fully-fledged musical. Four broken hearts must face the past and look to the future in a story filled with laughter, pathos, sexual tension—and those inconvenient quirks that make love so unpredictable.
With an award-winning script from Mark Childers (The Kid From Brooklyn, USA Tour 2007), who won the 2021 Off-Broadway BroadwayWorld Award for Best New Book of a Musical for Love Quirks, and a touching score by Seth Bisen-Hersh (The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, ATA Theatre 2024), this heartwarming and hilariously honest musical explores the complicated, messy and painfully relatable landscape of modern love and friendship.
Bringing this unique story to life is an acclaimed creative team. Director Cecilie Fray is an Offie nominated theatre and film director whose recent credits include Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Assistant Director, West End), Operation Epsilon (Associate Director), and Girlhood (Director).
Director Cecilie Fray comments, I’m so delighted to be directing the British adaptation of Love Quirks to an off-west end stage. This version is London centric, reflecting the treacherous world of dating within a group of four roommates. Set in the early 2010s Love Quirks will sprinkle audiences with nostalgia of the previous decade. Seth’s beautiful score guides us through the characters’ inner turmoil and Mark’s fast-paced book and staging, guide us through as they figure out how their ‘love quirks’ can bring them together.
Love Quirks: A New Musical: Thursday 18th September – Sunday 12th October 2025
The Other Palace Studio, 12 Palace Street, London SW1E 5JA
Tickets from £25 - BOOK NOW
Further Information: Homepage - Love Quirks: A New Musical


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Scathing attack: Murrumbidgee hits out at renewables roll-out
Murrumbidgee Council has launched a scathing attack on the manner in which Renewal Energy Zones (REZs) are being rolled out in NSW.
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In a submission to the NSW Government inquiry into the impact of REZs on rural and regional communities, the council says every effort it has made to leverage the maximum benefit for its communities has “been continually thwarted by the efforts of the NSW Planning & Environment Energy Assessments team, EnergyCo and the developers”.
Murrumbidgee Council is within the South West REZ which was gazetted in 2022.
It also hosts the Dinawan Substation on Kidman Way which is outside the SW REZ, halfway between Coleambally and Jerilderie and at which the major Humelink, VNI West and Project Energy Connect transmission lines converge to supply electricity to Sydney, Victoria and South Australia.
As a result of the Dinawan substation and the gazettal of the SW REZ, Murrumbidgee Council has been dealing separately with four state significant wind farms and one state significant solar farm, all seeking connection to Dinawan.
Also, before development of the SW REZ, two state significant projects were approved and built in Coleambally and Darlington Point.
Council says this experience has provided it with “extensive first hand knowledge of the impacts, challenges and disappointments that the development of renewable energy projects create”.
“It also reinforces our belief that these projects offer no positive outcomes for our communities,” council said in a letter attached to its submission.
Throughout the submission, council expressed concern at the community impact, government processes and financial implications of the renewables roll-out.
This included loss of agricultural land, the environmental impact of extensive vegetation clearing, visual impacts and heavy demands on local roads, plus demands on potentially scarce resources such as water and other services provided by local government.
It describes the approach to fire risk as “a complete failure that will result in catastrophic loss in the future”, with local brigades, made up of volunteers, not having the training or resources to deal with fires associated with renewable energy developments.
“Most of the local brigades have advised council that they will refuse to respond to any bush fire until the fire leaves the renewable energy development boundary,” the submission says.
It cites ongoing experience with projects that have started to express concern at associated financial costs.
This experience “confirms that current and projected costs of roads and infrastructure will be a significant and unsustainable financial burden on Murrumbidgee Council”.
“Our experience to date is that none of these developments work or communicate with council to either consult, advise or report on their intended road usage, on works that they undertake on council roads without approval, or the damage their contractors have caused,” council’s submission continues.
“Ensuring compliance with these developments is rapidly developing into a full-time role within our existing staff structure and therefore increasing pressures on the delivery of normal council works programs”.
Council says the creation of rural energy zones are all state and federal government projects, yet the impacts of the construction, ongoing operation, loss of visual amenities, community divisions, economic (and) loss of available telecommunication services are all impacts, costs and burdens that will be borne by council now and into the future.
“This situation has been created by the state and federal governments without ‘skin in the game’, or even any worthwhile recognition of their impacts,” the submission reads.
“There is yet to be any new critical infrastructure, new economic programs or access to the electricity generated in this area for local communities announced or provided by either government.”
Council says this is particularly difficult to accept “given the subsidies paid to potential renewable energy developers and the re-development of access routes from the Newcastle Port in order to encourage its use as a potential delivery point for equipment and materials, with no corresponding upgrades of the Newell or Sturt Highways”.
In relation to compensation, it says compensation for hosting electricity lines only applies to private landowners.
Within the Murrumbidgee Council area, a total of 50km of council managed roads will be required to host transmission lines.
Yet there is no compensation to council despite council being required to maintain these roads.
“The current compensation is not adequate or fair,” council says.
“Council and the community are suffering from renewable energy fatigue.”
Commenting on the role and responsibility of the Net Zero Commission and Commissioner in addressing various matters, council said it “has not heard from the Net Zero Commission or Commissioner”.
Council was also critical of voluntary planning agreements and payments, which could have funded vital community services.
In one instance the proponent opposed its contribution to council to the department without the council being consulted, which resulted in the department halving the amount and a department staff member stating, “isn’t this enough money for you?”.
Its submission says there is “absolutely no understanding” by the responsible NSW Government department of the “complete lack of local community support for these developments and the undue and rude haste that these developments are being pushed through can only enforce this”.


shelf: science-engineering

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Honda CRF 1000L Africa Twin Adventure LED Fog Light Set
- Honda CRF 1000L Africa Twin Adventure Sports LED - Fog lamps with MotoBozzo-Switch-2
- Lamps swivel with it, since they are mounted on the fork bridge.
- Electronic control Relay-free, switchable by mini push-button.
- Honda indicator lamp in the valve housing is controlled.
Our new LED fog light set on the Honda CRF 1000L ADV, pre-wired ready to plug in. The holder is a 4-part VA holder, which is simply screwed to existing fork bridge screw connections.
For the Adventure, a retaining arm extension is also supplied to stay under the crash bar when the handlebars are turned in.
The cable harness supplied is a perfect fit and completely pre-assembled to simplify installation - see photo. The special accessory connector prepared by Honda can be found at the top behind the speedo unit. Our matching Honda cable connector is plugged into it, including a coupling for existing navigation system etc. Thus no further cables are connected to the Africa Twin!
No more soldering or bumbling current thieves/cable taps, no more connection to the battery/flying fuse necessary!
Switching is done by MotoBozzo-Switch-2 electronics - this is controlled by a mini push button, which can be glued on with a 3M adhesive pad. So you can change gears at any time without taking your hands off the handlebars, if the button is mounted like in the example photo.
Fully electronically controlled without relay!
Ready to plug in assembly can be seen here:
Data LED projector lamp:
Power/Power 12V: 6W
Power consumption/consumption 12V: 0,5A
LEDs and type 1 piece Osram OBF LED
Fastening Points 2 M6
Approval ECE, SAE, EMC
Ventilation / Ventilation Membrane
Material housing/material Housing Aluminium / Alloy
Lens material / Front lens material PC hardened / hard coated
Temperature range/operation range -40 - +80°c
Protection class / IP Classification IP6K9K / IP68
- Aluminium housing, black powder-coated and structured
- Corrosion protection for 480h salt spray
- extremely compact design
- ECE , SAE, EMC approved
New generation 70mm LED fog light with integrated control unit. With only 6 Watt power consumption super bright, additional wiring harnesses for an external control unit are not necessary. The headlight is thousandfold in serial use by motorcycle manufacturers. Nitto Denko Air Cap ventilation. Clear light/dark boundary and concentrated illumination without light diffusion.
Very low installation depth (55mm).
Function MotoBozzo-Switch-2 electronics:
After switching on the ignition the lamps turn on automatically.
Now the lamps can be switched off - or also on again by 1 x short keystroke.
If it is desired that the lamps are switched off after starting, just disconnect the purple wire at the connector and connect the prepared green wire instead.
No matter which switching state was last selected, the lamps always switch on when the ignition is switched on (delivery state purple wire plugged in), so it is impossible to forget to switch on. This can be changed by replugging, then the lamps are always switched on when the ignition is switched on.
first switched off (optionally repositionable, green wire).
These lights, switched on during the day, increase your safety, because you are much better seen as a motorcyclist!
No TÜV demonstration/registration necessary, because LED lights have an E-mark!
Scope of delivery:
2 VA-brackets with 2 LED fog lamps pre-mounted, MotoBozzo-Switch-2, Minitaster and Honda special accessory plug with coupling
1 illustrated assembly instruction


shelf: software-docs

title: Basics about videos and video codecs in windows media player d53ea681 1a8c 61d6 a1f4 17d6f39a3d3a

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With Windows Media Player 12 in Windows 7, you already have a very powerful tool for playing, managing, synchronizing and copying of video and audio files.Download - Windows Media Player for Windows XP
If you are using an earlier version of Windows such as Windows XP, we recommend that you install the current version of media player, to the benefit of all features and functionality.Play videos with Windows Media Player
It is very easy to play a video file by using Windows Media Player. If you save a video file on your hard disk, double-click the file to launch. You can watch videos on the Internet (such as the library of ARD or ZDF) by using Windows Media Player, you might need a small browser add-on program for it. To do this, follow these steps: more in the following parts of this series. 1. Click Start. 2. Type Media Player in the seach box. 3. Click Windows Media Player in the Programs list. 4. Windows Media Player is started. In the left navigation pane, you will find your Videos library. Click it to view all the video files associated with this library. If the video you want to play is on your hard disk, but not in this library, you should add the video to the Videos library so taht you can access it at any time via the Windows Media Player. To do this, right-click Videos. 5. Click Manage Video library. 6. In the right pane, click Add, specify the location where you put your videos, and then click Include folder. 7. Click OK. All videos that you save in this folderare automatically added to the library. 8. Tip:To play a video file immediately in the media player and also automatically add it to the videos library, click the corresponding file entry in the Windows Explorer, right-click and then click Add to the Windows Media Player playlist.
Windows Media Player 12: Video codecs
To properly play video (and even music files), Windows Media Player required an appropriate codec. Codecs are small programs that encode digital signals in a file or data and decode. Only in this way, the player can interpret the streams as a music or film and play correctly. If a codec is missing in the system, the corresponding video file cannot be played. You will receive an error message. Because Windows Media Player is well equipped with and all major audio and video formats - including 3GP, AAC, AVCHD, MPEG-4, WMV and WMA and AVI, DivX, mov, and XviD files, this error message generally does not appear.
You can easily control what codecs are already installed and ensure that the media player when loads automatically new codecs from the Internet.
1. Click Start. 2. Type Media Player in the search box 3. Click Windows Media Player. 4. The Windows Media Player is started. If the row that contains the menu commands is hidden, press [CTRL] and [M] at the same time. Then in the menu bar, click Help. 5. Click About Windows Media Player. 6. The following dialog box, click Technical Support Inoformation. 7. Windows Media Player opens then a technical details list view in your browser. Scroll to the Video Codecs section. You will see all codecs and file formats supported by the respective codec.Codecs have automatically installed
You can configure the Windows Media Player so that it automatically downloads and installs updates and codec enhancements from the Internet when available. This makes more sense in most cases than manually in the Internet codec packs to search for. Some of the circulating on the Internet, free codec packs are not mature or with malicious software. In the worst cases, these programs break the functionality of Windows Media Player. 1. Start Windows Media Player as described above, and then click Tools on the menu bar. 2. Click Options. 3. On the Player tab, select either Once a day or Once a weekunder Automatic updates. 4. Click OK.


shelf: health

title: Let them eat cake a speech pathology perspective on death dementia and quality of life

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May 19, 2023. By Lindsay Greenwood.
The inevitability of death is one of the only commonalities between people across the globe. No one escapes it and it cannot be permanently prevented. Despite this reality, Americans historically have a difficult time discussing death. The stigma surrounding this conversation brings upon an interesting question: If we all die, why is it so taboo?
One of the leading causes of death for older adults in the United States is dementia. Dementia is a progressive disease where your nerve cells lose connection in your brain, resulting in difficulties in memory, thinking skills, mobility, and changes in personality. It manifests and advances differently for people, but it is universally progressive and has no cure. Having worked in the acute hospital setting, I’ve treated several people at various stages with their dementia. While I observed the stereotypical traits of poor memory or behavioral issues, I also saw a variety of additional complex medical problems stemming from their diagnosis. One very common issue in my patients was dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing.
Dysphagia can lead to food or drink falling into your airways and or lungs (called aspiration) potentially leading to pneumonia, choking, repeated hospitalizations, and even death. According to a study by Dr. John Rosenbek and peers, approximately 84%-93% of people with dementia have dysphagia. Other symptoms experienced at late-stage dementia include limited speech, inability to walk or stand, incontinence, and an increase in agitation and confusion. All of these symptoms can indicate the end of life nearing months or weeks away. Per the Alzheimer’s Society, the leading cause of death for dementia patients is aspiration pneumonia. However, this may not impact whether or not someone’s diet would be restricted.
Prevention of aspiration is one of the highest priorities of speech pathologists in the hospital. I would do whatever is best to protect the health of those I’m treating. But in the case of dementia patients, treatment and prevention of aspiration is not necessarily what’s in their best interest. Some have believed that placing a G tube to give alternate means for nutrition as a preventative measure for dementia patients. According to research published by geriatric physician Dr. Li, placement of a G tube for dementia patients does not prolong their life expectancy. They are not proven to prevent malnutrition or even aspiration. This makes G tube placement a less optimal medical intervention. But there’s a larger point in this conversation of care that can be missed: prolonging life is not the primary goal.
I’ve seen several families in crisis in my time working in the hospital. So many people are rightfully concerned on what kind of intervention will keep their loved one alive. What can get lost in this narrative is does it serve to deprive a dying person their favorite meal or dehydrating them? While the concern of aspirating, choking, or developing pneumonia are real medical consequences, we should be considering the quality of life consequences associated with limiting someone from eating and drinking. It is not honoring or caring to strip a dying dementia patient of one of life’s simplest pleasures.
Death with advanced dementia is inevitable. As a health professional and daughter to aging parents, I have to keep this in mind for plans of care for those I treat and those I love. It is best to have conversations about end-of-life wishes while everyone is healthy and before we are in a health care crisis.
It’s difficult to think about putting your father or significant other at risk of aspiration. It can feel more comfortable to place a G tube and not think about it. Ultimately though, this does not protect their lungs and it certainly does not enhance their quality of life. Instead of running from death when it’s imminent, we should be embracing empathetic care and honor the life of those nearing their final rest.
2022-23 NC Schweitzer Fellow
NCCU Communication Sciences and Disorders, Class of 2023


title: Michael saylor announces plans to raise 21 billion from stock sale

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Michael Saylor announced plans to raise funds to buy Bitcoin by issuing and selling $21 billion worth of MicroStrategy shares.
The equity raise is part of a larger plan to raise $42 billion for Bitcoin purchases over the next three years.
The at-the-market equity offering will dilute current shares by 42% of their capitalisation, which currently stands at $50 billion.
Michael Saylor, co-founder and Chairman of MicroStrategy, announced plans to raise $21 billion to buy more Bitcoin by offering more MSTR shares at prevailing market prices. The amount of shares issued would dilute the value of existing shares held by current shareholders.
Usually, this level of dilution would lead to a significant discount in stock price to retain the same overall value, which is manifest by a fall in stock prices.
However, MicroStrategy’s stock price has not fallen significantly since the announcement, due largely to its cohort of shareholders, the performance of its stock since 202, and its Bitcoin holding.
An overview of MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin purchases
MicroStrategy began buying Bitcoin in 2020, at a time when adding Bitcoin to corporate balance sheets was not as accepted as it is today. Over the last four years, the company has issued corporate debt notes to fund its Bitcoin purchases and currently holds 252,220 Bitcoin (roughly 1% of the total Bitcoins supply) worth roughly $17.6 billion.
The company’s most recent purchase was in September 2024, when it bought 7,420 Bitcoin at an average price of $61,750 per BTC, totalling $458.2 million, which it raised by offering senior debt notes.
Shareholders hope despite dilution concerns
MicroStrategy is in a unique position because the size of its Bitcoin holdings creates a correlation between Bitcoin’s price performance and that of its stock. With each major Bitcoin purchase, MSTR moves closer to being a quasi-Bitcoin spot ETF.
However, the total cost of MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin purchases hovers around $9.9 billion while the current value of the company’s holding is 95% higher than the cost price, a performance that has fueled the company’s stock rally.
MSTR, which traded around $13 in 2020 when MicroStrategy began its Bitcoin buying strategy, is currently trading at $244.50. The share price has grown 250% this year alone, outpacing Bitcoin’s 60% performance.
MicroStrategy’s capital plans and Saylor’s projections
Michel Saylor’s plan to buy $42 billion worth of Bitcoin over the next three years, fueled by a $21 billion equity raise and debt notes, could increase the company’s Bitcoin holdings by threefold, depending on the average buy price.
Saylor expects Bitcoin to reach between $3 million and $49 million in the next 20 years and is therefore building MicroStrategy into a Bitcoin bank.
Bitcoin trades at $70,105 as of publishing after recently testing the all-time highs of $73,000 reached in March 2024.


tier: kodiak

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Bring communities together for involvement that makes a difference!
Impact your students in a positive way and join the leagues of educators who are learning to engage with students, parents, and communities using social media and Web 2.0 technologies. Featuring practical strategies that you’ll want to put to use right away, plus a dedicated series website for additional resources, this short and easy-to-follow book will show you:
- How smartphones and tablets can work for your goals
- The secret to getting—and keeping—parents involved
- How to inform, engage, and empower stakeholders
- How tools like Skype can connect the community at large
The Corwin Connected Educators series is your key to unlocking the greatest resource available to all educators: other educators. Being a Connected Educator is more than a set of actions: it’s a belief in the potential of technology to fuel lifelong learning. To explore the other books in this series, visit the Corwin Connected Educators website.
Check out the Connected Educator Series matrix to find out which book is right for you.
“Currie harnesses the key element in today’s social media-infused school environment—‘Knowledge is Power!’ He illustrates just how we need to use this knowledge to support our schools, students, and communities.”
Daisy Dyer Duerr, Principal
St. Paul Public Schools
“This book provides educators with a diversified look at the connections schools can make with technology. It will inspire all of us, on a global scale, to stay active in ways once thought unimaginable.”
Salome Thomas-EL, Award-winning principal and author


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“Noah” backgammon with copyrighted Mount Ararat outline
This unique model with copyrighted outline of the magnificent Mount Ararat is carved from one piece of walnut wood and features hornbeam wood incrustation. Engraved on one side is a scene from the biblical story of Noah, who was instructed by God to build an ark and take his family and two of each species of all living creatures on earth into the ark to save them from the impending Flood that would destroy all life on the earth. The scene depicts Noah emerging from the ark after the flood waters subsided, as the ark rests on the shoulder of the Mount Ararat. Based on this story, Mount Ararat is perceived as a symbol of salvation of the mankind. The other side of the backgammon depicts a worship scene. As Noah descended from the ark he built an altar on Mount Ararat and sacrificed burnt offering in worship to God. God blessed Noah and his sons and said, "Behold, I confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you and every living creature on earth”. For the first time, a rainbow appears in the sky as a sign that God will never destroy the life on earth again.
This model is completely handcrafted. The surface is treated with natural beeswax. The hinges and locks are made of cast bronze. The entire playing field is hand carved out of one piece of wood.
The set includes:
Our products come with a 25-year guarantee certificate.
The author of the beautiful backgammons and other products with Mount Ararat outline is Hrachya Ohanyan. This copyrighted feature has been used in our products since 2000.


title: Burt Bacharach at Royal Festival Hall

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Burt Bacharach at Royal Festival Hall
A living music legend took to the stage of the Royal Festival Hall this weekend. Burt Bacharach performed a superb two-hour concert, combining an equal mix of his era-defining pop music, film scores and a few new pieces.
“It’s a tough time,” he explained midway through. “Whatever your side is, they are tough times in America. And working helps me – it may sound a cliché, but music really helps,” he stated, introducing a couple of new songs written (and on the night performed) by young American artist Melody Federer.
Pointing straight away to the heartening power of music, soul gem What the World Needs Now opened the concert. Sporting a Bacharach England jersey, the singer-songwriter reflected during the night on some of his biggest successes: the first film score, the talented friends and the funny events of one of his 60s singles. Mexican Divorce, written with Bob Hilliard for The Drifters, couldn’t be played in any radio stations at the time in the States because of the reference to the breaking of marriage vows. “If you think this happened before they built that beautiful wall…” Bacharach couldn’t stop himself from giggling. The slow swinging rendition of this piece beautifully singled out the acoustic component of the guitar.
The first medley of the night retraced the major hits written with Hal David for soulful Dionne Warwick. The selection included high-pitched Don’t Make Me Over, slow pop number Walk On By, I Say a Little Prayer and (There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me, which was further invigorated by trumpet and drum. The trio of voices on the stage alternated as much to recreate the incredibly ranging voice of the American singer and other original performers. But few singles were approached individually, like the powerful Anyone Who Had a Heart.
It’s impossible not to mention the emotional This House Is Empty Now for Elvis Costello. The melodic song, over years and years, unfailingly continues to move listeners deeply. Pop tunes dominated the first part, while the film records led the second half of the night, introduced by the very first commission the artist had for a movie in London: What’s New Pussycat?. Bacharach’s first attempt of rock in My Little Red Book was appreciated by the musician himself more in band Love’s version.
The night included other firsts, like a world premiere performance of With a Voice. (They Long to Be) Close to You gave goosebumps, just before another rousing medley featuring some of the historic music from movies, which saw Bacharach himself join the vocals: The Look of Love, Arthur’s Theme and the exquisite pop tune Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head.
After such a magical night, it was difficult to let the musician go, but the finale sweetened the closure of this grand concert, as the audience was gifted with the marvellous That’s What Friends Are For.
Photo: Daniel Knighton / Getty Images
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This protein is integrated into the Receptor.AI ecosystem as a prospective target with high therapeutic potential. We performed a comprehensive characterization of Glycine amidinotransferase, mitochondrial including:
1. LLM-powered literature research
Our custom-tailored LLM extracted and formalized all relevant information about the protein from a large set of structured and unstructured data sources and stored it in the form of a Knowledge Graph. This comprehensive analysis allowed us to gain insight into Glycine amidinotransferase, mitochondrial therapeutic significance, existing small molecule ligands, relevant off-targets, and protein-protein interactions.
Fig. 1. Preliminary target research workflow
2. AI-Driven Conformational Ensemble Generation
Starting from the initial protein structure, we employed advanced AI algorithms to predict alternative functional states of Glycine amidinotransferase, mitochondrial, including large-scale conformational changes along "soft" collective coordinates. Through molecular simulations with AI-enhanced sampling and trajectory clustering, we explored the broad conformational space of the protein and identified its representative structures. Utilizing diffusion-based AI models and active learning AutoML, we generated a statistically robust ensemble of equilibrium protein conformations that capture the receptor's full dynamic behavior, providing a robust foundation for accurate structure-based drug design.
Fig. 2. AI-powered molecular dynamics simulations workflow
3. Binding pockets identification and characterization
We employed the AI-based pocket prediction module to discover orthosteric, allosteric, hidden, and cryptic binding pockets on the protein’s surface. Our technique integrates the LLM-driven literature search and structure-aware ensemble-based pocket detection algorithm that utilizes previously established protein dynamics. Tentative pockets are then subject to AI scoring and ranking with simultaneous detection of false positives. In the final step, the AI model assesses the druggability of each pocket enabling a comprehensive selection of the most promising pockets for further targeting.
Fig. 3. AI-based binding pocket detection workflow
4. AI-Powered Virtual Screening
Our ecosystem is equipped to perform AI-driven virtual screening on Glycine amidinotransferase, mitochondrial. With access to a vast chemical space and cutting-edge AI docking algorithms, we can rapidly and reliably predict the most promising, novel, diverse, potent, and safe small molecule ligands of Glycine amidinotransferase, mitochondrial. This approach allows us to achieve an excellent hit rate and to identify compounds ready for advanced lead discovery and optimization.
Fig. 4. The screening workflow of Receptor.AI
Receptor.AI, in partnership with Reaxense, developed a next-generation technology for on-demand focused library design to enable extensive target exploration.
The focused library for Glycine amidinotransferase, mitochondrial includes a list of the most effective modulators, each annotated with 38 ADME-Tox and 32 physicochemical and drug-likeness parameters. Furthermore, each compound is shown with its optimal docking poses, affinity scores, and activity scores, offering a detailed summary.


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History of Family Values Dental in Cumberland MD Part 2
Did you know Family Values Dental used to be a library and before that a police barracks? Well, our building has quite a local history.
In 1924, the Maryland State Police set up their police barracks in LaVale MD right here at our very location. The foundation and much of the internal structure of the building is the same now as it was back then. The basement has a concrete-walled room which sort of reminds us of a jail cell. I'm not sure if it was ever used as a jail, but it certainly make you wonder. There may have been some interesting characters pass through these walls decades ago. We think the building in the back of the property was a horse stable for the police officers. Horseshoes were found 6 feet beneath the present macadam parking area while excavating for underground utilities in 1979. The inside of the back building has the feel of a stable with low ceilings and wood-beamed supporting structures.
In 1956, the LaVale Public Library (Allegany County Library branch) was located here. Currently the library is located directly across the street...which is very convenient for families visiting out practice. But back then, LaVale's library was right inside this building. You can see the original library ceiling tiles with 1950's style stainless steel light fixtures beneath the current ceilings tiles. If you turn off all our dental equipment and music, you can imagine that this place would have made a great library...it's quite peaceful. We've tried to maintain that peaceful library-like atmosphere by having lots of interesting coffee-table type books to leaf through in our lobby. Some people have even commented that our lobby is so relaxing and quiet it feels like they are still in the library.


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The Management of Indus Hospital and Health Network visited the Head office of Unilever in Karachi, on February 17, 2023. The purpose was to create awareness regarding IHHN’s various initiatives to achieve sustainable growth and to invite all employees to support IHHN as it continues expanding its footprint across Pakistan to deliver free-of-cost, quality healthcare to all.
Senior leadership from IHHN was in attendance, including Dr. Abdul Bari Khan, President of IHHN; Mr. Syed Mashhood Rizvi, Executive Director, Communications & Resource Development, along with his team. Mr. Amir Rasool Paracha Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Pakistan Limited, and the organization’s Director and Senior Manager, were also in attendance.
Dr. Abdul Bari Khan briefed the audience on IHHN’s fifteen-year journey in which the Network evolved from a single hospital in Korangi, Karachi, to Pakistan’s largest nationwide healthcare network in the private sector. Currently, IHHN comprises fifteen hospitals, four physical rehabilitation centers, four regional blood centers, thirty-six primary care sites, and multiple public health initiatives. The Network is serving free-of-cost excellence in healthcare to approximately 500,000 patients in need every month.
Speaking at the occasion, Mr. Mashhood Rizvi introduced ‘Subscribe to Save Lives’ and invited the attendees to join this newest initiative, Subscribe to save Lives – League of 100,000 Heroes. The initiative aims to create a community of corporate influencers who can play an important role in opening avenues for IHHN to establish a sustainable resource that can give recurring donations of PKR 10,000 per month.
Presently, IHHN needs approximately PKR 1 billion a month to treat the growing number of patients across the Network. By creating a league of 100K- heroes, each of whom donates PKR 10K each month, IHHN will be able to meet this goal and uphold its mission of Healthcare for All.
Mr. Amir Paracha gave closing remarks at the event. As a longtime supporter of IHHN and one of its Corporate Ambassadors, Mr. Paracha thanked the team from Indus Hospital & Health Network for providing the opportunity to better the health and well-being of the people of Pakistan. He also promised to extend his support to IHHN in the future.


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As the outlook for the UK economy remains uncertain, UK business fears over potential insolvency appear to be easing.
While government data shows insolvencies are at a four-year high, research suggests that these figures are reaching their peak.
Wealth management and professional services group Evelyn Partners found that just under one in three businesses (32 per cent) acknowledged there is a risk they will become insolvent over the next 12 months.
This is considerably lower than in September 2022 when 47 per cent of firms believed there was a risk of insolvency.
According to the firm, businesses now seem to “be in a stronger position to weather this uncertainty and have rowed back from plans to batten down the hatches”.
Alternative means of funding
It also found that with traditional lender appetite suppressed, UK business owners are looking to alternative means of funding. Of the total capital UK businesses are looking to raise in the next six months, just 12 per cent of this funding will be from traditional banks.
More are turning to alternative means of funding, such as credit funds, where nine per cent of funding is set to be raised in the next six months.
‘Survival prospects have improved’
Claire Burden, partner at Evelyn Partners, said: “Businesses have weathered an exceptionally challenging winter, in which the cost of funding has soared, consumer confidence has taken a sizeable hit and energy prices have rocketed.
“Emerging out of these challenging months, it is encouraging that business confidence remains stable, and survival prospects have improved as businesses look ahead over the next year.
“Businesses are not out of the woods just yet, however. Although funding remains in ample supply, banking instability and interest rate rises have led to a buyers’ market. For borrowers and management teams this has resulted in more cumbersome financing processes.
“Businesses looking to re-finance or take on additional funding should therefore start the process early and enlist the support of specialist advisors to help identify funding options and the providers best aligned to their business needs.”
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Poker is a card game played by two or more players. It is a skill-based game that relies heavily on probability, psychology and game theory, although it does involve some element of chance. Many people play poker as a form of recreation, while others make it their career. Regardless of your motivation, learning the game can be beneficial for your life in many ways.
The first thing poker teaches you is how to weigh your chances against those of other players. This is a useful skill in any area of life, but it’s especially important when you’re trying to win big. For example, if you’re in the final stages of an interview and are behind someone with a better CV, you can use your risk/reward assessment skills to help you weigh up whether or not you should continue competing.
Another crucial skill that poker teaches is how to analyse and think critically. This is something that all poker players have to do when assessing their opponents. For example, if you see that an opponent has a weak kicker and is playing a low pair, you could raise the preflop and force them to fold. This is an effective way to minimise their losses and increase your own chances of winning.
Lastly, poker also improves your math skills – and not just in the basic 1+1=2 sense. By playing regularly, you’ll learn to work out the odds of a hand in your head quickly and accurately. This will allow you to make better decisions at the table and improve your overall game.
It’s also worth mentioning that poker can improve your observation skills too. This is because you need to be able to pick up on tells and other subtle changes in your opponents’ body language. By observing experienced players and thinking about how you would react in their situation, you can build your own instincts to help you play better.
Poker also teaches you to be more in control of your emotions. While there may be times in life when an unfiltered expression of emotion is justified, in poker it’s usually best to keep things under control if you want to be successful. This is because poker can be very stressful, and if your anger or frustration gets out of control then there are consequences.
If you want to be a successful poker player then it’s essential that you learn the above skills. By applying them to the game, you can become a more well-rounded player and get further in life than your more impulsive competitors.


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text: You never know what surprises are going to be thrown your way. For my entire life I have been trying to expect the unexpected. I’ve always figured that it was best to be prepared for the random curveballs that life would throw at me. However, I never could have expected that consequences from my younger, more reckless years would still be catching up with me 25 years down the line. This was unfortunately the case when I went on a routine heating, cooling, and ventilation repair appointment last week. My boss at the heating and cooling dealership sent me out to an emergency repair inspection across town. I was told that a massive air conditioning system had broken down and this family was panicking over their terrible indoor air quality. To be fair, it was an extremely hot and humid day outside so I understood that the cooling system breakdown was a big problem. I hustled off to the central cooling repair appointment expecting that I would encounter some bugs and weeds outside… But never thinking that my illegitimate child would be present at the emergency repair appointment. When I arrived I was shocked to immediately recognize the owner of the central heating and cooling system. In fact, the central HVAC system belonged to a girl that I dated briefly back in my wild twenties. As I began looking over the cooling system I couldn’t help but shake the feeling that someone was watching me. When I looked up, I saw a young man who was my spitting image. During this cooling system repair I was beyond shocked to meet my son for the first time.


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By Michelle Ruby
Stevie Salas, named one of the Top 50 Guitarists of All Time by Rolling Stone Magazine, and Bernard Fowler, who has provided backing vocals with The Rolling Stones for more than 20 years, will perform as The I.M. Fs.
Six Nation's own Derek Miller, a two-time Juno winner, will take to the Concert for a Cure stage for the first time.
Topping off the grand finale will be Grammy nominees and blues legends, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, a crowd-gathering festival band best known for its hits, Tuff Enuff and Why Get Up.
Earlier in the day the stage will be given over to new and emerging native talent, among them the northern rockers, The Johnnys, Canadian pop star JRDN, and Faron Johns, a Canadian Aboriginal Music Award (CAMA) winner and powerful Six Nations blues singer.
"Our biggest accomplishment to date is the youth who have come through and are now moving on to bigger things", said Arlene Martin. "It has developed much-needed self-esteem in all youth and we believe there is more we can do.
"That's why we started Concert for a Cure. It's a way to promote the young musicians and give them a platform to showcase their art and talent."
Arlene said the youth outreach group is developing a CD called Inspired by Hope that will be shown in Six Nations classrooms and tell the stories of people who have made it to their dreams with the odds stacked against them."
The first episode includes stories from Derek Miller and Crystal Shawanda, the 2009 CCMA Female Artist of the Year and the headliner at last year's Concert for a Cure.
In other words, I suspect the organization is trying to "cure" the usual social ills plaguing reservations.
For more on the subject, see Anti-Suicide Arts Workshop and Healing Natives Through Hip Hop.


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Divorce - Frequently Asked Questions
Divorce - Frequently Asked Questions
There are few life experiences as challenging and emotionally charged as the breakdown of a relationship. We are here to support and guide you through the separation and divorce process to help achieve the best possible outcome for you and your family.
What is the divorce procedure?
- Check eligibility – you must have been married for at least a year and your marriage must be legally recognised in the UK.
- Apply for divorce – one or both spouses submit a divorce application online or by post to the court, citing an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage (no need to prove fault under the no-fault divorce law).
- Acknowledgment of Service – The court sends the application to the other spouse (the respondent), who must confirm receipt within 14 days.
- Reflection period – A mandatory 20-week waiting period follows before applying for a conditional order, allowing both parties time to consider their decision.
- Apply for Conditional Order – If the court is satisfied, they issue a Conditional Order, confirming that the divorce can proceed.
- Apply for Final Order – After a 6-week waiting period, the applicant can request a Final Order, which legally ends the marriage.
What are the grounds for divorce?
The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2022 allows you to divorce without needing to provide a reason. The Act has reformed the divorce process to remove the concept of “fault”. The changes were designed to reduce conflict between separating couples, allowing parties to focus on the key issues such as children, finance and property. The change in legislation also applies to the dissolution of civil partnerships.
How long does a Divorce take?
A divorce can take as little as six-seven months from start to finish, although it may take much longer. This is dependent on the complexities of the finances involved, which are normally dealt with between the time of conditional order (formerly decree nisi) being granted and the application for final order (formerly decree absolute).
Finances are a vital part of any divorce or separation, and it is essential that you deal with your finances when separating.
To read our recent blog on the Frequently Asked Questions of Divorce click here
How do I pay for a Divorce?
LEGAL AID is not available for most private family law cases, to include divorce or disputes concerning children and finances, except in certain specific circumstances, such as where a party has suffered domestic abuse. However, it may be possible to obtain legal aid for family mediation if you meet the financial criteria.
When Can I Get a Divorce?
You can apply to dissolve a marriage or civil partnership on the basis of irretrievable breakdown without the need to show fault on the part of either party. We can help to support you through this process.
An application is lodged with the court. After a period of 20 weeks from the date the application for divorce/dissolution is issued, it will be possible to apply for a conditional divorce/dissolution order. Six weeks after the granting of the conditional divorce/dissolution either party can apply for a final divorce/dissolution order. Consideration should be given as to whether you apply for the final order before the financial matters are resolved and we can advise you on this.
How we can help
Whether you need assistance with divorce proceedings, child custody arrangements, or financial settlements, our team is equipped with the knowledge and experience to ensure your rights are protected. We encourage you to take advantage of our Complimentary Initial Consultation, where you can speak directly with a legal professional to discuss your unique situation and explore the best options available to you.


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The Hottest Nuclear Matter in Effective Field Theories and Lattice QCD Simulations
Physik Department T30f, Technische Universität München (Germany)
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SuperMUC of LRZ
Nuclear matter changes at high temperatures from a gas of hadrons into a quark-gluon plasma. For sufficiently high temperatures this quark-gluon plasma can be described in terms of effective field theory calculations assuming weak coupling. We calculate the QCD Equation of State and the free energies of heavy quark systems using Lattice QCD, a Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach for solving the QCD path integral numerically in an imaginary time formalism. By comparing the continuum extrapolated results to weak-coupling calculations in different EFT frameworks, we establish their applicability.
The TUMQCD collaboration  studies nuclear matter through a combination of effective field theory approaches and lattice gauge theory simulations. By directly interfacing both methods we have gained new insights into the properties of hot nuclear matter in the quark-gluon-plasma phase. Our focus in the recent year has been on the Equation-of-State of hot nuclear matter  and on the properties of heavy quark-antiquark systems immersed in hot nuclear matter .
Nuclear matter has a hadronic phase at low temperatures and low densities with well-known key properties such as confinement of quarks. It also also has plasma-like phase at temperatures above a pseudo-critical temperature, whose properties are quite different and much less established. In particular, the low-lying hadrons, which are the most relevant degrees of freedom in the hadronic phase, do not exist any more in this quark-gluon plasma. Instead, the constituents of the hadrons – quarks and gluons – are deconfined and directly make up an almost perfect liquid.
Results and Methods
The method of the TUMQCD collaboration is to combine the two complementary approaches to improve their predictive power. On the one hand, effective field theory approaches permit analytical and systematic calculations but require the realization of an assumed hierarchy between different relevant physical scales. On the other hand, lattice gauge theory allows for numerical simulations in an imaginary-time formalism and solves the path integral numerically through a Markov process. However, many dynamical processes require real-time methods and thus cannot be studied directly with an imaginary-time formalism.
We may establish the ranges of applicability for the effective field theories, the actual realization of the scale hierarchies, and the underlying assumptions by comparing results obtained with the former approach to results obtained with the latter approach. Within these applicability ranges we may then use the effective field theory approach to make predictions that cannot be obtained directly from lattice gauge theory simulations.
For our simulations we used the publicly available code of the MILC collaboration , which is a hybrid MPI-OpenMP code written in C and is in steady development since the 80s. We have implemented 2+1 flavors of sea quarks using the highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) action  with the strange quark mass at its physical value and the light sea quark mass at either 5% or 20% of the strange quark mass. The most computationally intensive part of the code is the Rational Hybrid Monte Carlo (RHMC) algorithm, which realizes the Markov process. In the RHMC, the degrees of freedom are coupled to a heatbath and evolved along molecular dynamics trajectories followed by a Metropolis-type accept/reject step.
We used the LRZ HPC system SuperMUC for generating lattices for 2+1 flavor QCD at finite temperature with the RHMC algorithm typically using 2048 cores distributed over four parallel production runs. We used 8 million core hours of computing time for generating 22 new ensembles with lattice extents of 483 x 12 or 643 x 16. In our simulations we were able to generate unprecedentedly fine lattices with a realistic sea quark content and lattice spacings smaller than 0.01 fm, which have been instrumental in determining the continuum limit of our results at high temperatures. In total these ensembles account for 26 TB of binary files. These files have to be kept on disk (WORK) until evaluations of correlators are completed and later are to be archived on tape.
Our study of the 2+1 flavor QCD Equation of State  permitted us to considerably reduce the numerical errors of previous studies with the HISQ action. We could verify that results from direct lattice calculations coincide with hadron resonance gas model calculations for temperatures up to 94% of the pseudo-critical temperature. We developed a new, systematic approach to correct for the discretization errors of the QCD pressure and could obtain well-controlled continuum results for temperatures five times higher than previous studies.
These high temperature lattice results now permit a meaningful comparison with various weak-coupling approaches to thermal QCD, as the latter have only mild truncation errors at such high temperatures. The lattice results lie between the results from dimensionally-reduced effective field theory (Electrostatic QCD) at order g6 and 3-loop Hard-Thermal-Loop QCD, but are compatible with the latter within the associated truncation error, see Figure .
Our study of Color screening in (2+1) flavor QCD  permitted us to address the question at which distances and to which extent a heavy quark-antiquark pair is sensitive to the effects of the surrounding thermal QCD medium or is predominantly still a vacuum-like system. For this project we have computed spatial heavy-quark correlation functions at finite temperature in the project pr83pu using the lattices generated on SuperMUC in the project pr48le. We have obtained the continuum limit up to fourteen times higher than the pseudo-critical temperature and conduct a detailed comparison with various effective field theory approaches. We verify the realization of the scale hierarchies in certain regimes determined by the temperature and the distance between quark and antiquark. These results suggest that these effective field theories provide suitable descriptions of the heavy quark interactions for temperatures above two times the pseudo-critical temperature.
We also work on further projects involving the same lattices and correlation functions. These projects involve novel and more precise determinations of the strong coupling constant αs and of the static energy at zero and finite temperature using various approaches refined by or invented in our collaboration. The knowledge of the applicability ranges of the effective field theories is indispensable for these projects. Most of our ensembles are reused by us and also by our collaborators using different HPC systems, e.g. at Jefferson Lab in the US. Lastly, we are extending our work to simulations with 2+1+1 flavors of quarks, for which we will require an extension of our SuperMUC project pr48le.
We have started to target the overhaul of main aspects of our code (transition from AOS to SOA) in order to produce efficient code for Intel MIC infrastructures.
A. Kronfeld, A. Vairo, J. H. Weber; A. Bazavov, P. Petreczky
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Michigan State University
1. TUMQCD collaboration http://einrichtungen.ph. tum.de/T30f/tumqcd/index.html
2. A. Bazavov, P. Petreczky and J. H. Weber, Phys. Rev. D 97, no. 1, 014510 (2018)
3. A. Bazavov et al. [TUMQCD Collaboration], Phys. Rev. D 98, no. 5, 054511 (2018)
4. MILC code: http://www.physics.utah.edu/∼detar/milc/
5. E. Follana et al. [HPQCD and UKQCD Collaborations], Phys. Rev. D 75, 054502 (2007)
NOTE: This report was first published in the book "High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering – Garching/Munich 2018":
LRZ project IDs: pr48le, pr83pu


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Redwood Shores, Calif.—Aug 7, 2018
Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison today marked a major milestone in the company’s autonomous strategy with the availability of the latest Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Service, Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing. Leveraging innovative machine learning and automation capabilities, Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing delivers unprecedented cost savings, security, availability, and productivity. Oracle’s new self-driving database cloud service is built to run the world’s most demanding finance, retail, manufacturing, and government applications, supporting a complex mix of high-performance transaction processing, reporting, batch, and analytic workloads. Oracle’s Autonomous Database portfolio provides organizations with the most complete and advanced set of database capabilities on the market today.
“Oracle is by far the best database in the world and it just got a lot better because now it’s autonomous,” said Ellison. “This delivers a much more reliable, much more secure system—a system that protects against data theft, a system that is up 99.995 percent of the time, and a system that makes organizations and their developers dramatically more productive.”
Traditionally, creating a database management system required experts to custom build and manually maintain a complex hardware and software stack. Oracle Autonomous Database revolutionizes data management by using machine learning to provide a self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing database service with cloud economies of scale and elasticity. The service enables users to instantly create new autonomous databases and easily convert existing databases, dramatically reducing costs and time to market.
Complementing the existing Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse service, Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing can support a complex mix of high-performance transactions, reporting, batch, IoT, and machine learning in a single database, allowing for simpler application development and deployment, and enabling real-time analytics, personalization, and fraud detection on live transactional data. Users can:
Cut costs: Complete automation of database and infrastructure operations cuts administrative costs up to 80 percent. The efficiency of a self-optimizing database together with elastic pay-per-use cuts runtime costs up to 90 percent.
Reduce risk: Automatic application of the latest security updates with no downtime eliminates cyber-attack vulnerabilities. Protection from all types of failures, including system failures, regional outages, and user errors delivers 99.995 percent availability, or less than 2.5 minutes of downtime a month, including maintenance. Database Vault prevents administrators from snooping on user data.
Accelerate innovation: Eliminating database maintenance allows database administrators to focus on getting more value from data. Developers become more agile by instantly creating and effortlessly using databases that require no manual tuning. Integrated machine learning algorithms enable the development of applications that perform real-time predictions, such as personalized shopping and fraud detection. The simplicity of upgrading existing databases to the autonomous cloud enables IT to transform to a modern, agile cloud model quickly and easily.
Oracle Autonomous Database builds on 40 years of experience supporting the majority of the world’s most demanding applications. It is easy for customers to adopt because it uses the same proven Oracle Database as on-premises, with the same functionality and interfaces. Oracle Autonomous Database supports the most mission-critical workloads because it is based on highly-sophisticated Oracle Database technologies that are unrivaled by any other product, including high-performance Exadata infrastructure, Real Application Clusters for transparent scale-out and fault tolerance, Active Data Guard disaster recovery, and Online Data Evolution.
“The toughest job a DBA has is that of tuning and maintaining a mission-critical transactional database,” said Carl Olofson, research vice president for IDC’s Data Management Software research. “In addition to examining statistics and applying tuning adjustments, the DBA must also apply patches, including security patches, on a very frequent basis, which is both an error-prone and operationally-disruptive activity. With Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing, Oracle has eliminated these problematic tasks, allowing the DBA to concentrate on the higher value activity of enabling more business-responsive applications, and helping the enterprise to ensure that data will not be compromised due to known vulnerabilities.”
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MBBS, DOMS (AMU), DNB (Ophthalmology)
Phaco, Refractive Surgery, Pediatric Ophthalmology and squint
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Dr. Shams tabrez is experienced medical professional with nearly 2 years of work experience in the field of medical and surgical ophthalmology along with MBBS and DO MS (Ophthalmology) from AMU Aligarh, and DNB (Ophthalmology) from Choithram netralaya Indore.He has done phacoemulsification fellowship from SUSRUT Eye Foundation &Research Center ,kolkata ,West Bengal. His expertise lies in diagnosing and managing all the medical and emergency cases of anterior and posterior segment of eye with specialization in surgical management of anterior segment with special interest in phacoemulsification. He has also keen interest in low vision aids and paediatric ophthalmology and squint.
He has performed over 3000 cataract surgeries and is a competent and skilled surgeon with a very sound clinical knowledge. He is proficient in performing Phacoemulsification, MICS, SICS, including complicated cases, Pterygium excision with conjunctival autografting, DCT, Conjunctival mass excisions, intravitreal injections, and managing ocular trauma cases.
He has presented several papers and physical poster at prestigious national ophthalmology conferences and has several publications in index journal like IJO, DJO, ACSO etc.
Dr. Shams Tabrez is an experienced medical professional who practices at ASG Eye Hospital.
To schedule an appointment with Dr. Shams Tabrez, call our helpline at 1800 1200 111 or use our online appointment booking system on the ASG Eye Hospital website.
Dr. Shams Tabrez holds an MBBS, DOMS from AMU Aligarh, and DNB (Ophthalmology) from Choithram Netralaya Indore. He has done a phacoemulsification fellowship from the SUSRUT Eye Foundation & Research Center, Kolkata, West Bengal.
He specializes in diagnosing and managing all the medical and emergency cases of anterior and posterior segments of the eye with a special interest in phacoemulsification.
Dr. Shams’s consultation hours are 9 AM- 6 PM. Please check our website or contact us for any changes or updates.
For Dr. Shams’s consultation fees, kindly contact our hospital at 1800 1200 111.


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3. Gift aid
Gift Aid is a way that charities can boost their donations without it costing you any extra, and in some cases, you can benefit too by paying less tax – simply by completing a gift aid form with the charity concerned and letting HMRC know about the donations that you have made.
Gifts made through the Gift Aid scheme are paid net of basic-rate tax (20%), which mean the charity then reclaims an additional 20% of the balance directly from HMRC.
Higher-rate taxpayers, who pay 40% tax, can claim the additional 20% tax relief either through their tax return or by contacting their tax office. This means that you giving £125 to a charity and it only cost you £75 in real terms.
To benefit from the extra tax-relief available you should keep a record of qualifying donations throughout the year, this could be in a notebook or on an app and doesn’t need to be in any specific format. You don’t need to calculate the amount of the relief due. Simply enter the total amount of payments made under Gift Aid in boxes 5, 6, 7 and 8 (as appropriate) on page TR 4 of your self-assessment tax return form or contact your tax office to have your tax code adjusted manually.
Things you may be able to include:
- Donations to churches, school PTAs or other registered organisations on either a one-off or regular basis.
- Memberships to other charity groups where the subscription can be Gift Aided – e.g. National Trust, some choral societies or other groups that have charitable status.
For each of these you should have completed some sort of Gift Aid declaration with your name and postcode as minimum information and, in effect, you get rewarded for your generosity. Maybe you could set up a regular payment to a charity close to your heart, in the knowledge that you are helping a worthy cause and reducing your tax bill in the process!
Have you seen our earlier blog on organising your money?


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In the decade since the tragic death of Nolan Burch, his parents and WVU have worked together to recreate fraternity and sorority life into a positive and healthy community of peers, not just on WVU's campus, but around the country.
Read More : ‘Not in the shadows anymore’Established in 2016, Collegiate Recovery, which operates out of Serenity Place at Arnold House, is a campus-based, peer support program dedicated to helping students find community and balance a healthy lifestyle at West Virginia University.
Read More : Feels Like Home: Students find refuge at Serenity PlaceWVU has an average of 300 students per year who work with the Office of Undergraduate Research.
Read More : R1 of a Kind: Undergrad research opportunities are unique to WVUIt was at the Berkeley Medical Center, during the COVID-19 pandemic, that inspiration struck. Dr. Ryan McCarthy founded Healthcare is Human in 2020, working to document the experiences of health care workers on the frontlines.
Read More : Dr. Ryan McCarthy: Humanizing Health CareWhen Johnson graduated from West Virginia University in 1999, the former Calliope staff member and writer for the DA debated on whether he should pursue a Master of Fine Arts or a law degree.
Read More : Russell Johnson: A coal country kid turned writerFrank Vitale (BA ’96, MBA ’10) can check off another box on the long list of goas he set for himself as a West Virginia University student. Vitale is already an entrepreneur, a veteran and a business leader. Now he’s also a best-selling author.
Read More : Frank Vitale: Building the fortitudeBorn and raised in a small village in Pakistan, Areej Jaffrey has lived a life that exemplifies nontraditional. So it’s no big surprise that Jaffrey began her journey as a West Virginia University commuter student in fall 2024.
Read More : The Last Word: The Commuter Student


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How Does Nodulation Help My Soybean Yield?
What is Nodulation?
If you were to walk out into a soybean field right now and pull up a plant, roots and all, most likely you would see nodules on its roots. These off-white protrusions are a symbiotic relationship between the plant, the soil and the microbes that create the nodules. Bradyrhizobium japonicum occurs naturally in most soils (the microbe used in Maximize™ Soybean Inoculant and other soybean products). This microbe reacts with the root hairs of a soybean plant, which then swell because of the microbes. This creates the nodules you see. The microbes pull nitrogen from the atmosphere and funnel it to the plant while benefiting from the plant’s photosynthesis.
How Does It Help My Yield?
Nodulation helps your crop yield by increasing nitrogen fixation. Legumes naturally use nitrogen fixation, pulling the gas from the air and into their roots for growth. TerraMax uses an all-natural microbial formula involving Bradyrhizobium japonicum which helps promote nodulation, and consequently Nitrogen fixation.
In layman’s terms, this means that your crops will grow stronger and produce a more plentiful yield. Normal fertilizers can cause problems within local ecosystems. But, because TerraMax’s natural formula utilizes the Nitrogen that already exists the balance of the ecosystem isn’t altered.
It’s easy to talk big, but TerraMax products are backed up by performance. We have been PFR Proven by Beck’s Hybrids Farmer Collaborative Process. What does this mean? It means that consistently over 3 or more years, our products have shown a positive yield increase when testing and that they average a positive return on investment. Those are some powerful numbers. Please ask us to see them.
So if you are ready to take your crop to the next level, switch to TerraMax and see why our industry-first formula with Bradyrhizobium japonicum is making waves. To see all of our products, and to find out where to find our products, contact us at 952-657-5592 or find us at our website: https://terramaxag.com/


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As cherry blossom petals herald the beginning of spring, typical spring routines return to South Korea, as South Koreans shed their winter clothes and hum a quintessential spring song by Busker Busker, “Cherry Blossom Ending.”
But something else routinely comes back when spring is in the air: a controversy over the origin of cherry blossom trees. Who is the true parent of cherry blossoms, Japan or South Korea?
Since the early 20th century, the Japanese government has been giving cherry blossom trees as a diplomatic gift to other countries, notably to the U.S. The prominent cherry blossom festival in Washington D.C. stems from the planting ceremony held when Japan donated the trees in 1912. In South Korea, too, cherry blossoms are an important cultural symbol. Like in Japan, the flowers blossom beautifully in spring, prompting massive festivals and many South Koreans to go sightseeing.
In the spring of 2014, South Korean media outlet Newsis cited John Covell, an Asian art historian, arguing that over 6,000 cherry blossom trees that Japan sent to Washington D.C. in 1912 were actually from Jeju Island in South Korea, not a suburb in Tokyo. This is a common narrative in South Korean media. In the same year, Japan Times rebutted this narrative, calling it “a distorted interpretation of the facts.”
So where does the cherry blossom originate from?
The species most commonly seen worldwide, partly thanks to Japanese diplomacy, does come from Japan. The species, an artificial hybrid, is called somei-yoshino, or Yoshino Cherry.
Here comes an interesting plot twist: Yoshino Cherry may be related to King Cherry, a species native to South Korea. (Taxonomists have yet to scientifically confirm the connection between the King Cherry and Yoshino cherry) They even look similar; although a 2007 study by researchers from South Korea and the U.S Department of Agriculture concluded that King Cherry is indigenous to Jeju island and genetically distinct from Yoshino Cherry.
Since 2014, China has also joined the “who owns cherry blossoms” controversy, claiming that cherry blossom trees originated from the Himalayan region in what is today China, and spread to Japan. People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, said poems mentioning the dainty flowers are dated back to Tang Dynasty from the seventh to tenth century, when cherry blossom trees were widely planted in private courtyards in China.
Cover Image: Each year, when the cherry blossom flowers bloom, historical controversies over the origin of the flowers also bloom again between Japan and South Korea. (Se-Woong Koo/Korea Exposé)
Jieun Choi wrote this radar report.


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Flytipped Matress and a lot of loose rubbish
Reported via mobile in the Flytipping category anonymously at 14:38, Saturday 12 April 2025
Sent to Bristol City Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 7425456.
Lots of rubbish. Gross.
Additionally, a flytipped mattress
Thank you for taking the time to report fly- tipping to Bristol City Council. We will aim to remove the fly- tip within 3 days, but this depends on its size, scale, location, or whether the fly tip is hazardous.
Reducing levels of fly tipping is important so please share any evidence of who is doing it with the council.
If you witnessed who fly-tipped the waste or have evidence (CCTV/photo) please call us on 01179222100, or submit this at https://digital.bristol.gov.uk/ streets-travel/ tell-us-about-a-fly-tipping-incident-you-saw #YourCity.YourCall
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Updated by Bristol City Council at 08:15, Monday 14 April 2025
Ducie Road Carpark entrance there is a large red 'Biffa' bin which has been moved there about 3 weeks ago off the street. It is full and overflowing and the lid cannot be closed. A lot of additional waste (in bags and loose) has accumulated around and another mattress dumped ( the Council did remove the previous one some time ago). Biffa need to be told to remove their bin and empty it. The area needs claering up and waste removed. The problem was reported last week by a council workman on his phone after he had tidied up the area and got it ready for collection. No action was taken and now it is worse! Thank you
Posted anonymously at 21:12, Monday 12 May 2025
Thank you for taking the time to report this issue to us.
Our team has investigated and found that resolving this issue does not fall under the responsibility of Bristol Waste, or we are unable to address this problem for health and safety reasons at this time. This might be because the issue is on private property, or because it is located in an inaccessible area. Please contact us by calling 01179222100.
If you are unhappy with our response, please let us know here https://www.bristol.gov.uk/ contact/ complaints-and-feedback/ complaints-procedures
Please continue to report street issues to help us keep Bristol clean and safe.
State changed to: No further action
This report is now closed to updates from the public. You can make a new report in the same location. Please reference 7425456 in your new report if it is an update on this one.


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It is difficult to imagine that each of us began life as a single cell (fertilized egg) called a zygote.
A human embryo at about 6–8 weeks after conception shows development of distinctive features.
How did this complex embryo develop from a single fertilized egg?
Development is determined by the zygote’s genome and molecules in the egg cytoplasm called Cytoplasmic determinants.
Cell differentiation is the specialization of cells in structure and function.
Morphogenesis is the process by which an animal takes shape / form.
Model organisms are species that are representative of a larger group and easily studied. Classic embryological studies use the sea urchin, frog, chick, and the nematode C. elegans.
After fertilization, embryonic development proceeds through cleavage, gastrulation, and organogenesis
Important events regulating development occur during fertilization and the three stages that build the animal’s body
Cleavage: cell division creates a hollow ball of cells called a blastula
Gastrulation: cells are rearranged into a three-layered gastrula
Organogenesis: the three germ layers interact and move to give rise to organs.
Fertilization: sperm + egg = zygote n + n = 2n
Fertilization brings the haploid nuclei of sperm and egg together, forming a diploid zygote.
The sperm’s contact with the egg’s surface initiates metabolic reactions in the egg that trigger the onset of embryonic development:
The Acrosomal Reaction
The acrosomal reaction is triggered when the sperm meets the egg.
The acrosome at the tip of the sperm releases hydrolytic enzymes that digest material surrounding the egg.
Gamete contact and/or fusion depolarizes the egg cell membrane and sets up a fast block to polyspermy.
The acrosomal and cortical reactions during sea urchin fertilization
Basal body (centriole)
Egg plasma membrane
Sperm plasma membrane
Fused plasma membranes


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The HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 featuring Intel Xeon-P 8156 is a powerful processor kit designed to enhance the capabilities and performance of your server infrastructure. Integrating this processor into your system can lead to significant improvements in processing speed, multi-tasking efficiency, and overall server reliability, making it an ideal purchase for businesses looking to scale up their data center performance.
Intel’s Xeon-P 8156 processor included in the kit is known for its high core count and strong multi-threading capabilities, which allows for handling demanding workloads and virtualization requirements with ease. The processor’s advanced security features ensure that data is protected from various threats, safeguarding your sensitive information.
Furthermore, the DL360 Gen10 is a part of HPE’s ProLiant line, which is renowned for its energy efficiency and system optimization, leading to cost savings and a reduced carbon footprint. This forward compatibility ensures that your investment is future-proofed, offering support for upcoming software and hardware updates.
Effortless integration with existing HPE ProLiant systems allows for a seamless upgrade path. The FIO, or Factory Integrated Option, aspect of the processor kit denotes that it is tailor-made for compatibility with HPE servers, which minimizes potential compatibility issues that may arise during installation.
Moreover, investing in the HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 Processor Kit enhances overall system uptime with HPE’s proven track record of reliability. Regular firmware updates and support from HPE can significantly extend the life of your server, ensuring that it continues to meet the evolving demands of your business operations.
In summary, purchasing the 874452-L21 – HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 Processor Kit represents a strategic decision to invest in the longevity, efficiency, and security of your server, negating the need to invest in completely new hardware as your computational needs grow.
HPE DL360 Gen10 Xeon-P 8156 FIO Kit
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Experience the balanced blend of performance and value with the 874452-L21 HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 Processor at Northland Systems — your ideal partner for server technology solutions.


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Brazil Seeks Clarification on teh ‘Dehumanizing Treatment’ of Deportees
Overview of the Situation
In recent developments, Brazil has voiced its concerns regarding the treatment of individuals deported from various countries. The Brazilian government is preparing to officially request explanations concerning allegations surrounding the inadequate adn often humiliating conditions faced by these deportees.
Health and safety Concerns
Reports have surfaced indicating that many deportees experiance severe health risks during their confinement. Issues related to inadequate medical care,insufficient food supplies,and overall poor hygienic conditions have raised red flags among human rights advocates. A surge in distressing accounts from individuals who have undergone such experiences highlights a pressing need for reform in how deportations are handled globally.
International response and Standards
Brazil’s position comes amid a broader dialog about wrongful treatment during immigration proceedings worldwide. Organizations like Amnesty International stress that upholding basic human rights should be paramount nonetheless of an individual’s immigration status. They highlight standards set by international treaties that intend to protect all people against degrading treatments — standards that seem increasingly at odds with practices employed by certain nations.
Recent Statistics on Deportation Cases
According to recent statistics referenced from relevant authorities, there has been a noticeable increase in reported cases involving degrading treatments towards those facing deportation—in some areas reaching upwards of 30% over previous years compared to earlier records. These figures illustrate a worrying trend that prompts Brazilian officials to take action on behalf of their citizens abroad.
Calls for Accountability
The Brazilian government’s call for accountability reflects its commitment to diplomatic engagement regarding human rights issues affecting Brazilians overseas. By systematically addressing these allegations, Brazil not only aims for transparency but also strives to enhance its image as a defender of civil liberties on an international scale.
Conclusion: A Step Toward Human Rights Reform
As this situation unfolds, it is crucial for countries involved in immigration enforcement policies around the globe—notably those implicated in alleged mistreatment—to consider reforms aimed at ensuring humane treatment for all individuals impacted by such processes. In echoing calls made internationally, Brazil seeks not only answers but also meaningful change within global practices surrounding deportation protocols.


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