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Thus the DSO has encouraged the entrance of several channels but how many are producing children’s content? There is one on Star Times, JYB channel 361 but how does it stay afloat when the advertisers keep insisting they are not targeting children. Also JYB has to pay transmission fees to star times while stations t...
Where are Young Scholars, KKB Show, CC Show, Kali Jos and other children’s programmes? They have all gone on-air due to exorbitant air time rates and no sponsorships from advertisers. As children’s programmes go on-air, our children are now left with adult programmes and are becoming adults as a result of what they...
In this April 28, 2009 file photo, Carl Djerassi poses for a portrait at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany.
SAN FRANCISCO — Carl Djerassi, the chemist widely considered the father of the birth control pill, has died.
Djerrasi died of complications of cancer Friday in his San Francisco home, Stanford University spokesman Dan Stober said. He was 91.
Djerassi, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Stanford, was most famous for leading a research team in Mexico City that in 1951 developed norethindrone, a synthetic molecule that became a key component of the first birth control pill.
"The pill" as it came to be known radically transformed sexual practices and women's lives. The pill gave women more control over their fertility than they had ever had before and permanently put doctors — who previously didn't see contraceptives as part of their job — in the birth control picture.
"Carl Djerassi was first and foremost a great scientist. Together with his colleagues, he transformed the world by making oral contraception effective," Stanford President John Hennessy said in a statement. "Later in life, he became a great supporter of artists and a playwright whose plays entertained while they also e...
In 1969, he submitted a public policy article about the global implications of U.S. contraceptive research, according to the Stanford News Service. In 1970, he published another article about the feasibility of a birth control pill for men.
"The thoughts behind these two public policy articles had convinced me that politics, rather than science, would play the dominant role in shaping the future of human birth control," he wrote.
Later in life, Djerassi, a native of Austria who came to the U.S. in 1939 with his mother, wrote poems, short stories and plays. He used stock earnings from the company that made the pill to help collect Paul Klee art work, which he donated to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Chronicle reported...
"I know of no person in the world who combined the mastery of science with literary talent as Carl Djerassi," Richard N. Zare, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science at Stanford, said in an obituary released by the university, adding "He also is the only person, to my knowledge, to receive from Presid...
In 2000, Djerassi was humble about his contribution to the creation of the pill when talking to The Guardian.
"Yes I am proud to be called the father of the pill," Djerassi said. "But identifying scientists is really only a surrogate for identifying the inventions or discoveries. Maybe it is true that Shakespeare's plays would never been written if it wasn't for Shakespeare. But I'm certain that if we didn't do our work then s...
But last year, Djerassi told the Chronicle he was tired of talking about the pill.
"Carl did many things in his life — he was a true Renaissance man and scholar," Philip Darney, a contraceptive scientist and director of the University of California, San Francisco's Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, told the Chronicle.
He is survived by a son, Dale Djerassi; a stepdaughter, Leah Middlebrook; and a grandson, Alexander M. Djerassi.
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. - Lawyers for a St. Johns County man accused of killing his wife and her friend in 2015 are trying, for a third time, to prevent the State Attorney's Office from seeking the death penalty if he's convicted.
James Colley Jr. is charged in the murders of his wife, Amanda Colley, and her friend, Lindy Dobbins. He faces five other charges.
On Wednesday, Colley's lawyers filed a motion asking a judge to find Florida's death penalty is still unconstitutional, despite recent changes by the Legislature.
Another defense motion seeks a change of venue.
An affidavit signed by Colley says, "It is not possible for me to get a fair and impartial trial in St. Johns County, Florida, because there is a great deal of prejudice against me."
His lawyers tell the judge they expect the "enormous amount of pretrial publicity" to continue in the media.
There's a hearing set for October on the new motions.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel topped the timing sheets in the first practice session for the Chinese GP.
The German completed his best lap in one minute, 33.911 seconds - going 0.207 seconds faster than Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton on a cool and overcast day at the Shanghai International Circuit.
Charles Leclerc, who was denied a maiden win by engine trouble some 10 laps from the end at the last race in Bahrain, was third - 0.256 seconds off his Ferrari teammate's pace.
Hamilton and championship-leading teammate Valtteri Bottas, who was fifth, set their fastest laps on the grippier soft tyre, with Vettel and Leclerc setting their best efforts on the less sticky but more durable medium-compound rubber.
Max Verstappen, who last year botched his chances of victory in China with scrappy attempts to overtake Hamilton and Vettel, was fourth quickest in his Honda-powered Red Bull.
Daniel Ricciardo was sixth for Renault, ahead of Frenchman Pierre Gasly in the second Red Bull and Russian Daniil Kvyat in the Toro Rosso.
Lance Stroll was ninth for Racing Point, ahead of Romain Grosjean in 10th and teammate Kevin Magnussen in 11th.
Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix will be the 1000th Formula One world championship race.
Hamilton, who trails teammate Bottas by one point in the standings after the Mercedes pair finished one-two in both of the season's races so far, is the most successful driver around the 5.4-km circuit.
But the Briton can expect a stiff challenge in his bid for a sixth triumph, with Ferrari tipped as favourites following their dominant performance in Bahrain and Red Bull, winners last year with Ricciardo, also an outside chance.
Disruption can be a positive force—if organizations learn, adapt, and seize the opportunities it presents, says Rankin Carroll, president of Mars Wrigley Confectionery’s Global Fruity Confections unit.
Change is inevitable, but companies that plan for disruption can thrive—even if they don’t know what form it will take. For Rankin Carroll, president of Mars Wrigley Confectionery’s Global Fruity Confections unit, preparing for the future means being willing to experiment and learn in many areas.
Surviving and thriving amid disruption may require long-standing companies to forge forward-looking partnerships and rethink their talent needs, Carroll says. “We have to recruit people who can help us learn and almost re-engineer the way we do business, all the way back into our supply chain,” he says.
Rankin Carroll’s participation in this article is solely for educational purposes based on his knowledge of the subject, and the views expressed by him are solely his own.
Using data to inform content can help marketers tell stories with broad audience appeal. David Grant, president of PopSugar Studios, explains how the company combines digital insights with human perspectives to create narratives that resonate.
AT&T’s Hello Lab Mentorship Program, now in its second year, continues to provide emerging, multicultural, and LGBTQ filmmakers the opportunity to work with entertainment industry leaders. Valerie Vargas, senior VP, Advertising and Creative Services, AT&T, discusses the initiative and its goal of increasing diversity i...
President Cyril Ramaphosa told the National Council of Provinces on Tuesday afternoon that a framework for the lifestyles audits of top government officials he promised during his State of the Nation Address earlier this year would be ready by the end of October.
He did not give an official date for when the audits would kick off, saying a "robust" framework had to first be developed. High ranking officials in the executive would then have to go through the lifestyle audit process.
Ramaphosa said multiple agencies in crime prevention and financial intelligence were meeting with director general in the Presidency Cassius Lubisi to design and develop the system.
A task team has been set up comprising of the Presidency, the Auditor General, the South African Revenue Service, SA Police Service, the Anti-Corruption Task Team, the Public Service Commission, the Financial Intelligence Centre and other entities.
“We are bringing together agencies of high class. Allow us space and time to finalise this. I can tell you that we are going have this by the end of October,” Ramaphosa said.
"We didn't want to go with a process with holes that could be easily circumvented," he said.
NCOP member for the DA Jacques Julius expressed scepticism, challenging Ramaphosa to promise that Deputy President David Mabuza would be subjected to a an audit. He alluded to a sponsored flight Mabuza took to receive medical attention in Russia in 2015.
In response, Ramaphosa said there would be no exception to the rule that members of Cabinet and officials of high rank be subjected to lifestyle audits.
"I have said we are going to have a lifestyle audit," Ramaphosa said. "That is going to happen."
"When?" some EFF MP's asked.
The president replied that whenever he is in the NCOP, MPs seem to be in a hurry. He said it is important that the lifestyle audits being developed are robust and effective.
"I will be subjected [to a lifestyle audit]," he added. "Where there is wrongdoing, there should be action.
The government's new chief scientific adviser is warning that action must be taken to avoid future food shortages.
The Endeavour space shuttle has landed successfully at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
An increase of plastic waste in the Pacific is putting birds and animals on the Midway Islands at risk.
Analysis: Landmark Health Overhaul Gets Barely A Mention : It's All Politics When it came to health, what was most surprising was how little President Obama had to say in his State of the Union address.
When it came to health, what was most surprising was how little President Obama had to say in his State of the Union address. His landmark 2010 health overhaul — whose fate is currently before the Supreme Court and whose repeal is the top priority for every GOP presidential candidate — got barely a passing mention.
The president also resisted the urge to use the speech to criticize House Republicans for their passage last year of a budget plan that would dramatically reshape the Medicare program for the elderly and disabled. In fact, he noted that during last summer's budget talks, he too was "prepared to make more reforms that r...
The GOP plans, however, would not, in fact, guarantee seniors (and, in the case of Medicaid, those with low incomes) access to the same benefits they currently have. That's certain to mean that the fate of the major entitlement programs will remain a major point of contention both for the remainder of the Congress and ...
I love Christmas music. Not as much as the blogosphere's Ernie (Not Bert), Andy Cirzan, or some of the Christmas music nuts I've met. But still, 10,000 Christmas songs on my hard drive probably qualifies me as a fanatic.
There are ample songs that grate (if you think the Chipmunks are bad, try the Chippers, Woody the Chipmunk, or any of the Chipmunk ripoff albums that came after "Christmas Don't Be Late" hit it big in 1958). But there are other songs that are just plain wrong—and many of them are among the most popular of the season. H...
An easy one just to start the list. Bethlehem is landlocked, so it is historically improbable that our savior Christ and his lady came sailing in on Christmas day in the morning. But that's not all that's problematic about the song. Where's Joseph? If it's just Jesus and Mary, why do they need three ships? Surely Mary ...
The history of the song is unclear, but several of the more reputable books on Christmas carol history suggest that its origins may have had something to do with a story of three ships carrying relics of the Magi to Cologne, Germany, in 1162.
I am the uncle of Brennen Teel, the young man who died in the house fire Aug. 24. My wife and I went to Lubbock and arrived late the next day.
We met many kind and caring people at many different Lubbock businesses. It had been several hours since we had seen a smiling face, and we appreciated them very much.
Thank you to the staff of the chief medical examiner and especially Honey Haney in that office. Thank you for watching over Brennen and being so kind to us.
To the fireman at Station 16: Thank you from the Teel and Thomas families. Thank you to Shift C, who we didn't get to meet, for your service, for your efforts to trying to save Brennen. I want to come back some day and thank you in person.
Monday morning we followed Brennen home. We brought him back to his father, mother and other relatives.
Leaving Lubbock for the last time, I see why he loved it so much here. Brennen was covered in a Texas Tech camo flag for his ride home.
As I left Lubbock I realized he was never alone. He just needed a ride home.
The concept of devops has taken root in the world of business intelligence and analytics.
The overall concept of devops has been around for a while in traditional IT departments as they sought to expand and refine the way that they implemented software and applications. The core of devops in the world of analytics is called DWA (data warehouse automation), which links together the design and implementation ...
Unfortunately, for several reasons the concept of data warehouse automation is not a silver bullet when it comes to the implementation of analytical environments.
One reason is that you really shouldn't automate concepts before you fully understand them. As the saying goes, don't put your problems on roller skates. Automating a broken process only means that you make mistakes faster. Now, while I often advocate the concept of failing faster to find the best solution to an analyt...
Another issue with applying devops to analytical practices is that the software development community has a 10-15 year head start on the analytical community when it comes to productizing elements of their craft.
Software developers have spent years learning how to best encapsulate their designs into object-oriented design, package that knowledge, and put it in libraries for use by other parts of the organization, or even by other organizations. Unfortunately, the design, architecture, and implementation of analytical component...
Finally, there is the myth that data warehouse automation or any devops practice can replace the true thought processes that go into the design of an analytical environment.
With the right processes and cultural buy-in, DWA will provide an organization with the ability to leverage their technical teams and improve the implementation time of changes in analytical environments. However, without that level of discipline to standardize the right components and embrace artistry on the tricky bi...
The following is good advice for any DWA practice.
Use the right design process and engage the analytical implementation teams. Without this level of forethought and cultural buy-in, the process becomes more of an issue than it does a benefit and actually takes longer to implement than a traditional approach.
Find the right technologies to use. There are DWA platforms available to use, but there are also toolsets such as scripting and development environments that can provide much of the implementation value of a data warehouse automation solution. The right environment for your team's skills and budget will go a long way t...
Iterate and improve. Just as DWA is designed to iterate the development of analytical environments, data warehouse automation practices should have the same level of iteration. Start small. Perfect the implementation. Expand the scope. Repeat.
John Myers joined Enterprise Management Associates in 2011. In his role as Managing Research Director, John delivers comprehensive coverage of the business intelligence and data warehouse industry with a focus on database management, data integration, data visualization, and process management solutions.
Take a role with the Montford Park Players, and you end up practically living at the summer troupe’s amphitheater home. You get to know the rest of the cast as well as any Shakespeare-loving strangers can expect to know one other.
And soon, the strange, dank smell of the amphitheater’s “back stage” — a cramped cinderblock box — becomes something you can’t quite forget.
As a former Player (among my other minuscule roles, I debuted as “Soldier #3” in the 1994 production of Richard III), I know that Hazel Robinson was the Montford Park Players. She cast all the shows, directed nearly all of them, served as technical designer and producer, and arranged everything down to the brand of gol...
It was through her that the amphitheater came to be — and that the Montford Park Players now enjoy their status as the longest-running Shakespeare festival in North Carolina.
After almost three decades under Robinson’s watch, though, the Players now tackle the Bard without their matriarch: A few seasons ago, Robinson stepped out of her leadership role. And since then, the amphitheater hasn’t changed all that much.
Unless you know what to look for.
For years, the Players relied on the same stock of outfits. These costumes had been worn countless times in countless shows by countless actors. Often, they smelled like it. But even this is slowly changing.
Jason Williams, who plays inspired antagonist Hotspur in the Players’ current production of Henry IV, Part 1, has been acting with Montford since The Winter’s Tale three summers ago.
He believes that the group is finally growing into its new role.
Part of Montford’s appeal to so many actors is the sense of community — though in the late 1990s, a rough patch of poorly put-together shows prompted many local performers to look elsewhere for projects. But this also seems to be changing.
“Andy Reed talked me into coming back to Montford,” says Bob Kovak, who — after several years’ hiatus — has returned to play King Henry.
“This time is really a turning point,” he declares. “We’ve got a good crew, and everything is going up in quality.
“There will always be things about Montford that will stay the same,” says the Players’ board chairman, Peter Brezny, the nephew of Hazel Robinson and an active member of the Players for more than 25 years.
The changes are mainly procedural and organizational, Brezny explains.
Part of the shift has involved introducing new blood.
Reed believes, however, that a new level of “professionalism and commitment” will be necessary to cultivate in the face of Asheville’s growing theater scene.
Henry IV, Part 1 wraps up its run with three more shows, Friday, June 27 through Sunday, June 29 at 7:30 p.m. each day in the Hazel Robinson Amphitheater in Montford Park. This production is followed by Pericles, Prince of Tyre, which runs Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays beginning Friday, July 11 and concluding Sunday, ...