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Farnham Castle in Surrey is a gorgeous destination. It's one that I've experienced before, and I always look forward to returning there. This was Stephanie and Gee's beautiful wedding – a meeting of England and Portugal, which featured some very English weather! It's testament to the fantastic venue that the rain didn't dampen anyone's spirits or detract from this brilliant wedding. Farnham Castle is a gorgeous Norman building dating back to the 11th century, and was lovingly refurbished in 2012. The staff here are absolutely superb, and really helped to make it such a memorable day for the happy couple. I was privileged to be able to capture most of the day, from the two of them getting ready for the ceremony right through to the evening frolics. There is something very special about the ritual of the bride getting ready to be unveiled, and Stephanie certainly looked beautiful when she arrived for the ceremony. I wanted to capture these moments with family and friends, and got some simple but intimate shots. With the rain keeping us down to just five minutes outside, we were still able to pull off some very modern and dramatic portraits, in keeping with Stephanie and Gee's personal style. In the end, the shots worked wonderfully against a backdrop of the old, rustic out-building with a striking blue door. The reception was wonderful and original – everyone dancing in a 'silent disco' which lent itself beautifully to some playful shots of family, young and old, getting involved and dancing the night away! It was a fantastic day, and I felt very lucky to have been a part of it. Thanks again to the fantastic staff at Farnham Castle, who went above and beyond to help Stephanie and Gee have a day they'll never forget.

You are here: Home1 / LA Social Science e-Forum2 / 20183 / November Launch of the "Women Beyond Bars: Reentry and Human Rights" Report — TOMORROW at UCLA Congratulations to UCLA Associate Professor, Bryonn Bain, for his recently published article in the UCLA Women's Law Journal titled, "Women Beyond Bars: A Post-Prison Interview with Jennifer Claypool and Wendy Staggs." This article focuses on these two amazing women, Jennifer Claypool and Wendy Staggs who Professor Bain met while teaching at the California Institution for Women (CIW). These women openly and honestly share their lived experiences before CIW, during CIW, and presently as returning citizens. In addition, released this week is the Women Beyond Bars: Reentry and Human Rights report which was developed with the CIW Think Tank and the UCLA Law School International Human Rights Clinic of which Professor Bain serves as Project Co-Director with Professor E. Tendayi Achiume. A brief description of the report shared on the UCLA Law website states that the purpose of this report is to focus on "the needs of formerly incarcerated women reentering Los Angeles communities" as well as serve as "a guide and set of recommendations for ensuring that reentering women have access to housing and employment." The report's executive summary is available HERE. Please come out to support the launch of the Women Beyond Bars: Reentry and Human Rights report at "Creating Liberation from Incarceration: Women Beyond Bars" on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30 from 4:30pm to 6:00pm at UCLA's Kerckhoff Art Gallery. For more details about the event and to RSVP, click HERE. November 29, 2018 /0 Comments/by Managing Editor https://lasocialscience.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Bain.jpg 561 507 Managing Editor https://lasocialscience.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/lass_logo-helvetica-281x300-1.jpg Managing Editor2018-11-29 16:49:332018-11-29 16:49:33Launch of the "Women Beyond Bars: Reentry and Human Rights" Report — TOMORROW at UCLA Factors That Influence the Acceptance of Corruption in Brazil Alumni, Knowledge, Students The demonstration against government and corruption in the The demonstration against government and corruption in the Esplanada dos Ministerios (Marcello Casal Jr / Agência Brasil) (http://www.coha.org/combatting-grand-corruption-in-brazil/) By Sergio Guedes Reis, UCLA Master of Social Science '18 Citizens all over the world consistently rank corruption as one of the most important public issues of our time. For instance, global market research firm IPSOS polled 21 thousand people from 28 countries and found that 35 percent of respondents cited corruption as the most important problem facing the globe today. A close second was 'unemployment,' which was mentioned by 34 percent of respondents. In Brazil, a large-scale criminal investigation initiated in 2014 has unveiled a multi-billion dollar money laundering and bribery scandal involving almost every political party, as well as some of the major engineering and contracting firms and state-controlled oil companies. The subsequent political crisis ultimately led not only to the ousting of President Dilma Rousseff in 2016, but also a severe decline in people's trust of institutions. Interestingly, while narratives about the seemingly endemic nature of corruption in Brazil are widespread, polls suggest that actual levels of corruption may be much lower than the average rates found in other Latin American countries. That said, it is very hard to measure corruption, as it inherently happens under the radar. Taking this issue into account, watchdog organizations and survey companies usually look to gauge citizens' perceptions of ongoing rates of corruption in their countries, ask local experts for their views on that matter, or even interview contractors about their experiences negotiating with public officers. So in what circumstances do people accept engagement in corrupt activities or believe that corruption is positive? And why do Brazilians believe that corruption is their #1 problem, when polls consistently show that only a small percentage of citizens claim that they have had to bribe a public official themselves? Based on this paradox, I decided to investigate what factors influence the tolerance for corruption in Brazil. After all, if so many people think corruption is a big problem in Brazil and nonetheless only a few admit engaging in corrupt practices, then it becomes crucial to understand whether certain conditions provide more room for corruption to happen than others. In order to do so, I used two of the most recent Latin American surveys on public opinion, the 2016 Latinobarometer and the 2017 Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) surveys. Then, I defined 3 basic forms of tolerance for corruption: 1) When citizens say they accept "corrupt, but efficient governments" 2) When they state that "bribing is sometimes acceptable" 3) When they declare that they do not feel personally obliged to report a case of corruption There are several interpretations to why corruption exists in a society. For example, authors argue that people who advocate for authoritarian values are more prone to accept corruption, because they believe that being compliant with democratic procedures does not solve one's own problems and thus people must take illegal, yet efficient action to achieve their goals. Others propose that low levels of trust (in other people and in institutions in general) are positively related to corruption, as discrediting others leads subjects to adopt more self-interested behavior to get things done. I opted to test variables associated with these and other possible explanations in order to comprehend the issue at stake. The most important findings I had were: Depending on the type of tolerance towards corruption, a different set of factors was more strongly associated with it. Variables associated with authoritarian values and socio-economic and demographic attributes (such as low development, high income and inequality) were more correlated with acceptance of corrupt (but efficient) governments, justification of bribery, and low levels of trust with avoidance of reporting cases of corruption. Individuals who trusted in people in general, had confidence in certain institutions or were well informed about them (the Parliament, political parties, and even groups from civil society) were also more prone to accept corruption. Citizens who stated they believed in typical markers of the status quo (such as claims about the fairness in the distribution of income, the impartiality of the Judiciary branch or the existence of equality of opportunity among Brazilians) were also more likely to accept corruption. Survey-based research can usually only capture subjects' opinions regarding a given topic, and not their actual practices. So, it is not possible to state that a moral agreement with corruption would imply acting corruptly in a real setting. Nonetheless, a pro-corrupt attitude may represent an open door for the occurrence of rule violations if the context allows. In the Brazilian case, the presence of structural factors (such as inequality and developmental levels) as predictors of tolerance towards corruption suggest this issue to have deep roots in the country's social fabric. It also indicates that anticorruption solutions need to be connected to welfare and redistribution policies if they are to become more efficient and effective. Future research considering other countries, cultures and contexts may disentangle other factors and particular mechanisms through which corruption becomes an acceptable enterprise. For Brazil, at least, it seems that fostering democratic values, political accountability, social equality and education would offer a way out of the large-scale turmoil it currently faces. Sergio Guedes Reis is a Federal Auditor at the Brazilian Ministry of Transparency and a 2018 graduate of UCLA's Master of Social Science (MaSS) program. https://lasocialscience.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Riley-Zecca-Secondary.jpeg 1000 1400 Managing Editor https://lasocialscience.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/lass_logo-helvetica-281x300-1.jpg Managing Editor2018-11-27 17:23:372018-11-27 17:23:37Factors That Influence the Acceptance of Corruption in Brazil Defending Voting Rights: A Civil Rights and Social Science Partnership in Action Community Partners, Faculty, Knowledge, Solutions By Chad Dunn, Brazil & Dunn, Attorneys at Law, and Matt Barreto, Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies, UCLA In 2013, Texas passed a restrictive voter identification law requiring any potential voter to show a government-issued photo ID before they could vote. However, Texas was subject to the preclearance provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), Section 5; and before the law could be put into place, Texas had to prove to the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. that the law would not have a discriminatory effect on racial and ethnic minorities. Chad Dunn along with other attorneys, intervened in the case and offered evidence that the law would prevent Texans from voting and that minorities would be disproportionately impacted, a result that was intended by the number and nature of IDs Texas chose to allow. Texas lost that court case and the D.C. Court found the voter ID law did have a significant discriminatory effect and blocked Texas from implementing this law. That was when the Voting Rights Act had its full weight. In 2014, in Shelby v. Holder the Supreme Court held that the Section 5 requirements that stopped Texas from discriminating against voters was outdated and they struck down the so-called Federal preclearance requirements in so far as Congress had applied it to various states and jurisdictions. Within minutes of the ruling, Texas reinstituted their voter ID law, which had already been found to be discriminatory. https://www.brennancenter.org/legal-work/shelby-county-v-holder Without Section 5 and Texas intent on enforcing their discriminatory ID law, voting rights attorneys would need to step in and find individual plaintiffs to sue Texas under a different provision, Section 2 of the VRA. On June 28, 2014, Dunn and other nationally known civil rights lawyers filed a lawsuit against Texas alleging that the voter ID law, had a discriminatory effect against blacks and Latinos, and more, that Texas passed this law with discriminatory intent. In an era without the Federal oversight protections of Section 5, it is now incumbent on civil rights advocacy groups and voting rights attorneys to bring individual lawsuits against voting procedures they believe are discriminatory; and to do this, they must rely on academic experts in history and the social sciences to prove, with thorough and methodical research and data analysis, that a voting rule or procedure discriminates against a specific racial or ethnic group. In the case of Texas, Mr. Dunn reached out to Professor Matt Barreto (Chicana/o Studies & Political Science) to provide a critical piece of the social science expertise documenting discriminatory effect. Barreto collaborated with University of New Mexico Professor Gabriel Sanchez, to implement a large statewide survey of eligible voters across the state of Texas and determine what types of documents and identifications potential voters in Texas possessed. For would-be voters who did not have a proper photo ID, the survey probed if they had the necessary underlying documents needed to go an obtain an ID. Further, Barreto and Sanchez assessed the barriers placed in front of Texas citizens to get a photo ID, such as needing to take time off work, having to find someone to provide transportation, having to drive over 20 miles to the nearest driver's license office, or having to pay fees to track down their original birth certificate. In full, the social science research pointed to a clear pattern of discriminatory effect in which blacks and Latinos in Texas were statistically less likely to possess a photo ID, and statistically less likely to have the underlying documents necessary to obtain an ID. Further, due to extensive disparities in socioeconomic status, blacks and Latinos in Texas faced considerably more barriers than whites in being able to obtain an ID. Dunn and Barreto have successfully worked on numerous Voting Rights cases and are now collaborating on a graduate level class at UCLA the includes masters, PhD and JD students. In this class, students learn the steps toward successful prosecution of voting cases from the perspective of the trial lawyer and the expert witness. Chad Dunn of Brazil & Dunn, Attorneys at Law, consistently receives awards from legal publications for his extensive trial and litigation practice in Courts all over the country. From the United States Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit, the Texas Supreme Court and virtually all trial and appellate courts below, Chad has the experience to prevail in the most difficult conditions and environments. He has handled complicated litigation in various states including Texas, Tennessee, the District of Columbia, New Mexico, North Carolina and Florida, and has tried numerous jury cases, trials to the bench and arbitrations. Matt A. Barreto is Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA and the co-founder of the research and polling firm Latino Decisions. Time Magazine called Latino Decisions the "gold-standard in Latino American polling" and The Guardian wrote that Latino Decisions is "the leading Latino political opinion research group" in the United States. Barreto's research was recognized in the 30 Latinos key to the 2012 election by Politic365, listed in the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2012 by the European Politics Magazine LSDP, and was named one of the top 15 leading Latino pundits by Huffington Post which said Barreto was "the pollster that has his finger on the pulse of the Latino electorate." In 2015, Barreto was hired by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign to run polling and focus groups on Latino voters. 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Each of the students was assigned either a union or a management bargaining team, and they prepared individually and in their teams for several weeks. The student negotiations focused on three issues: wages, class size, and the expansion of charter schools within Los Angeles. All three are real-life examples drawn from the current negotiations between the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) and the Los Angeles United School District (LAUSD). The LAUSD is the second largest school district in the country, with twenty-five thousand teachers. In a recent vote, 98 percent of teachers supported strike authorization. UTLA and LAUSD are now exploring fact-finding and mediation, but a strike is a strong possibility. Of the twenty pairs of student teams engaged in the collective bargaining exercise, the vast majority came to a successful resolution. While a few decided to strike or lock out the teachers, most compromised on wages, class size, and the expansion of charter schools. Students were thoughtful and persuasive in their presentations, and many expressed how much they had learned about the collective bargaining process and the role of unions in the workplace. Introduction to Labor and Workplace Studies is the core course for the Labor Studies minor. In the coming year, the UCLA Labor Studies major will be launched, the first and only major of its kind in the nine-campus UC system. The UCLA Labor Studies program offers students an in-depth understanding of a broad array of issues related to labor and the workplace and prepares students for a variety of careers in labor relations, human resource management, law, domestic and international government, worker organizing, and economic forecasting. The program currently enrolls approximately 150 students and facilitates over 200 student internship placements annually. By critically analyzing the theory and practice of current workplace issues, students develop a deep understanding of the relationship between their education and society and how they, as college graduates, can transform the nature of work. Kent Wong is the director of the UCLA Labor Center, where he teaches courses in labor studies and Asian American studies. He previously served as staff attorney for the Service Employees International Union. He was the founding president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance and of the United Association for Labor Education and currently is vice president of the California Federation of Teachers. https://lasocialscience.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DpvT9X1UYAAKQne-e1541200347406.jpg 807 1194 Managing Editor https://lasocialscience.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/lass_logo-helvetica-281x300-1.jpg Managing Editor2018-11-02 16:24:072018-11-02 16:24:07Students Participate in Collective Bargaining Exercise at UCLA LA Social Science Presents "Conversations with Changemakers" Featuring Bryonn Bain and Rosie Rios – Part 2 Alumni, Challenges, Faculty, Knowledge, Solutions, Staff By Lara Drasin Read Part 1 of this interview HERE. Bryonn Bain is a UCLA professor jointly appointed in the African American Studies and World Arts and Cultures/Dance departments, as well as a prison activist, spoken word poet, hip-hop artist, actor and author. He is the founder and director of UCLA's Prison Education Program, which was launched in 2016 to create innovative courses that enable UCLA faculty and students to learn from, and alongside, participants incarcerated at the California Institute for Women (CIW) and Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall (BJN). Rosie Rios is the administrative director of UCLA's Prison Education Program. LD: Many of the concepts behind Theater of the Oppressed sound a lot like improv. BB: Absolutely. The culture of "yes, and" is really about being solution oriented [by saying] "here we are, how are we going to make this work?" Being flexible and able to adapt in the correctional facilities is an essential skill. You cannot survive if you can't figure out a way to deal with constant change. I taught courses at Rikers Island over a 10-year period. The city jail in LA has more people than any other city jail in the country – or the world – but Rikers Island is the largest penal colony. It's 10 jails on one island and there were between 14 and 15 thousand people incarcerated there when I first started teaching classes. I developed relationships with a lot of the folks inside and over that time, enough trust built up that I was able to work with them to do poetry, theater, and film classes. They actually let me film Lyrics From Lockdown there. It was the last December of the Obama administration. Rikers Island rarely lets anyone film there, but we had been planning the shoot for nine months, and two weeks before we were going in to film, we got a call from the White House. The Obama administration invited Academy Award winner Tim Robbins and my crew to go there and bring the production. We were like, "That's great! That's amazing!! When?" And they said December 17. That was the day we'd been planning to go to Rikers Island. So we turned down President Obama and the White House to go perform at Rikers Island. Of course, we showed up at Rikers and it was raining cats and dogs. We had a 20-person film crew covering their equipment with garbage bags so that it didn't get destroyed. And as we get to the wing where we were supposed to shoot, the correctional officers come out and tell us that they actually had a lockdown. They tear-gassed the wing where we were supposed to perform and weren't sure if we were going to be able to go through with the shoot. In that moment, you can imagine the kinds of things I'm thinking to myself. But what are you going to do? "Yes and," right? So we figured out how to adapt to the situation to make it work. After seven hours, we were able to go in and do the show and bring a little bit of hope and, hopefully, a little bit of joy to our brothers who were there and could use some of that at that time. "Some of those people behind bars are our most talented folks and brilliant minds. We cannot forget they locked up Mandela and Martin and Malcolm and Socrates." — Professor Bain LD: How did the incarcerated students you were working with respond to being asked to write poetry? BB: It's overwhelmingly positive. There is sometimes some initial hesitation, especially the younger you go, for a range of reasons. But two experiences crystallize what I find most valuable about those experiences. One was the first time I taught in a juvenile facility that was not predominantly black and brown, which most of the facilities in New York and LA are. I was in the Clark County Detention Center in Ohio doing a residency with Wittenberg University. I asked if we could do something at the juvenile hall since it's right down the street and they let me bring in professors and students. On a Monday, I performed there and hosted a workshop for mostly 15-year-old white boys. I'd never had a class like that, but I did my thing. They got really into it, so I decided to go back on Wednesday and do a poetry slam. There was this one student – named James, who was sentenced to 98 days at the facility and was scheduled to be released that Tuesday. LD: He stayed for the slam?! BB: He requested a 99th day so he could be in the slam on Wednesday — and then he won! So he left the next day a champion of language; of education; of poetry. He had a new relationship to literacy and his own sense of agency with the wind at his back. Another situation that stayed with me is when we launched the NYU Prison Education program, the first for-credit program at NYU in 2013. We created an application process for all of our courses so they are taken very seriously. We asked every student, "Why do you want to participate in higher education while you're in prison?" One young brother looked at me and said, "I need to pursue college in prison because prison is like Medusa. If you focus on it too much, it will turn you to stone. I need to focus my attention somewhere else." And that just gave me chills. All I could say was, "Please take my class!" That stays with me. I think people in prison are some of the easiest folks to forget about. Part of the Prison Education Program's mission is to make sure we realize that we have folks who are valuable members of our families, our communities, our city and country who are incarcerated. And some of our greatest minds — our greatest geniuses — are incarcerated. Look at the statistics, and it's not even just 1 in 10, but as much as 1 in 3 or 4 of the folks in our communities are incarcerated, depending on which demographic you consider. Some of those people behind bars are our most talented folks and brilliant minds. We cannot forget they locked up Mandela and Martin and Malcolm and Socrates. Many in prison simply could not stay on the conveyor belt and do what everybody else did. Some folks made mistakes they should be able to learn from by being introduced to more humane interaction with others than prisons make possible. Others rebelled in a certain way, or just didn't fit into the mold or the system, or simply made bad choices. We have countless folks locked up for the use or sale of substances state governments have either since legalized, or should decriminalize since the Center for Disease Control determined addiction is a disease. It should be treated as a public health and wellness issue — not a matter for criminal prosecution or punishment. You can't lock away addiction and the economies it generates and expect them to disappear. Prisons are an ineffective solution to this problem as they are most others. They only make it worse. There is a trillion-dollar, global pharmaceutical industry turning profits by engaging in the practice of medicating to treat trauma, illness, and addiction that we are locked up for every day in this country — and the U.S. is the number one importer of pharmaceutical drugs in the world. Countless others still are wrongfully charged and awaiting trial for stretches of time so long they are undeniably cruel. And others, like my friend Nanon Williams in Texas, are convicted of a crime they did not commit. He was thrown on Death Row at 17 for a crime even a federal judge says he didn't commit, and has been behind bars surviving in cages for over 26 years. So I think about the work we do not as for charity, but for change and transformation. It's for creating opportunities not just to teach folks who are incarcerated, but also to learn from folks who are incarcerated and ensure more voices are heard and involved in shaping the direction in which the nation and the world are moving. If we forget about these folks, we are losing out on the invaluable opportunity to actually participate in learning with and from them. LD: I know that you work in facilities for both men and women, as well as boys and girls. What are the similarities and differences have you found in introducing your curricula in both male- and female-serving facilities? BB: We should ask Rosie — she just came directly from teaching the girls inside today. RR [Rosie Rios, UCLA's Prison Education Program Administrative Director]: At the juvenile hall, a lot of the girls are coming from very, very traumatic experiences. Today, we asked about their neighborhoods. We were talking about how our neighborhoods are at night. You hear the helicopters and hear gunshots and you're coming from this place of almost war, right? War between neighborhoods, and you have to survive. The girls even wrote a letter to UCLA professors and students who are going to come into the facility saying, "Please understand where we're coming from. It's like we never got a chance to be kids. We never had a chance to really live. The only thing we know is how to survive." And that applies to both boys and girls. But I think the girls just need a lot of care and more therapy. Their focus is also very different, because they're thinking about back home. A lot of them are mothers at a young age. So a lot of them are figuring out who they are, but also thinking about how they're going to care for their kids. LD: When did you know you wanted to focus on prison education? When did you get involved with the arts, and how did that factor into your decision to go to law school? BB: I was always a student activist and involved in organizing, but I actually went into a prison for the first time not as an activist, but as an artist. I was a teenager when I was invited to perform inside by a sister named Paula Medina (Black Paris Productions, Middletown, New York). My brothers, cousins and I had a crew — a hip-hop, spoken word poetry crew. We sang blues songs and performed all over New York. Paula was the head sister in charge who helped young artists to get a platform — and we wanted a platform. She said to us, "If you come perform in the prison with me for the holiday show, then I'll put you on!" We didn't want to act nervous, but in 1989, we were like, "Are we going to be okay?" We had all the assumptions of everybody who's been fed misconceptions of what's in prisons through television and movies. But the experience was so amazing for us — it was transformative. We performed; we sang; we rapped; I spit poetry; we banged on the tables. Then we broke bread, and the brothers in there looked like our uncles, cousins and fathers. They were us. And once we saw that they were us, it changed how we understood and thought about the experience of incarceration. We went back every year for the next decade or so and performed during the holidays. The brothers inside were so grateful that we didn't forget about them. A decade later in 1999, I had my own experience of being behind bars. And when it was NOT on a voluntary basis, I felt very differently about the situation. It makes a big difference when you have the privilege of going in and leaving at the end of the day. So the shift in bringing activism into the prison space happened when I had my own experience with the NYPD and was locked up for a brief amount of time, but in several correctional facilities in New York City. My days inside can't compare to decades of trauma experienced behind bars — or the 44 years in solitary one of our elders from the Angola 3 survived, but it was enough to change my relationship to prisons forever. I finished law school and suddenly had a different kind of access to these institutions because I had this very elite, very privileged education. And so my thinking was, "How can I be of service to the movement we need to end this prison crisis? How can I leverage my skills and talents, the media, and my access to educational institutions to be an agent of change? To share resources up on the hills that universities gather them on to folks who have been denied access, but would do so much good with them? How can I bring together those in these vastly different spaces who have so much to learn from each other? I felt that would transform not only the lives of incarcerated people, but also the lives of folks in the university space, and the communities most of us ultimately return to after our experiences in either (or in my case, both). Building bridges between these spaces of extreme privilege and extreme marginalization I have been thrown into is a direct result of my life experiences. But I also had a professor, Kellis Parker, who came and got folks out of jail when we were politically active in college. He was a law professor, and as an undergrad, I would sneak into his lectures. After graduating top of his class at Howard Law, he was the first black law professor at an Ivy League school. Tenured at 26, Dr. Parker — or "Doc" as we called him — taught classes at Columbia Law School with his trombone, using jazz principles, and it blew my mind. He taught law using slave narratives to talk about how when the American legal system did not protect the rights of enslaved Africans, the Indigenous, or immigrant communities of people of color, we had to find ways to create a sense of right and wrong for ourselves. Black folks actually used our stories and storytelling as a powerful tool to understand how should we treat each other. The infamously dehumanizing Dred Scott case told us that you cannot go into court and expect your rights to be respected over any white person's rights. So it was powerful for law students to get exposed to that. It was life changing for me to get exposed to that and his whole thinking about jazz as a metaphor for democracy and every voice being heard. At the same time, he helped me understand that improvisation is not just chaos. It's not "anything goes." It's learning how to adapt to an ever-changing environment and develop that muscle. I think this is a core piece of education that is missing in so many spaces today. We do not know what jobs, what world we're preparing students for 10 years from now — even five years from now. The world is changing way too fast. You used to make a five-year plan and follow through. Now you have to change your five-year plan from week to week. Well, we do know that whatever the challenges are that we're preparing students for down the road. They're going to need creativity. They're going to need adaptability. They're going to need those improv muscles to be in shape. LD: Right. In order to create change, we have to first be able to imagine it. And we can't do that without encouraging everyone to be creative. BB: We all have to find the artist within. Rosie and I just spent time in two prisons in the UK with two other UCLA students and several from Cal Poly Pomona. We spent days in workshops and building with staff, educators, and men incarcerated in the Brixton prison and the Whitemoor prison, where Cambridge University and the University of London just began offering courses. We are working to develop relationships with them like the ongoing exchange we have with the Center for the Theater of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. One of the English educators who we brought here last year is Ken Robinson. He came here as part of Professor Pedro Noguera's conference on transforming schools. Robinson tells this revealing story about a young girl in England who was punished because she was misbehaving. She was seen as "badly behaved," so the teacher said, "Get out of my class!" and told her mother to take her to a doctor to get her checked out for a mental disorder of some kind. So her mother took her to a doctor who spoke with her for a while and then at a certain point said, "I'm going to sit outside and speak with your mother. We'll be right back." As he walks out of the room, he turns the radio on and as soon as the mother and the doctor walk out, the little girl stands up and starts dancing and moving to the music. She's in the zone. The doctor peeks through the blinds, sees her, and shows her mother. When they go back in the room, of course the little girl sits down because she's like, "I got to be still now; there are adults in the room." The doctor says to the mother, "Your daughter is not sick. She's a dancer. She doesn't need a hospital. She needs a dance school! Take her to this dance school and come back in a couple of weeks." So they go to the dance school and a couple of weeks pass. They come back and the doctor says, "So how was it?" The girl says, "It was the most amazing place! It was filled with people just like me. People who had to move to think." The little girl grew up and later became part of the Royal Ballet. She had a brilliant career as a dancer and then left to be one of the leading choreographers on Broadway for blockbuster hit shows like Cats. Had this little girl never been introduced to a doctor who could see her untapped potential — who believed in her capacity for genius — possibilities in her to do something beyond just "be a problem" (which is how she was written off initially) — she might have been seen as having ADHD. She might have been injected with psychotropic drugs, or given Ritalin, or otherwise misdiagnosed, just as I was when they didn't believe that I could actually be who I said I was when I was unjustly arrested. She went on to make millions of dollars, bring joy to millions of people's lives, and by all measures, had a very successful career as an artist. And it was because of somebody who was not an artist, but still saw the value of her creativity and the value of imagining possibilities beyond those that had been imagined previously as within reach. I think that's the role of artists: the artists in each of us, and of the arts in the social sciences and law. My mentor's mentor, Paul Robeson, said "Artists are the gatekeepers of Truth." I believe challenging folks to use imagination — to see a world that's better than the one that we're living in, one in which we find the common humanity in all of us, that is the greater vision of the work we do. LD: How do you decide to focus on systemic change versus focusing on maybe just making someone's day better? Do you even decide, or do you focus on both? RR: It goes hand in hand, right? You can't just choose one over the other. But even our going into a class once a week or once a day is going to turn into a long-term change. We never know which of these (incarcerated) girls are future senators. She will be making systemic change. I think there's no one right place to start. Just start somewhere. It's hard to see it, but especially with such personal work, eventually you will see the change. That's what keeps me going, too. I see it and I have so much hope for these girls. Knowing that they're not going to be in there for the rest of their lives. They're going to be changemakers. They already are. This interview has been edited for clarity. https://lasocialscience.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Prison-Education-Program.jpg 2153 3233 Managing Editor https://lasocialscience.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/lass_logo-helvetica-281x300-1.jpg Managing Editor2018-11-01 15:36:422018-11-01 15:36:42LA Social Science Presents "Conversations with Changemakers" Featuring Bryonn Bain and Rosie Rios – Part 2

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Tow Center The new 'billion-dollar problem' for platforms and publishers By George Civeris As social platforms like Facebook and Twitter get bigger, so do their problems. One of the most urgent challenges platforms now face is balancing the quality of content they host with their commitment to providing a platform for everyone: From solving the spread of misinformation, to addressing harassment and abuse, to taking down offensive or illegal content, social platforms are under pressure from the public to take action. This is a complicated calculation, as content moderation involves untangling numerous issues: information integrity, veracity, content quality, and legality. But platforms' content moderation strategies—how they decide what stays up and what gets taken down—are enforced inconsistently, and are often opaque to the public whose conversations they shape. To top it off, users, platforms, and various governments all want something different, making it difficult to arrive at a consensus on what, exactly, moderation should look like. RELATED: Facebook's moderation is of public interest. It should be public knowledge. Last week, a group of technologists, journalists, legal experts, and academics gathered at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism to discuss the ethics of content moderation. Hosted by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism and the Annenberg Innovation Lab, "Controlling the Conversation: The Ethics of Social Platforms and Content Moderation" featured a series of discussions on the responsibilities of platforms and publishers in managing online conversations. Below are the takeaways. One challenge for social media platforms is the sheer amount of content they must police. UCLA's Sarah Roberts, who has spent eight years studying social media and user-generated content, pointed out that many of the problems we're seeing now could have been avoided if social platforms had scaled more responsibly and transparently. Moderation of tricky content, she noted, should have been built into their products rather than treated as an afterthought. If moderation mostly happens in response to public outcry about particular pieces of content, platforms will always be playing a game of catch-up. Even as platforms have attempted to define community guidelines, their lack of transparency around what is taken down and why has only increased frustration. Users remain in the dark about the reasoning behind decisions to remove content or suspend accounts. Curbing controversial content is often at odds with both the business incentives and the ideological roots of large platforms founded with free expression on the open Web in mind. However, the past year and a half has seen platforms publicly commit to combatting harassment, misinformation, and abuse, which one representative of a large tech firm told Roberts was a "billion-dollar problem." Just last week, Twitter's Jack Dorsey solicited recommendations from researchers on increasing "the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation around the world," vowing to hold Twitter "publicly accountable toward progress." (This is not the first time Twitter has attempted to curb abusive content, and past efforts have seen mixed results.) TRENDING: How hacked emails and a yacht in Monaco ended my career at WSJ One way platforms are attempting to identify and remove posts is through artificial intelligence. And while some form of automation is necessary for issues of this scale, as many of the attendees emphasized, AI should augment rather than replace the work of human moderators. Abhi Chaudhuri, a product manager for Google's Conversation.ai, a research project that aims to "improve conversations online," works with communities to understand their needs and build tools that curb hate speech and toxic content while promoting "diversity of opinions" and empathy. Chaudhuri's team helped moderators at The New York Times cluster similar comments in order to expedite the comment reviewing process. Platforms, however, are just one part of the equation. Speakers at the conference proposed a variety of ways users, publishers, and governments can improve the quality of online conversations. While Europe has led the charge on platform regulation (think of the "Right to Be Forgotten" and Germany's recent crackdown on hate speech), America continues to operate with the faith that, as Tow Director Emily Bell said, "the free market will protect a plurality of media voices and elevate the good over the bad." And as platforms continue to scale globally, they will need to come up with guidelines consistent with regulations that apply around the world, such as human rights laws. As for publishers, the Coral Project's Andrew Losowsky warned that it is "dangerous for media companies to rely on third parties for direct communication with [their] audience" and recommended building commenting systems that do not rely on tools controlled by Facebook (something the Coral Project provides). As publishers look to alternative strategies for community management, a more radical option may involve models of collective ownership. Caroline Sinders, who researches online harassment at the Wikimedia Foundation, explained how Wikimedia provides users with volunteer and paid opportunities to work on community projects, giving them equity within a larger system. New platforms for journalism like Civil, built on the Etherium blockchain, offer journalists and audiences models for "open governance." Finally, moderation workers should have a seat at the table. Moderators are located around the world; some work at offices in Silicon Valley, and others in call center environments in places like India and the Philippines. Their work tends to be low-pay, low-status, and mentally taxing, as moderators see the very worst of the internet. As The Atlantic's Anika Gupta said at the event, managers must design workflows that take all of this into account (so that the most difficult parts of the job are divided evenly) and provide appropriate mental health resources to prevent burnout. The challenge for companies and governments, in the end, is to approach the issues raised by moderation thoughtfully and to make meaningful change without acting in haste. ICYMI: Edit tests are out of control, say journalists in search of jobs George Civeris is a research fellow at the Tow Center. Follow him on Twitter @georgeciveris.

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Friday Highlight Europe must lead the way in open banking Photo: Cup of Couple/Pexels By Francesco Simoneschi The EU has made no secret of the fact that it wants a European payment solution as an alternative to the US-based Visa and Mastercard. Open banking can be that digitally-native alternative, the foundation for real-time cross-border payments in Europe. But, to truly compete with cards, open banking needs banks to recognise it as a key driver of revenue, innovation, and customer satisfaction. After five years of PSD2, we can look back to understand what worked, what did not work, and how to move forward. Five years ago today, the EU created a framework for open banking. Through the revised Payment Services Directive (or PSD2), newly regulated fintechs were encouraged to inject innovation and competition into banking and payments. Today, there are around 500 regulated open banking providers and millions of Europeans that have used their services. This growth is significant, but uneven. People in Italy, for example, still have vastly different options and experiences using open banking compared with people in Sweden. One reason could be the lack of investment in the application programming interface (API) infrastructure that open banking needs. Another reason could be the underlying payment infrastructure available in those countries. The payment journey An open banking payment can be broken down into two parts. The first part is initiation. This is everything an open banking provider does to integrate a bank transfer payment option into a merchant's checkout so that it appears as an option for the user when they press 'pay'. This ranges from connecting to hundreds of banks via APIs, submitting payment instructions and managing the start of the consumer payment journey. This is the part where fintechs have a lot of control, and where a great deal of innovation has happened. But this part is also dependent on well-performing banks' APIs and frictionless user journeys enabled by the bank. Francesco Simoneschi, co-founder and CEO of TrueLayer Where these are not available, open banking cannot flourish. Banks should recognise that APIs are a new channel for providing services to their customers, and treat them as a product – just as they treat their online banking app. The second part is settlement – the actual moving of money between accounts. After a payment is initiated through an open banking provider, the settlement is done by the bank. And that is where Europe is lagging behind by not having instant payments as the default payments infrastructure. When combined with real-time settlement, open banking allows merchants to get their funds instantly. This gives them the certainty that they can ship goods and it helps with their cash flow. Banks' relationships with merchants and small-to-medium enterprises can be improved through enabling these new, more efficient open banking payments. SEPA Instant, the EU's voluntary scheme for euro transfers, is available to a little more than half of Europeans today – although this varies between countries. Previous|Next More on Friday Highlight Three pockets of opportunity for 2023 An economist's expectations for the year ahead What matters most to investors when selecting EIS and VCT investments? What advisers need to know about the FCA's ESG labels Dominant defensives can withstand stagflation shock Three tactics to tap robust UK small caps Investments Friday Highlight

The Fresh Canvas: Rey Vargas has a No. 1 contender and ghosts to fight at Carson's 'War Grounds' By Lance Pugmire Jul 12, 2019 1 The man who 12 years ago helped start the tradition of the Southern California venue known as the "War Grounds" returns there Saturday night with a fighter he'll coax to not enhance the stadium's reputation. In Mexico's calculating WBC super-bantamweight champion Rey Vargas (33-0, 22 KOs), veteran trainer Ignacio "Nacho" Beristain says he's not interested in making Vargas' title defense against Japan's top-rated contender Tomoki Kameda a trip back in time to the slugfests for the same belt staged between Beristain's former champion Rafael Marquez and Mexican countryman Israel Vazquez. Marquez won the first and fourth bout of that series, claiming the March 2007 opener at the same Carson, California, venue – now known as Dignity Health Sports Park – where Vargas and Kameda (36-2, 20 KOs) will meet on DAZN (9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT). "Vargas has the potential to draw a lot of people, but there are some requirements in doing that – to...

Thursday 15 July 2010 7:18 pm It's Red Bulls not Les Bleus for Henry FRANCE striker Thierry Henry has called time on his international career after being unveiled as a New York Red Bulls player. And the striker, 32, promised to be a better servant to Major League Soccer than David Beckham by staying "fully committed" to his club. Henry, who won 123 caps and scored 51 goals, said he decided to retire from the national team before the World Cup, in which Les Bleus suffered a humiliating first-round exit. "I couldn't announce it before because that's the not type of thing you announce before a World Cup," said the former Arsenal captain, who made his final France appearance in a 2-1 defeat to the tournament hosts. "That was my last game against South Africa. Ironically, my first game for the national team was also against South Africa." Henry, who is thought to have signed a four-and-a-half-year contract with the Red Bulls after being granted a free transfer by Barcelona, is the first global superstar to arrive in the MLS since Beckham in 2007. But while the former England skipper has compromised his Californian commitments by keeping his international career alive, and attracted much criticism in the process, Henry has vowed to be more dedicated. "I always want to be here [in New York] 100 per cent and am fully committed to this cause and the organisation," added the Gunners' all-time top scorer. One of Henry's last acts in a France shirt was his most infamous – the handball in November's play-off that helped deny the Republic of Ireland a place at the World Cup – and he conceded he had not heard the last of it. "I think they [Irish fans] will still have something, yeah, but that's the game," he said. "It was kind of weird, but that's the way the game is. I already talked a lot about what happened that day, and I made it clear it wasn't intentional."

1921 Joseph 2020 Joseph R. Lamping If you knew Joe Lamping, he probably made you laugh with something he said or did because Joe never passed up the opportunity to make someone laugh. Joe, age 98, passed away peacefully at home in Robinson Township on Wednesday, January 29 surrounded by his loving family. Joseph R. Lamping Sr. was born September 25, 1921 to Gabriel and Rose (Stacherl) Lamping in Bulger, Pa and grew up on Spring Hill on the North Side. After serving in the Army in the European and Pacific Theaters of WWII, he returned home to marry Edna Posch. He and Edna were as much in love and inseparable in their 73rd year of marriage as they were as newlyweds. Joe was a newspaper man for much of his life; as a boy he delivered 100 daily papers up and down Spring Hill and then later worked for over 30 years at the Pittsburgh Press/Post Gazette as a stationary engineer. He and Edna have six children, Joseph Jr.(deceased), Rosemary (Tom) Jageman, Barbara Garrett (Simón) Boger, Lois (Jim) Nicholson, Edward (Susan) Lamping and Kathy (Mark) Dolak. He is survived by 17 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by a dear brother-in-law Frank Buchman. In addition to his son and parents, he is predeceased by siblings Albert, William, Helen Buchman, Robert, Mildred Lieberth, and Frank. He was a member of St. Malachy Church in Kennedy Township, Local 95 Stationary Engineers and SNPJ. Joe played button box with the Slovenian Heritage Association and performed for many years throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. His large family was the greatest joy and achievement of his life; his motto was WAF (We Are Family), and until his final days he enjoyed passing on his "true stories" to the youngest generation. His home was always filled with much laughter and love. Joe leaves his family a legacy of many funny stories that will evoke loving memories and laughter for years to come. Visitation will be Friday, February 14 from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. at McDermott Funeral Home, Inc., 334 Forest Grove Rd., Kennedy Township. Joe's life will be celebrated at a funeral Mass at Archangel Gabriel Parish, St. Malachy Church on Saturday, February 15 at 1:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, you can make a contribution to any of the following veteran's organizations: Pittsburgh Fisher House (https://www.pittsburghfisherhouse.org), Homes For Our Troops (https://www.hfotusa.org) or Operation Second Chance (https://operationsecondchance.org). To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Joseph R. Lamping, please visit our flower store. McDermott Funeral Home - Kennedy Township Location

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22% of Older Adults in Israel Experienced Financial Decline during Covid-19 Over 1 million people over age 65 live in Israel, and despite the 'return to routine' – about a fifth of them feel they have no-one to turn to. "The main issue is financial, but it usually affects their physical or mental state," says the CEO of JDC-Eshel The original article in Hebrew on the […] Aug 24, 2021 August 24, 2021 Emergency Aid to Haiti The Joint Distribution Committee has sent vital medical supplies to Haiti in the wake of the powerful earthquake. The Joint's International Development and Disaster Response unit is also raising funds for the victims. Jun 25, 2021 June 27, 2021 Green Day Care in Bedouin Society The Joint and its partners are turning Bedouin preschools green, with a focus on ecology for the next generation. Jun 08, 2021 June 8, 2021 Donate: A Crowd Funding Campaign for Communities in Mixed Cities "Common Ground" is a crowdfunding campaign that we at The Joint are launching together with civil society organizations in mixed Jewish-Arab towns to restore and renovate shared community spaces – kindergartens, parks, and joint-use facilities. The campaign will focus on Acre, Lod, and Ramla. The rioting that broke out in these towns in May 2021 […] Hapoel Shavim Tel Aviv Wins Presidential Award for Inclusion and Diversity Breaking down barriers—with sports! Israeli soccer team Hapoel Shavim Tel Aviv, a mixed league of people with and without disabilities, was recognized on Wednesday for its collaborative efforts and teamwork – on and off the field. Shavim Basport ("Equality in Sports"), a cooperation between Joint-Israel Unlimited, the Ministry of Culture and Sports, and soccer leagues […] COVID 19: The Joint Provides Emergency Aid to India Assistance includes medical equipment for hospitals in hard-hit India as well as trauma training for local doctors online. Says the JDC's Avital Sandler-Loeff: "The crisis in India requires us to act swiftly." Apr 21, 2021 April 21, 2021 I Can Too: Coming to Terms with My Disability | By Amit Lerman "If you want to succeed, you have to take risks," says Amit Lerman, a participant in the Shibolim (Sheaves) program at the Ruach HaSadeh pre-military leadership academy for religious men. In this blog, Amit shares about learning to deal with his disability and urges everyone to see the good in their limitations. Joint Legal Service Wins 'Pillars of Excellence' Award We are pleased to announce that the Accessible Legal Services for People with Disabilities project won an award for best "Partnership and Collaboration." The prize was bestowed by the Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies (NJHSA), an association which provides welfare services to Jewish communities in the United States, Canada and Israel. The project is […] Mar 24, 2021 April 24, 2021 The Future Is Already Here: Artificial Intelligence Reshapes the Labor Market The Avodata Project, which is in the advanced stages of development, will provide information about changes and trends in the job market. It is led by the Ministry of Labor and Joint-TEVET in collaboration with retrain.ai, an Israeli startup that specializes in artificial intelligence. Joint University Wins Digital Award We are pleased to announce that our virtual learning platform—Joint University—won the IT Award 2020 for Outstanding Computing bestowed by People & Computers. The award, which was presented at an online ceremony in Tel Aviv, recognized the university's exceptional work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Available to our employees around the world, Joint University provides over […]

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-Viola de Valoroso and the Greek Champion GR.CH.DON PEDRO del Rosso Malpelo. Viola is an excellent sample of a typical Cane Corso; It has acquired titles in expos (Morphology) and is only 1 CAC short in order to become Greek Champion. As it regards 'working expositions" Viola has successfully passed the exams (EBY-basic obedience). Her tough temperament and the style Viola possesses make her an amazing dog. She has a well-balanced character and is perfect with the kids. GR.GR.DON PEDRO del ROSSO MALPELO obviously doesn't need additional references; a greek champion, has acquired multiple prizes in morphology expositions. In 'working expos" he has successfully passed the tests (EBY- basic obedience). His typical temperament along with his excellent character, result in a well-balanced dog. Don Pedro is the father of other greek champions (GR. CH. Ainia de Valoroso, GR. CH. Valia de Valoroso). Note : By the time they are given, all puppies will be vaccinated and dewormed; their pedigree will be issued by KOE (Greek Canine organization – KOE). -The Greek Champion GR.CH.AINIAS de Valoroso. AINIAS' parents are both GREEK CHAMPIONS (GR.CH.DON PEDRO DEL ROSSO MALPELO X GR.CH.GI-QUIRIS), which have given excellent typical CANE CORSO samples in Greece. Their offsprings have acquired many titles in shows. Pedigree ΚΟΕ(Kynological Association of Greece), microchip, Vaxins, dewarm. The Greek Champion GR.CH.GI-QUIRIS was mated with COMPAGNO III, from Michelle Bocci's Kennel. During my trip in the area of Manfredonia – Foggia – Puglia ( areas where the CANE CORSO race originated from) I tried to choose a stud which would fulfill high standards in working temperament, balanced character and typical Cane Corso morphology. My agreement with the breeders there was that I would check the dog's temperament before I decided. That's how I ended up mating the champion of our kennel GR.CH.GI-QUIRIS with COMPAGNO III from the Italian Kennel of M.BOCCI. This is one of the oldest Kennels in S.Italy. Mr.Bocci has been breeding Cane Corsos for more than 30 years and he is one of the pioneers in the race's breeding. He has unlimited knowledge as it regards breeding and selecting. In his kennel I found some excellent samples of Cane Corso (RUSTIC & Working type Dogs) offsprings of which we 'll soon present in Greece. His personal dog, COMPAGNO III, is healthy, with great morphology, excellent bite and tremendous strength. It was the toughest dog I tested. It has excellent potential and balanced character. Notes : All puppies will be vaccinated and dewormed, their pedigree will be issued by KOE (Greek Canine organization – KOE).

ELECTRONIC, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRACKING PURCHASE ORDER HISTORY A computer-implemented method for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise. The method can include electronically receiving and storing at least a first and second version of a purchase order. Each version has a date and number and the second version is a purchase order amendment or revision to the first version of the purchase order. The method also can include electronically receiving input from a user through a purchase order tracking tool. The user input identifies the first or second version by date, revision or amendment. The method also includes electronically retrieving the first or second version based on the user input. 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A computer-implemented method for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise, the method comprising: electronically receiving and storing at least a first and second version of a purchase order, each version having a date and number, the second version being a purchase order amendment or revision to the first version; electronically receiving input from a user through a purchase order tracking tool, the user input identifying the first or second version by date, revision or amendment; and electronically retrieving the first or second version based on the user input. 2. The method of claim 1 further comprising electronically formatting the first or second version as an independent, stand-alone document. 3. The method of claim 1 wherein the purchase order tracking tool including functionality to display the first and second versions simultaneously so as to allow the user to compare the first and second versions. 4. The method of claim 1 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to display or print an attachment to the first or second version. 5. The method of claim 1 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to display or print an altered attachment to the first or second version. 6. The method of claim 1 wherein the number of the first version is a first revision number, the number of the second version is a second revision number, and the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to increase the first revision number to the second revision number based on a change to an attachment of the first version. 7. The method of claim 1 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to receive, store, and retrieve specific versions of a purchase order. 8. A computer-implemented system for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise, the system including one or more computers, the one or more computers configured to: electronically receive and store at least a first and second version of a purchase order, each version having a date and number, the second version being a purchase order amendment or revision to the first version; electronically receive input from a user through a purchase order tracking tool, the input identifying the first or second version by date, revision or amendment; and electronically retrieve the first or second version based on the user input. 9. The system of claim 8 wherein the one or more computers are further configured to electronically format the first or second version as an independent, stand-alone document. 10. The system of claim 8 wherein the purchase order tracking tool including functionality to display the first and second version simultaneously so as to allow the user to compare the first and second versions. 11. The system of claim 8 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to display or print an attachment to the first or second version. 12. The system of claim 8 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to display or print an altered attachment to the first or second version. 13. The system of claim 8 wherein the number of the first version is a first revision number, the number of the second version is a second revision number, and the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to increase the first revision number to the second revision number based on a change to an attachment of the first version. 14. The system of claim 8 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to receive, store, and retrieve specific versions of a purchase order. 15. A computer-implemented apparatus for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise, the apparatus comprising: means for electronically receiving and storing at least a first and second version of a purchase order, each version having a date and number, the second version being a purchase order amendment or revision to the first version; means for electronically receiving input from a user through a purchase order tracking tool, the user input identifying the first or second version by date, number or amendment; and means for electronically retrieving the first or second version based on the user input. 16. The apparatus of claim 15 further comprising means for electronically formatting the first or second version as an independent, stand-alone document. 17. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the purchase order tracking tool including functionality to display the first and second versions simultaneously so as to allow the user to compare the first and second versions. 18. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to display or print an attachment to the first or second version. 19. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to display or print an altered attachment to the first or second version. 20. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the number of the first version is a first revision number, the number of the second version is a second revision number, and the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to increase the first revision number to the second revision number based on a change to an attachment of the first version. One aspect of the present invention generally relates to an electronic method and system of tracking purchase order history. 2. Background Art International distributed enterprises, for example manufacturing enterprises, globally requisition suppliers for a tremendous amount of indirect and direct materials in the operation of their business. Indirect and direct materials can refer goods and/or services. Direct materials refer to those that are needed for the product, whereas indirect materials support production of the product. For example, in the automotive industry, direct materials can be fenders, engine parts, transmission parts, manufacturing labor, etc. On the other hand, indirect materials can be pencils, paper, building heating and cooling, administrative labor, etc. Due to the multitude of global transactions relating to material purchases, distributed enterprises have used the power of computers to implement systems that have functionality to handle purchasing, i.e. to generate purchase orders, and to receive goods and services, and accounts payable, i.e. to generate invoices on behalf of suppliers, and to pay suppliers. These computer systems also offer functionality to generate, amend, and revise purchase orders. For example, the Oracle 11i procurement computer system, available from Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, Calif. 94065, has functionality to administrate purchase orders. However, the purchase order tracking functionality is unfit for many objectives of international distributed enterprises. For example, this functionality is not robust enough to track purchase order history to detailed level necessary for tax auditing purposes. Moreover, the functionality does not adequately produce detailed information, for instance, terms and conditions, regarding purchase orders as they change over time for reporting and printing purposes. Further, certain amendments to purchase orders may not be reflected in the procurement system. As a further disadvantage, purchase order changes are sporadically reported to the supplier base for international distributed enterprises. For example, suppliers may receive notifications for only a portion of applied changes, leaving them unaware of other amendments that may need to be adjusted by the supplier. In light of the foregoing, what is needed is a robust electronic method and system of purchase order tracking. Moreover, an electronic method and system is needed to give users, for example, buyers and suppliers, the ability to view, compare, and print purchase orders for any amendment/revision or date. Further, an electronic method and system of purchase order tracking is needed to allow users the ability to view purchase orders in an independent state, as the purchase order existed on a certain date. One aspect of the present invention is a robust electronic method and system of purchase order tracking. Another aspect of the present invention is an electronic method and system of purchase order tracking including the ability to view, compare, and print purchase orders for any amendment, revision or date. Yet another aspect of the present invention is an electronic method and system of purchase order tracking that allows users the ability to view purchase orders in an independent state, as the order existed on a certain date. According to a first embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise is disclosed. The method includes electronically receiving and storing at least a first and second version of a purchase order. Each version of the purchase order has a date and version number. The second version is a purchase order amendment or revision to the first version of the purchase order. The method also includes electronically receiving input from a user through a purchase order tracking tool. The user input identifies the first or second version by date, revision or amendment. The method also includes electronically retrieving the first or second version based on the user input. According to a second embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented system for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise is disclosed. The system can include one or more computers. The one or more computers can be configured to electronically receive and store at least a first and second version of a purchase order. Each version of the purchase order has a date and version number and the second version is a purchase order amendment or revision to the first version of the purchase order. The one or more computers can be further configured to electronically receive input from a user through a purchase order tracking tool. The input identifies the first or second version of the purchase order by date, revision or amendment. The one or more computers are further configured to electronically retrieve the first or second version of the purchase order based on the user input. According to a third embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented apparatus for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise. The apparatus includes a means for electronically receiving and storing at least a first and second version of a purchase order. Each version has a date or version number and the second version is a purchase order amendment or a revision to the first version of the purchase order. The apparatus also includes a means for electronically receiving input from a user through a purchase order tracking tool where the user input identifies the first or second version by date, number or amendment. The apparatus also includes a means for electronically retrieving the first or second version of the purchase order based on the user input. The above and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention are readily apparent from the following detailed description of the best mode for carrying out the invention when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings. The features of the present invention which are believed to be novel are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The present invention, both as to its organization and manner of operation, together with further objects and advantages thereof, may best be understood with reference to the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing which: FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an overall system for implementing one or more embodiments of the present invention; FIG. 2 is an example of an electronic purchase order form that can be utilized with one or more embodiments of the present invention; FIG. 3 is a graphical user interface (GUI) for viewing purchase documents based on date or revision number; FIG. 4 is a GUI for displaying captured and archived changes made to a purchase order including an attachment; and FIG. 5 is a GUI for searching, locating and viewing a purchase order version by entering a purchase order revision number or date. As required, detailed embodiments of the present invention are disclosed herein. However, it is to be understood that the disclosed embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention that may be embodied in various and alternative forms. Therefore, specific functional details described herein are not to be interpreted as limiting, but merely as a representative basis for the claims and/or as a representative basis for teaching one of ordinary skill in the art to variously employ the present invention. In certain embodiments of the present invention, a computer-implemented purchase order tracking tool is disclosed that enables users, for example, buyers, approvers, requisitioners, and suppliers to efficiently view and print purchasing documents, for example, purchase orders, including header and line details in an organized format, for example, identification of all changes made from a previous amendment of the purchasing document. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating overall system 10 for implementing one embodiment of the present invention. Overall system 10 includes purchaser server 12, which includes database 14 and tracking module 16. Database 14 may include information relating to purchase orders of a distributed enterprise. Tracking module 16 may include functionality to track the history of purchase order changes and amendments. Purchaser server 12 can also include a procurement module (not shown) having purchasing and accounts payable functionality. Purchaser server 12 transmits and receives data from purchaser user computer 28, which can format and display data pertaining to the purchase order tracking process. Purchaser server 12 is also connected, via communication lines 18 and 20, through the Internet 22, to supplier server 24. Supplier server 24 transmits and receives data from supplier user computer 26, which can format and display data pertaining to the purchase order tracking process. Servers 12 and 24, and user computers 26 and 28 can be interconnected to a network, for example, a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), through a variety of interfaces, including, but not limited to dial-in connections, cable modems, high-speed lines, and hybrids thereof. Firewalls can be connected in any communication path to protect certain parts of the network from hostile and unauthorized use. According to the embodiment depicted in FIG. 1, servers 12 and 24, and user computers 22 and 24 support TCP/IP protocol which has input and access capabilities via two-way communication lines. The communication lines included in computer system 10 can be an intranet-adaptable communication line, for example, a dedicated line, a satellite link, an Ethernet link, a public telephone network, a private telephone network, and hybrids thereof. The communication lines can also be intranet-adaptable. Examples of suitable communication lines include, but are not limited to, public telephone networks, public cable networks, and hybrids thereof. Tracking module 16 can have computer-readable instructions executable to provide abilities and features to the users of computer system 10. These abilities and features may be implemented through a purchase order tracking tool interface between the users and tracking module 16. Non-limiting examples of users include requisitioners, purchasers, buyers and suppliers working in a distributed enterprise environment. Aspects of this invention contemplate the tracking of the history of purchase orders. FIG. 2 is an example of GUI 30 that can be utilized along with embodiments of the present invention. GUI 30 primarily functions as an electronic purchase order, and is a portion of the Oracle 11i procurement computer system. This system can be modified so that the user can select the "Actions" pull down menu 32, and then the "Order History PO" list item 34 to access portions of the purchase order tracking tool interface. The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability for users to view, compare, and/or print order details, including identification of changes made from the previous amendment or revision. In certain embodiments, "amendment" can refer to a revision generated in a computer-implemented procurement system. For data captured in a history archive or database of the procurement system, an amendment or revision number can be generated for each specific change. Another aspect of the present invention includes the ability to view, compare (e.g. changes made from a previously approved order version), and print a specific order amendment as when it was revised and approved. Another aspect of the present invention includes the ability to view and print an original order version as when it was first generated and approved. Another aspect of the present invention includes the ability to view and print a merged order document. In certain embodiments, merged order document refers to the appearance of an order in its last approved revised state plus all approved line level amendments in one version. The user has the ability to access one document summarizing all line details, including, but not limited to, those lines that are cancelled, closed, or any other action taken on the order that results in a line disappearing from a viewable state. In certain embodiments, for lines that are authorized via a purchase order summary control feature, a date can be displayed indicating when the action took place. Another aspect of the present invention includes the ability to view, compare, and print an order document regardless of its header status, for example, approved, canceled, approved and closed. The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to view purchasing documents based on previous and current revisions. FIG. 3 is a graphical user interface (GUI) for viewing purchasing documents based on revision or amendment. GUI 40 can be hosted by server 12 and/or 24 and displayed on user computer 22 and/or 24, respectively. The user is prompted to enter a revision number 42 or a date 44, for example, on a separate pop-up window (not shown). Upon pressing the "View PO" (FIG. 5) button on the pop-up window, the relevant version of the purchase order document can be displayed on GUI 40. The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to print purchasing documents based on previous and current revisions. In certain embodiments, user can select "File" pull down menu 46 and print list item (not shown) to print purchase orders reflected by previous and current revisions, as depicted in FIG. 3. The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to compare purchasing documents between revisions. The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to view merged documents, including, but not limited to, current open lines on a purchase order, and/or previously cancelled or closed lines. For example, order lines or shipments which were closed or canceled in any future or current revision, can be picked up as active lines in the past dated revision. The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to view contents of attachments from previous versions of purchasing documents. FIG. 4 is a GUI 50 so for displaying captured and archived attachments. The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to show contents of added, deleted or adjusted attachments. The purchase order tracking tool can capture and/or archive attachment changes (additions, deletions or adjustments) within each revision over time throughout the history of the order. The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to increase the revision number of a document when modifying an attachment. The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to increase revision numbers of documents when adding, deleting or adjusting an attachment. The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to increase revisions of documents when changing any field changeable on a purchase order summary for headers or lines. The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to view document revisions by revision number or date. In addition the user can simultaneously determine whether to view a version of an order containing only changes or a picture of the entire order as it appears after the changes were applied and approved to the purchase order. FIG. 5 is a GUI 60 for entering a purchase order revision number 62 or a date 64. Entry of the date can be aided by selecting calendar icon 66, which displays a calendar for user reference. The user can view the purchase order retrieved by amendment (by selecting radio button 70) or the entire revised purchase order by selecting radio button 72). Once the appropriate data is entered and view PO button 68 is clicked, the appropriate purchase order history is retrieved and displayed (for example, as depicted in FIG. 3). In certain embodiments, it is mandatory to specify at least one parameter in GUI 60. If the date is provided, the purchase order history tool can automatically determine an active revision of a document at the provided input date. In certain embodiments, the date refers to the date the purchase order was approved, and not when it was revised. This may be relevant if the purchase order is revised on the date and approved on a later date. The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to view the original version (revision #0), the latest approved version (revision #x) or any revisions and/or amendments made in between (revision # greater than 0 and less than x). The selecting and viewing of revisions by number can be facilitated through the use of a number of click buttons. The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to automatically print attachments. The purchase order tracking tool interface includes the functionality to capture and archive attachment changes made to a purchase order. The user can query, view and print any version of the order, including the attachments as they appear for each revision of the order. The user can click on an attachment icon to display a list of the attachments to a purchase order. The user can select an attachment to display it. Once displayed, the user can print the attachment if desired. GUI 40 of FIG. 3 includes icon 46 of a paperclip with a piece of paper. This icon 46 signifies that there is an attachment for this version of the purchase order. By clicking on the paperclip icon 46, a list of attachments is displayed in a separate window or the same window. The user can select an icon associated with one of the attachments to display it and then print it if desired. The purchase order tracking tool can include a snapshot form of a purchase order and amendments applied over the life of the purchase order. The purchase order tracking tool can track changes made to a purchase order even if the change did not originally generate amendments or was not captured in history using an existing procurement software application, for example attachments (e.g. soft copy documents, web site URLs, product free form text notes) and control actions, e.g. closing or canceling an order or order line. Furthermore, purchase order changes applied within a certain build can trigger the creation and submittal of a notification to suppliers. Another aspect of the present invention includes the ability to generate, identify, and capture amendments in history for the following adjustments, in no particular order: (1) Any change to attachments seen by suppliers at a header or line level. In certain amendments, this capability applies only to attachments that are displayed to suppliers, for example, those with a category of "To Supplier" or "Miscellaneous." Otherwise, the attachments are captured internally for viewing and do not require an amendment generation. (2) Control changes from purchase order (PO) summary, for example, cancel PO, close PO, cancel PO line, close PO line, and re-open actions at the header and line level. (3) Non-production order header amendment effective date. In certain embodiments, the users can access the functionality of certain aspects of the present invention from a purchase order form. In other words, the buyer or supplier can call up a purchasing document before querying for a specific amendment version. Non-limiting examples of queries include PO summary, purchase orders form, and the PO tab in the Supplier Portal. Once the buyer is at the desired order document version, users have the ability to view and print the order details by entering and/or querying one or more of the following criteria: (a) revision number or (b) date. The user has the ability to select a click button from a form, for example, a GUI, which allows the user to efficiently display the latest approved version. In certain embodiments, it is not a requirement to run a query. The user has the ability to select from a list of documents in a form that allows the user to print attachments specific to any version of the order. When viewing the order only, the user has the ability to identify what elements have changed from the previously generated revision approved by the purchasing department. The approved amendments can be displayed based on a given date or for a particular amendment version, including attachments, clauses, comments, and/or other fields on the purchase order. An amendment can be generated when the non-production blanket purchase agreement effective dates (start and expiration dates) are adjusted. The before mentioned aspects can be applied to all order types, for example, production and non-production. Non-limiting examples of standard non-production orders include release orders and spot buy standard purchase orders and non-limiting examples of standard production orders may include tool orders and lump sum orders. Non-limiting examples of blanket non-production orders include BPAs, catalog, converted or manually created by the buyer and non-limiting examples of blanket production purchase orders. While the best mode for carrying out the invention has been described in detail, those familiar with the art to which this invention relates will recognize various alternative designs and embodiments for practicing the invention as defined by the following claims. Previous Patent: Fuel Dispenser Commerce Next Patent: Method and system for generating and linking composite images

From Gail's Artisan Bakery Cookbook, this blackberry and apple tray bake is perfect for guests. Serve warm with extra thick cream or indulgent vanilla custard. This is a dead easy tray-bake. Served warm, it makes for the perfect autumn dessert, accompanied by cream, custard or thick yoghurt, plus extra fresh berries or compote. Keep the fruit seasonal and mix it up to suit your tastes - summer berries, peach and blueberry, rhubarb and strawberry, pear and stem ginger. If you find the fruit you choose has a tendency to sink to the bottom as the cake cooks, next time, toss it very lightly in flour and shake off any excess in a sieve or colander before stirring into the batter. You will need a deep pudding dish about 20cm x 30cm. Preheat the oven to 170°C/gas mark 3. Butter and flour a deep pudding dish about 20cm x 30cm. Toss the slices of apples in the lemon juice to prevent them from browning. Pour the cream into a saucepan, add the butter, and place over a medium heat. Allow the butter to melt, stirring, but don't let it come to the boil. Remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly. Beat the eggs with the sugar in a bowl until well combined, then pour on the warm cream mixture, stirring all the time. Fold in the flour with a large metal spoon, then stir through the berries and slices of apple. Pour everything into the baking dish. Bake for about 40 minutes, by which point it should be puffed up, lightly golden and very slightly crisp at the edges. A skewer pushed into the centre should come out clean - take care not to over-bake this or it will lose its lightness.

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Every time I continue through on particular page via its links, get more warnings. XXXX due to a certificate problem. The server could be trying to trick you. Would you like to continue to the server?" This is my provider's webmail, and their self-signed cert is good until 2019, for example. Very annoying issue. So simple for developers to allow a "remember this decision" option when accepting the error. This has been an issue for years, but it never gets solved. Ultimately it may cause me to move on to a different browser because I administer several servers with self-signed certificates and I have to go through this multiple times a day. Firefox allows these decisions to be remembered but in a different issue, it go so slow for me I had to switch to Opera. Welcome to Opera's forums @Halleluja and @Cybergy!

Not stopping the practice but ending it – quite literally – a single instance of Time Out. But first, a quick review of beginnings. Time Out is best started by counting. My favorite method by far is Dr. Thomas Phelan's 1,2,3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12, a method wherein parents count – that's one, that's two, that's three – instances of non-compliance (including back-talk and negative persistence). At three, kids are sent to Time Out. Dr. Phelan's method is clear, straightforward, effective. If you haven't read his book, please do; it is worth every penny. Time Out doesn't begin until your child is relatively settled. He doesn't have to be absolutely silent, but no yelling or hurling pillows against walls. The rule is this: Time Out starts when you are quiet. There are various rubrics for figuring out how long to keep children in Time Out – 1 minute per year of age; your child's age +2; 5 minutes regardless of age. In truth, the amount of time doesn't matter – children don't have a finely tuned internal clock so a minute here or there isn't going to register. Parents are in charge of sending children to Time Out, and parents should be in charge of ending it. Don't respond to call-outs "Mom! Can I come out now?!" By the way, you can re-count this, calling up, "That's one" if your child calls out for release), and don't tell your child she can come out when she's ready. Set the precedent early on that you will inform your child when Time Out is over, or set a timer to do so. If your child chooses to stay in her room longer, that's fine. There is no need to review what your child did wrong or why she was sent to Time Out. Whatever started your counting, the reason she ended up in Time Out will always – 100% of the time – be that she didn't stop when you said, "That's two." Kids push our buttons in lots of ways; that's part of being a child. "That's one" is the signal to stop. Once you start counting, learning to stop is what matters. If your child gets sent to Time Out over and over again for the same infraction, talk to her about it some other time, not in the midst of counting and not right after Time Out. Help your child think of what she can do – specifically – to avoid the situation in the future. Regardless of what led to the Time Out, forcing a begrudging, "I'm sorry" will do nothing more than teach your child to make insincere apologies. For hurtful actions, wait until later, then talk with your child about the various ways we express remorse: saying "I'm sorry," doing something nice for the person we hurt, being helpful or kind, working hard to not make the same mistake again. Your child will absorb more of this important lesson if not made a condition of his release.

Designer Babies Aren't That Scary | Vol. 3 / No. 5.3 December 2, 2015 RFB "Playing God" with "Designer Babies" | Photo: Stephen Allport, CC BY-SA 2.0 Starting yesterday, and running through to tomorrow, a group of scientists from around the world are meeting in Washington, DC to discuss the future of genome editing — more specifically, its ethics. There are some legitimate concerns being raised about the imperfection of the technology and the potential for harm — as a recent Chinese study on nonviable human embryos proved, the technology isn't ready to be used on humans, as it could lead to some pretty immediate and unfortunate side-effects. The last thing anyone wants is for doctors and scientists to fix the genetic instigator of one disease while accidentally creating another. These things will get ironed out in time, but managing how we arrive there is the main scope of the talks. But it seems that you can't have this conversation without someone, somewhere, using the words "designer babies." Like anti-GMO activists, I find that a lot of people who use the term are too caught up in rhetoric ("playing God," anyone?) to stop and ask the actual question: assuming the technology does eventually advance to the point where we can safely make specific changes with understood and predictable outcomes, what exactly is wrong with "designing" our children? Writing over at Scientific American, Professor Jonathan D. Moreno, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, brings up a few salient points while trying to determine "where to draw the line on gene-editing technology," which I will respond to as a way of working things out. I invite you to follow along. The first point I'd like to discuss is about humanity's relationship to the natural world: "are we prepared," Moreno asks, "to modify our genetic heritage with all the implications for humanity's relationship to the rest of the natural world?" In response, I would offer that genetic engineering engenders no substantive difference to our relationship with the natural world that isn't already in place. That is to say, even if we thought it were a moral good to maintain a "natural" relationship with the world — something I don't plan to argue for or against just now — we are already so far beyond that point that we cannot go back without serious repercussions (or perhaps at all). Technology has been our means of self-guided evolution: we have expanded our brains through the technologies of reading and writing and computing, we have expanded our physical abilities with tools and machines and chemistry. A single process, Haber-Bosch, has allowed humanity's ranks to swell billions over and above what the "natural" world can support. If you dropped an average western suburbanite into "nature" and expected him or her to survive unaided, he or she would very likely die. In the event of some awful calamity it would be humanity's ability to alter nature — not its "natural" relationship with it — that would save it. On the other hand, genetic editing of humans could be used to improve our relationship with the "natural" world (as natural as it remains, anyway), at least insofar as it might allow us to live more healthily and more efficiently. Imagine a human that builds more muscle with less dietary protein (an ecologically expensive to produce commodity with or without livestock). Imagine a human that requires less water to maintain its biological functions. Imagine a human that could gain a portion of its daily energy requirements through photosynthesis. Never mind that we may need to engineer a special kind of human that can survive prolonged periods of exposure to ionizing radiation and low gravity if we are to become a truly multi-planet species. Another point he brings up is the line between "therapy" and "enhancement," a line which I believe is largely imaginary: "Especially in the case of the human germline," he writes, referring to changes which can be passed on through normal reproduction, "one principle worth defending is that between therapy and enhancement. Even if population-wide disease prevention is sometimes acceptable, attempts to otherwise "improve" the human race should be banned. He gives no rationale for this, so I can only guess at the reasoning behind it. I doubt it's because of the immaturity of the science; the reference to "population-wide disease prevention" hints at a future where the technology is indeed that accurate and predictable in its outcomes. It could be due to the idea of the so-called "law" of unintended consequences, or perhaps the precautionary principle that leads Dr. Nafeez Ahmed and analysts like him to overstate the risks of GM crops — these posit scenarios in which monolithic genetic modifications at some point become single points of catastrophic failure (Ahmed's "ruin") for the entire human species. However (the unlikelihood of altering the human genome across all populations in such a similar way as to introduce a massive single point of failure aside), if we are imagining a world in which this technology is so advanced as to end diseases in an entire population, it isn't hard to also imagine a world in which this same technology can be reversed. Accidentally introduce a genetic trait that leads to a new disease? Undo that work and undo the disease. I'm certainly not advocating rushing into trials of human modification, but I can certainly imagine a day when the weight of scientific evidence will shift in favour of its application, as it has in GM food production, and we will be left with nothing but this imaginary line between therapy and enhancement which vanishes under close scrutiny. Because what is the difference between the two? Surely you can come up with examples of each that you are certain of — perhaps like pornography you just "know it when you see it" — but what about the middle cases? Humans get cancer, some more than others — is editing someone's genome to reduce that chance therapy or enhancement, especially if it reduces their chances of cancer below some global average? Humans get old and become less able to perform tasks which maintain their quality of life — is editing someone's genome to maintain their quality of life in old age therapy or enhancement, especially if it enhances their age beyond some kind of global mean? We require humans to perform dangerous tasks, like work with radioactive materials — is editing someone's genome to increase their resilience to ionizing radiation therapy or enhancement, especially if it's a job that requires doing? What counts as an "improvement" and what counts as "disease prevention" in the future may very well have to do with your socioeconomic status, employment sector, and, more likely than either of those, your particular cultural mores. I think any "lines over which we must not cross" are inevitably doomed to either fail or create injustice. But would you ban genetic cancer prevention because one day someone might discriminate against someone else? The movie Gattaca addresses some of the potential problems with elective genetic alterations — namely the potential for discrimination against those who have not elected (for possibly non-elective reasons) to have changes made, though like all good dystopian fiction, it overstates things to make a point. Employers might indeed discriminate against potential long-term employees with a high genetic risk of illness; this, of course, as the movie predicts, would be illegal, but perhaps some employers would skirt the laws the way they skirt non-discrimination laws in existence today. Perhaps they would try, as in the movie, to use genetics as a predictor of success. But, given the inability of genetics to accurately predict effectiveness at one's job, I fail to see the difference between this kind of discrimination and any other. (And before you start talking more about the movie, remember that the reason he wasn't allowed to fly was because they either (a) illogically used his genetic data to determine his health instead of the fact that he could meet all the physical requirements, or (b) had good scientific reason not to let him go on a space mission to the outer solar system and he did it anyway putting everyone else on the crew at risk. I like the movie, too, but as I said, it overstates things to make a point.) At this point I realize I have neglected to make mention of purely "cosmetic" changes — those so often associated with the "designer baby" straw-man. But even in this case I must admit to finding little reason to ban them. Assuming it is a safe, targeted procedure, which will only make the intended changes — hair, eye, or skin colour, for instance — I fail to see a potential harm that is not already present in society. While it is true that social pressures could force people into making changes, the same is already true: breast augmentation, hair replacement, tummy tucks, pseudo-science diet pills, and more all exist today. Cynical though it may seem, humans will either continue to find reasons to form in-groups and out-groups, to band together to oppress each other, or they'll find a way to get past each others' differences; if the goal is to reduce social injustice by reducing difference among humans, I'm afraid that ship has long since sailed. Thankfully, we're a long, long way from elective eye colour alteration being a safe and routine procedure. For many years yet, even the most unambiguously positive alterations — fixing a person's genetic propensity for breast cancer, for instance — will be out of reach of a reasonable risk-to-benefit ratio. If you ask me, the "line" should, for now, be simply drawn just short of editing the germ line of viable embryos — at least until we can do so while knowing that the actual consequences precisely match the intended ones. The technology will advance in fits and starts, and cultural mores will either advance or arrest its progress. It's a good thing they're meeting to talk about it, but they're going to be on much more solid ground if they limit their conversations (and conclusions) to what will or won't cause medical harm, at least for now. Because in the end, I'm predicting that "designer babies" won't be that scary at all. Richard Ford Burley is a writer and doctoral candidate at Boston College, as well as an editor at Ledger, the first academic journal devoted to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In his spare time he writes about science, skepticism, feminism, and futurism here at This Week In Tomorrow. 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I've replaced him with Aguero. As I write this according to the excellent price change site FPL statistics Kane is 52% on the way to a drop and Aguero 91% on to a rise. I would be surrised if Aguero des go up but no point in taking a chance so I've made the transfer. It now means I've got £2.5m in the bank and I'm not really sure how I'm going to use it. Anyway that's a task for tomorrow. Depending on how you're playing it.. I can't see Sterling starting against Palace while Sane should be a lock to start that game. Top of my mini has Aguero and Mane, so I need a differential strategy. I have same team as you Geek but laca for Aguero, Dunk instead of TAA. Camarasa for Sterling for dgw35, then Dunk to Robertson for gw36 to captain him. What's your team before and after WC value Geek? Out if interest what's the idea behind the double Southampton bench? As I assume the plan is to BB after this gameweek but if you're not even rising playing any of them against Wolves at home surely the BB against Newcastle away is a pointless? WC Activated: I've gone with Murray for this double gameweek to bring in Deeney for GW35? Not many opting for Murray – do many think he will have gametime risk? Also punt on Ramsey – showing form – good differential? DGW in 35 but not featuring in many posted teams? @Badhoon – Ramsey played full 90 min recently probably due to the fact that Torreira was suspended and Xhaka injured. Will he play full 90 every game now? Not so sure. Plus Arsenal has 4/6 away games and with their away form it is really risky.

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Fact is, about 1 in 5 sexually active girls ages 15 to 19 gets pregnant each year. In 1999 alone, 860,000 American girls became pregnant. The vast majority of adolescent pregnancies are unplanned and unwanted (Dolgin & Rice 2005, p. 111). Alarming as it is, teenage girls have a higher possibility of choosing abortion because of their "unpreparedness" to become a parent. Abortion became a social issue as a landmark case of Roe vs. Wade (1973) moved the question of the legality of abortion from the state to the federal level. Debates regarding abortion have been split into two opposing views: pro-choice and pro-life. The pro-choice supporters are individuals who favor a woman's reproductive rights, including the right to choose to have an abortion. On the other side are the pro-life advocates, who may oppose abortion for any reason or who may only accept abortion in extreme circumstances, as when the mother's life would be threatened by carrying a pregnancy to term (McGee & Merz, 2005). The right to life is the most basic and most important. Scientific advancement has shown that a fetus is a unique individual human being. It is not just a mass of cells or a parasite growing within the womb that has to be removed. It is not a disease that must be discarded or eliminated. The issue on abortion revolves around a human life capable of feeling and fleeing from danger. Based on this undeniable fact the right to life applies and must be weighed in against all other considerations (Sprengel, 1999). However, an overwhelming majority of Americans are outraged about making abortion legal in the U.S. A Gallup Poll in 2003 informed that 70 percent favored and 25 percent opposed "a law that would make it illegal to perform a specific abortion procedure conducted in the last six months of pregnancy known as 'partial birth abortion,' except in cases necessary to save the life of the mother." President George W. Bush, himself, even supported this common opinion, as he said, "Partial-birth abortion is an abhorrent procedure that offends human dignity" (Smith, 2003). In the final analysis, it is up to the American people to decide about debunking the legality of abortion in our country. As a whole, the government should not decide on issues that dwell over matters of what the majority perceives. However, the best solution is always prevention. Inculcating the right knowledge to people in becoming responsible individuals would enlighten their overall awareness about the consequences of abortion. Dolgin, Kim Gale and Rice, F. Philip. The Adolescent: Development, Relationships, and Culture, 11th ed. New York: Prentice-Hall – Pearson Education Company, 2005. McGee, G., and Merz, J. F. Abortion. Microsoft® Encarta® 2005 [CD-ROM]. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation. Smith, C. H. (2003, March 11). Should Congress ban so-called partial-birth abortions? The CQ Researcher, 13 (11).

Uncertainty shadows Pennsylvania's debate over nuclear power | TribLIVE.com Uncertainty shadows Pennsylvania's debate over nuclear power Sun., February 17, 2019 1:04 p.m. | Sunday, February 17, 2019 1:04 p.m. In this file photo of Nov. 2, 2006, cooling towers of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant are reflected in the Susquehanna River in this time exposure photograph in Middletown, Pa. Forty years after Three Mile Island became synonymous with America's worst commercial nuclear power accident, the prospect of bailing out nuclear power plants is stirring debate at the highest levels of Pennsylvania and the federal government. In this May 22, 2017, file photo shows the control room at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. Forty years after Three Mile Island became synonymous with America's worst commercial nuclear power accident, the prospect of bailing out nuclear power plants is stirring debate at the highest levels of Pennsylvania and the federal government. In this May 22, 2017 file photo shown is the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. Forty years after Three Mile Island became synonymous with America's worst commercial nuclear power accident, the prospect of bailing out nuclear power plants is stirring debate at the highest levels of Pennsylvania and the federal government. This March 30, 1979, file photo shows a cooling tower of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., as it looms behind an abandoned playground. Forty years after Three Mile Island became synonymous with America's worst commercial nuclear power accident, the prospect of bailing out nuclear power plants is stirring debate at the highest levels of Pennsylvania and the federal government. HARRISBURG, Pa. — Four decades after Three Mile Island became shorthand for America's worst commercial nuclear power accident, financial rescues of nuclear power plants are stirring the highest levels of government. In Pennsylvania, nuclear power plant owners have been working for two years to build support for the kind of financial packages already approved by New York, New Jersey and Illinois. Meanwhile, those packages have sparked legal appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court and a debate among federal energy regulators over protecting ratepayers from higher electricity prices. Those loose ends are shadowing Pennsylvania as state lawmakers prepare to decide whether to help their state's nuclear power plants. "Anything that Pennsylvania does is going to be subject to a degree of policy and legal uncertainty," said Christina Simeone, director of policy and external affairs at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. The nation's aging and shrinking nuclear power fleet is being buffeted by a flood of natural gas plants entering competitive electricity markets, relatively flat post-recession electricity demand, and states putting more emphasis on renewable energy and efficiency. The pursuit of state guarantees has spurred questions over why ratepayers should foot the cost to keep nuclear power plants open, and whether nuclear power provides an indispensable environmental benefit in the age of global warming. The spotlight moved in 2017 to Pennsylvania, the nation's No. 2 nuclear power state. That's when Three Mile Island's owner, Chicago-based Exelon Corp., announced it will close the plant that was the site of a terrifying partial meltdown in 1979 unless Pennsylvania comes to its financial rescue. It set this Sept. 30 as the closing date. Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp. also said it will shut down its Beaver Valley nuclear power plant in western Pennsylvania — as well as two nuclear plants in Ohio — within three years unless Pennsylvania steps up. So far, no rescue has been written into legislation. Rather, sympathetic lawmakers have issued a broadly worded memo saying they will introduce legislation to effectively give Pennsylvania's nuclear power plants the same preferential treatment as solar power, wind power and a handful of other niche energy sources received under a 2004 state law. The owners of Pennsylvania's five nuclear power plants — primarily Exelon, FirstEnergy and Allentown-based Talen Energy — are backing that effort. PJM Interconnection, which operates the electric grid covering Pennsylvania and the 65 million people from Illinois east to Washington, has said those four nuclear power plant closings — two in Pennsylvania and two in Ohio — won't affect the availability of electricity. But, last summer, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in a 3-2 decision, ordered PJM to come up with a solution to protect the competitive market from what it described as a dangerous cascade of pressure on states to prop up otherwise viable power plants. PJM pitched an idea in October that, if adopted, could create new dilemmas, particularly for nuclear power plant owners. "At that point, do they come back to the state and ask for more? Maybe," said Glen Thomas, a Pennsylvania-based consultant who specializes in utility regulations. "Do they go out of business because they don't have enough revenue? Maybe. Does it suppress the market price for other generators? Definitely. It creates some problems for sure." It's a long-shot that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up appeals in lawsuits challenging New York's and Illinois' nuclear power subsidies, say lawyers following the cases. But FERC action still looms, and it's not clear when or how commissioners will respond. Exelon said Pennsylvania must enact legislation by June 1 if it is to keep operating Three Mile Island, since fuel must be ordered months in advance. Gov. Tom Wolf hasn't taken a position on rescuing Pennsylvania's nuclear power plants — although his administration suggests that keeping them operating would help slash Pennsylvania's greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades — and neither have top lawmakers. Meanwhile, the fight is sweeping up labor unions, business associations, ratepayer advocates, the AARP, environmental groups, anti-nuclear power activists and Pennsylvania's considerable natural gas industry. "FERC has created all this uncertainty," said Miles Farmer, an attorney for the Washington, D.C.-based Natural Resources Defense Council. "It's not clear how customers are going to be protected and it's very difficult for states to set up their programs when they're in the dark as to how the rules will work." 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Tōru Takemitsu (Redirected from Toru Takemitsu) Tōru Takemitsu (武満 徹, pronounced [takeꜜmitsɯ̥ toːɾɯ]; 8 October 1930 – 20 February 1996) was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu was admired for the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre.[1][2] He is known for combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy and for fusing sound with silence and tradition with innovation.[3] 武満 Hongō, Tokyo, Japan 20 February 1996(1996-02-20) (aged 65) Minato, Tokyo, Japan He composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books.[3] He was also a founding member of the Jikken Kōbō (Experimental Workshop) in Japan, a group of avant-garde artists who distanced themselves from academia and whose collaborative work is often regarded among the most influential of the 20th century.[4][5] His 1957 Requiem for string orchestra attracted international attention, led to several commissions from across the world and established his reputation as the leading 20th-century Japanese composer.[6] He was the recipient of numerous awards and honours and the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award is named after him.[7] 1.1 Youth 1.2 Early development and Jikken Kōbō 1.3 Influence of Cage; interest in traditional Japanese music 1.4 International status and the gradual shift in style 1.5 Later works: the sea of tonality 3.1 Influence of traditional Japanese music 3.2 Influence of Messiaen 3.3 Influence of Debussy 3.4 Motives 3.5 Musique concrète 3.6 Aleatory techniques 3.7 Film music 4 Legacy 7.1 Citations BiographyEdit YouthEdit Takemitsu was born in Tokyo on 8 October 1930; a month later his family moved to Dalian in the Chinese province of Liaoning. In 1938 he returned to Japan to attend elementary school, but his education was cut short by military conscription in 1944.[2] Takemitsu described his experience of military service at such a young age, under the Japanese Nationalist government, as "... extremely bitter".[8] Takemitsu first became conscious of Western classical music during his term of military service, in the form of a popular French Song ("Parlez-moi d'amour") which he listened to with colleagues in secret, played on a gramophone with a makeshift needle fashioned from bamboo.[8][9] During the post-war U.S. occupation of Japan, Takemitsu worked for the U.S. Armed Forces, but was ill for a long period. Hospitalised and bed-ridden, he took the opportunity to listen to as much Western music as he could on the U.S. Armed Forces network. While deeply affected by these experiences of Western music, he simultaneously felt a need to distance himself from the traditional music of his native Japan. He explained much later, in a lecture at the New York International Festival of the Arts, that for him Japanese traditional music "always recalled the bitter memories of war".[8] Despite his lack of musical training, and taking inspiration from what little Western music he had heard, Takemitsu began to compose in earnest at the age of 16: "... I began [writing] music attracted to music itself as one human being. Being in music I found my raison d'être as a man. After the war, music was the only thing. Choosing to be in music clarified my identity."[10] Though he studied briefly with Yasuji Kiyose beginning in 1948, Takemitsu remained largely self-taught throughout his musical career.[2] Early development and Jikken KōbōEdit In 1948, Takemitsu conceived the idea of electronic music technology, or in his own words, to "bring noise into tempered musical tones inside a busy small tube." During the 1950s, Takemitsu had learned that in 1948 "a French [engineer] Pierre Schaeffer invented the method(s) of musique concrète based on the same idea as mine. I was pleased with this coincidence."[11][12] In 1951, Takemitsu was a founding member of the anti-academic Jikken Kōbō (実験工房, "experimental workshop"): an artistic group established for multidisciplinary collaboration on mixed-media projects, who sought to avoid Japanese artistic tradition.[13] The performances and works undertaken by the group introduced several contemporary Western composers to Japanese audiences.[2][14] During this period he wrote Saegirarenai Kyūsoku I ("Uninterrupted Rest I", 1952: a piano work, without a regular rhythmic pulse or barlines); and by 1955 Takemitsu had begun to use electronic tape-recording techniques in such works as Relief Statique (1955) and Vocalism A·I (1956).[2] Takemitsu also studied in the early 1950s with the composer Fumio Hayasaka, perhaps best known for the scores he wrote for films by Kenji Mizoguchi and Akira Kurosawa, the latter of whom Takemitsu would collaborate with decades later. In the late 1950s chance brought Takemitsu international attention: his Requiem for string orchestra (1957), written as an homage to Hayasaka, was heard by Igor Stravinsky in 1958 during his visit to Japan. (The NHK had organised opportunities for Stravinsky to listen to some of the latest Japanese music; when Takemitsu's work was put on by mistake, Stravinsky insisted on hearing it to the end.) At a press conference later, Stravinsky expressed his admiration for the work, praising its "sincerity" and "passionate" writing.[15] Stravinsky subsequently invited Takemitsu to lunch; and for Takemitsu this was an "unforgettable" experience.[16] After Stravinsky returned to the U.S., Takemitsu soon received a commission for a new work from the Koussevitsky Foundation which, he assumed, had come as a suggestion from Stravinsky to Aaron Copland.[16] For this he composed Dorian Horizon, (1966), which was premièred by the San Francisco Symphony, conducted by Copland.[16] Influence of Cage; interest in traditional Japanese musicEdit During his time with Jikken Kōbō, Takemitsu came into contact with the experimental work of John Cage; but when the composer Toshi Ichiyanagi returned from his studies in America in 1961, he gave the first Japanese performance of Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra. This left a "deep impression" on Takemitsu: he recalled the impact of hearing the work when writing an obituary for Cage, 31 years later.[17] This encouraged Takemitsu in his use of indeterminate procedures and graphic-score notation, for example in the graphic scores of Ring (1961), Corona for pianist(s) and Corona II for string(s) (both 1962). In these works each performer is presented with cards printed with coloured circular patterns which are freely arranged by the performer to create "the score".[18] Although the immediate influence of Cage's procedures did not last in Takemitsu's music—Coral Island, for example for soprano and orchestra (1962) shows significant departures from indeterminate procedures partly as a result of Takemitsu's renewed interest in the music of Anton Webern—certain similarities between Cage's philosophies and Takemitsu's thought remained. For example, Cage's emphasis on timbres within individual sound-events, and his notion of silence "as plenum rather than vacuum", can be aligned with Takemitsu's interest in ma.[19] Furthermore, Cage's interest in Zen practice (through his contact with Zen scholar Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki) seems to have resulted in a renewed interest in the East in general, and ultimately alerted Takemitsu to the potential for incorporating elements drawn from Japanese traditional music into his composition: I must express my deep and sincere gratitude to John Cage. The reason for this is that in my own life, in my own development, for a long period I struggled to avoid being "Japanese", to avoid "Japanese" qualities. It was largely through my contact with John Cage that I came to recognize the value of my own tradition.[8] For Takemitsu, as he explained later in a lecture in 1988, one performance of Japanese traditional music stood out: One day I chanced to see a performance of the Bunraku puppet theater and was very surprised by it. It was in the tone quality, the timbre, of the futazao shamisen, the wide-necked shamisen used in Bunraku, that I first recognized the splendor of traditional Japanese music. I was very moved by it and I wondered why my attention had never been captured before by this Japanese music.[8] Thereafter, he resolved to study all types of traditional Japanese music, paying special attention to the differences between the two very different musical traditions, in a diligent attempt to "bring forth the sensibilities of Japanese music that had always been within [him]".[8] This was no easy task, since in the years following the war traditional music was largely overlooked and ignored: only one or two "masters" continued to keep their art alive, often meeting with public indifference. In conservatoria across the country, even students of traditional instruments were always required to learn the piano.[20] Takemitsu, 1961 From the early 1960s, Takemitsu began to make use of traditional Japanese instruments in his music, and even took up playing the biwa—an instrument he used in his score for the film Seppuku (1962).[2] In 1967, Takemitsu received a commission from the New York Philharmonic, to commemorate the orchestra's 125th anniversary, for which he wrote November Steps for biwa, shakuhachi, and orchestra. Initially, Takemitsu had great difficulty in uniting these instruments from such different musical cultures in one work.[8] Eclipse for biwa and shakuhachi (1966) illustrates Takemitsu's attempts to find a viable notational system for these instruments, which in normal circumstances neither sound together nor are used in works notated in any system of Western staff notation.[21] The first performance of November Steps was given in 1967, under Seiji Ozawa. Despite the trials of writing such an ambitious work, Takemitsu maintained "that making the attempt was very worthwhile because what resulted somehow liberated music from a certain stagnation and brought to music something distinctly new and different".[8] The work was distributed widely in the West when it was coupled as the fourth side of an LP release of Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony.[22] In 1972, Takemitsu, accompanied by Iannis Xenakis, Betsy Jolas, and others, heard Balinese gamelan music in Bali. The experience influenced the composer on a largely philosophical and theological level. For those accompanying Takemitsu on the expedition (most of whom were French musicians), who "... could not keep their composure as I did before this music: it was too foreign for them to be able to assess the resulting discrepancies with their logic", the experience was without precedent. For Takemitsu, however, by now quite familiar with his own native musical tradition, there was a relationship between "the sounds of the gamelan, the tone of the kapachi, the unique scales and rhythms by which they are formed, and Japanese traditional music which had shaped such a large part of my sensitivity".[23] In his solo piano work For Away (written for Roger Woodward in 1973), a single, complex line is distributed between the pianist's hands, which reflects the interlocking patterns between the metallophones of a gamelan orchestra.[24] A year later, Takemitsu returned to the instrumental combination of shakuhachi, biwa, and orchestra, in the less well known work Autumn (1973). The significance of this work is revealed in its far greater integration of the traditional Japanese instruments into the orchestral discourse; whereas in November Steps, the two contrasting instrumental ensembles perform largely in alternation, with only a few moments of contact. Takemitsu expressed this change in attitude: But now my attitude is getting to be a little different, I think. Now my concern is mostly to find out what there is in common ... Autumn was written after November Steps. I really wanted to do something which I hadn't done in November Steps, not to blend the instruments, but to integrate them.[25] International status and the gradual shift in styleEdit By 1970, Takemitsu's reputation as a leading member of avant-garde community was well established, and during his involvement with Expo '70 in Osaka, he was at last able to meet more of his Western colleagues, including Karlheinz Stockhausen. Also, during a contemporary music festival in April 1970, produced by the Japanese composer himself ("Iron and Steel Pavilion"), Takemitsu met among the participants Lukas Foss, Peter Sculthorpe, and Vinko Globokar. Later that year, as part of a commission from Paul Sacher and the Zurich Collegium Musicum, Takemitsu incorporated into his Eucalypts I parts for international performers: flautist Aurèle Nicolet, oboist Heinz Holliger, and harpist Ursula Holliger.[26] Critical examination of the complex instrumental works written during this period for the new generation of "contemporary soloists" reveals the level of his high-profile engagement with the Western avant-garde, in works such as Voice for solo flute (1971), Waves for clarinet, horn, two trombones and bass drum (1976), Quatrain for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and orchestra (1977). Experiments and works that incorporated traditional Japanese musical ideas and language continued to appear in his output, and an increased interest in the traditional Japanese garden began to reflect itself in works such as In an Autumn Garden [ja] for gagaku orchestra (1973), and A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden for orchestra (1977).[27] Throughout this apogee of avant-garde work, Takemitsu's musical style seems to have undergone a series of stylistic changes. Comparison of Green (for orchestra, 1967) and A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (1977) quickly reveals the seeds of this change. The latter was composed according to a pre-compositional scheme, in which pentatonic modes were superimposed over one central pentatonic scale (the so-called "black-key pentatonic") around a central sustained central pitch (F-sharp), and an approach that is highly indicative of the sort of "pantonal" and modal pitch material seen gradually emerging in his works throughout the 1970s.[28] The former, Green (or November Steps II) written 10 years earlier, is heavily influenced by Debussy,[29][30] and is, in spite of its very dissonant language (including momentary quarter-tone clusters), largely constructed through a complex web of modal forms. These modal forms are largely audible, particularly in the momentary repose toward the end of the work.[31] Thus in these works, it is possible to see both a continuity of approach, and the emergence of a simpler harmonic language that was to characterise the work of his later period. His friend and colleague Jō Kondō said, "If his later works sound different from earlier pieces, it is due to his gradual refining of his basic style rather than any real alteration of it."[32] Later works: the sea of tonalityEdit In a Tokyo lecture given in 1984, Takemitsu identified a melodic motive in his Far Calls. Coming Far! (for violin and orchestra, 1980) that would recur throughout his later works: I wanted to plan a tonal "sea". Here the "sea" is E-flat [Es in German nomenclature]-E-A, a three-note ascending motive consisting of a half step and perfect fourth. [... In Far Calls] this is extended upward from A with two major thirds and one minor third ... Using these patterns I set the "sea of tonality" from which many pantonal chords flow.[33] Takemitsu's words here highlight his changing stylistic trends from the late 1970s into the 1980s, which have been described as "an increased use of diatonic material [... with] references to tertian harmony and jazz voicing", which do not, however, project a sense of "large-scale tonality".[34] Many of the works from this period have titles that include a reference to water: Toward the Sea (1981), Rain Tree and Rain Coming (1982), riverrun and I Hear the Water Dreaming (1987). Takemitsu wrote in his notes for the score of Rain Coming that "... the complete collection [is] entitled "Waterscape" ... it was the composer's intention to create a series of works, which like their subject, pass through various metamorphoses, culminating in a sea of tonality."[35] Throughout these works, the S-E-A motive (discussed further below) features prominently, and points to an increased emphasis on the melodic element in Takemitsu's music that began during this later period. His 1981 work for orchestra named Dreamtime was inspired by a visit to Groote Eylandt, off the coast of the Northern Territory of Australia, to witness a large gathering of Australian indigenous dancers, singers and story tellers. He was there at the invitation of the choreographer Jiří Kylián.[36] Pedal notes played an increasingly prominent role in Takemitsu's music during this period, as in A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden. In Dream/Window, (orchestra, 1985) a pedal D serves as anchor point, holding together statements of a striking four-note motivic gesture which recurs in various instrumental and rhythmic guises throughout. Very occasionally, fully fledged references to diatonic tonality can be found, often in harmonic allusions to early- and pre-20th-century composers—for example, Folios for guitar (1974), which quotes from J. S. Bach's St Matthew Passion, and Family Tree for narrator and orchestra (1984), which invokes the musical language of Maurice Ravel and American popular song.[2] (He revered the St Matthew Passion, and would play through it on the piano before commencing a new work, as a form of "purificatory ritual".[37]) By this time, Takemitsu's incorporation of traditional Japanese (and other Eastern) musical traditions with his Western style had become much more integrated. Takemitsu commented, "There is no doubt ... the various countries and cultures of the world have begun a journey toward the geographic and historic unity of all peoples ... The old and new exist within me with equal weight."[38] Toward the end of his life, Takemitsu had planned to complete an opera, a collaboration with the novelist Barry Gifford and the director Daniel Schmid, commissioned by the Opéra National de Lyon in France. He was in the process of publishing a plan of its musical and dramatic structure with Kenzaburō Ōe, but he was prevented from completing it by his death at 65.[39][40] He died of pneumonia on 20 February 1996, while undergoing treatment for bladder cancer. Personal lifeEdit He was married to Asaka Takemitsu (formerly Wakayama) for 42 years. She first met Toru in 1951, cared for him when he was suffering from tuberculosis in his early twenties, then married him in 1954. They had one child, a daughter named Maki. Asaka attended most premieres of his music and published a memoir of their life together in 2010.[41] See also: List of compositions by Tōru Takemitsu Composers whom Takemitsu cited as influential in his early work include Claude Debussy, Anton Webern, Edgard Varèse, Arnold Schoenberg, and Olivier Messiaen.[42] Messiaen in particular was introduced to him by fellow composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, and remained a lifelong influence.[2] Although Takemitsu's wartime experiences of nationalism initially discouraged him from cultivating an interest in traditional Japanese music, he showed an early interest in "... the Japanese Garden in color spacing and form ...". The formal garden of the kaiyu-shiki interested him in particular.[8][43] He expressed his unusual stance toward compositional theory early on, his lack of respect for the "trite rules of music, rules that are ... stifled by formulas and calculations"; for Takemitsu it was of far greater importance that "sounds have the freedom to breathe. ... Just as one cannot plan his life, neither can he plan music".[44] Takemitsu's sensitivity to instrumental and orchestral timbre can be heard throughout his work, and is often made apparent by the unusual instrumental combinations he specified. This is evident in works such as November Steps, that combine traditional Japanese instruments, shakuhachi and biwa, with a conventional Western orchestra. It may also be discerned in his works for ensembles that make no use of traditional instruments, for example Quotation of Dream (1991), Archipelago S., for 21 players (1993), and Arc I & II (1963–66/1976). In these works, the more conventional orchestral forces are divided into unconventional "groups". Even where these instrumental combinations were determined by the particular ensemble commissioning the work, "Takemitsu's genius for instrumentation (and genius it was, in my view) ...", in the words of Oliver Knussen, "... creates the illusion that the instrumental restrictions are self-imposed".[45] Influence of traditional Japanese musicEdit Example 1. Bar 10 of Masque I, Continu, for two flutes (1959). An early example of Takemitsu's incorporation of traditional Japanese music in his writing, shown in the unusually notated quarter-tone pitch bend above. Takemitsu summarized his initial aversion to Japanese (and all non-Western) traditional musical forms in his own words: "There may be folk music with strength and beauty, but I cannot be completely honest in this kind of music. I want a more active relationship to the present. (Folk music in a 'contemporary style' is nothing but a deception)."[46] His dislike for the musical traditions of Japan in particular were intensified by his experiences of the war, during which Japanese music became associated with militaristic and nationalistic cultural ideals.[47] Nevertheless, Takemitsu incorporated some idiomatic elements of Japanese music in his very earliest works, perhaps unconsciously. One unpublished set of pieces, Kakehi ("Conduit"), written at the age of seventeen, incorporates the ryō, ritsu and insen scales throughout. When Takemitsu discovered that these "nationalist" elements had somehow found their way into his music, he was so alarmed that he later destroyed the works.[48] Further examples can be seen for example in the quarter-tone glissandi of Masques I (for two flutes, 1959), which mirror the characteristic pitch bends of the shakuhachi, and for which he devised his own unique notation: a held note is tied to an enharmonic spelling of the same pitch class, with a portamento direction across the tie.[49] Example 2. Opening bars of Litany—In Memory of Michael Vyner, i Adagio, for solo piano (1950/1989). Another early example of Takemitsu's incorporation of traditional Japanese music in his writing, shown here in the use of the Japanese in scale in the upper melodic line of the right hand part. Other Japanese characteristics, including the further use of traditional pentatonic scales, continued to crop up elsewhere in his early works. In the opening bars of Litany, for Michael Vyner, a reconstruction from memory by Takemitsu of Lento in Due Movimenti (1950; the original score was lost), pentatonicism is clearly visible in the upper voice, which opens the work on an unaccompanied anacrusis.[50] The pitches of the opening melody combine to form the constituent notes of the ascending form of the Japanese in scale. When, from the early 1960s,[2] Takemitsu began to "consciously apprehend" the sounds of traditional Japanese music, he found that his creative process, "the logic of my compositional thought[,] was torn apart", and nevertheless, "hogaku [traditional Japanese music ...] seized my heart and refuses to release it".[51] In particular, Takemitsu perceived that, for example, the sound of a single stroke of the biwa or single pitch breathed through the shakuhachi, could "so transport our reason because they are of extreme complexity ... already complete in themselves". This fascination with the sounds produced in traditional Japanese music brought Takemitsu to his idea of ma (usually translated as the space between two objects),[52] which ultimately informed his understanding of the intense quality of traditional Japanese music as a whole: Just one sound can be complete in itself, for its complexity lies in the formulation of ma, an unquantifiable metaphysical space (duration) of dynamically tensed absence of sound. For example, in the performance of nō, the ma of sound and silence does not have an organic relation for the purpose of artistic expression. Rather, these two elements contrast sharply with one another in an immaterial balance.[53] In 1970, Takemitsu received a commission from the National Theatre of Japan to write a work for the gagaku ensemble of the Imperial Household; this was fulfilled in 1973, when he completed Shuteiga ("In an Autumn Garden", although he later incorporated the work, as the fourth movement, into his 50-minute-long "In an Autumn Garden—Complete Version").[54] As well as being "... the furthest removed from the West of any work he had written",[55] While it introduces certain Western musical ideas to the Japanese court ensemble, the work represents the deepest of Takemitsu's investigations into Japanese musical tradition, the lasting effects of which are clearly reflected in his works for conventional Western ensemble formats that followed.[56] Example 3. Standard chords produced by the shō, mouth organ of the traditional Japanese court ensemble, gagaku In Garden Rain (1974, for brass ensemble), the limited and pitch-specific harmonic vocabulary of the Japanese mouth organ, the shō (see ex. 3), and its specific timbres, are clearly emulated in Takemitsu's writing for brass instruments; even similarities of performance practice can be seen, (the players are often required to hold notes to the limit of their breath capacity).[57] In A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden, the characteristic timbres of the shō and its chords (several of which are simultaneous soundings of traditional Japanese pentatonic scales) are emulated in the opening held chords of the wind instruments (the first chord is in fact an exact transposition of the shō's chord, Jū (i); see ex. 3); meanwhile a solo oboe is assigned a melodic line that is similarly reminiscent of the lines played by the hichiriki in gagaku ensembles.[58] Influence of MessiaenEdit Example 4. Comparison of ex.94 from Olivier Messiaen's Technique de mon langage musical and one of the principal motives from Takemitsu's Quatrain (1975)[59] The influence of Olivier Messiaen on Takemitsu was already apparent in some of Takemitsu's earliest published works. By the time he composed Lento in Due Movimenti, (1950), Takemitsu had already come into possession of a copy of Messiaen's 8 Préludes (through Toshi Ichiyanagi), and the influence of Messiaen is clearly visible in the work, in the use of modes, the suspension of regular metre, and sensitivity to timbre.[2][60] Throughout his career, Takemitsu often made use of modes from which he derived his musical material, both melodic and harmonic among which Messiaen's modes of limited transposition to appear with some frequency.[61] In particular, the use of the octatonic, (mode II, or the 8–28 collection), and mode VI (8–25) is particularly common. However, Takemitsu pointed out that he had used the octatonic collection in his music before ever coming across it in Messiaen's music.[62] In 1975, Takemitsu met Messiaen in New York, and during "what was to be a one-hour 'lesson' [but which] lasted three hours ... Messiaen played his Quartet for the End of Time for Takemitsu at the piano",[62] which, Takemitsu recalled, was like listening to an orchestral performance.[63] Takemitsu responded to this with his homage to the French composer, Quatrain, for which he asked Messiaen's permission to use the same instrumental combination for the main quartet, cello, violin, clarinet and piano (which is accompanied by orchestra).[64][62] As well as the obvious similarity of instrumentation, Takemitsu employs several melodic figures that appear to "mimic" certain musical examples given by Messiaen in his Technique de mon langage musical, (see ex. 4).[59] In 1977, Takemitsu reworked Quatrain for quartet alone, without orchestra, and titled the new work Quatrain II. On hearing of Messiaen's death in 1992, Takemitsu was interviewed by telephone, and still in shock, "blurted out, 'His death leaves a crisis in contemporary music!'" Then later, in an obituary written for the French composer in the same year, Takemitsu further expressed his sense of loss at Messiaen's death: "Truly, he was my spiritual mentor ... Among the many things I learned from his music, the concept and experience of color and the form of time will be unforgettable."[63] The composition Rain Tree Sketch II, which was to be Takemitsu's final piano piece, was also written that year and subtitled "In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen". Influence of DebussyEdit Takemitsu frequently expressed his indebtedness to Claude Debussy, referring to the French composer as his "great mentor".[65] As Arnold Whittall puts it: Given the enthusiasm for the exotic and the Orient in these [Debussy and Messiaen] and other French composers, it is understandable that Takemitsu should have been attracted to the expressive and formal qualities of music in which flexibility of rhythm and richness of harmony count for so much.[66] For Takemitsu, Debussy's "greatest contribution was his unique orchestration which emphasizes colour, light and shadow ... the orchestration of Debussy has many musical focuses." He was fully aware of Debussy's own interest in Japanese art, (the cover of the first edition of La mer, for example, was famously adorned by Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa).[67] For Takemitsu, this interest in Japanese culture, combined with his unique personality, and perhaps most importantly, his lineage as a composer of the French musical tradition running from Rameau and Lully through Berlioz in which colour is given special attention, gave Debussy his unique style and sense of orchestration.[68] During the composition of Green (November Steps II, for orchestra, 1967: "steeped in the sound-color world of the orchestral music of Claude Debussy")[69] Takemitsu said he had taken the scores of Debussy's Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune and Jeux to the mountain villa where both this work and November Steps I were composed. For Oliver Knussen, "the final appearance of the main theme irresistibly prompts the thought that Takemitsu may, quite unconsciously, have been attempting a latter-day Japanese Après-midi d'un Faune".[70] Details of orchestration in Green, such as the prominent use of antique cymbals, and tremolandi harmonies in the strings, clearly point to the influence of Takemitsu's compositional mentor, and of these works in particular.[71] In Quotation of Dream (1991), direct quotations from Debussy's La Mer and Takemitsu's earlier works relating to the sea are incorporated into the musical flow ("stylistic jolts were not intended"), depicting the landscape outside the Japanese garden of his own music.[72] MotivesEdit Several recurring musical motives can be heard in Takemitsu's works. In particular the pitch motive E♭–E–A can be heard in many of his later works, whose titles refer to water in some form (Toward the Sea, 1981; Rain Tree Sketch, 1982; I Hear the Water Dreaming, 1987). Example 5. Various examples of Takemitsu's S–E–A motive, derived from the German spelling of the notes E♭, E, A ("Es–E–A") When spelt in German (Es–E–A), the motive can be seen as a musical "transliteration" of the word "sea". Takemitsu used this motive (usually transposed) to indicate the presence of water in his "musical landscapes", even in works whose titles do not directly refer to water, such as A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (1977; see ex. 5).[73] Musique concrèteEdit Problems playing this file? See media help. During Takemitsu's years as a member of the Jikken Kōbō, he experimented with compositions of musique concrète (and a very limited amount of electronic music, the most notable example being Stanza II for harp and tape written later in 1972).[74] In Water Music (1960), Takemitsu's source material consisted entirely of sounds produced by droplets of water. His manipulation of these sounds, through the use of highly percussive envelopes, often results in a resemblance to traditional Japanese instruments, such as the tsuzumi and nō ensembles.[75] Aleatory techniquesEdit One aspect of John Cage's compositional procedure that Takemitsu continued to use throughout his career, was the use of indeterminacy, in which performers are given a degree of choice in what to perform. As mentioned previously, this was particularly used in works such as November Steps, in which musicians playing traditional Japanese instruments were able to play in an orchestral setting with a certain degree of improvisational freedom.[21] A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden However, he also employed a technique that is sometimes called "aleatory counterpoint"[76] in his well-known orchestral work A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden (1977, at [J] in the score),[77] and in the score of Arc II: i Textures (1964) for piano and orchestra, in which sections of the orchestra are divided into groups, and required to repeat short passages of music at will. In these passages the overall sequence of events is, however, controlled by the conductor, who is instructed about the approximate durations for each section, and who indicates to the orchestra when to move from one section to next. The technique is commonly found in the work of Witold Lutosławski, who pioneered it in his Jeux vénitiens.[76] Film musicEdit Takemitsu's contribution to film music was considerable; in under 40 years he composed music for over 100 films,[78] some of which were written for purely financial reasons (such as those written for Noboru Nakamura). However, as the composer attained financial independence, he grew more selective, often reading whole scripts before agreeing to compose the music, and later surveying the action on set, "breathing the atmosphere" whilst conceiving his musical ideas.[79] One notable consideration in Takemitsu's composition for film was his careful use of silence (also important in many of his concert works), which often immediately intensifies the events on screen, and prevents any monotony through a continuous musical accompaniment. For the first battle scene of Akira Kurosawa's Ran, Takemitsu provided an extended passage of intense elegiac quality that halts at the sound of a single gunshot, leaving the audience with the pure "sounds of battle: cries screams and neighing horses".[80] Takemitsu attached the greatest importance to the director's conception of the film; in an interview with Max Tessier, he explained that, "everything depends on the film itself ... I try to concentrate as much as possible on the subject, so that I can express what the director feels himself. I try to extend his feelings with my music."[81] LegacyEdit In a memorial issue of Contemporary Music Review, Jō Kondō wrote, "Needless to say, Takemitsu is among the most important composers in Japanese music history. He was also the first Japanese composer fully recognized in the west, and remained the guiding light for the younger generations of Japanese composers."[32] Composer Peter Lieberson shared the following in his program note to The Ocean that has no East and West, written in memory of Takemitsu: "I spent the most time with Toru in Tokyo when I was invited to be a guest composer at his Music Today Festival in 1987. Peter Serkin and composer Oliver Knussen were also there, as was cellist Fred Sherry. Though he was the senior of our group by many years, Toru stayed up with us every night and literally drank us under the table. I was confirmed in my impression of Toru as a person who lived his life like a traditional Zen poet."[82] On the death of his friend, the pianist Roger Woodward composed "In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu" for unaccompanied violoncello. Woodward [83] recalled concerts with Takemitsu in Australia, the Decca Studios and Roundhouse, London and at the 1976 ' Music Today' Festival, with Kinshi Tsuruta and Katsuya Yokoyama; Takemitu's dedication of "For Away", "Corona" (London Version) and "Undisturbed Rest" and of the inspirational leadership he provided Woodward's generation: " From all composers with whom I ever worked it was Toru Takemitsu who understood the inner workings of music and sound on a level unmatched by anyone else. His profound humility concealed an immense knowledge of Occidental and Oriental cultures which greatly extended historical contributions of Debussy and Messiaen." In the foreword to a selection of Takemitsu's writings in English, conductor Seiji Ozawa writes: "I am very proud of my friend Toru Takemitsu. He is the first Japanese composer to write for a world audience and achieve international recognition."[84] Awards and honoursEdit Takemitsu won awards for composition, both in Japan and abroad,[85][86][87] including the Prix Italia for his orchestral work Tableau noir in 1958, the Otaka Prize in 1976 and 1981, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award in 1987 (for the film score Ran) and the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 1994 (for Fantasma/Cantos).[2] In Japan, he received the Film Awards of the Japanese Academy for outstanding achievement in music, for soundtracks to the following films: 1979 Empire of Passion (愛の亡霊) 1985 Fire Festival (film) 1986 Ran (乱) 1990 Rikyu (利休) 1996 Sharaku (写楽) He was also invited to attend numerous international festivals throughout his career, and presented lectures and talks at academic institutions across the world. He was made an honorary member of the Akademie der Künste of the DDR in 1979, and the American Institute of Arts and Letters in 1985. He was admitted to the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1985, and the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1986. He was the recipient of the 22nd Suntory Music Award (1990). Posthumously, Takemitsu received an Honorary Doctorate from Columbia University early in 1996 and was awarded the fourth Glenn Gould Prize in fall 1996. The Toru Takemitsu Composition Award, intended to "encourage a younger generation of composers who will shape the coming age through their new musical works", is named after him.[7] WritingsEdit Takemitsu, Tōru (1995). Confronting Silence. Fallen Leaf Press. ISBN 0-914913-36-0. Takemitsu, Tōru, with Cronin, Tania and Tann, Hilary, "Afterword", Perspectives of New Music, vol. 27, no. 2 (Summer, 1989), 205–214, (subscription access) JSTOR 833411 Takemitsu, Tōru, (trans. Adachi, Sumi with Reynolds, Roger), "Mirrors", Perspectives of New Music, vol. 30, no. 1 (Winter, 1992), 36–80, (subscription access) JSTOR 833284 Takemitsu, Tōru, (trans. Hugh de Ferranti) "One Sound", Contemporary Music Review, vol. 8, part 2, (Harwood, 1994), 3–4, (subscription access) doi:10.1080/07494469400640021 Takemitsu, Tōru, "Contemporary Music in Japan", Perspectives of New Music, vol. 27, no. 2 (Summer, 1989), 198–204 (subscription access) JSTOR 833410 CitationsEdit ^ McKenzie, Don, "Review: [Untitled] Reviewed Work(s): To the Edge of Dream, for Guitar and Orchestra", Notes, 2nd Ser., vol. 46, no. 1. (Music Library Association, September 1989), 230. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Narazaki, Yoko; Masakata, Kanazawa (2001). "Takemitsu, Toru". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5. ‎ ^ a b Coburn, Steven. "Toru Takemitsu, Artist Biography". 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Bill C-51, a Conservative government anti-terror bill that has been the subject of controversy since its introduction in January, is to undergo a review and amendment process beginning Tuesday. Amendments will attempt to narrow the scope of what might be considered terrorist activity, according to CBC News. The bill has drawn criticism from some who say that it restricts freedom and defies the constitution. A series of protests have occurred in recent weeks, including a country-wide "Defend our Freedom" day of action, during which NDP and Official Opposition leader Thomas Mulcair and Green Party leader Elizabeth May joined thousands of protesters in Montréal and Toronto, respectively. NDP MP Andrew Cash says the faults in Bill C-51 compromise the spirit of the constitution. "The charter rights and freedoms are great when everyone agrees and things are popular. It is when communities are under threat that we need to defend the threat of all religions, freedom of free speech, freedom of assembly and the freedom of our civil liberties," Cash says. Cash adds that the "vague wording of Bill C-51" could "lump together" environmental and First Nations activism with violent extremism under the law. Former prime ministers Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin, Joe Clark, and John Turner have all called for stronger security oversight, but caution that the government's bill may take it too far. These former prime ministers and 18 other prominent Canadians, including five former Supreme Court Justices, issued a joint statement regarding the bill. "Protecting human rights and protecting public safety are complementary objectives, but experience has shown that serious human rights abuses can occur in the name of maintaining national security," they said in the statement. NDP deputy public safety critic Rosane Doré Lefebvre told CBC News that the Conservative Party has been "forced to change their tune" due to the major backlash produced by the bill's opponents.

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WASHINGTON – Evangelical Christian advocates for broad immigration reform have warmly welcomed a proposal offered by a bipartisan group of United States senators. Republicans and four Democrats outlined Monday (Jan. 28) their plan for addressing what has been a hotly debated issue for years as an estimated 11 million illegal, or undocumented, immigrants have made their homes in this country. Congress has not made a serious attempt since 2007 to repair what seemingly everyone acknowledges as a broken immigration system. Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land said he was "very encouraged" by the bipartisan framework. President Obama, in a Tuesday (Jan. 29) speech from immigrant-rich Las Vegas, applauded the bipartisan effort, but said he will work to ensure comprehensive reform occurs without delay. "This provides the parameters that many of us have been working for for some time and shows that there is a critical mass of Republicans and Democrats who are ready to make the compromises necessary to provide a comprehensive immigration reform policy that the American people will support," Land said. Other members of the Evangelical Immigration Table, a coalition of Christian leaders, also applauded the senators' proposal. The senators offered only an outline, not legislation. Undoubtedly, the specifics regarding a "path to citizenship" for undocumented immigrants will be a focus of debate. Their bill, the coalition of senators said, would require undocumented immigrants to register with the government – as well as pass a background check and pay back taxes and a fine – to gain "probationary legal status." All enforcement provisions must be final before an immigrant on probation can earn a green card. A commission, which includes governors and attorneys general from Southwestern border states, must make a recommendation about when the security prerequisites are met. Obama said in Las Vegas, "Yesterday, a bipartisan group of senators announced their principles for comprehensive immigration reform, which are very much in line with the principles I've proposed and campaigned on for the last few years. At this moment, it looks like there's a genuine desire to get this done soon. And that's very encouraging. Comprehensive immigration reform is essential to growing the economy, as it would utilize the strengths of all willing to invest energies here and ensure companies compete fairly, Obama said. The audience met his comments with applause on several points aimed at creating a path of citizenship to undocumented immigrants, including children brought here illegally. Obama encouraged reform that would provide a clear, achievable path to citizenship. For those already here illegally, he said, the process would include paying overdue taxes, passing criminal background checks, learning English and giving precedence to those already playing by the rules. Strengthening border security, imposing stiff penalties for companies employing undocumented workers and streamlining legal immigration must also be part of the solution, Obama said. Some Republican senators expressed reservations about their colleagues' framework. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who was part of discussions on the proposal, said he was encouraged by the process but could not sign onto it. In addition to Schumer and Rubio, the other senators offering the proposal were Republicans Jeff Flake and John McCain, both of Arizona, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, as well as Democrats Michael Bennet of Colorado, Richard Durbin of Illinois and Robert Menendez of New Jersey. For several years, the ERLC's Land has called for comprehensive reform that includes a pathway to citizenship that would consist of such requirements as paying fines, undergoing a criminal background check, learning English, pledging allegiance to the American government, accepting a probationary period and going to the back of the line behind those seeking to enter the country legally.

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Today (Dec. 1) is #GivingTuesday. Celebrate #APhysicsDayofGiving with your friends at SPS! SPS wants to know: What's your most epic physics fail? Write to us in 100 words or less for a chance to have your story featured in the next issue of The SPS Observer! Share your story. Today (Dec. 1), as part of the Giving Tuesday initiative, the Society of Physics Students, Sigma Pi Sigma, and the American Institute of Physics celebrate #APhysicsDayofGiving, a 24-hour, online, fundraising and awareness event. #GivingTuesday is a national day of philanthropy held annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Fuel the future of the physical sciences. Make a donation today to help a physics student. Money donated to Sigma Pi Sigma helps students by providing scholarships, internships, and unique opportunities to interact with professional scientists who are living the career life that physics students are working to have one day. This year the focus is on the 2016 Quadrennial Physics Congress (PhysCon). The Congress Student Travel Fund will allow students to apply to receive a Reporter Award that will provide a stipend for registration and travel to the 2016 PhysCon. Read more about the 2016 PhysCon and make a donation. Get Money for School: Apply for SPS Scholarships! Applications due February 15. Each year, several SPS members are recognized with SPS scholarships for their academic achievement and SPS participation. Special scholarships are available for leadership, financial need, two-year college attendees, future teachers, and students from groups that are underrepresented in physics and engineering. Get more information and apply. Hang this flyer in your department as a reminder! Looking for a fun and rewarding summer experience? SPS Internship position descriptions are available online. Applications are due Feb. 1, 2016! Join the AAS in Kissimmee, Florida in January. Register now for the 227th Meeting and be sure to check out the Undergraduate Orientation Reception on Monday the 4th. Get more information. Registration is open for the AAPT Winter Meeting in New Orleans, LA in January 2016. AAPT welcomes students to their meetings (at low cost) and many of the sessions and presentations are geared towards physics students. Get more information. Register now for the APS March Meeting in Baltimore, MD. Make sure to reference "25.1: Undergraduate Research/Society of Physics Students Abstracts" when submitting. Get more information.

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Emergency Live - Pre-Hospital Care, Ambulance Services, Fire Safety and Civil Protection Magazine NHS launches next step of urgent care review By Emergency Live Last updated Jul 27, 2015 NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens and the NHS Five Year Forward View partners today (Friday) announced eight new vanguards that will launch the transformation of urgent and emergency care for more than nine million people. This comes as NHS England also revealed the success of Regional Major Trauma Networks which, after they were set up just three years ago, have seen a remarkable 50 percent increase in the odds of survival for trauma patients revealed in a new independent audit by the Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN). Building on the recent success in improving trauma survival rates, the urgent and emergency care vanguards are tasked with changing the way in which all organisations work together to provide care in a more joined up way for patients. Urgent care will be delivered, not just in hospitals but also by GPs, pharmacists, community teams, ambulance services, NHS 111, social care and others, and through patients being given support and education to manage their own conditions. Another aim is to break down boundaries between physical and mental health to improve the quality of care and experience for all. The eight new vanguards will spearhead this work and, like other vanguards, will benefit from a programme of support and investment from the £200m transformation fund. Six vanguards will cover smaller local systems which may include hospitals and surrounding GP practices and social care, while two network vanguards will be working with much larger populations to integrate care on a greater scale. This will include innovative plans such as those in North-East England where services across the region will be aligned to a single joined-up system to ensure all patients including those living in remote rural locations will get the care they need, including a rapid specialist opinion should they need one. The West Yorkshire network will launch mobile treatment services and, working with mental health providers and the police, create rapid crisis response and street triage services. Other vanguards, such as Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, will focus on establishing same-day response teams with GPs, acute home-visiting and crisis response services, community nursing, an older people's assessment unit and a new urgent care centre. NHS England's Chief executive, Simon Stevens, said: "Starting today, the NHS will begin joining up the often confusing array of A&E, GP out of hours, minor injuries clinics, ambulance services and 111 so that patients know where they can get urgent help easily and effectively, 7 days a week. That's why we're backing what our frontline nurses, doctors and other staff, in partnership with local communities, to radically redesign our urgent and emergency services." Professor Chris Moran, NHS England's National Clinical Director for Trauma Care, said: "It's enormously rewarding for the NHS and the people it serves that in just three years we have seen a fifty per cent increase in the odds of survival with life-threatening injuries, that's hundreds more patients saved since the networks started." Professor Keith Willett, NHS England's Director of Acute Care, who is leading the Urgent and Emergency Care transformation, said: "This proves a modern NHS needs a very different approach and shows, we can transform patient care. "These networks and new vanguards will support and improve all our local urgent and emergency care services, such as A&E departments, urgent care centres, GPs, NHS 111 and community, social care and ambulance services, so no one is working isolated from expert advice 24 hours a day." "All over the country there are pockets of best practice yielding enormous benefits; but to ensure our urgent care services are sustainable for the future every region must begin delivering faster, better and safer care. Now it is time for the new urgent and emergency care vanguards to design the best solutions locally." Today's launch of the vanguards comes in the face of pressure on all NHS frontline emergency services, with increased A&E attendances and emergency admissions, and both ambulance and NHS 111 services facing rising demands. The Urgent and Emergency Care vanguards are a key element within the NHS Five Year Forward View which is a partnership between NHS England, the Care Quality Commission, Health Education England, Monitor, the Trust Development Authority, Public Health England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and represent the next step in the transformation of Urgent and Emergency Care for the NHS announced by Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England's National Medical Director, in 2013. ambulancecase reportHealthtrauma Share FacebookTwitterWhatsAppTelegramPinterestLinkedinEmail Emergency Live Emergency Live is the only multilingual magazine dedicated to people involved in rescue and emergency. 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Open Letters Review Contact & Submissions Contact & Submissions/ An Arts & Literature Review Metropolis by Phillip Kerr April 11, 2019 / Irma Heldman Metropolis: A Bernie Gunther Novel By Philip Kerr A Marian Wood book/ Putnam 2019 This is the 14th and final Bernie Gunther novel (after 2018's Greeks Bearing Gifts) due to author Philip Kerr's untimely death in March 2018. Metropolis is Bernie's origin story. We meet the gimlet-eyed gumshoe with a penchant for wiseass humor in the summer of 1928. Berlin is a modern Babylon, bursting with artistic creativity as well as unprecedented sexual freedom, yet it's also witnessing the rise of virulent anti-Semitism, anti-immigrant and anti-gay fervor, and street battles between political extremists on the Right and Left. Like Bernie, its people are still suffering from the devastating psychic and physical wounds of World War I, with which he is only too well acquainted from his four years on the Western Front. Bernie's skills as a vice cop have earned him a place on the Berlin Murder Commission. It's the elite homicide investigation unit irreverently known as the Murder Wagon. Insiders often refer to it as the Alex because of the address. As Bernie explains when he's put on the Commission: In 1928, vice in all its permutations was my departmental responsibility at the Police Praesidium on Berlin's Alexanderplatz. Criminalistically speaking—which was a new word for us cops—I knew almost as much about the subject of vice as Gilles de Rais. And in the words of Berlin's chief of police, Bernhard Weiss: In our opinion you've the makings of a fine detective, Gunther. You are diligent and you know when to keep your mouth shut; that's good in a detective. Very good…. So welcome to the Murder Commission, Gunther. The rest of your life just changed forever. …From now on, whenever you stand next to a man at a bus stop or on a train, you'll be sizing him up as a potential killer. Bernie's first assignment is the so-called Silesian Station Killings—four local prostitutes murdered in as many weeks. Always at night. The first one near Silesian Station. All of them hit over the head with a ball hammer and then scalped with a very sharp knife. He's just about through the case files, when another girl is murdered. This one's father is heavily connected to organized crime, German style and will stop at nothing to find his daughter's killer. Mid-assignment, so to speak, there is an outbreak of killings among the city's maimed veterans. These are the half-men begging on wheels called cripple-carts or klutz wagons. Claiming responsibility for their murders in taunting letters to the police is a man who signs himself Dr. Gnadenschuss (which translates as coup de grâce or death blow). Bernie agrees to go undercover posing as a disabled vet. To pull off the deception, Weiss introduces him to Brigitte, a beautiful young make-up artist who transforms his appearance. Natürlich, they begin an affair. She is working on the inaugural production of The Threepenny Opera. She has also worked for the film studio UFA on Fritz Lang's recently released silent film masterpiece Metropolis. As Bernie moves through the seamy side of Weimar Germany, he encounters a mindboggling array of suspects. From the heights of Berlin society to its depths, from pimps to party girls, gang bosses to philandering government ministers. The city itself is also a protagonist: A great big department store of debauchery. The city was like a large ship, Bernie thinks, that had slipped its mooring and was slowly drifting further and further away from the coast of Germany. It's not a place for the fainthearted, either, especially after dark. There is something about all that neon light at night that seems to bleach out a man's spirit. Ultimately, Bernie concludes that there is only one killer eliminating the prostitutes and the cripples and that he's a cop. The problem is that his cohorts in crime-solving think he's crazy. And even if he can prove it, can he risk putting the already shaky reputation of the Berlin police department in further jeopardy, at a time when the voice of Nazism is becoming a roar that threatens to drown out all others? Incisive, intelligent, mesmerizing, mordantly witty, masterfully written, Metropolis is the author at the top of his game. Auf wiedersehen Mr. Gunther and Mr. Kerr—you will be sorely missed. --Irma Heldman is a veteran publishing executive and book reviewer with a penchant for mysteries. One of her favorite gigs was her magazine column "On the Docket" under the pseudonym O. L. Bailey. April 11, 2019 / Irma Heldman/ It's a Mystery, Fiction-Mystery/Suspense Phillip Kerr, Putnam, mystery fiction, mystery series, Bernie Gunther, Irma Heldman Irma Heldman White by Bret Easton Ellis Henrik Ibsen: The Man & the ... An arts and literature review. 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Nike's Zoom Superfly Elite is one of Nike's new track shoes for this summer's Olympics. The spike plate is metallic, bluish-purple, and sports an amorphous, latticed spike plate—like a piece of coral mated with a disco ball. This shoe can shave a runner's 100-meter-dash time down by more than a tenth of a second—enough time to turn a fourth-place finisher into a gold medalist. It's the result of more than four years of algorithmic software design and 3-D printing prototyping, done in the Nike Sports Research Lab. These are prototypes made and tested in the lab, by Jamaican track star Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Created with the help of algorithmic design, the plate is about half the weight—61 grams, down from 118—of the one on the Ja Fly 2, Nike's last spike. It's also four times as stiff. The spike plate on Nike's Zoom Superfly Elite—one of Nike's new track shoes for this summer's Olympics—looks surprisingly glam-rock, for a piece of athletic wear. It's metallic, bluish-purple, and sports an amorphous, latticed spike plate. The bizarre design looks like a piece of coral mated with a disco ball, but its performance benefits are incredible. It can shave a runner's 100-meter-dash time down by more than a tenth of a second—enough time to turn a fourth-place finisher into a gold medalist. The Zoom Superfly Elite spike plate is all one piece; the spikes aren't screwed in, like they are with traditional sprinting shoes. The webbed structure also defies any kind of grid or obvious unit of measurement. The cells seem to shrink and swarm around the outsides and arch of the foot, and expand around the ball and heel areas. These almost alien looks are the result of more than four years of algorithmic software design and 3-D printing prototyping, done in the Nike Sports Research Lab. Before even the London Olympics, designers there have endeavored to create a track shoe with the lightest and stiffest spike plate ever made. With the Zoom Superfly Elite, created with help from Jamaican track star Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Nike says it's done it. This plate is about half the weight—61 grams, down from 118—of the one on the Ja Fly 2, Nike's last spike. It's also four times as stiff. If you're a sprinter, stiffness if your friend. In 2000, researchers at the University of Calgary's Human Performance Lab found that a stiff outsole reduces the amount of energy lost at the metatarsophalangeal joint (where the pad of your foot meets the base of your toe), which improves an athlete's efficiency during sprinting and jumping. In a followup study, researchers from the lab found that increasing the stiffness of an athlete's shoe lead to a boost in sprinting performance. But stiffness isn't the only thing you have to consider when designing a track shoe. According to Bret Schoolmeester, innovation director at Nike Running, adding stiffness to something as featherlight as a pair of track spikes typically results in a heavier shoe. The stiffer=faster equation breaks down when the benefits of a shoe's stiffness are outweighed by its... well, its weight. If the shoe is too heavy, it doesn't matter how stiff it is; it's going to slow the athlete down. Bedeviled by the tradeoff between weight and stiffness, Nike designers turned to computational design. Computational (aka generative, or algorithmic) designis an ideal way to create lighter, stronger structures. Software can easily take the goals of the problem—stiffness and lightness—and optimize for both, whereas a human would likely design by altering an existing shoe. In the Nike Sports Research Lab, designers captured heat maps of Pryce as she ran the 100-meter dash. They fed that data into an algorithm, which translated it into a spike plate optimized for weight and rigidity. They 3-D printed prototypes and tested them, repeating the cycle until they had a design that could really perform.

Library materials cover all fields of activities of the Peace Institute, above all those related to marginalized discourses. In addition, there is a special library fund of Maska, a magazine dedicated to performance arts. The library is open once a week and provides for a reading room and lending library sources. Peace Institute's library hosts the library of Maska Institute. Opening times are the same for both libraries. There is no membership fee for the Maska Institute library. Library members are eligible to borrow materials for one month. Library also offers a space for reading to its members. The library is open on Fridays from 4pm to 7pm. Peace Institute Library is open to the general public. There is no membership fee, but a proof of identity is required. The library is an open-stack library. Reading space is available to our members. Library members are eligible to borrow materials outside the library for one month. Overdue fine is 0,10 euro per item, per day. Number of books which can be borrowed is seven. Library also offers a reading space to its members. Library is located in the ground floor of the Metelkova 6 building (facing the Youth Hostel Celica).

Home | More details on stem cell development | IMMUNE RESPONSE TO CANCER OBSERVED | Visualization method for superoxides developed | DIABETES GENE FOUND | Media Medical News (quality of) | Gene for Diabetes Found | Work on DNA vaccines | Common drugs that increase cardiac arrest, new findings | Vitamin E linked to 9,000/million User Deaths | COMMON ANTIBIOTIC DOUBLES RISK OF SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH | Lipitor, limits on its usage | STATINS: Lipitor better than pravachol | Bind and Flag DNA Mutation Developed--Many Uses | Nerve Growth Factor for Visual System Found | Breast Cancer survival rate rising | DNA REPAIR--mechanism revealed | Persian Gulf Syndrome Suspect | Breakthrough in Making Drug-like Proteins | TOXICOLOGY DATA BEING SET UP BY FDA More details on stem cell development Bio.com Study Sheds Light On Signaling Mechanism in Stem Cells, Cancer 10/25/05 -- UCSF scientists have illuminated a key step in a signaling pathway that helps orchestrate embryonic development. The finding, they say, could lead to insights into the development of stem cells, as well as birth defects and cancers, and thus fuel therapeutic strategies. The study, reported in Nature (Oct. 13, 2005), focuses on the Hedgehog family of signaling molecules, which play a central role in directing development of the early embryo's growth and spatial plan, as well as its later organ and limb development. Defects in Hedgehog signaling are a significant cause of some birth defects and cancers. Secreted from one cell, a Hedgehog signal shoots to the surface receptor of a second cell, and then, in a rapid-fire succession of biochemical reactions, relays a message into the cell's nucleus. There, it issues an instruction, prompting the cell to divide, or specialize into a particular cell type, or migrate to help form another part of the embryo, and so on. This transaction, known as signal transduction, is a ceaseless activity of embryonic development. Scientists have long known that Hedgehog signaling requires the activity of a protein known as Smoothened. This has been demonstrated in animals ranging from insects to humans. They have also known that defects in Smoothened, which only functions within Hedgehog signaling, are responsible for some cases of human cancers - most prominently a skin cancer known as basal cell carcinoma and a childhood brain cancer known as medulloblastoma -- as well as some birth defects. However, they have not known how Smoothened executes its function, nor where it is located in the target cell. Now, through a series of studies conducted in several types of cells in culture, and in zebrafish and mouse embryos, the UCSF scientists have answered both questions. In the process, they have revealed the critical role of a cellular component that until now has been a mystery: an antenna-like structure attached to cells known as the primary cilium. The primary cilium, it turns out, serves as the fulcrum in a series of acrobatic like moves between the Hedgehog signal and the Smoothened protein. Once Hedgehog has latched on to its receptor on the target cell's surface, it prompts the cell to move Smoothened, located in vesicles around the cell's nucleus, to the primary cilium. The positioning of Smoothened on the cilium, in turn, prompts downstream signaling of Hedgehog signals into the nucleus, where the instructions are issued. Just how or what the primary cilium is doing to promote Smoothened's activity is not clear, say the researchers. However, its involvement in the process is a revelation. Scientists elsewhere reported in Nature in (Nov. 6, 2003) that removal of the primary cilium from cells led to defects in neural patterning resulting from Hedgehog signaling. However, they didn't know why. "This study takes two mysteries - how Smoothened functions and the role of the primary cilium - and suggests a mechanism by which they are connected," says the senior author of the study, Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD, a fellow in the UCSF Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, which is part of the UCSF Institute for Stem Cell and Tissue Biology. The implications for medical research, he says, are significant. Hedgehog signals play an important role in prompting embryonic and adult stem cells to differentiate into some of the specialized cells that make up the body's tissues -- such as those of the brain, pancreas and skin. The new finding, says Reiter, will advance scientists efforts to use signaling molecules to direct the differentiation of embryonic stem cells in the culture dish, with the goal of using them to replace or replenish damaged tissues in patients. The discovery could be particularly important for neural stem cell research, says Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Stem Cell and Tissue Biology. Kriegstein, a neural stem cell scientist, was not an author on the study. "Hedgehog signaling plays a critical role in prompting the differentiation of neural stem cells into the various forms of neurons in the brain," he says. "The discovery of the importance of the cilium in Hedgehog signaling should significantly advance our understanding of the mechanisms involved," he says. The finding should fuel research into the causes of certain birth defects (such as holoprosencephaly and limb defects) and cancers, says Reiter. Smoothened is already known to be a proto-oncogene, a normal gene that, if mutated, is capable of causing cancers. But its close involvement with the primary cilium suggests that the latter may also be implicated, suggesting a possible target for therapy. More broadly, says Reiter, the primary cilium's role in Hedgehog signaling indicates it is likely to function in other signaling pathways, as well. The scientists moved in on the role of Smoothened and the primary cilium incrementally. First, driven by their interest in Smoothened, they set out to determine where it was expressed in the embryo. They did so by developing highly specific antibodies to the protein and applying them to the tissue of an eight-day mouse embryo. The study revealed that Smoothened was modestly upregulated in cells of the node, an important early organizer tissue within the mouse embryo, and was expressed predominantly along the primary cilium of these nodal cells. This was a significant surprise. Second, to examine whether Smoothened's movement from vesicles around the nucleus to the cilium was regulated by Hedgehog signals, they carried out two studies, one involving cultured epithelial and fibroblasts cells expressing Smoothened, another involving a mouse embryo. In both cases, one set of cells was exposed to Hedgehog signals. Another set was exposed to cyclopamine, a drug that blocks Smoothened's function. In the cells exposed to the Hedgehog signals, Smoothened moved from the vesicles of the cell body to the cilium. In the cells exposed to cyclopamine, Smoothened was undetectable on the cilium. Scientists have known that cyclopamine inhibits Hedgehog signaling and can prevent Hedgehog-dependent cancers from spreading. The demonstration that the drug affected Smoothened movement to the cilium suggests how cyclopamine inhibits the Hedgehog pathway, the researchers say, and shows that the correlation between Smoothened on the cilium and pathway activation is very tight. Third, they examined whether the Smoothened protein included an amino acid sequence that other seven-transmembrane proteins require to move to the primary cilium and, if so, whether this sequence - a so-called "motif" - was essential to its relocation there. The answer to both questions was yes: A study of mouse cells in which Smoothened was mutated to lack the motif revealed that Smoothened no longer moved to the primary cilium. Finally, to determine Smoothened's function, they tested the mutant form of Smoothened that no longer could move to the primary cilium in epithelial cells in culture and in zebrafish embryos to see if the protein still functioned. It did not. "Thus, not only does Smoothened ciliary localization depend up on Hedgehog signaling, but Hedgehog signaling depends on a Smoothened ciliary localization motif," says Reiter. "Whether Smoothened functions at the cilium in all cell types remains to be determined. In addition, how Smoothened activates the Hedgehog pathway at the cilium remains unclear," he says. "But the current finding lays the groundwork for future studies that could ultimately have clinical benefit." Co-authors of the study were Kevin C. Corbit, Pia Aanstad, Veena Singla, Andrew R. Norman and Didier Y.R. Stainier, PhD. All are members of the UCSF Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology and the UCSF Diabetes Center. Aanstad and Stainier are also members of the UCSF Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. All are also members of the UCSF Institute for Stem Cell and Tissue Biology. Source: University of California - San Francisco More Hedgehog Research at Bio.com 10/25/05 -- Curis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRIS), a therapeutic drug development company, today announced the publication of data showing that stimulating the Hedgehog signaling pathway was therapeutically efficacious in preclinical models of both acute and chronic ischemic heart disease. Myocardial ischemia, the interruption of blood flow and oxygen to heart muscle, is the leading cause of heart attacks. In the U.S., approximately 1.1 million individuals experience new or recurrent myocardial infarctions each year and, of these, about 40% eventually develop congestive heart failure, a form of chronic heart disease. The research for these studies was performed in the laboratory of Dr. Douglas Losordo in the Division of Cardiovascular Research at the St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston, Massachusetts. Bio.com The Hedgehog pathway governs major aspects of heart and blood vessel development in the fetus and remains active in the adult for tissue maintenance and repair. When blood flow to the heart is blocked experimentally, which simulates an acute heart attack, the pathway is upregulated. In the reported animal studies, therapeutic activation of the Hedgehog pathway near the zone of ischemic damage in the heart appeared to protect heart cells from death, preserve heart muscle function, improve blood flow, and attract bone-marrow derived progenitor cells from the blood that help build new blood vessels. Activating the Hedgehog pathway appears to result in the coordinated release of various factors that promote these diverse protective and regenerative effects, which potentially could result in more robust and durable efficacy in the clinic than treatment with single factors alone. "This study adds to the growing body of preclinical data supporting the use of Hedgehog agonists to promote tissue repair post ischemia. Heart disease is one of the leading killers of Americans and although early, this data is encouraging that our novel approach could show significant promise. In keeping with our collaboration strategy, which allows for the development of a broad portfolio of promising assets providing significant value potential, we would plan to partner this program for human studies," said Daniel R. Passeri, President and Chief Executive Officer of Curis, Inc.

Nary A Word Previous Article The Great Backpedal Next Article Global Gifting ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - If you are worried about hunger, money and shelter, it's very hard to worry about anything else, like how many citations you may have accrued and whether or not you qualify for any kind of immunity. Another annoying piece in the New York Sunday paper comparing the Big Apple to Los Angeles. Converging cities... one ethos. They're waiting for their first Erewhon. The argument that they are more similar than different is an old one because both cities are meccas for extremely competitive overachievers who either have a lot of money, get a lot of money or will be forced out. Here in Los Angeles, if you are alive... welcome to Studio City. If you are dying, why not try New York, there's a lot to do. If you are merely drowning, maybe pass by the Grove and try Rick Caruso's auto salon. Once you do, you'll never go back... to New York. In LA we have some four-acre liberals who actually have four-acres. In New York they have a severe garbage problem and so a concomitant rat problem, even at Mayor Eric Adams's house. Here in Lala land, we had our own rat problem at City Hall but it was more of a Disney production in that it was totally fabricated. Disney was more successful in bringing back the old boss. Nury Martinez tried to bring Herb Wesson back which flopped but he still gets credit for the rats at the city hall episode. Wesson, it turns out, was very very worried that, Deron Williams, his trusty chief of staff, might have inadvertently attracted a 'bug' in the ceiling. So, during the holidays, he called Greig Smith's guys to come have a look, and poke around. Pretext: Pandemic. Nope. Pretext: Rat Infestation ding ding ding. Even the City Clerk Holly Wolcott was worried... about public health, obviously. David Goldstein of KCAL TV might remember... as long as the burn scars hold this week. Los Angeles can definitely hold its own in the category of craven politicians willing to do anyyyyythingg for money. After the rain, near city hall, there will be fields of green and a new crop of optimists like Traci Park and Eunisses Hernandez and Hugo Soto Martinez and Tim Mcosker and Katy Yaroslavsy with which to frolic liberally. Financing will fall from the sated trees and the Good Mayor Bass will enlist an army of well-off good Samaritans eager to convert all the city's pain to pleasure... and expensive housing. Why not take a beautiful open space in Studio City and put up a net zero high school regulation basketball court? Why not build a tower at a choke point? Absolutely not, Brad Sherman. Maybe in New York. Selfies: Supervisor Horvath took a selfie by appointing, Lindsey P. Horvath, to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Kudos, she's going to show up and see for herself. Supervisor Hahn is joining Horvath to work get cracking on making NARCAN readily accessible in the County's Juvenile Halls and Camps. Finally! And regarding the homelessness crisis, there is much to be done in expediting contracting and procurement. "Leveraging the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic," we need to take appropriate steps to expedite processes for getting materials, equipment, and services necessary to respond rapidly to the homelessness crisis." Excellent, shall we bypass putting anything on a public agenda as we race to get things done? Public Scrutiny is simply a luxury... we don't have time. "Vlade, back the truck up to the treasury...quickly!" And whereas, I agree the Chief Executive Officer should report back to the Board on the new emergency proclamation, in writing, in one year caught me off-guard. How about next month? And, as we recognize January 22, 2023, as the start of the "Lunar New Year" in Los Angeles County and tout the Los Angeles County Asian American Employees Association and the Chinese Employees Association of Los Angeles County for their contributions to Asian American and Pacific Islander residents, what, pray tell, about the Armenians? Why is there 'nary a word about the Armenians on Tuesday's agenda? Dear @JoeBiden Please read, Russia is helping Azerbaijan by starving 150k men women and children in Artsakh, Armenia… #Armenia #Artsakh #Russia #Azerbaijan #Putin #Biden #Speakerofthehouse #SpeakerVote @POTUS @KamalaHarris @SpeakerPelosi @RepAdamSchiff @MayorOfLA Barger? Hahn? Next presentation... Motorola: Bruno Mars Some of us remember how Uptown Funk pumped out a private gig ONLY for the vaccinated last summer. Motorola Solutions Inc. CEO Greg Brown, the opposite of a hipster, reportedly paid for his kid's multi-million dollar wedding and party. The payout to Mr. Mars was said to be in the high 6- to 7-digit range. Lovely. Motorola has been ripping off the City and the County for years. Who knows when we will be washing through another upcharge under the MSA that will retroactively increase contract funding from the General Fund by...(last time) $8,468,397.50, consisting of $2,497,555 for the Sixteenth Amendment and $5,970,842.50 for the Seventeenth Amendment. What for? Install computers and related communications equipment in 1,800 patrol vehicles and to extend the term of maintenance for the 9-1-1 Telephony Recording System from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021. Three months left! Also, to provide maintenance for the PremierOne Computer-Aided Dispatch system and extend the term of the contract an additional ten months out to February 2025. In case it's not fishy enough, "Should funding in the contract out years not be appropriated to the Department, the provisions of Contract Section 3.E., Compensation and Method of Payment, Limitation of City's Obligation to Make Payments to Contractor, protects the City from any claims by the Contractor for payment until the City makes an appropriation of funds for such work." #VeryBad $10,000 and a sincere apology: I wondered if the prior county beat reporter, who moved on to the mental health beat, was tuning into a NY Times event. Elizabeth Williamson... from the legitimate, New York Times, was talking with Amy Barkhorst and Julian Ford about the recent wave of shootings. Barkhorst said, "We have to find a reason... so we go mental health, but for crimes, robberies etc. we don't attribute those shootings to mental health." "If we stamped out mental illness" she posited, "we would reduce crime by 4%..." "We always hear they've had counseling (the shooters) ... there is a difference between having mental health issues, and a problem... depression, anxiety, anger. Those things can be in the normal range, or potentially a symptom of mental illness. "Chest pain, doesn't mean you are having a heart attack... " Severity matters. she said, but sadness and loneliness are normal parts of human emotions. They can of course get out of control. The fact that young men are often bullied, isolated, and under-appreciated... is not helping. "It results in violent revenge fantasies." These young men feel compelled to show that they are worthy... they want to feel powerful because they felt ...the opposite. This is not necessarily a mental illness, though it is characteristic of someone who is "not in a great space..." Can improvements to the mental health system rectify that problem? Amy Barkhorst said, "A lot of people during the pandemic ...worried about more suicides. But we didn't see that overall in the numbers. We did see a big increase in violence and homicides." It was surprising but correlated with large firearm purchases. The demographic of first-time buyers who were not the typical old white guys, but more liberals, women, and people of color, she said, "I was gobsmacked by that..." Taser-Drones: Between 2019 - 2022 on average there was a 45 % increase in firearm purchases across all the states. Red Flag laws could be helpful, "but if you have a High School student... whose into violent video games, military stuff... comments to students, 'wouldn't it be cool to blow this place up, then he references Columbine...' etc... a so-called, school-shooter type! If that kid were legally old enough, at 18 to get a gun... if he had no hospitalizations... he can legally own firearms. "The police can't just take them away." People are understandably alarmed when cops show up and they have "no legal recourse." Red Flag laws could fill that hole. If a judge decides, the owner could be a danger... they can extend the order." I asked an LA County Sheriff Watch Commander, "if I saw a Howitzer artillery gun in my neighbor's garage would you come out?" He reminded me of the 2nd amendment, "no." The conversation shifted to the fact that adolescents don't develop a pre-frontal cortex until their mid-20s. Adolescent boys have high rates of substance abuse, sex activity, car crashes, and impulsive acts of decision. They are more likely to perpetrate a mass shooting because they don't fully grasp it. The anger, rage, and vengeance is consuming. So ,by increasing to 21, the age to get a firearm... it would be better! Julian Ford came out and said the parents of Adam Lanza, who killed children at Sandy Hook in 2012, really tried to get help for their kid, but, they felt the state had failed them. Adam was an isolated, emotionally detached twenty-year-old. As a pre-teen... he had a significant psychiatric evaluation at Yale. Nothing came out, violent. They found he was not just depressed, he was not psychotic, but he was very cut off and detached from other human beings. Not like autism, where some things are not relatable... or psychopathy, no concern for other people. Adam wanted to be involved with other people, but he reportedly didn't know how. Ford, who wrote a book about this, said Adam "couldn't have an understanding of how others might feel. "Then he told of a fifth grade... drawing, that Adam labeled, "The big book of granny..." Dr. Ford found the drawings of all sorts of violence happening to an older woman called granny, deeply troubling. The fact that he was struggling with violent impulses, never showed up anywhere else in his behavior. He was living in a basement, and the one family thing he liked to do, was to go to the shooting range. He was very detached... and literally became obsessed with video games, and military, and weapons. His mother thought going to the gun range with him was a way to connect with him... The attack began when Adam killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, in the home that the two shared in Newtown. Would a Taser Drone have helped? Apparently, the in-house AI Ethics board, at Axon the parent company of Taser, has more balls than the LA City Ethics Commission. Those who don't recall Mitch Englander's Taser tenacity can refresh here. Armed police couldn't stop the shooters in Buffalo and in Uvalde. But perhaps a very small drone equipped with a Taser could. Specifically, Axon CEO Rick Smith suggested, "non-lethal drones capable of incapacitating an active shooter in less than 60 seconds" (according to the Axon press release), which would be stationed inside of schools. Smith's curious proposal met near-instantaneous backlash. By the following day, nine members of Axon's A.I. ethics board had resigned, writing in a statement that the school Taser-drone announcement had led them to conclude "that after several years of work, the company has fundamentally failed to embrace the values that we have tried to instill." Smith, who adored Mitch Englander for shoving through a huge bodycam order with 4,400 Tasers under the seat, early on, is deeply into this idea and outlined his views in detail in his 2019 self-published graphic novel, The End of Killing, which combines his philosophical take on the matter with two hypothetical scenarios in which Taser drones feature. According to the graphic novel, "killing is a technology problem," and Axon-made devices like Tasers and Tasers that fit on drones are the solution. "In one graphic novel scenario, an improbably buff workplace shooter is (literally) shocked into submission by a miniature Taser drone that emerges from a smoke detector–like nest on the ceiling. In a second and even more fanciful scenario, set in Syria in 2045, an ISIS-like masked man with a scimitar is prevented from executing an innocent man by a fleet of small Taser-equipped drones, which U.S. intelligence services had tasked with watching the area. After a human approves the action, the drone tases the swordsman into submission. Then a "human transport drone" equipped with a large grabbing arm scoops him up and flies away with him. At the detention facility where he's deposited, he's fitted with a mind-scanning helmet that literally reads his memories, looking for incriminating information. "Thousands of people will be processed in the same manner," Smith confidently asserts. "Some of them will be determined to have done nothing wrong; they will be released and given $10,000 along with a sincere apology."

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Please click this link to view samples of our professional work witten by our professional essay writers. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of EssayCompany. The economics of business vary, both depending upon the industry where they operate and the style and strategy adopted by the management. Within this paper it is intended to assess those economic factors as they relate to the "low-cost" airlines. To assist with this assessment Ryanair, one of the leading "low-cost" airline operators in Europe, will be used as an example. Existing Corporate Strategy Following the liberalisation of the airline industry, the consumer demand for air travel began to increase. However, when operators such as Ryanair, an Irish based company, was one of the "first-movers" (Faulkner and Campbell 2006). in adopting a "low-cost" strategy for Europe, similar to the model successfully introduced by Southwest Airlines (2007) in the US, the levels of demand increased dramatically. As can be seen from the numbers of passengers using UK airports (see table 1). Table 1 Airline passengers Passengers (m) The demand for airline seats is also forecast to more than treble by 2030 to around five hundred million UK passengers. Ryanair is an Irish airline operator that commenced business in the mid 1980's with one 15-seater aircraft, has grown to a business that now has a fleet of over 150 aircraft and carrying over two million passengers (About Us 2007). Since the beginning of the century, the company's growth rate has improved substantially, to a position where it is now supplying air travel to around forty million passengers (see figure 1), with an expectation of this rising to seventy million within the next few years (Ryanair 2007). The company has achieved this growth by supplying consumers with consistently low prices. It maintained these low fares by creating a "no frills" price advantage (Pettigrew et al 2002), which differentiated its service from the established airline competitors (Porter 2004, p.207 and Kotler et al 2004, p.407). In other words Ryanair offered cheap fares with lower levels of service. For example, free in-flight meals were eliminated. At one stage the no-frills policy included not providing ice for in-flight drinks (Creaton 2004, p.169), although this was reintroduced following complaints. However, to sustain this position, as Lynch (2006) and Faulkner and Campbell (2005), who submitted that to achieve and maintain low price in the market place, the business itself had to be structured in a way that provided a limited cost base. Ryanair has achieved this situation by taking a number of measures, which include: - Maximising use of resources by using one aricraft type, increasing employee roles and reducing airpot turnaround times. Ticketless and direct selling via the Internet or phone, which served to reduce administrative costs. Use of secondary rather than main airports. This move enabled the business to negotiate lower airport fees. Single class travel, elimatiion of free inflight services and seat reservation helped reduce business costs. All of these measure have given Ryanair the flexibility to be able to maintain a flexibility of price, from 99p owards, and service and helped it to react effectively to industry changes. In terms of profit and the financial contribution that Ryanair's strategy has achieved, as can be seen from the following financial data taken from the relevant company's website, shows how successful Ryanairs appraach was in 2003, when compared with its main competitors (See table 2 below). Table 2Net profit percentages There are significant future challenges facing the low-cost airline industry in general, and Ryanair in particular, which will need to be addressed. Amongst these are the following: - It increased regional and global harmonisation and development of air travel; Ryanair is bound to face increasing competition within the next five years. This could materialise from developing nations within Europe, where there is significant scope for new entrants (see figure 2) It could also result from the recently signed "open skies" agreement between the EU and US (Milmo and Gow 2007). Both of these actions could result in loss of market share to new entrants, which would impact adversely upon Ryanair's current level of success and financial results. Similarly, Ryanair's own growth predictions could reduce its profitability levels. Whilst growth brings economies of scale, it can increase management costs, which is counter-productive to efficiency (Creaton 2004, p.250). At present the airline industry is heavily subsidised. As identified with the Bized (2004) report, this benefits the industry players by around £6 billion annually. These benefits include zero VAT, capped landing charges and fuel tax exemption. It is anticipated the removal of these benefits, by introducing the relevant takes could reduce passenger levels by over 22% as a result of the increase in prices. Whilst it is not expected that all these subsidies will be eliminated at once, there is little doubt that for political, treasury and environmental reasons some adjustments will be seen in these areas will be seen within the next five years. The major challenge facing Ryanair relates to its impact on climate change. Following recent IPCC, the EU are becoming increasingly concerned with the airline industries contribution to this global issue. As a result, these organisations have developed industry targets that are expected to be met within the next 5 years and beyond (see table 3). Unless Ryanair adapts its corporate strategy to take into account these targets, the result addition costs, or reduction in service will impact severely upon its ability to remain cost efficient and to maintain its present levels of profitability. As has been advised by a number of researchers (Lynch (2006) and Faulkner and Campbell (2006)) every business needs to review its corporate strategy to address future challenges. There are two ways that Ryanair can address the challenges that have been outlined in the previous section of this paper In terms of reducing the impact of competition, and making it more difficult for new entrants, the business needs to continue to seek ways to sustain its cost reduction programme. This not only means that it has to ensure that the internal management structure efficiency of the business needs to be as efficient as it has been in the past, but also that the business needs to seek new measures of cost reductions. For example, expanding its automatic check-in processes through all its locations would greatly reduce the business human resource cost. It can also sustain its lower price policy by transferring the cost of flying from ticket cost to other aspects of the travel, for example luggage. This specific action could also offset any potential airport cost increases. However, the most effective strategy to adopt in order to address all of the challenges is to develop a plan that increases the supply to meet anticipated demand, whilst at the same time reducing the cost of that supply and the effects of increased taxations and meeting its environmental commitment. The most effective plan for this achievement is the conversion of the current fleet to higher passenger capacity aircraft. For example, the introduction of a significant number of Airbus models would double capacity on those flights. From an economic viewpoint it would also reduce costs. For example the maintenance and servicing costs would remain the same because aircraft numbers have not been increased, but will reduce as a percentage of the ticket cost. Similarly, airport costs and other taxes, such as fuel tax would also be reduced per passenger capita. Finally, because of the increased load, and higher efficiency of these aircraft, the emissions level per passenger km would also see a reduction, thus helping the business to meet its environmental targets. As has been seen from this research, over the past two decades the business economic strategies that Ryanair has employed have been successful in helping it maintain competitive advantage, achieve passenger growth and fulfil its objective of increasing business value. However, with the future challenges facing the business from increased competition, rising taxation and environmental concerns, the business will need to adopt a that is flexible to change, whilst at the same time enabling it to continue to sustain and achieve the successes of the past. 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St. Petersburg, Fla. (October 24, 2017) – The city of St. Petersburg, along with State Senator Darryl Rouson and David Gwynn, District Seven Secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation, will host an unveiling of the C. Bette Wimbish Interstate 375 highway designation this month. The public is invited to join Mayor Rick Kriseman for the festivities on Sunday, October 29, beginning at 2 p.m. in the parking lot of the St. Petersburg Coliseum, 545 Fourth Avenue North, near the sign. A brief reception sponsored by Dolman Law Group will immediately follow the event. State Senator from St. Petersburg Darryl E. Rouson, Esq., stated, "Honoring the trailblazing legacy of C. Bette Wimbish is important to telling the rich "herstory" of blacks in St. Petersburg. My hope is that it inspires others as she inspired me." Background. C. Bette Wimbish, was a lawyer, politician, and activist in Pinellas during the 20th century. Born in 1924, she was a lifelong Floridian. She graduated from Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg and received her bachelor's degree from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), Florida's only historically black university. Though her degree was in education, Wimbish's exposure to racial harassment and discrimination inspired her to get involved in politics and activism. An Important Career. In 1960, she ran for the Pinellas County Board of Public Instruction. Her platform centered on improving and desegregating Pinellas Schools. Though she didn't win, she received a substantial amount of votes. She was also the first black woman to run for a countywide political office in Pinellas. She and her husband also participated in sit-ins and other protests, and were known for opening up their home to black artists, musicians, and athletes who were turned away from hotels or housing due to segregation laws. Groundbreaking Contributions. She later received her law degree from FAMU's law school, and returned to work at a St. Petersburg family law firm. She was the first black female attorney in Pinellas, and only the third black female attorney in the entire state. Later, she was also elected to St. Petersburg City Council, where she eventually became vice-mayor.

DUBLIN, IRELAND- The rematch between Ireland and the All Blacks has captured the attention of the entire world in the wake of Ireland's famous victory in Chicago two weeks ago. The commotion after Ireland's famous victory in Chicago was an infectious reminder of the power of a single victory, erasing 111 years of hurt and inspiring the world of rugby, let alone the island of Ireland, to believe that New Zealand are actually fallible. But, be wary of the reigning two-time champions when they take the pitch. If the 6°C forecast is any foreshadowing of the match ahead, then New Zealand would love nothing more than serve up a a fresh, bitterly cold plate of revenge in front of the Aviva Stadium's sea of green supporters. The All Blacks, who make five changes going into the fixture can be counted on to be much sharper than their performance in Chicago. Captain Kieran Read and head coach Steve Hansen have assured a smarter, more tactical performance than that of two weeks prior, and Hansen's revitalised lineup goes to show that the visitors truly mean business. Israel Dagg moves into the #14 jersey to replace Waisake Naholo after the Crusaders star put on an impressive display in New Zealand's 68-10 thumping of Italy last weekend. In the midfield Anton Leinart-Brown and Malakai Fekitoa resume their partnership for the second week in a row, a two-try outing for Fekitoa against the Italians making Hansen's decision to bench George Moala and Ryan Crotty worthwhile. The final two changes come in the forwards with the return of Brodie Retallick and Sam Whitelock, both of whom are once again fit enough to resume their pairing at lock. For the Irish, Joe Schmidt has named a single change to the lineup that started against New Zealand in Chicago two weeks ago, Sean O'Brien returning to his familiar position on the flank in replacement of the injured Jordi Murphy. Schmidt's decision to field a completely new 15-man lineup against the Canadians last weekend has sorted out the often-problematic situation of the Irish bench; Connacht stars Kieran Marmion and Finley Bealham retain their spots while Ulster's Paddy Jackson replaces Joey Carbery as back up to Johnny Sexton. The All Blacks stratagem must have an absolute focus on precision. Their usually daunting line-out was uncharacteristically imprecise in Chicago and scrummaging against the Irish two didn't produce the front-foot ball that historically made New Zealand so deadly off midfield set pieces. The new combination of Whitelock and Retallick should do wonders for the Kiwi scrum and their matchup/battle against Ireland's Devin Toner and Donnacha Ryan will be key for securing ball at the line-out. New Zealand will have to counter Ireland's use of Toner's colossal 6'7″ height at the front of the line-out and make sure they're not forced into throwing to the back jumper on every throw like they were in Chicago. Most importantly for the All Blacks, though, will be there start of the match. The longer Ireland remains in the match, the more they will be inspired to a second consecutive victory. If New Zealand start the match early and powerfully they'll have the opportunity to put the Irish resistance to bed before the match is over. On the other side of the ball, Ireland will need to properly balance wide-play and kicking tactics to the same degree they succeeded in achieving in Chicago. Sexton and Murray were exceptional with their positional awareness and took advantage of the sloppiness of New Zealand's back three in Ben Smith, Naholo, and Savea. The Irish were also to spread the field with the likes of Henshaw and Kearney, both of whom had massive success in the wider channels outside of New Zealand's midfield pairing. Above all else, the boys in green need to replicate their defensive performance from two weeks ago. Andy Farrell's new defensive scheme put plenty of numbers into the breakdown with support on the edges effectively blocking off the inside channels. Outside of the ruck the Irish were very uniform in their defense of line and were speedy enough to disrupt most of New Zealand's attacks. The Kiwi's will certainly be prepared for the revitalised Irish defense tomorrow, and it will be fascinating to see how Schmidt and Farrell combat these new tactics. This match will hopefully be nothing short of explosive theatrics. The match starts at 1730 Irish time (1230 EST, 0930 PST) and can be watched on ESPN3 online. Do not miss this match, it might just turn out to be the most exciting match of the year. Ireland XV: Kearney; Trimble, Payne, Henshaw, Zebo; Sexton, Murray; McGrath, Best (capt), Furlong, Ryan, Toner; Stander, Heaslip, O'Brien. Replacements: Cronin, Healy, Bealham, Henderson, Van der Flier, Marmion, Jackson, Ringrose. New Zealand XV: B Smith, Dagg, M Fekitoa, A Lienert-Brown, J Savea, B Barrett, A Smith; J Moody, D Coles, O Franks, B Retallick, S Whitelock, L Squire, S Cane, K Read (capt). Replacements: C Taylor, W Crockett, C Faumuina, S Barrett, A Savea, TJ Perenara, A Cruden, W Naholo.

AUDIENCE: ALL MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY ARE ENCOURAGED TO ENROLL. THIS INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, TEACHERS, EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANTS, BUS DRIVERS, SUPPORT STAFF, AND PARENTS. The Education for Reconciliation eCourse provides a learning pathway for all members of a school community to deepen their awareness and understanding of 'Foundational Knowledge' as it pertains to Alberta's Indigenous Peoples. This eLearning opportunity is intended to help participants create shared understandings of the diverse First Nations, Métis, and Inuit culture and traditions, values and attitudes, and of historical and contemporary realities of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people in Alberta. The Education for Reconciliation eCourse is designed for all members of a school community, and is accessible by participants 24/7 to accommodate the busy schedules of those wishing to participate in this dynamic learning opportunity. deepen their awareness of the rich culture and history of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people in Alberta. broaden their understanding of the legacy of residential schools, treaty education, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action for education. participate in on-line discussions and activities to enrich their learning experience. This learning opportunity is being offered through a grant from Alberta Education. is currently seconded with the Calgary Regional Consortium to provide Education for Reconciliation and Foundational Knowledge of Alberta's First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people. With 27 years' experience as an Indigenous educator, Donna brings passion and also a deep knowledge of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit histories, the impact of residential schools, and the infusion of Indigenous ways of knowing into Alberta curriculum and organizational culture. Participants will receive an email invitation with login instructions from PowerSchool Learning on the date the course opens. This self-paced course will be open from January 7 - March 7, 2019. To receive a certificate of completion, participants must complete course work during this time frame. Sorry, no extensions. Estimated time of completion of the full eCourse is approximately 15-20 hours. Total completion time will vary for individuals dependent on level of participation within the course.

South London Press & Mercury Hammersmith & Fulham Kensington & Chelsea Wimbledon Tennis Best Of South London SLP Latest & Archive Mercury & LWN Archive Donate to the SLP Join our emailing list AFC Wimbledon Charlton Athletic Sport Charlton Athletic boss expects Lyle Taylor to be fit to face AFC Wimbledon 13 December 2018 Richard Cawley 0 Comments BY RICHARD CAWLEY Charlton manager Lee Bowyer says he will be surprised if Lyle Taylor is not fit to face his former club AFC Wimbledon on Saturday. The striker, a summer signing after his Dons deal expired, assisted both goals in Tuesday's 2-1 win at Portsmouth. But he left Fratton Park with a protective boot on his right foot after a tackle with Ben Thompson, who was shown a straight red card. Bowyer expects to be missing Karlan Grant, who came off with a hamstring injury in the first half, but reckons Taylor will be available. "I'm 99.9 per cent sure that Karlan won't be involved," he said. "He has got something there with his hamstring and is going for a scan today. We don't know how serious it is. "The way Lyle is and the who we are playing, I'll be amazed if he doesn't step out there on Saturday. When he had an injury before he just kept playing when he really shouldn't have. But he said: 'I want to play'. I'm guessing he'll be the same on Saturday. "It just depends how bad it is. It was swollen straight after the game. "Will he be 100 per cent? No he won't. But he gets out there." Mark Marshall is a doubt after sustaining a rib injury while Krystian Bielik suffered a facial blow as Thompson caught him with an elbow in the second half. "To be fair he should have gone in earlier for the ball," said Bowyer. 'It bounced and they were both running – Krystian was favourite probably, 60-40 in his favour. Then he checked his run and it left him open. "The lad led with his arm and caught him but I don't think it was malicious and that he meant to do it. It is a protection thing. They are both running at speed from different directions and it's a protection thing, everyone does it. "It didn't look good but if Krystian didn't hesitate and won it cleanly then he probably wouldn't get hurt." Please support your local paper by making a donation Please make cheques payable to "MSI Media Limited" and send by post to South London Press, Unit 112, 160 Bromley Road, Catford, London SE6 2NZ Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has encouraged everyone in the country who can afford to do so to buy a newspaper, and told the Downing Street press briefing recently: "A free country needs a free press, and the newspapers of our country are under significant financial pressure". So if you have enjoyed reading this story, and if you can afford to do so, we would be so grateful if you can buy our newspaper or make a donation, which will allow us to continue to bring stories like this one to you both in print and online. Everyone at the South London Press thanks you for your continued support. ← Future of Black Cultural Archives secured for now by government grant Charlton Athletic boss Bowyer warns that Dons will be a tough test – and how his rotation options are dwindling → Education Kensington & Chelsea News Primary schools in Kensington and Chelsea face drop in pupils 20 January 2021 20 January 2021 Lottie Kilraine 0 Primary schools in Kensington and Chelsea are facing an 11 per cent vacancy rate with 861 vacant places at schools across the borough which could lead to a reduction in the number of entry level classes. Best Of South London Lifestyle South London artist documents life in the pandemic through new book 15 January 2021 14 January 2021 News Reporter 0 A charity worker has published a book of drawings that document her life and the news throughout the pandemic. Jobs/Recruitment Copyright © 2021 MSI Media Ltd. All rights reserved. MSI Media Ltd is not responsible for the content of external sites

A Fan's Christmas Wish List of the Cincinnati Reds in 2015 by Tyler Grote under MLB Dear Santa, Reds fan here. We haven't been on the greatest of terms since Clinchmas, now over four years ago. Where have you been since? And what's with all the coal in our red stockings? What do you think about when you're checking your list and you get to the Cincinnati Reds? Clinchmas was amazing, but that team got swept by the Phillies. Then after a deflating 2011 season, you put Mat Latos under the tree, and we witnessed arguably the best Reds team in over a decade. But it was weird, Santa. Joey Votto suffered then an injury that's affecting him now, and Johnny Cueto couldn't come home for the holidays when we needed him most. Weren't we good? How could our behavior have been any better? I got over it when you gave us Shin-Soo Choo the next year. Because it was all about the lead-off man. It was awesome; Choo finished with a .423 OBP that season. The Reds had a .323 OBP for the year, No. 6 in the game. But Cueto got hurt again. We got him back just barely in time to throw him right into a one-game playoff, where he not only got shelled but created a moment that will follow Cueto back to PNC Park in every start he will make there. You lost me there, Santa. But I sucked it up. Maybe Pittsburgh had just stacked more karma than the Reds. I know not to be envious. But after 2014, I'm struggling to find any Christmas spirit. You know what happened. No one likes talking about it, but you know it had a lot to do with injuries and the bullpen failure. Most reasonable Reds fans will admit as much, even if the local media won't. But baseball doesn't wait. And since we could no longer afford 2011's Christmas gift, we had to trade him away, along with another starter. And now what do we do? How does a team built on its rotation, the third-best rotation in baseball, have any success without its No. 2? C'mon, Santa. It's all tidings and good cheer until it's time to sit down at the arbitration table, isn't it? Will you please bring us something for the back of the rotation? I know the Reds have tons of minor league talent nearing ready, but there's no reason to rush them. Aaron Harang is out there. He threw over 200 innings and cashed in a 3.75 ERA. And he only made $1 million last year. Not asking for much. Then there's our bullpen, which you know was naughty. To be second in bullpen losses and have the third-worst bullpen ERA is to replace your eye drops with lemon juice. I know we were bad, so can you help us be better and maybe bring us another bullpen arm? If Raisel Iglesias is all, I won't be mad, but a middle-relief guy would be decent, and if nothing else, maybe let Sean Marshall stay healthy? Speaking of health, can you bring two bubbles? One for Votto and one for Homer Bailey? You understand. This last request will come as no surprise, Santa. And you already know what I'm going to ask. It's been years since we had a good left fielder to watch on an everyday basis. Instead of bringing us some cheap knock-off, better-as-a-pinch-hitter brand, can you just get us Nori Aoki? I don't care about all the talk surrounding his declining power numbers, or how he hit just one home run last year. Who cares? His OBP was .349 and .353 for his career. This is serious, Santa. Honestly, it would be cool if you got me everything else, but this is like the Nintendo 64 when it was new. You could get me all the cool stuff in the world, but without the 64 centerpiece, Christmas is ruined. CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman says Aoki is going to get anywhere from $7 to $8 million. Is that in the budget this year? That's all I got, big man. I want a back-of-the-rotation veteran starter, I want a middle-relief bullpen arm and I want a left fielder. And if it's not too much, I'd like to be able to enjoy the 2015 Reds product, not its understudies. And don't give me any excuses this year. You can travel around the world in a single night, you can force yourself down chimneys, even in houses that don't have one, and you fly reindeer. That's great and all, but wake me up when Aoki is under my tree. Stats courtesy of ESPN.com/MLB Baseball, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Reds, Homer Bailey, Joey Votto, Johnny Cueto, Mat Latos, NL Central, Opinion

I've added the cpio hoook to the package. You may need to remove it from your filesystem if you added it manually. The breeze-plymouth theme utilizes the Plymouth label plugin (label.so) along with its dependencies (i.e. Pango). For some reason, this is not included into the initramfs image on Arch. Hence text labels and such is not displayed during boot. Then add the custom build hook breeze-plymouth to the HOOKS array in the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf configuration file. Regenerate the initial ramdisk with mkinitcpio -p linux. I added noto-fonts as an optional dependency since the hook isn't required for basic functionality. With the new hook, should noto-fonts be added as dep? @ImNtReal Good question. I haven't really thought of it until now. Since the label.so plugin problem only seem to affect the breeze-plymouth theme (at least to my knowledge), it would make more sense to include it in this package. On the other hand.. What would be the arguments not to include the plugin in the regular plymouth package? The Arch KISS principle...? I guess asking the opinion of the plymouth package maintainer would be a good idea. If I recall correctly, Ubuntu includes it when generating initramfs image (unable to check atm as I do not have a working Ubuntu system in front of me). Does that mean that all Ubuntu derivatives also include it? Haven't checked on Fedora distros. What I am going with this is that if the majority of distros do include it, then it most definitely should be included in the Arch package imo. Do what you think is the best. I am just glad I could be of some help. EDIT: I had a closer look at the hooks in the plymouth package.. In /usr/lib/initcpio/install/plymouth-encrypt it is directly included: 21 add_binary "/usr/lib/plymouth/label.so" So the breeze-plymouth theme should work with that hook. The other two hooks, /usr/lib/initcpio/install/plymouth and /usr/lib/initcpio/install/sd-plymouth include the following: text.so, details.so, drm.so and frame-buffer.so. These hooks also check what is assigned to ModuleName in the /usr/share/plymouth/themes/name/name.plymouth file. In the case of breeze-plymouth it is assigned to script, hence script.so is also included in the initramfs image, but not label.so. So I guess one might say it is partly the fault of the breeze-plymouth theme AND the way the plymouth hooks work in the Arch package. I hope this helps even more. Sorry for the long reply btw. Maybe forum PM is a better way of communicating regarding this. @ctrlX, thanks for putting the hook together. Do you think it would make more sense to try and get this added to the existing plymouth hooks, or have one added to that package called plymouth-label rather than add it to this package? Please write the instructions. People should not guess.

San Francisco, October 2010 — The 29th Annual Fall Antiques Show at Fort Mason Center will run from October 29–31. It is the oldest international antiques fair on the West Coast. Over 60 dealers will present thousands of fine art objects representing all styles and periods. This year's theme, Chinoiserie: Rococo to Eco, will be celebrated by a two- story, gilded pagoda entrance designed by architect Andrew Skurman and built by Peninsula Custom Homes (PCH).The six red lacquer pagodas with gilt eaves and fretwork panels create a dramatic entrance to the show. PCH has donated their time and expertise to this project in an effort to support Enterprise for High School Students. The show benefits Enterprise for High School Students, an organization which is meant to engage and empower San Francisco Bay Area high school students to discover career opportunities and cultivate their individual interests. San Francisco, October 2011 — The 30th Annual Fall Antiques Show at Fort Mason Center will run from October 27–30. It is the oldest international antiques fair on the West Coast. Over 60 dealers will present thousands of fine art objects representing all styles and periods. Hidden Treasures: Celebrating 30 Years of Surprising Finds is the theme this year and is inspired by the traditional 30th anniversary gift, the pearl, a treasure hidden in an oyster shell. The entryway, six oversized scroll brackets, designed by architect Andrew Skurman and built by Peninsula Custom Homes (PCH) includes faux painting to invite a double take by visitors as they pass into the show. PCH has donated their time and expertise to this project in an effort to support Enterprise for High School Students. This entry was posted in Press on September 30, 2009 by colinmcstravick.

Sarah Sharp, a third-year D.V.M. candidate at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, has received a 2013 Switzer Environmental Fellowship, a prestigious academic award given to promising environmental leaders. Of this year's 22 fellows, chosen from graduate programs in New England and California, Sharp is the only to student to represent the field of veterinary medicine. Each fellow is awarded $15,000 to complete masters and doctoral degrees to advance their skills and develop expertise to address critical environmental challenges. Sharp's veterinary studies focus on wildlife and conservation medicine. She has worked with the International Fund for Animal Welfare on marine mammal rescues, and served in Americorps in the environmental and disaster programs. Last summer, Sharp participated in the Student Summer Research Program at Tufts University. Her research, funded by the U.S. Army Medical Command, investigated if certain health assessment parameters could predict whether or not the dolphins would survive after being released from shore. By better understanding which values are important in terms of survival, stranding responders and veterinarians can make better informed release decisions and start to uncover the reasons for stranding. This study was the first of its kind to identify blood work and body condition values from stranded dolphins that correlated with their survival after release. Her findings are now being utilized in the field to improve decision-making procedures. In the future, Sharp would like to practice wildlife veterinary medicine and conduct research on marine animal health within the context of broader conservation efforts. In the interest of cultivating a more holistic approach to environmental stewardship, her goal is to work across disciplines to bridge the gap between the fields of veterinary medicine and environmental conservation. The Switzer Environmental Fellowship is a program of the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation. More information on the 2013 Switzer Fellows and other Switzer Foundation Grants recipients can be found at www.switzernetwork.org.

for example, you can sign into the web messenger from Dolly and then move to News or any other site, even yahoo7 (so long as they host the widget library code package) and continue their conversations and session. We believe its the first of its kind so we are pretty excited. Lots of credit to the amazing WLML 2.0 library, which provides the code Live Messenger engine API. Its very stable and great to use. I'll repost soon on more technical details later. In the meantime, you can give it a go here http://dolly.ninemsn.com.au/ and here are some screen shots of the widget sitting in the Dolly site and how it looks when the user has signed in.

Hypothalamic tanycytes are an ERK-gated conduit for leptin into the brain. α-Tanycytes of the adult hypothalamic third ventricle include distinct populations of FGF-responsive neural progenitors. Fgf10-expressing tanycytes add new neurons to the appetite/energy-balance regulating centers of the postnatal and adult hypothalamus. Glucose increases intracellular free Ca(2+) in tanycytes via ATP released through connexin 43 hemichannels.

College students And Sports By Glory | December 29, 2018 Sports are a very fashionable interest worldwide as there are various varieties individuals can select from to indulge themselves in. Some people are involved in soccer while others like basketball. The fun and delight issue is a number of times larger if you happen to play with your pals, family and other individuals you do know. A few of the most popular sports currently in apply by junior athletes are cricket, golf, tee ball, soccer, netball and little athletics. The majority of these early photos have been of outstanding gamers in posed situations, giving te sense of action. Staff and self-talks are also power strategies to boost arousal ranges and improve inspiring sports performances. It takes loads of vitality to cope with players which have poor attitudes, however they are often turned around, and the impression they've on the rest of the staff could be considerably lessened. Contestants can't suppose something except extreme sports. It is no coincidence that almost all of the gamers who make up the N.B.A. and N.F.L. are Black. He says the elemental ideas of sports are those relevant to all sports organisations and on account of their general acceptability, they are sometimes referred to as "universal ideas of sports management". China didn't participate on the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, URSS (currently Russia).Many Chinese language athletes -notably hurdler Tsu Lin, excessive jumper Ni Chih-chin, long jumper Hsia Chieh-ping, runner Sung Mei-hua, and volleyball players Liang Yan, Zhang Rongfang, Zhou Xiaolan and Zhu Ling- lost their Olympic alternatives. For human as all of us are, we are apt to become pleased with our victories and ashamed of our defeats, but, this is all together totally different in a sportsman, as he learns the rules of the game that there is no such thing as a motive to be proud or ashamed, for conditions keep changing for all. college, sports, students Causes For Excessive Sports Dwelling Theater Techniques For Sports

Accounting Clerk, Talent on Demand, Vancouver, BC PHSA This position is part of PHSA Talent on Demand - an in-house recruitment service providing talent to PHSA and other health authorities. We manage a robust talent pool of service-minded professionals who are available to start work immediately. Talent on Demand creates a gateway for those who wish to achieve their career goals. Successful candidates will gain significant health care experience and can transition into long-term, permanent roles within PHSA. For more information, visit [email protected] . Accounting Clerk, Talent on Demand, The Accounting Clerk performs Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and general accounting duties. These include assisting the Accountant in: the preparation of journal entries for review, reconciling accounts receivable with the general ledger and preparing statistical reports such as patient accrual reports. Assists the Accountant in monitoring the budgets by maintaining Accounts Receivable balances used for forecasting revenue inflows and budgeting for outflows of cash. Maintains general ledger in relation to accounts receivable and prepares supporting spreadsheets regarding Accounts Payable payments. Performs the Accounts Receivable function by invoicing, receiving and accounting of funds on an accrual basis from sponsoring agencies and maintaining accounts using database software. Performs the Accounts Payable function by performing duties such as: Matching invoices to purchase orders and related documents. Ensuring approval for all invoices and expense claims as established by signing authority guidelines and circulating to the appropriate signing authority as required. Forwarding approved and coded invoices to Accounts Payable for payment on a timely basis. Performs a variety of general accounting duties including: Investigating account inquiries related to A/R invoicing and A/P payments and fund transfers and resolving related issues by identifying and analyzing problems and initiating appropriate corrective action where required.. Extracting and compiling information from a variety of computer generated reports and keying information into working software. Preparing routine journal entries including cheques for deposit. Performs A/R and A/P reconciliation of individual studies during year-end invoicing and close-out of studies by matching information such as invoice payments received against refunds and invoices issued. Provides input to the Accountant on existing departmental processes as requested. Maintains timekeeping records and forwards to Manager for approval. Performs other related duties as assigned. 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other subredditsCrimsonCowboy Writing Snippets: Post/Write a Fanfiction Scene, Story, or Idea: Forest of Dreams CrimsonCowboy |2 pointswritten 1 day ago ago A Forest of Dreams? OK. Imagine, if you will, a moment where music seems to play in your head out of sheer excitement at finding for the first moment your favorite section. Or perhaps, a moment of relief, as a problem seems soon to be rectified. Or perhaps, a sigh of defeat, as the volume that describes your problem is a thousand pages thick. Rest well, the index is probably pretty good. Or perhaps, a moment of levity, as a societal problem is addressed in a fictional sense, but with apparent overtones to the prevailing societal happenings. Or perhaps, a story set so far in the future, that common sense breaks down and all you are left with is a strange sense of wonder and hope, or despair? Welcome, weary traveler, to the Canterlot Technical Library. I want to conclude the zompony apocalypse with... The conturemeasure. It had been demonstrated previously that laser light will dispel dark necromanitic influences. Something about it's coherent light's inherent 'harmony'. Tami and Oson flew in with Quantum providing covering fire. "Java! We need your glass blowing skills NOW!" Java Stout was a chemical engineer, and knew very well how to manipulate semi-molten glass. Chemistry equipment typically did not come pre-assembled. He smiled. "I'm on it." As Quantum from the rooftop kept their house zombie-free with her crossbow, the other three worked on their conturemeasure. "Mirrors affixed to the tubes. Testing reflectivity. Bugger, needs adjusting." "Pressures not right... Resetting with the vacuum pump..." "Voltage should work right. AH! NO! CIRCUIT BOARD ON FIRE" "Put it out PUT IT OUT! Agh! I have to redo that... Is the transformer at least ok?" "Yeah, it doesn't smell burnt..." "How are we going to hook up cooling water?" "I already grabbed a garden-hose hookup. And we have the tubes to run it up to the roof." "Test run, minimal power. Goggles up, everyone." "...." "Awesome. Let's go save Canterlot." Quantum Shift hefted the device the others had built. It was plugged into the mains and the water supply. Four separate tubes of carbon dioxide, connected to a high voltage supply and each between two mirrors. And it was ready. She aimed the device down the street, and smiling, let loose a beam of infrared laser light. The spell affecting the zombies immediately dissipated, and they fell. Meanwhile, Tami and Oson had once again taken to the air. They were carrying the sheet of steel, which they had precious few moments to polish before this. Tami let's out a loud squawk to indicate their position, and sees the focusing dot - a cheap laser pointer - align itself on the plate. They were going to be the reflector of an infrared laser beam. And they were going to shine it over the entirety of Canterlot, street by street, block by block. Quantum pushed the trigger. The countermeasure was active. Tami and Oson flapped down. Tami said, "Java... I need a cup of coffee, and some kind of meal. Blast and Damn, we should've used an aluminum sheet..." Oson nods; "That thing was heavy, though with the wind at that altitude, it's momentum kinda helped." "Still heavy as all get out... Gwa... I need to work-out more..." Oson flits up and pecks a kiss on Tami's forehead. "I think you'd look and feel lovely. Though you look just fine as you are." The gryphoness pauses. She then reaches for and grips the changeling. "I love you so much, Oson." Quantum has been listening to the radio. "Everyone, bad news. They haven't caught the necromancer. Reanimation. We need to pull off that stunt again." Java shakes his head. "And I had just started the waffles..." Tami slams her empty mug down. "I. Am Now. IRATE!" Which type of pony would you be? CrimsonCowboy |2 pointswritten 6 days ago ago Earther, or changeling. I write fanfics, and the characters are... very bad at magic. So, they invent technology to solve their problems. The changeling can't change well, the unicorn can't use magic very well, the gryphon, is well, a gryphon. And the earther is just rather strong and clever. Another character is an Earther, and really good at the technology game. So, whatever I get, technology will be built to deal with the issues that are not addressed. [WP]: "I'm not special at all just average," you said. The scientist scans you and replied: "You don't understand, there is no record of you in any other multiverse. All the choices you have made are the only choices available to you." "Well, statistically, we're average. But only because we have diverse interests. And I know for a fact, we're not the only ones like us in the multiverse." Oson nodded after the last sentence. Tam's points at the basement. "We keep the dimensporter down there. More tools, and a safer place in general to run it." The Multiverse Guard is perplexed. "You... Can travel between dimensions as well?" "Let me tell you, it was a pain mapping out the coordinates. Anyway, the mirror-dimension has roughly the same versions of ourselves." Tam shakes her head and mutters quietly, "Worst summer vacation ever." Jav's speaks up from the kitchen. "We can demonstrate! I got a fresh bottle of vodka I'd like to share with them!" He wanders forward, vodka in tow. Lifting the bottle, he states, "It's like... The only thing we can exchange. Vodka is non-chiral, so the mirror flip-age doesn't make, like, toxic amino-acid combinations." He grabs a sticky-note pad, writes a message on it, and heads downstairs. A large mirror with devices and runes on it awaits in the basement. Oson points out, "That's the fixed dimensporter; we figured out how to reach other dimensions by changing the orientation of the field generators. That one's kinda stuck on with glue, so... Fixed to the mirror dimension it is." Jav's flicks a switch, and the machine hums. With a shimmer, a portal is opened. He tosses the plastic bottle through, and moments later, another is tossed back. He pulls the note on it off, flips it around, and holds it up to the light. "The text is inversed, so I have to read it from behind.... Ah! 'Share and Enjoy!' I intend to, mirror me." The Multiverse Guard is stunned. "There... are two of you?" Jav shrugs. "At least. Want a drink? We can go over our multiverse map with you." The Guard grips the wall. "This might be why I was called to investigate you... You are singular individuals, that's for certain... How many dimensions have you crossed?" Oson replies immediately. "Twenty seven. Three to the third. We needed a lot of coordinates to figure out where home was. The mirrored versions of ourselves have done likewise." This was proving a much more perplexing investigation than he had counted on. "I... would very much like that drink." Writing Snippets: Post/Write a Fanfiction Scene, Story, or Idea: Epic I'll be honest, I've dozens of these that are all stuck on cliffhangers. Place characters in strange situations, then... get distracted and let the conclusion puzzle itself in my mind. Death. Always so much death. So rarely, necessary. 'Blast and damn,' thought Quantum Shift, 'I really, really wish we could have a calm weekend for once.' She loads another bolt into her crossbow and takes aim. Java Stout slides the roof panel open, and with his magic offers the Earth Pony perched on the roof a mug. The crossbow fires, and she turns to grip the mug. She sips, then guzzles it. "Strong. Cold. Black." Java smirks. "Heh. Just how you like it." She holds the empty mug out, and Java grips it again with his magic. "Thanks, Java..." She loads another arrow. "Hey, you're up here, keeping everyone on the block safe. Gotta help where I can. Miss Shibu even sent some treats over with a special note to you." TWANG Quantum loads another arrow. "Oh? What did it say?" Java rubs his head. "Um... I think the sum of it was, I'm sure this isn't your fault, and thank you for protecting us." TWANG "Well, we certainly aren't necromancers. So yeah, she's right on that front." TWANG The radio-set next to her crackles. "OI! TAMI TO QUANTS, WE HAVE FLYERS FOLLOWING US! NORTH-WEST-WEST, INBOUND WITH CARGO!" "OSON TO QUANTI! AT LEAST TWENTY!" Quantum stares at the radio-set. She turns to Java, "Did you hear that?" He is frowning. "Yeah... and they can't fly as fast ladened with supplies..." Quantum stares North-West-West. She can see the incoming hoard. She pushes the transmit button. "I have a plan. Dive low when you see the flare. I'll pull out the big gun. JAVA!" He snaps to attention. She says, staring at what is coming. "Two teacups. Spatial contraction generator. Two harmonized arrows. My heavy crossbow. Get them." She pushes transmit again, "It'll take a minute to brew the tea for the chaos generator. Hold tight, look for the flashbang." Twefy 'fi Oson and Tami Owlson are laden with the parts needed for the countermeasure they had designed. Copper wire, Iron plates, heavily doped silicon, silvered mirrors, glass, and worst of all of, a tank of compressed carbon dioxide gas. And a zombie horde was behind them. "Bloodly. Fucking. Lovely." Tami says to herself. Oson is panicking. "Look for the flare?! LOOK for the flare?! They're gonna fire a chaos-derived spatial contraction field super-luminal bolt at a position near us!" Tami glares at their house. "And Quants has great eyesight..." The flare goes up. "DIVE! DIVE! Dive you glorious bitch, DIVE!" "No no no no no AAAAAAGH!" A gryphon and a changeling make a steep dive out of the air as they approach their house. Their house responds with a burst. Matter that has a harmonization ruin on in can move at super-luminal speeds through a chaos-derived spatial contraction field. Inside of an atmosphere, there is an immediate problem with this. Atmospheric resistance. This is why Quantum Shift had a face mask. She had learned with the first test of this ridiculous experiment that the blast back was... Significant. The blast-forward, as suggested, was significantly larger. Quantum wiped the mask's lenses clear, and loaded the second arrow. "Java, anything on the radio?" Java shouts up, "Oson says they still have at least five inbound!" Quantum smiles. "This is why I requested a second harmonized arrow. Quantum raises her face-mask to to reload the crossbow. She lowers it. "JAVA! Get onto the radio!" "I'm, uh, right next to it." "Is that the only zombie horde?!" Java sets the radio to speaker. The radio shouts back, "IT'S JUST ON US! FIRE FIRE FIRE!" This dog that directed police to a burning building to save his owner. CrimsonCowboy |1 pointwritten 11 days ago ago Looks like a husky to me. How many times have police stopped you for playing Pokémon Go? I was getting out of work around 11pm, after a show had concluded. I was in my car, catching for a few minutes. I drove a block and parked in front of a gym to take it. A cop stopped nearby, and came over, suspecting that I was drunk as they noted the previous behavior. I stated I was playing Pokemon Go, and they were OK with that, but they noted there was no parking on that side of the street. I apologise, and move on. In my defense, it was the middle of winter and everything barring the center of the road was covered in snow. Writing Snippets: Post/Write a Fanfiction Scene, Story, or Idea: Snow Day CrimsonCowboy |2 pointswritten 21 days ago ago "Frickin' Windegos! Get off my roof, I have a dinner to serve!" "I swear, whatever necromancy cooked up these critters needs to be unwound." Nah; in this silly alt-universe, changelings, for the most part, want the ponies to survive. The ponies just seem hell-bent on self-destruction. Prevent that. By any means necessary. Hearth's Warming. Typically a time of getting together, exchanging gifts, and repeating the tales of "Hey, don't commit genocide." Or the other holiday favorite "Hey, remember that story about not committing genocide? Don't do that." Tami Owlson, griffon, said "I'm kinda amazed you ponies haven't killed each other off by now." Quantum Shift, earther, replies, "It took some time. But we're better now." Tami scowls. "Wait. Were these real stories?" Twyfi 'fi Oson, changeling, raises a holey hoof. "I... I read through the archives about this day. Yes. They did attempt to genocide themselves, twice. The second time we tried to intervene. It was a success." Quantum stares at her. "You... Your kind was involved in Hearth's Warming?" Oson looks down. "... Yes. The ghosts, the illusions, it was all changeling magics. We really don't want you to die. And screw the cold." She looks to the hallway closest - lines of snow-ware hung up to dry. She had, as a cold-blooded creature, four of the racks of her snow-gear drying, and a power-supply hooked up recharging her lead-acid batteries she kept in special saddle bags to drive some heating coils. Java Stout, unicorn, shouts from the kitchen. "Ha HA! I did it! Triple falafel! It shouldn't be possible, will probably taste awful or at best questionable, and I am amazed it didn't explode when I kept putting it back into the fry oil!" This raises their attention. They had been conversing over a Hearth's Warming vinyl they had found. They turn their attention to the kitchen; Java had indeed made a three-layer falafel. In fact, he had made an awful lot of them. This is the problem with haven a drunken chemist as a roommate who likes to cook. Strange things will happen. The falafels were the least of it. The punch was the last of it. When they had completed their meal, they were quite full and quite drunk. They decide to wrap themselves up, and with a songbook Oson had in her library, head out into the wilds of Canterlot winter to serenade the public and distribute the excess falafel. This was one of the best Solstice Celebrations they had. As opposed to when they decided to "Make a great light." This led to more questions from the guard than they preferred. Just sharing a very sanitary food product was a lot easier. If you had enough money to build your dream house, what's a strange room/feature you'd include? I like a lot of these ideas, but I can add some weird ones. Tracks for robotic arms to run along the ceiling. The ceiling would be steel reinforced concrete. There would be a massive battery bank nearby, and a vertical wind turbine would be spinning in the background. The walls would be steel or aluminum plates that could be removed easily to upgrade the infrastructure. Writing Snippets: Post/Write a Fanfiction Scene, Short, or Idea: Pony of a Different Color Java Stout was not a happy pony at the moment. He was, normally, a lanky, blond and earth colored unicorn. Normally. To the giggling of his housemates as he sets down a jug, he relates the tale. "So, the experiment was to manufacture some of the simpler azo-dyes. "The problem with azo-dyes is as fallows. "The "azo" part of it comes from the nitrogen double-bonding between two rings of carbon." He holds out his hooves and adjusts their distance. "Because it has two rings, it's very stable." He gestures about. "And that distance between the two rings strongly suggests to all these atoms a photon it should emit. Want a different color - add something to those rings to change the electrical charge keeping the rings apart.." Java holds his hooves apart. "Change the charge, change the photon it can give out." He takes a long drink, and refills his glass. "What happens if a newbie tries to prepare one and... One second, I'm having difficulty with this." He takes another long drink. He finishes the beer, and lets his head slam against the table. "What happens when, they get the reaction wrong, then wrong again, then finally, right, but have somehow figured out how to make the reaction an explosive." He takes another long drink. "That's the reason half the class has to retake that test, and why I'm azo-dyeded like a freaking flag." He takes another drink, and sighs. The technicolor pony looks up. "So, how was your day?" Writing Snippets: Post/Write a Fanfiction Scene, Short Story, or Idea: Boats! CrimsonCowboy |2 pointswritten 1 month ago ago Not soon enough. There is, on average, four atoms of plutonium in you. And as a result of theses tests, we can, by carbon dating, figure out how old organ tissues are. An... awful lot of them, actually. This was directly in response to Fallout: Equestria. Harbormakers are a reference to Project Plowshares - the peaceful utilization of atomic energy. And in their home dimension, the only one. Seeing it weaponized... Well, who am I do judge? We detonated harbormakers in our only atmosphere. But wait... There is no ship! Usual cast. Griffon, Tami Owlson; Changeling, Twefy 'fi Oson; Unicorn, Java Stout; Earther, Quantum Shift. Setting: A dimension they were trapped in long enough to collect enough data to traverse to another in the goals of mapping the multiverse well enough to get home. The Geiger counter immediately started clicking upon entry to this dimension. It was an overcast wasteland. Quantum Shift immediately spoke up, "Masks up, everyone. We don't want to breath this." They all equipped their respirators, the faceparts designed unique to their species, but the filters easily swappable and rated for filtering hydrochloric acid and asbestos. Quantum gave a thought to this; what was the reactivity of a monoatomic radioactive material with the chemically infused fibers of the filter? Well... If it was a metal, at the least, it's probably going to react with the filter material chemically and bind to it... She decided to ask Java about this later. This gave her pause. She looks about this blasted landscape, and asks, "Hey... Why in the all-hells is the gieger counter clicking so hard? Java, can you give me a quick spectrogram?" Java Stout pulls out the tool they mostly use for determining the chirality of the target dimension's molecules - a compact spectrograph unit. He takes a sample of the soil and places it in the machine. He immediately recoils. "Traces of Uranium, Thorium, Radium, Lead, and... Oh, hell's no. Plutonium?! Why the hell is that in the environment?!" Twefy 'fi Oson begins breathing heavily through her mask. "Plutonium is only made in laboratory reactors! Why is it out here?! ARE YOU SURE?!" She is beginning to panic. Java nods. "The spectral lines match up with that element." "WHY IS IT OUT HERE?!" An explosion occurs in the distance. A mushroom cloud grows, and the Geiger counter clicks something feirce. Tami Owlson stares. "Was that... Was that a harbormaker?" A second blast follows. "Oh, that was definitely a harbormaker. Everyone, get down. There is going to be a shockwave. What fucktards detonate one of those above ground?!" Tami grasps Oson and holds her beneath herself while orienting herself in line with the blast, tucking her head underneath her; Java and Quantum try to make themselves as flat as possible against the ground. The shockwave rushes over them, carrying loads of radioactive dust. They have successfully oriented themselves to prevent most of it sticking to their fur or feathers, but the Gieger counter is clicking. When the second shockwave hits, the Geiger counter clicks even more. They get up. Tami asks, "Everyone alright?" The affirmation follow. Though Oson adds, much to everyone's chagrin, "There must've been an electrical pulse - the thaumameter reset itself. We lost an hour's worth of data." "So we need to spend 25 hours in this crap-sack dimension." Another blast in the distance. The same drill. And, afterwards, noting the Thaumameter has once again been reset. Tami shakes off the doubtlessly contaminated dust. "We need to get out of this hellscape if we want any chance to characterize this dimension's coordinates. Oson, if they have harbormakers, they must have radio. See if any fuckhead is transmitting. I'm going to take a look at the land from above." Oson nods, and pulls out her radio. Tami frowns as she takes to the skies. This was the worst possible "summer vacation". Every dimension, shittier than the last. Sun and moon, she couldn't wait till they had enough data to get back home. This sucked. "Why," she silently asks herself, "Why do these worlds fucking hate themselves so much?" The landscape is barren and grey. She can see the dust settling from the harbormakers. There is very clearly no waterway to make a harbor in. All that can be seen is what remains of a small city. Harbormakers. In a city. She screams, "WHAT THE FUCK?!" A sharp noise is heard to her left, then another. She looks to the ground - there are ponies there, and are pointing a machine at her. It flashes. Another sharp noise near her, on the right side, a few moments later. Realization flashes across her mind. She flaps her wings and enters a powered dive. "GUYS! CHEMICALLY PROPELLED METAL! WE NEED TO RUN!" People that "forget to eat", how are you able to ignore the sensation of hunger/hunger pangs? CrimsonCowboy |1 pointwritten 1 month ago ago I wish I knew. It possibly has something to do with my alcohol consumption. I will, however, wake up, regularly consume something with [a lot of] caffeine in it, head to work, and start to malfunction due to a simple lack of calories. Then have breakfast at 10 pm. What loophole did you exploit for years before someone found out? College bookstore had a full refund return policy first week; assuming you dropped the course, return the books, bada bing bada boom, here's your money back. I had a large format scanner. I got up to 300 pages an hour. Writing Snippets: Post/Write a Fanfiction Scene, Short Story, or Idea: Cockatrice Tami was leaned down next to Pearl. She still didn't fully understand chicken-scratch. And was asking questions. Oson comes over. "So, the magic effect really is transmitted through the infrared-bands. Neat. Uh. What are you asking Pearl?" Tami keeps her gaze. "How to swear in chicken." Engineers. Asking the important questions. Edit: Chicken goggles are actually a thing. "I thought we agreed we wouldn't have a pet here. What with, well, the extreme dangers that we repeatedly experience." Quantum was concerned. Oson points at the phone book. "I have checked every animal shelter in the area. None would take a cockatrice, and Pearl has been around ponies so long she shouldn't be released into the wild." Quantum looks down. She sighs. "... How do we make her safe?" "The petrify-effect is mostly based in the infrared bands. So... um.... Corrective goggles?" She taps her own lenses that correct for her compound-eyes' extreme nearsightedness. "We'd have to make them..." "The only place open right now is Screwdrivers..." Java whoops. "Hardware store run!" "For the love of - stop trying to petrify the employees, they just make minimum wage! Gwah..." Tami scribbles out the chicken-scratch that the cockatrice seems to understand. She holds up another sheet of paper. "We are here to build you goggles, so you can live among us safely." She regrets that her understanding of chicken-scratch is limited to what could be deduced from a newspaper, which alas, does not feature curse words. Because this little bastard was starting to get on her nerves... They had succeeded on one end. Rose colored goggles to block out that hateful petrifying gaze. A small pet bed. A litter box. They weren't entirely certain that was appropriate, but the library was closed and they really didn't want to break into it again. Talking with their landlady was a bit more awkward. Their rental contract did not mention pets. Miss Shibu, Diamond Dog, was very forgiving, and on seeing the bespectacled Pearl, instantly fell in love. "Aren't you the sweetest little thing!" She handed Pearl a treat. "I save these for my sons, but it seems like you might enjoy them too." Pearl gobbles it up, and nuzzles Miss Shibu. Taking care of a pet is somewhat hard. But, with four people, it can be done. Quantum takes Pearl out on her early morning runs, Java takes her on his late evening trips to the grocers. Tami and Oson bring her out in the afternoon, between classes. And Pearl's intelligence was a boon - when it was written "Don't chew these cables, it's bad for you.", she only had to test this once before realizing that yes, these crazy people are actually looking out for me. It is somewhat absurd, having a cockatrice as a pet. Though this was far from the absurdest thing they have done. "See, this is why we don't go to house parties. Literally everyone is stoned." Tami Owlson smacks her face in frustration. She shouts, "Does anyone even see the host? Aaugh.... Oson, can you see if the DJ had any decent music in their collection? I can't stand any more of that vocoded shit." Java Stout raises a hoof. "Uh, I can probably help with that better. I used to be a DJ at WCTU." Tami shakes her head. "Fine, get on it. Oson, Quants, you know anything about this kinda shit? Because I really don't want to have to explain this to the guard without something to back it up." Quantum Shift had been looking at the statues. "Well, they seem to have been having a good time." Twefy 'fi Oson is panicking. She normally doesn't like social gatherings, and this one has taken a hard turn for the worse. "It... It's medusa syndrome... Which means either the drinks were spiked with a hyper-calcifier... Or there is a cockatrice loose." Quantum frowns. "I really find it awkward that we need to bring tool kits to even these sorts of events. Everyone, goggles on! Java, finish putting on some sick kicks and come over here to analyze the punch. Oson, Tami, you've two have the best sense of smell. Find us a chicken. I'm going to check the rest of the house for more of these... Poor bastards." Tami, griffon, is somewhat dismayed. This is a frat house. And she is being asked to sniff it. Clearly, life could be worse. But it could sure be a hell of a lot better. Oson is similarly disgusted. But knows a bit about psychology of animals. "It's probably scared. Check the hiding places you'd expect a cat to seek out." Java shouts, "The punch is just spiked with booze. So it's option two." Tami grumbles to herself. "Blast. And. Damn." "Hello little - Gwah! It nipped at me!" Oson pulls her holey hoof away from the small area next to the refrigerators. Tami sighs. "Lemme try something... I think I remember enough of that chicken-scratch to write a message... Bugger all, I hope this little shit is literate." She begins to draw lines on a pad of paper. We mean you no harm. We think everything about this was stupid. We really don't want the guard involved. Can you please undo this? It cocks it's head. It moves as if to bite Tami, but she realizes it's just reaching for the pen. Yes, if you get me out of here. Tami reads the note. She smiles and offers a talon to the cockatrice. It exits the area it had been hiding in. Tami picks it up, and says loudly, "Everyone, we have come to an agreement." Quantum is staring at the host of the party. "We are never attending one of these events ever again. I saw... Horrible things upstairs." Two other ponies blush and look to the ground. Tami adds, cockatrice under her arm, "And we're taking Pearl with us. Using her like you did... You sick fucks." Oson adds, "It isn't right what was done." Java chimes in next to the now drained punch bowl. "Also, your taste in music is terrible. Great punch, though." The quartet takes their leave, and wonder what to do with Pearl. Writing Snippets: Post/Write a Fanfiction Scene, Short Story, or Idea: The Other Hives Heh. I've posted the middling points here in the past; they have their warp drive, but no space-industrial complex. Another phase I need to implement, but I always used cheat codes in SimCity, so building a Luna City to manufacture the ships requires a different batch of research that may very well lead me to running for city council. When I world-build, I world-build hard. I wanted to write a MLP/Star Trek thing. But the thing is, you need to have a space program to even start that. The chain of events leading up to a warp drive is... Difficult with their anachronistic levels of technology. So, I need to work through the tech tree. Operation Moonshot: The secret society of the world, keeping the peace and sharing the secrets that one race or another discover, decides a space-race would be a great new solution for generating love. Before the Nightmare Moon event, of course. Still haven't worked out all the details; my geopolitics isn't on point. It has been a rough couple of months working foodservice. Ironic the last thing I posted was about a disease requiring Canterlot's lockdown. Then in reality, everyone forgot how to cook for themselves. And just three weeks ago, over half our staff had to quarantine, and guess which social-life-less lucky bastards had to cover them.

The statistics are alienating, because we just read numbers and those distance us from the humanity of who these children are. We often hear or read that they have experienced "unspeakable horrors," but when I meet these children, usually between the ages of 13 to 17, they often don't wear the trauma on their faces. Some do, especially those who are sick. Several were coughing this week, couldn't enjoy themselves. I think about them being kept in the "iceboxes" (detention centers) when they are first detained, or the "cages" that are supposedly not "cages" but are more like large dog kennels that they can stand up in or lie down in and have "facilities." I think about the one meal a day they might eat, of a cold sandwich. I remember the first group of girls I met in 2014, who had been given only cookies and juice every day for the requisite 21 days they were kept in detention. This week, the children were all boys, in their mid to late teens. One boy was about to turn 18. This was not good. He would be sent back to the border on his 18th birthday. No longer a minor, he would not be eligible for sheltering and education any longer. Happy birthday. The boys were cold, they didn't have any winter boots for the sub freezing temperatures and snow in New York, but they didn't complain. They all had sneakers, and their feet were cold. We kept saying to one another, "Frio, frio, frio." I can't speak much Spanish, and they are supposed to be learning English, but I end up speaking my broken Spanish anyway, and they practice their broken English, and we do a lot of miming. Yes, we collected sap from the trees and boiled it to make syrup, we collected eggs from the chickens and made pancakes with maple syrup, and yes they learned a lot of new information, how to eat locally and seasonally, how to make healthy choices, how to live sustainably in this part of the world. But that wasn't what made me so happy this week. I love what we teach them, but what I loved this week was what they were compelled to do: play. They are children. And in this case, they were boys who had never played in the snow before, and so all they wanted to do was roll around in it, throw it at each other, slide down the hillside on it. I brought them sleds and they laughed and played for hours, they couldn't not play. But they are children, and so they get silly, goofy, emotional, and they need to eat and play. I remember a line from a favorite book, "Yardsticks," by Chip Wood, about children's behavioral stages, and how for the 5-year old, in their minds, they only come to school to eat and to play. It's the same for teenagers, I think. The more time they get to eat and play, the happier they are too. So I watched them tumbling in the snow, wrestling in the snow, throwing snowballs, tackling each other, putting snow down each other's jackets, sledding, laughing, running, and not minding being freezing cold (not too much), and I kept thinking, they are children. At one point as we were walking around the pond, talking about how there are fish and frogs, snakes and turtles, and all kinds of wildlife that is dormant for the winter, we asked the boys if they had any questions. "Preguntas?" Yes, one of them did. The translator told me the question, "How do the ducks walk on water?" They laughed; they'd never seen ducks walking on ice. The boys tested the ice with their sneakers, could they walk on water too? They are walking on water, I thought to myself. The miracle that they have made it this far is no less than that. This is so very moving. The pictures speak so eloquently, as well.. thank you. Thank you for writing and sharing this.. It's beautifully written, what a journey these kids have been through already and they're just kids.. Wow. So well told. So touching. So necessary to be heard and shared.

Home » Hunting News Q&A with Sportsman Channel's "MeatEater" Steven Rinella Ammoland Inc. Posted on January 30, 2015 January 12, 2018 by Sportsman Channel Sportsman Channel New Berlin, Wis. –(Ammoland.com)- Sportsman Channel's "MeatEater" Steven Rinella is purposeful and passionate about his hunting style and the wild game he harvests and consumes. Rinella, whose show, MeatEater premieres exclusively on Sportsman Channel on Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT, has been described by many people – inside and outside of the outdoor industry – as a "modern day Daniel Boone." Recently, Rinella participated in a Q&A forum with Sportsman Channel to discuss everything from his favorite hunting locations, organic cooking and his experiences living in New York City. Steven Rinella Q: Do you believe more people are accepting and exploring the 'field to plate' movement? A: I think there's more excitement about it on a popular culture level for sure. Of course, there has always been a lot of Americans who were quietly eating wild game meat without thinking of it as something extraordinary. My early hunting and fishing mentors come to mind most readily; they ate game several times a week but never thought to proselytize about it. But, now you've got a new crowd of far more vocal folks, the kinds of people with Twitter accounts who want as many people as possible to know what they're up to. They give "field to plate" a sense of buzz. They put it out there and it is something new. In a per capita sense, though, I really have no idea if Americans are actually eating more game. But, they are definitely talking about it more. Q: Where is your favorite place to hunt and why? A: I like to hunt Alaska. I have family there and I know the place pretty well. In particular, I like to do fly-in, self-guided hunts in the nastiest backcountry I can find. That kind of stuff makes me feel very alive. Q: How did you become such an accomplished cook of wild game? A: I learned to cook by experimenting, reading, and hanging out with chefs who know a lot more than I do. I listed those three things in their proper order of importance. I should point out here that I'm not nearly as good with food as some guys are. I specialize in what I like to think of as caveman cuisine—rough and rustic stuff, done over fires with an eye toward historical significance — but guys like Hank Shaw and Michael Ruhlman can cook circles around me. Q: What is your favorite wild game to prepare/consume and why? A: That's tough to answer, because I like just about everything. I love how surprisingly good squirrels are; I love the texture of a perfectly done mallard; I love the reliability of elk meat. The world of wild game is just too complex to be broken down into favorites. I even like some foods that I don't actually like, simply because I enjoyed the experience of trying them for the first time. Take javelina, for instance. It's fun just to try to make that meat taste as good as possible, which will never be great. Q: Having lived in New York City and when you were not cooking, what were your favorite go-to restaurants? A: This will sound funny, but I actually got burned out on restaurants in New York City. For a year or so I loved it, hitting all of these beautiful (and often expensive) restaurants. Then, the sensation started to dull and I found myself craving home cooked meals at my friends' houses or at my own home. By far, the best meal I ever ate in New York City was at the apartment of Chef Matt Weingarten's house. I liked it much better than eating at the restaurant he was running at that time, even though the restaurant's food was "better" by any objective standard. But there's huge subjectivity to food, obviously, and to me there's a genuine and soulful quality to home-cooked food that is lacking in restaurant food. About Steven Rinella: Steven Rinella is an avid outdoorsman, writer, and television personality best known for his ability to translate the hunting lifestyle to a wide variety of audiences. He is the author of The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine, the award-winning American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon, and most recently, Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter. He is a correspondent for Outside magazine, and his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Glamour, O the Oprah Magazine, Men's Journal, and more traditional hunting and fishing publications like Field and Stream and Petersen's Hunting. About Zero Point Zero: Zero Point Zero Production is an award-winning production company located in Manhattan. Founded by Executive Producers Chris Collins and Lydia Tenaglia in 2003, with Partner and Managing Director Joe Caterini coming aboard in 2009. Zero Point Zero has produced hundreds of hours of television in over 80 countries around the world, including the two Emmy Award-winning series Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie. Zero Point Zero has produced television series and specials for CNN, Travel Channel, Food Network, Cooking Channel, Discovery Channel, PBS, Sportsman Channel, The Weather Channel, and Bravo. Visit www.zeropointzero.com for additional information. About Sportsman Channel: Launched in 2003, Sportsman Channel/Sportsman HD is a television and digital media company fully devoted to honoring a lifestyle that is celebrated by millions of Americans. A division of KSE Outdoor Group, Sportsman Channel delivers entertaining and informative programming that showcases outdoor adventure, hunting and fishing, and illustrates it through unique and authentic storytelling. Sportsman Channel embraces the attitude of "Red, Wild & Blue America" – where the American Spirit and Great Outdoors are celebrated in equal measure. Sportsman Channel reaches more than 36 million U.S. television households. Stay connected to Sportsman Channel online at thesportsmanchannel.com, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. To find Sportsman Channel in your area click here. Patriot Solutions: Sure looks like a lot of arrests going down with limited details, indictments and "covid" cases (wink wink) for nothing…

Alleged Death Of Fulani Herdsmen in Abia: Group Threatens To Drag IPOB To ICC Who does this man Samson Babalola work for? It will be interesting to see where he dragged the Fulani herdsmen to ICC since their incessant killings in Agatu and in and around the entire country. Shouldn't he have far more evidence to drag these Fulani's to ICC than one unsubstantiated allegation against IPOB? Nigeria is indeed a very funny country. The Conference of Minority Tribes of Nigeria (CMTN), has said it will drag the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague following the alleged killings of some Fulani herdsmen in Abia State. CMTN Coordinator, Babalola (middle) The group which condemned the killings of the northerners, described it as a crime against humanity. Recall that bikerings have followed the allegations by the Department of State Services, DSS, Abuja Headquarters, that members of IPOB killed some Fulani herdsmen in Abia State, and dumped them in gutters. But this allegation, the separatist group, other groups, as well as the Abia State government, has denied, describing it as a lie from the pit of hell. In separate press statements, they condemned the DSS, accusing the nation's secret police of wanting to spark another ethnic pogrom in Nigeria. However, addressing a press conference on Monday, in Abuja, Secretary General of CMTN, Comrade Samson Babalola said these alleged killings marked a new low in what had been cordial relations between ethnic nationalities in Nigeria that have always accepted each other as family. He said other ethnic groups strongly condemned government forces when it clamped down on IPOB' protests and had even planned sympathy marches in support of IPOB and its leaders that are being detained. Babalola said, "However, by killing these innocent people, whose only offence is possibly that they were of a different ethnic stock from IPOB, these separatists have proven that they do not deserve and must never get the backing of other tribes and ethnic nationalities in the country." He warned that if not urgently tackled, the new dimension may lead to the Rwanda Genocide of 1990, in which members of one ethnic group tried to wipe out the other. He said further, "it is also not too early to begin to monitor the online activities of IPOB members that are carrying out their own brand of radicalisation. They work hard to build public anger against anything Nigerian online making it difficult for their moderate sympathisers to contribute to national discourse without coming under threats. This has greatly shrunken the space for intellectual discourse and actively endorsed promotion of violence against the state as a precondition for being considered loyal to IPOB ideals." He explained that there are rules internationally set out for pursuing self-determination and this is the only acceptable option for those with the intellectual bend of mind as the murderous campaign of the paid killers running IPOB violates every known norm. He said, "the Conference of Minority Tribes will drag those named by the DSS in these killings before the ICC. We had earlier condemned in totality the incessant herders clash with farmers which Nigerians can attest to and the principle of justice and fairness demands that every Nigerian should speak up when there is any perceived injustice in the land. "This is an unbearable narrative that must be condemned by all irrespective of tribal or ethnic affiliations. It is a matter of time before IPOB separatists turn on the rest of us if we remain silent on this matter. As for those sponsoring this national blight called IPOB, it is not too late to return to the path of national integration." Vanguard April 12, 2016 Ike A. Offor 3 thoughts on "Alleged Death Of Fulani Herdsmen in Abia: Group Threatens To Drag IPOB To ICC" Dr. Benneth Onoh says: The Conference of Minority Tribes of Nigeria (CMTN) allegedly headed by one Yoruba sounding name Samson Babalola, had fallen short of listing which ethnic minorities in Nigeria that is under his representation or rather he is protecting their interest. But an outright point of correction to Mr. Babalola is that the Fulani Caliphate in Nigeria is not a minority Tribe. I have always maintained that one of the most difficult things in life is to lye or rather to fabricate things, because one ends up being consistent in inconsistency which in turn exposes his or her incompetence. According to Mr. Babalola himself the DSS knows the details of the killing and the shallow Grave in Abia to the extent that they could mention some names of People who allegedly were involved in the killings whom Mr. Babalola intend to drag to Hague. I seriously praise the meticulousness of the DSS here. But that exactly raises the serious question of their competence on the other hand. Singling out the Shiite Massacre among other atrocities committed under the watch of the present government and their Security forces for example, If the same Nigeria Security forces including the DSS that has consistently denied the massacre of over 300 Shiite which we are now learning were allegedly buried in a mass grave in Kaduna, but was never discovered by the DSS or any other Security Agency could meticulously discover a shallow Grave in Abia allegedly containing a few supposedly Killed Fulanis herdsmen, with all the details Mr Babalola enumerated. It raises some serious questions about the DSS, 1. Is there something wrong with their investigative competence in the Shiite massacre? 2. Could they have probably known more than they admitted in the Shiite Massacre ? 3. Were they sectarian in their investigation in the Shiite Massacre? Whichever way the answer goes something is definitely wrong. Haven said that, killing of fellow human being remains the gravest offense of all Society and has nothing to look for in our society in the 21st Century. It is for this reason that there is a Government in place to checkmate human excesses hoping that the same government which one seriously doubts in the case of Nigeria government of the day does not turn to excesses themselves. Interestingly Mr Babalola admits that the Nigerian Government is already on investigation in this case, be it genuine or fabricated. The simple fact Mr. Babalola should have known is that ICC has its Mandate in such cases where the Government of the Land is not doing anything like the Massacre of the Shiite , the Agatu Incident the shooting down in open daylight of peaceful demonstrators by the same Government that should protect lives and property of its citizens etc. But on a more serious note to Mr Babalola over his statement "He warned that if not urgently tackled, the new dimension may lead to the Rwanda Genocide of 1990, in which members of one ethnic group tried to wipe out the other". Should there be any form of Orchestrated genocide in Nigeria, he Mr Babalola would be directly held responsible for this well conspired inciting Statement. We are watching. Ike A. Offor says: Brilliant indeed. I made the same observation concerning those he represents, since the Fulani tribe is not a minority group. His personal hate of the Igbos is what is driving him to jump into conclusion and make threats. The killings have been linked to kidnappers and not to any Biafran group. CLIFF O UDEALA says: There is nothing 'comrade' in Samson Babalola but a criminal, an impostor and impersonator with his so called CTMN. Somebody must educate him about the meaning of the word minority before himself and his group start classifying Hausafulani, Igbos or his Yoruba tribes as minorities in a nation with over 250 ethnic groups with diverse languages. Where have Samson Babalola and his group been during the annihilation of the Berons, Jokuns, Gwaris,Tivs, Domas,Itshekiris, Binis, the people of Southern Kaduna, or even his ethnic Yorubas in Ondo, Ekiti and Lagos and most recently the Agatus? Is Babalola Samson not aware that fulani herdsmen have killed over 20 Igbos in their farm lands and ravaged their crops worth over a billion naira? Since the dss and the government cannot do anything to protect them, should they not protect themselves. I think Samson and his unknown group is dishing out DSS script to justify their incitement for genocide against Igbos. There is no life that is not valuable!

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Why a Trip to explore The Hague should be on your Bucket list When you think of The Netherlands, you think of Amsterdam. Its grand canals, its cute houses, its thousands of bikes and probably its direct yet friendly-in-their-own-way locals. But what if I told you that there's far more to the Netherlands than simply Amsterdam? Sure, it's a small country and most other, major cities are easily accessible for a daytrip. But spending a few hours in them won't do them anything even close to justice. As a Dutchie living in a city that is not Amsterdam, I am calling for all travelers to explore the beauty other cities have to offer. Or well, lets be honest: I want you to explore The Hague. Explore The Hague: The Second Capital Just an hour south of Amsterdam lies our political capital: The Hague. The Dutch call it Den Haag, or more formally 's-Gravenhage, but I won't hold it against you if you can't pronounce that. It translates to the "Duke's Forest", after the 13th century Duke of Holland who loved the area so much he built a castle to hunt in the forests around it. He invited his fellow dukes of Europe to come to The Hague to discuss the governance of their lands, and as time went by The Hague grew to be the political capital of the Netherlands. Even though Amsterdam is the official capital and the one dealing with the most tourists, the Dutch houses of Parliament are in The Hague, centered around the medieval Binnenhof square (tours depart several times per day across the street at ProDemos, Hofweg 1). Besides national politics, The Hague is also home to many international institutions. Though most of them are closed to the public, the famous Peace Palace can be admired from outside. It was built in 1913, and houses (amongst others) the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The annual International Open Day in September allows you to take a tour of these otherwise restricted institutions. Explore The Hague: For Foodies & Club Hoppers Over recent years, the city has worked hard to make itself more attractive to young people. And, successfully so: just last year, the University of nearby city Leiden moved one of their faculties to The Hague, so their Governance and Global Affairs students can be closer to where it all actually happens. With the influx of young students comes a boost for The Hague's nightlife and restaurant/bar scene. One of the latest additions is Bleyenberg, opened June 2017, located just off the bustling Grote Markt. Bleyenberg is a restaurant/bar on the ground floor and a trendy rooftop bar on the 3rd floor. Wait – rooftop? Third floor? Yes – Dutch soil isn't very suitable for high rise buildings, so enjoying the view over the city is even possible for people with a fear of heights. For those of you who'd like to go higher, you can climb the 288 steps to the top of the Haagse Toren ("Hague Tower"). But, it doesn't end there: Bleyenberg also has a 24-hour techno club in the basement, called Het Magazijn ("the warehouse"). Be aware, nightlife in the Netherlands is notoriously casual – no need for painful feet as you can just rock the dancefloor in jeans and sneakers. The local nightlife stretches far beyond the main hubs (which are Grote Markt and the less informal Plein). The Zeehelden quarter is famous for cute little bars and restaurants, hidden away on unexpected lively squares in the middle of residential areas. The quarter is active on social media and has its own blog – giving you enough inspiration to never see the rest of the city and get lost in its little boutiques and charming cafes. The Hague has been strongly developing to draw more and younger people to the city. Both Hofhouse and Minglemush are collections of mini restaurants in an informal setting – perfect if you're not sure yet what to eat. Think food court, but better. The previously boring business area of Binkhorst has undergone a transformation, and now is a youthful integral part of The Hague, housing Bink36, an office building but with an epic rooftop bar which hosts regular parties; Mama Kelly, a classic restaurant in trendy industrial setting; and last but not least, The Hague's own craft beer brewery 'Kompaan'. Explore The Hague: Relax by Scheveningen The Hague does not need to work too hard to make itself more attractive than it already is. With close proximity to the beach, it has an all-round attraction. Even though there are plenty of European cities by the sea, none can quite compare to ours. The Hague's beach area is called Scheveningen – again, I won't hold it against you if you can't pronounce it. On January 1st, the Dutch have a peculiar tradition that originates in Scheveningen. On this new year's day, we battle through our hangovers and make our way to the beach for the traditional New Year's Plunge. Sausage and soup manufacturer Unox traditionally sponsors the event, handing out bright orange hats and gloves and warm pea soup. Throughout the rest of the year, Scheveningen offers a seaside boulevard with a newly restored pier with restaurants, shops, a Ferris wheel and even a bungee platform 60 meters above the North Sea waters. Explore The Hague: Thriving Art Scene However, The Hague has much more in store than entertaining yet slightly weird traditions and an active nightlife. The city has known a lively art scene throughout the 20th century and now offers a wide variety of museums to enjoy, such as the Mauritshuis (home to the famous Girl with a Pearl Earring), Escher in het Paleis ("Escher in the Palace", dedicated to the genius drawings of M.C. Escher), the unique Panorama Mesdag (a gorgeous, 360 painting that takes you to the beach even on a rainy day), the Gemeente Museum (changing collections of modern and post-modern art, in a typical Art Deco building) or the Gevangenpoort ("Prison Gate", if you're more into history) – to name a few. As a Dutchie who spent her early 20s in Amsterdam but recently moved cities, The Hague gives me enough room to breathe, yet still enough incentives to keep exploring. After having fallen in love myself, I would love nothing more than for fellow travelers to experience the same beauty – but ssshhh… we'll keep it our secret, and just leave all those ignorant tourists on the crowded streets of Amsterdam. This is a guest post by Emma Bakels. Emma is a 25 year old student who recently moved to The Hague (Netherlands) after having spent 6 years in wild wild Amsterdam. She is an avid traveler, currently able to tick 43 countries across 4 continents off her list (but who's counting?). Her all time favorites are Vietnam, South Africa and the Faroe Islands – and the latter definitely being the most special place she has visited so far. Follow her adventures on Instagram @emma.charlotteb! 7 Unmissable Experiences in Croatia: From Mountains to Island Hopping The Travelettes Guide to Lisbon Photos which will whisk you away to Chile's Rainbow City of Valparaiso Top 6 things to do in Berlin during summer Tags city guide, city travel, city trip, off the beaten track, the hague Are you and your backpack going on an exciting trip and you would like to share your experiences? Do you live in a beautiful place and want others to know all of its secrets? Then write to us ay [email protected] and tell us about the story you would like to contribute. Find out more: www.travelettes.net/contribute/ by Charmaine Ng | Architecture & Lifestyle Blog on September 25, 2017 12:48 am Reply Wow, I learned a lot about The Hague from this post. I didn't even know about it before. It seems super interesting and like a great place to visit, thank you for sharing! by Emma on September 25, 2017 10:07 am Reply Thank you so much, Charmaine! I hope you'll pay us a visit next time you are in the Netherlands - the Hague is definitely not to be missed. by Owen Langdale on September 25, 2017 5:51 am Reply Great article (was alerted to it by a friend in Melbourne). Love to add that both Leiden and Delft are super close to Den Haag too, plus marvellous things like Louwman Auto Museum, one of the finest car collections in the world. If you visit and miss Rotterdam you will fail to encounter some of the best modern architecture around, plus if you use NS (Dutch Rail) you can travel around this tiny country with great ease and at little cost. Second time living in NL and although my current city is Den Haag I still love where I first lived, Utrecht, even more - just like Amsterdam but older and less crowded. Thank you so much for the additions, Owen! You are completely right - both Leiden and Delft are only 10 minutes and Rotterdam no more than 30 minutes by train from The Hague. But of course, with all that The Hague has to offer, like the Louwman Museum, you wouldn't need (want!) to go anywhere else ;-) by Steph on September 25, 2017 8:03 am Reply Never even heard of The Hague but it definitely sounds super cool and makes a change to Amsterdam. www.wanderlustpulse.com I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed the article, Steph! I do hope The Hague is now on your radar for any upcoming visits to the Netherlands :-) by Crete Senesi on September 26, 2017 11:53 am Reply Thank you so much for sharing this post. by Emma on September 27, 2017 4:53 am Reply You're Welcome, Crete! I hope you enjoyed it :) by Edana on November 7, 2017 9:47 am Reply I was in The Hague back in July and it was really nice to go somewhere that's not a huge touristy city. Would love to go back to Scheveningen for a weekend getaway :)

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MI6 chief warns Russian-style 'hybrid warfare' poses threat to democracies "The risks at stake are profound and represent a fundamental threat to our sovereignty," Alex Younger said. By Tom Porter Updated December 8, 2016 16:23 GMT The head of MI6 warned, on 8 December, that cyber attacks, propaganda, and subversion by hostile foreign states pose a "fundamental threat" to democracies. In his major speech on Thursday (8 December), the new head of the British foreign intelligence service, Alex Younger, also criticised Russian policy in Syria, claiming it risked alienating those whose support is necessary for defeating Islamic extremism. More from IBTimes UK Democrats urge Obama to reveal extent of Russian electoral interference MI6 spy building in London cordoned-off due to suspicious package Chilcot report: MI6 head backed intelligence about Saddam's WMDs given by 'proven liar' The Kremlin has been accused of waging a 'hybrid warfare' campaign to subvert Western states, and interfering in the US presidential election. "The connectivity that is at the heart of globalisation can be exploited by states with hostile intent to further their aims deniably," he said, at the speech in MI6 headquarters in Vauxhall Cross, London. He said British intelligence officers were increasingly having to counter the "the increasingly dangerous phenomenon of hybrid warfare". "They do this through means as varied as cyber-attacks, propaganda or subversion of democratic process. Our job is to give the government the information advantage: to shine a light on these activities and help our country and our allies, in particular across Europe, build the resilience they need to protect themselves. "The risks at stake are profound and represent a fundamental threat to our sovereignty. They should be a concern to all those who share democratic values." He criticised Kremlin policy in Syria, where the Russia has waged a military campaign in support of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, and has been accused of deliberately targetting schools and hospitals by human rights organisations. Alex Younger criticised Russian policy in Syria FCO "Russia seeks to make a desert and call it peace," he said of the Russian bombing of Aleppo. "The human tragedy is heart-breaking. "I believe the Russian conduct in Syria, allied with that of Assad's discredited regime, will, if they do not change course, provide a tragic example of the perils of forfeiting legitimacy. "In defining as a terrorist anyone who opposes a brutal government, they alienate precisely that group that has to be on side if the extremists are to be defeated." He said the threat to Britain from terror groups including Isis would not recede unless the Syrian civil war comes to an end. He said that 12 terror plots had been disrupted by British intelligence since July, 2013, and that maost emanated from ungoverned spaces in the Middle East. Related topics : Russia

Can the US do anything about domestic propaganda/misinformation? vi edit It starts with a population that is willing if not wanting to be sensationalized and radicalized. You try and ban/block one avenue of "information" (note intentionally not using word news) but they will just seek out even more fringe and radical outlets. zinfamous [DHT]Osiris said: This is basically /thread. An educated populace is inoculated to falsehoods, and a happy, healthy (read: not indentured servants) populace is inoculated to extremism and pandering. It's why there has been a long, directed assault against things like "a liberal education." It's a word that absolutely does not mean what the conservative derposphere has long convinced their zealots it means. It does mean democrat. It does not mean leftists, but this is the definition that has been plugged in to their brains for so long, that you see this nonsense repeated ad nauseum here, without a single attempt by any of these people to ever question what that actually means. They "know," because all they "know" is whatever truths they need to tell themselves. Classically, and fundamentally to this day--a liberal education simply means a diverse, well-rounded exposure to all forms of knowledge--It's not just science and math, but the pillars of knowledge that have existed just as long, and are still just as fundamentally important: the classics, philosophy, art...all of those things. They are fundamental for critical thinking, and for creating actual functioning adults. This is why, while there is this directed assault on what that means, you now have people that seem to believe that the only purpose of education is STEM, because that is all society needs...this is observably, disastrously false, and it isn't any other way. At the same time, you have the same type of morons that claim these things, bitching and moaning that China and Japan are destroying us in education! We can't compete? Uh...why? It's because you dillholes have been systematically trying to dismantle what we have always done best with education--real critical thinking. Real creative, highly educated adults. STEM is only half, maybe less of any kind of real education. If you think rote memorization of fundamental laws is all there is to life, then you probably deserve the misery that you have absolutely brought upon yourself. ...and of course, this all plays into the same assault on education, explicitly by the GOP over the last several decades: convince the rubes that they just need to be unquestioning, functioning automatons that are highly-functional tech wizzes, they will never challenge what is going on around them. They won't care to observe, won't care to think for themselves, because they will be fat and happy in what is, fundamentally, a mediocre life compared to the trajectory that it was on 4 decades ago--when we decided to take all of their wealth from them, and give it to their bosses. They will be "happy enough," never accepting or ever believing that they are fundamentally valued at 60-70% less than what they were worth in the mid-70s. ...We took that from them, but they will never care, because they no longer trust "the elites," they are incapable of critical thinking and thus forming any kind of rational argument when challenged by the actual smart people that point out these fundamental facts to them--but it doesn't matter, because they don't care. They don't know what they don't know, so while they will continue to fail in defending what is their actual mediocrity, it won't matter because they don't believe. Truth is belief, and that is all they care about. Their brains are our prisoners, and that is all we ever wanted of them. Keep them fat and content, they will never know the theft that we have been funneling from them for decades. This, quite plainly, is modern conservatism. It is the plain truth, and best explained the then-scion of conservatism in his time, Barry Goldwater, and what he predicted is exactly what is, today, the modern conservative: ignorant to the core because they fundamentally lack the tools to know what they don't know--because faith is truth. Facts aren't facts when faith is all that matters. These are dangerous people, to any democracy. It simply can not work with them participating. You can't talk to these people. You can't rationalize with them, because they have been conditioned from childhood to invent their own truths, and so they only find comfort in a political party that allows this expressly, and simply demands of them that they never question, never challenge. Remain fat and happy, distrust and smear those "elites" that mock your ignorance, that challenge your belief...oh but trust us. because we are the best! Reactions: Victorian Gray and vi edit [DHT]Osiris zinfamous said: Great write-up, and good summary. Elitism is actually Intellectualism. Anti-intellectualism is actually pro-ignorance and pro-stupidity. The Republican party, for the last 50-odd years, has benefited directly from pro-ignorance propaganda, and pro-stupidity constituents. Weak men who have forgotten the faces of their fathers. Reactions: zinfamous VRAMdemon No simple answers for this complex problem. Low and no information voters are still going to be low and no information. They adore a President who is personally eroding trust in true journalism, telling the low/no info voters it is okay to disregard news that is inconvenient. It's barely a band-aid trying to cover a 12" long gash. "The problem," said the theater manager gravely, "is not the people who keep screaming 'FIRE!!!' It's the gullible idiots who believe it, and trample each other to death trying to escape." dawp said: should have mentioned all the tax money spent on trumps golf trips which far exceeds Obamas and the impeachment. send her this link to really piss her off Trump Golf Count: Tracking President Trump's golf outings so you don't have to! trumpgolfcount.com Also remind her that Mueller's investigation turned up a net profit of something like $15 million, iirc, after reclaiming all that stolen money from all those witches that were convicted (especially Manafort) I think the worst thing that has happened to this country was when the last living conservative (of his time or our time), George HW Bush was defeated in the primaries by Reagan. Conservatism died in that moment. Bush is the guy that coined "voodoo economics," and I am certain that not one single, living conservative remembers, or even knows this. He knew that Reagan was full of horseshit. He knew that supply-side economics was nothing but grifting the middle-class to forever trap wealth into the hands of the already-preposterously-and-undeserved wealthy. He knew it. And of course it was the post-Reagan republican mindfuck on the people, to create this absolute myth that Reagan was some kind of "saint" of conservatism, when every single observable economic and policy metric that you can pin on Reagan tells a completely, inarguably, different story. Conservatives today are completely mindfucked. They simply do not know what they do not know. I keep hoping one day someone will open a doomsday vault to find a family of conservatives living inside, including a 90-yo 'old world' father, with his 70-something son (hopefully with a gal that came in with them) and their 50-something grandson who's this pinnacle of true Republicanism from when they actually had legs to stand on. That kid then runs for president under the R ticket. That's about the only thing that would recover the Republican party at this point. When Mitt Romney is being tore down by his own party for being a "RINO", good luck with that. There is no saving the Republican party. Its new inhabitants don't want to be saved. vi edit said: They'd have to ride in on a golden chariot and slay all the existing members of the party, like some resurrection of Alexander the Great or something. compuwiz1 Admin Emeritus Elite Member Epstein didn't kill himself? No one really believes he did. hal2kilo Zorba said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine - Killed by Reagan Strict ownership limits and controls - Killed by Clinton We used to have means of controlling propaganda, given to us by FDR, killed by the deregulation masturbatory fantasy. Someone remembers when things were, well, normal. ivwshane Lost_in_the_HTTP said: You spelled right wingnut extremists wrong. Indeed. I should have included the eye roll tag but I figured everyone knows the "liberal education indoctrination" meme. Eliminating FAUX Nooze and other disinformation plagues like Breitbart would be a start. While I agree, the question would be how does that happen legally and without back firing. I don't think you can block what people want to look at but I think you may be able to block what businesses are able to disseminate.

In February 2018, Abu Dhabi Ports signed a shareholder agreement with Autoterminal Barcelona – a member of Spain-based Noatum Maritime Group – to create Autoterminal Khalifa Port, a new joint venture (JV) company. Under a 15-year concession, the new entity will manage the RoRo/Car Terminal at Khalifa Port and progressively expand the existing car terminal to 300,000 m2. Currently, the 550 m of dedicated quay can accommodate two deep-sea vessels at the same time. Autoterminal Khalifa Port will build upon Autoterminal Barcelona's experience to twin the success in UAE in various areas. Autoterminal Khalifa Port aims to create the best Ro-Ro terminal in the Middle East. It will be able to store approximately 17,000 vehicles in optimal conditions while ensuring perfect traceability. With highly efficient storage and berthing, the facility will be able to process a high volume of vehicles. The joint venture will transform the port into the regional automotive shipping hub for the Lower and Upper Gulf, Western India and East Africa. With rail transport being a vital driver for growth in the vehicle supply chain, the port will also be the first in the UAE to be linked to the new Etihad Rail network, which is currently under construction. to meet customer needs for value-added services. Required for used vehicles, and the handling of High and Heavy Cargo, which represents an important market for Abu Dhabi Ports. and monitoring the quality management systems in the terminal.

Radiation from wireless technology affects the blood, the heart, and the autonomic nervous system1) Magda Havas From the journal Reviews on Environmental Health https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2013-0004 Exposure to electrosmog generated by electric, electronic, and wireless technology is accelerating to the point that a portion of the population is experiencing adverse reactions when they are exposed. The symptoms of electrohypersensitivity (EHS), best described as rapid aging syndrome, experienced by adults and children resemble symptoms experienced by radar operators in the 1940s to the 1960s and are well described in the literature. An increasingly common response includes clumping (rouleau formation) of the red blood cells, heart palpitations, pain or pressure in the chest accompanied by anxiety, and an upregulation of the sympathetic nervous system coincident with a downregulation of the parasympathetic nervous system typical of the "fight-or-flight" response. 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Useful information about Marsa Matruh city in Egypt By Transfer Egypt Tours. Marsa Matruh lies 290 km. West of Alexandria and 222 km. from Sallum. The distance from Cairo to Matrouh is 524 km. It lies on a bay on the Mediterranean and is distinguished by its seven km. long beach, which-as all visitors have testified-is one of the most beautiful in the world. The beach is famous for its white soft sands and calm transparent waters, for the bay is protected from the high seas by a series of rocks forming a natural wave-breaker, with a small opening to allow light vessels in. This beach dates back to the days of Alexander, the Macedonian, when it was known as "Paraetonium" and also as "Amunia". It said that Alexander the Great stopped there during his historical expedition to pay tribute, and sacrifice, to the god Amun, at Siwa, so that he becomes Amun's son and his rule be a historical continuation of the pharaohs. There are ruins of a temple from the time of Rameses II (1200 B.C.) in Matrouh. Built the Ptolemies, the remains of the naval installations still stand west of the port. Built the early Coptic age, and contains several caves bearing inscriptions. A cave, hewn in the rock, where Rommel drew up plans of his military operations. It has now been turned into a military museum. About 28 km. west of Marsa Matrouh, it is distinguished by its numerous natural caves and enchanting scenery. Places to visit in Marsa Matrouh The British Cemetery: Thousands upon thousands of rock-hewn tombstones stand straight rows amidst a fenced garden. The British Cemetery: The German Cemetery: It is a fortress like memorial that was built on a high overlooking the sea. The Italian Cemetery: It is a high tower fort standing on a high hill. The walls of the building are covered with marble.

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JimL sez, "Originally published in the July 1922 edition of FLAPPER magazine, this dictionary went into some detail, listing the group's slang and providing definitions. In the process, it also provided an insight: through the slang we can begin to discern attitudes and priorities and the mindset of the adherents. And the adherents, after all, were our grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Who knew?" Absent Treatment--Dancing with a bashful partner. Apple Knocker--A hick; a hay-shaker. Barlow--A girl, a flapper, a chicken. Bank's Closed--No petting allowed; no kisses. Bell Polisher--A young man addicted to lingering in vestibules at 1 a.m. Bean Picker--One who patches up trouble and picks up spilled beans. Berry Patch--A man's particular interest in a girl. Big Timer--(n. masc.)--A charmer able to convince his sweetie that a jollier thing would be to get a snack in an armchair lunchroom; a romantic.

QFQI 2011 AT Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 16~17, NOVEMBER. We invite you to participate in "The International Meeting on Quantum Foundations and Quantum Information 2011" (QFQI) 2011. The meeting will be held at Seoul National University from November 16 - 17, 2011. The purpose of this meeting is to promote exchanges of ideas and discussions among leading scientists and students working on the foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information. The meeting is hosted by Center for Macroscopic Quantum Control (Seoul National University), and supported by Quantum Information Group (Hanyang University), Center for Theoretical Physics (Seoul National University), BK21 Frontier Physics Research Division (Seoul National University) and WCU-SNU BEC Group (Seoul National University).

Death of a Classmate - Alan Shirley CHRISTNER -20th Co. Alan Shirley CHRISTNER, 86, passed away peacefully at home on March 1, 2019 after an eight-month battle with cancer. Alan was born in Pittsburgh, PA on November 22, 1932. He leaves behind his beloved and devoted wife of 38 years, Margaret Christner; and a large, loving family of six children and their spouses that include, Alan and Michele Christner III, Edward and Charity Christner, Richard and Karen Christner, Pamela Ann Christner, Kathy and Alan Giner, and Karen and Kevin Good. He was also "Opa" to his 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. We also wish to recognize the loving care and comfort provided by the staff of Suncoast Hospice and Visiting Angels. Alan was a United States Naval Academy graduate, Class of 54', a fighter pilot, and a retired Lt. Colonel, Squadron Commander, 27th Tactical Fighter Squadron, MacDill AFB, FL. Following his Air Force career, Alan graduated from Stetson Law School and enjoyed many successful years practicing law on Indian Rocks Beach with his wife Margaret. He was also an avid tennis and golf player. A one-hour Celebration of Life will be held on Friday, March 29 at 11:30 a.m. at Serenity Funeral Home, 13401 Indian Rocks Road, followed by his interment at Bay Pines National Cemetery, 10000 Bay Pines Boulevard, at 1:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society. Keep 'em, Flying Alan! Published in the Tampa Bay Times from Mar. 3 to Mar. 17, 2019 Serenity Funeral Home & Serenity Gardens Memorial Park 13401 Indian Rocks Road

Finding patterns helps us make sense of our world, break down complicated issues and predict how certain events might unfold. It also plays a critical role in understanding a complex biological issue: cancer. Joshua Hiller, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics and computer science at Adelphi, recently completed two research reports in mathematical carcinogenesis, a field devoted to developing mathematical models for the way cancer develops in the body. His reports have yielded surprising discoveries that could transform cancer treatment and prevention, and potentially save lives. In his first report, "Characteristic Patterns of Cancer Incidence," Dr. Hiller and his team analyzed 1,200 cancer studies published over 60 years across six continents to find common themes about how those cancers developed. "We were trying to figure out exactly what a good mathematical model should look like," Dr. Hiller said. The risk of getting cancer is high early on, but if it doesn't appear by a certain age, usually around 20, then the risk is low, but gradually increases similar to a power law. This pattern commonly applies to childhood cancers and cancers caused by sexually transmitted diseases. The risk of cancer decreases in extreme old age, a fact that existing biological models can't explain. Dr. Hiller and his team proposed that this happens because human tissue regenerates less as people age, so there are fewer opportunities for cancer to form. With these insights, scientists could potentially develop new ways to help prevent, diagnose and treat cancer worldwide. In the second study, "Asymptotic Relative Risk Results from a Simplified Armitage and Doll Model of Carcinogenesis," Dr. Hiller and his team used mathematical models to figure out the probability of cancer appearing in two groups: former smokers and organ transplant recipients. Former smokers are always at an increased risk of developing lung cancer. However, that increased risk decreases over time. Organ transplant recipients have an increased risk of developing all types of cancer. Unlike former smokers, their risk increases with time. Based on these discoveries, Dr. Hiller and his team recommended specific methods of cancer screenings that doctors could implement. "Clinicians should continue to monitor people who have stopped smoking, treating them as smokers for five more years or so," Dr. Hiller said. "They can lower the amount of surveillance after that." This is less costly and invasive than administering increased screenings indefinitely. For transplant recipients, the team recommends increasing the frequency and range of surveillance over time, since their risk of developing all types of cancer increases. These checks for transplant recipients will be more costly and invasive than they are for former smokers—but they will also be most effective. Dr. Hiller's research demonstrates the importance of mathematics in the field of cancer research. He hopes to share his methods with his Adelphi students by offering a course in mathematical oncology, which involves using math to study and treat tumors. October 31, 2018 Adelphi Professor Is a Leading Voice in Understanding Leadership News Jean Lau Chin, Ed.D., a professor at Adelphi University's Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology and a recognized authority on leadership, spent six months studying global and diverse leadership as the 2018 Fulbright Scholar as Distinguished Chair at the University of Sydney in Australia. October 3, 2018 In Marine Biology, Classes Are a Shore Thing News Science classes at Adelphi often incorporate field study. The marine biology class taught by Aaren Freemen, Ph.D., virtually revolves around it, engaging in what Dr. Freeman calls "boots in the mud type of work."

There has been a consistent theme drummed out by the Blitzboks in Singapore this week' where they are preparing for the eighth leg of the 2017/18 World Sevens Series – 'focus and process'. Coach Neil Powell believes the side veered from their usual script of staying in the moment at the recent Commonwealth Games. Their lacklustre performance on the Gold Coast was put down to a team too fixated on outcomes rather than focused on the minutiae within a game. By thinking of end results' the Blitzboks' standards dropped as minds were not fully engaged with immediate tasks. Powell has been driving the message of 'process' home all week. The players have taken up the script as they look to maintain and even build on their slender three-point lead over Fiji at the top of the standings. "Follow the process and the result will look after itself'" forward Dylan Sage said. South Africa face Samoa in game one on Saturday followed by Canada and Argentina in Pool C. "This is without doubt a very competitive series and teams such as Fiji and New Zealand are playing fantastic sevens at the moment'" said Sage. Captain Kyle Brown was on script too: "We often said one game will not define us or what we stand for as a Springbok Sevens team' yet that second half performance against England in the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast was one that did show some shortcomings in our attitude'" said Brown. "We were in fact defined by that one game as it also knocked us off the podium and we left Australia without a medal' disappointing many' including ourselves." To help with sharpen minds and re-energise the squad Powell included six youngsters from the SA Sevens Academy in the squad for Singapore. They did duty in round seven in Hong Kong and earned third – a superb result considering their inexperience. "There can be no doubt that some of the new guys in the squad brought some energy and excitement and reminded some of the more established players what if felt like. "It impacted on all of us'" said Brown' now South Africa's second most experienced player ever. "Good performances in Hong Kong were rewarded and those guys can again show what they are capable of. "There is little sense in trying to shackle their energy and the way they play as that was what delivered them a medal in Hong Kong' so the senior heads in the team will provide the composure and sense of structure where needed.

La Salle tastes fourth defeat after misfiring against vengeful UP By Pen Al Ty Take this result as one for the process. With a first round win over the University of the Philippines Fighting Maroons under their belt, the De La Salle University Men's Football Team succumbed to a payback from the defending champions with a 0-2 loss, Sunday afternoon, at FEU-Diliman. La Salle conceded the first at the 8th minute. The defense failed to mark Karl Bugayong who headed the ball past goalie Gab Villacin from the corner at the 8th minute. Yoshi Koizumi and Mikio Umilin had sniffs at the Fighting Maroons' box, but luck was just not on La Salle's side. The game was then out of La Salle's reach early in the second half when UP skipper Kintaro Miyagi doubled his side's lead. It was a painful loss for the Green & White, but the path towards the Final Four is still in their hands. La Salle still has 13 points in the table and its next game will be against an Ateneo de Manila University side that is out for revenge on April 4, 2019, 3:30 PM. Previous articleLady Spikers Strike Back at Tigresses Next articleLady Spikers are, slowly but surely, finding championship form

Chris Heatherly is the EVP of Games & Digital Platforms for NBC Universal and is part of Universal Pictures' Brand Development Team. He oversees games across the NBCU IP portfolio for all platforms including mobile, PC, console and emerging platforms such as VR and AR. Prior to NBCU, Heatherly was at Disney for 14 years where he oversaw various businesses including mobile games and the Disney toy team. He has also worked for frog design where we was Chief Strategist, Power Computing, and Apple. He is an inventor with 45 granted patents. Kent Wakeford Kent Wakeford is co-founder and Vice Chairman of Gen.G esports, a leading esports team ownership group. Gen.G is home to numerous highly acclaimed esports teams including 'Seoul Dynasty' in the Overwatch League, the 2017 League of Legends World Champion team, as well as teams playing PUBG, Call of Duty, Fortnite and Apex Legends. Prior, Kent was COO of Kabam, where he helped grow Kabam to a globally diverse company with over 1,000 employees in 7 countries. Kabam games were played by over 500 million people around the world. Kent currently serves on the Board of Directors of Skillz, the leading mobile esports platform, FanAI, a data analytics platform connecting brands with tradition and esports teams, and is co-founder of Forte Labs, a blockchain technology company. Lisa Anderson is Senior Vice President of Studio Operations for Jam City. She oversees mobile development for Jam City's LA offices. Prior to joining Jam City Lisa spent 18 years at Disney and most recently was Vice President, Disney and Pixar Games at Disney Parks, Experiences and Products. While there she was responsible for Global game development across both internal and externally developed titles including the mobile hit Disney Emoji Blitz. Joanna Popper Joanna Popper is a Hollywood and Silicon Valley media executive with experience in TV, Digital, Film and VR/AR. She recently became HP's Global Lead for Virtual Reality Location Based Entertainment. Prior she was the EVP of Media and Marketing at Singularity University, a Google-sponsored NASA-based company that trains leaders on emerging technology, and VP Marketing at NBCUniversal. Joanna developed a TV show partnership with NBC and Singularity University for "The Awesome Show," a new broadcast TV series on tech and innovation produced by Mark Burnett with host Chris Hardwick. She is advising many immersive computing and digital media companies focused on VR gaming, holograms, haptic touch and video engagement as well as developing VR/AR content in the education and wellness spaces. She has spoken in the US and internationally on VR/AR, the future of media, retail, sports, journalism and diversity in tech. Joanna is on the Coalition for the Women in XR Fund and was selected as one of "50 Women Can Change the World in Media and Entertainment" by Take the Lead Women. Nanea Reeves Nanea brings over 15 years experience in digital distribution, video game technologies and mobile application development. Prior to founding TRIPP, Nanea was President & COO of TextPlus, one of the top mobile communications applications on iOS and Android platforms. Before joining TextPlus, Nanea was the COO of Machinima, an online video network focused on video games. Nanea has also served as Chief Strategy and Product Officer at Gaikai, a cloud gaming company acquired by Sony Playstation. SVP/COO, Global Online for Electronic Arts, and SVP of Enabling Technologies of JAMDAT Mobile, a mobile games company that EA acquired in 2006. Nanea is very committed to supporting the evolution of the technology sector in Los Angeles and has worked as an Advisor and Angel Investor with many exciting So-Cal start-ups including Oculus, Haku, and Saucey. 2018 Sessions by Nanea Reeves VIEW FROM THE TOP: THE STATE OF THE GAME INDUSTRY 11:30 pm – 12:00 pm Rishi Chadha Rishi leads Gaming Partnerships at Twitter, bringing exceptional content from global gaming leagues, esports franchises, publishers & developers, and gamers to fans in real time, while driving reach and revenue for these strategic partners and Twitter. Prior to joining Twitter in 2017, he spent time at Mobcrush, where he grew the mobile games live streaming platform to over 1 million monthly active users within 30 days of launch. As the vice president of content partnerships at Major League Gaming, he helped launch the company's live streaming platform, MLG.tv, and led strategic partnerships with top publishers, including Valve, to create programs like the first North American CS:GO major, MLG Columbus. Prior to Major League Gaming, Rishi focused his career on elevating the visibility of the gaming community at notable organizations such as Machinima and Gunnar Optiks. Rishi is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, where he received a BA in Economics. Follow him on Twitter at @RdotChadha. Chrissie Scelsi Chrissie Scelsi is U.S. General Counsel for Wargaming (USA), Inc., where she is responsible for legal and business matters for the company's operatings in the United States, including esports and licensing. Prior to joining Wargaming, she practiced in entertainment and new media law as principal of Scelsi Entertainment and New Media Law. Ms. Scelsi has served as in house counsel for an international game based-simulations company, where she was responsible for advising on software licensing matters, government contracting and regulatory compliance matters, trademarks, copyright, and corporate issues. She has served as an editor of the book Computer Games and Virtual Worlds: A New Frontier in Intellectual Property Law, which was published by the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law, is a chapter contributor to The American Bar Association's Legal Guide to Video Game Development, and is the author of the PunkLawyer Blog. Ms. Scelsi has served as the Chair of the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section of the Florida Bar. She has been named as one of the top eight Central Florida attorneys with Twitterati status by the Orlando Business Journal based on number of followers for her @punklawyer handle. Ms. Scelsi received her B.B.A. in marketing from Loyola University New Orleans, a J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law, and a LL.M. in Entertainment and Media Law from Southwestern School of Law. Craig Donato Craig Donato is the Chief Business Officer at Roblox. He currently oversees Business Development and Developer Relations. Prior to Roblox, Donato led Business Development and Monetization at Nextdoor, a social network for neighborhoods. He also was the CEO and co-founder of Oodle, a local community marketplace that was acquired by QVC in 2012. Donato holds an MBA from Stanford Business School and BS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. As President of Skybound Interactive, Dan Murray oversees the company's robust gaming business. He works closely with the industry's leading publishers, developers and investors to extend Skybound's IP into mobile and console games. Skybound's game slate includes Telltale's The Walking Dead series, Scopely's The Walking Dead: Road to Survival, Night School's Oxenfree, Free Range Games' Labyrinth, Disruptor Beam's The Walking Dead: March to War, and Other Ocean's Giant Cop: Justice Above All. In addition, Skybound Interactive has a handful of video game projects in the pipeline including Overkill's The Walking Dead. Prior to joining Skybound, Dan ran worldwide business development for Foundation 9 Entertainment, the largest independent videogame developer in the world creating franchise-based video games on every major platform. During this tenure he helped close over 60 major video game deals including Killer Instinct and Strider. Dan graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Finance. 2018 Session by Dan Murray VIEW FROM THE TOP: THE STATE OF THE GAME INDUSTRY 9:45 am – 10:30 am Bernard Kim Bernard Kim serves as Zynga's President of Publishing. He is a mobile gaming and interactive entertainment veteran with more than 15 years of experience. To-date, more than one billion people around the world have played Zynga's games, including the world's largest social poker game, Zynga Poker; the world's most popular mobile word game, Words With Friends; and the #1 Top Grossing Mobile Racing Game, CSR Racing 2. As Zynga's President of Publishing, Bernard is responsible for overseeing how the company brings these games and services to players through our network, consumer insights, product management, marketing, user acquisition, ad monetization, communications, business development and strategic partnerships. Prior to joining Zynga, Bernard spent nearly 10 years at Electronic Arts Inc., most recently as the company's Senior Vice President of Mobile Publishing. In that role, he oversaw EA's mobile distribution, strategy, product management, analytics, network engagement, marketing, revenue demand planning, business development, third-party publishing, mergers and acquisitions and Sandbox. During his tenure at EA, Bernard also led EA's games division in Asia and helped bring EA franchises including SimCity, Star Wars, The Sims, The Simpsons, Real Racing and EA SPORTS to billions of players. Prior to joining EA, Bernard served as Director of Sales and Channel Strategy at The Walt Disney Company, where he led sales and retail for Disney Mobile. Bernard holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Economics and Communications from Boston College. 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Revision taproom opens at Pignic in Reno; Imperial bar sells. A happy pig, it turns out, is a hoppy pig. The folks from Pignic Pub & Patio and Revision Brewing Co. of Sparks have opened a Revision taproom on the second floor of Pignic's renovated 1916 Craftsman home at 235 Flint St., just south of downtown Reno. Ryan Goldhammer and Trevor Leppek own Pignic, a bar and community grill and gathering spot. Revision, a fairly recent arrival to the Northern Nevada brewing scene, won a gold medal for its Revision IPA at the 2018 World Beer Cup. The Revision taproom is composed of a trio of themed rooms: the Study overlooking the front garden, the Trophy Room (darts and mounted Nevada wildlife) looking onto the grill yard, and the Parisian Powder Room (vintage vanities and boudoir art) with a view across the sun deck. The taproom offers more than a dozen Revision releases, classic cocktails with a twist from a bar inspired by the Gilded Age, and Revision packaged beer and growlers to go. There also are three televisions for game day. In other Reno bar news . . . Two weeks ago, I received an e-mail alert from BizBuySell, an online business marketplace, about an "Iconic Downtown Bar" in Reno that had been listed, a bar that helped establish the city's craft beer and cocktail culture. The listing agent could not reveal the name of the bar or other identifying information. Hmm. I tossed around a few names with a crafty colleague and eventually settled on Imperial Bar & Lounge, though a few details in the listing didn't seem to match Imperial. After that, I forgot about the mystery until this morning, when the owners of Imperial announced on social media they'd sold the bar after 12 years on Arlington Avenue. The BizBuySell listing, it turns out, wasn't for Imperial, according to the agent, but isn't it funny how coincidence works?

Pretty Maids Debut "My Soul To Take" Video Posted on March 10, 2014 by Skid in Needs Reviewed, Uncategorized // 0 Comments Pretty Maids have released a video for "My Soul to Take", taken from the upcoming album 'Louder Than Ever', due for release on March 21st in Europe and March 25th in North America through Frontiers Records. After celebrating their 30th Anniversary as a band and the release of their latest monumental release 'Motherland', the Danish melodic hard rockers are serving the fans with 'Louder Than Ever'. This is not a completely new album but consists of eight re-recorded classic songs from the 1995 to 2006 era plus four brand new songs specially written for this record and a special bonus DVD including archive footage from the '80s, brand new interviews, and plenty of cool material for the fans! "The reason for doing this project is to give those songs a different spin with the band and producer we have now," explains Pretty Maids singer Ronnie Atkins. It is an in-between album until the band completes the next studio album with new tunes. Pretty Maids will appear in the spring and summer in selected dates in support of the new album's release. Courtesy of www.sleazeroxx.com

​Bad Moms Christmas was on my radar for a while. I knew it starred incredible actresses and after I saw the trailer, I knew I had to see it, if I got the opportunity. I'd failed to see Bad Moms but the trailer for the sequel gave me hope that I could still enjoy Bad Moms Christmas without having seen the first film. That hope was absolutely fulfilled with fun, heart and Christmas cheer. ​Bad Moms Christmas, written and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, returns to the concept of the original film, that of three overworked and stressed out moms dealing with all the burdens of Christmas as well as the arrival of their own mothers, visiting and providing their own expectations to the holiday. Amy Mitchell (Mila Kunis) just wants a relaxing Christmas with her children, Jane (Oona Laurence), Dylan (Emjay Anthony) along with her new boyfriend Jessie (Jay Hernandez) and his daughter Lori (Ariana Greenblatt). Unfortunately, she doesn't get it. Another thing I noticed is that the storyline is predictable. There is the conflict between the three women along with their confrontation of their mothers. While it works, mostly due to the great lines, fantastic timing and acting on the part of all of the women, there were very few surprises. It played with familiar dynamics which will resonate with a wide audience but isn't groundbreaking.

Tryptophan depletion in SSRI-recovered depressed outpatients M. K. Spillmann, A. J W Van der Does, M. A. Rankin, R. D. Vuolo, Jonathan E. Alpert, A. A. Nierenberg, J. F. Rosenbaum, D. Hayden, D. Schoenfeld, M. Fava Rationale: Recently, a number of studies have challenged the finding that acute tryptophan depletion (TD) increases depressive symptoms in medicated, formerly depressed patients. The present study examined the effects of acute nutritional TD on remitted depressed patients currently treated with selective serotonin reup-take inhibitors. In an attempt to clarify conflicting earlier findings, the effects of a number of clinical variables on outcome were also investigated. Methods: Ten patients underwent TD in a double-blind, controlled, balanced crossover fashion. The control session followed the procedure of Krahn et al. (1996 Neuropsychopharmacology 15:325-328). Sessions were 5-8 days apart. Results: TD was significantly related to increased scores on clinician-rated depression and anxiety scales, and on self-rated depression, anxiety, and somatic symptoms. The control challenge had no effect, despite the fact that the reductions in plasma tryptophan during the control session were unexpectedly high. Some evidence was found for a threshold in the relationship between reduction of plasma tryptophan and mood response. Conclusions: The mood effect of TD in medicated, formerly depressed patients was confirmed. A threshold may exist for mood effects following TD, implying that recent negative findings may have been caused by insufficient depletion. No other predicting or mediating factors were identified, although the variable "history of response pattern to medication" deserves further study. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002130000669 Depression Antidepressant Mood effect Tryptophan depletion Spillmann, M. K., Van der Does, A. J. W., Rankin, M. A., Vuolo, R. D., Alpert, J. E., Nierenberg, A. A., ... Fava, M. (2001). Tryptophan depletion in SSRI-recovered depressed outpatients. Psychopharmacology, 155(2), 123-127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002130000669 Tryptophan depletion in SSRI-recovered depressed outpatients. / Spillmann, M. K.; Van der Does, A. J W; Rankin, M. A.; Vuolo, R. D.; Alpert, Jonathan E.; Nierenberg, A. A.; Rosenbaum, J. F.; Hayden, D.; Schoenfeld, D.; Fava, M. In: Psychopharmacology, Vol. 155, No. 2, 2001, p. 123-127. Spillmann, MK, Van der Does, AJW, Rankin, MA, Vuolo, RD, Alpert, JE, Nierenberg, AA, Rosenbaum, JF, Hayden, D, Schoenfeld, D & Fava, M 2001, 'Tryptophan depletion in SSRI-recovered depressed outpatients', Psychopharmacology, vol. 155, no. 2, pp. 123-127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002130000669 Spillmann MK, Van der Does AJW, Rankin MA, Vuolo RD, Alpert JE, Nierenberg AA et al. Tryptophan depletion in SSRI-recovered depressed outpatients. 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The control session followed the procedure of Krahn et al. (1996 Neuropsychopharmacology 15:325-328). Sessions were 5-8 days apart. Results: TD was significantly related to increased scores on clinician-rated depression and anxiety scales, and on self-rated depression, anxiety, and somatic symptoms. The control challenge had no effect, despite the fact that the reductions in plasma tryptophan during the control session were unexpectedly high. Some evidence was found for a threshold in the relationship between reduction of plasma tryptophan and mood response. Conclusions: The mood effect of TD in medicated, formerly depressed patients was confirmed. A threshold may exist for mood effects following TD, implying that recent negative findings may have been caused by insufficient depletion. No other predicting or mediating factors were identified, although the variable "history of response pattern to medication" deserves further study. 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Builder to settle with 85 workers in overtime case By Patrick J. McDonnell Pablo Nunez, a carpenter by trade, says he is accustomed to working 10-hour shifts, sometimes six days a week, on home-building sites throughout Southern California. But legally mandated overtime pay was almost as unheard of at job sites, he says, as visits from labor inspectors. "The only person getting overtime might be the brother of the foreman," Nunez said. The Corona resident is among 85 residential construction workers from California, Nevada and Arizona who will share $242,301 in unpaid wages after settling a federal lawsuit last month against a major home-builder, Boise, Idaho-based Building Materials Holding Corp. The suit, brought with the help of the Laborers' International Union of North America, alleged that the company and its subsidiaries systematically failed to pay employees for hours worked, did not provide overtime or breaks and kept workers off the clock while they traveled between job sites and waited for materials to arrive. The company denies the charges but agreed to settle the suit, said William Claster, an Irvine-based attorney for the firm. The company filed for bankruptcy in June. Claster declined further comment. But industry officials called wage theft an aberration. "It is essential that builders and subcontractors take care of their employees and follow employment and labor laws," said Julie Senter, a spokeswoman for the Building Industry Assn. of Southern California. "And we're confident the vast majority of the industry does just that." But advocates say the case illustrates how wage fraud is pervasive in the home-building industry, which relies heavily on immigrant labor, often hired through subcontractors. What is unusual in this case, they say, is that the workers found a legal recourse. Most victimized laborers don't have the know-how to file suits, experts say. A recent academic study surveyed more than 4,000 low-wage workers in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and found that employees in home construction and other industries are routinely victims of wage theft. In one finding, the study, by scholars from UCLA, the City University of New York and other institutions, noted that 76% of eligible workers surveyed were not paid the overtime mandated in federal law. Government enforcement of wage guidelines has been ineffective, the study found. The number of federal inspectors enforcing minimum wage and overtime laws declined by almost one-third between 1980 and 2007, researchers noted, while the nation's labor force grew by more than half. Wage theft was the norm in the home-construction industry even during the housing boom years, according to labor activists. But the practice worsened as home sales ebbed, critics say. As the bottom fell out of the market, many workers endured slashed hours and pay cuts as a prelude to unemployment. "It wasn't just the homeowners affected by all this, it was also these workers who were building the homes and creating wealth for others," said David Zacarias, organizing director for the Laborers' International Union of North America. The union, which is attempting to organize the largely non-union home-construction industry, says it has half a million members. Jose Ivan Carpio, who is among the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said he worked for three years for a Building Materials Holding Corp. subsidiary building condominiums in Orange County, earning as much as $14 an hour. Like others, he said he never received overtime, though he regularly put in 10 or more hours a day, often working Saturdays. As the industry slumped, Carpio said, his pay was slashed to $10 an hour and his hours dropped. He was recently laid off, he said, and is now working irregularly, living on savings and unable to send money back to his wife and two children in Mexico. "We helped this company make a lot of money," said Carpio, 29, "but we saw very little of it." Nunez, 38, said he has worked for decades in the housing industry, earning as much as $16 an hour as a skilled carpenter. He was able to buy a home and achieve a middle-class standard of living. But he lost his job as the industry crashed, he said, forcing him to sell his house and move with his family into an apartment shared with friends. "When times are good, the companies are pressuring you to work more and more hours," Nunez said. "But they never want to pay you what your work is truly worth." [email protected] Patrick J. McDonnell Patrick J. McDonnell is the Los Angeles Times Mexico City bureau chief and previously headed LAT bureaus in Beirut, Buenos Aires and Baghdad. A native of the Bronx, McDonnell is a graduate of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard.

by patlabelle45 January 30, 20177:22 pm You Win Some and You Lose Some; Bulldogs split games at the Dunk In the first of the two games the Girl's Basketball team controlled the play of the game for almost the entire game. Jr. Hannah Jerrier led the team with commanding post play dropping a double-double on the Sharon Eagles finishing with an astounding 26 points and 11 rebounds. Sr. Emma Murphy was also influential in the win tacking on another 13 points. Despite a late Eagles surge the team held on for a strong 58-49 win; the team's second in a row in what is showing up to be a late season charge for the Lady Bulldogs. The Dogs' will look to keep their winning ways going Tuesday February 3rd 6:30pm at Oliver Ames. As for the boys game, it was not the typical style of basketball fans were used to seeing. Uncharacteristic turnovers for key players, an inability to contest the three-ball or protect the paint plagued the Dogs' throughout. In typical Bulldog fashion it was a low scoring first half and despite all the mistakes a 23-18 lead for Sharon did not seem insurmountable. With that being said for nearly the entire game it felt as if Canton was on the brink of a comeback and to give credit where it is due the Eagles continued to respond with timely threes. After halftime Sharon never gave way to the lead and with some garbage time free throws ultimately won the game by a score of 62-53. (Jr.) Tony Harris led the Dogs' with 21 points while (Soph.) Devin Foster chipped in 8 of his own. The Dogs' will look to bounce back Tuesday February 3rd home at 6:30pm against Oliver Ames with playoffs on the line. As for the student section it's fair to say it was a great experience for those who attended. The court-side seats were something that even at at the high school level were awesome to watch from and the proximity to the court did not stop the cheers. Line of the Game: "I love Vin Diesel but that was a Fast Five!" In response to a five second call against the Bulldogs. Also second time a Fast and Furious movie has been mentioned in this blog..that series never dies. Hand up, not the best day for the Stoody but a frustrating game may have got to us a little bit #WeAreOntoOA P.S- Shoutout to CHS Cheer for coming out also a W for Canton in my opinion

BSV Quasar Upgrade Network Stats nChain's Road to Genesis and unlimited BSV scaling at CoinGeek Seoul CoinGeek The first day of CoinGeek Seoul was dedicated to Bitcoin's technical power, and there was a lot of talk about how Bitcoin is coming more powerful on its road to Genesis. Several developers from nChain, led by Technical Director Steve Shadders, took the stage to explain exactly what they're doing to bring Bitcoin SV (BSV) back into alignment with Satoshi's original vision, and allow it to scale the blockchain to an unlimited degree. Shadders began the discussion by giving a bit of a history on Bitcoin, describing how it was held back needlessly by Bitcoin Core developers. But now that it's following its original vision once again as BSV and being allowed to scale, it's showing very healthy growth, with constantly increasing transaction counts, block sizes, and usage, all positive indicators that its going in the right direction. He then teased a few big changes coming when BSV returns to its genesis. OP_RETURN, which was limited for so long, will soon have the ability to have multiple OP_RETURNs in the same transaction. Big numbers is coming to BSV, allowing it to have cryptography in script for the first time. It will also expand beyond the current three scripting options to have many more. One point he explained at length was the deprecation of Pay-to-script-hash (P2SH), which is being done for both technical and philosophical reasons. It's being made up for by the introducing of accumulator multisig, and dove deep into the code of how that will work. The goal of all this is to increase the security of zero confirmation transactions, or zero conf. Building confidence in zero conf is important to scaling, Shadders explained, because it builds confidence that bigger things can be done without a potential lack of security or funds. Shadders then introduced Daniel Connolly, Lead Developer of the Bitcoin SV node project, to explain to the crowd what Terranode is. "Terranode is bitcoin server software that has been rebuilt from the ground up for enterprise and scale," he explained simply. What it hopes to accomplish is 50,000 transactions per second, with big blocks and big transactions. It will do this with better messaging, allowing for large data and streaming data support. It will also have more efficient data stores, keeping only what's necessary to keep the blockchain going. Terranode already exists in an experimental stage, working on both the Mainnet and Scaling Test Network (STN). He also noted that a P2P system is currently in development. Next, John Murphy was welcomed to the stage. He is the Lead Developer of the Nakasendo SDK team. What is Nakasendo? If you've been following Dr. Craig Wright's writings, you'll already be familiar with the concept. It allows for public shared secrets or functions, without individual members giving up any privacy involuntarily. "You don't have a single private key, the private key has been split into multiple shares and these can be distributed across multiple parties or players," he said. Murphy conducted a live demonstration of working Nakasendo code for the audience, demonstrating that the tools to allow board members to make decisions for their enterprises on the blockchain is already within reach. Finally, Dr. Alex Mackay, a researcher at nChain, took the stage in the afternoon to talk about how simplified payment verification (SPV) can be introduced in a low bandwidth process to increase merchant adoption. To spread crypto adoption, Mackay noted, crypto payments have to get closer to how fiat payments work, and specifically, how we traditionally pay for items at a check-out counter. The customer needs to be able to spend BSV without being online, putting the burden on the merchant to broadcast the transaction. To do this, a low bandwidth SPV system is the solution. Customers will have wallets which can be offline the majority of the time, with only the ability to pay for transactions with contained block headers UTXOs, Input Txs and Merkle paths. Merchants, on the other hand, will have systems which can be branched throughout a location with a central hub, receiving those payments and broadcasting them to the blockchain. It's a system that may not be too far away from reality, as it's been built to work with BIP270. The folks at nChain hope that these new pieces of infrastructure will help BSV towards its goal of scaling, and every single element discussed by the team at CoinGeek Seoul does that in one way or another. Faster transactions, bigger blocks, and more possibilities are being promised to the users and enterprises who chose BSV. Bitcoin SVCoinGeek ConferenceCoinGeek SeoulGenesisNakasendonChainSPVTerranode Energy is the spirit of CoinGeek Seoul CoinGeek's conference in Seoul has barely started, but its theme is already clear. And you don't need to understand computer code to get it. Just walk the halls in Le Meridien hotel and you can feel it. It's all about energy. The energy in the Bitcoin SV ecosystem. The energy of entrepreneurship in China and the Far East. And the energy in prospect as Bitcoin SV continues to evolve as a technology, with its important Genesis upgrade just a few months ahead. The energy was palpable in the line of people waiting to get into the sold-out Bitcoin Association meetup at the top of the hotel opposite the conference venue last night. And it's obvious when you look at the crowded schedule of speakers at the two days of the conference, many of them making their first appearance on the platform that CoinGeek is offering them. They're not all new to the game. Some, like Stephan Nilsson, the founder of UNISOT, have spoken before. But 'regulars' such as Stephan have come to Seoul with even more confidence than they had at the CoinGeek Toronto conference back in May. Since then, Stephan has acquired investors, staff and – most important – potential customers who are knocking on his door, he says. His ambition, to provide supply chain tracking using the BSV blockchain, carries conviction because of his previous experience in the industry. Last year he was working out how the salmon industry in his native Norway could benefit from the security and detail that blockchain technology offers. Now he's working to produce an 'off the shelf' supply chain solution that could be used in any industry. Newcomers were actively encouraged to take part in the Seoul conference by a new feature, Pitch Day, where 14 BSV-based startups were invited to present in front of a panel of investors. One of them, a Chinese startup, CityonChain, was another example of the energy with which the opportunities created by BSV are being taken up in China in particular. CityonChain invites users to 'buy' a city with BSV payments. It offered an empty map of the world and waited for people to start bidding for cities. They did. Many cities were snapped up for one US dollar each – the starting price which CityonChain had set. But it's what happened next that was interesting. Owners were free to resell their cities and it soon became clear that there were buyers out there. The city of Seoul, for instance (below), was resold after a couple of weeks for $2999 – with CityonChain taking a cut of the transaction. The person who bought Seoul is now asking a $2 million. That's real optimism! The idea is for city owners to make money by taking advertising and providing other services – such as placing the CoinGeek Conference logo on the map. The point, in a wider context, is that people are coming up with business ideas, making money from day one, and expanding the BSV ecosystem. At the same time, they're generating transactions on the BSV blockchain that will ensure the profitability, and therefore future security, of the network. Nobody would deny there's a degree of tribalism in the crypto world. But what feels healthy about the BSV tribe in Seoul is that there's an outward-looking focus on developing technology and creating new products and services. It's the users and customers that this conference is interested in, not crypto rivals, or even, how we got here. The energy is directed to building the future. And it's in the nature of building on BSV, that success for one promotes success for all. Bitcoin SVCityOnChainCoinGeek ConferenceCoinGeek SeoulGenesisSouth Korea The Bitcoin Vision: Episode 23 Founding President of the Bitcoin Association Jimmy Nguyen brings us this week's episode of the Bitcoin Vision from Siberia, Russia. Nguyen had the privilege of being one of the guest speakers at the recent Baikal Blockchain and Crypto Summit, where he educated the delegates about Bitcoin SV (BSV) and why it's the only blockchain project that's able to scale to meet enterprise needs. The BSV community continues to prepare for the eagerly anticipated Genesis protocol upgrade set to take place in February 2020. Everyone in the BSV ecosystem will have a role to play in the upgrade — from miners, to developers, to wallets and exchanges. And to make it easier and more convenient to keep up with all the developments leading up to the upgrade, you can enable notifications directly to your email via a new feature on the Bitcoin SV website. Nguyen also highlighted the recent developments by BSV/DEVS directory, the one-stop shop for all Bitcoin SV-related developer resources. It announced recently on Twitter that it is now supporting user accounts. Users can now claim any listing as theirs and also make any edits or updates as they deem fit. The directory also added support for file uploads, giving the users the ability to attach manuals, specifications and other related materials to their applications. For the non-developers, there's something for you as well. The OnChain BSV/MAPS feature is constantly being updated with new locations where BSV is accepted by merchants near you. BSV Galaxy is a Bitcoin SV artists collective allowing members to find and collaborate with other members, as well as business development of artists projects. As the founders noted on the website, the platform seeks to "help you to use the Bitcoin SV Blockchain to create new tools, applications, and ultimately change the world into a better place using Proof of Work." For the week's Satoshi shoutout, Nguyen applauded the Bitcoin SV Node Team. Lead developer Daniel Connolly recently wrote a blog post about how the BSV blockchain has proven itself as a reliable method of processing enormous numbers of transactions. The post was written to correct a false narrative that had been advanced by some crypto media sites that the Bitcoin SV blockchain had undergone a three-way fork after the Quasar protocol upgrade. The post puts to bed these allegations and clarifies that the BSV network is performing reliably and is still proving itself to be the superior blockchain project. While you're at it, also check out the previous episodes of The Bitcoin Vision here. Bitcoin AssociationBitcoin SVGenesisThe Bitcoin Vision Steve Shadders: Bitcoin SV proving it can scale for businesses now Bitcoin SV's (BSV) recent Quasar upgrade is cause for much celebration, as it not only helped return Bitcoin one step closer to its original protocol, but also introduced a whole new level of blockchain scaling to BSV. CoinGeek's Sarah Parsons caught up with nChain Technical Director Steve Shadders at a recent London BSV meetup, where they talked about the upgrade and its importance. The London BSV gathering was a merry one, as the Quasar upgrade went as well as you could hope for. "We're kind of giving a bit of a post-mortem of the Quasar upgrade, I think I can safely say that it was a very boring event, which is fantastic because with enterprise software changes, that's kind of exactly what you want," Shadders said. "I mean, we had an operations stream set up and we had contact with all of the kind of key players in the Bitcoin SV ecosystem. But we pretty much sat there and watched the upgrade activate. We fired Satoshi Shotgun and mined a block bigger than 128MB, which was necessary to lock the upgrade in. And it all went pretty smoothly, nothing unexpected. So yeah, job done." Parsons asked Shadders what businesses should take away from the Quasar upgrade. "I think it's really quite critical for businesses that are looking to invest time and money in building a service on top of Bitcoin SV, Shadders replied. "Because most services, I mean, if you're building a business, the aim is to scale. You want your business to start at whatever size it does, and it gets bigger and bigger, and bigger, and bigger. And of course, if your business is related to Bitcoin that means it's got to be able to scale on top of Bitcoin." While other crypto hobby projects have promised that their blockchains will be ready at some point in the future, Shadders explained that such a thought process just won't cut it for the real Bitcoin. "Now, I think, our philosophy at the Bitcoin SV Node team is that it's not good enough for us to say to people, 'Oh, by the time your business has scaled, we'll be ready. Trust us,'" he said. "What we're actually doing with the Quasar upgrade is demonstrating right now, that we can handle the future scale of whatever your business is. So you've got the confidence, not hoping that we'll be able to pull it off some time in the future, we're showing that it can be done right now." Bitcoin SVCoingeek CoinversationsGenesisQuasarSteve Shadders Crypto media creates fake news after Quasar upgrade Bitcoin SV (BSV) recently underwent the Quasar protocol upgrade, lifting the block size hard cap from 128 MB to 2 GB. The upgrade enables BSV to increase the number of transactions processed per second from the current 300+ to 1,000+, making it the only Bitcoin project that unlocks the true power of Bitcoin's original design, proving that it's not a hobbyist project. And as would be expected of any protocol upgrade in the Bitcoin ecosystem, there were a few minor set-backs and opportunities to improve; however, a few media outlets and research firms blew this out of proportion, reporting that there was a temporary fork of the blockchain into three chains. According to one media outlet, over 35% of nodes failed to follow the update and this was portrayed as a monstrosity. It further claimed that this was the result of miner centralization in the BSV ecosystem, with small miners were just acting as pawns, standing no chance of making a profit. One of the most misquoted and misunderstood events was with Money Button. The wallet went down for a few hours after its BSV node ran out of memory and crashed during a stress test. The Money Button team quickly upgraded their underpowered node to be sufficient for the largest block sizes that are currently possible. Some media outlets quoted Money Button's blog post in which it stated, "Since we do not earn money from transaction fees like miners, it will be too expensive for us to run a node." While this is true, the Money Button team went ahead to explain that wallets don't need to run a node. Instead of entering an arms race in upgrading infrastructure, the wallets are best served by moving towards the Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) as Dr. Craig Wright envisioned when he launched Bitcoin a decade ago. This was conveniently omitted from these reports. BSV has also been criticized for being ambitious and futuristic enough to increase the block size hard cap. According to some, these "unrealistic" block sizes will prove to be an attack vector, effectively making BSV less secure. What's more, there have been claims that current hardware is unable to handle such volumes. These claims have been proven false. As is publicly available on the BSV website, the recommended system requirements for BSV miners prove that mid-range hardware can sufficiently participate in BSV mining. On July 24 when the Quasar protocol upgrade occurred, BSV functioned exactly as Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned. A majority of the miners were running one of the Quasar update compatible versions. For the miners, the upgrade was a godsend since it gave them more responsibility over Bitcoin and enabled them to earn more from transaction fees than they have previously. After the upgrade, the non-consensus chain was mined for a short time until the miners on that chain were economically incentivized to join the consensus chain. After all, this is how Satoshi intended for Bitcoin to function. There have been calls for Bitcoin to scale for years now. Ironically, when BSV found the solution through the Quasar protocol upgrade, some media outlets were quick to criticize. The little mishaps as happened with Money Button aren't something to criticize but rather to learn from. In any case, in the past, we've seen plenty of global businesses experience hitches in scaling. Amazon is the best example, with the global e-commerce giant being known to experience technical difficulties on days such as Black Friday. However, no one ever calls Amazon out and asks them to stop selling so much. Similarly, BSV will continue to scale and fulfill Satoshi's vision of a global secure and scalable peer-to-peer payments system. Bitcoin SVGenesisQuasar Bitcoin SV handles 2 million transactions in massive stress test With the recent historic Quasar protocol upgrade, which saw Bitcoin SV's (BSV) maximum block size increased to 2GB, Operation Data Blast immediately proved that the upgrade was successful, creating world record block sizes from transactions full of content data. Just recently, Chinese BSV supporter Aaron Zhou wanted to test the blockchain's ability to handle as many transactions as possible. As he reveals in his blog post, "Bitcoin SV main network stress test report @ 2019-08-03," Zhou felt a stress test for a massive amount of transactions was necessary. During the test, which lasted for more than two hours, he broadcast more than 2 million transactions, creating a blocks of 808,000 transactions with a size of 210MB and another of 702,000 transactions, with size 183MB. All told, this resulted in transaction fees of over 2 BSV for each of the mentioned block. The BSV blockchain performed admirably, with no blocks orphaned, and no block reorganizations being needed. However, it did show that the stress of that many transactions could cause temporary outages with some blockchain and wallet services. For example, Zhou noted that Blockchair, Money Button, WhatsOnChain, BitcoinBlocks.live and Bchsvexplorer all had temporary setbacks during the stress test. While this could be due to the same node memory issues that service providers have has experienced in the past, it's also possible that their website and database services, totally unrelated to the blockchain or their nodes, couldn't keep up with the speed and load of updates created by the blockchain. Zhou made sure to commend BSV.BTC.com, Bitfire.io, Mempool, and Unwriter's applications, which all worked perfectly during the stress test Zhou's conclusions were such: Quasar is an important network upgrade, and BSV is on the road to dealing with massive transactions and continued expansion. 1. Large block propagation and verification, normal 2. Massive transaction dissemination and verification, normal But you can do better. It is noted that the two chunks are very long-out, because it is a very time-consuming operation to verify massive transactions, which is where future improvements can be made. The lesson to take away from this stress test is that the blockchain is ready to handle the load, but the businesses who contribute to its infrastructure will need to keep pace. The BSV Node team has informed CoinGeek that it was able to handle the load of the stress test with only 8GB of memory in its node, but recommends having 16-32GB of RAM to be safe. At the same time, make sure the rest of your infrastructure, like web services and connecting databases, can keep up with the impressive load of transactions coming across the blockchain. Now that Bitcoin is professionalizing, it's important that everyone involved professionalize as well. BSV is not a hobby project; it's the future data ledger and digital currency of the world, and it requires the infrastructure to support it for those ambitions. As great as this test could have gone, the real transactions will be coming soon, and all partners involved will need to be ready for it to prove that BSV is the blockchain for enterprise usage. Aaron ZhouBitcoin SVGenesisQuasar Operation Data Blast shows Bitcoin SV's power Erik Gibbs On Sunday, thanks to the recent Quasar upgrade on Bitcoin SV (BSV) that raised the block cap to 2 gigabytes (GB), BSV enthusiasts conducted a large initiative to upload data to the blockchain. Not only was it successful, but it reiterated the fact that on-chain scaling of an order of magnitude larger than anyone thought possible on a blockchain is possible and sustainable. Operation Data Blast, as the event was called, brought "hundreds of Bitcoin Society members" together to "upload meaningful media onto Bitcoin's public blockchain." The activity is still underway, as of this writing, and is expected to last through "Monday lunchtime in Asia Pacific." By providing a large window, BSV and crypto enthusiasts from around the world have an opportunity to participate. According to Dr. Roy Murphy, who helped organize the event, "Bitcoin isn't where it should be after a decade. Being usurped by various entities with nefarious intent has created forks of the original protocol and the carefully orchestrated manipulation by these bad actors have destroyed many of the key tenets of Bitcoin, whilst coercing bucket-shop crypto exchanges to capture the trading Tickers of Bitcoin (XBT and BTC) by centrally governed entities whose objective is to command and hobble the Bitcoin protocol via the hostile takeover of protocol development." He adds, "With this in mind, 'Operation Data Blast' is the swan song, a last hurrah to those who spent so much time and effort into diminishing the integrity and genius of Satoshi Nakamoto's creation. It's giving 'the bird' to those who restricted Bitcoin to 1MB [megabyte] blocks, servicing a paltry 7 transactions per second to line the pockets of those interests whose only wish was corruption, anonymity, control, destruction and power." If anyone expected the large data upload to be a burden for the BSV blockchain (and there were definitely some BTC shills counting on it), they were greatly disappointed it. On the evening of July 28, as pointed out by Derek Moore on Twitter, "Bitcoin SV produced 4 ~250 MB blocks and a plethora of big blocks today during a User-Activated Stress Test (UAST) during which valuable data was archived on-chain, totaling about 2.5 GB of multimedia & hypermedia content." The Quasar upgrade on BSV was nothing short of a huge success. When the Large Hadron Collider was preparing to slam two particles together in September 2008, many people thought the world was going to come to an end. When BSV announced it would be raising the block cap to 2GB, many people that the crypto world was going to come to an end. Just like CERN proved them wrong in 2008, BSV has proved everyone wrong in 2019. Bitcoin AssociationBitcoin SVGenesisOperation Data BlastQuasarScaling Test Network 2GB blocks achieved: BSV Quasar upgrade proves to be more than successful Bitcoin SV (BSV) successfully rolled out the Quasar update on July 24 in an effort to push the block size cap up to 2 gigabytes (GB). Despite assertions by anti-BSV shills that the sky would come crashing down after the upgrade was complete, just the opposite has happened. Not only was the update successful, but several 2GB blocks have already been seen — six in a row, as a matter of fact. The blockchain hasn't crashed, the Bitcoin ecosystem hasn't come to a grinding halt, and it hasn't started raining fishes. What has happened, though, is that WhatsOnChain shows consecutive 2GB blocks being mined on the BSV Scaling Test Network (STN). The STN is a live network that is available for businesses to use to test limits for their applications before launching them on the mainnet. 2GB blocks on STN!! pic.twitter.com/6y2pbCb3qG — WhatsOnChain (@WhatsOnChain) July 24, 2019 Shortly after the Quasar update was live, the first 148MB block was seen. This effectively cemented Quasar as the new software for the BSV blockchain. Knowing that 2GB blocks are easily achieved, there is a considerable more amount of development that can take place on the BSV network. The 147mb block is now buried under 6 additional blocks. I think we can call it now. Quasar upgrade is locked in. https://t.co/HU8dqzEIEo — Shadders (@shadders333) July 24, 2019 According to the Bitcoin Association, "The Quasar upgrade represents a key step in BSV's journey to unlock the massive on-chain scaling power that was always possible with Bitcoin, and enable BSV to become the global enterprise blockchain. BSV can already handle 300+ transactions per second comfortably; this capacity is continually being expanded and is expected to cross 1000+ transactions per second in the coming months after the Quasar network upgrade. This level of capacity can compete with VISA payment network capacity and also supports enterprise applications." BSV has now become the first — and only — blockchain to process 2GB blocks on-chain. While virtually everyone else said it couldn't be done, BSV has proven that Satoshi was correct when he asserted in his early writing that large block sizes were not only possible, but were expected on Bitcoin's blockchain. Bitcoin Core (BTC) pundits have asserted since the beginning of time that anything larger than 128 megabytes (MB) would cause the blockchain to implode. With Quasar in place, the next step is the Genesis upgrade. This is planned for next February and is designed to completely remove all block-size caps. If building business solutions on the blockchain is feasible with a 2GB limit, imagine the possibilities with no limit. Bitcoin AssociationBitcoin SVGenesisQuasarScaling Test Network Bitcoin SV increases default block size hard cap to 2GB with Quasar upgrade Bitcoin has taken another big step in returning to its original protocol and pursuing its path of massive scaling. The Bitcoin SV Node team are planning a July 24 upgrade of the Bitcoin SV (BSV) network, nicknamed the "Quasar" protocol upgrade. With the upgrade, the BSV network will have a significantly higher default block size "hard cap" of 2GB. Previously outlined by the Bitcoin SV Node team's July 13 blog post, "Quasar upgrade 24th July recommendations – roadmap to Genesis part 2," the only change of the update is to increase the hard cap on block sizes; however that is a significant change indeed. The previous hard cap of 128MB has already been hit by the BSV community, with real world usage reaching that limit several times in the past four months. In testing on the BSV Scaling Test Network, BSV has already proven to be capable of mining much larger blocks, with 1.4GB blocks mined in testing. Now that larger limits are rolling out to the mainnet, the whole world can experience the benefits of massive blockchain scaling made possible on BSV. The greater block capacity will enable 1,000+ transactions per second on the BSV network, and even higher with more technical improvements. As the BSV Node team has noted, the 2GB block size limit is a default "hard cap." Miners are free to set their hard cap to a lower level. In fact, miners representing a significant portion of the BSV network mining hash have signaled that they will set their hard cap to 512MB, which would form a different form of hard cap—the "consensus" hard cap. For the BSV Node team's recommendations and instructions for mining nodes and anyone else who runs an instance of Bitcoin SV software ("blockchain listeners" who do not write to the blockchain, such as exchanges and wallet operators), refer to their blog post here. The Quasar upgrade is a key step toward the ultimate goal. When the Genesis protocol upgrade comes on February 4, 2020, Bitcoin will be returned to its original protocol as closely as possible while removing entirely the default hard cap. Going forward, protocol developers will not determine a default hard cap setting. Instead, scaling will be truly unlimited, and miners will have the freedom to set block size limits to numbers they are comfortable with, and market forces will determine how much Bitcoin can and will scale, as Satoshi Nakamoto originally intended. Only with the scaling on the BSV blockchain—through the Quasar upgrade and then what Genesis will unleash in 2020—can the world's enterprises build to the level they require. As limits are removed from the Bitcoin blockchain, more transactions can be handled per block and transaction fees will remain very low; thus big businesses can begin transferring their business models to a blockchain that can handle the countless of payments and data transactions—including at a micro-level—they require in a new digital economy powered by Bitcoin. And unlike other attempted blockchain platforms, which either can't or are unwilling to scale massively, BSV is proving that by scaling block sizes massively, transaction fees are kept low enough to enable new business uses, while greater volumes of transaction fees possible with bigger blocks create an incentive for miners to keep the blockchain secure. The Quasar update is already an important leap forward in Bitcoin's history, allowing it to handle significantly more volume than any other public blockchain. It is just a step along the road to Genesis though, when Bitcoin will return to its original protocol and Satoshi Vision of unlimited scaling. Bitcoin SVblock size limitGenesisQuasarScaling Test Network Bitcoin SV and the roadmap to Genesis | Leave a Comment on Bitcoin SV and the roadmap to Genesis The Bitcoin SV (BSV) project continues to do what no other blockchain thought possible—scale on chain in a massive way that puts it in line with what is seen by the world's major credit card companies. The project has been steadily working on different aspects of the "Roadmap to Genesis" and Steve Shadders has issued an update on the progress. To say that BSV is capable of doing what no other blockchain can do would be an understatement of epic proportion. According to the latest information, the roadmap from last August until the second quarter of this year has seen all of the items fulfilled, or close to being completed, except for one, parallel block validation. This was put on the back burner in favor of other network improvements that were expected to provide a greater return on investment. Coming soon will be a network upgrade called Quasar. It is currently scheduled for July 24 and centers on increased scaling capabilities. According to Shadders, "We have previously signalled an intent to raise the cap to 512MB however after consultation with the Bitcoin Association (the owner of the Bitcoin SV project) and miners representing a significant majority of hash rate it has been decided that the Bitcoin SV software will implement a default of 2GB in July." The logic behind the increased default is simple. By raising the cap, and allowing miners to set a limit of 512MB, the network will be able to see more scaling as it becomes necessary without having to introduce additional upgrades or forks. The next big upgrade following Quasar is scheduled for February 4, 2020. It will provide a number of protocol restoration changes designed to return the network to the original Bitcoin protocol. It is aptly called Genesis and is scheduled for "11 years, 1 month and 1 day after the original Genesis block." The announcement continues, "The Genesis upgrade will also address scaling. We believe that by late in 2019 the Bitcoin SV node software will have implemented all of the safety mechanisms required to allow us to eliminate the block size cap altogether and let miners manage it without intervention from developers. So long as those changes are completed we intend to bring the planned date for allowing unlimited block size forward by almost a year and lift the cap completely in the Genesis upgrade." Unlike blockchains such as Bitcoin Cash that allowed developers to make all the decisions, BSV is publishing data in order to receive community feedback before moving forward. This creates a completely transparent network that is truly decentralized and built by the community, not by a few individuals who want to control the entire ecosystem. Bitcoin SVGenesisscaling On the heels of his Genesis node, Unwriter introduces Babel | Leave a Comment on On the heels of his Genesis node, Unwriter introduces Babel Bitcoin developer Unwriter has quickly become one of the most proficient coders for the Bitcoin SV (BSV) blockchain. Just after announcing his new Genesis BitDB node project, he's at it again, this time introducing another BitDB node. The latest endeavor is called Babel. In a new Medium post by the developer, Unwriter reveals the new BitDB node, explaining that it is designed for data-only Bitcoin applications. Instead of being used for money transfers, the platform is able to query those apps that use the OP_RETURN code to store data. As Unwriter states in the post, "Most Bitcoin applications that use the blockchain as a database DO NOT need all the transaction details, because they only need to query OP_RETURN outputs and a couple of other attributes." He adds that many of the features offered in a full node query, such as script database or graph database, are useful for many Bitcoin apps, but not all of them need to be able to access all of the data at the same time. Babel was designed to provide a streamlined mechanism that will query OP_RETURN outputs, as well as only a few other useful attributes. It is "a subset of the Genesis.Bitdb designed specifically for data intensive Bitcoin applications." As with Genesis, Babel relies on the original address format of Bitcoin. Because it is streamlined, it is faster and more efficient than a full BitDB node and doesn't use as much memory. Since it is a subtree of a full node, it incorporates the same Bitquery format as do the other nodes. Babel only stores OP_RETURN output – the rest is stored as "null;" any transactions that don't include an OP_RETURN output are ignored. Inputs are reduced to only store the input addresses, not the hash and index of previous transaction. In addition, the output produced by queries on Babel only contain push data – b0, h0, s0, b1, h1, s1, b2, h2, s2, etc. According to Unwriter's post, "Because the transactions are stored in BitDB according to the same schema as the full node, you can easily switch between a Genesis node and a Babel node. "Because it stores much less than a full node, the Babel node can stay lean, which means more people will be able to afford to run the node in the future, not to mention higher performance that comes from specialization." Babel, like Genesis, is currently in beta. Once it is tweaked, Unwriter will make it open sourced and he welcomes all data builders to begin using it as it transforms. babelBitDBBSVGenesisUnwriter Malicious WordPress plugin can secretly mine crypto sCrypt founder Xiaohui Liu sees potential in dev protocol for BSV smart contracts Craig Wright pushes Bitcoin for enterprise in Tokyo Alex Fauvel talks identity management at CoinGeek Seoul nChain's Jack Davies tackles challenges of blockchain payments at Future of Money and Digital Payments Jimmy Nguyen returns to his law roots at IADC event in Switzerland Pumpkin Lady Lazar still talking about Craig Wright, joins Twetch Poloniex splitting from Circle, ending service for US customers Immortalize your voice on BSV: Bitok.Live review Best Bitcoin podcasts 2019 to help you dive deeper into blockchain and crypto Participant Agreement CoinGeek Conferences

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Working at AS Solution The executive protection industry lives in a glass house. Let's improve standardization instead of throwing stones. November 7, 2018 - By Christian West & Jared Van Driessche Tags: Executive protection, Standardization One of the frustrating things about the executive protection industry is how EP practitioners tear each other down instead of building each other up. As soon as something negative about an EP practitioner makes the news, we're quick to point fingers and play Monday morning quarterback even though we don't know all the facts. This tendency has been eminently clear in the case of Pascal Duvier, the executive protection professional who was working with Kim Kardashian when she was robbed at gunpoint for millions worth of jewelry in Paris in 2016. We've had dozens of conversations with colleagues in the industry about the event, and Pascal got torn to shreds by practically everyone – even though none of them were there, have all the details, or have any clue about the context in which the robbery took place or the scope of work agreement between the protector and the protectees. Once the information about the robbery went public, the Monday morning quarterbacks crawled out of their La-Z-Boys to crow about how Pascal was an ill-prepared amateur and a disgrace to our profession. Social media groups (with more members than there are active agents in the industry) lit up with how things would have been different if they had been the ones covering Kim and her family. They would have armed guards on the street. They would have halls and walls folks outside Kim's door. They would have separate teams for Kim's sister. They would have taught the concierge krav maga. Deservedly or not, Pascal's standing has taken a massive hit. But before the Paris robbery, Pascal had a great reputation in the EP industry. Many would have even argued that he was one of the industry standard bearers. You don't need to believe us, just look at his LinkedIn profile, where eleven different colleagues, clients, and other industry peers were quite happy to put their names on letters of recommendation and endorse his company's services to others. One doesn't get this type of recognition overnight, which tells us he provided service that clients enjoyed. So, let's not throw stones at this man without knowing all the facts. Just when you think things can't get any worse, they can Two years to the day after the heist, Pascal was sued by Kim Kardashian's insurance company for more than $6 million dollars. The insurance company that had to pay out for the stolen jewels is trying to recoup at least part of their losses by having Pascal foot the bill. Their arguments? That Pascal was "negligent", in "breach of contract" and displayed "gross negligence, recklessness and/or willful and wanton misconduct" for his role during the robbery at the hotel. We include just a snippet of the insurance company's case against Pascal below. You can read the whole legal complaint here, including the insurance company's claim that it was Pascal's duty to ensure that the concierge of the exclusive hotel had security training. What's your standard for "reasonable care"? What are the executive protection industry's standards? Now, we're not legal experts, and some might say our knowledge of the law is limited to a handful of lawyer jokes. But we do often work with legal counsel, and we know that "reasonable care" is a thing. It's something lawyers often refer to when talking about negligence. According to TheLaw.com, reasonable care is defined as "A measure or a standard of caution and awareness for the safety of self and others that the average prudent person would use under the circumstances. The reasonable care test is a subjective test to determine whether a person committed negligence in their actions, not exercising reasonable care." Let's unpack that just a bit: In this context "the average prudent person" doesn't refer to your smart Aunt Sally or what she would do. It refers to what the average executive protection professional, or company, would do. As any EP professional knows, the "circumstances" relevant for evaluating EP work include a wide variety of things, from the quality of RTVAs to agent readiness, to scope of work agreements, and not least to what the client has agreed to pay for. Let's remember that "subjective" is the opposite of "objective". In other words, we're on a slippery slope here, folks, one that slides more towards opinions and feelings than to verifiable facts or specific standards. In light of this, the insurance company's claim begs a lot of questions that even a lot of us with decades of experience in the EP industry would have a hard time answering. How the Monday morning quarterbacks and an insurance company have all the answers is beyond us. What would the average, prudent executive protection company have done in the circumstances? What is the average EP company, anyway? Something like Pascal's ProtectSecurity Inc. and other more or less one-man shows? Something like AS Solution or Gavin de Becker? Somewhere in between? What are all the relevant circumstances? How do we come up with a balanced way of understanding them? What happens when circumstances such as perceived risk point a detail leader in one direction, risk mitigation resources subject to budget constraints point in another, and the whims of a principal point in a third? But the lawsuit against Pascal also raises more general – and important – questions about the standards that should be applied to the evaluation of executive protection work: What are the industry standards that we can benchmark against? Are we talking the U.S. Secret Service's or the mom-and-pop EP company's standards? How do EP professionals learn these standards? From competing, for-profit EP schools? How do you control whether practitioners follow any standards at all? What's the executive protection industry's equivalent of the "Generally Accepted Accounting Principles" that auditors and the SEC rely on? What do these non-existent standards even mean when the principal is the boss with the right not only to tell vendors what they want and don't want in terms of protection strategy, tactics, and operational detail, regardless of any RTVA, but of course also decide what they're willing to pay for, and when? EP professionals live in a glass house. Let's be careful about throwing stones. Let's be real with each other: Any EP company in the world would jump at the opportunity to protect Kim and her family, some of the highest-profile A-listers on the planet. That was true before the robbery, it was true the day after the robbery, and it's true today. Like Pascal, we'd take on the work so we could make money to provide for our own families, and we'd be thrilled at the opportunity to grow the operation and show the principal and others the right way to do security. Whether you're a fledgling EP startup that is starving for work or an established multi-million-dollar company, the rules of the game are similar. You can give the principal all of your best security recommendations, and they might be very good indeed, but at the end of the day, you only get to do what the client agrees to do. In other words, you only provide clients with what they're willing to pay for. If you're covering a client who's returned to her hotel for the night and wants you to provide coverage for her family while they're out clubbing, you're going to do what the boss asks you to do. You can say that you'd be the one to convince her that you need to stay with her the whole time for her protection, and the others should just hit the hay instead of going out, but if she asked you to go, you'd go. We don't know how many times we've heard principals say something like, "I'm comfortable here at the hotel, please check on my family (sisters, kids, parents, etc.)." This is common practice in our industry: the principals want you for what they want you for, and the moment they feel comfortable and safe, you're dismissed. Unlike the kind of security heads of state and other government officials receive, or corporate executives with board-mandated coverage, celebrities' protection is elective, after all, not obligatory. It might be right, according to your standards, that counter-surveillance teams, more team members, and ninjas hiding in the trees are what's necessary to get the job done. But if the client isn't willing to go along with and pay for it, you aren't able to dictate your standards and you wouldn't have any job at all. We have no idea about the circumstances surrounding Pascal's scope of work with the Kardashians, but we do know that there are plenty of minimalist security operations heading up the creek without a paddle or a compass and that there are plenty of EP practitioners willing to hop on board and go for the ride, doing the best they can under the circumstances. It's all any of us can do, really: provide the absolute best security we can with the resources we have available. You can say that you would have talked to the client beforehand about the security consequences of not having a full-blown team, but honestly, how far would you press the point? Would you really decide not to protect the principal if she dismissed some of your recommendations? Almost all of the clients we've worked in our decades-long careers have elected to go against recommendations made by us and other team members. We didn't fire any of them. It doesn't make sense – in terms security or business – to pack it all in if things don't go our way. Like any other relationship, there will always be plenty of give-and-take between principals and their EP team. Where is the drive towards standardization in the executive protection industry? We look at all of this as an issue of industry standardization. Or, more precisely, lack thereof. The executive protection industry sometimes feels like the wild west. While different territories do have some (wildly disparate) legislation concerning basic security training and firearms, the EP industry has no public, unambiguous standards that are commonly shared or widely ascribed to. There is practically no regulation or oversight. The sheriff in Dodge sets the standards for what's acceptable in Dodge, and those apply only as long as he's in charge and you don't leave town. Every EP school has its own take on what comprises essential training. Every EP company has its own version of good SOPs and quality control. This is not to say that there are no standards or more or less accepted versions of best practice. There are. But industry-wide, they are not explicitly articulated, objectively verifiable, or easily benchmarked against. Don't get us wrong. We're not saying the lawsuit against Pascal is frivolous – that's not for us to decide. We do believe, however, that he and other EP practitioners, our principals, their and our insurers, and all other stakeholders would be better off if we had better, agreed ways of determining how well we do what we do. Standardization would help in many ways. Although the security industry does have the Certified Protection Professional (CPP) certification, and this does have high standards, you don't need to be a CPP to hang your EP shingle up or work in the security business. The CPP covers a broad range of qualifications, and that's great. But we need something more specific. The EP industry needs to develop its own standards. We could all learn something from the accountants and their Generally Accepted Accounting Principles without turning into bean counters. Standardized training curricula, evaluations, and certifications would all be steps in the right direction. Standardized quality assurance methods would help both protector and protectees know who's on the ball and who isn't. If we sat down as an industry to determine how and where standardization would make the most sense, we're sure we would make a much longer list that would have helped determine what's up and down in Pascal's case – and the others that are sure to come. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash Why sustainment training is critical to executive protection program success Dressing for the part: Why clothes and style (should) matter to executive protection agents Why executive protection companies and clients need to evolve from simple vendor relationships to strategic partnerships Christian West Christian has been active in the executive protection industry since the late 1980s, when he worked for Danish musicians who relocated to Hollywood. Upon returning to Denmark, he founded his own EP company, which he quickly grew into Scandinavia's largest, before it was acquired by Securitas. Christian founded AS Solution in 2003, and again in 2009 followed his international clients to the US, where he is now based. An active member of ASIS and a leader in the corporate executive protection industry, Christian has personally planned and led high-profile engagements in over 76 countries for a wide variety of corporate and high net worth individual clients, including the international roadshow for the biggest IPO in history. Jared Van Driessche Guest blogger, CEO, Asgard Technology Group, Inc As CEO of Asgard Technology Group, Jared Van Driessche is responsible for strategic leadership and oversight of the company and its first app, ProtectionManager. Over the course of his long and diverse career, Jared has planned, executed and led close protection details for CEOs, dignitaries, heads of state, boards of directors, celebrities, and various public figures on more than 300 international trips to over 70 different countries. 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