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Juvenile Injustice The United States made a disastrous miscalculation when it started automatically trying youthful offenders as adults instead of handling them through the juvenile courts. Prosecutors argued that the policy would get violent predators off the streets and deter further crime. But a new federally backed study shows that juveniles who do time as adults later commit more violent crime than those who are handled through the juvenile courts. The study, published last month in The American Journal of Preventive Medicine, was produced by the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, an independent research group with close ties to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After an exhaustive survey of the literature, the group determined that the practice of transferring children into adult courts was counterproductive, actually creating more crime than it cured. A related and even more disturbing study by Campaign for Youth Justice in Washington finds that the majority of the more than 200,000 children a year who are treated as adults under the law come before the courts for nonviolent offenses that could be easily and more effectively dealt with at the juvenile court level. Examples include a 17-year-old first-time offender charged with robbery after stealing another student’s gym clothes, and another 17-year-old who violated his probation by stealing a neighbor’s bicycle. Many of these young nonviolent offenders are held in adult prisons for months or even years. The laws also are not equally applied. Youths of color, who typically go to court with inadequate legal counsel, account for three out of every four young people admitted to adult prison. With 40 states allowing or requiring youthful offenders to spend at least some time in adult jails, state legislators all across the country are just waking up to the problems this practice creates. Some states now have pending bills that would stop juveniles from being automatically transferred to adult courts or that would allow them to get back into the juvenile system once the adult court was found to be inappropriate for them. Given the damage being done to young lives all over the country, the bills can’t pass soon enough.■

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Auburn High School » About Us » News Room » Archived Headlines » AHS Principal Named Director of Secondary Education Carl Pauli, principal at Auburn High School, was approved as the new Director of Secondary Education at last night’s school board meeting. He will assume his new role on July 1, 2017. “I am ready for this opportunity to serve MCPS in a new capacity,” said Pauli. “I am excited to take my experience beyond Auburn to help benefit all of our secondary schools.” “Mr. Pauli has more than 20 years of experience as an administrator in secondary schools,” said Superintendent Mark Miear. “One of the many things that sets him apart is his fine arts background. MCPS has a long-standing tradition of excellence in this area and I believe Mr. Pauli will help continue those efforts.” Pauli received a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Tech and a master’s degree from Radford University. He has worked in MCPS for the past 26 years, first as a teacher, then as an assistant principal and most recently as the principal at Auburn High for 16 years. Pauli’s fine arts background includes band experience from the third grade through college. He was a Marching Virginian and his son is currently a Marching Virginian.

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THE MANHATTAN DECLARATION OF CHRISTIAN CONSCIENCE By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 23, 2009 in Current Issues The homepage tells us: Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family. We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians who have united at this hour to reaffirm fundamental truths about justice and the common good, and to call upon our fellow citizens, believers and non-believers alike, to join us in defending them. These truths are: 1.the sanctity of human life 2.the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife 3.the rights of conscience and religious liberty. From the Preamble: Christians are heirs of a 2,000­year tradition of proclaiming God’s word,… After the barbarian tribes overran Europe, Christian monasteries preserved not only the Bible but also the literature and art of Western culture. It was Christians who combated the evil of slavery: Papal edicts in the 16th and 17th centuries… Like those who have gone before us in the faith, Christians today are called to proclaim the Gospel… I am a former Roman Catholic that God, through His grace alone; by faith alone, in the finished work on the Cross of Christ alone, mercifully delivered from the religious slavery of apostate Roman Catholicism into the glorious freedom of the sons of God. So I ask, which Gospel is it that Christians today are called to proclaim? And, if the above really is true, then what has become of the Protestant Reformation? “Papal edicts” were also directly involved with the fate of Christian “heirs”, faithfully “proclaiming God’s word,” who also “have gone before us in the faith”, e.g. Jon Hus; William Tyndale, and Hugh Latimer, “to proclaim the Gospel.” The Press Kit tells us this was “Released on November 20, 2009”; you can read more about Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience, and see all the original signers right here, such as: Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, Ky.) Dr. Peter Kreeft Professor of Philosophy, Boston College (Mass.) and at the Kings College (N.Y.) Dr. Russell D. Moore Senior Vice President for Academic Administration and Dean of the School of Theology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, Ky.) His Eminence Adam Cardinal Maida Archbishop Emeritus, Roman Catholic Diocese of Detroit Dr. Daniel Akin President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (Wake Forest, N.C.) His Eminence Justin Cardinal Rigali Archbishop, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia Founder and Chairman of the Board, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (Norcross, Ga.) Most Rev. Timothy Dolan Archbishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of New York, N.Y. Dr. Wayne Grudem Research Professor of Theological and Biblical Studies, Phoenix Seminary (Phoenix) Fr. Chad Hatfield Chancellor, CEO and Archpriest, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (Yonkers, N.Y.) Leith Anderson President of National Association of Evangelicals (Washington, D.C.)

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Tag Archives: Ziad al-Homsi The rise and fall of Mossad agent Ben Zygier A month after Australian media first identified “Prisoner X” as Australian-born Mossad recruit Ben Zygier, the Australian journalist who first reported on the Zygier case and his partner have published a joint investigation into how Zygier’s dream-career with the Israeli intelligence service unravelled, culminating with his suicide in an isolated Israeli prison cell in December 2010. According to the report Monday by Jason Koutsoukis in Australia’s Fairfax media, Melbourne-born Zygier was a passionate Zionist who was recruited into the Mossad in 2003, a few years after he had moved to Israel and had started working at an Israeli law firm. It ended with his 2010 arrest and suicide after Zygier embarked in 2008 on an unauthorized attempt to recruit a Hezbollah source in Eastern Europe and ended up instead allegedly betraying two claimed Mossad assets in Lebanon, according to Koutsoukis’ report. Zygier’s career with the Mossad began in late 2003, after he responded to a Mossad advertisement that proclaimed “the Mossad is open – not for everyone, but for a few. Maybe for you,” Koutsoukis reported. By early 2005, after a year of training, Zygier “was ready for his first mission,” Koutsoukis wrote. “He was sent to Europe, where he was instructed to infiltrate companies that had business relationships with countries including Iran and Syria. “One chief executive of a mid-sized European company with extensive business interests across the Middle East and Persian Gulf – including Iran – confirmed that he had hired Zygier for an accounting position,” the report continues. Zygier worked for the unidentified firm for 18 months. But apparently his Mossad supervisors were not overly impressed with his performance, and in 2007, to his great disappointment, they ordered Zygier back to a desk job in Israel. (While Koutsoukis doesn’t identify the firm in Europe where Zygier took a cover job—apparently unbeknownst to the firm–he later reports that Zygier, upon returning to Australia in 2009 to pursue a masters degree, told fellow students that he had worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers management consulting firm in Geneva.) Zygier, apparently in an attempt to impress his Mossad superiors and salvage his intelligence career, embarked in 2008 on an unauthorized, freelance mission to try to recruit an East European man known to be sympathetic to Lebanon’s Hezbollah as a double agent, Koutsoukis writes. But it all went terribly wrong, when the unidentified Eastern European/Balkan man asked Zygier to prove his bona fides by providing Mossad intelligence on Lebanon. Continue reading → Posted in Politics, Security | Tagged al-Homsi, Australia, Balkans, Ben Zygier, Eastern Europe, espionage, Europe, Fairfax media, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, intelligence, Iran, Israel, Jason Koutsoukis, Lebanon, Middle East, Monash University, Mossad, Mustafa Ali Awadeh, Persian Gulf, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Prisoner X, Ziad al-Homsi

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This information does not endorse any medicine as safe, effective, or approved for treating any patient or health condition cheapest Dalium order without prescription. You must talk with your health care provider for complete information about the risks and benefits of using rivastigmine patch buying online Accutane mail order without prescription Daily Analyst The Balkan Monitor Home » The Balkan Monitor » Holbrooke or Milosevic: Who is the Greater Murderer? Holbrooke or Milosevic: Who is the Greater Murderer? By Diana Johnstone Friday, 17 Dec 2010 It is usually considered good form to avoid sharp criticism of someone who has just died, but Richard Holbrooke himself set a striking example of the breach of such etiquette. On learning of the death in prison of Slobodan Milosevic, Holbrooke did not hesitate to describe him as a "monster" comparable to Hitler and Stalin. This was rank ingratitude, considering that Holbrooke owed his greatest career success – the 1995 Dayton Accords that ended the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina – almost entirely to Milosevic. This was made quite clear in his memoir To End a War (Random House, 1998). But Holbrooke’s greatest skill, made possible by media complicity, was to dress up reality in a costume favorable to himself. The Dayton Peace Accords were presented as a heroic victory for peace extracted by the brilliant Holbrooke from a reluctant Milosevic, who had to be "bombed to the negotiating table" by the United States. In reality, the U.S. government was fully aware that Milosevic was eager for peace in Bosnia to free Serbia from crippling economic sanctions. It was the Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic who wanted to keep the war going, with U.S. military help. In reality, the U.S. bombed the Serbs in order to get Izetbegovic to the negotiating table. And the agreement reached in the autumn of 1995 was not very different from the agreement reached in March 1992 by the three ethnic groups under European Community auspices, which could have prevented the entire civil war, if it had not been sabotaged by Izetbegovic, who withdrew his agreement with the encouragement of the then U.S. ambassador Warren Zimmermann. In short, far from being the great peacemaker in the Balkans, the United States first encouraged the Muslim side to fight for its goal of a centralized Bosnia, and then sponsored a weakened federated Bosnia – after nearly four years of bloodshed which left the populations bereft and embittered. The real purpose of all this, as Holbrooke made quite clear in To End a War, was to demonstrate that Europeans could not manage their own vital affairs and that the United States remained the "indispensable nation". His book also made it clear that the Muslim leaders were irritatingly reluctant to end war short of total victory, and that only the readiness of Milosevic to make concessions saved the Dayton talks from failure -- allowing Holbrooke to be proclaimed a hero. The functional role of the Holbrooke’s diplomacy was to prove that diplomacy, as carried out by Europeans, was bound to fail. His victory was a defeat for diplomacy. The spectacle of bombing plus Dayton was designed to show that only the threat or application of U.S. military might could end conflicts. Milosevic had hoped that his concessions would lead to peace and reconciliation with the United States. As it happened, his only reward for handing Holbrooke the victory of his career was to have his country bombed by NATO in 1999 in order to wrest from Serbia the province of Kosovo and prepare Milosevic’s own fall from office. Holbrooke played a prominent role in this scenario, suddently posing shoeless in a tent in the summer of 1998 for a photo op seated among armed Albanian secessionists which up to then had been characterized by the State Department as "terrorists", and shortly thereafter announcing to Milosevic that Serbia would be bombed unless he withdrew security forces from the province, in effect giving it to the ex-terrorists transformed by the Holbrooke blessing into freedom fighters. In his long career from Vietnam to Afghanistan, Holbrooke was active on many fronts. In 1977, after Indonesia invaded East Timor and set about massacring the people of that former Portuguese colony, Holbrooke was dispatched by the United States supposedly to promote "human rights" but in reality to help arm the Suharto dictatorship against the East Timorese. Sometimes the government is armed against rebels, sometimes rebels are armed against the government, but despite appearances of contradiction, what is consistent throughout is the cynical exploitation and exacerbation of tragic local conflicts to extend U.S. imperial power throughout the world. Holbrooke and Milosevic were born in the same year, 1941. When Milosevic died in 2006, Holbrooke gave a long statement to the BBC without a single syllable of human kindness. "This man wrecked the Balkans," said Holbrooke. "He was a war criminal who caused four wars, over 300,000 deaths, 2.5million homeless. Sometimes monsters make the biggest impacts on history - Hitler and Stalin - and such is the case with this gentleman." Holbrooke presented himself as goodness dealing with evil for a worthy cause. When negotiating with Milosevic, "you're conscious of the fact that you're sitting across the table from a monster whose role in history will be terrible and who has caused so many deaths." Who was the monster? Nobody, including at the Hague tribunal where he died for lack of medical treatment, has ever actually proved that Milosevic was responsible for the tragic deaths in the wars of Yugoslav disintegration. But Holbrooke was never put on trial for all the deaths in Vietnam, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and, yes, former Yugoslavia, which resulted at least in part from the U.S. policies he carried out. From his self-proclaimed moral heights, Holbrooke judged the Serbian leader as an opportunist without political convictions, neither communist nor nationalist, but simply "an opportunist who sought power and wealth for himself." In reality, there has never been any proof that Milosevic sought or obtained wealth for himself, whereas Holbrooke was, among many other things, a vice chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston, managing director of Lehman Brothers, vice chairman of the private equity firm Perseus LLC, and a member of the board of directors of AIG, the American International Group, at a time when, according to Wikipedia, "the firm engaged in wildly speculative credit default insurance schemes that may cost the taxpayer hundreds of billions to prevent AIG from bringing down the entire financial system." Milosevic was on trial for years without ever being to present his defense before he died under troubling circumstances. Holbrooke found that outcome perfectly satisfying: "I knew as soon as he reached The Hague that he'd never see daylight again and I think that justice was served in a weird way because he died in his cell, and that was the right thing to do." There are many other instances of lies and deceptions in Holbrooke’s manipulation of Balkan woes, as well as his totally cynical exploitation of the tragedies of Vietnam, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. But still, his importance should not be overstated. Moral monsters do not always make a great impact on history, when they are merely the vain instruments of a bureaucratic military machine running amok. Diana Johnstone is the author of Fools Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions. She can be reached at diana.josto@yahoo.fr Copyright © 2010 balkanstudies.org. All Rights Reserved

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Gough Whitlam, young people and public support for the arts October 21, 2014 - Latest News, Opinion Gough Whitlam’s legacy in the arts first hit me as a little indie-music nerd in the 1990s. The inner-city Sydney band The Whitlams made a funny little music video about their namesake, a bloke who was part fairy-tale, part legend, all booming voice and big character. He happily played along, announcing the band’s win at the annual Triple J Hottest 100 a few years later. What a nice bloke, I thought. Then I started to explore. Wow. Whitlam, who died this morning, age 98, had a huge influence on young people – when he was elected, and still today. His commitment to public support for the arts started before he became prime minister. As early as 1968 Whitlam, then the leader of the opposition, made key statements about the arts at the annual conference of the Professional Musicians’ Union of Australia. He was speaking in response to the then Liberal government’s arts budget. As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1968, Whitlam argued that “government intervention should be positive, not merely prohibitive”. He also asserted a belief that artists should be treated as professional and earn adequate money for their work, arguing against the “underlying if unspoken impression that artists should labour for love rather than lucre”. Not long after that speech, the Artists for Whitlam Committee emerged, a movement that included practitioners, as well as broadcasters and scholars. As Jim Davidson notes in the Journal of Australian Studies, when “an Artists for Whitlam Committee was formed; advertisements appeared in the papers, academics figuring prominently among the signatories”. The most famous part of this appeal came via the all-star cast for his 1972 Campaign, It’s Time. When in power Whitlam came good on his promises to the arts, establishing the Australian Film Commission, the Australia Council and other centralised forms of local arts support. He was also a supporter of community broadcasting and formal training and research centres such as the Australian Film, Radio and Television School (AFTRS) and the National Institute for Dramatic Arts (NIDA). Prior to these works, there was, as broadcaster Phillip Adams recalled in the 2008 documentary Not Quite Hollywood, a “great cinematic silence in Australia”. Whitlam also acknowledged the unique place of the media in democratic life, supporting a Minister for Media as well as a Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. As well as prime minister, he held the title of Minister for Environment, Aborigines and the Arts himself, establishing the Aboriginal Arts Board as a dedicated space for Indigenous artistry and distribution. A key emphasis of Whitlam’s arts policy was the development of a diverse and critical arts sector. Whitlam put his money where his mouth was – appearing in one of the Barry McKenzie’s films despite the character having claimed, only half tongue-in-cheek, that “the government’s shelling out piles of bloody mullah for bastard who reckons he can paint pictures, write poems or make films”. Whitlam also played along to support someone who would become an intergenerational international icon of Australian artistic achievement – Barry Humphries and Mrs, later to be Dame, Edna Everage. One of our greatest filmmakers, Bruce Beresford, got his start thanks to Whitlam. He was just one of many of his generation who were given support to explore telling Australian stories under tax breaks like what would become the 10BA scheme. When Whitlam was famously dismissed another great comedian was present. I am proud, and also still tickled by the fact, that Norman Gunston addressed the crowd just before Whitlam did. No-one would save the Governor General, and this type of access would set up a tradition of comedic public service forth estate engagement that is still alive and kicking. One of Whitlam’s big legacies, Australia’s internationally unique national youth network, Triple J, showed a belief in the next generation of artists, voters and citizens. It began humbly in a makeshift office in Sydney’s King Cross broadcasting as Double J, a place to celebrate local musicians. It was home to a diversity of identities including female broadcasters, young and diasporic voices. Whitlam’s influence was recalled by the station on the occasion of its 30th anniversary in 2005. Triple J is still going strong and Double J was relaunched this year. At a time when young people are bearing a heavy burden of federal budget cuts, when artistic and education funding is threatened and public broadcasters have been asked to tighten theirs belt again, it’s time to remember, thank him, and celebrate what he gave us. 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3-8 December 2016|Cape Town, South Africa About ASLM2016 About ASLM ASLM2016 Conference Report Conference Books Workshop on CD4 Testing for HIV A Celebration of African Women in Science and Global Health Home/Leadership, NCDs, Security, Speakers/A Celebration of African Women in Science and Global Health ASLM convenes people from different countries, sectors, and disciplines to find local solutions for global health threats. At ASLM2016 we are committed to combatting common global health threats together. In order to be successful, we need to continue to work together, on both a local and global scale, and make sure both men and women in science and medicine are represented equally. Yet only a third of the world’s scientific researchers are women. Despite that fact, women have made great gains in scientific leadership and research globally. In Africa the average percentage is 34%. But digging deeper, this number hides disparities on the continent: 52% of researchers in Cape Verde are women, while in Guinea that number only reaches 6%. It is clear that many challenges remain, and more work needs to be done. ASLM is taking this special opportunity to recognise women’s continued contribution to science and medicine, and have highlighted seven women from the African continent that are committed to improving laboratory medicine and combatting global health threats during the upcoming ASLM2016 conference. Matshidiso Moeti Dr. Matshidiso Moeti is the ASLM2016 Conference Opening Keynote Speaker & Global Health Security Plenary Speaker. She made history by becoming the first woman to lead the WHO Regional Office for Africa (AFRO). At the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Dr. Moeti led WHO AFRO’s efforts on treatment scale-up in the context of the ‘3 by 5’ initiative and established a regional HIV laboratory network resulting in a significant increase in the number of HIV-positive individuals accessing lifesaving antiretroviral therapy in Africa. She also successfully spearheaded the development of WHO Regional Strategies for public health priority areas, including communicable and non-communicable diseases, immunization, maternal and child health, and health systems strengthening. Wendy Stevens Professor Wendy Stevens serves as a board member for ASLM, and is the conference co-chair of ASLM2016. She holds a joint position with the South Africa National Health Laboratory Service (the largest pathology service provider in South Africa that services 80% of the population in the public sector) and the University of the Witwatersrand. She created a team that established the first HIV PCR laboratory within NHLS for providing early HIV infant diagnosis, CD4 counting, and HIV viral load testing, all based on strong scientific research and development. The ideals of laboratory strengthening and the elevation of the importance of the laboratory’s contribution in healthcare within Africa has been the goal of her lifetime of work. It is being realised with organisations internationally, such as the launch and development of ASLM, and locally in South Africa through the development of programmes such as the National Priority Programme. At ASLM2016, Professor Stevens will speak on HIV viral load testing scale-up in Africa and NHLS will sponsor multiple scientific seminar sessions. Wafaa El-Sadr Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr is Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at Columbia University. She is the founder and director of ICAP, a large school-wide centre currently working in 21 countries around the world, including sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. El-Sadr has worked closely with US government agencies, international organisations, academic institutions, community-based organisations, and civil society groups in the pursuit of responsive, inclusive, sustainable, and innovative approaches to addressing global health threats and achieving public health impact. She recently shared with ASLM that “the success of the global HIV scale-up has rested on the adoption of the public health approach, using innovative approaches to serve the most people rather than the few. The same approach embraced in the HIV response can be very instrumental in achieving success in confronting the threat of cancer in Africa.” Dr. El-Sadr will lead several conversations at ASLM2016 centred on addressing the threat of non-communicable diseases in Africa. Doreen Ramogola-Masire Dr. Ramogola-Masire trained in Obstetrics and Gynaecology prior to pursing subspecialties in Perinatal Medicine and Cervical Cancer at the University of Cape Town. Her experience with the “See and Treat” approach has been instrumental for the success of the implementation of this programme for diagnosis and treatment of pre-cervical cancer lesions in HIV-infected women in Botswana. She was recently nominated to serve in the technical working group for piloting universal ART for pregnant women in Botswana. Dr. Ramogola-Masire was appointed as the In-Country Director of the Botswana-U Penn Partnership in January 2009, and also serves as the Country Director and Lead Physician for the Women’s Health Program. At ASLM2016, she will lead sessions focused on leapfrogging to meet local needs and strengthen systems for pathology in Africa. Cheryl Cohen Dr. Cheryl Cohen is a medical doctor with a specialisation in clinical microbiology and background in epidemiology. She is co-head of the Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa. Dr. Cohen led the establishment of a national surveillance programme for severe acute respiratory infections in South Africa in 2009, and she has been instrumental in the scale-up of the African Network for Influenza Surveillance and Epidemiology (ANISE). Simultaneously, she directed the establishment of rotavirus surveillance at several sites throughout South Africa and has been intensively involved in leading the epidemiology component of a national surveillance programme. She will lead a roundtable on the topic during ASLM2016. Mah-Sere Keita Ms. Mah-Sere Keita is a public health professional with 15 years of experience managing global health programmes, particularly in the fields of public health workforce development and improving the diagnosis of infectious diseases in low-resource settings. She currently serves as the Director of Global Health Security at ASLM, and has previously held leadership positions at the Catholic Relief Services-Mali, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). Ms. Keita leads ASLM’s effort to implement a sound global health security programme for addressing infectious disease risks on the continent. She recently shared with ASLM that “building health system capacity by promoting security-strengthening and knowledge-sharing activities among laboratories will be essential to achieving GHSA goals in the African region.” She will co-chair a roundtable session at ASLM2016 focused on HIV 90-90-90 targets and HIV impact assessments. Alash’le Abimiku Professor Alash’le Abimiku serves as the Chair of the ASLM Board of Directors. She is Professor of Medicine at the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA and the Executive Director of the International Research Center of Excellence of the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria. She was the first to identify the unique nature of the HIV strain prevalent in Nigeria in 1993 as subtype G1 and later documented the adverse consequences of “mixed” feeding of African infants. In recent years, she has successfully focused her research activity on the significant laboratory capacity she developed in Africa, which includes HIV vaccine preparedness research, mother-to-child HIV transmission, and TB-HIV co-infections. We invite you to join us for ASLM2016 in Cape Town, South Africa, from 3-8 December 2016. By attending the conference, you can meet these women and many others who are committed to combatting common global health threats together. 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Art Faculty Fashion Faculty Interior Design Faculty Architecture Faculty Department Chair, Associate Professor M.F.A. Savannah College of Art & Design, B.F.A. Belmont University james.pierce@belmont.edu | 615.460.6580 Location: Leu Center for the Visual Arts 122 James Pierce began his creative career in the video industry, working with everything from local to international clients. However, he primarily worked to help non-profit clients. After over a decade worth of experience in video, he applied his expertise in motion and design and to web design and development. Prior to joining Belmont full-time in 2011, he started a company that allowed artists to create websites, without the need to know all the inter-workings of web design. James continues to design and build web applications that solve needs in the community, educational institutions and design industry. James's thesis for his MFA degree, entitled Natural User Interfaces in the Information Age, explored the history and changes in consumer-based computer interactions. He continues to research graphic and natural user interfaces and consults local entrepreneurs creating mobile and web design products. James is married to a graphic designer and has two small dogs. MFA Texas A&M University, BFA Texas Tech University dan.johnson@belmont.edu | 615.460.6779 Dan established the Design Communications program at Belmont in 1994. Dan's professional practice included time in Seattle, Washington, and Texas before relocating to Nashville to help develop Belmont's Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Dan's extensive client list includes a variety of well-known national brands and Fortune 500 companies - Passport Health, Tree Top Fruit Products, Nalley Fine Foods, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Simmon's Beds, and Nordstrom stores to name a few. A partial list of his alumni's clients and job placements includes Lucas Arts, Disney, NBA, NHL, Legends, The Masters, Vogue, Tonka, Hasbro, TRESemmé‎, Pepsi Co., Nerf, Yum! Brands, CMT, Wallace Church, Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, BBDO New York, TMA BBDO Chicago, Red Wing Shoes, Vanderbilt Sports, Torch Creative, Day 6 Creative, Webb deVlamm Chicago, Brand Extract Houston, Jett Brand Design Australia, Pilot Studio Boston, Gillette, Duracell, eafoto, Ovation, Imaginuity Dallas, Fossil, Titan's Cheerleading, Predators, Valspar Paints, Curb Records, Ghirardelli, Thermos, Aloompa, and 2008 Presidential Debates. Alumni have become principles and owners of design firms and ad agencies, locally, nationally and internationally. Many alumni have returned to teach in higher education locally and nationally. Dan is a member of AIGA and CAA. Judy Bullington, Ph.D. Ph.D. Indiana University-Bloomington, M.A. University of Kentucky
, M.S. University of Kentucky, B.A. University of Kentucky judy.bullington@belmont.edu | 615.460.6776 Dr. Judy Bullington is a Professor of Art History and, since 2007, has served as the Chair of the Department of Art at Belmont University. She earned a Ph.D. in American Art History from Indiana University at Bloomington (1997) where she completed a dissertation titled "Expanding Horizons-The Artist-As-Traveler in the Gilded Age." She has published articles on women artists and the intersections of art and travel literature in the American Art Journal, Woman's Art Journal, Prospects, Nineteenth Century Studies, and The Gazette Des Beaux Arts, among others. In 2009, Dr. Bullington appeared on the PBS show History Detectives as the result of her research on the African-American artist Thelma Johnson Streat (1911-1959). Awards include a Fulbright to teach American art at Tartu University in Estonia, a Winterthur Research Fellowship, and an NEH Summer Institute grant to study the 19thc. material culture of New York City at the Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts. She lived and taught overseas, which included being the Acting Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Bullington was previously an Assistant Professor at Western Oregon University and a Visiting Professor at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Each semester Professor Bullington teaches two courses, a survey of art history and a special topics seminar, and, every other year offers a Maymester study abroad program in Greece. In 2013, with the support of funding from the Belmont Challenge for Innovation and Technology in Teaching, Dr. Bullington implemented a pilot project called Visual Histories in Virtual Spaces. iPads were introduced into the classroom with the aim of exploring how new technologies can be used to conceptually rethink the way students learn about the histories of art. In addition to teaching, being the faculty advisor to the student organization AHA (Art History Association), and carrying out administrative responsibilities as a department chair, Professor Bullington still maintains an active professional development schedule of scholarly research and presentations at professional conferences like CAA and SECAC. "As an art historian, I am intrigued by the potential for 'new' narratives to emerge from studies that synthesize the visual, material, and garden histories of America during the formative years of the republic. Beneath every image lies a story and this is one not often told." An essay titled "Cultivating Meaning: The Chinese Manner in Early American Gardens (1763-1830)" is pending publication in an anthology on Global Trade and Visual Arts in Federal New England (2014). Currently, she is preparing a book manuscript on Imaging The Culture of Gardening in Early American Art, 1760-1830. Christine Rogers M.F.A. Tufts University, B.A. Oberlin College christine.rogers@belmont.edu | 615.460.6774 Christine Rogers is an artist from Nashville, Tennessee. She received her BA in Anthropology from Oberlin College in 2004 and her MFA in Studio Art from Tufts University in 2008. She has exhibited widely across the United States and was in a two-person show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile in the fall of 2012. She has lectured on her work across at various institutions such as Vanderbilt University, Watkins College, Chitrakala Parishath in Bangalore and Cooper Union in New York. From 2012-2103 Christine was a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Scholar completing research for her project, "Photographing Imagined Landscapes: The Switzerland of India" and her first solo show in India was in the spring of 2013 at 1 Shanthi Road Gallery in Bangalore, Karnataka. She has since shown again in Mumbai in group shows at Clark House Initiative, Project 88 and Chemould Prescott. Her work has been written about in Time Out Bengaluru, The Bangalore Mirror, The Hindu, New Landscape Photography, Hyperallergic, Dazed Digital, Burnaway, The Tennessean and the Nashville Scene. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Michelle Corvette, Ph.D. Ph.D. University of London, Goldsmiths, Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, M.F.A. New York University, B.F.A. University of Tennessee, Knoxville michelle.corvette@belmont.edu | 615.460.6771 Dr. Michelle Corvette began her creative journey in fine arts from an early age with the encouragement of her mother and father. Upon completing her undergraduate studies in Painting and Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Summa Cum Laude, Dr. Corvette pursued her MFA at NYU in Interdisciplinary Studio Art. Her passion and drive for knowledge led her to her first empirical Ph.D. where she researched students’ experiences of hindered creativity. Prior to joining Belmont’s faculty in 2016, she completed her second theoretical Ph.D. from the University of London, Goldsmiths, where she researched the legalities and implications of utilizing color in public spaces. Dr. Corvette continues to exhibit her artwork both internationally and nationally with exhibitions around the Nashville area at the First Center for the Visual Arts, Zeitgeist Gallery, and Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery. In addition to teaching and exhibiting her artwork, she is actively involved with the creation of participatory art practices by inviting collaborations with individuals, communities, and institutions. Meaghan Brady Nelson, Ph.D. Ph.D. Ohio State University, M.F.A Ohio State University, B.F.A. Washington State University meaghan.nelson@belmont.edu | 615.460.5384 Location: Leu Center for the Visual Arts 113B Dr. Meaghan Brady Nelson is an Assistant Professor of Art Education and joined the Department of Art at Belmont University in the Fall of 2018. She was an Assistant Professor of Art Education at Middle Tennessee State University from 2013-2018 and was a Visiting Professor of Art Education at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2012-2013. Dr. Brady Nelson has a BFA in painting from Washington State University, a teaching certificate from Western Washington University and both her Masters and Doctorate in Art Education were completed at The Ohio State University. Her research and service centers around the ways collaborative artmaking experiences and critical visual literary can inspire social consciousness and social responsibility, along with her multilayered identity of becoming a ‘Mothering-ArtAdemic’. Her work has been published both nationally and internationally and as a painter, she keeps an active studio practice. Dr. Brady Nelson has been fortunate to have taught in a variety of settings with a multitude of subject and curriculum since 2000. These settings include the university level, public school classroom teacher, art specialist and in museums and community settings. Her ultimate goal as an educator is to empower students to use their knowledge in order to engage with their community and the greater world through teaching and service. She is an advocate of Service-Learning and has worked to include this as an element in all her courses here at Belmont. As the executive collaborative creator of the Kids Arts Festival of Tennessee, she is dedicated to community arts-based service in the Nashville area. The Kids Arts Festival of Tennessee is the first arts festival in the state of Tennessee that is fully designed for children and youth. Due to grants, she has secured, the annual event has registered increased funding which allows it to remain free to attendees and to grow in scope each year with attendance reaching over 6000. Dr. Brady Nelson lives in Franklin with her supportive husband and their two daughters. Lecturer, Leu Art Gallery Director M.F.A. University of South Carolina-Columbia katie.mitchell@belmont.edu | 615.460.5476 Katie Mitchell is a Tennessee native. After completing her BFA in studio arts at Belmont, she then migrated to the University of South Carolina in Columbia to pursue an MFA in Painting. Most recently, she was selected as a participant in the Contemporary Chinese Art Institute sponsored by the Confucius Institute of Western Kentucky University. When she is not busy teaching, running around the studio, or working in the gallery, she delights in life's seemingly insignificant moments! For more information on Katie Mitchell, visit katie-boatman.com Casey Schachner M.F.A. University of Montana, B.F.A. Baylor University casey.schachner@belmont.edu Casey Schachner is an Assistant Professor of 3D/Fine Art joining the Department of Art at Belmont University in the Fall of 2019. She received her BFA in Sculpture from Baylor University and her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Montana. Casey was born and raised in the southeast United States, growing up in Florida and coastal South Carolina. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, ranging from temporary site-specific installations to permanent public artworks. In 2011, she served as an Artist in Residence at the University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art in Cortona, Italy, where her solo exhibition "Panni Stesi: The Laundry Series" was shown in collaboration with the Commune di Cortona and the Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca. She was selected as an Artist in Residence at the Carving Studio & Sculpture Center (CSSC) on the grounds of Vermont’s West Rutland marble quarries. In 2017, she was selected as the UM Emerging Artist for Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild (BPSW), an International Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Montana. In 2018, she exhibited at the Public Art Exhibition on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, where she received a People's Choice award. Casey served as Co-Director of FrontierSpace Gallery, a nonprofit contemporary art gallery space in Missoula, Montana. Casey currently lives in Nashville, TN with her husband and their two dogs. CaseySchachner.com M.F.A. Kansas State University, B.F.A. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania brandon.williams@belmont.edu Brandon Williams was born in Easton, PA with an inherent passion for art. While pursuing art academically, his interests in precise drawing, attention to detail and processes, led him to printmaking. He enjoys the diversity of the medium along with its challenging technical difficulties and surprising results. He specializes specifically in intaglio where he creates prints with contemporary techniques, approaches, and imagery focusing on the competition between the built environment and the natural environment. He received his BFA from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in 2013, and his MFA from Kansas State University in 2017. He has held previous teaching positions at Kansas State University and Oklahoma State University. Recently, he was an Artist in Residence and Visiting Artist at Emmanuel College in Boston, MA. His prints have been shown extensively nationally and internationally in both invitational and competitive juried exhibitions. Some works have been published, won awards, and are in permanent and private collections. He continues to uphold an active and engaged studio art practice by creating/exhibiting prints, completing artist residencies, and giving demonstration and lectures about his art. You can view more at brandonwilliamsart.com and meet him in person at a conference or in the studio where he spends his free time.

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Trump’s Claim That He ‘Saved’ Preex Conditions ‘Part Fantasy, Part Delusion’ “I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your healthcare.” — Donald Trump on Jan. 13, 2020, in a tweet This story was produced in partnership with PolitiFact. This story can be republished for free (details). President Donald Trump attempted to take credit for one of the most popular elements of the Affordable Care Act: Its protection for people who have preexisting medical conditions. “I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your healthcare,” Trump tweeted Monday. The protection for people with medical problems has been a rallying cry for Democrats, and they used the issue to help propel their widespread election victories in 2018. Trump repeatedly has sought to align himself with this issue — in May, for instance, claiming he would “always protect patients with preexisting conditions.” We rated that claim False. His reelection campaign has made similar claims, which experts debunked. Trump’s recent claim that he “saved” that guarantee of coverage adds a new twist, though. We contacted the White House to find out the basis for this statement. Judd Deere, a White House spokesman, told us, “President Trump has repeatedly stated his commitment to protect individuals with preexisting conditions and his track record shows that he has consistently done what is necessary to improve care for the vulnerable.” Deere also pointed us to a range of other policy initiatives — such as efforts on kidney health, approving generic drugs and loosening restrictions on short-term health plans. But none of those addressed the basis of Trump’s tweet. The health policy experts we consulted, however, were unambiguous: The president’s claim has no factual basis and flies in the face of his ongoing policy efforts. “I feel like we’re being gas-lit,” said Linda Blumberg, a health economist at the Urban Institute. “You can’t tell me you’re the savior of people with preexisting conditions when every single thing you’ve said or done is the opposite of that.” (Gaslighting means manipulating the telling of events in such a way it leads people to question their recollections.) This skepticism persisted across the political spectrum. “That’s a rather extended version of aspirational rhetoric short of any evidence,” said Tom Miller, a resident fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. The Preexisting Condition Protection Under the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, health insurance plans cannot charge people higher prices because they have a medical condition. This protection has been intact since the law took effect, under then-President Barack Obama. As a 2016 candidate, Trump promised to repeal and replace the health law. That came to a head in 2017, when the law came within one vote in the Senate of being undone. “That tweet is part fantasy, part delusion, part politics and all lie,” said Jonathan Oberlander, a health policy professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. “The president is lying about preexisting conditions. He supported, and continues to support, efforts to repeal the ACA that would take those consumer protections away.” After that effort, Blumberg said, the president boasted that he had dismantled Obamacare — which is not only untrue, but, she added, confused many consumers. Since then, the president has maintained his desire to undo the ACA and replace it with something new. Neither his administration nor congressional Republicans have yet offered a replacement plan. None of the bills they have endorsed would maintain the guarantees of coverage for people with medical problems. “By supporting repeal of the ACA, they’re supporting repeal of protecting preexisting condition prohibitions,” Robert Berenson, another analyst at the Urban Institute, previously told us. Texas V. Azar Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s work elsewhere could undo the protection. A group of Republican-led states are suing to have the entire ACA dismantled. Their argument stems from a law Trump signed: the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. That law gutted the individual mandate — the ACA’s requirement that everyone have coverage or pay a penalty — by reducing the penalty to $0. Kaiser Health News, “Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Portion Of Obamacare,” Dec. 18, 2019. Kaiser Health News, “What Would Happen If The ACA Went Away?” Dec. 16, 2019. Kaiser Health News/PolitiFact, “Team Trump Says Administration’s Action On Health Care ‘Is Working.’ Is It?” Jan. 13, 2020. Kaiser Health News/PolitiFact, “Trump’s talk on preexisting conditions doesn’t match his administration’s actions,” May 16, 2019. Email interview with Jonathan Oberlander, professor and chair of social medicine at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Jan. 14, 2020. Telephone interview with Linda Blumberg, a fellow at the Urban Institute Health Policy Center, Jan. 14, 2020. Telephone interview with Robert Berenson, a fellow at the Urban Institute, Jan. 2, 2020. Telephone interview with Thomas Miller, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Jan. 14, 2020. Email interview with Judd Deere, Executive Office of the President, Jan. 14, 2020. In this case, known as Texas v. Azar, the Republican states are arguing that the individual mandate was central to the ACA and that, without it, the entire law must be taken down. That would include the protections for people with preexisting conditions. The administration has declined to defend the law in court, a move legal analysts have called almost unprecedented. The case is widely expected to go to the Supreme Court. Since the White House has unveiled no replacement, striking the law would leave a policy vacuum, allowing health plans to revert to discriminating against people with medical issues. Miller argued that the still-pending court case and previous repeal efforts don’t necessarily mean there’s any imminent threat of the president gutting the ACA’s preexisting condition protections. “For pure public opinion purposes, you want to say you’re protecting against preexisting condition protections,” Miller said. “Does he know how to do it? No. Is he doing anything trying to change it? Not really.” But others noted that the administration’s stance is firmly against maintaining the ACA’s prohibitions. “The Democrats have correctly said the Trump administration has in fact opposed protections for preexisting conditions by endorsing the lawsuit,” Berenson said. Our Ruling Trump tweeted that he “was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your healthcare.” The president had nothing to do with the ban on health insurance plans discriminating against people with preexisting conditions. This consumer protection is a core part of the health care law that became law during the Obama presidency. Trump has expressly supported the repeal of this law without offering a replacement that would keep the protection intact. And to this day, his administration is arguing in court that the law — including this provision — should be undone. The president’s tweet is not only untrue, but it misrepresents his administration’s efforts to repeal the health care law without offering any replacement that might maintain its core protections. We rate this claim Pants on Fire. SOURCE: Insurance – Kaiser Health News – Read entire story here. Team Trump Says Administration’s Action On Health Care ‘Is Working.’ Is It? With the 2020 election months away, President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is touting his health care record as a key reason voters should grant him another term. Those talking points were distilled in a Dec. 31 social media post from Team Trump, the campaign’s official Twitter account, and again in a post on Monday from the president’s account. It represents messaging the president will likely repeat, especially as polls consistently show health care is a top concern for voters. The December tweet advanced five specific achievements. .@realDonaldTrump healthcare policy is working: ✅Healthcare access expanded & costs down ✅Obamacare individual mandate... One-On-One With Trump’s Medicare And Medicaid Chief: Seema Verma This story also ran on PBS NewsHour. This story can be republished for free (details). Seema Verma, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, sat down for a rare one-on-one interview with Kaiser Health News senior correspondent Sarah Varney. They discussed her views on President Donald Trump’s plan for sustaining public health insurance programs, how the administration would respond if Obamacare is struck down by the courts in the future and her thoughts on how the latest “Medicare for All” proposals would affect innovation and access to care. A portion of their conversation aired on PBS NewsHour... Addressing the emotional toll of pediatric chronic conditions Report calls upon pediatricians to increase efforts to support emotional health of parents of children with chronic conditions.... Judges Question Why Trump’s Ban On Immigrants Who Don’t Have Health Care Doesn’t Contradict Congress’ Will Under federal law, legal immigrants are eligible for government-funded health care. During arguments the three-judge panel questioned why President Donald Trump was allowed to overrule that legislation with his ban.... Genetic Variants are not an Important Risk Factor in the Vast Majority of People and Age-Related Conditions This is an age of genetics, in which the costs of obtaining and working with genetic data have dropped by orders of magnitude, while the capabilities of the tools and technologies have expanded to a similar degree. Give the scientific community a hammer, and a great many parts of the field start to look like a nail. Thus there are innumerable studies of genetics and longevity, genetics and specific age-related diseases, and so forth. There is considerable interest in trying to find out whether there is a genetic contribution to survival to extreme old age, and then using this...

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Cell & Molecular Diet and Lifestyle Game.Ball Game Software & Programming Game.math Wolf Reik: Elucidating Epigenetics in Early Mammalian Embryos Parent Category: Cancer by Monya Baker The Babraham Institute researcher discusses ELF5, needed technological advancements and the next steps for his research Wolf Reik studies at the Babraham Institute at the University of Cambridge. In a recent review,1 he and colleagues discussed how pivotal epigenetic regulators nudge cells into lineage decisions. Nature Reports Stem Cells talked to him about his work and philosophy as a scientist. How did you become a scientist? I had already trained as a physician. I was interested in treating people, but it wasn't the kind of intellectual stimulation that I was looking for. It was more or less by accident that I went to a lecture by Rudolf Jaenisch, who was in Hamburg at the time. I was just totally mesmerized. So I visited his lab, and I asked, "Can I do a postgraduate degree here?" He said, "We don't want medics here", knowing full well what he said because he's a medic himself, but after a little bit of talking he said, "Fine, you can try". And then you came to the UK to work with Azim Surani. After finishing my degree, I wanted to learn more about mammalian embryology, so I decided to come to England because at that time that's where the major mammalian embryologists were working. I came across Azim and was hooked from the word go about this imprinting business, which was completely mysterious. He told me I had to figure out the molecular mechanism. My impression is that Jaenisch is really excitable and Surani is really calm. What was it like working in their labs? I was really fortunate because I learned science done in quite different ways. Rudolf gets excited. He immediately has the whole thing in his head. 'This is how it works, and these are the experiments that we need to do, and this is a big thing.' And it's great because it gives you that kind of energy to push forward, and I enjoyed that very, very much. And then I experienced a very contrasting way of doing things. Azim is very, very thoughtful. He will think through things multiple times, and will do that with you. And that's a way of figuring out where you can go wrong. We have good ideas and bad ideas, and we have many more bad ideas than good ideas [laughs]. And one thing that's really important in doing good science is getting to the bottom of that. If you chase all your ideas equally hard, you can waste an awful lot of resources. And so the ability to talk yourself out of experiments can be very valuable. So I think that I learned two very important things: get excited and think again. Is that the advice you would give a new scientist? Yes, but there's another principle. It's not all about good and bad ideas; it's about whether you like them or you don't like them, whether intuitively you agree with them. You have to keep your own excitement and motivation. Okay, let's talk about the subject of your review: epigenetics in very early embryos. The differentiation mechanisms that are at play when the trophectoderm separates from the inner cell mass, are those the same mechanisms that are at play in further lineage decisions? There is a paper that is very central to this review1, where our concepts come from, that [was] published last year in Nature Cell Biology by myself and Myriam Hemberger2; she works on placenta and extra embryonic lineages. When she arrived at the institute, we put our heads together. Myriam had found that if you take mouse ES [embryonic stem] cells and you give them culture conditions so that they should develop into so-called trophoblast tissue, or placenta tissues, they won't do so. They have a block. They will only differentiate into embryonic-type tissues. It's as if they've undergone one type of decision already, which does not allow them to make trophoblast. This question started to fascinate Myriam and myself and also another collaborator, Wendy Dean. And Myriam discovered if you used methylation-deficient ES cells, they can very happily differentiate into trophoblasts. And that made us think that it was DNA methylation in ES cells that's the epigenetic signal to lock them into that process. And we carried out a genomewide screen, MeDIP-chip [methylation DNA immunoprecipitation] kind of stuff, and we found to our great surprise and delight that there was a single gene that was methylated in ES cells and not in trophoblast cells. Was this Elf5? This was Elf5. And our collaborative team went on to show that Elf5 is a very important part of a transcription factor network. You've heard of the Nanong-Oct4-Sox2 embryonic transcription network — Elf5 is part of a similar kind of network of extra-embryonic transcription factors, and what's unusual about Elf5 is that it's epigenetically regulated in a very black-and-white way by DNA methylation. Is Elf5 the first in a class of gatekeepers for differentiation? That's what we think. There could be a whole class of gatekeepers for different lineages. It's a very exciting concept I think. How does this explain how cells decide to go into a lineage? There's a huge amount of exciting work out there addressing that question, but we're still not completely sure how it works. It seems that in very early embryos, these master regulator transcription factors seem to be expressed stochastically. Sometimes there is a cell that expresses one of them, sometimes there's another combination of transcription factors [and so forth]. It looks almost — random is the wrong word — but we think that a stochastic process could actually be the outcome of major epigenetic reprogramming that is going on beforehand. Because the demethylation and histone marks are being removed? Exactly. So maybe there is a kind of ground-state situation where not many epigenetic marks are there, and so perhaps it's that ground state that lets these genes be expressed in a kind of stochastic, fluctuating way. And then what happens? Do the right combinations somehow come up and things start falling into place? That's the key question. I think some of the combinations, if they occur in the same cell, will reinforce each other in a kind of positive feedback circuitry. But how does Elf5 get methylated in the first place? This we don't know. That's the next big question. That's were the limits of the concept are at this time. How does the epigenetic system interact with all the other things that are going on at this time? Is there a technology that the field really needs to develop? One of the technologies that is desperately needed, which various labs are working on, including ourselves, is to be able to do the genomewide epigenetic profiling in small numbers of cells. We're using ES cells and TS [trophoblast stem] cells. We also use [these cell types] as a proxy for the the parts of a blastocyst: for inner cell mass cells, for trophectoderm cells. If you know how many cells are in a blastocyst, we're talking about tens of cells, less. The current epigenetic methods that we all use need a million cells. Also needed is, the conditional knockout, where you deal with the wild-type situation for some time and then you hit it at the right time and in the right cell type with an enzyme that excises your gene, you go [from] a wild-type condition to a mutant condition in a very controlled, specific way. These are great, but the tools for manipulating them at exactly the right time in exactly the right cell type are still somewhat clunky. We still need to refine those tools. Another area is live imaging. There are other very important things that go on in a cell. How are things arranged in the nucleus? How do genes move around in the nucleus? Maybe to transcription factories? And for this we need to be able to look into the cell nucleus with a very powerful microscope in a live cell. Why don't pluripotent stem cells persist into adulthood? There is no such thing, that we know [of], as a self-renewing pluripotent cell that is just sitting there in an embryo. They very quickly do things and they cease to be pluripotent, and so it's quite an interesting thing to ask: What's different about those cells compared to the cells that are established in culture, which have this property of limitless self-renewal? The answer is probably epigenetic. ES cells, in order to adapt to culture and have this amazing property of self-renewal, must undergo epigenetic changes that we don't understand at this point in time. But they are probably locked into circuitry, whereas in vivo there isn't such a lock. In vivo, there are probably feed-forward loops that don't allow cells to stay in this state forever. Source: Nature This news service is provided by Good Samaritan Institute, located in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. WE PUBLISH PEER_REVIEWED SCIENCE GSI is a non-profit dedicated to the advancement of medical research by improving communication among scientists.

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Andreotti, G.; Cubellis, M. V.; Nitti, G.; Sannia, G.; Mai, X.; Marino, G.; Adams, M. W. Characterization of aromatic aminotransferases from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus litoralis Eur J Biochem The hyperthermophilic archaeon (formerly archaebacterium) Thermococcus litoralis grows at temperatures up to 98 degrees C using peptides and proteins as the sole sources of carbon and nitrogen. Cell-free extracts of the organism contained two distinct types of aromatic aminotransferases (EC 2.6.1.57) which were separated and purified to electrophoretic homogeneity. Both enzymes are homodimers with subunit masses of approximately 47 kDa and 45 kDa. Using 2-oxoglutarate as the amino acceptor, each catalyzed the pyridoxal-5'-phosphate-dependent transamination of the three aromatic amino acids but showed virtually no activity towards aspartic acid, alanine, valine or isoleucine. From the determination of Km and kcat values using 2-oxoglutarate, phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan as substrates, both enzymes were shown to be highly efficient at transaminating phenylalanine (kcat/Km approximately 400 s-1 mM-1); the 47-kDa enzyme showed more activity towards tyrosine and tryptophan compared to the 45-kDa one. Kinetic analyses indicated a two-step mechanism with a pyridoxamine intermediate. Both enzymes were virtually inactive at 30 degrees C and exhibited maximal activity between 95-100 degrees C. They showed no N- terminal sequence similarity with each other (approximately 30 residues), nor with the complete amino acid sequences of aromatic aminotransferases from Escherichia coli and rat liver. The catalytic properties of the two enzymes are distinct from bacterial aminotransferases, which have broad substrate specificities, but are analogous to two aromatic aminotransferases which play a biosynthetic role in a methanogenic archaeon. In contrast, it is proposed that one or both play a catabolic role in proteolytic T. litoralis in which they generate glutamate and an arylpyruvate. These serve as substrates for glutamate dehydrogenase and indolepyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase in a novel pathway for the utilization of aromatic amino acids.

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The 2020 Townsend Prize for Fiction On Thursday, April 23, 2020, lovers of literary fiction throughout the state will gather together to celebrate the works of the ten authors chosen as finalists for this biennium’s awarding of the Townsend Prize for Fiction. The reception and award ceremony will take place at the historic DeKalb History Center in downtown Decatur from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The finalists for the 2020 award represent the very best achievements in letters by Georgia writers over the course of the preceding two years, reflecting the prize’s celebration of the Southern voice in all its intricacies and incarnations. The list of finalists is as follows: Brass by Xhenet Aliu The Wrong Heaven by Amy Bonnaffons The Day’s Heat by Roberta George The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray The Vain Conversation by Anthony Grooms Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal Wild Milk by Sabrina Orah Mark Dixie Luck by Andy Plattner Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro As in previous years, the 2020 award ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. with a catered reception with bar and live music. The evening’s program will begin at 7 p.m., followed by the celebration’s keynote address from Patrick Ryan, acclaimed author of the short story collection The Dream Life of Astronauts, the novel Send Me, and three novels for young adults. The winner of the 2020 Townsend Prize for Fiction will be announced toward the end of the program. ADMISSION, REGISTRATION, & PAYMENT Physical tickets will not be issued for this event. Registration and payment for admission to the reception and award ceremony will be available online only from March 1 through April 16. Admission to this year’s event will not be allowed at the door, so be sure to register and pay before the April 16 deadline. Prices for admission are as follows: Early-bird registration: March 1 though 31 Individual seating: $30 (1 guest) 8-person table seating: $240 (8 guests) 10-person table seating: $300 (10 guests) Late-registration: April 1 through 16 Instructions for registering a table of eight or ten people all sitting together will be available on the registration and payment site. Please remember to enter the full name of each person sitting at a table when registering. With a legacy of more than a quarter century, the Townsend Prize is the state of Georgia’s oldest and most prestigious literary award. The 2020 celebration will mark the thirty-eighth year of the award’s existence, and the twenty-first awarding of the prize. “This is my view. I am not a profound person, . . . but I believe my characters are. I think my principle responsibility is to find the profundity in my characters, and if I find that, and if I share that, then I would hope that the reader would see something in it that applies to their thinking and their consideration of what life is really all about.” —Terry Kay 2004 Townsend Prize Winner Townsend Prize Sponsors DeKalb Library Foundation Georgia Center for the Book GSU Foundation The Atlanta Writers Club The Chattahoochee Review

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Adult Recognition: by the Dallas Diocese Catholic Committee on Scouting The Diocese of Dallas Catholic Committee on Scouting (DDCCS) annually presents three levels of recognition for adults: The first level of recognition is a Certificate of Merit. It's a diocesan recognition for a job well done. The second is the Bronze Pelican: a diocesan award recognizing contributions to Catholic Scouting. The third is the St. George Emblem: a national recognition approved by the National Catholic Committee on Scouting. This award is given to individuals who have made significant or substantial contributions to the Catholic scouting program in the Diocese of Dallas. We present these awards at the annual DDCCS Youth and Adult Award ceremony. These awards may be presented to any adult who is working in the Boy Scout program under Catholic auspices, as well as to Catholics in Boy Scout units not chartered by the church, and to those who have made a significant contribution to Scouting in the field of Catholic relationships. It can be given to men, women, priests, religious, or non-Catholics. Nominations must be received by December 1 of the current year. Services that Qualify a Person for these Awards The purpose of this program is to recognize the recipient’s outstanding contribution to the spiritual development of the Catholic youth in the program of the Boy Scouts of America. Here are some examples; award recipients often do several of these. Promotes the Religious Emblems Programs for Catholic boys and serves as a Trained Religious Emblems Counselor. Encourages non-Catholic boys to participate in the Religious Emblems Program of their faith. Notable service in promoting Catholic activities and service projects for the church and willingness to serve on like committees. Active participant in and instrumental in having others participate in the Catholic Scouter Development program, Boy Scout and Cub Scout Retreat and other activities of the DDCCS. Outstanding service in promoting and participating in Scout Sunday observance. Notable service in bringing Scouting to more boys under Catholic auspices. Assists parishes and Catholic organizations in recruiting Scoutmasters and other key leaders. Responsible for Catholic boys being transported to Mass at camporees and summer camps and providing for spiritual needs of the non-Catholics within these groups. Instrumental in organizing and assisting diocesan programs and promoting the full Scout program in all parishes including multiple units where needed. Making a significant contribution to Scouting in the field of Catholic relationships. Through the Catholic press and other communication media, create a better understanding of the aims and ideals of Scouting by clergy and laity. Gives leadership in promoting Scouting for all boys regardless of race or creed and instrumental in organizing Scout units in the inner city and ghettos. Any other activity that promotes Scouting under Catholic auspices or encourages a youth to recognize his proper place before God. Please complete our online nomination form: Nominate an Adult for Recognition Now If you wish to send a letter of recommendation along with your nomination, please email it to Dennis O'Hara Last updated: November 3, 2016

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Alarm Over GM Crops Grows Silvia Ribeiro Mexico remains in red alert following the ambitious attempts of Monsanto and other multinationals to win government approval for the planting of 2.5 million hectares of transgenic corn in the crop’s center of origin. The solicitation calls for planting more than half of these acres with the same type of corn that has been shown to cause cancer in rats. But resistance is also growing stronger day by day—both inside and outside of Mexico, voices are rising in indignation at this outrage against the very heart of our cultures, health, food, biodiversity and nature. There are now so many denunciations of GM maize, through campaigns with thousands of signatures, radial protests, workshops, forums, meetings, in social and print media, and petitions by artists, activists and scientists, that it is difficult to keep a count of all the protests. Numerous letters have been sent to the government demanding a ban on GM maize, along with pressure on the United Nations to act to protect the crop’s center of origin, biodiversity and farmers' rights. And with good reason. As the artist Lila Downs notes on her website: "If the government of Mexico allows this historic crime, GMOs will quickly reach the tortillas and everyday food of the entire Mexican population, since corn from the states soliciting permission to plant transgenics supplies the majority of the cities in the country. Additionally, genetic contamination of locally adapted landrace varieties will be inevitable. This signifies very serious damage to over 7000 years of indigenous and peasant labor which created corn--one of the three most important crops for feeding the world " (citing Veronica Villa of ETC, www.etcgroup.org). Within a few hours of publication, more than 6000 people had replicated Lila Downs’ webpage. Fundamentally, maize, in its many manifestations, is like the skin of the Mesoamericans. Everyone reacts to the feeling of being threatened. Corn is like skin, but at the same time it is deeper, in the heart, mind, creativity, history, from the ancestors. And it is in economies, the sharing of food, in poems, music, art, knowledge, popular wisdom, and in scientific studies. The Union of Scientists Committed to Society (UCCS) circulated a petition against the planting of transgenic corn in Mexico which now has been signed by more than 2,500 scientists, researchers and experts from Mexico and around the world, including two Nobel laureates and dozens of scientists with major national awards (www.uccs.mx/doc/g/planting-gmo-corn_es). In support of this petition, on November 27 several global networks of scientists (including UCCS, European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER), International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES), as well as international organizations including the Third World Network and Grain) published a summary of arguments, titled “GM Maize in Mexico: An irreversible path away from agricultural biodiversity, farmer livelihoods and the right to food within the center of origin of maize” (available in English http://www.grain.org/article/entries/4622-gm-maize-in-mexico-an-irrevers...). This report raises awareness of the deep scientific, legal, social and economic concerns associated with GMOs and points to the need to stop all planting of GM maize (experimental, pilot or commercial) in Mexico. In an open letter to the Mexican government, the UCCS explains that the combined evidence is strong enough to necessitate a precautionary policy and a ban on the commercial release of transgenic varieties of maize in Mexico, its center of origin. They note that despite many scientific arguments against the release of GMOs, the Calderon administration unlawfully rushed the planting of transgenic maize. Taking on the risk of GM corn cannot be justified by the argument that the country has a maize deficit, as there is evidence that the Mexican countryside has the resources necessary to achieve self-sufficiency in maize using public, non-GM technology. Grain has also published the analytical document “Alarm! Avalanche of GM in Mexico” (www.grain.org), which is essential to understanding the situation and fight against GM corn. Mexico can be seen as the focal point of an attack by Monsanto and other biotech transnationals, who are also at war with other Latin American countries. This attack was one of the main drivers of the coup in Paraguay, and involves pressures to allow GM maize in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Bolivia and other countries. As Grain explains, the multinationals’ attach is an attempt to control the market and eliminate the independent production of food and rural economies. At the time of this writing, all evidence indicates that Felipe Calderon failed to keep his word to Monsanto to authorize millions of hectares of GM maize. This is a direct result of massive social opposition. But the secretary of the environment, Juan Elvira Quesada, took a preemptive strike to facilitate authorization: a few days before leaving office, he changed the internal rules of Semarnat so that they no longer are required to take into account the advice of their own experts (!). It has reached the point that the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), the National Institute of Ecology (INE) and the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (Conanp) have given opinions against the release of GM maize. Along with this and other aberrations, Calderon's outgoing proposal to privatize communal ejidal property, the nucleus of the Zapatista revolution, is part of a vast attack on peasant life, against the cultural, economic and alimentary base of the country, in order to favor multinationals. But as numerous struggles have shown, Zapata lives in his people and his land--and also in the native corn that feeds them. * ETC Group researcher Translated by Alice Brooke

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Custodian Productions Feature Music Finding Consciousness: How Ycee Got Over Posted on November 7, 2019 by Ugochukwu Ikeakor Ycee is the rare rapper who has found mainstream fame. He captured the streets and our hearts with early releases, Omo Alhaji and Jagaban. Juice was also a massive hit. That said, things have been on the low for the University of Lagos graduate. He has been on the receiving end of the negative stick of the music industry over the past year but he counts the experience as a lesson; an opportunity to reflect, make the needed changes and create a sound that will keep him at the level he belongs to. On getting to our meeting point – the CCX lounge in Victoria Island, I call his number. He picks up and directs me to the table where he’s chilling with Lord Vino and A-Q this Sunday evening. We exchange pleasantries and he asks that I allow him round up the conversation. A few minutes later, he joins me at my table to discuss the creative process behind his new album, his experience running his own label, why he speaks out on social issues and his growth as an artiste. He politely declined to talk about his former label but emphasized that his focus is on his new album, Ycee Vs Zaheer, a body of work that best describes him as a rapper and singer. Our conversation, loosely edited for clarity, follows below. You seem to have found your voice in expressing your views on issues. What inspired this? I will say it has been a shift in my person because of the transition from being an artist signed to a label to an independent artist. That transition comes with a lot of responsibility and it has influenced how I see things. When it comes to social issues in Nigeria, a lot of artists or celebrities tend to shy away from it, to avoid saying something wrong. But I have realized that if you fail to speak against something, you’re already speaking in favour of it with your silence. I decided I will be among the group that will speak out and hopefully influences someone to do better. What brought you to this place as a person? The fact that I don’t practice activism through my music because my music is strictly pop doesn’t change the fact that I have a voice and a large following online. So, I owe it to myself to say something positive to shape the minds of people that are looking up to me. The older I get, I realize I am responsible for the future I want to see in Nigeria. If I can’t speak about it in my music, I will talk about it on social media. What are the two social issues that are important to you and you’d want it to be addressed? Number one will have to be illiteracy. A lot of children in Nigeria are out of school and they don’t have access to good primary and secondary education. We don’t recognize this issue especially in the highbrow areas of Lagos like VI (Victoria Island) where we are at the moment. Because a lot of us on this side of town are comfortable and well to do, we don’t care about it because it doesn’t affect us. The numbers are increasing before we know it, they will form the next generation. This will pose a bigger problem in the future. Another issue I am vocal about is women’s rights. In this part of the world there is a lot of unlearning that needs to happen before women are respected and treated the way they should be treated. Slowly and surely, we are getting some positive responses in that light. But, hopefully, in the next five years, I want to see a lot of improvement in how we treat women here. A lot has happened between the time Ycee was first introduced to the world and now, did you reflect all these experiences in your new album? I will say there are subtle references to all I have faced and have been through musically – relationships, business relationships, life and everything in general. Music is an escape for what I am facing in my day to day life. So being in a position where I have to put out an album and infuse a part of myself into the album, is one of the things I am very proud of making music. Ycee vs Zaheer will reflect a bit of my struggles, experiences, and triumphs. What was the creative process behind Ycee vs Zaheer? The main thing that drove me towards making this album was the conversations and questions about me being a singer or a rapper. Some people said Ycee doesn’t rap. So the creative process behind this album was to make people have a better understanding of who I am as an artist. I am Ycee and will always be Ycee until I stop making music. But Zaheer is an identity that was created to make people better understand who Ycee is. Ycee is a rapper and singer but to create a better understanding, Ycee is a singer and Zaheer is the rapper on this album. So when you hear me singing or rapping in a song, you can easily identify the part of me that you’re listening to. This album will be a blend of rapping and singing. There will be songs that I will be singing that has the Afrobeats vibes, the elements people have come to recognize me with over the years. While Zaheer will be everything rap and hip hop. Should we expect a lot of rap songs from Ycee vs Zaheer or a balance between both? I will say expect more rap songs than you’ve ever heard from Ycee. In the entirety of my career, I don’t think I have put out as many rap songs as there are on the album. Who are the artists you worked with on this project? Ms. Banks, Phyno, Davido, Niniola and Dapo Turbna. What has your experience been running your label? The first and major thing is there is a larger amount of responsibility. From being in a label where all you have to do is make and create music. Then I had a lot less to worry about, but now I am a lot more involved in everything that has to do with my music, the business and the financial part of it. I have decisions to make about my music. Now I have to think about the direction for my music, come up with ideas and strategies. I am fully involved in everything that is happening. It has been a very welcoming and learning experience for me. It’s been very pivotal for me because I am at a point in my life where I am transitioning from a young adult to a grown man. So having my own business to worry about and cater for, has also helped shape my sense of responsibilities. It hasn’t been easy, but it has been very fruitful. I am learning a lot more, growing and it can only get better. What do you think is the state of hip hop in Nigeria? Right now hip-hop in Nigeria has come to the same thing we see every year. There is a period where everything is all quiet and a bit of conversation on social media, a couple of disses and people taking shots at each other. At the end of the year, it is always the same end product. But I think what the hip-hop industry needs in Nigeria, is people that understand the sound and package that sound in a way that can appeal to the Nigerian fans. The more people understand this, we can see more returns to hip hop music. Hip hop should be able to put money in the pockets of artists that are making this kind of music. Once we see that happening we can have more growth in listenership and an increase in the number of people doing hip hop in Nigeria. What will your album Ycee vs Zaheer add to the conversation about hip-hop in Nigeria? With my new album, I am bringing my craft, by making hip hop music the way I feel it should be made in Nigeria. It doesn’t necessarily have to be indigenous rap like what Olamide and Phyno do. Ycee vs Zaheer is all about things that people will relate to when they listen to the album they can connect with it because we share the same experiences. Hip-hop music in Nigeria has produced superstars like 2Shotz, MI, Ice Prince and Naeto C. Who were all commercially successful. What changed this trend and what can be done about it? I think at this point Afrobeats is the most important thing people are listening to from this part of the world. The fact that Afrobeats has become a global force in the music scene, has seen the emergence of more Afrobeats artists as bigger stars than other artists that make other kinds of music. This is not just about Nigeria, it is the same thing across Africa. The biggest artists in Africa are Afrobeats artists. So that pushed a lot of people to start making Afrobeats songs because if you want to get international recognition you have to make the kind of music Wizkid or Davido are making. As this happened a lot of people started paying less attention to every other genre and more attention to Afrobeats. It has gotten to the point where the rest of the world sees any music coming from Africa as Afrobeats. Back then we had these hip-hop superstars because we had a lot of people with a better understanding of the hip-hop industry running things, handling things, being in positions to push finances to these projects. Presently, most people want to finance the next Afrobeats star. The only way for things to change is for someone to come in, invest in pushing hip-hop which is an aspect of Nigerian music to the level of Afrobeats. Until people are ready to make that investment, financially this conversation about hip hop music in Nigeria will not change, because that is the most important thing when making music. The talent might be there, but when you don’t have the right financial resources you can’t push the music. The resources need to be made available to the hip hop artists, hip-hop producers, and hip-hop labels. You’ve done so well in staying off the conversation about the on-going rap beefs in Nigeria. What do you think about rap beefs? Rap beefs are detrimental right now. The industry on its own is not strong enough to stand. Why should we be fighting amongst ourselves? In the grand scheme of things, we have a bigger job to do, in the sense that we all need to work together, we need to collaborate. Our fan base needs to tie into each other so that our music can get to the level it should get to. I don’t get into beef that has nothing to do with me, because there is no need for me to respond to any situations. I am a good guy, I don’t have a problem with anyone. But will only respond when someone has an issue with me. We are at the point where we should be building together and not bring each other down. What are your thoughts on rap cyphers? Rap cyphers are a very important aspect of the culture, not just in Nigeria, but everywhere in the world; it’s a pivotal part of hip hop music. It is one of the avenues for showcasing rap talent. Big shout out to brands like Hennessy and Martell that are actively putting money behind the creation of these cyphers. I feel it’s a welcome addition, those are the conversations we should be having. Not about beef and social media clout. Who are your favourite hip-hop producers to work with? Beats by Kamar, 2Seven and Sess. Who are the producers you worked with on Ycee vs Zaheer? Synix, ElMore, Fanatics, Adey, Legendury Beatz, J Popping. Tell me the new hip-hop kids that have gotten your attention in Nigeria? Psycho YP, SK, and Blaqbonez. These guys are making their music regardless of the industry. The energy they are putting in, they are getting it back. Big shout to them and I wish them nothing but constant growth and return on their investment. 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Sintel Bedroom Sintel Snowscape Sintel Wallpaper Ishtar Sintel Bamboo Ishtar Alley Sintel Town Concept Cognitive Capital Partners, LLC (“CCP”) is a private equity firm focused on investing in businesses in which human, organizational and intellectual capital are critical factors for success. We seek investment opportunities in the lower middle market in manufacturing, business services, marketing services, data analytics and consumer sectors. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, we currently manage a portfolio of companies with an aggregate equity value of approximately $160 million. Our differentiation is that we invest our time managing a fewer number of high quality investments, allowing us a greater focus on assisting management and creating value. Our truly unique approach provides a deeper partnership with management, generating a more collaborative and productive relationship and alignment of objectives between employees, management and investors. We bring significant operating and management experience to the lower middle market to support management and drive growth and value creation. Our experience includes operating, managing, growing, developing and advising companies ranging in size from family owned to the Fortune 500, enabling us to leverage a deep understanding of the challenges and issues facing the companies we invest in and provide valuable assistance to our management partners. With a concentration on active management of and partnership with our portfolio companies, we operate as lead equity sponsor in our investments. Business Model: Proven/Sustainable Business Model with Strong Management in Place Transaction Type: Management and Leveraged Buyouts Role: Lead Equity Sponsor Company Size: Enterprise Value: $20 million - $150 million; EBITDA: $3 million to $15 million Equity Investment: $5 million to $50 million Business Location: United States CCP seeks to achieve superior returns for its investors through pursuing a majority position with significant equity participation by existing management in successful, established businesses. We employ an investment strategy that focuses on the quality of the company and the industry, the growth prospects of both, and the management team in place. Our strategy of investing our time managing a fewer number of high quality investments allows us to dedicate more time and attention to the unique needs and opportunities of each business, developing a cohesive strategic plan with management by focusing on and dedicating resources to those areas identified as offering the greatest growth opportunities and return on investment. Our approach provides a dedicated 2-3 person team to every investment. At CCP, we identify opportunities in the lower middle market to create value by guiding companies through a process of development and maturation, creating a legacy and lasting value for current and future stakeholders. Our Process Is: • Identify companies with a proven track record of success operating in the lower middle market, and which have a concentration of human and organizational capital within a relatively small group of leaders, which can be supplemented by leadership development to identify, attain and manage the next phase of growth; • Collaborate with management to develop a 3-5 year operating plan, broaden the management and support team, and align interests of employees, management and ownership; • Pursue corporate development, through identification and development of existing product and service offerings, strategic lift-outs and acquisitions; and • Create value through diversifying and supplementing human and organizational capital, developing the next generation of organizational leadership, aligning incentives of employees, management and ownership, and institutionalizing enterprise value for stakeholders. Specific activities vary for each investment, depending upon the strengths and capabilities of the company, and include the following: Periodic Involvement • Board of Director Participation • Strategic Vision and Planning • Identification and Implementation of Structure and Controls • Design and Implement Incentives for Common Goals of Employees, Management and Investors Opportunistic Involvement • Identification, Closing and Implementation of Acquisitions • Capital Raising • Relationship Expansion • Talent Identification and Procurement • Ongoing Resource • Innovation Management • Financial Analysis • Manage Banker and Investor Relationships and Communications • Operational Improvement We focus on industries in which we have direct management experience and unique relationships, where we have been active and our expertise and longstanding relationships provide access to attractive opportunities for us to add value. • Auto • Tooling • Machinery • Engineering and Technical Services • Telecom • Security Services • Healthcare Consulting • Non-bank Financial Services • Brand Strategy and Development • Consumer Engagement • Consumer Services • Pain Management Services • Physical Therapy Services • Entertainment Current Investment Portfolio VSA Partners Holdings, LLC VSA Partners Holdings, LLC is one of the premier integrated marketing services firms in the country, providing a compliment of digital and brand strategy, design, and consumer activation strategy. Headquarters: Chicago, IL Industry: Marketing Services Website: www.vsapartners.com Prospect Mold Holdings, LLC Prospect Mold, Inc. designs and manufactures tooling primarily for the automotive and aerospace industries as well as manufactures carbon fiber and metal production parts for the aerospace industry. Prospect Mold also serves other sectors including housewares, appliances, trucks and building industries. Headquarters: Cuyahoga Falls, OH Industry: Industrial Website: www.prospectmold.com Tower Engineering Professionals, LLC Tower Engineering Professionals (“TEP”) is a full-service, multi-discipline, turn-key engineering and consulting organization focused on the wireless telecommunication industry. Since 1997, TEP has performed work on over 50,000 cell towers, broadcast towers, water towers, elevated signs, roofs and telecommunication sites. Headquarters: Raleigh, NC Industry: Engineering Services/Telecom Website: www.tepgroup.net Realized Investments Tooling Technology Group I Tooling Technology Group (“TTG”) provides unique tooling design, manufacturing, and engineering capabilities to a wide variety of original equipment manufacturers (OEM’s), Tier I and Tier II automotive suppliers and contract molders. TTG was acquired in 2006. In February, 2012 CCP fully recapitalized TTG and reinvested with management to buyout the original financial investors. Tooling Technology Group II In February 2012, CCP and management recapitalized TTG, buying out the investors who invested in the 2006 acquisition of TTG. In July of 2014, TTG was sold to a private equity firm, with CCP exiting TTG. Chester A. Gougis Chet co-founded CCP in 2006. Chet’s professional experience includes over 25 years advising and consulting with family and employee owned companies, and broad experience in both mergers and acquisitions and capital raising. Chet is the former president and CEO of Duff & Phelps, a financial advisory and investment banking firm, growing revenue from $4 million in 1998 to $225 million in 2006. Chet co-founded Duff & Phelps/Inverness, an entity created to make private equity investments, sponsored Hispania Capital Partners, a $125 million private equity fund, and served on the investment committee of Hispania Fund. Chet is on the Board of DePaul University, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Terra Foundation for American Art, The Santa Fe Symphony, and is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and the Commercial Club. Chet has a B.A. from Harvard College, and an M.B.A from the University of Chicago. Ron Yokubison Ron co-founded CCP in 2006. Ron’s background includes 10 years of operations and finance experience with General Motors Corporation and Connor Sport Court, where he served as Chief Financial Officer and SVP of Operations, where he was responsible for all operations, finance, and acquisition activities and integration. Ron also was previously a Managing Director at Duff & Phelps, with over 7 years of investment banking experience, with broad and diverse experience in mergers and acquisitions. Ron has a B.S from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. Billy is a Vice President who joined CCP in 2009, with 4 years of investment banking experience and 3 years of direct private equity experience. Billy is a former Senior Associate at Duff & Phelps, where he worked on a number of highly complex transactions in the valuation and investment banking divisions of the firm. Billy has a B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University, where he was the captain of the golf team. Jeff Behrens Jeff is a Vice President who joined CCP in 2011, with 6 years of investment banking experience and 1 year of direct private equity experience. Jeff is a former Senior Associate at Duff & Phelps, where he worked on a number of high profile family-owned and closely-held client engagements. Jeff has a B.S. from the University of Illinois. Mike Marek Mike is Chief Financial Officer, who joined CCP in 2009. Mike is the former Chief Financial Officer for Duff & Phelps, and has over 35 years of experience in a variety of financial and operational roles and industries, ranging from a Fortune 50 company to a family-owned asset management firm. Mike is a Certified Public Accountant with a B.S. and M.B.A. from DePaul University. Cognitive Capital Partners, LLC 205 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60601 Email: info@cognitivecap.com © 2015 Cognitive Capital Partners

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All Action, All the Time Daniel Silva, ex CNN TV executive, is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over 16 books. Daniel has been placed in the same category as John le Carré and Graham Greene. He has been called his generation’s finest writer of international intrigue and one of the greatest American spy novelists ever. Compelling, passionate, haunting, brilliant: these are the words that have been used to describe the work of Daniel Silva. Silva burst onto the scene in 1997 with his electrifying bestselling debut, The Unlikely Spy, a novel of love and deception set around the Allied invasion of France in World War II. His second and third novels, The Mark of the Assassin and The Marching Season, were also instant New York Times bestsellers and starred two of Silva’s most memorable characters: CIA officer Michael Osbourne and international hit man Jean-Paul Delaroche. It was Silva’s fourth novel however, The Kill Artist, that would alter the course of his career. The novel featured a character described as one of the most memorable and compelling in contemporary fiction, the art restorer and sometime Israeli secret agent Gabriel Allon, and though Silva did not realize it at the time, Gabriel’s adventures had only just begun. Silva knew from a very early age that he wanted to become a writer, but his first profession would be journalism. Born in Michigan, raised and educated in California, he was pursuing a master’s degree in international relations when he received a temporary job offer from United Press International to help cover the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. Later that year Silva abandoned his studies and joined UPI fulltime, working first in San Francisco, then on the foreign desk in Washington, and finally as Middle East correspondent in Cairo and the Persian Gulf. In 1987, while covering the Iran-Iraq war, he met NBC correspondent Jamie Gangel. They were married later that year. Silva returned to Washington and went to work for CNN. In 1995 he confessed to Jamie that his true ambition was to be a novelist. With her support and encouragement he secretly began work on the manuscript that would eventually become The Unlikely Spy. He left CNN in 1997 after the book’s successful publication and began writing full time. When not writing he can usually be found roaming the stacks of the Georgetown University library, where he does much of the research for his books. Though all of Silva’s books have been New York Times and national bestsellers, his success has not been limited to the United States. His books have been translated into more than 25 languages and have been published across Europe and around the world. He lives in Washington with his wife Jamie and their twins Lily and Nicholas. . Lived: 1960 - The Kill Artist The chief of the Israeli Intelligence recalls two former agents in order to eliminate top Palestinian terrorist. One agent is now an art restorer, the other a fashion model. Ten years before on a mission to destroy the Arab Black September group they were briefly lovers. Now their pasts and their enemies come back to(…) The English Assassin In Allon’s latest adventure, The English Assassin, he comes out of retirement once again and finds himself enmeshed in a murder investigation whose roots reach back to the cataclysmic policies of Nazi Germany. Allon’s involvement begins when he accepts a commission to restore a priceless Raphael original. He travels to Zurich, only to find that(…) The Confessor “Who the hell are you?” Benjamin Stern’s rude question to the intruder in his apartment was answered quickly by an equally rude — and fatal — bullet. A Death in Vienna It was an ordinary-looking photograph. Just the portrait of a man. But the very sight of it chilled Allon to the bone. Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of his search becomes something else entirely: to find out the truth about the(…) Prince of Fire Now Allon is back in Venice, when a terrible explosion in Rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation: the existence of a dossier in the hands of terrorists that strips away his secrets, lays bare his history. Hastily recalled home to Israel, drawn once more into the heart of a service he had once forsaken,(…) Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, has been widely acclaimed as one of the most fascinating characters in the genre and now he is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. Allon is recovering from a grueling showdown with a Palestinian master terrorist, when a figure from his past arrives in Jerusalem. Monsignor(…) The Secret Servant In Amsterdam, a terrorism analyst named Ephraim Rosner lies dead, brutally murdered by a Muslim immigrant. The Amsterdam police believe the killer is a deranged extremist, but others know better. Just twenty-four hours before, Rosner had requested an urgent meeting with Israeli intelligence. Now it is Gabriel Allon’s job to find out what Rosner knew,(…) Moscow Rules The death of a journalist leads Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He’s playing by Moscow rules now. This is not the grim, gray Moscow of Soviet times but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and choked with bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where(…) Six months after the blood-soaked conclusion of Moscow Rules, Allon is in Umbria, trying to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, when a colleague pays him a shocking visit. The man who saved Allon’s life in Moscow and was then resettled in England has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he(…) The Rembrandt Affair Two families, one terrible secret, and a painting to die for… It has been six months since Gabriel’s showdown with Ivan Kharkov. Now, having severed his ties with the Office, Gabriel has retreated to the Cornish coast with only one thing in mind: healing his wife, Chiara, after her encounter with evil. But an unspeakable(…) Portrait of a Spy For Gabriel and his wife, Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London – a visit to a gallery in St. James’s to authenticate a newly discovered painting by Titian, followed by a quiet lunch. But a pair of deadly bombings in Paris and Copenhagen has already marred this(…) The Fallen Angel When last we encountered Gabriel Allon in Portrait of a Spy, he was pitted in a blood-soaked duel with a deadly network of jihadist terrorists. Now, exposed and war-weary, he has returned to his beloved Rome to restore a Caravaggio masterpiece for the Vatican. But while working early one morning in the conservation laboratory, Gabriel(…) The English Girl When a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, a prime minister’s career is threatened with destruction. Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, is thrust into a game of shadows where nothing is what it seems…and where the only thing more dangerous than his enemies might be the truth. Silva’s work(…) Permission to speak freely soldier, let me know what you think! A native of Texas, Marc Cameron has spent over twenty-five years in law enforcement, the last twenty with the federal government. His assignments have taken him from rural Alaska to Manhattan, from Canada to Mexico and points in between. A second degree black belt in jujitsu, he often teaches defensive tactics to other law enforcement(…) Fifteen years ago Tom Clancy was an insurance broker with a love for naval history. In 1984, his first novel, The Hunt for Red October, was published and he was catapulted onto the bestseller list, he received praise from Former U S President Reagan, saying his book was “non-put-downable.” and it was later famously made(…) Nelson DeMille is one of America’s most popular and bestselling authors, and a new book from him is a keenly awaited event. A former US Army lieutenant who served in Vietnam, he lives in Long Island, New York. Born in Chicago, Joe spent his early childhood living around the world, including Afghanistan and the Philippines. In fact, Joe’s first language — even before English — was Farsi, which he spoke as a child in Kabul. After a stint in Bellingham, WA, his family finally settled outside of Albany, NY.After taking a high school seminar(…) Joseph Flynn Joseph Flynn was born, raised, and educated in Chicago. He attended: St. Mary of the Lake School; Francis W. 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Harness Renewables This is an interview with Yale University’s “Clean Energy Finance Forum“ DEBBIE DOOLEY OF CONSERVATIVES FOR ENERGY FREEDOM DISCUSSES where alternative energy can fit into a conservative political philosophy, how to build bipartisan support for clean energy, and her vision for state and federal policy. “WE SHOULD START BY LOOKING AT PROVIDING CHOICE and giving consumers a choice where they purchase their electricity from,” Dooley said. “RENEWABLES, ESPECIALLY SOLAR, POLL VERY WELL AMONG CONSERVATIVES,” Dooley said, and can be advanced with “talking points and messages that appeal to both sides of the political spectrum.” Georgia’s Debbie Dooley is a founding member of the Tea Party movement, as well as an advocate for renewable energy and president of Conservatives for Energy Freedom. She has partnered with groups like the Sierra Club in support of efforts to promote renewable energy at the state level, such as the 2016 Florida ballot proposal that exempted solar panels from property taxes. She also helped defeat a second measure in Florida that would have allowed utility companies to charge fees on solar owners. In an interview with CEFF, Dooley discussed where alternative energy can fit into a conservative political philosophy, how to build bipartisan support for clean energy, and her vision for state and federal policy. This transcript has been lightly edited. CEFF: How did you first get interested in energy as an issue? Dooley: Essentially, it was a fight with Georgia Power over the fiscal irresponsibility of their nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle. I began to do investigation about alternative energy forms that can empower the consumer and provide some competition. I began to look at solar and renewables and I liked the freedom that they brought to the table. CEFF: Could you lay out what the logic based on conservative principles is for renewable energy? Dooley: Number one, one of the biggest conservative principles is supposed to be fiscal responsibility. And you know, it’s more fiscally responsible to prevent damage than it is to clean up the damage that pollution has done. It’s more fiscally responsible to use wind or solar or hydro energy or anything like that than it is to go out and build a new nuclear plant. CEFF: You’ve described your work as advocacy of “energy freedom.” What does energy freedom look like? Dooley: Well one of the things that’s going on in my home state of Georgia, and I’ve seen it in other states, is that they are passing what are called PPA [Power Purchase Agreement] bills. People can have solar panels on their rooftop and enter into a private contract with the person who installed them, and they can save money on their power bills. I fully believe that individuals should have the right to sell excess solar power to their neighbors if they so choose. And if they don’t have that ability, they should then be able to take advantage of net metering and sell back to the power company. That’s freedom, the freedom to put up solar panels or use renewables, and I think that’s good. I believe we need to move to a more decentralized energy structure, one that is not as vulnerable to terrorist attack. I see rooftop solar—and in some cases natural gas, wind, or other things—being able to accomplish that. Imagine communities being able to decentralize. In subdivisions where people can’t put solar on their rooftop, they can have community solar, smaller wind turbines, or any other renewable energy to generate electricity for their subdivision. That’s freedom—unplugging from the centralized energy structure and monopolies that we have in this country. CEFF: Are there particular policies or efforts that support this idea of energy freedom? Dooley: We’re talking about deregulation, done in the right way. Look at how Texas is doing [with deregulation]. Texas is doing really well. We should start by looking at providing choice and giving consumers a choice where they purchase their electricity from. But it has to be done in the right way and with the right plan. A good stepping stone would be to allow people who have solar panels on their rooftop the ability to sell excess solar to their neighbors. Can you imagine if they had that ability? As a conservative, I feel that the power you generate on your private property belongs to you, and you should be able to sell it and make a profit for yourself. I’m not a big fan of energy subsidies, either. But to me, it’s disingenuous when I hear folks talk about solar subsidies but they fail to point out that fossil fuels and nuclear have been very heavily subsidized by the federal government for decades. For example, in the first 50 years of nuclear, all the R&D and subsidies accounted for one percent of the federal budget. Solar doesn’t even account for one tenth of one percent. In a perfect world, we should remove all energy subsidies across the board—both direct and indirect—and make energy forms that damage people’s health and pollute the environment totally responsible to mitigate the damage without assistance from the taxpayer. I’m not endorsing a carbon tax, but there should be a way, like a Superfund. Why should taxpayers be on the hook to clean up damage that other forms of energy are doing? The energy companies should be responsible for cleaning it up. CEFF: Could you elaborate on this “Superfund” idea and what that would look like? Dooley: Once you start taxing gasoline and things like that a carbon tax probably would not pass, but you can start making these companies that cause damage pay for the cleanup. Look at what happened with the BP oil spill in the Gulf, for example. I’m a Louisiana native, and they are still dealing with the cleanup of the BP oil spill. They created a cleanup fund, and BP had to pay for that. The energy forms that pollute the environment and cause damage, including health-related damage, should be the ones that pay for it. And I think if we cut out all energy subsidies I have no doubt in my mind whatsoever that renewables would be at the top because they can function without all these massive subsidies, but some of these fossil fuels and nuclear would not be able to. CEFF: What you think about where the current national political debate stands on energy, especially proposals like the Green New Deal? Dooley: I strongly oppose the Green New Deal because it’s not free-market—that’s like green socialism. Let’s look to the free market system. Let’s encourage innovation and new advances in technology and battery storage instead of mandating what people should do or should not do. When the cell phone was first invented it was like a brick. People usually couldn’t afford it and you had to charge it for just about eight hours to have one hour of talk time. They didn’t go out and start banning the landline phones. They waited until infrastructure caught up and there was a demand for cell phones. There was a lot of innovation that took place on the free market and that’s why we walk around with these small, handheld mini-computers we have today. You can look at what happened with France, what they did when they raised the prices of gasoline. They kind of instituted their own version of a carbon tax, and look at the riots and everything that took place. You don’t want that. I believe that free markets are the solution to that. Not green socialism. The Green New Deal CEFF: Knowing that the political climate is very divided right now when it comes to energy and the environment, what do you think are the best ways to build bipartisan consensus for policy on clean energy? Dooley: Renewables, especially solar, poll very well among conservatives. Let’s start on low-hanging fruit. Let’s start on areas we can agree on, okay? Let’s start by advancing renewables because of national security. I’m a strong, strong believer that moving to renewables and a more decentralized energy structure is in our nation’s national security interest, because our power is so centralized now that it’s more vulnerable to a terrorist attack. Imagine the catastrophic effects if terrorists can identify the nine key substations out of more than 54,000 in this country. There’s nine key substations they would have to take down. Let’s start talking about choice and freedom and job creation. Look how many jobs the solar and renewable energy industries create. Let’s talk about empowering the individual with the ability to sell excess power to their neighbors. Let’s talk about removing all energy subsidies even though I think you will find pushback from the Republicans on that, and Democrats. Let’s focus on what we agree on and start to implement those policies instead of focusing on what our disagreements are. It’s all about the message, and in red states solar is doing fine—it’s going gangbusters—and it’s because Republicans like Bubba McDonald are leading the way. He’s on the Georgia Public Service Commission and he’s a very strong solar proponent. Solar has become incredibly popular in Georgia, because people see it as an alternative to expensive energy like building nuclear reactors at Vogtle. That’s what you talk about. You have talking points and messages that appeal to both sides of the political spectrum. CEFF: There are some estimates that the average homeowner spends less than 10 minutes a year looking at their utility bill, and that many folks don’t necessarily understand all the details—like the difference between a kilowatt and a kilowatt-hour. Considering all this complexity, what role do you think citizens need to play in shaping the energy system going forward? Dooley: I think they need to demand more accountability from these giant monopolies. One of the things I think we need to look at and one of the things I’ve witnessed firsthand is the enormous political clout that these investor-owned utilities have in different states. They have a guaranteed profit margin of 10.5 to 11 percent, and so they have a lot of money to spend. I just think there should be limits on how much they can spend on lobbying and how much they can donate to political campaigns. CEFF: Is there anything else that we haven’t covered that our readers should know? Dooley: Understand one thing: a lot of the fight is not on the federal level, it’s on the state level. I got involved in the energy field when Barack Obama was president, and he was very pro-renewable president, but I was fighting battles on the state level. There’s always going to be a battle on the state level for renewables no matter who the president is. Look to the state level, look at your community, because you can impact policy there.

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Title: Livonia Subject: History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1648), History of Poland in the Early Modern era (1569–1795), Polish–Swedish wars, History of Estonia, History of Lithuania Collection: Baltic Countries, Baltic Region, Baltic States, Geography of Latvia, Historical Regions in Estonia, Historical Regions in Latvia, History of Estonia, History of Latvia, History of Livonia, Livonia Livonia in 1534 Livonia (Livonian: Līvõmō, , German and Scandinavian languages: Livland, Latvian and Lithuanian: Livonija, Polish: Inflanty, archaic English Livland,[1] Liwlandia; Russian: Лифляндия / Liflyandiya) is a historic region along the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. It was once the land of the Finnic Livonians inhabiting the principal ancient Livonian County Metsepole with its center at Turaida. The most prominent ruler of ancient Livonia was Caupo of Turaida (died 1217). During the Livonian Crusade, ancient Livonia was colonized by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, later called the Livonian Order, and the name Livonia came to designate a much broader territory: Terra Mariana on the eastern coasts of the Baltic Sea, in present-day Northern part of Latvia and Southern part of Estonia. Its frontiers were the Gulf of Riga and the Gulf of Finland in the north-west, Lake Peipus and Russia to the east, and Lithuania to the south. Livonia was inhabited by various Baltic and Finnic peoples, ruled by an upper class of Baltic Germans. Over the course of time, some nobles were Polonized into the Polish–Lithuanian nobility (szlachta) or became part of the Swedish nobility during Swedish Livonia or Russified into the Russian nobility (dvoryanstvo). Livonian Brothers of the Sword 1204–1237 1.1 Livonian Crusade 1206–1227 1.2 Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights 1224–1237 1.3 Livonian Order 1237–1561 1.4 Livonian Confederation 1418–1561 1.5 Livonian War 1558–1583 1.6 Duchy of Livonia 1561–1621 1.7 Kingdom of Livonia 1570–1578 1.8 Swedish Livonia 1629–1721 1.9 Livonian Voivodeship 1620s–1772 1.10 Riga Governorate 1721–1796 1.11 Governorate of Livonia 1796–1918 1.12 Governors-General of Estonia, Livonia, and Courland 1845–1876 1.13 Vidzeme in Independent Latvia 1918–1940 1.14 Ostland 1941–1944 1.15 Baltic countries since 1990 1.16 Livonia in Europe, 1190 AD Beginning in the 12th century, Livonia was an area of economic and political expansion by Danes and Germans, particularly by the Hanseatic League and the Cistercian Order. Around 1160, Hanseatic traders from Lübeck established a trading post on the site of the future city of Riga, which Albrecht von Buxthoeven founded in 1201. He ordered the construction of a cathedral and became the first Prince-Bishop of Livonia. Livonian Brothers of the Sword 1204–1237 Bishop Albert of Riga (Albert of Buxhoeveden) founded the military order of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword (Latin: Fratres militiæ Christi Livoniae, German: Schwertbrüderorden) in 1202; Pope Innocent III sanctioned the establishment in 1204. The membership of the order comprised German "warrior monks". Alternative names of the order include the Christ Knights, Sword Brethren, and The Militia of Christ of Livonia. Following their defeat by Lithuania in the Battle of Saule in 1236, the surviving Brothers merged into the Teutonic Order as an autonomous branch and became known as the Livonian Order. Albert, bishop of Riga (or Prince-Bishop of Livonia), founded the Brotherhood to aid the Bishopric of Riga in the conversion of the pagan Curonians, Livonians, Semigallians, and Latgalians living on the shores of the Gulf of Riga. From its foundation, the undisciplined Order tended to ignore its supposed vassalage to the bishops. In 1218, Albert asked King Valdemar II of Denmark for assistance, but Valdemar instead arranged a deal with the Brotherhood and conquered the north of Estonia for Denmark. The Brotherhood had its headquarters at Fellin (Viljandi) in present-day Estonia, where the walls of the Master's castle still stand. Other strongholds included Wenden (Cēsis), Segewold (Sigulda) and Ascheraden (Aizkraukle). The commanders of Fellin, Goldingen (Kuldīga), Marienburg (Alūksne), Reval (Tallinn), and the bailiff of Weißenstein (Paide) belonged to the five-member entourage of the Order's Master. Pope Gregory IX asked the Brothers to defend Finland from the Novgorodian attacks in his letter of November 24, 1232;[2] however, no known information regarding the knights' possible activities in Finland has survived. (Sweden eventually took over Finland after the Second Swedish Crusade in 1249.) In the Battle of Saule in 1236 the Lithuanians and Semigallians decimated the Order. This disaster led the surviving Brothers to become incorporated into the Order of Teutonic Knights in the following year, and from that point on they became known as the Livonian Order. They continued, however, to function in all respects (rule, clothing and policy) as an autonomous branch of the Teutonic Order, headed by their own Master (himself de jure subject to the Teutonic Order's Grand Master). Baltic Tribes, ca 1200. Livonian Brothers Seal of the Livonian Brothers Livonian Crusade 1206–1227 Ancient Estonia until September 21, 1217. The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia from the 1220s gives a firsthand account of the Christianization of Livonia, granted as a fief by the Hohenstaufen Holy Roman Emperor, de facto but not known as the King of Germany, Philip of Swabia, to Bishop Albert of Buxthoeven, nephew of the Hartwig II, Archbishop of Bremen, who sailed with a convoy of ships filled with armed crusaders to carve out a Catholic territory in the east during the Livonian Crusade. Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights 1224–1237 Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights. From 1236, Livonia consisted of the following subdivisions: a state ruled by the Livonian Order founded by Albert in 1202, which was assimilated into the Teutonic Knights in 1237; the Bishopric of Riga (an archbishopric since 1255); the Bishoprics of Courland, Ösel-Wiek, and Dorpat, where Albert's brother Hermann established himself as the prince-bishop (Terra Mariana). The conquest of Livonia by the Germans is described in the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle. Livonian Order 1237–1561 Medieval Livonia ca. 1260. The Livonian Order was a largely autonomous branch of the Estonia from King Valdemar IV of Denmark. Life within the Order's territory is described in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia and the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle. The Teutonic Order fell into decline following its defeat in the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 and the secularization of its Prussian territories by Albert of Brandenburg in 1525, but the Livonian Order managed to maintain an independent existence. During many years of Livonian War (1558–1582), however, they suffered a decisive defeat by troops of Muscovite Russia in the Battle of Ergeme in 1560 and continued living under great threat. Letters to the Emperor arrived from many European countries, warning, that Moscow has its eyes on much more than only a few harbors or the province of Liefland... the East Sea (Ostsee-Baltic Sea and the West Sea (Atlantic) are equally in danger. Duke Barnim the Elder, 50 years duke of Pomerania, warned, that never before did he experience the fear than now, where even in his land, where people send by Moscow are everywhere. At stake was the Narva-Trade-Route and practically all trade in the North, and with that all of Europe. Due to religious upheavals of the Reformation the empire could not send troops, which it could not afford and which were too far away anyway. Prussia was not able to help for much of the same reason, and Duke Albrecht was under continuous ban by the emperor. The Hanseatic League was greatly weakened by this and the city state of Luebeck fought its last great war. The emperor Maximilian II diffused the greatest threat by remaining on friendly terms with the czar, but not sending him troops as requested, in his struggles with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Czar Ivan of Moscow installed Duke Magnus as King of Livonia. This was opposed by the other forces. The Livonian Order saw no other way than to seek protection from Sigismund II Augustus, the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, who had intervened in a war between Bishop William of Riga and the Brothers in 1557. After coming to an agreement with Sigismund II Augustus and his representatives (especially Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł), the last Livonian Master, Gotthard Kettler, secularized the Order and converted to Lutheranism. In the southern part of the Brothers' lands he created the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia for his family. Most of the remaining lands were seized by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The north of Estonia was taken back by Denmark and Sweden. From the 14th to the 16th centuries, Middle Low German as spoken in the towns of the Hanseatic League was the established language, but was subsequently succeeded by High German as official language in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries.[3] Livonian Confederation 1418–1561 The five Ecclesiastical states of the Holy Roman Empire in Medieval Livonia were organized into the Livonian Confederation in 1418.[4] A diet or Landtag was formed in 1419. The city of Walk was chosen as the site of the diet. Livonian War 1558–1583 Europe, 1550. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor once again asked for help of Gustav I of Sweden, and The Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569) also began direct negotiations with Gustav, but nothing resulted because on September 29, 1560, Gustav I Vasa died. The chances for success of Magnus and his supporters looked particularly good in 1560 (and 1570). In the former case, he had been recognised as their sovereign by The Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek and The Bishopric of Courland, and as their prospective ruler by the authorities of The Bishopric of Dorpat; The Bishopric of Reval with the Harrien-Wierland gentry were on his side; Livonian Order conditionally recognised his right of ownership of Estonia (Principality of Estonia). Then along with Archbishop Wilhelm von Brandenburg of The Archbishopric of Riga and his Coadjutor Christoph von Mecklenburg, Kettler gave to Magnus the portions of The Kingdom of Livonia, which he had taken possession of, but they refused to give him any more land. Once Eric XIV of Sweden became king he took quick actions to get involved in the war. He negotiated a continued peace with Muscovy and spoke to the burghers of Reval city. He offered them goods to submit to him as well as threatening them. By June 6, 1561 they submitted to him contrary to the persuasions of Kettler to the burghers. The King's brother Johan married the Polish princess Catherine Jagiellon. Wanting to obtain his own land in Livonia, he loaned Poland money and then claimed the castles they had pawned as his own instead of using them to pressure Poland. After Johan returned to Finland, Erik XIV forbade him to deal with any foreign countries without his consent. Shortly after that Erik XIV started acting quickly lost any allies he was about to obtain, either from Magnus or the Archbishop of Riga. Magnus was upset he had been tricked out of his inheritance of Holstein. After Sweden occupied Reval, Frederick II of Denmark made a treaty with Erik XIV of Sweden in August 1561. The brothers were in great disagreement and Frederick II negotiated a treaty with Ivan IV on August 7, 1562 in order to help his brother obtain more land and stall further Swedish advance. Erik XIV did not like this and The Northern Seven Years' War between The Free City of Lübeck, Denmark, Poland, and Sweden broke out. While only losing land and trade, Frederick II and Magnus were not faring well. But in 1568 Erik XIV became insane and his brother Johan III took his place. Johan III ascended to the throne of Sweden and due to his friendship with Poland he began a policy against Muscovy. He would try to obtain more land in Livonia and exercise strength over Denmark. After all parties had been financially drained, Frederick II let his ally, King Sigismund II Augustus of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, know that he was ready for peace. On December 15, 1570, the Treaty of Stettin was concluded. It is, however, more difficult to estimate the scope and magnitude of the support Magnus received in Livonian cities. Compared to the Harrien-Wierland gentry, the Reval city council, and hence probably the majority of citizens, demonstrated a much more reserved attitude towards Denmark and King Magnus of Livonia. Nevertheless, there is no reason to speak about any strong pro-Swedish sentiments among the residents of Reval. The citizens who had fled to The Bishopric of Dorpat or had been deported to Muscovy hailed Magnus as their saviour until 1571. The analysis indicates that during the Livonian War a pro-independence wing emerged among the Livonian gentry and townspeople, forming the so-called "Peace Party". Dismissing hostilities, these forces perceived an agreement with Muscovy as a chance to escape the atrocities of war and avoid the division of Livonia. That is why Magnus, who represented Denmark and later struck a deal with Ivan the Terrible, proved a suitable figurehead for this faction. The Peace Party, however, had its own armed forces – scattered bands of household troops (Hofleute) under diverse command, which only united in action in 1565 (Battle of Pärnu, 1565 and Siege of Reval, 1565), in 1570–1571 (Siege of Reval, 1570-1571; 30 weeks), and in 1574–1576 (first on Sweden’s side, then came the sale of Ösel–Wiek to the Danish Crown, and the loss of the territory to Tsardom of Russia). In 1575 after Muscovy attacked Danish claims in Livonia, Frederick II dropped out of the competition as well as the Holy Roman Emperor. After this Johan III held off on his pursuit for more land due to Muscovy obtaining lands that Sweden controlled. He used the next two years of truce to get in a better position. In 1578, he resumed the fight for not only Livonia, but also everywhere due to an understanding he made with Rzeczpospolita. In 1578 Magnus retired to Rzeczpospolita and his brother all but gave up the land in Livonia. Duchy of Livonia 1561–1621 Outline of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with its major subdivisions after the 1618 Truce of Deulino, superimposed on present-day national borders. Crown of the Kingdom of Poland Grand Duchy of Lithuania Duchy of Livonia Duchy of Prussia, Polish fief Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, Commonwealth fief In 1561, during the Livonian War, Livonia fell to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania[5][6][7] with vassal dependency from Lithuania.[7] Eight years later, in 1569, when the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland formed Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Livonia became a joint domain administered directly by the king and grand duke.[5][7][8][9][10][11] Having rejected peace proposals from its enemies, Ivan the Terrible found himself in a difficult position by 1579, when Crimean Khanate devastated Muscovian territories and burnt down Moscow (see Russo-Crimean Wars), the drought and epidemics have fatally affected the economy, Oprichnina had thoroughly disrupted the government, while The Grand Principality of Lithuania had united with The Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569) and acquired an energetic leader, Stefan Batory, supported by Ottoman Empire (1576). Stefan Batory replied with a series of three offensives against Muscovy, trying to cut The Kingdom of Livonia from Muscovian territories. During his first offensive in 1579, with 22,000 men, he retook Polotsk; during the second, in 1580, with 29,000-strong army, he took Velikie Luki, and in 1581 with a 100,000-strong army he started the Siege of Pskov. Frederick II of Denmark and Norway had trouble continuing the fight against Muscovy unlike Sweden and Poland. He came to an agreement with John III in 1580 giving him the titles in Livonia. That war would last from 1577 to 1582. Muscovy recognized Polish–Lithuanian control of Ducatus Ultradunensis only in 1582. After Magnus von Lyffland died in 1583, Poland invaded his territories in The Duchy of Courland and Frederick II decided to sell his rights of inheritance. Except for the island of Œsel, Denmark was out of the Baltic by 1585. As of 1598 Inflanty Voivodeship was divided onto: Wenden Voivodeship (województwo wendeńskie, Kieś) Dorpat Voivodeship (województwo dorpackie, Dorpat) Parnawa Voivodeship (województwo parnawskie, Parnawa) Based on a guarantee by Sigismund II Augustus from the 1560s, the German language retained its official status.[3] Livonia on the 1570 map Kingdom of Livonia 1570–1578 Livonia, as shown in the map of 1573 of Theatrum orbis terrarum. The armies of Ivan the Terrible were initially successful, taking Polock (1563) and Parnawa (1575) and overrunning much of Grand Duchy of Lithuania up to Vilnius. Eventually, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland formed the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1569 under the Union of Lublin. Eric XIV of Sweden did not like this and the Northern Seven Years' War between the Free City of Lübeck, Denmark, Poland, and Sweden broke out. While only losing land and trade, Frederick II of Denmark and Magnus von Lyffland of the Œsel-Wiek did not fare well. But in 1569, Erik XIV became insane and his brother John III of Sweden took his place. After all parties had been financially drained, Frederick II let his ally, King Zygmunt II August, know that he was ready for peace. On December 15, 1570, the Treaty of Stettin was concluded. In the next phase of the conflict, in 1577 Ivan IV took advantage of the Commonwealth's internal strife (called the war against Gdańsk in Polish historiography), and during the reign of Stefan Batory in Poland, invaded Livonia, quickly taking almost the entire territory, with the exception of Riga and Rewel. In 1578, Magnus of Livonia recognized the sovereignty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (not ratified by the Sejm of Poland-Lithuania, or recognized by Denmark). The Kingdom of Livonia was beaten back by Muscovy on all fronts. In 1578, Magnus of Livonia retired to The Bishopric of Courland and his brother all but gave up the land in Livonia. Swedish Livonia 1629–1721 The Baltics in the 17th century Sweden was given roughly the same area as the former Duchy of Livonia after the 1626–1629 Polish–Swedish War. The area, usually known as Swedish Livonia, became a very important Swedish dominion, with Riga being the second largest Swedish city and Livonia paying for one third of the Swedish war costs. Sweden lost Swedish Livonia, Swedish Estonia and Ingria to Russia almost 100 years later, by the Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia in 1710 and the Treaty of Nystad in 1721. Livonian Voivodeship 1620s–1772 Inflanty Voivodeship, 1620s–1772. The Livonian Voivodeship (Lithuanian: Livonijos vaivadija; Polish: Województwo inflanckie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Livonia, part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, since it was formed in the 1620s out of the Wenden Voivodeship till the First Partition of Poland in 1772. Riga Governorate 1721–1796 The Russian Empire conquered Swedish Livonia during the course of the Great Northern War and acquired the province in the Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia in 1710, confirmed by the Treaty of Nystad in 1721. Peter the Great confirmed German as the exclusive official language.[3] Russia then added Polish Livonia in 1772 during the Partitions of Poland. Governorate of Livonia 1796–1918 In 1796 the Riga Governorate was renamed as the Governorate of Livonia (Russian: Лифляндская губе́рния / Liflyandskaya guberniya, Latvian: Vidzemes guberņa, Estonian: Liivimaa kubermang). Livonia remained within the Russian Empire until the end of World War I, when it was split between the newly independent states of Latvia and Estonia. In 1918–1920, both Soviet troops and German Freikorps fought against Latvian and Estonian troops for control over Livonia, but their attempts were defeated. Governors-General of Estonia, Livonia, and Courland 1845–1876 Livonia, 1898. From 1845 to 1876, the Baltic governorates of Estonia, Livonia, and Courland—an area roughly corresponding to the historical medieval Livonia—were administratively subordinated to a common Governor-General. Amongst the holders of this post were Count Alexander Arkadyevich Suvorov[12] and Count Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov. Vidzeme in Independent Latvia 1918–1940 Latvia around Riga, Estonia around Tallinn in 1920. In independent Latvia between the World Wars, southern Livonia became an administrative region under the traditional Latvian name Vidzeme, encompassing the then much larger counties of Riga, Cēsis, Valmiera, and Valka. Ostland 1941–1944 Nazi German advances 22 June to 25 August 1941. Ostland was one of the Reichskommissariats established, by a Decree of the Führer dated 17 July 1941, as administrative units of the "Großdeutsches Reich" (Greater Germany). They were subject to Martin Bormann and the party chancellery. In the process they also displaced all other actors including notably the SS, except in central Belarus where HSSPF Erich von dem Bach-Zelewsky had a special command encompassing both military and civil administration territories and engaged in "anti-partisan" atrocities. Baltic countries since 1990 The historical land of Livonia has been split between Latvia and Estonia ever since. The Livonian language is spoken by fewer than 100 individuals as a second language, and is understood to be fast approaching extinction. The last native Livonian speaker died in June 2013. The anthem (unofficial) of Livonians is Min izāmō, min sindimō sharing the melody of Finnish and Estonian anthems. Bishopric of Reval Livonian Coast Duchy of Courland History of Estonia History of Latvia History of Lithuania In-line: ^ 1911 Britannica ^ . In Latin. Hosted by the National Archive of Finland. See http://www.narc.fi/Arkistolaitos/sahkoiset/ and Diplomatarium Fennicum from the menu. ^ The History of the Baltic States By Kevin O'Connor; ISBN 0-313-32355-0; p. 23 ^ Suvorov A.A. governor-general in 1861-66 :: ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SAINT PETERSBURG Deutsch-Baltische Ritterschaften in Livland, Kurland, Estland, Oesel Joann Portantiuse Liivimaa kaart 1573. aastast Estonian Manors Portal the English version includes the description of 438 well-preserved historical manors of nowadays Estonia (historically - northern part of Old-Livonia/Alt-Livland) Atlas of Livonia, or of the Two Governments and Duchies Livonia and Estonia, and of the Province of Oesel from the World Digital Library Articles needing additional references from June 2008 Articles containing -language text Articles containing Lithuanian-language text Articles containing Polish-language text Articles containing German-language text Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2008 Articles containing Latvian-language text Articles containing Estonian-language text Articles with unsourced statements from February 2007 Baltic region Geography of Latvia Historical regions in Latvia Historical regions in Estonia Tallinn, Sweden, Soviet Union, Tartu, Estonian language Lithuania, Estonia, Latvian language, Rīga, Baltic states Azerbaijan, United Kingdom, Spain, Turkey, France Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Polish language, Russian Empire, Kraków, Gdańsk, Grand Duchy of Lithuania London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Sweden, Tallinn History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1648) Ottoman Empire, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Gdańsk, Tsardom of Russia, Sigismund III Vasa History of Poland in the Early Modern era (1569–1795) Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire, Poland, Royal elections in Poland, Cossacks Polish–Swedish wars Livonia, Lithuania, Gdańsk, Pomerania, Sejm Estonia, Soviet Union, Tallinn, European Union, History of Europe Russian Empire, Lithuania, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

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