We are five years into a research project exploring the FDNY’s transformation and the lessons it offers other leaders. In 2015, it was ranked as the top government employer and the 17th overall best employer in the U.S. In the last 20 years, the FDNY has moved from a highly effective yet dated firefighting force to a modern emergency management and response organization. In other cases, they stimulated new efforts to change. In some cases, these reports highlighted and accelerated change efforts already under way. The 9/11 Commission also offered relevant findings, as did the National Institute of Standards and Technology. That six-month effort also led, in 2004, to the first FDNY strategic plan. It commissioned McKinsey to study both the day of the attacks and the FDNY as an organization. The department took in a wide array of perspectives. It converted an unspeakable tragedy into an occasion for learning and changing, for preparing for an expanded role in a most uncertain future. Ultimately, the organization decided not to treat 9/11 as a black swan event. It utilized and invited outside perspectives, even as it grieved and bowed under the weight of months and months of funerals and the loss they represented, personally and professionally. In the months and years to come, the FDNY took a long, hard look at itself. Should it seek to restore what had been, or should it build something different? While the FDNY was still putting out the fires at the World Trade Center, it had to decide how to rebuild. Simply carrying on would consume months, even years. Leadership challenges abounded that day and deep into the future. All the while, the FDNY was grieving the loss of 343 colleagues, including many of its officers and several of its top leaders, preparing for the possibility of additional terrorist attacks, and tending to ongoing needs of its surviving firefighters - and of the massive and complex city it serves.Ī monumental tragedy had ripped through the FDNY, one of the world’s most renowned fire departments. It took three months to extinguish the smoldering fires in the stories upon stories of rubble, rubble which included more than 90 vehicles and spewed out toxins and hampered the search for identifiable remains. Fires around the World Trade Center Plaza, including two of the biggest in New York’s history, took three days to subdue. For the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), however, the horror stretched on. Most of us remember Septemas a horrific day.
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Now I was headed up to the Quad Cities to get positioned for tomorrow’s racing. Then I took the opportunity to return to my all-time favorite track in time to catch their exciting features. I had seen a track that no trackchaser had ever visited before, the Ealyville Speedway. By 9:54 the racing was finished at the Peoria Speedway. However, Peoria starts their races early because of a city imposed curfew. the “green stuff” was just about ready to move over the Peoria Speedway. That was despite some of the worst weather radar I had seen flying through this area in the morning. It didn’t even look as if it had rained here. However, if I had too I probably would.īy the time I entered Mechanicsburg, Illinois, home to the Ealyville Speedway, the cloudy and overcast day had turned to blue skies. I have never put up my car title in order to get a loan. Next door was a “Cash loans on car titles” store. O.K., it wasn’t the best Mexican food….but then I am from San Clemente, California which has more good and great Mexican restaurants than any place north of the border I have ever seen. Who would have thought I could be driving along, have a graving for Mexican food, then ask an electronic device what was the best Mexican place nearby and then have another electronic device tell me how to get there! Heck, when I was a boy I had never ever TRIED Mexican food. I checked Yelp! They recommended a semi-fast food Mexican eatery called “El Burrito Loco”.Īs a young boy I could never have imagined today’s tech world. I don’t get many of those!Īs I powered through Bourbonnais, Illinois (southwest of Chicago) I had a hankering for Mexican food. I received an emergency “flash flood” warning on my iPhone. The rains had been heavy in Illinois this morning. That’s why I require a rental car with satellite radio. I definitely drive many more hours than I sit in a grandstand watching races. In some ways trackchasing is more about driving than watching races. I sat back in my National Car Rental Hyundai Sonata and munched on kettle corn from last night’s Michigan county fair. Google Maps told me it would take a bit less than six hours without stops. The driving distance from my hotel this morning (Lansing, MI) to Mechanicsburg, Illinois would be 388 miles. I was facing a bit of a drive on today’s trip. Trackchasing can be more about driving than watching races. From the looks of things I had dodged a bullet with the weather. By noon it had headed off toward Indianapolis. This morning a huge thunderstorm roared through the area. The weather was going to be hot and humid as it often is during July in the Midwest. Today was the sixth day of my 42-day trackchasing trip.įrom Michigan I was off to central Illinois near where I was born and raised. I woke up this morning at home in Lansing, Michigan. When I last left Illinois as a boy it was hot and humid in July….it still is. This is the first time that researchers have shown, in a single model, the full story of how gas travels in the center of the Milky Way - from being blown off by stars to falling into the black hole. “Here we have shown that our model of gas falling inwards from nearby stars reproduces that same pattern far better than previous models,” Ressler added. Fortunately, the flickering pattern encodes a lot of information. Ressler is supported by a grant to KITP from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.Ī video would be ideal, he noted, but as of now we can construct only blurry, flickering images. “But a single picture only tells part of the story,” said Ressler, a postdoctoral scholar at UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP). There has recently, and for good reason, been a lot of excitement about the new picture of the black hole in the center of our galaxy. In a recent paper submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters, UC Santa Barbara’s Sean Ressler, Lena Murchikova at the Institute for Advanced Study and Chris White at Princeton University were able to use this subtle flickering to construct the most accurate model to date of our own galaxy’s central black hole - Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) - providing insight into properties such as its structure and motion. While light cannot escape a black hole, the bright glow of rapidly orbiting gas (recall the 2019 images of M87’s black hole) has its own unique flicker. The perception of constant illumination is a mere illusion. Because the brain perceives only an average of the information it receives, this flickering is blurred. The light from an incandescent bulb seems steady, but it actually flickers 120 times per second. on RTHK Radio 3, and features discussions with guests such as Chinese entrepreneurs, Western executives, well-respected academics, policymakers, journalists and experts from Asia, America and beyond. Hosted by Ying Ma, China Takes Over the World airs each Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. On 10 December, China arrested two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, now. defense industrial base, energy, government facilities, chemical. The Chinese seek to counter and reduce the American military presence and. Malicious cyber activities attributed to the Chinese government targeted, and continue. Meng was an executive at Huawei, and the daughter of the founder. BRI is an ambitious program that projects Chinese economic and political power. In an email to Snopes, a spokesperson for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada’s national police. On 1 December 2018, Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou in response to an extradition request by the US. There’s no evidence the people are Chinese military, as the man narrating the video states. That was a tense time in Canada-China relations. regarding Canada’s foreign policy towards. Most of the correspondence is from early 2019. Indeed, 50 carpenters and shipwrights from Canton became the first. The federal government is facing criticism after a report that senior civil servants opposed a military plan to stop training Chinese soldiers. The show’s inquiries are guided by the following questions: How is China seeking, strengthening and maintaining its global influence? How is the growth of Chinese power affecting the economic well-being and security positions of other countries? How is the world–especially the United States and China’s neighbors–reacting to China’s historic rise? How will China’s domestic economic and political liberalization, or the lack thereof, propel or hinder its rise? People from China have been in what is today called Canada since before the country existed. While many in the West fear–and many in China hope–that China will dominate the world in the 21st century, this show seeks to highlight many of the current issues related to the rise of China’s global influence. For its part, China continues its economic, political and military ascent. China Takes Over the World explores the myriad issues related to China’s growing economic, political and military power. Support for Canadas presence abroad: deliver resources, infrastructure and. Yet this great reign could not last forever, and soon humanity rose up against their frozen oppressors. The dawning Orenian Empire was thrown into disarray as Brunhylde and her daughters tore through and consumed entire scores of Imperial men, posing a grave threat to the empire, leading to an era of fear and darkness for humanity. Generations passed and the curse of the Frost Witches had spread swiftly throughout the realm, like that of a horrendous disease, myths of women consuming weary travellers and spouses alike spreading throughout the realm much like they had in Skjoldier so many years ago. And woe to that vessel came, for the young woman emerged from the seas onto the sands of Asulon, leaving little but a wreck of wood and gore behind her. A ship captain by the name of Olaf, had questioned not the state of his own daughter Brunhylde, and thus spared her from those who had sought to perhaps harm her from suspicion or fear and so, he brought her aboard the last ship leaving the island. Panic soon spread throughout the land as the remaining sought to escape, clamoring onto ships sailing away from the accursed realm.Īlas, there was one who had great pity, a pity which would condemn descendants for future generations to come. Rumors of icy maidens who consumed wary or unsuspecting men, women of the villages seeming to disappear, their husbands left as bloody heaps in the snow. And never again was the young bride seen by those of the living, and as the years passed, suspicions began to arise within the towns of Skjoldiers. From this, her lips became cold, her body like that of ice and her hair like that of snow. Much has been disputed of what truly transpired, but some tell that Father Winter himself had come down out of pity for the poor woman, granting her the wedding kiss she so deeply desired. The ice and winds pummeled against her, weakening the poor girl’s body as she tumbled into the snow, clinging onto the warmth of life. In a furious stupor she flung herself into a howling blizzard, seeking to confront the man, only protected by simple nightwear which was by no means suitable for traversing such terrain. Yet her sorrow turned to rage, and from her rage, to wrath. She was distraught, and no consolation from the guests brought any respite from her unending sorrow. Alas, all was prepared and present, save for the groom, abandoning the young woman at the altar. All had been set in grandiose splendor, from the flowers, to the cake, and every one of the guests had been assembled in only their most finest wearings. Legends tell of a tale, shrouded in mystery and ice, of a young bride-to-be by the name of Kriemhild, from the icy realm of Skjoldier. His infatuation with spray paint art quickly blossomed. “For me, graffiti is an avenue of self-expression, an education in composition and the practice of mastering one’s craft,” he explains. But spray paint? That was something he could do. This spray paint art was different from the art O’Neill saw displayed in museums growing up and while studying the works of the Old Masters - which all seemed so unattainable to him. I was amazed that people were creating with spray paint.” “Years later at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, I discovered magazines about graffiti. And so, I was less interested in creating the art and more concerned about what my street name would be,” recalls O’Neill. Riding through Boston in the backseat of his parents’ car, O’Neill’s first graffiti memory is seeing letters written on an old incinerator. Learning to Write In Jamie O’Neill’s Syte Train (acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48), the graffiti is front and center and the rail tracks remind the viewer that this form of art is, in essence, a traveling art show. O’Neill is one such artist who transitioned to canvas after years creating eye-catching lettering on the streets. And, university art courses incorporate their works into syllabuses, while books and documentaries set out to explore the meaning behind the art. They are showing their art - now painted on canvas - on gallery walls rather than in the streets. Numerous graffiti artists have shifted into the mainstream art world. Graffiti lettering has a rich history, recognizable inspirations (period pop-culture personalities, television shows and movies, as examples) and masterful artists held in great esteem by emerging graffiti writers. At the other end, it is the finely tuned, stylized and distinctive lettering recognizable to all street artists, and which represents the best of the best. The second is lettering, which is also known as graffiti writing.Īt one end of the spectrum, lettering may consist of a simple word thrown up with a marker to tag a gang’s territory. The first is street art comprised of stencils, paintings and stickers. Understanding Street Art The graffiti in much of Jamie O’Neill’s work is of lettering, but in this acrylic painting (titled Sour D), the letters take on a cartoon-like quality. But the art created “on the streets” has a tight-knit group of supporting artists, rivalries and levels of expertise - just as in “traditional” art culture. To understand the work of this artist, you must first look at the outsider art many people label as just graffiti. In Sacred by Jamie O’Neill (acrylic on canvas, 36 x 60), note how the hazards of freight travel are reflected in the damaged box-car in this art piece. For artist Jamie O’Neill, the most impactful art lessons began on the streets. When he started out his canvas was not linen, but rather walls, subway cars and tunnels, abandoned automobiles and boxcars. Or, maybe it was at a kitchen table under the encouragement of artistically inclined parents. For some, the first venture into art was in a classroom. Recent studies have focused on the identification and characterization of pathogenic mutations in regulatory regions, including canonical RNA splice sites. Although more than 120 genes have been implicated in these diseases (, accessed April 2018) (Bonne, Rivier, & Hamroun, 2017), many affected patients remain undiagnosed despite extensive and costly genetic testing. This is especially true of inherited muscle diseases. The genetic etiologies of the remaining families often prove difficult to ascertain, as they may lie in unsequenced regions (for exomes and targeted sequence panels in particular) or may be cryptic mutations in regions that are already sequenced. Unfortunately, in many cohorts, NGS techniques identify pathogenic mutations in a minority of families (Lee et al., 2014 Yang et al., 2014) for neuromuscular disorders, in general, it has been found to be around 40% (Ankala et al., 2015), as well as for limb-girdle muscular dystrophy in particular (Ghaoui et al., 2015 Reddy et al., 2017, 2016). Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are now routinely used to discover pathogenic mutations underlying rare genetic disorders. This study confirms the potential of novel in silico algorithms to detect cryptic mutations in existing NGS data expands the phenotypic spectrum of ATP2A1 mutations beyond classic Brody myopathy and suggests that genetic testing of ATP2A1 should be considered in patients with clinical myotonia. Ubiquitous knockdown of SERCA led to lethality in Drosophila, as did knockdown targeting differentiating or fusing myoblasts. Aberrant splicing of ATP2A1 was confirmed via qRT-PCR, and abnormal expression of the protein product sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca ++ ATPase 1 (SERCA1) was demonstrated in quadriceps femoris tissue from the proband. The PANESS pipeline identified a homozygous ATP2A1 variant (NC_000016.9:g.28905928G>A NM_004320.4:c.1287G>A:p.(Glu429=)) that was predicted to cause the omission of exon 11. RNAi knockdown studies were performed in Drosophila to model the gene deficiency. Further analyses were performed via qRT-PCR, immunoblotting, and immunohistochemistry. We developed a bioinformatics pipeline that screens existing NGS data for potentially aberrant novel essential splice sites (PANESS) and performed a pilot study on a family with a myotonic disorder. Noncanonical splice sites are more difficult to ascertain. Standard variant analysis of next-generation sequence (NGS) data focuses on canonical splice sites. When transformations of marine organic matter are considered, differences in community composition and their different abilities to access organic matter should be taken into account.Pathogenic mutations causing aberrant splicing are often difficult to detect. The greater number of phylum- and subphylum-level lineages and operational taxonomic units in sediments than in seawater samples may reflect the necessity of a wider range of enzymatic capabilities and strategies to access organic matter that has already been degraded during passage through the water column. Thus, the broader enzymatic capabilities of the sedimentary microbial communities may result from the compositional differences between seawater and sedimentary microbial communities, rather than from gene expression differences among compositionally similar communities. To compare bacterial communities, 16S rRNA gene clone libraries were constructed from the same seawater and sediment samples they diverged strongly in composition. In seawater, in contrast, only 5 of the 7 polysaccharides and 2 of the 3 algal extracts were hydrolyzed, and hydrolysis rates in surface and deepwater were virtually identical. Sedimentary microbial communities hydrolyzed all of the fluorescently labeled polysaccharide and algal extracts, in most cases at higher rates in subsurface than surface sediments. Patterns of enzyme activities differed between seawater and sediments, not just quantitatively, in accordance with higher cell numbers in sediments, but also in their more diversified enzyme spectrum. communities to initiate organic matter degradation, we measured the extracellular enzymatic hydrolysis rates of 10 substrates (polysaccharides and algal extracts) in surface seawater and bottom water as well as in surface and anoxic sediments of an Arctic fjord. To compare the abilities of seawater and sedimentary microbial. Although carbon cycling and preservation depend critically on the capabilities of these microbial communities, their compositions and capabilities have seldom been examined simultaneously at the same site. Heterotrophic microbial communities in seawater and sediments metabolize much of the organic carbon produced in the ocean. The Epic heroes can be upgraded a lot faster than the Legendary ones, so you will probably end up maxing out some of these heroes first. Make sure that you stick to the S-tier or A-tier Legendary champions, because these will greatly outshine every other hero in the game. If you manage to get a few of these, then you're probably set. These are the heroes you want on your team. Legendary | Epic | Rare | Uncommon & Commonīelow are all the heroes released in the latest V5.70, but their ranking is still relatively temporary - we need to test them out a little bit more! So if you feel like some heroes need to be adjusted, let us know why! Original article by Cristina Mesesan, updated by Pocket Gamer Staff. I am well aware that some of the heroes might do better than others in Clan Boss, for example, while others will be completely terrible for Clan Boss but S-tier for PvP Arena. Since many of these heroes have multiple uses, this tier list will reflect their overall rating. By logging in daily, doing all your quests, you'll end up levelling up and upgrading all of the heroes to max rank sooner or later! Finally, if you want to quickly upgrade them all you should do is stay active in the game. Then, you should focus on just a few - it really doesn't matter which rarity (as long as it's not Common or Uncommon, of course) if they are considered S-tier. Redeem some of the RAID: Shadow Legends promo codesįirst, you should learn some of the basics of the game from our game guide.They are divided by rarity, role, affinity and faction, but don't let that discourage you - choosing the best ones is quite simple. Of course, as you might already know, there are quite a lot of champions in the game. This RAID: Shadow Legends tier list contains all the heroes in the game, and it will help you pick the best ones in terms of usability and rarity. Having some of the best champions in the game on your team can make a huge difference when challenging bosses and other monsters. Updated on August 16th, 2022 - Updated the RAID: Shadow Legends Champions tier list to patch V5.70 If you have cool ideas, don’t use the Pony Express to send me a letter, they went out of business 150 years ago. If you use Android, well, you’re on your own. Just tap on the sharing icon in Safari, and smash “Add to Home Screen”. 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Now that you know where your money goes, you will be able to set up a spending plan based on the information you have been tracking. Wants are the extra things you spend your money on such as dining out and entertainment. Check with your bank on the availability of these online resources.Īs you start to track your expenses, it is helpful to break your spending into different categories. There are two main categories of expenses: needs and wants. Needs are expenses that are required for living such as rent, food, utilities, and transportation costs. In addition, many banks now offer free expense tracking and budgeting tools that make this process much easier. Print this budget to help you track your spending. To do this, you will need to track all of your expenses by writing down every dollar you spend for at least a month. The first step to creating a spending plan is to determine how much money you spend. 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