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Ahmedabad youth offers model for quicker detection

For Ujjawal Panchal, a 21-year-old undergraduate who is in his final year at a college in Chennai, getting stuck in his hometown of Ahmedabad due to the lockdown seems to have opened new doors.




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Technology to help Delhi Police breach iPhones, get back deleted data

Delhi Police is going to procure a technology which will help the cops extract data from iPhones seized by them from suspects. The software can even extract deleted data and data from installed applications on the phones.





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Darrin Patrick’s Death, His Love for Pastors, and How We Need One Another

Darrin’s death is not the last word on his life. His love for pastors—and his concern for their mental health and thriving—can be part of our response today.

Darrin Patrick has died.

Darrin is probably best known for planting The Journey Church in St. Louis in 2002, eventually growing to six locations. He was a husband, father, speaker, and author.

Darrin and his spiritual mentor Greg Surratt led the Pastor's Collective podcast and he was serving as a teaching pastor at Seacoast Church.

But, most importantly, Darrin was married to Amie and they have four children.

Darrin’s Journey and Focus

Darrin was very open about his journey—and specifically asked me to help share his story a little over a year ago. His story of leaving the Journey is painful and messy, but he wanted people to know about it.

He wanted people to learn from his pain.

Darrin died from a “self-inflicted gunshot wound.” I know that has caused some people to want more details—to use language that is more precise and to provide added details. And, as you can tell from the statement, the situation is confusing. Seacoast Church shared, ““Darrin was target shooting with a friend at the time of his death. An official cause of death has not been released but it appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. No foul play is suspected.”

Thus, it is important to let families communicate the way they are comfortable. Families grieve in complex ways—and right now, they owe nothing to the rest of us. We just owe them our prayers.

The family is grieving and I am respecting their grief and their communication choices.

And, from there, I am going to take Darrin’s admonition from a year ago and fast forward it until now—hoping that even this moment might be a catalyst for pastors to get help that Darrin always wanted them to get.

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Why Irrfan picked Piku over Matt Damon

'For the first time, I was seen in an overt romantic role.'




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Taiwan Dragons vs Taiwan Daredevils, Dream11 Prediction: Best picks for TDG vs TDR today in Taipei T10 League

TDG vs TDR Dream11 Team - Check My Dream11 Team, Best players list of today's match, Taiwan Dragons vs Taiwan Daredevils Dream11 Team Player List, TDG Dream11 Team Player List, TDR Dream11 Team Player List, Dream11 Guru Tips, Online Cricket Tips, Taiwan Dragons vs Taiwan Daredevils Head to Head.




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Hsinchu Titans vs Taiwan Daredevils, Dream11 Prediction: Best picks for HST vs TDR today in Taipei T10 League

HST vs TDR Dream11 Team - Check My Dream11 Team, Best players list of today's match, Hsinchu Titans vs Taiwan Daredevils Dream11 Team Player List, TDG Dream11 Team Player List, HST Dream11 Team Player List, Dream11 Guru Tips, Online Cricket Tips, Hsinchu Titans vs Taiwan Daredevils Head to Head.




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DNA Exclusive: Sophie Choudry reveals how she would celebrate Mothers' Day with 'super mom'

The coronavirus lockdown has separated many of us from our families, including our mothers. However, Sophie Choudhry is one lucky celeb who is able to spend her quarantine and Mothers' Day with her supermom. In fact, she told us all about her plans for the day.




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Now total lockdown in Gandhinagar from Sunday

To curb the increasing number of corona positive cases and the spread of virus infection, the Gandhinagar Collector on Saturday said there would be a total lockdown in Gandhinagar city and Kalol municipality on the lines of Ahmedabad and Surat.




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Ahmedabad Covid-19 cases now 5,540; toll 363




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Ahmedabad: 29 held for Shahpur violence

Shahpur police, on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, detained 29 persons in connection with the violence which erupted on Friday evening in the area.




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Ahmedabad’s posh areas in corona grip

(This story originally appeared in AhmedabadMirror on May 10, 2020)




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Ahmedabad lockdown news: Today's updates

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.




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COVID-19 testing capacity scaled to 95k per day: Govt

A total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 government and 121 private laboratories.





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Netflix’s Mother’s Day watchlist: Lady Bird, Roma and others




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Andy Serkis says The Batman will be darker than previous films





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Random sampling finds two positive cases in two days in Panchkula




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Ayurveda medicine trial to begin on asymptomatic Covid-19 patients in Chandigarh




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Happy Mother’s Day 2020: Wishes, images, quotes, status, messages, cards, wallpapers, and photos




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Designer Neeta Lulla recalls creating Juhi’s look in 2.5 hours for the movie Darr




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Happy Mother’s Day 2020: Wishes, images, Whatsapp messages, status, quotes and photos




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This Mother’s Day, doctors share what it’s like to help other women become mothers




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On Mother’s Day, relive nostalgia with these 3 recipes for dips




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Chandigarh lockdown news: Today's updates

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.




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Mother’s Day: 5 apps that can make a mother’s life easier




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Mother’s Day 2020: Vicky Kaushal, Kiara Advani, Mahesh Babu and others share adorable photos




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Low-dose X-ray structure analysis of cytochrome c oxidase utilizing high-energy X-rays

To investigate the effect of high-energy X-rays on site-specific radiation-damage, low-dose diffraction data were collected from radiation-sensitive crystals of the metal enzyme cytochrome c oxidase. Data were collected at the Structural Biology I beamline (BL41XU) at SPring-8, using 30 keV X-rays and a highly sensitive pixel array detector equipped with a cadmium telluride sensor. The experimental setup of continuous sample translation using multiple crystals allowed the average diffraction weighted dose per data set to be reduced to 58 kGy, and the resulting data revealed a ligand structure featuring an identical bond length to that in the damage-free structure determined using an X-ray free-electron laser. However, precise analysis of the residual density around the ligand structure refined with the synchrotron data showed the possibility of a small level of specific damage, which might have resulted from the accumulated dose of 58 kGy per data set. Further investigation of the photon-energy dependence of specific damage, as assessed by variations in UV-vis absorption spectra, was conducted using an on-line spectrometer at various energies ranging from 10 to 30 keV. No evidence was found for specific radiation damage being energy dependent.




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X-ray radiation damage to biological samples: recent progress

With the continuing development of beamlines for macromolecular crystallography (MX) over the last few years providing ever higher X-ray flux densities, it has become even more important to be aware of the effects of radiation damage on the resulting structures. Nine papers in this issue cover a range of aspects related to the physics and chemistry of the manifestations of this damage, as observed in both MX and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) on crystals, solutions and tissue samples. The reports include measurements of the heating caused by X-ray irradiation in ruby microcrystals, low-dose experiments examining damage rates as a function of incident X-ray energy up to 30 keV on a metallo-enzyme using a CdTe detector of high quantum efficiency as well as a theoretical analysis of the gains predicted in diffraction efficiency using these detectors, a SAXS examination of low-dose radiation exposure effects on the dissociation of a protein complex related to human health, theoretical calculations describing radiation chemistry pathways which aim to explain the specific structural damage widely observed in proteins, investigation of radiation-induced damage effects in a DNA crystal, a case study on a metallo-enzyme where structural movements thought to be mechanism related might actually be radiation-damage-induced changes, and finally a review describing what X-ray radiation-induced cysteine modifications can teach us about protein dynamics and catalysis. These papers, along with some other relevant literature published since the last Journal of Synchrotron Radiation Radiation Damage special issue in 2017, are briefly summarized below.




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ProQEXAFS: a highly optimized parallelized rapid processing software for QEXAFS data

The high temporal resolution in data acquisition, possible in the quick-scanning EXAFS (QEXAFS) mode of operation, provides new challenges in efficient data processing methods. Here a new approach is developed that combines an easy to use interactive graphical interface with highly optimized and fully parallelized Python-based routines for extracting, normalizing and interpolating oversampled time-resolved XAS spectra from a raw binary stream of data acquired during operando QEXAFS studies. The programs developed are freely available via a Github repository.















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Scaling diffraction data in the DIALS software package: algorithms and new approaches for multi-crystal scaling

A new scaling program is presented with new features to support multi-sweep workflows and analysis within the DIALS software package.




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Crystal structure of bis­(1-ethyl-1H-imidazole-κN3)(meso-tetra­mesitylporphyrinato-κ4N,N',N'',N''')iron(III) perchlorate chloro­benzene sesquisolvate

In the complex cation of title compound, [Fe(C56H52N4)(C5H8N2)2]ClO4·1.5C6H5Cl, the ironIII atom is coordinated in a distorted octa­hedral manner by four pyrrole N atoms of the porphyrin ring system in the equatorial plane, and by two N atoms of the 1-ethyl­imidazole ligands in the axial sites. A disordered perchlorate anion and one and a half chloro­benzene solvent mol­ecules are also present. The cationic complex exhibits a highly ruffled porphyrin core. The average Fe—Np (Np is a porphyrin N atom) bond length is 1.988 (5), and the axial Fe—NIm (NIm is an imidazole N atom) bond lengths are 1.962 (3) and 1.976 (3) Å. The two 1-ethyl­imidazole ligands are inclined to each other by a dihedral angle of 68.62 (16)°. The dihedral angles between the 1-ethyl­imidazole planes and the planes of the closest Fe—Np vector are 28.52 (18) and 43.57 (13)°. Inter­molecular C—H⋯Cl inter­actions are observed.




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Di­bromido­[N-(1-di­ethyl­amino-1-oxo-3-phenyl­propan-2-yl)-N'-(pyridin-2-yl)imidazol-2-yl­idene]palladium(II) di­chloro­methane monosolvate

In the mol­ecule of the title N,N'-disubstituted imidazol-2-yl­idene palladium(II) complex, [PdBr2(C21H24N4O)]·CH2Cl2, the palladium(II) atom adopts a slightly distorted square-planar coordination (r.m.s. deviation = 0.0145 Å), and the five-membered chelate ring is almost planar [maximum displacement = 0.015 (8) Å]. The mol­ecular conformation is enforced by intra­molecular C—H⋯Br hydrogen bonds. In the crystal, complex mol­ecules and di­chloro­methane mol­ecules are linked into a three-dimensional network by C—H⋯O and C—H⋯Br hydrogen bonds.




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7-(Biphenyl-4-yl)-6-hy­droxy­indan-1-one

The title compound, C21H16O2, was isolated from the reaction of 1-(2-meth­oxy­eth­oxy)-1-vinyl­cyclo­propane, 4-ethynylbiphenyl, and CO in a [5 + 1 + 2 + 1] cyclo­addition reaction catalysed by [Rh(CO)2Cl]2. The crystals precipitated directly from the crude reaction mixture. A hydrogen-bonding framework between the hy­droxy and carbonyl groups of a symmetry-related neighbour connects the mol­ecules into chains running parallel to the crystallographic c axis. A minor non-merohedral twin component was included in the refinement.




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Di-μ-acetato-bis­{[3-benzyl-1-(2,4,6-tri­methyl­phen­yl)imidazol-2-ylidene]silver(I)}

The title compound, [Ag2(C2H3O2)2(C19H20N2)2] (2), was readily synthesized by treatment of 3-benzyl-1-(2,4,6-tri­methyl­phen­yl)imidazolium chloride with silver acetate. The solution structure of the complex was analyzed by NMR spectroscopy, while the solid-state structure was confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies. Compound 2 crystallizes in the triclinic space group Poverline{1}, with a silver-to-carbene bond length (Ag—CNHC) of 2.084 (3) Å. The mol­ecule resides on an inversion center, so that only half of the mol­ecule is crystallographically unique. The planes defined by the two imidazole rings are parallel to each other, but not coplanar [inter­planar distance is 0.662 (19) Å]. The dihedral angles between the imidazole ring and the benzyl and mesityl rings are 77.87 (12) and 72.86 (11)°, respectively. The crystal structure features π–π stacking inter­actions between the benzylic groups of inversion-related (−x + 1, −y + 1, −z + 1) mol­ecules and C—H⋯π inter­actions.




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1,1',3,3'-Tetra­mesitylquinobis(imidazole)-2,2'-di­thione

The solid-state structural analysis of the title compound [systematic name: 5,11-disulfanylidene-4,6,10,12-tetrakis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-4,6,10,12-tetraazatricyclo[7.3.0.03,7]dodeca-1(9),3(7)-diene-2,8-dione], C44H44N4O2S2 [+solvent], reveals that the mol­ecule crystallizes in a highly symmetric cubic space group so that one quarter of the mol­ecule is crystallographically unique, the mol­ecule lying on special positions (two mirror planes, two twofold axes and a center of inversion). The crystal structure exhibits large cavities of 193 Å3 accounting for 7.3% of the total unit-cell volume. These cavities contain residual density peaks but it was not possible to unambiguously identify the solvent therein. The contribution of the disordered solvent mol­ecules to the scattering was removed using a solvent mask and is not included in the reported mol­ecular weight. No classical hydrogen bonds are observed between the main mol­ecules.




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1-Isobutyl-8,9-dimeth­oxy-3-phenyl-5,6-dihidro­imidazo[5,1-a]isoquinolin-2-ium chloride

The molecular salt, C23H26N2O2+·Cl−, was obtained from 1-isobutyl-8,9-dimeth­oxy-3-phenyl-5,6-di­hydro­imidazo[5,1-a]iso­quinoline, which was synthesized by cyclo­condensation of α-benzoyl­amino-γ-methyl-N-[2-(3,4-di­meth­oxy­phen­yl)eth­yl]valeramide in the presence of phosphoryl chloride. The tetra­hydro­pyridine ring adopts a twist–boat conformation. In the crystal structure, centrosymmetric dimers are formed by N—H⋯Cl and C—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds.




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N-(tert-But­yl)-2-(2-nitro­phen­yl)imidazo[1,2-a]pyridin-3-amine

In the title compound, C17H18N4O2, the dihedral angle between the pyridine and benzene rings is 55.68 (11)°. In the crystal, N—H⋯N hydrogen bonds link the mol­ecules into [010] chains.