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Stars on the Rise- Top 9 Actors in 2019 by ASH So, the dust has finally settled in 2018 and we’re starting 2019 with great anticipation of movies filled with superheroes, mutants and monsters. This looks to be an epic year for movies, and we can hardly wait. With these amazing movies come a slew of equally amazing actors, and here are 9 actors to watch out for this year. We know her as Eleven, the girl with special powers raised in a lab and now on the loose in the 2016 breakthrough series, Stranger Things. At just 13, Millie Bobby Brown became the youngest person to be featured in Time’s 100 list of the most influential people. She is also the youngest person to be appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill ambassador. Her stunning performance in Stranger Things has definitely brought the burgeoning teenager places. Before Stranger Things, the starlet only had guest-starring roles in a handful of television series. Since the phenomenal success of the Sci-Fi series, movies came knocking, and Brown answered. She will next be seen in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and beyond that, Godzilla vs Kong is awaiting. After that, the sky’s the limit for this shining star. At the grand old age of 30, Henry Golding scored his first movie role, in a Hollywood film, no less. That’s not quite the traditional way of getting into the industry, but that doesn’t stop this English Malaysian actor from going places. His performance as Nicholas Young in Crazy Rich Asians has gotten him much attention from both the audience and the industry, that he was added to the poster of his second film, A Simple Favor, starring heavyweights like Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick, at the eleventh hour. The original promotional posters for the movie only had Lively and Kendrick, but with the success of Crazy Rich Asians, Golding was given billing and a space on the poster days before the movie was released. That says a lot about Golding’s rising fame. He already has three films in the pipeline, all slated for release in 2019, including Last Christmas, co-starring his mother from Crazy Rich Asians- Michelle Yeoh, Emma Thompson and the mother of dragons herself, Emilia Clarke. Before Call Me By Your Name, Timothée Chalamet had bit parts in movies like Interstellar, Love the Coopers and a handful of others. Call Me By Your Name made us sit up to notice this lean and lanky 23-year old. And Beautiful Boy had us on our feet to root for his character. Chalamet’s delicate features remind us of a wounded bird, and he’s not afraid to show his vulnerability in his characters. If 2018 had been a great year for him, 2019 will be even better. He will star in Greta Gerwig’s remake of Little Women, and has recently completed filming for Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York. He is currently filming the French Dispatch by Wes Anderson. The Guyanese-born British actress started her career in 2011 in British Television series. She was first noticed in the award-winning film Urban Hymm, a coming-of-age drama that won critics hearts at several film festivals, including Toronto International Film Festival and the Busan International Film Festival. Right before Black Panther came along, Wright appeared in an episode of the high profile Black Mirror, which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. Black Panther thrust the actress into the limelight, with good reason. Wright brings Shuri to life in her own way- youthful but wise, cheeky yet serious. In the hands of another actress, Shuri could have been very different. Wright’s next appearance will be in the highly anticipated Avengers: Endgame. And after that, we can see her in Guava Island, starring Danny Glover and Rihanna. Known as Scream Queen, Taylor-Joy first appeared on our radar as the unsuspecting victim of James McAvoy’s character in Split. She brings audiences on a terrifying journey of trying to escape from a slew of characters that McAvoy portrays, and will return as her character in the upcoming Glass. In between these two movies, Taylor-Joy squeezed in time for the dark comedy Thoroughbreds, as one of two girls planning a murder on her step-father, which she abhors. Starring opposite Olivia Cooke, Taylor-Joy gives us a convincing performance of a bored upper-class teenager who nonchalantly plans a murder with a friend. Apart from Glass, Taylor-Joy has four other films lined up in 2019, including yet another horror movie- The New Mutants. Can you believe that Game of Thrones is Turner’s acting debut? We saw the then 15-year old blossomed both on and off screen since the popular series started in 2011. Turner’s acting shines in especially the last few seasons of the series, as Sansa transformed from a damsel in distress into a tough leader of the Stark stronghold. Turner has also transitioned from the small screen to the big screen, as the rising Phoenix in X-Men: Apocalypse. This year, she will unleash her powers in Dark Phoenix, as she reprises her role as Jean Grey. With Games of Thrones ending this year, the lanky British actress is not resting on her laurels. Turner has three other films lined up after Dark Phoenix. But first, we want to see her light up the big screen as a fiery phoenix. Tye Sheridan Before 2018, Sheridan is best known for being Cyclops/Scott Summers in X-Men film series since 2016. But last year, he is the one who cracked the hardest game there is in Ready Player One. As the nerd filled with pop-culture knowledge, he is able to save the OASIS from the clutches of evil businessman Nolan Sorrento. Named as one of Variety's 10 Actors to Watch, Sheridan is one of Hollywood's most sought-after young talents. This year, he will reprise his role as Cyclops alongside Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey in Dark Phoenix. With her success stateside, it’s hard to imagine that Cooke is actually a Briton born and raised in Oldham, England. She had bit parts in television shows in Britain before moving on to films with the 2014 horror movie The Quiet Ones, followed by Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Her performance in The Quiet Ones led to her securing an agent in America, and she made her US debut in the series Bates Motel, opposite fellow countryman Freddie Highmore. Cooke gained recognition for her role in Thoroughbreds opposite Anya Taylor-Joy, as a girl void of any emotions. She starred in the role of a lifetime alongside Tye Sheridan in Ready Player One, as fellow egg-hunter bent on saving OASIS from a ruthless conglomerate. In 2018, Cooke was also part of the ensemble cast in Life Itself, a drama that follows multiple couples over numerous generations, and how they connected by a single event. Due to her mostly American roles and her convincing accent, Cooke is often mistaken as an American. She has a handful of TV and movie projects lined up, so we’ll be seeing her onscreen soon. Chan gave up a career in law following her graduation at Oxford University to pursue her passion for acting, despite having no formal training. That did little to stop her from getting roles in high profile movies including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Transformers: The Last Knight. Chan makes an impression as Astrid, the rich, elegant cousin of Nicholas Young in Crazy Rich Asians, and will have a bigger part to play in its upcoming sequel, Rich China Girlfriend. But before that, Chan can be seen in Mary Queen of Scots, and will star as Minn-Erva opposite Brie Larson in Captain Marvel. For someone who didn’t have any acting background, Chan is certainly doing very well. Henry Golding Added To A Simple Favor Poster & 5 Things to Know About Hollywood’s Latest IT Boy Murder, They Wrote: 5 Teenage Vengeance Movies Meet the Cast of The Black Panther 4 Asian Actors to Watch Out For in 2018

Robots, AI and podcasting: a Q&A with Pieter Abbeel EECS Prof. Pieter Abbeel launched “The Robot Brains Podcast” in the spring of 2021. In each episode, he is joined by leading experts in AI Robotics from around the world to explore how far humanity has come in its mission to create conscious computers, mindful machines and rational robots. Abbeel sits down for a Q&A with Berkeley Engineering, in which he discusses his experience with podcasting and how it has shaped his own thinking about communicating AI to a broader audience. Berkeley Engineering: Robots, AI and podcasting: a Q&A with Pieter Abbeel The Robot Brains Podcast Tiny switches give solid-state LiDAR record resolution A new type of high-resolution LiDAR chip developed by EECS Prof. Ming Wu could lead to a new generation of powerful, low-cost 3D sensors for autonomous cars, drones, robots, and smartphones. The paper, which appeared in the journal Nature, was co-authored by his former graduate students Xiaosheng Zhang (Ph.D. '21) and Johannes Henriksson (Ph.D. '21), current graduate student Jianheng Luo, and postdoc Kyungmok Kwon, in the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC). Their new, smaller, more efficient, and less expensive LiDAR design is based on a focal plane switch array (FPSA) with a resolution of 16,384 pixels per 1-centimeter square chip, which dwarfs the 512 pixels or less currently found on FPSA. The design is scalable to megapixel sizes using the same complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology used to produce computer processors. Additionally, large, slow and inefficient thermo-optic switches are replaced by microelectromechanical system (MEMS) switches, which are traditionally used to route light in communications networks. If the resolution and range of the new system can be improved, conventional CMOS production technology can be used to produce the new, inexpensive chip-sized LiDAR. Berkeley Engineering: Tiny switches give solid-state LiDAR record resolution A large-scale microelectromechanical-systems-based silicon photonics LiDAR Chandan Singh is 2022 Berkeley Grad Slam Competition semi-finalist CS graduate student Chandan Singh (advisor: Bin Yu) has made it to the semi-finals of the 2022 Berkeley Grad Slam Competition, a UC showcase for graduate student research presented in three-minute talks for a general audience, likened to short Ted Talks. In "Unlocking Scientific Secrets by Distilling Neural Networks," Singh hopes to build on recent advances in machine learning to improve the world of healthcare. His research focuses on how to build trustworthy machine-learning systems by making them more interpretable through partnerships with domain experts (e.g. medical doctors and cell biologists). These collaborations give rise to useful methodology that both build more transparent models as well as improve the trustworthiness of black-box models. He hopes to help bridge the gap between both types of models so that they can be reliably used to improve real-world healthcare. Berkeley Graduate Division: 2022 Berkeley Grad Slam Competition Steven Conolly awarded 2022 Bakar Prize EECS and Bioengineering Prof. Steven Conolly has been awarded the 2022 U.C. Berkeley Bakar Prize. This prize is given annually to former Bakar Program Fellows whose technological innovations promise to deliver solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. Funds are provided to help new technologies transition from an academic setting to industrial applications. The objective of Conolly's project, titled Rapid in vivo optimization of solid tumor CAR-T cell therapies using advanced magnetic particle imaging (MPI), is to determine whether a particular CAR-T cell cancer immunotherapy is working in hours rather than months. CAR-T cells are tagged with safe magnetic nanoparticles before a treatment is administered so that oncologists can view how well they are targeting cancer cells using high resolution imaging technology. Berkeley News: Four innovative faculty members awarded campus’s 2022 Bakar Prize Colin Parris elected to the NAE EE alumnus Colin Parris (M.S. '87, Ph.D. '94, advisor: Domenico Ferrari) has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). After a career at IBM Systems & Technology and General Electric (GE) Research, Parris is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at GE. He is known for his life-long commitment to "the development and enhancement of STEM programs across minority communities," and serves as a board member of the Annual Multicultural Business Youth Educational Services Embarkment (Ambyese), which prepares multicultural secondary school students for the challenges of pursuing careers in the corporate sector through self-esteem-building and exposure to successful role models in industry. While a student Berkeley, Parris helped start the Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB) and was deeply involved with the group Black Graduate Engineering and Science Students (BGESS). At GE, Parris, whose expertise spans engineering, software, and AI-driven analytics, leads teams that leverage digital technologies in the energy industry and other industrial environments. He created and leads the Digital Twin Initiative company-wide and is currently working to "accelerate business impact and transformation by combining lean principles with digital solutions." Power: GE Digital’s Colin Parris Elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineers (NAE) Kathy Yelick wins 2022 CRA Distinguished Service Award EECS Prof. Katherine Yelick has won the 2022 CRA Distinguished Service Award. This award recognizes "a person or organization that has made an outstanding service contribution" with a major impact "to the computing research community" in the areas of government, professional societies, publications, conferences, or leadership. Yelick has been a professor in the department since 1991, and was the Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). She is known as the co-inventor of the UPC and Titanium languages and demonstrated their applicability through the use of novel runtime and compilation methods. She also co-developed techniques for self-tuning numerical libraries. She is the co-author of two books and more than 100 refereed technical papers on parallel languages, compilers, algorithms, libraries, architecture, and storage. Avishay Tal named 2022 Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science CS Assistant Prof. Avishay Tal has been selected as a 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science. This award recognizes outstanding early-career faculty for their "potential to revolutionize their fields of study." Tal is a member of the Theory group; his interests include computational complexity, analysis of boolean functions, circuit and formula lower bounds, query complexity, pseudorandomness, computational learning theory, quantum computing, combinatorics, and connections between algorithms and lower bounds. He is among 4 winners from UC Berkeley representing the fields of CS, math, physics, and neuroscience. Winners receive $75K, which may be spent over a two-year term to support their research. Sloan Research Fellowships: 2022 Sloan Research Fellows Pilawa Research Group paper wins 1st place 2020 PELS Transactions Prize Paper Award Researchers from the Pilawa Research Group, including EECS alumnus Nathan Pallo (Ph.D. '21), EECS Associate Prof. Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, and former postdoc Tomas Modeer, have won one of four 1st place 2020 IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Transactions Prize Paper Awards. Their paper, which was co-authored by Pilawa-Podgurski's UIUC graduate students, Tom Foulkes and Chris Barth, is titled "Design of a GaN-Based Interleaved Nine-Level Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter for Electric Aircraft Applications." This award is considered the top publication award in the field of power electronics, and is known for it's rigorous evaluation process, which recognizes "originality; contribution to the field; extent to which the paper is supported by analysis and experimental evidence; and quality of presentation, including the effective use of illustrations." The winners of the 2020 award were selected from a pool of 1,148 papers. PELS: Transactions Prize Paper Award, 2020 Winners Berkeley CS students help build a database of police misconduct in California Students in the Data Science Discovery Program are filling a gap in engineering resources to help journalists more easily sort through large stores of records for their research. The Discovery Program, which is part of Berkeley's Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), connects around 200 undergraduates with hands-on, team-based data science research projects at Berkeley, government agencies, community groups, and entrepreneurial ventures. Students have worked on projects like the SF Chronicle's air quality map, the Wall Street Journal's effort to analyze its source and topic diversity using natural processing language, and the California Reporting Project's police misconduct database. “I don’t know if we’d be able to do this without them,” said KQED data reporter Lisa Pickoff-White. “None of these newsrooms would be able to automate this work on their own.” NiemanLab: How UC Berkeley computer science students helped build a database of police misconduct in California Aditya Parameswaran wins 2022 IIT Bombay Young Alumni Achievers Award EECS Associate Prof. Aditya Parameswaran has been selected to receive the Young Alumni Achievers Award from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay. This award "recognizes and celebrates the outstanding achievements of [IIT's] young alumni in their chosen field of endeavor." Parameswaran, who has a joint appointment at the I School, synthesizes techniques from data systems and human-computer interaction to develop tools to simplify data science at scale. His tools, which have been downloaded and employed by millions of users, empower "individuals and teams to leverage and make sense of their large datasets more easily, efficiently, and effectively." These include the Lux library, an intelligent visualization recommendation system for very large data sets in dataframe workflows, and Modin, a scalable dataframe system which applies database and distributed systems ideas to help run dataframe workloads faster. The award will be presented during the university's Institute Foundation Day Function on March 10, 2022. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay: Youn Alumnus Achiever Awards

cost cutting | Egypt Oil & Gas TransGlobe Egypt’s Production Record 12,111 bbl/d in April Wednesday, 13th May 2020 TransGlobe Egypt’s production averaged around 12,544 barrels per day (bbl/d) in Q1 2020, while recording approximately 12,111 bbl/d in April 2020. Aramco Will not Reduce Oil and Gas Investments Tuesday, 26th January 2016 Saudi Aramco announced that it would not reduce its new investment in oil and gas production capacity despite the financial strain caused by low oil prices. Fears that Dana Gas Losses May Affect Egypt Investments Wednesday, 18th November 2015 UAE-based Dana Gas announced a $7.6m loss in the third quarter of 2015. The company operates mostly in Egypt and Iraq. Dana Gas Making Cutbacks After $9m Oil Prices Loses The UAE’s Dana Gas reported third quarter gross revenue of $93m as compared to $174m and an overall net loss of $9m. Oil Prices Slow Down Saudi Oilfield Expansion Monday, 9th November 2015 Saudi Arabia is moving ahead with the expansion of its giant Khurais oilfield but the project would move slower than originally planned because of budgetary reasons. Undaunted by Oil Prices, UAE Cuts Costs, Registers New Firms Thursday, 5th November 2015 Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is looking to take advantage of market conditions and bring down the operating cost of its projects by 25%.

Early Intervention for Children With Hearing Loss Do children with hearing loss benefit from early intervention? A first-of-its-kind study published in October by Dr. Mary Pat Moeller, Dr. Bruce Tomblin, and their colleagues examines this very question. In recent years, infants and toddlers are being identified with hearing loss early in their development. This is due in part to the implementation of newborn hearing screening, early intervention, and advances in hearing technology. Clinicians have assumed that early identification and hearing aid fitting in infancy will result in long-term positive effects on learning, speech, language, and socialization in children with hearing loss (Gray, 2015); however, there was limited scientific evidence to support those claims (Moeller & Tomblin, 2015). In a press release of the study’s findings, Tomblin stated, “our research now provides strong evidence in support of these expectations.” (Gray, 2015). The Outcomes of Children with Hearing Loss (OCHL) study was conducted across multiple sites by researchers at the University of Iowa, Boys Town National Research Hospital, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was the first of its kind to look at infants and preschoolers with varying levels of hearing loss to determine which supports and services will help them thrive alongside their hearing peers (Gray, 2015). The research team followed children ages six months to seven years who had permanent, mild-to-severe hearing loss in both ears; the children entered the study as infants or toddlers and were followed for three or more years to look at their long-term development (Tomblin et al., 2015b). The study produced many important findings that were published across several articles. Nine of the major conclusions are highlighted below. Children with hearing loss are at risk for language delays. Children with hearing loss on average had poorer language skills than hearing children even when the loss was identified early. Children with severe hearing loss were at the highest risk for delays; however, children with mild losses were also found to be at-risk (Tomblin et al., 2015a, as cited in Moeller, Tomblin, & the OCHL Collaboration, 2015). Although not every child with hearing loss will have delays, the researchers highlight the importance of parents supporting their children’s language skills by consistently talking to them (Outcomes of Children With Hearing Loss Study, 2015). Well-fit hearing aids reduce risk and provide some protection against language delay. The positive news is that language delays can be limited. Well-fit hearing aids are ones where speech has been set to be as audible as possible (i.e., heard well). Giving infants and toddlers well-fit hearing aids was linked with better language development (Tomblin et al., 2015a, as cited in Moeller et al., 2015). Children with good aided audibility (i.e., heard speech well) showed steady improvement in their language skills across several years (McCreery et al., 2015b, as cited in Moeller et al., 2015). A significant percentage of children do not have well-fit hearing aids. Unfortunately, over 30% of children’s hearing aids tested in the study were not well-fit; thus many children are not receiving optimal speech input from their hearing aids (McCreery et al., 2015a, as cited in Moeller et al., 2015). The OCHL team recommends families ask their audiologists to check aided audibility regularly (e.g., after hearing evaluations and earmold fittings) (Outcomes, 2015). Earlier fitting of hearing aids results in the best early language skills, but later-fit children still benefit from aids. Children who received hearing aids before they were six months old had the best early language development (Tomblin et al., 2015a). These children either showed no delay or caught up to their hearing peers before the age of two. They also had better early development than children who were fit when they were older; however, children who were fit after 18 months old did show language gains after wearing the aids. The researchers remind parents to recognize that early fitting is best, but that later-fit children can still improve their language with hearing aids (Moeller & Tomblin, 2015). Consistent wearing of hearing aids gives children some protection against language delays and supports their listening skills. Children with more consistent daily use of their hearing aids (i.e., 10 or more hours daily) had better language and auditory skills than those with less consistent use. These findings were especially true for children with moderate or moderately severe hearing loss. Children with low daily use had the lowest language scores over time (Tomblin et al, 2015a, as cited in Moeller et al., 2015). It can be difficult to get infants and toddlers to wear their hearing aids but use tends to improve over time (Walker et al., 2015 as cited in Moeller et al., 2015). Moeller, Tomblin, and colleagues suggest parents ask their audiologist to share the data on hearing aid use and seek help with problems preventing consistent use (Outcomes, 2015). Quality of parent’s language toward their children with hearing loss impacts the children’s language skills. Parents of toddlers with hearing loss used more directive talk (e.g., say “cat,” “sit here”) while parents of hearing children used more responsive talk (e.g., commenting, sharing ideas). Directive talk was negatively linked with language skills in children with hearing loss. The quality (i.e., directive compared to responsive), but not quantity (i.e., amount of input), of the parent’s talk at 18 months predicted their child’s language skills at 36 months (Ambrose et al., 2015 as cited in Moeller et al., 2015). The research team cautions parents to “describe and chat more than you ‘direct’” (Outcomes, 2015). Receptive language and aided audibility influence children’s hearing and speech recognition skills. Language skills and hearing skills are linked. Children’s high receptive language skills (i.e., understanding language) were connected with high auditory development (i.e., hearing skills). In addition, children with better aided audibility and receptive language skills had better speech recognition from age two through early school-age. Thus, well-fit hearing aids influence children’s auditory development as well as their language (McCreery et al., 2015b, as cited in Moeller et al., 2015). Children with hearing loss are at risk for delays in language structure. Children with hearing loss have difficulty developing certain speech sounds and word endings because sounds such as “s” at the end of plural words are difficult for them to hear (Tomblin et al., 2015a as cited in Moeller et al., 2015). The OCHL researchers remind parents that children with hearing loss may need more practice to develop these specific skills (Outcomes, 2015). Aided audibility, hearing aid use, and characteristics of language input all influence the impact of hearing loss on children’s language development. Overall, the study found that aided audibility, amount of hearing aid use, and the type of parent’s language had the most influence on children with hearing loss’ development of language (Ambrose et al., 2015 as cited in Moeller et al., 2015). The researchers recommend that parents focus on these three factors and seek help from professionals and other parents in supporting their children’s language development (Outcomes, 2015). The findings presented by Moeller & Tomblin help shed light on factors that impact language delays in young children with hearing loss. Notably, the three most influential factors (i.e., aided audibility, hearing aid use, and language input) are all adjustable. As a whole, Dr. Tomblin and Dr. Moeller believe their study presents an optimistic picture of steps parents and professionals can make to help decrease language delays in children with hearing loss. For further information on this project, including a parent handout summarizing the findings, visit the Outcomes of Children With Hearing Loss website at http://ochlstudy.org/. Ambrose, S.E., Walker, E.A., Unflat-Berry, L.M., Oleson, J.J., & Moeller, M.P. (2015). Quantity and quality of caregivers’ linguistic input to 18-month and 3-year-old children who are hard of hearing. Ear and Hearing, 36, 48S-59S. Gray, L. (2015, October 10). Helping children hear better: First-of-its-kind study shows kids with hearing loss benefit from early intervention. Iowa Now. Retrieved from http://now.uiowa.edu/2015/10/helping-children-hear-better McCreeery, R.W., Walker, E.A., Spratford, M., Bentler, R., Holte, L., Roush, P., Oleson, J., Van Buren, J., Moeller, M.P., (2015a). Longitudinal predictors of aided speech audibility in infants and children. Ear and Hearing, 36, 38S-47S. McCreery, R.W., Walker, E.A., Spratford, M., Oleson, J., Bentler, R., Holte, L., & Roush, P. (2015b). Speech recognition and parent ratings from auditory development questionnaires in children who are hard of hearing. Ear and Hearing, 36, 60S-75S. Moeller, M.P., & Tomblin, J.B. (2015). An introduction to the outcomes of children with hearing loss study. Ear and Hearing, 36, 4S-13S. Moeller, M.P., Tomblin, J.B., & the OCHL Collaboration (2015b). Epilogue: Conclusions and implications for research and practice. Ear and Hearing, 36, 92S-98S. Outcomes of Children with Hearing Loss Study (2015, October 21). Preschoolers with mild to severe hearing loss: Findings and Implications [parent handout]. Retrieved from http://ochlstudy.org/parent-handout.html Tomblin, J.B., Harrison, M., Ambrose, S.E., Walker, E.A., Oleson, J.J., & Moeller, M.P. (2015a). Language outcomes in young children with mild to severe hearing loss. Ear and Hearing, 36, 76S-91S. Tomblin, J.B., Walker, E.A., McCreery, R.W., Arenas, R.M., Harrison, M. & Moeller, M.P. (2015b). Outcomes of children with hearing loss: Data collection and methods. Ear and Hearing, 36, 14S-23S. Walker, E.A., McCreery, R.W., Spratford, M., Oleson, J., Van Buren, J., Bentler, R., Roush, P., & Moeller, M.P. (2015). Trends and predictors of longitudinal hearing aid use for children who are hard of hearing. Ear and Hearing, 36, 38S-47S.

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Testing…testing… Like it or not, life is full of tests and trials. That’s just the way it is. Tests are a tool to evaluate how much we’ve learned, how proficient we are at something, and as a way to measure our progress. As I see it, they’re a necessary evil in our lives. I certainly wouldn’t want to go under a knife held by a surgeon who didn’t pass numerous tests with flying colours in order to get his medical degree. Some benchmarks in life can only be reached through a litany of extremely challenging tests for a very good reason. Continue reading → Posted in Current Thoughts, Off-topic | Tagged life lessons, tests | 2 Replies

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LAND ROVER DISCOVERY 4 The design contemplates various assembly and assembly possibilities, being able to offer a tailored product for each client. The system is made up of two side members attached to the vehicle with the possibility of placing from 3 to 8 aluminum cross members depending on the needs, brand and car model. Additionally, the system can be combined with the placement of aluminum trays for cargo, being able to have the entire roof area equipped with cargo trays Its system of ribbed aluminum profiles (T-slot) crossbars allows the fastening of multiple accessories and a variety of fastening points CHARGING TRAY CASE HOLDER ALUMINUM CHARGING TRAY

The Game of the Week by Merijn van Delft 9/12/2018 – Ideas and strategies in Grandmaster games can be quite instructive. IM Merijn van Delft presents games like these every Wednesday at 20:00 CEST (19:00 UT, 2 pm EDT). On this week's show: Parham Maghsoodloo! new: ChessBase 16 - Mega package Edition 2022 Your key to fresh ideas, precise analyses and targeted training! Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy the game even more. Winning Chess Strategies Vol. 2 – The Initiative: Train Yourself! To improve in the vast terrain of initiative, there’s nothing better than training with well-chosen exercises! This interactive video course will guide you to find the winning move when the initiative is on your side. Maghsoodloo, wouldn't you? The focus is on Parham Maghsoodloo tonight, who is leading the World Junior Championship at the moment. Here's a warm-up: What would you play with Black in this position? Merijn is live at 20:00 CEST (18:00 UT, 2 pm EDT). The live show is free to watch, and available on-demand for ChessBase Premium account holders. Many more Game of the Week shows are available in ChessBase Videos Merijn van Delft Merijn van Delft is an International Master from the Netherlands who lived in Hamburg for many years and is currently based in Amsterdam. After scoring a GM norm in 2017 he is eager for more. His ChessBase show on Wednesday evenings has been running for over ten years now.

Asylum applications in Europe reach highest level in three years in October Tuesday, 17 December, 2019 - 18:31 More than 71 ,000 applications were lodged in EU+ countries in October, the highest number since the end of 2016, according to figures released by the European Asylum support office on Monday. Approximately 587, 000 applications have been lodged in the EU+ since the beginning of 2019, up by 11 percent from the same period last year. Afghanistan, Syria, Venezuela, Colombia and Pakistan were the top five countries of origin in October – each lodging record levels of applications, even compared to upward trends in the past few months. Pakistanis lodged the most applications since the beginning of 2017, Afghans since late 2016, Venezuelans and Colombians since – at least – 2014, the EASO said. Record applications were also lodged by nationals of Turkey, Bangladesh, Algeria, Congo (DR) and Moldova, among others. Some 52 725 decisions were issued at first instance, up by 13 percent from September, the highest number in the past year and a half, which might be as a result of an attempt to cope with the growing backlog. However, despite these efforts there were still many more applications than case closures at first instance. At the end of September 2019, there were some 889 525 cases pending at all instances. Of these, EASO estimates that about 517 100 cases were pending at first instance, indicating that even though a considerable part of the open cases had been transferred from asylum authorities to judicial bodies, the pressure was still higher at the first-instance authorities. In related news, The European Commission has announced financial support for Member States that collectively pledged more than 30,000 resettlement places for 2020 at the first Global Refugee Forum in Geneva. Since 2015, more than 65,000 vulnerable refugees have found protection in Europe through the EU’s resettlement schemes. “The collective pledge from Member States for a further 30,000 resettlement places in 2020 confirms the EU’s role as a global leader on resettlement,” the European Commission said in a statement. European Commission , immigration

Women World Hijab in Islam By: Allamah Sayyid Sa'eed Akhtar Rizvi May it please Your Excellency, 1. On behalf of our various Muslim communities and organizations, we take the liberty of making this submission for Your Excellency's kind consideration. 2. In this submission we are confining ourselves to two matters which have been agitating our minds since long. They are: Hijab for Muslim girls in educational institutions and Islamic laws pertaining to Will and Inheritance? 3. Your Excellency! We all are citizens of a free country, and we have given ourselves a Constitution which, inter alia, guarantees freedoms of worship, religion, association and expression. We particularly refer to the Articles 18(1), 19(1) (2) and 20(1) of the Constitution which are as follows: 18 (1) Without prejudice to expression the laws of the land, every person has the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and to seek, receive and impart or disseminate information and ideas through any media regardless of national frontiers and also has the right of freedom from interference with his communication. 19 (1) every person has the right to the freedom of thought or conscience, belief or faith, and choice in matters of religion, including the freedom to change his religion or faith. (2) Without prejudice to the relevant laws of the United Republic the profession of religion, worship and propagation of religion shall be free and a private affair of an individual; and the affairs and management of religious bodies shall not be part of the activities of the state authority. 20 (1) Every person is entitled to freedom, subject to the laws of the land, to freely and peaceably assemble, associate and cooperate with other persons, express views publicly, and more specially to form or join associations or organizations formed for the purpose of preserving or furthering his beliefs or interests or any other interests. 4. Allah has said in the Qur'an, His last word: "And I have not created jinn and men except that they should serve Me." (Surah 51, verse 56) All Muslims right from the beginning agree that the word "li ya 'budun " which is derived from 'ibadah, and is translated here as "serve", means total obedience. Your Excellency! No body can be more aware than your good self that "ibadah " in Islam is not merely a set of some rituals to be performed at certain times or days. It encompasses a Muslim's whole life. Islam means surrender to the will of Allah and when we pledge to do so we are called Muslims. To guide us in our worldly life, and help us to reach near Him in the hereafter Allah has sent to us, through His Last Prophet (s.a.w.), a comprehensive set of Laws embracing all walks of life — domestic, social, financial, moral and spiritual. 5. Your Excellency knows very well that the Qur'an has treated no subject of law so elaborately and in such detailed manner as the laws of matrimony, will, inheritance and other related matters, including manner of dresses for women. 6. Hijab: It should be made clear at the outset that rules directing women to dress in such a manner as it covers their whole body and preserves their dignity is enunciated in the Qur'an. It is a common heritage of all Muslims and not confined to a certain sect or community. Also, it is not a cultural tradition; it is a compulsory divine law, and cannot be discarded without incurring a sense of sin and guilt. 7. There are not less than nine verses in various chapters of the Qur'an elaborating the rules of hijab. With Your Excellency's permission, we quote only two of them here: "And say (O Prophet unto the believing women that they cast down their look and guard their private parts, and they display not their adornment except what becomes apparent of it; and they draw their head-covers over their bosoms; and they display not their adornment except to their husbands, or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their brother 's sons, or their sister 's sons, or their women, or those whom their right hands possess, or the male servants void of sexual desire, or the children who have not yet attained the knowledge of women 's secrets; and they should not strike their feet so that what they hide of their adornments becomes known; and turn you all unto Allah, O you believers, .so that you may be successful (in the hereafter). (Surah 24, verse 31) O Prophet! say unto your wives, and your daughters and the women of the believers that they let down upon them their "jilbab", so that they may be distinguished ..... (Surah 33, verse 59) (Jilbab = A robe bigger than veil and shorter than shawl, which covers woman's head and breast.) 8. Basing on these and other Qur'anic verses and authentic traditions of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.), the Muslim jurisprudents, without any sectarian difference, have decreed that: (a) Muslim women should keep their whole body covered when going out of house. Only face (but not head or hair) and hands up to wrist may remain open. (b) There are special and stricter rules of dress for prayer and hajj. (c) The dress should not be tight to show the contour of body, nor flimsy to defeat the purpose of dress. (d) Women should not wear a dress generally used by men, nor men the dress of women. 9. Your Excellency! The Ministry of Education in our country has selected a uniform for girls of primary schools, which is a copy of the western dress. We wonder why such a decision was taken. Blouse and skirt are not African, nor are they Christian or Islamic, Why that style of dress is so sacrosanct as it can't be changed? It would have been more in keeping with our national aspirations to prescribe long frocks and bui-bui instead, as it is a dress millions of African women wear. Is it not high time that we rid ourselves of the attitude that all that comes from the West is good for us, while our own values are "barbaric."? 10. In view of the above facts, we humbly request Your Excellency to direct the Ministry of Education to prescribe such a uniform for school girls as covers their heads and whole body, leaving open their faces and hands. It may be simplified to consist of: Scarf, frock, trousers and socks. We believe that it will be a more dignified uniform, and will even allow the girls to participate in athletics and sports freely without fear of any embarrassing exposure. 11. Your Excellency! If for any reason it is difficult to introduce such a uniform for all girls, then the Muslim girls should be allowed throughout the country to wear such uniform without any let or hindrance, as it is a law of their religion and not just a tribal or cultural tradition. 12. Before going to the other subjects, we would like to bring to Your Excellency's kind notice that Muslim girls in U.K. and France have gained the right to wear hi jab in schools although it took court actions (and in case of France, intervention by the European Human Rights Commission) to achieve that right. Nearer at home, in Kenya, this year an African Muslim girl won court case against school authorities when they refused to let her enter school with hijab. The official KANU newspaper, The Kenya Times (Nairobi) wrote an editorial on 2/2/1990 in which it, inter alia, wrote: "For a democratic country like ours, where freedom of worship for all religions is enshrined in the constitution, it is difficult to believe that some people would find it fit to deny others this freedom. "Religion, as we know, is a subject very close to the hearts of some people and to deny them the freedom to express their feelings whenever they want to is being against all efforts in creating a peaceful and harmonious society. "Take Islam for instance. It is a complete way of life. To ask any staunch follower of this religion to discard some aspects of this life is actually asking him to defy- what is written in the Holy Quran. And who are we, in whatever capacity that we operate, to interfere with other people's private lives and their religion? The issue of this Muslim girl being asked to uncover her head while in the school compound should not arise. Similarly denying children their right to education because they are wearing turbans is intolerable." Physical Education Dress Code Dilemma For Muslim Girls Part Time Hijjabi New and Cool Hijab Styles The Hijab of Men and Women Prev: What is ADHD? - Part 2 Next: Matrimonial Laws in Islam

A Coruña: A Insumisa social centre evicted By: fawda - May 26th, 2018 Filed under: News Last Wednesday, the municipal police have evicted the A Insumisa social centre in Galician city A Coruña. The space originally belonged to the Ministry of Defense until, after more than 15 years of abandonment, it was ceded to the city council. In November 2016, it was reclaimed by residents of A Coruña and since then it has been carrying out a range of social and cultural activities organized through open assemblies. After it was occupied and set up as a social centre, the city council came up with their own proposal to turn the space to a cultural project similar to the one already set up by the citizens: except that it was to be managed by the council. The council’s proposal was rejected by the local residents and participants of A Insumisa, who defended the local self-managed project that already worked well without the intervention of the town hall and without public funding. After this defeat, the city council initiated the eviction process, which was finalised last Wednesday. [Read More] Tags: A Coruña, CSO A Insumisa, eviction, Galicia, Spanish State

South Korea coronavirus: PM aims for ‘herd immunity by autumn’ South Korea will achieve herd immunity from Covid-19 by the autumn, its prime minister has told the BBC, despite a later start to its vaccination programme. The country was one of the first hit by the pandemic last year and became a role model for its mass testing and aggressive contact tracing measures. But vaccinations have been much slower. Health officials will start inoculating medical staff in hospitals and care homes later this week. The aim is to give some 800,000 people the jab over the next month using vaccines produced by AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech. In an interview one year since he became the country’s coronavirus figurehead, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun defended the later rollout and said it allowed South Korean officials to see how the vaccine had fared elsewhere. “You know that Koreans are the master of speed,” said Mr Chung. image captionMr Chung said social distancing measures are due to be eased in March “It’s not an easy goal to achieve but we aim to complete the first set of vaccinations on 70% of our population by the end of the third quarter in September. I believe it’s possible.” The government has procured more than enough vaccine for the country’s 55 million people, but most of these supplies are not expected to arrive until around July. That gives health workers just a few months to meet the government’s deadline. Seoul had hoped to have its own vaccine ready by the end of this year – but that is now looking unlikely. The hope of a “home-grown” jab is thought to be part of the reason the government took its time to negotiate with vaccine companies for supplies. It eventually secured contracts with Pfizer and Moderna at the end of January but not before domestic media had lambasted its approach as too relaxed. President Moon Jae-in told me at his New Year press conference that he did not regret taking the time to get this right. But the past few months has allowed time for fear to set in. Is S Korea’s rapid testing the key to coronavirus? ‘At a love motel’: Are S Korea virus alerts too revealing? S Korea sect leader apologises for virus spread South Korea is not traditionally a country that shuns mass vaccinations. Its inoculation rate for major diseases such as hepatitis B are usually higher than those of the United States, the UK and Australia. But a recent poll by the Korea Society Opinion Institute found that only around 45% of those asked were willing to get the Covid-19 vaccination when their turn comes in the next few months. Another 45% said they wanted to delay getting their shots to “watch the situation”. Five per cent said they would refuse to be vaccinated. IMAGE COPYRIGHTEPA image captionThe first inoculations against coronavirus in South Korea will only start later this week Prime Minister Chung believes people will be persuaded. “Sure, some may resist getting vaccinated but this government will encourage more people to get the jab… If the vaccine proves to be as effective as promised and if indeed herd immunity is achieved when 70% are inoculated – then by this fall Koreans may have their normal life back.” The lure of a more normal life may prove a compelling argument. South Korea has so far managed to control the virus and live with Covid-19 without a major nationwide lockdown. But there are restrictions in place. Restaurants and small businesses in and around the capital Seoul have had a curfew of 21:00 since December. That has now been extended by an extra hour, and as winter gives way to spring, Seoul’s streets are busy. Coffee shops and bars are bustling and even nightclubs have reopened for the young – and old. Health officials announced on Monday that there had been a cluster of infections at a seniors’ disco. media caption(Video from May 2020) Coronavirus: How South Korea ‘crushed’ the curve Over-confidence in its own measures and a touch of complacency have led to three waves of the virus. In December, daily case numbers rose to more than 1,000. Still low by international standards, but it was a wake-up call in South Korea. Prime Minister Chung said he was keen to strike a balance between the economy and preventing infection. “I believe it is better to minimise restrictions. But we have to keep in mind that if we fail to contain Covid-19 we will fail to grow our economy as well. Yes, at the moment the fight against the coronavirus is a priority but it is not the only fight. “We are preparing to amend our social distancing measures in March. The focus will be to reduce the burden on those self-employed or small businesses that have been badly hit by the restrictions while asking each individual to be more responsible and carry out some restraint.” It’s not clear what that will mean in practice, but currently there is a ban on more than four people gathering together. South Korea’s fight against the coronavirus has not been perfect, but it has saved lives. Just over 1,500 people have died from Covid-19 and there have been a total of around 87,000 infections in the past year. So was Mr Chung surprised when those in the West failed to follow this country’s lead? “South Korea has learned about democracy and gained technology from advanced countries like Europe and the UK. “I would never have thought they would have suffered so much from Covid-19. South Korea was focused on the three principles of testing, tracking and tracing the virus and the three values of democracy, transparency and openness – we didn’t realise how well we were doing. “It was only later that we learned we were managing better than others around the world.” Read more:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56156234

1Background 2Prelude Toggle Prelude subsection 2.1Preliminary operation of 27 September 3Main assault of 29 September Toggle Main assault of 29 September subsection 3.1Attack over Bellicourt Tunnel 3.2Attack across the canal cutting 4Aftermath Toggle Aftermath subsection 4.1Subsequent fighting 4.2Cemeteries and memorials 6Footnotes Toggle References subsection 7.2Websites Battle of St Quentin Canal (Redirected from Battle of the St Quentin Canal) 1918 battle on the Western Front of World War I Part of the Hundred Days Offensive of World War I Breaking the Hindenburg Line by William Longstaff 29 September – 10 October 1918 Hindenburg Line, France 49°57′42″N 03°14′12″E / 49.96167°N 3.23667°E / 49.96167; 3.23667Coordinates: 49°57′42″N 03°14′12″E / 49.96167°N 3.23667°E / 49.96167; 3.23667 Allied victory Belligerents United States Germany Commanders and leaders Sir Henry Rawlinson Sir John Monash Sir Walter Braithwaite George Windle Read Adolph von Carlowitz 32 divisions: 30 British Empire; two United States divisions[1] 39 divisions[a] Casualties and losses 8,802 (partial)[3][4] 2,577[6] 36,000 POW[7] Hundred Days Offensive Ailette 2nd Somme 3rd Albert 2nd Bapaume Mont Saint-Quentin 2nd Scarpe Havrincourt Drocourt-Quéant St.-Mihiel Épehy Canal du Nord St. Quentin Canal Meuse-Argonne 5th Ypres 2nd Cambrai Burkel Sambre Lys and Escaut Honnelles The Battle of St Quentin Canal was a pivotal battle of World War I that began on 29 September 1918 and involved British, Australian and American forces operating as part of the British Fourth Army under the overall command of General Sir Henry Rawlinson. Further north, part of the British Third Army also supported the attack.[8] South of the Fourth Army's 19 km (12 mi) front, the French First Army launched a coordinated attack on a 9.5 km (6 mi) front.[9] The objective was to break through one of the most heavily defended stretches of the German Siegfriedstellung (Hindenburg Line), which in this sector used the St Quentin Canal as part of its defences. The assault achieved its objectives (though not according to the planned timetable), resulting in the first full breach of the Hindenburg Line, in the face of heavy German resistance. In concert with other attacks of the Grand Offensive along the length of the line, Allied success convinced the German high command that there was little hope of an ultimate German victory.[10] Rawlinson wanted the Australian Corps, under the command of Lieutenant General Sir John Monash, with its well-earned reputation, to spearhead the attack. Monash was unhappy, because his Australian force was by now short of manpower and many soldiers were showing signs of strain, having been heavily engaged in fighting for several months. There had been some episodes of mutiny by troops who were feeling unfairly put upon.[11] Monash was however very pleased when Rawlinson offered him the American II Corps (the U.S. 27th and 30th Divisions),[12] which still remained at the disposal of the British command, since American divisions were twice the numerical strength of their British counterparts.[13][b] U.S. Corps commander Major General George Windle Read handed command of his American force for the duration of the action to Monash.[14][15] However, the American soldiers lacked battle experience. A small group of 217 Australian officers and N.C.O.s was assigned to the U.S. troops for advice and liaison.[16] The British high command considered that German morale was suffering badly and that their capacity to resist was much weakened.[17] Monash believed that the operation would be "more a matter of engineering and organisation than of fighting".[18] Whilst there had been some evidence of poor German morale from previous operations, this proved to be a dangerous assumption.[19] Monash was tasked with drawing up the battle plan. He would use the Americans to breach the Hindenburg Line and the Australian 3rd and 5th Divisions to follow behind and then exploit the breakthrough. Monash intended to attack the Hindenburg Line south of Vendhuile where the St Quentin Canal runs underground for some 5,500 m (6,000 yd) through the Bellicourt Tunnel (which had been converted by the Germans into an integral part of the Hindenburg Line defensive system).[20] The tunnel was the only location where tanks could cross the canal. Where the canal runs underground, the main Hindenburg Line trench system was sited to the west of the line of the canal. Two British corps, III and IX, would be deployed in support of the main assault. To Monash's plan Rawlinson made a very significant change: IX Corps would launch an assault directly across the deep canal cutting south of the Bellicourt Tunnel. This plan originated with Lieutenant-General Sir Walter Braithwaite, commander of IX Corps.[21] Monash felt such an assault to be doomed to failure and would never have planned for it himself, believing it to be too risky.[21] This view was shared by many in the 46th (North Midland) Division of IX Corps, which was tasked with spearheading the assault.[22] The Germans believed the canal cutting to be impregnable.[23] Detail of a British trench map of Bellicourt. The canal tunnel is coloured red. The Hindenburg Line runs west of the tunnel and east of the canal cutting. Prelude[edit] Map showing the operations of U.S. 27th and 30th Divisions affiliated to Australian Corps as part of British Fourth Army during the Battle of St Quentin Canal, 29 September 1918. The advance shown was actually made by combined American and Australian forces. Men of the American 30th Division at rest with German prisoners following the capture of Bellicourt, 29 September 1918. In the background are British Mark V tanks (with 'cribs' for crossing trenches) of the 8th Battalion, Tank Corps, which was one of four battalions of the 5th Tank Brigade allotted to the 5th Australian Division and American Corps for the operation. After the German spring offensive, British Empire, French, and American counterattacks during the Hundred Days Offensive brought the Allies back up against the outposts of the Hindenburg Line by the autumn of 1918, close to the village of Bellicourt, where the Battle of Épehy was fought on 18 September 1918.[17] Preliminary operation of 27 September[edit] Monash's plan assumed that the Hindenburg outpost line would be in Allied hands by the date set for the start of the battle. Whilst the Australians had already captured it in the southern part of the front (from where the American 30th Division would launch its attack), the northern section of the line was still in German hands.[24] The American 27th Division was ordered to attack on 27 September,[25] to finish clearing German forces from outposts in front of their line, including the strong points of The Knoll, Gillemont Farm, and Quennemont Farm.[26] Commander in Chief Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig initially opposed using the Americans to take the outpost line, wanting to preserve them for the main attack. He was persuaded by Rawlinson to change his mind. The British III Corps had previously failed to capture the outposts, but that failure had been attributed by Rawlinson to the tiredness of the troops. Rawlinson was convinced that the Germans were at breaking point and managed to persuade Haig that this was so.[27] The American soldiers were inexperienced and problems were compounded by a shortage of American officers (there were only 18 officers in the 12 attacking companies – the remainder were absent receiving further training).[28] The U.S. attack was unsuccessful. Monash asked Rawlinson for permission to delay the main attack due on 29 September, but this was refused because of the priority given to Marshal Ferdinand Foch's strategy of keeping the Germans under the relentless pressure of coordinated assaults along the front.[29] As a result of the confusion created by the failed attack (with the corps command being unsure of where the American troops were), the battle on 29 September on the American 27th Division front had to be started without the customary (and highly effective) close artillery support. The British artillery commander argued that attempting to alter the barrage timetable at this late stage would cause problems and the American divisional commander Major General John F. O'Ryan was also concerned about the possibility of friendly fire.[30][c] All of the Allied commanders therefore agreed to proceed with the original artillery fire plan.[30] The result was that the barrage would now start at the originally-intended jump-off point, some 900 m (1,000 yd) beyond the actual starting point of the infantry, leaving them very vulnerable during their initial advance. 27th Division was required to make an advance greater than any that had been asked of its highly experienced Australian allies, an advance of some 4,500 m (5,000 yd) in a single action.[32] In an attempt to compensate for the lack of a creeping barrage Rawlinson provided additional tanks.[33] However, the absence of a creeping barrage in the 27th Division sector was to have a very detrimental effect on the initial operations of the battle on the front opposite the tunnel.[34] Soldiers of the 30th American Infantry Division and the 15th Australian Brigade (5th Australian Division) at the southern entrance of the Bellicourt Tunnel at Riqueval near Bellicourt. It was captured by the American 30th Division on 29 September 1918. (Photographed 4 October 1918). Main assault of 29 September[edit] Brigadier General J V Campbell addressing troops of the 137th Brigade (46th Division) from the Riqueval Bridge over the St Quentin Canal The battle was preceded by the greatest British artillery bombardment of the war. Some 1,600 guns were deployed (1,044 field guns and 593 heavy guns and howitzers),[35] firing almost 1,000,000 shells over a comparatively short period of time.[36] Included in these were more than 30,000 mustard gas shells (the first use of a British-made version of this weapon). These were specifically targeted at headquarters and groups of batteries.[35] Many of the high explosive shells fired had special fuses which made them very effective in destroying the German barbed wire.[37] The British were greatly helped by the fact that they were in possession of highly detailed captured plans of the enemy defences (especially useful for the IX Corps sector).[20] Monash's battle plan for 29 September envisaged breaking through the main Hindenburg Line defences, crossing the canal tunnel mound, breaching the fortified Le Catelet–Nauroy Line beyond that, and reaching the Beaurevoir Line (the final fortified line) beyond that as the objective on the first day.[24] Monash had originally intended to capture the Beaurevoir Line on 29 September, but Rawlinson removed this as a first day objective, considering it overly ambitious.[38] King George V at Riqueval Bridge, the scene of the exploit of the 137th Brigade when the 46th Division crossed the St Quentin Canal cutting on 29 September 1918. (photo taken 2 December). Attack over Bellicourt Tunnel[edit] On 29 September, the two American divisions attacked followed by the two Australian divisions, with approximately 150 tanks of the 4th and 5th Tank Brigades of the British Tank Corps (including the newly trained American 301st Heavy Tank Battalion, which was equipped with British tanks) in support of the four divisions. The objective of the Americans was the Le Catelet-Nauroy Line, a defensive line east of the canal.[39] Here the Australian 3rd Division (behind the U.S. 27th) and 5th Division (behind the U.S. 30th) were intended to "leapfrog" through the American forces and press on towards the Beaurevoir Line. Australian 2nd Division was in reserve.[37] On the left of the front, where the U.S. 27th Division began at a disadvantage, none of the objectives were met on the first day and the Americans suffered severe losses. The 107th Infantry Regiment suffered the worst casualties sustained in a single day by any U.S. regiment during the war.[40] Rather than leapfrogging through the Americans, the Australian 3rd Division became involved in a desperate fight for positions that should already have been captured had Monash's plan run to timetable. Despite some individual acts of heroism[41] the lack of progress on the left of the front had an adverse effect on the progress of the right of the front too. As the American 30th Division and then the Australian 5th Division moved forward whilst the units to their left did not, they had to contend with German fire from the side and rear as well as from ahead.[42] An added difficulty was thick fog across the battlefield in the earlier stages of the attack which led to American troops passing by Germans without realising that they were there, with the Germans causing severe problems to the Americans following the assault wave.[43] Fog also caused problems for infantry/tank cooperation.[44][d] The 30th Division broke through the Hindenburg Line in the fog on 29 September 1918, entering Bellicourt, capturing the southern entrance of Bellicourt Tunnel and reaching the village of Nauroy, where Australian troops joined them to continue the attack.[46] The advancing Australians came across large groups of leaderless, disoriented Americans. Charles Bean wrote: "By 10 o'clock Monash's plan had gone to the winds.... From that hour onward ... the offensive was really directed by Australian battalion or company commanders at the front..."[47] The 30th Division won the praise of General John J. Pershing, who wrote: "... the 30th Division did especially well. It broke through the Hindenburg Line on its entire front and took Bellicourt and part of Nauroy by noon of the 29th."[48] There has since been considerable debate over the extent to which the American forces were successful.[49] Monash wrote: "...in this battle they demonstrated their inexperience in war, and their ignorance of some of the elementary methods of fighting employed on the French front. For these shortcomings they paid a heavy price. Their sacrifices, nevertheless, contributed quite definitely to the partial success of the day's operations..."[50] The objective of U.S. II Corps, the Catelet–Nauroy Line, was not captured by the Americans. During the battle, Monash was furious about the performance of the American divisions.[51] Late on 29 September Rawlinson wrote: "The Americans appear to be in a state of hopeless confusion and will not, I fear, be able to function as a corps, so I am contemplating replacing them ... I fear their casualties have been heavy, but it is their own fault."[52] Meanwhile, on the right of the Bellicourt Tunnel front, the Australian 32nd Battalion under the command of Major Blair Wark established contact with the 1/4th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, of 46th Division, which had crossed the canal and were now present in force east of the Hindenburg Line.[53] By this stage in the war the Tank Corps had suffered greatly and there were fewer tanks available for the battle than had been deployed in the Battle of Amiens in August. Eight tanks were destroyed when they strayed into an old British minefield but the 29 September attack also highlighted the high vulnerability of tanks to strong German anti-tank measures. In one instance, four heavy tanks and five medium tanks were destroyed in the space of 15 minutes by German field guns at the same location.[54] This was during the attempt to subdue severe machine gun fire coming from the Le Catelet–Nauroy Line in the vicinity of Cabaret Wood Farm[55][page needed] (a tank fort – see map) and showed the danger posed by German field guns to tanks operating without close infantry support (because the crew had very limited visibility and often could not see a threat which those outside the tank could see). The tanks could protect the infantry but they also needed the close cooperation of the infantry to alert them to the danger of concealed field guns.[56][page needed] In the case of this attack, the machine gun fire was so severe that the infantry were ordered to withdraw, leaving the tanks well forward of them and prey to the German field guns.[57] Riqueval Bridge in 2003. The canal banks are much more overgrown than when the bridge was captured during the battle Attack across the canal cutting[edit] The attack across the canal cutting, also known as the Battle of Bellenglise,[58] saw IX Corps (commanded by Braithwaite), on the right of the American and Australian Divisions, launch its assault between Riqueval and Bellenglise.[e] The assault was spearheaded by the British 46th Division under the command of Major-General Gerald Boyd. In this sector the St Quentin Canal formed an immense, ready-made anti-tank "ditch" and the main Hindenburg Line trench system lay on the east (German) side of the canal. IX Corps was supported by tanks of the 3rd Tank Brigade, which had to cross Bellicourt Tunnel in the American 30th Division sector and then move south along the east bank of the canal.[59] IX Corps had to cross the formidable canal cutting (which increased in depth as it approached Riqueval until its very steep banks, strongly defended by fortified machine gun positions, were over 15 m (50 ft) deep in places),[60] and then fight its way through the Hindenburg Line trenches. The 46th Division's final objective for 29 September was a line of high ground beyond the villages of Lehaucourt and Magny-la-Fosse.[61] The British 32nd Division, following behind, would then leapfrog the 46th Division.[62] Following a devastating artillery bombardment (which was heaviest in this sector),[37] and in thick fog and smoke, the 46th Division fought its way through the German trenches west of the canal and then across the waterway. The 137th (Staffordshire) Brigade spearheaded the attack.[63] The ferocity of the creeping artillery barrage contributed greatly to the success of the assault, keeping the Germans pinned in their dugouts.[64] The soldiers used a variety of flotation aids devised by the Royal Engineers (including improvised floating piers and 3,000 lifebelts from cross-Channel steamers) to cross the water. Scaling ladders were used to climb the brick wall lining the canal.[65] Some men of the 1/6th Battalion, the North Staffordshire Regiment, led by Captain A. H. Charlton, managed to seize the still-intact Riqueval Bridge over the canal before the Germans had a chance to fire their explosive charges.[66][f] The 46th Division captured the village of Bellenglise, including its great tunnel/troop shelter (which had been constructed as part of the Hindenburg Line defences).[67][68] By the end of the day the 46th Division had taken 4,200 German prisoners (out of a total for the army of 5,100) and 70 guns.[69] The assault across the canal met all of its objectives, on schedule, at a cost of somewhat fewer than 800 casualties to the division.[70] The great success of the day had come where many had least expected it. The 46th Division assault was considered to be one of the outstanding feats of arms of the war.[71] Bean described the attack as an "extraordinarily difficult task" and "a wonderful achievement" in his official Australian war history.[72] Monash wrote that it was "an astonishing success...[which] materially assisted me in the situation in which I was placed later on the same day".[37] Later in the day the leading brigades of the 32nd Division (including Lt Wilfred Owen of the Manchester Regiment) crossed the canal and moved forward through the 46th Division. The whole of the 32nd Division was east of the canal by nightfall.[73] On the right of the front in IX Corps sector, the 1st Division, operating west of the canal, had the task of protecting the right flank of the 46th Division by clearing the Germans from the ground east and north-east of Pontruet. It met with fierce German resistance and heavy enfilade fire from the south.[63] On the evening of the 29 September orders were issued for IX Corps to seize the Le Tronquoy Tunnel defences to allow the passage of the XV French Corps over the canal tunnel.[74] The following day, the 1st Division advanced under a creeping barrage and early in the afternoon the 3rd Brigade of the division linked up on the tunnel summit with the 14th Brigade of the 32nd Division, which had fought its way forward from the German side of the canal.[75] Part of British IX Corps sector, showing the St Quentin Canal and the villages of Bellenglise, Magny-la-Fosse, Lehaucourt, Le Tronquoy and Pontruet. The 32nd Division, which had crossed the canal, linked up with the 1st Division (attacking from the Allied side) above the Le Tronquoy canal tunnel. Subsequent fighting[edit] On 2 October, the British 46th and 32nd Divisions, supported by the Australian 2nd Division, planned to capture the Beaurevoir Line (the third line of defences of the Hindenburg Line), the village of Beaurevoir and the heights overlooking the Beaurevoir Line. While the attack succeeded in widening the breach in the Beaurevoir Line, it was unable to seize the high ground further on. However, by 2 October, the attack had resulted in a 17 km breach in the Hindenburg Line.[6] Continuing attacks from 3 to 10 October (including those by the Australian 2nd Division capturing Montbrehain on 5 October and the British 25th Division capturing the village of Beaurevoir on 5/6 October) managed to clear the fortified villages behind the Beaurevoir Line, and capture the heights overlooking the Beaurevoir Line – resulting in a total break in the Hindenburg Line.[76][77] The Australian Corps was subsequently withdrawn from the line after the fighting on 5 October, for rest and reorganisation. They would not return to the front before the Armistice on 11 November.[78] Cemeteries and memorials[edit] Dead American soldiers from the battle were interred in the Somme American Cemetery[79] near Bony, where the missing are also commemorated. The U.S. 27th and 30th Divisions (and those other units which served with the British) are commemorated on the Bellicourt Monument,[80] which stands directly above the canal tunnel. The Australian and British dead were interred in numerous Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries scattered around the area, including Bellicourt British Cemetery;[81] Unicorn Cemetery, Vendhuile[82] and La Baraque British Cemetery, Bellenglise (UK dead only).[83] Australian soldiers with no known grave are commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Australian National Memorial[84] and the missing British soldiers killed in the battle are commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial.[85] ^ Bean lists the following German divisions facing the attack: 54th, 121st, 185th, 75th Reserve, 21st, 2nd Guards, 2nd, 119th, 241st, 54th, 24th, 8th and 21st Reserve divisions. Note: this list is incomplete, as it does not include the forces facing the Allies after 5 October.[2] ^ A number of U.S. divisions had trained in the British sector with British instructors, though Pershing had always resisted having their entire training carried out by the British. The 27th and 30th Divisions were the only ones which Pershing permitted to remain with the British by this time. Both had spent their entire time since arriving in France in the British area.[13] ^ The two American divisions were reliant on British guns because they did not have their own artillery.[31] ^ The fog was however helpful to IX Corps.[45] ^ On the right of the IX Corps front the canal ran through the 1,200-yard (1,100 m) Le Tronquoy Tunnel, but there was no intention to launch an attack across the tunnel in the manner of the planned assault on the Bellicourt Tunnel. ^ The bridge had not been destroyed previously by the Germans because it was a major link to the ground they held west of the canal. Footnotes[edit] ^ Boraston 1920, pp. 282–285. ^ Bean 1942, pp. 984, 985, 986, 995, 1008, 1013, 1027. ^ Nichols 2004, p. 560. ^ Scott & Middleton Brumwell 2001, p. 212. ^ Clodfelter 2002, p. 454. ^ a b Australian War Memorial. ^ Boraston 1920, p. 285. ^ Stacke 1928. ^ Montgomery 1919, pp. 151–152. ^ Lloyd 2014, pp. 195–198. ^ Blair 2011, p. 12. ^ Bean 1942, p. 942. ^ a b Yockelson 2008, Chapter 12. ^ Yockelson 2008, Foreword. ^ Monash 1920, Chapter XIV. ^ a b Stevenson 2012, p. 139. ^ Blair 2011, p. 9. ^ Blair 2011, p. 138. ^ a b Monash 1920, Chapter 13. ^ a b Terraine 1978, p. 165. ^ Priestley 1919, p. 23. ^ Yockelson 2008, Chapter 15. ^ Blair 2011, pp. 8, 138. ^ a b Montgomery 1919, p. 153. ^ Sheffield 2001, Chapter 9. ^ a b c d Monash 1920, Chapter 15. ^ Blair 2011, pp. 7–8. ^ Coulthard-Clark 2001, p. 163. ^ American Battle Monuments Commission 1938, p. 380. ^ Williams-Ellis 1919, p. 252. ^ Terraine 1978, p. 171. ^ American Battle Monuments Commission 1938, pp. 378–380. ^ Pershing 1931, p. 304. ^ Monash 1920, Chapter 17. ^ Blair 2011, Conclusion. ^ Terraine 1978, pp. 170–171. ^ Bean 1942. ^ Travers 1992. ^ War Office, Chapter 10, paragraph 10. ^ Priestley 1919, Chapter 1. ^ Montgomery 1919, p. 155. ^ Priestley 1919, pp. 31–32. ^ Winter 2010, pp. 40–41. ^ "No. 31583". 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1Plot 2Cast 4Release 5Reception The Insect Woman For the 1972 Korean film, see Insect Woman (1972 film). 1963 Japanese film Shōhei Imamura Keiji Hasebe Sachiko Hidari Jitsuko Yoshimura Masumi Harukawa Shinsaku Himeda Matsuo Tanji Toshiro Mayuzumi Nikkatsu November 16, 1963 (1963-11-16) $165,000[3] $1 million[3] The Insect Woman (にっぽん昆虫記, Nippon konchūki, lit. "Entomological Chronicles of Japan"[4]) is a 1963 Japanese drama film directed by Shōhei Imamura. It was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival, where Sachiko Hidari won the Silver Bear for Best Actress award.[5] It was also awarded numerous national film prizes.[6] Plot[edit] The film follows Tome, a young woman born to a rural lower-class family in the Tōhoku region in 1918, who, after a long series of mishaps, rises to the status of a madam in the post-war era. When she is sentenced to jail, her daughter Nobuko becomes her patron's lover, but later steals his money to use it for building up a farming commune. Sachiko Hidari as Tome Matsuki Jitsuko Yoshimura as Nobuko Emiko Aizawa as Rui Masumi Harukawa as Midori Emiko Higashi as Kane Daizaburo Hirata as Kamibayashi Seizaburo Kawazu as Karasawa Teruko Kishi as Rin Tanie Kitabayashi as Madam Kazuo Kitamura as Chuji Asao Koike as Sawakichi Masakazu Kuwayama as Owagawa En's Lover Hiroyuki Nagato as Matsunami Shoichi Ozawa as Ken Sumie Sasaki as En Taiji Tonoyama as Foreman Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Honda Production[edit] In a 1977 interview, director Imamura explained that he had chosen Hidari for the role due to her vitality and energy, which had impressed him in the film The Maid's Kid (Jochukko, 1955).[7] Yet, according to Hidari, she and Imamura disagreed profoundly on the way she should play her character, calling him a "chauvinist" in retrospect for his bullying the then pregnant actress by e.g. insisting on multiple re-takes in delicate scenes.[8] Release[edit] The Insect Woman was released in Japan on 16 November 1963,[1][2] earning $500,000 in four weeks.[3] It was re-released with Getsuyōbi no Yuka in February 1964, earning a similar amount.[3] The film was released as a region 1 NTSC DVD in 2009 as part of The Criterion Collection's Shohei Imamura DVD box[9] and as a region B Blu-ray in 2011 by Masters of Cinema. Reception[edit] Variety magazine declared the film being "potent adult film fare by any nation's standards" and praised the camera work by Masahisa Himeda and performances by Sachiko Hidari, Kazuo Kitamura and Jitsuko Yoshimura.[6] The review noted that the film takes place over a period of 45 years in an episodic technique "consciously causing viewer alienation".[6] The film won 14 awards in Japan,[6] including the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film[10] and Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year.[11] ^ a b "にっぽん昆虫記 (The Insect Woman)" (in Japanese). Nikkatsu. Retrieved July 6, 2021. ^ a b "にっぽん昆虫記 (The Insect Woman)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved July 6, 2021. ^ a b c d "Le Sexy Hot Japan". Variety. 8 April 1964. p. 5. ^ Tessier, Max (1997). Shohei Imamura. Cinematheque Ontario. p. 60. ISBN 9780968296905. ^ "Berlinale 1964: Prize Winners". Berlin International Film Festival. Retrieved July 6, 2021. ^ a b c d "Film reviews: The Insect". Variety. June 24, 1964. p. 7. ^ Tessier, Max (1999). "Shohei Imamura interview". In Quandt, James (ed.). Shohei Imamura. Toronto International Film Festival Group. p. 61. ^ Raine, Michael (2019). "The Insect Woman, or: The Female Art of Failure". In Coleman, Lindsay; Desser, David (eds.). Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura. Edinburgh University Press. p. 132. ISBN 9781474411813. ^ "The Insect Woman". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved July 6, 2021. ^ "1963 Blue Ribbon Awards" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 7 February 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2021. ^ "The Insect Woman: Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 4 August 2021. 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(1997) Fireworks (1998) Wait and See (2000) Face (2001) Go (2002) A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2004) I Just Didn't Do It (2008) Departures (2009) Dear Doctor (2010) Villain (2011) Postcard (2012) Pecoross' Mother and Her Days (2014) The Light Shines Only There (2015) Three Stories of Love (2016) In This Corner of the World (2017) The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2018) Shoplifters (2019) It Feels So Good (2020) Wife of a Spy (2021) Drive My Car (2022) Small, Slow But Steady (2023) This article related to a Japanese film of the 1960s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. 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Highlights and images for 10 September 2020 Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 16th Meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC-16) See summary report of this event See other coverage from 16th Meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC-16): Summary report Summary report 8–11 September 2020 Highlights and images Highlights and images for 11 September 2020 Highlights and images Highlights and images for 9 September 2020 On the penultimate day of the meeting, the Chemical Review Committee devoted its online session to informal work in a contact group on a decision guidance document for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). Once finalized, this document will be sent to the Conference of the Parties to inform its decision about whether to accept the Chemical Review Committee’s recommendation to list this industrial chemical in Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention. The decision guidance document on PFOA was drafted intersessionally with input from both Committee members and observers. Participants at this meeting reviewed the draft text, identifying points that could be improved or clarified. For example, participants discussed the chemical name and synonyms, what substances should explicitly be excluded, and where CAS numbers should be listed in the document. Participants also grappled with questions about how to reference the listing of PFOA in the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, as the scope of that listing is broader than the notifications of final regulatory action submitted to the Rotterdam Convention. Several participants emphasized the importance of explaining why the definitions of PFOA in the two Conventions may differ, with one pointing out that the list of substances included in the Stockholm Convention is indicative and expected to be updated as new information becomes available. This discussion underscores the challenges of taking clear action on groups of industrial chemicals, which may be produced and used in a wide variety of formulations. While the Chemical Review Committee and observers normally gather in person for their annual meetings, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced participants to quickly adapt to the constraints of collaborating in a virtual setting. The work conducted in the contact group on PFOA demonstrated that the limitations of online meetings – including the lack of casual interaction among participants and opportunities to talk through complex issues face-to-face, as well as technical problems with connections – may be less significant than some had anticipated. Work progressed steadily on Thursday, with both members and observers contributing to the substantive editing of the text. By the conclusion of the session, participants had finalized the draft texts of both the guidance document and the Chemical Review Committee’s decision on PFOA. The Committee will reconvene on Friday to consider adopting these texts and the decision on decaBDE.

Posted inDaily digest Oil sands spill in Arkansas revives pipeline debate by Ken Paulman April 1, 2013 June 29, 2015 OIL: An oil sands pipeline spill in Arkansas forces the evacuation of 22 homes and revives the Keystone XL debate; an eyewitness video shows oil flowing down a residential street; ExxonMobil confirms the pipeline was carrying dilbit, the same mixture of crude oil and chemicals that spilled into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River in 2010. (Washington Post, YouTube, InsideClimate News) ALSO: The Detroit Free Press investigates Michigan’s aging natural gas pipeline infrastructure, finding the state has more than 3,100 miles of aging iron pipelines that are prone to corrosion that can cost $1 million per mile to replace; and has only six inspectors to oversee the state’s entire 56,000 miles of pipelines. ***SPONSORED LINK: The best Midwest clean energy startups vie for $250,000 in prizes at the 2013 Clean Energy Challenge April 4 in Chicago.*** COAL: Even as coal-fired power plants are closing nationwide, the coal industry is still very much alive — and facing environmental scrutiny — in Illinois mining country, and environmental groups seek Supreme Court review of a decision that scuttled the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. (Midwest Energy News, The Hill) GASOLINE: The oil industry pushes back against proposed EPA rules to lower the amount of sulfur in gasoline, which are projected to prevent 2,400 premature deaths per year; and automakers say the low-sulfur gasoline will be critical for meeting higher fuel economy targets. (Washington Post, Detroit Free Press) WIND: Conservation groups object to plans for more wind turbines along the shores of Lake Erie, an Ohio wind project is mired in legal disputes over who will pay to decommission the turbines, and a Michigan offshore wind research project is running out of funding. (Toledo Blade, Mansfield News Journal, MiBiz) TRANSMISSION: MidAmerican Energy and ITC Holdings proceed with plans for transmission upgrades in Iowa, the projects are among several that we wrote about last summer aimed to make it easier to deliver wind power to the grid. (Des Moines Register, Midwest Energy News) ENERGY STORAGE: A new process may make it economical to store excess electricity from wind and solar installations by using it to produce hydrogen. (Climate Central) COAL ASH: Ameren is disposing truckloads of coal ash into a former limestone mine in Missouri. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) NATURAL GAS: The shale boom helps drive expansion of the fertilizer industry in Iowa. (Cedar Rapids Gazette) EFFICIENCY: Indiana schools save millions of dollars through energy conservation programs. (Elkhart Truth) COMMENTARY: How owning a coal plant may become profitable again, and why rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline could “do Canada a favor.” (Wall Street Journal, New York Times) Ken Paulman Ken is the director of the Energy News Network at Fresh Energy and is a founding editor of both Midwest Energy News and Southeast Energy News. Prior to joining Fresh Energy, he was the managing editor for online news at Minnesota Public Radio. He started his journalism career in 2002 as a copy editor for the Duluth News Tribune before spending five years at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, where he worked as a copy editor, online producer, features editor and night city editor. A Nebraska native, Ken has a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a master's degree from the University of Oregon. He is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors. More by Ken Paulman

They Say, I Say Introduction and_CH1 For Class The Week of 9/16: “The Next Environmental Revolution” from Welcome to Your World by Sarah Williams Goldhagen Image of the City video about Kevin Lynch, who is mentioned in “The Environmental Revolution.” Kevin Lynch was an American urban planner and theorist, and Image of the City is the name of his most important book. This video explains the main concepts of Image of the City. Image of the City was the result of a five-year study of Boston, Jersey City and Los Angeles on how observers take in information of the city, and use it to make mental maps. Lynch’s conclusion was that people formed mental maps of their surroundings consisting of five basic elements: Paths, Edges, Districts, Nodes, and Landmarks.[1] These are the streets, sidewalks, trails, canals, railroads, and other channels in which people travel They arrange space and movement between space They can be either Real or Perceived These are walls, buildings, and shorelines, curbstone, streets, overpasses, etc. Medium to large areas that are two-dimensional An individual enters into and out of these areas Have common identifying characteristics Large areas you can enter, serve as the foci of the city, neighborhood, district, etc. Offers the person in them multiple perspectives of the other core elements “…the most successful node seemed both to be unique in some way and at the same time to intensify some surrounding characteristic”[1]:77 Points of reference person cannot enter into These are buildings, signs, stores, mountains, public art At least one aspect of them is unique or memorable in the context they exist Mobile Points (such as Sun) can be used as well. (This information taken from Wikipedia’s entry on Kevin Lynch.)

Overview of the Independent Review Committee Report The Victorian Climate Change Act was introduced in 2010. In 2012, the then government substantially gutted the Climate Change Act, making it ineffective. The Climate Change Act must be reviewed every 5 years. Last year, the state government commissioned an independent expert panel to review that Climate Change Act and its effectiveness. What did they find? The review panel found that the Act was ineffective, and in light of recent international agreement and further improvements in the certainty of climate science, the Act needed a major overhaul. The review panel made a series of recommendations to the Climate Change Act to ensure meaningful reductions in Victoria’s greenhouse gas emissions, and that Victoria was properly prepared for the impacts of climate change. The Independent Review Panel made 33 recommendations. Here’s a summary of their key recommendations: The Act should contain legislated targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These targets should: be based on the best available science; align with international agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; include a long term target that places Victoria on a pathway to limit global temperatures rising more than 1.5 degrees; and interim targets, reviewed every 5 years, so that they can be strengthened if the science shows they need to be. The Act should contain a Climate Change Charter. The panel noted that a major reason that the current Act is ineffective is that it does not require government to consider climate change in all relevant decisions. The Charter will change this. The Charter contains principles and objectives for dealing with climate change. If included in the Act, government plans, policies and decisions, as well as the Victorian Climate Change Strategy would need to be consistent with the Charter, similar to how the Victorian Human Rights Charter currently operates. Here’s a diagram showing how the Charter applies: Requiring government decisions that have climate change implications to consider the Charter and whether the decision will impact whether the emissions reduction targets will be achieved. Create a legal right for people to review government decisions in Court, if those decisions do not comply with the requirement to consider the Charter and the emissions reductions targets The government should produce the Victorian Climate change Strategy every five years. The strategy must align with the Charter and must also: Detail risks and likely economic costs of climate change to Victoria Set out plans for adapting to climate change impacts, including reducing the impacts of disasters Summarise government policies to meet the emissions reductions target Include each Department’s pledge to reduce emissions Require each government departments and agencies to pledge to deliver an amount of emissions reductions across their portfolios. The Victorian government has committed to leadership on climate change. Although they have made it clear that it is the Commonwealth governments role to lead on a carbon pricing scheme, the review provides the Premier Andrew and Environment Minister Neville and their colleagues in government with the green light they need to proceed with an ambitious agenda of legislative reform and action. The report itself is a very thorough analysis from leading experts who received submissions from a wide range of individuals, local government, business and community groups. Their report lays out clear agenda – now we need strong leadership from the government as well as support from the opposition and other elected representatives.

The Journey of the Universe, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim Visiting professor this fall in Princeton, Mary Evelyn Tucker is Professor of World Religions and Ecology at Yale University. She is co-author of a seminal book and Emmy Award-Winning film shown on PBS, Journey of the Universe. As a member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations since 1986, she is co-editor of books on ecological views of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism. Her remarks will weave a tapestry that draws together scientific discoveries in astronomy, geology, biology, ecology, and biodiversity with humanistic insights. From the Big Bang to the epic impact humans have on the planet today, this is the chance to ask one of the world’s foremost thinkers your most profound questions about the nature of the universe. Thu, Oct 25, 2012 ・ 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM D&R Greenway Sponsored & Affiliated Events

Plastics piping systems for hot and cold water installations — Crosslinked polyethylene (PE-X) — Part 2: Pipes ISO 15875-2:2003 specifies the characteristics of pipes made from crosslinked polyethylene (PE-X) for piping systems intended to be used for hot and cold water installations, within buildings, for the conveyance of water which may or may not be intended for human consumption (domestic systems) or for heating systems, under operating pressures and temperatures appropriate to the class of application. It covers a range of service conditions (application classes), design pressures and pipe dimension classes. It does not apply if the values of the design temperature, maximum design temperature and malfunction temperature are in excess of those given in ISO 15875-1. It also specifies the test parameters for the test methods referred to in the standard. In conjunction with the other parts of ISO 15875, it is applicable to PE-X pipes and their joints, including joints with other PE-X components and components made of other plastics and non-plastics materials intended to be used for hot and cold water installations. It is applicable to pipes with or without (a) barrier layer(s). : ISO/TC 138/SC 2 Plastics pipes and fittings for water supplies 23.040.20 Plastics pipes 91.140.60 Water supply systems

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Research reveals underappreciated role of brainstem in epilepsy Published on: June 01, 2018|Categories: Epilepsy, Neurology, Research New research from Vanderbilt suggests that repeated seizures reduce brainstem connectivity, a possible contributor to unexplained neurocognitive problems in epilepsy patients. The brainstem has been rarely studied in epilepsy because seizures typically originate in the temporal lobe or other areas of the cortex. Noting that people with temporal lobe epilepsy often lose consciousness even though the temporal lobe does not control wakefulness, Dario Englot, MD, Ph.D., surgical director of epilepsy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said he decided to focus on the region that does control wakefulness—the brainstem. He hypothesized that connectivity disruptions with the brainstem resulting from a history of seizures might play a role in diminished cognitive functions that are not related to the temporal lobe. The research, published online May 30 in Neurology, is the first to investigate how epilepsy affects the ascending reticular activating system (ARAS)—circuitry that is responsible for regulating wakefulness—within the brainstem. Functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed that ARAS disruptions occurred, with decreases in circuitry being quantitatively associated with disease severity. “Seizures do not start in areas deep below the surface of the brain called subcortical nuclei,” said Englot, the study’s lead author and assistant professor of Neurological Surgery, Radiology and Radiological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering. “So these areas are not often studied in epilepsy. But we think that problems develop in some deep subcortical circuits that may contribute to some of the unexplained global brain problems in temporal lobe epilepsy, including progressive neurocognitive problems and problems with arousal that can’t be explained by problems in the temporal lobe.” The temporal lobe is responsible for memory and verbal skills. Some neurocognitive problems that epilepsy patients experience after a history of repeated seizures, such as trouble maintaining attention and concentrating on tasks, as well as executive function, are not associated with the temporal lobe. “More and more, we’re learning that epilepsy is a disease affecting widespread brain networks, not just the temporal lobe,” Englot said. “There are a lot of other networks. There have been other studies that show that connectivity in the brain is abnormal in epilepsy. But when researchers look at connectivity, typically they are looking in the temporal lobe and areas of the cortex, and they rarely look at the brainstem.” The study compared 26 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy to 26 people without an epilepsy diagnosis. They were matched according to age, sex and left or right handedness for comparisons. The tests were conducted at the Vanderbilt University Institute for Imaging Science. The results revealed specific connections between individual ARAS nuclei and other brain regions that were altered in patients. These alterations were closely related to neuropsychological and disease-related factors. The research is important because many epilepsy patients whose seizures cannot be controlled by medication or established surgical interventions suffer repeated debilitating episodes and decreased quality of life. A relatively new treatment, responsive neurostimulation that was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2013, is another alternative that has benefited epilepsy patients. “This study offers clues about clinical problems suffered in epilepsy that are often difficult to explain,” Englot said. “It’s an impetus to get treated sooner rather than let seizures continue to damage brain networks. Many patients can be candidates for surgery to stop seizures, and there are also new technologies coming out that involve stimulation of the brain or laser ablation that are minimally invasive. If we can understand the networks that go awry in epilepsy, we could potentially identify new targets for treatment to improve patients’ function and quality of life.” Source: Tom Wilemon, Vanderbilt University

The BUGS project: Evolution, critique and future directions Lunn, D and Spiegelhalter, D and Thomas, Andrew and Best, Nicky (2009) The BUGS project: Evolution, critique and future directions. Statistics in Medicine, 28 (25). pp. 3049-3067. ISSN DOI: 10.1002/sim.3680 Official URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sim.368... BUGS is a software package for Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling. The software has been instrumental in raising awareness of Bayesian modelling among both academic and commercial communities internationally, and has enjoyed considerable success over its 20-year life span. Despite this, the software has a number of shortcomings and a principal aim of this paper is to provide a balanced critical appraisal, in particular highlighting how various ideas have led to unprecedented flexibility while at the same time producing negative side effects. We also present a historical overview of the BUGS project and some future perspectives. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 7. ICT and Software > 7.2 Quantitative Software BIAS user

POST (1989) In Vitro … POST (1989) In Vitro Fertilisation and Embryo Research. POST-Note No. 6 http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/POST-PN-6 Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology of the UK Parliament (POST) United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Estate Planning & Taxation Eric H. Light, P.A. Feb. 16, 2022 Estate planning is a complex process encompassing real estate, property, taxes, and many other elements. An estate plan serves a number of purposes, including (but not limited to) mapping out the distribution of your assets to your loved ones upon your death and providing instructions on who will manage your financial, business, tax, and medical affairs in the event of your incapacity. As an estate planning and taxation attorney in Boca Raton, Florida, I help clients minimize estate taxes and save a considerable amount of money by providing customized estate planning solutions tailored to their specific needs and goals. At Eric H. Light, P.A., I provide estate planning and taxation services to people of all ages, health, and wealth. Why People Need Estate Planning With a proper estate plan, a person does not have to worry about what happens to their property in the event of their death. A person can also choose who would make financial and medical decisions on their behalf in the event of their incapacity. There are at least three things that people need to understand about estate planning: It is important regardless of your age, wealth, health, and marital status. There is a widespread misconception that only older or wealthy people can benefit from estate planning. Some people also believe that they only need to think about estate planning when their health begins to deteriorate or they get married or divorced. In reality, estate planning is important for everyone regardless of their age, health, marital status, or wealth. You can minimize the cost and time of probate. Probate is a court-supervised process that authenticates the validity of the decedent’s will and handles the distribution of the deceased person’s assets. Having a proper estate plan in place can help minimize the cost and duration of probate or avoid the process altogether. Your property will be distributed according to your wishes. With an estate plan, you can rest assured that your assets will be distributed to your loved one according to your wishes. If you die without a will, also known as dying intestate, the probate court will manage the estate according to the state’s intestate succession laws. Why Is Tax Planning Important? Taxes are one of life’s inevitabilities. For any person, it is difficult to give up their hard-earned money in order to pay taxes. However, it may be possible to minimize your taxes with proper tax planning, though diminishing the tax burden requires deep knowledge of state and federal laws. That is why people who wish to preserve their wealth and pay less in taxes might want to consider contacting a tax planning attorney. At Eric H. Light, P.A., I provide various types of tax planning services and assist clients with different types of tax-related matters, including: Private Letter Rulings Levies IRS Controversy Matters There are many tax planning strategies that may be used by taxpayers to reduce their tax burdens. Tax planning can become an integral part of a comprehensive estate plan. Estate Planning Documents Depending on your needs and circumstances, your estate plan may include different types of documents, including: A last will and testament provides instructions for the distribution of your property and other assets after your death. A power of attorney grants a person you trust the legal power to act on your behalf in the event of your incapacity. An advance healthcare directive indicates your preferences for medical treatment and allows a person you trust to make medical decisions on your behalf if you become incapacitated. These are not the only estate planning documents that you may need. Consult with an experienced estate planning and taxation attorney to help you find the right solutions for your circumstances and needs, minimize estate taxes, and assist you with drafting enforceable documents. At Eric H. Light, P.A., I also help people in Boca Raton, Florida, with trust and probate administration. Contact Eric H. Light, P.A. As a knowledgeable attorney at Eric H. Light, P.A., I specialize in both estate planning and taxation. I represent clients in Boca Raton, Florida, and help them create estate plans that are tailored to their unique circumstances. As a skilled attorney, I can review your specific situation and address your concerns related to estate planning and taxation. Get a case review by calling my law office today. What Happens With a Reverse Mortgage After Death? Important Documents to Have in Place Before Dementia Sets In Understanding Legal Capacity & Dementia Common Misconceptions About Probate

Anticipating and Overcoming Challenges from the Court Home News Anticipating and Overcoming Challenges from the Court June 28, 2017 Eric Roy Law Firm No Comments When preparing for trial, like many other endeavors in this life, it is best to hope for the best but to plan for the worst. In other words, you need to draw up your opening statement, closing statement, witness examinations and so forth as you intend to present them. That being said you need be ready for potential hiccups in your presentation. You may receive friction from the court and you need to have a plan in overcoming any potential friction which will otherwise interfere with your game plan. If you pursue some of the more modern methods of trial advocacy, for instance those strategies advocated by guys like Don Keenan, Rick Friedman, and David Ball you might encounter this type of opposition from the court. The reason for this opposition has nothing to do with your taking actions which exceed the scope of evidentiary rules and standards but more to do with the fact that your trial judge may not be accustomed to this method of trial advocacy. When your judge sees a departure from accustomed trial advocacy methods then these judges tend to get nervous with your approach. When judges get nervous they can end up incorrectly sustaining objections. Thus, it is important that you as counsel anticipate possible objections especially if you are not familiar with how your trial judge runs his or her courtroom. These same trial advocacy teachers mentioned above, along with others, are pushing the use of “Rules”. Rule use is an effective method for teaching jurors. The reason being that Rules help the jurors understand what conduct is or is not acceptable. Without firm established rules from which to interpret the defendant’s actions by the jurors are left with ambiguity. The defense can always hide behind ambiguity. Thus it is a good idea to instruct your jurors throughout trial on the rules which are applicable to the defendant in the given case. That being said, anytime you talk about rules to the court or to the jury you must be aware that opposing counsel may object to your statements by arguing that you are trying to usurp the powers of the court by explaining the law to the jury. To this end you need to be prepared with a response to opposing counsel. When you are creating your rules for the given case you will rely on statements made by the defense which confirm these rules and additionally you will rely on statements by experts who will also confirm these same rules. Thus when this objection goes up you need to be prepared to tell the judge that these are not your rules but rather rules of the industry as confirmed by the defendant in deposition. You need to advise the judge that these are rules which govern industry standards based on the deposition testimony of experts, who will now testify in trial. These are the rules which your jurors will have to consider in order to determine whether the Defendant’s actions constitute negligence. Remind the court that the jury instruction will require the jurors to consider industry and company rules and standards so that the jury can determine if the Defendant acted negligently. You need to remind the judge that the jury cannot consider these rules if the court instructs the trial lawyers to remain mum regarding these same rules throughout trial. After all, it is the trial lawyer’s job to teach the case to the jurors. There are some other areas, beyond teaching the rules of the case, where you might get friction from the court. One common area where this will occur is when you try to demonstrate to the jurors all of the other dangers which can occur when these same rules aren’t followed. The reason you want to explain other dangers is because you want to demonstrate to the jurors how important it is that people like the defendant follow the rules. When you demonstrate numerous other situations where the same type of rule violation could result in injury to individuals situated much like fellow jurors and the juror’s family, then importance of the rules becomes all the more important to the juror. If you don’t do this then jurors trick themselves into thinking that they would never find themselves in the situation in which the plaintiff became the victim in this current case. Even though this is an illogical belief it is a belief that jurors assume in an effort to protect their psyche. Thus you need to do all you can to demonstrate that these dangers expose a clear and present danger not only to individuals such as the plaintiff but also to individuals just like the jurors deciding the case. If you get friction from the court as you attempt to demonstrate all the various other injuries which can result if the rules are not followed then you need to remind the court that this explanation is essential so that the jury can understand the reason for the rules existence in the first place. Explain to the court that your expert has the right to explain the foundation for the rule. If you have a case where the facts or issues are somewhat complicated such as when dealing with foreign material such as medicine or technology remind the judge that the jurors need to see these examples so as to better understand the rules and the purpose of the rules. By providing more commonplace examples of when the rules apply the jurors can better understand the rules and the purpose of those rules. Teaching by analogy is not a new method of teaching, it is one of the oldest methods of instruction. If you get an objection when you give these analogous situations simply remind the judge that your expert will testify that it is essential that the jurors be given these analogies so that they can truly understand the purpose of the rules. In this way you are simply speaking, in opening, of testimony your expert intends to give later in trial. These are not your rules or your analogies, they are rather the rules and analogies of your expert. Whatever you do, do not roll over when faced with one of these objections. Keep pushing your agenda in the face of adversity to your trial techniques. If you are persistent enough the judge will allow you to put on your case in the manner which you chose. This short blog was written entirely for my own benefit. The information above comes primarily from Don Keenan, an outstanding plaintiff’s attorney. For more information on this type of material I suggest you read any of Don Keenan’s publications which are excellent or attend any of his seminars.

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Home » Wellness » What is Craniosynostosis? What causes craniosynostosis? What are the symptoms of craniosynostosis? Types of craniosynostosis What are the diagnostic criteria for craniosynostosis? Treatment of craniosynostosis Craniosynostosis is the early fusion of the cranial sutures, which poses numerous diagnostic and medical complications. It is a frequent abnormality that affects 3–5 out of every 10,000 babies. Single gene mutations or chromosomal abnormalities are responsible for at least 20% of all cases. Craniosynostosis is often treated with surgery to straighten the head's shape and allow for brain growth. Early detection and treatment allow for the child's brain to grow and develop to its full potential. Image Credit: In The Light Photography/Shutterstock Numerous bones constitute the skull. Sutures describe the connections between bones. The premature closure of one or more sutures results in craniosynostosis. Early suture closure could lead to aberrant cranial development. Sometimes, early suture closure might restrict overall skull growth, which can injure the developing brain. In the absence of treatment, craniosynostosis can lead to an increase in cranial deformity, a possible restriction of head growth, and a rise in intracranial pressure. As the child matures and interacts with others, it could contribute to psychosocial issues. Craniosynostosis is a symptom of various genetic disorders, each of which has a distinct inheritance pattern and propensity for recurrence. It is essential that the family members of a child with craniosynostosis, as well as the family members themselves, be extensively screened for signs of an inherited genetic disorder, such as limb malformations, heart defects, or ear abnormalities. Typically, the indications of craniosynostosis are visible from birth, but they become increasingly prominent over the infant's first few months. Signs and severity depend on the number of fused sutures and when the fusion occurs during brain development. The indications and symptoms of craniosynostosis may include a deformed skull, the shape of which depends on which sutures are affected, and the formation of a high, hard ridge along the afflicted sutures, combined with an abnormal change in head shape. Craniosynostosis comes in a variety of forms. One cranial suture is typically fused in the majority of cases. The fusion of several sutures occurs in some complex cases of craniosynostosis. Syndromic craniosynostosis, which refers to multiple-suture craniosynostosis, is commonly linked to hereditary disorders. The classification of each form of craniosynostosis is determined by which sutures are damaged. The following are types of craniosynostosis: Sagittal synostosis The sagittal suture extends over the top of the head, from the soft region near the front of the baby's head to the back of the head. When this suture closes prematurely, the baby's head will develop long and thin (scaphocephaly). It is the most typical kind of craniosynostosis. Coronal synostosis The right and left coronal sutures extend from each ear to the sagittal suture at the crown of the head. When one of these sutures closes prematurely, the infant may have a flattened forehead on the side of the skull where the prematurely-closing suture is located (anterior plagiocephaly). This side of the infant's eye socket may also be elevated, and his or her nose may be dragged to that side. The second most prevalent kind of craniosynostosis. Bicoronal synostosis This type of craniosynostosis develops when the coronal sutures on both sides of the infant's skull fuse too soon. In this circumstance, the infant's head will become broad and short (brachycephaly). Lambdoid synostosis The lambdoid suture traverses the back of the head. If this suture closes too soon, the infant's head may be depressed on the back (posterior plagiocephaly). This kind of craniosynostosis is one of the rarest. Metopic synostosis The metopic suture extends from the nose of the infant to the sagittal suture at the top of the skull. If this suture heals too soon, the baby's head may seem trapezoidal or narrow in front and broad in the back (trigonocephaly). This kind of craniosynostosis is one of the rarest. Craniosynostosis and its treatment | Boston Children’s Hospital Genetics & Genomics eBook The diagnostic process entails a comprehensive physical examination and diagnostic testing. Your child's doctor will begin with a thorough pregnancy and birth history, inquiring about any family history of craniosynostosis or other head or facial anomalies. Since craniosynostosis is related to other neuromuscular issues, the doctor may also inquire about developmental milestones. Developmental delays may necessitate additional medical monitoring for underlying issues. During the checkup, the doctor will measure your child's head circumference to determine normal and abnormal ranges. Craniosynostosis is diagnosable with a physical examination. Your neurosurgeon may recommend imaging tests if necessary. Read Next: What is a Rare Disease? Several kinds of craniosynostosis necessitate surgical intervention. The surgical technique is intended to relieve pressure on the brain, correct craniosynostosis, and permit brain growth. Typically, surgical procedures are undergone within the first year of life. However, the timing of surgery is contingent on which sutures are healed and whether or not the infant has one of the genetic abnormalities that might cause craniosynostosis. Infants with extremely minor craniosynostosis may not require surgery. As a newborn ages and gains hair, the contour of his or her skull may become less apparent. Sometimes, special medical helmets can be used to help shape the baby's skull into a more uniform shape. Image Credit: Ballygally View Images/Shutterstock The severity of craniosynostosis varies from infant to infant, ranging from mild to severe. The majority of infants with craniosynostosis are generally healthy. However, some children experience developmental delays or intellectual disabilities as a result of craniosynostosis or a hereditary condition that causes both craniosynostosis and difficulties with how the brain functions. A child with craniosynostosis will need to see a doctor frequently to ensure that the brain and skull are developing normally. Typically, infants with craniosynostosis might benefit from early intervention treatments to address any intellectual or developmental abnormalities. Some children with craniosynostosis may have self-esteem issues if they are self-conscious about their physical distinctions from other youngsters. New families of infants with birth abnormalities of the head and face, such as craniosynostosis, may also benefit from parent-to-parent support groups. JOHNSON, D. & WILKIE, A. O. M. 2011. Craniosynostosis. European Journal of Human Genetics, 19, 369-376. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/ejhg2010235#citeas GOVERNALE, L. S. 2015. Craniosynostosis. Pediatric Neurology, 53, 394-401. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0887899415003367 PANCHAL, J. & UTTCHIN, V. 2003. Management of craniosynostosis. Plastic and reconstructive surgery, 111, 2032-48; quiz 2049. Available at: http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/12711969 KIMONIS, V., GOLD, J.-A., HOFFMAN, T. L., PANCHAL, J. & BOYADJIEV, S. A. 2007. Genetics of Craniosynostosis. Seminars in Pediatric Neurology, 14, 150-161. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071909107000617 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020) Facts about Craniosynostosis, Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/craniosynostosis.html#:~:text=What%20is%20Craniosynostosis%3F,skull%20can%20become%20more%20misshapen. (Accessed 10 November 2022). All Baby Content Testing for Low Birth Weights Using Genetics Maira Ahsan During the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) lockdown, while pursuing a bachelor's degree in human nutrition and dietetics, Maira started her freelancing career as a content writer, focusing on the life sciences. In 2020, she started working as a freelancer on Fiverr, where she quickly found opportunities to work with several Canadian companies.Maira received an offer for a nutritionist position from a French hotel in Canada, where she was responsible for developing nutrition-based recipes and calorie-counted meals. 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MGT317 University of Michigan Samsung Diversification Event Essay Management / By waihurasn This is a very good opportunity to exam how well you are able to apply what you have learned from the class to the real events in the world. Every student is required to write a brief analysis, about 1.5-2 pages long, word count at least 400 double space, font 12, times new roman, and 1” margins, discussing an ongoing event concerning issues of strategic management that have been taught in class. You are required to use the concepts and theories learned from the class to analyze a current event in the business world. You are also required to make a short presentation to the class and answer questions. The presentation will be evaluated by four criteria: (1) relevancy to strategic management (10points), (2) quality of analysis (20points), (3) answers to questions (10points), and (4) clarity and organization of presentation (10points).

E3 2015: Square Enix Trailer Roundup The pre-E3 media briefings started with a newcomer to the show and ended the same way. It was Square Enix who rounded out the action on Tuesday just before the doors opened on E3 proper. Surprisingly, Square Enix did most of its big reveals before E3 or at the Sony press conference. However, they had one official announcement under their sleeve that surprised no one but was still a welcome sight to gamers. Tags: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, E3, E3 2015, Just Cause 3, Kingdom Hearts 3, Square Enix

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Where the Work Gets Done Jeremy Hunter Rubingh / 17 Min Read / Activism Thoughts on activism from a year of filming Public Trust. On social media, public lands defense looks like fun—like frolicking on mountains trails and through desert canyons or sipping hot tea before sunrise from the open door of a van. Carefree and cozy in a sleeping bag in a preposterously beautiful campsite—don’t forget to bump the saturation filter. It turns out a lot of the real conservation work is long meetings in fluorescent-lit conference rooms with bad coffee. Impossible agendas wrapped up in emotions, livelihoods and complicated histories. People hammering out differences and finding ways to move forward to protect something we all love, the actual country beneath our feet, the soil, geology, forests, sagebrush, waters and wildlife—in most cases all of this entangled in Indigenous heritage and painful pasts. America’s public lands include Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands, national forests, national parks and monuments, wilderness areas, wild and scenic rivers, national conservation areas, national recreation areas, national wildlife refuges, national seashores and lakeshores, national historic and scenic trails and national battlefields totaling 640 million acres of some of the most loved, beautiful, wild and controversial land on earth. The fact that these lands still exist at all is testament to the hardworking and dedicated people that have come together to champion them. These notes, which were taken over the course of a year and a half while working on the film Public Trust, are a deep nod of respect to the unsung heroes sitting through all those meetings and doing the work to protect our public lands. Bernadette Demientieff, executive director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee, speaks to a crowd about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Denver, Colorado. Courtesy of Jeremy Hunter Rubingh June 12, Gwichyaa Zhee, Fort Yukon The days are long in Fort Yukon, Alaska, 8 miles above the Arctic Circle. In fact, they never really end. There is a moment late at night, or maybe it’s early in the morning, when the sun drops to its lowest point—slanted magic hour light shining through the scruffy boreal forest, fireweed and wild rose bushes surrounding my tent. The midnight softball game has ended and most of the humans have gone to bed, if only for a couple hours. A palpable stillness sets in for just a moment. Soon the day will start again to the sound of people whipping around on four-wheelers, heading for coffee and getting ready for the day’s events as the sun begins a subtle path back upwards again. We’re staying in a makeshift tent city on the banks of the Yukon River for the first-ever Arctic Indigenous Climate Summit. Gwich’in and Athabascans from the Yukon River system, Inupiat from the Beaufort Sea, and other tribal representatives and conservation groups from all over North America are gathered to discuss the drastic changes that are taking place in the Arctic due to climate change, as well as to talk about the renewed threat of oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In the middle of all of this, Bernadette Demientieff, the executive director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee, is taking care of every detail of the summit—making calls from the back of a moving pickup or giving rides to elders and summit speakers on a red Honda four-wheeler. Bernadette is tall and lean, with long black hair. She is in her early 40s and it’s hard to believe she is a grandmother. Bernadette is the gravitational center of the resistance to drilling in the Refuge. She feels that her ancestors, her children and grandchildren, her culture, the caribou, the Arctic, and our collective future are depending on her. The Refuge, which encompasses 19.3 million acres, is one of the last healthy Arctic ecosystems on earth. It’s home to musk ox, polar bears, grizzly bears, wolves and migrating birds from all 50 states, and is the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd, upon which the Gwich’in depend for subsistence hunting. The coastal plain, the so-called “1002,” is the most contentious area, with potential oil deposits making it a political football for decades. Bernadette reminds everyone that the Gwich’in name for this area is “Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit,” or “The Sacred Place Where Life Begins.” The Gwich’in have followed and carefully hunted the Porcupine caribou herd for thousands of years, never setting foot in the coastal plain. Entering the calving grounds is anathema to traditional Gwich’in stewardship. These caribou still make up at least 70 percent of the Gwich’in diet—a relationship that becomes particularly important when you learn that staples like a gallon of milk costs $15 in the small grocery store in Fort Yukon. Advocates for drilling claim that their development footprint will only impact 2,000 acres in the calving grounds. But this number does not include the roads and hundreds of miles of pipelines and feeder lines to oilfield facilities. More accurate maps based on the BLM’s possible development scenarios show the potential development disrupting most of the 1.5-million-acre coastal plain. Some studies have shown caribou rerouting hundreds of miles due to a single road crossing. This impact also doesn’t account for the likelihood of seismic testing with massive 90,000-pound “thumper trucks” before any drilling even occurs. This would crush polar bear dens, a finding that the Trump administration was caught red-handed trying to hide. The coastal plain is home to our nation’s highest density of polar bear land dens. Pregnant mothers dig their dens in the early winter and give birth to one or two cubs in December or January. The thumper trucks, slamming the ground like giant tamping rammers, send a seismic signal down to bedrock and back to the truck to record potential oil deposits. These operations would have to occur in winter months when the dens are occupied. Bernadette and the Gwich’in here in Fort Yukon are incredible hosts. In the community hall, every night after a shared meal of caribou ribs, or moose steaks, or goose or some other delicacy provided by local hunters, the traditional fiddle dancing parties start, going as late as people can dance. During the day, folks from all over the Arctic region share stories about early river ice break up that is making normal hunting patterns dangerous. People and animals are falling through the ice. They talk about abnormal salmon runs and silting rivers. About walking kids to school in rain, in February, when it should be minus 40 Fahrenheit. Scientists say the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. The fight over the Refuge has lasted decades, but drilling the coastal plain is closer to a reality now than at any point to date, with fast-tracked lease sales arbitrarily required by 2021, according to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Alaskan senator Lisa Murkowski and other GOP members of Congress snuck the Refuge into the tax bill with a rarely used process called “budget reconciliation.” Attaching the Refuge to the tax bill meant it could be passed with a simple majority of 51 votes. The debate over the tax bill consumed so much of the media attention that few people in America even noticed we had also just given this critical habitat in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge over to oil development. That all seems far away from the community hall porch in Fort Yukon where Bernadette and I sat this morning watching chickadees and juncos flit in and out of tall black spruce and birch. She has been back and forth to Washington, D.C. more times than she can remember, bringing different Gwich’in elders and youth leaders to testify or meet with congresspeople and their staff. Some of these people have never been in a city before, seen traffic or had to navigate public transportation. Bernadette is helping guide them through more than just cultural barriers to get them in front of decision-makers to speak about their land and their lives. There is understandably a lot of fear of speaking out in a congressional hearing, or in front of strangers in House Committee on Natural Resources meeting chambers, especially that far away from home. She is inspiring, organizing and building the next front of Gwich’in leaders who will carry this fight forward. Calving season at Beyeler Ranches. Lemhi, Idaho. Courtesy of Jeremy Hunter Rubingh A Wednesday in February, Challis, Idaho There are seven ranchers gathered around a conference room table in a US Forest Service double-wide here in Challis, Idaho. These ranchers are part of the Central Idaho Rangelands Network, a group of nine ranches that collectively grazes on 1.5 million acres of some of the wildest public lands in the country. They are here to discuss the Forest Service Revision Plan, a collaborative process to work out recommendations for the management of grazing in the Salmon-Challis National Forest. One of these ranchers, Merrill Beyeler, owner of Beyeler Ranches in the Lemhi Valley, has been essential in moving big conservation efforts forward. After watching the Bundy family skate out of federal court for their deranged armed takeover of public lands in Oregon, I wanted to get a sense of how ranchers in this part of the world viewed public lands, and how they interacted with the federal agencies managing them. I also wanted to see that there was more to the narrative of the rural-agricultural West than this image of welfare-ranchers waving guns and flags around, clamoring for the transfer of American public lands to the states and counties. Conservative north-central Idaho—where big conservation initiatives seemed to be gaining ground, rather than completely falling apart in bitter culture wars—seemed like a good place to start. I wasn’t traveling with a film crew then. I was scouting alone, sleeping in the back of my truck near hot springs on BLM and Forest Service roads in the high sagebrush steppe where I could look out across at some of the wildest contiguous landscapes in the Lower 48. The Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness and windows into the Salmon and Lemhi River corridors. These are vast wilderness areas connected by rivers and creeks like seams holding the whole complex together. In the Lemhi Valley, dirt roads and buck and pole fence line grow tiny in the distance, leading the eye into places where the imagination takes over—mysteries, wildlife and adventure filling the darker timber. Dark clouds move behind soft, approachable, snow-dappled mountains. Juniper spills down dry khaki hillsides toward the wide-open range where the river valley starts to flatten out. Sitting on my tailgate, watching dust roll behind a trailer full of hay on the ranch below, I started to feel like I was wasting my time. I wasn’t having much luck making inroads with ranchers that grazed on public lands in the area. Everyone was too busy calving, or branding or just not returning calls. I was seriously considering packing it all up and heading to Galena Pass to ski with some friends when my phone started buzzing and Merrill Beyeler invited me over to his ranch to chat. We sat at the dining room table, a painting of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints temple on the wall above his head. Merrill speaks softly and considers what he wants to say before he opens his mouth. He told me about the 15 minutes his dad gave him to decide whether he would continue the family ranch while a willing buyer stood in the driveway with a check in hand. He kept the ranch in the family. “I’ve never felt comfortable outside of a mountain valley.” He told me about his 21 years as a public-school teacher and coach, his eight years as a Mormon bishop and his time as the Republican state legislator for the eighth district of Idaho. Several bills attempting to transfer public lands to the state came up in the House during his last term as an Idaho state representative. Merrill was opposed to these transfer bills. “For one,” he said, “large wildfire regimes like those that are common in Idaho these days could wipe out the whole state budget if we were on the hook for these lands.” He doesn’t see how the state would not sell them off if it were put in that position. The simple cost of maintaining these public lands is more than any Western state could manage. “If those lands end up on the auction block, they’re going to go to people with huge resources,” said Merrill. “Rural communities don’t stand to benefit from that at all. We will lose.” He understands why some people are tempted by the idea of land transfer. Rural communities in Idaho are hurting. Populations are declining and people are looking for answers. “And to lose that sense of community, that’s a real feeling,” he said. But Merrill is doubtful about long-lasting economic benefits touted by those who favor land transfers. “To me, to lose the treasure of our public lands would be sacrificing wealth for some promised increase in money in our pocket,” he said. For Merrill, hiking out to the rock outcropping in the high sage with his grandkids, or looking for returning salmon in the oxbows in the tributaries of the Lemhi aren’t things that we can put a dollar value on. For three decades Merrill and other ranchers in the Lemhi River corridor have been working to restore salmon habitat and mitigate impacts from cattle ranching. They have been working on their own properties to reconnect tributaries—some that have been disconnected for 150 years—have made important adjustments to irrigation tactics and are keeping cattle away from important riparian zones at certain times of the year. Chinook, steelhead and cutthroat are once again making their way to these mountain valleys from the Pacific Ocean. “We aren’t out of the woods yet, but we’ve seen some improvements,” said Merrill. He and the other ranchers hope to restore native wild salmon populations to their historic spawning areas. This is a colossal task considering the dwindling salmon populations across the state, the eight dams that stand in the way for spawning salmon on the Snake River, and all of the other variables, including climate change and changing oceanic conditions. Merrill says the only way to move forward is to make sure no one is left behind, to bring everyone into the conversation. This conversation is the reason he takes the time to drive up the Salmon River canyon to Challis to meet with other stakeholders every month. Police confront peaceful protesters in the streets of Salt Lake City, Utah, on December 4, 2017. This was our first day of filming for Public Trust, and the day that President Trump arrived in Salt Lake City to announce his legally questionable reduction of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. The third Tuesday in April, San Juan County, Utah I woke up this morning wondering what was going to happen in the two-story stone building on Main Street in Monticello, Utah, at today’s county commissioners’ meeting. There is so much tension in this southeast corner of Utah right now. The Bears Ears National Monument is still in limbo after President Trump’s legally questionable reduction of protection for 85 percent of it. And these meetings are where it all comes to a head. The districts of San Juan County were un-gerrymandered by court order in 2018. The previous boundaries were unlawful—drawn in order to marginalize the Diné (Navajo) and Ute vote, despite the fact that these populations make up the majority of San Juan County. For decades, the board of county commissioners was made up of a white, conservative, Mormon majority. Now the board includes two Diné Democrats—Kenneth Maryboy and Willie Grayeyes. The third commissioner is Bruce Adams. A year earlier he was a special guest in the capitol in Salt Lake City when Trump announced he was going to slash Bears Ears National Monument, opening it up to oil and gas and uranium interests. Adams had the president sign the brim of his big white cowboy hat, “Make San Juan County Great Again.” The meeting starts with the easy business first: approve the budget to address noxious weeds on county roads, make a decision on whether or not to upgrade the oil to synthetic in the county maintenance vehicles, approve the minutes from last meeting. Then the two Diné commissioners absorb an hour or two of condescension, abuse and anger as they invite citizens to speak. The rest of the agenda includes a resolution to oppose the monument reduction, a resolution to oppose conservative Utah legislators’ attempts to undermine the Roadless Rule that helps protect federal roadless areas from development, and a decision to have meetings in more rural areas of the counties where more people can access their county government and more Native people may actually be able to attend. Maryboy is in his 60s. He is wearing his nice Wranglers with a collared long-sleeved shirt tucked in, his jet-black hair neatly combed. As the new chair of the board, he commands the meeting in a friendly yet stentorian way. Grayeyes has long grey hair and an avuncular mustache. His eyes are soft and he listens and speaks carefully, weighing each word. A large, white, middle-aged lady from Monticello shakes with anger and suggests the new county commissioners aren’t representing the majority of San Juan County. She says she is “dumbfounded that this is the way people are treated by their commissioners”—apparently oblivious to the decades of absent representation that Diné, Ute and other Native groups have enjoyed. Another Monticello local explains that “the majority of the Anglo population does not want this monument.” And this population is “clearly the majority of the county based on who is in the room.” An older man sitting next to me in overalls and hearing aids, who was struggling to control racial slurs under his breath through most of the meeting, stands up to state that the two Diné commissioners are simply puppets of outside environmental interests. The county commissioners calmly and patiently hear everyone out through all of the hostility. Maryboy and Grayeyes will vote to support the original boundaries of the Bears Ears National Monument that five tribes came together to recommend. Ninety-eight percent of Americans who filed public comments also support the original monument. Adams is a predictable “no” vote. The Diné commissioners are the new majority. They will do their job in representing the people who elected them and the many Americans who care so deeply about the land they represent. Meanwhile, out on Cedar Mesa somewhere, in the heart of all the controversy, in a canyon not yet exploited by pothunters, oil and gas rigs, uranium tailings or too many enthusiastic outdoor recreationists, a raven swoops above spring cottonwoods, the sound of the wind in her feathers. In this canyon, the dwellings and petroglyphs tucked into sandstone walls, the presence of ancestors and the creative powers of the universe still remain undisturbed. To paddle in the Boundary Waters is to know your twelve-year-old self again. Getting the shot of photographer, Jim Hurst snapping photos of Boundary Waters guide, Spencer Shaver. Ham Lake, Superior National Forest, Minnesota. Courtesy of Jeremy Hunter Rubingh September in the Boundary Waters We paddle through a quiet, perfect lake about the size of two football fields. It’s one of three before our take-out today to leave the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness here in northern Minnesota. There is a light, lacy convective fog gently lifting off of the still water in the morning sun and dense forest on either side of us. Last night we grilled walleye and grouse over the fire and laughed hard and drank too much whiskey in between thunderstorms and eerie loon calls. We take out pretty early in the day. Time to stop for a milkshake on the way back to Ely. Ely, Minnesota, is a former iron-taconite mining town turned outdoor recreation hub. It is a launching pad for Boundary Waters expeditions and experiences—from paddling, hunting and fishing, to dog-mushing, cross-country skiing and winter camping. Inside the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters office downtown, regional organizer Levi Lexvold shows us on a big map where the Chilean company Antofagasta Minerals has recently been awarded leases to mine for sulfide-ore copper on the Kawishiwi River in the Superior National Forest, right on the border of the Boundary Waters. Sulfide-ore copper mining is nothing like the traditional iron and taconite mining that the Iron Range is famous for. The steel that came out of the Iron Range is a source of pride in Minnesota—it helped the United States win World War II. No one we speak with has a real issue with those old mines. However, mining copper ore has never been done here and the waste rock and tailings are entirely different. It’s also never been done in such a wet, connected watershed without serious impacts to the water system. In 2016, the Obama administration withdrew the mineral leases from the proposed Twin Metals mine, citing the thousands of public comments in support of protecting the area, and the potential for acid mine drainage that could last hundreds of years, harming the ecological systems of the pristine Boundary Waters. In 2017 the Trump administration reversed this decision. Levi is in his early thirties, with red shaggy hair under his ball cap. He shows me a picture of his beard, which was a runner-up in the Ely beard competition the year before. He had shaped it into a Viking ship. Under his wire frame glasses he has one black eye—the result of a late-night disagreement in a local watering hole. Apparently, an acquaintance felt that Levi’s advocacy for the Boundary Waters was an affront on his culture and identity. Some area residents support the copper mine, touting their long history of mining in the area. Levi laughs off his shiner but acknowledges that the community is split on the issue. On the same block in downtown Ely we see yard signs that say “We Support Mining, Mining Supports Us” and ones that say “Save the Boundary Waters!” Still, Levi isn’t afraid to speak his truth. Day in and day out he cheerfully manages the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters office where visitors pour in to look at maps and learn about the area and the issue. Three days of filming with Hal Herring at Juanita Vero’s E Bar L Ranch above the Blackfoot River in Greenough, Montana. Buffalo hides we found in the lodge helped dampen the echoes for better sound. Courtesy of Jeremy Hunter Rubingh A Thursday in November, Along the Rocky Mountain Front Today we are bucking up fallen timber for firewood on USFS land bordering the Bob Marshall Wilderness with Hal Herring, America’s finest public lands journalist. He is reporting about our land and water from the perspective of someone who is fully immersed in a life lived on public lands. Whether it’s heating his home, hunting and fishing to fill his freezer and feed his family, walking coulees and tributaries looking for ancient buffalo skulls with his daughter or working on crews to restore native habitats, Hal has designed his life to be near public lands and give his family opportunities to grow up close to the inspiration that comes from the mountains, foothills, rivers and creeks of the Rocky Mountain Front. In Hal’s house there are piles of books on every available surface. This modest home in Augusta, Montana, is a repository for one of the most impressive conservation libraries I have ever seen. To complete the picture, Hal has to be there drinking Jack Daniels with you, maybe watching YouTube videos of violent African warlords as you drift into disturbed sleep on his futon. Why are we watching videos about cannibal warlords in Liberia you may ask? I think it in part explains Hal. He has a genuine curiosity for everything, especially for people’s motivations. When he speaks, his growly Alabama drawl disarms any pretense, but then he’ll proceed to spout some unfathomable brilliance. His recall is uncanny. He can quote from Matthiessen in At Play in the Fields of the Lord, or maybe he’ll rattle off the important lines in the Clean Water Act, or paraphrase the entire script of Matewan, the 1987 film about the 1920s coal industry’s brutality toward laborers. Or maybe he’ll just remind you of lessons learned at the Battle of Stalingrad. Listening to Hal makes you feel like maybe you haven’t read or seen anything. He listens with complete absorption and sincerity to everyone who speaks with him. Hal told me that growing up, school was nearly impossible for him. All he wanted to do was be outside. He left high school early to go work on an orange farm in Florida, saving up money to travel and climb. He worked all kinds of jobs that kept him outside—from fishing rigs in the Gulf to tree planting for Weyerhaeuser and mine reclamation on Black Mesa in Arizona. To this day he still runs sagebrush planting crews and works collecting white pine pinecones to supplement his modest writing income. Hal is doing the largely thankless work that this country depends on—writing about the greatest threats to our public lands and giving us the tools to know what is actually happening with our land, air and water, then letting us decide what we are going to do about it. He often says, “You can’t hold it against someone for not knowing what they haven’t had the opportunity to learn. It’s my obligation with this public land stuff to share what I can.” Hal’s tenacity for the truth reporting on these issues is a testament to American ideals at their best—opportunities for an informed public to hold decision-makers accountable on these American lands held in trust for us all. We load the back of Hal’s old green Chevy Sierra pickup with a heaping cord of nice pine rounds, and his black lab, Booray, somehow finds his way back to us after running amuck for an hour along the river. Bouncing down the Forest Service road back toward town, I ask him what is it that public lands actually mean to him. He has a one-word answer: “Freedom.” Jeremy Hunter Rubingh Jeremy is the producer of Public Trust. He is also a self-made thousandaire and caffeine-dependent life form that has spent the majority of his time on earth working and playing to protect mountains, powder snow, wild fish and wild landscapes. The rest of the time he tries his best to look busy and awesome.

PhD candidate in the Transition to a Circular Business Ecosystem 19 Feb 2023 - 23:59 (UTC) Eindhoven University of Technology is looking for a PhD candidate with a background in Marketing, Management, Innovation Management, Technology Management, or Industrial Engineering (Engineering Management) interested in empirical qualitative and quantitative research with practical relevance in the area of the circular economy. Short description of the PhD project Circular economy is at the heart of the sustainability transition, as outlined in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and The Paris Agreement. Our current economic system, however, is far from circular. This is not necessarily due to a lack of ambition - many businesses today, small and large, have integrated clear sustainability goals into their strategic vision. Yet they find themselves struggling with the 'how to' question. How to redesign entire supply chains to close the loop? And how to reorganize the associated logistics and operations? One crucial condition is clear: Companies cannot achieve circularity on their own. Circularity, after all, is not a property of a single product, service, or business model - it is a property of an entire system. This project thus studies circularity from an ecosystem perspective. A transition towards a circular business ecosystem starts with experimentation. This means starting small and learning while doing, and requires rethinking business models, reconfiguring and coordinating the organizational functions such as marketing, sales, R&D, production, logistics, IT, finance, and customer service within and across business units, and taking systematic steps for optimizing data, information, and knowledge flows by using digital solutions. The aim of this PhD project is threefold by examining (i) how companies can organize for circular business models, (ii) how companies can break down the traditional silos between business units or departments and optimize data, information, and knowledge flows to create cross-departmental collaborative business processes and practices that drive companies to become more circular, and (iii) the role of digitalization in optimizing data, information, and knowledge flows in embracing circularity. By completing this PhD project, companies will have insights into how to implement circularity practices within their companies and broader ecosystems. You, as a successful applicant, will perform the PhD project outlined above in an international team and in close collaboration with companies involved in the research consortium. The research will be concluded with a PhD thesis. You will be supervised by dr. Alex Alblas and dr. Néomie Raassens. A limited teaching load is also part of the job. Research consortium For this project, we will closely collaborate with a research consortium, consisting of more than thirty industry and valorization partners. For this PhD position, the Innovation, Technology Entrepreneurship & Marketing group (ITEM) is involved. The ITEM group focusses on understanding and improving new business and product development processes by combining a management and engineering perspective to capture the complexity and multidisciplinary nature of these processes. You have a Master's degree in Marketing, Management, Industrial Engineering (Engineering Management), Technology Management, Innovation Management, or another related, relevant field. You have a strong affinity with interdisciplinary research, as well as collaboration with industry. You have strong analytical skills and demonstrated competences for multivariate statistics and quantitative modeling. You have the potential and ambition to become a high-level management scholar. You like to take initiative and are able to work on a challenging topic that has both basic and applied research aspects. Your verbal and written communication skills are excellent as is your proficiency in English and your ability to collaborate in an international setting. A meaningful job in a dynamic and ambitious university, in an interdisciplinary setting and within an international network. You will work on a beautiful, green campus within walking distance of the central train station. In addition, we offer you: Full-time employment for four years, with an intermediate evaluation (go/no-go) after nine months. You will spend 10% of your employment on teaching tasks. Salary and benefits (such as a pension scheme, paid pregnancy and maternity leave, partially paid parental leave) in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. A year-end bonus of 8.3% and annual vacation pay of 8%. High-quality training programs and other support to grow into a self-aware, autonomous scientific researcher. At TU/e we challenge you to take charge of your own learning process. An excellent technical infrastructure, on-campus children's day care and sports facilities. An allowance for commuting, working from home and internet costs. A Staff Immigration Team and a tax compensation scheme (the 30% facility) for international candidates. Eindhoven University of Technology is an internationally top-ranking university in the Netherlands that combines scientific curiosity with a hands-on attitude. Our spirit of collaboration translates into an open culture and a top-five position in collaborating with advanced industries. Fundamental knowledge enables us to design solutions for the highly complex problems of today and tomorrow. Do you recognize yourself in this profile and would you like to know more? Please contact dr. Néomie Raassens at n.raassens[at]tue.nl and dr. Alex Alblas at a.a.alblas[at]tue.nl. Visit our website for more information about the application process or the conditions of employment. You can also contact ms.Najat Loiazizi, HR Advisor, at HRServices.IEIS[at]tue.nl. Are you inspired and would like to know more about working at TU/e? Please visit our career page. We invite you to submit a complete application by using the apply button. The application should include a: Cover letter (2 pages max), which includes a motivation of your interest in the vacancy and an explanation of why you would fit well with the project. Detailed curriculum vitae. List of courses you have taken in Masters and Bachelor programs (including grades). Results of a recent English language test, or other evidence of your English language capabilities (TOEFL, IELTS, etc.). Name and contact information of two references. We look forward to receiving your application. The deadline for applications is January 27, 2023. However, if you are interested, we invite you to apply as soon as possible. Selection will begin immediately and continue until the position has been filled. We do not accept applications sent by e-mail. You can only upload a maximum of 5 documents of 2 Mb each. If you have more than 5 documents, you will need to combine them. https://www.academictransfer.com/323470/ De Rondom 70 https://www.academictransfer.com/323470/phd-candidate-in-the-transition-to-a-ci…

Tag: B9 Biden Meets Leaders of the Bucharest Nine To Discuss “Next Steps” Tamás Orbán February 23, 2023 The B9 looks forward to “increased U.S. military presence” in the region, said Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at the group’s special summit.

Ladies’ Lady: A New Queer Musical Ladies’ Lady is a new queer musical comedy about the early life of Julie D’Aubigny. Julie D’Aubigny was a dueling, opera-singing, woman-wooing, bisexual woman in 17th-century France. This musical follows her early years when she caught the eye of a merchant’s daughter. Sapphic romance! Fighting for sport! Arson?? All this and more… The Vino Theater 274 Morgan Avenue, Suite #201

Workshop on Soft Matter Self Assembly and Dynamics Abstracts and Conference information Simulation of living polymers, image credit: K.R. Prathyusha January 9-10th 2014 Hyderabad Central University and the TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences are pleased to host a workshop on soft matter on January 9th and 10th, 2014. The conference will be held at the CR Rao auditorium at HCU. Soft matter is now a broad discipline, with roots in material science, chemistry, physics, biology and engineering. The focus of the 2014 workshop is assembly and dynamics. Assembly is driven by a host of different interactions, sometimes in delicate balance with thermal forces, and sometimes far out of thermal equilibrium. Usually, there is a mesoscale structure which leads to associated slow dynamics. The mesoscale structures may be emergent, as in the case of glasses, or be a building block of the system, as in the case of foams, emulsions, colloids and grains. A theme of the workshop is to explore the interplay between these slow dynamics and lowlying structures.

They Love Their Chains June 22, 2018 Robert Higgs The great majority of the American people are oppressed and abused by their governments. But if you imagine that some group of revolutionaries undertook to overthrow these governments, it’s perfectly obvious that this same oppressed and abused portion of the people would overwhelmingly support and assist the merciless crushing of the revolt. The people may bitch about their oppression and abuse, but when push comes to shove, they love their chains more than they resent their masters’ cruelty. In such a situation, nothing constructive can be done except that individuals can still leave the country. (Be advised, however, that the U.S. government [and perhaps your former state’s government as well] will follow you and threaten you in various ways [e.g., seizure of your assets] if you do not continue to pay tribute to it.) Against Leviathanamerica, evolution, government Written by Robert Higgs Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Independent Institute and Editor at Large of the Institute’s quarterly journal The Independent Review. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, Seattle University, the University of Economics, Prague, and George Mason University. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University and Stanford University, and a fellow at the Hoover Institution and the National Science Foundation. Caught in the Doldrums Simplistic to the Point of Absurdity Rulers and Leaders Anarchy Answer What People Get Wrong About Capitalism

NIST Issues Second Draft of Smart-Grid Cybersecurity Plan in Cybersecurity News by Admin February 11, 2010, 3:48 pm The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued its second draft of its strategy, Smart Grid Cyber Security Strategy and Requirements, for public review. The implementation of smart-grid technology opens up a variety of new vulnerabilities with the power grid. Foreign nations and terrorists would be capable of using cyberspace to take down the power grid throughout the United States. The draft identifies more than 120 interfaces that will link a variety of devices and systems and classifies each based on the potential damage resulting from a possible breach. This second draft used 350 comments, which were received following the first draft. The second draft expanded the sections on vulnerability categories, privacy and the broader approach to achieving cybersecurity for the smart grid. The vulnerability of the electric grid concerns a variety of experts. Mike McConnell, former DNI and presently with Booz Allen, views the threat to the electric grid as severe. Cyber attackers could potentially turn off the power for significant sections of the country.

LondonLife – Icons turn purple to celebrate Elizabeth Line opening… Marble Arch lights up for the launch of the Elizabeth Line.. PICTURE: © TfL Iconic London locations including Tower Bridge, The London Eye, and Marble Arch turned purple last night to mark the opening of the new Elizabeth Line today. Thousands of people are today expected to use the new Tube line which provides faster journeys between Paddington and Abbey Wood via 10 new stations using Class 345 trains that are more and than one-and-a-half times longer than a standard Tube train and able to carry 1,500 passengers. The line’s opening is the latest step in the £18.8 billion Crossrail project which is linking Reading, to the west of London, with Heathrow before travelling through central London to connect with Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east. Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, said it was an “historic day”. “This is a huge moment, not just for London but the entire country – particularly in this special Jubilee year…This brand new line is the most significant addition to our transport network in decades.” Last week, the Queen and Prince Edward attended Paddington Station to mark the completion of the new line. The London Eye illuminated. PICTURE: © TfL Woolwich Town Hall lit up in purple. PICTURE: © TfL A very excited first customer on the Elizabeth Line at its opening on 24th May. PICTURE: © TfL HM Queen Elizabeth II, HRH Prince Edward Earl of Wessex, at unveiling of commemorative plaque at Paddington Station on 17th May. PICTURE: © TfL Elizabeth II LondonLife News Paddington Railways Transport UndergroundAbbey Wood Elizabeth line Paddington Queen Elizabeth II Reading Sadiq Khan Shenfield TfL Transport for London Where’s London’s oldest…(unchanged) bus route? by exploringlondon October 22, 2018 October 14, 2021 London’s oldest unchanged bus route in London is commonly cited as Route 24 which runs over seven miles from Hampstead to Pimlico. The route was first launched in 1910 but initially stopped at Victoria Station. It was extended to Pimlico just two years later in 1912 and has largely unchanged ever since (apparently with the exception of some minor adjustments due to one-way traffic schemes). The route, which operates 24 hours a day, does take in some key landmarks of London – among them Trafalgar Square, Horse Guards Parade and Parliament Square. In 2013, Transport for London, said some 28,000 people used the route each day. In 1965, the double-decker buses on the route – which have always been powered by motors rather than horses – became the first to have front entry. In 1988, it became the first route through central London to be privatised when purchased by Grey-Green (the line is now operated by Metroline). Mostly recently, in 2013, it became the first route to fully implement the curvaceous new ‘Routemasters’ (while they’ve commonly been called that, the new buses are actually just called the ‘new bus for London’). PICTURE: One of the new buses on the route in 2014 (Aubrey Morandarte (licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0)) Hampstead London's oldest Pimlico Trafalgar Square Transport VictoriaHampstead London's oldest Metroline Pimlico Route 24 TfL Transport for London LondonLife – Flying over the Thames by night… by exploringlondon October 23, 2012 Sailing high over the River Thames between North Greenwich in the river’s southern bank and the Royal Docks on the river’s northern bank is the cable car formally known as the Emirates Air Line. Opened in late June and running every day, the cable car – the UK’s first in an urban area – is operated by Transport for London and links into the Underground and Docklands Light Rail network. Travelling at about 90 metres above the ground along a course of more than half a mile, passengers can take in the City, Docklands, Greenwich and as far eastward down the river as the Thames Barrier. This image, which shows the 02 Arena in the background, was taken just after the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Games in August. For more, see www.emiratesairline.co.uk. PICTURE: © Transport for London City Docklands Greenwich LondonLife Olympics 2012 The Thames Transport Underground02 Arena DLR Docklands Light Rail Emirates Air Line Greenwich North Greenwich Olympic Games River Thames Royal Dock TfL Thames Thames Barrier Transport for London Underground Around London… by exploringlondon August 6, 2010 August 6, 2010 • London’s bicycle hire scheme is up and running. The scheme was launched at the end of July and boasts 5,000 bikes which can be found at 315 docking stations. More than 21,000 people signed up in the first weeks and some of the early popular hire sites included Soho Square, Drury Lane in Covent Garden and Wardour Street. The bikes are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Members of the scheme must be 18 years old and you must be at least 14 years old to ride the bikes. A membership key costs £3 while the membership itself costs at £1 for a 24-hour membership, £5 for seven days and £45 for an annual membership. The first 30 minutes of any journey is then free (with fees applicable after that). As the bikes don’t come with a lock, it’s expected people will simply make a journey to another docking station before getting off. For more information on the Barclay’s Cycle Hire scheme, see Transport for London’s website at www.tfl.gov.uk. Meanwhile, in other transport news, the first air-conditioned Tube train is now in active service on the Metropolitan Line. • A cafe has been opened at Buckingham Palace, 173 years after Queen Victoria first moved in following her accession to the throne. Located on the West Terrace overlooking the lawn and lake, the Garden Café is open during visiting hours. The Palace’s State Rooms, meanwhile, are open to the public until 1st October. The palace this year hosts The Queen’s Year exhibition which features displays of ceremonial robes, gifts, uniforms, dresses and jewellery, as well as archive photography and film in an illustration of the monarch’s work throughout the year at everything from the State Opening of Parliament to the Garter Day ceremony at Windsor Castle and investitures, garden parties and State Visits. Entry to the State Rooms – which comprise just 19 of the palace’s 775 rooms – is £17.00 an adult, £15.50 concessions, £9.75 for under 17s and under fives are free. Family tickets are £45 and combined tickets – including the Royal Mews and the Queen’s Gallery – are also available. www.royalcollection.org.uk/default.asp?action=article&ID=30. For more on the special exhibition, see www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/thequeensyear/ • The Tower of London was the most visited royal site in Britain last year, attracting 2.4 million tourists, according to a report from VisitBritain. The tourism agency found that while overseas tourists spent some £4.6 billion while in the UK last year, more than £500 million was spent on tourism associated with the Royal Family. The top 10 most visited sites included several royal attractions – Edinburgh Castle came in at number six with 1.2 million visitors, Windsor Castle at number seven with 987,000 and Buckingham Palace at number 11 with 402,000. Other top London sites included the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich (#2 – 2.4 million), the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington (#3 – 2.3 million), St Paul’s Cathedral (#4 – 1.8 million), Westminster Abbey (#5 – 1.4 million) and Hampton Court Palace (#9 – 541,646). 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Falun Dafa Australia Information Centre Australia News Local Practice Sites Online Learning – Live webinar Detention Centre Officer Moved by a Practitioner’s Honesty and Compassion Sept. 19, 2021 | By a Falun Dafa practitioner in China I was staked out, followed, and arrested for talking to people about Falun Dafa in August 2021. My home was ransacked, and I was held in a detention centre in another city. All kinds of people were detained there. A college student who refused to scan the QR code at the supermarkets was detained for seven days. So were tofu sellers, mahjong players, disabled people who’d been beaten by the public security personnel, and even store owners whose goods were stolen. I was the only one who was detained because of my faith. The next day an officer took me to the office for questioning, saying he would take notes and record the entire process. He asked me how I was arrested. I said, “I am a Falun Dafa practitioner, a good person who believes in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I didn’t commit any crime. I was arrested while telling people the facts about Falun Dafa and how the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) persecutes it. According to the constitution, I have the freedom to practice my belief. Why was I arrested? I can tell you about Falun Dafa if you want to know more. Don’t ask me anything else. I won’t answer you.” To my surprise, he was happy to hear that I was a practitioner. He said, “Falun Dafa is good, and the practitioners we see are exceptionally good people!” Just then he noticed that the camera was on, so he said, “Wait a minute. I’ll delete this part.” He deleted the conversation, turned off the camera, took off his mask, and showed me his police number. He then told me about the practitioners he interacted with in 2000 when the CCP started brutally persecuting Falun Dafa. He said, “That year, our superiors ordered us to treat arrested Falun Dafa practitioners severely. All the orders were verbal—there were no documents. “There was a practitioner in the cell I was in charge of. He was firm in his belief. I observed him and felt that he was very compassionate, which was different from what was said about practitioners on TV. I was impressed by his words and actions. Twenty years have passed, and I still remember his name was Qi. He was really good! “I made him the cell head. All the other cell heads kept some of the clothes and food sent to the other cellmates when they inspected them. Some cell heads would take a big bag of socks and clothes they collected when they left prison. But this Falun Dafa practitioner was very honest and never withheld anything. He never took any bribes. From observing his behavior, I saw how great and precious the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance are. Falun Dafa is good! I still remember his heels showed through holes in his socks when he left the cell.” At this point, the police officer choked up a little and said, “Let me know if you need any help. I will try my best to help you except for making phone calls because the phones here are monitored.” I thanked him for his kindness and understanding and urged him to stay safe in the pandemic. He continued, “I do this job to make a living. I have no choice! But I can guarantee you that I won’t let anyone torture or bully you here. You can do your exercises. You are here temporarily, but we are here as if serving a life sentence. I think all officers should learn the truth and stop persecuting Falun Dafa for a better future.” I was really happy for him. Our efforts, sometimes risking our lives, to clarify the truth have not been in vain. I was released a few days later. I walked out of the detention centre with a list of people who agreed to quit the CCP and its affiliated organisations. I continue to tell people the truth about Falun Dafa and hope that more people will learn the facts and stop following the CCP. All articles, graphics, and content published on Minghui.org are copyrighted. Non-commercial reproduction is allowed but requires attribution with the article title and a link to the original article. Chinese version available (Clearwisdom) How Humankind Came To Be Melbourne: Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance Can Lead the World to a Higher Realm Perth: Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance Can Make Our World Happy and Safe Ecuador: Practitioners Introduce Falun Dafa to Local Residents in Various Parts of the Country Shen Yun Inspires Audiences in Denmark, Spain, Czech Republic, Canada, and United States: “Leads the Audience to Seek the Truth” Falun Dafa information Centre Australia 0921 Practice Sites Falun Dafa in Australia Appreciation of the Calligraphy by Yue Fei, a National Hero of China “Our God Told Us That Only One Chinese Man Can Save Human Beings” Willoughby (Sydney): Tian Guo Marching Band Shines in Lunar New Year Parade Brisbane: Car Parade Calls for End of the CCP Copyright © 2023 Falun Dafa Australia Information Centre

The Abbey and the First World War April 11, 2014April 5, 2017 by a Benedictine monk The cemetery cross is, in fact, a memorial to the monks involved in the Great War A number of articles have appeared on local history Facebook pages in the last weeks concerning the First World War, and local participation in it. Questions about the Abbey and the Great War have encouraged us to post the following article. On August 1st 1914, the day after Germany had declared war on Russia, the French Government mobilised its armed forces. Two days later the German ambassador in Paris delivered a note to the French authorities indicating that a state of war existed between their countries. On 4th August, England declared war on Germany. The monks of Farnborough found themselves in a strange situation. As a result of anti-clericalism in France, the Laws of Associations, and the separation of Church and State, the monks were living in England in exile. When it came to the War however the monks were bemused when their call-up papers arrived in the post. Abbot Cabrol quipped, ‘So we are not welcome to live in France, but they do not mind us dying for France!’ A Farnborough monk playing chess with wounded soldiers To its credit, the community was quick to respond to the mobilisation order. Dom Gougaud, Pères Godu, Cabassut and Perret, and Frère Savignac left the Abbey on August 3rd. They were followed shortly by Dom Wilmart. Two older men, Dom Villecourt and Brother Francis Belbech, had to report to the French consulate but were not immediately required for service. Dom Dumaine and Père du Boisrouvray, although previously declared unfit for military service (du Boisrouvray’s eyesight had cut short an illustrious military career at St Cyr), were required to go to the consulate at Southampton for a further examination. This resulted in a renewal of their exemption. Brother Joseph Becker, the German lay-brother, had to register with the local authorities. At the age of eighty he was not considered to be an immediate threat to the future of the British Empire, but was not allowed to travel outside a five-mile radius of Farnborough! Dom Gougaud Dom Cabrol was in France when war was declared, assisting at the twenty-fifth Eucharistic Congress held in Lourdes. Dom Debroise was also in France preaching a retreat, and Frère Alphonse Descourtieux was with his family in Limoges. Because all the trains had been commandeered for troops, the three were delayed and not back home till some weeks later. It is evident that movement cannot have been too restricted since Cabrol spent three weeks on the continent in March of 1915, and was in France in early 1916, and again in September of that year. In 1917 he was off again on his travels, crossing to France on April 9th and leaving for Silos in Spain for the election of a new abbot, returning home after three months. Dom Cottineau had been in Rome with the Vulgate Commission. He travelled to Farnborough and back to Rome in the summer of 1915. In October of 1915, Dom Emile Debroise went off to Mont Saint Michel to take up his post as chaplain to the pilgrims and Dom Paul Serrant went off teaching in Angers, returning in August of the following year. Dom Bertini in military uniform… Dom Bertini was professed in 1908 and was at Quarr for studies from 1910 to 1913, always coming back home for holidays. He was ordained, in fact, at Quarr in April of 1913. He had gone to the Abbey of Clairvaux in Luxembourg in June 1914, and when war was declared, had gone to Einsiedeln in Switzerland on the first stage of his journey home. He had hoped to move south to Italy, but complications arose because, as an Italian national, he had not done military service. Though born in Italy, he had never lived there. Permission to go to Italy came from an unexpected source. The King of Italy granted an amnesty to all ‘deserters’ on account of the birth of his daughter. ‘Thanks to Princess Giovanna, I can go to Italy,’ Bertini wrote home to his family. The new year saw him still at Einsiedeln and not in good health. By mid-March the community at home had heard conflicting reports about him. Cottineau wrote that he had reached Rome and was at Sant Anselmo. Another report however held that he was at Chiari and was being detained by the military authorities till the end of the war. In January of 1916, Bertini was trying, in Rome, to get a permit for England, and evidently succeeded since he came back to Farnborough in March of 1917, having been exempted from military service with the Italian forces through the influence of Cardinal Bourne. Bertini became a naturalised British subject, volunteered to serve as an army chaplain and received orders to join up in May 1917. Dom Bertini served on the Italian Front until September of 1918 when he was sent home on leave to his family in Bournemouth. …and in full cantor’s array at Clairvaux. In Paris, on his way back to England, he encountered some Italian nuns. In helping them to sort out a problem, he missed his connection. They offered him hospitality for the night and he said Mass for them the following morning. It was to be his last. He arrived at Southampton early on the morning of September 21st. He was undecided as to whether to go to his family or to return to the Abbey and be back for the Patronal Feast. Since the Bournemouth train arrived first he opted for family. The arrival home at nine o’clock in the morning was a tremendous thrill for his family. It was arranged for him to sing the Missa Cantata at Boscombe the next day, but when that day arrived he was unable to do so. The dreaded ‘Spanish influenza’ had taken hold of him. At first it seemed like a mild attack, but by the end of the week he was delirious and gravely ill. He died at four in the afternoon whilst singing to him self the chants of second vespers of St Michael’s Day. On October 2nd there was a solemn requiem in the parish church and the coffin was taken to the station on a gun carriage covered with the Union Flag. Abbot Cabrol informed the family at Farnborough station that the Bishop (Cotter) had asked to sing the requiem. Again, a military escort led the short distance from the church to the cemetery. Abbot Cabrol said the graveside prayers and there was the customary last post and gun salute. He was thirty-three years old. Just before he died he called his sister to his bedside. He had arranged for her to join the IBVM sisters. Gasping for breath he told her, ‘Mother’s found out and she’s upset. Don’t worry. I’ll see you through!’ She became Sister Barbara at Saint Mary’s, Ascot. Dom Godu News filtered back from other monks on active service. Père Jean Perret, a twenty-two year old, was captured at the Front in late September of 1914, and was held prisoner at Stuttgart. He eventually returned home in September 1919. Dom Louis Gougaud was taken prisoner and held in Germany. He wrote of his good treatment and the fact that he was permitted to say Mass. He arrived home in March of 1919. Père Gaston Godu had gone as a junior monk to do his two years of military service. Now he was called back and, on active service in France, was ordained to the priesthood in Vannes on November 8th 1914, and so was able to say daily Mass until he went to the Front in mid-December. In July 1915, a note arrived to say that he had been mentioned in the ordre du jour de l’armée; and was awarded the Croix de Guerre. He was safely home by September of 1919. ‘The Tablet’ article on Dom Godu. (Click for a larger picture). Frère Georges Savignac was clothed in the habit as a novice on 2nd February 1914, and was killed on 18th February 1915. He was from Toulouse and had studied at the Ecole du Commerce before doing his military service as an infantry officer. He studied for the priesthood under the direction of an abbé with whom he resided in Toulouse. He was brought into contact with a young student of the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Roger Durey, whom he helped to return to the faith. Savignac introduced him to the Abbé Chatelard, chaplain to the Catholic students, and the three of them maintained a close friendship. Durey recognised in Savignac ‘a very delicate soul,’ and acknowledged that ‘he illumined the first stage of my path as the Abbé illumined the second.’ During his novitiate Savignac was remembered as ‘a very charming fellow.’ On August 3rd, 1914, he rejoined the French Army as a Lieutenant of the 59th Infantry Division. Abbé Chatelard received a note from him in November which implied that he was starting for the Front. Roger Durey wrote to Savignac to tell him of his progress towards accepting the Catholic Faith, and the young officer expressed in reply his joy ‘to feel that we are coming nearer and nearer to one another and are both being spurred on towards the same Ideal where we shall only think of losing ourselves.’ His last letter to Durey, dated 6th January 1915, spoke of ‘our lives lit up by the same sun of beauty and our hearts joined together in that furnace of love which is the heart of God.’ Ten days later, Durey went to confession and the next morning made his first Holy Communion. Br Georges Savignac News of the death of the young novice Savignac was not received till February of 1916, almost a year later. His body had been found some eight months after he had been killed. The High Mass of Requiem was celebrated on the first anniversary of his death. The Empress sent a representative and the French Consul from Southampton was present. Savignac, like Godu, had been mentioned in the ordre du jour, and the community had its second Croix de Guerre. Père Cabassut was given ten days of leave from the Front in November 1916. These he spent at home in the Abbey. He then returned to France where he remained till his demobilisation on June 1919. Dom Wilmart’s wartime adventures were outlined in the July edition of this review. Dom Villecourt was initially exempted but later called up, in 1916, for military duty. He acted as a medical orderly. He returned home in September of 1919. Brother Francis Belbech, also exempted at the start of the War, was called up in July 1916. At the age of forty-seven he was the eldest member of the community to be called to the colours, and was the first to return home, arriving on 30th November 1918. Mention ought also to be made of Dom Guthrie who was professed in 1910. He was sent to Quarr for studies, and to the regret, even distress, of the Farnborough community, he decided to make solemn profession to the Abbey of Solesmes. It was a lesson the community would not forget. He died as an army chaplain of wounds on 25th November 1916. Dom Godu was presented with the Croix de Guerre by Pétain. Godu with his medal on the steps of the Abbey Church. The British fragment of the community was left unbothered until a bill was passed by the government in January 1916 making military service compulsory for single men. For the priest- monks there was no problem but the situation was different for the lay-brothers. Of the three professed brothers, Alban Pickett and Paul Lacey were in their mid-thirties, and Brother Anthony Cooper was twenty-six. Abbot Cabrol attended a London meeting with the heads of the religious orders to discuss the issues, and representations were made to the governments by ecclesiastical authorities on behalf of non-clerics who came under the conscription bill. A prompt decision was made by the government not to give them exemption. But they were not conscripted. As the War progressed and the toll of casualties mounted, the French military draft regulations were reassessed. In March 1917, it looked as if Dumaine and du Boisrouvray would be called up after all. They were, however, examined in London by a conseil de revision at the end of April and exemption was confirmed for both of them. There was a nervous moment in April 1918 when it was feared that a new military service bill would result in clergy being called to non-combatant roles. The clause concerning the clergy was later withdrawn. Dom Olivieri Dom Gâtard’s services were used by the French Red Cross. He was taken on an official visit to France at the end of May 1917 in order to gain eye-witness impressions at the Front in order to make a tour of Ireland to raise funds for the wounded French soldiers. He journeyed to Ireland twice for this purpose. Monasteries in Belgium found themselves in the German war path. Dom Conway records in this dairy for 17th October 1914; ‘A Louvain monk arrived today. He was dressed in a most extraordinary manner and had practically no luggage. His name is Dom Vincent.’ Within a few days five young monks from the Abbey of Saint André in Bruges arrived. Of these the diarist exclaimed; ‘they wore grey trilby hats…and very light grey it was too!’ A month later two more arrived from Bruges. At Christmastide these went to Quarr to study philosophy, except for Dom Edouard who remained to study theology. He was ordained subdeacon by Bishop Cotter on 29th May 1915 and went on military service in July, with the Belgian forces. A Scheut missionary Père Henri de Vries, passed nine months here trying to find an opportunity to travel to Inner Mongolia where his community had flourishing missions. When he left in August 1915, he left a note in the guest book to the effect that the community had treated him ‘si charitable comme un confrère’ The last refugee was Dom Donatien of Steenbrugge who came in February of 1916 and remained for some time. The Empress with wounded officers at Farnborough Hill On the eve of the War the community had acquired a property called Farnborough Court. The gates opposite the doctor’s surgery are the only reminder of it today. In October of 1914 twenty-five wounded Belgian soldiers were moved in for medical care. They were well looked after by the monks. Later on, British soldiers were also accommodated. The Empress Eugénie was extremely distressed by the War. She knew what it was like for a mother to lose a son and she could not bear to think of the suffering the death toll was causing. She turned Farnborough Hill into a hospital for officers, mostly Belgian, since the French government objected to French officers being lodged at her home. For her efforts to help the wounded she was made a Dame Grand Cross of the British Empire. Abbot Cabrol was awarded the OBE for his contribution to the War effort. Fr Abbot’s Silver Jubilee a Benedictine monk Thien Tam Monastery Talk at the Oxford Oratory Knights of Malta The Mount Savior Monastery The Catholic National Library finds… St Benedict’s Day Organ Recitals 2015 Sisters of the Blessed Virgin…

The Value Of Tragedy by brennagimler1 | Sep 11, 2014 | Emergency Preparedness Today marks the 13th anniversary of the September 11th Terrorist attacks on the twin towers. Similar to many tragic events, many of us can remember where we were and what we were doing when the news broke. It was a day when business stopped, air travel was grounded and strangers cried for those they never knew. The whole country mourned as one for the unfathomable loss of life that was void of prejudice. So many innocent people went to work that morning and never came home again. Children were born without fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts, grandparents, and friends. Families lost children, and spouses learned to raise a family alone. With the exception of Pearl Harbor, we have never experienced such a great and unexpected loss of life. It was the day where time once again stood still and the nation mourned together as the death toll climbed until the final count stopped at 2,992 dead. We watched for weeks as hundreds of firefighters and police, healthcare workers and volunteers of all kinds worked for days without sleep as they treated the injured, coordinated donations and dug through rubble for survivors and victims alike. Our televisions were filled 24 hours a day with footage replays of the planes crashing into the twin towers, buildings crumbling to the ground in a plume of smoke and fire, taking with them thousands of innocent lives. We witnessed bystanders on the ground covered in soot which eliminated race, nationality and gender. During this time, the American people stood as one. We truly became The United States of America in every sense of the title. There was a mass outpouring of support and love that extended beyond the borders of New York City which ebbed and flowed across our great nation like the tide lapping against the shore, each wave trying to wash away a little more of the hurt. We became more charitable and less selfish about our time, money and resources because we were outraged at an act of terrorism that we were not prepared for and unfortunately never expected. As we witnessed our great and now humbled nation pulling together with donations, emergency supplies, disaster funds and relief efforts, did this have to happen? Could we have been better prepared? Did we let our guard down under the premise that we are the mighty United States, invincible and untouchable? Did we forget about Pearl Harbor and was it just too long ago for us to stay on our toes? Was that someone else’s problem from another time? Maybe. It always seems to be that tragic events cause us to think about protecting ourselves. In the aftermath of tragedy is when we consider our own mortality and safety the most. When we are frightened, we as a people take action and prepare for the unknown dangers we may face in order to feel safer. The problem is that we rarely plan for these disasters in advance. Tragedy and disaster are not the time to think about what we should have already had in place to protect ourselves. Could this happen again? My answer is yes. The answer is yes because it happened in 1941, it happened in 2001, and if we as a society take respite under the cover of complacency, it most undoubtedly will happen again. On the anniversary of this horrific event, I urge you to hug your loved ones a little closer, remember the fallen, and take some time to improve your own preparedness for the unexpected. Beat the Heat – Preventing heat illness at work It's best not to work outside in high temperatures - that is a fact - but the nature of certain... Camping Safety Tips for a fun Summer It's summer time, and that means it's time to load up the car, pack up your backpack and head out... National Hurricane Preparedness Week – Are you ready? This week (May 1-7) is National Hurricane Preparedness Week, encouraging everyone to evaluate...

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Sheila Botting Sheila's areas of expertise range extensively, from commercial real estate, accounting and tax acumen, to business leadership and corporate finance. In addition to her expertise and trustee membership here at FCR, she is currently the Principal and President, Americas at Avison Young. In her role, she leads the Americas professional services practice and is a member of their global real estate executive team. Prior to Avison Young, Botting was Deloitte’s Senior Partner & Canadian Real Estate Leader, and member of their global real estate executive team. In this senior role, she led several major global projects across both private and public sectors. In her efforts, Botting worked closely with occupiers, investors, operators, and industry participants. That is in addition to Deloitte’s own corporate workplace strategy program, in which she led its implementation across Canada. Previous to her senior leadership role at Deloitte, she was the Executive Managing Director at Cushman & Wakefield - a global partner and full-service real estate firm. There, she led the Canadian Professional Services operation, containing real estate valuations and advisory services for the industry’s largest investors, owners, and corporate occupiers. Her role at Cushman & Wakefield evolved as it acquired Royal LePage Commercial Inc. in 2006 where she previously worked as an executive for over 20 years.

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3D Nozzle A technique called selective laser etching (SLE) makes it possible to produce 3D structures out of glass. Micronozzles are just one possible use for this technology. The great accuracy and potential for complex geometries that an SLE-made nozzle can achieve, which cannot be done with other technologies, are what make it special. The nozzle size can reach a few centimeters while the smallest channel may have a diameter of only a few micrometers. The nozzle could be used to deliver high-pressure gases and liquids to variable diameter outputs. Fluid dispensing and various printing techniques are examples of potential nozzle usage. Applications Processes Industries Products Femtosecond microfabrication technology is applied in microfluidics through 3D laser lithography and selective laser etching (SLE). 3D laser lithography is used to produce micro filters and sensors, while SLE enables the production of complex-shaped microfluidic channels out of fused silica glass with low surface roughness and high precision. Applying for Industries Employed Processes A feasibility study is composed of several steps, including researching methods for fabricating micro-structures, fabricating a micro-structure prototype, measuring and aligning the prototype with technical requirements, and finally preparing a study report. Small-scale production is an essential step in the overall process of micro-structure fabrication, helping to ensure that the developed process is effective, efficient, and capable of producing high-quality micro-structures at scale.

Book of the Week: Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, by Kevin Moffett by Jeremiah Chamberlin This week’s feature is Kevin Moffett‘s new story collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events (Harper Perennial). He is also the author of Permanent Visitors, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, judged by George Saunders, and was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the Believer Book Award. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in such places as Tin House, the Harvard Review, American Short Fiction, the Chicago Tribune, the Believer, A Public Space, and in three editions of The Best American Short Stories. The title story for this new collection won the National Magazine Award in 2010. In his recent review of this collection, Shawn Andrew Mitchell writes: There are plenty of writers who attempt to work in George Saunders’s style, one of absurdity and satire and capital letters, but what they often miss is the morality and heart at its core. Moffett misses nothing. He follows his own advice and listens closely, to the detail, to the mystery, and to his characters’ plights. We’re giving away a copy of Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events next week to three of our Twitter followers. To be eligible for this giveaway (and all future ones), simply click over to Twitter and “follow” us (@fictionwriters). To all of you who are already fans, thank you! Read the rest of Mitchell’s review. Read an interview with Kevin Moffatt conducted by the University of Pittsburgh. Book of the Week, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, Harper Perennial, Kevin Moffett, short story collection Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Save Instapaper Pocket Jeremiah Chamberlin Jeremiah Chamberlin teaches at the University of Michigan. He is also a Contributing Editor for Poets & Writers Magazine. His fiction, criticism, literary interviews, and essays have appeared in such places as Absinthe, Flyway, Glimmer Train, Granta, The New York Times Book Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Vagabond, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Also from Jeremiah Chamberlin Making Room for the Reader: Lessons from The Magus Who We Are Now: A Conversation with Colson Whitehead Accepting Indeterminacy: Part II of an Interview with Jacob Paul Stories We Love: “Stranger,” by Steven Schwartz Prayer, Inquiry, Memory: An Interview with Anthony Doerr Those Fantastic Lives, by Bradley Sides Shop Talk Editor Brandon Bye

Contemporary Review / Review Queen of Earth Posted on November 10, 2015 by filmicmag Leave a comment by Susan Brancaccio From the October 2015 Issue Catherine (Elisabeth Moss), seeking emotional exile after experiencing an unpleasant breakup as well as the traumatic loss of her father, agrees to go on a one-week getaway at her friend Virginia’s (Katherine Waterston) lake house. What should be a relaxing break from reality instead only deepens Catherine’s feelings of loss and inadequacy. Specifically, Virginia’s disposition toward Catherine, which ranges from vaguely supportive to simply cruel, can be seen as possibly pushing Catherine further and further toward madness. As memories of the two friends’ week at the lake house one year prior are woven into the film, we begin to see that a role reversal has taken place between the two women. Last year, Virginia was the one dealing with an emotional trauma — the loss of an unborn child. And it was Catherine who seemed impatient with her friend’s grieving process; ignorant of her timeline of recovery and recuperation. As days pass at the lake house and the parallel situations play out before us, animosity and distrust begin to permeate the tranquil location. While the cinematography captures a peaceful lakefront and soothing landscape, an overwhelming feeling of claustrophobia seems to take hold in and around the lake house. Catherine becomes paranoid and fearful of Virginia’s presence and Virginia indulges in moments of watching her friend slowly fall apart. This is no longer a relaxing place for either woman and it begins to feel that way for the audience as well. The whimsical, yet compelling score lingering in the background of the film adds to this almost twisted atmosphere. Although Queen of Earth would not be classified as a horror film, the nature of Catherine and Virginia’s friendship is terrifying in its own right. Not only do the two seem to approach one another in a passive-aggressive manner, they revel in one another’s misery and flaws. All in all, the film’s study of the two female characters makes for a suspenseful, eerie, and tense viewing experience. Their friendship, with each passing minute, seems more and more like it is heading towards the same inevitable fate of an ocean front property — perched on a cliff, its foundation slowly eroding, waiting for a hurricane to come and violently disassemble it. Throughout the film you find yourself waiting and waiting for this tumultuous end — and it is through this slow build up of tension, through each passing wave, that Perry creates such an intriguing story. This film not only raises questions about who we choose to keep close to us, but also critiques the way in which people tend to build themselves up by tearing other people down. Additionally, through Catherine’s relationship with her boyfriend, her father, and most especially Virginia, we begin to understand how codependence plays an important (but also devastating) role in someone’s life. While the story, script and overall mood of the film are executed very well, the acting and cinematography are just as phenomenal, if not more so. Elisabeth Moss, and Katherine Waterston deliver realized performances that capture the callous and emotional attitudes of their characters. Moss in particular delivers one of the best performances of the year. Between the breakup scene that the film opens with and the passionate monologue towards the end of the film, Moss seems to leave everything on the table so much so that it’s nearly impossible to separate the actor from the character. Likewise, Sean Price Williams’ cinematography not only fills the film with interesting scenery, but also manages to use the mundane (such as a shot of a bedroom or a living room) to promote the overall uncomfortable atmosphere of the film. Ultimately, Queen of Earth is not only a visual marvel, but a fascinating exploration of interpersonal relationships that establishes Alex Ross Perry as one of the great young American filmmakers. Tags: October 2015, Susie Brancaccio. Bookmark the permalink. Previous post ← Eyes Under a Spell Next post IIFFF 2015: Love & Peace →

Posted: March 12, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments Tags: A Spy Among Friends, Agent Elvis, Apple TV +, Boston Strangler, Dan Romer, David Wingo, Dustin O'Halloran, Extrapolations, Hulu, Jason Hill, MGM+, Netflix, Paul Leonard Morgan, Timothy Williams, Tyler Bates Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British limited series A Spy Among Friends created by Alexander Cary based on Ben Macintyre’s bestselling book and starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, Stephen Kunken, Anna Maxwell Martin, and Adrian Edmondson. The show’s original music is composed by Dustin O’Halloran (Lion, Like Crazy, Transparent, The Old Guard, Ammonite, The Essex Serpent). Check out our previous article to learn more about the Nick Murphy-directed 6-parter, which premiered in the UK last fall on ITVX and is making its U.S. debut on MGM+. Premiering on Friday, March 17, is the Hulu original movie Boston Strangler written and directed by Matt Ruskin and starring Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Alessandro Nivola, David Dastmalchian, Morgan Spector, Robert John Burke and Chris Cooper. Paul Leonard-Morgan (Limitless, Dredd, Dynasty, Tales from the Loop, Wormwood) has composed the film’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the 20th Century Studios production, which will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu. Also premiering on Friday is the Netflix animated series Agent Elvis created by Priscilla Presley & John Eddie and starring Matthew McConaughey, Kaitlin Olson, Don Cheadle, Niecy Nash-Betts, Johnny Knoxville and Tom Kenny. The show’s original music is composed by Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy, John Wick, Watchmen, 300, Dawn of the Dead) & Timothy Williams (Pearl, Brightburn, Finding You). Milan Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score. Click here to learn more about the Sony Pictures Animation production, which will be available to stream on Netflix. Also premiering on Friday is the Apple TV+ limited series Extrapolations created by Scott Z. Burns and starring Meryl Streep, Edward Norton, Diane Lane, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Daveed Diggs, Marion Cotillard, Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Gemma Chan and David Schwimmer. Jason Hill (Mindhunter, Voir), David Wingo (Barry, The Report, Midnight Special) & Dan Romer (Luca, Station Eleven, Beasts of the Southern Wild) have composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the drama, which will be available to stream on Apple TV+.

Children’s Corner is a resource for children, parents, and teachers. Utilizing fun and informative pages and links, children and educators are exposed to stories, songs, art, and games creating a bridge to Iran’s past, present, and future. In addition, Children’s Corner has references for young adults and their teachers, including Iran Handbook: A Pre-Collegiate Guide. The Handbook is made up of nine sections focusing on Iran’s history and culture from geography to holidays, from history to cuisine. Iran Handbook is in English; most other material in “Children’s Corner,” including stories and poems, is in Persian. Items in this collection: Ebook . PersianStories from the Shahnameh Ebook . PersianHistory of Iran for Young Adults Ebook . PersianStories and songs Ebook . EnglishIran Handbook: A Pre-Collegiate Guide

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April 17, 2016 October 1, 2019 After reading my pH results on beverages, fellow mamas have raised the question: would it be possible to add a pinch of baking soda to Good Girl Moonshine (GGMS) to neutralize the acid to make it safer for dental enamel while still having the health benefits of apple cider vinegar (ACV)? They cite the tip that you can do this with coffee to reduce its acidity. So, as with many things in my life, this pH experiment has sent me down a rabbit hole. Please note, I am not a nutritional expert by any stretch of the imagination, just curious. I’m a skeptic by nature, and when I hear things like, “The ACV in GGMS will destroy your tooth enamel! Don’t drink it!”, I start thinking, “Is it any worse than Diet Coke or coffee or is it just fact that vinegar is a known acid that has people freaking out?” And then I end up with science experiments in the kitchen with my homeschooled kids. Then people ask more questions and that leads to more digging. I’m sure someone smarter than me can find more concrete evidence and for every piece of evidence I find to validate one perspective, there is one that can be found to back up the opposite claim. For more on that whole thing, see my I Watched a Documentary… post. What you will see here is a summary of a quick hour’s worth of reading I did before church this morning. It is not exhaustive, and there are conflicting viewpoints on ACV and its uses. You will have to judge for yourself what to believe. The core question I am trying to deal with in this post is whether it is the acid in the ACV that provides health benefits because if it is the acidity of it that provides the benefits then adding baking soda to neutralize the acidity will also negate the health benefits. About the only benefit of ACV that I could find a scientific study to back up was that ACV has an anti-glycemic effect. There was one small study done in Japan that showed a potential connection to ACV consumption and weight loss (ACV users lost 1-2 pounds more than the non-ACV users), but I didn’t come across any in-depth studies published in reputable journals other than that. 1 Now, I am not anti-alternative medicine, but I do need more than “it has been used for centuries to cure xyz condition” as proof of a claimed benefit because, let’s face it, just because it has been used for centuries doesn’t mean it is actually what is doing the curing of xyz condition. Correlation and causation are two different things and we often get them confused. So, ACV may or may not do all the stuff listed at various websites, but there isn’t much out there to backup those claims aside from anecdotal evidence. I have tried to include sources from both the alternative/naturopathic health camp and more conventional Western medicine organizations to cover my bases between various types of mamas, however, the alternative/naturopathic claims often lack evidence or sources to back them up. This means that I can’t say with certainty that their theories on the mechanisms that make ACV effective are indeed accurate or simply educated guesses. Some think the National Institute of Health (NIH) is an arm of the devil himself, while others will only accept NIH endorsed stances. The sources listed here that come from the NIH PubMed website are simply research journal articles that are indexed by the NIH for searching. Keep in mind there are probably elements of truth and myth in both camps. The problem I am running into in trying to get answers for this question is that there is very little explanation of the science or mechanism of why ACV works for things like stabilizing blood sugars and possibly helping with weight loss and digestive health. Even when there have been scientific studies of ACV, they have only studied the outcomes (i.e. weight loss or lower blood sugar) and haven’t studied the how of those outcomes (i.e. if it’s the acid that is causing the improved health benefit, or the “mother”, or other aspects of the vinegar). They are often reported with phrases like “the researchers suggest…” meaning that scientists are speculating at what about ACV is causing the benefits. I suspect that as more studies are done that show a relationship between ACV use and health benefits, researchers will move on to studying the how. But for now, there are many gaps and unknowns. What the Evidence Says That said, my gut feeling (no pun intended) is that it is, at least partially, the acidity of the vinegar that causes some of its benefits—particularly the glycemic effects and weight loss. This was backed up in a research study in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition titled “Effect of neutralized and native vinegar on blood glucose and acetate responses to a mixed meal in healthy subjects”, published in April 1995, where researchers noted that white vinegar used as a salad dressing significantly reduced the glycemic response of normoglycemic (non-diabetic, non-hypoglycemic) individuals while neutralized vinegar did not alter the glycemic response. 2 Additionally, a study in the September 2005 edition of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition noted a negative linear relationship between the acid level of a meal and the post-meal blood glucose levels (when the meal included more acid, post-meal blood glucose levels were lower). This study also noted that there was a direct linear relationship between the acid level of the meal and the feeling of satiety post-meal. The higher the amount of vinegar consumed with the meal, the longer the person felt full afterward. 3 However, another study in the Journal of Nutrition in March 2000 indicated that there is something about acetic acid (vinegar) that alters the glycemic response that other acids (citric acid and others) don’t do. 4 This does not mean it isn’t the acid of the vinegar that makes it work, just that other acids don’t do the same thing as the acetic acid in vinegar. Dr. Mercola proposes this about the benefits of the acid in ACV, “One thing that apple cider vinegar is high in is acetic acid. Like other acids, acetic acid can increase your body’s absorption of important minerals from the foods you eat. Therefore, it is possible that drinking a mild tonic of vinegar and water just before meals might improve your body’s ability to absorb the essential minerals locked in foods.” 5 Some have also suggested that ACV helps prevent starch digestion and that those starches in turn will feed the beneficial bacteria in your digestive system, but no mechanism for this process was indicated. 1 Something worth noting is that many of the studies noted above, especially the ones available at PubMed, don’t specify apple cider vinegar but just refer to vinegar or acetic acid. This would line up with the idea that it is the acetic acid that is the mechanism behind the benefits noted in those studies, as there is nothing else in white vinegar. Several articles pointed to recommended doses of ACV. One article indicated 1-2 tablespoons per day was appropriate for medicinal use. 6 Carol Johnston, an Arizona State University veteran ACV researcher for using ACV to help treat diabetes, recommends 1-2 tablespoons in a large glass of water sipped on at meal time once or twice a day is sufficient.1 One thing I did find particularly humorous given my earlier experiment on the pH values of beverages is that several articles and slideshows cautioned against swallowing ACV undiluted due to risk of esophageal burning or erosion.1, 5 Yes, straight up ACV is pungent and acidic, but no more so than a can of regular Coke, which mainstream medical professionals don’t warn people about (or at least they don’t warn them about the burning potential, just the sugar and other junk in it). Also noted in a couple of articles was the fact that excessive use of vinegar can reduce potassium levels and interfere with diabetes and heart disease medication, diuretics, and laxatives. 5, 6 It did not specify what would be considered excessive use, but probably more than a couple of tablespoons per day. Other articles, however, pointed out that potassium levels could be helped and recommended using ACV to treat nighttime leg cramps. 8 Upon looking into this apparent discrepancy, it appears that ACV with the “mother” contains potassium (11 mg per tablespoon for Bragg’s brand) where distilled vinegar does not contain potassium and would be potassium depleting. Not much of a concern for THMs, as we encourage ACV with the “mother”, but worth noting. As for the reaction with medications, that is sort of a ‘duh’. Anything can cause reactions with medications, and if you take medications, it is wise to consult with a health professional before taking any dietary supplements or using foods in a medicinal capacity on a daily basis. The Take Away That really leaves us back where we started, with no definitive answers. There does seem to be some research to support the acid as being the mechanism behind some of the benefits of ACV, particularly the study that found neutralized vinegar did not perform the same as straight vinegar in stabilizing glycemic levels. 2 Given that a major tenant of THM is to keep blood glycemic levels as stable as possible, it would seem that the tendency for ACV to moderate glycemic response to foods would be one of the main benefits Serene and Pearl have looked at in ACV. Since neutralizing the vinegar seems to take away that benefit it would not be recommended to use baking soda in GGMS. However, “Future investigations are needed to delineate the mechanism by which vinegar alters postprandial glycemia.” 7 My recommendation would be for each mama to evaluate her situation. In my case, I do not drink plain water unless it is ICE cold and it is really hard to keep it that cold in a sippy of some kind (my favorite is a Thermos I have but it is too small to hold much). So for me drinking GGMS is a big part of staying hydrated. In that case, mix it as weak as you can and still get the taste you need to be encouraged to sip, use a straw and aim for the roof of the mouth as far back as possible, and consider using a pinch of baking soda to neutralize the acid but not the flavor. If you are more wanting the health benefits of glycemic stability, it seems like it might be better to mix 1T with 8-16 oz water and drink that with a meal twice a day (rinse with plain water after just to be sure the acid is not sitting on your teeth, if you’d like) rather than having a sipper. 1 Manning, Joy. “Apple Cider Vinegar and Your Health.” WebMD. Ed. Elaine McGee. WebMD, 01 Oct. 2014. Web. 17 Apr. 2016. 2 Brighenti, F., G. Castellani, L. Benini, M.C. Casiraghi, E. Leopardi, R. Crovetti, and G. Testolin. “Effect of Neutralized and Native Vinegar on Blood Glucose and Acetate Responses to a Mixed Meal in Healthy Subjects.”European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 49.4 (1995): 242-47. PubMed.gov. Web. 17 Apr. 2016. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7796781>. 3 Östman, E., Y. Granfeldt, L. Persson, and I. Björck. “Vinegar Supplementation Lowers Glucose and Insulin Responses and Increases Satiety After a Bread Meal in Healthy Subjects.” European Journal of Clinical Nutrition Eur J Clin Nutr 59.9 (2005): 983-88. PubMed.gov. Web. 17 Apr. 2016. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16015276>. 4 Ogawa, Nobumasa, Hideo Satsu, Hirohito Watanabe, Masahiro Fukaya, Yoshinori Tsukamoto, Yusei Miyamoto, and Makoto Shimizu. “Acetic Acid Suppresses the Increase of Glycosidase Activity During Culture of Caco-2 Intestinal Epithelial Cells.” Journal of Nutrition 130.3 (2000): 507-13. PubMed.gov. Web. 17 Apr. 2016. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10702577>. 5 Mercola, Joseph. “What the Research Really Says About Apple Cider Vinegar.” Mercola.com. N.p., 02 June 2009. Web. 17 Apr. 2016. <http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/06/02/apple-cider-vinegar-hype.aspx>. 6 Khakpour, Dorrine. “Beyond the Hype: Apple Cider Vinegar as an Alternative Therapy.” The Whole U. University of Washington, 07 July 2015. Web. 17 Apr. 2016. <https://www.washington.edu/wholeu/2015/07/07/beyond-the-hype-apple-cider-vinegar-as-an-alternative-therapy/>. 7 Johnston, Carol S., and Cindy A. Gaas. “Vinegar: Medicinal Uses and Antiglycemic Effect.” Medscape General Medicine 8.2 (2006): 61.PubMed.gov. Web. 17 Apr. 2016. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1785201/>. 8 “Apple Cider Vinegar: 13+ Health Benefits | Reader’s Digest.” Readers Digest. Ed. Alyssa Jung. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2016. <http://www.rd.com/health/wellness/apple-cider-vinegar-benefits/>.Adapted from Kitchen Cabinet Cures by Reader’s Digest Publishers. Posted in: Info, Journal, Trim Healthy Mama (THM) | Tagged: thm, trim healthy mama Picture Day – 6 Months My THM Story Formerly Fluffy – My Weight Loss Experience Trim Healthy Mama Before & After Photos NSVs (Non-Scale Victories)

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Target Commits $10 Million and Ongoing Resources for Rebuilding Efforts and Advancing Social Justice Target today announced a $10 million commitment in addition to ongoing resources to advance social justice and support rebuilding and recovery efforts in local communities. “Target stands with Black families, communities and team members. As we face an inflection point in Minneapolis and across the country, we’re listening to our team, guests and communities, committed to using our size, scale and resources to help heal and create lasting change,” states Brian Cornell, chairman and CEO. Initial efforts include: A $10 million investment from Target and the Target Foundation to support long-standing partners such as the National Urban League and the African American Leadership Forum in addition to adding new partners in Minneapolis-St. Paul and across the country. 10,000 hours of pro-bono consulting services for Black- and people-of-color-owned small businesses in the Twin Cities, helping with rebuilding efforts. Continuing to provide essentials such as baby formula, diapers, medicine and more to communities most in need. Target Circle, the company’s loyalty program, will offer guests the option to direct Target funds to local nonprofits and include organizations supporting social justice. “We at the African American Leadership Forum have had a long-standing partnership with Target from our inception,” says Marcus Owens, executive director of the African American Leadership Forum – Twin Cities. “At this critical moment in our Twin Cities communities and across the country, we appreciate the solidarity Target has shown to help rebuild as well as be part of the necessary systems changes ahead of us.” In the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, the Target Foundation will continue partnering with local nonprofit organizations addressing systemic and structural barriers facing communities of color. The Foundation’s focuses include investments in Black- and people-of-color-owned businesses and entrepreneurs, along with efforts to promote equity in the areas of housing, asset-building and workforce development. In addition to today’s updates, Target has established an internal task force comprised of senior leaders from across the company. This task force will partner with Target’s team members, guests and members of the community to chart the company’s path forward and determine its next steps.

« “Forgotten Hollywood”- Charles Foster Kane to Go Home… “Forgotten Hollywood”- Downton Abbey News… » “Forgotten Hollywood”- February / Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (’74) Posted on January 31, 2012 by raideoman1 | No Comments (#8 in a 12-part series to be printed at the beginning of each month) Manny P. here… THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE, TWO, THREE – One of the finest films ever made with a really lousy title. Starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, James Broderick, Jerry Stiller, Hector Elizondo, and Tony Roberts, this action-comedy-thriller was the forerunner of the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon series of movies; plus it spawned a 2009 high-tech remake featuring John Travolta and Denzel Washington. Most of the film was produced on location with the cooperation of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Mayor John Lindsay. An insurance policy was taken out to make sure no one would get a similar idea to hijack a subway train. Only then, the green light was given to produce this motion picture. Critics loved the film for the bureaucratic nature of the heroes, which provided a convincing dichotomy to trigger-happy villains. Particularly realistic was the banter between Matthau, Stiller, and Shaw. This project made Walter Matthau a star. He emerged from the shadow of Jack Lemmon, and others in starring roles. His career flourished for the rest of his life. And, due to the massive success of The Sting and Jaws, Robert Shaw became an A-List rugged actor, who could elevate the quality of any movie. He was appropriately menacing in Pelham. The casting of this film was pinpoint perfect. Every character looks like they have spent their entire lives in Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Queens. With exception of The French Connection and Dog Day Afternoon, no production made during this time was more effective in its use of location filming. This was director Joseph Sargent’s finest production, which included White Lightning, MacArthur, and Jaws: The Revenge. Screenwriter Peter Stone had experience in writing comedic-thrillers, such as Charade. Pelham’s conclusion (which I wouldn’t dare reveal here) is superior classic cinema! The David Shire-score was critically acclaimed for its raw, in-your-face quality in 1974. By today’s standards, it’s really dated. The composer was married to actress Talia Shire, and she openly influenced his work. Unfortunately, stereotypes of Asians, African Americans, Hispanics, and Jews were used to facilitate the comedy. It wasn’t necessary, but this type of humor was typical in scripts during this era. Supporting Actor Spotlight One of the finest actors to emerge in the post-Studio Era was Martin Balsam. This versatile everyman appeared in iconic films including On the Waterfront, Twelve Angry Men, Psycho, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Cape Fear, Seven Days in May, Catch-22, and All the President’s Men. He received a nomination from the National Board of Review for his role in The Carpetbaggers, and Balsam was awarded an Oscar for Supporting Actor for A Thousand Clowns. He was also comfortable on television with appearances in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, Murder She Wrote, and a co-starring role on Archie Bunker’s Place. Balsam’s understated performances made him of favorite of Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, and Lee Strasberg. He was a welcome addition to any quality production. The Writer’s Guild of America awarded The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 a well-deserved nomination in 1975. The 2009 remake confirmed filmmakers were paying attention. It also suggested the 1974 production was forgotten by today’s audiences. This flick should be in anyone’s personal DVD library if you like great movie-making. This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog by Manny Pacheco. You can follow any comments to this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

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Man Arrested For Firebombing Google Headquarters And Street View Car Aditya Tiwari Short Bytes: A one and a half month long chase between the police and a man accused of attacking Google Street View car ended on June 30. The man admitted that he did this because he thought he was being watched by Google and he was upset about that. Google’s self-driving cars roam around in different places to capture images and footages of the surroundings which fuel their Street View feature. No one would have thought some person would try to harm one of these innocent autonomous vehicles. The reason was given that he “felt Google was watching him”. An Oakland-based man named Raul Riaz was arrested by the cops for burning a Street View car. According to the affidavit filed in the San Jose District court on July 1, Raul was possessing a firearms case and ingredients required to make a pipe bomb in his car when the police found him outside the Google campus on June 30. Diaz has been charged with one count of arson. As per the affidavit, Diaz accepted guilty for setting a Street View car ablaze and firing shots at Google office windows. He started all of his melodrama for the reason that he believed Google was spying on him and he was upset about that. On May 19, he threw Molotov Cocktails on a self-driving car parked in the Mountain View campus. His bad luck, the Molotov he threw bounced back and fell on the ground making negligible damages to the car. Diaz didn’t stop there, he came back about a month later and threw shots at the Google office building where he was noticed by a Google employee. Technology has its advantages–the man was seen by one of the many digital eyes installed at the campus. The police managed to identify the SUV–supposed to of Diaz’s–present during the two attacks. A few days later, a Street View car was found in ash form and a man holding a water gun filled with an inflammable liquid was captured in a video footage. However, Google later backpedalled on the fact that the vehicle which was covered in flames was a Street View car. Raul Diaz was recognized as a feasible suspect by a police officer while he was driving the same SUV captured in the camera footage. After his arrest, Diaz admitted his hatred for Google and that he thought they were watching him. Did you find this article interesting? Don’t forget to drop your feedback in the comments section below. Aditya likes to cover topics related to Microsoft, Windows 10, Apple Watch, and interesting gadgets. But when he is not working, you can find him binge-watching random videos on YouTube (after he has wasted an hour on Netflix trying to find a good show). Reach out at [email protected]

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Specialized Appeal Court in Thailand September 17, 2019 12:00 am Comments Off on Specialized Appeal Court in Thailand In 2015, the Court of Appeal for Specialized Cases was authorized by the Establishment of the Court of Appeal for Specialized Cases Act B.E. 2558 to try and decide cases appealed from specialized courts. The adjudication process involves a forum of judges with specific knowledge and expertise in each area and will create uniformity in the appellate adjudication. It must be noted that cases in which a judgment was rendered before shall follow the appeal procedure of the previously applicable law. On the contrary, cases where the appeal has been submitted, shall proceed in trial and adjudication. Regarding dispute over jurisdiction, the President of the Court of Appeal for Specialized Cases shall issue a ruling and it is considered final. The Court of Appeal for Specialized Cases has five divisions: Intellectual Property and International Case Division, Tax Case Division, Labor Case Division, Bankruptcy Case Division, and Juvenile and Family Case Division. Intellectual Property and International Case Division This division has the purpose of adjudicating cases that are submitted for an appellate review of a judgment rendered by the Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court under the adjudication of judges with specific knowledge and insight in the field. Additionally, this division is empowered to decide civil and criminal cases regarding intellectual property and international trade. The types of cases include civil and criminal cases concerning trademarks, copyrights, and patents. Tax Case Division The Tax Case division is mostly about disputes between the public and private sector regarding the assessment or collection of tax and revenue by public officers. The forum of judges then consists of those that have specific knowledge and insight on tax problems. The types of cases that are filed to the Court are appeals against any decision of any competent officer, claims by the state over tax and revenue debt, or tax refunds. Labor Case Division Cases in this division are about disputes between employers and employees, for example regarding employment agreements, or rights of employers and employees under the labor protection law and labor relations law. This also includes an appeal against a decision of the competent official under the law of labor protection and cases arising from wrongful acts between employers and employees. Therefore, this division is authorized to decide over the appeal of cases on labor law. Bankruptcy Case Division The Bankruptcy Case division is authorized to adjudicate bankruptcy cases according to the law on bankruptcy. 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If you have any questions regarding this matter, feel free to contact us at [email protected] Hua Hin Court rules on Airbnb in Thailand June 26, 2018 12:00 am Comments Off on Hua Hin Court rules on Airbnb in Thailand A court in Hua Hin, Prachuap Kirikan Province, has decided that Airbnb is illegal in Thailand, and thereby added to the uncertainty connected with the use of this very popular app. Airbnb is a US-American company founded in 2008. It operates in the hospitality field and offers an online marketplace for individuals to rent or lease out their accommodation on a short-term basis. In fact, the court has decided that people who rent out their rooms via Airbnb on a daily and weekly basis are acting illegally. Only rentals of 30 days or more would be, according to the court’s opinion, legal. The court ruling was handed down to the Wan Vayla Condo in Hua Hin district of Prachuap Khiri Khan province. 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Tag Archive: #Sharedeal Share Deal or Asset Deal? January 26, 2022 10:40 am Comments Off on Share Deal or Asset Deal? This article will compare the legal and tax implications of a share deal with those of an asset deal. It will discuss the relevant taxes and transaction costs that will be incurred for an asset deal compared to a share deal from a Thai tax perspective. The acquisition of a Thai business can generally be structured as an asset deal acquiring the specific assets that together make up the business to be acquired, or as a share deal by acquiring shares in a legal entity and thus such legal entity’s entire business. In order to decide whether to pursue an acquisition of a business via an asset deal or a share deal, various aspects, advantages, and disadvantages from different perspectives should be taken into consideration. Taxation of an asset deal If the transaction is structured as an asset deal, the taxes to be considered are in particular the following: a. Corporate income tax (“CIT”) Corporate Income Tax at the rate of 20% of the net taxable profits generated from the sale of land or real estate or/and any company asset (moveable properties) will be subject to CIT tax at a rate of 20% and subsequent years. b. Value-added tax (“VAT”) VAT 7% applied for sale of the company asset according to Section 77/2 TRC (exception: in the case of an Entire Business Transfer) c. Taxes related to the sale of immovable property If the assets include immovable property, the following transfer fees and taxes need to be considered: Withholding tax (“WHT”) Thai Withholding Tax at the rate of 1% of the actual selling price or the official appraisal price of Land Department, whichever is greater at the time of registration of ownership transfer at the Land Department in accordance with the Section 69 Ter of the Thai Revenue Code. Specific business tax (“SBT”) Special Business Tax at the rate of 3.3% of the actual selling price or the official appraisal price of the Land Department, whichever is greater at the time of the ownership transfer registration at the Land Department in accordance with Section 91/6 (3) of the Thai Revenue Code. Transfer Registration Fee of 2% of the official appraisal price of Land Department regardless of whether the actual sale price is higher or lower than the appraised value by the Land Department in which Seller and the Purchaser each pay 1% unless otherwise agreed by both parties. d. Conclusion for an asset deal If the company has only moveable property and no immovable property, the assets sold by the company will be subject to VAT 7% and CIT 20% of the net profit. It should be noted that assets must not be sold for less than the market value (such as a car, motorcycle, or laptop). If the market value of an asset is not available, such asset should not be sold for less than the book value. 2. Taxation of a share deal If the transaction is structured as a share deal, the taxes to be considered are in particular the following (note that the following applies only to the sale of shares of a company limited that is not listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand): a. income tax Personal income tax (“PIT”) (if the shareholder is an individual) Personal income tax on the capital gains in case the shares are sold/transferred with profit over the par value according to Section 40(4)(g) TRC. The personal income tax is levied at a progressive rate of 5-35%. Corporate income tax (“CIT”) (if the shareholder is a company) If a company holds the shares and receives profit from the sale of these shares, then CIT at a rate of 20% on the net profit applies. If the company distributes dividends, the company’s shareholders will be subject to an additional WHT of 10% on the dividend. b. Witholding tax (WHT) Thai Withholding Tax at a rate of 15% applies on capital gains if the seller sells his shares with profit and the seller stays in Thailand less than 180 days, Sections 40 (4)(g), 50(2) TRC. If the seller remains in Thailand over 180 days and the seller has the duty to pay PIT, but and the buyer deducted WHT at the rate of 5-35% applies on capital gains, Sections 40 (4)(g), TRC, the seller can use the WHT paid as a tax credit. WHT will be applied in any case if the buyer is a Thai company. c. Stamp duty Stamp duty should be affixed to the original sale-purchase agreement (“SPA”) / share transfer agreement/share transfer instrument for the transfer of shares. The amount of tax is calculated as follows: For every 1,000 THB or fraction thereof of the paid-up value of shares, or of the nominal value of the instrument (whichever is greater), a stamp duty of 1 THB (0.1%) applies. The stamp duty is calculated according to the price of the shares stipulated. If the SPA/share transfer agreement/share transfer instrument is made in duplicate, stamp duty in the amount of 5 THB must be affixed according to Section 103 TRC. If the company has a high profit, the shares must be sold with profit, and the stamp duty is calculated based on the value of the share transferred as shown in SPA. If the company has losses, and the purchase price of the shares is lower than the par value, the stamp duty is calculated from the par value of the shares. It is the transferor’s duty to pay stamp duty unless agreed otherwise. If the transferee pays it, the purchase of stamp duty value must be treated as income or other benefits received by the transferor and must be included in the income tax calculation. d. Conclusion for a share deal If an individual sells the shares at par value and does not generate any profit/capital gain, such sale is not subject to personal income tax. If the company’s shares are sold with profit, such profit is subject to it is subject to PIT at the rate of 5-35%. As the transfer of shares is not regarded as sale of goods or provision of service, it is not subject to SBT at a rate of 3.3% and VAT at a rate of 7%. The transfer of shares is subject to stamp duty at the rate of 0.1% of the transfer price or the paid-up share value, whichever is higher. 3. Comparison of asset and share purchases In comparison, the asset and share purchases have very different consequences from a legal and tax perspective: a. Advantages of asset purchases Asset purchases have the following advantages: The liabilities and business risks of the seller company are not transferred to the buyer. For a share transfer, the buyer will have to take on liabilities such as tax since the seller has operated the company, which could be risky with tax inspectors. For the transfer of shares concerning employee liabilities, the buyer has to take care of all pending contracts. If the buyer fires any employees, the buyer has to pay severance pay based on the number of years they have worked with the company. It is possible to acquire only some parts of the business. Interest to fund the acquisition of assets should be tax-deductible. The purchase price of the relevant assets, including goodwill, may be depreciated for tax purposes. The buyer does not inherit historical tax liabilities and exposures from the seller. The buyer can cherry-pick employees’ assets, or contracts, leaving unwanted ones for the seller to handle. A more limited scope of legal and financial due diligence means lower transaction costs. The buyer is less likely to assume any contingent liability. b. Disadvantages of asset purchase On the other hand, asset purchases have the following disadvantages: Possibility of taxable gains derived from the assets for the seller, such as land/immovable properties. Possibility of significant transfer taxes on the sale of the property. The buyer cannot get the trademark, branding name, or customer base and expert staff if the buyer runs the same business as the seller and continues their business. If the transferred shares belong to the company, the buyer can continue the business and only change the company shareholders. Transfer of each contract requires the contractual party’s consent and execution of a novation agreement, which is a time-consuming and lengthy process. No losses carried forward can be transferred to the buyer for future use. Certain governmental licenses/ permits can be transferred to the buyer, while others are nontransferable. c. Conclusion: comparing the tax burden of the “Sale of Shares” and “Sale of Assets.” In a Sale of Business, sellers and buyers in Thailand can agree to buy a business as “Buy Shares” and “Buy Assets”, the following table shows the main fees and taxes that apply: Please feel free to contact us if you have any inquiries regarding the information in this article at [email protected]

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Top 10 New Watches Of Quarantine Caleb Sadd Posted On July 1, 2020 While the COVID-19 pandemic may have decimated the movie-going experience for the last several months, it has given film lovers an opportunity to enjoy their favorite films from the comfort of their own homes. With a lack of new releases in 2020, I’ve used my free time to peruse through the list of my never-before-seen films. Ranging from Golden Age classics to 21st-century hits, here are the ten best new watches of my quarantine. Honorable Mention: Avatar: The Last Airbender Obviously a show doesn’t qualify for this list, but I couldn’t resist mentioning how perfect this is. Luckily, I was so young when it initially aired that I essentially remembered nothing. This allowed for a pure, first time viewing experience. Avatar was ahead of its time for kid’s programming. It’s something I still haven’t seen it replicated in today’s media. 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For that, I can’t complain. 9: American Grafitti (1973) Who was George Lucas before he made the most groundbreaking sci-fi film of all time? He was the guy who made the nostalgic induced 50s teen dramedy. It’s hard to believe this is was Lucas’ first breakout hit. However, it carries the same heart and love present in his first Star Wars films. American Grafitti functions as a love letter to the romance and comedy movies Lucas grew up on. It succeeds exceptionally well at injecting a sense of remembrance and yearning for a time period so far removed from my generation. While it lacks a strong overarching plot, it still manages to say so much about growing up and enjoying your youth. If anything, it’s worth a watch just to see Harrison Ford invent the onscreen persona that would define his career right before your very eyes. Watched on: Amazon Prime (rental) 8: Touch of Evil (1958) The last unit of my Film Studies class focused on film noir (expect some similar movies ahead). The first film we got to dissect was Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil. By the time this was released, the film noir genre was already well established, but Welles excels at pushing the narrative conventions through the eyes of his visionary directing style. Similar techniques like extreme long takes and deep framing that gave Citizen Kane its name to fame are utilized to their greatest potential here. Not only is the opening shot one of the greatest in film history (seriously, look it up on YouTube), but even the less flashy scenes manage to stand out sixty years later. What impresses me the most, however, is how delicately Welles blurs the lines of morality with complex characters that are more than just “good” or “bad”. 7: Ben-Hur (1959) Between this and Touch of Evil, Charlton Heston carries such a charismatic and sophisticated presence in the late 50s that is often forgotten. Nonetheless, Ben-Hur is without a doubt the most epic film I’ve ever witnessed. We watch Juda Ben-Hur as he goes to the ends of the earth and back. The daunting journey spans a purposeful 3-hour and 44-minute runtime. The film is at its best when focusing on his struggle with revenge, and while the last thirty minutes may drag on more than they need to, the historical backdrop that gives him a chance at true redemption capped off the grand story spectacularly. While it’s not an action movie, it features two of the best action set-pieces from the time period. Both the battle at sea and the unforgettable chariot race still hold up by today’s standards. 6: Nightcrawler (2014) Much like the first film on this list depicts a mentally unstable man descending into madness, Nightcrawler does the same with Jake Gyllenhaal’s Lou Bloom. Where this film differs, however, is in its ability to make the audience sympathize with the sociopath. Lou’s activities should not be considered heroic or noble. However, it is presented in such a compelling and personal way that I can’t help but root for him, even when he commits the most heinous acts of the film. Something else I didn’t expect is the depiction of the dark side of the media. The news outlets Lou works with throughout the film are no more innocent than him for putting the lives of innocent civilians at risk. All carried by one of Gyllenhaal’s best performances, Nightcrawler is a fantastic film that shows the consequences of taking an obsessive habit too far. Watched on: Netflix (VPN) 5: Double Indemnity (1944) As the oldest movie on this list, I’m not gonna act like Double Indemnity is a seamless watch with modern eyes. With a very slow pace, you wonder when the actual plot begins to pick up, and it sometimes feels like you need a translator to sift through the 40s dialogue. That being said, despite being a product of its time, the movie is a truly thrilling and suspenseful masterclass in film noir at its core. Double Indemnity feels like a film that cemented its narrative devices as clichés of the genre (clichés that Touch of Evil would go on to fully realize fourteen years later). By the time the plot picks up, I was so invested in the film that the dated qualities vanish. And really, if I can watch a film from more than seventy years ago and be just as invested in it as I would be any other movie, then it is truly timeless. 4: The Matrix (1999) Admittedly, I technically watched this when I was younger. Unfortunately, I didn’t fully appreciate or even understand it at the time. I always thought The Matrix was an overhyped relic of the 90s. After finally revisiting it, I’d like to personally apologize to Keanu Reeves and the Wachowskis. The Matrix kicks so much ass and I’m embarrassed I didn’t realize it sooner. The first half is full of fast-paced world-building that never feels like it’s dumbing the audience down, and it’s at its best when the cheesy, over the top filmmaking, takes center stage. While the second half does lose some of this steam, it never settles to becoming a standard action flick. The entire viewing experience is such a roller coaster of excitement and joy that it may as well have been my first viewing. 3: Chinatown (1974) I’m sorry if you’re tired of hearing me gush about noir films. I promise this one’s the last. Whereas the aforementioned Double Indemnity and Touch of Evil feel like they take every aspect of the genre to its potential, Chinatown is a film aware of the tried and true conventions and stops at no expense to subvert expectations. Every time I thought I had the story figured out (based on my own preconceived notions from studying and watching the genre), it would turn in an unexpected direction. Chinatown proves that no matter how over-done a genre is, there is always an opportunity to stand out with effective storytelling. Jack Nicholson also turns in one of the best performances I’ve seen from his filmography. 2: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) Calling this a “feel-good movie” would be undermining its vast, emotional complexity, even if you do have the fuzziest feeling in your heart by the time the credits roll. What some might criticize as overdramatized, high school problems are actually so much deeper beneath the surface. The Perks of Being a Wallflower balances the themes of mental illness, sexual assault, sexual identity, and more so effectively within a coming-of-age film. I don’t think there’s a teenager that couldn’t relate to the characters or story on display. You get to sit back and watch the three main leads grow and become better people, and in the end, you feel like a little part of you has grown with them. Above all, it’s a film that emphasizes the power of friendship and love and the ability of those things to transcend subdued, emotional conflict. 1: Shutter Island (2010) This film made me very angry. Angry that the world has been hiding this masterpiece from me my whole life. If it weren’t for a friend pestering me for months, Shutter Island never would’ve crossed my radar. Rarely have I ever seen film communities mention it when discussing Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, or even psychological thrillers in general. But in all honesty, my lack of awareness gave me the best viewing experience I could’ve asked for. Knowing nothing about the story or its reception, I went in completely blind and came out completely transfixed. Right from the first scene, Martin Scorcese grabbed my full attention and didn’t let up until the last second. Every shot is so deliberate in creating an atmosphere that is equally inviting as it is horrifying. At every turn, I failed to guess what would happen next. In all honesty, I didn’t want to know. DiCaprio’s performance made me question not only his sanity but also my own. It all builds up to a deceitful climactic finale that is just as satisfying as it is mind-bending. I felt like I wouldn’t be doing the film justice if I didn’t immediately rewatch it. So that’s exactly what I did, and I’m happy to report that the second viewing experience is just as surreal as the first. Before I give anything else away, if you haven’t seen Shutter Island yet, stop what you’re doing, and watch it right now. –Caleb Sadd What are the best films you’ve seen in quarantine? Let me know in the comments below, and as always, wear a mask and be safe. Did you like this article? If so, consider visiting our YouTube channel, where we discuss the latest and greatest in pop culture news. Young, aspiring director who loves superheroes and movies. Spider-Man and Star Wars are my two favorite things. 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Pain, childhood, and the emotions: a cultural history c. 1870-1950 Fernández-Fontecha Rumeu, María Leticia (2017) Pain, childhood, and the emotions: a cultural history c. 1870-1950. PhD thesis, University of Greenwich. Maria Leticia Fernandez-Fontecha 2017 - secured.pdf - Published Version This thesis is a study of pain in childhood in British medical and scientific discourse between 1870 and 1950. It explores the physical, emotional, and performative dimensions of pain from a cultural perspective, analysing written documents and visual material and comparing the perspectives of disciplines including physiology, paediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis. Successive chapters focus on: Depictions of pain by medical authors before the period covered in depth by the thesis; how different types of medical professional interpreted children’s pain between 1870 and 1900, focusing on Great Ormond Street Hospital’s photographs of sick children; the development of “infant pain denial” from 1890 to 1950 in the Child Study movement, behavioural psychology, and paediatrics; concepts and treatment of child insanity and mental suffering in the second half of the nineteenth century; the rivalry between the competing theoretic frameworks of the clinical tradition (which claimed a somatic basis for mental illness) and psychotherapy; debates about evacuation of the children during the Second World War, exploring the contrasting figures of the victim of air raids and the victim of parental separation, showing the role played by psychoanalysis in understanding psychological trauma, with a focus on the work of psychoanalysts Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Donald Winnicott. The key findings of the thesis are: rivalry between different scientific disciplines meant that medical and scientific models of childhood pain and therapeutic treatments involved complex relationships between different professions and institutions; despite medicalisation, identifying and categorising children with pain often depended on non-medical factors, which usually reflected social norms; the figure of the child in pain accumulates power and value through its multiple figurations in distinct disciplines and contexts; a multidisciplinary approach is needed to be able to understand the cultural power of this figure. Pain in childhood; infant pain; mental diseases and pain; psychoanalytic discourse; B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > School of Education (EDU)

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Who Will Be the Next Pope (Odds and Betting) June 21, 2022 gamb@Riot Main, Other Games Rumors of the impending resignation of Pope Francis have people wondering–who will be the next pope? What are the next pope odds? Odds and betting for papal elections are a global phenomenon. Millions of people all over the world watch the election process play out on TV. Cable news covers it like the Oscars and the Super Bowl all in one. In this post, I’ll reveal my pick for who will be the next pope, along with analysis of the “next pope odds” for 10 likely candidates. If you’re one of the millions of people wondering who will the next pope be, read on. And if you’re looking for a list of sportsbooks that are probably taking action on this and who also have low minimum deposits, I have a list here where you can find low minimum deposit sportsbooks. 5 Potential Next Popes–The 5 Cardinals Next in Line for Pope 1–Cardinal Luis Tagle Next Pope Odds 5/1 2–Cardinal Peter TurksonNext Pope Odds 6/1 3–Cardinal Angelo Scola Next Pope Odds 7/1 4–Cardinal Marc Ouellet Next Pope Odds 8/1 Odds 5–Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke – Next Pope Odds 9/1 How to Bet on the Next Pope Who Is the Pope? What Does the Pope Do? Who Are the Cardinals? What Do They Do? The Papal Election Process Pope Betting Trends–Age and Country of Origin The “Old Pope” Phenomenon Where Popes Come From Is Important (But Not in the Way You Think) How We Got Here–Is Pope Francis Resigning? Conclusion: Next Pope Odds I compiled the list below from the best press reports and conventional wisdom I can find. The race for the next pope is heating up. The press is beginning to identify the papabile, the small group of men who are “pope-able,” or eligible to be the next Holy Father. With Pope Francis’ impending resignation, cardinals are splitting into factions representing different candidates. At the time of this post, the five men listed below have the most juice. The odds of one of these five men becoming pope are above 60%. I’ve listed them with their name and title, age, country of origin, and my take on their overall odds to become the next Holy Father. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, 65, Philippines (16.67% chance of winning) Cardinal Peter Turkson, 73, Ghana (14.29% chance of winning) Archbishop Angelo Scola, 80, Italy (12.5% chance of winning) Cardinal Marc Ouellet, 78, Canada (11.11% chance of winning) Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, 73, USA (7.69% chance of winning) Notice that the odds of winning only add up to 61.15%. I’ve left a lot of room for dark horse candidates. That’s the way this election process moves. More often than not, the public favorite is nowhere near the largest vote-getter. Below is a brief review of each of my 5 potential winning picks. The 64 year old Cardinal Luis Tagle served as Archbishop of Manila. He’s since had a brilliant career at the Vatican. Cardinal Tagle is the director of Caritas Internationalis, the largest Catholic relief organization in the world. He’s also head of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples. That last office gives him sole power to appoint bishops in Africa and Asia. Those are Roman Catholicism’s biggest emerging markets. Tagle is already more influential than most cardinals well before the age of 70. Some say his youth works against him, but it might also be a good omen. At 65, he’s the same age as John Paul I and Saint Paul VI, both serving in the last century. John Paul II, one of the most popular Catholic popes in history, was elected at just 58 years old. Benedict XV took office at 59 in 1914, and Pius IX was just 54 when he was elected in 1846. His nationality likely works heavily in his favor. He’d be the first Filipino Pope and the first Asian pope at the same time. The Church is expanding in Southeast Asia, so his election would be a move further in that direction. If the cardinals go a more traditional route and choose to elect a European or an Italian, Cardinal Tagle would be at an obvious disadvantage. Pope Francis’ relatively progressive papacy may have pushed some cardinals toward conservatism. Others may have been inspired by his liberal ideas and choose to vote for a similar replacement. At the time of this post, I say Cardinal Tagle has the best odds to become pope. I give him a 16.67% chance of becoming the next pope. That translates to 5/1 next pope odds. Cardinal Turkson was listed as one of the top-ten candidates in the 2013 Conclave. He’s like the Buffalo Bills in the 90s–always a bridesmaid, never the bride. Turkson speaks and reads eight language. He holds half a dozen high-value placements in the Vatican. He’s a crowd favorite, known to be friendly and humble. He’s so well-liked that he was listed as the favorite at the end of the 2013 Conclave. Cardinal Turkson’s election would be big news – and controversial. He was born in Ghana, and (as a result) has black skin. Should Cardinal Turkson be elected, you’ll read lots of “first black pope” stories. That would be a big deal, and it should be celebrated. But not every cardinal is on board. His African heritage could end up being the biggest feather in Cardinal Turkson’s cap. The Church wants to push into Africa the same way it’s moved into Southeast Asia. Having an African pope would make that push much easier. My heart is with Cardinal Turkson to win. But I’m not sure the conclave is progressive enough yet to support him in big numbers. That’s why I give Cardinal Turkson a 14.29% chance of becoming the next pope. That translates to 6/1 odds. Cardinal Scola is among the oldest members of the College of Cardinals. He was once a giant at the Vatican but missed out on his two biggest chances to rise to the office of pope. Cardinal Scola was the odds-on favorite in the 2005 Conclave that selected Cardinal Ratzinger as Benedict XVI. But that’s nearly two decades ago, and other (younger) candidates have shoved their way in. I think Cardinal Scola would be a lot higher on my list if it weren’t for his age. He’s already ineligible to vote in the conclave. That limits his already waning influence. The conservative wing of the college backs Cardinal Scola. He’s defended the old ways of the church. For example, he’s come out against the giving of sacraments to the divorced. I think Scola’s age and conservative politics limit his ability to become the next pontiff. I give him a 12.5% chance of winning on his third try. That’s 7/1 odds. Cardinal Ouelett is another popular choice among the more conservative wing of the college. He was also a top-ten finisher in the 2013 Conclave, along with Cardinal Turkson. I tend to think the next pope will be in his 70s. The election of Pope John Paul II at such a young age was a freak accident. The current college is older than its been in decades. That gives Cardinal Ouellet a slight leg-up. Also going in his favor – his progressive views. He is in favor of creating more roles for women in the clergy, in part to combat sexual abuse. He’s also in favor of ordaining married men in cases where there’s a great need for clergy. What’s working against him? I don’t think he has enough “sex appeal” or the backing of enough cardinals to rise to the office. Canada is not a hotspot for global Catholicism. His white skin may, in some cases, work against him as well. As you can tell based on my odds, I think the next college will go with a progressive candidate. That’s mostly the reason I’m giving Cardinal Ouellet an 11.11% chance of being named pope. That’s equivalent to 8/1 next pope odds. The only American cardinal even remotely close to being among the papabile is Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke. His age (74) is perfect – old enough to be considered by an increasingly-old College of Cardinals, but young enough to have years of active service to the church left in him. Allegations of disloyalty to Pope Francis could be a boon or a curse. If the college is seeking a successor to Pope Francis’ relatively progressive ways, Cardinal Burke won’t even make the top ten list. If, on the other hand, the next election is a rebuke of Franciscan policies, I’d expect Burke to be among the top two finalists. I’m giving Cardinal Burke a 10% chance of being elected to the papacy. His American heritage could work for him or against him, depending how the college votes. A 10% chance is equivalent to 9/1 odds. Most of the big online sportsbooks release lines for papal election. They’re easy enough to find. You won’t find papal election lines at the brick and mortar books in Vegas. The books find them distasteful. They’re really popular online, though. Unfortunately, thanks to the Internet, lines are pretty much standard from book to book. You can still bet your way around this market, but you’ll need more insight than the betting public to have any success. When it comes to papal elections, oddsmakers don’t always have the right kind of insight to properly handicap the candidates. Think about it–there’s no ESPN providing wall-to-wall coverage of the College of Cardinals. You can’t go look at how the cardinals voted in the minor leagues or whatever. In some ways, a lifetime of Catholicism may give you a leg up. How many of the oddsmakers are Catholic and even understand what’s going on? I love betting on who will be the next pope because of that reason. Odds and betting are easy because the lines are soft. If you do a little research, you can outsmart the guy setting the line. Pope Francis was listed at 25/1 in the hours leading up to his election. A $100 bet on Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio would’ve put $2,500 in your pocket. Cardinal Ratzinger, who would become Pope Benedict XVI, opened at 12/1, but rumors spread quickly that he was earning the most votes, and he moved to 3/1 by the end of the election. Do your homework on the candidates and don’t be afraid of backing a longshot, especially if you’re looking at early numbers. The pope is head of the global Catholic Church. He’s also the head of state of Vatican City. The pope is also the prime bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He’s considered the literal successor of Saint Peter. Since Saint Peter was given the Keys of Heaven by a guy named Jesus, you can tell this is an important position. The pope holds extensive diplomatic, cultural, and spiritual influence. Some say the pope is the most important and powerful person in the world. So, you’ll understand why I was surprised to learn that few requirements exist for the office. Technically, any baptized male is a candidate for the Papacy. That’s it. You just have to be a dude that’s been baptized. I was baptized Catholic, and I’m a male. That means I could be the next pope. My odds aren’t great, though. Cardinals are senior members of the Catholic clergy. They stand immediately behind the pope in the church’s order of precedence. Put together, they’re called the College of Cardinals. They’re appointed only by the pope, and they serve for life. Most cardinals first serve as priests, then bishops, then usually archbishops, before being appointed to the college. That helps explain why their average age is nearing 80. When it’s time to appoint a new pope (usually after the current pope’s death), the College of Cardinals is summoned to Vatican City. Pope John Paul II established new procedures for the election, mostly to standardize things that had become tradition. Since the Second Council of Lyon in 1274, cardinals must meet within ten days of the pope’s death. The conclave, as they’re known, meet in the Sistine Chapel. They’re locked in (cum clave in Latin) until the new pope is elected. Those things are all the same, but Pope John Paul II made some significant changes. Now, only cardinals who are 80 years old or younger can participate in the conclave. The maximum number of voting cardinals was set at 120. There were some other bureaucratic type changes made. The cardinals vote by secret ballot, folding the paper twice and placing it in a large chalice, with Michelangelo’s Last Judgment watching over them. Four rounds of voting take place every day until one candidate receives 2/3 of the present number of cardinals. If no one receives the necessary 2/3 majority, the ballots are burned in a stove with a chemical additive to produce black some. When a candidate finally earns the majority vote, a different chemical is added to the burning ballots, producing a thick white smoke. The senior cardinal deacon appears in the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, and says “Habemus Papam,” which means “We have a pope” in Latin. The new pope appears and imparts his blessings on Rome and the rest of the world. When working out who’s likely to become pope, it’s important to understand the trends and recent results of papal election. Averaging the age of the last ten elected popes tells us that modern popes are around 67 years old when elected. At the end of their papacy, they’re about 80 years old. The men next in line for pope tend to be old, but that doesn’t give us the full picture. Those numbers are a little misleading. The papal office is changing. So are the trends that papal election bettors can use to get an edge. Since 1958, the average age at the start of a papacy has trended sharply upward. It now stands at 70 years old. The average age at the end of a papacy during that time is 79. The youngest pope ever? The 20 year old Benedict IX. He’s now considered a heretic for having participated in orgies at the Vatican. He also sold the papacy. Young candidates may not want to associate with Benedict IX. Why does this happen? The cardinals are an elect group themselves – and rather old. The average age of the current list of cardinals is 72. Many of these cardinals expect to be in line for the seat themselves. Why should they elect someone young? That person may outlive them and crush their own chances to be pope. The average length of a pope’s term as Holy Father since around 1670 is between 5 and 10 years. Here’s proof – 266 popes took office over the past 1,980 years. That’s an average of one new pope every 7.5 years. These days, candidates below the age of 70 are said to be given more consideration. This is thanks in part to the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. That resignation set a precedent for a pope’s resignation due to ill health. You could say Benedict’s resignation led directly to the current situation with Francis. If popes can resign without scandal, then younger popes can take office. The ability to resign frees them from the burden of a lifetime appointment. A 65 year old cardinal can serve 5-10 years and leave room for his colleagues to take control. Much is made of the country of origin of cardinals in line for the papacy. I don’t think country of origin matters as much as it used to. In fact, I think the country of origin thing has been flipped on its head entirely. The Italian peninsula (incorporating most of present-day Italy) is the big winner in this category. 217 of the 266 popes came from somewhere in and around Italy. This is like if 43 of our 46 US presidents all came from the state of California. It would be hard to argue against California having an outsized influence on the American presidency. For centuries, Italy had a huge influence on the election of the pope. The pope didn’t leave the confines of Vatican City between about 1800 and 1964. Before Pope John Paul II, you have to go back to 1492 to find a non-Italian pope. The last pope before Francis born outside Europe was Gregory II in 731. Let’s put that into historical perspective. That’s only about a century after the death of Muhammad. It’s more than 800 years from the birth of Shakespeare. Here’s the first line of the Lord’s Prayer in the English spoken in 731: “Fæder ure, ðu ðe eart on heofenum, si ðin nama gehalgod.” Clearly, that was a different time and a different world. And things are changing. In just the last few decades, we’ve had an Argentinian pope, a German pope, and a Polish pope. Due to changes in European politics, the church is pushing hard in areas outside Europe. It’s more likely than ever that the next head of the Roman Catholic Church will be from somewhere other than Europe. In fact, I think the smart money is on a non-European to be our next pope. Pope Francis is nearing his tenth year in office, a few years beyond a pope’s typical service time. Francis’ health isn’t great. He had surgery to remove part of his colon in 2021. He’s canceled a planned trip to Africa due to his ill health. His most recent appearances have all been in wheelchairs. During a meeting with bishops in May 2022, the Holy Father motioned to his knee and said, “Instead of operating, I am going to resign.” Francis seems to be taking a cue from Benedict XVI, giving up the office while he’s still of sound enough mind and body to make that decision. Most recently, the pontiff called for an unusual meeting of the Pope’s Council. Crowds of cardinals have also been spotted around Vatican City, in numbers unusual outside of papal election times. Should Pope Francis resign, the Church would be in the hunt for a new head. The church is in something of a crisis, with waning membership and scandals aplenty. The next pope will be elected when the church’s focus is split between internal drama and big shifts in external global politics. When deciding who to back for the next pope, you have to consider the papacy’s long tradition. History is important, but so are the changes going on in the modern church. Who will the next pope be? Right now, only God (and the College of Cardinals) knows. My pick for who will be the next pope is Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle. He’s the cardinal in the best position to win. His high-level positions in the church’s high-interest fields sets him up for an easy win. If you find Cardinal Tagle at 5/1 odds or better, that’s where the smart money lies. 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Tag Archives: santa Fantastic Fest 2010 Day Six Posted on October 6, 2010 | 2 comments Day 6, I wasn’t going to mess around – I put down five movies like they were unruly hookers. First up, the awesome Rare Exports (8/10). Scandinavians have weird myths, and this one delves into the early Swedish myths of Santa Claus – think less “jolly old Nick” and more “demented goat-beast.” It’s the tale of a boy and his (modern day) reindeer-ranching village as Christmas approaches. Some Americans (those goddamn Americans are always behind it) are blasting up on a nearby mountain, and it appears wolves have eaten all the reindeer… But then you find out that the mountain may be where the natives froze and buried Santa because he was so nasty…. And next thing you know there’s fifty naked old guys running through the snow chasing a little boy. This was a very enjoyable movie, it never goes over the line to slasher horror but you really think that any minute it’s going to… There was a cool short before it, Unholy Night, that similarly deals with the Icelandic Santa myths, in which there are 13 Santas, one of which is named “Meathook.” You can imagine how that ends up. They want to parlay the short into a film with all 13 Santas. Sounds like a winning idea for a one-season Showtime special to me! Then it was time for Mutant Girls Squad (6/10), the newest from the three Japanese psychos behind Tokyo Gore Police, Robogeisha, and Be A Man! Samurai School. It’s Troma-esque schlocky gore. I didn’t find it too engaging. It was better than last year’s Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl at least, but there’s only so far the sophomoric imagery takes you – “Girl with a chainsaw coming out her ass” and “Girl with katanas coming out of her breasts” were two of the characters in this flick. It was enjoyable in a middle school kind of way for the first hour, and then I got sleepy. Next was a real high point, Drones (9/10) – like Office Space, but with aliens! Kinda. A true low budget success, we get a tale of intergalactic domination told only with office workers in cubicles. The writing is the real star here, and the film is clever and engaging. The protagonist, “Brian”, discovers in short order that both his best friend and his girlfriend are alien infiltrators, but from different races that oppose each other… But it doesn’t go all “Bros vs Hoes,” it’s a good-hearted film where the characters pull together. Very, very funny. We all came out of that showing reinvigorated and chatty. Then we watched The Dead (7/10). Fair warning, the people I was with liked this film less than I did. They shot a zombie outbreak movie in Africa, on the border of Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso. An American military man involved in some brushfire war there gets stranded when a zombie outbreak happens. He travels across the country, teaming up with a local military man for much of the journey. This film just didn’t have the bite it should have. First of all, “zombie outbreak” is only about a 6 on the 1-10 scale of fucked up shit that happens in that part of Africa every day. The filmmaker shied away from showing any of that, possibly out of ultra sensitivity to the inevitable charges of racism that would follow. (They talked about some of the Internet nimrods that are already tooting that horn; there is absolutely no reason for it but people like to bring themselves some measure of fame by crapping on other stuff.) Second of all, they talked about the transformation of the main character from selfish to altruistic over the course of the film, but the movie I saw doesn’t support that one bit (that he was that selfish, or that he changed). I did like how the people in the movie weren’t all “turn on each other and be more dangerous than the zombies,” that’s such a cliche now; seeing even disparate people band together despite their differences (besides black/white, they were on opposite sides in a war a day ago) in the face of such a threat. A side note, they started this movie way before Resident Evil decided to have its newest incarnation in Africa, so no copycat charges please. I think some of the problem may be that they just couldn’t get some of the scenes they wanted in the can; between customs delays and bribery and being held at gunpoint and knifepoint and suffering from dysentery, they really had a hellish time trying to make a movie in Africa. There’s a scene where he finds a baby and gives it away to some soldiers about one minute after; the director expressed his frustration that they wanted to do more with that but just ran up against the limits of their time in country. Finally, we had Rammbock (9/10), a German zombie outbreak movie. A sad sack going to bug his ex-girlfriend gets caught up in an outbreak and he and several other residents of the townhouse barricade themselves in and have to help each other. This film also had a fairly positive view of human nature post-zombie, though there was the one “Mr. Twitchy” who endangers everyone by being a big selfish tool. I thought their take on the zombie outbreak was a very compelling one. It’s a disease, and the result is 28 Days Later style fast-zombies, but you find out that being bitten isn’t 100% fatal, and that an infected’s immune system might fight it off if they stay calm and avoid adrenaline rush. So you have a reason to not just kill anyone bitten, and a reason to be seeking after sedatives and other McGuffins. It opens up a lot of interesting avenues that the now-traditional zombie disease closes, and I’d be interested in seeing more riffs on it. It was also clever in that all their attempts for random townspeople to confront zombies with violence end badly – they really have to use their brains, they don’t all go Ash like so many movies depict. This was one of the best days of the fest! But even better is yet to come… Tagged austin, fantastic fest, ff10, film, film festival, japanese, movies, review, santa, zombies

Ribozymes as tools for the analysis of gene function Ines Chyla Genome Biology volume 1, Article number: reports208 (2000) Cite this article Valuable information on the use of ribozymes as tools for the analysis of gene function can be found here. Valuable information on the use of ribozymes as tools for the analysis of gene function can be found here. How ribozymes function to perturb gene expression is discussed in detail. A review article focuses on the use of ribozymes as specific inhibitors of viral and cellular gene expression, both in tissue culture cells and at the level of the whole organism. The review covers the role of cellular factors, such as RNA-binding proteins, as possible facilitators of ribozyme action within cells. A computational approach to identifying possible target sites for ribozyme action is also described. It is relatively easy to navigate through the site as it consists of only three pages. There are, however, no 'back to...' links so the back button of the browser has to be used instead. The external links for the software program described do not work, and neither do some of the links to cited literature. None of the small images within the text displayed, but the links to the larger versions of the images all worked. Reporter's comments The site was last updated 30 April 1997. This is the best comprehensive information on ribozymes available on-line, and is supported by explanatory graphics. Worst feature Apart from the lack of updates, there is no real site structure and many links are broken. Some of the graphics are too large to be printed without becoming truncated. The site needs a thorough update to repair the broken links, especially the external ones. It would also benefit from the addition of links to other important papers on the subject, and a general update to include recent developments. Table of links The determinants of ribozyme and antisense activity in the cell The determinants of ribozyme and antisense activity in the cell. Chyla, I. Ribozymes as tools for the analysis of gene function. Genome Biol 1, reports208 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2000-1-1-reports208 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2000-1-1-reports208 Gene Function Comprehensive Information Cellular Gene Cellular Factor Important Paper Submission enquiries: editorial@genomebiology.com

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Double Feature: Zora Neale Hurston’s Ethnographic Films and Daughters of the Dust June 19, 2020 · by Paul Boyne · in Film. · Zora Neale Hurston, a prominent novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, was also something of an amateur filmmaker, documenting everyday life and work in the American South as part of anthropological and ethnographic studies. These films have been preserved by the Library of Congress, and roughly thirty minutes of the footage is available on Blu-ray, DVD and streaming, split between two Kino Lorber box sets: Pioneers of African-American Cinema (2016) and Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers (2018). These 16mm films, shot in Florida between 1927-1929 and South Carolina in 1940, did not include synchronized sound, although in some cases audio recordings were being collected at the same time as part of the historic project in the 1930s and 40s to document and preserve American folk music. One of the films, Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940, is presented in the Kino African-American Cinema set with some of these recordings, not synced perfectly but just well enough to elicit the atmosphere of the church. It’s this last film in the collection that ties in with Julie Dash’s 1991 film Daughters of the Dust, a historical fiction about the Gullah community of the Sea Islands of southern South Carolina, a region of which the town of Beaufort (pronounced Byoo-fert) is a part. Both Hurston and Dash produced works of cultural memory and expression that stand out in an industry that, whether it was the 20s or the 90s, had little time for people like them. When she made the films — directing small crews and often participating in activities with the subjects — Hurston surely had in mind only a supplement to the broader research that eventually produced the article “Hoodoo in America” (1931, The Journal of American Folklore) and the book Mules and Men (1935). Nevertheless, however modest the films may be, they fulfill a central role of nonfiction film, which is to present life truthfully. The footage of children at play is a particular delight, with the small performers displaying both an ease with and a degree of curiosity about the camera. Hurston’s portraits of adults, such as a woman on a porch rocking chair and a man chopping wood, are a little more difficult for me to read. What they might be showing is a certain coolness or even suspicion toward the project, but it’s just as likely that they’re posing, displaying the kind of presence and dignity that they couldn’t get from the circumscribed roles available to Black people in the mainstream cinema of the time. If that’s the case, then it can truly be said that Hurston had a gift for attaining rapport with her cinematic subjects, the kind that’s necessary to getting something real on film. A milestone in the independent film boom of the late 80s and early 90s, Daughters of the Dust gained the distinction of being the first film directed by an African-American woman to receive a wide theatrical release. The movie’s plot is simplicity itself, much in the vein of Meet Me in St. Louis: it’s the story of a family dealing with the predicament of whether or not they should move to another part of the country. Of course, the situation of the Peazant family in Julie Dash’s film is significantly more fraught than the well-off white family in Vincente Minnelli’s nostalgic vision. As a result, the spotty narrative houses a thematic framework of lofty ambition. Onscreen text at the movie’s beginning lays out the situation neatly: the Gullah people living on islands — members of the African diaspora and descendants of enslaved people — exist in a liminal state between their ancestral home and the nation where they were forced to live. Unlike so many other African-Americans whose cultural memory was completely stolen from them, these communities were able to hold on to certain cultural markers, from religion to food to speech. Over time, these holdovers were blended with the customs and language of the region to form a new, hybrid culture. Naturally, the traditions of the past become endangered unless each ensuing generation works to keep them alive, and this is the crux of the film’s conflict. The family matriarch, Nana Peazant (Cora Lee Day), is perhaps the only fully dedicated traditionalist in the film. She has to contend with two separate but united incursions: Christianity, in the form of granddaughter Viola Peazant (Cheryl Lynn Bruce), and modern secularism, in the form of photographer Mr. Snead (Tommy Hicks), both of which are introduced to the community with evangelical zeal. These figures are by no means villains, however. The embrace of tradition and memory is itself complicated. The youngest characters in the film, which takes place in 1902, are just a couple generations removed from the back-breaking labor of slavery. One of the reasons that the African cultural memory is so fresh in this particular place is that, due to the semi-isolation of these islands, the slave trade continued in secret for decades after its official abolition. The younger characters seek to migrate north for the sake of better economic opportunities and less dangerous circumstances than they experienced in the Jim Crow South. They express the eternal hope of pilgrims that the place where they’re going will be a New World. Dash captures this small society in a mystical, languid fashion: women in white dresses leaning against tree trunks, a slow boat ride down the river. The evocative location cinematography is courtesy of Arthur Jafa, with his first director of photography credit. Along with Nana, the other most important voice heard on the soundtrack belongs to the Unborn Child, who narrates events from an unspecified future date while also making the occasional ghostly appearance in 1902, becoming visible to several of the characters (including Mr. Snead). The child and Nana combine to make the film’s point of view that of the irreducible continuum of history. The old teach the young; the young remember the old. Nana carries memories of her mother, born in Africa. The child, not yet born to Eli and Eula Peazant (Adisa Anderson and Alva Rogers) in 1902, could hypothetically still be alive, within the universe of the film, in 1991. As Viola says, quoting Shakespeare, “What’s past is prologue.” Indeed, we can look at Hurston’s Commandment Keeper Church film as evidence that the efforts of someone like Viola to spread Christianity to the community were very successful. The energy and ecstasy of the church services depicted in the film, one indoors and the other outside in front of a pier, are still electric when viewed today. The emotional outpourings, the dancing and the sweat of the Black church have since moved into the realm of cliché in popular culture, so much so that returning to the unfiltered source is an education. So too is Daughters of the Dust, a rare look at a unique culture, presented in a lyrical way that’s attuned to the rhythms and mysteries of folklore. Whether they’re fiction or nonfiction, above and beyond the achievement and the burden of being “first,” Hurston’s and Dash’s films are invaluable testaments to lives that mattered. Tags: Christianity, culture, documentary, Double Feature, history, Movies, racism, spirituality, women ← Two Poems “He Doesn’t Need You; He’s Got His Memories” — Selznick’s and Hitchcock’s Rebecca →

Home > Vol 12, No 2 (2019) > Ivanova Spatial Heterogeneity In Phenological Development Of Prunus Padus L. In The Yekaterinburg City Uliya R. Ivanova, Nataliya V. Skok, Oksana V. Yantser https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2018-84 PDF (Eng) The possible impact of the climate changes on vegetation is a key topic of various research studies in geography and ecology. In this study we tried to provide a «one-time survey» of the phenological development of Prunus padus L. in the Yekaterinburg city as a part of the large-scale project “A Single Phenological Day ” and show the data on a map. The registration of a seasonal development of bird cherry was provided annually in the years of 2012-2018 on one and the same date in the city of Yekaterinburg, on 15 May. Yekaterinburg is the largest city located on the eastern foothills of the Middle Urals, Russia. The city has residential areas, parks, water reservoirs, as well as large industrial facilities that affect microclimatic conditions, resulting in an increase of the temperatures. Such microclimatic heterogeneity results in uneven development of bird cherry in spring. It was revealed the slowing of the bird cherry development in the areas situated close to large water reservoirs. At the same time bird cherry trees growing inside large industrial areas, on the contrary, developed much faster. The development rates of Prunus padus L. also differed though years: in years with dry and warm weather during the period of late April - early May the vegetation began earlier. phenology, urban vegetation, Prunus padus L., The Nationwide Phenology Day Uliya R. Ivanova Ural State Pedagogical University Yekaterinburg. Nataliya V. Skok Oksana V. Yantser 1. Asse D., Chuine I., Vitasse Y., Yoccoz N., Delpierre N., Badeau V., Delestrade A., Randin C. (2018). 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The Time Management Let’s try to learn how to make the best use of this very precious “Resource” … Today we hear more and more about “Time Management”: on the web we find a wide range of courses (more or less specialized) for Entrepreneurs and Managers on this very topical topic, given that in our current society, characterized by “speed” and “Multitasking”, “Time” has become one of the most precious “Resources”! Definition of “Time Management” “Time Management”, understood not only from the “Objective” point of view (“Chronological” Time measurable with Objectivity by appropriate instruments such as Watches, Stopwatches, Alarm Clocks, Hourglasses, etc.), but also and above all “Subjective” (Time “Perceived” by a Subject, which takes into account not only his / her personal age, but also the states of mind, emotions, as well as the conditioning of the external environment). Time Management can be defined as a “Time Planning, Management and Control Process used for specific Activities and aimed at increasing effectiveness, efficiency and personal and business productivity“. The Outline of the Time Management Process in Companies Time Management can be applied in all companies (whether they are large, medium or small sized) giving rise to an organizational process that can be broken down and analyzed in the following phases: Mapping of the Activities Performed: through the recognition of the Work Duties of a specific Office and Department and subsequent Coordination with the other Company Functions (connected to it by Procedures). Time Measurement: verifying and noting the Amount of Time needed to Optimize the Management of Business Activities and Processes (object of analysis through Time Management). Identification of Priority Processes: based on the Vision, Mission and Company Strategy. Use of Time according to Priorities: with the Eisenhower Matrix (level of “Importance” and “Urgency”). Measurement of Performance: that is, of the Results obtained (with respect to the set objectives). Feed-back on Time Management: if the Feed-back is “Positive” the Time Management has paid off, otherwise it means that it did not work and it is therefore necessary to re-examine and redesign some phases of the process. Unfortunately, it is not enough simply to follow the Phases described above to be able to manage your time well, also because in practice there may be “internal” obstacles (linked to our “subjective” vision of time) or “external” (linked to “non-exogenous events. Predictable or Unmanageable”) that risk frustrating our efforts. Do You Want to Read More Articles?

VEEP arrives in Russia for St. Petersburg Economic Forum Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia, to participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which opens tomorrow and ends on Friday. He is accompanied by the National Security Advisor, Alhaji Baba Camara. Ghana’s Ambassador to Russia, Dr. Kodzo Alabo, received the Vice President. Hundreds of participants from both the developed and developing economies are attending the forum. They include Heads of Government, representatives of the European Union, EU, World Bank, World Health Organisation, WHO, International Monetary Fund, IMF, Academia, Media and Civil Defence and Natural Disaster Organisations. The three-day forum will be characterised by panel discussions which will examine the extent to which global challenges such as epidemics of infectious diseases, impact negatively on the economies of countries and entire regions and what measures could be taken to halt such emergencies. The discussions will also dwell on the new trends in global geo-political economy and its ramifications on Africa’s market share of world trade and its struggle to revamp its economy to attract investments as well as improve the material conditions of its people. The Vice President will be sharing Ghana’s interventions instituted over the years to rebuild the economy and ensure the social renewal of society. Mr. Amissah-Arthur is also billed to confer with the Prime Minister of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev on ways of cementing trade and other forms of economic relations between the two countries. Ghana-Russia trade statistics indicates that external trade turnover declined from $1.42 billion in 2010 to $1.02 in 2015, while Russia’s share in Ghana’s total external trade stood close at 0.4 per cent in 2015. Captains of the Russian industry are also expected to call on the Vice President on the sidelines of the forum to seek investment opportunities in Ghana, especially in the areas of agriculture, mining, tourism and oil and gas. The Vice President is also expected to interact with the Ghanaian community during which he will shed light on the successes chalked up by the government and challenges confronting it in its management of the economy and efforts designed to transform the lives of the vast majority of the people. Previous article NDC UK & Ireland Chapter Consoles Mahama Next article Bukom Banku now Bukom Michael Jackson – Ayittey Powers NDC UK & Ireland Chapter Consoles Mahama Bukom Banku now Bukom Michael Jackson – Ayittey Powers

How to Use a Proxy By Understanding Proxies Leave a Comment / How to / By Ghfinder Understand the basic concepts of a proxy. A proxy is a server that you connect to that allows you to get “outside” of your network. You connect to a proxy and route your traffic through it, so that your IP is masked and traffic appears to be coming from the proxy server. Know the different types of proxies. There are several types of proxies that you will run into as you research proxies. Each offers a certain degree of anonymity, and some are more secure than others. There are four main types of proxies: Web-based proxies: The most common and easiest to use proxy. These are servers that you connect to through a browser do visit a visit a website anonymously. Open proxies: These are proxy servers that are either accidentally left open or are hacked. They are often not secure and can contain malicious software. It is recommended that you avoid open proxies. Anonymity networks: These are private networks that are run by users donating bandwidth. They are often incredibly slow and due to the fact that anyone can host bandwidth, they are fairly insecure. VPN (Virtual Private Network): These are private networks where you directly connect to a proxy server maintained by a proxy company or organization.

This notice describes how medical information about you or your child may be used and disclosed an how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully. 1. Dental Practice Covered by this Notice This notice describes the privacy practices of Ghosh Orthodontics (“Dental Practice”). “We” and “our” means the Dental Practice. “You” and “your” means our patient. 2. How to Contact Us/Our Privacy Official If you have any questions or would like further information about this Notice, you can contact Spark Dental Management’s Privacy Official at: 300 Willowbrook Drive, Suite 330 Compliance@SparkDentalManagement.com 3. Our Promise to You and Our Legal Obligations The privacy of your health information is important to us. We understand that your health information is personal, and we are committed to protecting it. This Notice describes how we may use and disclose your protected health information to carry out treatment, payment, or health care operations, and for other purposes that are permitted or required by law. It also describes your rights to access and control your protected health information. Protected health information is information about you, including demographic information, that may identify you and that relates to your past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition and related health care services. We are required by law to: Maintain the privacy of your protected health information Give you this Notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to that information, and Abide by the terms of our Notice that is currently in effect. 4. Last Revision Date This Notice was last revised on June 1, 2022. 5. How We May Use or Disclose Your Health Information The following examples describe different ways we may use or disclose your health information. These examples are not meant to be exhaustive. We are permitted by law to use and disclose your health information for the following purposes: i. Common Uses and Disclosures a. Treatment – We may use your health information to provide you with dental treatment or services, such as cleaning r examining your teeth or performing dental procedures. We may disclose health information about you to dental specialists, physicians, or other health care professionals involved in your care. b. Payment – We may use and disclose your health information to obtain payment from health plans and insurers for the care that we provide to you. c. Health Care Operations – We may use and disclose health information about you in connection with health care operations necessary to run our practice, including review of our treatment and services, training, evaluating the performance of our staff and health care professionals, quality assurance, financial or billing audits, legal matters, and business planning and development. d. Appointment Reminders – We may use or disclose your health information when contacting you to remind you of a dental appointment. We may contact you by using a postcard, letter, phone call, voice message, text, or email. e. Disclose to Family Members and Friends – We may disclose your health information to a family member or friend who is involved with your care or payment for your care if you do not object or, if you are not present, we believe it is in your best interest to do so. f. Disclosure to Business Associates – We may disclose your protected health information to our third-party service providers (called “business associates”) that perform functions on our behalf or provide us with services if the information is necessary for such functions or services. For example, we may use a business associate to assist us in maintaining our practice management software. All of our business associates are obligated, under contract with us, to protect the privacy of your information and are not allowed to use or disclose any information other than as specified in our contract. ii. Less Common Uses and Disclosures a. Disclosures Required by Law – We may use or disclose patient health information to the extent we are required by law to do so. For example, we are required to disclose patient health information to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services so that it can investigate complaints or determine our compliance with HIPAA. b. Public Health Activities – We may disclose patient health information for public health activities and purposes, which may include: preventing or controlling disease, injury or disability, reporting births or deaths, reporting child abuse or neglect, reporting adverse reactions to medications or foods, reporting product defects; enabling product recalls, and notifying a person who may have been exposed to a disease or may be at risk for contracting or spreading a disease or condition. c. Victims of Abuse, Neglect, or Domestic Violence – We may disclose health information to the appropriate government authority about a patient whom we believe is a victim of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence. d. Health Oversight Activities – We may disclose patient health information to a health oversight agency for activities necessary for the government to provide appropriate oversight of the health care system, certain government benefit programs, and compliance with certain civil rights laws. e. Lawsuits and Legal Actions – We may disclose patient health information in response to (i) a court or administrative order or (ii) a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process that is not ordered by a court if efforts have been made to notify the patient or to obtain an order protecting the information requested. f. Law Enforcement Purposes – We may disclose your health information to a law enforcement official for a law enforcement purpose, such as to identify or locate a suspect, material witness, or missing person, or to alert law enforcement of a crime. g. Coroners, Medical Examiners, and Funeral Directors – We may disclose your health information to a coroner, medical examiner, or funeral director to allow them to carry out their duties. h. Organ, Eye, and Tissue Donation – We may use or disclose your health information to organ procurement organizations or others that obtain, bank, or transplant cadaveric organs, eyes, or tissue for donation and transplant. i. Research Purposes – We may use or disclose your information for research purposes pursuant to patient authorization waiver approval by an Institutional Review Board or Privacy Board. j. Serious Threat to Health or Safety – We may use or disclose your health information if believe it is necessary to do so to prevent or lessen a serious threat to anyone’s health or safety. k. Specialized Government Functions – We may disclose your health information to the military (domestic or foreign) about its members or veterans, for national security and protective services for the President or other heads of state, to the government for security clearance reviews, and to a jail or prison about its inmates. l. Workers’ Compensation – We may disclose your health information to comply with workers’ compensation laws or similar programs that provide benefits for work-related injuries or illnesses. 6. Your Written Authorization for Any Other Use or Disclosure of Your Health Information Uses and disclosures of your protected health information that involve the release of psychotherapy notes (if any), marketing, sale of your protected health information, or other uses or disclosures not described in this notice will be made only with your written authorization, unless otherwise permitted or required by law. You may revoke this authorization at any time, in writing, except to the extent that this office has taken an action in reliance on the use of disclosure indicated in the authorization. If a use or disclosure of protected health information described above in this Notice is prohibited or materially limited by other laws that apply to use, we intend to meet the requirements of the more stringent law. 7. Your Rights with Respect to Your Health Information You have the following rights with respect to certain health information that we have about you (information in a Designated Record Set as defined by HIPAA). To exercise any of these rights, you must submit a written request to our Privacy Official listed on the first page of this Notice. i. Right to Access and Review – You may request to access and review a copy of your health information. We may deny your request under certain circumstances. You will receive written notice of a denial and can appeal it. We will provide a copy of your health information in a format you request if it is readily producible. If not readily producible, we will provide it in a hard copy format or other format that is mutually agreeable. If your health information is included in an Electronic Health Record, you have the right to obtain a copy of it in an electronic format. We may charge a reasonable fee to cover our cost to provide you with copies of your health information. ii. Right to Amend – If you believe that your health information is incorrect or incomplete, you may request that we amend it. We may deny your request under certain circumstances. You will receive written notice of a denial and can file a statement of disagreement that will be included with your health information that you believe is incorrect or incomplete. iii. Right to Restrict Use and Disclosure – You may request that we restrict uses of your health information to carry out treatment, payment, or health care operations or to your family member or friend involved in your care of the payment for your care. We may not (and are not required to) agree to your requested restrictions, with one exception; If you pay out of your pocket in full for a service you receive from us and you request that we not submit the claim for this service to your health insurer or health plan for reimbursement, we must honor that request. iv. Right to Confidential Communications, Alternative Means and Locations – You may request to receive communications of health information by alternative means or at an alternative location. We will accommodate a request if it is reasonable, and you indicate that communication by regular means could endanger you. When you submit a written request to the Privacy Official listed on the first page of this Notice, you need to provide an alternative method of contact or alternative address and indicate how payment for services will be handled. v. Right to an Accounting of Disclosures – You have a right to receive an accounting or disclosures of your health information for the six (6) years prior to the date that the accounting is requested except for disclosures to carry out treatment, payment, health care operations (and certain other exceptions as provided by HIPAA). The first accounting we provide in any 12-month period. We will notify subsequent request for an accounting within the same 12-month period. We will notify you in advance of this fee and you may choose to modify or withdraw your request at that time. vi. Right to a Paper Copy of this Notice – You have the right to a paper copy of this Notice. You may ask us to give you a paper copy of the Notice at any time (even if you have agreed to receive the Notice electronically). To obtain a paper copy, ask the Privacy Official. vii. Right to Receive Notification of a Security Breach – We are required by law to notify you if the privacy or security of your health information has been breached. The notification will occur by first class mail within sixty (60) days of the event. A breach occurs when there has been an unauthorized use or disclosure under HIPAA that compromises the privacy or security of your health information. The breach notification will contain the following information: (1) a brief description of what happened, including the date of the breach and the date of the discovery of the breach; (2) the steps you should take to protect yourself from potential harm resulting from the breach; and (3) a brief description of what we are doing to investigate the breach, mitigate losses, and to protect against further breaches. viii. Special Protections for HIV, Alcohol, and Substance Abuse, Mental Health, and Genetic Information – Certain federal and state laws may require special privacy protections that restrict the use and disclosure of certain health information, including HIV-related information, alcohol, and substance abuse information, mental health information, and genetic information. For example, a health plan is not permitted to use or disclose genetic information for underwriting purposes. Some parts of this HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices may not apply to these types of information. If your treatment involves this information, you may contact our office for more information about these protections. ix. Our Right to Change Our Privacy Practices and This Notice – We reserve the right to change the terms of this Notice at any time. Any change will apply to the health information we have about you or create or receive in the future. We will promptly revise the Notice when there is a material change to the uses or disclosures, individual’s rights, our legal duties, or other privacy practices discussed in this Notice. We will post the revised Notice on our website (if applicable) and in our office and will provide a copy of it to you on request. 8. How to Make Privacy Complaints If you have any complaints about your privacy rights or how your health information has been used or disclosed, you may file a complaint with us by contacting our Privacy Official listed on the first page of this Notice. You may also file a written complaint with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. We will not retaliate against you in any way if you choose to file a complaint.

Whispers On Blu… On March 18, 2012 By ghostof82In Blu-ray, Horror, Movies Pre-ordered this Blu-ray from those fine folks at the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society- impossible to resist, really, having bought their wonderful Call Of Cthulhu film on DVD some years ago. A fan-made movie made for fans of Lovecraft’s work, COC was made in the style of a black and white silent movie, as if it were filmed back when the story was first published in the late 1920s. Strangely authentic is how I’d describe it. The Whisper In Darkness, the latest film from the HPLHS, is based on a tale written in 1931, and has been made in the style of the then-new ‘talking pictures’, similar in approach to the 1930s Universal horror film classics Frankenstein and Dracula, with a bit of 1940s film-noir thrown in, apparently. Reviews for Whisperer, which had screenings last year at festivals etc, have been as positive as those were for COC. Can’t say fairer than that, as COC was possibly the most faithful film adaptation of a Lovecraft story yet. Making these as period movies is sheer genius considering the subject matter of the tales- Hollywood’s attempts to modernise the HPL tales into modern-day settings just doesn’t work. Released on DVD late last year, I’ve been hanging on for this Blu-ray edition, which had been held up by production complications. Looking forward to posting a review here in a month or so. Can hardly wait. Mark Finn’s Blood & Thunder

Tag Archives: Yahoo NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies August 25, 2013 UncategorizedFacebook, Google, Guardian, Microsoft, National Security Agency, NSA, Washington Post, YahooGiftoftruth http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid • Top-secret files show first evidence of financial relationship • Prism companies include Google and Yahoo, says NSA • Costs were incurred after 2011 Fisa court ruling The material provides the first evidence of a financial relationship between the tech companies and the NSA. The National Security Agency paid millions of dollars to cover the costs of major internet companies involved in the Prism surveillance program after a court ruled that some of the agency’s activities were unconstitutional, according to top-secret material passed to the Guardian. The technology companies, which the NSA says includes Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook, incurred the costs to meet new certification demands in the wake of the ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (Fisa) court. The October 2011 judgment, which was declassified on Wednesday by the Obama administration, found that the NSA’s inability to separate purely domestic communications from foreign traffic violated the fourth amendment. While the ruling did not concern the Prism program directly, documents passed to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden describe the problems the decision created for the agency and the efforts required to bring operations into compliance. The material provides the first evidence of a financial relationship between the tech companies and the NSA. The intelligence agency requires the Fisa court to sign annual “certifications” that provide the legal framework for surveillance operations. But in the wake of the court judgment these were only being renewed on a temporary basis while the agency worked on a solution to the processes that had been ruled illegal. An NSA newsletter entry, marked top secret and dated December 2012, discloses the huge costs this entailed. “Last year’s problems resulted in multiple extensions to the certifications’ expiration dates which cost millions of dollars for Prism providers to implement each successive extension – costs covered by Special Source Operations,” it says. An NSA newsletter entry dated December 2012 disclosing the costs of new certification demands. Photograph: guardian.co.ukSpecial Source Operations, described by Snowden as the “crown jewel” of the NSA, handles all surveillance programs, such as Prism, that rely on “corporate partnerships” with telecoms and internet providers to access communications data. The disclosure that taxpayers’ money was used to cover the companies’ compliance costs raises new questions over the relationship between Silicon Valley and the NSA. Since the existence of the program was first revealed by the Guardian and the Washington Post on June 6, the companies have repeatedly denied all knowledge of it and insisted they only hand over user data in response to specific legal requests from the authorities. An earlier newsletter, which is undated, states that the Prism providers were all given new certifications within days of the Fisa court ruling. “All Prism providers, except Yahoo and Google, were successfully transitioned to the new certifications. We expect Yahoo and Google to complete transitioning by Friday 6 October.” An earlier undated newsletter after the Fisa court ruling on certifications. Photograph: guardian.co.ukThe Guardian invited the companies to respond to the new material and asked each one specific questions about the scale of the costs they incurred, the form of the reimbursement and whether they had received any other payments from the NSA in relation to the Prism program. A Yahoo spokesperson said: “Federal law requires the US government to reimburse providers for costs incurred to respond to compulsory legal process imposed by the government. We have requested reimbursement consistent with this law.” Asked about the reimbursement of costs relating to compliance with Fisa court certifications, Facebook responded by saying it had “never received any compensation in connection with responding to a government data request”. Google did not answer any of the specific questions put to it, and provided only a general statement denying it had joined Prism or any other surveillance program. It added: “We await the US government’s response to our petition to publish more national security request data, which will show that our compliance with American national security laws falls far short of the wild claims still being made in the press today.” Microsoft declined to give a response on the record. The responses further expose the gap between how the NSA describes the operation of its Prism collection program and what the companies themselves say. Prism operates under section 702 of the Fisa Amendments Act, which authorises the NSA to target without a warrant the communications of foreign nationals believed to be not on US soil. But Snowden’s revelations have shown that US emails and calls are collected in large quantities in the course of these 702 operations, either deliberately because the individual has been in contact with a foreign intelligence target or inadvertently because the NSA is unable to separate out purely domestic communications. Last week, the Washington Post revealed documents from Snowden that showed the NSA breached privacy rules thousands of times a year, in the face of repeated assurances from Barack Obama and other senior intelligence figures that there was no evidence of unauthorised surveillance of Americans. The newly declassified court ruling, by then chief Fisa judge John Bates, also revealed serious issues with how the NSA handled the US communications it was sweeping up under its foreign intelligence authorisations. The judgment revealed that the NSA was collecting up to 56,000 wholly US internet communications per year in the three years until the court intervened. Bates also rebuked the agency for misrepresenting the true scope of a major collection program for the third time in three years. The NSA newsletters say the agency’s response to the ruling was to work on a “conservative solution in which higher-risk collection would be sequestered”. At the same time, one entry states, the NSA’s general counsel was considering filing an appeal. The Guardian informed the White House, the NSA and the office of the director of national intelligence that it planned to publish the documents and asked whether the spy agency routinely covered all the costs of the Prism providers and what the annual cost was to the US. The NSA declined to comment beyond requesting the redaction of the name of an individual staffer in one of the documents. UPDATE: After publication, Microsoft issued a statement to the Guardian on Friday afternoon. A spokesperson for Microsoft, which seeks reimbursement from the government on a case-by-case basis, said: “Microsoft only complies with court orders because it is legally ordered to, not because it is reimbursed for the work. We could have a more informed discussion of these issues if providers could share additional information, including aggregate statistics on the number of any national security orders they may receive.”

History at Giles Junior School “People are trapped in history and history is trapped in people.” James Baldwin At Giles Junior School, all children will be given the opportunity to explore a range of historical periods and identify key figures within them. Children will access a broad and rich curriculum which is built upon a wide range of historical knowledge and skills. The teaching at Giles is sequenced logically to ensure children can fully understand and retain the information and vocabulary presented to them; therefore ensuring that children leave Giles as enthusiastic and skilled historians.

Theres Good News And . . . I know, I know. You don’t hear from me for months and then you get 2 emails in as many days. Well . . . I did mention that I was going to make a ‘Get It Done Fun Days’ pin for each of my Pinterest boards and that’s what seems to have happened....

the trial & relevant documents In September 2013, immediately after the murder of Pavlos Fyssas, the Greek Police arrested the leadership of Golden Dawn, as well as tens of its party officials and members, who were involved in the criminal activities included in the huge case file. After a long inquest which lasted 9 months, the Court of Appeal decided with irrevocable decree that 69 individuals, including all of Golden Dawn’s Parliamentary Group from the 2012 elections, will stand trial charged with participation in a criminal organisation. Described in the 1109 pages of the decree are all of the crimes committed by Golden Dawn party officials and members since 2008. On 20th April 2015 one of the most important trials in contemporary Greek history will begin. It is set to be a huge process that is expected to last several months. The victims and their relatives will join the proceedings as a civil party in three cases, the case of the murder of Pavlos Fyssas, the case of attempted murder and attacks on Egyptian fishermen, as well as the case of attempted murder against the trade unionists from PAME (Trade Union Front). We believe that this trial concerns all of us, because the outcome will be a milestone as much in local politics as in Greek society. Golden Dawn themselves are trying to establish a regime of fear and to keep their actions secret. Until now, whenever its members of parliament, party officials or members has been involved in trials, the organisation has used terror tactics both inside and outside of the courtroom and tried to establish a regime of fear. Due to the huge significance of this trial, we consider it our obligation to monitor it closely and our duty to overcome fear. Prosecutorial Proposal (4.6 MB) Findings of the investigative judges during the pre trial proceedings (8.6 MB) Civil Action’s Memorandum (1 MB) summary reports of each hearing Day 181: Nothing happened in Golden Dawn without an order or a direct permission. 181st Hearing, Women’s Wing, Korydallos Prison, September 18th, 2017 I. Access to the Court The courtroom remains open to the public upon presentation of a state ID card, which is retained by court authorities for the DAY 180: When we made the Nazi salute we had in mind Adolph Hitler, not Aristotle 180th Hearing, Court of Appeals, September 15th, 2017 I. Access to the Court The courtroom remains open to the public upon presentation of a state ID card, which is retained by court authorities for the duration DAY 179: Most of Golden Dawn’s criminal activities fell under a central strategy 179th Hearing, Women’s Wing, Korydallos Prison, September 14th, 2017 I. Access to the Court The courtroom remains open to the public upon presentation of a state ID card, which is retained by court authorities for the DAY 178: “THEY HAD SENT THEM TO SOME BEAUTIFUL FIELDS WITH PINK CHIMNEYS… HE MEANT AUSCHWITZ” DAY 176: “HITLER ORGANIZED PEACEFUL RALLIES, TOO” 176th Hearing, Court of Appeals, September 5th, 2017 I. Access to the Court The courtroom remains open to the public upon presentation of a state ID card, which is retained by court authorities for the duration DAY 177: “AN OLD MAN TOLD ME: WE HAVEN’T SEEN THINGS LIKE THIS SINCE THE CIVIL WAR” 177th Hearing, Women’s Wing, Korydallos Prison, September 6th, 2017 I. Access to the Court The courtroom remains open to the public upon presentation of a state ID card, which is retained by court authorities for the DAY 175: “an organized squad with motorcycle helmets and sticks was chasing immigrants” 175th Hearing, Women’s Wing, Korydallos Prison, July 19th, 2017 I. Access to the Court The courtroom remains open to the public upon presentation of a state ID card, which is retained by court authorities for the DAY 174: “THEY WERE EVEN TAKING THEM DOWN FROM THE BUSES AND BEATING THEM UP” DAY 173: “WE WILL CLEAN UP AS WE DID IN AGIOS PANTELEIMONAS” 173rd Hearing, Court of Appeals, July 13th, 2017 I. Access to the Court The courtroom remains open to the public upon presentation of a state ID card, which is retained by court authorities for the duration DAY 172: “EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT THEY WERE OUT TO HUNT IMMIGRANTS” 172nd Hearing, Women’s Wing, Korydallos Prison, July 11th, 2017 I. Access to the Court The courtroom remains open to the public upon presentation of a state ID card, which is retained by court authorities for the DAY 171: “THIS WAS A FRIENDLY MATCH” 171st Hearing, Court of Appeals, July 10th, 2017 I. Access to the Court The courtroom remains open to the public upon presentation of a state ID card, which is retained by court authorities for the duration DAY 170: “IN ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THIS THERE IS A KIND OF OMERTA” 170th Hearing, Court of Appeals, July 6th, 2017 I. Access to the Court The courtroom remains open to the public upon presentation of a state ID card, which is retained by court authorities for the duration DAY 169: “WHATEVER IT WAS, NOTHING CAN JUSTIFY A STABBING” 169th Hearing, Women’s Wing, Korydallos Prison, July 5th, 2017 I. Access to the Court The courtroom remains open to the public upon presentation of a state ID card, which is retained by court authorities for the DAY 168: “THE ASSAULT SQUADS ARE GOLDEN DAWN’S BEATING HEART” DAY 167: “NATURE IS NOT A MONOCULTURE, CONTRARY TO THE BELIEF OF GOLDEN DAWN” 167th Hearing, Women’s Wing, Korydallos Prison, June 30th, 2017 I. 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Home — Essay Samples — Entertainment — Movie Review — Silver Linings Playbook: the Media’s Myths About Love Silver Linings Playbook: The Media’s Myths About Love Subject: Entertainment Essay Topic: Movie Analysis, Movie Review, Silver Linings Playbook Silver Linings Playbook was released in 2012 by The Weinstein Company. In the movie The Silver Linings Playbook, screenwriter David O. Russell portrays how different real life is from a normal American screenplay. This film is directed towards a wide audience ranging from young adults to people in their fifties. Diving into the stories of the main characters, Pat Solintano and Tiffany, assumptions are instantly made about the direction of the motion picture. Love is portrayed in the media as perfection. We strive for the ideals pictured in movies; the idea that a woman who loves a “beast” of a man can fix him, love at first sight is real, and that everything should be fixed perfectly. However, the film uses the expectation of the “norm” along with the actuality of how real life works to expose flaws in other forms of media that depict love and mental illness. The story about Pat Solintano starts with him being released from a mental hospital after 8 months. Originally, Pat was placed into the hospital because he walked in on his wife cheating on him and he beat the man almost to death. During the unfolding of his trial, his unknown mental illnesses of Bipolar Disorder and OCD give context for his outburst. HIs wife decides to leave him and his life has fallen into shambles. David O. Russell uses the pathos style of appeal so that the audience shares the hurt that Pat is experiencing. Pat says to his therapist, “So yeah, I snapped. I almost beat him to death, but then I get f****ng chastised for it? I’m parallel to my Father? I don’t think so… After the incident I realized I have been dealing with this (Bipolar) my whole life.” The audience feels the hurt and sees a new perspective on a Hollywood relationship. Most films would depict the broken man healed by the love of his wife. However, Pat has been broken his whole life and was pushed to the point of no return by his situation. The writers play into the emotions of what it feels like to be used and show their audience that relationships don’t always have happy endings. life is hard and hurt is real. The main plot of the story is about the relationship between Tiffany and Pat. Tiffany is from Pat’s Neighborhood in Philadelphia and has recently become a widow. Although Tiffany exhibits signs of Bipolar Disorder it is never said that she has a diagnosis. Both Tiffany and Pat are outcasts in their community and Tiffany offers to help Pat get his wife back if he participates in a dance competition for her. Russell uses Logos in the opposite way expected to drive the plot of the movie towards the most satisfying of endings. As Tiffany and Pat meet, the audience assumes them to be perfect for each other because they are both unmarried people whose past relationships ended in tragedy and left them broken. However, when running side by side the pair is screaming at each other and Pat says to Tiffany, “At least I am not the big slut!”. Tiffany then yells back at Pat, “I was a big slut, but I’m not anymore. There’s always gonna be a part of me that’s sloppy and dirty, but I like that, with all the other parts of myself. Can you say the same about yourself, f***er?! Can you forgive? Are you any good at that?”. This is not clean. This is not “cookie cutter” and Russel makes sure that the audience realizes that. The logic behind it is that the audience has repeatedly inhaled the idiotic idea of love at first sight with a small hiccup. Russell challenges media misconceptions by showing a relationship that is all hiccups with barely any glimmers of hope. The climax of the movie is riddled with ups and downs. As the night of the dance approaches, the Eagles are also playing the Cowboys. Pat’s dad puts a double or nothing parlay that the Eagles have to beat the Cowboys and Tiffany and Pat have to get at least a 5 on their dance for him to win his money back. The dance approaches and Pat is late. Nikki, Pat’s ex-wife, is supposed to be coming to the dance but she isn’t at the time and everything that could go wrong is going wrong. Unbeknown to Pat, The Eagles have handedly beat the Cowboys 44-6. Amongst all the commotion Pat convinces Tiffany to still dance with him and it is beautiful. Everything starts to fall into place as Nikki arrives and they are about to receive the score of their dance. The judges give three 4.9 scores and one 5.4 for score to Tiffany and Pat resulting in an average score of 5. The money is won, Nikki is there and talking to Pat, but Tiffany can’t take it so she leaves. Russell now uses Pat’s dad to deliver the strongest example of ethos throughout the movie. Pat’s dad has always wanted the best for him so after Pat is done talking to Nikki he pulls Pat aside and says, ”Let me tell you, I know you don’t wanna listen to your father, I didn’t listen to mine but I’m telling you, you gotta pay attention to the signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this, it’s a sin if you don’t reach back. I’m telling you, it’s a sin if you don’t reach back, and it’ll haunt you for the rest of your days like a curse. You’re facing a big challenge in your life right now, at this very moment, right here. That girl loves you, she really loves you. And I don’t know if Nikki ever did, but she sure as hell doesn’t love you right now. I’m telling you, don’t f**k this up.”. The value of his father’s words hit the audience and Pat at the same time and Pat goes to chase after Tiffany. He catches her and explains how much he loves her and she says that she loves him too. The way this movie ends shows the audience that the unconventionalness of Pat and Tiffany’s love story portrays real life not fiction. A real story that is messy, emotional, and not expected is delivered to perfection by the key factor that it is not a perfect ending that puts Pat back with Nikki. In conclusion, the points made in The Silver Linings Playbook are to challenge the myths about love most media from Hollywood promotes. This film does not require a perfect ending to leave the audience satisfied, love at first sight that makes trials seem less treacherous, or a love that fixes all tragic flaws in its characters. The film is in no need of these crutches because it uses appeals and the tragedy of real life. 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Breaking Mental Barriers Leave a Comment / Mindset, Philosophy / By BowTied Grappler Mental barriers are a form of self-sabotage. We are all human and we will all run into this in some way, shape, or form. Take note, that if you are a beginner white belt, you will not experience running into these in the fundamentals class, you must leap joining the advanced levels. There will be a point when you are rolling where you are completely gassed out. Unable to breathe and think clearly, you start giving up arms or possibly letting people submit you due to just being drained. The days that may have not wanted to be in the gym or the ones where you are not feeling it are a blessing for your growth. When those days come, because they will, here is how you HAVE to approach them to get the most out of jiu-jitsu. Breaking Your Mental Barriers: Continue to Fight When you signed up and decided to commit to this sport you chose to become a fighter. Whether you decide to compete or not. Being a fighter is more than just deciding to stand in front of another human and try to beat them up, it’s a way of thinking and living. When things get hard, and they will, you must not give up and continue to fight through. You have to move forward. There will be times in matches when you are completely gassed and you think you are at the point where you THINK you cannot give anymore, push through the glass barrier and go beyond your comfort zone. The training sessions where you leave everything on the mats are the days you will look back upon and be proud of yourself. You decided to raise your standard and are taking the right steps to become the best version of yourself through fighting. How to Force Yourself Forward Forcing yourself forward means you have to put yourself in a position to fail. This is a deliberate action taken by deciding to roll hard and get the most out of your training sessions. Chase discomfort or get to the point where you want to give up. Just beyond this area are bliss and an extreme amount of growth that cannot be found anywhere else but in a jiu-jitsu gym. When you start making an appearance in the advanced levels classes you will run into the training partners that want to coast because they know the class is going to consist of a certain amount of rolling sessions. If there is time for four sessions, roll as if each 5-minute round is the last one of the day. You get nothing out of conserving your energy and not pushing yourself. Always be safe while doing this and make sure to be a good partner that people want to continue to train with. Breaking your mental barriers is easy when you deliberately do the tasks listed above. It is not for the faint of heart, to be the special type of individual that embraces the challenges that will be thrown at you. What do you want out of your training? What do you want out of your experience partaking in jiu-jitsu? Apply these principles outside of jiu-jitsu in your everyday life and you will be a strong positive force in your family and community. Encourage your children to keep going and be an example for others! Subscribe to Grapplers Graveyard

Am I Too Old to Start Jiu Jitsu? 1 Comment / Mindset, Philosophy / By BowTied Grappler Starting anything new, especially at a later age in life, can be a daunting thing. We run into so many obstacles in life and it seems that age is always a factor holding people back from fulfilling their potential. Every excuse under the sun could be used. You could be out of shape, haven’t worked out in years, or “don’t have enough time”, whatever it is, know that it is an excuse that needs to be laid to rest. In this article, we will answer the question “Am I Too Old to Start Jiu-Jitsu?” Am I Too Old to Start Jiu-Jitsu? Choices are the only things that allow us to move past our excuses and a great example of choosing a greater lifestyle is none other than Alex Martinez, CO-Owner of Ares East Mesa BJJ Academy. There are so many examples in this world of people starting later in life who excel beyond their own beliefs. We had the pleasure of interviewing jiu-jitsu black belt instructor and navy veteran, Alex Martinez this last weekend to talk about his story. From being in a dark place to now loving what he does each day, Alex is a shining example of putting personal excuses aside to change for the better. Starting Something Later in Life with Alex Martinez Alex was convinced at the age of 40 to just try out a couple of classes by his wife’s co-worker who would not shut up about the sport. At this time he was in a dark place. Weighing in at almost 250 lbs, Martinez was in bad shape, both mentally and physically. Martinez painted a picture of a time when he would have to take breaks after just walking up a flight of stairs.”I had no desire to do anything. At one point I thought I was going to die from a heart attack from just walking up the stairs.” After being convinced he googled the nearest jiu-jitsu gym to him and signed up a week later. “This sport changed my life,” said Alex, “I do not know where I would be if I did not discover the sport and committed to it”. He highlighted that most of the changes he has seen were not just the ones in the mirror. “Outside of the physical changes (down more than 60 lbs) the mental changes have been the biggest difference for me. I am a better husband, father, and friend because of the lessons I have learned on the mats.” Jiu-jitsu is a sport that is for everyone. Those that do join and stay committed experience something you cannot find anywhere else. The brotherhood formed around this community and personal benefits are unmatched. Alex got his black belt under 4x IBJJF World Masters Champion Paul Nava who also runs a gym based out of Phoenix, Arizona. Alex Martinez is currently transitioning into going full-time within his business to the massive growth he and his partner have seen within the local area. Martinez has also dived fully into podcasting. He has interviewed some top-level competitors Josh Cisneros, who will be competing at the world championship ADCC this fall in Las Vegas. It is never too late to change and try something new. Alex Martinez is a beaming example of this. We hope that we can use this story as inspiration to go out and make it happen! 1 thought on “Am I Too Old to Start Jiu Jitsu?” Pingback: ≫ Cómo hacer sentadillas frontales – 2023 [includes – Zombie Front Squats, Front Squat Crossed arms]