This book contains curse words and sarcasm along with a lot of really good food for thought for anyone embarking upon an indie author adventure. From choosing a pen name to attending a convention as a featured author, this is not a book about writing. It is a book about being a writer and some things you should know about before giving up or giving in! This is part of a series of real talk books from an Indie Author.

Die Entwicklungsländer haben seit dem Jahr 2000 Fortschritte bei der Hungerreduzierung gemacht. Der Welthunger-Index 2015 (WHI) zeigt, dass die Hungerwerte dort insgesamt um 27 Prozent gesunken sind. Dennoch bleibt die Hungersituation weltweit „ernst“. In diesem Jahr hat IFPRI zum zehnten Mal den weltweiten Hunger mithilfe dieses multidimensionalen Instruments erfasst.

Der Welthunger-Index (WHI) 2015 ist der zehnte in einer Reihe jährlicher Berichte, in denen die Hungersituation weltweit, nach Regionen und auf Länderebene mithilfe eines multidimensionalen Ansatzs dargestellt wird. Er zeigt, dass weltweit seit dem Jahr 2000 Fortschritte bei der Bekämpfung von Hunger erzielt wurden, dass aber angesichts noch immer „ernster“ oder „sehr ernster“ Hungerwerte in 52 Ländern nach wie vor viel zu tun bleibt. Das Thema des vorliegenden Berichts lautet „Hunger und bewaffnete Konflikte“. Konflikt und Hunger stehen in enger Beziehung.

Die Entwicklungsländer konnten seit dem Jahr 2000 beträchtliche Erfolge bei der Reduzierung des Hungers erzielen. Der Welthunger-Index (WHI) 2016 zeigt, dass der Hungerwert in den Entwicklungsländern insgesamt um 29 Prozent gesunken ist. Die Fortschritte sind jedoch nicht überall gleich groß; zwischen Regionen, Ländern und innerhalb von Ländern gibt es erhebliche Unterschiede.

Der Welthunger-Index (WHI) 2016 ist der elfte in einer Reihe jährlicher Berichte, in denen die Hungersituation weltweit, nach Regionen und auf Länderebene mithilfe eines multidimensionalen Ansatzes dargestellt wird. Er zeigt, dass seit dem Jahr 2000 weltweit Fortschritte bei der Bekämpfung von Hunger gemacht wurden, dass aber angesichts noch immer „ernster“ oder „sehr ernster“ Hungerwerte in 50 Ländern nach wie vor viel zu tun bleibt. Der vorliegende Bericht stellt den Paradigmenwechsel in der internationalen Zusammenarbeit durch die Agenda 2030 für nachhaltige Entwicklung vor.

Der Welthunger-Index (WHI) 2017 zeigt langfristige Fortschritte in der Reduzierung des Hungers in der Welt. Diese Fortschritte waren allerdings ungleich verteilt. Nach wie vor leiden Millionen von Menschen unter chronischem Hunger, und an vielen Orten herrschen akute Nahrungskrisen und gar Hungersnöte. Laut den WHI-Werten 2017 ist der Hunger weltweit gegenüber 2000 um 27 Prozent gesunken. In einem der 119 Länder, die im diesjährigen Bericht bewertet werden, ist die Situation als „gravierend“ einzustufen; sieben Länder entsprechen auf der WHI-Schweregradskala der Kategorie „sehr ernst“.

Der Welthunger-Index (WHI) 2017 ist der zwölfte in einer Reihe jährlicher Berichte, in denen die Hungersituation weltweit, nach Regionen, auf Länder- und auf nationaler Ebene mithilfe eines multidimensionalen Ansatzes dargestellt wird. Er zeigt, dass seit dem Jahr 2000 weltweit Fortschritte bei der Bekämpfung von Hunger gemacht wurden, die jedoch mit noch immer „ernsten“ oder „sehr ernsten“ Hungerwerten in 51 Ländern sowie einem „gravierenden“ Wert in einem Land ungleich verteilt sind.

In an era of rapidly evolving Artificial Intelligence/Large Language Model (AI/LLM) technologies, cybersecurity practitioners face significant challenges in monitoring unauthorized AI solutions, detecting AI vulnerabilities, and identifying unexpected AI/LLM development. Tenable Security Center leverages advanced detection technologies - agents, passive network monitoring, dynamic application security testing, and distributed scan engines - to surface AI/LLM software, libraries, and browser plugins. The risk managers utilize this dashboard to begin a comprehensive review of the AI/LLM packages in systems and web applications, along with associated vulnerabilities, mitigating risks of exploitation, data leakage, and unauthorized resource consumption.

This dashboard provides a detailed view of AI/LLM use by leveraging Nessus plugin (196906) to detect AI/LLM usage in 3 ways: browser extensions, applications, and file paths all common to AI/LLM implementations. AI/LLM vulnerabilities discovered in web applications are identified using the Web Application Scanner, alongside network traffic analysis using the Nessus Network Monitor (NNM). By combining all methods of data collection, the risk managers are able to identify problem areas and other risks associated with AI/LLM.

AI/LLM technologies are promising and can transform many industries and businesses, offering new innovation and efficiency opportunities. However, the technology represents a huge security challenge at many layers and this impact should not be overlooked. By using Tenable Security Center and Tenable Web App Scanning the organization is able to take a security-first approach. When combined with best practices and robust governance policies, the organizations can harness the power of AI/LLM and mitigate the associated emerging threats.

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AI/LLM Software Known to Nessus: This matrix provides summary counts of AI/LLM use by leveraging Nessus plugin (196906). This column chart uses the Plugin ID filter and Plugin Output filter to show the AI/LLM applications found on assets scanned using Nessus. Each label displayed is the pattern added to the plugin output search. This search allows the security managers a simplified approach to beginning the understanding into AI usage.

AI/LLM Top 5 Applications: This matrix provides the counts top 5 utilized AI/LLM applications discovered by Tenable Research. The cells use the Plugin ID (196906) and Plugin Output filter to show the AI/LLM application. Each label displayed is the pattern added to the plugin output search. This search allows the security managers a simplified approach to beginning the understanding into AI usage. The top 5 utilized list consists of: TensorFlow, NumPy, H2O Flow, HuggingFace, and scikit-learn.

AI/LLM Detection Statistics: This matrix provides summary counts of AI/LLM use by leveraging Nessus plugin (196906) to detect AI/LLM usage in 3 ways: browser extensions, applications, and file paths all common to AI/LLM implementations. AI/LLM vulnerabilities discovered in web applications are identified using the Web App Scanner, alongside network traffic analysis using the Nessus Network Monitor (NNM). By combining all methods of data collection, the risk managers are able to identify problem areas and other risks associated with AI/LLM.

AI/LLM Software Detected by NNM & WAS: AI/LLM vulnerabilities discovered in web applications are identified using the Web Application Scanner, alongside network traffic analysis using the Nessus Network Monitor (NNM). By combining all methods of data collection, the risk managers are able to identify problem areas and other risks associated with AI/LLM.

AI/LLM Browser Extensions: This matrix provides summary counts of AI/LLM use by leveraging Nessus plugin (196906). The cells use the Plugin ID filter and Plugin Output filter to show the AI/LLM browser extensions grouped into three search patterns. Each label displayed is the pattern added to the plugin output search. This search allows the security managers a simplified approach to beginning the understanding into AI usage.
 

Potential impact of zinc-enriched rice on zinc intakes in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines

Nutritional benefits of enhanced biofortification.

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Comprehensive sanitation in India: Despite progress, an unfinished agenda

Building on improvements in Infant mortality.

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India lifts export restrictions on rice

Assessing impacts on global markets and African consumers.

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Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Industrial & Operations Engineering

Please join us for our final BIndx Meeting of the semester! UM-ChemE Alum, Lauren Sinclair, will be joining us. She is the Principal Program Lead of Service & Hospitality at Chick-fil-A Corporate. She has also worked in consulting at McKinsey & Co. Join us for dinner and a great conversation with our guest speaker.

The Black Industrial Engineers (BIndx, pronounced BIND-ex) group is composed of IOE students and faculty who come together informally for meaningful conversations and fellowship to promote learning, mentoring, and networking. The BIndx program was initiated to promote a learning space where students feel comfortable engaging with faculty. BIndx meetings occur as informal monthly discussions to help form relationships between faculty and minoritized students.  BIndx hosts a diverse group of guest speakers throughout the semester with a specific focus to facilitate conversations, build connections, and empower self-reflection.

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Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Student Number Theory Seminar - Department of Mathematics

Deligne-Lusztig theory gives a way to construct and study the characters of finite groups of Lie type via l-adic cohomology. In this talk, we will sketch this construction and explain their basic properties with some examples.

Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. This is a guided mindfulness meditation drop-in session. No experience necessary. Free and open to all.

Email dmitryb@umich.edu to sign up for the mailing list. You will receive a weekly reminder with the zoom link. Also, you can add the sessions to your Google Calendar: https://tinyurl.com/y3kbkwd6

Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Judaic Studies

KIN assembles the queer beings who dwell beyond the confines of binary gender and species categories. It highlights communities whose members and affiliations strain normative arrangements of “nature” and “culture.” KIN transmutes these categories by its joinings of oddbods and oddkin. It envisions worlds in which creatures form kinship beyond the monogamous, cisheterosexual, human family unit.

Transversing painting, drawing, comics, and installation, KIN’s menagerie of media, draws on ancient Jewish sources, demi-fictional autobiography, deviant zoology, and a love for the materiality of mark-making itself. Process, rather than product; becoming, rather than stasis; collaboration rather than closure: this is KIN’s hope.

Integrating reforms with global goals.

Pivotal: Confronting hunger and poverty in Nigeria (Africa Independence Television)

Nigeria’s current economic crisis continues to attract media attention. On 26 June 2024 Africa Independence Television (AIT) hosted a panel discussion on the television program “Pivotal” focused on confronting hunger and poverty. The panel, moderated by Nabila Usman, included Kwaw Andam, Country Program Leader, IFPRI-Nigeria, Andrew Mamudu, Country Director, Action Aid, and Abdullahi Mohammad, Associate, […]

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Micropillar arrays, wide window acquisition and AI-based data analysis improve comprehensiveness in multiple proteomic applications  Nature.com

Quantitative proteomics reveals tissue-specific, infection-induced and species-specific neutrophil protein signatures  Nature.com

Novel FFPE proteomics method suggests prolactin induced protein as hormone induced cytoskeleton remodeling spatial biomarker | Communications Biology  Nature.com

Serum proteomics reveal APOE-ε4 -dependent and APOE-ε4 -independent protein signatures in Alzheimer’s disease  Nature.com

Deep Plasma Proteomics with Data-Independent Acquisition: Clinical Study Protocol Optimization with a COVID-19 Cohort  ACS Publications

Daily Partial Alley Closure. The alley behind 3757-63 N. Sheffield Avenue & 3764 N. Wilton Avenue for steel erection.

Extended alley closure for the alley behind 5300 thru 5358 N. Winthrop Avenue (W. Berwyn Avenue to W. Balmoral Avenue)

Updated Dates for Extended Alley Closure for The alley behind 5300 thru 5358 N. Winthrop Avenue (W. Berwyn Avenue to W. Balmoral Avenue) for alley reconstruction.

New Dates, Alley Impacts at The alley behind 5800 thru 5828 N. Winthrop Avenue (W. Ardmore Avenue to W. Thorndale Avenue) for alley repaving.

Alley Impacts at the alley behind 5800 thru 5828 N. Winthrop Avenue (W. Ardmore Avenue to W. Thorndale Avenue) for alley repaving.

We bring you two stories from The Indicator on two industries that are undergoing rapid change: vets and container shipping. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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In 2006, Warren Buffett bet a million dollars that the most brainless, boring investment around would do better than the researched, handpicked investments of some of the smartest hedge fund managers in the world. The second class of Summer School looks at how that bet played out, the origins of the index fund, and why it's so hard to beat the market. Returning to the underlying theme of risk and reward, we also discuss how diversification reduces risk. | Watch this Tik Tok to learn more and subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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It's Stacey vs Greg in a face off on the future of the office. Each takes a side, armed with studies, historical examples, theories on efficiency and happiness and from their closet studios, they bring their indicators for the future of the office. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. And our daily podcast The Indicator hosted by Stacey here.

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It's another extremely dry, hot summer for the American West. Our daily podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money, brings us two stories about the water shortage in the West with economic ideas that may help. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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Women start a lot of businesses, but when it comes time for them to grow, many hit a wall, or the women founders end up losing control. Why? We bring you two indicators on women and work from our daily podcast The Indicator. Also, Amanda and Stacey go on a picnic to prove a point. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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We bring you two stories from The Indicator on the recent battles being fought in Congress. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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Ticket scalping frustrates fans, but it fascinates economists. It's been a favorite topic of ours in the past. This time, Darian turns to friends and experts to navigate the world of concert tickets like an economist who is also a music fan. Then we find out just how big Adele is on vinyl. So big her latest album disrupted the whole market for vinyl, the material itself. | These stories come from our daily podcast The Indicator. Go subscribe if you haven't already.

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Will it be inflation? Striketober? The supply chain? Our hosts make their case, and the choice is up to you.

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Where do holidays like National Potato Chip Day and Argyle Day come from? We trace the roots of one made-up holiday until we find out who is running the global holiday machine. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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Two stories about people trying to overcome supply chain challenges. We follow a ship that is forced to get creative to bypass clogged ports, and we visit a warehouse that is running out of space. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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Corporate profits are soaring. So are prices. Can corporations just not raise prices? Would that fight inflation? We examine this theory making the rounds. Then, we go inside the pipes of the economy to see how mortgage rates connect to that recent rate hike by the Federal Reserve. | Subscribe to our sister podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money. It's daily, and always less than 10 minutes.

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When Maddie Messer was 12 years old, she noticed an unfair dynamic in the video games she loved: playing as a man was often free, but she had to pay to play as a woman. So ... she decided to take on the video game industry. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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Two stories of consternation from inside the crypto world. Can a crypto crash spread to the wider economy? How does contagion work? And ... why has crypto had such appeal with Black investors? | Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.

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So are we in a recession or not? The jury is still out, but there are some warning signs. GDP is down and inflation is up. But how much do we know about the 'indicators' that tell us how the economy is doing? Today, the stories of two of our most important indicators, the Consumer Price Index and GDP, and what they can and can't tell us about our current economic predicament.| Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.

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On today's show - how your social circle is one of the strongest predictors of economic mobility and how pop music reflects the economy.

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It's fall, so on this episode, we're taking you back to school. First, what sorority rush can teach us about a particular kind of market. Then, how two economists fixed the way macroeconomics was taught in high schools. It's econ, inside and outside the classroom.

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Xi Jinping recently secured his third term as China's president – so we're looking at two shocks to the world's second-largest economy. First: How China's housing boom turned into a real estate crisis. Second: How the recent U.S. ban on selling advanced semiconductor chips to China could affect China's technology industry.

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"ESG" investing – Environmental, Social, Governance – has attracted a lot of attention from investors, and from Republican politicians who call it "woke investing." On today's show, what the fight over ESG reveals about the potential and limitations of sustainable investing.

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2022 was a year of big economic changes. But what economic story most defined the year? Our hosts from Planet Money and The Indicator battle it out over what should be crowned the indicator of the year. Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney

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If the Fed had a mantra to go along with its mandate, it might well be "two percent." We look into how that became the target inflation rate, why some economists are calling for a change and how the inflation rate becomes unanchored.

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A lot of the time, economic policy can seem pretty impersonal — cold, hard, data-driven. But at the heart of the Federal Reserve are people: fallible, complicated people who are just doing their best to steer the economy in the right direction.

Often, we remember them just for their economic decisions. But today, we're airing two episodes from our daily economics show The Indicator that profile the people inside the Fed. First, we're heading back to the 1970s to revisit Arthur Burns' oft-criticized stint as Fed chair. Next, we have a conversation with Mary Daly, the current president of the San Francisco Fed, about her remarkable path from high school dropout to one of the most important economic voices in the nation.

These two Indicator episodes were originally produced by Viet Le and Brittany Cronin. They were fact-checked by Sierra Juarez and Dylan Sloan and edited by Kate Concannon. The Planet Money version was produced by Dylan Sloan, engineered by Josh Newell and edited by Dave Blanchard.

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Right now, the economy is all over the place. And when things get confusing, we look to basic economic indicators to help explain what's going on. Today, we're bringing you two episodes of our daily show The Indicator that focus on the bond market.

The market for U.S. treasury bonds is generally safe, predictable and pretty boring. Recently, though, it's been anything but. We look into the fluctuations in bond prices and the yield curve (one of our favorite indicators) to try to help us understand where the economy stands right now.

These two Indicator episodes were originally produced by Brittany Cronin and Noah Glick. They were fact-checked by Sierra Juarez and engineered by Gilly Moon and Katherine Silva. Kate Concannon edits The Indicator.

The Planet Money version was produced by Dylan Sloan and edited by Dave Blanchard.

Music: "Funk Lounge," "A Fulltime Job" and "Velvet Groove."

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When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up? An astronaut, a doctor or maybe a famous athlete? Today one of the most popular responses to that question is influencer – content creators who grow their following on Tik Tok, Instagram and YouTube and monetize that content to make it their full-time job.

In a lot of ways influencing can seem like the dream job - the filters, the followers, the free stuff. But on the internet, rarely is anything as it appears. From hate comments and sneaky contracts to prejudice and discrimination, influencers face a number of hurdles in their chosen careers.

This week we're bringing you two stories from our daily show The Indicator on the promise and perils of the multi-billion dollar influencer industry.

This episode was produced by Corey Bridges and Janet Lee. It was engineered by Robert Rodriguez and Katherine Silva. It was fact-checked by Sierra Juarez and Dylan Sloan. Emily Kinslow was the podcast coordinator for this series. Viet Le is The Indicator's senior producer. Kate Concannon edits the show. Our acting executive producer is Jess Jiang.

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