Q:

React-Native Android - Release apk "has stopped" - Looking for "index.ios"

I've built a simple android react-native app that works fine on the device when I run react-native run-android.
I've followed the instructions here https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/signed-apk-android.html to generate a signed apk.
When I try this release apk with react-native run-android --variant=release I get "Unfortunately,  has stopped".
How do I find out what happens? Are there some logs somewhere?
The stuff I'm finding via google is about debugging. But I presumably can't as this is a release build.
Update
I find out how to view the logs - adb logcat *:S ReactNative:V ReactNativeJS:V
I get the following
10-14 11:24:42.129 29039 29060 E ReactNativeJS: Requiring unknown module "./index.ios".
10-14 11:24:42.177 29039 29060 E ReactNativeJS: Module AppRegistry is not a registered callable module (calling runApplication)
10-14 11:24:42.534 29039 29060 E ReactNativeJS: Module AppRegistry is not a registered callable module (calling unmountApplicationComponentAtRootTag)

Why is my android release apk looking for anything ios related? Have I configured something wrong?

A:

Answering my own question, I traced this to a component I found on GitHub. The index.android.js contained simply:
module.exports = require('./index.ios');
I ended up stripping my app back to the bare minimum content, deploying it to the phone and testing. Then adding a little bit more of the previously broken content before redeploying. A bit like git bisect but a lot more manual!
TL;DR - if I searched for index.ios in all .js files, including those in node_modules, I might have found it.


Q:

Mouse wheel scrolling Toolstrip menu items

I have some menus that contain many menuitems. Mouse wheel doesn't scroll them. I have to use the keyboard arrows or click the arrows at top and bottom.
Is it possible to use the mouse wheel to scroll toolstrip menu items?
Thanks

A:

A working solution:

Register for MouseWheel event of your form and DropDownClosed event of your root MenuStripItem (here, rootItem) in the Load event of the form
    this.MouseWheel += Form3_MouseWheel;
    rootItem.DropDownOpened += rootItem_DropDownOpened;
    rootItem.DropDownClosed += rootItem_DropDownClosed;

Add the code for Keyboard class which simulate key presses
public static class Keyboard
{
    [DllImport("user32.dll")]
    static extern uint keybd_event(byte bVk, byte bScan, int dwFlags, int dwExtraInfo);

    const byte VK_UP = 0x26; // Arrow Up key
    const byte VK_DOWN = 0x28; // Arrow Down key

    const int KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY = 0x0001; //Key down flag, the key is going to be pressed
    const int KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = 0x0002; //Key up flag, the key is going to be released

    public static void KeyDown()
    {
        keybd_event(VK_DOWN, 0, KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY, 0);
        keybd_event(VK_DOWN, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);
    }

    public static void KeyUp()
    {
        keybd_event(VK_UP, 0, KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY, 0);
        keybd_event(VK_UP, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);
    }
}

Add the code for DropDownOpened, DropDownClosed, MouseWheel events:
bool IsMenuStripOpen  = false;

void rootItem_DropDownOpened(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    IsMenuStripOpen = true;
}

void rootItem_DropDownClosed(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    IsMenuStripOpen = false;
}

void Form3_MouseWheel(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
    if (IsMenuStripOpen)
    {
        if (e.Delta > 0)
        {
            Keyboard.KeyUp();
        }
        else
        {
            Keyboard.KeyDown();
        }
    }
}

A:

You can enable it application wide with this class:
public class DropDownMenuScrollWheelHandler : System.Windows.Forms.IMessageFilter
{
    private static DropDownMenuScrollWheelHandler Instance;
    public static void Enable(bool enabled)
    {
        if (enabled)
        {
            if (Instance == null)
            {
                Instance = new DropDownMenuScrollWheelHandler();
                Application.AddMessageFilter(Instance);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            if (Instance != null)
            {
                Application.RemoveMessageFilter(Instance);
                Instance = null;
            }
        }
    }
    private IntPtr activeHwnd;
    private ToolStripDropDown activeMenu;

    public bool PreFilterMessage(ref Message m)
    {
        if (m.Msg == 0x200 && activeHwnd != m.HWnd) // WM_MOUSEMOVE
        {
            activeHwnd = m.HWnd;
            this.activeMenu = Control.FromHandle(m.HWnd) as ToolStripDropDown;
        }
        else if (m.Msg == 0x20A && this.activeMenu != null) // WM_MOUSEWHEEL
        {
            int delta = (short)(ushort)(((uint)(ulong)m.WParam) >> 16);
            handleDelta(this.activeMenu, delta);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    private static readonly Action<ToolStrip, int> ScrollInternal
        = (Action<ToolStrip, int>)Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Action<ToolStrip, int>),
            typeof(ToolStrip).GetMethod("ScrollInternal",
                System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic
                | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance));

    private void handleDelta(ToolStripDropDown ts, int delta)
    {
        if (ts.Items.Count == 0)
            return;
        var firstItem = ts.Items[0];
        var lastItem = ts.Items[ts.Items.Count - 1];
        if (lastItem.Bounds.Bottom < ts.Height && firstItem.Bounds.Top > 0)
            return;
        delta = delta / -4;
        if (delta < 0 && firstItem.Bounds.Top - delta > 9)
        {
            delta = firstItem.Bounds.Top - 9;
        }
        else if (delta > 0 && delta > lastItem.Bounds.Bottom - ts.Height + 9)
        {
            delta = lastItem.Bounds.Bottom - owner.Height + 9;
        }
        if (delta != 0)
            ScrollInternal(ts, delta);
    }
}


PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns FC once again have partnered with iconic, local comic book publisher Dark Horse Comics to create player-specific superheroes in recognition of National Superhero Day, it was announced today.

Timbers midfielder Sebastián Blanco and Thorns FC midfielder Lindsey Horan will both be transformed into superheroes and have alter-egos created by local artist Ron Chan. The collaboration will be launched on Sunday, April 28, on National Superhero Day, marking the second consecutive year in which the Timbers and Thorns FC have partnered with Dark Horse Comics. In 2018, Timbers midfielders Diego Chara and Diego Valeri and Thorns FC midfielder Tobin Heath and forward Christine Sinclair were each transformed into superheroes.

“We are excited to build upon the partnership with Dark Horse and continue this special collection to celebrate the club and athletes,” said Cory Dolich, Timbers and Thorns FC senior vice president of business operations and marketing. “Given the feedback and reaction from last year, it was an easy decision to extend the collaboration and grow our set of PTFC superheroes.”

As part of the project, comic book writer Paul Tobin created unique origin stories for each player, detailing the genesis of their individual superpowers. Blanco’s superhero, ‘The Mighty Blanco,’ is gifted with incredible strength and power, the ability to wield fire and the capacity to transform into a whirling titan on the field. Horan’s superhero, ‘The Great Horan,’ has special powers that allow her to transport herself through a portal anywhere on the field, that simultaneously enhance her strength, endurance, stamina and physical ability.

"Dark Horse is thrilled to be working with our friends from the Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns again this year,” said Mike Richardson, Dark Horse President and founder. “We're excited to once again combine the creative talent of our staff and talented creators at Dark Horse with the athletic prowess of the Timbers and Thorns players."

The special creative will be displayed on individual t-shirts featuring Blanco and Horan. Additionally, a commemorative scarf, t-shirt and individual patches will feature all six players, including last year’s group of superheroes – Chara, Heath, Sinclair and Valeri. Each product will be available in-person at the PTFC Team Store during regular business hours, and online at www.shopthornsfc.com, starting on Sunday, April 28, at 9 a.m. (Pacific). The commemorative scarf will also be available for purchase at www.MLSStore.com.

About Dark Horse Comics

Founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson, Dark Horse Comics is an excellent example of how integrity and innovation can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and transform a company with humble beginnings into an industry giant. Under a new partnership with Vanguard Visionary Associates, Dark Horse is positioned to further expand its reach globally with publishing, products, and filmed entertainment. Over the years, Dark Horse has published the work of creative legends such as Yoshitaka Amano, Margaret Atwood, Paul Chadwick, Geof Darrow, Will Eisner, Neil Gaiman, Dave Gibbons, Faith Erin Hicks, Kazuo Koike, Matt Kindt, Jeff Lemire, Mike Mignola, Frank Miller, Moebius, Chuck Palahniuk, Wendy Pini, and Gerard Way. In addition, Dark Horse has a long tradition of establishing exciting new creative talent throughout all of its divisions. The company has also set the industry standard for quality licensed comics, graphic novels, collectibles, and art books, including Aliens, Stranger Things, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Predator, Minecraft, The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, Dragon Age, James Cameron’s Avatar, Game of Thrones, Mass Effect, StarCraft, The Witcher, and Halo. Today, Dark Horse Comics is one of the world’s leading entertainment publishers.


Introduction
============

Langerhans\' cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a group of disorders in various tissues characterized by the proliferation of Langerhans cells, and its etiopathogenesis is unknown. Although LCH has been known for approximately a century, its etiology has yet to be elucidated. It is rarely observed in adults ([@b1-mco-0-0-860]). Langerhans cells are dendritic cells that express cluster of differentiation 1a (CD1a) and S100 protein, and contain Birbeck granules. One possible etiological cause is a reactive proliferation of Langerhans cells following chemotherapy or radiotherapy for Hodgkin\'s disease (HD). Eosinophilic granuloma is the benign accumulation of histiocytes located primarily in the bones, but which also affects other organs, including the skin, lungs and lymph nodes. A number of cases of LCH associated with malignant lymphoma have been reported previously: It may follow after the malignant lymphoma ([@b2-mco-0-0-860]--[@b8-mco-0-0-860]) or occur with it ([@b9-mco-0-0-860]). However, fewer cases have been reported in which LCH followed after Hodgkin\'s lymphoma (HL). In the present report, we present one case patient who was diagnosed with HD following chemotherapy for LCH.

Case report
===========

### Diagnosis of LCH

In March 2013, a 31-year-old man presented with a one year history of fever, pruritus and left flank bone pain. The patient\'s medical history indicated no abnormalities. He was referred to another clinic hospital for an assessment of the flank bone diseases. Computed tomographic (CT) scans of the left flank bone revealed a bone-destructive lesion. The patient underwent surgery to obtain a diagnosis and to excise the destructive bone. The tissue that was removed during surgery exhibited a histiocytic cell population, intermixed with eosinophils, neutrophils, multinuclear giant cells and foamy macrophages, which were observed in the background. In addition, certain fibrotic bands existed in this background. The histiocytic cells were positive for CD1a and CD30 marker proteins, as revealed by immunohistochemistry staining. However, S100 as a marker was not available for immunohistochemical analysis ([Fig. 1](#f1-mco-0-0-860){ref-type="fig"}). On the basis of the morphology and immunohistochemical staining profiles, the patient was diagnosed with LCH. The patient\'s treatment commenced with analgesia, and clinical remission was achieved.

In June 2013, the patient presented to The First Central Hospital of Tianjin (Tianjin, China) with two sides of flank bone pain and pruritus, which had been apparent for one week. Upon admission, a physical examination revealed a rash on his epipodites. Neither peripheral lymphadenopathy nor hepatosplenomegaly were detected. The patient had no other B symptoms. The laboratory tests revealed normal levels of the blood cell count, C reactive protein, lactate dehydrogenase, hepatic and renal functions. The results of bone marrow aspirate examination, biopsy and flow cytometric analysis were normal. CT scans of the thorax and abdomen revealed lymph nodes and a large mass in the anterior and middle mediastinum ([Fig. 2](#f2-mco-0-0-860){ref-type="fig"}). A magnetic resonance imaging scan demonstrated the destroyed sclerotin in the left flank bone and two sides of the acetabular bones, and soft tissue in the left articulatio sacroiliaca. The anterior mediastinum biopsy by CT-guided needle puncture revealed the presence of lymphocytes, epithelial cell nests (cytokeratin-positive), fibrous tissue and adipose tissue, indicating thoracic gland tissue.

As previously, the patient was diagnosed with LCH and treated with a combination of chemotherapeutic agents in two cycles of cyclophosphamide, vincristine and prednisolone (COP). However, the bone pain and fever continued. A CT scan of the thorax revealed that the tumor mass in the mediastinum was unchanged. Subsequently, the patient was treated with a combination of various chemotherapeutic agents in two cycles of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisolone (CHOP). The patient went into remission as far as the bone pain and fever were concerned, and the CT scan of the thorax revealed a marked reduction in the size of the tumor mass in the mediastinum. Following six cycles of treatment with CHOP as a maintenance therapy, the patient achieved a successful clinical remission.

### Diagnosis of HD

One year after the patient entered clinical remission, the patient once again developed bone pain and fever. A physical examination revealed peripheral lymph node enlargement, although no hepatosplenomegaly. The laboratory tests were normal, as identified previously. CT scans of the thorax and abdomen revealed augmentation of the tumor mass in the mediastinum. An excisional biopsy of the right inguinal lymph node was performed. Microscopic examination revealed that the atypical cells were either mononucleated or binucleated, composed of lymphocytes, plasma cells and a few eosinophils. Immunohistochemical staining revealed CD30- and CD15-positive cells. Immunostaining for CD1a protein was positive, as determined previously ([Fig. 3](#f3-mco-0-0-860){ref-type="fig"}). The patient was diagnosed with nodular sclerosing HD (stage IIIA, with spleen involvement), secondary to LCH. Subsequently, the patient was treated with a combination of various chemotherapeutic agents of adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarbazine (ABVD). The patient received four cycles of ABVD chemotherapy. Following the chemotherapy, the patient obtained a remission of the bone pain, fever and pruritus, and a whole-body positron emission tomographic (PET) CT scan revealed a decrease in the tumor mass in the mediastinum ([Fig. 4](#f4-mco-0-0-860){ref-type="fig"}). To date, the patient remains in treatment, and the prognosis has yet to be fully determined.

Discussion
==========

LCH is a group of disorders, with the proliferation of Langerhans cells accumulating in various tissues. LCH is a rare disease that may occur at any age ([@b10-mco-0-0-860]). Due to having identical clinicopathological features, it is a group of disorders characterized by a clonal neoplastic proliferation of Langerhans-type cells that express CD1a, langerin and S100 protein, and show evidence of Birbeck granules on ultrastructural examination. LCH is also known as a histiocytosis X, a term proposed by Lichtenstein in 1953 ([@b11-mco-0-0-860]). It has been classified into three clinical variants: Eosinophilic granuloma, Hand-Schüller-Christian disease and Letterer-Siwe disease ([@b12-mco-0-0-860]). Most organs or systems of the body may be affected, however, the skeleton, skin and pituitary are involved more frequently. Other organs involved are the liver, spleen, lymph nodes, lungs, the hematopoietic system and mucocutaneous tissues, and the central nervous system.

The etiology of LCH remains unknown, although viral causes, reactive immunological responses and genetic factors have been suggested ([@b4-mco-0-0-860]). However, the progressive characteristics of the disease and its response to cancer therapies depict its neoplastic nature ([@b13-mco-0-0-860]). An association between LCH and a variety of other tumor types has been recognized, and LCH has been described in association with a variety of other tumor types. The malignancies may precede, occur concurrently with, or follow the diagnosis of LCH. The most common associations are with malignant lymphoma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) ([@b14-mco-0-0-860]). Lymphoma and ALL more often occur prior to the diagnosis of LCH, although they may be diagnosed within 5 years following LCH ([@b15-mco-0-0-860]). Solid tumors may occur concurrently, or follow the diagnosis of LCH. Most of those that followed LCH developed in a previous radiation field. The association between tumor formation and LCH has yet to be fully elucidated. Shin *et al* ([@b16-mco-0-0-860]) discussed the association between the conditions of LCH and HD, and proposed various possibilities: i) HD induces LCH; ii) radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy for HD leads to the development of LCH; iii) LCH may represent a specific cell-mediated immune response to HD; and iv) a common etiological agent induces HD and LCH.

Egeler *et al* ([@b15-mco-0-0-860]) reported their experience of 39 patients with LCH and malignant neoplasia. That study revealed that there was an association between the two conditions. A total of 25 patients were diagnosed with LCH and HL. The conclusion was that LCH is associated with lymphoma. In certain cases, histological examination revealed lymphoid cells and Langerhans cells in the same lymph node. Furthermore, the year-long interval between the development of LCH and HL suggested an association between the two diseases that is independent of chemotherapy or radiation treatments. Such an association may involve a malignant change, or modulation of the monocyte-histiocyte system. For example, Langerhans cells may themselves be premalignant, or may provide an immunological environment conducive to the development, growth and promotion of malignant cells.

In the present case study, the patient was diagnosed with LCH on the first occasion, although it was regrettable that multiple lymph nodes were observed in the mediastinum at that time, located in the anterior mediastinum and the middle mediastinum. Effective pathological tissues could not be obtained by fine needle aspiration, and the damage was too extensive for chest surgery, so no pathology was performed on the lymph node. The patient was treated with COP and CHOP chemotherapy. The B symptoms were controlled, and the diameter of the mediastina lymph nodes was reduced. A retrospective analysis determined that the COP and CHOP chemotherapies were not an effective treatment for HL; however, the B symptoms of the patient were controlled and the diameter of the lymph nodes was reduced. Perhaps at that time, HD may not have appeared. One year later, the right inguinal lymph node was observed to be enlarged in the patient. The diagnosis of HD was confirmed by a pathological biopsy of the lymph node. Following six cycles of ABVD, a PET CT scan revealed a decrease in tumor mass in the mediastinum. However, it was difficult to identify LCH and HD from a PET CT scan ([@b17-mco-0-0-860],[@b18-mco-0-0-860]), therefore it is possible that HD may appear following LCH.

The present study was supported by grants from the Tianjin Municipal Health Bureau of Science and Technology Fund (2014KZ021).

![(A) Diffuse infiltrate by the Langerhans cells (large cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm, reniform nucleus and evident nucleoli), permeated by lymphocytes, neutrophils and eosinophils (hematoxylin and eosin staining; magnification, ×400). (B) The Langerhans cells stained positively with CD1a on immunohistochemistical staining (magnification, ×400). (C) The Langerhans cells stained positively with CD30 on immunohistochemistry staining (magnification, ×400).](mco-05-01-0027-g00){#f1-mco-0-0-860}

![Computed tomographic scans of the thorax and abdomen, revealing the lymph nodes and a large mass in anterior and middle mediastinum.](mco-05-01-0027-g01){#f2-mco-0-0-860}

![(A) RS cells in a background of a mixed cellularity composed of lymphocytes, plasma cells and a few eosinophils (hematoxylin and eosin staining; magnification, ×400). (B) RS cells stained positively with CD1a on immunohistochemical staining. (C) RS cells stained positively with CD30 on immunohistochemical staining. RS, Reed-Sternberg.](mco-05-01-0027-g02){#f3-mco-0-0-860}

![(A) FDG PET/CT scan, revealing a high FDG uptake around the left lilac crest. Other areas that revealed a high FDG uptake included the neck, glutes, left side of the pelvis and bilateral inguinal. (B) FDG PET/CT scan, revealing a high FDG uptake in mediastinal lymph nodes, although they were reduced compared with the previous assessment. FDG, fluorodeoxyglucose; PET, positron emission tomographic; CT, computed tomographic.](mco-05-01-0027-g03){#f4-mco-0-0-860}


Q:

Samsung Galaxy s6 stuck in boot

My galaxy s6 is stuck in what appears to be the boot phase, where the logo is flashing on and off so the screen is not frozen.

I have tried:

Holding the start button and power button
Holding the start button, power button and volume up button
Plugging the phone into the computer to try and flash it, but the computer won't recognise it

Before it was like this, I was trying to unlock the phone with my fingerprint. The screen froze for a minute then went into what is currently being displayed (see picture).
Is there anything else that I can try?

A:

Try hard resetting it, works in many cases of soft brick.
Force close your phone, hold power button + volume down for 10 seconds. Phone should power off.
Now hold volume up + power button, phone should boot in recovery. From there select Delete data and cache then reboot.
You'll lose all your data stored in the phone memory but phone should work normally.


Taking a Vacation is Good For Your Health

The delicious feeling of warm sand squishing your toes, a refreshing drink in hand, and the view of the turquoise waters of the Caribbean is the reason many people choose to vacation in the Riviera Maya.

However, a recent study by the Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging concluded that taking a vacation can be as crucial to your health as regular exercise, a healthy diet, and getting good sleep.

Why Vitamin Sea is Important

Researchers at the University of Helsinki, Finland recruited 1,222 middle-aged male executives born between 1919 and 1934 into the Helsinki Businessmen Study in 1974 and 1975. Participants had at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease such as smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, elevated triglycerides, glucose intolerance, and being overweight.

An intervention group of about 612 men received oral and written advice every four months for five years to exercise, eat a healthy diet, achieve a healthy weight, and stop smoking. When the information wasn’t enough, the men in this group also received medication to help lower blood pressure. The remaining 610 men in the control group received no such advice during the regular course of their health care.

As predicted, the risk of cardiovascular disease was reduced by 46 percent in the intervention group compared to the control group by the end of the medical trial. However, at the 15-year, follow-up in 1989 there were more deaths in the intervention group than the control group.

Shorter vacations were associated with excess deaths in the intervention group. The men in the intervention group who took three weeks or less of annual vacation had a 37 percent greater chance of dying than those who took more than three weeks despite greater efforts to boost exercise and proper diet. Vacation time had no impact on the risk of death in the control group.

“In our study, men with shorter vacations worked more and slept less than those who took longer vacations,” said University of Helsinki, Finland Professor Timo Strandberg, “This stressful lifestyle may have overruled any benefit of the intervention.”

Strandberg continued, “Don’t think having an otherwise healthy lifestyle will compensate for working too hard and not taking holidays.”

Ways to Play in the Riviera Maya

One person’s vacation may be another person’s version of hell.

There are as many types of vacations as there are people. That’s why we at Loco Gringo think it’s important to craft the vacation experience to best suit your needs. Here are a five of our favorite ways to play in the Riviera Maya, Costa Maya and Yucatan.

Family – Family getaways, reunions, and multi-generational trips are the most popular. From spending a sun-soaked afternoon at your beachfront rental to horseback riding in the jungle, there are lots of ways to create lasting memories for you and your family. Check out our vacation specials, updated regularly, for deals on places to stay that accommodate small and large groups so that everyone can stay together.

Romantic – Time alone with your significant other might be what you need to soothe the stresses of daily life. Our hand-picked list of Adults Only accommodations, romantic views from your private condo, luxurious getaways, and beachfront condos are perfect for two. We also list romantic places to eat, intriguing tours for two and our personal favorites in our travel guide, Romance in the Riviera Maya.

Luxury – When it comes to vacations, some people like to go big or go home. Luxury in the Riviera Maya and Yucatan is often a combination of spectacular outdoor spaces and dramatic interiors. That means gorgeous outdoor views with stylized interiors in private, secluded venues. Amenities such as private chef services, spa treatments, infinity pools, rooftop living areas with chef kitchens, and other high-end amenities found in luxury rentals transform a getaway into a dream from which you won’t want to wake.

Cultural – Mexico is so much more than tacos and tequila. The three states that make up the Yucatan Peninsula have a cultural identity, history, and environmental diversity unlike other parts of Mexico. Taking a day-trip or vacationing in these areas will enrich your understanding of the region, the people who contributed to its development, and the stunning locations people love to visit.

For example, stay at a Yucatan Hacienda, a preserved plantation home, which couples the region’s vibrant cultural history with beautifully decorated, large living spaces and architectural accents. Located in the Yucatan Peninsula’s interior region, these historical sites and colonial cities are an intriguing contrast to a beachside vacation.

Ready to take a vital, yet fun, step to improve your health? Contact our reservations team to help you plan your best vacation yet.


Cybercast News Service reports in this press release that the staff at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library has denied a request under the FIFA act to release information on the theft of documents from the National Archives by Clinton's former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger.

A letter from the library said the total 502 pages from the Millennium Alert After Action Review (MAAR) are "restricted in their entirety," under federal law and that the documents are "classified in the interest of national defense or foreign policy."

Further, the library stated the documents contain "confidential communications requesting or submitting advice between the president and his advisors, or between such advisors."

Berger, who was national security advisor for President Clinton from 1997 to 2001, took five different copies of pages from the classified MAAR out of the archives by stuffing them in his suit and exiting the archives building. Berger did that at a time (September-October 2003) when the 9/11 Commission was beginning to investigate both the Clinton and Bush administrations' handling of the terror threat in the led up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The library's letter was in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Cybercast News Service . The library has responded to several other requests, but in those cases it was to inform CNSNews.com that library staff was processing the request.


The present disclosure generally relates to microfluidic dispensers, cartridges and analysis systems for analyzing biological samples.
It is an object of the present disclosure to provide an improved microfluidic dispenser, a cartridge and an analysis system over those dispensers, cartridges and analysis systems known in the art.


Orthotopic heart transplantation for failing single ventricle physiology.
Evaluation of incremental risk factors for early mortality in children undergoing orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) for failing single ventricle physiology. Between 1988 and 2002, 25 patients (mean age 9.3+/-7.1 years) underwent OHT for complex congenital heart disease (CHD) with a functional right (15 patients) or left (10 patients) single ventricle. Palliative staging towards Fontan completion had been previously accomplished in 22 patients (88%). Transition to OHT occurred from a shunt stage in 10, a bi-directional cavopulmonary anastomosis (BDG) stage in nine, and after Fontan failure in six patients. Thirty-day survival was 68.0+/-9.3% with no additional mortality up to 14.1 years. OHT following BDG staging exhibited 100% long-term survival, as opposed to 66.7+/-15.7% for OHT after systemic-to-pulmonary shunt, and 33.3+/-19.2% for OHT following failing Fontan (p=0.032). Regression logistic modelling indicated failing Fontan circulation as predictor of higher mortality after OHT (p=0.041). Reintervention was necessary in four patients 40+/-11 months after OHT to address residual superior vena cava (two) and isthmic (two) stenosis. Overall freedom from reintervention was 88.3+/-8.1% at 5 years. OHT for structural CHD with single ventricle physiology entails substantial early mortality while BDG enables the best transition to heart transplant. OHT should be considered in the decision-making process as an alternative to Fontan completion in high-risk candidates, since rescue-OHT after failing Fontan seems unwarranted.


Seigi Nakamura

Seigi Nakamura was an Okinawan martial arts master who learned both the Shōrin-ryū and Gōjū-ryū styles of karate.

Karate-do

Nakamura practised with Shoshin Nagamine and was also influenced by Shinyei Kyan and Jokei Kushi who were both senior students in Nagamine's dojo. For a number of years, Nakamura was the senior instructor at Nagamine's honbu dojo in Naha, Okinawa.

Legacy

Nakamura profoundly influenced and inspired what is taught in Shōrin-ryū Kishaba Juku and developed and founded by his students Chokei Kishaba and Katsuhiko Shinzato.
</blockquote>

See also

Okinawan martial arts

References

External links
 Katsuhiko Shinzato on Okinawa BBTV
 [ Okinawan Shorin-ryu karate - Midwest Honbu Dojo ] Facebook Page
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Category:Okinawan male karateka
Category:1924 births
Category:1999 deaths


It’s called the PL Tower, but that doesn’t stand for “pretty ludicrous.”

Given how popular its pop-culture exports are, it’s really not so surprising that some people think of Japan as “the land of anime and video games.” Of course, fiction is fiction, and reality is reality, so it’s not like you should expect the urban landscape in Japan to look like the setting for the climactic battle in a fantasy adventure epic.

Unless, of course, you happen to be in Osaka Prefecture’s Tondabayashi City, that is.

Based on the PL Tower’s appearance, you might think that in order to access the structure you need to ride on the back of a flying dragon, or at least a Final Fantasy airship. But in actuality, all you have to do is take a Kintetsu Nagano Line train to Tondabayashi Station, then hop on a local bus and get off at the PL Byoin-mae bus stop. You’ll see the 180-meter (590-foot) tower directly to the south, with a road leading straight to it.

▼ Shockingly, we ran into no random monster encounters along the way.

Once again belying expectations, the PL Tower wasn’t built as the stronghold for a powerful warlock, nor to house a magical sword whose latent magical power can only be drawn out by a descendant of the legendary hero. It’s not even all that terribly old, having been erected in 1970 by Perfect Liberty, a Japanese religious organization formed in 1916.

The structure’s official name is the Daiheiwa Kinento, which translates as the “Tower for Prayers for Great Peace,” and it was built to serve as a memorial and place of prayer to the spirits of those who have lost their lives in wars, regardless of nation, era, or religion.

▼ Looking up from its base, the tower is so tall as to be disorienting.

While it dominates the Tondabayashi skyline, the facility’s atmosphere is rather laid-back. People of any faith are welcome to come in between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. (except on Wednesdays, when the tower is closed). Admission is free, and no, you don’t have to defeat a mini boss or assemble a collection of sacred treasures in order to open the door.

Unfortunately, the upper areas of the PL Tower aren’t open to the general public. The second-floor prayer space, where relaxing music plays, is as far as you can go, so we stopped there and offered a quick, non-denominational prayer.

We’re not sure how much that contributed to world peace, but if nothing else, we’ll never forget our trip to Tondabayashi.


Join us at this meetup to learn to actually use tensorflow (https://www.tensorflow.org/) to make your own Deep Learning models. Anyone with a laptop, an AWS account (https://aws.amazon.com/), and a willingness to spend a couple of dollars to rent an AWS machine, will be able to learn how to start up tensorflow, write a simple model in it, train the model, and get results from it.

What is Deep Learning?

An incredibly versatile (https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-practical-applications-of-deep-learning-What-are-all-the-major-areas-fields) tool for teaching machines to solve problems which seemed out of reach five years ago: the best go player in the world (https://deepmind.com/research/alphago/), self-driving cars (https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/05/06/self-driving-cars-3/), and effective natural-language translation systems (https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for-machine.html) all use deep-learning components.

What is Tensorflow?

A programming library for building and using Deep Learning models using the python programming language.

What are the Prerequisites for this Tutorial?

• The courage to experiment with new technology.

• An AWS account (sign up here (https://aws.amazon.com/).)

• A credit card and a couple of dollars to rent a computer from AWS.

• A way to connect to AWS machines (download PuTTY here (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html), though any ssh/scp client will do.)

What are we going to be doing, exactly?

Starting up and connecting to an AWS machine which can train tensorflow models, installing tensorflow on it, and using it to work through this tutorial (https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.11/tutorials/mnist/beginners/index.html) on training a neural net to recognize handwritten numbers.

What's it going to cost?

We aren't charging anything. Renting the AWS machine will cost about 65c/hour (http://www.ec2instances.info/?filter=g2%20double). The total cost will probably be less than $2

Will there be food and drink?

Sorry, no. You'll have to be content with developing highly valued skills and knowledge!


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Luke 6:27-36

Luke 6:27-36New International Version (NIV)

Love for Enemies

27 “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.29 If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them.30 Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.

32 “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.33 And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

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Q:

Expression blend & WPF

suddenly i found wpf project type is there in expression blend. i just do not understand why people create WPF project from expression blend because for that VS IDE is there. i am new in wpf so please tell me in what situation user will create wpf apps from expression blend and also tell me what is the difference between expression blend & VS2008 IDE wpf project type..
please explain in detail.thanks

A:

The projects are the same - you can even arbitrarily switch between the applications at any time (given both applications are installed).
Expression Blend has much better visual designer and is purposed for UI designers and artists, Visual Studio is better for writing the C# code behind and is meant for programmers.


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Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad speaks to reporters during a press conference at Al-Bukhary Foundation in Kuala Lumpur May 3, 2019. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon

KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 — Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today the government will demand that the 4.5-hectare piece of land in Bukit Chagar, Johor be used for the Johor Baru Rapid Transit System (RTS) if a transfer really did taken place.

Speaking during a press conference today, Dr Mahathir added that currently there is a six-month study on the project to see if it will be continued.

“We will demand the (return of) the land. If there was a transfer by any parties, they must go through the due process. We have not received the full report, just rumours from the press that the land was taken by the Sultan of Johor,” said Dr Mahathir.

When asked if the Johor palace had paid for the land, the PM admitted he was unsure.

However, Dr Mahathir did say that Putrajaya will reimburse the Johor royals if they had actually purchased the land, which is valued between RM495 and RM693 million.

“If he has paid, of course, we have to buy back. But if he hasn’t paid, we won’t buy back, it is our land. We require that land for the purpose of building necessary buildings.

“I don’t think his royal highness would have just seized the land. We will have to file claims for the land,” said Dr Mahathir.

Dr Mahathir also pointed out that the RTS will not be able to solve the traffic congestion between Johor Baru and Singapore.

“If we build the train, the train cannot carry all the passengers going to and from Singapore. And it cannot carry all the motorcycles. The train is limited in terms of capacity,” he said.

Dr Mahathir also dismissed claims that there was tension between the Johor royals and Putrajaya.

Earlier, it was reported that the land was transferred to Johor Ruler Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar by the previous Barisan Nasional (BN) government between 2017 and 2018.

In 2012, the plot was one of five lots received by the federal government as part of a land swap deal to construct the new Customs, Immigration and Quarantine Complex in Johor Baru.

A source familiar with the matter said the federal government stumbled upon the “problem” that one of five plots of land for the RTS Link project has been transferred to Sultan Ibrahim as it was reviewing the project.

“The land was one of five plots that the federal government received from the Johor government in 2012 as part of a land swap deal to build the then Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine Complex (CIQ) in Johor Baru,” said the source to Malay Mail today on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the issue.

This came as Transport Minister Anthony Loke on April 20 gave his assurance that Malaysia is committed to ensure that the Johor Bahu-Singapore Link project will be continued.

The source said it was initially unaware of the land ownership status as it was set to review the RTS Link project with the construction of the 4km rail link between Johor Baru and Singapore.

Checks revealed that the land, that is also located next to the Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) complex, has now been leased out until November 2020 for a company to operate a parking lot.

Malay Mail is also waiting for an official reply from the Johor state government on the matter.


In this revised competitive grant application Dr. Baleja describes studies designed to identify small molecule inhibitors of the E6 oncoprotein of human papillomaviruses associated with cervical cancer. The identification of these inhibitors shall be based upon structural information obtained for small peptides from E6AP and E6BP that mediate the binding of these cellular factors to E6. Proof of principle studies are now provided in the revised grant application as is additional NMR based structural information regarding the E6AP and E6BP peptides. Small molecules will be characterized for their capacity to interfere with E6 function in vitro, in tissue culture, and ultimately in animal models. A second aim is refocused on trying to modify tatE2 fusion peptides that have proven of moderate value in inhibiting the function of the E2 transcriptional transactivator. These modifications are designed to improve DNA binding activity and alter dimerization properties so as to increase the effectiveness of the fusion protein in inhibiting E2TA function and in repressing transcription of the E6 and E7 genes.


Olary, South Australia

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Olary is a town and locality on the Barrier Highway in South Australia. It is situated near Olary Creek and is one of the easternmost settlements in South Australia. The name "Olary" was first given to a nearby well or waterhole by pastoralists Duffield, Harrold and Hurd.

This small settlement was established in the late 1880s to service the highway and the railway which pass through here. O'Lary Post Office opened on 12 October 1886, was renamed Oolarie around 1888 and Olary around 1896. After the modernisation of transport which travelled between Adelaide and Broken Hill the village population declined. However it still has a hotel and general store to cater for the transient road and railway workers and travellers.

The Flinders-Olary NatureLink includes the mountainous Flinders and Olary Ranges together with the connecting plains country to cover 6% of the South Australian state.

In 2010 the historic Bimbowrie Cobb and Co coach house near Olary became the scene of a traditional restoration operation with almost 20 tradespeople attending a five-day training course in stonemasonry restoration techniques. Low-security prisoners from the Port Augusta Prison were among those who assisted with the project.

The nearby Mount Victoria Well & Whim Historic Site is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.

Governance
Olary is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Stuart and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia. As of 2019, the community within Olary received municipal services from a South Australian government agency, the Outback Communities Authority.

See also
List of cities and towns in South Australia

References

External links

Category:Towns in South Australia
Category:Far North (South Australia)
Category:Places in the unincorporated areas of South Australia


Q:

Access static variable from another class in React-Native app?

in my react-native app I currently have a User class in which I define a current user as below:
class User {
    static currentUser = null;

    //other relevant code here

    static getCurrentUser() {
        return currentUser;
    }
}

export default User;

In a different class, I am trying to access the set value of this currentUser. I cannot figure out how to correctly call this function; I am getting the error User.getCurrentUser is not a function. Should I be calling this function in a different way?
var User = require('./User');

getInitialState: function() {

    var user = User.getCurrentUser();

    return {
        user: user
    };

},

A:

You are mixing import / export styles. You should either change your import to
var User = require('./User').default

or
import User from './User'

Or change your export:
module.exports = User

A:

I think you also forgot the this keyword for returning the static "currentUser" field:
class User {
  constructor() {}

  static currentUser = {
    uname: 'xxx',
    firstname: 'first',
    lastname: 'last'
  };

  static getCurrentUser() {
    return this.currentUser;
  }
}

console.log(User.getCurrentUser());


(CNN) Bringing a new baby home can be nerve-wracking for any parent. If it's your first, the fear of making a mistake can be overwhelming. It's inevitable you won't do everything just right, but read on and you can cross these common mistakes off your list.

1. Car seat safety

Some parents make the mistake of not practicing various baby care chores before the baby comes. While how to change a diaper many be intuitive for most, not everything is. Take car seats , for example.

"Since hospitals require you to take baby home in an appropriate car seat, be sure you have it installed before delivering," said pediatrician Dr. Jennifer Shu , co-author of " Heading Home with Your Newborn ." "Enlist the help of a child passenger safety technician, if needed."

Figuring out how to correctly -- and safely -- install car seats can be a real challenge for many parents, so much so that many fire stations used to help parents with it. Today, fewer do so, but you can find a trained technician through the National Child Passenger Safety Certification site.

But even while parents may have purchased the seat, and even learned how to install it properly, birth educator Polly Gannon finds that some haven't gone to the trouble of using it before the baby comes.

"Some parents haven't even put a stuffed animal in there before the baby comes so they know how to get a newborn in there comfortably," said Gannon, who works at Calabasas Pediatrics in Calabasas, California. "Most hospitals, for legal reasons, cannot put the baby in the car seat for you, or even show you how to use it."

A 2016 study of nearly 300 families, published in the Journal of Pediatrics , found 91% of those parents made serious mistakes while installing their car seats or putting their newborns into those seats. Eighty-six percent of those errors were in positioning the newborn in the seat, and most of those mistakes were "critical" and increased the child's risk for injury in any accident. Over half of the families had older children, which should have given them practice for the task.

For newborns, parents should make sure their infant's head doesn't flop forward, which could restrict breathing. That involves installing the seat at the correct angle to keep the baby's feet up, with the body reclined so baby can turn her head to the side and breathe normally.

If the baby slouches down or to the side in the seat, the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests placing a tightly rolled receiving blanket on both sides of the baby, or using the newborn insert made for that car seat brand -- do not mix or match with other manufacturers. Don't place a blanket or roll across the top of the baby's head or put padding under your infant.

2. Back to sleep

The national " Back to Sleep " campaign of the 1990s brought a great deal of attention to SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, and other sleep-related deaths among infants. Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics insist that every baby should sleep on their back, in their own crib, without any toys or soft bedding. During and after the campaign, sleep-related deaths sharply declined, but recent data shows the risk continues. Each year, some 3,500 babies continue to die from sleep-related causes.

2015 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found one in five mothers report putting their baby to sleep on their side or stomach, and 39% of mothers said they use soft bedding in the crib with the baby.

"Wow, that's alarming because you'd think everyone would know the recommended way to put their baby to sleep," said pediatrician Dr. Tanya Altmann , author of the new book " Baby and Toddler Basics ." "But what a lot of parents still don't know is that you should not use bumpers anymore, and you don't want pillows, toys or extra stuff in the crib."

3. Not feeding on demand

Some new parents make the mistake of letting baby sleep too long between feedings, likely due to exhaustion and their own need to get a bit of rest. But that's a mistake, say experts.

"The first few weeks, the baby does need to be fed ... every two to three hours, even if they don't demand it," said Altmann. "But once they have regained their birth weight and you get your pediatrician's OK, it's fine to cross your fingers and hope that you get a stretch of three to five hours without the baby waking to be fed. But in the first few weeks, babies do need to be woken up."

If you're doing everything right and your baby is growing and developing well, said Altmann, it's perfectly possible to get a baby to sleep through the night by 2 or 3 months of age. But be aware that some babies regress between three and four months and begin to wake up more frequently and feed more often.

"If you jump in and turn on all the lights, start playing with them, and basically have a party in the middle of the night, they will continue to wake up," Altmann said.

"I usually tell parents if every time you wake up there was chocolate cake on your nightstand, you would start eating it every night and you would wake up expecting it," she said. "Same with babies, right?"

4. Not burping baby properly

One of the key mistakes many new parents can make is failing to take the time to properly burp their newborn.

"I think many new parents are nervous about handling their newborn," said Gannon. "They will often put the baby down quickly after feeding because they are scared they aren't holding it properly."

The result of failing to burp is that the baby may spit up and gag, losing some of that precious milk, or wake up in an hour or so screaming in pain.

"I'm getting calls all the time where parents say that the baby is really peaceful after feeding, but then baby wakes up screaming and is up for the next 2 1/2 hours," added Gannon. "My favorite line is 'cheat the baby, cheat yourself.' If you cheat the baby out of a good burp and fail to get all of that air out, you and the baby are both going to suffer."

There are several burping techniques you can try until you find the one that works best for your baby. In the most well-known, the-over-the-shoulder burp, you place your baby high on your chest with her chin resting on your shoulder and face turned to one side, tummy firmly against the chest. Pat or rub the baby's back gently until she burps.

"It might take you an additional 10 minutes at the end of the feed," said Gannon, "but the baby will be happy."

Another common technique is to place baby face down across your lap, and pat and rub. Other techniques include baby exercises. Lay them on a blanket on the floor and begin bicycling their legs, or moving their legs up and around in a circular motion in each direction.

Gannon finds that a sitting posture works best for her clients. She places the baby sitting upright on her lap, facing the side. Using one hand to support the baby's head in the front (making sure to avoid holding the neck) she puts her other hand on the baby's back.

"Keeping the baby's bottom firmly planted on my lap I move their whole body in a small, slow circular motion to the left for a while, then to the right for a bit," explained Gannon. "I sit the baby upright a few times, and usually get a good, hearty burp, even without a gentle pat on the back."

5. Failing to pre-burp

Most of us think about burping after the baby eats. But experts say that you should also take the time to pre-burp your baby.

"I try to pre-burp baby for at least two minutes before starting any feeding," Gannon recommended. "This helps eliminate the common spitting up and gassy problem that newborns often have for the first 30 days."

"If you start out without gas in the stomach, and then do a really good feed and get the gas out at the end, they are going to be much more comfortable and more likely to be happy and content on their own," added Altmann.

6. Mistakes in mixing formula or breastfeeding

Making a mistake measuring formula and water happens often enough in her practice, said Altmann, that she makes it a practice to quiz parents on how they prepare baby's meals. She asks the same of breastfeeding moms, too.

"When I have new babies come into my practice," said Altmann, "whether they are breastfeeding or formula feeding, I take a step back and ask these questions: 'Exactly how are you feeding your baby -- what do they look like when they are latched on? How are you mixing the formula? How are you putting it in the bottle?'"

On occasion she finds that one of the parents might be mixing formula wrong, by making it too concentrated or dilute.

"Usually, it's too dilute," said Altmann. "Then the baby isn't getting enough nutrition and that's when they fail to thrive. You always want to be sure you're reading and following the directions on the formula properly."

And some moms may not have the baby fully latched onto the breast, so while the baby looks like it's nursing, he or she isn't actually swallowing and feeding, said Altmann.

"It's a good idea for breastfeeding moms to check in with a lactation consultant if they have any concerns or pain during feedings," said Altmann. "Then check in with your pediatrician regularly to make sure your baby is gaining weight appropriately."

7. Not enough tummy time

Altmann says an unfortunate mistake many new parents make -- and continue to make as baby grows -- is keeping baby constrained in a car seat, bouncy seat or other sleepers.

"I'll see parents out with their baby, at a restaurant, at the park, talking to friends, and they are carrying the baby in the car seat," said Altmann, who is also a spokeswoman for the American Academy of Pediatrics. "I'm always telling parents, 'Car seats are for cars, but don't carry them to and fro in the car seat.'"

Not only can spending too much time reclining create a soft spot on the back of their head, says Altmann, but not interacting with the baby can cause language delays and other issues due to a lack of stimulation.

"When your baby is not sleeping or not in the car traveling, they really should be on their tummy or held by a parent," Altmann said. "They shouldn't be strapped down, they need to move, stretch, roll and push their head up."

8. Under- or overreacting to a fever

Fevers in newborns can be serious. If your baby is younger than three months and develops a fever of 100.4 or higher, call your pediatrician or medical professional immediately. But when it comes to a fever in babies and children older than that, the advice is more complex.

"For the older babies, I'm usually telling parents not to freak out by what the number says on the thermometer," explained Altmann. "Instead, take a close look at your child to figure out what is happening with them, because not every fever needs to be treated."

Look at your baby and observe. Are they drinking fluids? Are they happy and playing? Are they sleeping OK? Are they having any trouble breathing? Those are the questions to ask yourself, Altmann said. Experts say most fevers are harmless , and likely the result of a mild infection.

"Don't just treat the number on the thermometer," Altmann added. "It doesn't matter if it's 101 or 103.5, it's more important how they are acting."

9. Proper temperature for baby in the home

Another concern for parents: how warm or cool their baby should be. Shu said she is often asked by parents for the proper temperature setting for the home. The answer, she says, depends on the time of year and the insulation of the home, but in general "a thermostat setting around 68 to 72 is probably comfortable for baby."

While Shu says she thinks many parents keep baby too warm, Gannon has found the opposite. At homes in her practice, she said, new parents may have their baby in a T-shirt and diaper, unswaddled. She said a baby's skin should always be warm, not hot or cold, to the touch.

"If the baby is chilled, then his body will need to burn extra calories to raise his body temperature, instead of those calories going toward a healthy weight gain," said Gannon. "So even if the baby is feeding well, he or she may not be developing properly because they have to burn a lot of calories trying to get warm."

Shu warns that newborns don't have good circulation at first, so "having cool hands and feet is normal."

10. Taking newborns into crowded places

Some parents want to take their newborn to a large family gathering so everyone can ooh-and-awww over their tiny miracle. That could be a mistake, experts said.

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"It does scare me a bit when I see newborns out and about, especially during cold and flu season," said Altmann. "The first two months of your baby's life, you really need to protect them from exposure to germs and people that are potentially sick. Your baby's immune system is weak, and still growing and developing."

That doesn't mean you can't leave the house, however. Experts encourage daily walks and say it's fine to sit in your backyard or on the front porch.

"But don't take them to crowded spaces," Altmann said. "That's when you can expose them to people who potentially have the flu or another contagious illness that could spread, even if they are a few feet away."


I was near screaming when I read Isabella's note to Mr C and found you were cherishing ideas of sending meal and potatoes!— On no! For the love of god no more meal! no more potatoes!
I went out for a drive the other day, and when I came home, there was hardly a possibility of getting in, for great casks in the passage, and men with flaring tallow-candles, trying vainly to move them! I thought we must have got the forty thieves
barrelled up in this devoted house! You never saw such enormous casks! As to getting them down the kitchen stairs it was out
of the question, so the assistant1 (called in from the neighbourhood) had to knock the tops off in the passage, empty them, then roll down the empty casks and
fill in the contents—the casks being the only feasable place for keeping all those dreadful potatoes in! Oh I may well say
dreadful, Jamie Dear; for as sure as I live these potatoes have the disease! and I know that in a short time they will have to be given to the pigs, and here one has no pigs! At all events the last thing on Earth that would be welcome to us just now is clearly potatoes—and meal! for at the top of one cask was a ‘bole’2 of meal!!! I gave away the half of it, the first thing I did, to our next-door neighbour3 who has little children that like porridge. But I have still more than we should consume ourselves in six years, and am looking
out for other meritorious individuals to give some to.

Mr C dines so late at present (often not till seven of the evening) that he cant do with any supper. And I who dine like a Christian
female at half after 2 have recently discovered that whisky toddy (good gracious!) and a biscuit is the best supper for a
woman puzzled to get to sleep before four in the morning! You would laugh to see me measuring out my whisky in the sort of
little glass thing the Drs use for measuring laudanum and prusic acid in! I am so afraid of increasing the doze! It is useful to me in the meanwhile really, but all that sort of thing loses its effect in longer or shorter time. I am not to be called
an Invalid at present however, only a delicate woman who mustn't take the least liberty with herself. I am never out of doors
after sunset; so I might as well be living at “Craig o' putta” for any parties I get to! I do continue to go out in the forenoons
tho'; having kept off colds hitherto and my friends are very kind to me, in coming to see me at home tho IAM “a Vetrinary Surgeon's Daughter!”4— Do you know that was how you came to get the Illustrated news? It was sent here by the miserable blockhead who wrote the article,5 and Mr C packed it up, and addressed it to you, and sent it immediately out of the house that I mightn't get my eye on that piece of news about myself!—The Dr, my Cousin John Welsh, and all my acquaintance conspired to keep me ignorant of it—Considering very sensibly that the one
stupid impertinence about my Father would move me a hundred times more than any amount of laudation of Mr C—whose praises one is really blasé upon! But Tait—the man of the Picture6—the man who always does the flatsoled underbred thing took care to enlighten me at the earliest opportunity—and that offered itself today! He then tried to smooth me down by showing a letter that had been published in last weeks Illustrated
news signed M.D. and professing to be from “a townsfellow of Miss Welsh's” (poor Miss Welsh what has she done to be so shown
up?) now about Birmingham7—who “could not suffer my Father to be so misrepresented”—and certainly his account of him showed a devoted admiration which had lasted a long time! If he had only stopt there but he proceeded to extoll
my “charms of body and mind” (as Miss Welsh of course) in terms that must make me the subject of infinite merriment I should say!8 When I told Mr C, he was very angry with Tait and told me that Martin9 had come here to make excuses and had said that ever since that Paper appeared they had been perfectly bombarded with letters
extolling my Father and stating the fact about him—fifty letters had been received in one day! This comforts me—I care more about that testimony thus made to my Fathers memory and after
so many many years by so many who knew him, than about having been introduced as a Vetrinary Surgeon's Daughter to the General
Public!— So good night—kind regards to Isabella

JWC-JC, [early Nov.]. MS: NLS Acc. 7988. Hitherto unpbd. Dated soon after the delivery of food from John Fergus, see TC to JFE, 28 Oct., and the Illustrated London News, 30 Oct. [To maintain the order established by the editors of the CL, this letter has been assigned a document date of 1 November 1858.]

4. The Illustrated London News,23 Oct., pbd. a memoir, “Thomas Carlyle,” which included the misinformation that JWC was “the only daughter of a veterinary surgeon
of good fortune, and a lineal descendant of the great reformer, John Knox.”

7. “M. D. Walsall”; John Burton was the only M.D. listed in Walsall in the Medical Directory for 1860; Burton (ca. 1806–81), b. Virginia, U.S.; graduated from Edinburgh Univ., 1826; coauthor with Robert Lorimer of Observations on the History and Treatment of Cholera Asphyxia, as it Has Appeared at Haddington (Edinburgh, 1832). In 1832 he was practicing in Kelso and Lorimer in Haddington; Robert Lorimer (1802–48), surgeon, was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert Lorimer (1765–1848), JWC's minister in Haddington; see JBW to EA, [Early Oct. 1819]. Walsall, Staffordshire, is about 9 mi. NW of Birmingham.

8. M. D. wrote, 24 Oct.: “Miss Welsh was the daughter of Dr. John Welsh, of Haddington, N.B., a ‘gentleman every inch', and one of the most highly
cultivated and locally eminent medical men of his day in Scotland. … Miss Welsh was in her earliest years a most highly talented
and cultivated lady, in whom there was the most rare and happy combination of the beauties of mind and person” (Illustrated London News, 30 Oct.). The source for the information was probably Robert Lorimer, one of JWC's contemporaries in Haddington (or, less probably,
Burton's wife, Anne, who was b. in Haddington), rather than John Burton himself.

9. Possibly Frederick Martin, working on the Illustrated London News as well as the Statesman as a subeditor.


Product Version = NetBeans IDE 7.3 (Build 201302132200)
Operating System = Windows 7 version 6.1 running on amd64
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.6.0_31
Runtime = Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 20.6-b01
i guess ide use local system default encoding , ANSI ( GBK or else)
while the remote use UTF-8
I think it's a bug, at least, it is not very good function (i like it,support ipv6).
Normal, user can choose what coding to use like putty
i hope it can do better, by the way NetBean it's a goode ide


Q:

In Notepad++, when i close a file and reopen it, 4 space tabs turn into 2 spaces. How can i fix this?

This happens all the time. It screws up my formatting... If I make a tab 2 times (8 spaces) it will turn to one tab (4 spaces) and 1 tab turns to 2 spaces etc. Does anyone know how to fix this?

A:

Perhaps your tab size is set to 2 spaces.
Click on menu "settings" then "Preferences...", then switch to tab "Language menu/Tab settings", check the value of "Tab size" on the right bottom


Q:

How can I iterate on XML elements from an XML using XMLReader and bypass whitespaces?

Let say you have an XML like this:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Class HashCode="307960707">
  <Person>
    <Class HashCode="-2020100801">
      <FullName>
        <FirstName>Dan</FirstName>
        <LastName>K</LastName>
      </FullName>
    </Class>
    <Age>20</Age>
    <Class HashCode="-439631396">
      <Address>
        <Street>abc</Street>
        <City>new york</City>
        <ZipCode>30500</ZipCode>
        <PhoneNumber>1245</PhoneNumber>
      </Address>
    </Class>
    <Class HashCode="-1436395737">
      <Person>
        <Class HashCode="-1303968324">
          <FullName>
            <FirstName>katty</FirstName>
            <LastName>G</LastName>
          </FullName>
        </Class>
        <Age>18</Age>
        <Class HashCode="-439631396">
          <Address />
        </Class>
        <Class HashCode="307960707">
          <Person />
        </Class>
      </Person>
    </Class>

I want to be able to iterate only elements with XMLReader in the order they appear, which means class->Person-> class->FullName ,etc..
I was trying to navigate with methods like XMLReader.ReadStartElement() and it didn't work especially when I read a whitespaces like "\n" which appears to be an element also. :/
I was trying to bypass that whitespace with method XMLReader.Read() with no success.
Please help me understand how should I navigate that way.

A:

XmlReader constructor has an overload that takes an XmlReaderSettings object.  The XmlReaderSettings object has an IgnoreWhitespace property.
In order to read only the next elements you can implement an extension method on XmlReader.
Here's an example:
public static class ExtensionMethods
{
    public static bool ReadNextElement(this XmlReader reader)
    {
        while (reader.Read())
            if (reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element)
                return true;

        return false;
    }
}

And here's a little console application that will demonstrate this:
public class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
        settings.IgnoreWhitespace = true;
        settings.IgnoreComments = true;
        settings.IgnoreProcessingInstructions = true;

        var reader = XmlReader.Create("XMLFile1.xml", settings);
        while (reader.ReadNextElement())
            Console.WriteLine(reader.Name);
    }
}


Ottawa has confirmed that one Canadian citizen has been kidnapped in Libya, and says it is working to obtain more information on the abduction. The citizen was captured along with two Italians last week.

In response to the kidnapping, Global Affairs Canada, the country’s foreign department, on Sunday said it is “diligently pursuing all appropriate channels to obtain more information.”

The department called the kidnapping "troubling," but declined to provide further details.

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“The Government of Canada will not comment or release any information which may compromise ongoing efforts to secure their release or endanger the safety of Canadian citizens,” a spokeswoman told Reuters in an email.

The Italian Foreign Ministry previously confirmed that two Italian citizens were also kidnapped.

The abduction of the three victims was reported by Libyan authorities last week, at which point the Canadian government called the report “unconfirmed.”

The victims, who were working on airport projects, were taken between the towns of Ghat and Tahala, near the border with Algeria, last Monday, according to Ghat’s Mayor Gomani Mohamad Saleh.

It remains unclear who is responsible for the kidnappings, or what the victims’ current circumstances are.

Libya is home to various criminal and armed groups which are active in the southern desert. Al-Qaeda-linked militants have also long held a presence along the border between Libya and Algeria.


Q:

Pass id value from view which is receiving IEnemerable List

I want to pass id value from my view . I am using Html.ActionLink attribute.
I am performing like this
  @foreach (var item in Model)
{

@item.p_name

@item.p_price

            @Html.ActionLink("Add to Cart", "Mobiles", new { id = item.ProductId }, new { @class = "add" })

}

but this doesnot posting it instead get action is calling in controller.How to fix that

A:

You can use the one action for both things using optional parameter feature, no need of  making another action:
public ActionResult Mobiles(int id=0)
{
// id will be initialized 0 when no id passed to action
if(id > 0)
{

// if id is coming do something here

var q = from n in db.Mobiles
        where n.ProductId == id
        select n;

 return View(q);

}

else
{
 var q = from n in db.Mobiles
         select n;             // id is not passed

 return View(q);
}

}


Thursday, May 26, 2011

There I have more pages with fun stuff like galleries and info about me and the lab I work in.I will be writing mostly about caterpillars, the focus of my graduate research. There will still be forays into the realms of sewing and other animals, but this way I hope to provide more organized, useful information to a general audience.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Like this little fly. He was less than 1cm long, sitting on a leaf, unperturbed by my presence. He was more concerned with grabbing the attention of another fly, perhaps a rival male or potential mate? His front legs were white, and he waved them around quite dramatically. Slow, swirling movements, distinct from the usual jerky movements of a nervous fly. Hopefully he achieved his goal, whatever it was.I am not sure if this hopper was signaling to me or the other hopper on the fern. I wonder what the purpose of the headstand is supposed to be?My favorite dancers were these tephritid flies. It was a hot day in the lowlands, we were waiting in the shade for our driver to return, and I noticed some little flies acting strangely. There were dancers on almost every branch. I'm disappointed my camera would not focus close up enough to get a video of their dance moves, but I did get some action shots. Some were competing with rivals, while others were displaying for potential mates. They would do various combinations of wing flicks, one or both at a time, and running around each other. Have you gotten to see any great courtship or territorial display dances in the wild? If you have your own stories, please link them in the comments, I'd like to see!

Monday, January 31, 2011

If you're a tarantula hawk wasp, baby-food for your young is a full grown tarantula.

While walking around the Yanayacu station, I saw a lot of tarantula hawk wasps patrolling for victims. They are beautiful creatures, flashes of metallic blue-green and orange in the sky. One day, crawling across the path was one dragging a full grown tarantula! The tarantula had already been stung, paralyzed and unable to struggle.

I did not stick around to see where the wasp was dragging her prize (she seemed rather nervous with me taking pictures), but there were a lot of tunnels in the mud alongside the path. Hopefully she made it to her tunnel and was able to get it to the bottom where she could lay an egg on the tarantula. You probably know the rest of the story... the young wasp hatches and grows, eating the still living tarantula from the inside out. I was quite pleased to see this interaction in the wild.

Here I will begin my series of insects in Ecuador which aspire to convince us they are, indeed, a stick. Of course the classic "stick insects" will make an appearance, but they won't be the only ones.

I'd like to start things off with a little guessing game. This insect wants to pretend it's a broken off twig. There is even a hole at the top, that's not just a black spot! Can you tell what it really is? (answer after the fold)

Sunday, January 30, 2011

One of the great things about entomology is the variety of ways in which you can hunt down, collect or attract insects. Butterfly nets, aquatic nets, malaise traps, pitfall traps, rotting fruit, heck if you defecate in the forest you'll attract something. One way to get the night fliers is to hang a black-light or a mercury vapor light next to a sheet.

Why are insects, particularly moths, attracted to lights at night? This is still somewhat of a mystery to entomologists. The oft-touted response is that they use moonlight to navigate, and that other nearby light sources disrupt their flight paths and cause them to spiral in. This makes for a nice story, but it needs further testing. Many insects are sensitive to blue and ultraviolet wavelengths, and may have a tough time adjusting their eyes to the darkness once they have landed near a bright light. Once they land on the sheet, they are often docile and easy to collect. Perhaps they think it is daylight, and time to sleep? We set up the black-light almost every night we were at Yanayacu - just for fun.

One of the most interesting behaviors I noticed was the defense response of some saturniid moths. When disturbed they would curl up into a ball! Seems rather counter-intuitive for a moth, when flight appears to be a better escape option. But pay attention to the coloration on the abdomen - black and yellow, classic aposematism (warning colors). Luckily I did not handle them much, because I was later told the warning was for the urticating hairs on their abdomen - could be a pretty bad irritant for humans if touched to a sensitive area like the face. Sneaky moths!

Another fun behavior is when moths try to pretend they're something they're not, or simply want to break up the pattern of their body. This pyralid on the left doesn't exactly scream "I'm a moth!", now, does it? With its upturned abdomen and thin, splayed out wings it looks more like a little broken twig. Certainly, it does not fit the typical search image a predator would have for a moth. It even lays out its antennae along the wings so they do not stand out.

A lot of wonderful moth diversity came to our sheet. Mostly arctiids, saturniids, geometrids and pyralids, with some sphingids, micros, and other families thrown in. Stay tuned for more moth-y goodness.

These were some of my first impressions of the rain/cloud forest surrounding the Yanayacu biological station.

- Plants on top of plants on top of plants! Epiphytes everywhere. It felt like such a classic "rain forest" that someone would paint or draw. Large leaves, pretty flowers, ferns and mosses dangling from tree branches.

- Noisy birds. So many ridiculous sounds, all the time. Somehow I expected things to be quieter, that real life wouldn't sound like the background of a nature documentary. But all day long we heard whooping and calling and whistling, really exotic sounds. The student accompanying me was more into birdwatching and was able to identify a few, but I was pretty much lost.

- Wasps everywhere, and very pretty. Brachonids and ichneumonids seemed to be perched on every plant, flitting their metallic wings over their colorful bodies. No wonder they study parasitism at the station! There was also a series of nests dug by tarantula hawk wasps, which busily buzzed around the hiking path.

- While I'm at it, there were beetles and bugs and butterflies and flies everywhere, too. Insect diversity was unbelievable, I had no idea I'd be seeing a different colorful interesting insect on nearly every leaf I walked past. It made it difficult to get anywhere, really, because I kept having to stop to look at something. I sure took a lot of photos!

- Thunder and rain and clouds and rainbows. The sky was always in turmoil and always beautiful.

It is going to be difficult to choose which things to share here, I have enough material to write for months I'm sure! If you'd like a sneak peak at my photos, you can check out my Flickr page.

I spent about half of my time in Ecuador at the Yanayacu biological station and center for creative studies. It is located in the Andes, approaching the cloud forest - meaning cool temperatures (50s to 70s), not a lot of sunlight, and frequent rain. I actually spent a lot of time wearing my sweatshirt, hat and gloves! We were accompanied by the research station staff and two dogs (Beans [on the left] and Rain); after a few days a college class from Colorado joined us. I wasn't sure what to expect from a research station up in the forest, but with a hot shower, warm blankets and three meals a day, I was pleasantly surprised.

Despite the somewhat depressing weather, the scenery was gorgeous and the wildlife was breathtaking. The mountains were in various states of visibility, sometimes disappearing completely behind the clouds. There were plenty of places to hike, allowing us to spend hours wandering through the forest. Luckily at that elevation (about 2000 feet), there aren't too many dangerous animals. No venomous snakes or large wildcats to worry about, so even exploring at night with headlamps was encouraged.

The research conducted at the station varies from birds, to insects, to anything a passing scientist wishes to delve into. One big project is CAPEA (Caterpillars and Parasitoids of the Eastern Andes in Ecuador). It is connected to a series of other projects in other localities involving caterpillar parasitism, focusing on taxonomy and ecology. When I went to Arizona this past summer, they were conducting this research at the Southwestern Research Station. They use the help of Earthwatch volunteers, who assist in collecting and rearing the caterpillars. If you are interested in spending your vacation in a cool place where you can help a research team, you should check out Earthwatch. This is the particular expedition that goes to the Yanayacu station. Or even if you just want a place to relax and experience the wildlife of Ecuador without needing a fancy hotel or a guide, you could contact Yanayacu. It is also a great place for artists looking for inspiration. I will talk a bit about how I got involved in the "creative studies" aspect of the station in a future post.

"Don't worry. A bad beginning is a good ending." - Larry of The Three Stooges, Movie Maniacs, 1936

My trip to Ecuador started with the worst travel day I've ever had. I had developed a slightly sore throat the day before we left, but I figured that was from singing too much while playing Rock Band with my friends. Oh, if I only knew what a forewarning that really was.

I awoke, after a few hours sleep, at 3am to drive to the airport. I traveled with an undergrad from our lab, a week before my advisor was due to join us. First flight went smoothly, I was feeling a bit off, but attributed it to lack of sleep. We landed in Miami for a 5 hour layover. That is when things started going downhill fast. I started feeling chilly, despite my layers. That turned into full on "I am getting sick" chills. Coughing. Stuffy nose. And finally a low grade fever. I was absolutely miserable, for hours, unable to concentrate on a book but unable to fall asleep. I watched CNN on repeat and distracted myself with a few walks around the airport. Finally, it was time for our next flight.

Our take-off was so rough, I felt like we might crash. I was seated next to some students who were off to Ecuador for a whole semester abroad. I wanted to be sociable but I avoided talking to them because I felt so sick and just wanted to sleep. I had taken something for my sinuses earlier, but the fever was coming down swift and strong. I slept only for a little while, the chills were too intense. I had a glimmer of hope as the chills retreated... only to be replaced by nausea. I got the attention of a flight attendant who made up some ice packs for my head and ibuprofin, they were really concerned about me. Oh, did I mention the turbulence? Yeah, there was a lot of it. The descent was horrible, and took a long time. Once we were on the ground, I grabbed the barf bag (and used it - my first time!)

I instantly felt much better. Getting off the plane, I refused the wheelchair and doctor visit the flight attendants had insisted upon. My excitement was premature, as waves of nausea accompanied me through the rest of the night. We got a ride to the research station, which was about three hours of sleeplessness and bumpy roads. By the time we arrived my body had miraculously calmed down. I fawned for a few moments over the giant moths that were attracted to the lights, and promptly passed out.

The photo above is the view I was greeted with when I awoke (though it does not do those mountains justice at all). It was all worth it.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

I have returned to Connecticut from my trip to Ecuador - quite a change in climate, that's for sure! It is great to be back, and I am enjoying all of the snow, but of course I have tropical stories to tell.

I will be blogging about my trip in the upcoming weeks, I have a lot of photos and videos to share. I spent one week at a research station in a cloud forest in the Andes, and another week or so driving around the lowlands of the Amazon basin. I accompanied a few scientists on an expedition to collect odonates (dragonflies and damselflies), though I was often free to explore on my own.

I started with few expectations, and was overwhelmed by the wildlife each day. Mud boots, an insect net, and my camera were essential gear. I came back with chigger bites, a slight sun tan, and way too many fabulous ideas for research and sewing.

I will also be mixing in updates about my shop and my second semester of grad school. My etsy shop is reopened, and I am working on my line-up of custom orders. Cannot wait until I have time to make some rain-forest-inspired plushies! So keep on the look-out.

I am currently fulfilling my lifelong dream as a PhD student studying entomology. I have a B.Sc. in Applied Zoology.
This blog serves as a gateway for my natural history adventures, as well as updates on my shop. I create plush interpretations and drawings of insects and other wildlife, and custom orders are my specialty.


Accurate determination of respiratory rhythm and pulse rate using an under-pillow sensor based on wavelet transformation.
A real-time noninvasive and unconstrained method is proposed to determine the respiratory rhythm and pulse rate with an under-pillow sensor during sleep. The sensor is composed of two fluid-filled polyvinyl tubes set in parallel and sandwiched between two acrylic plates. One end of each tube is hermetically sealed, and the other end is connected to one of two pressure sensors. Inner pressure in each tube therefore changes in accordance with respiratory motion and cardiac beating. By employing the á trous algorithm of wavelet transformation (WT), the respiratory and cardiac cycle can be discriminated from the pressure waveforms. The respiratory rhythm was obtained from the WT 26> scale approximation, and the pulse rate from the sum of WT 24and 25scale details without WT reconstruction after soft-threshold denoising. The algorithm's latency can be set to be minimal and the respiratory rhythm and pulse rate were estimated directly from the extracted respiration and pulse waveforms, respectively. This method has been tested with a total of about 25 h data collected from 13 subjects. By comparing the detection results with those of reference data, the average pulse rate detection sensitivity and positive predictivity were 99.17% and 98.53%, and the respiratory rhythm detection sensitivity and positive predictivity were 95.63% and 95.42%.


Q:

iOS: Sides of UITableViewCell showing a different color when cell background is changed (Xcode 8, Swift 3)

When implementing a UITableView, I added a background image and set the table view to transparent. However, the sides of the table remain clear even when I change the table view cells to a different color (in order to see the text better), as shown in this image: Table View Cell.
The code I added to get the inner part of the table view:
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, willDisplay cell: UITableViewCell, forRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
        cell.backgroundColor = UIColor(white: 1, alpha: 0.25)
        cell.accessoryView?.backgroundColor = UIColor(white: 1, alpha: 0.25)
        cell.contentView.backgroundColor = UIColor(white: 1, alpha: 0.25)
        cell.tintColor = UIColor(white: 1, alpha: 0.25)
}

And in viewWillAppear:
self.tableView.backgroundColor = UIColor(white: 1, alpha: 0.25)

I'm not sure why the sides don't show up as the same color. I thought it had something to do with the accessory button, but when attempting to change that as well, nothing was changed.

A:

The contentView doesn't cover the whole cell. Try making the setting its background color to the clear color. Then only the cell's background view will show through.


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Side view of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein with one receptor binding domain shown in colored ribbons.

In an incredibly fast piece of research, scientists from the University of Texas at Austin and the National Institutes of Health have released a cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) structure of part of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that has infected tens of thousands of people and killed more than 2,000 since the end of December (Science 2020 DOI: 10.1126/science.abb2507).

The part of the virus imaged, called the spike protein, helps the virus attach to and infect human cells, and its structure comes just weeks after the virus’s genome sequence was published. The breakthrough is a huge step toward developing a vaccine against the virus as well as treatments for COVID-19, the disease that it causes, the researchers say.

UT Austin’s Jason McLellan and his colleagues have spent many years studying other coronaviruses and had already figured out how to use select mutations to lock coronavirus spike proteins into a shape that is conducive for structural studies. After they got the genome sequence of the virus, it took the team just two weeks to design and produce samples of the stabilized spike protein. After collecting data on their stabilized spike protein samples using a cryo-electron microscope, the researchers spent 12 days reconstructing the 3-D structure. They published the results on bioRXiv on Feb. 15, and the paper was rushed through peer review before being published by Science on Feb. 19 (DOI: 10.1126/science.abb2507).

“This is stunning work, illustrating the power of molecular biology in combination with cryoEM,” says Alice Clark, a structural biologist at the University of Wolverhampton. “How quickly this work was possible is a credit to both the scientists involved in this structure, and the recent advances in cryoEM as a technique.”

Coronaviruses are RNA viruses that typically enter human cells when their glycoproteins bind proteins on the cell surface. SARS-CoV-2 binds to the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) on human cells with higher affinity than does the virus that caused severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003. This difference in affinity possibly explains why the novel coronavirus is more contagious than that other virus. The team is already testing the stabilized spike as a vaccine, and hope the structure will help in the development of antivirals. Similar studies on spike proteins from SARS and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) viruses were used to develop experimental vaccines, but the vaccines never made it to market.

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Chika (February 27, 2020 8:38 AM)

This is a welcome development in the face of the fears and concerns generated about the deadly virus. Thank God for the advances in cryoEM and molecular biology. The fact that the virus is an RNA virus makes its impact on cell invasion more devastating. Congratulations to the scientists responsible for the development of the molecular structure if the virus. Well done.

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greg (May 12, 2020 11:32 AM)

It's not a matter of "if" but "when" we will get it. A majority of us have had it, currently have it or just waiting to have it. With human interaction it is just a matter of time. some of us are already immune to it.

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Bosun Banjoko (March 14, 2020 9:10 AM)

The progress made so far is outstanding, The next stage is clinical trials of ACE inhibitors in infected persons and the development of vaccines directed against the spike protein used for attachment to the host cells by the virus.

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gurupada chakravorty (May 1, 2020 9:55 AM)

I was viewing some news on wuhan which were telecasted on opening the normal life there after Covid errupted . I saw a group of monkeys were on the heap of Papaya pieces cuts into two with all seeds removed.I had a string believe that papaya seeds chewing could play effective role in fighting against Corona

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mark a coffey (March 21, 2020 6:53 AM)

Using the technology left to us at the Wardenclyffe Tower....why not use that technology to create a horn antenna to use with existing power lines, to resonate a frequency on a nation wide scale that is set at the same quantum vibration that holds it glycoproteins together. If the virus glycoproteins are disabled, then it can not attach itself to a cell.

Once the frequency is resonating through the power lines, you can then easily install a horn antenna to the transformer to resonate the frequency in the open. The same type device can be created for wall outlets to resonate in people's homes. This will effect any of the virus that is contaminating surfaces. Combine that with social distancing, and we could greatly reduced the spread while the vaccine to kill it is being created.

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Ayush (March 21, 2020 2:23 PM)

Stablizing the composition of spike cell is great. But, what we need to ensure that stabilizing spike protein of a cell is effective for everyone and for every organ. Although all human cells fundamentally develop from the same place. But, the composition of each human cell is different for every organ. The cell composition also varies in levels of structures. Also, we have to keep in mind about the pathogens which builds our immune system stronger over the generations and time. If a virus enters your body or your cells start deforming due to increased levels of the comprising stuctures, it will cause dysfunction in your body and your pathogens will not be able detect the virus to fight back.We need to make sure that our body parasites are able to stop the dysfunctional spiked protein cell from spreading. I think you should try to find test the cells of mild Corona virus patients and do blood test to ensure how the pathogens react to it. If you can find even one individual who recovered from coronavirus, then you can test how this virus reacted in their body and make changes accordingly to what you develop.

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Faik A K Nasser (March 24, 2020 12:03 PM)

While we must find vaccine to boost immune system based on the structure of Coronavirus spikeProtein we must promote the value of antioxidants in ascorbic acid coupled with glutathione and Glutothion reductase through increasing the availability of GSH in high concentration against GSSG by Maintaining homeostasis GSH/GSSG. can be achieved by eating vitamin rich fruits & vegetables and plenty of sulfur rich food.

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JOYDEV PANDEY (March 22, 2020 10:43 AM)

THE DESCRIPTIONS ILLUSTRATED ABOVE WILL HELP ANY BIOLOGIST TO KNEW DETAILS ABOUT CORONAVIRUS . I WANT TO KNOW ONE THING WHICH IS IN MY MIND THAT IF WE IN GENERAL GOES FOR TEST AND TAKE THE PRECAUTION TO OUR RESPIRATORY TRACT BY GENTAMYCIN OR TOBRAMYCIN , THEN IT WILL BE BENEFICIAL FROM CORONA INFECTION...PLEASE HELP ME BY GIVING ANSWER.ANOTHER THING IS ALSO ABOUT 'DIPALNITOPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE'- AN ESSENTIAL PROTEIN COAT OF ALVEOLI OR RESPIRATORY TRACT -ANY HOW IF IT CAN BE ENRICHED. PLEASE GIVE ME IDEAS ABOUT THESE

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Bijoy Das (May 21, 2020 12:52 PM)

The drugs you have mentioned are antibiotics which are effective only against Upper Respiratory tract infections. A retrovirus like SARS type 2 corona virus requires anti retroviral therapeutic drugs akin to the treatment of AIDS. Either the bilipid cell wall has to be ruptured or the spikes changed to such a shape tht they cannot attach to the Angiotensin converting hormone which has receptors for the viral proteins. The cell wall rupture occurs with the oral administration of hydroxyquinol. Symptomatic treatment may be given concomitantly.

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RIYA Gupta (March 23, 2020 2:42 PM)

I dont have any knowledge about this viruses but as a common human as we know washing our hands with soap n water for 20 seconds or with alcohol based sanitizer we can kill it from our hands .so is it possible that using chemical formula of these two or any one of it one can find its antidote. As i heard that soap breaks fats n proteins found in dust n virus n this virus is also made up of proteins .

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Priyanka Kharbas (March 24, 2020 7:59 AM)

1.When the virus come for binding ... the receptors on our body plays an important role ... if we could change the receptor mechanism... which is difficult bt not impossible than even if virus comes on our body cannot bind us.2. Its spike has protein ... protein when coagulated is virus will be killed

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John Hache (April 24, 2020 1:39 AM)

Now that we know that the spike protein is the major element required to enter the cell, in quantum physics we understand that this protein also has its own signature or resonance frequency. Once the frequency identified we should be able to disarm it using its opposing destructive frequency. Please advise if this is possible. In Israel they are already using ultraviolet light with huge success. Of course ultraviolet light is also a frequency. The proper form of this light will circumvent ozone production. Ozone production is one reason why it has been overlooked. This would be faster and more effective than any vaccine.