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Sometimes, when I have a day off, I like to spend the entire day doing absolutely nothing. Given my recent new obsession with Pretty Little Liars, nothing actually equates to watching it on NetFlix all day, maybe sending a few work emails, doing some laundry, just little things that require minimal effort and nothing that requires me getting out of my pjs. If I work out, I'll add a sports bra to my pajama ensemble. Mmmhmm, that's a day off.
When I have the luxury of two days off in a row, I spend the first day doing as much as possible so I can enjoy the day off laziness without feeling too guilty.
Yesterday, I was pretty productive.
The boy is finally feeling better, as evidenced by a.) begging me to go buy him "the winning Powerball ticket" on Saturday night, to which I finally obliged. I asked if they would card me (I know nothing about these lottery things). His response was laughter, the kind that could only come from that of a husband on the mend. b.) seeing a Pizza Hut commercial after the lottery run and subsequently ordering Tuscani Chicken Pasta to be delivered. At 9pm.
Since he was feeling better, I put him to work hanging a couple of curtain rods. We've lived here for nearly three years and we finally have curtains in our living room!
I spent a good portion of my day making this cute dinosaur cupcake cake for a friend's birthday. I followed these instructions.
While the cupcakes were cooling, I took a little time to organize my cupcake liners. By color. Everyone does this, right?
There was sweeping, dusting, vacuuming. There was lunch, courtesy of Culver's.
I took a few breaks from productivity for snuggles with this guy.
Dinner time sort of snuck up on me so I roasted a spaghetti squash while doing other things. Cutting that thing is so darn frustrating!
Yes, I swapped this knife for a serrated knife right after I took the pic. Still, so annoying.
I heated some TJ's Turkey Meatballs with a jar of spaghetti sauce and called it dinner.
There was laundry, of which most is still in a heap on the floor near the dryer, with the exception of clean sheets that we fell into before 10pm. Being productive is hard work!
As for today? Well, so far today looks a little like this.
How do you spend your day off? Get as much done as possible? Or as little as possible? Now that I'm working fewer late nights followed by early mornings, I'm able to get more things done every day, rather than needing to cram everything into one day. I also consider it a luxury to often times have days off during the week so I can get all of my errands run without dealing with the weekend crowds. Huge bonus!
Holy cow, that cupcake cake is fantastic! Very impressive!
Also, that looks like the perfect dippy egg! Yum :).
Your dinosaur cake is so cute!
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Q: debug V8 with node-inspector I'm trying to debug my JavaScript scripts, which are running in V8, with node-inspector. On the app side, I just did
v8::Debug::EnableAgent("MyApp", 5858);
Node-inspector connects fine and even is able to pause/unpause and to show the code. However, step-wise execution does not work, neither breakpoints and probably a lot of other things. When I try to do such things, I get these errors from Node-inspector:
Node Inspector v0.7.0
Visit http://127.0.0.1:8080/debug?port=5858 to start debugging.
Received request for a method not implemented: Debugger.setSkipAllPauses
Received request for a method not implemented: Debugger.setSkipAllPauses
Received request for a method not implemented: Debugger.setSkipAllPauses
Received request for a method not implemented: Debugger.setBreakpoint
Received request for a method not implemented: Debugger.setBreakpoint
Received request for a method not implemented: Debugger.setBreakpoint
So I guess I'm missing something.
I'm not sure if what I'm trying to do is even supported - because I guess, node-inspector is meant for Node.js and not for arbitrary V8, right? If so, what would be needed to make it work?
Thanks for the help by Miroslav, esp. to run DEBUG=node-inspector:protocol:* node-inspector, I got a bit further. Step-wise execution works now, and breakpoints do to in most cases (except when you select the wrong Source file - see below).
I provided a global process object like this:
// process object: http://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_process
process.stdout = ...
process.stderr = ...
process._baseDir = ...
process.mainModule = {filename: process._baseDir + "/main.js"}
process.argv = ["myapp.exe", process.mainModule.filename]
process.cwd = function() { return process._baseDir; }
Now I get the error Internal error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'line' of null in the console. In node-inspector, I get this:
Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:58:43 GMT node-inspector:protocol:v8-debug request: {"seq":170,"type":"request","command":"backtrace","arguments":{"inlineRefs":true,"fromFrame":0,"toFrame":50,"maxStringLength":10000}}
Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:58:43 GMT node-inspector:protocol:devtools frontend: {"method":"Debugger.setOverlayMessage","id":48}
Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:58:43 GMT node-inspector:protocol:devtools backend: {"id":48}
Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:58:43 GMT node-inspector:protocol:v8-debug response: {"seq":41,"request_seq":170,"type":"response","success":false,"message":"Internal error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'line' of null"}
Another thing is that the script files are not always correct. On the C++ side, I'm loading them now like this:
ReturnType execJsFile(const std::string& jsSourceDir, const std::string& extfilename) {
v8::TryCatch try_catch;
std::string fullfilename = jsSourceDir + "/" + extfilename;
std::string sourceStr;
CHECK_RETURN(readFile(fullfilename, sourceStr));
// The origin is for the debugger, e.g. node-inspector. It expects an URL.
Local<String> origin = jsStr("file:///" + fullfilename);
Local<String> source = jsStr(sourceStr);
Local<v8::Script> script = Script::Compile(source, origin);
if(script.IsEmpty()) {
assert(try_catch.HasCaught());
return "JS compile failed: " + jsReportExceptionToString(Isolate::GetCurrent(), &try_catch);;
}
Local<Value> result = script->Run();
if(result.IsEmpty()) {
assert(try_catch.HasCaught());
return "JS script execution failed: " + jsReportExceptionToString(Isolate::GetCurrent(), &try_catch);
}
return true;
}
That puts all files under the file:// domain in the Sources list. However, main.js gets an extra entry under (no domain). When I make the change
process.mainModule = {filename: "file:///" + process._baseDir + "/main.js"}
it goes away, however, that is not how I would have expected ìt to be according to the doc.
When I pause/break the execution in main.js, it shows up in yet another Source [VM] main.js and gets a yellow-ish background.
Also, all files in Sources under file:// get the (function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { prefix added in the first line of the source. That line does not come from my code but from node-inspector. Why does it add that here? It is esp. strange because my code adds a slightly different prefix ( function(module, exports) {.
A: Run DEBUG=node-inspector:protocol:* node-inspector and inspect the messages, you might be able to find more information there. You can also try to use an older version, e.g. 0.1.9, it may have less dependencies on Node-specific stuff.
I'd say 95% of Node Inspector code uses V8 protocol only. Look for usages of DebuggerClient.prototype.evaluateGlobal to find where Node-specific functionality is used.
The first thing to change is getResourceTree in lib/PageAgent.js. Either implement your own way of listing all source files (including those not loaded yet), or return an empty tree.
UPDATE
Try Node's CLI debugger first:
$ node debug localhost:5858
To my best knowledge, the CLI debugger uses only the V8 debugger protocol features, nothing Node specific. When you are able to debug your V8 app using the CLI, you will know that any other problems are in Node Inspector and not in your V8 app.
A: Here is a solution for debugging V8 with node-inspector:
First of all, the latest version (0.12.3) has many extensions for debugging node.js scripts so I used an older version (0.5.0) which has less liability to node.js.
I used the following command to install v0.5.0 in Node.js command prompt:
npm install [email protected]
It is installed in folder "%USERPROFILE%\node_modules" by default.
I added one line of code to %USERPROFILE%\node_modules\node-inspector\lib\PageAgent.js:
getResourceTree: function(params, done) {
return; //return empty tree
...
This completes the installation.
Here is the guide to debug a javascript file executed by using the ClearScript .NET library:
Open a command prompt and execute the following command:
%USERPROFILE%\node_modules\.bin\node-inspector.cmd
You should see the following lines if node-inspector is running successfully.
Node Inspector v0.5.0
info - socket.io started
Visit http://127.0.0.1:8080/debug?port=5858 to start debugging.
Initialize your V8 engine as in the following code line (VB.NET code):
Dim engine As New V8ScriptEngine("global", V8ScriptEngineFlags.EnableDebugging, 9222)
Put a breakpoint right after this line in your code and run your application to reach this breakpoint.
Make sure you have "debugger;" statement in the first line of your JavaScript code.
Open a Chrome browser and navigate to the following address:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/debug?port=9222
Press "Continue Debugging" button in Vİsual Studio toolbar.
Now you should see your script code stopped at the first "debugger;" line in Chrome browser.
You can continue debugging from here.
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The demand for non-invasive diagnostic imaging in cardiology increases with the advancing age of the population. Whilst exercise testing and myocardial perfusion scintigraphy have provided non-invasive functional assessment of coronary artery disease there has been little alternative to invasive coronary angiography for anatomical assessment of the coronary tree.
In recent years technological advances have enabled improvements in both temporal and spatial resolution such that multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) is now able to reproducibly evaluate cardiac disease. The combination of this improved resolution with more advanced post-processing techniques now means that MDCT has the ability to perform both anatomical and functional assessment from the single study. This technique therefore not only provides a non-invasive alternative to conventional angiography but the same data-set allows concurrent assessment of cardiac function, assessment of aberrant vessels, graft patency studies and assessment of the coronary artery wall.
Cardiac computed tomography (CT) has the potential to provide a much more complete assessment than conventional coronary angiography. It is likely to become the non-invasive imaging modality of choice to exclude significant coronary artery disease in those with intermediate risk of coronary artery disease.
This second part of a two-part article considers the clinical applications and clinical future developments for cardiac CT. The first part considered ECG-gated image reconstruction, image resolution, radiation dose, and post-processing protocols and limitations.
Recent advances in computed tomography (CT) processing technology have focused mainly on multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) coronary angiography and there has been a rapid evolution from the research setting into clinical practice. The quality and quantity of the 'raw' dataset acquired for each scan allows assessment of anatomy, cardiac function, ventricular mass and volume,2 valvular stenosis assessment3 and identification of areas of fixed hypoperfusion.4 It can therefore offer information above and beyond that of alternative techniques such as the pure lumenography and ventriculography of invasive coronary angiography (ICA). Whilst cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) remains the cardiac modality of choice for the assessment of many of these functional parameters, it still lacks the ability to routinely assess the coronary tree. CT can provide clear delineation of the entire coronary tree including assessment of the vessel wall. With functional assessment it offers a one-test assessment e.g. prior to a valve replacement in a 60-year-old patient who has a low to intermediate risk of coronary artery disease or, alternatively, in a patient with congenital valvular stenosis who may also have aberrant coronary arteries.
Contrast flow is dependant not only on the size and position of the intravenous cannula but also on the underlying cardiac output. During the actual angiogram the patient receives breath hold instructions followed by 70 ml of contrast injected at 4–5 ml per second through a 20-gauge venflon in the antecubital fossa. To achieve adequate contrast delivery speed a double-headed power injector is employed. This initial contrast bolus is immediately followed by a smaller (40–50 ml) pure saline chaser or 50:50 contrast and saline mix to optimise image quality and contrast enhancement throughout the entire coronary tree, push contrast out of the arm veins and to minimise beam attenuation from the excessively dense contrast in the right heart and superior vena cava.16 After the necessary time delay the scan commences and covers the 12–14 cm cranio-caudal scan in a single breath hold of 8–12 seconds on a 64-channel system. Older four- and 16-channel CT systems require significantly longer patient breath holds.
As previously outlined, there are several other factors that must also be optimised prior to scanning for the best chance of clear and diagnostic images. These include a suitable heart rate (50–70 bpm) which may require the use of negative chronotropes as necessary; a regular cardiac rhythm (although anecdotal evidence would suggest that rate-controlled atrial fibrillation does allow for reasonable image quality); no or low coronary calcium burden and no respiratory or patient movement. Very large patients also cause significant degradation of image quality.
MDCT angiography has been compared with ICA at each stage of development. Four-slice MDCT images were not of suitable quality to elucidate stenoses in smaller vessels and had a reported sensitivity of 92–95% and specificity of 86–93%.17,18 These values improved with 16-detector machines19 and the most recent 64-detector data suggest a sensitivity of 99% and specificity of 95% with a negative predictive value of 99% and positive predictive value of 76% in technically adequate studies.20 MDCT coronary angiography has therefore improved significantly with advances in technology but still has a tendency to overestimate coronary artery stenoses (particularly if calcified). It is clear that the major strength of CT coronary angiography (CTCA) lies in its ability to exclude significant coronary artery disease, reflected in the high negative predictive values reported in the majority of studies.21 It is now an accepted alternative in the diagnostic assessment of coronary artery disease.
Table 1 gives the indications and contra-indications for this technique.
those in whom an alternative to myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) is sought.
MDCT should not be carried out on patients with a high risk of coronary artery disease since ICA can and should lead seamlessly into immediate intervention in this group.
Coronary stents are easily visualised on both contrast-enhanced and non-enhanced CT images due to their high density (figure 1).12 Unfortunately due to their high density, stents produce similar problems to heavily calcified vessels with over projection of high density into the lumen of the vessel making assessment of in-stent restenosis from neo-intimal proliferation problematic even with the 64-detector scanners.22 Some manufacturers have provided dedicated reconstruction algorithms in an attempt to surmount this difficulty. Total occlusion or severe stenosis is generally detectable by MDCT angiography. Stents with thinner struts are more assessable due to their lower overall density23 but MDCT angiography remains of limited usefulness in quantitative assessment of non-significant in-stent restenosis imaging and is only reliable in stents with a diameter in excess of 4 mm.12 Currently MDCT angiography is of benefit in assessment and follow up of left main stem stents but has only moderate sensitivity in other, smaller vessels.24 As with diagnostic MDCT angiography, there is a high negative predictive value and MDCT may be best employed as a gatekeeper to further invasive angiographic investigation.
In contrast to the technical difficulties of stent assessment, graft patency assessment lends itself well to MDCT angiography due to the large diameter, limited calcification and relative immobility of grafts (figure 2). Limitations include artefacts secondary to metallic clips, sutures, surgical markers and the proximity of grafts to sternal wires. Up to 10% of vein grafts may become occluded within the peri-operative period25 rising to 25% at five years and 59% at 10 years. Arterial graft occlusion rises to 17% in the same 10-year period.26 MDCT has been shown to be both highly sensitive and specific in assessment of coronary artery grafts with sensitivities between 95% and 100% and specificity of 94 and 100%.27,28 Given the technical difficulty of graft location during ICA, MDCT has been validated as a robust clinical alternative. A full assessment, however, must also look at the native vessels and this can be more problematic due to the likelihood of severe and diffuse disease with the inherent likelihood of severe calcification.
One of the major potential advantages of MDCT coronary angiography over conventional ICA is the ability to identify not only calcified lesions but also the various other components that make up so-called 'soft' plaques. There is a difference in attenuation between lipid, fibrous and calcified material and this allows not only differentiation of soft plaque from calcified plaques but allows some assessment of plaque composition.29 There has been considerable interest in soft plaques as these may represent high-risk plaques with a higher tendency to rupture.30 It has been shown that in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome there is a higher prevalence of soft plaque and vascular remodelling identified on MDCT compared to a similar population with stable angina pectoris.31 Soft plaques can also be assessed via intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) but this is expensive and invasive. MDCT has been shown to correlate well with IVUS.32 It is not possible to give absolute figures for these composites of plaques since data suggest that the higher the intra-luminal density of the contrast, the higher the soft plaque density surrounding it33 and further research is required on the interaction of these two factors before these subtle distinctions can be reliably incorporated into clinical practice.
Data obtained during the MDCT coronary scan can also be used to derive left and right ventricular function. Reconstruction of the datasets at multiple phases of the cardiac cycle (usually every 5% or 10%) allows calculation of both end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes of the left ventricle and therefore stroke volume, cardiac output and ejection fraction. Left ventricular volumes can be reconstructed at these phases using dedicated software. With some interaction, left ventricular wall motion, thickening and thickness can also be derived.34 There is good correlation between MDCT, CMR1 and trans-thoracic echocardiography (TTE)34 for ejection fraction. Regional wall abnormality assessment is less favourable when compared to TTE due the lower temporal resolution of MDCT. There is a good correlation between the two techniques for akinetic, dyskinetic and normal segments but only a moderate correlation in the assessment of hypokinetic segments.34 The fact that many patients are also treated with negatively chronotropic agents to facilitate their MDCT angiogram may also impact on their overall cardiac function. Right ventricular function is more difficult to assess due to its complex geometry, but initial preliminary data suggest a good correlation with CMR.35 This functional information comes for 'free' with the MDCT angiographic dataset.
It can be seen that recent advances in MDCT technology have facilitated a rapid emergence of cardiac MDCT into mainstream cardiological practice. It is likely that MDCT angiography will become an increasingly utilised tool in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, relieving the burden on nuclear medicine and reducing the number of day-case diagnostic angiograms. It has already been utilised in Emergency Rooms both in the USA36 and Israel37 to exclude significant coronary disease and/or pulmonary embolus and dissection (triple rule-out) in patients presenting with acute chest pain. This trend is likely to continue.
Functional analysis is likely to become routinely incorporated into MDCT angiographic reports and will continue to be utilised in patients with contraindications to CMR. Valve assessment by MDCT has been validated in research with good correlation of aortic valve stenosis with TTE3 and transoesophageal echocardiography38 although MDCT data are likely to remain inferior to CMR for the foreseeable future due to the limited temporal resolution of MDCT and the benefit of additional flow data available on CMR. MDCT perfusion imaging is currently under intense investigation and whilst fixed hypoperfusion following acute myocardial infarction has been demonstrated and correlates well with CMR,4 its clinical usefulness remains to be seen. Dynamic perfusion protocols similar to those used in MPS scanning have also been developed and show a good correlation with MPS.39 This involves two scans, one at rest and one during stress, both involving a significant radiation dose and until this dose issue is resolved, MDCT is unlikely to challenge MPS in clinical cardiology. Efforts continue to minimise radiation.40 Many of the technological hindrances that currently limit the clinical utilisation of cardiac MDCT are also likely to be overcome in the forseeable future.
Cardiac CT provides a much more complete cardiac assessment than pure coronary imaging. It provides morphological data comparable with CMR, functional data comparable with echocardiography and the potential for perfusion data comparable with MPS, which all highlight the versatility of cardiac MDCT. Optimal patient selection and preparation is currently the key to high quality imaging. The radiation dose, whilst not irrelevant, must be put in the context of overall lifetime cancer risk and also of the dose from alternative imaging techniques. It is important to acknowledge the reduction in morbidity and mortality from MDCT as compared with ICA when comparing the overall risk between techniques. Patient choice will influence the speed of uptake of cardiac MDCT, but the technique has come of age. The idea of a 'one-stop shop' for cardiac assessment is attractive and these are exciting times in the world of non-invasive cardiac imaging.
The first part of this article which considered ECG-gated image reconstruction, image resolution, radiation dose, and post-processing protocols and limitations was covered in the last issue of the journal (Br J Cardiol 2007:14:143–50).
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What Good Are UFOs?
Tom Head June 11, 2014
During a recent U.S. congressional hearing on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a conservative member of the House asked UC-Berkerley SETI director Dan Werthimer about UFOs in general, and the History Channel series Ancient Aliens in particular. Werthimer's response was one for the books: "UFOs have nothing to do with extraterrestrials."
There's a great deal of content, here and elsewhere, about UFO visits. No point in hashing that out in much detail. But let's suppose, as a matter of brute fact, that we were able to verify with a high degree of certainty that an alien spacecraft flew the skies over Earth, and all we knew for certain about it was that it was extraterrestrial in origin. What would that tell us?
Well, we can assume to begin with that if the craft serves a primarily scientific purpose, it would probably be an unmanned probe. As we have discovered ourselves, life support systems are not generally an efficient use of spacecraft resources. And if we sent a spacecraft to a world that we knew contained (semi-)intelligent life, we wouldn't needlessly risk the lives of personnel by having them fly around in the flak-filed skies before we'd made contact with the general population. Even if the craft were invincible, it would be a horribly inconvenient trip, and—unless the visitors are tourists who want to spend a vacation on a foreign world—there would be no scientific reason to send them here.
We can also reasonably assume that the entity that sent the craft didn't want to hide it. We've already discovered technology that would allow us in principle to make aircraft invisible, and we can assume that any alien civilization capable of traveling to Earth would be similarly familiar with nanomaterials. Remember those helicopter photos of an uncontacted tribe on the Peruvian border, and how unethical many observers found them to be? This would be (at best) the intergalactic equivalent. If we can see extraterrestrial probes, the civilization sending them is trolling us—and maybe being a little cruel about it.
In other words: if any UFOs really are manned alien spacecraft, I think they're probably full of obnoxious space tourists who don't have enough to do with their time.
Am I being unfair? Do you have any alternative theories to suggest? Share them in the comments below.
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Tom Head is an author or coauthor of 29 nonfiction books, columnist, scriptwriter, research paralegal, occasional hellraiser, and proud Jackson native. His book Possessions and Exorcisms (Fact or Fiction?) covers the recent demand for exorcists over the past 30 years and demonic possession.
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One of the most effective impulse display products retailers have at their disposal is lingerie wash. It's easy to merchandise, catches a customer's eye and leads to more sales.
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For our readers not familiar with the brand, Eucalan makes eco-friendly no-rinse delicate wash for lingerie, baby items, woolens and handmade items.
The company is bringing its' well-known delicate wash and a selection of accessories that retailers may find perfect for their Point of Sales displays in their boutiques and online as a last minute check-out suggestion.
Based on the seductive scent of Jasmine, Wrapture Balm is a first for Eucalan with an eco-friendly balm made from essential oils and is perfect for rough skin, cuticles, dry hair and of course as a perfume. It is a portable, compact handbag essential that won't leak and makes it easy for air travel.
Wrapture's emollient rich formula feels silky and absorbs quickly leaving behind the beautifully intoxicating scent of jasmine with is a natural aphrodisiac. Created in collaboration with Kristin Omdahl.
Eucalan saturated towelettes, individually packaged for On The Go emergencies. Simply blot or rub the wipe on the affected spot as soon as possible for stain treating and garment freshening.
This set of 5 bottles of Eucalan is neatly packaged in a clear re-usable zip bag in each of the brand's scents.
"The Gift Pack is a popular item for gift-giving – include it with a cute baby item, beautiful lingerie or the lovely sweater you've knit." suggests Jennifer.
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import { ScreenOwnerType, tappedMainArtworkGrid } from "@artsy/cohesion"
import { SaleArtworkGridItem_saleArtwork$data } from "__generated__/SaleArtworkGridItem_saleArtwork.graphql"
import { filterArtworksParams } from "app/Components/ArtworkFilter/ArtworkFilterHelpers"
import { ArtworksFiltersStore } from "app/Components/ArtworkFilter/ArtworkFilterStore"
import OpaqueImageView from "app/Components/OpaqueImageView/OpaqueImageView"
import {
PlaceholderBox,
PlaceholderRaggedText,
RandomNumberGenerator,
} from "app/utils/placeholders"
import { Box, Flex, Spacer, Text, Touchable } from "palette"
import { StyleSheet, View } from "react-native"
import { createFragmentContainer, graphql } from "react-relay"
import { useTracking } from "react-tracking"
import { navigate } from "../../navigation/navigate"
import { saleMessageOrBidInfo } from "./ArtworkGridItem"
export interface ArtworkProps {
saleArtwork: SaleArtworkGridItem_saleArtwork$data
// If it's not provided, then it will push just the one artwork
// to the switchboard.
onPress?: (artworkID: string) => void
trackingFlow?: string
contextModule?: string
// Pass Tap to override generic ing, used for home tracking in rails
trackTap?: (artworkSlug: string, index?: number) => void
itemIndex?: number
// By default, we don't track clicks from the grid unless you pass in a contextScreenOwnerType.
contextScreenOwnerType?: ScreenOwnerType
contextScreenOwnerId?: string
contextScreenOwnerSlug?: string
}
export const SaleArtworkGridItem: React.FC<ArtworkProps> = ({
saleArtwork,
onPress,
trackTap,
itemIndex,
contextScreenOwnerId,
contextScreenOwnerSlug,
contextScreenOwnerType,
}) => {
const tracking = useTracking()
const appliedFilters = ArtworksFiltersStore.useStoreState((state) => state.appliedFilters)
const filterParams = filterArtworksParams(appliedFilters)
const artwork = saleArtwork.artwork!
const handleTap = () => {
trackArtworkTap()
onPress && artwork.slug ? onPress(artwork.slug) : navigate(artwork.href!)
}
const trackArtworkTap = () => {
// Unless you explicitly pass in a tracking function or provide a contextScreenOwnerType, we won't track
// taps from the grid.
if (trackTap || contextScreenOwnerType) {
const genericTapEvent = tappedMainArtworkGrid({
contextScreenOwnerType: contextScreenOwnerType!,
contextScreenOwnerId,
contextScreenOwnerSlug,
destinationScreenOwnerId: artwork.internalID,
destinationScreenOwnerSlug: artwork.slug,
position: itemIndex,
// This is always a string; types are incorrect
sort: String(filterParams?.sort),
})
trackTap ? trackTap(artwork.slug, itemIndex) : tracking.trackEvent(genericTapEvent)
}
}
const saleInfo = saleMessageOrBidInfo({
artwork: {
sale: saleArtwork.sale,
saleArtwork,
saleMessage: saleArtwork.artwork?.saleMessage || null,
realizedPrice: artwork.realizedPrice,
},
})
return (
<Touchable onPress={() => handleTap()}>
<View>
{!!artwork.image && (
<OpaqueImageView
aspectRatio={artwork.image?.aspectRatio ?? 1}
imageURL={artwork.image?.url}
style={styles.artworkImage}
/>
)}
<Box mt={1}>
{!!saleArtwork?.lotLabel && (
<Text variant="sm" color="black60" numberOfLines={1}>
Lot {saleArtwork.lotLabel}
</Text>
)}
{!!artwork.artistNames && (
<Text variant="sm" weight="medium" numberOfLines={1}>
{artwork.artistNames}
</Text>
)}
{!!artwork.title && (
<Text variant="sm" color="black60" numberOfLines={1}>
{artwork.title}
{!!artwork.date && `, ${artwork.date}`}
</Text>
)}
{!!saleInfo && (
<Text variant="sm" color="black60" numberOfLines={1}>
{saleInfo}
</Text>
)}
</Box>
</View>
</Touchable>
)
}
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
artworkImage: {
justifyContent: "flex-end",
paddingHorizontal: 5,
paddingBottom: 5,
},
endingDateContainer: {
backgroundColor: "white",
borderRadius: 2,
paddingHorizontal: 5,
minWidth: 100,
paddingVertical: 3,
},
})
export const SaleArtworkGridItemPlaceholder: React.FC<{ seed?: number }> = ({
seed = Math.random(),
}) => {
const rng = new RandomNumberGenerator(seed)
return (
<Flex>
<PlaceholderBox height={rng.next({ from: 50, to: 150 })} width="100%" />
<Spacer mb="1" />
<PlaceholderRaggedText seed={rng.next()} numLines={2} />
</Flex>
)
}
export const SaleArtworkGridItemContainer = createFragmentContainer(SaleArtworkGridItem, {
saleArtwork: graphql`
fragment SaleArtworkGridItem_saleArtwork on SaleArtwork {
artwork {
internalID
title
date
saleMessage
slug
artistNames
href
image {
url(version: "large")
aspectRatio
}
realizedPrice
}
counts {
bidderPositions
}
currentBid {
display
}
lotLabel
sale {
isAuction
isClosed
displayTimelyAt
}
}
`,
})
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Tag Archives | career development
Why A Good Waxing Saves Careers
There's a real message in hot wax to help smooth successful and happy careers. It all starts with self-examination. Take a look, and thrive. Here's how.
In Greek mythology, Daedalus advised his son Icarus to be bold enough to fly but not to fly so high that the sun's heat would melt the wax of the wings he had fashioned for him.
Thrilled by his initial aerobatic successes, Icarus ignored his father's advice and paid the ultimate price – a sobering demonstration of unjustified self confidence and the abuse of power.
He blew his moment in the sun, and fell victim to this wonderful adage:
"…. Today a peacock, tomorrow a feather duster."
The Key To Becoming A Great Leader
Fear, doubt, uncertainty, self-criticism. That's how it feels. Leadership can suck. That's why I am putting my hand up for this. And you can too.
Why I Want You To Play In The Traffic
It's the worst advice for children. But powerful counsel if you want to make your career a huge success, today and tomorrow. Do this and thrive. It's as simple as that.
I caught up with Paul K this week, a hugely talented, inspiring and successful entrepreneur who specialises in leadership work. I'd seen him eight months ago, just after I quit my big job. We'd chatted about my plans. Now I updated him on progress – on all the 'shoe leather' I'd been burning to connect and lift profile- and how my Advisory practice was booming.
"It's no surprise," Paul commented. "You're doing something well that so many forget to do at their peril in their careers. You are……"
Are You Fit Enough For Your Career Marathon?
I gave a speech to 1,000 marketers recently, to a standing ovation. Surprising really, given I'd just told them they faced career extinction. Then I asked them this.
If you retire when you are 65 years old, how many years have you got to go?
Less than 10, between 10 and 20, 20 and 30? More than 30? For most, the answer is startling. They have a long road ahead of them. Given the massive pace of change, that future is uncertain. Here's the brutal reality:
The Secret To Igniting Your Career
"How did you you know you wanted to become a pilot?" I asked Pilot Sam. His response had a twist. It's a message critical for happy, thriving, long-lasting careers. There's magic in this. Read on.
We were dining beside the Bosphorus in Istanbul, sipping raki after a stupendous meal. My guest was Pilot Sam, a senior Turkish Airlines captain with 11,000 flying hours.
I expected a story about his seeing a plane in the sky above as a kid, and his knowing instantly his passion was for flight. How nothing makes him feel as free or inspired as controlling an aircraft through the skies. How sunrises from 30,000 feet make you feel like you can touch the face of God. Okay- I am going on a bit- but you get the idea.
Instead, Pilot Sam told me this story. It has a big message: in fact, this secret to success and career happiness:
Having clarity on your true Purpose is the key to loving what you do: and doing what you love.
Learn This Secret To Fast-Tracking Success
I encourage you, please, to make mistakes. Here's the twist. I only want you to make a very specific style of mistake- the sort smart people make. Here's the magic. Read on.
Good Man Mark was inspiringly positive after a major career setback. I was sharing my experiences of shaping a new career direction. He was most hungry for insights on what not to do. "When I trained as a pilot, my instructor made this one rule: 'You will not have a prang unless it is an original one.'"
I loved that! It reminded me of the advice I got recently from a Sydney business leader:
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Carolina Hurricanes Sign Former Laker, News (Huron Perth Lakers)
Carolina Hurricanes Sign Former Laker
Jul 12, 2006 | Shaun Peet | 1107 views
19 year old goaltender Justin Peters, a Lakers' Alumnus, has signed a three-year contract with the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes. The Lakers are extremely proud of Justin, he is an inspiration to many of our Lakers today.
The Blyth native attended the Hurricanes' training camp in 2005 prior to returning to the Ontario Hockey League. In 55 regular-season OHL games with Toronto-St. Michael's and Plymouth, Peters (6' 2", 215 lbs.) recorded a 29-21-4 record and a 3.14 goals-against average. In 13 playoff games with Plymouth, Peters went 6-6-1 with a 3.20 goals-against average before Plymouth lost in the second round to Guelph. In 189 regular-season OHL games from 2002 to 2006, Peters posted a 2.88 goals-against average and a 88-70-16 record. For more information visit the Hurricanes' website at www.CarolinaHurricanes.com .(Photo Courtesy of Carolina Hurricanes.com)
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Coutinho 'cannot play for Liverpool' - Klopp
3yGlenn Price
Philippe Coutinho 'cannot play for Liverpool in this moment' - Klopp
Glenn PriceLiverpool correspondent
SINSHEIM, Germany -- Jurgen Klopp says Philippe Coutinho "cannot play for Liverpool in this moment" and labelled the Brazilian's absence from the team as a "blow."
Coutinho did not travel with the Liverpool squad to Germany for the first leg of their Champions League playoff tie against Hoffenheim on Tuesday, as uncertainty around his future remains.
The Brazil international handed in a transfer request on Friday, but Liverpool's owners, Fenway Sports Group, remain adamant the player will not be sold after rejecting two offers from Barcelona.
"Nothing has changed in the last few days -- not on one side or the other side," Klopp told a news conference at the Rhein-Neckar-Arena on Monday. "He's not available for us in the moment -- that's the main issue.
"He cannot play for Liverpool in this moment. How everyone can imagine, that's quite a blow for us. We know a few days about it, so we can prepare this game without him, like we have to prepare the game without Adam Lallana and Daniel Sturridge, who is in a good way -- I had a talk with him this morning, he is really close, but now two more sessions and then he will be available for the weekend."
When asked again about Coutinho, Klopp refused to add to his previous answer, insisting he was only focused on the meeting with Julian Nagelsmann's side.
"I really understand that everybody is interested in this, but I can't say that in this moment I'm thinking about it," he added.
"I'm here and I'll answer questions. In the car on the way to this press conference I didn't think: 'What can I say if they ask?' because I have to think about the team, who have a session in a few minutes. I always was like this.
"I work with the players I have and don't think about players I don't have -- if they are injured or whatever. It's the same situation for me."
However, in speaking to English newspapers, Klopp confirmed that the final decision will come down to Liverpool's owners, not him.
"If, for example, there is an offer for a player and I say 'No' and the owners say, 'Yes, let's ask for a number on how much they want to pay.' And I say, 'I don't want to hear it'. But they say 'We want to hear it, £50 million ... £50 million is cool.' So then they sell the player -- that is how a club works.
"That is how it was with Hans-Joachim Watzke [chief executive] at Dortmund. Do you think I said, 'Sell Nuri Sahin to Real Madrid as quick as possible?' It was not my decision. The player had a contract. They agreed. I am 100 percent, really, 100 percent [when I say] I don't ask for things I can't get and I respect the rules in the game.
"If [FSG] say [Barcelona] will bid whatever and we [FSG] don't want it then it is a clear message. We don't want money, we want to invest in the team and have the best team because we have aims and dreams. That is the message.
"It's not important what I think. I have the player from Aug. 31 latest, again, or when the back issue is sorted. There is nothing else I can say about it. I think I said 'I have bosses', right? I have many bosses, including my wife. I can live with this, it's no problem. [The owners] are 100 percent clear on it. There is nothing else to say."
Philippe Coutinho's absence will be a 'blow' for Liverpool against Hoffenheim. Victor Fraile/Getty Images
Coutinho's captain, Jordan Henderson, says the entire team would want to the No. 10 to stay at Anfield.
"If you asked everyone they'd all want him to stay because he's a world-class player," Henderson said. "It's a difficult situation, but if you ask anyone in the team then of course they'd want him to stay.
"I don't think I can influence the situation, no. But I can have conversations with Phil. He's my teammate and I'm close to him because I've played with him for a number of years. I've got a lot of respect for him. At the end of the day, whatever happens has got nothing to do with me."
He continued: "It's a difficult situation for Phil. Whatever I say probably won't help the situation. As players, [we're] fully focused on the job in hand. As players, you expect in transfer windows things like this to happen -- whether players are going or coming in.
"But you've got to focus on what's important to us as a team and stay together. The game tomorrow is the biggest focus for us as a team. It shouldn't have any effect at all."
Meanwhile, Hoffenheim manager Nagelsmann believes his side go into the two-legged tie as underdogs, but feels his players have the ability to cause an upset.
The 30-year-old coach guided Hoffenheim to a fourth-placed finish in the Bundesliga last term -- their best-ever finish in the club's history.
"We know that Liverpool Football Club is the favourite in this encounter," Nagelsmann said at his prematch news conference. "We know about that.
"We know we can, with a good match, shock our opponent. I don't know if we need to shock them, I don't know if we need to shock the English public, but I can also say that we need a top performance tomorrow in order to do that."
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One of the basic categories of pulps, and the one category aimed at women, was the Romance or Love Pulp. They are just about what you might expect, but sometimes the stories and the covers transcend the genre.
Some believe that RANCH ROMANCES had the honor to be the last pulp magazine published in the US, with issues containing new stories still coming out in the late 1960's.
A social mixture of the rare and the incomprehensible.
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Learning and Development Manager at Australian College of Kuwait by day, passionate toastmaster by night. A figure that has been twinned with Toastmasters since 2011. She earned her first Distinguished Toastmaster title in 2015 and a second time in 2018. Her leadership quality and willingness to serve members selflessly makes her worthy of her position as a Program Quality Director.
A FIREBRAND and BEAUTY-both inside and out!
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I have been trying to put an older embedded Jetty served application onto Java 8. The application's JSP files where, however, not compiling. This delayed having the benefits Java 8 brings to development.
the JSP's compile and the older project now works with Java 8.
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Record Videos of Apps in Windows 10 with the Built-In Xbox App
Walter Glenn
Filed to: windows 10Filed to: windows 10
If you ever need to record a video of an app on your screen in Windows 10, the built-in Xbox app has a recording tool that may fit the bill.
The Xbox app comes already installed in Windows 10. One of its features is a video recorder tool intended to let you capture in game videos. It turns out the tool will work with just about any app. It won't capture your entire desktop, so if that's what you're looking for you'll need to turn to a more powerful screen casting app. But if you just need to record a specific app, give it a try.
If you haven't already, you'll need to run the Xbox app for the first time. After that, you can press Windows+G to open the Game Bar overlay, which includes tools for capturing an image or video of an app window. The first time you launch game bar for each app, you'll get a message asking whether it's a game. Just tell it yes and start recording. Captured videos are saved in the MP4 format in Videos/Captures.
How to Use the Hidden Screen Recorder Tool in Windows 10 | WonderHowTo
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Only two dozen people have braved the entire trail, but you don't need to hike the entire length to enjoy some of the most majestic camp sites in the Pacific Northwest. Try one or more of these top ten camp sites for an amazing camping experience.
Located in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, this campground sports trails suitable for hiking and horseback riding. Camp sites start at $15/night from May through November.
A great site for anglers, this park features a boat launch for non-motorized boats on Riffe Lake. Camp sites cost $16/night, year-round, except December 20 through January 1st.
In the middle of Tillamook state forest, Nehalem Falls has majestic waterfalls, full of fishing spots for trout fishing. Sites are $10/night, mid-May to mid-September.
This campground is complete with a chalet and an authentic German deli. Nightly dances with live music are festive but fun after a day of fishing for trout in the fully stocked pond. Prices start at $18/night, year round.
Nestled away in Oregon, Lake Laird is the best kept camping secret of the Pacific Northwest. Camping in this secluded waterfront campground is free year round.
Known for trout fishing, this 5.5 mile long lake is the perfect place to hook some trout. Camp sites start at $20/night.
This cape won't disappoint, despite the name. With twenty-seven miles of beach, the opportunities for fishing are abundant. Camping starts at $19/night.
Located directly on the Pacific Northwest Trail, Deer Park has plenty of places to hike, fish, and see some beautiful wildlife. Reservations can be made for $10-15/vehicle.
St. Maries River is the perfect spot for fishing for trout. Star garnets are also indigenous to the area and can be dug up for a small fee. Camping is always free from May to October.
Lake Cascade is known for their rainbow trout fishing, hiking, biking, and easily accessible trails. Camping is free year round.
With these ten choices, you'll be sure to find a great spot to enjoy the trails, waterfalls, and mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
Awesome list! I haven't been to this side of the world, but it's a good reminder of camps to go to. Bookmarking this one!
All these sound wonderful, though Deer Park sounds especially appealing to me – would love to see that wildlife.
This part of the country is just gorgeous, there is nothing like camping and reconnecting with nature!
A very thorough list. I'm curious how Cape Disappointment got its name!
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Global Business, International Law & Relations
Countertrade (International) - Explained
What is a Countertrade?
Updated at July 22nd, 2021
What is a Countertrade?Academic Research for Countertrade
Countertrade is a system of trade where buyers import machinery, equipment, technology, and raw materials from foreign manufacturers on a credit basis and agree to pay back the debt with other products or labor in a given time frame.
Also, countertrade is an international trading system in which governments decrease the trade deficits between two or more countries.
Back to: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS, LAW, & RELATIONS
Academic Research for Countertrade
A note on countertrade: contractual uncertainty and transaction governance in emerging economies, Choi, C. J., Lee, S. H., & Kim, J. B. (1999). Journal of International Business Studies, 30(1), 189-201. The paper establishes a conceptual framework for evaluating organisational impacts on contractual risks in regards to developing economies. Regardless of the ancient explanation by inadequacies of foreign exchange, Arguments of continued international countertrade demonstrates organisational cures to institutional governance transactions deficit
The economics and politics of countertrade, Banks, G. (1983). World Economy, 6(2), 159-182. The paper concludes that countertrade is of minimal benefits in world trade. Systematic forces in Eastern bloc countries increase the probability of continuous in the countertrade to increase significantly to external trade. In countertrade, powerful domestic interests are significant only in the non-market economies where it is of inflexible source
Economic incentives for countertrade, Mirus, R., & Yeung, B. (1986). Journal of International Business Studies, 17(3), 27-39. The paper undertakes an examination of countertrade using standard economic theory. The theory demonstrates circumstances under which countertrade is a reasonable response transactional cost, information disproportionateness, ethical hazard-agency challenges and other market defectiveness. The paper also develops an introduction proposition that is capable of experiential examination after improvement.
Countertrade: Forms, motives, pitfalls, and negotiation requisites, Khoury, S. J. (1984). Journal of Business Research, 12(2), 257-270. This paper observes countertrade from the viewpoint of policy makers and businesses and outlines the definition of countertrade and the types that include barter, counter-purchase, buy-back arrangements and switch trades. Reasons backing the countertrade are discussed from the perception of East Europeans, developing countries and Western organizations. The conclusion states that countertrade is a developing strategy of trade and the need of American businesses adjusting to it to sustain and develop their attractiveness in the global markets.
Tying trade flows a theory of countertrade with evidence, Marin, D., & Schnitzer, M. (1995). The American Economic Review, 1047-1064. A countertrade contract bonds export to an import. In most cases, countertrade is condemned to be a form of bilateralism and mutuality hence an ineffective form of international trade. In this paper, the authors discuss the situations in which combining of two technologically dissimilar trade movements is probable for efficiency improvements. The authors illustrate that there is a possibility of countertrade being efficient in international trade that provides the solution to moral-hazard problems and reinstates solvency of very obligated countries.
The transaction-cost rationale for countertrade, Hennart, J. F. (1989). Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 5(1), 127-153. The paper defines countertrade as an agreement between the buyer and a seller in which the major transaction is accompanied by extra terms. The major counter trade forms are barter trade, switch trade and clearing arrangements. Most literature is concentrated on the macro-economic and legal factors while no attention is devoted to managerial functions which may not be significant in some types of countertrade like barter is more necessary for complex agreements.
Countertrade, offsets and barter in international political economy, Hammond, G. T. (1990). The paper refers to countertrade as a set of commercial arrangements between a buyer and a seller in which the main transaction is complemented by numerous conditions. The paper aims at the development of initial grouping of compensatory requests applied in offset deliberations which form part of the highly significant, multifaceted and least documented countertrade forms. The paper is also aimed at the identification of some unexplained challenges to be examined in the coming studies.
Achieving an advantage with countertrade, Reisman, A., Fuh, D. C., & Li, G. (1988). Industrial Marketing Management, 17(1), 55-63. The paper examines the numerous layouts of countertrade which is the current development of traditional goods exchange trade. The format provides the nomenclature of grouping the ways of the conduct of countertrade which includes; allocates the benefits for the trading partners based on the respective degree of economic development in their home countries, and argues on the process of countertrade generally sufficient to set into every format. The paper also describes product bundling and principles of setting countertrade regulations. Even though the above discussed being universal, some specific example illustrating countertrade is with the Peoples Republic of China.
Some empirical dimensions of countertrade, Hennart, J. F. (1990). Journal of International Business Studies, 21(2), 243-270. The paper studies some of the current theories of reasons for the implementing countertrade barriers and undertakes the comparison of the impacts of these theories with the information from an all-inclusive database of countertrade activities.
The management of countertrade: Factors influencing success, Lecraw, D. J. (1989). Journal of International Business Studies, 20(1), 41-59. Countertrade victory was found to be higher for firms that had experience in exporting and in countertrade activities, large, were able to withstand countertrade take-backs and valued upright incorporation, high visibility, complex products, had the low reputation for quality and high volumes. Attainments were also higher provided the importer treated quality with utmost considerations, with low technical proficiency inexperienced ion exporting, encountered obligations in export markets, highly expensive forward contracts foreign exchange limitation and challenged low exchange rate.
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We keep hearing of the 'wait-and-watch' or 'fence-sitting' syndrome on the residential property market, which basically means that a significant number of people who want to buy a home are not doing so.
Property buyers tend to wait and watch rather than buy for two or three reasons. One would be that they are waiting for a 'price correction' – a meaningful reduction in the prices developers quote for their properties. Regardless of whether their hopes are realistic or not, this fence-sitting' dynamic is a definitely a fact.
It is also frequently said that buyers may also be waiting for lower interest rates on home loans. This is only partly true.
While they certainly play a role in overall buyer sentiment, especially in the affordable housing segment, lower interest rates alone are not a sufficiently compelling rationale for aspiring mid-range housing buyers to abandon their 'wait-and-watch' mode.
Buyers may also 'sit on the fence' if the city they want to buy a home in is experiencing some kind of political unrest or another kind of turmoil.
A hesitation to invest in a property, for this reason, is obviously beyond the powers of the property market to address, and will usually change only when the core problem is resolved.
A buyer may have been receiving inputs from many different sources, some of which predict that property prices will come down soon.
If they do, the buyer would have incurred a loss by buying too soon. If they don't, the buyer would have missed the optimal 'entry point', and certain flats which were shortlisted earlier may suddenly be off the market.
The question is whether one should attempt time the market. The answer depends on who is asking the question.
Property in a growing economy always appreciates over the long term – this is an immutable fact of the market.
Property prices in a more or less healthy economy never do a complete about-turn and start marching in the opposite direction, though they will occasionally deviate from 'learned' market predictions.
Today, many freshly-launched and under-construction projects in the early stages of completion are being sold at lower rates than comparable projects in similar locations in earlier times.
All this boils down to an ongoing correction of sorts. However, it is not possible to predict when developers will officially come down on their rates. It is a function of the market. As long as unofficial discounts to serious buyers serve the purpose, it is unlikely that there will be an official correction of prices.
In other words, it is unwise to wait for a formal price correction, since prices may not reduce and could even increase in certain locations and projects. Also, the best options may be snapped up.
The best course of action for 'fence-sitting' buyers today is to short-list the properties they are interested in, ensure that they are RERA-compliant (and, in the case of under-construction projects, have a reasonable completion timeline), negotiate the best possible deal with the developer and go in for purchase.
This may not be the best advice to investors, who have sufficient reason and also a sufficiently large horizon with which to try and time the market. For buyers intent on purchasing a home for personal use, however, waiting and watching in the current market environment would be counter-productive.
There has never been such a generous spread of ready-to-move-in options across markets, and prices have bottomed out. Simultaneously, interest rates have dropped from 10.75% in 2008 to as low as 8.75% today. To top it off, most developers have unleashed lucrative offers which result in further savings on the bottom line.
The highly buyer-favouring market environment prevailing today has certainly not been lost on fence-sitting buyers. We have seen an increase of 20 to 25%% in firmly-decided buyers in the last six months alone.
For others, however, waiting and watching has become something of a chronic habit that is hard to abandon. The next 12 to 18 months will be a vital period for the Indian residential property sector as it waits for a larger chunk of buyers to hit the market and finally buy the homes they have been longing for.
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Ice Climbing Season is Ending— But Not for the Reasons You Might Think
Holly Graham March 10, 2017 Lifestyle + Culture
Photo courtesy of Front Range Climbing Company on Facebook.
For the adventurous Coloradan, ice climbing is a unique winter sport worth trying. But you better act quick, because this year's season is on its way out.
With Colorado's encroaching spring, there might be only a week or two left in the ice climbing season. That's because the season may end earlier than normal due to warm weather. But it's not just because the ice is melting. Climbing on hotter days can actually create lasting damage.
"Ice climbing is not like rock. With rock climbing, the rock stays pretty much the same. Ice changes quite a bit— it could flow here one day, it could flow there the next. So keeping an eye on the conditions and only climbing when the conditions are good is very important. For example, if you climb when it's too warm or something like that, you could change that ice climb for the rest of the season just by one time going up it. Really preserving the climbs we have is very important," said Brian Shelton, owner of Front Range Climbing Company in Colorado Springs.
As a result one of the most difficult parts of ice climbing is finding the best weather conditions to climb. You might think a really cold day would be perfect for climbing ice— think again. On frigid days, the ice is brittle and can shatter more easily. This makes it difficult to safely brace the hand and foot-holds in the ice. Warmer days make the ice more malleable and it's easier to plunge the holds deep into the ice for maximum stability. If it's too warm it can actually make it difficult to maintain the longevity of the flow.
During the winter, some of FRCC's favorite spots to take customers include Clear Creek Canyon outside of Denver, North Cheyenne Cañon's Silver Cascade in Colorado Springs near Helen Hunt Falls and their own private, man-made ice climbing wall near Eleven Mile Reservoir.
"We have a contract with the Pikes Peak Council of the Boy Scouts. They have a property up near Eleven Mile Canyon, which is about 45 minutes west of Colorado Springs. Up there we have anywhere from a 40 to a 60-foot northeast facing wall that is in the shade all the time. We pump water to the top of it and spray it down in different locations— we call it 'ice farming'— to create our own climbing wall," Shelton said.
The ice flows in Clear Creek Canyon have some Colorado-esque names including "Beer Garden," "Coors Light" and "Coors Ultra Light" among others.
Other than the obvious, ice climbing is different than rock climbing in that it takes different equipment to be able to scale an ice flow. Some say ice climbing is easier because you can make your own foot and hand holds wherever it works for you— there's no stretching to reach that tiny ledge four feet above your head.
Ice climbing entails warm clothes, crampons, unusually stiff plastic or leather boots, harnesses, helmets, ropes and more. If you're new to climbing— or just don't own all of that expensive equipment— climbing companies like FRCC offer guided ice and rock climbing packages for all experience levels.
Many of the ice climbing companies and flows have already shut down for the season including ones near Ouray, Colorado. Shelton explained, "we must be doing something right because we still have ice" and if we get another freeze, the flows near Denver and Colorado Springs might be ready to climb again.
For a complete and detailed list of Colorado's best ice and rock climbing, go here.
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Holly Graham is a motorcycle riding, world traveling, innovative storyteller and photographer. She graduated from Colorado State University with degrees in Journalism and Media Communication as well as Languages, Literatures and Cultures with a concentration in Spanish. She enjoys hanging out with her two dogs, Wiley and Falcon, and her cat, Sprout. Check out more of Holly's work at hollygrahammedia.com.
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Trinity Church has been a fixture on Market Street in Bethlehem since the late 1860s, when clergy from the Cathedral Church of the Nativity, located on the South Side, established a Sunday school in response to the need for an increased Episcopal presence on the North Side of the city. The new church, built on donated land for $4000 and furnished for $2000, was completed by Christmas of 1871, the day on which the Sunday School presented its first Christmas pageant. The building was formally consecrated on January 16, 1872. The Rt. Rev. Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe, the Bishop of Central Pennsylvania, proclaimed the building to be, "a model of durability, convenience, cheapness and taste." The church duplicated the floor plan of the Cathedral, thus showing the connection between the two churches. Although the Nativity Vestry had earlier resolved to separate the two parishes, formal separation did not occur until November 22. and several members of the Nativity Vestry continued to serve both churches.
1928-1968 were also years of change around Trinity. While they were marked by the service of Trinity's longest-tenured rector, the Rev. Dr. Merrill Miles Moore, they saw extensive renovation to the physical plant. The most notable addition was the current three-story office wing, complete with Sunday school classrooms, offices, choir room, chapel, and sexton's apartment. It was during Dr. Moore's tenure that the music program at Trinity was also firmly established. Moore called Marvin Beinema to serve as organist and choirmaster for the newly established Choir of Men and Boys, a position Mr. Beinema held for 35 years. Trinity's magnificent Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ was installed in 1955, following alterations to the chancel and choir area to accommodate the new instrument and its supporting equipment.
As it was across the Episcopal Church as a whole during the 1970s, changes in leadership swept through Trinity during that time as well. The rector who followed Dr. Moore, the Rev. Alexander C. Zabriskie, instituted the current system of electing term-limited vestry members from the congregation at large. Lay-led initiatives in social service programs and ministries grew especially strong and were zealously supported by the Rector. Trinity began monthly Sunday dinners for those without families, sponsored Vietnamese refugees, and started a ministry in Bethlehem's Northeast public housing area. In the winter of 1982, Trinity opened a soup kitchen on the streets of Bethlehem, serving hot soup and bread to the needy from the back of a station wagon. Notably, women were no longer relegated to supporting roles. They began to take on increasing responsibility for the Christian formation and outreach programs. Some of the first women ordained to the priesthood in the Diocese of Bethlehem, including the Rev. Joan Shelton and Canon Jane Teter, were raised up by Trinity as well.
Trinty's role in community outreach increased exponentially during the 1980s and 1990s. The Soup Kitchen expanded to take up residence in the parish hall five days a week. Under the leadership of its coordinator, Deacon Liz Miller, it currently serves an average of 150 hot meals every day and provides limited social-services support to guests. The parish has also played a leading role in establishing ministries throughout Bethlehem to serve the underprivileged members of the community. Most recently these efforts have centered on helping to establish an emergency sheltering system for homeless residents during the winter months. In the past, they have also included a number of programs to assist single mothers and children. Many of these initiatives have become independent, self-sustaining entities, though it is not unusual to find Trinity parishioners still involved in some capacity.
The first several years of the 21st century have likewise seen some degree of change at Trinity. While the parish's involvement in the wider community has continued to be a hallmark of its common life, how it does business is vastly different from earlier times. Electronic communications and several "high church" liturgical practices were adopted by the Rt. Rev. W. Nicholas Knisely, the current Bishop of Rhode Island, during his tenure as rector. The role of women in the parish has continued to grow, culminating in the calling of the Rev. Laura Howell as rector in 2007. Major alterations to the buildings and grounds in the past few years have included the installation of air conditioning in the nave, repairs to the foundation of the building, and the addition of a memorial garden in the front of the church. The organ was also extensively repaired in 2011, restoring the instrument to its full capacity to, "make a joyful noise unto the Lord." Trinity's music department and children's programs have also enjoyed a period of rejuvenation, with multiple additions to the staff and programming in both areas.
Mother Laura retired at the end of 2017 and the search committee is currently working to find and call a new rector for the parish.
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History Diagnosis And Treatment Of Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis HISTORY DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF EQUINE PROTOZOAL MYELOENCEPHALITIS. Equine Protozoal Myeloencepalitis is a serious neurological disease in horses caused by a parasite protozoa thought to be sarcosystis neurona. The disease was first identified in the 1960's when lesions and inflammation were seen in the brain and spinal cords of horses that had died of severe neurologic disease. Protozoa were discovered on the lesions in 1974, however the vector was unknown and the disease considered rare. Recently the opossum has been isolated as the probable vector and the likely parasite organism identified as Sarcosystis falcatula. (Fenger, 1996) The Sarcosystis protozoan parasites have a complicated life cycle. They exist in two distinct forms.
One in the definitive host (a carnivore like the opossum) and one in a secondary or intermediate host (wild birds that the opossum feeds on). It reproduces in the digestive tract of the definitive host and passes infective sporocysts in the feces, which are then taken in by the secondary host. There the sporocysts migrate to the muscles and can persist for years until the secondary host is eaten by the definitive host. The protozoa are usually very host specific (requiring a specific carnivore to reproduce), and most likely neither host show any clinical signs of disease. (U.
Missouri .. 1999) The horse is an unfortunate casualty in this cycle; it is infected when feces of the opossum are ingested with their food material. The horse is a dead-end host, meaning it is not required in the parasite's life cycle and therefore the disease cannot be transmitted from horse to horse. Several interesting facts put forth by the University of Missouri: EPM is seen only in parts of the world that are inhabited by opossum specifically the Americas. It has been estimated that seroprevalence (indicating exposure) in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky is as high as 50%, however only a small percentage (2-3%) of those exposed will become ill with symptoms. Native wild birds infected are not likely to show any symptoms, however non-native birds become acutely ill and die from S. falcatula exposure. (U.
Missouri .. 1999) Primary clinical signs of EPM occur from swelling and nerve death in the central nervous system as a result of the replicating protozoa. Neurologic signs can be directly referable to the site or sites of infection. The spinal cord is most often affected resulting in the "three A" symptoms of asymmetric ataxia and focal muscle atrophy. (Fenger, 1996) Ataxia affects the horse's sense of position in space.
When the nerves in the inner ear are damaged the horse loses unconscious proprioception which is the directional sense of up and down. When the conscious proprioception tracts from the joints and muscles of the legs are damaged the animal loses its sense of limb position in space. (Fenger, 1995) Ataxia is associated with the staggering "drunken sailor" gait used to describe animals with neurological dysfunction, and can be rated on a scale of one to five. Five being a horse which cannot stand up and one being a horse which is unlikely to fall and looks normal walking strait but can be made to show deficit when turning, or going up and down an incline. Horses with EPM can exhibit any level of ataxia from mild to severe however often horses' symptoms will be asymmetric (more severe on one side) and be combined with focal muscle atrophy (wasting and weakness) especially in the hindquarters. (Fenger, 1995) It is important to note that often the only signs of EPM may be a slight gait asymmetry or apparent lameness that fails to block out in a comprehensive lameness exam. Therefore the disease may not be apparent to the lay person in its early stages.
(Fenger, 1996) EPM is often overlooked in the ten percent of horses that experience airway problems as a result of cranial nerve dysfunction. Because most horses that have airway problems do not have EPM it is often missed in its early stages, the astute observer may notice signs of 'quidding' (food material in the nostrils) and atrophy of the temporalis and/or masseter muscles. (Fenger, 1996) Secondary clinical signs are the result of injury to other structures such as muscles, tendons, and ligaments due to ataxia and nerve dysfunction. Upward fixation of the patella is common, probably because of quadriceps weakness. Other problems such as bucked shins, splints and bowed tendons can occur due to the tendency for these animals to travel very heavily on the forehand. Another common side effect is back soreness-often severe-resulting from the asymmetric use of the limbs. (Fenger, 1996) EPM can often be seen by observing horses during training however, it may easily be overlooked or attributed to a number of other ailments.
Early signs may include evident discomfort and weakness in the rear limbs. Frequent bucking, head tossing or excessively high head carriage. Minimal forward extension at the gallop and difficulty maintaining a specific lead, and negotiating turns are all symptoms; the horse may cross-canter or frequently change leads. The front limbs may seem to "float" at the trot, or the horse may drag one or all of its feet. Racehorses frequently have trouble breaking from the starting gate, and/or maintaining position in the turns.
An important sign of EPM that is probably most often overlooked is many horses with the disease develop a bad attitude towards training, due to a lack of confidence, or pain associated with secondary problems. (Fenger, 1996) Horses that exhibit these problems should be evaluated by a vet for other neurological abnormalities. EPM can mimic any other neurological disease and therefore can be very difficult to diagnose effectively. The clinical signs can range from very mild to severe and the progression of the disease slow or sometimes not at all. Meaning that many horses with mild cases will never be diagnosed at all.
A Western blot test can be used to test blood serum for anti-bodies indicating exposure, however a positive serum result does not mean that the horse is infected with the disease. Because EPM can present itself like a number of other diseases it is necessary to use further tests to definitively diagnose. For most animals this means an analysis of the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) which when abnormal will show in increased level of proteins and inflammation. (Fenger, 1996) The CSF can be extracted either from the Allanto-occipital space (where the head meets the neck) or from the Lumbo-sacral space (above the hindquarters.) However since the CSF flows in a caudal (towards the back) direction the Lumbo-sacral space is preferred as it will be more likely to show inflammation. Also important to consider is that testing the Allanto-occipital space requires that the horse be anesthetized and laid down, which can be dangerous in a horse that has neurological problems.
(Levine, 1999) The University of Missouri-Columbia's current recommendations for treatment include a course of oral anti-protozoal drugs combined with sulfa drugs for a minimum of 12-16 weeks, and the horse should remain on the medication for 4 weeks after neurological symptoms disappear. The relapse rate after treatment is about 40%, however the majority of those cases occur because treatment was discontinued after less than three months. (Fenger, 1996) The current medicine of choice is Sulfadiazine and Pyremethamine used together, they should be administered once a day orally on an empty stomach to achieve peak drug levels. (U. Missouri .. 1999) About 10% of horses experience a 'treatment crisis' where the symptoms actually worsen while on the medication, this may be caused by the dying parasites and the resulting inflammation.
Usually these horses respond to anti-inflammatory drugs such as Banamine. (Levine, 1999) About one third of horses will respond to treatment in the first 10-14 days, however sometimes permanent damage has occurred to the Central Nervous System and the horse may not fully recover. If improvement is not noted within 4-6 weeks then the prognosis for recovery is relatively poor. (U. Missouri .. 1999) Pyremethamine and Sulfdiazine may cause folic acid deficiency in treated animals and previously supplementation was recommended.
New research indicates that oral folic acid supplements can actually interfere with folic acid absorption making the situation worse, especially in pregnant mares and foals. Supplementation with Folinic acid appears to be safer and is routinely administered to human patients with CNS Toxoplasmosis to prevent anemia during treatment. It should be noted that Pyremethamine cause birth defects in humans and therefore foals born to treated mares may be abnormal and often die. (U. Missouri .. 1999) Vitamin E supplements have also been recommended due to its antioxidant and mild anti-inflammatory properties. There is no vaccine for EPM and treatment does not always result in success therefore prevention is the only method of management for this disease.
Currently the only way to prevent EPM is to be vigilant about keeping opossums and wild birds out of the barn. Big dogs will deter the animals and barn cats are useful in keeping birds away, however dog and cat food must be minimized because that will attract the opossum. Trapping and removal of opossum is possible however the best method of prevention is to eliminate food sources. Grain should be stored in a sealed airtight container, any spills should be cleaned up immediately and excess should not accumulate in the stalls. If possible horses should not be permitted to drink from stagnant ponds or slow moving streams that may be contaminated.
Mice and rats should also be minimized in the barn because they may play a role in dispersing the opossum's feces. (U. Missouri .. 1999) Animal Science.
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With their crisp white hue and ankle-revealing length, this version of our classic Tompkins skinny jean refreshes your denim look for the season.
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Signature "Polo"-debossed leather patch at the back right pocket.
Model is 5'10"/178 cm and has a 24" waist and 34" hips. She wears a size 26.
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A Novel of Good and Evil, Love and Hope
By Jude Deveraux
From A Knight in Shining Armor to The Mulberry Tree, Jude Deveraux's bestsellers sparkle with stunning originality, heartfelt wit, and adventurous passion. Now, this superb storyteller mixes the flavor of a classic fairy tale with a very modern love story -- set in a town locked in the shadows of an abiding evil -- in this imaginative new novel.
Darci Monroe overcame a childhood of neglect with an ebullient spirit, a positive attitude...and extraordinary determination. Now the resourceful young woman, hired as Adam Montgomery's personal assistant, devotes more than just professional attention to this devastatingly handsome millionaire. But one thing bars Adam from accepting Darci's love: he is intent on discovering the secret of his parents' disappearance, for she possesses the otherworldly abilities needed to help him fight a terrifying mistress of the dark arts. What Darci ends up offering is a gift greater than Adam ever hoped for, for Darci loves with all her heart, and all her soul, forever...
Darci looked over the job application again, checking that she'd been absolutely truthful on every line, with no "imagination" added. Her mother said that Darci's "imagination" was like a family curse. "Must have come from your father's side of the family," Jerlene Monroe would say whenever her daughter did something she didn't understand. "Whoever he may be," Uncle Vern could be counted on to add under his breath -- then there'd be a fight. When it got to the part where Uncle Vern was shouting that his niece wasn't "full of imagination" but was just a plain ol' garden variety blankety-blank liar, Darci would silently leave the room and open a book.
But now Darci was in beautiful New York City, she had a fabulous college education under her belt, and she was applying for what had to be the best job that anyone had ever seen. And I'm going to get it! she said to herself, closing her eyes for a moment as she clutched the folded newspaper to her chest. I'll apply my True Persuasion to this and I'll be sure to get the job, she thought.
"You okay?" asked the young woman in front of her in what Darci recognized as some type of Yankee accent.
"Wonderful," Darci said, smiling. "And you?"
"Feeling like an idiot, actually. I mean, can you really believe this thing?" she asked, holding up the same newspaper that Darci was clutching. She was a tall young woman, much taller than Darci, and, compared to Darci, she was downright fat. But then people were always describing Darci as scrawny. "She's 'fashionably thin,'" her mother would say. "Jerlene!" her sister, Thelma, would snap, "you ain't never fed that girl nothin' but Jell-O and sugar cereal. She's probably starvin' to death." This statement would produce a lot of anger from Darci's mother, then a torrent of words about how hard it was to raise a daughter single-handedly. "You ain't raised her; the neighbors has," Uncle Vern would say; then the fight would escalate.
Now Darci smiled at the woman in front of her. "I think it's a miracle," she said. Darci was pretty in a fragile sort of way, with wide-set blue eyes, a tiny nose, and a little rosebud mouth. She was only five-feet-two and weighed so little that her clothes always hung loosely on her. Right now, her little black skirt with the shiny seat was fastened at the waist with a big safety pin.
"You don't think you're really going to get this job, do you?" the woman in front asked.
"Oh, yes," Darci said, taking a deep breath. "I believe in thinking positively. If you think it, you can achieve it, is what I truly believe."
The woman opened her mouth to say something; then she gave a sly smile. "Okay, so what do you think the job is, exactly? It can't be sex because it pays too much money. I can't imagine it's for running drugs or that they need a hit man, because the announcement is too public, so what do you think they really want?"
Darci blinked at the woman. Her aunt Thelma had washed Darci's only suit in soap powder that she'd bought on sale, then had taken it out of the washer before the rinse cycle began. "Saves money that way," Aunt Thelma had said. Maybe it was cheaper, but now the dried soap in the fabric was itching Darci's bare arms inside the unlined sleeves of the suit, as her pink, ruffled blouse was sleeveless.
"I think someone wants a personal assistant," Darci said, not understanding the woman's question.
At that the woman laughed. "You really think that someone is willing to pay a hundred grand a year for a PA and that you are going to get the job because you....What? Because you believe you're going to get it?"
Before Darci could reply, the woman standing in line behind her said, "Give her a break, will you? And if you don't think you're going to get the job, then why the hell are you standing in line?"
Darci didn't approve of cursing, not in any way, and she meant to say something, but the woman three down in the line spoke up. "Does anybody here have any idea what this job is about? I've been waiting for four hours and I can't find out anything."
"Four!" a woman several people ahead said loudly. "I've been here for six hours!"
"I spent the night on the sidewalk," a woman standing half a block ahead yelled.
After that, all the women began to talk to each other, and since the line was nearly four blocks long, that made quite a noise.
But Darci didn't participate in speculating on what the job was really for, because she knew in her heart, in its deepest part, that the job was for her. It was the answer to her prayers. For the last four years, all through college, she'd prayed every night for God to help her with the situation she was in with Putnam. And last night, when she'd seen this ad, she'd known it was the answer to her prayers.
"Sure has your qualifications," Uncle Vern had said when Darci showed him the ad. His face was twisted into the little smirk Darci had come to know too well.
"I'll never understand why your mother let you choose that highfalutin fancy school," Aunt Thelma said yet again. "You coulda gone to a secretarial school so you could
get yourself a real job -- not that you'll need one after the weddin'."
"I..." Darci began, but then she'd trailed off. She'd long ago learned that trying to explain was useless. Instead, she just let Uncle Vern and Aunt Thelma run down; then she went to the converted closet in their apartment that was now her bedroom and read. She liked to read nonfiction because she liked to learn things.
But Uncle Vern had been right: The ad was written with Darci's qualifications in mind.
No computer skills necessary. Must be willing to travel, so no family attachments. Must be young, healthy, interested. Starting salary $100,000 a year, plus medical, dental. Apply in person, 8:00 A.M. 211 West 17 Street, Suite 1A.
"What d'you mean that she's right for this job?" Aunt Thelma had said last night. "It says 'no family attachments.' If it's one thing Darci's got, it's family."
"On her mother's side," Uncle Vern had said, smirking. Aunt Thelma wasn't a fighter as her sister, Darci's mother, was, so she just tightened her lips and picked up the remote control on the TV and switched from the Discovery Channel program that Darci had been watching to QVC. Aunt Thelma knew the life stories of all the presenters on all the shopping channels. She said that the shopping channels made her feel at home even in a place as big and busy as New York. She'd often told Darci in private that she should never have left Putnam, should never have married an ambitious man and moved all the way to Indianapolis ten years ago. And when, three years ago, Vern's boss had asked him to go to New York to supervise a crew of lazy welders, Thelma said she should have refused to go with him. But she had gone and she'd suffered through every minute in the city she detested.
Now, waiting in line, Darci tried not to listen to the angry words that were floating around her. Instead, she closed her eyes and concentrated on the image of her being told that she had this perfect job.
As the day wore on, information trickled down the line. Once they entered the building, they were allowed into a waiting room, and, finally, they were allowed into the interview room. There was a heavy wooden door leading into the interview room, and it became known as "the door." As for what went on inside that room, they heard little, probably because no woman wanted to jeopardize her chance at such a great job.
It was nearly four P.M. when Darci was at last allowed inside the building. There was a woman standing in front of the doorway into the waiting room, and she only allowed into the room exactly as many women as there were chairs. Hours ago everyone in the line had seen that men weren't really being considered for the job. The men would go up the stairs, but they'd go back down just minutes later.
"Told you," a woman near Darci said. "Sex. This is for sex."
"And what do you have that's worth a hundred grand a year?" a woman asked, holding her shoe and rubbing her foot.
"It's not what I have so much as what I can do with it."
"Done with it, more likely," someone else said loudly, and for a moment Darci thought there was going to be a fistfight. There would have been had those words been said in her hometown of Putnam, Kentucky, but she'd learned that Northern women fought with words rather than fists. "Be a lot kinder to punch 'em in the nose," her mother had said after she'd heard a couple of Yankee girls arguing.
"Next!" the woman said sharply as the wooden door opened and out came the young woman who had first spoken to Darci while they were in line. Darci looked up at her in question, but the young woman just shrugged, as though to say that she didn't know if she'd done well in the interview or not.
When Darci stood up, she suddenly felt light-headed. She hadn't eaten since she'd left Uncle Vern's apartment early that morning. "I want you to have a good, solid breakfast," Aunt Thelma had said as she handed Darci a Pop-Tart and a plastic cup full of warm Pepsi. "Fruit's better for you than those cereals your mother gives you. And you need caffeine and sugar and somethin' warm inside you when you go job huntin'," she'd said kindly.
But now, when Darci stood up too quickly, the breakfast seemed a long time ago. She took a couple of deep breaths, put her shoulders back, and, controlling the urge to reach inside her jacket and claw the itchy place on her shoulder, she walked through the open doorway.
One side of the room was lined with windows so dirty she could barely see the building across the street. On the floor under the windows was a messy heap of metal folding chairs, most of them broken.
In the center of the room was a big oak desk, the kind that all used-furniture stores seemed to have an unlimited supply of. A man was sitting behind the desk on one of the metal chairs, and to his left, off to one side, sat a woman. She was in her fifties, dressed in a pretty twinset and a long cotton skirt, and around her neck and on her hands sparkled gold and diamonds. She had a perfectly ordinary face, one that no one would notice in a crowd, except that she had the most intense eyes that Darci had ever seen. Now, as she watched Darci enter the room, those huge brown eyes didn't blink.
But after only one glance at the woman, Darci looked away, because the man behind the desk was the most gorgeous person she'd ever seen in her life. Oh, maybe he wasn't movie-star beautiful, but he was the kind of man that Darci had always liked. For one thing, he was older, at least in his midthirties. "You can't get a father by marryin' one," her mother had said more than once, but that didn't stop Darci from being attracted to men past thirty. "Past thirty and they may as well be past seventy" was her mother's philosophy, but then Jerlene's boyfriends seemed to get younger every year.
"Please have a seat," the man said, and Darci thought he had a lovely voice, deep and rich.
He was a tall man, at least he looked as though he would be tall if he stood up, and he had beautiful black hair, lots of it, with wings of gray above his ears. Like a lion's mane, she thought, staring at the man with her eyes so wide open they were beginning to tear. But she didn't want to blink in case he was a product of her imagination and didn't really exist.
Besides his beautiful hair, he had a strong jaw with a lovely square chin with a little cleft in it (just like Cary Grant, she thought), small flat ears (she always noticed men's ears) and deep-set blue eyes. Unfortunately, they were the eyes of someone who seemed to be carrying the weight of the world. But then, maybe he was just tired from asking so many women so many questions.
"May I see your application?" he asked, holding out his hand to her across the desk.
May I? Darci thought. Not "Can I?" but a proper "may," as in asking permission. With a smile, she handed the paper to him, and he began to read it as she sat down. While she was waiting, Darci tucked her hands under her knees and began to swing her legs as she glanced about the room, but when she looked at the woman to the man's left, she stopped swinging and sat still. There was something about the woman's eyes that were a bit unnerving. "Nice day," Darci said to the woman, but her face gave no indication that she'd heard Darci, even though the woman was staring at her hard.
"You're twenty-three?" the man asked, drawing Darci's attention back to him.
"Yes," she answered.
"And college educated?" At that he looked her up and down, and his eyes said that he didn't believe her. Darci was used to that. She didn't quite understand it, but it often happened that people looked at her machine-washed suit and her fine, flyaway hair and thought that she didn't look like a college girl.
"Mann's Developmental College for Young Ladies," Darci said. "It's a very old school."
"I don't think I've ever heard of it. Where is it?"
"It's anywhere, actually," she said. "It's a correspondence school."
"Ah, I see," the man said, then put down her application. "So tell me about yourself, Darci."
"I'm from Putnam, Kentucky, and I've lived there all my life. I'd never been more than fifty miles out of Putnam until two weeks ago when I came here to New York. I'm staying with my aunt, my mother's sister, and her husband, until I can find a job."
"And what do you want to become when -- " He stopped himself, but she knew he'd been about to say, When you grow up? The smallness of her often made people mistake her for a child. "And what did you study to be?"
"Nothing," Darci said cheerfully. "I studied a little bit of everything. I like to learn about different things." When neither the man nor the woman responded to this, Darci said meekly, "I know nothing about computers."
"That's fine," the man said. "So tell me, Darci, do you have a boyfriend?"
Alarm bells started ringing in Darci's head. Had she given herself away already? Had this beautiful man seen that Darci was attracted to him? Was he thinking that he wasn't going to get a worker but some love-struck girl mooning over him all day?
"Oh, yes," Darci said brightly. "I'm engaged to be married. To Putnam. He's -- "
"The same name as your town?"
"Yes. Putnam owns the town." She tried to laugh in what she hoped was a sophisticated, big-city way. "Although Putnam's not much to own, what there is, belongs to Putnam. Or to his family, anyway. All of them own it, the town, I mean. And the factories, of course."
"Factories? How many factories?"
"Eleven, twelve," she said, then thought. "No, I think there're fifteen of them now. Putnam's father builds them at a prodigious rate."
"'Prodigious,'" the man said, then bent his head down, and Darci wasn't sure, but she thought he smiled a bit. But when he looked back up, his face was once again solemn. "If you're to marry a rich man, then you don't need a job, do you?"
"Oh, but I do!" Darci said fiercely. "You see -- " she began, but then she broke off and caught her lower lip between her teeth. Her mother was constantly warning her not to tell everybody everything there was to know about her. "Leave some mystery," her mother said. If there was ever such a time, Darci was sure that now was the time to leave a bit of mystery. And maybe it wouldn't hurt to add a little "imagination." "Putnam won't inherit for years, so we have to make it on our own. I came here to New York to earn as much as I can so I can return to my beloved home and marry the man I love." She said all this in one breath, while behind her back, the fingers on her right hand were crossed.
For a while the man looked at her hard, and she stared back at him just as hard. As for the woman, she had neither spoken nor even blinked as far as Darci could tell.
"If you're in love with a man, you won't be able to travel. And if you have relatives here in New York, you'd miss them if you were away for weeks at a time."
"No, I wouldn't!" Darci said too quickly. But she didn't want the man to think that she was an ungrateful person, certainly not after all her aunt and uncle had done for her. "They, uh..." she began. "They have their own lives, and as much as I love them, I think they'd do quite well without me. And my mother has...." What could she say? That her mother had a new boyfriend twelve years her junior and she probably wouldn't notice if Darci fell into a hole? "My mother also has her own life. Clubs, charities, that sort of thing." Could Putnam's Spuds and Suds be considered a "club"?
"And your young man?"
She had to think for a moment to know whom he meant. "Oh. Putnam. Well, he has lots of interests, and he, uh....He wants me to have a whole year of -- " She almost said "freedom," which would have been close to the truth. "He wants me to have a year to myself before we begin on our lifelong journey of love together."
Darci thought this last was a rather nice turn of phrase, but she noticed there was a teeny tiny curl of the man's upper lip that made him look as though he were going to be ill. She wasn't sure what she was doing wrong, but she knew that she was blowing this interview. She took a deep breath. "I really do need this job," she said softly. "And I'll work very hard for you." She knew that her voice was pleading, almost begging, but she couldn't help herself.
The man turned to the woman who was sitting slightly behind him. "Do you have what you need?" he asked, and the woman gave a tiny nod. As the man turned back to Darci, he picked up her application and put it on top of a pile of others. "All right, Miss, uh -- "
"Monroe," Darci said. "No relation." When the man looked blank, she said, "To the other one."
"Oh, I see," he said. "The actress." He didn't pretend to think the joke was funny but kept his solemn expression. "As you have seen, we have many applicants, so if we'd like to interview you again, we'll call you. You wrote your telephone number on here?"
"Oh, yes, but don't call between eight and ten. That's when my uncle Vern watches TV, and he...." Her voice trailed off. Slowly, she stood up, then paused as she looked at the man. "I do need this job," she said again.
"So do they all, Miss Monroe," the man said, then looked back at the older woman, and Darci knew that she'd been dismissed.
It took all her willpower to keep her shoulders erect as she left the office and looked into the hopeful eyes of the women sitting in the little waiting room. Like all the others she'd seen leave the office, she shrugged in answer to their silent inquiries. She had no idea how she'd done in the interview. Once she was on the street again, she opened her handbag and checked her wallet. How much food could she get for seventy-five cents? Sometimes the greengrocers would charge her very little for bruised bananas that they couldn't sell.
With her head up, her shoulders back, Darci started walking. Maybe she was going to get the job. Why not? She had all the qualifications, didn't she? They wanted someone who had few skills, and that certainly fit her. The spring returned to her step, and, smiling, she began to walk faster, occupying her mind with planning what she'd say when the man called and told her she had the job. "That's how I'll act: gracious," she said aloud. "Gracious and surprised." Smiling more broadly, she picked up her step. She needed to get home so she could apply her True Persuasion to this problem.
Adam signaled to the woman at the door to hold the applicants for a while. He needed to stretch and to move around. Walking to the windows, he clasped his hands behind his back. "This isn't working," he said to the woman behind him. "We haven't found one woman who's even close to being right. What do I have to do, canvass the elementary schools?"
"The last one was lying," the woman behind him said softly.
Adam turned to look at her. "That one? The little Kentucky hillbilly? Poor thing. That suit she had on looked as though it'd been washed in a creek. And, besides, she has a boyfriend, a rich one. Is that what she was lying about? Those factories she says his family owns? He probably has a twenty-year-old pickup with a gun rack in the back."
"She was lying about everything," the woman said, staring up at Adam.
He started to speak, but he'd learned long ago that Helen used her mind and abhorred normal human ways of communication -- which meant that she hated to talk. Many times she'd said to him, "I told you that." Afterward, he'd racked his brain until he'd finally remembered that she had indeed said one short sentence that had told him everything.
But now Helen had repeated this one sentence, so he knew it was very important. Tired as he was, he nearly leaped across the room to grab the girl's application off the top of the stack and handed it to the woman. Staring into space, she took the paper and ran her hands over it, not reading it, just touching it. After a while, she smiled; then the smile grew broader.
She looked up at Adam. "She's lying about everything there is to lie about," she said happily.
"She doesn't have a boyfriend, no aunt and uncle? Doesn't need the job? Exactly what is she lying about?"
Helen waved her hand in dismissal, as these questions weren't important to her. "She's not what she seems, not what she thinks she is, not what you see her as."
Adam had to work to keep his mouth shut. He hated the convoluted, cryptic talk of clairvoyants. Why couldn't the woman just say what she meant?
Helen, as always, read Adam's thoughts, and, as always, they amused her. What she liked about him was that he wasn't in awe of her abilities. Most people were terrified that clairvoyants could read their innermost secrets, but Adam was trying to find out his own secrets and those of others, so she held no fear for him.
"You want to tell me what you're really saying?" he asked, glaring down at her.
"She's the one."
"That undernourished waif? The Mansfield girl?"
Puzzled, Helen glanced down at the paper. "'Darci T. Monroe,' it says. Not 'Mansfield.'"
"It was a joke," Adam said, knowing he'd not be able to explain. Helen could tell you what your dead grandfather was doing at any given moment, but he doubted if she'd ever watched a TV show or movie in her life.
Taking the application from Helen, he looked at it, trying to recall all that he could about the tiny girl who'd sat before him just minutes ago. Since he'd seen hundreds of women today, they were all blending together in his mind.
Small, delicate, with an air of poverty hanging about her. But, still, she was a pretty little thing, like some tiny bird. A goldfinch, he thought, remembering her blonde hair that hung limply about the shoulders of her cheap suit. She'd had on sandals, no stockings, and he remembered thinking that she had feet the size of a child's.
"I'm not sure -- " he began as he looked up at Helen. But she had "that" look on her face, the one that meant that she was in a semitrance as she looked deep into something. "All right," he said with a sigh, "out with it. What're you seeing?"
"She will help you."
Adam waited for the woman to elaborate, but then he saw the smile play on her lips. Lord help him! It was clairvoyant humor. The woman was foreseeing something that amused her. From his experience this could mean something as good as winning the lottery or something as bad as being stranded in a snowdrift for three days. As long as everyone survived, Helen thought that such miserable experiences were amusing. In fact, any adventure that one survived delighted her. So who needed movies and TV when such things were running through a person's head?
"That's all you're going to say?" Adam asked, his mouth set in a firm line.
"Yes," Helen answered; then she gave one of her rare full smiles. "She's hungry. Feed her and she'll help you."
"Shall I name her Fido?" Adam asked, trying to be nasty, but his tone just made Helen smile more as she stood up.
"It's time for me to go to work," she said, for she spent the darkest hours of every night in a trance looking at the lives and futures of her clients.
For all that she annoyed him, Adam felt a sense of panic as she was about to leave. "Are you sure about her? She can do this? Will she do this?"
Helen paused at the door, and when she looked at him, her face was serious. "The future is to be made. As it stands now, you could fail or succeed at this. I won't be able to see the outcome until you're there with this Mansfield girl and -- "
"Monroe," Adam snapped.
Helen gave a bit of a smile. "Remember. You must not touch her."
"What?!" Adam said, aghast. "Touch her? Do I look desperate? That poor little girl? She probably grew up in a sharecropper's cabin. What was that school she went to? Mann's something or other? Touch her! Really. I'd rather -- "
He stopped talking, because Helen had left the room, closing the door behind her, but her laughter wafted about him. He'd never before heard her laugh.
"I hate clairvoyants!" Adam said when he was alone; then he looked down at the application again. Wonder what the T stands for? he thought, shaking his head in dismay. Today, every time some gorgeous, long-legged beauty from South Dakota or wherever had walked in, Adam's heart had nearly skipped a beat. If she was "the one," then he'd be spending day and night with her, sharing meals, sharing what might become an adventure, sharing....
But, each time, after the beauty had left the room, he'd looked at Helen, and with a mocking expression, for she'd seen every one of his lascivious fantasies, she'd shaken her head no. No, the beauty was not "the one."
But this one! Adam thought. This Darci T. Monroe -- no relation to the other one -- didn't look strong enough to help him accomplish anything. Maybe it was true that she was, well, physically qualified -- he could certainly believe that -- but how could she...?
"Oh, the hell with it," he said, then picked up the phone and called the number she'd written on the application. As the telephone was ringing, he thought, I still have two weeks. Maybe someone else who has the proper qualifications will show up, he told himself as a woman's voice answered.
Copyright © 2002 by Deveraux, Inc.
Photograph by Kim Jew
Jude Deveraux
Jude Deveraux is the author of more than forty New York Times bestsellers, including Moonlight in the Morning, The Scent of Jasmine, Scarlet Nights, Days of Gold, Lavender Morning, Return to Summerhouse, and Secrets. To date, there are more than sixty million copies of her books in print worldwide. To learn more, visit JudeDeveraux.com.
Publisher: Gallery Books (October 21, 2012)
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Contracts for difference for Bitcoin and Litecoin became available in Libertex trading platform to the European traders starting from July 6th, 2017. Now one can stake on either buying or selling of the cryptocurrencies.
Libertex Business Development Manager Andew Nikolaev said: "Nowadays the interest in cryptocurrencies is very high, and the number of people intending to invest money into cryptocurrencies grows in geometric progression. Launch of the contracts for these instruments in Libertex will satisfy the demand from European traders".
On the back of the Bitcoin legalization in Japan, the cost of the mentioned cryptocurrencies increased significantly reaching the record value of USD 2,800. At the same time both the amount of people staking on their surge and the amount of people staking on the crash increased. Contracts for difference for Bitcoin and Litecoin, unlike physical buying of the cryptocurrencies, allow gaining profit not only from the assets appreciation but also from the assets depreciation. It makes the cryptocurrencies very attractive to traders.
The contracts for Bitcoin and Litecoin are available for trading both during business days and at weekends. This is why those people who trade during their spare time are interested in cryptocurrencies.
Libertex is an international brand with a twenty years history in financial markets and online commerce. Libertex provides investors with access to trading stocks, currencies, indices, commodities, gold, oil, gas and many other financial instruments. The Libertex team has more than 2,200,000 customers in Latin America, Europe and Asia owing to its first-class service. Libertex has more than 150 commercial instruments. In 2016, Libertex was recognized by Forex EXPO Awards as the best trading platform; and Global Banking and Finance Review named it the best trading application in the EAEU.
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Fans Are Shocked By Woody's Massive Clothing Budget
Woody Randall and Amani Aliyya quickly emerged as a fan-favorite couple on Lifetime's Married at First Sight Season 11 in New Orleans. The ultra-romantic pair had chemistry right away – and, like the other favorite couple of the season, Bennett Kirschner and Amelia Fatsi, it's only seemed to get better.
On the September 30 episode of Married at First Sight, Amani and Woody shared a romantic one-month anniversary together, complete with foot massages, mimosas, breakfast in bed, and diamond earrings (Woody's gift to Amani). Just four weeks away from Decision Day, it seemed that the sky was the limit in terms of the couple's future.
But Woody and Amani did find one major potential area of contention: their budget. Woody's ideas about finances made many fans' jaws drop in surprise.
Woody Randall | Photo via Kinetic Content
Amani and Woody discussed their budget as a couple
On the most recent episode of Married at First Sight, Amani and Woody decided to come up with a budget for themselves as a married couple. Amani explained that it was important for the pair to make and stick to a budget so they could "merge their finances for the future."
But, over the course of the discussion, it became clear that the newlyweds had very different ideas of how their finances should be managed.
Woody suggested, for example, allotting $150 per date – each week, adding up to $600 a month.
But Amani protested, arguing that that was simply too much for a monthly date budget.
"I think we can do some nice dates that don't have to be $150," the Married at First Sight star told her husband uncertainly. She suggested that that they could just grab a few drinks sometimes – it didn't always have to be fine dining.
And while the couple agreed on rent prices of up to $1800 per month, Amani wasn't sure how her husband's transition to his new living situation might go. After all, he'd lived with his grandmother up until now.
"It's an interesting roommate situation," she mused.
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The couple disagreed on their approach to money
As for the clothing budget, Amani and Woody's ideas of what constituted a reasonable monthly allotment were polar opposites. Woody suggested that they devote $500-1000 per month to his clothing budget alone.
"For the month?!" Amani exclaimed incredulously. Woody went even further, insisting that $500 per month was the bare minimum and didn't even include shoes.
The Married at First Sight star explained that he didn't view money as something to be managed, per se. In fact, he preferred to spend at will.
Of his "seize the day" approach to budgeting, Woody said, "When I do go shopping, I go on a spree. You work hard for your money, so you want to spend it. I can't die with it, so the sky's the limit. Whatever I want to buy, I'm gonna buy it."
But Amani didn't see things that way. While she wasn't ultra-thrifty or tight-fisted, she wanted to be more responsible and careful with the money they had. The differences in their perspectives on budgeting made Amani a bit concerned about their shared future.
"I understand that we both like nice things," the Married at First Sight star acknowledged. "But between the two of us, Woody definitely spends money more frivolously. So that kind of concerns me, like—how am I gonna work with this person for the rest of my life? I need to know that we can support each other financially."
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Some YouTubers thought Woody's budget expectations were unrealistic
Several Married at First Sight YouTubers couldn't believe what they were hearing when it came to Woody and Amani's budget.
In a review of the Married at First Sight episode, comedian Jazmyn W said that Woody's expectations about weekly expensive date nights weren't realistic.
"Married people do not go on dates every weekend, I'm sorry," she pointed out. "We have hobbies, we have separate lives, live together, we have friends."
Jazmyn added that she thought some of Woody's free-spirited, even reckless approach to spending might be due to the fact that he hadn't had to worry about rent while living with his grandma.
"When you live with your grandmother, you can spend $1,000 a month on clothes because you don't have to pay bills!" she argued. "You don't have to pay rent, you don't have to pay a mortgage. Probably cooking for him and paying for his groceries."
The YouTuber also thought diamond earrings were a bit much for a one-month anniversary, suggesting that Woody had a problem with spending sprees in general.
"I'm sorry, diamonds are not a 30-day gift," she said in her review.
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Tommy and Artieka of the YouTube channel August Love Story agreed with that assessment. In their review of the Married at First Sight episode, they both pushed back against the idea that anyone would need such a large clothing budget.
"Like, where am I going?" Artieka joked of Woody's commitment to pricey fashion. "My stuff already fits!"
The YouTubers also questioned Woody's ability to pay for all of these high-ticket items with his job as a teacher and coach.
"Isn't he a teacher?" Artieka wondered. "They're paying a lot more money for teachers in Louisiana than I thought they did."
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'Married at First Sight' fans were surprised by Woody's spending habits
Many Married at First Sight fans took to Reddit after the latest episode to wonder how on earth Woody could afford such a lavish budget.
Several viewers argued that Woody was "spoiled." Others thought he might go through a rude awakening in terms of finances after moving out of his grandmother's house for good and hitching his wagon to another person – and their financial needs. Particularly because Woody wanted to have children as soon as possible, several Redditors wondered how he planned to budget for a baby.
One Reddit user wondered just how much Woody might be making in his role as an educator to be able to afford his lifestyle. "You need to make a lot of money to spend $1000/month," they wrote.
"I was shocked by the numbers they were throwing out," another Redditor agreed. "They must both be making $80k a year… to be comfortable splashing out $1600/month on extras!"
But others thought Woody might be "all talk" or "exaggerating for the cameras" when it came to his money. Perhaps, they speculated, he didn't feel comfortable sharing his real budget with the Married at First Sight audience.
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Poker-tournaments maybe prohibited in Germany!
Rheinland-Pfalz is the first German council, who has prohibited poker-tournaments outside casinos. Ok, gambling was always prohibited in Germany. Let's see if other councils will do it the same way. Allow me the question: What about online-poker?! I think a person will not be addicted to gamble if he or she will appear at a tournament with a little buy-in from time to time! It's everyone's liabilty to estimate his risk about playing poker. Too bad for common-sense players, who maybe now will visit a casion and spend more money and are more leading in in temptation of compulsive gamling.
Fellow players, keep all your senses together!
... with our training sessions. We had another one yesterday and we can see a progress everytime. Uwe, Fabi and Michael H. appeared yesterday and we had a two-on-two match. Old (Michael and me) against the youngsters, but it's not decided yet. Lads, Michael and me will have a victory on you!!!
...yesterday! It was a pretty good training session after a stumbling beginning. There were some other (good) teams at the training ground. I think it's good to learn from them and even better to keep up with.
Our two teams are now on the list for the tournament - have a look at www.albstadt-open.de - two teams who are hard to beat!
In the meantime I will follow the suit of my role model Kenny Dalglish and look for some female players. If you have interest or any suggestions feel free to write in kommentarer.
Honestly it was a poor display of the defense yesterday. I hope it will be better at the Euro championship!
Pretty cool, huh?! If it's possible then it will be yellow on a red shirt.
The Bavarian rock-heroes will play a number of festivals this summer. A highlight is surely the concert at August 14th at the Summer-Breeze, when the boys will play together with Paradise Lost!!! Other concerts in the Swabian area will take place in Ulm at July 4th and in Horb aN at August 23rd.
We'd like to thank Jens for supporting us and giving us the oppoturnity to play under his flag. We are desperate to play a good tournament and having success there!
A few days to go - the Euro starts in early June and the squads has been named so far. Surprisingly, Henrik Larsson is back in the Swedish team and Raul won't fire for Spain this time! Sverige's EM-Truppen stands for experience if you wanna avoid the term "old". Jogi Löw also surprised with the German squad with Adler in and Hildebrand out in Germany's goal. It will be interesting to see how it turns out in the tournament.
All my best wishes goes out to the Anfield lads, who are participating with their national squads (a little bit more wishes with Spain than the Netherlands, ok)!
The weather forecast for this weekend doesn't allow a training, I'm afraid.
We will have a meeting next Monday at "Carlos" for talks about the team, training and our shirts.
Well, the season is over and ended with a victory at White Hart Lane. El Nino netted his 33rd goal and it was a pleasure to watch him this season. The gap to ManU is 11 points. Honestly, there were way to many draws this season and the team didn't claim the big points (defeats versus ManU, Arsenal, Chelsea). They should avoid that in the next season to close the gap and to be in the race for the title. United is too close to LFC's record of 18 titles!
For now I want to thank my mighty Reds for an entertaining season with more heights than lows - the fourth spot (one spot ahead Everton, hehe) and CL-semifinals aren't too bad.
...and me. Boys and girls - we're in it to win it!
It was very funny yesterday - call it a day, go to the restaurant, eat something good and have a couple of drinks - an evening after my fancy!
Kenny Dalglish, who managed LFC between 1985 and 1991, sets the right sight to next season. The current season will end next Sunday at the White Hart Lane with a fourth spot in the League table. This "soap opera" between the LFC heads must come to an end to have a clear focus on the next season. By the way - is this a cool tracktop or what?
It seems that Crouch, Kewell and Carson will be shown the exit door at Anfield, not really bad news though I feel a little bit sorry for Harry Kewell. Lucas and Javier Mascherano are intending to miss the start of next season while they are playing the Olympics. The new stadium is approved but there's no date when the work will begin. Maybe never, but this is not really a problem to me because I like Anfield!
The good news are: Gerrard wants another title with Liverpool and the reserves capped the season with a trophy at the Reserves League final last night.
The most beautiful décolleté in German poker-shows Kerstin Linnartz!
A tremendous CL-season ended on Wednesday with the better end for Chelsea this time. I think the lads couldn't ask for more, apart from the two referees in both legs. I think it is to grant Frank Lampard that he scored from the spot. He has to deal with a difficult situation these days and my opinion is that he deserves to enter the final at Moscow.
My Reds played well this season, apart from the group-phase where they had lots of luck. The matches versus Inter and Arsenal amazed me - great Euro-nights!
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Missouri man won't face 3rd trial in 1990 slaying
PUBLISHED: July 15, 2014 at 10:12 p.m. | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 3:37 a.m.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A special prosecutor on Tuesday dismissed a first-degree murder charge against a northwest Missouri man facing a third trial in his neighbor's 1990 death — the latest and likely final legal victory in a nearly quarter-century effort to clear his name.Former Clay County prosecutor Don Norris determined that there was insufficient probable cause in the criminal case against Mark Woodworth, who was 16 when Cathy Robertson was shot and killed in her bed in the rural community of Chillicothe.A succession of court rulings had made it increasingly difficult for prosecutors to build a case with no witnesses, little physical evidence and a questionable motive. Norris acknowledged those hurdles Tuesday in an Associated Press interview."There was no evidence left for me to try the case," said Norris, a former associate circuit judge who also spent six years as Clay County's elected prosecutor.Woodworth, 39, was sentenced to life in prison before his first two convictions were overturned on appeal. He has been free on bail since January 2013, when the Missouri Supreme Court said prosecutors failed to share evidence that could have helped his defense.Defense attorney Bob Ramsey said Woodworth was "elated" when he spoke with his client by phone Tuesday."I could almost feel the 1,000-pound weight lifted off his shoulders," Ramsey said.A spokeswoman for Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster declined comment. A representative of the Robertson family said in a statement that "the criminal justice system has failed all of us who seek justice for our loved ones" and criticized Norris for not interviewing any witnesses, including Cathy Robertson's husband.Cathy Robertson was fatally shot on Nov. 13, 1990, at her home outside Chillicothe, about 90 miles northeast of Kansas City. Her husband, Lyndel Robertson, was a partner of Woodworth's father before a business dispute unraveled the relationship.He was shot that day, but survived and initially identified a suspect other than Woodworth from his hospital bed — his oldest daughter's abusive ex-boyfriend, who insisted he was asleep 90 miles away at the time and was never charged even though forensics tests revealed trace elements of gunpowder on his hands.Robertson later said he was only speculating, though according to court documents, the ex-boyfriend once told a California commodities investor during an argument that "he got away with murder and was not scared to do it again."Norris was appointed in February to replace Livingston County Prosecutor Adam Warren, who asked to be removed after Robertson family members told him they were concerned about his ability to be impartial in part because the killings happened in that county.Now a lawyer in private practice, Norris declared his belief in Woodworth's innocence without prompting."Based upon my review of the evidence, the wrong person was charged in the first place," he said Tuesday.Platte County Circuit Judge Owens Lee Hull Jr. had barred the Missouri Attorney General's Office from trying the case again due to previous prosecutorial missteps, ruling that it required an independent review "by a prosecutor unburdened by past participation."The judge also excluded key ballistics evidence used to convict Woodworth after finding that the suspected murder weapon and a bullet surgically removed from Lyndel Robertson may have been improperly handled by a private investigator. The investigator later teamed up with the Livingston County sheriff's deputy overseeing the investigation — a move the Missouri Supreme Court said led to "serious investigative misconduct."Hull's call for an independent review followed a similar conclusion in 2012 by Boone County Circuit Judge Gary Oxenhandler, who determined that state prosecutors failed to provide Woodworth's attorneys with copies of letters that cast doubt on Woodworth's guilt.The letters, first publicly disclosed by AP in 2009, were between a Livingston County judge, state and local prosecutors and Lyndel Robertson.One written by Doug Roberts, the local prosecutor at the time, described how Robertson "was adamant that we charge another young man." Roberts also said he didn't have solid evidence to charge Woodworth and asked to be removed from the case because of pressure from the judge and Robertson to file charges.The prosecutor at Woodworth's first trial was Kenny Hulshof, who went on to serve six terms in Congress but whose career as a special state prosecutor was marked by court rulings questioning his courtroom behavior. Two men he helped convict for murder have since been released.Woodworth's father, Claude, said his son wasn't immediately available to discuss the dismissal because he was busy mowing the lawn — committed to finishing the day's work despite his newfound freedom."I'm just overwhelmed," Claude Woodworth said. "The sun started shining a little brighter, and the sky got a little bluer."___Follow Alan Scher Zagier on Twitter at http://twitter.com/azagier
PUBLISHED: July 15, 2014 at 7:13 p.m. | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 3:40 a.m.
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Ky-Mani Marley's focus is making sure to give back to the community. Creating a non-profit organization entitled, "Love Over All Foundation" (L.O.A.F.) does exactly that. To date, Ky-Mani has donated to schools all across Jamaica (West Indies) and is looking forward to expanding its reach.
We developed the online store for his official merchandise, in which he donates part of the profits to this wonderful organization.
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Search our Pet Registration Database with the Broward County Rabies Registration Tag or tattoo number. The database contains more than 800,000 records of dogs and cats registered in Broward County since 1999. Your search result, if successful, will be the pet owners name, address, phone number and pet description.
Our staff will trace the Rabies Registration Tag or tattoo number and provide the pet owner's name, address and phone number to you. If we are unable to reach you, we will call the pet's owner and give them your name and phone number.
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Q: PHPMailer is not working at all I'm trying to configure PHPMailer I've uploaded 1 file which is class.phpmailer.php and created another php file with this content:
<?php
require('class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer(); // create a new object
$mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1; // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // authentication enabled
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for GMail
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 465; // or 587
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Username = "[email protected]";
$mail->Password = "mypassword";
$mail->SetFrom("the same email address");
$mail->Subject = "Test";
$mail->Body = "hello";
$mail->AddAddress("the same email address");
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
echo "Message has been sent";
}
?>
and i get nothing at all not a success message nor a failure message. http://www.mawk3y.net/mailtest/test.php
A: all answers are outdated now. Most current version (as of Feb 2018) does not have autoload anymore, and PHPMailer should be initialized as follows:
<?php
include_once(FCPATH.'PHPMailer/src/PHPMailer.php');
include_once(FCPATH.'PHPMailer/src/SMTP.php');
include_once(FCPATH.'PHPMailer/src/Exception.php');
$msj="My complete message";
$mail = new PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1; // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only
//authentication SMTP enabled
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for Gmail
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
//indico el puerto que usa Gmail 465 or 587
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Username = "xxxxxx";
$mail->Password = "xxxx";
$mail->SetFrom("[email protected]","Name");
$mail->AddReplyTo("[email protected]","Name Replay");
$mail->Subject = "Test";
$mail->MsgHTML($msj);
$mail->AddAddress("[email protected]");
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message has been sent";
}
?>
A: The problem is with the require method.
You first have to extract all file of phpMailer repository.
instead of writing
require('class.phpmailer.php');
you need to include path where your PHPMailerAutoload.php file extracted.so you can replace it with.
require('path-of-extracted-folder/PHPMailerAutoload.php');
for more reference you can visit it's GitHub link
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
A: I had same problem but I solved.This is the way I code
<?php
require 'PHPMailer-master/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer;
// Set PHPMailer to use the sendmail transport
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = '[email protected]'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'abc'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'First Last');
//Set an alternative reply-to address
//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Shehan');
//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = 'Test Mail';
$mail->Body = 'This is Test Mail';
//send the message, check for errors
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
?>
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Daniel Villanueva, Sports Producer
Mark Mendez, Photojournalist
Updated: October 17, 2021, 11:55 PM
Tags: Instant Replay, Scholar Athlete
Scholar Athlete: Isaiah Trujillo, Antonian High School
KSAT 12 Sports shines spotlight on local senior student athlete.
Published: October 17, 2021, 11:47 PM Updated: October 17, 2021, 11:55 PM
Isaiah Trujillo of Antonian High School is selected as Instant Replay's Scholar Athlete of the Week. (Mark Mendez, Copyright 2021 by KSAT - All rights reserved.)
SAN ANTONIO – Meet Instant Replay's newest Scholar Athlete of the Week, Isaiah Trujillo of Antonian High School.
Congrats to our Scholar Athlete of the Week, Isaiah Trujillo from Antonian High School. #KSATsports #KSATbgc @ACPHighSchool
READ MORE: https://t.co/JIwZtFTdkr pic.twitter.com/IJjhf1uWno
— KSAT 12 Sports (@InstantReplaySA) October 18, 2021
Isaiah has been a member of the varsity football team since his freshman year. He was named Second-Team All-State and Academic All-State his junior year. He was also named the defensive captain and defensive MVP last season. He's a member of the NHS, the Science National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, the Latin Club and the UT Engineering Design and Problem Solving dual credit program. Isaiah performs community service through Cornerstone Church and SAMMinistries. Isaiah maintains a 4.0 GPA, plans to attend college and major in electrical and computer engineering.
WHAT HAS HIGH SCHOOL BEEN LIKE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC?
"I feel like it really prepared me for what's coming moving forward. Life is going to throw a lot of things at you unexpectedly, especially during the pandemic. You go from having class in person to all of a sudden being online and being separated from your friends. It's taught us about adapting and being able to overcome certain circumstances."
WHAT MEMORIES DO YOU TAKE AWAY WITH YOU AS YOU LEAVE HIGH SCHOOL?
"Developing friendships, either on the field on Friday night's or other sporting events. I look forward to making more memories my senior year."
WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS?
"Just keep working hard and don't be afraid to look toward your future. I know a lot of people like to live in the present but what you do now, the decisions you make, will lay the foundation for what your future is going to hold."
Daniel P. Villanueva has worked with KSAT 12 for over 18 years and is an award-winning producer. To submit story ideas, email [email protected]
Daniel Villanueva
Daniel P. Villanueva has been with KSAT 12 since 2003 and is the producer of our weekly sports show, "Instant Replay." Villanueva is a graduate of St. Mary's University and is a TAPB and Lone Star Emmy award winner.
Mark Mendez
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Malaysia's Anwar Provides Alibi, Challenges Sodomy Allegations
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has provided an alibi to police to prove he did not sodomize a former male aide.
Anwar's lawyer, Sivarasa Rasiah, told reporters Friday that Anwar has given full details of the alibi to police, but refused to elaborate.
Anwar was arrested Wednesday outside his home, after the 23-year-old former aide filed a sodomy complaint against him. He underwent several hours of interrogation and a medical examination, but refused to allow authorities to take a DNA sample.
His lawyer Rasiah Friday said Anwar will consider giving his DNA only if it can be independently verified that all procedures are done "professionally" and without police interference that might alter the results.
Rasiah said Anwar has reason to believe DNA evidence will be fabricated, because of what happened to him before. In 1998, Anwar was dismissed as deputy prime minister and convicted on sodomy and corruption charges. The sodomy charges were later overturned, but he had already spent six years in jail.
The lawyer also said the need for DNA analysis has not been justified, since the police report made by the complainant remains "shrouded in secrecy."
Anwar has dismissed the sodomy allegations as a conspiracy against him.
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi denied the charge, saying there is no conspiracy or "act to victimize" Anwar. He challenged the opposition leader to provide a DNA sample, saying if he really has not done anything, then he should give one.
Sodomy carries a punishment of up to 20 years in jail in Malaysia.
In March, Anwar led the opposition to a stunning electoral victory, breaking the ruling National Front coalition's two-thirds-majority hold on parliament for the first time in four decades. The opposition also won control of five states.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
Malaysian Opposition Leader Released on Bail
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been released on bail after police arrested him on sodomy charges, Wednesday. Chad Bouchard reports from Jakarta.Anwar Ibrahim was released Thursday, after spending the night in a Kuala Lumpur jail. A male aide last month accused him of sodomy, a crime which carries up to a 20-year jail term in Malaysia.He failed to appear for questioning, Monday, and agreed to meet…
By Chad Bouchard
Malaysian Opposition Leader Arrested
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been taken into police custody in connection with sodomy allegations. Chad Bouchard reports from Jakarta.Police arrested Anwar Ibrahim on a road near his home, Wednesday, less than an hour before he was scheduled to appear voluntarily for questioning about accusations that he sodomized an aide.Witnesses say about a dozen police officers blocked a road leading from Anwar's home, stopped his car and took him…
Malaysia's Anwar Pleads Not Guilty to Sodomy Charges, Freed on Bail
Malaysia's leading opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim pleaded not guilty to sodomy charges in a Kuala Lumpur court and was freed on bail, allowing him to campaign for a seat in parliament. VOA correspondent Nancy-Amelia Collins in Jakarta has more.Top opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim called the charges of sodomy against him "treacherous and malicious accusations" after the charges were read out Thursday in a…
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Mariya Peykova
Email Address: [email protected]
Mariya is of Anglo-Bulgarian-Cypriot heritage and fluent in Bulgarian and Greek. She also speaks French at an intermediate level. She is completing a pupillage at 3PB and will be doing a civil pupillage.
She joins 3PB having been a Judicial Assistant to the Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Leggatt and Lady Justice King DBE at the Court of Appeal and with the Hon. Mr Justice Stewart, assigned to assist with the Kenya Emergency Group Litigation in the High Court. Her work as a JA involved producing case summaries and bench memos on matters before the court, discussing the case with judges, and attending court with them. This has advanced her skills in rigorous legal reasoning, organisation, legal research, drafting skills and evidence review. Mariya joins us with a reputation already for excellent time-management and great communication and advocacy skills.
Mariya also worked as a Research Fellow on the WiseGrid project at Queen Mary University (sponsored by the European Commission) where she assisted Dr. Rafael Leal-Arcas, the principal investigator on the project. Mariya's research focused on the implications of the gradual 'smartening' of the energy market; a developing area of the law. Mariya was previously a legal consultant at the International Bar Association (IBA), where she assisted Dr. Mark Ellis (Executive Director) with the investigation into the compliance of the Libyan regime trials with International Human Rights instruments. She also assisted a Task Force of IBA lawyers by undertaking legal research and drafting the final IBA report on the independence of the legal profession.
After completing the BPTC Mariya undertook a 6-month judicial internship with Judge Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi, former President of the International Criminal Court, where she carried out legal research on issues arising in the context of international criminal and human rights law, and assisted by drafting the orders and judgments of the Chamber. She has previously worked as an intern at the Office of MEP Ivailo Kalfin, former Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria, at the EU Parliament in Brussels.
In her work outside chambers, Mariya formerly volunteered with Liberty and Reprieve, where she drafted papers to assist in death penalty and wrongful imprisonment cases, and has provided pro-bono assistance to DiyLaw, a legal charity that provides assistance to litigants in person.
'Towards a carbon-free, decentralised, and democratised system of energy generation' - Journal of International Law, Vol 35, Issue 1, 2020 (Forthcoming), Queen Mary University of London, School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No 319/2019
'Decarbonizing the Energy Sector' - Michigan State Journal of Animal and Natural Resource Law, 2019 (Forthcoming), Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 309/2019
'The ICC Reparations regime: The future of international criminal justice or an empty promise?' Gray's Inn Student Law Journal, November 2015.
'Energy Transit: Intergovernmental Agreements on Oil and Gas Transit Pipelines', Rafael Leal-Arcas, Mariya Peykova, Tathagata Choudhury and Malakee Makhoul, Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review, 2015.
'Energy Transit Activities: Collection of Intergovernmental Agreements on oil and gas transit pipelines and commentary', Co-authored with Professor Rafael Leal-Arcas, Report prepared for the Energy Charter Secretariat Knowledge Centre, July 2014, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 177/2014.
Mariya speaks Bulgarian (Native/Fluent), Greek (Native/Fluent) and French (Business Fluent).
LL.M in Public International Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London 2012
LL.B (Hons), Queen Mary University of London, 2011
Overseas Internship Scholarship (International Criminal Court) , Gray's Inn
Graduate Association Award, The Grammar School, Nicosia
Ioannis and Iro Gregoriou Memorial Scholarship (7 consecutive years), Nicosia
Edexcel High Achiever Award, the Grammar School, Nicosia
New York Attorney-At-Law, Admitted in 2019
Bar Professional Training Course, University of Law, 2013
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Practices that can be done in the city where pluralism, interfaith encounter, and a contemplative lifestyle stretch our souls.
Spiritual practice lies at the heart of a monk's life oriented around the presence of God and the service of others. Teasdale discusses his devotional activities: contemplative meditation, lectio divina, the practice of nature (walking and sky meditation), study and reflection, and the nurturance of silence and solitude. Although these are important, he notes that they must be linked with the virtue practices of compassion, mercy, kindness, sensitivity, and love in daily encounters with others.
The inner monk can also be nourished by a close relationship with the good Earth, participation in the struggle for justice and peaceful change, and an appreciation for urban living as a soul-stretching challenge. Teasdale shares ways in which his spiritual friendships have deepened his Christian faith. He talks about lessons he has learned from encounters with homeless people in Chicago. And he makes a good case for the city as a milieu where our moral mettle is tested and our love and patience are given ample opportunities to expand.
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Obama's Latest Speech on Afghanistan: Bridging the Say/Do Gap to Finally End the War
Kevin Gosztola 2011-06-23
23 Jun 2011 Kevin Gosztola
Those who read President Barack Obama's speech will likely be reading to find hints of when the conflict might finally come to an end. Support for a pullout from Afghanistan is at an all-time high, according to a recent Pew Research Center poll. But, there is little reason to put much stock in the fact that ten thousand troops will be leaving Afghanistan this summer. Withdrawing a number of troops around July of 2011 was always part of a plan, a way of deftly managing public opinion.
When Obama went ahead and added thirty thousand troops, he knew, as shown in Bob Woodward's book Obama's Wars he had two years with the public. He understood the perils of escalating a war, as retired Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry, retired Gen. James L. Jones and Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute all offered a level of dissent against Admiral Mike Mullen, Gen. David Petraeus and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. And, Obama allegedly told Vice President Joe Biden in private to oppose a big troop buildup but could not stand up to military brass. In the end, though, he was able to set a withdrawal timetable of ending the war by 2014.
Like any speech on war by US presidents these days, it began by re-opening the wounds of 9/11, by forcing all Americans to recall the fear or pain they experienced that day. It transitioned into a history of how America had gotten to this point—why America invaded Afghanistan, how it got "sidetracked" in Iraq (sorry for your luck Iraqis) and why America committed to a surge in Afghanistan about a year and a half ago. It proceeded to outline the plans and goals for the next stage of the mission and then concluded with pure, pathological American exceptionalist fallacies.
A key difference between this speech and the surge speech is during the speech there weren't any US State Embassy cables or war logs from WikiLeaks to reference and call "bullshit" when something was said with an err of confidence that seemed preposterous. Fast forward to June 2011, with plenty of information on US diplomacy and US military operations in Afghanistan, there is ample reason to doubt the assertions President Obama makes in his speech.
When Obama announced the surge, he committed the US to refocusing on al Qaeda, reversing the Taliban's momentum and training Afghan security forces to defend their own country. According to Obama, the US is meeting these goals or objectives and so the country will be able to "recover" the surge and be back around the level of troops that were in Afghanistan when President George W. Bush left office.
One week ago, Jonathan Owen for The Independent reported, "Not a single Afghan police or army unit is capable of maintaining law and order in the war-torn country without the support of coalition forces." Owen cited a US Department of Defense report on Afghanistan from February showing "out of more than 400 army and police units in Afghanistan" none are capable of operation without assistance from coalition forces. And, Owen also highlighted the fact that twenty-five billion US dollars have been used to train and equip Afghan forces thus far and Lieutenant-General William B. Caldwell does not think the "training mission" can be complete until 2017.
A cable from December 2009 titled, "Karzai Looks Forward," features this exchange on the Afghan army and police:
Turning his attention to the Afghan National Army (ANA), Karzai announced that the ANA leadership should lead simpler, more spartan lives. He criticized widespread reports of ANA generals driving expensive cars and NDS reports that only no officers had died in battles with insurgents, only ANA soldiers died (the latter account was disputed by Minister of Defense Wardak). Reflecting on ANA recruitment, Karzai asked why so few Afghans from the provinces of Zabul, Ghazni, Helmand, Herat, and Farah enlist in the ANA. He bemoaned the fact that only drug users join the Afghan National Police (ANP) in Khandahar and Helmand Provinces. Upon hearing the latter, Minister of Interior Affairs Atmar interjected that a partially completed personnel asset inventory conducted in Khandahar and Helmand turned up the surprisingly good news that only 20 percent of ANP personnel were drug users. [emphasis added]
These days, what percentage of Afghan police are drug users or addicts? How is that impacting operations? More importantly, do private contractors like DynCorp leaders still "pimp little boys to stoned Afghan cops"?
A June 2009 cable shows the DynCorp leaders pimping Afghani children to the police. At bacha bazis or "boy-play" parties eight to fifteen-year-old boys are "made to put on make-up, tie bells to their feet and slip into scanty women's clothing." The boys dance seductively to older men. Their "services" are auctioned and men will sometimes purchase them outright. And, the State Department understands that bacha bazis are a "widespread, culturally accepted form of male rape."
Purchasing services from a child is illegal under Sharia law and the civil code in Afghanistan. The party mentioned in the cable led to the arrest of two Afghan National Police. Are "dancing boys" still a problem for law enforcement in the country?
What about this story from the cables on Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd saying the situation "scares the hell out of me"? Or the fact that he found France and Germany's contribution to fighting the Taliban to be "organizing folk dancing festivals" and the comment from Australian Special Representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan Ric Smith that the mission was like a "wobbly three-legged stool"?
Obama's speech singled out the Afghan national police, but what about the unconventional forces the United States has been using? A November 2009 cable indicates the Afghan government and local communities were using "unconventional security forces. These "local and private bodies" were proliferating because of the lack of "public confidence in the police."
Interior Minister Hanif Atmar had a plan to use a "traditional militia concept."
Locals who are loyal to the government and register their existing arms could serve as police auxiliaries, receiving food and even some pay from MOI in return for helping the police. Atmar's longest-serving advisor, Habib Wayand, explained that the Minister prefers to encourage small groups linked to local shuras, rather than large militias that might bite back or prove loyal to commanders with their own agendas.
Exactly, how are these militias impacting operations now? And, also, a prime proposal from Atmar in February 2010 involved sending twelve to fifteen thousand police to train in Jordan at a facility constructed for training Iraqi police. There is little indication this proposal has been accepted by US forces tasked with training Afghanis to keep their country "secure." Atmar also reported a "need to train 50,000 per year to meet expansion targets and offset attrition" but the maximum training capacity was around 30,000 trainees.
Less than 100 al Qaeda are in Afghanistan. It seems true that the goal of refocusing on al Qaeda has been achieved but why did US forces ever have to "refocus" on al Qaeda? Was there ever a point when they weren't going after al Qaeda?
The Afghan War Logs released by WikiLeaks almost one year ago revealed the Pakistan spy service was meeting directly with Taliban for "secret strategy sessions to organize networks of militant groups that fight against American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders." To what extent do these operations persist?
The released war logs also showed the US military covered up "a reported surface-to-air missile strike by the Taliban that shot down a Chinook helicopter over Helmand in 2007 and killed seven soldiers, including a British military photographer." There may be political leaders affiliated with the Taliban who are willing to talk, but how does the US intend to halt the fighters who are committed to fighting US forces?
The questions are not raised because this author supports the war effort and wishes to see it continue. Doubts are made evident because President Obama appears to be certain that it will all work out by 2014. It seems quite clear that this speech is part of a ploy to con Americans into believing the mission is ending and will end as the timetable being discussed suggests yet it appears it could take another half decade to train forces or further sort out a political solution. In the meantime, if the US is being consistent, wouldn't forces have to remain to prevent a vacuum from forming?
Furthermore, the conclusion of Obama's speech shows that what is at stake for America, as for any war, is its credibility and reputation. Obama, whose weapon of choice in governance is often compromise, lays out two choices, in the same way he laid out two choices when working to pass health reform. The are not necessarily the only two choices America has but they are two choices, which Obama averages to get a solution that will make possible a balancing act between the military and political establishment and the citizens of the United States.
He presents one of the choices as isolationism or retreat. This means no longer being an "anchor for global security," letting despots and terrorists flood the earth and create anarchy. The other choice he presents is overextension, struggling to confront every evil that can be found in the world. (Absurdly, he does not hint at the reality that the US already tries to go after all evil or at least exploits this as a pretext for many, many operations.)
Upon establishing these poles, he plants a stake in at what he deems "the center." The solution is not necessarily right or wrong but "pragmatic." The answer is not to deploy large armies when targeted operations can be used. When innocents are being slaughtered, the US can rally international action (e.g. Libya). Somehow, the final stages of Afghanistan are part of this "centered course."
The disenthralled approach obfuscates the past and recasts the future. US-assassination squads operating with "kill-and-capture lists," the use of drones, intelligence agents awash in data they don't know what to do with, and the killing of civilians going unreported, all revealed in the Afghanistan War Logs, can continue as tools so long as they are employed properly. Brutal night raids, which have led Afghanis in villages to fear US forces more than the Taliban, become legitimized. The brutality of war cast as "pragmatism" suggests what is unfolding is part of a measured approach and whether those who get bombed at weddings care about "pragmatism" versus "realism or "idealism," that does not matter.
The most fraudulent part is the mythological portrayal of America that Obama presents:
In all that we do, we must remember that what sets America apart is not solely our power — it is the principles upon which our union was founded. We are a nation that brings our enemies to justice while adhering to the rule of law, and respecting the rights of all our citizens. We protect our own freedom and prosperity by extending it to others. We stand not for empire but for self-determination. That is why we have a stake in the democratic aspirations that are now washing across the Arab World. We will support those revolutions with fidelity to our ideals, with the power of our example, and with an unwavering belief that all human beings deserve to live with freedom and dignity.
The sophistry of these words dares one to ask whether engaging in warrantless wiretapping, torture, or rendition, invoking state secrets to prevent transparency, denying habeas corpus to detainees in prisons like Guantanamo and Bagram (along with black prison sites that likely still exist), holding detainees in detention indefinitely, asserting the right to target and kill US civilians bypass due process or employing military commissions—"kangaroo courts"—is what nations that adhere to the rule of law and respect the rights of people do.
The portrait of America presented and its underhandedness obscures how America has typically been at war with those in the country who engage in acts of self-determination, who dissent against power.
Search warrants, grand jury subpoenas, indictments, trials, spying, infiltration, entrapment, raids, and severe limits on demonstrations with bystanders, protesters and journalists all subject to arrest at demonstrations are all omitted. Obama cannot sell America as a model country for freedom if that paragraph contains hints at abuses of the state or Executive.
Thus, the next stage of the Afghanistan war, officially launched by this speech, is benign compared to the pathological rot in the military and political establishment, which conditions someone to be able to stand before a world and utter such misrepresentations.
Gareth Porter, investigative journalist, says this morning on Democracy Now!, "There is an effort here to create a narrative that as he put it, the war is receding, the tide of war is receding. When in fact, nothing of this sort is happening…Clearly, the Taliban are carrying out counterattacks this year and will do so again next year. That is not going to come to an end." And, about 70,000 US military forces along with thousands of contractors would remain in the country after 2012.
Thanks to transparency, technology and the courage of whistleblowers, citizens in this country can begin to bridge the gap between what leaders say and do in such a way that has never been possible before in this country's history. Information released by outlets like WikiLeaks can be used to confront speeches like this one head on and work to bridge the say/do gap. It's relentlessly working to bridge this gap that will force leaders into a corner that will eventually lead to deception being exposed and the war coming to an end.
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Kevin Gosztola
Kevin Gosztola is managing editor of Shadowproof. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, "Unauthorized Disclosure."
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TV Talk: First Responders, Gossip Culture, and a Historical Take on the Zombie Apocalypse.
Before falling down the rabbit hole that is the Nintendo Switch, this girl found her time being occupied by a slew of addictive TV shows. These shows could not be further apart on the spectrum, but each one of them provides hours of entertainment that will have you hooked from start to finish.
Taking a spot on the binge-worthy box sets list, 911 Lone Star spotlights the first responders of Austin, Texas. This charming show will brighten anyone's day while simultaneously tug on the heartstrings as we follow the daily struggles our characters face. The team themselves are a diverse bunch and through them, the show respectfully explores several conflicts encountered both on the job and in their personal lives. Despite this, Lone Star never veers into the melodrama, instead choosing to explore these incidents through communication, emotion, and humour, making the characters all the more relatable. Despite the severity of the situations they face, 911 Lone Star is a feel-good show, one that makes you appreciate the dangers our first responders place themselves in to ensure the safety of others, something we can all appreciate at this time.
The Trouble With Maggie Cole
ITV's latest comedy-drama puts us in the heart of a gossip fuelled community. Dawn French's Maggie Cole finds herself on the town's most hated list after a drunken interview sees the town's rumoured dirty laundry being aired to the entire nation. The fallout of this interview sees Cole isolated from the community while forcing the affected community members to face their own troubles. For a comedy, The Trouble With Maggie Cole takes a surprisingly dark turn as individual secrets are on the verge of exposure, and desperation leads to some drastic actions. While we're only 4 episodes into the show, Maggie Cole is a message about gossip control and the damage such rumours can inflict on individuals by a community that thrives on gossip. It's a show that should make you think about the consequences of indulging in trivial gossip that you have no business to be privy to.
This South Korean drama is a thrilling blend of history, politics, and the supernatural. Set in Korea's Joseon period, Kingdom throws us into the heart of political turmoil within a zombie apocalypse. It's a combination that shouldn't work as effectively as it does, but this show provides a new take on the zombie landscape as the zombies themselves are utilised as a way of gaining political advantage. Led by a compelling cast of characters we are treated to an array of fascinating character dynamics as Ju Ji-hoon's Prince Lee Chang forced to prove himself as a capable leader amidst this plague. Through him, we are treated to a range of emotions as he faces the crushing betrayal from his closest and oldest allies whiles the odds stack against him. There are plenty of twists and turns throughout the two seasons, and with season one focused more on the origins and spread of this zombie plague, the second season shone with its character-driven story culminating in a breathtaking showdown within the palace walls. It's a surprisingly fresh take on the zombie apocalypse, but there is room for improvement as the mechanisms behind the infestation could use some further clarity and some characters could benefit from a deeper exploration of their history and motives. Nevertheless, Kingdom is an addictive tale of survival, politics, and zombies.
Have you seen any of these shows?
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Love the way you described 911 Lone Star. You can keep mentiniong it in every single post from now on hahaha
Lone Star's just going to be a permanent fixture on the blog now haha.
I haven't seen any of these yet. We've basically been watching The Voice and Expedition Unknown here.
I do love the Voice. It's the one show my entire family will watch together haha.
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Memories of Papé, the short film by Nicolas Polixene
The private diary by French director of Martinique descent
Memories of Papé
Diary of my short film.
My name is Nicolas Polixene and I'm 33 years old. Native of Martinique, I was born and I live in Paris, where I work as writer and director. Cinema has been my passion since childhood, because I always considered it my way to share emotions with others and to get in touch with the world.
We all know it's not easy to succeed in the world of cinema: it takes a mix of talent, perseverance, courage, patience and a good dose of luck.
We must be able to enter the industry and, at the same time, preserving our sincerity. I needed my time, archived projects and even failures before figuring out the right way to do it.
One day, I saw a scenario contest that held my attention. The theme was "a history of the islands," and was the Prix Océan.
I put all my strength to prepare for the competition also because I always dreamed of doing a film set in the island where my parents were born: Martinique. An island and a culture to which I have always felt extremely tied, since I had a Creole education although born and raised in France.
This screenplay contest was also opening some very interesting doors from a professional point of view: the winner would receive 30,000 euros from the French television for the production of the short film and a premiere screening during the Directors' Fortnight section of Cannes Film Festival.
At that time, I began to reflect on the script of Papé. In telling a story of Martinique's island, many personal aspects related to my origins have emerged. One of these interested me particularly – the language. Having grown up in Paris, I never spoke fluent Creole even if I was understanding it. Even my wife, though she is from Martinique as well, she has never spoken the language. Our child could get in touch with the language of his native country only thanks to his grandparents.
Reflecting on what we leave behind us has been one of the key points in the writing of the script.
The passage and the transmission of culture and knowledge as opposed to the shock that exists between the old and the new generation on the island were the main topics of Papé. To illustrate this, it seemed natural to me to tell the story of a fisherman. As a fisherman, someone holds the tradition and the traditional knowledge of a place.
The script of Papé was liked and it won the contest. Thanks to this prestigious award the production of Papé immediately begun, with the aim of making a film entirely in Creole language, but at the same time as universal as possible to be understandable even for those unfamiliar with the realities of the Caribbean islands.
While my producer was in charge of the organization of funds, I was preparing in my directorial choices. I wanted a simple and honest film as the story of its protagonist: beautiful images that tell the loneliness and the regrets of an old seaman.
For practical reasons we had to shoot the film in Guadalupe instead of in Martinique, which perhaps allowed me to have a more objective look.
Having never worked before in the Caribbean islands, my producer sent the draft of Papé to local producers to have their feedbacks, but we never received any response, although, as you will see, our message was not unheeded.
In December 2014, with my producer and my assistant we started inspection in Guadalupe.
We were looking for some fishermen's old houses to set there part of the short, but we soon realized that those houses were very rare in the island: they had all been turned into restaurants for tourists.
Finally, we got to an old house near the sea. The owner, an old fisherman, told us that the house had been destroyed by the Hugo tornado in 1989 and since that time he had to move to another house. However, he never wanted to get separated from this house despite the strong pressure of the municipality which would like to buy the house and make it a tourist facility.
The history of this house and the strong relationship of the fisherman with this place touched me deeply and I decided to set the movie in that place after making some restoration.
Although we proposed to the fisherman to stay in a hotel during the days of filming, he refused, saying that he would not want to leave his house now, that thanks to me, it became magnificent. This was a particularly good moment for me and made me really happy as I realized that my movie was able to bring a bit of serenity to another person.
At the same time, the casting for the actors were also started: I wanted all of them to be non-professional actors and we managed to find them quite quickly. All except one: the protagonist. I wanted a true fisherman and it was not easy to find the person with the right intensity for this role.
They were missing few days to our departure and we had not yet found the protagonist.
Shortly before losing hope, I decided to make a last round with my assistant and was at that time that I saw under a tree an old fisherman.
I understood that it would be him the right protagonist. I approached and I told him what we were doing. He looked at me, smiled and said to me: "I know who you are, you are the ones from the French production who are looking for an old fisherman. It is 8 months that I do grow my beard and that I wait for you… You could have get here a bit before!"
Yes, our mails to local producers, even though they had received no response, had created a buzz among the people of the island, till him. For some lucky fate we met under a tree in my last moments of inspection on the island.
The filming
January 2015, and the filming began. They were six days of pure happiness, for which I really thank all the people who took part in this project. Especially the fact that the actors were not professionals created during the filming a strong enthusiasm and motivation. There was a synergy that allowed to built the story around the fisherman's personality.
The première at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
Here we come to May 2015. The moment I imagined since I started to write Papé, finally arrived.
There I was, on stage, microphone in my hands to present my short film at the Cannes Film Festival. On the cinema's screen appeared the Directors' Fortnight logo, with the names of the great masters of cinema who took part to this contest. The lights went down and my film began. I remember that my heart was beating at 200 km/h. After many years of difficulties, doubts, questioning, my film was projected on the screen of Cannes and I had the feeling, finally, to be truly a director.
This projection was undoubtedly the most emotional and intense of my life… When I think about it, I still shudder today.
We are now more than a year away from that day, and my short film circulated in more than 30 international festivals and won several awards.
I would have never imagined something like this when I was writing the story. I am always full of happiness when the audience leaves happy after the screening of my short and thanks me for telling the story of this island, so little represented in the cinema.
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Men Buy Sex – by Alice Russell
Men Buy Sex is the first documentary by Alice Russell and she chooses a quite delicate theme. She decided to...
A shortdoc about paid sex that will probaly trigger a very long discussion.
(Fat Rat Films)
Crowfunding: "Lindiota" – by Chiara Livia Arrigo
Chiara Livia Arrigo is a young Milanese director of Sicilian origin, who lives and works in Rome. She launched...
Life and memory of a lonly anti-hero from Lindos, between rotoscope and live footage.
(Ring Film (promo) )
Italian / 2minutes
The use of found footage is quite common in contemporary cinema. A recurring device in horror and science fiction,...
The incredible story of a robot, made using only NASA's archival footage.
Taxi Cab Teranga
A day in new york. A man gets up and goes to work. A girl, perhaps n the other...
A day in the life of Omar, a Senegalese taxi driver in New York City, who learns that any day could be his last.
Marilyn Myller
In the beginning it was nothing. And then everything appeared. Explosions of light and matter, forms that combine and...
A witty satire on the art world and the anxieties of the creative process masterfully directed by stop-motion animation genius Mikey Please.
(Blink Industries)
A blinding white, a barren nature that's pure and precious at the same time. We are in Carrara, Tuscany,...
A solemn and silent Italian shortdoc on the marble quarries of Carrara.
(Student Film)
Steadfast Stanley – by John Cody Kim
I believe that ugliness and beauty, rather than being two sides of the same coin, are two good neighbours which...
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." And sometimes they save it...
Pablo's Villa
Villa Epecuén is a suggestive town 500 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Back in the 1920s, a tourist...
Pablo Novak lives alone in the submerged Argentine ghost town of Villa Epecuén: this is his fascinating and incredible story
(Urtext Films)
Double King – by Felix Colgrave
Centuries ago there lived… "A king!" my little readers will say immediately. Yes. It's right! In this time the...
An animated short film about love... and regicide
Australia / 10minutes
The Saddest Boy in the World
Timothy Higgins recalls his entire life on the day of his ninth birthday. He's constantly thinking about suicide. Written and...
The birthday party of the saddest boy in the world.
(Modern Family Productions
)
Canada / 14minutes
Melancholy – Ta Tristesse directed by the Belgian author Jacinthe Folon is the winner of the first edition of...
Hyper-Reality – by Keiichi Matsuda
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that technology plays an important role in our lives. A couple of weeks...
The Anglo-Japanese director describes a daily world dominated by technology
(Fractal)
Papa – by Natalie Labarre
Papa is a short animated story about an eccentric and overzealous father who realizes he's not a perfect daddy. He thinks that...
The diary of an imperfect father who tries hard to be a perfect dad.
(Cargo Collective)
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London Latin Jazz Fest
Ivan 'Melon' Lewis Trio
With Reiner'El Negron' Elizarde and Georvis Pico
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Cuban born and Spanish based pianist and producer, Ivan 'Melon' Lewis is a Latin Grammy nominee who is recognized as one of the most talented and influential pianists of his generation. In the 90s 'Melon' was noted for his work with the Cuban singer Issac Delgado, establishing an era with an inimitable sound. Ivan 'Melon' Lewis will perform for the first time with his trio at London Latin Jazz Fest. The artist will visit his Afro-Cuban roots in a warm journey through boleros, danzons and much more.
In the 90s "Melon" was noted for his work with the Cuban singer Issac Delgado, establishing an era with an inimitable sound. Ivan "Melon" Lewis will perform by first time with his trio at London Latin Jazz Festival. The artist will visit his afro-cuban roots in a warm journey through boleroes, danzones and much more!
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US military announces cut in major defence programmes
Article Posted on : - Jan 07, 2011
Under the proposed plans, the Marine Corps' new amphibious assault vehicle (EFV) could be shaved off. A Marines Corps photo
WASHINGTON (AP): US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is announcing the latest round of cost-cutting measures for the military, including a plan to do away with a new amphibious vehicle that can ferry troops to shore while under fire.
The plan is aimed at staving off potentially deeper cuts by the White House or Congress by showing that the Pentagon is taking seriously a call to rein in the nation's deficit.
The Defence Department is responsible for the biggest piece of discretionary spending in the federal government's annual budget.
It's been largely protected until now. Newly elected conservative tea party activists, including Republican Sen Rand Paul, have said that cuts to military spending must be considered if the federal government is to reduce its deficit.
"Gates has done a good job so far in protecting the budget," said Loren Thompson, head of the Virginia-based Lexington Institute and adviser to several major defence contractors.
"But the deficit is so huge and the other claims on the budget so big that he is starting to lose ground," Thompson said.
Gates was on Thursday expected to announce that he would cancel a $13 billion plan to buy the Marines amphibious assault vehicles from General Dynamics Corp called the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle.
While a top priority for the Marine Corps, the EFV has long been considered a target of Gates as he looked to trim the budget. Gates has questioned whether D-Day-style landings are going to be common in future wars when the enemy is developing sophisticated weapons that can easily attack ships hovering close to shore.
Other cost-cutting measures were planned as well, including the delay of the Marine version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, according to defence analysts familiar with the plan.
Defence F-35 US Navy
Indian Navy undertaking mega exercise in Indian Ocean Region
Tata Boeing Aerospace delivers first fuselage for AH-64 Apaches for Army
Maiden joint exercise between special forces of India, Egypt underway in Rajasthan
Women in Army have performed exceedingly well: Army Chief Gen Pande
The Indian Army has decided to commission women officers into the artillery regiments and a proposal on it has been sent to the government, Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande has.
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Commonwealth has quickly become one of the most popular nightlife destinations in Las Vegas. Sarah explores both the upstairs and downstairs bars. Plus a look at The Library, which is a mysterious prohibition themed room you must know a secret to get into.
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Will Iran, Korea really back off nukes?
Some laud moves with the two nations. Others are suspicious.
July 18, 2007 | Washington
After years of setbacks to nonproliferation efforts involving North Korea and Iran, the news appears to be good: a reactor shuttered, inspectors readmitted, the brakes applied to uranium enrichment.
Or, as some critics of the diplomatic efforts contend, are the two nuclear scofflaws hoodwinking the international community with clever diversions while they pursue a goal of developing nuclear weapons?
North Korea last weekend shut down a nuclear power plant that provided fuel for its nuclear weapons program, while Iran has slowed its uranium enrichment program. Both countries have agreed to readmit international inspectors: North Korea to verify and monitor the disabling of its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, and Iran to monitor a heavy-water reactor that experts say could be used to develop weapons-grade plutonium.
Iran has also agreed, for example, to a set of new inspection safeguards for its nuclear fuel-enrichment plant in Natanz.
And six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear operations are set to resume Wednesday in Beijing.
But not everyone thinks that the nonproliferation developments signal progress. Some caution that what looks like promising compliance by North Korea and Iran could simply be a facade behind which the two countries advance toward entry into the club of nuclear countries.
The North Korea deal, which rewards Pyongyang with food and oil, marks the end of the Bush administration's tough, desist-or-else approach to what it considered rogue regimes with nuclear ambitions, says John Bolton, the administration's former United Nations ambassador.
"This is North Korea succeeding with a tactical maneuver, something they've perfected over the last 50 years, but I still think they are never going to give up their nuclear capability because it is their trump card," he says.Now an expert in international institutions at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, Mr. Bolton expects both regimes to interpret recent actions by the international community, including the US, as a green light to pursue their nuclear aims.
Prospect of denuclearization
But supporters of the North Korea deal in particular say it puts the international community back on a path – albeit a difficult one – leading to the Korean peninsula's denuclearization. It is not surprising, they add, that the Bush administration's regime-change advocates would condemn the accord with Pyongyang, since it suggests a return to pragmatic bargaining with adversaries.
"All the people who want to bomb Iran and believe we can cause a collapse of the North Korean regime have a vested interest in downplaying the significance of any negotiated solution," says Joseph Cirincione, a nonproliferation expert at the Center for American Progress in Washington.
"First we had Libya, and now North Korea is showing the efficacy of a policy that tries to change a regime's behavior, rather than trying to change a regime."
After years of diplomatic and economic isolation over his weapons programs and support for extremist organizations, Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffi gave up his programs for developing weapons of mass destruction in 2003. That decision resulted in full reestablishment of the country's ties to the international community, including with the United States. "We negotiated away a nuclear threat," says Mr. Cirincione, "and now Libya's nuclear program is in crates in Oak Ridge, Tenn."
Not so fast, say critics of agreements like the one with North Korea. They say Libya saw the writing on the wall with US action against the regime of Saddam Hussein and chose a different course.
In the case of North Korea, they add, the Yongbyon reactor was nearing the end of its useful life anyway, so Pyongyang gets fuel oil and food shipments for closing a relic. In that way, they say, the US and its partners in the six-party talks – China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia – are aiding in the longevity of a regime that starves its own people and threatens the North Pacific region with missile tests.
The key now, both proponents and opponents of a February deal with Pyongyang agree, will be the willingness of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to disclose and open to inspection and the dismantling of all his nuclear facilities and materials, including an unverified number of nuclear bombs. No one expects anything other than the missed deadlines and dramatic about-faces that have typified the North's diplomatic approach in the past.
Advantage of today
But that does not minimize the clear advantage of a closed Yongbyon reactor today, supporters say. Up until last weekend, the nuclear plant was operating while negotiations sputtered along.
"The fundamental flaw of the previous situation was that North Korea was operating a reactor that was producing plutonium while the six-party talks fiddled and dawdled," says Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association in Washington. "I'm not satisfied either, but the fact is that North Korea is no longer producing fissile materials," he adds. "And it makes a difference if you have material for six to nine weapons, or for 69."
As for Iran, Mr. Kimball says it is clear the Iranian government is trying to take steps that will stall movement toward a third UN Security Council resolution that presumably would entail even tougher international sanctions against Iran.
The key issue with Iran remains getting it to halt uranium enrichment, Kimball says, and for that he advocates what he acknowledges will be difficult negotiations. "Any agreement will have to have some kind of security assurances, something that gives Iran a clear vision of how [giving up uranium enrichment] can lead to better relations with the West," he says.
That approach has the advantage of tapping into Iranian public opinion. A new poll of Iranians conducted on behalf of Terror Free Tomorrow, a Washington organization favoring public engagement with populations susceptible to extremism, found that while a slight majority of Iranians favor their government developing a nuclear weapon, 4 of 5 Iranians favor opening up their country's nuclear program to full inspections and to renouncing possession of nuclear weapons if it is accompanied by outside economic assistance and international trade, in particular with the US.That is all well and good, detractors say, but Iran is not really a democracy with a government that responds to public opinion. For critics of the current course, like the AEI's Bolton, the better option for a safer world would have been regime change, at least in the case of Iran, and an end to the Kim Jong Il regime.
Bolton says lost time and progress by both regimes in their nuclear programs make that option more difficult. But he says military action to take out Iran's nuclear sites, as difficult as that would be, still must be considered. "Admittedly, it's not an attractive option – until you look at the alternative, which is for Iran to possess nuclear weapons."
But Cirincione maintains that, as hard and unpredictable as negotiations with Pyongyang and Tehran may be, the prospects are better than under what he calls the nonproliferation-through-regime-change model. "We went to war with Iraq for the purpose of preventing an imminent nuclear threat. The path we're now on with North Korea won't be easy," he adds, "but it's a lot easier than Iraq."
Why latest Korea nuclear talks raise hopes
Is Iran studying North Korea's nuclear moves?
Will Iran follow North Korea's lead?
https://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0718/p01s01-usfp.html
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We often have the pleasure of working with clients to renovate historic homes in Florida communities like Winter Park and downtown Orlando. The architectural details in older homes can be divine focal elements, and it's always fun to uncover things like pristine original hardwood floors, classical archways or beautifully carved mantels hidden under layers of 1980s ugly carpet and paneling. Direct, literal restorations of antique homes can seem like a good idea at first, but we often encourage clients to rethink the space. Our goal is to preserve what's best while keeping the space open and inviting for modern living.
And t his raises the question- what to keep and what to replace? Sometimes clients will have collected antique faucets, sinks, or door knobs and will want us to find ways to use these in the renovation. While this can work, it often becomes a money pit, requiring extensive retrofitting of the home's infrastructure. Even something as seemingly simple as an antique door can require totally rebuilding the casing and surrounding area, disturbing existing finishes and causing more trouble than it's worth.
We usually recommend that for things like plumbing and electrical, clients looking for an antique feel to match the age of their homes should seek reproductions rather than originals. There are many sources online for high quality fixtures that look original but work with today's infrastructure. For things that you count on like lighting and water, it's best not to jerry-rig something to make an old item work, when reproductions look just as good.
If you do want to incorporate items in the home to reflect the period when it was built, something like a door knocker or a mantle would be a better choice. Antique furniture and accessories, judiciously blended with new, can also bring the past to life in a renovated historic home. Seamlessly integrating the architectural details of an older home with modern conveniences is always a pleasure, and provides a much more comfortable and satisfying home environment for our clients.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 SoC With Premium Features for Mid Range Smartphones Launched
Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 SoC With Premium Features for Mid-Range Smartphones Launched
By Sumit Chakraborty | Updated: 24 May 2018 11:06 IST
Snapdragon 710 SoC is the first mobile platform in the new portfolio
It is more powerful than the Snapdragon 660 processor
Consumer-ready products are expected in Q2 of the year
Qualcomm has announced an all-new Snapdragon 710 system-on-chip (SoC) mobile processor that is more powerful than the Snapdragon 660 SoC, but not as capable as the top-end Snapdragon 845 processor. This is the first model in the new Snapdragon 700 Mobile Platform series Qualcomm had unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in February 2018. The new Snapdragon range is designed to offer features and performance that were previously exclusive to the premium Snapdragon 800 series. The Snapdragon 710 is the first mobile platform in the new 700-tier portfolio. As per an earlier report, Xiaomi may adopt the processor in two of its upcoming smartphones. The Snapdragon 710 is currently available to Qualcomm's customers such as mobile manufacturers and other device manufacturers, and consumer-ready products are expected in the second quarter of 2018.
The new Snapdragon 710 Mobile Platform is built on a 10nm process and features a multi-core AI Engine and neural network processing capabilities. Kedar Kondap, Vice President, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, says, "By incorporating key AI capabilities and performance advancements, the Snapdragon 710 is designed to transform our customers products into the ultimate personal assistant, enhancing critical everyday consumer experiences, such as high-end camera features that will benefit from on-device high-speed AI processing, without sacrificing battery life."
Qualcomm is touting similar promises with the Snapdragon 710 that it first showcased when it announced the lineup. The processor is said to deliver up to twice the overall performance improvements in AI applications, as compared to Snapdragon 660 SoC. It utilises AI capabilities to capture and share contextually-aware images and videos and personalise voice and speech patterns for more natural interactions. The Snapdragon 710 Mobile Platform's architectures such as Qualcomm Hexagon DSP, Adreno Visual Processing subsystem, and Kryo CPU, leverage heterogeneous computing to run on-device AI applications more efficiently now.
The Snapdragon 710 SoC features the new Snapdragon X15 LTE modem, a Category 15 LTE modem that is said to support up to 800Mbps download speeds. It also includes 4x4 MIMO technology for up to 70 percent faster download speeds in weak signal conditions, says Qualcomm. The processor also offers new Wi-Fi features, Bluetooth 5, Qualcomm Broadcast Audio, and Qualcomm TrueWireless Stereo Plus.
In terms of display features, the Snapdragon 710 SoC supports with 4K HDR playback for viewing HDR videos and apps. This is a new feature for processors other than the Snapdragon 800 SoC series. It also brings more brightness, wider colour gamut, and colour depth to the Snapdragon 710.
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Further reading: Qualcomm, Snapdragon, Snapdragon 710
OnePlus 6 Teardown by iFixit Gives It a Repairability Score of 5 out of 10
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Covenant Groups at Follen are a wonderful way to deepen your friendships here, engage in deep listening and deep sharing of personal life wisdom, and participate on occasion with your group in "helping projects" either for Follen or for the wider world.
Each Covenant Group is a group of 8-10 people who represent the diverse fabric of the Follen community. The groups meet monthly to nurture their members within the church. There are currently 15 Covenant Groups at Follen; about one-third of the adults in the congregation participate.
Covenant Group sessions are prepared each month by group leaders. There is a theme for each session, which is introduced through opening words and a reading. Most of each session is then devoted to reflections on this theme by the members of the group.
Visit the Congregation News page for information about this month's Covenant Groups session.
For more information or to sign up for a group, email Catherine Collins at [email protected].
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Film Review: Vacation (2015)
August 18, 2021 by Talking Pulp in Film Review, Reviews and tagged 2010s, 2015, adventure, Beverly D'Angelo, Charlie Day, Chevy Chase, Chris Hemsworth, Christina Applegate, Colin Hanks, comedy, Ed Helms, family, film, John Francis Daley, John Hughes, Kaitlin Olson, Keegan-Michael Key, Leslie Mann, Michael Peña, National Lampoon, Nick Kroll, Norman Reedus, Regina Hall, review, Ron Livingston, Vacation | Leave a comment
Directed by: Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley
Written by: Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley
Based on: characters by John Hughes
Music by: Mark Mothersbaugh
Cast: Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Skyler Gisondo, Steele Stebbins, Leslie Mann, Chris Hemsworth, Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Charlie Day, Ron Livingston, Norman Reedus, Keegan-Michael Key, Regina Hall, Nick Kroll, Kaitlin Olson, Michael Pena, Hannah Davis Jeter, Colin Hanks, John Francis Daley
BenderSpink, David Dobkin Productions, New Line Cinema, 99 Minutes
"I just wanted to sing Seal with my family like normal people." – Rusty Griswold
Full disclosure, I'm not an Ed Helms fan. I think the main reason for that is due to him making the final season of The Office pretty damn insufferable. I also don't necessarily blame him for that, I think it was the writing and whoever was calling the shots on that show at the end. But with that, I was burnt out on Ed Helms for several years.
So, as I approached this film, I wanted to go into it with an open mind and without my previous biases. I knew I'd have to eventually get to this, as I was already watching and reviewing all the Vacation movies and didn't want to simply omit this one just because it didn't feature Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo as the leads.
I'm happy to say that I found this to be pretty decent. It does have some laughable moments, features cameos with a lot of people I like and Ed Helms had solid chemistry with Christina Applegate. Also, he played this version of Rusty Griswold pretty straight and not as over the top as his Andy Bernard character from The Office.
Ultimately, though, this is a rehash of what the original film was with the same destination in mind. The adventure on the way to WallyWorld followed similar beats and homaged some classic moments but there was enough original stuff in this to allow it to stand on its own and to not just be a paint-by-numbers remake.
I also like that this did bring back Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo in their iconic roles, even if it was just a small part within the larger movie.
I can't really say that this is all that memorable, though. It's better than some of the other Vacation movies but that was never really a high bar to begin with.
In the end, this is goofy, mindless escapism and while some jokes don't land as intended, the movie still has a good, positive spirit about it and I liked the core characters.
Vids I Dig 483: Hats Off Entertainment: Geico 'Cavemen' Sitcom – Forgotten Failures
October 18, 2020 by Talking Pulp in Videos, Vids I Dig and tagged art, comedy, culture, Hats Off Entertainment, history, Nick Kroll, TV | Leave a comment
Film Review: Loving (2016)
March 7, 2017 by Talking Pulp in Film Review, Reviews and tagged 2010s, 2016, biography, Cannes, drama, film, history, Joel Edgerton, Michael Shannon, Nick Kroll, review, romance, Ruth Negga | Leave a comment
Release Date: May 16th, 2016 (Cannes Film Festival)
Directed by: Jeff Nichols
Written by: Jeff Nichols
Based on: The Loving Story by Nancy Buirski
Music by: David Wingo
Cast: Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Marton Csokas, Nick Kroll, Michael Shannon
Big Beach, Raindog Films, Focus Features, 123 Minutes
I really wanted to get around to seeing Loving before the Academy Awards. Ruth Negga was nominated for Best Actress for the film and I have been a fan of her work since first discovering her on the great British television show Misfits. People really need to watch Misfits; I think it is still available on Hulu.
The film is also the first time that I had seen Nick Kroll shed his comedy shtick and try something serious. Kroll did great, by the way.
Loving is the true story of the Loving family and how their interracial marriage caused them a lot of problems in Virginia in 1958, as well as after. It follows their story of love and showcases the challenges that they face. In the end, their situation led to a Supreme Court decision that prevented any sort of legal troubles for interracial couples that marry.
The acting in the film was superb and Negga really takes things to another level, especially in the latter half of the film. Joel Edgerton was solid but he is usually pretty good. Michael Shannon has a small role as a photographer but he is also really impactful.
The focal point of the movie is the relationship between the Lovings. They support each other, they carry each other and ultimately, their bond is tested but only gets stronger.
Loving is a good movie about an important story that needed to be told. I wouldn't consider it to be a great picture but it features a really strong display of acting prowess from its stellar cast.
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Leah's Crafty Life: TWO KITS this month @ TallyScrapper!
You do beautiful work....Don't think I had ever visited your blog before.
How did you get your name in cursive at the bottom of your posts?????
You so rocked Shirley's kit!!
As for smoking? I still wanna join you!!~sigh~ But the Chantix makes it SOOOOOOOO much easier!!
Oh My gosh Leah, this is so COOL!!! I bought the tally scrapper kit last month and ADORE IT!!!! love what you did with it!
time for an update woman! what's going on in my favorite neck of the woods?
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Pimp Out Your Stand With Axe Hugger's® new funktified furry line. Made from plush faux fur in 9 styles, these Axe Huggers® are sure to jazz up your guitar stand and give your stand and your guitar extra style! The ultimate guitar stand accessory slides over the rubber on your standard guitar stand easily to instantly create a super funky plush cradle for your Axe!
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Exposure to Bisphenol A Correlates with Early-Onset Prostate Cancer and Promotes Centrosome Amplification and Anchorage-Independent Growth In Vitro
Pheruza Tarapore,
Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Cincinnati Cancer Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Jun Ying ,
Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Ying, Bin Ouyang
Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Bin Ouyang ,
Barbara Burke,
Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Bruce Bracken,
Shuk-Mei Ho
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Cincinnati Cancer Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Cincinnati Veteran Affairs Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Jun Ying,
Bin Ouyang,
Pheruza Tarapore Jun Ying ... Shuk-Mei Ho
Human exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) is ubiquitous. Animal studies found that BPA contributes to development of prostate cancer, but human data are scarce. Our study examined the association between urinary BPA levels and Prostate cancer and assessed the effects of BPA on induction of centrosome abnormalities as an underlying mechanism promoting prostate carcinogenesis. The study, involving 60 urology patients, found higher levels of urinary BPA (creatinine-adjusted) in Prostate cancer patients (5.74 µg/g [95% CI; 2.63, 12.51]) than in non-Prostate cancer patients (1.43 µg/g [95% CI; 0.70, 2.88]) (p = 0.012). The difference was even more significant in patients <65 years old. A trend toward a negative association between urinary BPA and serum PSA was observed in Prostate cancer patients but not in non-Prostate cancer patients. In vitro studies examined centrosomal abnormalities, microtubule nucleation, and anchorage-independent growth in four Prostate cancer cell lines (LNCaP, C4-2, 22Rv1, PC-3) and two immortalized normal prostate epithelial cell lines (NPrEC and RWPE-1). Exposure to low doses (0.01–100 nM) of BPA increased the percentage of cells with centrosome amplification two- to eight-fold. Dose responses either peaked or reached the plateaus with 0.1 nM BPA exposure. This low dose also promoted microtubule nucleation and regrowth at centrosomes in RWPE-1 and enhanced anchorage-independent growth in C4-2. These findings suggest that urinary BPA level is an independent prognostic marker in Prostate cancer and that BPA exposure may lower serum PSA levels in Prostate cancer patients. Moreover, disruption of the centrosome duplication cycle by low-dose BPA may contribute to neoplastic transformation of the prostate.
Citation: Tarapore P, Ying J, Ouyang B, Burke B, Bracken B, Ho S-M (2014) Exposure to Bisphenol A Correlates with Early-Onset Prostate Cancer and Promotes Centrosome Amplification and Anchorage-Independent Growth In Vitro. PLoS ONE 9(3): e90332. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090332
Editor: Natasha Kyprianou, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, United States of America
Received: November 25, 2013; Accepted: January 30, 2014; Published: March 3, 2014
Copyright: © 2014 Tarapore et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: This work was supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health (P30-ES006096, U01-ES019480, U01-ES020988), a Veterans Administration Merit Award (I01-BX000675), an internal funding source from the University of Cincinnati to SMH and PT, and a Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program Department of Defense Award (PC094619) to PT. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common malignancy among men in North America. Aging is a well-established risk factor for PCa [1]. One in six men will develop PCa over their lifetime; however, the cancer is rarely diagnosed in men <40 years old, with almost two-thirds cases reported [2], [3] in men at age 65. From 2006 to 2010, the median age at diagnosis was 66 years according to the statistics from National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Studies (2013) [4]. Major contributing factors other than age are race and family history [1], whereas little is known about the impact of endocrine disruptors on PCa.
Bisphenol A (BPA) is an organic compound with the chemical formula (CH3)2C(C6H4OH)2. BPA is used to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins, which are present in thousands of consumer products [5], [6]. In the United States, exposure to BPA is widespread, exceeding 90% in the general population [7]. Dermal absorption, inhalation, and ingestion from contaminated food and water are the major routes of exposure [8]. As an endocrine disruptor that mimics estrogen and thyroid hormone, BPA also acts as a metabolic and immune disruptor. Thus, the adverse health effects of BPA are extensive [9], [10], and higher levels of BPA exposure correlate with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, immune disorders, and a host of reproductive dysfunctions [11], [12], [13]. Moreover, in vitro and animal studies have shown that BPA exposure can increase the risk of mammary gland, brain, and prostate cancers [9]. However, human studies linking BPA exposure to heightened cancer risk are scarce. One such study in China showed that the incidence of meningioma was 1.6 times higher in adults with higher concentrations of BPA in urine than in those with lower concentrations [14]. Similar studies for PCa have not been available until now.
A centrosome comprises a pair of cylindrical structures called centrioles surrounded by pericentriolar material. Centrosomes are involved in organizing the interphase microtubule cytoskeleton, mitotic spindles, and cilia. Centrosome dysfunction (number and integrity), a hallmark of many cancers, is believed to initiate neoplastic transformation and promote disease progression [15], [16]. An abnormal number of centrosomes can result in mono- or multipolar mitosis, leading to increased aneuploidy [15], [16]. Another feature of centrosomal disruption is abnormalities in microtubule (MT) nucleation and anchoring. Such abnormalities were more frequently observed in breast cancer cells than in normal breast epithelial cells [15], [16]. Also, a significant number of genes associated with increased PCa risk are in pathways leading to centrosome dysfunction [17], [18]. These observations have prompted us to examine, in cell-based models, the adverse effects of BPA on the centrosome cycle as a mechanism contributing to prostate carcinogenesis.
We used a cross-sectional clinical study to examine the association between BPA exposure and PCa. We hypothesized that BPA plays a role in prostate carcinogenesis. We found that patients with PCa are more likely than those without PCa to have higher levels of BPA in their urine. We observed a trend toward a negative correlation between urinary BPA and serum PSA levels in PCa patients. We performed in vitro studies to assess the effects of BPA on centrosome number, the formation of MT asters, and colonization in soft agar in two immortalized normal prostate epithelial cell lines (RWPE-1 and NPrEC) and four PCa cell lines (LNCaP, C4-2, 22Rv1, PC-3). We found that the percentage of cells with centrosome amplification (CA) increased in response to low-dose BPA exposure and that the relationship was non-monotonic for most cell lines. Moreover, exposure to low-dose BPA promoted MT aster organization in the non-cancerous RWPE-1 and increased anchorage-independent growth in the androgen-independent C4-2 PCa cell line. In aggregate, these findings reveal a previously unknown relationship between BPA exposure and PCa and suggest a mechanism underlying the role of BPA in neoplastic transformation and disease progression.
Patients and the collection of urine samples
Patients were recruited from the urologic clinic at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center under a protocol approved by the University of Cincinnati Institutional Review Board. Table 1 lists patient characteristics and diagnostic information. After signing an informed consent form, patients underwent a digital rectal examination and were asked to provide a 20- to 50-ml urine specimen before their scheduled ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy. All procedures in this study were approved by the University of Cincinnati Institutional Review Board. Urine samples were centrifuged, the sediments were collected for a PCa biomarker study [19], and the supernatants were stored in aliquots at −80°C for BPA analysis. Among the 60 samples used for this study, 27 were from patients with PCa (PCa) and 33 were from patients without PCa (non-PCa).
Table 1. Summary of baseline characteristics (n = 60).
Measurement of BPA in urine samples
BPA levels in samples were determined in the Laboratory of Organic Analytical Chemistry of Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, (Albany, NY). High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with electrospray triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS) was used to quantify BPA, a technique similar to that described earlier, with some modifications [20], [21]. In brief, 500 µl of each urine sample was mixed with 1 ml of glucuronidase (2 µl/ml) for digestion and extraction. For quality control, 5 ng of 13C12-BPA was added to each mixture. Extracts were applied to an Agilent 1100 series HPLC interfaced with an Applied Biosystems API 2000 electrospray MS/MS (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) for quantitative of BPA. Data were acquired using multiple-reaction monitoring for the transitions of 227>212 for BPA, and 239>224 for 13C12-BPA. The minimum detection limit (MDL) of BPA in this protocol was 0.05 ng/ml. For concentrations below the MDL, a value equal to the MDL divided by the square root of 2 was used in statistical analyses [22]. Reported concentrations were corrected for the recoveries of surrogate standard (isotopic dilution method). The BPA standard spiked to selected sample matrices and passed through the entire analytical procedure yielded a recovery of 88%±8% (mean ± SD). An external calibration curve was prepared by injecting 10 µl of 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10, 50, and 100 ng/ml standards, and the regression coefficient was 0.99.
Normalization of urine BPA
Urinary creatinine levels were used to adjust for variability in dilution and to determine the validity of a spot urine sample for assessing chemical exposure [23]. A creatinine (urinary) assay kit from Cayman Chemical Company (Ann Arbor, MI) was used according to the manufacturer's protocol to measure urinary creatinine levels. The creatinine levels were used to adjust the urinary concentrations of BPA measured by the HPLC-ESI-MS/MS to obtain the "creatinine-adjusted" BPA levels (BPA levels) in µg/g.
The PCa cell lines PC-3, LNCaP, C4-2, and 22Rv1 were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, Manassas, VA) and cultured under standard, recommended, conditions. A description of the origin of the immortalized normal prostate epithelial NPrEC cell line has been published [24]; the other immortalized normal prostate epithelial cell line, RWPE-1, was purchased from ATCC (Manassas, VA) and was grown in Defined Keratinocyte-SFM medium (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) with growth-promoting supplement. Cell cultures were maintained at 37°C in a humidified incubator with a 5% CO2 atmosphere.
BPA treatments
Cells from each cell line were seeded into six-well plates with glass cover slips at 25,000 cells/well. After 24 h, the medium was changed to phenol red–free media with 10% charcoal-stripped serum for another 24 h, at which time BPA was added to achieve a final concentration of 0, 0.01 nM, 0.1 nM, 1 nM, 10 nM, or 100 nM. The experiment was repeated five times to generate a total of five samples per cell line per BPA concentration.
For immunostaining of centrosomes, cells were fixed with methanol for 5 min at −20°C and then processed for γ-tubulin (clone GTU88 antibody, Sigma Immunochemicals), α-tubulin (clone DM1A, Sigma Immunochemicals), and centrin (sc-50452, Santacruz Biotechnology) staining as previously described [25]. In brief, cells were extracted in 1% NP-40 in PBS for 10 min. Cells were probed with primary antibodies, and the antibody-antigen complexes were detected with Alexa fluor 488- or 594-conjugated antibodies (Molecular Probes). Cells were also stained for DNA with 4′, 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI, Invitrogen). Immunostained cells were examined by fluorescence microscopy.
Microtubule (MT) aster formation assay
The effect of BPA on microtubule dynamics was determined by an assay of MT aster formation described previously [25]. In brief, cells were treated with nocodazole (1.5 µg/ml) for 40 min on ice to depolymerize interphase MTs, washed with PBS to remove the nocodazole, and incubated in fresh warm medium for 10 min at 37°C to allow for MT regrowth.
The number of centrosomes per cell was scored by fluorescence microscopy. At least 150 cells were examined per treatment, and the percentage of cells with an abnormal number of centrosomes calculated from the total number of cells examined was used as the outcome measure for the analysis. A major abnormality in CA was defined as a cell with more than two centrosomes.
Anchorage-independent growth assay
Cells were assayed for anchorage-independent growth by measuring the efficiency of colony formation in semisolid medium as described [26]. In brief, cells were cultured under conditions described above, in the presence or absence of 0.1 nM BPA, for ∼10 passages. We chose 0.1 nM because this concentration induced the highest percentage of cells with CA for most cell lines (see Results). Approximately 2,500 cells/35-mm well were embedded in soft agar. Cells were fed twice a week with fresh medium with and without BPA. After 2–3 weeks, colonies were counted under a microscope. Experiments were performed in triplicate and repeated twice. Colony-forming efficiency is the number of colonies obtained divided by the total number of cells plated, multiplied by 100.
The primary measure in the clinical analysis was a continuous variable of urinary BPA level after normalization or adjustment for urinary creatinine level. Initial inspection of the distribution showed that this variable was highly skewed to the right. Hence, its log-transformed variable (LnBPA) was used as the dependent variable in the statistical models. The principal statistical model was a fixed-effect model to assess the association between the LnBPA and PCa status (1 = yes; 0 = no). We applied both unadjusted and adjusted methods to our fixed-effect model. In the unadjusted method, the PCa status was the only independent variable. In the adjusted method, we included age (stratified as age ≥65 vs. <65 years) and serum PSA levels as controlling covariates. We performed post hoc comparisons of means between PCa and non-PCa patients and a similar comparisons in subsets of patients stratified by age. Wilcoxon rank sum tests were used to validate the findings from the fixed-effect models to ensure that all their findings were robust (data not shown). For urinary BPA and other numeric independent variables such as serum PSA levels, the relationships were assessed with linear regression models and/or correlation coefficients.
In the in vitro analyses for each cell line, we used the fixed effect model to assess the association of the percentage of cells with CA to the BPA concentration used to treat the cells and post hoc analyses adjusted for multiple comparisons using a Bonferroni's test. The anchorage-independent growth assay data were analyzed by two-sample t-tests. All statistical tests were performed with an SAS 9.3 software (SAS, Cary, NC) package. P-values <0.05 were considered statistically significant.
Urinary BPA level is associated with PCa and may have prognostic value
We studied 60 urology patients, 27 with PCa and 33 without PCa. The mean age (± standard deviation [SD]) of PCa patients was 69.7±10.3 yr (min, 56 yr; max. 87 yr); they were older than non-PCa patients, who were 62.8±7.15 yr (min. 46 yr; max. 77 yr; p = 0.003). Serum PSA levels of PCa and non-PCa patients were not different. The Gleason score of 71% of the PCa patients was 6, and 7 in the others. Their baseline characteristics are summarized in Table 1.
In all subjects (PCa and non-PCa), levels of urinary BPA were not associated with age and serum PSA and did not correlate with Gleason score of the cancer and cancer-related characteristics in PCa subjects (Table 2). However, patients with PCa had higher levels of urinary BPA (creatine adjusted), with a geometric mean of 5.74 [95% CI; 2.63, 12.51] µg/g (mean ± SD of LnBPA of 1.75±1.97), whereas the urinary BPA levels of non-PCa patients had a geometric mean of 1.43 [95% CI; 0.70, 2.88] µg/g (mean ± SD of LnBPA of 0.35±2.14; p = 0.012, Fig. 1A & 1D). Stratified analyses showed that the positive association was significant only among the 30 urologic patients younger than 65 (mean and median age = 58 yr, minimum age = 46 yr). In the younger patients (<65 yr), the geometric mean of urinary BPA levels among PCa patients was 8.08 [95% CI; 2.40, 27.15] µg/g (mean ± SD of LnBPA of 2.09±1.71) vs. a geometric mean of 0.90 [95% CI; 0.36, 2.25] µg/g (mean ± SD of LnBPA of −0.11±2.09) among non-PCa patients (p = 0.006; Fig. 1B & 1D). Moreover, linear regression analyses of this younger group revealed a trend toward a negative association between urinary BPA levels and serum PSA concentrations in the PCa patients (n = 10, r = −0.52, p = 0.10) but no such trend in non-PCa patients (Fig. 1C). The correlation did not reach significance at the 5% level because of the small sample size.
Figure 1. Scatter plots of LnBPA.
Urine BPA levels are associated with PCa. The log-transformed BPA is referred to as LnBPA. Values in graph are mean ± SD of LnBPA. (A) Urine BPA levels are higher in PCa patients than in non-PCa patients. Means of LnBPA = 1.75±1.97 in PCa (blue, n = 27) vs. 0.35±2.14 in non-PCa (red, n = 33), p = 0.012. (B) LnBPA in PCa vs. LnBPA in non-PCa, stratified by age = 65. Urine BPA levels are significantly higher in young PCa patients than in the respective non-PCa patients only in the age group <65 years old; p = 0.006. (C) Linear regression analyses of Serum PSA vs. LnBPA in patients <65 years old only (n = 30). Blue solid squares represent PCa patients; red inverse-circles represent non-PCa patients. Blue and red solid lines represent their regression lines, respectively. (D) Comparison of the geometric mean of BPA in PCa and non-PCa groups. The geometric mean (Geo) is defined as the exponential of the mean of LnBPA. Values are geometric means (95% CI) of BPA in unit of µg/g creatinine.
Table 2. Summary of LnBPA (log-transformed BPA) values and cancer-related characteristics (n = 27) for PCa patients.
Low doses of BPA promoted centrosome amplification (CA)
CA is commonly observed in human tumors and is a major factor contributing to chromosome instability [15], [27]. Depending on whether the cell is in the G1 or S/G2/M phase of the cell cycle, normal cells show one or two centrosomes, respectively. We determined whether treating cells with BPA changed the number of centrosomes, by treating cell cultures with increasing concentrations of BPA (0.01–100 nM) (Figs. 2 and 3). Untreated cells that served as controls showed the expected normal centrosome profile, in which most of the cells (>90%) contained either one or two centrosomes (Fig. 3-I, panels A, C, E, G, I, K). The untreated NPrEC had the fewest cells with centrosomal aberrations (1.7%), followed by C4-2 (2.9%), LNCaP (3.5%), 22Rv1 (4.9%), RWPE-1 (7.3%), and PC-3 (10.4%) (Fig.2). In contrast, all cell lines treated with BPA showed an increase (two- to eight-fold, Table 3) in the number of cells with three or more centrosomes (Fig. 2, Fig. 3-I panels B, D, F, H, J, L). The dose-response curves of the two non-cancerous cell lines, NPrEC and RWPE-1, and two PCa cell lines, LNCaP and 22Rv1, reveal a non-monotonic (biphasic) response relationship, with the maximal response with 0.1 nM BPA (Fig. 2). On the other hand, the two other PCa lines, C4-2 and PC-3, displayed an increasing dose-response curve that plateaus at the same low concentration of BPA (0.1 nM) (Fig. 2). The immortalized non-cancerous prostate epithelial cell line NPrEC-1, showed the highest fold change (mean ± SD, 8.1±2.4) in centrosome profile (Table 3), suggesting that its centrosome duplication cycle may be most sensitive to the effects of low-dose BPA on the promotion of CA.
Figure 2. Low doses of BPA have an adverse effect on centrosome numbers in prostate cancer cells.
The cell lines NPrEC, RWPE1, LNCaP, C4-2, 22Rv1, and PC3 were treated with medium containing 10% CSS plus 0, 0.01 nM, 0.1 nM, 1 nM, 10 nM and 100 nM BPA for 72 h. Cells were fixed with 100% cold methanol and immunostained for centrosomes and nuclei. The number of centrosomes per cell was scored by fluorescence microscopy. The results are shown as an average determined from five separate experiments. The scatter plot was generated of the percentage of cells with an abnormal number of centrosomes in response to BPA. Analyses was performed using a fixed effect model for each cell line. Post hoc comparisons of means were adjusted using Bonferroni's tests. The fold change is the percentage of cells with abnormal centrosomes at 0.1 nM BPA/the percentage of cells with abnormal centrosomes at 0 nM BPA.
Figure 3. An increase in centrosome numbers is seen in prostate cancer cells exposed to BPA.
(I) An increase in centrosome numbers. The cell lines NPrEC, RWPE1, LNCaP, C4-2, 22Rv1 and PC3 were treated with medium containing 10% CSS plus 0 or 0.1 nM BPA for 72 h. Cells were fixed with 100% cold methanol and immunostained for centrosomes (anti-γ-tubulin, red) and nucleus (DAPI, blue). The cells were examined by fluorescence microscopy. Arrows point to the positions of centrosomes, and panels on the right show magnified images of the indicated areas. Scale bar, 10 µm. (II) Centrosome amplification in the presence of BPA is not due to centriole separation. RWPE-1 cells were treated with 0.1 nM BPA for 3 days. Cells were fixed and immunostained for centrosomes (anti-γ-tubulin, red), centrioles (anti-centrin, green), and nucleus (DAPI, blue). Arrows point to the positions of centrosomes. Panels on right show magnified images of the indicated areas. Scale bar, 10 µm.
Table 3. Fold change in the percentage of cells with centrosomal amplification in presence of 100
Low-dose BPA did not affect centriole splitting
Structurally, the centrosome consists of a pair of cylindrical structures called centrioles that act as the duplicating units. To verify the integrity of the centrosomes, we immunostained cells for centrin, a major constituent of the centriole cylinder, allowing visualization of the centriole pair within the centrosome. Fig. 3 shows representative images for RWPE-1 cells. Each dot detected by antibody to γ-tubulin (Fig. 3-II; panels A and D) was resolved to a pair of dots (representing a centriole pair) revealed by antibody to centrin at a higher magnification (Fig. 3-II; panels B and E, panels a, a″; d′, d″). These data thus indicate that the centrosomes are intact, containing a pair of centrioles. The centrosome profiles determined by counting the centrin signal were similar to those determined by counting the γ-tubulin signal (Fig. 2). Results for LNCaP, C4-2, 22Rv1, and NPrEC cells were similar. Hence, BPA had no effects on centrosome separation or centriole splitting.
Low-dose BPA enhanced MT aster formation
The anchoring of MTs and their subsequent elongation to form radial MT arrays (asters) are critical events during interphase and also lead to the formation of the mitotic spindle associated with normal centrosome function [28]. RWPE-1 prostate cells assayed for MT aster formation (Fig. 4). Cells were first treated with nocodazole on ice to completely depolymerize interphase MTs; nocodazole was then removed, and cells were incubated in fresh warm medium for MT regrowth. The ability of the centrosomes to nucleate, anchor, and elongate MTs was determined by co-immunostaining for centrosomes (anti-γ-tubulin) and MTs (anti-α-tubulin). The MT aster forming activity of centrosomes was assessed according to the previously established protocol [25]. Untreated RWPE-1 cells showed negligible aster formation. After acute 2-h treatment with 0.1 nM BPA, short asters were seen 56% of cells. Three days post-treatment with BPA (chronic exposure), ∼37% cells showed asters (Fig. 4A, 4B panels g–i). Our data thus indicate that BPA enhances MT aster formation.
Figure 4. BPA enhances centrosomal aster formation.
The microtubule aster formation assay was performed 2-immunostained for centrosomes (anti-γ-tubulin, red) and MTs (anti-α-tubulin, green). The centrosomal aster formation was assessed as positive if centrosomes had an MT aster with more than 15 MTs. The results shown in (A) are the average ± standard error (SE) from three experiments. For each experiment, >200 cells were examined. Significance was calculated using Student's t-test vs. 0 pM. *p≤0.00002.
Chronic BPA exposure promotes anchorage-independent growth in C4-2 cells
The ability of chronic BPA exposure to transform or promote malignant growth of NPrEC, RWPE-1, LNCaP, and C4-2 cells was determined by a soft-agar colony-formation assay. The cells were grown in medium with or without 0.1 nM BPA for 10–14 passages before they were seeded on soft agar. Colony formation for NPrEC, RWPE-1, and LNCaP was <2%, and exposure to 0.1 nM BPA did not change the efficiency of colony formation. However, BPA-exposed C4-2 cells produced substantially more, larger, faster-growing soft-agar colonies (Table 4, Fig. 5). The percent efficiency of colony formation (mean ± SD) increased to 19.25±7.05% with BPA treatment compared with 2.03±0.40% in unexposed controls (p<0.001). The colony diameter was 50–400 µm in controls vs. 100–1,200 µm in BPA-treated C4-2 cells.
Figure 5. Cells grown in the absence and presence of 0.1-independent growth.
Representative pictures of colonies after 2 weeks of incubation in agar. C4-2 cells in the presence of 0.1 nM BPA formed larger colonies (B, B′, 100–1200 µm diameter) compared with those grown in the absence of BPA (A, A′, 50–400 µm diameter).
Table 4. Anchorage- independent growth in the presence and absence of BPA.
Evidence that BPA exposure contributes to PCa was derived from animal studies [29], [30], [31], [32] or cell-based [33], [34], [35], [36] models. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that provides preliminary evidence of an association of BPA exposure with PCa in a clinical setting. Our findings in 60 urologic patients show that urinary BPA level is an independent prognostic biomarker of PCa, as higher urinary BPA levels were detected in the 27 PCa patients (geometric mean, 5.74 [95% CI; 2.63, 12.51] µg/g creatinine) as compared with those in the 33 non-PCa patients (geometric mean, 1.43 [95% CI; 0.70, 2.88] µg/g creatinine) (p = 0.012). The detection limit for this study was 0.05 ng/ml. Several population studies have now established BPA as a ubiquitous environmental contaminant detectable in the urine of most individuals in US populations. In the first large-scale cross-sectional study in the US involving 2,517 participants of the 2003–2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) [7], BPA was detected in 93% of the population at a geometric mean and a 95th percentile concentration of 2.6 µg/g and 11.2 µg/g, respectively; the limit of detection was 0.4 ng/ml vs. 0.05 ng/ml in our study. A later study of 2,747 adult participants in the 2003–2006 NHANES [37] reported a geometric mean of 2.05 µg/g creatinine (25th percentile: 1∶18, 75th percentile: 3.33); the lower limit of detection was 0.36 ng/ml. Thus, the geometric mean of urinary BPA levels in the PCa patients in the present study was ∼2–2.5 times higher than the geometric means of those in large US cross-sectional studies. In contrast, the geometric mean in the non-PCa patients in this study was ∼50% lower than the geometric means of these two population studies.
A strength of this study is our use of the method recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention involving solid-phase extraction coupled with isotope dilution-HPLC-MS/MS to measure total urinary BPA in a reference laboratory. Furthermore, we corrected for variations caused by factors that affect urinary dilution by expressing our data relative to urinary creatinine concentrations. Finally, all patients had biopsy-confirmed, rather than self-reported, PCa. A potential limitation of our study was that total urinary BPA in our patients was measured only once. However, according to current literature, total urinary BPA concentrations (free plus conjugated) in spot samples (one-time measurement) is a reliable method of evaluating baseline exposure from all sources across time when the sample size is sufficiently large [38]. Although toxicokinetic studies have shown that BPA and its major metabolite, BPA-glucuronide, have rather short half-lives (∼2.5 h) in the bloodstream and that they are rapidly excreted with urine [39], [40], cross-sectional population studies have suggested substantially longer half-lives due to nonfood exposure, bioaccumulation in body tissues such as fat, and liver function, especially those related to glucuronidation of BPA [12], [39]. The presence of high BPA concentrations in urine may suggest that the lifestyle habits of these patients may sustain higher levels of exposure. In this regard, in one clinical study, BPA levels in urine samples collected on the same day from male and female partners correlated [41], supporting the premise that similar lifestyle choices may determine the level of BPA exposure. Moreover, a recent study showed higher within-person variability (over 1–3 years) in BPA levels as compared with the total variability in 80 women [42]. Collectively, these studies highlight the significance of our finding that a one-time sampling of urinary BPA correlates with PCa.
Stratified analyses showed that the association between urinary BPA levels and PCa is highly significant (p = 0.006) among the 30 patients <65 years old (mean and median age = 58, minimum age = 46) but that this association does not reach significance among the half of patients >65 years (Fig. 1). These findings are intriguing, but perplexing. Taken at face value, they suggest that higher BPA exposure is associated with earlier onset of PCa. However, on the basis of the theory of developmental reprogramming of cancer risk [43], our findings raise the possibility of early-life reprogramming of PCa in humans. In rat studies, neonates fed environmentally relevant levels of BPA had an increased risk of developing prostate neoplasms [29], [44]. According to this reasoning, one should note that the younger PCa patients were either just born or young children when BPA was introduced for commercial use in the US in 1957. For example, the patient aged 64 years old would have been around 11 years old (prepuberty) when first exposed to BPA and those younger might have been exposed in utero.
Further analyses of the age groups <65 years old revealed that BPA levels negatively correlated with PSA levels in the younger patients but not the non-PCa patients While this observation needs to be validated in a larger clinical study to reach significance, this has crucial repercussions for young patients who take PSA tests for PCa screening. If exposure to high levels of BPA suppresses their serum levels of PSA, this may result in a misdiagnosis. This problem is similar to the under-detection of PCa in hypogonadal men because of the androgen dependency of PSA [45], [46], [47]. The inhibitory effect of BPA may be indirect, acting through the hypothalamic pituitary testicular axis [48]. Alternatively, it might be a direct inhibition on the cancer cells, similar to a report of direct suppression by genistein of PSA production [49].
BPA is not a recognized carcinogen. The question thus arises as to the mechanism behind the positive correlation of BPA exposure with PCa. Several studies have shown that centrosome amplification is a major contributing factor to aneuploidy in human tumors [15], [16]. We hence examined the centrosome profile of PCa cells treated with BPA and found that treatment with BPA increased the number of cells with abnormal centrosomes. One can speculate that BPA may be affecting the cell-cycle machinery involved in centrosome duplication or the structural components required for centrosome duplication and maturation [50], [51]. Perturbations in these events have the potential to induce CA and increase genomic instability. Moreover, the estrogenic action of BPA may affect the expression of genes regulating centrosome cycle. For example, while AurkA is not a specific direct target of estrogen in vitro, AurkA is implicated in estrogen-induced oncogenesis, with long-term treatment of rats with estrogen having been shown to upregulate its expression [52]. Thus, the mechanism by which BPA deregulates the centrosome cycle and induces CA needs further clarification.
An interesting finding was of the greatest sensitivity of the immortalized normal prostate epithelial cell line to the effects of low-dose BPA (Table 3), suggesting that BPA might perturb the centrosome cycle in normal cells and contribute towards aneuploidy. This result is similar to that of previously published studies indicating that a BPA-related increase of DNA adducts was more pronounced in a non-tumorigenic epithelial cell line (PNT1) than in PC3 metastatic carcinoma cells [34]. On the whole, these experimental findings support the hypothesis that BPA plays a role in prostate carcinogenesis, in addition to promoting disease progression.
Another intriguing observation was the non-monotonic response observed in immortalized normal epithelial cells (NPrEC, RWPE-1) and androgen-dependent PCa (LNCaP) cells, suggesting that low concentrations of BPA elicit CA, with the greatest effect at 0.1 nM. This concentration is at least 10- to100-fold lower than most studies reporting a low-dose effect of BPA in vitro [53], [54]. At higher BPA concentrations, the detrimental effects on centrosomes appear to disappear. This observation could be explained by findings in the literature that BPA differentially interacts with various receptors such as estrogen receptors α and β, GPR30, or ERRγ, depending on the cell context [55], [56], [57], [58], [59], [60]. Alternatively, it may be a result of checkpoint mechanisms activated, blocking CA at higher BPA doses, causing either cell-cycle arrest or death of cells with dysregulated centrosome duplication. Future studies needs to address the underlying cause of non-monotonic dose-responses in these cell lines.
We found increased MT aster formation in RWPE-1 cells in the presence of BPA. The interphase MT dynamics tightly regulates mitosis. It also maintains normal subcellular localization of organelles, vesicular transport, cell migration, and the overall directionality of cells within the milieu of tissue architecture. In this context, androgen receptor (AR) nuclear localization has been shown to be dependent on the MTs [61], [62]. Since AR nuclear localization is essential for its transcriptional activity [63], it would be interesting to determine whether BPA induced perturbations in MT dynamics impacts AR trafficking and nuclear translocation, and hence alters AR functionality. Moreover, both AR and BPA directly interact with tubulin [62], [64], [65]. One can thus speculate that BPA and AR may compete for tubulin, thus affecting the function of AR. Alternatively, the effects of BPA on MT-dynamics may increase the translocation of AR to the nucleus. Thus, studies on AR trafficking in response to BPA need to be performed, especially in light of reports on the adverse effects of MT-disrupting chemotherapeutic drugs on AR accumulation in nucleus [62]. Hence it is possible that in the non-tumorigenic cells, BPA may initiate or promote PCa progression by interfering with AR function. A previous report has shown that treatment with BPA stimulates human PCa cell migration [33] and affects MT dynamics [66]. Moreover, a change in MT dynamics could be linked to our observation that BPA increased cloning efficiencies of C4-2 cells in soft agar, which could be indicative of enhanced tumorigenicity and/or aggressiveness for these cells in vivo. This latter finding supports the notion that BPA may promote PCa progression in addition to its speculative role in neoplastic transformation.
The centrosome is emerging as a potential therapeutic target of drugs in castration resistant PCa (CRPC). Targeted inhibitory compounds are available for inhibition of kinases such as Polo-like kinases, Cyclin-dependent kinases, Aurora kinases, as well as molecular motor proteins [67], some of which have progressed to early clinical trials [68], [69]. Recently, histone deacetylases HDAC1, HDAC5 and SIRT1 have been identified to suppress centrosome duplication and amplification [70], suggesting that HDAC activation could be an important therapeutic avenue in CRPC. Aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonists such as indirubins also reduced centriole overduplication, implying involvement of aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling in the centrosome cycle [71]. Additionally, the MT-disrupting agents are first line treatments for CRPC [72]. However, because of the ubiquitous presence of BPA, the possible adverse interactions of BPA with these centrosome and MT targeting drugs necessitate evaluation for CRPC.
In short, our findings provide the first evidence that urinary BPA level may have prognostic value for PCa and that disruption of the centrosome duplication cycle by low-dose BPA is a previously unknown mechanism underlying neoplastic transformation and cancer progression in the prostate.
We thank Paulina Haight for her assistance in the centrosome studies as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship student at the University of Cincinnati, Ms. Hong Xiao for her assistance in measuring urine creatinine, and Ms. Nancy K. Voynow for her excellent editing of this manuscript.
Conceived and designed the experiments: PT BO SMH. Performed the experiments: PT BO SMH. Analyzed the data: PT JY BO SMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BB BB PT SMH. Wrote the paper: PT BO JY SMH.
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Tom Petty (born October 20, 1950 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American musician. He is a graduate of Gainesville High School. After Working with his early bands The Sundowner, The Epics, and Mudcrutch with ace drummer Randall Marsh, he began his recording career with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers when the band broke onto the national music scene with their 1976 self-titled debut album.
Tom Petty rejoined with the Heartbreakers for the album "Into the Great Wide Open" in 1991. It was again produced by Jeff Lynne and includes the hit singles "Learning to Fly" and "Into the Great Wide Open", the latter featuring Johnny Depp, Gabrielle Anwar and Faye Dunaway in the video.
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Grammy winner Britney Spears is reportedly doing just fine after being released from a mental health facility.
Spears checked herself into the facility at the end of March to help cope with her father's illness, according to an Entertainment Tonight report published Friday. The 37-year-old "Toxic" singer checked out of the facility April 26.
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I wanted to say hi, because things that are being said have just gotten out of control!!! Wow!!! There's rumors, death threats to my family and my team, and just so many things crazy things being said. I am trying to take a moment for myself, but everything that's happening is just making it harder for me. Don't believe everything you read and hear. These fake emails everywhere were crafted by Sam Lutfi years ago… I did not write them. He was pretending to be me and communicating with my team with a fake email address. My situation is unique, but I promise I'm doing what's best at this moment ???????????? You may not know this about me, but I am strong, and stand up for what I want! Your love and dedication is amazing, but what I need right now is a little bit of privacy to deal with all the hard things that life is throwing my way. If you could do that, I would be forever grateful. Love you ❤️❤️❤️
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Spears has made a lot of progress but wants to get back into a routine, the source said.
"With that said, she is also aware of how quickly things can turn, so she's agreed to continue to take care of herself," the source told ET. "She is so excited to get back to her regular workout routine and eating habits. She feels in a very good place again and has made so much progress."
The mental health facility check-in came after Spears announced she was putting her Las Vegas residency on hold indefinitely.
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My trip to Antarctica did not start out well. I had a couple hour layover in Miami. About a half hour before my flight left Miami I got the stomach flu. Throwing up in an airplane bathroom on an eight hour flight is not a good time. We landed in Buenos Aires early in the morning and I spent the day in the Hotel room. I was feeling better around dinner time (well dinner time here in the states) and went out to find dinner. I found a nice looking restaurant and asked when the would open. They didn't even open until 8 P.M. and it was only around 5 P.M. I ended up eating a very expensive ham sandwich in the hotel bar.
From Buenos Aires we went to Ushuaia. This is the southern most city in the world (not to be confused with the southernmost town which is a little further south). This is not a place I would want to live. Not because of anything wrong with the city itself, but it was snowing on the first day of summer. Winter must be a real treat.
After a couple days of exploring around Ushuaia we boarded our boat and headed out across the Drake Passage. It takes two days to sail across to Antarctica and 25 foot seas made it anything but enjoyable. Most of the passengers were sea sick including me. My father sailed through just fine. He was in the Canadian Navy during World War II and claims he has never been sea sick. He also believes that sea sickness is more mental than physical. He may be right but my mind can not control my stomach.
Antarctica is beautiful, rugged country. We sailed through one channel that was full of icebergs. I was laying in my bunk and I kept hearing a strange noise. It sounded like we were sailing into chunks of ice. I went up on deck only too discover we were. It was around midnight, but it was still light out. All around us was some of the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen. The roll of film I shot there was my favorite of the whole trip. Unfortunately I misplaced it and I haven't been able to find it, though I have looked for it many times. There is really no way to describe what it was like. It is just something you have to experience.
We spent four days going from penguin rookery to penguin rookery. Penguins make nests out of small rocks. You would think from watching them that there was a shortage of rocks. They are constantly stealing rocks from each others nests. Personally I think they just don't want to go very far to get their rocks. There are more than enough to go around but it is easier to grab one from a neighboring nest. They keep their eggs warm by cradling them between their feet and their belly. This is probably the real reason they steal the rocks. They don't want to leave their eggs or chicks unattended.
Penguins also don't go very far to, how shall I put this, relieve themselves. They just raise their posteriors and let fly. As a result their nests tend to look like the spin art you made as a kid. (You know. Where you put a card in a machine that spins it around and you squirt paint on it.) The penguins themselves also get stripped by their neighbors. Speaking of which, penguin rookeries are not the most pleasant smelling places.
In addition to the penguins we also saw numerous sea birds, some seals and a couple whales. I was hoping to see more whales. I had seen many humpbacks in Alaska and thought I would see them here too. As I am writing this I have finally realized why that was unlikely. The water is probably too fresh. All the glaciers and icebergs melting. Even in Alaska you don't see many whales in water surrounded by glaciers.
Two more days back across the Drake Passage. The seas are calmer and I only feel queasy on the way back. Then a long flight home and the trip is over.
(OAT worked with Marine Expeditions to provide the cruise.
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Earlier today I found myself trying to explain to a friend what has been happening in the Reformed world in terms of the latest discussions regarding the Trinity and the Eternal Functional Subordination of the second person of the Trinity. The trickiest part about explaining it to him was keeping all the different posts straight. In order to help out both myself and anyone else who is either trying to keep up, or get caught up I have compiled (chronologically) this list of links which I believe to be helpful to anyone who is interested. I plan to keep this updated as things progress. This will be an ever evolving post. The earlier entries are articles that have laid the groundwork for where we find ourselves now, and they are certainly relevant. As readers pass along more information and relevant pieces of information I will add them to the timeline, so this list may be worth checking in on periodically.
*"Eternal Functional Subordination and the Problem of the Divine Will" by D. Glenn Butner, Jr.
Thanks Adam for collecting all these articles and posts in one place. Very Interesting discussion!
Great job in putting this together. Thanks so much.
The final one you have is Andew Wilson, not Walker... helpful roundup with concise questions. Thanks for your work, bro.
"I don't believe them. I think they know, deep in their hearts, that they are doing it. And they don't want to admit it."
"I believe they would like to keep women and wives in the position of children."
"I believe they are fighting to maintain their male privilege."
"I'm guessing that they closed comments because the commenters started talking about character and motivation."
Thank you for replying to me, Adam Parker.
I have added an UPDATE to that post. I realised, after it was published, that comments had NOT been closed on Liam Goligher's posts at Mortification of Spin.
You are right that Alliancenet does not allow comments on the blogs which Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt write. But Aimee Byrd, who is the third member of the Mortification of Spin team, DOES allow comments on her blog.
And since Liam Goligher's posts have been guests post on Aimee's blog, they ARE receiving comments.
I had misconstrued what happened there. The comments I had submitted which were not published on Aimee's blog were comments that contained links. Since I discovered my error, I have been submitting more comments on Dr Liam Goligher's guest posts at Aimee's blog, and each of those comments has been published.
As soon as I realised I had misconstrued things, I publicly apologised at my post, and explained that I had been in error. And I privately apologised to Aimee Byrd.
The series of articles I am writing at A Cry For Justice is not yet finished. I have published two posts in that series so far. In the next post, I will be giving documentary evidence for why I believe Bruce Ware and Wayne Grudem are fighting against having to accord the same degree of respect to women that they accord to men.
My documentary evidence will be pretty extensive, with items going back to at least 2008.
NB draw your attention to Malcolm Davy's comment immediately above re. Sanders and Moody.
Ticking the box so i get notified of further comments.
By Ps Sam Powell, who blogs at My Only Comfort.
Post is titled — "Unintended (?) Consequence"
unto death, and therefore the redemptive foundation for his bringing of 'many sons to glory' (Heb. 2:10)."
Michael Allen has recently stated - "The early church read the Bible teaching that there was a divine order (taxis) relating to origin though not to what we would call authority, obedience/submission, etc. (Note: even when medievals like Thomas would use the term auctoras or subauctoras, they did not mean it in the way that a quick Anglicizing of the word might suggest; rather, they meant it in the specific sense of origin.) That eternal order finds expression, however, in the economy of salvation wherein the Son does obey the Father's command. The key, however, is that the economy extends the inner life of God and cannot be reduced, as such, to it."
Just wanted to offer that clarification.
Sorry for the late reply - I only just saw this. All very helpful. I don't see Swain and Allen as supporters of Grudem/Ware ESS etc. However, "That eternal order finds expression, however, in the economy of salvation wherein the Son does obey the Father's command" goes against the billiard ball trinitarianism of Goligher. Economy expresses something imminent. Generation is no "bare relation."
I've been planning on highlighting the Butner essay from JETS too. I think his critique is pretty devestating, and at least provides some really good critical critique in identifying what's at stake.
Here's what I just posted highlighting Butner's fine essay.
"Hence it holds that the Apostle's expression, 'He made,' does not prove that the Word is made, but that body, which He took like ours; and in consequence He is called our brother, as having become man. But if it has been shown, that, even though the word 'made' be referred to the Very Word, it is used for 'begot,' what further perverse expedient will they be able to fall upon, now that the present discussion has cleared up the word in every point of view, and shown that the Son is not a work, but in Essence indeed the Father's offspring, while in the Economy, according to the good pleasure of the Father, He was on our behalf made, and consists as man? For this reason then it is said by the Apostle, 'Who was faithful to Him that made Him;' and in the Proverbs, even creation is spoken of. For so long as we are confessing that He became man, there is no question about saying, as was observed before, whether 'He became,' or 'He has been made,' or 'created,' or 'formed,' or 'servant,' or 'son of an handmaid,' or 'son of man,' or 'was constituted,' or 'took His journey,' or 'bridegroom,' or 'brother's son,' or 'brother.' All these terms happen to be proper to man's constitution; and such as these do not designate the Essence of the Word, but that He has become man."
"But being present with Him as His Wisdom and His Word, looking at the Father He fashioned the Universe, and organised it and gave it order; and, as He is the power of the Father, He gave all things strength to be, as the Saviour says : What things soever I see the Father doing, I also do in like manner. And His holy disciples teach that all things were made through Him and unto Him; 8. and, being the good Offspring of Him that is good, and true Son, He is the Father's Power and Wisdom and Word, not being so by participation , nor as if these qualifies were imparted to Him from without, as they are to those who partake of Him and are made wise by Him, and receive power and reason in Him; but He is the very Wisdom, very Word, and very own Power of the Father, very Light, very Truth, very Righteousness, very Virtue, and in truth His express Image, and Brightness, and Resemblance. And to sum all up, He is the wholly perfect Fruit of the Father, and is alone the Son, and unchanging Image of the Father."
I hardly think that Athanasius had any thought of subordination in his proof to the heathen that the Father was not alone when He created.
But a good piece nonetheless.
I think you'll find on closer reading that in that section Athanasius is running multiple arguments- both that usually such language of 'made' applies to Christ's genuine humanity, and that when it does apply to the Word it means 'begotten' because there is an analogy between the two, as I gestured at in the post.
Even your quote above indicates that: "But if it has been shown, that, even though the word 'made' be referred to the Very Word, it is used for 'begot,' " - that's the part of his argument I focused on in my post, as that is the bit interesting for our debate, and it is a facet of his thought of which most seem to be unaware.
With Against the Gentiles 46 - absolutely that's how he goes on. How you think that counters the point I'm making there I can't see. I would have thought my two posts on his thought depended on passages such as the one you quote, and build out from them to his use of obedience and command language.
I suspect it all depends on what you mean by 'subordination' in your sentence at the end. It'd probably be more useful if you replaced that with a clear statement of what you think Athansius isn't saying that you think I'm claiming he is saying.
He is not in these passages, "Discussing scriptural terms which seem to indicate the Son's inequality", nor attempting an analogy. His whole argument is that the Son is not a work of the Father but the offspring of nature, and that phrases which seem to be otherwise, refer to His humanity. This is the principle of the "double account" in scripture that Athanasius often presses (see Discourse 3.29) in order to refute the Arians.
As for the Gentiles 46 passage, all I think he is saying there is that when the Father created, speaking the words, "let us make", that this proves that He was not alone, for he was speaking to someone. This was proof to the heathen of the Word in creation. And given the rest of his writings, I would find it hard to think that he was using command and obedience language proper. The words of His command were by the Word according to Athanasius.
I know I probably sound terribly argumentative, so apologize in advance. Thank you for your time on this subject and may God bless your work.
Some editorial changes you might want to make: At the beginning of this post it says "[Updated 6/16/16]," but as of 11 JUL 2016 there are entries through 8 JUL. The month on this last entry was inadvertently posted as June. The year is wrong for the following post: Keith Johnson, "Is the Eternal Generation of the Son a Biblical Idea?" (18 JUN 2012), on The Gospel Coalition at https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/is-the-eternal-generation-of-the-son-a-biblical-idea [accessed 11 JUL 2016]. The dates are wrong for the following posts: Ian Hamilton, "The Trinitarian Debate: Some Reflections and Cautions" (27 JUN 2016), on reformation 21 at http://www.reformation21.org/blog/2016/06/the-trinitarian-debate-some-re.php [accessed 11 JUL 2016]; and Bobby Grow, "Maximus the Confessor's Response to the EFS in the Trinity" (30 JUN 2016), on The Evangelical Calvinist at https://growrag.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/maximus-the-confessors-response-to-the-efs-in-the-trinity/ [accessed 11 JUL 2016]. Thanks for all you hard work putting this together!
FYI: My bibliography on this debate, "The 2016 Trinity Debate: A Bibliography; Is it Okay to Teach a Complementarianism Based on Eternal Subordination?" has been posted to my friend Fred Zaspel's Books at a Glance web site at http://www.booksataglance.com/blog/2016-trinity-debate-bibliography-okay-teach-complementarianism-based-eternal-subordination/.
I can't get your website to publish my response. Made multiple attempts and it keeps getting eaten. Any suggestions?
It seemed your comment post partly work, because I got three emails with your fairly long contents.
Maybe also there is a limit when it actually went to display.
I'll take the hint (from providence and yourself) and conclude that this isn't the best format for the discussion.
Brad, thanks for taking this conversation as far as we got. If you want to take it further on the comment section of the TGC post, or a blog of your own, I'm happy to chew it over further. You certainly weren't too aggressive, although I would have liked to have pushed you a bit more on these issues and seen your push back to test who had the better read of sources. Grace be with you.
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The Rotoscopers get together for episode 105 of the Animation Addicts Podcast, where they review Sony's 2015 animated film Hotel Transylvania 2.
General Info and the review embargo.
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Listener Twitter and Facebook questions.
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For its age and influence and subjectivity, writing is one of those crafts that require great study and practice, though they don't guarantee success alone.
The ordering of words has always been a great love of mine. I've been writing at length for as long as I can remember in whatever medium I could find. I've spent the last 10 years developing my news writing form, a tradition I have great pride in. However I've tried to keep developing my creative storytelling instincts too — fiction being a complimentary but wholly distinct offering from the nonfiction I know best.
I maintain a small, if growing, collection of short stories and other fiction pieces and try to find opportunities to add to it. A few have been published, including a pair of flash fiction items, this one and this one, and less purely fictional pieces, like this essay and this biographically-inspired profile. I've also tried to use public storytelling to develop the skill from my Story Shuffle event series to other appearances.
Remember, true originals are more associated with volume of production rather than a reputation for only writing greats.
No 'thought' verbs, like thinks or knows or believes or realizes.
(Brenda was gonna be late, rather than Brenda knew she'd be late).
So though by any standard I am a very green writer, I aim to read and write frequently enough that I can make great strides. So having taken a renewed interest in the last four or five years, I wanted to share some advice that has stood out to me.
Publishing is an industry. I recently got very lost in a very interesting thought experiment among literary types: is your path to publishing success through getting an MFA or living the New York publishing life? It's an important philosophical way of setting your own course.
Fiction writing is like making a cup so that your readers can fill it with whatever they want. This is something author Mo Willems said and serves as an important reminder to a news writer like me, prone as I am to wanting to never leave an unanswered question in a story. My friend and talented writer Patrick McNeil shared this with me several years ago.
For a creative nonfiction piece, you might consider ABC/D. That structure from John McPhee suggests three characters with a single denominator. This is part of a wonderful series from McPee collected here.
Know what lie your character believes. It's a great way to make her distinct.
Have a non-writer read your early work. Though it's just one piece of wonderful advice from Lorrie Moore in this delightful essay 'How To Become A Writer,' the idea is profound.
Show, not tell, is different for fiction writing. News reporting is a service to the reader, so one should bend to their questions and desires. In fiction, the author is meant to show the way.
Find people whose perspective helps you. The world is full of writing advice so it's better simply to find what connects with you. Lots of threads are enlightening but I have found 'Fight Club' author Chuck Palahniuk particularly helpful (as seen in the sidebar above).
There are lessons from news writing. Though I struggle to avoid falling into the traps of my native writing form, that style has helpfully informed my voice. I love big-idea ledes (first sentences), quotes that drive forward the narrative and meaningful resolution. I don't have to throw all of it away.
For reporting a story, you know you've done enough research when you meet yourself coming the other way. Research is a crucial part of great, deep and profound stories.
You will only be great with habit. If you want to write for volume consistently, just commit to completing a single page a day. If you want to write for quality, just commit to completing three pages a day and throw out two of them. And the real point is you need to get the in the habit of producing finished works and setting them aside. Write often and regularly and stronger pieces will be elevated.
One of the greatest lessons you can learn as a writer is when something is not your story to tell.
Writer's block is an excuse. When you're stuck, just write nonsense until something real comes. Feeling stuck while writing is a crisis of self-confidence.
Keep a Spark File. For me, this is a Google Doc in which I jot down words or phrases or sentences or ideas I like. Then I come back to that document whenever I'm stuck or need inspiration or want to combine something with someone else.
Try different forms. You'll refine your specialty but to find that voice, you need to have as many approaches as you can. So I still keep up occasional news writing, I use this very blog to force me to write, I take submission deadlines as a reason to ship stories that I then set aside and keep that Spark File to always have a next wave of ideas. I try to keep one or two stories alive that I'm working on. No one ever said that you can't see an email you have for work as a writerly exercise. It's a volume game.
Work on one thing until it is finished. Though conflicted to be sure, I appreciate this piece of advice from Henry Miller on getting writing done.
Writing and editing are distinct acts. There are lots of different pieces of advice conveying this (write drunk, edit sober; write privately, edit in groups and the like). Whatever works for you the point is that you must do both to make a great work and you need to separate out the process. If you're second-guessing yourself or claiming "writer's block," what you're really describing is a situation in which you are editing yourself at the same time as writing. That's wrong. Stop it. Just write. Edit later.
Start with flash fiction. I still prefer to dabble with very short form fiction — fewer than 1,000 words and often fewer than 500 words — to force my hand at leaving out the unimportant parts. There are lots of fun exercises like it.
Learn from your idols but move on. When I heard him speak at the Free Library of Philadelphia, George Saunders talked about 'climbing George Saunders' mountain to get a better view of your own mountain. It's fitting. I admire him and others greatly but need to develop my own instincts and voice, informed by what I love from them. In truth, we know what we love about our own voice in part by seeing what we love from others.
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Shahzad Akbar hits back at PML-N, says FIA recovered Rs7bn in one year
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) recovered seven billion rupees in the past one year, said Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability Shahzad Akbar, responding to allegations from the PML-N, on Friday.
The prime minister's aide was conducting a press conference where he said that the PML-N's Marriyum Aurangzeb had asked questions about the government's ARU in the parliament.
"Marriyum asked about what the ARU had done to bring back looted wealth which was stashed abroad," he said. "Critics need to understand how the ARU works."
Akbar said that those who had remained in power since the past 35 years had illegally occupied public lands. He said that the opposition was creating noise over the recovery of government land.
Akbar also spoke about the performance of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
"The FIA has recovered Rs7 billion in the past one year," he said.
Akbar alleged that apart from former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz, the 'B team' of the PML-N was also involved in corruption. He said that the incumbent government replied to the questions and criticism it received but its predecessors did not.
"Those who were in power before us did not bother answering questions," he said. "Even Marriyum said that this government is quick to give a response."
Akbar said that the Anti-Corruption Punjab had recovered land worth Rs129 billion. He said that the government had spent Rs10.3 million on the ARU.
"Marriyum should stop misleading the nation with false claims," he said.
He said that when Shehbaz's son Hamza is questioned, he tells authorities to ask questions from his brother, Salman. He said that the government was asked about various questions and it provided answers to them.
"We were asked about the money that was spent on overseas trips," he said. "We gave them the list of expenditures that were incurred."
Akbar alleged that the PML-N had laundered money in the past through 'cash boys'.
"Who were Masroor Anwar and Shoaib cash boys?" he asked.
He said that it had been several days and neither Shehbaz nor anyone from the PML-N had responded to his 18 questions.
Akbar spoke about the recent settlement between a Pakistani citizen and the National Crime Agency.
"The NCA has transferred £190m to the government of Pakistan," he said. "The NCA's press release has said that it was a civil suit and there was no criminal element," he added.
The PML-N's Marriyum Aurangzeb had earlier lashed out at Akbar and criticised the ARU. She had said that the government had spent Rs20.3 million on the unit but hadn't recovered anything yet.
"After spending Rs20.3 million, the amount that they recovered is zero," she had said.
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Engineering education in India has seen tremendous growth over the past decade, both in number of students and number of colleges. The recent growth in Indian engineering education has been overwhelmingly due to privately funded educational institutions rather than publicly funded ones.
Often the following questions have been asked, 'Aren't there too many engineers?' or 'Aren't there too many engineering colleges? Each of these questions will have answers in positive. The reason being that India and the world will always need human resources not only engineers but people with all other professions and expertise. But the need and supply faces a hook called skills. Skillful men are the ones required and not the ones with a mere degree and thereby every institute indulges in offering skill based learning methodologies which can produce better set of knowledgeable and skilled professionals.
Unlike every other institute, the better ones show traits of a higher standard in offering the same courses that is being offered elsewhere but with a difference and the difference lies in the commitment. This commitment reflects in the number of students who apply for admissions and the cream of quality students being chosen thereafter. Subsequently, this set of students with the guidance of faculty members and the infrastructure provided to them is not only successful in earning a good job but aces in every other aspects of their field of study. Those aspects bloom further as a student heads for research, innovation and entrepreneurship leaving a temptation of a job and moving for new ventures.
In this issue of Silicon India Education, we have brought you 'Engineering College Ranking' under which selected private engineering colleges has been ranked with a view to guide students towards choosing better colleges according to their expectations. Each of these institute exhibit a special commitment towards offering skillful education and making better professionals.Our team looks forward for students being benefitted through this.
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#NotGoodEnough: Instagram Celebrities Warned for Violating FTC Rules
By George Khoury, Esq. on May 04, 2017 11:58 AM
The FTC recently announced that it issued over 90 letters to Instagram and social media 'influencers' and celebrities to remind them about the legal requirement to clearly disclose paid-for social media posts.
The announcement explains that many social media influencers use unclear hashtags or comments, such as #sp, #sponsored, or "Thanks [brandname]," in an attempt to meet the FTC disclosure requirements. However, as the FTC explains, these phrases are not clear, nor conspicuous, enough. Additionally, the agency pointed out that the clear and conspicuous guideline is violated when a user has to click or touch an image or link in order to see the disclosure.
Celebrities in the Spotlight
Celebrities, like Kim Kardashian, and even large companies, like Warner Bros., have found themselves facing the ire of the FTC over failing to properly disclose promoted social media posts. Significantly, the FTC's warning letters went out to individual influencers rather than corporations, though the FTC did not name names. One source also pointed out that other celebrities, including Rihanna, Rita Ora, and Kylie Jenner, may have been included as they were warned last year regarding similar violations.
While the FTC did not comment on the pending litigation, a recent lawsuit filed by a group called Public Citizen focuses exactly on the issue of social media influencers failing to properly disclose their sponsorships.
Influencers Take Heed
For individuals that have large social media followings that get leveraged for paid promotional opportunities, knowing the FTC guidelines is important. While influential Hollywood celebrities may command a hefty premium for a single promotion, smaller social media influencers may not even be making enough money to cover the costs of legal representation.
However, it should be noted that, for a social media influencer, violating these guidelines alone may not be grounds for any fines, but it can be the basis of a FTC investigation, which could result in severe penalties.
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THE CRYSTAL DROP a.k.a. Hakan Egemen,who was born in Turkey in 1980, has been passionately in love with music since his early childhood. In the years of 8o's and 9o's, his mind was blown away by the decades' prevailing tendencies varying from electro-funk, electroclash, hypnotic, dreamy new wave and synth-pop sounds to techno, house and disco club hits. During the late 90s and early 2000s, he was familiar with oldschool trance variations such as acid trance, goa trance, hard trance, euro trance, tech trance, uplifting and progressive trance. His relish for deejaying began in 2oo4 and he moved on playing his tunes among friends at house parties in the university years. His selections consisted mainly of progressive house (deep progressive/dark progressive/tribal progressive,etc). In 2oo8, he started working for Pioneer Pro Dj Academy in his hometown. From this moment, he played at several bars, clubs, hotels besides after-hours and private parties. Having paused djing for a few years, he altered his mind in 2o15 and decided to make it up for the lost years. Henceforth, he felt like taking part in psychedelic trance community as a psy-trance dj. Subsequently, he participated in 'CRYSTAL KIDS' psy-trance organisation founded in Istanbul and became a resident dj member of it. Since then, he has been seen on the psychedelic platforms and performed in many indoor events, parties, organisations and outdoor festivals in Turkey. Despite the fact that he virtually seems to love each sub-genre of psy-trance, his style and favourite one is zenonesque, psygressive and dark progressive. He mostly prefers sticking to heavy loaded abounding atmosphere, harmony, composition, story and groovy, powerful, satisfactory basslines.
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How is everybody on this beauuuuuutiful spring day!?
I'm lovely, thanks! And I have a lovely mani to share with you all, as well.
I finally joined the Julep Maven program - and so far, so good! Today's polish is one that I purchased as a $4 add-on to my maven box - and I am LOVING it!
This is not the best picture - but it shows the true color the closest!
Unfortunately, the lighting was not great when this was taken - IRL, this has more of a grayish tint to it.
The Julep polish went on like a DREAM! I can't believe it took me so long to finally get this brand. It is fantastic! And this is ONE COAT! I've never seen anything like it!
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Stunning Ambition Drives P.T. Anderson's 'The Master'
Submitted by BrianTT on August 20, 2012 - 10:50am
CHICAGO – Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" screened publicly last week in Chicago for only the second time in the world. It was shown in glorious 70mm, the format in which the film was shot, but in which most people will never get the chance to see it. While much of the conversation surrounding the screening seemed to hinge around the technical specifications, the increasing dearth of actual film projectors in the city, or the aspects of the plot related to Scientology, those aren't the elements of the film that have been rolling around my head for the last four days.
Julianne Moore Pushes Freudian Implications to Limit in True Story of 'Savage Grace'
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on June 15, 2008 - 10:56am
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CHICAGO – The national acting treasure Julianne Moore never shies away from a performance challenge.
From her memorable exposure in Robert Altman's "Short Cuts" to her willingness to go all the way in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights," Moore has proven that true vulnerability in a role requires the ability to bare – and bear with – all.
'Deal' is No Big Deal as Career of Burt Reynolds Fades Away
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on April 24, 2008 - 12:07am
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CHICAGO – Poor Burt Reynolds. As the No. 1 box-office star from 1978 to 1982, he revived his film career in 1997 with "Boogie Nights". Since then, he has had the long, slow decline of "B" movies and bad remakes. Reynolds even tainted his own legacy by participating in the horrible 2005 redo of "The Longest Yard".
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Community fills St. James Cathedral for Wayne Melonson goodbye
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It takes the funeral of a prominent community figure to attract the number of friends and mourners necessary to fill the four arms of the cross-shaped St. James Cathedral in Seattle, the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Western Washington.
That was the case three-plus years ago when a packed cathedral said goodbye to Robert Craves, an original Costco executive and Founder of the College Success Foundation. And it was true 20 years ago at the last farewell to PEMCO CEO Stanley O. McNaughton. Those are the two I'm aware of.
But it was the leader of a different sort whose funeral filled the cathedral to capacity last weekend. The prominent of Seattle's minority community and the families of kids who were guided and counseled by Wayne James Melonson during his 40 years as a teacher and administrator then principal of St. Therese School in Seattle's Central Area were on hand to say goodbye to him. Melonson Was 67.
Seattle's black community, with a sprinkling of white faces like those of my son, Michael, and mine, filled the church to capacity, proving that prominence and influence are not necessarily the same but can be of equal importance in the creation of community. Wayne had influence in a way that defined the word.
As an African-American who grew up and spent his student and professional life in Seattle's then mostly minority Central Area, Melonson was particularly sensitive to the needs of the minority kids, which prompted growing numbers of their parents to seek out St. Therese as the place they wanted their children to be educated.
But on occasion, when he caught a couple of kids engaging in a fist-fight, it was not unusual to see him come quickly to wrap his arms around the necks of both boys and squeeze as the two heads stuck out of his cupped arms. The kind of discipline not available to teachers in public schools seemed to serve the growth and maturing of the St. Therese students pretty well.
Wayne and his seven siblings grew up two blocks from St. Therese School, where his grade school education there was followed by high school at O'Dea and then Seattle University. It was there, while still a college student, that he became a part-time physical education instructor at St. Therese.
After graduating from SU, he joined the St. Therese faculty. Before long he was an administrator and soon principle, the role in which our family first encountered him when we returned to Seattle from California.
Wayne believed that in addition to academic focus, athletic competition was a way for kids to learn success and it was in that capacity, as he coached the St. Therese All-Stars, that part of his impact came to be felt. He believed athletics gave kids the opportunity to reach beyond their confidence.
So as Michael and I sat listening to the memories of his contributions being shared, I was reminded of the time that Michael and three of his young black friends learned a lesson about reaching beyond their confidence level. They were seventh graders and Wayne decided their 4-by-100 meter relay team would compete against the eighth graders in the all-city meet.
Michael ran third and by the time he got the baton, St. Therese was about 80 meters ahead. Michael added about 30 meters to that lead, then he passed the baton to cleanup runner Pellar Phillips, but he stepped on Pellar's shoe as he handed off the baton.
As Pellar started to head toward the finish, he suddenly realized he only had one shoe so ran back and knelt down to put it on, giving time for the trailing teams to get within about 50 meters. But with his shoe back on, Pellar took off and won by about 80 meters. All four kids eventually competed in track and field at the college level, largely because of Melanson's training.
His impact reached beyond St. Therese since he was on the boards of O'Dea High School, Seattle Preparatory School and Forest Ridge School.
Gary Melonson, a broker at Oppenheimer & Co. in Seattle and one of Wayne's seven siblings, recalled how Wayne and Regina Hickman, who would be his wife of 35 years, first met. If there's a marriage made it heaven, it may be one where a priest is present for the introduction.
In this case, in 1977, Wayne was the priest. Actually a Halloween costume. As Gary this week recalled the story, which Regina confirmed, she was a student at the University of Washington who had a part-time job at the Urban League of Seattle, which decided to have its Halloween Party at the St. Therese Hall.
She remembers that the League had to get permission from Wayne to rent the hall and he decided to attend the event and his Halloween garb was the outfit of a priest while Regina wore her Garfield High School cheerleader outfit. He asked her to dance and when the event was ending, he approached her and asked if he could have permission to ask her out.
She said yes and they were married five years later and they had three sons.
Wayne's Catholic faith was an essential part of who he was and he instilled the importance of faith in his students.
As one of his students said of him, "he loved each of us fiercely. And he made us love one another even when we didn't want to."
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The Harp Turns 10! Reflections on a decade of notes on people, politics, and life
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A decade of harping, actually producing a weekly email column under the title "Flynn's Harp" most every week for the past 10 years, is cause for pause and reflection.
For nearly a quarter-century guiding the fortunes of Puget Sound Business Journal, my creative outlet from the business challenges was the weekly column that permitted me to share thoughts on people and issues with PSBJ's readers.
It was the spring of 2008, two years after my retirement from PSBJ, that my friend Pat Scanlon, whom I now refer to as my digital guru because of his background in digital media with national media companies, said to me: "You should have an online column." To that, I replied: "Why?" So he said: "Let me show you what I've put together" and lo, the layout, and format of both email and web versions, missing only a column title, was there on my computer, causing me to muse: "So what would I write about?"
Because it was a general-election year, I had already written a piece reflecting on the 1968 presidential campaign in which I had been fortunate enough, as a young political writer for UPI, to be immersed. The 1968 campaign was one that had high-visibility roles for four people from Washington State and I had put all of that into a piece without knowing where I would try to place the article.
When I began thinking of the "what would I write?" I realized that I could divide that 1968-campaign article into four parts, one for each of the four people I had included as key players in that long-ago campaign. Then, presto, I'd have a month's worth of columns! Then I'd be four weeks on the way to have time to think of a fifth and a sixth column, etc.
Thus then-Gov. Dan Evans, who was 1968 GOP convention keynoter, mountaineer Jim Whittaker, who became like a brother to Sen. Robert Kennedy, Egil (Bud) Krogh, a young Seattle attorney who became a Watergate figure, and author Kitty Kelly, a high school friend, became the first four profiles of the
Harp.
Since we are coming up on what, now that 2018 has dawned, the 50th anniversary of that campaign, detailed 40 years on in a reflective piece in a national magazine in 2008 on Robert Kennedy's quest for the presidency as "the last good campaign," I decided to revisit those four columns in this 10th year of The Harp.
So over the coming weeks, I will be inserting those columns into the flow of
Harps, repeating the recollections from a presidential campaign now half a century removed but one in which all four of those personalities I wrote about remain active today. But I will also during the coming months be reprising other columns that had particular and special meaning to me.
I figured the best way to get the column going as an e-mail offering back in 2008 was to send the first one to about 600 of my closest friends and contacts (some I hadn't touched base with for several years), hoping they would either read it or ignore it but not tag me as SPAM.
Over time, as I've met new people in my "retirement" activities and consulting, I've added another 1,000 names.
So it now goes weekly to about 1,600 recipients whom I describe as business leaders, mostly Washington State but 100 or so in California, Hawaii and a few other states, as well as current and former state and local elected officials, and four college presidents.
Doing the column regularly, with the personal requirement that it be original material, in other words, facts and information not yet brought to the public's awareness has provided a satisfaction.
But even more so have been the responses from many to the emails, some moving, some laudatory, some critical. I have specifically always acknowledged the latter.
I like to tell people the column has resulted in more friendships than I had as PSBJ publisher because then, business people who read my columns and editorials were merely part of a mostly faceless audience of readers. Now the "readers" are those who are kind enough to let me into their email box weekly and most proceed to open long enough to see if that particular one is interesting.
So over the course of 500 columns, I have come to know people and their successes and challenges, and issues that impact them, in ways that would never have been the case except for the column.
I have now become an evangelist for doing email columns, urging my friends and business associates to create columns, advising "not weekly!" and admonishing "if you do it, it needs to be not about yourself or your business but about the knowledge you can impart from your experience."
A couple of friends have taken me up on it, the first being Don Brunell, retired president of the Association of Washington Business, who recalled in an email to me this week the occasion for the launch of his column that now appears in a number of weekly newspapers.
"We were at the Coeur d' Alene Hotel for AWB's Executive Committee retreat and we were having a beer in the lobby bar in 1995, bemoaning how we got our butts kicked by Mike Lowry in 1993. The D's controlled Olympia and Lowry would chastise business: 'you mean to tell me you guys can't afford a latte a day to pay for health care for your workers.'"
"We were talking about getting our message out and you said: 'why don't you write a weekly column?' So I gave it a try. That's now almost 23 years ago."
The other is Al Davis, a friend and former longtime client, who is a founder of Revitalization Partners, a noted Seattle-based business management and advisory firm. Early last year he packaged the columns he and business partner Bill Lawrence have written bi-weekly over the last three years into a book.
When Al and I met for me to get a copy of the book, he told me to open the cover and read what was printed on the facing page. There was a thank you to several people, and to me for convincing him he could write a column!
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UW Fiesta Bowl fans may mention George Wilson's star role
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As University of Washington football fans gather in the Phoenix area this week in anticipation of Saturday's Fiesta Bowl pitting their Huskies against Penn State, there will be the usual reflections on and toasts to the great UW teams and stars of the past that set the model for the 2017 team.
Inevitably, someone ticking off great bowl games of Husky past will note that it was in 1924 that UW played in its first Rose Bowl game a 14-14 tie with Navy, and returned two years later to lose to Alabama, 20-19. When that's mentioned, it's possible the name George Wilson will come up in the context of those first Rose Bowl, which came about because of his nationally recognized performance.
But it's possible not much time will be spent discussing the life and deeds of the man who might legitimately be described as UW's first football star because his career from 1923-25 that included the first two Rose Bowl appearances is shrouded in gridiron antiquity for most fans. After all, his record was established almost nine decades ago, but the curious or those hungry for a bit of history can learn about him on various websites.
I first wrote of Wilson four years ago when then-Husky star Bishop Sankey broke the school single-season rushing record and also tied Wilson's UW record for most touchdowns. There was little more than a mention of the man who set the record but since it was a tie, Wilson's name is left in the Husky record book 90-plus years on.
Those who take the time to delve into Husky history are left to ponder Wilson's story, which epitomizes the fleetingness of fame and the fickleness of fate. For less than a decade his star shone brightly on the national football stage, first as a collegian then as a highly publicized pro football player. In fact, he was so prominent a collegiate football star that he not only starred as a pro but had an entirely new professional league created partly for him. And a team in that league was named for him.
Then, unlike some of his high-visibility football peers who managed to parlay fame into later successful careers, he personally faded rapidly from the scene, doing some professional wrestling for a few years, working in the Texas oil fields, then as a longshoreman in San Francisco, dying on the dock there of a heart attack in 1963.
But in an example of the often strange links in the chain of fortune forged by fate, Wilson, at the highly publicized outset of his pro football career, set the stage for a little-noted player from Gonzaga College named Ray Flaherty to launch a professional career in which he went on to become one of the most successful coaches in the history of the NFL.
Wilson, nicknamed "Wildcat," was a kid from Everett who had already fashioned a name for himself as a high school player who guided his Everett team to what was acknowledged to be the nation's best high school football team two years in a row, before arriving on the UW campus.
Although the Huskies prior to Wilson's arrival had some noteworthy accomplishments, including the record of Gil Dobie, whose pre-World War I teams posted a remarkable 58-0-3 record, though performances in those early days in the West got little national visibility.
Wilson, however, brought national recognition to the Huskies. In addition to guiding UW to those Rose Bowl appearances, he was a first-team All-America selection in his senior year in an All-Star backfield that might vie for the best ever, a backfield that included "Red" Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" from Illinois, and Stanford's Ernie Nevers, plus Wilson.
Upon his graduation in 1926, Wilson was enticed to join the just-forming American Football League (not the AFL of later decades) by the league's co-founder, who had already lured Grange to join the league as his partner but wanted a name player to compete with Grange on the field.
Wilson was named the president of the league's traveling team, the Los Angeles Wildcats. The league actually paid the bills and filed the franchise ownership papers for the team known as "Wilson's Western Wildcats," actually based in Chicago because of the travel difficulty of being based in Los Angeles in those days.
Grange's traveling all-stars and Wilson's Wildcats actually met on the field once that season, in Los Angeles before a crowd of 70,000. While Grange's squad, which later became the Chicago Bears, won the game, 17-7, Wilson outgained Grange, rushing for 128 yards to 30 for grange.
Wilson stocked his team with players from the West, including two from Gonzaga College in Spokane. In addition to Flaherty, an end, he tapped Matty Bross, a halfback, to be part of the western stars' team.
Ironically, as Wilson's star would quickly fade, Flaherty, who hadn't gained much attention as a collegian at a small school removed from high-visibility opportunities, went on to make pro football his career. After his year with the Wildcats, he moved to the New York Giants, where he was an all-star end, then became head coach of the Washington Redskins, where his four trips to the NFL title game and two championships earned him acknowledgment as one of the NFL's all-time best coaches.
Choosing Flaherty for his Wildcats and thus earning credit for setting the stage for what followed is a contribution not mentioned in the sports history books, and perhaps not other than this column.
The AFL didn't last and Wilson joined the Providence Steam Rollers of the NFL, where he played for three seasons, including 1928 when Providence won the NFL championship and Wilson scored five touchdowns and had four interceptions to lead the team that year.
There is still another irony, or perhaps small-world aspect, to Wilson's story. It's that another Gonzaga College player, Houston Stockton, was guiding the Frankfort Yellowjackets (later the Philadelphia Eagles) to the NFL title in 1926 while Wilson's Wildcats were gaining attention.
Stockton's statistics as a collegian were almost as impressive as Wilson's, including a 77-0 Gonzaga victory over Wyoming in which Stockton scored six touchdowns and kicked 10 extra points.
In that era when players played both offense and defense, both Wilson and Stockton were viewed as stars on defense as well as offense and were regarded as punishing tacklers.
But Stockton's exploits got scant attention, being played out at a little school in out-of-the-way Spokane. His national recognition was limited to twice being named an honorable mention All-America.
Stockton, the grandfather of NBA Hall-of-Famer John Stockton, had joined the Steamrollers and was a teammate of Wilson's for the 1929 season before he returned home to Spokane to go into business and Wilson left football to begin his mysterious decline from fame and attention.
Wilson's years away from the limelight were interrupted only twice for reminders of what had been, once when he was inducted into the football Hall of Fame and in 1959 when he was invited home to UW, by Post-Intelligencer Sports Editor Royal Brougham, to be honored prior to the Huskies Rose Bowl victory over Wisconsin.
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The Lost Art of TeleType Art Spreads Holiday Cheer
Sharing this re-creation of the art once delivered via wire-service teletype machines to media newsrooms around the nation during the quiet hours of Christmas Eve has become my annual way of delivering holiday greetings to those who have been kind enough to allow Flynn's Harp into their email 'bag' each week. The celebration of Christmas is not shared by all of my friends. In fact, those friends have, to my good fortune, become a varied array of national origins and religions. But the values that Christmas embodies for those who cherish it transcend national or religious differences and should be shared and cherished by all with this season as a reminder.
Holiday teletype art: greetings from communications era pastIn the days before computers, wire service teletype machines clacked away in newspaper and broadcast newsrooms around the nation and the world, bringing the news from all points to local media outlets.
But in the quiet of the Christmas holiday in years past, in the offices of AP and United Press International, the teletype paper coming from the teletype printers would be graced with holiday art.
For those of us who at an early stage in our careers had a turn with the lonely Christmas Eve or overnight vigil in the UPI offices as older writers got to spend time with their families, the holiday art created and transmitted by teletype operators is one of the special memories of working for that now-dead company.
The x's, o's, (or more frequently dollar signs and exclamation marks) appeared a line at a time on the teletype paper until images of Christmas trees, Santa Claus, holly wreaths, etc., took shape.
The uniqueness of the tree below is the Christmas greeting delivered in nearly 50 languages.
Over the years I've been sending this, the art has stirred memories for those among the recipients of this weekly missive who once worked in newspaper or broadcast newsrooms and recalled watching those creations emerge onto the rolls of teletype paper.
It also served as a reminder of earlier days for those in other industries who once used teletype machines for transmission of information, including one who recalled the occasionally flawed keystrokes that occurred when the creation of the art followed holiday parties.
Since each year brings new names to the list of those receiving Flynn's Harp, there are some who haven't previously seen the art. For that reason, and because fond memories are served by repetition, here is the annual sharing of this Christmas art.
Trip of a Lifetime for Disadvantaged Kids - Spokane 'Fantasy Flight' to the North Pole
Steve Paul likes to say he has aged dramatically in his 17 years guiding the annual North Pole Fantasy Flight from Spokane International Airport, a magical trip for which Alaska Airlines provides a 737-900 to carry a planeload of orphans and foster children and their elves to Santa's home. Paul, who was 43 in people years when he first got involved in 2000, says his elf age as Chief Elf Bernie is 907 years, but that is really only middle age for elves so he still has a ways to go.
Paul, president, and CEO of Northwest North Pole Adventures, the nonprofit group that runs the event and raises the funds for it over the course of each year, is reflecting on last Saturday's 10th year of partnership with Alaska and the magic that again unfolded this annual flight to the North Pole to meet with Santa and Mrs. Clause.
The children, ages 4 to 10, from shelter programs in Spokane and Coeur d'Alene, ID, are brought to the airport and each meets his or her "buddy elf," volunteers selected over the course of the year.
Then, with the help of the TSA workers, who look the other way as metal jingle bells on the kids' and elves' clothing set off alarms, they all pass through security and board the Alaska flight. It's flight 1225 until the jetliner is aloft, then it becomes Santa 1.
Before boarding their plane, the children are fed and receive backpacks filled with school supplies, winter woolies and a T-shirt that says, "I Believe" on the front and "I've Been to the North Pole" on the back. Then their "passports" are validated with the "North Pole Approved" stamp and they're on their way to a magical time the elves, Elf Bernie and Alaska's employees will try to make unforgettable.
"When we send out invitations to the kids who have been selected, we have them give us a wish list of what they want for Christmas," explains Paul, who refers to himself as "a believer in impossible things." "We take those lists and buy each of them a toy from that list, so as each child tells Santa what he or she wants, Santa can reach into his bag and pull that present out for them. The looks on their faces as he hands it to them is priceless."
As evidence that nothing is left to chance, Paul, who in his less magical role is senior IT project manager at Ecova, a national energy management company based in Spokane, told me the elves are advised on how to play their roles convincingly. That includes when they choose an elf name they are told: "make certain your elf character fits you and get comfortable with your new identity."
The elves' prepping includes knowing how to answer questions from the children. For example, if asked what their jobs are, they say "I fix broken toys, using toy tools," and if asked how old they are, to say "I am 438 this year which is still young for an Elf."
Paul guides all details of the event through the year, preparing for the flight, working with social agencies that select the children, gathering sponsors and overseeing details like elf selection.
United was the airline partner for the first eight years and provided the little organization that was then called North Pole Adventure with a plane that, once loaded with the children, taxied around the airport before coming to a stop at Santa's place.
But when United was unable to provide a plane in 2007, Paul recalls: "we threw together the 'magic buses' to get from the Terminal to the North Pole."
For the 2008 flight, Paul approached Alaska, which he notes "is, of course, more familiar with the North Pole than any other airline." Its executives said "sure" and asked, "why can't we actually take off with the kids?" So, in fact, they did, carrying 60 kids and their elves aloft for a 20-minute flight to Santa's home. And so it has been since then.
"Honestly, Spokane is the North Pole and we have an airline that is passionate about serving this adventure," Paul enthused.
I asked Diana Birkett Rakow, Alaska's vice president of external relations, for a quote to sum up the airline's commitment: "Alaska Airlines has been proud to bring joy, and generosity to some kids who need a little holiday magic," said. "Our employees have stepped up for 10 years to take kids on the ride of a lifetime. It's the magic of giving back that makes the holidays so worthwhile."
Perhaps the most visible in his commitment is Alaska pilot Eric Hrivnak, who shares the duties at the controls this year with Michel Baumgartner. Hrivnak has been a pilot at the controls for a half dozen or so years by being at the front of the line as Alaska employees sign up for roles. He was beaten to the request by another pilot three years ago so made sure that wouldn't happen thereafter.
Hrivnak and his Alaska crew are part of the magic since as the flight nears its conclusion, the passengers are told to pull the window shades down and chant the magic words that will allow them to land at the North Pole.
As the kids pull down their shades and do a chant, each wave a magic light wand they were given as they boarded and then Hrivnak deploys the engine thrusters when Santa and Rudolph appear on the radar screen, providing the confirmation that the "Santa 1" flight has entered North Pole airspace.
The jetliner taxis to a hanger on the other side of the airport, where the passengers are greeted by a group of elves, with live reindeer milling about, and are they taken to meet Santa and Mrs. Clause.
Paul's planning for the future includes both preparing for passing the torch at some point, creating a more reliable funding source and having a plan in case some other Alaska-served city wishes to do its own event.
"This year we offered a 'boot camp' to Alaska Air for any other stations that would like to learn and start building their own version of the Fantasy Flight," he said. "Not sure we'll have anyone attend this year, but it's part of our go-forward plan."
In terms of torch-passing, Paul said he continues to "look at what I personally do that can be delegated. I spend more time after the event documenting what I did, what I re-did because of a change."
"We have a tradition of reflection on the past year's event that we call 'Snowflakes and Snowball'. Snowflakes are things that we did or tried that were GREAT and we should continue to do that while Snowballs are things that were either difficult or bad, and we work the whole year coming up with ways to improve on those."
And he says the event had its first fundraising auction in September, raising "above our first-year goal. This will be an annual event each September."
I first learned of the event in 2011 from my friend, Blythe Thimsen, then editor of a Spokane magazine who was to be an elf that year, an experience she shared with me then subsequently wrote about and sent me a copy of the article.
Retelling and updating this story has been my holiday gift to readers of The Harp since then because it's a story of human caring and compassion that not only won't get old but perhaps becomes more needed each year. I like to refer to it as "the magic dust of caring" that descends over all those involved.
Spokane isn't the only holiday flight for Alaska Airlines, incidentally.
Since 2006, Alaska has donated cargo shipments to the Alaska Toys for Tots program, shipping thousands of pounds of toys to regional hubs so that they can be distributed to children throughout rural Alaska.
Alaska's involvement in the program is especially important since only three of the 19 communities involved are accessible by road.
Another tradition for the airline in its home state is the Flight to Adak, a tradition started in 2005 by now-retired Alaska Captain Rex Gray who with his flight crews would purchase toys for the roughly 30 children who call Adak home and who gathered at the airport as the plane arrived. After the passengers cleared the aircraft, Gray would quickly change into his Santa costume, and carry the toys off the plane with the help of the rest of the flight crew dressed as elves.
Today, Alaska Captains and Flight Attendants carry on the tradition, coordinating with the City of Adak, which is located in the Aleutian Chain nearly 1,200 miles from Anchorage with its own time zone, to purchase an age-appropriate gift for each child in Adak.
The crews and local Adak station employees host a community reception at the Adak terminal, where each child is called up by name to receive their gift and a photo with Santa
Kindness & Caring Change The World For The Families of Granger
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If you doubt that kindness and caring can change the world, then you're not familiar with the Yakima Valley town of Granger or the tiny non-profit called Families of Granger, created by Bellevue business leader Joan Wallace, that has been world changing for the children in the mostly Hispanic community. And for their families.
The story of the birth of the little 501c3 that is sustained almost entirely by an annual holiday email ask by Joan Wallace to her giving friends began 14 years ago at a Thanksgiving dinner in Granger as Wallace listened while her sister in law, Janet Wheaton, laments one aspect of the coming Christmas season.
Wheaton, then principal of the Granger middle school, explained her worry that when school closes for the holiday season, the children do not receive the two free meals a day that they qualify for, and there is little food at home to feed them because most of the families are crop pickers who have no wintertime jobs.
Joan WallaceBecause Wallace is a woman of action, almost instantly was born the idea of the email appeal to her friends and what soon became the 501c3 has grown in impact since then, with results that couldn't have been envisioned as she conceived the ask.
Her 14th email, which now raises the $35,000 that is almost the sole of money for the non-profit's budget, goes out next Monday. "At this time each year I am very aggressive about finding friends," she jokes, while husband Bob matches her sense of humor. "He told me 'If I let you near anyone at this time of year, you'll try to pick their pocket.'"
And thus this Thanksgiving season's Harp, as has been the case for almost a decade, is offered as the annual information update on what I referred to the first time I wrote about this story of caring as a "Michelangelo Moment" for a growing number of people in the Puget Sound area and Yakima Valley.
The money raised each Thanksgiving appeal goes for Christmas gift cards and food baskets purchased locally at the grocery in Granger, and, in the spirit of the season, sent anonymously to Granger's neediest families.
She says that last year, 125 of the poorest families in one of the poorest communities, with 86 percent of the families Hispanic, got $50 gift cards to use at Walmart and $75 food baskets purchased to use at the local Hispanic grocery.
But over the years, the money has also gone to provide emergency clothing needs through the year and a few years ago she and Wheaton and their local supporters created an annual summer camp.
Wallace will be sharing with her email recipients that a years-long effort to get a splash park for the kids is about to come to fruition, due partly to the fact the number of snow-day makeups made it impossible to have the month-long summer camp so that money was available for another use.
"We put the funds into a match for development of a splash park since Granger doesn't have a pool, summers are hot, and pools are expensive to run," she explained.
So the community gave, the 501c3 provided some funds and the city provided the land and agreed to fund maintenance for a splash park, which she describes as "basically a tricked-up sprinkler system that will now be open in May."
In her annual email, Wallace will say the past year "had its triumphs and griefs, as on one end of the spectrum our motivational program to reduce absenteeism resulted in Granger again standing out again against all schools in the state.
"Our saddest contribution was to provide clothing for a family of eight children when their father murdered their mother," Wallace said. "Their home had become a crime scene and they were locked out.
"While doing our best to take care of the immediate needs, we also believe it is equally important to cultivate self-sufficiency and to enable these children to finish school and break the poverty barrier," Wallace explains.
And the result in terms of attitudes of the families has been manifested with the successful campaign of students, parents, and teachers at the middle school two years ago to build a program to improve attendance, using the slogan that became a mantra, "Every Child, Every desk, Every day."
Driven by the attendance-campaign slogan, the school set the state mark for best attendance record in the state, with an absentee rate of 4 percent, compared to a statewide average of 16 percent absenteeism.
The accomplishment promoted the creation of a special award, called Innovations in Education, that was presented at a banquet in Seattle in May of 2016 with support from the Discovery Institute, the Seattle law firm Patterson Buchanan, Kemper Development Co., Q-13 Fox and Sound Publishing.
They didn't win the honor this past year, but apparently came close and are focused this year on getting back on top.
Oh, and as for the "Michelangelo Moment," the story of Granger and the 501c3 that Wallace and Wheaton started, and the support that sprang up to support it brought to mind the painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where the outreached finger of the almighty touches mankind.
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Marine Corp Birthday Near - Marines' Always Brothers are fundraising
Friday's 242nd birthday of the United States Marine Corps will be a time for many of those who are or were Marines to focus on their time in "The Corps." And one of those is Maple Valley Attorney Dan Nielsen, who helped create an event called Always Brothers 100 Mile Memorial Run to raise money for families of Marines killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Nielsen, a founder, and treasurer of the board of the event recalled in an interview how he and 12 fellow Marines who had all served on Presidential Guard Duty in the mid-'90s teamed in 2011 to honor the memory of one of their own by establishing the 100-mile run.
Dan NielsenNielsen remembered that Always Brothers began its signature 100-mile honor run in August of 2011 for Capt. Tyler Swisher, a Marine Corps brother who lost his life in October 2005 and who had served on Presidential Guard duty with the Always Brothers founders and board members. Swisher was killed by a roadside bomb while serving in Iraq in 2005.
That first run, called "100 Miles for Swisher," began at Camp David with a goal of finishing at Swisher's grave at Arlington. But Nielsen remembers that "we needed to run a couple of times around the national mall to be sure we actually did 100 miles and when we did the mall, a couple Marines who were then on Presidential Guard ran along with us."
The 100-mile run over the next four years became an annual event, in different locations,
to honor fallen Marines and Navy Corpsmen who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan by raising money for the education of their children.
Two of the runs have been in Ohio. The first was to raise money families of Lima Company, 22 of whose Marines and one Navy corpsman were killed in Iraq in 2005 when the vehicle in which they were riding was blown up.
Seattle was the location for runs in 2013 and 2014 with the second done in conjunction with Marine Week. The beneficiaries were six children who lost a parent in In Iraq and Afghanistan from areas where our board members are from.
Circumstances interrupted the run after 2015, though Nielsen promised it will resume in 2018 "somewhere, maybe Seattle, or California."
I met Nielsen last month when we happened to sit next to each other at the annual Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation (MCSF) dinner, an event held in various states to raise money for scholarships for children of U.S. Marines. It was being held in Seattle for the fourth time. We were both there as one-time Marines, supporting the event chaired this year by retired Marine major general Tracy Garrett.
Ret. Maj. Gen. Tracy GarrettThe Always Brothers board made the MCSF the beneficiary of their 100-mile event fundraising in 2015 when they established an endowed scholarship in Tyler Swisher's name.
Reflecting on the success of the 2017 dinner, retired general Garrett said the event raised about $477,000 for the national fund.
"We have raised more than $2 million since the start of the Seattle dinner," she said. "There are so many good causes to support. We are thankful that Northwesterners are choosing MCSF as a way to recognize the sacrifices made by Marines and their families in the 16 long years that we have been at war in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Nielsen chuckled during our interview, following the MCSF dinner, as he reflected on the first 100-mile run, telling me he wasn't a runner then or now, though he stays fit (he's now 44) with some weight lifting. So he had some physical challenges getting ready for the first event. He says he actually completed 85 miles, with some rest stops along the way.
Offering a lesson in how an ordinary guy prepares for a 100-mile run, Nielsen, who grew up in Yakima, said "at first, you do a lot of running, like five to seven miles some days, sometimes 20 miles on a Saturday with the important focus on building back, core and leg strength."
"It took about 27 hours and I stopped at 50 miles to change socks," he said. "at about mile 60 I ate a hamburger and got the shakes so had I had to stop for several hours."
"One of the neat things is this is not a race," Nielsen emphasized. "We start together and end together. We have guys like me that are not really runners while some guys are really good, guys who find it just as hard to slow down as it is for us to try to speed up."
2014 Seattle run coinAn unusual aspect of the run is that a coin, slightly larger and thicker than a silver dollar, was created in 2013 for the Seattle run. It was intended, as Nielsen put it, "as a constant tribute to the reason why we are doing what we do with the one side showing honor to Tyler and pointing out where we served together -Marine Barracks 8th and I, WHCA (White House communications agency) and Camp David. The opposite side symbolizes the purpose and location of each run."
"We usually have 300 coins made each year and we give them to runners, supporters, and the people we meet along the way who inspire us or who we've inspired," Nielsen said.
NOT 'some white dude' - The New Face of Biotech in Washington
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As M3 Biotechnology Inc. launches clinical trials on its therapy for Alzheimer's that is expected to halt the progression of, or even reverse, the disease, it's a satisfying development for those who have been believers in the role of the company and its CEO at the leading edge of the new field of regenerative medicine.
So when Melinda Gates lamented, before a large audience of women in computing, that the technology industry was dominated by a "sea of white dudes," one group who heard the message could be forgiven if its members, mostly men but including a couple of talented women, shared a knowing smile.
Leen KawasThey knew that, despite the general accuracy of Melinda Gates comments, the CEO who has become the face of biotech in this state and even beyond is a 32-year-old woman from Jordan named Leen Kawas.
And although several members of the group were key women investors guided in part by the fact Kawas is a woman, the male supporters seemed far more focused on their belief in her ability to get the drug to commercialization then concerned about gender.
Thus Kawas was the beneficiary of believers who came to her aid as investors, mentors, and supporters because they were convinced that she had the ability to bring to market a drug that would alter the course of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and perhaps reverse them.
The manner in which Kawas, in just under four years as president and CEO of M3 Biotechnology Inc., took the young company from the lab toward commercialization and has ascended to virtually the top of the visibility pyramid in her industry is storybook material. But it's a satisfying example to many who are convinced that no doors remain closed to those who refuse to accept rejection.
When I first met Kawas in late summer of 2013, she had yet to know anyone in Seattle and was merely the chief scientist for M3, a company still immersed in the labs at Washington State University, where its drug was undergoing animal trials to test its seeming ability to spur cellular regrowth. That fact naturally led to neurological testing since if a drug could regrow cells, its future could be assured and, before long, Kawas had her name on several of the patents for the drug.
And soon she was tapped to be CEO by the two WSU profs who then owned the majority of the company because it was still in their labs. So the second time we visited was soon after that when she was seeking help in meeting people who might invest in a promising young company and its young CEO.
When she returned to Seattle, she shared that the other 63 were all males and her reaction in discussing that fact in an almost dismissive manner was an early indication of how committed she was to overcome the pushback and discrimination and comfortably stand up to it and seek to change it.
As we began a process over the next several months of meeting those who could either invest or introduce us to investors, I told her, partly to see how she would handle the pressure, that I would get the first meeting for her to make her presentation but it would be in her hands for people to agree to a second meeting with us.
Early on we had a meeting in Orange County, CA, with Richard Sudek, perhaps the most important angel-investment leader in Southern California at the time as chair of the largest angel investment group in the country, the five-county Tech Coast Angels. I was hopeful he would be impressed enough to offer Kawas some advice on raising money.
When she finished her presentation, he said, to my pleasant surprise: "I would be happy to be a business advisor for you."
It was in the fall of 2014 that she had her media debut with an impressive interview with Q13 anchor Marne Hughes in which those watching at the studio said she looked like she had grown up on camera.
What followed were major features in local business publications as well as major visibility in the annual report of Association of Washington Business and Life Science Washington as well as participation in an array of panels on the industry as well as membership on Gov. Jay Inslee's committee on life sciences.
By then she had outgrown the need for introductions, except for an occasional desire by a major investor to get a friend into the mix.
And some of the funds she corralled told their own story of her growing reputation, as she got two grants from the state's Life Science Discovery Fund totaling $750,000, an impressive $1.7 million from the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Fund and a half million dollars from the Dolby Family Fund.
So now almost exactly four years on, M3 has raised more than $17 million from investors who represent a most impressive array of seasoned leaders, both men, and women, from a mix of the world of life science and enthused investors and some who simply have a commitment to changing the world of degenerative disease. And the company has begun initial human trials from which the future will be shaped.
And meanwhile, biotech giants are lurking in the wings to reach out to seek major stakes in the young company at the first sign of success.
As an aside, M3 is the first company to emerge from either of the state's research universities to reach clinical trials, a fact viewed by WSU as a major biotech coup.
So what stirred the interest of investors?
As Biotech icon Bruce Montgomery replied when I asked him why he had become a supporter of Kawas' and a key investor in M3 and a board member, he replied: "It frankly didn't occur to me to dwell on whether she was female or non-caucasian. I understood the science of what she was hoping to achieve and felt she had the ability to achieve it."
It was a sentiment echoed by investor and M3 board, chair John Fluke, no stranger to investing in startup entrepreneurs.
Jim Warjone, now retired from his roles as chairman and CEO of Port Blakely Companies, told me some months after deciding to invest, following one of what I refer to as an array of examples of fate helping guide Kawas on her road to success, "She's the smartest person I have ever met."
The touch of fate with Warjone came when Kawas was about to present to a group of which I was a member at Suncadia in August of 2015 and I went out to get some coffee, encountering Warjone, whom I hadn't seen in several years, in the lobby of the resort.
"What are you doing here?" he asked and when I told him, he asked if he could sit in, which he did, so he was among the half-dozen who heard her presentation, and was one of the two who decided to invest.
Michael Nassirian, longtime Microsoft top executive, who watched his father, a business executive in Persia, wither mentally and die of Alzheimer's, told me his goal was to do something "to change the magnitude of that disease. And when I heard Leen present and went to the M3 site and studied their successful step, I believed she and her company could provide a solution to Alzheimer's."
As to the women investors, who make no apologies for their financial support of Kawas because she is a female as well as talented CEO, I have found each to be amazing talents attracted to invest in the CEO and becoming her friend.
I asked Amber Caska, who has guided family funds for Paul Allen's Vulcan and Alphabet chair Eric Schmidt and is now president and chief operating officer of women-entrepreneur focused Portfolia in the Bay Area, why she had invested in M3.
"When I met her at a JPM Morgan Bio Conference dinner, I did further diligence and figured that not only was she extremely intelligent and driven, M3 was a compelling investment opportunity and backed by a very reputable science team and board. I knew that M3 was onto something incredible and I wanted to support her along the way."
Carol Criner, who has served as CEO and turnaround executive at an array of companies in various industries, was the second person I introduced Kawas to. When I asked her about her decision to invest, she said:
"I was more personally invested in supporting her as a young, female CEO. I became a business advisor to Leen, both because of your encouragement, and that I was fueled by wanting to see Leen succeed.," Criner said.
"Now that she is a celebrity CEO, it's hard to imagine this all began a few short years ago," said Criner. "I witnessed her face the headwinds of giant egos and sexism with resilience. She never gave-up. Her success largely silenced a lot of vocal-doubters. I love it. She's amazing and strong."
In discussing her much smaller sector of the burgeoning tech industry in the Puget Sound area, I once overheard her compelling reply to a young entrepreneur quizzing her on why it was necessary to distinguish high tech from biotech sectors, as long as tech jobs were coming to the area in large numbers.
"Technology is the field that will help us build new devices to be held in the hand. Biotech will help us build a new hand," she replied. "Which would you prefer to be part of helping develop as an industry?"
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Thoughts of the president of UNLV in reflecting on nation's worst mass slaying
Compassion and caring aren't the first words that would come to most peoples' minds when they think of Las Vegas with its glitz and glamour. But compassion, love, and unity are the words Len Jessup, President of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, used to describe the community's response to the horror of the nation's worst mass shooting.
Len Jessup"What amazes me is how this campus and the entire community came together, so quickly, so compassionately, and with so much love and unity," Jessup said in an email to me in response to my question of how his campus, faculty, and students had fared.
"Within minutes, our Thomas and Mack arena was fully staffed and served all night long as a shelter for hundreds of victims," said Jessup, who is finishing his third year as president of UNLV "And within minutes, in the middle of the night, community members got word and brought blankets, sleeping bags, pillows, food, water, coffee, etc, for the victims."
The Thomas and Mack Center is the home of the Runnin' Rebels basketball team that once was the key to national visibility for the university, founded 60 years ago this year as a small, branch campus of Reno-based University of Nevada.
But in the future, the university and its arena may be remembered for the role both played in helping the community deal with the victims of the tragedy and the aftermath.
"Nurses and counselors showed up on their own to comfort folks, and Uber and Lyft drivers and countless community members showed up in cars to take victims wherever they needed to go for free," Jessup added. "Countless acts of love and compassion like that happened all that night and all week here in this community, showing what locals know well, that LV is truly a wonderful community."
Jessup is still dealing with the impact of the mass killings at the open-air concert on his UNLV community of students, faculty and staff. A former student was among the 58 killed in the hail of bullets fired down from an upper floor of Mandalay Bay Hotel. He reported that four students and one staff member, an assistant coach of the hockey club, were among the wounded and one student sustained an injury trying to escape.
Jessup's regard for how members of his university and the broader community responded said something about his regard for both that have developed since he arrived in January of 2015 as UNLV's 10th president.
I got to know Jessup as a member of his national advisory board when he was dean of the Washington State University College of Business before he became president of the WSU Foundation and vice president for university development in May of 2005. Jessup filled the board with CEO-level executives from around the Northwest and beyond.
We have had the opportunity to reconnect on my occasional trips to Las Vegas.
He left WSU to become dean of the Eller College of Management at his ala mater, the University of Arizona, and was instrumental in helping to build out that university's technology transfer and commercialization program, Tech Launch Arizona.
After honing his higher-education administrative leadership skills at WSU and University of Arizona, Jessup was ready when the right opportunity for a university presidency was offered from UNLV regents and he accepted at a time of dramatic challenge and change for the university and the city of 2.2 million.
Indeed Jessup's challenge when he arrived was to grow the impact and image of a university whose major claim to fame was that it had the second most diverse student body in the nation.
Since then he has ensured that the new UNLV medical school, funding for which was approved a few months after his arrival, was on track to welcome its first students and become the focal point of a planned 214-acre medical district in Las Vegas.
"Our medical school is launched and the first cohort began this past July, all of them on full-ride, four-year scholarships from the community," Jessup e-mailed in obvious pride.
"We had 900 applicants for the 60 spots, and there are a few vets among them, many first-generation college grads, and even some first-generation high school grads within their families"
In fact, Jessup raised in San Francisco with both mother and father of Italian descent, was the first member of his family to graduate from college, which he told me as prompted him to "devote my life to service in higher ed because of the opportunities it has given me. And also to pay back my ancestors for the sacrifices they made in coming to America to make a better life possible."
Of the UNLV medical school's first class, Jessup said: "It's a very diverse class. We went after kids with direct Las Vegas or Nevada ties so as to increase the chance that they will stay here as doctors," which would be an important development for a state that has ranked 45thnationally in the number of doctors per 100,000 population.
I asked Jessup in one of the emails what long-term impact might the events on the night of October 1st have on the community and the university.
"I don't know that what happened will deter people from visiting this great city in the future," Jessup said. "But it does mean that we'll have to rethink security for the open-air music festivals like the one this past Sunday evening that have become so incredibly popular here in town. And we will."
Moscow entrepreneur-investor sees Seattle as ideal to find startups
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Natalia Blokhina, who helps guide a Moscow-based fund management company, has learned early in her career as an international investor that business relations almost always overcome politics.
Blokhina smiles as she responds to a question: No, she's never had an entrepreneur in whose start-up business she was offering to invest tell her "we don't want investment from Russia."
Natalia Blokhina"The more absurd political discussions get, the less business people pay attention to them," observes Blokhina, executive director of one of several fund management companies in the Russian capital.
The Moscow native found from her 12 years working with British and U.S. companies and in the emerging markets of the BRICS countries in China, India, and Africa that she was "fascinated with all the entrepreneurial opportunities."
So Blokhina, 37, as a millennial entrepreneur with a degree from the TRIUM Global Executive MBA program in her impressive resume, returned home to Moscow in 2015 at a time of financial challenge for Russia "because I wanted to make a difference for my country."
And, she added, you have to "try to listen to what you would love to do."
So, as she told me, she transitioned "from someone who always thought of themselves as a corporate person who works inside the system to one who, having met successful entrepreneurs inside the business schools, thought they wanted to be one of them."
I had not been aware of TRIUM Global Executive MBA program until our conversation.
The program is an alliance among NYU Stern School of Business, London School of Economics and Political Science, and HEC School of Management in Paris. Those accepted into the program take classes at all three institutions getting, an executive MBA and when finished, they have a global MBA from TRIUM, ranked third in the world in the 2016 Financial Times EMBA rankings and first in the 2014 rankings.
She got her degree, jointly awarded by the three schools, in 2015 as one of the youngest of the graduates of the program. Now she pursues investment opportunities for her boutique fund management company, one of several in Moscow formed by high-net-worth individuals, bringing with her the contacts with an alum group that is global by definition rather than by chance.
Because of her NYU-alum contacts, she has invested in New York, but she said she has developed a keen interest in investment opportunities in the Pacific Northwest, having found "it is easier to do business with a smaller, more connected community that the Seattle area represents than with Silicon Valley. I didn't expect to find such a vibrant tech community here."
That perception on her part may already be creating a benefit for Seattle among young prospective entrepreneurs and investors in Europe.
"A few companies in Europe that asked me about how they should go about getting into business in the U.S. and said they were thinking about expanding to New York or Silicon Valley, and I told them to look to Seattle," she said.
But she cautions that the search for start-up investment opportunities has potential pitfalls, saying "you need to be able to diagnose the entrepreneur. Do they have what it takes? Are they self-critical enough? Do they want the company to transcend themselves?"
"I work with those for whom the answer is 'yes' to each of those questions," she said. "Work with" includes meeting with the portfolio companies usually monthly and serving on their boards.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Blokhina is a fan of women entrepreneurs, offering "women can be good founders of companies because they are practical and realize needs better and more quickly than men."
"Women have more time to look around and dream," she added. "They want to change things in ways that make things more usable and beautiful."
"But they need to work with men," she added.
Blokhina disclosed that New York alumna of the TRIUM program, with support from the TRIUM Global EMBA, are launching a new competition program for women-guided startups.
"We will engage female leaders from our global network to mentor the startups to prepare for the competition, with our goal being to have the first competition in 2018," she said, explaining that the competition will involve judges choosing the startup that will be awarded a large investment.
The panel of judges will include TRIUM alums, faculty members, and other angels, she said.
They have already begun an effort to attract angel associations and incubators to have roles as funders or sponsors of the competition.
"They seem to appreciate the idea of global diversity of the mentors and women-to-women collaboration," Blokhina said. "And the initiative creates a platform for the angel investors."
As the award and competition to win it take hold, it's quite possible that its international aspect and focus on women entrepreneurs could lead to it acquiring growing prestige among both entrepreneurs and angel investors.
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Cellular icon Mikal Thomsen lives 'dream come true' as owner of Tacoma Rainiers
When Triple A baseball returned to Tacoma in 1960 after a 55-year absence, one of the fans in attendance that opening day to watch the team then nicknamed the Giants was 3-year-old Mikal Thomsen, there with his father, seeing his first professional baseball game.
That ignited a life-long affection of a kid, then a man, for his hometown baseball team.
Mikal ThomsenAnd thus, although he grew up to make his name and fortune over two decades as he became a leading figure in the cellular-mobile phone industry, Thomsen's "dream come true" is played out each year as CEO and, with his wife, Lynn, the major investor in the Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League baseball. The Thomsens put together a team of investors prior to the 2011 season to join them in owning the team.
The home season ends next Thursday. The Rainiers are on the road for the Labor Day weekend wrap up, far out of first place in the PCL's Pacific Northern Division and far back in attendance, playing in the smallest market in the in the far-flung 16-team league and in one of the smallest ball parks.
But he says "we've been highly successful in every way I can imagine, for the city, for the fan base, and for the investors. We have made stadium improvements each year, on our dime, and the Rainiers have been embraced by the city and the whole South Sound community."
That's a conviction likely buttressed this year by the fact that Tacoma, for the first time ever, played host last month to the Triple-A All-Star game at Cheney Stadium, a game won, 6-4, by the PCL all-stars over the stars of the International League. The satisfaction was in not just having the game for the first time but to the fact, the selection of Tacoma was made by the other AAA owners.
And Thomsen disclosed during an interview a few days ago that after the 2016 season ended "the team offered to buy out any of the owners at twice the amount they had paid for their share in 2011, but no one took us up on it." The Rainiers made the playoffs last year and came within 1,000 fans of equaling the best attendance mark of Thomsen's tenure.
Thomsen's team of 15 investors includes his longtime business partner, John Stanton, the CEO and majority owner of the American League Seattle Mariners, for whom Tacoma is the Triple-A franchise and a major piece of the Mariners' baseball operations.
Stanton and Thomsen, both in their early 60s, have what is likely the most unusual business relationship in professional baseball, and maybe in all of pro sports.
Their desks are 20 feet apart in the offices of Trilogy Partnerships, the Bellevue-based venture fund where they share responsibility, as they have for much of the 35 years since they joined the fledgling McCaw Cellular and went on to become two of the icons of the wireless industry in which they made their fortunes.
I asked Thomsen if he's ever tempted to complain to Stanton over major-league, minor-league issues, as when the Mariners call up key Rainiers players to the majors when the Tacoma team is winning, as at the start of this season when the Rainiers were in first place before several top players headed for Seattle.
He laughed as he replied: "We are in the unique position of being an organization that sells tickets, popcorn and hotdogs but doesn't have to pay for performers," reminding me that the Mariners pay all the costs, including salaries, of the players they sign and assign to Tacoma.
"They want a strong Triple-A presence and we have provided that," Thomsen adds.
Thomsen and Stanton's office interactions are likely fewer these days with Thomsen spending about what he estimates as about 20 hours a week during the season in Tacoma while Stanton has the CEO's office at Safeco Field that he visits as often as possible.
Although Thomsen is the Tacoma boss he is quick to credit others for contributing to the team's success, particularly team president Aaron Artman, who was in place as president when they bought the team.
"Inheriting Aaron was a godsend," Thomsen said. "He is a very creative guy with a wealth of knowledge running minor league baseball operations, and we paired him up with a great CFO, Brian Coombe whom we hired the first summer we owned the team. Together they are a phenomenal leadership team for the club."
I asked Thomsen, for a column I did several years ago if the fact Tacoma is closer to Seattle than any Triple A team's proximity to a major league city has an impact on attendance. He replied: "Most of the Rainiers fans are Mariners fans who enjoy keeping up with both teams and hearing about the players they saw in Tacoma now performing with the major league club. I think the nearness of the M's cuts both ways."
Indeed Thomsen's ownership group, which includes Brad Cheney, president of the Ben B. Cheney Foundation (named for the lumber magnate and community leader for whom the ballpark is also named) has created a community's love affair with its professional baseball team, not unlike the relationship that used to exist in cities across America.
The Rainiers have added a new left field deck, whiffle ball field and playground, which Thomsen says "is now a fixture, and drawing tons of kids," noting the idea was Cheney's who he says "is on the board, is very supportive of the team and the area through his foundation."
Cheney threw out the first pitch at the All-Star game after Thomsen went on the loudspeaker to tell the fans about coming to the park for games since he and his brother were kids, then said "This is for Tacoma. And this is for the South Sound."
The Stanton-Thomsen baseball-ownership ties extend beyond the Rainiers. In fact, the announcement of the Rainiers' purchase followed their successful launch a year earlier of a college-player amateur league team in Walla Walla.
It was Stanton, a Whitman grad and past chairman of the school's board of trustees, who convinced Thomsen that he should become part of the ownership team that was buying and bringing to Walla Walla an expansion team in the West Coast League, a summer league for college players, competing just below professional ball.
So it was appropriate that Thomsen approached Stanton to be part of the Tacoma ownership team.
A focus on business beyond baseball remains for both Thomsen and Stanton, however, as they continue to manage their Bellevue-based wireless venture and investment firm formed by a collection of long-time wireless partners after the sale of their Western Wireless to Alltel Corp. in 2005.
Thomsen met his wife, Lynn, and Stanton met his wife, Terry Gillespie, at McCaw Cellular in the mid-80s, which they joined at about the same time in the early '80 and are now on the team of co-owners of the Rainiers, though the oversight of the franchise, including attending many games, falls to Thomsen.
Two friends embarked on write-a-book path to success
It's been satisfying to watch two close friends be among those seizing the opportunity that the era of self-publishing has offered entrepreneurs to seek the financial reward or personal satisfaction of writing a book about their business.
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The first is Teri Citterman, who worked for me a decade ago and whose book, From the CEO's Perspective: Leadership in Their Own Words, was published almost three years ago as the collection of interviews with 20 CEOs, all from different industries, each among the most recognized in his or her field.
The other is Al Davis, a friend and former longtime client, who is a founder of Revitalization Partners, a Seattle-based business management and advisory firm whose business footprint has spread across the
West Coast.
His book, written with partner Bill Lawrence, is
Insights to Grow, Build or Save Your Business!: Highly Successful Business Advisory Consultants Share Their Uncommon Advice For Common Business Situations. It is a selection from the columns they've written over the past three years.
As a retired publisher and the writer of a weekly email column for the past nine years, I've found a growing number of friends wanting to explore the possibilities of column or book. And in some cases I've encouraged them or offered to provide some guidance.
In fact, I've come to believe, and espouse, that business people with experiences from which others could benefit ought to seriously consider doing a regular column, as email or web blog, either to just share insights or as the first step toward a book.
I had a forgettable bit part in the production of Citterman's book. She asked me if I would introduce her to two of the CEOs she wished to meet to interview and I declined, not being aware at the time of the positive impact she would have on the CEOs she interviewed or the quality of the pieces that she would produce for the book.
As it turned out, she reached out to the two CEOs on her own and both have become her friends and admirers of her work and her interview ability, along with the 18 others she interviewed to create her book.
When she had a debut party for the book, she asked me to say a few words on her behalf and I joked to those on hand that one of the reasons she was successful with the book was that she had paid no attention to me.
In Davis' case, it was a series of conversations in which I urged him to do a column and advised him how to go about it that resulted in a bi-weekly column over the past three years, then the book, which is a collection of the columns grouped by subject.
I learned of Davis' book in amusing fashion, being summoned to the Fairmont Hotel table where mutual friend Mike Kunath gathers friends and associates most afternoons to discuss an array of topics and where Davis was waiting to hand me his newly published book. He told me to open the cover and read what was printed on the facing page, which was a thank you to several people, and to me for convincing him he could write a column!
Citterman had already been doing some executive coaching and told me she was "hearing a common theme from CEOs. They were wondering, not WHO are the next generation of leaders, but WHERE are the next generation of leaders."
She says she then came across research that said nearly 60 percent of U. S .companies face a leadership talent shortage.
"So, I got curious and started asking my clients and other CEOs more questions ,which lead to an amazing amount of wisdom and insight, that I wanted to share with others," she explained. "Thus the book."
When I asked her what role the book plays in her business, she said: "The book is the air I breathe. It is the platform for my entire business."
Citterman has proven to be a successful entrepreneur as well as writer, since in addition to coaching CEOs and their executive teams, she has created what she calls a "forum series called 'From the CEO's Perspective.' Every quarter I moderate a conversation with three CEOs discussing whatever leadership topic I think is most pressing," she explained.
And Citterman, who was selected last year to be a member of the prestigious Forbes Coaches Council, is creating this fall "an exclusive, invite-only Leadership Lab to help newer executives elevate their thinking from the CEO's perspective."
When I asked Davis about the blog that led to the book, he said: "it was started as a business development tool. But as we found more things to write about, it became a way to use the wide experience that we had in business and finance to give something back to the business community, especially owners and managers of small and mid-sized companies."
"One of our biggest issues with our clients and potential clients is that they often wait until it's too late or almost too late before they talk with someone," Davis explained. "We hope that this book will demonstrate that they are not alone in their problem and there is someone to talk with about the seriousness of the problem."
The meeting with Davis and Kunath, who does his own occasional blog on personal experiences and perspectives (and who gets credit for first introducing me to Citterman 15 years ago or so), wound up with : "Now it's your turn to write a book."
So with some 470 Harps to choose from, I've decided to explore the possibility of collecting some in a book. Although the Harps were never meant to be anything other than an outlet to share information on interesting people, companies and issues, it has developed a business aspect as I get increasing number of outreaches from people who would like to explore doing their own email column or blog and want guidance on how to go about it.
And should a book of Harps emerge, I doubt anyone would be more pleased than a Spokane friend, Kate Spencer, a media person with the Spokane Club. A decade ago when I was evaluating the idea of creating a column and discussed it with her, she said: "You should call it Flynn's Harp, since the Harp is such a beautiful Irish instrument and if you wish to rag -or Harp-- on someone or something, it will be appropriate. So the name was instantly set that day.
And since Spencer has now written a book herself about life experiences, she frequently has followed our conversations about what might come from the growing number of columns with a firm: "Write the damn book!"
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Event marks 150th anniversary of Confederate emigration to Brazil
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Removals of Robert E. Lee's statue in New Orleans and a Confederate monument in Louisville were designed to pluck from prominent display the symbols of that dark chapter of American history represented by the War Between the States over slavery. Meanwhile, a hemisphere away, descendants of Confederates who emigrated to Brazil after the Civil War were celebrating the 150th anniversary of the arrival of their ancestors in what would be their new country.
Perhaps proving that history is too complex to be rewritten or expunged, the celebratory gathering of some 2,600 confederate descendants at their annual picnic at Cemeterio do Campo, the cemetery where hundreds of "Confederados" are buried, included the continuing honoring of their flag, the Stars and Bars.
The story of the Confederates, hailing mostly from Georgia, Alabama and Texas but with every state represented and amounting to the largest emigration in U.S. history, doesn't get attention in books on American history.
And the fact that the more than 20,000 southerners wanted to preserve the ways of the unreconstructed South, but didn't wish to bring with them the institution of Slavery, may merit some interest from historians unless the effort that some see as seeking to sanitize history is successful.
However, My friend Gary Neeleman, who with his wife, Rose, was at the cemetery for the 150th event, has published the definitive story of that slice of American history and was there to take orders for his book, recently published in Portuguese but with discussions under way with a U.S. publisher for an English version.
The title's English translation, "The Migration of the Confederates to Brazil: Stars and Bars Under the Southern Cross," is the account of how Brazilian Emperor Don Pedeo II successfully sought to attract the Southerners who didn't wish to be restored to U.S. citizenry.
The Brazilian government set up informational agencies across the Bible Belt and offered to pay relocation costs for all Americans willing to make the move. The first arrivers were met at the dock by the Emperor, who welcomed them to their new home.
The emperor's goal was to plant the seeds of Brazilian prosperity, including creating a cotton industry, by importing the self-exiling Southerners, who settled southwest of Sao Paulo in two communities a couple of miles apart, Americana and Santa Bárbara d'Oeste.
Neeleman, a longtime colleague at UPI and a friend of 45 years, who has been the subject of several Harps over the years, first visited the cemetery in 1963 as UPI's Brazil manager. The idea for a book began to take shape on that first visit.
Neeleman, now a robust 82, has made more than a dozen trips to the cemetery since then, often with Rose, as they gathered information from descendants and collected photos from them.
Because of his close ties to Brazil, and his official role as Brazilian Consul in Salt Lake City, Neeleman is sometimes asked to take guests to the annual gathering at the cemetery.
Thus a few years ago, he escorted former president Jimmy Carter and his wife, Roselyn, and presidential press secretary Jody Powell and told me, "It touched your heart to see their tears as they looked over the Georgia graves and 'Dixie' was played."
"That first time I visited the cemetery, driving out in my '49 Hudson Hornet, I was shocked at the extent to which these people were still entrenched with their history," he recalled.
"The stars and bars of the Confederate battle flag is visible everywhere but it's important to know that wasn't the flag of the Confederacy. Rather they look upon the flag that was carried into battle during the civil war as the symbol of their states' rights," he added.
Among the interesting bits of information in Neeleman's book is that not only did those descendants reject the opportunity to have slaves in Brazil, where slavery remained prominent at the time, but at least one former slave came along.
"A black woman named Sylvia, a free woman, insisted she wanted to remain with the family for which she had been a slave and so she accompanied them to Brazil," Neeleman said.
Neeleman details the contributions the Confederate descendants made to their new nation, including helping make Brazil a leading cotton exporter, as the emperor had hoped.
"MacKenzie College was founded by the confederates in Sao Paulo and, with five campuses around the country, it is one of the top colleges in Latin America," he said.
"And a second-generation Confederate founded the big hospital in Sao Paulo, Samaritano Hospital, where three of our kids were born," he added. One of those was David, who founded Jet Blue and is now CEO of Azul, one of the largest airlines in Brazil.
"People in the United States consider that Confederate battle flag the symbol of slavery but for these people, it's a symbol of their ancestors' way of life," Neeleman said, noting that "not only are the flags prominently displayed on the graves, but some insist their caskets be wrapped in the flag."
The highlight of this 150th anniversary picnic, Neeleman told me, was when the American and Brazilian flags were raised, along with the Stars and Bars, over the gathering of some 2,600 attendees, and the "Star Spangled Banner" was played along with "Dixie." A parade included the great great grandchildren of the original southerners carrying the flags of the 13 states of the confederacy.
Perhaps to touch lightly on the effort to expunge things Confederate from U.S. awareness, Neeleman observed that when the band at the cemetery struck up Dixie, "it was reminiscent of when Abraham Lincoln faced the crowds after the victory of the North over the South, and people thought he was going to give a victory speech. Instead he turned to the band and ask them to play Dixie."
The visit to the cemetery was part of a challenging week for the Neelemans, with three stops in Brazil to promote the book on the Confederates and a trip back home to UCLA to be recognized by the Brazilian studies department for his third book, Rubber Soldiers, just published this month in English about Brazil's key role in World War II (see Flynn's Harp: Rubber Soldiers).
"Even some of the people from Brazil studying there said they hadn't been aware of the role their nation played, in sending thousands of their countrymen into the jungles to restore the rubber harvest to producet the rubber without which the allies might not have been able to wage war against the Axis powers," Neeleman told me.
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National squash event in Bellevue drew world's best
Bellevue's role as a growing center for the sport of squash was enhanced last weekend as the quest of the best players in the world for a share of the most lucrative 16-man squash tournament purse ever had the attention of the squash-world, but with unfortunately little local attention or support.
Frenchman Gregory Gaultier, currently World Number 1 in the sport, won the title and accompanying $25,000, defeating Egyptian Ali Farag in a tournament that added to the image of Shabana Khan as one of the sport's emerging star promoters. Her YSK Events put on the tournament.
With $150,000 in prize money on the table, the PMI Bellevue Squash Classic was appropriately staged as a sort of coming-out party for the Boys & Girls Club Hidden Valley Field House just north of Downtown Bellevue.
When she put on the Men's World Squash Championship in late 2015, first time ever for the event on U.S. soil, Shabana charted new territory for prize money, which totaled $325,000 for the event that was held at Bellevue's Meydenbauer Center. That amount became the threshold going forward with the U.S. Open in Philadelphia next fall boasting a $350,000 purse.
I was struck by the fact that when you watch the speed, agility and athleticism of the top squash ccompetitor and reflect on the comparative talents needed for other racket sports, it's hard not to ask "why is tennis played everywhere and squash isn't?"
I posed that question to Shabana's older brother, Azam, four times a member of the U.S. Open team, and he said: "Tennis courts are everywhere and available to all while squash courts are in clubs and available only to the elite, but we intend to change that and it's one of Shabana's goals."
In fact, statistics on the sport indicate it is growing faster in this country than anywhere in the world, with the U.K. and Egypt following close behind.
For those on hand for the 2015 Men's World Championships, there was a bit of déjà vu since Gaultier defeated an Egyptian in that year's final to win his first World title after losing the in the final match three previous years.
Only a few in the inner circle of those helping Shabana with the event were aware that had it not been for the assist from Robert Greczanik, whom Asam Khan describes as "specializing in restoring injured athletes to full enhanced function," to help overcome an ankle injury that Gaultier feared would keep him out of the finals.
As an aside, Gaultier had turned to Greczanik, who runs Energetic Sports Lab in Bellevue, prior to the 2015 finals to address the fact he simply felt "all beat up with numerous injuries."
Squash players from around the world who were on hand for both events praised the Boys & Girls Club as far more appealing for players and fans, particularly for the interaction between them, than Meydenbauer, which incidentally had rejected her effort to hold this year's event there, telling her to look elsewhere.
And the community supporters of the Hidden Valley club must have been pleased to see its visibility on the global squash stage with thousands subscribing to the television coverage.
Players from 17 nations were on hand, but Shabana made it 18, using what's called a "wild card" for promoters of squash events, to let a young player from Connecticut compete to make sure the U.S. was represented.
Leading the as-yet small group of believers in what Shabana's squash initiatives are intended to mean for the Bellevue community's image and the opportunity she seeks to bring to the city's and region's young people was Dave Cutler. He is not only universally acclaimed as the key technical brain behind the Microsoft Windows NT and all the subsequent windows versions. A decade ago he was recognized as a National Medal of Technology and Innovation laureate, perhaps the most prestigious honor in the country for developers of new technology.
His support, and the fact that dozens, if not hundreds, of Microsofties who cross the street from the company's Redmond campus to play at the Pro Sports Club where Shabana, Asam and Latasha are instructors helped guide Microsoft into the Presenting sponsorship with Pro Sports as the Official sponsor.
Pacific Market International, a Seattle-based brand and product-marketing company with offices in seven cities around the world, has been a strong supporter of both this five-day event and of the 2015 Men's Championship as title sponsor.
Richard and Jackie Lange, Woodinville residents, stepped up as a family after Shabana created a national tournament for young squash players called the National Gold Tournament that attracted 175 young people from around the country to compete in groups broken down as under 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19. Shabana notes that 20 college coaches looked on for the older players' matches at the event held earlier this spring, also at the Boys & Girls Club.
The Langes, whose daughter, Kristin, played squash at Penn and was a three-time intercollegiate finalist, put up the money for five years of having the youth competition be "The Lange Showcase," sharing Shabana's vision of making squash available to young people of all ages and means.
Khan is the most famous last name in squash. Distant cousins Hasim and his son Sharif, and cousin Jahangir, dominated world squash for decades.
Yusuf Khan 10-time all-India champion, emigrated to the U.S. in 1968 to teach tennis at the Seattle Tennis Club, bringing with him his family that then included children Asam and Shabana. Khan soon after arrival in Seattle created the Seattle Athletic Club and made it a focal point for squash in Seattle.
Shabana's younger sister, Latasha, was several time national women's champion before losing the title to Shabana, providing me the opportunity to joke in an earlier column, "best in the family is best in the county."
The looming reality for this unique local event is that Shabana and her supporting family have basically given themselves only a couple of months to decide whether it's worth the struggle (the event basically broke even this year) to attract thus-far absent support from either the City of Bellevue or local businesses.
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Seattle mayor race may offer business hope for future
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Soon after Mike McGinn took office as Seattle's new mayor in 2009, he was speaker at a business breakfast and was overheard telling an aide as he was sitting at the head table waiting to be introduced, "these are not my people."
Those in the business community soon came to understand McGinn wasn't their "people" either and sought to help support the election of Ed Murray, the longtime legislative leader who ran against and ousted McGinn in 2013.
But Murray turned out to be only marginally better for business and his only bow to the needs of the business community was a frequent refrain as his term progressed that he'd be open to help business "but business can't tell me what they need." And he spent little time reaching out to business leaders to find out.
Now Murray, driven to end his re-election bid amidst the growing furor over law suits contending he had sexually preyed on troubled young men years ago, leaves Seattle entering a time of uncertainty as the contest for a new mayor begins.
No one takes pleasure in Murray's travails. But the fact remains that as Seattle prepares to find a new mayor and business people began discussing how to seek to take advantage of the opportunity to find a business friend, a candidate that most feel at least understands both business and the political process has filed to seek the office.
That's former U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan, a woman of power and influence in Democratic party ranks but viewed by most business people as a throwback to a time when "liberal" included being a Democrat who understood the importance of the business community to a vibrant city.
Among those happy to see Durkan in the race is Bob Wallace, CEO of Bellevue-based Wallace Properties. When I called to talk to him about the Seattle political scene leading up to Durkan's announcement of her candidacy, he quipped: "I told Kemper (Freeman) that he should send a big bouquet to the Seattle City Council for all they are doing to make Bellevue look good to business."
Of Durkan, Wallace said "I'm pleased to see her decide to run. She is liberal, smart and pragmatic and she'd be an infinitely better mayor than any of the others in the race."
Wallace, although a conservative Bellevue business leader, has made a point over the years to also immerse himself in Seattle's business leadership, serving in key roles in both the Seattle and the Bellevue chambers of commerce.
Wallace says that although what he views as the "drift to the far left" by Seattle's elected leaders is "potentially jeopardizing our economic future," he suggests that "Seattle's major companies could care less" because Seattle represents only a small part of their business empires.
But smaller businesses do care and the growing contrast between the apparent attitudes of Seattle and Bellevue elected officials toward business needs is being increasingly noted. A friend of mine is launching a new business with offices in Seattle and Bellevue and told me that "many of the Eastside people we are hiring wouldn't be coming to work for us if we didn't have a Bellevue office because they simply don't want to have to get into Seattle each day."
It's important for Seattle business leaders enthused about Durkan's candidacy not to talk of her as pro business because that's not only possibly inaccurate but for sure potentially damaging to her candidacy in a community where that's obviously a negative for many Seattle voters.
The key is that she certainly brings an understanding of business, how it operates and its legitimate role in the success and future of Seattle.
Durkan wouldn't be the first Seattle woman mayor. That role belonged to Bertha Knight Landis, elected to a two-year term in 1927, having been the first woman elected to the Seattle City Council five years earlier and becoming president of the council when re-elected two years later.
Business became her fan, incidentally, before she won elective office when she orchestrated a weeklong Women's Educational Exhibit for Washington Manufacturers. Staffed by more than 1,000 women, that bolstered the spirits of the business community during a period of severe recession.
Landis defeated incumbent Edwin J, "Doc" Brown in 1927 in a campaign in which her theme was "municipal housecleaning" was needed in the Seattle government, an approach that could appeal to moderates on the left this year.
One issue that's already certain to be a mayoral campaign issue on which all these seeking the office will be pressed to explain their positions is the proposed city income tax on higher-income individuals. Most announced mayoral candidates at the first mayoral forum, prior to Durkan's announcement, expressed support for an income tax. In fact the idea was proposed by McGinn, who is seeking to regain the mayor's office.
Candidate positions on the effort to impose an income tax of unspecified amount on high-income individuals, with no clear indication of the definition of "high income," will be interesting to watch take shape during the campaign leading up to the August primary when the top two vote-getters will move on to the November general election.
Seattle is the second stop by the supporters of a state income tax who have embarked on a process observers have described as "city shopping," looking for a local electorate or elected body willing to impose an income tax to get the issue before the state supreme court. Olympia voters rejected the idea in November.
Only the uninformed could fail to realize no income tax is going to be imposed in Seattle for the foreseeable future so it can't provide revenue for the city that proponents say is needed now.
Rather the hope for a court test is that the 5-4 majority decision by the State's highest court in 1932 that an income tax was unconstitutional would be reversed by a far more liberal court 85 years later.
But the fact that the 1984 legislature outlawed a local income tax imposed by cities or counties means a first court test would be about state law rather than the constitutionality of an income tax.
As for Durkan's view on the issue, she quickly debunked the idea at her announcement news conference, saying a city income tax is "probably not constitutional," and in addition she thinks it's "not be the solution we need now."
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Personal reflections on Mike Lowry, passionate believer in people
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It would be laughable, in this era of unbridgeable political divides, to envision an elected official who nurtured his image as "liberal Democrat" while priding himself on being "the congressman from Boeing." But that was Mike Lowry, the former governor who died early Monday after suffering a stroke.
Because of our 50-year friendship, beginning when he headed the staff of the State Senate Ways & Means Committee and I was the Capital reporter for UPI, this Harp will be more of a personal reflection on Lowry than a catalogue of who he was and what he did.
He was this state's epitome of the progressive politician for 40 years. He believed in the environment and cared deeply about the needs of farm workers, causes he was still involved with at the time of his death at the age of 78.
Lowry was an urban politician proud of his rural roots, growing up in the Palouse community of St. John, and his education at Washington State University.
It was in his desire to get things done for job-creating big business that he was unusual for a Democrat. He brought his political power to work on behalf of Boeing and other large companies because he felt it was the state's role to help companies that provided high-paying jobs.
Thus while being viewed by small business as the enemy, he was generally held in high regard by big business, including Boeing, which quietly supported him in his successful bid for governor in 1992.
It was soon after the election that Lowry called me to meet for breakfast to talk about possible candidates to head the state department of trade and economic development . I thought it would be cool to meet with the governor-elect at the WAC, maybe Rainier Club or even the Four Seasons.
Then I learned that his favorite breakfast spot was the Denny's on I-405 north of Renton. Nothing too fancy for Lowry and thus it became the place we met regularly over the years.
Lowry wanted to know what I thought of Mike Fitzgerald as a potential director of the agency. Because Fitzgerald was a friend and a fellow Montanan who got his economic development start working personally, right out of college, for the governor, I said "he'd be great."
Fitzgerald, now president and CEO of the Denver South Economic Development Partnership, worked directly for or with nine governors during his years in economic development and told me in a telephone conversation this week: "I have never worked for anyone who loved their state more than he loved Washington state and its citizens."
"He understood and could articulate the role of the triple bottom line of successfully balancing the economy, the social agenda and environmental considerations," Fitzgerald said, noting that Lowry "was personally involved in Washington landing two of the biggest tech-industry coups in the country at that time."
He was referring to Lowry ensuring the state took the steps necessary, including things like new freeway interchanges and face to face meetings, to land Taiwan Semiconductor in Clark County and an Intel plant in southern Pierce County.
The antipathy of small business, particularly small-business organizations, was cemented from the outset of Lowry's single term as the state's chief executive (he didn't seek a second term partly because of the publicity that surrounded a sexual harassment action by a former press aide, which was settled).
That antipathy was particularly true after he guided legislative enactment of a statewide system of health insurance with premiums based on ability to pay, a law that put a lot of cost pressure on small businesses.
It was the anger of small business toward Lowry over the healthcare law, in addition to is his guiding the 1993 Legislature to double the business & occupation tax for service businesses, that led to my most amusing memory of him. I had sought his partnership with The Puget Sound Business Journal to put on a Governor's Conference on Small Business.
He agreed but as small business antagonism toward Lowry intensified, I grew concerned about the kind of animosity he might face when he appeared at the conference. So I met with him the afternoon before to express my concern and urge him, when he opened the conference the following morning, to just thank the business people for being on hand and wait until the end of the day to make positive comments about things he was doing for business.
"Good advice," he said as we sat in his office going over the agenda. So I was stunned when he opened the conference doing exactly what I had advised him against.
As a result he was pummeled throughout the day by negative comments about him, directly or by innuendo, from the array of speakers from the various sessions.
I was worried when he left quickly without attending the closing-session cocktail party. And more so the next day when I received an anxious call from the person in his office assigned to work with me on the conference.
"I am very worried because he called his entire staff together this morning, expressed his anger and said 'I am going to find out who was responsible for the embarrassment I suffered,'" the staff member told me.
I contacted Lowry and asked if we could meet in his Seattle office to review the conference.
As we sat down facing each other, I said: "Governor, I get the impression you are unhappy about the conference. If there was a problem, there are only two people who could be responsible. You are looking at one, and you see the other one in the mirror."
He flipped his arm up as one of those ear-to-ear smiles spread across his face and he said: "I don't have time to worry about yesterday's irritations, so don't sweat it."
Don Brunell, retired president of Association of Washington Business who often crossed swords with Lowry and other Democratic governors on business issues, told me not holding a grudge was a Lowry trademark.
Brunell offered the comment: "Lowry never personalized anything. He could blow his stack at you one day and be genuinely smiling the next."
Lowry served 10 years as the state's 7th district congressman and twice ran for the U.S. Senate, losing to Dan Evans in a special election in 1983, and to Slade Gorton in 1988. before returning to the political wars to run for governor in 1992. He won, defeating state Attorney General Ken Eikenberry to win his lone term.
After his '88 loss to Gorton, he returned to Washington state along with Dan Evans, who had decided not to seek re-election, and the two joined together to initiate the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition (WWRC).
"Since we came from very different political backgrounds we were soon dubbed the 'Odd Couple,' Evans recalled in an email to me. "I think we both enjoyed the title and both have seen a huge result from that small beginning."
"We were competitors, but far more importantly were colleagues, partners and good friends," Evans added.
Brunell praised Lowry as an elected official with integrity. "While most of them promised not to raise taxes and sometimes wound up doing so, Lowry said he would only raise taxes as a last resort." He did raise the B&O tax dramatically in 1993 but cut back on half the increase two years later.
Said Evans: There was never any question what Mike believed and he worked tirelessly on issues, always with peace, people and progress in mind. We lost a first rate political leader, a passionate believer in people, and I lost a good friend."
Fitzgerald said Lowry's favorite personal saying, repeated half a dozen times in private meetings with him, was from Thomas Jefferson, who talked of a goal of seeking to create "an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity."
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40 Years Fuels John Buller's 'Age of Disruption'
John Buller, whose senior executive roles have ranged from higher education to sports to retailing to non-profits to community organizations, has experienced and helped reshape an array of cultures over the years since he arrived in Seattle to play basketball for the University of Washington.
And the immersion in those disparate cultures has led him to publish his second book, "Can You Survive the Age of Disruption," more than two decades and numerous disruptive involvements since his first book. "Survival Guide for Bureaucratic Warriors."
Buller prefers to describe his latest book as "a resource guide to creating the all-in culture," which he sums up as "all about outcomes that bring interpersonal skills that are collaborative in nature," although in his book he details elements needed to bring about an all-in culture.
"I have always been interested in leadership and culture building," Buller told me. "But I believe we are now experiencing a rate of change that demands a new way to look at how organizations manage the pace of this change."
"We are at a point where there are three generations in the work force at the same time," said Buller. "And within a few years we'll have four generations, and technology has now outpaced our ability to manage the rate of change."
Buller's first cultural "all-in" was college basketball, having been recruited in 1965 to come to UW. He led the freshman team in scoring and was sixth man, starting 10 games, in his sophomore year. But a viral inflamation in the heart lining impacted the rest of his playing career.
He spent two years as a graduate assistant for the Huskies while getting his MBA, then went to work for what was the Bon Marche, later Macy's,
Over the next two years and three promotions, he became divisional merchandise manager and eventually senior advertising and brand development executive. It was at The Bon where, he says, he had his favorite job.
"I was responsible for changing the 4,000 employees from a clerk mentality to a customer service mentality and I also got to do more than 40 two day team building workshops to support this cultural transformation.," Buller recalls.
The Bon experience led him to write "Survival Guide."
"Changing the culture at The Bon was an effort to focus on service, both to our customers and our internal attitudes toward our fellow employees," Buller explained. "The book was about my learning the difference between a 'Soldier,' someone who takes orders, and a 'Warrior,' one who has a mission or a cause. I learned how to be a Warrior."
He took the warrior attitude, and the details of building survival skills, to roles as co-chair and director of the organizing committee for the NCAA Final Four in Seattle in 1995, executive director of the UW Alumni Association, CEO of Tully's Coffee and CEO of the Seattle Police Foundation.
His non-profit leadership roles included chairing the board of Seattle Seafair and a dozen years on both the Seattle Center Board and the board of the Washington Athletic Club, where he currently serves as executive director of the 101 Club.
Buller chuckles as he explains his often used process of creating All-In by having the marketing and the accounting teams each put together a business plan for the company.
"As you might guess, there wasn't a lot of similarity between the two plans. So I'd leave the room and say 'I'll be back in 20 minutes. Fix it while I'm gone."
Buller suggests "organizational leaders seeking to create new cultures "are tasked with an almost impossible amount of required intelligences."
"Today's Leadership needs to be proficient in understanding the 'Meyers Briggs Profile' - knowing yourself and understanding others that was the intelligence lesson of the 1980s and early 90s - then, along came 'Emotional Intelligence,' which focused on street smarts vs. book smarts," Buller explained.
"Over the last 10 years you would have also needed to be competent in understanding the 'Social Media' explosion. Then, it helps if you have 'Ethnic Intelligence,' as well as 'Religious Intelligence', and 'Immigration Intelligence' - and now, the biggest new understanding is 'Generational Intelligence.'"
Discussion of changing culture in the workplace automatically includes focus on millennials, those in their twenties and early thirties. In addition to that generation's obviously adaptability to technology,
Buller suggests "they have a social consciousness and they don't want to work somewhere that doesn't fit that. They think broad workplace experience, meaning horizontal movement, is better. They are looking for the perfect culture and perfect outcome."
"If you don't believe the statement that if you can't change you're dead, look at what's occurred with the Fortune 500 over four decades," Buller says. "In 1975 the average age of the companies in that index was 68, now the average age is eight."
Joe Galloway Returning To Seattle For More Interviews With Vietnam Veterans
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It's been five years this coming Memorial Day since the formal launch of the 50th Anniversary Vietnam War Commemoration to honor those who fought in that war but were never thanked when they returned to a divided nation. And for four of those years, Joseph L. (Joe) Galloway, one of the best-known correspondents of that war, has been on the road doing interviews with veterans of that conflict to preserve their memories.
Galloway's travels to do the interviews, mostly about two hours in length and which he told me last week now number about 350, embody his commitment to produce the "the body of material for future generations who want to know what this war was all about."
Galloway, a UPI reporter decorated for battlefield heroism at the battle of Ia Drang 50 years ago last November, spent a week doing interviews in Seattle two years ago. Now he is returning to the Seattle area next month to do another round of interviews with Vietnam veterans.
I've written several columns on Galloway and his role in the 50th Anniversary Commemoration, partly because we were UPI colleagues (he in war zones and I as a political writer and later a Pacific Coast executive for the company). But more important in a broader sense because of a fascination with his perspectives on the war in articles and speeches, and the import of the battle in the Ia Drang Valley that Galloway and the late Gen. Hal Moore, then a lieutenant colonel in command of the U.S. army forces in that battle, made famous in their book and a subsequent movie.
Ia Drang was the first clash of American troops with North Vietnamese regular army and involved heavy fighting in two main engagements that claimed casualties in the hundreds on the U.S. side and several thousand on the North Vietnam side.
Galloway later described it as "The battle that convinced North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minhhe could win," a conclusion that it turns out was shared by then-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara after he assessed details and the import of the Ia Drang battle. But McNamara's conclusion, shared with President Lyndon Johnson, never saw the light of day until years later.
The battle became the subject of Galloway's and Moore's book, "We Were Soldiers Once...and Young," and the resulting movie, "We Were Soldiers," as well as a second book, "We are Still Soldiers... A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam" when the two returned to the battlefield years later.
Galloway continued his correspondent role on into war in Iraq and Afghanistan and those who admired his work included the late General Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, who referred to him as "the finest combat correspondent of our generation -- a Soldier's reporter and a Soldier's friend."
And of his time on the battlefield, particularly at Ia Drang, Galloway said: "The men I met and the time we spent together fighting for one another was a life-changing experience that transcends the bonds of friendship and brotherhood."
One of my first columns on Galloway dealt with my urging him to come to Seattle after I first learned, in October of 2014, about the commemoration and his role in it.
He told me he'd need a place to do the interviews so KCPQ-13 offered its studios for the week and Galloway became briefly a high-visibility figure in the area, including an interview at Seattle Rotary, as he helped the group of veterans who each spent an hour or more with him have the opportunity to share their memories. And also to accept the belated thank you that the attention represented.
Galloway's comments during his stay here and with the interviews themselves have also been Galloway's revisiting of his own memories of Vietnam.
During one of our interviews, Galloway said of the veterans: "They are not bitter but I am bitter in their behalf. It make me angry that those who came to hate the war came to hate the warriors who were their sons and daughters."
He's also shared his own emotions that accompanied other activities related to this trail through the commemoration events.
He told me of one occasion a couple of years ago where he and the governor of Kentucky shared the podium at an event for Vietnam veterans that was at the state capital at the Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which he described as "one of the most spectacular in our country."
"It is in the form of a giant sundial," he said. "Incredible work was done so that when the tip of the shadow from the sundial pointer hits the memorial floor it points to that day's list of Kentucky soldiers who were killed in action on that date in Vietnam."
"It brought tears to my eyes to see the pointer land on those KIA in the Ia Drang Valley in November 1965," he said.
The recent retirement of Lt. Gen. Stephen Lanza as commanding officer of Joint Base Lewis McChord was a reminder of Galloway's last visit, and the coming one, since a commemoration Lanza put on as only the second such event at one of the nation's military bases preceded the Galloway visit by four months.
That high-visibility JBLM event in early October of 2014 was a Commemoration tribute that attracted more than 2,500 Vietnam veterans from around the Northwest onto the parade field for a salute ceremony, massing of the colors and Keynote speech by retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey.
Lanza had said he noticed that Vietnam Era veterans were among those enthusiastically welcoming soldiers home from deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. He said he realized of the Vietnam veterans: "they had never had that" welcome-home reception so he helped create a thank you opportunity.
Galloway's visit May 22-25 for interviews with the veterans will include a Vietnam War panel discussion at Shoreline College with Bruce Crandall, the helicopter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient from the Ia Drang battle whose exploits were detailed in the book and the movie, and former POW Joe Crecca, along with Galloway himself.
My most recent column on Galloway was in mid-February, the outgrowth of an email from him about the "hard duty" he had of delivering a eulogy for General Moore, the Ia Drang commander and his friend of 50 years, who had died that week two days before his 95th birthday.
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Only 1 block - and 3 decades - to the Oregon Supreme Court
From her window in the Oregon Supreme Court Building, the state's newest Supreme Court justice can look across State Street in Salem to the Willamette University campus where her higher-education journey began 31 years ago.
Meagan Flynn, already Judge Flynn as an Oregon appellate court judge since October of 2014, was sworn in last week by Chief Justice Thomas Balmer after being named by Gov. Kate Brown to the state's highest court. She'll have a new office but the surroundings will be familiar since both the supreme and appellate courts share the same courtroom.
The governor said in a statement that "Flynn has earned a reputation as a smart and thoughtful judge while serving on the Oregon Court of Appeals and is regarded as fair-minded and compassionate."
Indeed those who know her would echo that, particularly her parents who left her standing on the sidewalk in front of Willamette waving goodbye 31 years ago. And as Betsy and I drove away then and headed back to Seattle, past the Supreme Court building, Oregon's oldest government building, we had no way of imagining it would be where she would eventually office.
As readers of The Harp have guessed by now, this is a personal column, a reflection on our daughter, mother of two of our grandchildren, who wears the judge's robe.
Meagan had a goal of being an attorney from early on because her role model was her cousin, Sheila McKinnon, who was then a successful Seattle attorney.
Some of the following is reflections about Meagan from an earlier column I did when she was appointed to the Court of Appeals judgeship.
I recalled that as she prepared to graduate from Holy Names Academy in Seattle, where she was salutatorian of her class, I urged her to apply to Stanford because her friend, who was valedictorian, was applying there.
"It would be cool if you could say you were accepted to Stanford," I told her, even though I knew she had already decided she wanted to attend Willamette.
To my surprise, though likely not hers, she was accepted to Stanford and I feared she would decide she wanted to go there since it would have been a financial challenge for us at that time.
But the ducks on the stream at Willamette, which were the initial attraction the day she first visited the school (although its academic reputation and its law school had roles in the final decision), had already drawn her interest to Willamette.
Good thing, since that's where she met her husband to be, Dan Keppler, who was also intent on become an attorney, though eventually Gonzaga law school won out for both of them and after graduating they built partner-role practices at separate small firms in Portland. Along the way also came two daughters.
Meagan always had a competitive bent, which she usually did a good job of hiding, except as a seventh grader in Piedmont, CA, when she found that a male student was challenging her for top student. Her jaw always locked a bit when the male student's name came up in conversations. The two of them ran for 8th grade class president (except the title was commissioner general) in a hotly contested race that she won, expressing smug pleasure at coming out on top.
The call from Governor Brown was the second from an Oregon governor for Meagan since then-Gov. John Kitzhauber was on the line one evening when she answered the phone. The story comes from her husband, Dan, since Meagan is not one to talk much about herself.
As Dan related of the telephone conversation: "'Hi, Meagan, this is John Kitzhauber.' 'Hi, Governor.' 'So do you want to be on the appellate court?' 'Yes, I do.' 'Congratulations, Judge.'"
Of course, due diligence had preceded the call, as it did with the appointment to the highest court late last month.
When she was sworn in to her Court of Appeals post in 2014, the judge administering the oath was the same judge whom she had gone to work for as a clerk 20 years earlier, soon after he had taken his oath as a then-new appeals court judge himself. He brought to her swearing-in session a picture of that first clerk-judge meeting in 1994.
Meagan is taking her place on the state's highest court as its youngest, as well as newest, member.
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An unaccountable Sound Transit has begun to attract important critics
Unaccountability on the part of a public entity, no matter how well cloaked in good intentions or alleged importance of mission, inevitably leads to arrogance when there is no requirement to answer directly to anyone for decisions.
That, not surprisingly, leads to the kind of decisions that create a demand for accountability. Thus hangs the tale of Sound Transit, in the view a growing chorus of critics.
The sense is that the transportation agency officially known as the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority may suddenly be caught with its arrogance on display and feeling the pushback from a public and from lawmakers who are coming to sense a possible need to recast the organization.
The goal of legislation that has now passed the Republican-controlled state Senate and is awaiting action in House would replace the 18 Sound Transit board members, now local elected officials from one of the three Sound Transit counties with 11 directors directly elected by voters in districts that would be created by the legislature.
The first broad perception of Sound Transit arrogance surfaced with the outcry from motor vehicle owners about the leap in the cost to renew their vehicle license after the excise tax this year had climbed dramatically, due in part to the vehicle valuation chart used by Sound Transit.
Geoff Patrick, who handles media relations and public information for Sound Transit, explained that part of the reason for the large jump in MVET fees was that, in approving ST-3, the $54 billion long-term transit package in November, voters said ok to a major increase in vehicle excise tax.
The outcry would suggest that many voters weren't really aware of that.
Patrick was quoted earlier, as the MVET flap emerged, to the extent that Sound Transit could have used a vehicle depreciation schedule that would have meant a less expensive renewal fee but chose not to "for simplicity sake," to bring transportation relief quicker.
Then came the visibility surrounding Sound Transit's legal battle with Mercer Island over its effort to end the ability of solo drivers from the island to access I-90 high-occupancy-vehicle lanes when the existing HOV lanes are closed this summer for construction of light rail. That solo-driver access was part of an arrangement that amounted to a pledge from state transportation officials to Mercer Island residents in exchange for letting the state cut the trench for I90 across the island.
And finally, and perhaps defining for any battle to avoid accountability, came the flap over a political fundraiser for King County Executive Dow Constantine at the home of Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff for his boss and benefactor. As the flap unfolded, it became known that the planned event hosted at Rogoff's home for his boss might breach two clauses in the transit agency's own code of ethics, though it wouldn't violate any state fundraising laws, so it was moved elsewhere. But Rogoff made it clear he would still be one of the sponsors.
It might seem strange to many political observers that Constantine, who holds the most powerful position on the Sound Transit board and is seeking reelection, would stand silently in the wings, awaiting the outcome of a key fundraiser flap rather then step forward and say, "This is an inappropriate issue. I am cancelling this fundraiser."
Attendees for the party at its new location, it turns out, had to first RSVP online to learn the address.
The disappointing thing about that is I was beginning to hope some newspaper photographer or television camera team would be on hand to document how many representatives of companies with multi-million-dollar contracts with Sound Transit would be on hand to pass some of the dollars back to the leader of the team.
A focus on those companies with multi-million contracts may soon provide more negative publicity for Sound Transit when all the details of documents detailing the breadth and depth of the value of contacts Sound Transit has signed with nearly 550 companies to provide a wide array of services begins getting close media scrutiny.
The documents were received by former King County Council member Maggie Fimia from Sound Transit in 2015 and detail all payments over $100,000 made to all entities, public and private, from 2007.
When I talked with Fimia to get copies of the array of contract documents and inquired of her thoughts upon digesting them, she said of the array of contracts: "The breadth of the take was unbelievable."
Touching on only one of the contract categories, Fimia offered "why do you need to spend $37 million on marketing and advertising if you have such a tremendous product?" And that didn't include any marketing costs for ST3.
Sound Transit's Patrick told me that a rigorous competitive-bidding process is in place for contracts with the agency, other than services like legal, accounting, marketing and others where expertise and reputation come into play, since you don't low-bid legal services, but may negotiate with the selected supplier for best price.
Fimia's 2001 defeat was allegedly aided by Sound Transit officials upset at her constant questioning of the agency's manner of operating and its dealing with the communities, questioning that clearly didn't end with her departure from the council.
Charles Collins, whose impeccable credentials as a critic of Sound Transit are even grudgingly acknowledged by the agency's board, told me Sound Transit went after Fimia because "she was a continuing thorn in their side."
"They are the 500-gorilla that no one wants to mess with and she kept messing with them, so they helped oust her," he said. She lost her reelection bid in 2001.
Collins has been a constant critic of Sound Transit's focus on high-cost rail service because all statistics, including the agency's own environmental impact statement, indicate trains won't come close to attracting enough riders to relieve congestion. More like attracting maybe 2 percent of riders.
Collins once told me that he and two former governors, Republican John Spellman and a Democrat, the late Booth Gardner, went to Sound Transit in the late '90s before the first vote embarking on rail as the key transportation underpinning with a novel new plan to provide a vehicles alternative that would carry far more passengers at far less cost.
"But they didn't even want to hear our idea because they were about building a train, not focusing on easing congestion," he said, except for Rob McKenna, then King County councilman and later the two-term Republican attorney general and unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate.
McKenna, incidentally, also lost his role on the Sound Transit board, bounced by then-King County Executive Ron Sims for his routine questioning of board decisions and priorities.
Collins, Fimia and McKenna are among those, a list which now obviously includes some legislators, who have urged that spending and policy decisions in the future should relate to relieving congestion rather than focusing only on building a rail network.
"Nothing has changed," said Collins, whose credentials include having been Spellman's Chief King County Adminstrator, Director of Metro Transit and chair of the Northwest Power Planning Council, the State Higher Education Coordinating Board and the State Commission on Student Learning.
Indeed while Sound Transit operates some of the nation's most successful express bus services in addition to rail and light rail service to the region, there has been little doubt in the community that members of the board view themselves as creators of the region's light rail system.
And the fact that the mode of transportation in the region's future has unfortunately become ideological, or maybe was from the start, is the reaction of a liberal commentator on Senate passage of SB5001 and that four Democrats joined the Republican majority in passing the measure to the House.
The columnist said the four Democrats" betrayed Sound Transit and the progressive movement," and urged that "every activist and every organization who was involved in helping to pass Sound Transit 3 last year needs to pitch in to ensure that this bill gets a burial in the House of Representatives."
Rogoff is an intriguing case, having been a strong supporter of bus rapid transit and critic of the "enormous expense to build and maintain rail" while head of the Federal Transit Administration. "Busways are cheap."
Almost amusingly, now that he heads an agency dedicated to rail, he said in a speech back in 2010 that riders often want rails, "but you can entice diehard rail riders onto a 'special' bus sometimes by just painting the bus a different color than the rest of the fleet."
He hasn't yet explained at what point between then and his joining Sound Transit that he changed his position of bus over rail, which he viewed as enormously expensive to build and maintain.
If the idea of an elected board to replace the current appointed board is approved by the legislature, a new board might find it could dramatically reduce current and future expenditures by focusing on bus rapid transit and a much more zealous process of contract oversight for other than actual infrastructure expenses.
Only contracts specifically relating to construction bond covenants have been held by the court as illegal to change. That doesn't likely apply to things like contracts with law and accounting firms and advertising and marketing agencies. or construction contracts that won't have been signed when an elected board might replace the current board.
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Water shortages threaten electricity generation, study warns
Adaption measures are urgently needed to stop power plants around the world being crippled by droughts caused by global warming, new research suggests.
The study, which was published in the journal Nature Climate Change, was authored by Michelle TH van Vliet, Sylvain Leduc, David Wiberg, and Keywan Riahi of Wageningen University and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. It asserts that hydropower and thermoelectric power currently generates 98% of global electricity and that both strongly depend on water availability to function. This leaves them extremely vulnerable to expected shortages due to climate change.
Lower river levels and warmer water temperatures could cause 61-74% of hydroelectric plants, which rely on water to drive turbines, to see a significant reduction in capacity. For fossil-, nuclear- and biomass-fuelled power plants, where water is required as a cooling agent, the number seeing a reduction in capacity could be as high as 86%, the study suggests.
The demand for water for power generation is expected to double over the next 40 years; however, as global weather patterns shift, regions such as South America − where hydropower provides nearly two-thirds of electricity − will face severe water shortages over the same period.
A 10% increase in efficiency in hydropower plants is needed to offset these changes, according to the report, and adaption options needed to be included in current planning designs. Thermo-electric plants need to convert to seawater or dry air cooling, while coal-fired plants − which use the most water − should be phased out in favour of gas-fired plants, the study advises.
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We aren't often treated to biographies of folk musicians. Perhaps it's the idea that the songs are the stars, the singers largely anonymous 'folk' who wouldn't necessarily make interesting subjects. Maybe it's just thought that the audience isn't there. Either way, Sophie Parkes' Wayward Daughter: An Official Biography of Eliza Carthy is a welcome exception to the rule.
While she is, of course, an excellent musician and singer, Eliza Carthy is rather more than that. She's certainly not anonymous, for a start; her parentage has put her in an intriguing position, bringing with it interesting opportunities, but unique pressures too. She has responded with a fascinating, varied musical career, packed with twists, turns and collaborations. And she's also proven an unconventional, thoughtful and outspoken figure; offering intelligent commentary on subjects from folk snobbery to the concept of Englishness, too. Perfect fodder for a biography, then.
Parkes does not disappoint. Wayward Daughter offers a fascinating, diligently researched and well written take on Carthy's life story so far. We are taken from the building of the family homes near Robin Hood's Bay before Eliza's birth, through childhood stories, first musical forays, heartbreak, career and motherhood to current and even future musical projects.
The official nature of the book means Parkes has had full access to her subject, and her interviews with the likes of Norma Waterson, Martin Carthy, Jon Boden and Nancy Kerr are revealing and often surprising. And she's done the job thoroughly, too, even visiting Eliza's school to catch up with an old music teacher, who offers some interesting insight into the talented but occasionally "infuriating" pupil, who would sometimes improvise harmonies in the school choir.
The book is packed with stories that illuminate Eliza's career and allow the reader to see her work in a different light. It's a surprise, for example, to learn of Carthy's difficulties making friends at school, while some eyebrow-raising stories of her time signed to Warners make some of the major-label unhappiness voiced on 2008's Dreams of Breathing Underwater much easier to understand. Stories of her bond with her family are more expected, but still make for heartwarming reading. Elsewhere, the tale of Carthy's first Mercury Music Prize nomination is a hilarious one, while some outrageous – rather unpleasant – behaviour on the part of Joan Baez is revealed, too.
While Parkes (a self-confessed Eliza fan) tends towards an uncritical view of Carthy's work, and is perhaps a little over-keen to use her Twitter as a source, she is confident enough to mix up the order in which she tells the story, and to devote some time looking to the future as well – Carthy is only 36, after all – in a slightly rambly, but nonetheless absorbing final chapter. An epilogue in which a variety of Carthy's Facebook fans answer a questionnaire could be a tiresome exercise in the lavishing of praise, but instead serves to remind the reader of the varied, rather wonderful effect she has had on a wide range of music fans, from a "proud beard owner" to an "Eliza virgin".
Good presentation and the inclusion of some lovely, previously unseen photographs are the icing on the cake. Wayward Daughter is a great read, and should inspire further interest in this singular, inspiring musician. Highly recommended.
Wayward Daughter: An Official Biography of Eliza Carthy by Sophie Parkes is out now, published by Soundcheck Books. You can buy it on Amazon.co.uk here, or plenty of other places, I'm sure.
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Are "applications" to film festivals newsworthy?
I read an article on Interaksyon.com reporting that the filmmakers of "Ekstra" submitted their movie to the Cannes Film Festival hoping that their movie will get its world premiere there.
My knee-jerk reaction to the title of the article "Vilma Santos' indie film 'Ekstra' submitted to Cannes filmfest for consideration" was of shock at the presumptuousness of the filmmakers. The saying, "Don't count your chicks before they hatch" has been redefined to another level. It's not the first time I encountered a filmmaker jumping the gun in assuming something.
But then after reading the article carefully, I realized I was wrong in my initial reaction. The filmmakers of "Ekstra" did not report or publicized their submission; it was the overeager and overzealous fans of Vilma Santos who did it. Then again maybe the filmmakers actually leaked it online. It's hard to tell. Either way it was unfortunate that the writer of the article thought the movie's application to the Cannes Film Festival was newsworthy.
I don't know if the writer of the article was aware of what he did but the optics of the article and the headline looks bad on the filmmakers of "Ekstra". The article makes the filmmakers' appear to be a bunch of presumptuous glory hounds. It's like someone bragging to the entire neighborhood that he applied for a job at a certain company and already considers his application as an achievement.
I mean, "Who does that in real life?" Normally, people would first make sure they got the job or achieved something before boasting about it. What happens if the movie doesn't get accepted? That definitely puts an egg on the faces of the filmmakers.
It reminded me of the time when I watched "Babae Sa Septic Tank" at the Vancouver Intl. Film Festival a couple years ago. The director, producer and lead actress, Eugene Domingo, was all there at the screening. Before a sold out theatre they were excited to introduce the movie. I think their excitement was too much that they ended up over hyping the movie before the show. Eugene Domingo was so giddy about the news that "Babae Sa Septic Tank" was selected as the Philippines' submission to the Academy Awards that she told the audience about it and made it sound like the movie was worthy to be nominated for the award.
She hyped it so much that by the time the movie started, people were expecting a movie that would blow them away. You can imagine the vibe in the theatre when the movie did not meet the audience's expectations. For me, the movie was OK. But it's not something I would brag about and say, "It's an Oscar worthy film".
Yes, it's nice to have ambition. But sometimes it is best to keep it to yourself. Don't promise more than you can provide. It's better to under-promise and over-deliver than to oversell and over-hype and then disappoint your customers or in this case; your audience.
I figured in the pursuit of exclusivity and the constant demand for content to fill the 24 hour news cycle; reporters now have become too quick to publish stories without first asking themselves if the news they're reporting is actually "newsworthy".
A movie winning an award at a film festival is newsworthy. A movie that gets accepted to screen or even participate in competition at an international film festival is newsworthy. But in my opinion, applying to an international film festival doesn't come close to being newsworthy.
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using NUnit.Framework;
using SensorThings.Client;
using SensorThings.Client.Extensions;
using SensorThings.Core;
namespace sensorthings_net_sdk.tests
{
public class ObservationTests
{
private string server;
private SensorThingsEntityHandler entityHandler;
[SetUp]
public void Initialize()
{
server = "http://scratchpad.sensorup.com/OGCSensorThings/v1.0/";
entityHandler = new SensorThingsEntityHandler(server);
}
[Test]
// ReSharper disable UnusedVariable
public void GetObservationTest()
{
// act
var observation = entityHandler.GetEntity<Observation>("2706628").Result;
var datastreamResponse = observation.GetDatastream(entityHandler).Result;
var foiResponse = observation.GetFeatureOfInterest(entityHandler).Result;
// assert
Assert.IsTrue(observation.Id == "2706628");
Assert.IsTrue(observation.SelfLink == "http://scratchpad.sensorup.com/OGCSensorThings/v1.0/Observations(2706628)");
Assert.IsTrue((string)observation.Result == "22");
Assert.IsTrue(observation.DatastreamNavigationLink == "http://scratchpad.sensorup.com/OGCSensorThings/v1.0/Observations(2706628)/Datastream");
Assert.IsTrue(observation.FeatureOfInterestNavigationLink == "http://scratchpad.sensorup.com/OGCSensorThings/v1.0/Observations(2706628)/FeatureOfInterest");
}
[Test]
public void GetObservationCollectionTest()
{
// act
var observations = entityHandler.SearchEntities<Observation>().Result;
// assert
Assert.IsTrue(observations.NextLink == "http://scratchpad.sensorup.com/OGCSensorThings/v1.0/Observations?$top=100&$skip=100");
Assert.IsTrue(observations.Items.Count == 100);
}
}
}
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Scott Prior lives and works in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he has been a resident since 1971. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he received a BFA in printmaking from the University of Massachusetts in 1971. He has artwork in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the DeCordova Museum, the Danforth Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Rose Art Museum and other major public and private collections. He has shown extensively in one-person and group shows in the United States and abroad. In 2001 he had a mid-career retrospective at the DeCordova Museum. Scott Prior is represented by the Alpha Gallery in Boston and William Baczek Fine Arts in Northampton, MA.
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Page 63 - They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.
Page 65 - The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Page 319 - If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
Page 64 - If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you: But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
Page 30 - God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 147 - Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear: How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls; But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear.
Page 485 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 499 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn That He who made it and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Page 405 - This would be an adaptation to actual business of the spiritual truth that " to him that hath shall be given ; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he seemeth to have.
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"To change the generational cycle of sickness, and the diminishing expression of the human spirit."
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John was diagnosed with a brain tumour in August 2016 and sadly died on November 10th.
The last few weeks of his life were spent in Bolton Hospice where he received amazing care and support from all the staff. This kindness and support also helped his family and friends at a difficult time. We are raising money for the hospice so they can continue to offer the same care and dignity to others in need.
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I think that it's something Connie had been doing. Lothos could have known this and convinced Alia to do this as to not arouse suspicion. Besides, if Alia's objective was to wreck the marriage, then how would teaching Jimmy to read accomplish that?
It wasn't the reading lessons themselves that were significant it was about neglecting the marriage by occupying all of Connie's time and effort with them.
"Great. She remembers your article, but she forgets my lunch."
"I am trying to help Jimmy. It takes a lot of time and a lot of effort."
"Yeah, well, you're pushing him too hard."
"Did you read that stuff about the space program I gave you today?"
"Gemini VllI had to make an emergency landing. They had a problem with their thrusters."
"That's wonderful! Aren't you proud of him? All we have to do is push him a little more. He's great."
"Yeah, that's right, Connie. And he nearly drove a forklift off the pier today.
He could have killed himself. You know, you're pushing him too hard. You're trying to build up a false confidence."
"I'm sorry. I'm just trying to help."
"Just leave that to the doctor. Your job is supposed to be here taking care of the house. I mean, look at this place! It's a mess."
Well yes but assuming that Sam leaped in directly to counter Alia, the leap should never have happened in the first place, but we have to assume that Alia's refusal to shoot Sam didn't erase the previous two days, so that's still confusing.
I'm afraid I don't understand what you are arguing here.
All I can respond to is that it's unclear what exactly allowed the damage Alia did to be erased, so we can't assume anything.
I've been considering, was Sam, in fact, sent to counter Alia or perhaps to save her? Remember she was essentially a prisoner of her project, manipulated, tortured into being their puppet. Ergo, her situation was a wrong that needed righting and when their paths crossed, he brought her hope, a chance just as he does to anyone he encounters during a leap.
I know Alia was supposedly evil and was out to counter Sam's actions but do you think that Alia genuinely has feelings for Sam or was the whole thing set up from the beginning?
Her feelings for him were, in fact, genuine throughout and after the 'You're not evil Alia, whatever is jumping you around in time is' speech. That hope grew in her eyes the more he argued against Lothos, that she could take control and say 'no' to something she didn't want to do. He got through to her because that person that he described was the person she really wanted to be.
Also, consider that it's only after she's freed that he never encounters her again.
My theory about the origins of the Evil PQL may have something to do with the extra handlink left behind in "Leap Back".
This is my theory as well and that the cassette recording of Sam's sodium pentothal session in 'Starlight Starbright' was involved as well. That tape revealed PQL's clearance number.
Of course if the whole idea was to counter Project Quantum Leap, why did Zoe not know about Sam before that leap? Maybe Lothos knew but kept it secret.
Because Zoey had to request for Alia to go as the leaper in her place, I believe it's safe to say that she's merely an employee of the project it's creator's theoretical knowledge of Sam doesn't indicate that the employees are informed.
Last edited by Sam Beckett Fan; 07-21-2016 at 02:54 PM.
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Three delicious marinated fish tacos, prepared with premium tilapia fish, poblano peppers, onions and chipotle southwest salsa.
Large butterfly tail on shrimp served on its own Diablo Salsa. Comes served with pepino salsa.
Sautee tilapia fish served on its own Veracruz Salsa, along with rice, lettuce, sour cream and pico de gallo.
Sauteed in a buttery garlic sauce, this plate has many shrimp to enjoy! Served with rice and pepino salad.
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I do believe that Ruby is pre-diabetic and is in danger of all of the health issues that you mentioned. I know first hand how serious this is because my father is a diabetic. Diabetes is a killer and the doctors are telling her what she needs to hear. My father is blind, can't walk anymore without assistance due to diabetic nueropathy. He also has chronic renal failure, high blood pressure, etc… you name it, he has it! All brought on my a poor diet and no exercise. Exercise is not just to look beautiful on the outside but to keep you beautiful on the inside as well. Cause lets face it folks, whats on the outside wont be worth a hill of beans if the inside fails you.
Erm, well, yes, I agree, being active and eating well is a must. I believe that if you don't have your health, you have nothing. However, when treated and monitored, Diabetes I don't believe is the death certificate some people think it is. Yes, the long term damage of long term neglect is really awful. No one needs to inform me about Diabetes, I know more than most people do about it. My mother has been a diabetic almost as long as I have been alive (and while she was pregnant with me), and my boyfriend is a diabetic. Anyway, I simply had no idea if she actually had health issues or not. I didn't watch the premier, and the website simply wasn't informative on that level. Sorry if that came across as defensive, but it should be put out there either way. My problems with the show still stand. I do, however, hope the show does some good.
The thing is, you can't tell a person's health status by looking at them. "pre" diabetic is a misnomer and a non-diagnosis, since it doesn't predict a damn thing. Many "pre-diabetic" people never get diabetes. The number one predictor of diabetes is genetics. And three out of four people who are labeled morbidly obese never get diabetes. So much for looking at people and determining their health status.
By the way, the only time in my life when I was able to cross my legs without pain is when I was inactive and starving myself. Even then, I had very large legs proportionally. I've got lipedema, so everywhere there is cellulitic fat stays big regardless of weight change.
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All of the current Design Team members will continue to post through April and many will be returning for the next Design Team term May – July. In addition, I'd like to welcome these new Joy's Life Design Team Members!!
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Congratulations to you all, can't wait to see your designs and great ideas.
congrats to all the new members on the DT..
Congrats to the new design team! I'm looking forward to seeing all the crafty goodness!
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International delegation to the UK builds broad support for Coca-Cola Zero Rights campaign
An international IUF delegation highlighted the ongoing human rights attacks by Coca-Cola in Haiti, the Philippines, Indonesia, Ireland and the USA with activities in the UK and in Ireland in December.
In the UK the delegation outlined rights abuses by Coca-Cola at meetings at the UK's largest private sector union and IUF affiliate UNITE during its National Executive Committee meeting.
The delegation also met with the national trade union Centre the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and senior Coca-Cola union representatives.
Delegation meeting at the UK Trade Unions Congress
The delegation was hosted at the UK Labour Party headquarters where they described Coca-Cola's continued support for a legacy organization of the murderous Suharto regime in Indonesia.
UK Labour Party general secretary Jennie Formby (on right) welcomed the delegation and pledged ongoing support
Meetings were also held with UK student groups who agreed to monitor and support the campaign into 2019.
All UK organizations the delegation met pledged ongoing support to the campaign recognizing that Coca-Cola's unwillingness to remedy long-standing rights abuses meant the campaign would most likely have to stretch well into 2019 and possibly even beyond.
Indonesian delegation members at the UK Parliament
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"Site Building With Drupal" provides a complete overview of how to install, extend, configure, and launch a Drupal site.
In this video, Addison Berry, Angie Byron, and Jeff Robbins illustrate Drupal's concepts and define much of its jargon while building a complete website. You'll see how to download and install modules, create and configure content types, build listing pages, and configure Drupal's multi-user permission system. The team shows how to use Drupal's taxonomy system to classify and organize your site's content, how to create and configure sidebar content using blocks, and many common tasks such as setting up a rich-text editor. Also discussed are tips for choosing which contributed modules to use, how to create private content, and how to launch a site. The video also shows how many pre- and post-launch tasks such as configuring cron, and how to upgrade your site to a new version of Drupal. This video will give you the knowledge you need to building powerfully flexible and dynamic community websites.
Miguel de Icaza is the creator and owner of the Mono project. Mono is an open-source implementation of the .NET Framework for Linux and MacOS (as well as Windows). Geoff Norton is a developer for Novell working on the Mono Project. He's a founder of the Cocoa# and Objective-C# projects and is in charge of the Mac specific development for the Mono project, including a native System.Windows.Forms driver and native Gtk# support. Prior to working for Novell Geoff had been a Mono project contributor for about 3.5 years.
Andy Leonard is a Solid Quality Mentor, SQL Server MVP, SQL Server database and Integration Services developer, and engineer. He is a co-author of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, Professional Software Testing with Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Tools for Software Developers and Test Engineers, and MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-441): Designing Database Solutions by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
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Visual Studio 2008 includes tools that help you customize Microsoft Office applications as part of your own solution. These eleven short programs describe tasks that are common when developing solutions based on Microsoft Office, and some of the tools that can help you finish the job quicker. There is also a zipped file that contains transcripts of all eleven audio programs.
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Magento Commerce may be the leading provider of open up omnichannel innovation. Our open up source digital commerce system and cloud-based omnichannel options empower merchants to incorporate digital and physical buying experiences.
e-commerce sales worldwide will reach $1.5 trillion in 2014, increasing nearly 20% over 2013. But not all e-commerce categories are created equal.
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Come visit and see all we have to offer! Call for an appointment.
Our Lady of Providence Regional School is dedicated to providing a Catholic faith based academic environment designed to promote the development of culturally diverse children in grades Pre-K through 8th grade. Our school is a safe, structured environment designed to encourage growth and development of the whole child: spiritually, intellectually, socially, emotionally, and morally. We understand that God has made each student unique; therefore we are committed to preparing students to reach their full spiritual, academic, personal and physical potential so that they may become valued members of society. Our Lady of Providence strives to promote academic excellence in which each young man or woman is challenged to express themselves effectively, demonstrate analytical thinking, and acquire problem solving skills.
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Faslane under water?
IssueOctober - November 2021
Britain's coastal military nuclear infrastructure 'profoundly vulnerable to flooding'
01 Oct 2021 News by PN staff
Climate change could flood Faslane naval base, home to Britain's Trident nuclear missile submarine force. That's one conclusion of Climate Impact – UK Nuclear Military, a report released in September by the independent research institute, the Nuclear Consulting Group (NCG).
Climate Impact says that; 'Present UK coastal military nuclear infrastructure is profoundly vulnerable to flooding from sea-level rise, storm intensity and storm surge – with inland nuclear facilities also facing inundation and flooding.
'In other words, UK nuclear military bases are set to flood.'
Climate change is projected to lead to a rise in sea levels of over one metre during this century.
'Storm surge' is when the sea level rises during a storm. The Met Office says: 'The main cause of a storm surge is high winds pushing the seawater towards the coast, causing it to pile up there.'
The strong winds in a storm create large waves on top of the surge, increasing the risk of flooding.
So, there is the basic rise in sea levels because of the melting of polar ice caps; there is an additional rise in the sea level during a storm; climate change is making storms more frequent and more intense; there are also large waves in a storm on top of the storm surge itself.
The NCG report points out that the flooding risk is even greater when a storm hits at high tide.
The NCG quotes frightening remarks by the chair of the UK environment agency last November. Emma Howard Boyd said that, even if the UK reaches net zero by 2050, summer temperatures are set to be up to 7.4 °C hotter, there will be 59 percent more winter rainfall, and 'once-a-century sea level events are expected to be annual events'.
The NCG concludes that: 'despite the very great concentration of nuclear military resources and associated radiological [radioactive] inventories at Faslane – projected significantly increased annual flooding and storm surge brings into question the operational viability of the naval base.
Any old port
At the beginning of September, it was revealed that the ministry of defence has contingency plans in the event of Scottish independence, given that the Scottish National Party is committed to evicting Faslane.
One options was moving Britain's nuclear force to France. That seems off the table now that Britain has joined the AUKUS military pact with the US and Australia, enraging the French government.
Other options were: relocating to Devonport; moving to the US; or negotiating a new British Overseas Territory within an independent Scottish state.
This would be a tiny colony like the US base on Guantánamo Bay in Cuba – except that it would have the Faslane and Coulport naval bases and all of Britain's nuclear weapons.
Topics: Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons
Climate Impact – UK Nuclear Military is available from: www.nuclearconsult.com
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